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The tentative ties between the Allied Democratic Forces and ISIS
Growing evidence is emerging of links between Islamic State and the ADF, a Ugandan-led militant group based in Democratic Republic of Congo
Robert Postings December 4, 2018
While Islamic State has suffered heavy losses over the past few years, statements from leaders such as U.S. President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and former Iraqi prime minister Haider al-Abadi of its defeat were, predictably, incorrect. The jihadist group has shifted to a deadly insurgency in Iraq, continues to hold off Syrian Democratic Forces operations around Hajjin, and its affiliates around the world continue to carry out attacks and attract foreign fighters.
Yet the group's oft-cited statement – baqiya wa tatamadad – calls for remaining and expanding, not just surviving.
In the jungles of the Democratic Republic of Congo an old insurgency may have a new trajectory, giving rise to the possibility of ISIS expanding its global conflict there.
Late last month, the U.S. Department of State shut the American embassy in Kinshasa for several days due to a "terrorist threat." Although the nature of the threat was not specified, Reuters on Monday reported that reported diplomatic sources as saying the closure was due to the arrest of Tanzanian nationals linked to a Ugandan-led Islamist group. Other organizations, including Voice of America and CNN, reported U.S. officials as saying the threat came from an ISIS-affiliated group.
The embassy was set to reopen on Tuesday, December 4.
A Ugandan-led insurgency based in DR Congo
The Allied Democratic Forces was founded in 1995 at Bunia in the DRC, by members of the Uganda Muslim Freedom Fighters who had been driven out of Uganda.
The ADF had the stated goal of overthrowing the Ugandan government and setting up an Islamic state, and DRC offered a location from where they could launch attacks in Uganda. The ADF built up decent relations with local Congolese to assist in this goal, and received some support from the Congolese and Sudanese governments.
The ability of the ADF to follow their stated goal has shifted over time. During the late 1990s they staged many attacks in Uganda, including several targeting civilians. Uganda responded by stepping up counter-insurgency efforts and invading DRC in 1998.
By the early 2000s the ADF had been severely weakened, limiting its ability to strike in Uganda. Beginning in 2005 the DRC, backed by a United Nations peacekeeping force, MONUSCO, launched its first major operation against the ADF. Many more would follow, shifting the ADF's focus from targeting Uganda to defending against DRC assaults.
Starting in 2014, against the backdrop of another intensive Congolese army operation, a series of massacres against civilians were carried out in Beni Territory, an area where the ADF operates. The DRC government holds the ADF responsible for these massacres in the main but others, including U.N. investigators, believe they are just one of many factions involved. This includes the Congolese army who according to a 2017 report by the Congo Research Group, were responsible for orchestrating massacres in Beni from 2014 to 2016.
A Monusco peacekeeper walks near the wreckage of a Nepalese armored vehicle that was destroyed the previous year in an ADF ambush in the Beni region of Democratic Republic of Congo, March 13, 2014. Image: UN Photo/Sylvain Liechti
ADF radicalization and rebranding
The ADF has extensive roots in Uganda's Islamist circles. Many of the group's leaders and early members were key figures in Uganda's Jamaat al-Tabligh movement and were involved in the country's Salafist movements.
In 1991 around 1,000 people, including future ADF leader Jamil Mukulu, stormed the headquarters of the Ugandan Muslim Supreme Council, an organization comprising all Muslim leaders in Uganda, over a disagreement with senior clerics' interpretation of Islam. Four police officers and an activist were killed in the violence.
Around 400 people were jailed for their involvement, including Mukulu. Upon his release in 1993, Mukulu formed the Saalaf Foundation which included an armed wing, Uganda Muslim Freedom Fighters, the precursor group to the ADF. Ugandan forces quickly drove them out of Uganda into the DRC where the remnants would form the ADF.
Despite these roots, the actual importance of Islam for the ADF has been debated. While expressing an intention to create an Islamic state in Uganda and leaders using extremist rhetoric in statements. Academics and researchers have argued this may not be the primary motivation of the group but one of many factors, or even a tool to assist in more important political goals.
An ex-combatant interviewed in 2002 said "the agenda of the ADF was purely political." and "Islam was a ticket, so the leaders disguised their political motives in religion." Since its formation in 1995, the group has allied with the secular National Army for the Liberation of Uganda as the ADF-NALU.
It is known that within the ADF's camps the group followed a version of Sharia law. A practice that was implemented more strictly starting around 2003, according to a member of the group. These camps also held schools where children received Islamic education as well as teaching in other subjects, mosques, and Islamic banks.
However, in the more recent stages of its insurgency, there has been a shift with extremist ideology taking a more central position. The Congo Research Group, an independent research group focusing on conflict in DRC, analyzed 35 videos posted on private social media channels including Telegram, Facebook, and YouTube between 2016 and 2017. The videos, many of which were posted by one member of the ADF, reveal a "shift in the rhetoric employed by the movement, from a war against the Ugandan government to a broader struggle for Islam," according to the researchers.
Various videos feature extremist rhetoric, such as an ADF member saying what makes him happy is "to slaughter the kafiris" (non-believers), a narrator referring to dead Congolese troops as kafiris who were "trying to fight Islam" and another ADF fighter saying, "We slaughter infidels who hate the Quran."
The ADF flag incorporating a new name, Madina at Tauheed Wau Mujahedeen (MTM) – The City of Monotheism and Holy Warriors
A flag reminiscent of those used by other jihadist groups like ISIS and some al-Qaeda branches was also featured in several of the videos. The ADF also adopted a new name, Madina at Tauheed Wau Mujahedeen (MTM) – The City of Monotheism and Holy warriors, according to the Congo Research Group.
The earliest references to this were stamps bearing the name found by U.N. investigators in 2012 on ADF internal documents. It was also used in several of the videos. Outside of ADF-produced materials, the name can occasionally be seen – in one instance the flag was used by a Kenyan man as his Facebook cover photo.
The threat to the U.S. embassy in Kinshasa, reportedly caused by the arrest of a cell of Tanzanian ADF members, suggests this shift has spread from rhetoric to action.
A few factors may have led to this shift.
In 2015, ADF leader Mukulu was arrested in Tanzania, and Musa Baluku took control. Baluku had to unite a fragmented group that, due to the 2014 Sukola I operation by DRC forces, had suffered heavy casualties and was geographically disjointed.
Placing an emphasis on extremist Islamic ideology over other factors may have been a tactic to unify the remaining forces, help assert control, and strengthen the group.
The loss of the ADF's secular NALU allies in 2007 to a political settlement with Uganda also helped pave the way to increasing extremism.
Previous claims of ADF ties to extremist groups
The ADF has often been accused of working with other extremist groups around the world.
Uganda's government in 2005 accused the group of working with al-Qaeda, though no evidence was provided.
Monusco, the U.N. stabilization mission in DR Congo, gave in 2014 the even more credulous claim that the ADF had links to al-Qaeda, al-Shabaab, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Boko Haram, the Taliban, and even Hezbollah. This was based on uncorroborated statements by a single, widely inaccurate, source. Multiple organizations including U.N. special investigators have concluded that there was no evidence linking the ADF with any of those groups.
Despite these previous allegations there is now evidence for tentative ties and increased ideological alignment between the ADF and other extremist groups.
Based on its analysis of ADF videos, the Congo Research Group has argued the group has been "making a tentative attempt to align itself with other militant Islamist groups." It appears that the alignment with ISIS is was most successful.
Recent evidence of ADF links to ISIS
In February, DRC soldiers found an ISIS-produced book on the body of a dead ADF militant. This book was identified as توعية الرعية بالسياسة الشرعية – 'Making the citizen subjects aware of Shari'i politics'– and was produced by the Office of Research and Studies and published by Al Himmah Library. Among its various responsibilities, the Office of Research and Studies produces religious texts studied at ISIS camps, while Al Himmah Library is the official ISIS organization responsible for book publication.
This text is readily available online, so its presence isn't conclusive evidence of a physical connection between the ADF and ISIS. But it does suggest an ideological connection to ISIS among ADF members. This is supported by a report by the Hiraal Institute, a security think tank based in Somalia, that said individuals within the group have expressed support for ISIS.
In a video that surfaced online in October 2017, an Arabic-speaking ADF militant appears to pledge allegiance to Islamic State and calls on individuals to join them in DRC. The speaker states "I swear to God that this is Dar al-Islam [House of Islam] of the Islamic State in Central Africa."
The video featured the MTM name and the newer flag. It did not feature any of the group's high-ranking Ugandan leadership, nor was it officially recognized by ISIS in any form, so it cannot be viewed as an official pledge of allegiance, or bayat, by the group. It does however show further support for ISIS within the ADF. The video was also popular among ISIS supporters, and was widely shared by pro-ISIS media.
Since 2017, ADF in the DRC has become a destination for Islamic State recruits from Kenya, with would-be ISIS members detained while attempting to join the ADF, according to the Hiraal Institute report.
This suggests that some regional radical Islamists view ADF ideology as similar enough to ISIS's for it to be attractive to would-be foreign fighters. The October 2017 video likely played a significant role in this.
As well as an ideological shift that appears to bring the ADF more in line with ISIS, there are claims of more concrete connections between the two groups.
Speaking in May, the Director-General of Uganda's Internal Security Organization Colonel Kaka Bagyenda claimed that there is proof ISIS has collaborated with the ADF, though he offered no evidence to support this assertion. Considering the Ugandan government's previous efforts to define the narrative around the ADF to suit its needs, including unsubstantiated claims that the ADF had ties with al-Shabaab, such an unsupported statement should be looked upon with caution.
Other, more credible, claims have also been made linking the ADF to ISIS.
The Hiraal Institute report stated that in 2016: "ADF members are said to have reached out to the Islamic State in Libya and Syria to discuss a formal relationship between the two groups."
This was based on information obtained from detainee debriefs of Kenyan recruits to the ADF.
However, the level of knowledge would be Kenyan recruits would have about a high-level decision such as this is debatable, especially considering the secretive nature of the ADF.
The most concrete link between the ADF and ISIS came with the arrest of a pair of ISIS financial facilitators in Kenya.
Waleed Ahmed Zein and Halima Adan Ali were arrested in July after they had allegedly established an extensive ISIS financial facilitation network that spanned Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas.
During a period from early 2017 to June 2018, Waleed moved over $150,000 through this network. The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned Waleed in September and listed him as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist, claiming that he "established an intricate worldwide financial network to facilitate funds transfers for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria," and that funds were "sent to ISIS fighters in Syria, Libya, and Central Africa," a reference to DR Congo.
According to the Congo Research Group citing an ADF defector and sources close to the U.S. government, Waleed sent money to the ADF. They also cited Ugandan officials as saying he was in contact with the group.
Kenyan press also reported at the time of the arrests that Halima had sent funds to ISIS fighters in the DRC. The amount of money transferred is unknown but a pair of ISIS financial facilitators supplying funds to the ADF, regardless of the amount, represents a connection between the ADF and a global jihadi group that had not previously existed.
While there is no evidence that Waleed or Halima played a role beyond sending funds to the ADF, their alleged connections illustrate the potential for lines of communication between the ADF and ISIS.
As well as being in contact with the ADF, Waleed also had contacts in Syria. They claim he sent funds to ISIS fighters, while his father and several other family members joined ISIS in Syria, and that one of the women, named Zeituni Ali, who traveled with his father ended up marrying a high-ranking ISIS member known as Salah.
The extent of Waleed's communications with the ADF and ISIS, as well as how high his contacts were in the groups' hierarchies, is unknown.
Forces Armées de la République Démocratique du Congo (FARDC) soldiers next to a booby trap set by the ADF, April 17, 2014. Image: UN Photo/Clara Padovan
A new heading for the ADF?
The Congo Research Group, in their analysis of ADF videos, argued the group was "making a tentative attempt to align itself with other militant Islamist groups" with its shift to more extreme ideology.
The presence of ISIS-produced ideological material on a fighter, ISIS-supporting Kenyans viewing ADF as a suitable organization to join, and an ADF video shared widely on pro-ISIS media apparently showing fighters pledging allegiance to the group suggests ISIS is the organization the ADF is aligning most strongly with.
Even if less-substantiated claims about contact between ISIS and the ADF are excluded, the cases of Waleed and Halima provide compelling evidence that there is a connection deeper than increasing ideological alignment between the two, as does reported U.S. officials viewing a threat from the ADF to the U.S. embassy in DRC as coming from an ISIS-affiliated group.
Even if tentative ties between ISIS and the ADF are confirmed, the extent to which they may develop in the future is hard to discern. If the ADF desires and is able to establish contact regarding a more-formal relationship, there is no guarantee ISIS will be open to such an arrangement. There is no certainty a more complex relationship between them will ever develop.
However, even barring any formal ties, the ADF's shift to an organization with a greater emphasis on extremist Islamic ideology and jihadist goals presents issues for the DRC and opportunities for the ADF. It has helped to draw recruits and funding, presents a unifying factor for a disjointed organization, and will likely lead to increased violence in an already conflict-stricken region.
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Q: Setting vagrant home directory during provisioning I have a VM that I'm pulling down with vagrant and using a VERY basic vagrant file
Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|
  # The most common configuration options are documented and commented below.
  # For a complete reference, please see the online documentation at
  # https://docs.vagrantup.com.

  # Every Vagrant development environment requires a box. You can search for
  # boxes at https://atlas.hashicorp.com/search.
  config.vm.box = "vagrant-rhel-devel"

  config.vm.network :private_network, ip: "192.168.33.101"
  config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/vagrant"

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  config.ssh.password = "vagrant"

 config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
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  #   # Customize the amount of memory on the VM:
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    vb.name = "RedHat 3D"

  end
end

My issue is that the vagrant user gets a home directory of /localhome/vagrant and I'd like him to have /home/vagrant as the home directory.
Is this something I'm able to change with provisioning or is it something that is set in the VM itself?  I'm rather unskilled at the provisioning step at the moment so an example would be great.

A: The HOME directory has been set when the user has been created so this was done before the VM was packaged as vagrant box.
From there, you should be able to change that with
usermod -m -d /path/to/new/home/dir userNameHere

so in your case it would be
usermod -m -d /home/vagrant vagrant

check if you have existing files under the /localhome directory that would need to be copied into the new one (bash preferences file)
if you do not plan to destroy/create a bunch of new VM from this box, its not needed to add as provisioning; if you do plan to use this box and create lot of new VM, then it could make sense, you would just need to add an inline shell provision

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DEVASTATION…AND INSPIRATION: RECALLING LIBERATED MA'LOULA
Posted on March 6, 2015 by uprootedpalestinians
**belatedly-penned thoughts on June 2014 visit to Ma'loula. As the Syrian Arab Army and allies continue to fight western-sponsored terrorism in Syria, it is important to recall the victory of places like Ma'loula, which faced the west's **absolutely** non-"moderates" for 8 months before victory.
As Syrian and allied Resistance forces fight NATO's death squads in the outskirts of Damascus, Aleppo and elsewhere in Syria, I re-visit the story of the formerly-terrorized ancient village of Ma'loula, which I visited in June 2014, two months after it had been liberated. Although no longer beset by terrorism, the story of Ma'loula is very much a current story, a case study of the senseless destruction, looting, and killing by Western-sponsored terrorists throughout Syria.
When I visited in June 2014, a calm prevailed. One seemingly random observation that stood out was the sound of peeping birds, which just months earlier would have been lost in the tumult of terrorist bombings and gunfire. There was the expected destruction from battles waged by and on the terrorists. There was further—clearly-intentional—destruction meted out systematically by the al-Qaeda death squads—particularly on Christian, cultural, and heritage sites.
In Ma'loula, terrorists likewise took great apparent pleasure in destroying and desecrating Christian relics, to the extent of gauging out the eyes from icons and mosaics and shooting down the large clifftop Jesus and Mary statues which had overlooked the village. They likewise burned, robbed and vandalized churches and homes.
Russia Today correspondent Maria Finoshina has reported numerous times from Ma'loula, visiting the village prior to its devastation, during its occupation, and post-liberation. Video footage from a pre-destruction visit shows children singing in Aramaic inside the then-intact and lovely church in St. Thekla convent.
In April 2014, during an Easter celebration at a Bab Touma (Thomas Gate) district restaurant in Damascus' Old City, I met a stunning young woman, Diala. During a pause in the pro-Syria and pro-President al-Assad songs blasting all evening, she'd stood up and beautifully sung in a cappella. As it happened, she was from Ma'loula; many of Ma'loula's displaced residents have temporarily re-settled in the Bab Touma district.
We spoke briefly, curtailed by the raging party. Her words echoed reports on Ma'loula.
"We were living happily, no one bothered us, but when the terrorists came, they destroyed, slaughtered, kidnapped, and stole. They destroyed the holy churches, stole icons…"
The terrorists weren't welcomed by Ma'loula residents, she said, but that their numbers were so great they were able to take hold of certain areas. Just how many of Ma'loula's residents were slaughtered is not yet known, but villagers were murdered by the West's thugs.
In a September 2013 interview with Ma'loula refugees, Maria Finoshina wrote:
"Antoinette Taaleb, a Ma'loula resident, had three members of her family killed by jihadists on the first day of the village siege. …Another of Antoinette's relatives, an artist who's hiding her face and asks to go by the name of Lady Oscar, says it's hard to say how many people were killed in Ma'loula because jihadists holding the village often keep bodies for further ransom and to instill fear."
CHRONOLOGY OF TERROR
UNESCO heritage site nominee Ma'loula was formerly best-known for its history and culture: over 2,000 years old, it is one of the last places in the world where Aramaic is still spoken; its churches contain altars and relics dating 1,700 years or more back. According to Syria'sDirectorate-General of Antiquities & Museums (DGAM), Ma'loula:
-houses various antiquities dating back to the Stone Age
-was blessed by Jesus Christ
-is home to more than 400,000 historic sites
These days Ma'loula's reknown comes from the massive devastation of these relics and churches.
On June 14, 2014, two months to the day after Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and National Defense Forces (NDF) freed it of Western-backed terrorists, I went to the attractive village nestled between cliff faces and brimming with living history. Although I took photos, videos, voice recordings and notes, it is difficult to adequately express the vastness of the terrorists' destruction, and the great sorrow at witnessing it.
The highway north from Damascus was secured by endless SAA checkpoints, making any journey longer than formerly—but more importantly, preventing terrorist attacks. Syrian soldiers were focused and thorough in their vehicle inspections, but also flashed confident smiles with the vibrancy of soldiers and Resistance who are fighting for a just cause. At the last checkpoint before the road to Ma'loula, while waiting for military escort, the charismatic Commanding General on site offered a seat in the shade and scolded a soldier to "dief humme," treat the guests. A plate of fresh, local apricots was immediately proffered.
With SAA escort, the car set off along the last stretch of road, winding over an open plateau visible from the cliffs of Ma'loula in the distance—cliffs which terrorists occupied for so many months. Majed, a Syrian soldier at the village gate, who had fought the terrorists from the beginning, spoke about the battles and the final victory in April, 2014.
"At 5 am on September 4, 2013, al-Nusra attacked the Safir Hotel, and the village below. They sent a car here packed with five tons of explosives, which detonated at the village gate and checkpoint. They killed eight soldiers on the perimeter of the village, and wanted to attack both checkpoints so that the SAA would have no defense. But the Syrian army and NDF and fought and prevented them from reaching the main highway, pushing them back beyond the hotel. The fighting continued for about two weeks, until we forced them back out of the town." [Video of the initial attack]
Al-Nusra and other terrorists again attacked at the end of November, and on December 1stkidnapped 13 nuns from St. Thekla convent, having first detonated an explosion at the convent entrance. It wasn't until March 2014 that the nuns were released.
"It took time for the Syrian Arab Army to finish them off, because we were taking care not to damage the historical buildings," Majed said. "There was a Chechen sniper shooting on us from the monastery, but we didn't shell him because he was in the church," he said of the historic Sts. Sergius and Bacchus Monastery. "We could have ended it quickly, but because the army had instructions not to target the terrorists in the monastery, we didn't attack it. Remember, we are not only protecting our people, but also our country, and the antiquities and relics of our country…unlike those terrorists from outside who are destroying our historic and cultural places."
Nonetheless, Ma'loula's historical buildings and relics suffered immensely from the terrorists' mortars and desecration. UNESCO noted, "Damages, looting and vandalism have been reported at the Monastery of Saint Takla, the church of Saint John the Baptist, the monastery of Saint Sergius and Bacchus and the Saint Leontius Church. Damages have also been reported in the old town."
Following the fall of nearby Yabroud, part of the larger battle of Qalamoun, things changed for Ma'loula.
"The SAA and Hezbollah came from the hilltop behind the insurgents, surrounding the area. They cut off all supply lines," Majed said. Victory came soon after.
The Syrian General accompanying us added more on the last battles and importance of the victory.
"The army surrounded and besieged them. The terrorists ran out of food, ammunition, everything. They had no way to get supplies. They fled to nearby hills, to Rankous. That's where the big battles happened, where most were killed or captured. The majority of them were foreigners: Saudis, Tunisians, Afghans, Chechans. Had the terrorists kept Ma'loula, they could have stopped any movement on the Homs-Damascus highway, which Ma'loula overlooks. They could have closed it completely."
CLIFFTOP OCCUPATION
Atop the cliffs hosting the Safir Hotel and Sts. Sergius and Bacchus Monastery, the destruction and damage to the city was visible in every direction. Directly below the cliffs adjacent to the Safir lies the densely-pack old city, the rooves of many of its houses damaged from mortars fired by terrorists from above. Where the Virgin Mary statue once stood overlooking the village, only a stump remained. This was one of endless attacks specifically on Christian relics and symbols in the village.
Terrorists occuped the landmark Safir Hotel.
Clifftop vantage from which to terrorize villagers below.
Where Virgin Mary statue once stood.
Terrorists mortared the dome of Sts. Sergius et Bacchus church.
"You see those walls, they were filled with snipers who would shoot at the people in the Old City below," the General said, pointing to caves and holes in the surrounding cliffs.
Nestled in the cliffs to the northeast, St. Thekla monastery was also invaded, inhabited, and desecrated by the terrorists. The General explained, "They shot and killed the priest's daughter, to force the nuns to open the gates for them," a fact I'd not read in corporate reports on Ma'loula. They also detonated explosives at the monastery gate to terrorize the nuns into opening the gate.
Its name inscribed on one side, the "S" of the landmark "Safir" Hotel's was missing, the four golden stars intact, the rest of the hotel in ruins. While not ancient like much of Ma'loula's buildings, the Safir was nonetheless a must-see for visitors, even if just for lunch.
Outside of the early fourth century A.D. Monastery of Sts. Sergius et Bacchus, NDF volunteers and other locals swept rubble, and prepared for the long process of restoration. Beyond the low-arched doors, the courtyard of the convent appeared more or less intact, but some of the rooms surrounding the courtyard suffered damage and looting, including the museum/gift shop, from which a Ma'loula resident and volunteer in the cleanup said "They've stolen everything of value."
Inside the ancient church, light poured through mortar holes in the unadorned white dome smashed by terrorist-fired mortars. According to the General, when the SAA had pushed the invaders back beyond the monastery, the terrorists fired mortars towards the monastery and village. They later occupied the monastery, then looted and vandalized it. Although rubble and dust covered its pews and floor, broken and tilted frames were emptied of their icons, the small church still exuded a certain grace somehow surviving the wrath of the terrorists.
Terrorists fired from these fortifications. Safir in background.
Cave where terrorists holed up.
Unique altar from around 325 AD smashed by plundering terrorists.
Sts. Sergius et Bacchus Monastery shelled by Nusra & co
"They stole many idols from here, including the oldest one in the church," the volunteer said. The smashed altar with its unique ridged rim is said to be from between 330 and 325 AD "In other churches, the altar is rectangular and flat. And only here the altar is a half-circle and rimmed, like the altars of pagans for their animal sacrifice," she explained. Syria's Directorate General of Antiquities and Museums (DGAM) noted that, "Drilling operations were carried out under the altar in search of treasures."
On a wall and the curtains of an east-facing monastery room overlooking the village below, the sordid reality of the battle was recorded again, the blood splatter of two snipers who had targeted residents and the Syrian army, themselves finally killed. "For three months they were here. Many of our Syrian soldiers were killed in the main square below, sniped from here," the General explained. Similar snipers continue to target Syrian civilians and military in Aleppo, Yarmouk, and other areas the NATO's death squads occupy.
BURNT TO ASHES
Opposite from the Safir Hotel on the cliffs to the north, a statue of Jesus Christ once towered: once again, the terrorists left only a stump. The arson at the tenth-century Convent of St. Thekla was visible from the street, the top two floors utterly blackened by fires set by the invaders.
In the convent's Church of St. John the Baptist they likewise set fires, black soot reaching the painted dome high above. They completely destroyed the altar, as well as the pews—which presumably fueled the fire. Throughout the halls of the convent and inside the church itself, NATO's mercenaries tore, stabbed, burned, or stole Christian iconography, looting what they could, meticulously destroying what was unmovable. Since none of that was possible for the images painted directly on stone walls, they instead machine-gunned the eyes and faces of Mary and Jesus, as well as a stone cross.
A long stair-climb up above the convent,Thekla's tomb was likewise ravaged. Surprisingly, the meditation cave leading to the tomb was unscathed. A sense of calm prevailed, twisted tree limbs sprawling gracefully across a moss-covered rock ceiling in the cool cave. Metres away, the small room of Thekla's tomb itself was thoroughly scorched. However, the stupidity of NATO's thugs worked against them when it came to the scorched tomb. In their frenzy to destroy the grave and steal Thekla's bones, al-Nusra & co threw many of the ancient grave-top icons to the ground, slinging upon them the stone slabs covering Thekla's remains. It was only this rushed act of stupidity that preserved some of these valuable relics from the fires they soon-after lit.
"These icons are probably as old as the church. They had no idea of the value of these things," Thekla's priest-turned-local defense (NDF) soldier Konstantin al-Khouri told me. Priest-turned-soldier, please note, MSM. Syrians protecting themselves and their heritage.
The monastery, he said, remained intact while Mother Superior Pelagia and the other nuns were here. "But after al-Nusra kidnapped and took them to Yabroud, the takfiris occupied the place and stole whatever they thought valuable, even church bells."
Although visibly weathered by the battles and the desecration of beloved holy sites, al-Khouri continued with the tradition of the Thekla Convent hospitality to visitors, handing me small packet. "It's blessed oil. It helps a sick person to heal," he says.
From a terrace just off the meditation cave, a panoramic view of Ma'loula hammered home again both the beauty and current tranquility of the town, and the destruction by NATO's death squads. Birds peeped here, too, flitting about between cliff faces, and a Syrian flag atop the scarred Safir Hotel fluttered in the breeze.
As the car descended from St. Thekla's Convent, we passed by yet further destruction, including to the mosques the General had mentioned, but also passed a more hopeful scene: a boy holding a football, walking on the street—life returning to a town which until the arrival of the terrorists had only known peace.
MA'LOULA UPDATES
Just before Christmas, last year, I spoke with Iyad Khuder, a Syrian journalist who had recently visited Ma'loula. He mentioned that while security prevailed in the town, "the locals haven't returned yet to their houses, only about 20-30% of them have."
Buthaina, a Ma'loula resident and English literature student at Damascus University, is now living in Bab Touma. Also in December 2014, she by Skype told me her story.
"My family and I were in Ma'loula when the terrorists attacked. We left one day after they made the explosion at the town gate." She spoke of loss—a friend murdered by the terrorists—and of how the attack on the town affected her personally. "I went back in August, 2014, and I can't find the words to express my feelings when I went back: the greatest feeling of happiness, even though we saw lots of destruction…we felt that we had come back to our home. We are so grateful, firstly to our president, and then to the Syrian army and the government, they are the rescuers, saving us in Ma'loula and in our country. Up till this moment we are still living under their protection against the terrorists."
More recently, in February, 2015, Syrian-Australian, Reme Sakr, visited Ma'loula and updated me on some of my questions.
"There hasn't been any visible rebuilding. The locals said that the Thekla and Sergius churches will soon begin restorations, but there was nothing that we could see yet, besides a few statues and other pieces in the churches being stuck back together. Right now there are about 2,500 who have returned and are living there. The local Christians we met were broken for their lost history, they said they don't care about rebuilding their houses, but their history has been destroyed and could never be replaced."
Syrian SANA news on December 25, 2014, published a video of Patriach Laham's sermon at Ma'loula—who spoke, among other things, of reconciliation and of peace in Syria and in Palestine.
Back in June, when I'd exited the ravaged St. Thekla Convent, the SAA General had waited to say goodbye and impart a few heartfelt words. "The important thing about you visiting here is for you to share publicly what happened here. In the 2,000 years this village has existed, nothing like this ever happened…not until the takfiris came and started all the terrorism here. This was a peaceful area until then. Muslims live here, a minority, but yes, they lived here with their Christian neighbours. There are two mosques here, they were also damaged by the mortars. The terrorists didn't care if it was a mosque, a church, a normal house…they didn't care if the place was sacred or not. They think like the (former) US President:
"If you're not with us you're against us. Please tell exactly what you saw here."
The story of Ma'loula is the story of the Syrians of all faiths fighting external terrorism and NATO's "democracy".
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J K. Bock
Title: Professor Emeritus
Group: Illinois Language and Literacy Initiative
Home: Psychology
jkbock@illinois.edu
Kathryn Bock received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1975. She is a professor in the Department of Psychology at U of I and a full-time faculty member in the Beckman Institute Cognitive Science group. Bock's fields of professional interest are psycholinguistics and cognitive science.
Fulbright Fellow (1991); Sloan Fellow (1982); Research Associate, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics; Fellow, American Psychological Association (Division 3); Fellow, American Psychological Society.
Bock's work focuses on the processes that turn thought into speech. These processes translate perceptions or ideas into sounds, using the patterns and elements of a code that constitutes the grammar of a language. The goal is to explain how the brain uses this code to create spontaneous speech in ongoing time. This requires an explanation of the action system that puts language knowledge to use, drawing on a framework that combines elements from models of cognitive processing and from linguistic theory.
Adult speakers of English know between 30,000 and 80,000 words. The words can be arranged in any of countless ways that conform to the grammar of English. Speakers use these resources to construct utterances that convey specific messages, normally initiating their utterances in under two seconds and speaking at average rates of four words per second. Bock's research suggests that the processes behind this performance include combinatorial mechanisms that adapt to recent experience and present circumstances. These adaptations reflect a kind of learning that may support language acquisition in childhood and language change in human history.
To examine the time course and organization of these abilities, Bock uses a variety of methods to elicit spontaneous speech and to tap its cognitive underpinnings. These methods include measurements of the time needed to produce individual words, assessments of changes in sentence structure in response to changes in the linguistic context, induction of speech errors, and tracking the eye movements that precede and accompany the description of perceived events. In addition to normal adult speakers of English, the research extends to brain-damaged speakers and normal speakers of other languages.
Bock's work is supported by the NIH, the NSF, the Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence initiative of the NSF, and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
Bock, J. K.; Carreiras, M.; Meseguer, E., Number Meaning and Number Grammar in English and Spanish. Journal of Memory and Language 2012, 66, 17-37.
Foote, R.; Bock, J. K., The Role of Morphology in Subject-Verb Number Agreement: A Comparison of Mexican and Dominican Spanish. Language and Cognitive Processes 2012, 27, 429-461.
Bock, J. K.; Middleton, E. L., Reaching Agreement. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 2011, 29, 1033-1069.
Kuchinsky, S. E.; Bock, K.; Irwin, D. E., Reversing the Hands of Time: Changing the Mapping From Seeing to Saying. Journal of Experimental Psychology-Learning Memory and Cognition 2011, 37, (3), 748-756.
Bock, J. K., How Much Correction of Syntactic Errors Are There, Anyway? Language and Linguistics Compass 2011, 5, 322-335.
Becic, E.; Dell, G. S.; Bock, K.; Garnsey, S. M.; Kubose, T.; Kramer, A. F., Driving impairs talking. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 2010, 17, 15-21.
Spalek, K.; Bock, K.; Schriefers, H., A purple giraffe is faster than a purple elephant: Inconsistent phonology affects determiner selection in English. Cognition 2010, 114, (1), 123-128.
Konopka, A. E.; Bock, J. K., Lexical or syntactic control of sentence formulation? Structural generalizations from idiom production. Cognitive Psychology 2009, 58, 68-101.
Lorimor, H.; Bock, J. K.; Zalkind, E.; Sheyman, A.; Beard, R., Memory for syntax despite amnesia. Language and Cognitive Processes 2008, 23, 769-799.
Onishi, K. H.; Murphy, G. L.; Bock, J. K., Prototypicality in sentence production. Cognitive Psychology 2008, 56, 103-141.
Bock, J. K.; Dell, G. S.; Garnsey, S. M.; Kramer, A. F.; Kubose, T., Car talk, car listen In Automaticity and control in language processing Meyer, A. S.; Wheeldon, L. R.; Krott, A., Eds. Psychology Press: Hove, England, 2007; pp 21-42.
Bock, K.; Dell, G. S.; Chang, F.; Onishi, K. H., Persistent structural priming from language comprehension to language production. Cognition 2007, 104, (3), 437-458.
Bock, K.; Cutler, A.; Eberhard, K. M.; Butterfield, S.; Cutting, J. C.; Humphreys, K. R. Number agreement in British and American English: Disagreeing to agree collectively. Language 2006, 82, (1), 64-113.
Ferreira, V. S.; Bock, K. The functions of structural priming. Language and Cognitive Processes  2006, 21, (7-8), 1011-1029.
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Darren Pencille: Train killer 'would panic during rail journeys'
By Tanya Gupta BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-48883616
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Image caption Chelsea Mitchell and Darren Pencille were found guilty at the Old Bailey
Darren Pencille has been jailed for life for murdering a man he stabbed repeatedly during a confrontation on a London-bound train, while his girlfriend Chelsea Mitchell was also jailed for assisting an offender.
The prosecution at his trial painted a picture of a man with a history of mental health issues but also of violence - Pencille had been convicted of an earlier knife attack that bore striking similarities to the killing of Lee Pomeroy.
The 36-year-old defendant relied upon his girlfriend in court as much as he did on the day he stabbed Mr Pomeroy 18 times and left him to die.
Pencille chose not to take the stand and speak in his defence, leaving it to Mitchell to give an account of their lives and their actions that day and to describe their co-dependent relationship.
The court heard how Pencille could not deal with crowded places - shops, supermarkets, railway stations, trains and hospitals.
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Image caption Lee Pomeroy and his killer taunted one another in the moments before the knife attack, the Old Bailey heard
Whenever panic struck during a rail journey, "nine times out of 10" he would call Mitchell, who has borderline learning disabilities and whose IQ is ranked in the lowest 1% of the population.
Mitchell, 28, would talk to Pencille - who she called Jimmy - to calm him down and collect him if he had been unable to stay on a train. She would either take him to her flat in Farnham, Surrey, where they lived together, or to a quieter railway station or on to his destination.
She would do his shopping, sending him WhatsApp images of the items she had bought to make sure they were the right ones.
Neither of them had dealt with the loss of their stillborn son, Romeo, who died the previous summer, the Old Bailey heard during the trial.
Mitchell, who met Pencille on a dating website, told jurors their feelings were still raw and the pair had been struggling - the court heard the defendant carried a 20-week ultrasound scan of Romeo in his wallet.
She said Pencille had supported her when depression after the stillbirth left her unable to get out of bed and she still had to care for her young daughter, who called Pencille "Daddy".
Image caption Mitchell lived with Pencille at her flat in Farnham
When she was questioned in court about why, on the day of the killing, it apparently took her more than nine hours to work out what her boyfriend had done, Mitchell said: "I'm a bit slow."
"If someone tells a joke, I don't pick up on it until five minutes later," she explained.
In the hours after the killing, as Mr Pomeroy's teenage son and other traumatised passengers were supported by the police, on-the-run Pencille had called Mitchell to collect him and take him to their Farnham home, about 15 miles from the scene of the stabbing.
He discarded clothing and took a shower.
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Image caption Horsley station was cordoned off as 999 teams responded and a manhunt began
While police combed the area around Clandon for the killer, Pencille suggested to Mitchell they visit Frensham Ponds to let off lanterns in memory of Romeo.
The beauty spot was where they would go to find peace and quiet and "gather their thoughts", the young mother told the court.
"It was quite emotional over Christmas," she said. "We didn't have our son."
After their trip to the ponds the pair headed to the Sussex coastal town of Bognor where Pencille had a flat. Mitchell gave her daughter dinner and watched EastEnders.
Later that night they returned to her flat in Farnham, where the pair would be arrested early the next day.
By this point, police knew their prime suspect had used a knife in anger before. In 2010, Pencille admitted wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm in relation to an attack on his 24-year-old housemate - although Mitchell said her boyfriend had never revealed his violent past to her.
Pencille had gone into his victim's bedroom to borrow cigarette papers but became loud and aggressive and, after a disagreement, followed his housemate out of the room.
Seconds later, after hearing shouting, a witness followed them and saw the man bleeding heavily from his neck - his life-threatening injuries included two stab wounds to the neck and one to the shoulder.
During his murder trial, the jury heard that Pencille claimed to be "hearing voices" during his confrontation with Mr Pomeroy.
It transpired that in the months before the killing, he had not been taking his medication.
Various drugs had been prescribed to treat his anxiety, depression and psychotic conditions including schizophrenia. These included diazepam, mirtazapine and olanzapine, but none of those substances was found in his urine sample after the killing, a forensic scientist said.
Image caption Darren Pencille had not been taking his medication in the months before the fatal attack
Jurors heard that Mr Pomeroy followed Pencille through the train's carriages as the pair taunted one another, leaving the killer with nowhere to go and no way to get off the moving train.
Mr Pomeroy's son described how his father would never start a fight, but also would never "not reply".
However, his father's killer had boarded the train carrying a knife and, in the attack that followed, Pencille stabbed Mr Pomeroy 18 times in 25 seconds. He severed the 51-year-old's jugular vein and carotid artery, leaving him rapidly bleeding to death.
Pencille's unrelenting assault left Mr Pomeroy with a wound to his neck, eight to his torso and others to his arm, his hands and his thigh. He bled so profusely the blood covered his clothing, the area of the train where the attack happened - and Pencille's own clothes.
Mr Pomeroy's family told the BBC in March how the murder had left them not only heartbroken but also terrified.
His sister Kim Pomeroy said: "If this can happen to a 51-year-old man going about his business on a train in the middle of the day, this terrifies me, because if it can happen to him, it can happen to anybody."
She said the family had lost a loving father, husband, son and brother, a generous man who cared about people.
"We are absolutely heartbroken. Our family has been destroyed," she said.
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Image caption Lee Pomeroy was killed the day before his 52nd birthday
Mitchell told the court it was many hours after the attack that she realised what her boyfriend had done, only discovering a man had been stabbed and a killer was on the run after she had put her daughter to bed.
The 28-year-old said it was at this point that she looked at the day's news coverage on her phone.
During the trial, Mitchell was reprimanded for sending a Father's Day card and letter to Pencille in Belmarsh Prison - her bail conditions had barred any contact.
In the letter, Mitchell urged Pencille to "stay strong" and "keep fighting".
She wrote: "I miss you so much, everything is falling apart. Loosing [sic] everyone I love and all I want us [sic] my family back... Finding everything so hard. All I want is you by my side."
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Dr. Fred Wine
Visitation immediately following the interment service until 4:30 p.m. and then continuing Sunday to Tuesday 2-4 p.m. and 6-9 p.m. For Shiva meal calendar, please refer to https://caringorganizer.com/contribute_detail/36
28 Painted Rock Ave, Richmond Hill, ON L4S 1R6, Canada
Norman Feder
Shiva visits immediately following interment in the building's Party Room. The remainder of the shiva will be held in the unit, visiting Sunday from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., and Monday to Wednesday from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Shiva concludes Thursday morning, December 6th.
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Shiva visits Friday following the interment, Saturday 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., Sunday through Wednesday 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
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Shiva visits Sunday following the interment up to 8:00 p.m., Monday through Wednesday from 2:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
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349 Spring Gate Blvd, Thornhill, ON L4J 3C2, Canada
Hilda (Hindy) Davis
Shiva visits Sunday in the 2nd floor social room following the interment up to 2:30 p.m. and then 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. in the 2nd floor social room. Monday through Thursday in the 2nd floor social room at 1 Clark Ave West, from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Reuven Sepia
Following the interment, family and friends are invited to 9699 Bathurst St., Richmond Hill. Remainder of shiva to be private.
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Elaine Yarmus
22 Greensides Ave,Toronto
Visitation time 11:00 am to 2:00 pm and 6:00 to 9:00 pm.
Shiva conclude Thursday, December 6th, after visitation time.
22 Greensides Ave, Toronto, ON M6G 3P6, Canada
Wendy Goldsmith
Shiva will be held at 855 Roselawn Ave. #708, Toronto, M6B 4C3
At 18 Lower Village Gate, Unit 401 on Friday immediately following the interment until 4:30 p.m., Sunday 2-4 p.m. and 6:30-9 p.m., and Monday 2-4 p.m. and 6:30-9 p.m.


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Low Temperature Physics: 45, 1256 (2019); https://doi.org/10.1063/10.0000205
Fizika Nizkikh Temperatur: Volume 45, Number 12 (December 2019), p. 1485-1492 ( to contents , go back )
Localized magnetic non-uniformities in an antiferromagnet with a system of dislocations
V.E. Kireev1 and B.A. Ivanov1,2
1Institute of Magnetism, NASU, 36-B Vernadskii Ave., Kiev 03142, Ukraine
2National Taras Shevchenko University of Kiev, Kiev 03127, Ukraine
E-mail: bor.a.ivanov@gmail.com
Received Jule 24, 2019, published online October 25, 2019
For antiferromagnets, lattice dislocations are the origin of the singular line in the field of the antiferromagnetic vector l, common to disclinations in the field of vector-director for nematic liquid crystals. Single atomic dislocation produces non-localized state, spin disclination. It is shown that "compensated" system of dislocations, closed dislocation loop in three-dimensional (3D) AFM or pair of point dislocations in two-dimensional (2D) AFM, produces localized spin non-uniformity, common to soliton. For isotropic or easy-plane AFM the form is ellipsoidal or circular in 3D or 2D cases, accordingly. The geometry of lattice defect and soliton is significantly different, for example, the planar lattice defect (dislocation loop) produces almost-spherical 3D spin non-uniformity. In the presence of inplane anisotropy, the domain wall ending on the dislocation line (points) is formed.
Key words: antiferromagnet, sublattice, dislocation, spin disclination.
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On the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the founding of ZUST, the celebration of the 30th anniversary of Chinese-German Cooperation and the 3rd International Cultural Festival was held on the morning of Oct. 17th. Prof. Wang Jianhua, Chairman of University Council, Prof. Ye Gaoxiang, President of ZUST, Mr. Ulrich Schrewe, a foreign teacher of ZUST, and Malaq, an international student of ZUST, pressed the starting ball together to announce the opening of the celebration. Representatives of international students from over80 countries were present at the ceremony.
Apart from the 29 exotic booths, there was an exhibition showing the achievements of the 30-year Chinese-German cooperation. The dancing, music, foods and drinks provided by the international students attracted many people. It was like a small world expo where people could experience different cultures and customs in different parts of the world. And also, people could bring back home some special souvenirs.
At 2 pm, the celebration came to an end. The international students displayed the distinctive customs and cultures of their homeland within several hours. The International Cultural Festival has provided an opportunity for people from different cultures to better understand each other.


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Shelby building to be razed Monday
Land Bank officials, Shelby and building owner Greg Beard agree on plans to raze building for $95,000
Shelby building to be razed Monday Land Bank officials, Shelby and building owner Greg Beard agree on plans to raze building for $95,000 Check out this story on mansfieldnewsjournal.com: http://ohne.ws/1UMsOWo
Debris from the Napoli's Pizza building spilled into the Black Fork River and destroyed a portion of the Main Street bridge.(Photo: Jason J. Molyet/News Journal)Buy Photo
MANSFIELD — The legal paperwork is completed. Demolition is set to begin Monday on the former Napoli Pizza building at 12 W. Main St. in Shelby, which suffered a partial collapse Sept. 4. Both the Richland County Land Reutilization Corporation board and Shelby City Council had special meetings Friday to approve demolition agreements with owner Greg Beard and contracts between the RCLRC, the City of Shelby and Page Excavating to do the work for $95,000.
The demolition agreement acknowledges demolition and abatement of the property does not release Beard of liability and/or cost and splits the cost of the demolition equally between the RCLRC and the city unless asbestos is found. Additional costs will be split between the city and Beard.
The agreement requires Beard to provide a personal financial statement, file a claim with his insurance company and follow it through to the end and gives Beard a $7,500 credit if the vacant land is transferred to the city. He also is required to sign promissory notes to the RCLRC and City of Shelby to repay demolition costs.
The note with the RCLRC has a principle of $47,500 to be paid back at zero percent interest over 10 years, with the first payment deferred for one year to give Beard time to get his business back on its feet. The City of Shelby agreed on a promissory note for Beard but deferred action on the details.
"We just want to try to help get him back on his feet right now, and in the interest of getting him on his feet we probably will do a deferment, as well," said Shelby Mayor Steven Schag.
Beard signed the agreement Friday afternoon.
RCLRC board members discussed the amount and terms of the note because the situation with the building has left Beard without a home, business or income. Mansfield Mayor Tim Theaker said the agency does not want to set a precedent of giving money away.
County treasurer and board chair Bart Hamilton said establishing a payment plan after a period of time would allow Beard to re-establish his business. "We want to be realistic, but we also want to protect the (public's) money," he explained.
Hamilton said officials can renegotiate the terms of the agreement once more details of Beard's personal finances are known and other issues are worked out. County commissioner and board member Tim Wert suggested that $18,000 in a long-dormant revolving block grant loan fund could be given to Beard as a loan or grant.
Officials say Beard has advertised for help on an online fundraising site and already has reached his $10,000 goal.
Schag said Page Excavating was going to begin moving equipment to the site Friday afternoon to meet EPA requirements but won't start actual demolition until early Monday because landfills that take construction debris are closed on the weekend. Although the wall on the east side of the building is beginning to bow, he hopes rain predicted for the weekend will not be a trigger for more bricks to collapse and asks residents to pray for the best.
Page Excavating has not said how long it will take to complete the project.
Schag said he can't say enough about the work done by the Richland County land bank, county officials and everyone at Shelby City Hall to resolve the issue. "It's been a phenomenal piece of teamwork by each party," he said. "I just love it when a plan comes together and we did it in a remarkably short term."
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Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes believes Rangers should be embarrassed they will finish behind the Dons this season.
Gers manager Pedro Caixinha's claim the Dons are about to be usurped by the Light Blues has angered the Aberdeen manager, who takes his side to Ibrox tonight.
McInnes claims his Portuguese counterpart has failed to grasp the magnitude of his role at Ibrox if toppling the Reds is the height of his ambition.
The Dons manager said: "I think it's strange he feels the need to talk about Aberdeen so much.
"The job of Rangers manager is to finish above Celtic and he should be more concerned about that challenge."Any team that finishes above Rangers in the league, with the budget they have, is doing their work well.
"If he thinks them being on the up and being brilliant by finishing above Aberdeen is good work by him then he's way off the mark.
"They should be embarrassed they've not finished second.
"The Rangers supporters are used to having people do a lot of talking towards them, whether that's owners, managers or players, saying what they want to hear.
"The reality is the job of a Rangers manager is to finish above Celtic.
Caixinha has been quick to lob arrows at the Dons since replacing Mark Warburton at Ibrox, but McInnes believes the Rangers support expect more than what the Gers have produced this season.
He said: "We all have a different way of managing and I think he likes to say what the Rangers sup-porters want to hear.
"But the Rangers support can't be kidded because they have been over that course before.
"Rangers should be finishing second with the budget they have, there's no doubt about that.
Caixinha's focus not only is on the Dons but on captain Ryan Jack with the Gers manager also only too happy to reveal his admiration for the midfielder.
Jack is out of contract in the summer and the Rangers manager believes the Dons captain is the sort of player he needs at Ibrox, but McInnes has reiterated his belief if his captain does leave it will not be for Ibrox. He said: "At this stage of the season you always get asked about players and speculation.
"That's the job we are all in and it's normally the unwritten rule we don't talk about other teams' players. I think that's how the majority of people manage.
"I don't think he should be speaking about one of my players, but each to their own. Will Ryan go to Rangers? I don't know, I have no idea. I have spoken to Ryan often enough and he's told me his intention is to go to England if he doesn't stay here.


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Tsetse Fly: How to Get Rid of these Large Biting Flies?
July 9, 2019 July 24, 2017 by Irina
Tsetse fly, also known as a tik-tik fly, exists abundantly in some regions of African Continent. Its name comes from one of the languages in Southern Africa i.e. Tswana that means 'fly.' This fly is one of the kinds of a housefly. One can find more than 23 species of tsetse flies in mid-continent African. These bloodsucking flies dwell in open woodlands of tropical Africa. They can give rise to fatal diseases in humans as well as animals. The toxin they excrete can also result in the death of human beings.
Their bite becomes the reason of thousands of deaths every year. These biting flies should be monitored and controlled by using traps or insecticides before you become a victim of the health hazards they can cause. These flies have turned the cultivated areas of African countries into barren lands; this is the reason they are facing poverty despite many programs run in Africa to eradicate these flies.
Appearance and Size
Life Cycle and Morphology
Tsetse Fly Damage
How to Get Rid of Tsetse Fly
1. Clear the Land
2. Use of Pesticide
3. Trapping
4. Sterile Insect Technique
African Trypanosomiasis (Sleeping Sickness)
How Can Travelers Prevent African Trypanosomiasis?
Source: https://www.nytimes.com
The size of these flies varies from 0.2 to 0.6 inches. Tsetse flies, vigorous and slightly erected, are found in color varying from yellowish brown to dark brown. The thorax part is gray, and you can see a dark marking on it. These insects resemble a lot with the house fly, but when they put their wings to rest, one wing always tucks below the other. Their dowdy body comprises of three parts that are the head, thorax, and abdomen.
The head is quite large, and the eyes are widely separated. They have total six legs and a pair of wings. They maintain balance during the flight with the help of their modified wings called halters. They may have a striped abdomen. You can distinguish these flies from the housefly by their bristle-like appendage which is called Arista. Long and branched hair covers this part. This forward projecting piercing proboscis can puncture the skin. They use their piercing mouth parts to suck the blood.
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Their lifecycle is not very common because they are multivoltine and long-lived and they can produce several broods in a year. The reason may be the abundance of food sources. Female tsetse mate only for one time in their whole life but they can lay eggs after every ten days. Female tsetse keeps the egg within her uterus until the egg goes through three larval stages.
The developing larva in the body feeds on the milky substance that is secreted by a modified gland in the uterus of the female's body. Tsetse larva starts coming out of the uterus when it lies in its third stage. It can hardly stay in this stage for a few hours. This larva crawls on the ground after becoming independent and grows its partial case. Then the tsetse pupa is transformed into an adult tsetse.
All these morphological stages take 20 to 30 days to make an adult. Larva depends on the stored resources of its female parent during its stay in her body. The richness of blood help larva to grow inside the female's body. For this, the female has to get enough energy for her need of a nutritional resource. They are found as an independent individual when the larva is at the third stage and when they develop into adults. The newly independent tsetse looks like maggots right after coming out of their mother's body. They get the proper appearance of tsetse flies when they become adults. Male tsetse flies can live for 2 to 3 weeks, but females can survive for more than a month.
You mostly see these insects in mid-continent Africa between the deserts of Kalahari and the Sahara. Tsetse flies infest almost all 37 sub-Saharan African countries. These countries are heavily indebted developing countries. Tsetse flies have left all the cultivated lands barren. Tsetse flies in rural sub-Saharan Africa are responsible for transmitting sleeping sickness. Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense mostly occur in Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia while Trypanosoma brucei gambiense as well as in central Africa and some areas of western Africa.
Source: https://www.britannica.com
The tsetse fly is one of the dangerous insects exist in the worldwide for both humans and animals. These are obligate parasites that live on the blood of vertebrate animals and humans. Tsetse transmits trypanosomes when they feed on blood which results in an infectious disease called trypanosomiasis. In humans, this disease is called sleeping sickness. In animals, tsetse-transmitted trypanosomiasis is nagana, souma, and surra. Usually, horses, camels, and cattle become the victim of these fatal diseases. These infections are dangerous unless treated on time.
Tsetse has become one of the major reasons of poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. Most of the land in those areas that are cultivated with the help of hoes as they lack modern resources to do this. They suffer a great loss of milk and meat of their livestock and the production on land stands still when the animals fall ill. Similar diseases likewise affect humans, and these diseases are called African trypanosomiasis – human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) or sleeping sickness. A thousand of animal and human deaths occur every year, and the reason is tsetse fly.
The damage tsetse causes are of serious nature because it is about the health of humans and animals. It is essential to take all the safety measures to avoid destructions. Once can control these deadly insects by interrupting their production cycle. Another way is to target the animals carrying disease and give them surveillance treatment. Other control tactics have been used to reduce the tsetse population such as;
Tsetse flies rest are often seen resting on the woody vegetation. Remove all such types of vegetation from your land so that you can make the area unwelcoming to these flies. This method is difficult and requires much effort which one can only do if there are a large number of people.
Pesticides can also be used to prevent them. Some organic pesticides are available that can you can apply them to the animal bodies. This tactic prevents the flies from transmitting fatal diseases. Pesticide sprays are also available.
It is one of the effective methods in which you can attract tsetse flies to a piece of cloth that is blue in color. You can spray this piece of cloth with insecticide. The cloth can also display the colors of animal skin. The flies get killed when they rest on the In old times, people used things that can mimic the animals to control these flies, but this method is not in use these days.
Ionizing radiation is used in this technique to sterilize male flies. You can release the sterile males in the area where they can mate with females which result in a reduction in population because these flies do not produce offspring.
Two significant vectors are responsible for sleeping sickness which is Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense and Trypanosoma brucei gambiense. These flies are biological vectors of trypanosomes which means that they transmit while acquiring the blood. Tsetse flies carry these fatal infections. When they suck in the blood of a person, the infections transmits in the blood, and that person suffers from sleeping sickness.
The symptoms of tsetse bite are;
A headache and drowsiness
A headache and fever
Mood swings and weakness
Sleepiness
Swollen lymph glands all over the body
Swollen, red, and painful spots at the bitten area
Medication can treat the infection. The treatment of the disease caused by tsetse flies depends on the type of infection and the stage of the disease. Some drugs are also widely available to recover from the infection. It is better to contact a physician if you discover any of the symptoms mentioned above.
The abundance of these flies is mostly in African regions, but people of other countries can also become a victim if they travel to Africa. They should take precautionary measures to avoid any serious illness.
Source: http://www.yourgenome.org/
Travelers can take following measures to prevent African trypanosomiasis;
Do not expose most of your body parts, wear full-sleeved shirts and clothes that can fully cover your body.
Bright colors attract tsetse flies so try to wear neutral colors.
These flies can also infest moving vehicles, check your vehicle before sitting in.
Avoid contact with bushes because they can be found resting on these bushes in the daytime when they are not active. They can bite if they feel any disturbance.
You can use repellents that contain DEET.
Try to stay in air conditioned rooms because tsetse flies like to live in warm areas.
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There are a handful of people out there who like to pretend they're "one of us." They know just enough about guns and gun rights to pass off as a gun guy, and they may even enjoy firearms. What separates them from us, however, is that they don't really understand the Second Amendment, what it's about, or why it stands.
Take Michael Tallon. Last week, he penned an op-ed for the Philadelphia area WHYY website about gun owners. In particular, the "dirty secret" of the gun culture that he supposedly knows all too well. You see, he knows the truth. He knows what we all know, deep down inside. At least according to him.
Here's an open secret in gun culture: We're defending a constitutionally protected hobby, and we know it.
You see, while hunting and home defense is all fine and good–though he claims we're not any safer by having a gun in the house–the idea of gun owners fighting against a tyrannical government is just plain silly.
But we also know that if home defense and hunting were the only arguments we had, someone might note that we don't need military-grade weaponry for either, so it's really important to blow smoke about how we're the last true defense of freedom against tyranny.
That, however, is complete and utter BS. It has been since the Wright brothers.
Look, whenever one of us starts popping off stupid about fighting a tyrannical government, ask us how the hell we're gonna stop a cruise missile. Ask us how we're gonna shoot napalm out of the sky.
Their response will be to minimize the argument and say that we doubt the government will ever go that far, which means, I suppose, that the tyrannical government of our imagination will choose to fight fairly against our plucky army of revolutionaries in the best spirit of American freedom.
Actually, no. I've literally never seen anyone use that argument, except possibly for nukes. Yes, it's probable that even the most tyrannical government would be hesitant to use nuclear weapons on its own population, but not out of some sense of a fair fight but because it would end up being even more costly in the long run.
No, most Americans who look at their guns as a means to beat back tyranny would look at your questions and point out the insurgencies in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq have all stymied the United States government without needing tanks, aircraft, or some way to shoot down napalm or a cruise missile. For all the evil these regimes represent, they also provide a roadmap with which people can resist a tyrannical government.
Not that anyone wants that. Oh, it's on the table, sure, but it's the last ditch response that no one really wants to use.
But Tallon really doesn't care about that. Not really.
Michael Tallon is a writer and magazine publisher from upstate New York, currently living and working in Antigua, Guatemala.
In other words, he's not even living in the United States. He left.
Well, maybe it's for work? Maybe he's just down there for the short term?
Now, it's hard to be sure just when the bio was written, but if we assume it's recent and thus accurate, then we can see that Michael Tallon has been gone long enough that it's not so much a temporary relocation as an emigration.
Which, of course, is fine.
However, Tallon's screed at WHYY leaves that valuable context out. It fails to note that he's not worried about a tyrannical American government because he's not actually in the United States. While he admits it in his bio, even that fails to note just how long he's lived there well outside of the American government's authority.
Meanwhile, he lives in a country that had 29.62 gun-related homicides per 100,000 people in 2013 compared to the United States' 5.09 per 100,000 people in the same year. This is despite Guatemala's gun ownership rate, both illicit and legal, being about a tenth of the United States'. If guns mean crime, as Tallon's final paragraph indicates, then Guatemala should be a whole lot safer. It ain't.
Perhaps if he's so worried about violence, he should rethink his place of residence.
In the meantime, he has no business even feigning being part of the American gun culture. He's not one of us, and I doubt he ever was. He may have associated with gun people, learning the lingo and customs, but he was little more than an armchair anthropologist trying to study people very different from himself.
Judging by his idiotic remarks noted above, he failed…but only to us. The journalist faking his way as part of the gun culture does more harm, though, because he sounds so much like one of us. He says things our friends and neighbors have heard, so he sounds like one of us. Because of that, they assume that when he says we all think this way, we probably do.
Yes, shooting is a hobby we enjoy. Yes, it's a constitutionally protected hobby. But the Second Amendment isn't about hunting and it never was, and contrary to Tallon's arguments, no one believes a tyrannical government would play nice with us. We just think that if it comes down to that, it's far better to die on our feet than to be a slave on our knees.


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