Cisco ACI has provided integration with KVM in OpenStack environments quite for some time now. OpenStack is a great technology to implement Infrastructure-as-a-Service (Iaas) with uses cases for Private, Public and Telco clouds. But indeed Openstack provides a cloud platform, tailored to "cattle-type" of workloads, as opposed to "pet-type" workloads.
Many organizations will continue to run a significant amount of pet-type workloads, most of which can run virtualized. KVM is a fantastic hypervisor for such workloads, and the oVirt (https://www.ovirt.org/) open source project provides a fully functional virtualization management solution. Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) is a supported version of oVirt, and it is probably the leading open-source KVM virtualization management platform in the marketplace.
Red Hat Virtualization enables organizations to build x86 pools of capacity, using centralized or distributed storage solutions to quickly spin up Virtual Machines. A common challenge remains in achieving programmable network and security to match the speed of provisioning and workload mobility possible within RHV clusters.
With ACI 3.1 we introduced integration between APIC and RHV Manager in order to address this challenge and bring the power of SDN and the group-based policy model to Red Hat Virtualization customers. In this first phase of integration we focused on bringing the benefits of network automation and segmentation by automating the extension of EndPointGroups (EPG) to Red Hat Virtualization clusters.
Let's look and you can do today when combining ACI 3.1 with Red Hat Virtualization.
In RHV/oVirt nomenclature, virtual networks are called "Logical Networks". Logical Networks represent broadcast domains and are traditionally mapped to VLANs in the physical network, thus connecting the various RHV hosts that make up the RHV clusters. It is possible to perform live migration of VMs within a Cluster, and between Clusters. For this to work, there must be a network configured for this purpose: the Live Migration Logical Network. Also, the Logical Network used to attach the VM vNIC(s) must exist on the sourcing and receiving RHV host, and accordingly on the physical switches that connect them.
Since ACI 3.1, it is possible to create a VMM Domain for APIC to interface with the Red Hat Virtualization Manager. Once the VMM is configured the APIC will connect to the RHV Manager API and obtain an inventory of virtual resources, as seen on the sample screenshot below.
In the following video we show various ways to configure EPGs and map them to a RHV VMM domain. Depending on the separation of concerns, and the familiarity with different tools, administrators can use the APIC NX-OS CLI, or the APIC GUI. It is also possible to use the ansible 'aci_epg_to_domain' module to quickly associate an EPG to a RHV VMM Domain.
Not only we can simplify and automate network configurations now, but we can also provide better segmentation. Imagine that you have Virtual Machines that perform different functions and you want to isolate how they communicate yet you need to keep them on the same subnet. A basic example, seen in the demo at the end of this section, is to have a reverse proxy as a front-end for a web application.
You can configure an EPG for your frontend and another EPG for your web application, each representing a Logical Network, and both using the same subnet in ACI. In the graphic below we show these EPGs mapped to a RHV cluster, both would be associated to the same Bridge Domain and the same subnet. We also show another EPG mapped to a Physical domain to connect bare metal databases. There is also a connection to an external network via Border Leafs, so the ACI fabric can also filter north-south traffic. We also illustrate that ACI leafs provide distributed security, and it is possible to use ACI contracts to limit external access to only the frontend Logical Network, and only to the right ports and protocols, as well as to provide East-West security between the frontend and web Logical Networks, and between the web Logical Network and the bare metal databases.
In the video I show more details of a lab implementing this topology and provide an example of how to completely automate this configuration using Ansible.
A key advantage of the ACI VMM integrations is enhanced operations. The APIC imports the inventory of the RHV Manager, thus allowing the fabric administrator to be able to identify Virtual Machines not just by their network identity (IP or MAC address), but also by their name. In this way, a fabric administrator can quickly search a VM, find the hypervisor where it is running, and verify if it is connected to the right Logical Network or whether it is powered off.
Every EPG will correspond to a Logical Network, and when the fabric administrator searches for an endpoint in the fabric, she or he can see under the EPG the complete correlation of physical and virtual topology. We show an example of this below, matching the IP/MAC to the name of the VM, name of the hypervisor, RHV Manager and physical ports on the ACI leafs.
This information is correlated automatically and is continuously updated, for instance to reflect when a VM moves from one host to another. If you watched the previous demo you may have seen this, where at the end of the demo I triggered a VM migration to illustrate that contracts continue being enforced and connectivity endures during the migration and after the migration the right information is seen under the EPG.
For customers leveraging ACI Multi-POD, RHV architects will find that building active/active solutions becomes extremely easy. For instance, on the picture below we show a RHV Cluster stretched across two ACI PODs. The ACI PODs could be fabrics on two different rooms or on two different data centers (assuming storage replication is also taken care of). The picture illustrates how the EPG dedicated to Migration (in green) is easily extended, just like the EPGs for the application tiers. Live VM migrations can therefore happen between the data centers, and the VMs will remain on the same network, communicating always to the same distributed default gateway and having the same security policies applied.
Perhaps a more common design is where you have independent clusters on each data center or server room, illustrated on the picture below these lines. Again, the same simple provisioning discussed above will ensure that the right EPGs and policies are deployed and available to both clusters, including the migration network.
Red Hat Virtualization provides a powerful and open virtualization solution for modern data centers. By integrating them with ACI for network and security automation, customers can simplify dramatically how applications are provisioned and overall DC operations. ACI brings distributed networking, simplified mobility and distributed security to RHV environments.
In future APIC releases we plan to continue enhancing the support for RHV, bringing more advanced micro segmentation features and providing even greater visibility.
I will leave you with a final demo, leveraging the existing shipping integrations. The idea is showing the power of a multi-hypervisor SDN fabric. In this case to illustrate how easy it is to migrate from proprietary hypervisors to KVM when you easily can extend the networks from one to the other.
Very interesting, and very clear demos; good job.
I would like to know about ansible playbooks if possible: is there a library of pre-configured tasks? Is there a GUI interface to apply playbooks?
A concise management tool on top of Red Hat Virtualization is CloudForms that enables you to execute predefined actions on both virtual workload within RHV and also interact with ACI as needed. CloudForms will run Ansible Playbooks.
Whether you use Ansible, or UCS-D, or NSO, or other tools, the orchestrator job is a lot simpler thanks to APIC.
That said, afaik Ansible Tower would be one tool to have a GUI interface to apply playbooks.
Awesome demo with simple explanation. Very easy to understand.
A great and comprehensive demo of the combined automation capabilities!


A Different Perspective: Dr. Davis Confirms Del Rio UFO Crash?
The Del Rio story has reminded me of something a friend told me years ago. He grew up in Laredo , not that far from Del Rio. His father was a police officer, or deputy, I don't recall. One day, he saw his father's photo on the front page of the newspaper, next to a picture/drawing of a "flying saucer". As a boy, he did not read the newspaper and has no idea if both pictures referred to the same story. His father didn't mention anything unusual having happened and he did not think to ask. I want to say this happened in the early fifties, but, it was years ago when he told me.
I doubt this has anything to do with anything, but, thought I would relate the story, just in case.
It is interesting that one member of ETI has a link to To The Stars Academy.
He could simply be repeating something he read in the MJ-12 documents. Believe it or not, there are a number of well-educated scientists and government officials who happen to be (surprise!) UFO enthusiasts, though not all of them are as well-versed in the subject matter as those who've been following the topic most of their lives.
There was no ET crash.
Further, there are no documents on it, either from the United States or Mexico and never have been. The tale is pure fiction. End of story.
Yes there are people about, with or without high credentials, who have nothing better to do than peddle old UFO fairy tales. But that's ufology, isn't it?
I had thought about MJ-12 as well, but in that document, they reference is to a crash in the El Indio - Guerrero area. Later, Willingham said it was closer to Laredo... whatever. The real point is that there was no crash of an alien craft any of those areas. Willingham invented the tale in 1968, and has changed the story radically as new information is learned. That Dr. Davis would suggest that this was a real UFO crash is problematic and you have to wonder about the reliability of his other information.
Dr. Davis was also a part of NIDS and possess close ties to the Bigelow crowd. Look into some of the members' interesting history at Kirkland during the 1980s and judge for yourself. Believer beware.
People will make claims all the time that cannot be substantiated. In the interview he wasn't pressed hard enough to divulge further details. Without any evidence it sounds more like he is presenting his opinion not necessarily any factual information.
When this NIDS came around and Dr. Davis was associated with them, I did some searching in Google about his background. This was maybe 5 or more months ago. I forget exactly where I read about him, and it might have been a Wiki bio, but I recall that he was a consultant on Star Trek. Considering is technical background, I thought it might be true. However I simply question the whole story about the Stars bunch.
Dr Davis was also the individual who was said to have been "possessed" by the "entity" which is supposed to be living over at Skinwalker Ranch. There are varying accounts of the story but it is told in George Knapp's book Hunt for the Skinwalker with Colm Kelleher. Although as much as I respect George, there are a truckload of unsubstantiated claims in that book but of course where Skinwalker Ranch is concerned, that is the norm. Unfortunately, Jeremy Cornell's new documentary does little to substantiate them, even with a vast archive of Knapp's footage which is previously unseen. Although I will admit there is some very intriguing footage in the documentary in which some perplexing anomalies are shown on surveillance cameras. It's well worth watching but I would advise everyone that one should not go into that documentary thinking you are going to see video evidence of all the wacky and wild claims regarding the Ranch. If you understand that going in then it is a compelling film.
This is also the same guy that has attacked John Greenwald for simply asking for evidence. Every time this group presents something intriguing they turn around and do something completely stupid. This seems like this guy is just talking out of his rear end and doesn't know squat about anything.
Saw notes from an earlier show...he said, according to another set, that crash/retrieval program ended in 1989 and these notes say both that and also aatip was going to get access to it...??
In earlier c2c show last year he said that the crash retrieval program ended in 89 because no success in understanding or applying anything from recovered objects....YET, he also said that AATIP would have had eventually gotten access to the cr program if AATIP lasted after 2012. ???


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"""Tests for the MRUList Windows Registry plugin."""

import unittest

from plaso.formatters import winreg as _  # pylint: disable=unused-import
from plaso.lib import timelib
from plaso.parsers.winreg_plugins import mrulist

from tests.parsers.winreg_plugins import test_lib
from tests.winregistry import test_lib as winreg_test_lib

class TestMRUListStringPlugin(test_lib.RegistryPluginTestCase):
  """Tests for the string MRUList plugin."""

  def setUp(self):
    """Sets up the needed objects used throughout the test."""
    self._plugin = mrulist.MRUListStringPlugin()

  def testProcess(self):
    """Tests the Process function."""
    key_path = u'\\Microsoft\\Some Windows\\InterestingApp\\MRU'
    values = []

    values.append(winreg_test_lib.TestRegValue(
        u'MRUList', u'acb'.encode(u'utf_16_le'),
        winreg_test_lib.TestRegValue.REG_SZ, offset=123))
    values.append(winreg_test_lib.TestRegValue(
        u'a', u'Some random text here'.encode(u'utf_16_le'),
        winreg_test_lib.TestRegValue.REG_SZ, offset=1892))
    values.append(winreg_test_lib.TestRegValue(
        u'b', u'c:/evil.exe'.encode(u'utf_16_le'),
        winreg_test_lib.TestRegValue.REG_BINARY, offset=612))
    values.append(winreg_test_lib.TestRegValue(
        u'c', u'C:/looks_legit.exe'.encode(u'utf_16_le'),
        winreg_test_lib.TestRegValue.REG_SZ, offset=1001))

    timestamp = timelib.Timestamp.CopyFromString(
        u'2012-08-28 09:23:49.002031')
    winreg_key = winreg_test_lib.TestRegKey(
        key_path, timestamp, values, 1456)

    event_queue_consumer = self._ParseKeyWithPlugin(self._plugin, winreg_key)
    event_objects = self._GetEventObjectsFromQueue(event_queue_consumer)

    self.assertEqual(len(event_objects), 1)

    event_object = event_objects[0]

    # This should just be the plugin name, as we're invoking it directly,
    # and not through the parser.
    self.assertEqual(event_object.parser, self._plugin.plugin_name)

    expected_timestamp = timelib.Timestamp.CopyFromString(
        u'2012-08-28 09:23:49.002031')
    self.assertEqual(event_object.timestamp, expected_timestamp)

    expected_msg = (
        u'[{0:s}] '
        u'Index: 1 [MRU Value a]: Some random text here '
        u'Index: 2 [MRU Value c]: C:/looks_legit.exe '
        u'Index: 3 [MRU Value b]: c:/evil.exe').format(key_path)

    expected_msg_short = (
        u'[{0:s}] Index: 1 [MRU Value a]: Some ran...').format(key_path)

    self._TestGetMessageStrings(event_object, expected_msg, expected_msg_short)

class TestMRUListShellItemListPlugin(test_lib.RegistryPluginTestCase):
  """Tests for the shell item list MRUList plugin."""

  def setUp(self):
    """Sets up the needed objects used throughout the test."""
    self._plugin = mrulist.MRUListShellItemListPlugin()

  def testProcess(self):
    """Tests the Process function."""
    key_path = (
        u'\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\'
        u'DesktopStreamMRU')
    values = []

    data = b''.join(map(chr, [
        0x14, 0x00, 0x1f, 0x00, 0xe0, 0x4f, 0xd0, 0x20, 0xea, 0x3a, 0x69, 0x10,
        0xa2, 0xd8, 0x08, 0x00, 0x2b, 0x30, 0x30, 0x9d, 0x19, 0x00, 0x23, 0x43,
        0x3a, 0x5c, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,
        0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x11, 0xee, 0x15, 0x00, 0x31,
        0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x2e, 0x3e, 0x7a, 0x60, 0x10, 0x80, 0x57,
        0x69, 0x6e, 0x6e, 0x74, 0x00, 0x00, 0x18, 0x00, 0x31, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,
        0x00, 0x00, 0x2e, 0x3e, 0xe4, 0x62, 0x10, 0x00, 0x50, 0x72, 0x6f, 0x66,
        0x69, 0x6c, 0x65, 0x73, 0x00, 0x00, 0x25, 0x00, 0x31, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,
        0x00, 0x00, 0x2e, 0x3e, 0xe4, 0x62, 0x10, 0x00, 0x41, 0x64, 0x6d, 0x69,
        0x6e, 0x69, 0x73, 0x74, 0x72, 0x61, 0x74, 0x6f, 0x72, 0x00, 0x41, 0x44,
        0x4d, 0x49, 0x4e, 0x49, 0x7e, 0x31, 0x00, 0x17, 0x00, 0x31, 0x00, 0x00,
        0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x2e, 0x3e, 0xe4, 0x62, 0x10, 0x00, 0x44, 0x65, 0x73,
        0x6b, 0x74, 0x6f, 0x70, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00]))

    values.append(winreg_test_lib.TestRegValue(
        u'MRUList', u'a'.encode(u'utf_16_le'),
        winreg_test_lib.TestRegValue.REG_SZ, offset=123))
    values.append(winreg_test_lib.TestRegValue(
        u'a', data, winreg_test_lib.TestRegValue.REG_BINARY, offset=612))

    timestamp = timelib.Timestamp.CopyFromString(
        u'2012-08-28 09:23:49.002031')
    winreg_key = winreg_test_lib.TestRegKey(
        key_path, timestamp, values, 1456)

    event_queue_consumer = self._ParseKeyWithPlugin(self._plugin, winreg_key)
    event_objects = self._GetEventObjectsFromQueue(event_queue_consumer)

    self.assertEqual(len(event_objects), 5)

    # A MRUList event object.
    event_object = event_objects[4]

    # This should just be the plugin name, as we're invoking it directly,
    # and not through the parser.
    self.assertEqual(event_object.parser, self._plugin.plugin_name)

    expected_timestamp = timelib.Timestamp.CopyFromString(
        u'2012-08-28 09:23:49.002031')
    self.assertEqual(event_object.timestamp, expected_timestamp)

    expected_msg = (
        u'[{0:s}] '
        u'Index: 1 [MRU Value a]: Shell item path: '
        u'<My Computer> C:\\Winnt\\Profiles\\Administrator\\Desktop').format(
            key_path)

    expected_msg_short = u'[{0:s}] Index:...'.format(key_path)

    self._TestGetMessageStrings(event_object, expected_msg, expected_msg_short)

    # A shell item event object.
    event_object = event_objects[0]

    expected_timestamp = timelib.Timestamp.CopyFromString(
        u'2011-01-14 12:03:52')
    self.assertEqual(event_object.timestamp, expected_timestamp)

    expected_msg = (
        u'Name: Winnt '
        u'Shell item path: <My Computer> C:\\Winnt '
        u'Origin: {0:s}').format(key_path)

    expected_msg_short = (
        u'Name: Winnt '
        u'Origin: \\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\'
        u'Deskt...')

    self._TestGetMessageStrings(event_object, expected_msg, expected_msg_short)

if __name__ == '__main__':
  unittest.main()

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Is there a silver bullet for lead generation? It's unlikely. Does the method you use for generating new business work consistently? And, is that for ever? The reality is that nothing is guaranteed. Even agencies that 'guarantee' leads are often criticised for providing poor leads that don't meet agreed criteria.
The thing is that lead generation is difficult. If it was easy, everyone would quickly find that hidden pot of gold.
Lead generation comes in many forms. For example, some might say that it is the creation of a cast-iron opportunity to do business with a prospect that's in the market for your products or services. That's the best lead in my book. But they come at a premium in terms of time & cost. Whether that's an investment in outbound techniques such as telemarketing, email marketing or direct mail, inbound marketing such as content development & distribution or measures such as exhibitions, we all want fully rounded sales leads to be driven into our arms.
You see, leads can be at various levels of warmth & timeliness. You have to face facts. Not everyone is ready to buy from you now. Many prospect purchases have long gestation periods. Those gestation periods are likely only to be communicated by direct conversation with the purchaser where they advise you when they may be looking to conclude a purchase or review suppliers. By virtue of that interaction, that suggests some form of direct communication is needed. That's often the case especially for higher value of sale purchases. Hence, traditional marketing methods such as telemarketing work well for the scenarios above.
But, as we mentioned earlier, in an ideal world, you want your customer to find you & to seek you out. It's cheaper & more effective if the customer is already looking for your kind of services & has sought you out.
What intrigues me is the assertion from many that social is a key part of the sales funnel. The implication is that by being 'on social media' you've a greater chance of channelling lots of leads into your large funnel. In our opinion that's false. Being 'on' social media means nothing. Buyers make the same determination of you, your business & your products in an online environment as they do if they meet you face to face or speak to you on the telephone. The question is whether they like to look of you. The key factors are credibility & visibility. &, those come at a price. Not only because organic reach has diminished but also because the quality of your content on social media is crucial.
It's not so easy these days to push out one single blog & hope everyone sees it, engages & shares. Those days have gone. Nowadays, you need to populate your profile & company pages on LinkedIn with interesting content that prospects genuinely want to read. Increasingly you need video. That's been the case for a while on platforms such as Facebook & Instagram.
Social without content is like a guitar player without their guitar.
You may well be a great guitar player but no-one would know if they don't hear or see you play or at least see you in pictures with your guitar. They won't be aware of your skills if you don't post stuff about your guitar playing. You need credible content that gets shared. Over time, like osmosis, your potential prospects get to know you. They come to understand you can deliver results in your area of business and expertise. They start to see you regularly &, ultimately, when they do have a need, you will feature in their beauty parade of new suppliers.
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Still wishing I'd get to see the "Treasures of Heaven" exhibit
The British Museum will be showing off Christian clap-trap relics over the course of the exhibit. The Independent has an article featuring one of the pieces on loan from the Vatican, the so-called "Holy Towel of Jesus."
It is Jesus's "Holy Towel", once visited by pilgrims in the belief that it showed the face of Christ, formed when he dried his wet head on a piece of cloth and left an indelible mark.
The Christian relic the Mandylion of Edessa usually takes pride of place in the Pope's private Matilda chapel in the Vatican. It is rarely seen in public, and is one of the earliest images of Jesus – although there is scholarly disagreement about whether the facecloth is the original or a copy made 400 years after the life of Christ.
It's never been shown in Britain before so the Museum is pleased to have this opportunity to show it off.
Curator James Robinson compared the reverence in which the cloth is held to modern-day idolatry.
"In the Middle Ages it would have been greeted in the same way that David Beckham's sweaty shirt would be greeted today," said Mr Robinson. "It is an ordinary object made extraordinary by the person claimed to have come into contact with it."
The object was the subject of pilgrimages in the Middle Ages, say British Museum experts.
I hadn't heard of this thing before. The article lists an interesting legend about the piece but I wanted some more information so I looked up its history via Joe Nickell and The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. He reports on other versions of the legend surrounding it.
In one version of the story, found on a mid-fourth-century Syriac manuscript, the King of Edessa (an area of Turkey now known as Urfu) had written to Jesus with a request to fix his leprosy and offered up a safe haven if the Lord wanted to avoid being killed. The messenger Ananias was told that if he couldn't get Jesus to do any of that he'd better at least come back with a souvenir portrait of the man so there'd be proof the meeting took place. Jesus supposedly wrote back to apologize for not coming in person, promised to send a lacky by later and passed his used towel onto Ananias to take back with him. Some versions claim it's from the Garden of Gethsemane when the soldiers came for Christ (as reported in Luke 22) and was held in safekeeping until Ananias came along and others suggest Ananias painted the thing himself.
Historian Sir Steven Runciman has denounced all versions of the legend as apocryphal: "It is easy to show that the story of Abgar and Jesus as we now have it are untrue, that the letters contain phrases copied from the gospels and are framed according to the dictates of later theology" (qtd. in Sox 1978, 52).
Nevertheless, Runciman adds, "that does not necessarily invalidate the tradition on which the story was based …" (qtd. in Sox 1978, 52). The best evidence in the case would be the image itself, but which image? There have been several, each claimed to be the miraculous original. Obviously, only one could be authentic, but does it even still exist?
The trouble with relics in history has to be the vast amount of time they're not seen or heard about. Centuries may go by between mentions and there's really no decent way to tell if every mention is about the exact same piece, especially when it comes to a so-called picture of Jesus. In terms of the Mandylion (lit: "holy towel") it's a different problem. There's one sitting in Genoa at the Church of St. Bartholomew and has been in their possession since 1388, apparently. The one the Vatican holds
has no certain history before the sixteenth century, when it was known to be kept at the convent of San Silvestro in Capito. In 1517, the nuns were reportedly forbidden to exhibit it, so it would not compete with the church's Veronica. And in 1587 it was mentioned by one Cesare Baromio. In 1623 it received its silver frame, donated by Sister Dionora Chiarucci. It remained at San Silvestro until 1870 when, during the war that completed the unification of Italy, Pope Pius IX had it removed to the Vatican for safekeeping.
In 1996 researchers pulled that Mandylion out of its fancy frame to better inspect it and reported obvious use of pigment to create the image. X-rays and other non-invasive techniques also uncovered spots where the image had been altered.
Nickell notes that it was not uncommon for people to make copies of these kinds of icons on wood to pass around back then so the fact that both the Genua and Vatican ones are painted onto linen leads him to think there was intent by the artists (or commissioners) to trick believers into thinking each was the original piece touched by Jesus Christ himself. The Vatican makes no claim now that this piece is "an image made without the intervention of human hands…" but back when it was made a little dose of false authenticity would have gone a long way toward promoting whatever they wanted people to think then, too.
Hopefully the museum will have placards up detailing this kind of stuff for those who do line up to see it. Treat it as a slice of nifty religious history and leave it at that.
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Asia - India - Mumbai
India is a country where culture, history and traditions coexist with incredible contrasts and an overpopulation that makes it a real experience to visit. Mumbai, also known as Mumbai in Hindi, is the most populated city in the country and it's the maximum exponent of all these features that make India one of the most beloved countries but also one of the most hated ones.
The richest live and most respectable citizens... of India in Mumbai along with the poorest and most despised Indian caste. Each neighborhood of this bustling city hides small treasures of the fascinating culture and history of this country and you'll find many temples of different religions and ethnic groups. Besides, Mumbai's the Mecca of Bollywood, the Indian film industry and which generates even more revenues than Hollywood itself. Two totally different worlds that divide the city and turn make it an amazing one with mixtures of east and west. Mumbai's a hard and unfair city to some but interesting and romantic to others. Anyway, it leaves no one cold.
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Marathi, a Hindi dialect, is the official language and the most spoken of the Maharashtra state, where Mumbai's located. In the same city there's more than 200 languages and different dialects although besides Marathi the most common ones are Hindi, the official language of the country and Gujarati and Urdú. Although India is a former British colony, English is a barely spoken language but through miming you can get people to understand you.
Mumbai is in the deep tropic, therefore its weather is characterized by monsoons. The rain season lasts for about 4 months, between June and September. Such is the amount of water that falls during this period that it records 95% of rains throughout the year.
Temperatures are moderate due to proximity to the ocean and they keep stable during the year: between 23º C (73,4 ºF) maximum in February, the coolest month, and 33ºC (91,4ºF) maximum between March and May, the hottest months. Among October and December the temperatures are pleasant and the weather's very dry.
Indian Rupee (INR). All over India, the Rupia is the official cyrrency. In Mumbai you can find offices of major international banks and ATMs in shopping areas, though it's common to find that sometimes they don't work. On the promenade you can find lots of currency exchange houses. We recommend you to be mindful when handling money. Be careful with broken bills since scams are quite common in India.
From October to March is the best time to visit Mumbai: you are able to avoid monsoons and the hot season. From April onwards, temperatures and humidity begin to rise and, together with pollution, the atmosphere gets thicker, becoming difficult to bear. In addition, the main events in city are celebrated during these months of little rain.
2 days: Even though the city's huge, we don't recommend spending more than two days in it if you don't want to end up with an overdose of population and pollution. A day to visit the center and the main buildings of the city and another one to visit the Elephant Island as well as the parks and the beach will be more than enough to get to know the best of Mumbai.
Sanjay Gandhi National Park (National Park)
Sindhudurg (Fortified island)
Pune (City)
Matheran (Village in the mountains)
There are no rule governing store hours in Mumbai because everyone does what they will, but as general rule stores open from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. pm and close on Sundays. Banks are open in the mornings from Monday to Saturday and restaurants are usually open from 8 am to 10 pm. We insist though thet timetables in India are almost nonexistent.
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Lots of people don't like to admit they have a type. Maybe they think it makes them seem predictable or shallow. They would be right, but the good news is that science has proven we are all predictable and shallow.
Reporting at Time, Alexandra Sifferlin explores new research, published in Current Biology, that found that beauty really is in the eye of the beholder, and it's a result of your life experiences and what you've been exposed to.
First, 35,000 people rated faces on a site called Testmybrain.org. They found that there was about a 50 percent consensus on who was considered attractive—probably at least in part, Sifferlin notes, because lots of us are just suckers for symmetry.
But what about the other half of the faces we don't agree on? Part 2 of the study looked at facial preference of identical (547 pairs) and fraternal twins (214 pairs). Researchers wanted to know how different or similar their preferences would be given that in these instances they'd grown up together and shared a frightening amount of genetic overlap.
If something is really influenced by genes you would expect identical twins to be more similar to each other than the fraternal twins, Wilmer says. On the other hand, if family environment is highly influential, the researchers would expect fraternal twins to be quite similar to each other in preferences.
Only it turns out they weren't. The identical twins, in spite of having all this overlap, Wilmer said, had very different preferences for facial aesthetics, leading researchers to conclude that we like what we like because we like it, not because it's inherited.
We are attracted to what we see, so exposure is critical. The more we scrutinize and upend the images that permeate our lives with more diverse representations of beauty, the more we chip away at the tribal thinking that can be ignorant and limiting at best, and racist at worst. We recently examined the common dating practice of rejecting men for being short, and though I hadn't read the above research at the time, my takeaway would still be the same—no one should be shamed for their dating preferences, but that doesn't mean it's not sometimes worth thinking them over.
Unfortunately, when we begin dehumanizing and discarding potential mates based on categories like race, that might mean we've been too accepting of the idea that "your type is your type." So while yes, it's okay to like who you like, it's never too late to wonder if your "type" is the result of an incredibly narrow view of the world. If for no other reason than when it comes to finding love, the more options, the better.


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In baptism, parents thank God for his gift of life, make a decision to start the child on the journey of faith and ask for the Church's support. Confirmation marks the point in the Christian journey when you affirm the faith into which you were baptised. The church also promises to welcome the child and to pray for the family.
For your child, being baptised at a Christening marks the start of a lifelong journey of faith as part of the local and worldwide Christian family.
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Today more than a quarter of all marriages in England take place before God in the traditional setting of a Church of England church. You're welcome to marry in church whatever your beliefs, whether or not you are baptised and whether or not you go to church.
Marriage has never been more popular and most still endure a lifetime. Young people still value the possibilities of life offered in a married relationship. To the couple a wedding offers an important statement of commitment. To family and friends a wedding enables them to show support for the couple. A Celebration of Marriage: Past, Present and Future
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A funeral marks the close of a human life on earth. It is the opportunity for friends and family to express their grief, to give thanks for the life which has now completed its journey in this world. These can be a small, quiet ceremony or a large occasion in a packed church.
Whether or not they have attended church everyone is entitled to have a Christian funeral held either in a church with burial afterwards or at a crematorium and ashes buried afterwards.
Funeral services are something the Church of England does very well and we offer post funeral support by visiting and the New Horizons Group which meets monthly. We also hold three memorial services per year to which all bereaved families are welcome no matter when the loss occurred.
Confirmation marks the point in the Christian journey at which you affirm for yourself the faith into which you have been baptized and your intention to live a life of committed discipleship. This affirmation is confirmed through prayer and the laying on of hands by the confirming bishop. The Church also asks God to give you power through the Holy Spirit to enable you to live in the way of Jesus.
There may be a rehearsal before the confirmation service so that you understand everything that happens in the service. The priest will make sure you know where to sit and when you need to move. Some parts of the service will be for the whole congregation to join in; some will be for just you and the other confirmation candidates to say.
Following a civil marriage, perhaps abroad, many people feel the need to have their ceromony formalised by a blessing in church once they arrive home.
Do you wish to celebrate your marriage at a certain stage in your lives. A renewal of vows ceremony offers this opportunity, whether it is 5 years, 10 years or 50 years and is an occasion when you and your family and friends can.
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Q: Kuratowski's Maximal Principle and Tukey's Lemma Context: self-study.
Source work: Smullyan and Fitting: Set Theory and the Continuum Problem (rev. ed. 2010) chapter $4$: Superinduction, well ordering and choice: $\S 5$: Maximal principles.
We are given a form of Kuratowski's maximal principle, paraphrased for clarity:

Let $S$ be a set which is closed under chain unions. Then every element of $S$ is a subset of a maximal element of $S$ under the subset relation.

(We have proved previously in S&F that the above follows from Axiom of Choice.)
Then we are also given a form of Tukey's lemma:

Let $S$ be a non-empty set of finite character. Then every element of $S$ is a subset of a maximal element of $S$ under the subset relation.

In this context "of finite character" means:

Let $A$ be a class. $A$ is of finite character iff for all sets $x$, $x \in A$ iff every finite subset of $x$ is in $A$.

We are given this Lemma $5.4$:

Suppose $A$ is of finite character. Then: (1) $A$ contains, with each element $x$ all subsets of $x$ as well (that is, $x$ is swelled); (2) $A$ is closed under chain unions.

Now we are given Proposition $5.5$, where we have:

From this lemma we have the following: Kuratowski's maximal principle implies Tukey's lemma.

From the definition of Kuratowski's maximal principle and Tukey's lemma, it appears that all we need to do is invoke the result that a class which is closed under chain unions is of finite character.
But this is not what we have. Lemma $5.4$ says: "A class of finite character is closed under chain unions."
Hence this seems to me that this shows that Tukey's Lemma implies Kuratowski's Maximal Principle, not the other way round.
What have I missed?

A: I'm not sure what is confusing you here. The proof of Proposition 5.5 is immediate.
Assume Kuratowski. We prove Tukey. So let $S$ be a non-empty set of finite character. By Lemma 5.4, $S$ is closed under chain unions. By Kuratowski, every element of $S$ is a subset of a maximal element of $S$ under the subset relation. Done!

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It was in 1907 that members of the Scottish Rite began studying the matter of building a Masonic Temple in Corning. Ill. Hugh Kendall was elected a representative from Corning Consistory to meet with a trustee from Painted Post Lodge #117 and a representative from Corning Chapter 190, RAM to plan a corporation. This group purchased the "Jones lot" at Erie Ave. and Walnut St. for $8,000. Later it was determined that the property did not meet the requirements of a Masonic Temple.
On June 24, 1910 the "Walker Property" on the other side of the tracks was purchased. It is on that site that the Masonic Cathedral now stands. The original property was sold a few years later, with the committee recovering all that had been paid for it.
Reunion Banquets were held in various places during this period before the Cathedral was erected. One was held at the Dickenson House. The menu consisted of Little Necks on the Halfshell, relishes, salted almonds, Cream of Tomato soup, Broiled Whitefish, Saratoga Chips, Chicken Croquettes, aux French Peas, Pineapple Ice, Mignon Filets, Creamed Potatoes and Asparagus, Champagne Punch, Lobster Salad, Wafers, Vanilla Ice Cream, assorted cakes, Lady Fingers, Edam Cheese, Banquet Wafers, Coffee, cigars and cigarettes.
The Toast List: "Our Inspiration," by Warren J Cheney; "our Fraternity," by the Rev. A. W. Ebersole, "Our Temple Foundations," by the Rev. J. C. Ball; Our Affiliations," by the Rev. John Knox;, Our Visitors," by "one of them"; and "out Class," by one of the members.
On May 9, 1918 some 300 members and visiting Brothers walked to the City Hall where the Eastern Star Chapter put on the dinner. It was here that Ill. Bro Frank B Hower, 33⁰ of Buffalo, who had become an honorary member of the Corning Consistory, proposed giving $40,000 to the Valley of Corning to assist in starting a move toward the construction of a Cathedral.
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Profits from the province's regulated gaming industry increased 1.6 per cent in 2017-18 over the previous fiscal year, a year that also saw a marked increase in traffic at Sydney's Casino Nova Scotia location.
Overall, higher profits were driven by growth in wagering in casino traffic and VLT betting, but a significant decrease in charitable lotteries.
Figures released Thursday by the Nova Scotia Gaming Corp. show its payment to the province for the year was $146.9 million compared to $144.6 million in 2016-17.
"The sustainability of Nova Scotia's regulated gaming industry depends on it being managed in a socially responsible manner," Bob MacKinnon, president and CEO of the Crown corporation, said in a news release.
Total gaming wagering increased in 2017-18 by 2.5 per cent to $1.39 billion, with prizes of $1.040 billion up from $1.008 billion the previous year. VLT gaming wagering was up by 1.6 per cent, with casinos up by 7.5 per cent and wagering via Atlantic Lottery was up by 2.3 per cent.
Charitable lotteries saw a decrease in activity by 15.9 per cent, while bingo was down by 3.6 per cent.
The proportion of total wager accounted for by VLTs was 43.2 per cent in 2017-18, down from 43.6 per cent in 2016-17. The proportion of total wager for casinos was 33.4 per cent, up from 31.9 per cent in 2016-17. The proportion of total wager spent on ALC lotteries represented 16.2 per cent of total wager, while bingos and charitable lotteries accounted for 2.9 and 4.2 per cent respectively.
At the Sydney Casino, there were $109.1 million in bets placed in 2017-18, compared to $101.6 million a year earlier. The amount of revenue to the province was up by $800,000.
The number of visitors increased to 418,610 up from 330,546 a year earlier.
The number of employees at the Sydney Casino held steady at 126.
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The gaming industry in Nova Scotia employs more than 500 people.
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Story By Nancy Hill
"I Am My White Ancestors" Claims the Legacy of Oppression
An artist's journey into her family's Whiteness.
Artist Anne Mavor in her Portland, Oregon, studio, where she created life-size "self-portraits" posing as her real and imagined ancestors. Her exhibit's goal, she says, is to make European American identity and accountability visible, "to inspire White viewers, in particular, to claim both positive and negative aspects of their own family histories as a step towards participating in the end of racism."
YES! photo by Nancy Hill
"I am about to turn over a goodly number of acres to cotton and have added more slaves to total 50. They were a large investment with housing and such. … We have heard that some states in the north have gone against nature and profit to prohibit slaves. … Without slaves, where do they expect to get cotton, tobacco, molasses, and rice? … Sometimes I do wonder if the slaves are truly as simple and childlike as some say. When I put some up for sale, I see their mothers stand there and openly weep. Imagine! Perhaps they really do feel as we do. But I banish that thought from my mind. … I am a good and kind master. These African slaves could not survive without me. They are better treated here than in the heathen land they come from. We clothe them and feed them, give them shelter and medical care and the discipline they need They have the benefit of civilized and white society." —John Salley, 1740-1794, excerpt from audio story about Salley
John Salley is perhaps Anne Mavor's least favorite of her 12 ancestors brought to life through the art installation, I Am My White Ancestors: Claiming the Legacy of Oppression.
Mavor as John Salley. Photo by Jane Keating.
The slave owner's life-size multimedia portrait hangs alongside several others, 5-foot-by-7-foot fabric panels taking up two walls of Mavor's spacious light-filled studio in Portland, Oregon. Framed prints of the remaining ancestors are stored on a third wall. Mavor spent three years conjuring these relatives, blending facts and educated supposition. She hoped telling her own family's historical role in oppression might inspire others to look at what it means to be White.
Mavor as Eugenia Mary Felder Buchanan. Photo by Jane Keating.
The project began in 2013, after she attended a Native Liberation gathering for members of the Portland Re-evaluation Counseling community. The goal of the gathering was to learn about Native liberation. It was a predominantly White audience. During one presentation, Mavor says, the leader of the gathering, a Native American woman, "looked out at us and said 'You need to find your people.'"
The words seeded her fertile imagination. "I asked myself what my artwork would be like if I claimed my White heritage."
Mavor as Katherine Wydeville. Photo by Jane Keating.
Mavor began by researching her genealogy going back as far as 250 B.C. She chose 12 ancestors to represent her heritage, including royal figures, a slave owner, warriors, farmers, and a pilgrim. Mavor uses her own face in each of her ancestors' portraits, and the connection between the characters is evident. In the exhibit, the contemporary Mavor is the 13th image.
Mavor as Sir Nicholas Baganel. Photo by Jane Keating.
After all the research, Mavor designed and sewed their clothes. She painted backgrounds in styles appropriate to art of the period. She worked with photographer Jane Keating, who went through a multistep process photographing Mavor as each of the characters and printing the final images onto fabric. Mavor wrote stories for each character and hired actors to record the audio.
Mavor as Roger of Montgomery. Photo by Jane Keating.
Keating says shooting was intense. "Anne's background in performance art allowed her to become each character. Her facial expressions, her body language, and even the way she wore each costume fit every ancestor uniquely. I photographed a king, a baker who participated in burning 200 Jews, a juror who took part in sentencing a witch, and nine other people whose stories were told in this series."
Mavor as Desire Howland Gorham. Photo by Jane Keating.
Slavery, human sacrifice, theft of land, and religious intolerance are part of her family's past. Their stories also reflect their own struggles, their own oppression. "One point I wanted to make is that people don't act in these brutal ways unless they've been previously oppressed," she explains. "I wanted to portray my ancestors as real people who adopted some behaviors and beliefs," she says.
Mavor as Sibylla dAnjou. Photo by Jane Keating.
Mavor's research also exposed positive attributes shared among herself and her ancestors. "We tend to be industrious, brave, and ambitious. Love of family and fulfilling obligations are strong."
"It's hard to talk about being White. We learn never to speak of racism. You're either a good non-racist or a bad racist person. There are no other options. People feel so bad about being biased in any way, they don't want to claim it.
"In claiming my legacy of oppression, I'm coming out as a White person. … I'm acknowledging and claiming this whole history of perpetuating oppression or being part of it. I'm trying to understand and learn from it. With that understanding comes the possibility of change," she says.
Mavor as Durst. Photo by Jane Keating.
"As a society, there's a movement to be less oppressive, and each of us can commit to that in our own lives."
I Am My White Ancestors: Claiming the Legacy of Oppression showed at the Newport Visual Arts Center in Newport, Oregon, in February. The center's director, Tom Webb, acknowledges that the show is challenging but says reactions have been positive. The center held extra training sessions with docents.
The artist Anne Huntingon Mavor. Photo by Jane Keating.
"When I heard it was about racism and oppression, I thought it would be about America, but it's about our total world history. We have to get better," said Jim Nash, who came to the Newport opening.
"I was so relieved when I walked in and was greeted by gentle humor rather than a wagging finger, said Emily DeHuff, another viewer. "Yes, we oppressed. But we'll get better at being kind to each other."
Accompanying audio diaries of Ann Mavor's ancestors available: http://annemavor.com/audio-diaries. For information about the show's schedule, go to annemavor.com.
Nancy Hill is a photojournalist currently living in Salem, Oregon.
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Rec2Tec Pittsburgh addresses digital divide with after-school programs in recreation centers
Mayor William introduces the Rec2Tec program at Phillips Recreation Center in Carrick.
Five of Pittsburgh's city-owned recreation centers were transformed into technology-enhanced learning centers during the week of September 12-16 to demonstrate how free after-school programs can help youth in city neighborhoods get a leg up in STEM learning as part of a new initiative called Rec2Tech Pittsburgh.
Each afternoon during the week, educators from local nonprofit program providers hosted hands-on learning activities for youth ages 7 to 12 years old. Sessions incorporated lessons in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) and tasked participants to complete projects that help solve a community challenge. Each session also included physical activity, a healthy snack and dinner. An estimated 200 city youth participated in demonstration week activities.
The initiative -- a partnership of the Office of Mayor William Peduto, the Department of Parks & Recreation (Citiparks), the Department of Innovation & Performance and The Sprout Fund -- demonstrates how municipal assets can be leveraged to address the "digital divide."
The U.S. Department of Commerce has reported 62 percent of Americans use the Internet as an integral part of their job. However, according to the Pittsburgh Roadmap for Inclusive Innovation published by the Department of Innovation & Performance, more than 23 percent of households in Pittsburgh lack access to the internet or computer.
"We need to help our city's young people prepare for the high-tech jobs of the future," said Mayor William Peduto. "Rec2Tech will demonstrate how we can use existing city resources to increase access to technology for and provide young people with the 21st century learning opportunities they will need to succeed in the innovation economy."
Citiparks maintains 10 community recreation centers year-round offering resources and activities to support healthy living and community enrichment.
"A lot of our city's rec centers are based in communities that are on the wrong side of the digital divide," said Jim Griffin, director of Citiparks. "Ultimately, Rec2Tech will help bridge that divide and provide access to opportunities for people in their own neighborhood."
Lead support for Rec2Tech Pittsburgh was provided by Comcast, with additional support provided by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
"Access to digital learning and affordable Internet service is essential," said Lisa Birmingham, vice president of External & Government Affairs for Comcast's Keystone Region, which has connected thousands of low-income City of Pittsburgh families to the Internet through its five-year-old Internet Essentials program and earlier this year provided connections at all city recreation and healthy living centers.
"Comcast is proud to support initiatives like Rec2Tech and Internet Essentials as part of our commitment to bringing technology and innovation to all Pittsburghers."
Educational programming for Rec2Tech is provided by members of the Remake Learning Network, a network of more than 250 organizations working together to shape the future of teaching and learning in the greater Pittsburgh region. The Sprout Fund, a Pittsburgh-based nonprofit organization, stewards the Remake Learning Network and coordinated Rec2Tech programming.
"Young people spend seven hours each week in after-school programs at places like our community recreation centers. These are important places of learning, especially for young people living in under-resourced communities," said Cathy Lewis Long, executive director of The Sprout Fund. "Rec2Tech will not only help young people develop critical skills in digital literacy, but also give them opportunities to practice using technology to express their creativity, solve real-world problems, and build job-ready skills."
Rec2Tech Pittsburgh took place at Magee Rec Center in Greenfield, Ormsby Rec Center in South Side, Paulson Rec Center in Lincoln-Lemington, Phillips Park Rec Center in Carrick, and Warrington Rec Center in Beltzhoover. Program activities at each site included:
Sisters e S.T.E.A.M. and Citizen Science Lab transformed Magee Rec Center in Greenfield into a scientific laboratory where youth can explore the world of biology through hands-on experiments.
Assemble and the YMCA turned Ormsby Rec Center on the South Side into a creative technology studio where youth combined traditional art making techniques with digital media production and computer programming to produce an interactive exhibit.
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh transformed Paulson Rec Center in Lincoln-Lemington into a video game design studio where youth worked in collaborative teams to create playable video games.
TechShop Pittsburgh created a research and design hub at Phillips Park Rec Center in Carrick where youth learned to use engineering techniques to design sustainable solutions for gardening in urban spaces.
Digital Corps turned Warrington Rec Center in Beltzhoover into a technology hacker space where youth captured 360° images of their neighborhood and used them to build a virtual reality experience for their own cardboard smartphone VR viewers.
Rec2Tech Pittsburgh culminated with a free public demo party at Schenley Plaza in Oakland. The Rec2Tech Demo Party featured a showcase of work by young people who have participated in Rec2Tech, as well as a resource fair of youth and family-serving agencies and a back-pack giveaway for the first 300 youth in attendance.


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Opening Moscow's Bag of Political and Strategic Tricks
Political correctness was invented by Marxists to destroy Western society from inside…. And in Russia, there is no political correctness at all! The reason is that Marxists do not need to undermine the Russian society from the inside, because it is already Marxist.
– Konstantin Preobrazhensky, "How the West Was Fooled by Vladimir Putin"
Then there is Russia's military potential. With regard to major opponents, the West seriously underestimated its enemies twice during the last century: first in 1939 when the Allies believed they had boxed in Nazi Germany with their "guarantee" to Poland; and again, with sanctions on Japan in 1941. In the first instance Germany smashed Poland and crushed France. In the second instance, Japan destroyed the American fleet at Pearl Harbor, defeated the U.S. forces in the Philippines and captured the British forces in Singapore.
Some may argue that Russians are not as capable as Germans and Japanese. After all, Russia is a backward country; the Russian economy stinks; Russian equipment is obsolete and their people are demoralized. Even more egregious, Russian commanders are political stooges. But wait! Russia put the first man into space. Russia launched the first satellite. Russia built the first operational version of the hydrogen bomb. Let's not make the mistake of underestimating Russia.
Adolf Hitler underestimated Russia. Oh yes, in 1942, out of the mouth of Hitler himself, in a recorded conversation with Baron Mannerheim, we find the following words:
Mannerheim: What they had in their stocks!
Hitler: Absolutely … well … if somebody had told me that a nation [the USSR] could start with 35,000 tanks, then I'd have said: 'You are crazy!'
Mannerheim: [surprised] Thirty-five?
Hitler: We have destroyed – right now – more than 34,000 tanks. If someone had told me this, I'd have said … ' You are crazy; you see ghosts.' This I would have deemed [not] possible. I told you earlier we found factories, one of them at Kramatorskaja, for example. Two years ago there were just a couple hundred [tanks]. We didn't know anything. Today there is a tank plant, where – during the first shift a little more than 30,000, and 'round the clock a little more than 60,000 workers would have labored – a single tank plant! A gigantic factory! Masses of workers who certainly, lived like animals and…
Russia had 35,000 tanks in 1941? This unimaginable number was several times greater than all tanks possessed by the combatants of World War II up to that time. And what is more interesting, before the Germans made their unpleasant discovery nobody had any inkling that such a number of tanks was possible let alone real. It was only by the successful surprise attack of 22 June 1941 that these tanks were destroyed and captured. Had these tanks been used to deliver a first strike against Hitler, the whole of Europe would have become Soviet territory.
If any expert today says he knows the real military strength of Russia, or claims to understand Russia's military capabilities, he is likely to be wrong. And let us not dwell on tank numbers. Tank armies are no longer decisive. Missiles are decisive. Terrorists are decisive; that is to say, "terrorist armies" converging on the oil fields of the Middle East. Mind control drugs are decisive. A new biological weapon may be decisive.
Consider, then, the strategic weakness which exists on the American side. The strategic position of the United States has long been compromised by the idiocy of America's ideological hobby-horses – global warming, feminism, homosexual rights, multiculturalism and internationalism. The way policy is run in the United States, political correctness comes first and national security comes second. This goes for the economy as well, where Political correctness has bankrupted us. And it is this same politically correct country, with its increasingly fragile economy, which is now called upon to confront Russia after a period of military dismantling and downsizing.
Are the Russians bluffing? We are in the fog of war, so to speak, with glimpses here and there. To understand the larger picture we need to acknowledge three points about Russian policy: (1) Russia's ruling group acts as a conspiracy against everyone, including against Russia itself; (2) Moscow's ongoing references to the evil machinations of the West (i.e., the U.K. and United States in particular) represent a kind of mirror imaging common to totalitarian regimes; (3) the enormity of military aggression against neighboring peoples – first Chechnya , then Georgia, then Ukraine's eastern and southern provinces is very real. This latter aggression is only understandable when we realize that Ukraine's independence is a fiction to Moscow. "Ukraine is not a real country," Putin has said. And he is perfectly serious. One day France will not be a country as well, and Germany.
We do not understand this regime and we have not understood it. A false and distorted history of Soviet Russia has been produced to distract us from vital operational facts. For example, the 35,000 tanks cited by Hitler. World War II was the most misunderstood war of all history because it was the first major war to be waged alongside the Soviet Union's massive deception apparatus. The lies told about this war from the Soviet side, combined with the regular falsifications of the Germans and Allies, leaves us with a collage of myth, and no real notion of why this disaster occured or who initially hoped to benefit. The falsifications run so deep, and have been so successful, one cannot help feeling that we have yet to escape the consequences of these falsifications today.
The Second World War is still important for Moscow. This war lends the regime a kind of legitimacy. The war extended Communist control to central Europe. It broke the back of the British Empire, opening the way to the political correctness. The war also turned the United States into a global policeman when the U.S. elite was not culturally endowed with the necessary competence to perform this new role.
As Diana West has pointed out in her book, our military alliance with the Soviet Union opened the United States to further penetrations and manipulations by Moscow's agents. Nuclear weapons and other technologies were stolen by Moscow. China was set up for a Communist takeover, as well as North Korea. Japan and Germany, the natural military barriers to Soviet exapansion, were militarily destroyed and required protection from U.S. forces. The breakup of the colonial empires, as touched on above, opened a wide field to Soviet mischief.
As Russian military pressure on Ukraine intensifies, as ISIL advances and strengthens, as hackers threaten U.S. banks like J.P. Morgan, we can see a pattern and a larger design. When we learn that a leading commander in ISIL was born in the Soviet Union and trained in Russia, we ought to wonder what is really going on? When we read that cyber-attacks on U.S. banks are thought to originate in Russia, we should stop believing in coincidences.
Full article: Opening Moscow's Bag of Political and Strategic Tricks (JR Nyquist)
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Weekend of Disappointment for Cousin Vinny
Nothing is cast in stone when it comes to horse racing. As with any athlete, horses are also prone to injury, bad days and bad luck. This weekend proved the unpredictability of horse racing once again, as misfortune plagued trainer Willie Mullens at Leopardstown on Sunday, and left many fans and spectators speechless with disappointment. The Deloitte Novices' Hurdle was one of the most anticipated races of the day, and yet it ended up being the most surprising, with situations no-one could have predicted.
Willie Mullens was looking forward to watching two of his best horses face off in the Deloitte Novices' Hurdle at Leopardstown. Not only would he be able to see how they perform together, but both his horses were fingered as the favorites for the event. As the morning of race day broke, Mullens walked into his first upset for the day, as it was found that Hurricane Fly was lame and had to be withdrawn from the race. This left Cousin Vinny as the favorite in the four contender line-up.
The race soon saw Cousin Vinny, with Patrick Mullens as his jockey, and Paul Carberry on board Pandorama battling it out for first position. Separating themselves from the other contenders, Cousin Vinny and Pandorama cleared the last jump together. Unfortunately, Cousin Vinny was not comfortable with the fast speed he was ridden into the jump and stumbled as he landed, unseating his jockey and giving Pandorama the freedom to cruise to victory with a ten length lead. Mullens was reminded of his stroke of bad luck, as he was again run off his feet by Western Charmer, as he cleared the last jump to the home stretch. Willie Mullens watched the spectacle with surprise and optimism that the next race will go better for Cousin Vinny, commenting after the race: "Patrick set him alight going to the last, to get some experience of jumping fast before going to Cheltenham. He'd never jumped a hurdle that fast in his life."
The next stop for Cousin Vinny and Hurricane Fly will be Cheltenham. Hopefully both will have recovered from this unfortunate weekend, and reclaim the sparkle and success that everyone believes they will deliver.
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Be Aware, Be Prepared is a fourth grade unit of study created by the Office of Emergency Services in partnership with the San Diego County Office of Education. In this unit students build knowledge about the geological systems of the Earth, natural disasters, and disaster preparation through print and technology sources and rative research. The unit directly reflects the overarching intent and goals of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). The curriculum includes safety information that could be lifesaving to students and families in our community. Our goal is to see this unit implemented in all fourth grade classrooms in San Diego County. We welcome feedback from teachers who have implemented the unit in their classrooms; future versions of the curriculum will be adapted with your input.
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