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Imagine the following. You live in a community that has been experiencing a serious upsurge in crime. The possibility of being victimized is an ever-present reality, and previous attempts to solve the crime problem in the neighborhood have failed. Frustrated by this fact, local officials announce that beginning tomorrow, police will have permission to shoot anyone they suspect of criminal activity, on sight. No questions, and no arrest necessary. No need to even present proof of guilt to a magistrate -- mere suspicion or circumstantial evidence will do. Sure, some innocent people might be killed, but if so, that would be an accident. Hopefully, say the local officials, this response will deter criminals and return the neighborhood to safety.
And let's say that you find this new policy to be wrongheaded to the point of absurdity. Yet, let us also assume that you aren't really sure what needs to be done to stem the crime problem. You feel certain that shooting people at the drop of a hat won't work, but frankly aren't prepared to offer an alternative to this newly announced "Dirty Harry" approach. In such a situation, would it be inappropriate for you to object? To say that such a plan is not only morally repugnant, but guaranteed not to work, and perhaps to even make things worse, by reducing overall respect for the rule of law? Must you maintain your silence unless and until you have a "better idea?" Or if you do issue a critique, should it be taken less seriously just because you don't yet know exactly what might work better?
I would suspect that most would say no, to all of the above questions. Despite not being sure how best to solve the crime problem, it would be perfectly appropriate, and indeed incumbent upon you as a concerned citizen to say "stop" to a proposal that you found ethically and practically indefensible. Though it would be good, as a practical matter, for you and others to sit down and attempt to devise a workable anti-crime plan, doing so should certainly not be viewed -- nor would it likely be viewed -- as a prerequisite to criticizing other plans with which you disagree.
Likewise, if you were rushed to the emergency room with dangerously elevated blood pressure, and the attendant physician pulled out a canister of leeches to administer a bloodletting treatment, it would be fine for you to object, even though, never having been to medical school you really couldn't say what the appropriate treatment might be.
Yet, despite how readily most would agree with the above propositions, it appears the same logic is not understood when it comes to discussing the bombing of Afghanistan. Repeatedly, since first writing in opposition to the extant war -- both on moral and practical grounds -- I have heard from persons who insist that unless I have a better plan to address the problem of terrorism, my criticisms of the current strategy are ipso facto invalid. Even if my detractors agree with the futility of the Administration's approach, they seem to think that "doing something," even if it might be wrong, is better than doing nothing. And they seem to feel that we haven't the time to actually think things through, deliberate, gather better intelligence, and only then, take action.
What's more, now that these same folks can point to the fall of the Taliban and the death of one of bin Laden's henchmen as positive outcomes of bombing, they feel especially emboldened to criticize anyone who has opposed the war, especially if they feel such persons to have offered no alternative methods to achieve such presumably splendid results as these.
Truth be told, of course, there actually have been alternatives to bombing and war proposed by those of us in opposition to such approaches. That the persons demanding that we provide such alternatives haven't seen them can only be the result of having not looked very hard. From the outset we have been calling for an international law approach that would involve presenting evidence of responsibility to the UN Security Council, a concerted global crackdown on terrorist financial networks and, if necessary, approval of limited but targeted police action, involving special forces, designed to go in, find the guilty parties and capture them. Such actions would be an international version of what the U.S. itself did in bringing the 1993 Trade Center bombers to trial, as well as those involved in the 1988 bombing of the Pan Am flight over Lockerbie, Scotland.
Additionally, there are any number of better security measures we could adopt, none of which would require the sweeping impositions on civil liberties that are part and parcel of the new anti-terrorism bill. Air marshals, reinforced cockpit doors and improved screening and oversight of airport security would all make a difference, and indeed would have prevented the events of 9-11 from happening in the first place. Additional measures, including comprehensive access to health care services, as protection against bio-terrorism, and the elimination of vulnerable and dangerous nuclear power facilities would also boost security.
But the mere mention of ones opposition to bombing sends more than a few into fits of apoplexy. As for the international law approach alluded to above -- which has been fleshed out in greater detail on any number of antiwar websites -- those who have bought into the Bush/Blair solution to terrorism merely shrug. Surely you can't be serious, they say. How would that possibly work? What authority does the UN have?
Of course in some ways they're right. The UN's authority and ability to act is limited, in no small part because the U.S. has consistently eschewed using it as a vehicle to enforce international norms of behavior. We have done this, of course, because to accede to UN authority would require that we follow international law too. And that's something we've never been too good at: from mining Nicaragua's harbors, to bombing Libya, to supporting Israel's occupation of the West Bank, in total opposition to UN resolutions for the past thirty-plus years.
But no matter how imperfect an internationalist approach might be, there is simply no reason to think it would be any less effective than carpet-bombing. Especially when one considers the likely backlash the latter approach could engender, as compared to the almost non-existent risk of it in the former case. That such an approach hasn't been tried is not because it couldn't work to catch terrorists. Rather, it is because catching terrorists is not the point of Operation Enduring Freedom. Its point is to project U.S. military power, to demonstrate our willingness to use such power and to make clear that, as the current President's father once said, "What we say goes."
In fact, the nightmare scenario for George W. would have been for the Taliban to have captured and turned over each member of Al Qaeda (assuming this was something they could have done in the first place) before the first shot was fired. We rejected their offer to turn over bin Laden to a third country, not because we thought they were bluffing, but because we were afraid they weren't. Trying him in a court of law wouldn't rank high enough on the bad-ass-ometer that seems to matter so much to the President, with his "dead or alive" rhetoric and "let's roll" punch lines. It wouldn't satisfy the "nuke the bastards" contingent. In short, it wouldn't do much for Georgie's re-election chances.
Now some would say that we simply didn't have the luxury of this more peaceful but also more time consuming approach. With other terrorists likely planning imminent attacks on our shores, we had to act quickly, decisively, immediately.
But consider the illogic of such a statement. If indeed there are additional confederates of bin Laden planning imminent attacks, there is little reason to think they would still be in Afghanistan, if in fact they were ever there. They would most likely already be in the U.S., or hiding out some place until they could sneak into the country. So bombing the Taliban into the Pleistocene couldn't possibly do anything to minimize the risk of an actual pending attack, already far along in the planning process.
And if, on the other hand, there were no ongoing and imminent plots underway, there would be no reason to rush into military action; or at least, no reason to do so if the real goal of such action was to diminish the threat of terrorism.
Much as the U.S. was able to wait several months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and carefully plan our response, without diminishing our security or "inviting" another attack -- the fear so many have today -- so too could we have deliberated, planned and carefully honed our response in the instant case. That we didn't, has nothing to do with strategy and everything to do with a culture that has become far less patient over the past half-century. In a nation of channel-surfers and short attention-spans, where "Just Do It" is more a national mantra than mere shoe-marketing slogan, anything that takes time is considered unworthy of the support of folks locked into a fast-food and microwave mentality.
So the decision to bomb Afghanistan, while definitely "doing something," hardly amounts to doing something that is related to the goal most Americans have in mind. And none of the persons who have lambasted me for opposing it, have been able to offer one shred of logic, to say nothing of evidence, which indicates that the Al Qaeda would be significantly damaged by virtue of pummeling that particular nation. They haven't even tried, in fact.
The fear that understandably has gripped so many in the U.S. since 9-11 has prompted them to latch onto anything: any remedy for terrorism, no matter how hollow, no matter how unlikely to work it may be. Not willing to seek out alternatives, or think critically about better methods for addressing the problems themselves, they rush to support anything that is offered by those in power; those whom they sincerely believe have their best interests at heart. And then when persons criticize the methods chosen by those in whom the masses have placed their trust, we become the targets of personal attack. We become appeasers, we become supporters of terrorism. We become the enemy.
The simple truth is, even if the opponents of bombing and war didn't have any alternative suggestions about how best to handle terrorism, the critiques we offer would still be legitimate, and worthy of consideration. Bad policy is bad policy, and should be resisted. Good alternatives are important to develop, but one should not have to wait until one has thought of such a policy, before raising ones voice in opposition to that which such a person finds objectionable. Especially when the bad policy in question could result in the deaths of tens of thousands, if not millions of people.
Perhaps instead of criticizing those who themselves critique the war, those persons who feel the U.S. must do "something," should spend a little less time watching CNN or Fox News, and a little more time Web surfing to discover what war critics actually believe. That they won't likely do this is not because discovering such views is particularly difficult, but rather, because doing so would require acknowledgement that the war hasn't actually made them safer; that safety will require thought-out solutions to terrorism, long-term and short-term policy changes, and diplomacy. Since it's so much easier to drop explosives, many Americans would rather not hear this. We want the solution that is easy and quick. But as H.L. Mencken once said, the solutions that are short and simple are also invariably wrong.
Tim Wise is a writer, lecturer and antiracism activist. He can be reached at tjwise@mindspring.com.


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'Opening the gates of hell': Musk says he will revive banned accounts
The Twitter chief says he will reinstate accounts suspended for threats, harassment and misinformation beginning next week
By Taylor Lorenz
Updated November 24, 2022 at 6:14 p.m. EST|Published November 24, 2022 at 2:45 p.m. EST
Twitter CEO Elon Musk, as seen in this August 2022 photo illustration, asked users whether the platform should offer a "general amnesty to suspended accounts, provided that they have not broken the law or engaged in egregious spam?" (Samuel Corum/AFP/Getty Images)
Elon Musk plans to reinstate nearly all previously banned Twitter accounts — to the alarm of activists and online trust and safety experts.
After posting a Twitter poll asking, "Should Twitter offer a general amnesty to suspended accounts, provided that they have not broken the law or engaged in egregious spam?" in which 72.4 percent of the respondents voted yes, Musk declared, "Amnesty begins next week."
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The Twitter CEO did not respond Thursday to a request for comment from The Washington Post. The poll garnered more than 3 million votes.
The mass return of users who had been banned for such offenses as violent threats, harassment and misinformation will have a significant impact on the platform, experts said. And many questioned how such a resurrection would be handled, given that it's unclear what Musk means by "egregious spam" and the difficulty of separating out users who have "broken the law," which vary widely by jurisdiction and country.
Since taking over Twitter, CEO Elon Musk has laid off thousands, many tasked with maintaining crucial services. Former staff worry the site may collapse. (Video: Jonathan Baran/The Washington Post)
"Apple and Google need to seriously start exploring booting Twitter off the app store," said Alejandra Caraballo, clinical instructor at Harvard Law's cyberlaw clinic. "What Musk is doing is existentially dangerous for various marginalized communities. It's like opening the gates of hell in terms of the havoc it will cause. People who engaged in direct targeted harassment can come back and engage in doxing, targeted harassment, vicious bullying, calls for violence, celebration of violence. I can't even begin to state how dangerous this will be."
Musk's 'free speech' agenda dismantles safety work at Twitter, insiders say
This is the second time in a week that Musk has used a Twitter poll to seemingly make a major decision related to the platform. On Nov. 18, he restored former president Donald Trump's account after 52 percent of a poll's respondents said he should do so. "Vox Populi, Vox Dei," Musk tweeted, Latin for "the voice of the people is the voice of God."
On that day, he also unilaterally reinstated at least 11 high-profile far-right Twitter accounts, including Jordan Peterson, a professor who was banned from Twitter for misgendering a trans person, and the Babylon Bee, a conservative media company. He also restored Project Veritas, a site that was frequently accused of misrepresenting events it commented on and banned "for repeated violations of Twitter's private information policy," and Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's personal account, which had been banned since January for violating the platform's covid-19 misinformation policies and pushing violent and extreme rhetoric.
Green posted a photo Thursday showing herself and other right wing figures who have had their accounts recently reinstated at a dinner table with Musk. "Happy Thanksgiving!" she wrote.
Experts say that bots and bad actors can easily skew the results of a Twitter poll, and so basing decisions on one is irresponsible. "A Twitter poll can be manipulated, there's nothing scientific or rigorous in any way about what he's doing," said Sarah T. Roberts, an associate professor at UCLA and faculty director for UCLA's Center for Critical Internet Inquiry, who previously worked at Twitter researching content moderation processes.
"Before Elon took over," Roberts added, "there were entire teams of people who did market and user research, who followed rigorous protocols established to conduct this kind of research. Suddenly, he's running Twitter off of completely unscientific polls that are polling unknown people, and certainly not any kind of demographically representative swath of people."
Many predict the restoration of banned accounts will help bring on the "free-for-all hellscape" that Musk had promised advertisers would not come to pass shortly after he took possession of the platform.
"This would be a major disaster especially in Africa where State sponsored Ghost accounts were suspended for endangering human rights activists & journalists," Hopewell Chin'ono, a journalist in Africa tweeted. "You would have allowed vile people to put our lives in danger as journalists! You will have blood on your hands @elonmusk."
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Whether Musk can do what the Twitter poll seeks is a matter of debate. He has laid off leaders of the trust and safety team, which would normally handle the logistics of reactivating the accounts. And separating out those who "broke the law" is entirely dependent on whether Twitter has detailed documentation for each suspension. Without such a legal filter, which would be dependent on state and local laws for each tweet, every account would require a thorough review, given how laws vary widely by country and region.
Madeleine Burkholder, a senior technical solutions engineer who has worked on consumer products managing spam, said Musk's ask is nonsensical. "Egregious spamming is not a technical term," she said, and most record keeping at major tech companies doesn't include questions of local governmental legal codes. The norm is to simply note whether an account violated a company's terms of service, which are rules set by the platform, not a government entity.
"It gets really hairy to pull these threads apart and figure out what the exact behavior was that led to their suspension," Burkholder said. "Was it an innocent mistake? Was it malicious? How malicious was it? … Doing that on a single case is challenging, trying to do it for every account ever, you're guaranteed to make mistakes."
Angelo Carusone, chairman and president of Media Matters, a nonprofit advocacy group and media watchdog, said that Musk's decision could mean bringing back networks of individuals that include the American Nazi Party and "a whole bunch of 8chan, 4chan, conspiracy theorists who engage in harassment and abuse." 8chan and 4chan are two message boards known for their racist and antisemitic posts.
Reversing the suspensions would mean "turning Twitter into a one-stop shop for operationalizing doxing and harassment, and an engine of radicalization," Carusone said. "It's a red pill Pez dispenser."
And quitting Twitter won't keep you safe. "Even if you're not on Twitter, you can still be the recipient of these campaigns," he said. He predicted that public health officials, election officials, journalists and teachers will all be targeted.
"Conducting major moderation and enforcement decisions on a whim is troubling CEO behavior," said Nora Benavidez, senior counsel and director of digital justice and civil rights at Free Press, a nonprofit advocacy group. "Musk, under the auspices of democracy, is legitimizing decisions that will have deeply dangerous consequences in the real world."
Benavidez said that organizations including Free Press have spent years educating tech giants on complex trust and safety issues and "pressuring them to understand the really delicate and complex role they play in mitigating harm caused to real people." If "general amnesty" is granted for the majority of suspended accounts, "It will be open season for people suspended for hate, harassment, disinformation, conspiracies and extremism," Benavidez said. "It's open season in the most dangerous ways."
"You have journalists, activists in authoritarian regimes in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia who are now even at the mercy of even more vicious trolls with no ability to fight back," said Caraballo. "It's literally life or death for people."
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The lifting of the suspensions was especially troubling to LGBTQ activists, coming just days after a mass killing at the Club Q in Colorado Springs killed five and wounded 18. Several of the restored accounts had previously been suspended for hateful rhetoric toward the gay and trans community, and Musk has been criticized for replying to Tim Pool, a right-wing YouTube star who falsely claimed the club had hosted a "grooming event," and other anti-LGBTQ accounts.
"It's a slap in the face to LGBTQ people," Caraballo said.
But conservatives have largely embraced Musk and his decision making. He frequently engages with far-right influencers, such as Andy Ngô and Ian Miles Cheong, on Twitter, and has said that the company has propagated "far left San Francisco/Berkeley views." In reality, Twitter's algorithms amplify conservative content more than that of the political left, the company's own research found last year. And, in 2020, right-leaning voices far outweighed liberals in driving conversations on influential topics leading up to the election, analysis by Politico and the Institute for Strategic Dialogue showed.
As Musk teases his reinstatement plan, trolls have become emboldened.
Far-right users of the message board 4Chan celebrated the amnesty announcement after encouraging members of the message board community to vote in Musk's poll. On one thread, rife with slurs, 4chan users who said they were previously banned for telling vaccinated people to kill themselves, and making racist, antisemitic, misogynistic, and anti-LGBTQ comments, expressed excitement over the possibility of being reinstated. The users discussed resuming the activities that had gotten them banned. In some cases users said they'd had between 12 and 17 accounts removed for violating community guidelines.
"Superspreaders of hate, abuse and harassment will be the only people to benefit from this latest decision by Twitter," said Imran Ahmed, founder and CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a nonprofit focused on online hate and misinformation. "The choice for advertisers has never been starker: stick around and back Elon Musk, or protect their brands and ensure their marketing dollars aren't used to enable the spread of hate, abuse and disinformation."
In the days after he took over Twitter, Musk initially promised not to change the site's moderation policies and restore accounts until after he'd appointed a moderation council. But more recently Musk has backtracked on naming such a council and has laid off hundreds of the Twitter employees whose job it was to police posts on the site.
Dozens of Twitter's advertisers have paused spending with the platform in the wake of Musk's takeover, concerned about how his approach to content moderation might affect the site's tone.
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Whatcom County Council Passes "Temporary Moratorium" on Cherry Point Exports for Sixth Time.
The WBA is concerned this moratorium adversely affects the businesses within the Cherry Point UGA to be competitive in their respective industries, ultimately impacting the ability of the companies in the Cherry Point UGA to provide long-term jobs in our community. This moratorium distinctly disadvantages the two Whatcom County refineries vs. their competitors.
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Simulated and measured data-based multi-target three-dimensional ultrasound image segmentation method, comprising the following steps: presetting a conventional acoustic parameter; collecting raw 3D data; employing an initial segmentation algorithm for segmenting the raw 3D data; substituting with the conventional acoustic parameter on the basis of probability to form a transitional image model comprising multiple complete target tissues; performing a simulation operation; transforming to produce simulated data; performing a comparison operation; adjusting corresponding magnitude of probability in each probability variable, and returning to the step of substituting with the conventional acoustic parameter. On the basis of the probability, the conventional acoustic parameter is substituted into an incomplete target tissue model, the simulation operation is then performed, the probability is adjusted on the basis of the degree of fit between the simulated data and the raw 3D data, this is performed repeatedly, corrections are made continually by iterative convergence until all incomplete target tissues are substituted by a certain normal tissue or lesion tissue, thus producing a complete image model, solving the shortcoming of a prior segmentation algorithm in which image segmentation is prevented by a shadow.


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I've taken the liberty to copy an article from WorldNetDaily. The reason that I copied it is so that the context of the article can be seen as I write my response. The bold and narrow assertion made by Pope Benedict XVI recently is not only offensive, it goes against the very thing that it proposes to uphold. This discussion could go on for pages, so I will try to stay to the issue at hand. I will keep short the background information in hopes that readers will study what is said on their own.


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The Evil that Men Do
By Richard Fernandez Mar 03, 2010 7:12 AM ET
News that one of two children who killed a two year old toddler 17 years ago has been reincarcerated has shocked advocates of rehabilitation in Britain. James Venables, now 27, has been sent back to jail for unspecified violations of his conditions of release. The BBC reported that "one of James Bulger's killers has been returned to prison after he breached the terms of his release. Jon Venables, 27, is back in jail after being released on life licence in 2001, when he was given a new identity. In 1993 he was detained with his friend Robert Thompson for the horrific murder of the two-year-old toddler in Bootle, Liverpool."
The news was received with great bitterness in the Guardian, which campaigned to give Venable a second chance. Alan Travis wrote "the recall of Jon Venables to prison is a big setback for the cause of reform and rehabilitation of child killers popularly branded as evil and beyond help. Venables and Robert Thompson have been held up as model case studies of the potential of the criminal justice system to turn around lives, even in the most difficult cases." Travis quoted the hopeful worlds of Lord Chief Justice said on that occasion.
"We ought not to forget that, although they committed those very serious crimes, they were first of all human beings, and secondly they were children. Children can do things when they are children that they would never do in later life when they had matured and appreciated," said Woolf when he cut the length of their sentence to eight years in 2000.
And now, after having been "detained" instead of arrested, and after having being "recalled" instead of re-arrested, the perp is back in stir, now a man and no longer a boy. But it's not the specifics of the case nor even sympathy for the individuals or victims that is at issue. The problem is one of theology. Are some people evil or can they always be fixed, given enough social work and counseling? The Guardian in 1993 argued it would accept censorship before conceding the principle that the two child perpetrators should ever be identified. They needed a second chance. If criminalizing their identification was the price of giving them another go then so be it. Now that the paper has to say that Venables is back in custody and "it is unlikely to be just a technical breach of his life licence", it's a blow to their world view. The Guardian described its position.
In its leader the next day Guardian set out its reasons for declining to join the four newspapers that asked the high court to lift the injunction protecting the anonymity of the killers. The paper noted: "Free speech is important but so is the protection of life. … Rehabilitating the two remains the best public protection."
The behavior of complex systems such as living things and collections of living things remains one of the most difficult subjects of scientific inquiry. "Man is a mystery", Dostoevsky once wrote. One researcher told his audience there were very few things about collections of living things that we knew with certainty: one of them being that they would eventually die and even that you can't take to the bank any more. But that doesn't stop people from trying to figure life out and trying to control it. Despite evidence that crime — and violent crime — existed in ancient times, there is no shortage of people who believe we can change the world. Social activism can "change" society; and society can in turn remake the individual. There are no givens which nurture cannot overcome. Even the survival instinct can be reprogrammed.
The New Scientist has argued that "on the slow-sinking Titanic … there was time for [the] social norm of giving priority to women and children to establish themselves" whereas on the Lusitania where survivors were largely strong men between 16 and 35, "instinct and bodily strength dictated survival". The first was a liberal response to a shipwreck; and the second a conservative. The alternative hypothesis would be that the biological individuals and their associated community optimize their joint survival in different ways depending on circumstances: that under sharp and extreme circumstances everyone is a 'conservative'; but when luxury allows we can afford to be 'liberal'.
Nowhere is the argument of nurture versus nature more clearly marked than in the debate over the recidivism of sex offenders. Carl Bialik at the WSJ argues that we don't even know how to measure recidivism accurately and for sex offenders the rate may vary from 90% to 52% depending on the data collection system. Bialik says that child molesters actually re-offend less frequently, but when they do, it's a dilly.
existing research raises tough questions about the relative danger child molesters pose to society. Their likelihood of being convicted for a crime after release is much lower than average for all criminals released from prison, and even for all sex offenders, at least in the short term, as measured by a Bureau of Justice Statistics study and others. Yet their crimes, when they do repeat child abuse, are unusually harmful, and their victims particularly vulnerable. Does that justify the closer monitoring of child molesters after release, compared with other criminals?
The same may be said for terrorists. By the standards of sex offenders terrorists are comparatively easy to rehabilitate. The only problem is that when they do the result may be a couple of hundred or a couple of thousand dead bodies. The New York Times reports that only 1 in 7 freed detainees returned to terrorism or militant activity. Yet that has shaken the advocates for their release, like Mark Denbeaux, whose response might have been straight out of the Guardian. Why speak of "bad people" out there when there are just misguided individuals society hasn't helped yet?
Mark P. Denbeaux, a professor at Seton Hall University School of Law who has represented Guantánamo detainees and co-written three studies highly critical of the Pentagon's previous recidivism reports. "They want to be able to claim there really were bad people there."
Mr. Denbeaux acknowledged that some of the named detainees had engaged in verifiable terrorist acts since their release, but he said his research showed that their numbers were small.
"We've never said there weren't some people who would return to the fight," Mr. Denbeaux said. "It seems to be unavoidable. Nothing is perfect."
One wonders whether if that one terrorist in seven decided to attack Mr. Denbeaux if it would make any difference whether the attack took place so quickly that he would have to respond with "instinct and bodily strength" or whether there would be enough time for "social norms" to kick in. If you left a victim of the World Trade Center attack in the burning tower long enough would he eventually realize that it was partly his fault? Would it matter? And yet what sort of society would it be that never gave a man a chance to climb back on the wagon, to claim forgiveness from a spouse from infidelity or a chance to start life again after "paying back a debt to society"?
The human desire for a second chance is almost as strong as the knowledge that many will fail shortly thereafter. Man is trapped in his own nature. Society has been trying and failing since the day of the Babylonian cop to make us rise to higher things on the "steps of our dead selves" even if it takes the re-education camp to do it.
Maybe one of the reasons for a persistent belief in God is the intuition that renewal and the forgiveness it requires can never be attained in a human context. Faith in the Almighty is probably inversely proportional to our faith in ourselves. If the Guardian can't save you it's time to try something else. Some perps have probably come to the conclusion that to find redemption you have to jump out of the human system to do it. George Santayana, who oscillated between being an agnostic and an "aesthetic Catholic," must have been aware of the dilemma. He finished his days in the care of the Convent of the Blue Nuns. Santayana observed that "if pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved." He might have added that no amount of anonymity can keep us from remembering our names.
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It is announced that this euro cup is a very great tournament and it will totally make a very great change in the football world. Due to this announcement the total football fans are waiting for the better result this euro cup will be a very interesting tournament which will be conducted in the second half of the year which is 2016. This is the tournament which the people who are the fans says that it is been highly dominated by most of the team who place much better and it is stated in many of the chronicles that the dream of the football players will be to do their best in this tournament. It is not only to do the best; it is also to get the victory by fighting with the equivalent fighters who are found in the football team.
The chronicles in the country of Europe is daily moving along with the headlines about this football tournament and it is the season of football and it is the most exciting season for the football players too. The coachers of each and every team in the football are explaining that their team will do the best as they are doing a tireless practice to get the title in this tournament and all the teams who are going to participate in their tournament are trying to make this tournament as their own by their tireless hard work and their excellent performance.
Such an excellent tournament has many faces and the most important news among all such incidents are said to be the Russian team which is disqualified from the tournament. This is found to be the most shocking news and all the chronicles and also the magazines are filled with this news in the headlines. There is a very huge survey which is going behind the euro cup football 2016 and the team is not only disqualified, they are also asked to pay penalty. All these discomforts are due to the incident which happened during the match between the England and the Russian team of football. This is been informed as a great theory to all the other teams and they are requested to avoid such disputes in their matches.
With all these interesting ups and downs the great euro cup 2016 is running out well in the present situation and people say that there are very huge expectations which are found evolving from this match.


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Lindsay's background is in retail, technology, ecommerce, and marketing with experience in start-ups, big retail, strategic consulting, and now co-ops. She has proven herself as a leader by building innovative brands and engaging consumer experiences both online and in-store with a strong attention to data analysis, trends, and building talented teams. She comes from the Independent Retail space where she was CEO of Marbles: The Brain Store; a chain of 45 specialty retail locations across the country that also grew into an eCommerce leader in specialty consumer products.
Announcement: March 2019
"The Bike Cooperative is excited to welcome Lindsay Gaskins as President! Lindsay is a leader in entrepreneurial ventures with many years of experience in retail, start-ups and strategic consulting. She comes from the Independent Retail space where she was CEO of Marbles: The Brain Store; a chain of 45 specialty retail locations across the country that also grew into an eCommerce leader in specialty consumer products. Lindsay is excited to help The Bike Cooperative grow and is fully committed to helping IBD's maintain their independence!"
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Bangkok's Suburban Train will Boost its Capacity by up to 40% with Thales
Thailand's main rail operator, the State Railway of Thailand (SRT), will adopt the European Train Control System (ETCS), ensuring the highest safety standards of operation. Through a contract signed with Nippon Signal, Thales will deliver the ETCS on two sections of the Red Line suburban train in Bangkok, totalling a distance of 41 km.
Bangkok Red Line Train Impression
Red Line Commuter Train System
The Red Line commuter train system is a suburban rail project proposed by the SRT to address traffic congestion and encourage a shift from road transport to urban rail. The line is expected to serve 131,000 commuters daily when it goes into service. As part of Bangkok's Mass Rapid Transit Master Plan which aims to develop an urban rail transit network to serve metropolitan Bangkok and its surrounding urban areas, the Red Line is the first line which is fully integrated into SRT's conventional main line rail network.
On the Red Line, new electrical commuter trains will run as well as long distance passenger trains. It will consist of the following two lines: North Line (from Rangsit to Bang Sue) and West Line (from Bang sue to Taling Chan).
Thales ETCS System
The Thales ETCS system will ensure the highest safety standards for railway transport on the complete line. 25 new electric multiple unit trains and two existing non-electrified vehicles will be equipped with Thales ETCS on-board system, resulting in a total of 53 on-board units. Being fit for the future they will run in a pure Level 1 configuration but can easily be adapted for Level 2. The Red Line sections to be equipped are partly built in a four-track alignment and the remainder as a double-track line. The signalling part is planned to be finished in 2020.
Thales stands ready to support SRT's plans for growth. With proven signalling competencies and international market knowledge based on previous partnerships with Nippon Signal and earlier ETCS installations for SRT in Thailand, Thales hopes to enhance the technology and expertise delivered to the Thai transportation industry.
Tommy Ayouty, Country Director of Thales in Thailand, said:
As Thailand develops its transportation infrastructure to support a growing urban population, Thales continues to be a committed partner to the country, as we've done for close to 30 years across various businesses. We are supporting Thailand's ambitions in developing a robust urban rail network, and providing systems that ensure the highest level of safety to the SRT's commuters. We look forward to working closely with our partner Nippon Signal to bring the Red Line to the Thai people.
Original press release credit: Thales
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Gyroscopic House
Designing for migration
This project for a house for a disabled person tackles the issue of a lack of political will in solving the problems faced by people living with reduced mobility in poor areas and slums. The project highlights that through technological innovation, quality of life can be greatly improved.
The house has a collective dimension. As a gesture of inclusion and an invitation for social interaction, the roof is made into a public space accessible to local children. Visiting children are attracted by its unusual geometric form and the house becomes an important attraction and play-space in the neighbourhood. There is an intentional element of confrontation between the public and the private areas of the house.
Irina Urriola
Striped plastic bands wall knitted on a chromatic pattern band. Strip knitting walls, banding patterns crossing with double curvature surfaces, preexistent and reused beams. The double curvature is accomplished by crossing two systems, the first is a structured sur-face reusing the profiles from the house and a zigzagging net on the other direction, modifying the color intensity on a striped pattern bands .
The house is not handed over in a finished state, rather, it is inhabited by its owners throughout its various stages of completion. Their everyday activities are transferred to their new positions in the new house, while retaining certain spacial relationships which remain important to its inhabitants and their way of life. The proud new owners of the house, in turn, play an active role in weaving its walls and furniture in order to complete it.
The ramp is the hallway of the house: the suspended pending and the permeability of the skins allows the wind trespass and refreshed it. The ramp is an intermediate chamber, a three dimensional fragment of the house upon the hammocks, deploying Gladys plants where Luz Marina exercises. The back door is displaced to an axis from its origin point (to the left of the tank), reaching the street establishing a new access protocol
The house works as a domestic landscape for people with reduced mobility. There is a support handrail which runs along the multitude of vectors of the house, this allows Luz Marina to wander freely inside and outside the house, to the external patios, on any route she chooses.
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Audi A8 L 2011 More Pictures
Audi A8 L 2011, a full-size luxury sedan, made its official premiere at Beijing in April 2010 and will debut in fall 2010 with five engines, including the powerful 12-cylinder with 500 hp(368kw). The pricing starts at €79,900 (US $100,650) and goes up to €137,000 ($172,415) depending the option selected.
The new high-tech flagship of the brand – The Audi A8 L
The full-size A8 sedan embodies the Vorsprung durch Technik for which Audi is renowned. The brand now presents the new top version of its flagship: The long-wheelbase A8 L sets standards for luxury, dynamics and efficiency. It will debut in fall 2010 with five engines, including the powerful twelve-cylinder with 368 kW (500 hp).
The Audi A8 L impresses with a presence of powerful confidence – it is a large, distinguished luxury sedan. Length and wheelbase have both been stretched by 13 centimeters (5.12 in) versus the standard version; the A8 L measures 5.27 meters (17.29 ft). All of this added length is to the benefit of the rear seat passengers.
Audi offers two power-adjustable and heated individual seats as an option for the rear, which can be paired with the optional continuous, elegantly-styled center console with large storage compartments. The individual seats can also be equipped with optional ventilation and massage functions, and features such as a folding table and a cool box make the passengers' stay even more enjoyable. The top version is the relaxation seat with power footrest. It comes complete with every available luxury option, including a rear seat entertainment system.
Audi also offers a number of attractive multimedia modules, including a high-end sound system from Bang & Olufsen and advanced online services. The Audi A8 L is the first automobile in the world to be available with an integrated WLAN hotspot. A UMTS module provides the connection to the Internet.
The interior of the A8 L enchants with its new, light lines, with a craftsman's level of fit and finish and with extraordinary attention to the smallest of details. The comfort on board is first class – from the ambient lighting to the four-zone automatic climate control system.
The Audi flagship combines a new level of technical intelligence with intuitively simple operation. Its multimedia interface (MMI) includes a pioneering innovation: In conjunction with the optional MMI navigation plus navigation system, it has a touchpad. The MMI enables the driver to control many functions intuitively. The navigation destination, for example, can be entered by tracing the letters on the pad with a finger.
MMI navigation plus is tightly integrated with the assistance and safety systems in the new Audi A8 L. It reads the road ahead and provides the data to the control units for the automatic transmission, the headlights and the advanced adaptive cruise control with stop & go function.
With their increased intelligence, these systems can recognize complex scenarios and predictively support the driver. The new Audi pre sense safety system can reduce the severity of accidents and their consequences in many cases. The night vision assistant with its highlighting of detected pedestrians and the speed limit display enhance the driver's safety and convenience.
Timeless elegance: the design
The Audi A8 L is a sedan of classic, timeless elegance. Its body is an aluminum Audi Space Frame (ASF), weighing about 40 percent less than a comparable steel structure. Audi offers optional LED headlights that use light emitting diodes for all light functions (standard with the W12). These represent a revolution in lighting technology with respect to both the technology and appearance.
The new A8 L is debuting with five engines: two TDI and three FSI gasoline units. All of the engines feature increased power and torque, while fuel consumption has improved considerably: by as much as 22 percent. This is due to Audi efficiency technologies such as the recuperation system and the innovative thermal management.
The engine lineup spans a wide range. It begins with two three-liter V6 units: a TDI with 184 kW (250 hp) and a TFSI producing 213 kW (290 hp). The two V8 engines both have a displacement of 4.2 liters, with the TDI producing 258 kW (350 hp) and the FSI 273 kW (372 hp). Topping the lineup is the W12, a gasoline engine with superior power and cultivation. It develops 368 kW (500 hp) from a displacement of 6.3 liters.
The transmission also plays a major role in the efficiency of the A8 L. The eight-speed tiptronic has a very high overall gear ratio and is controlled electronically using either the elegant selector lever or paddles on the steering wheel. The quattro permanent all-wheel drive has a distinctly sporty and rear-biased character. The optional sport differential dynamically distributes the forces between the rear wheels; this feature is standard with the A8 L 4.2 TDI.
The new A8 L offers both luxurious ride comfort and sporty handling. Its wheel control arms are made of aluminum. The adaptive air suspension with controlled damping is standard equipment and is integrated into the versatile Audi drive select dynamics system. The optional dynamic steering completes the range of chassis options.
The Audi A8 L will be rolling into showrooms toward the end of the year. Base prices are €79,900 for the 3.0 TDI; €80,400 for the 3.0 TFSI; €94,300 for the 4.2 FSI; €95,800 for the 4.2 TDI; and €137,000 for the opulantly equipped W12.
The Audi A8 L
Lightweight and yet ultra-strong aluminum body with ASF design
13 centimeters longer than the standard version, measures 5.27 meters (17.29 ft)
Timelessly elegant and harmonious lines, optional LED headlights
Panoramic sunroof comprising two glass elements
Interior and controls
Power-adjustable individual rear seats, with luxurious relaxation seat available as an option
Craftsman-level fit and finish, generous list of standard and optional equipment
Advanced MMI control system standard; as MMI touch navigation system with pioneering character recognition
Assistance and safety systems
Night vision assistant with pedestrian marking, adaptive cruise control with stop & go function, additional high-performance driver assistance systems
New Audi pre sense safety system for avoiding accidents and for minimizing their consequences
Infotainment systems
Latest generation navigation system tightly networked with the assistance systems
State-of-the-art online services including WLAN hotspot, high-end audio systems
Two TDI and three gasoline engines, with power ranging from 184 kW (250 hp) to 368 kW (500 hp)
Groundbreaking efficiency: 3.0 TDI emits only 176 grams CO2 per km (283.24 g/mile) Twelve-cylinder FSI with a displacement of 6.3 liters
Newly developed, electronically controlled eight-speed tiptronic standard quattro all-wheel drive standard, sport differential available for the rear axle
Lightweight suspension, balanced axle load distribution
Audi drive select driving dynamic system including standard air suspension and adaptive damping, optional dynamic steering
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Marilyn Carson Hicks
Marilyn Carson Hicks was born on May 5, 1954, in Bogalusa, Louisiana to the late Nevel Sr. and Mary Carson. Marilyn departed this life peacefully in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on April 20, 2022.
At an early age, Marilyn became a member of Sweet Beulah Baptist Church. She graduated from Bogalusa High School in 1972. After graduation, she attended Grambling State University and later worked in the medical field until her ailment. On June 23, 1986, Marilyn was united in marriage with the late Robert L. Hicks.
Marilyn leaves to cherish her memory, her four children: Kiley Kilbourne of Bogalusa, Louisiana, Keela (Eugene) Burdis of Prairieville, Louisiana, Keeda Hicks of Denham Springs, Louisiana, and Diamond Hicks of New Orleans, Louisiana; two step-children: Madeline Martin of Grand Prairie, Texas, and Rodrick (Keisha) Alexander of Harvey, Louisiana; two sisters: Barbara Morgan and Marynell Carson of Bogalusa, Louisiana; her mother-in-law, Valeria Hicks of Bogalusa, Lousiana; sister-in-law, Barbara (Matthew) Collins of Bogalusa, Louisiana; two brothers-in-law: Charles Hicks of Washington, D.C., and Gregory (Gloria) Hicks of Baton Rouge, Louisiana; six grandchildren: Cameron Burdis, Chayson Burdis, Karson Duncan, Amaya Robinson, Nylan Alexander, and Kamerin Alexander; a special niece, Kyra Ball, a special friend, Wanda Shorter, and a host of cousins, nieces, nephews, and friends.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Nevel Sr. and Mary Carson, her husband of 33 years, Robert L. Hicks; two brothers: Billy Harriel and Nevel Carson, Jr; her father-in-law, Robert "Bob" Hicks; sister-in-law, Valeria Smith, and step-daughter, Tina Robinson.
A visitation will be held on Wednesday, April 27, 2022 from 2:00PM - 3:00PM followed by the funeral service at 3:00PM at Sweet Beulah Baptist Church with Rev. Charlie Parker - Officiating. Interment will be held at the Ponemah Cemetery.
Crain and Sons Funeral Home, Bogalusa are in charge of arrangements.


The Mentor system in our High School is an important vehicle for fostering School ruach (spirit) and ensuring that the pastoral care needs of our students are met on a daily basis. The School is divided into four Houses, each named after important cities and towns in Israel: Be'er Sheva, Teveria, Yerushalayim and Zfat. Within each house, there are three Mentor groups. Mentor teachers are matched with students and their families when they join the school. This relationship plays a significant role throughout our students' High School career. Siblings are kept together in the Mentor system and this enables Mentor teachers to build a strong bond with our Carmel families.
The purpose of the Mentor system is to ensure that each student can identify and actively work with their strengths and weaknesses. We place heavy emphasis on ensuring that our students are equipped with the necessary social and emotional intelligence to be successful. We run a range of ongoing programs each year to support students and their families on this journey. These range from Peer Support programs run by trained Carmel students, to guest speakers and incursions and excursion.
Our Mentor groups are structured vertically so that students from across Years 7 – 12 work together. This is particularly significant in building the leadership capacity of our students. Role modelling becomes inherent in the Mentor system and older members of mentor group support younger members socially and academically. This structure also ensures that there are consistent connections for each student as they progress through to Year 12.
Our Mentor teachers work closely with the Deans of Students to monitor the academic, social and emotional journey of our students.
House Cultural Competition: Students compete weekly in a range of activities such as Debating, Chess, Engineering and Film making.
Sporting Competitions: Swimming Carnival, Athletics Carnival and the Lightning Beach Carnival.
Students earn points towards their House for participation. At the end of the year, one House takes home the House shield based on the results across the range of competitions and Academic Merit.


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MT600 tracker should be installed by technical professional of local service centre. Without permission, the user cann't repair and move the tracker randomly. If users do, any unfortunated damage should be compensated by himself.
Yellow wire connects the relay pin 86; 85 pin connect to 12 V DC , 87 pin and 30 pin in series power supply fuel. Caution: Wrong connection of yellow wire will damage the tracker.
White wire connects relay pin 86; 85 pin to 12 V DC, 87 pin and 30 pin are in series power supply circuits. Caution: Wrong connection of yellow wire will damage the tracker.
The blue wire connects the positive of the alarm button, and the black wire connects the negative of the alarm button.
Note: Relay is optional for remote fuel / ignition shut-off.
Note: When sending SMS command to the unit, do NOT use spaces or symbols not listed below. [brackets and + are for instructional use only] * and # are valid command parameters.
Unit Reply: SET USER NUMBER 1 OK.
The defaulted password is 0000.
Unit Reply: DELETE USER NUMBER 1 OK.
Unit Reply: SET USER PASSWORD OK.
Unit Reply: SET ROUND GEO-FENCE: ON.
Unit Reply: SET ROUND GEO-FENCE: OFF.
SMS Command format: 006+password+G1,IO/I/O,E/W longitude upper limit+N/S latitude upper limit,E/W longitude lower limit+N/S latitude lower limit.
Unit Reply: SET SQUARE GEO-FENCE1(IO)OK.
Unit Reply: SET SQUARE GEO-FENCE: ON.
Unit Reply: SET SQUARE GEO-FENCE: OFF.
Unit Reply: SET OILWAY DISCONNECT.
Unit Reply: SET OILWAY RECOVERY CONNECT.
Unit Reply: SET SPEED LIMIT:OFF.
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Insert the SIM card into the SIM card plastic tray.
Ensure the SIM card has metal contacts facing up (Diagram #1).
Gently slide the SIM Tray into the SIM Slot (Diagram #2).


There's so much talk about stress and how it can affect us. One of our biggest challenges is that we are so conditioned to being stressed that we don't feel it in our bodies and are often not aware of how it's impacting our lives.
In the Body Scan that I guide clients through I hear people say things like, "my shoulders have dropped", "my breathing has softened" and "I feel more relaxed", but until that moment they hadn't been aware that their shoulders were up by their ears or that they were holding their breath!
Unfortunately, many of us become ill, have an accident or experience a distressing life event before we stop, take stock of our lives and become aware of the stress that we are coping with.
Despite all or any of these indications we may be successful in our working life or business, have an active family life and from the outside life looks good!
But on the inside, there may be emotional turmoil?
This is incongruence – we are experiencing one way of being on the outside (externally) but something different on the inside (internally).
The challenge is that we do not FEEL the stress or emotional turmoil! Until we can FEEL the stress, we have no way of knowing what or how to change.
It took a fall with my horse Jack, and a broken collar bone, to stop me in my tracks and recognise the stress, to really feel my feelings and uncover the subconscious patterns of belief and behaviour that had pushed me to this point – so that I could change. I had to be true to myself – to be authentic!
How can we be more authentic?
We can honour our true feelings and align with our heart. Once we realise what's truly important to us and transmute the emotional blocks, we can take action which reflects our inner truth. Then we feel calmer and yet energised and can enjoy more harmonious relationships. We can live a life on the outside, which reflects our inner state of being.
– Zoning out in the front of the TV whilst eating a whole packet of biscuits …….
…… take a minute to connect with your body and notice what you are FEELING and then bring awareness to your heart and ask, 'what do I really want in this moment' and then take action.
If you resonate with this blog and would like support to explore how stress may be impacting your life, then please do get in touch.
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Lots of things that are good for you seem to be very expensive. I'm still not 100% sure what spirulina or maca root powder do or why people put them in smoothies all the time, but they are on my mental list of "things I've heard are good for me that are too expensive to bother with". It's a long list.
But here's a thing that's literally free, though admittedly hard to come by in the winter here in the UK. It is organic, gluten-free, soy-free, nut-free, you don't have to wait three days for shipping etc etc etc… yuh-uh, you already know because it's in the title: natural light. Light! That thing that happens for a lot of the day in the summer, or pretty much all the time if you live in certain places. Just light. The stuff that nature is doing when you go outside. You can even get it when you're inside, if you've got your curtains open. Luxurious.
UV light absorbed through your skin helps to produce vitamin D, and vitamin D promotes serotonin production. Serotonin influences a lot of stuff, but one of the things it affects is your mood – as well as cardiovascular health, memory, sleep patterns, and other things we really want to perform at their best. Higher levels of serotonin correlate with better mood and feelings of satisfaction and calmness, and lower levels link to depression and anxiety.
I get sent a lot of infographics every week and normally they're either irrelevant or garbage – but this one caught my eye. It's about the mental and physical health benefits you can get from making like a plant and absorbing plenty of natural light, and it's just a pretty nice little image about an important topic.
Now, I don't know that focusing on mindfulness or meditating are necessarily ways to literally get more light into your life (though metaphorically speaking, absolutely) but if you meditate in the garden or enjoy some mindful moments in front of a sunny window, then they probably do help.
Now that summer has arrived, it's absolutely prime time to get outside into the sun – even if it's just to sit and watch the world go by, rather than setting off on an epic hike or any other adventurous expedition. I'm a big fan of anything that can give you a mental health boost without requiring a big budget or a lot of effort, and little things like positioning your home workspace to be in a sunnier spot or making the effort to take lunch breaks outside can make a real difference.
Check out my recent post on easy habits to get into for a wellbeing boost for some extra inspiration, and for a little more of the actual science behind why natural light is such a mood-booster, take a look at this great article from TIME.
To find out more about SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder), which is commonly associated with changing weather and a lack of sunlight, visit Mind Mental Health Charity's page here.


This beautiful Sparkle Heart Ring has a chamber inside which you can use to house the ashes of your loved one, sacred soil or lock of hair keepsake. This ring features a cubic zirconia band with a plain heart where the ashes are secured inside closed by a secure screw. The ring is easily filled through the secure opening using the included small funnel and instructions. The ring is made from high quality 316L Stainless Steel with a silver finish. Beautiful and affordable piece of jewellery.
Available in UK sizes M, N, P, R,U.


Switch between different company accounts with ease.
TrackingTime offers multi-account support. This means that you can work for different accounts on TrackingTime using always a single user account with one email address.
If you belong to multiple accounts, the Account Switcher will be automatically turned on when you log in into your dashboard and display the account you're currently in.
To switch to another account click on the 'Active account' label shown above. A pop-up will appear on screen where you can select the account you'd like to switch to.
Tip: If you want to be logged in always into the same account, you can set this account as your default. You can change your default account anytime as required.


27 December 2012 - The Government of Japan has contributed an additional USD 2 million to support the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) emergency work in the Gaza Strip.This donation comes in response to the Agency's call for support for Palestine refugees recovering from the recent violence. The contribution will be mainly used to cover emergency bedding materials and hygiene kits for adults and babies.
Civilians in the coastal enclave have been hit hard by the recent Israeli military offensive "Operation Pillar of Defense" that lasted eight days. At the height of the escalation, approximately 12,000 individuals in Gaza City and the Northern Gaza governorate fled their homes and sought refuge in emergency shelters set up in 14 UNRWA and two government schools. Despite the violence, UNRWA amplified its efforts to ensure that core public and emergency services to Palestine refugees remained in operation. Wherever possible, sanitation work and health centres remained in operation to assist displaced people.
This latest donation from Japan will go towards providing non-food items to assist UNRWA in combating the effects of this recent conflict on Palestine refugees in Gaza.
This year alone, Japan has given over USD 22.5 million to UNRWA, making it the Agency's ninth-largest donor.


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The best part of this sign job was who I did it for. The man is Fred Vellutini, a World War II veteran who could pass for a 50 year old. As I only talked to him on the phone, I was really surprised to learn his age. He owns property in Northern California and we had a really good conversation during the ordering of the ranch sign. He had to satisfiy all of the members of his family and this is what he came up with. The best part of the conversaion was when he told me that he was out having dinner while wearing his WW II hat. Some man walked by and asked him if that hat belonged to his dad. Fred said "no sir, my dad was in World War I.....he had his own hat!" Too cool. Super nice and I hope he gets to enjoy that ranch for many years to come.