The Mobile Application Industry has seen tremendous growth since the Apple iPhone hit the market in 2007 and mobile users were able to experience the benefits of Mobile Applications for the first time. Since then, many other companies such as Google, RIM, Samsung, Microsoft, and Palm have jumped on the mobile application bandwagon and have also started reaping the benefits and advantages of hosting a mobile application marketplace for their users. At the same time, one must wonder when the mobile application industry will start leveling out due to the heavy saturation of mobile applications and mobile developers from around the world. Competition is surely expected to become intense as companies battle each other for a heavy presence in the mobile application industry.
Looking back a few years ago, there was very little competition when it came to mobile application development due to the fact that there were such a small number of mobile application developers in the market and also because there were very few mobile application marketplaces where users could go to access specific mobile applications. A few years later in 2010, the mobile application industry started picking up steam as it took great strides into becoming one of the most dominant industries in the high-tech world.
Companies such as Google, RIM, Microsoft, and Palm started investing heavily in mobile application development and also their own mobile application marketplaces where users could go to access mobile applications. Although a majority of these companies have yet to reach the success, demand and attention that Apple's iPhone Mobile Application Marketplace has received, they certainly are heading in the right direction as demand for mobile applications is expected to rise each year.
Apple's main competition in the mobile application market today is from Android Mobile Application Marketplace; and in 2011 mobile application developers are predicting that Microsoft Windows will also start competing with these two leaders in the mobile application industry. With such competition to capture a strong presence in the mobile industry, companies are starting to invest large amounts of money into advertising and marketing of their mobile application marketplaces. At the same time, with more mobile device users growing every year, there is enough demand and need for these mobile application marketplaces.
One must remember that as history has shown thru the dotcom boom, what goes up will eventually come back to the ground and one has to wonder how long the mobile application industry will continue rising until it finally reaches a point where it cannot grow anymore. Competition is certainly expected to pick up in the coming years and there will be a tight race for mobile application superiority within the mobile application industry. Companies such as Apple and Google have benefited tremendously in the past with their Mobile Application Marketplaces but until they find a way to differentiate themselves, they will need to constantly keep an eye in their rear view mirror for companies such as Windows (Phone 7), RIM (Blackberry), and Palm who will most certainly continue to push for more market share in the mobile application industry.


NFL teams have gone for a two-point conversion 59 times this year through seven weeks and have converted 34 (a 58 percent success rate), according to Pro Football Reference.
I know some (and probably still most) coaches are hesitant to eschew what is still a high likelihood of one point in search of two, but if the current conversion trend continues, it will simply be bad math to adhere to the status of kicking by default.
While teams have gone for two 59 times, they've kicked 528 times this year, making 501 (95 percent). Had they gone for two each time and made them at the aforementioned 58 percent rate, they would have scored 107 more points than they had by kicking.
Obviously there are other factors in play, such as wind, relative strength of an offense and defense and even an intangible like momentum, but if you are a good offensive team playing with confidence, you should be going for two more often than you kick.
Vikings writer Andrew Krammer: The answer is absolutely yes.
It has been amazing to see how conservative football coaches continue to be as probabilities seep into and alter other professional sports around them. We should applaud Pat Shurmur for calling a two-point attempt following a touchdown that cut into the Giants' 14-point deficit against the Falcons on Monday night.
Since the long-term two-point success rate hovers above 50 percent, and as aforementioned is closer to 60 percent this season, probabilities indicate the Giants were likely to make the two-point attempt after a second touchdown to tie the game — if the first two-point try failed. If it succeeded, they were an extra point away from a win.
It feels like we're on the cusp of change, led by such coaches as Shurmur and the Eagles' Doug Pederson.
Rand: Here's where I'll play devil's advocate for a moment: As teams put more successful two-point plays on tape for opponents to study, might defenses start to catch up and tilt that success rate down under 50 percent?
Even a small shift in this year's sample size could make the decision between consistently going for one or two a mathematical coin flip. And if that's the case, I still think more coaches than not — with inertia and self-preservation as motives — will keep kicking.
Krammer: I think it's fair to question how much room for improvement defenses have in those instances. A two-point play is no different from any other goal-line stand that defenses already practice and face weekly.
Since 2000, only five times has the NFL's No. 1 red-zone offense had a touchdown success rate of 72 percent or better, per Football Outsiders. Three of those leaders — the 2016 Titans, 2014 Raiders and 2013 Broncos — have come within the past five years. And the Seahawks (73.3 percent) are on pace to do it again this season.
Offenses are setting leaguewide scoring records, which theoretically should force the evolution of the game's leading coaches.
Rand: The Vikings have a defense-minded head coach in Mike Zimmer. It would sure be something to see him turn OC John DeFilippo loose with a bunch of two-point conversions!
Final word: Krammer: I'm not holding my breath, especially with Dan Bailey bringing a steadying presence at kicker. But hey, we've never seen issues with a veteran kicker in Minnesota, so it's not like that's a shoe waiting to drop or anything.


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Система пожаротушения (иначе — противопожарная система ППС) — одна из стационарных бортовых аварийных систем, предназначенная для тушения пожара на борту летательного аппарата.

Назначение
Все пилотируемые летательные аппараты являются сложными, дорогостоящими и чрезвычайно опасными в пожарном отношении транспортными средствами. Ввиду больших запасов топлива (авиационного керосина) на борту, гидравлической жидкости под высоким давлением, разнообразных масел и спецжидкостей, запасов жидкого или газообразного кислорода, огромного количества электрических и электронных систем, нередко под высоким напряжением, наконец, магниевых сплавов и пластмасс — самолёт при пожаре может сгореть за считанные минуты, что смертельно опасно в полёте. Поэтому летательные аппараты оборудованы системами автоматического пожаротушения.

Особо стоит отметить боевые летательные аппараты, изначально предназначенные для действий в условиях огневого воздействия противника. На них, как правило, ППС ещё более сложная и разветвлённая, чем на пассажирских лайнерах.

Общие сведения
Наиболее пожароопасными местами на самолёте (вертолёте) являются отсеки двигателей и отсеки топливных баков.

В конструкцию летательного аппарата изначально закладываются решения по предотвращению возникновения пожара, а также средства по его локализации. Так, к примеру, двигательные отсеки могут иметь теплоизоляцию или отражающее покрытие и охлаждаться забортным воздухом от набегающего потока. Вся электропроводка выполнена в теплостойкой изоляции, а непосредственно на двигателе проложена в жёстких закрытых трубах. Для предотвращения распространения огня в мотогондолах и отсеках двигателей устанавливают противопожарные перегородки. Для предотвращения скопления топлива и жидкостей в подкапотном пространстве применяется дренажная система.

Надтопливное пространство баков может заполняться нейтральным газом, препятствующим горению. Также препятствует взрыву и пожару заполнение внутренних полостей топливных баков губчатым пенополиуретаном.

Для контроля на летательном аппарате устанавливается система пожарной сигнализации, которая непрерывно контролирует пожароопасные места, и в ряде случаев автоматически включает систему пожаротушения.

Устройство
Огнегасящий состав (часто применяется «хладон 114В2», химическая формула C2Br2F4) находится под давлением в баллонах. Как правило, баллоны именуются так: первая очередь пожаротушения, вторая очередь пожаротушения (нередко бывает и третья очередь). Все баллоны снабжены пиротехническими запорными кранами, которые однократно срабатывают при подаче электрического сигнала на подрыв пиропатронов. Огнегасящий состав по системе трубопроводов подаётся к распылительному коллектору в месте возгорания, причём, в зависимости от конкретного места система сигнализации методом открытия и закрытия нужных электроклапанов производит конфигурацию трубопроводов (при сложной разветвлённой ППС просто нет смысла возить на борту баллоны для каждого отсека, целесообразнее установить блок кранов).

Помимо автоматических очередей пожаротушения, систему можно активировать вручную, нажав на соответствующую лампу-кнопку на щитке противопожарной системы. При срабатывании пиропатрона и перегорании нити накала теряется электрический контакт, что вызывает загорание лампы-кнопки.

При срабатывании сигнала о пожаре в отсеке двигателя одновременно с подачей фреона может срабатывать (если это предусмотрено) пожарный кран, перекрывающий подачу топлива к двигателю и закрываться аварийная заслонка продува генераторов (воздушного охлаждения).

На ряде самолётов на законцовках крыла или снизу фюзеляжа установлены ударные датчики, активирующие систему пожаротушения при вынужденной посадке с невыпущенным шасси.

Примеры конструкции

На небольших самолётах типа учебных или лёгких истребителях система пожаротушения простая.

Так, например, на самолёте МиГ-21 система состоит из ионизационного сигнализатора пожара ИС-2М, 2-литрового баллона 20С-2-1С с пиротехническим краном, коллектора с отверстиями, проложенного по шпангоуту № 22, электросистемы, извещающей лётчика о наличии очага пламени и приводящие в действие противопожарное оборудование. Система предназначена для ликвидации пожара только в отсеке двигателя.

На самолёте L-39 установлена система сигнализации о пожаре ССП-2И с блоком БИ-2И с шестью датчиками ДТБГ, огнетушитель ОС-2, заряжаемый жидкостью "7" (80% бромистого метилена и 20% бромистого этила) или фреоном 114В2 под давлением. Система защищает только двигательный отсек. Включение в работу ручное, от кнопок в кабине лётчиков.

На самолёте Ту-154М противопожарная система включает 4 комплекта блоков систем ССП-2А с 72 датчиками ДПС-1, которые контролируют три отсека двигателей и отсек ВСУ. Для пожаротушения в три очереди имеется 6 огнетушителей УБЦ-8-1, заряжаемых фреоном 114; двух блоков 781100 электромагнитных распределительных клапанов тушения пожара, трубопроводов, распылительных коллекторов, механизма аварийного включения системы при аварийной посадке самолета с убранными шасси, светосигнализаторов срабатывания пиропатронов огнетушителей, кнопок ручного включения огнетушителей I, II и III очереди. Первая очередь пожаротушения срабатывает автоматически, вторая и третья инициируются только вручную. При посадке с убранным шасси в отсеки двигателей автоматически разряжаются все шесть баллонов.

На самолётах типа Ту-95/142 в составе противопожарной системы 7 к-тов ССП-2А с блоками термопар ДПС-1АГ в количестве 126 штук. Датчики контролируют мотогондолы двигателей и все топливные баки. Огнегасящий состав «фреон 114» заряжается в 6 баллонов ОС-8М основной системы пожаротушения, и ещё имеются по два баллона в каждой гондоле шасси для дополнительной системы пожаротушения во внутренних полостях двигателей (всего в ППС 10 баллонов). Также на самолёте имеется система заполнения топливных баков нейтральным газом (см. ниже.). В случае нелокализованного пожара и израсходования всех баллонов с фреоном нейтральный газ можно подать к очагу возгорания.

Система нейтрального газа
Первые системы НГ появились в годы второй мировой войны, как средство повышения живучести самолётов при боевых повреждениях. Для предотвращения взрыва паров бензина при прострелах топливных баков стали применять наддув баков охлаждёнными выхлопными газами, отбираемыми из выхлопных коллекторов моторов.

В настоящее время для предотвращения пожаров и взрывов паров топлива при аварийных ситуациях (боевые повреждения или вынужденные посадки) все военные и некоторые гражданские самолёты имеют систему заполнения баков нейтральным газом (НГ). Обычно это азот или техническая углекислота в баллонах высокого давления, иногда применяются бортовые генераторы нейтрального газа (например, на Ил-76 или Ан-22). Нейтральный газ в течение полёта по программе подаётся в топливные баки, по мере выработки топлива, от той же самой бортовой топливной автоматики, управляющей порядком расхода.

На некоторых самолётах, для снижения пожароопасности топлива (в том числе), применяется т.н. азотирование топлива, то есть перед полётом топливо предварительно, от специальной установки перенасыщается газообразным азотом. Эта технология достаточно редкая, на отечественных ЛА впервые применялась на Ту-144. Сейчас применяется, в частности, на Ту-160.

Литература
 Система пожарной защиты самолёта Ту-154М
 «Вертолёт Ка-27 кн. 1» Москва. Военное издательство. 1983 год. Утверждена командующим авиацией ВМФ в качестве учебного пособия.
 Ил-18. Учебное пособие. Москва, Транспорт, 1974 г.

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Jane Denton, , (born 30 June 1953) is a United Kingdom nurse and midwife notable for her contributions to fertility nursing and genetics. She was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing in 2006.

Early life
She attended the Nottingham Bluecoat Grammar School (now the Nottingham Bluecoat Academy).

Career
She was a contributor to the development of the UK's first IVF programme. She served as nursing director of the Hallam Medical Centre, and was a founder member of the RCN Fertility Nurse Group that lobbied for the development of the current Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) Act.

In 1992 she was named the first nurse appointed to the HFEA, which regulates and inspects all UK clinics providing IVF, donor insemination or the storage of eggs, sperm or embryos.

In her current role as Director of the Multiple Births Foundation, she has contributed to significant change in public and professional perception and attitudes towards multiple births.

Honours
She was appointed a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in June 2007 for services to health care.

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5. In your careers, you should be looking to develop an ancillary business that is related to and within the confines of your licensing – such as property management or a concierge service, or buying income property.
6. When is the last time you attended a conference other than a real estate conference? Broaden your horizons and your ideas. You may actually learn something new and revolutionary that may alter your life and your lifestyle.
7. When you look in the mirror, do you like what you see? If you are overweight/underweight, get yourself to a doctor and then to a gym. If you look good, you'll feel good and better about yourself. Remember that you never get a second chance to impress someone.
These are all interesting and thought-provoking ideas to test out every year. Make up the list and review it with your family, friends, colleagues and broker. Remember this, my dear readers: Change is constant. If you don't review your career and what you're doing about it from time to time, watch out for the "newbie" fresh out of the courses. He'll overtake you eventually, unless you prepare yourself as a professional.
Take nothing for granted in this business of ours. If you prepare for the worst that may ever happen, you will survive.
At least, that's the way I see it from my desk this month. Thanks for the over 100 emails that I received for my Two views on SPIS column in August. It is always encouraging to know that my articles are read.
Stan Albert is celebrating his 36th year in active real estate, and is with Re/Max Excellence in Woodbridge, Ont. He serves on committees at RECO and at the Toronto Real Estate Board. He is an established trainer and business consultant and can be reached at salbert@trebnet.com.


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Q: Multiple Macs freezing for several seconds I've posted here in the past when I had an issue that I couldn't Google my way out of, hoping some kind soul can point me in the right direction once again. Please forgive the long read, but this is going to take some time to explain…I'll try to condense as much as possible while still giving as much relevant information as I can.
I do IT for a small Architectural firm - they have nine Macs (various mix of laptops and iMac's, none older than 2012 and all fully updated to 10.12.3) and one Mac Mini used as a file server. Three users are running AutoCAD 2016 natively, four are running Revit 2016 in Windows via Parallels 12 (since AutoDesk does not make a Mac version of Revit). There is also one Windows 8 box running ArchiOffice server. All computers are on a wired connection, hooked into a 24 port Netgear switch via a wall patch panel and are connected to a Wi-Fi network as well.
Several months ago (I can't give an exact time because the users waited almost two months to report the issue to me, but let's say in-or-around October) everyone began to experience random freezing. The freeze happens for a matter of seconds - sometimes as little as two seconds, sometimes as much as ten but generally no longer than that. If the user was in MacOS, they'd get the beach ball (the seconds would still tick by on the Finder clock for what that's worth) but have full mouse control. If they were in Windows via Parallels, they'd have mouse control but otherwise frozen. This happens completely at random - some days it will only happen four or five times in an entire day, some days it will happen a dozen times in an hour. Now here's the kicker - also completely at random, three or four of the computers will freeze at the exact same time. Never the same computers, never the same number, never the same time - but at random intervals, more than one Mac would freeze simultaneously.
Now here's the next wrinkle - I have one user that has never experienced a single freeze. She is the only one using the 2016 MacBook Pro.
Ok, so troubleshooting steps….when it became clear more than one Mac would freeze at a time, I just assumed the issue was coming from either the server or the network itself since everyone had those two things in common. I had one user work from an AutoCAD file on their desktop and disconnect from the server, but she still experienced the freezing. I felt like I could rule out the server at that point and turned my attention to the network.
A list of things I've tried, in no particular order…I've turned off the Wi-Fi just so they'd all be using ethernet, I've turned off the ethernet switch and had them use Wi-Fi only. I've replaced the switch, replaced the ISP's router, replaced the Wi-Fi router, replaced every Cat 5 cable in the building. Nothing helped and the freezing continues. The only hardware I haven't replaced is the actual Cat 5 cable coming from the ISP outside the building since I can't get to it.
I spent a morning running Wireshark to see if that could tell me anything - it did seem to pick up on TCP retransmission errors when the freezing would occur, but it also picked up those same errors when there was no freezing so I'm not sure if that has anything to do with it or not. I could live with the explanation that something on the network is freaking out the Macs randomly and that I need to find a Network guru or work with the ISP to figure out the problem…if it weren't for the 2016 MacBook Pro that has never had a single freeze.
In thinking about what's different about this machine software-wise, all I can really point to is that it came with Sierra out of the box, whereas all the other Macs are older and have been moved from Mavericks or Yosemite to El Cap to Sierra. I'm assuming whatever iOS install that is running the Touch Bar isn't somehow protecting it from outside network issues. The timing of this also does seem to indicate that it began around the same time that I started moving users to Sierra.
So that's the very-long and short of it. I've Googled this ad nauseam, but can't find anything quite like it.  My next step was to wipe out one of the affected Macs and do a clean install of Sierra, but before I go for the nuclear option that my gut tells me won't change anything I thought I'd see if anyone kind enough to have gotten through this rambling diatribe might have any thoughts or suggestions. Thank you in advance!

A: perhaps unrelated, but did your client's Macs happen to be upgraded to Sierra around the same time the random freezes began?
my iMac experienced random Finder freezes after upgrading to Sierra. the cause turned out to be Sierra's new iCloud storage feature; your Desktop and Documents folders automatically get moved to the cloud after the Sierra upgrade. that's when the freezing problems started for me. Finder would momentarily freeze every so often (spinning wheel) as it 'synced' the local Desktop & Documents folders with those stored in iCloud. it's a feature i don't need, so i disabled it in iCloud Preferences, and the random Finder freezes stopped.

A: Was able to capture the system log via the Console app a few seconds after a freeze - as you can see from the numerous iCloud messages, it was immediately clear as to the culprit. All of the Macs in the office that were freezing were logged into the same iCloud account, and as soon as I saw this I looked at the 2016 MacBook Pro that never froze and sure enough - wasn't logged into iCloud at all. Logged out the affected users, and the freezing has stopped. No idea what caused the issue or what exactly its problem was, but for now I'm more than happy to have the workaround. Thanks to user2707001 for putting me on the right track!

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Screensavers are there from windows starting era. People loved it like anything. It was like like seeing your pc in action even when you are not using it and that too in artistic style. You can write your name in 3D art, rotate your pictures or you can set any random hypnotic images to mesmerize you in sleep mode. Some people who are using windows 10 found out that , the screensaver setting is just missing here. When visiting the theme section, the link to apply screensaver is missing. No need to worry for screensaver loving crowd, as windows 10 have not dropped screensaver feature.
Just follow these steps to apply a cool screensaver in your windows 10 pc. You can easily find the screensaver control panel via search Box of taskbar.
Once you click on the change screensaver icon, screen saver control panel will open up.
In this screen you can choose the wait time. The wait time is the time after which your pc goes to sleep mode and start showing screen saver.
You can choose the rotation type as see-saw, wobble, spin etc.
Select Photo Gallery from the dropdown and click on settings as shown in pic below. Now, browse from the place where its written, choose photos and videos from.
You can also select the theme of photos and set the speed with which the theme proceeds.
Although in these options of screensavers, no customization is possible.
So, go on and apply screensavers in windows 10, if you really love this good old thing and you haven't dropped the plan of using it.


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Q: How to Convert Table Data into xml format using sql with multiple sub nodes I have a table structure like below :
SELECT
    [EmpID], [EmpName],
    [DeptName],
    [BirthDate]
FROM
    [dbo].[Employees]

I want to convert this table data into XML and the final output will be like below:
<Employees>
    <Department DeptName="ABC">
        <Employee EmpID="1">
            <EmpName>Davolio</EmpName>
            <BirthDate>10/12/1989</BirthDate>
        </Employee>
        <Employee EmpID="2">
            <EmpName>Andrew</EmpName>
            <BirthDate>05/02/1985</BirthDate>
        </Employee>
    </Department>
    <Department DeptName="DEF">
        <Employee EmpID="3">
            <EmpName>David</EmpName>
            <BirthDate>11/09/1982</BirthDate>
        </Employee>
    </Department>`enter code here
</Employees>

A: Try this
SELECT  [DeptName]
        ,(  SELECT  [EmpID],
                    [EmpName],
                    [BirthDate]
            FROM @table E
            WHERE   E.DeptName = D.DeptName
            FOR XML PATH ('Employee'),TYPE
        )
FROM    @table D
GROUP BY [DEPTNAME]
FOR XML PATH ('Department'),type,ROOT('Employees')


The hotel is located in the heart of \"Passeig de Gracia\", the most elegant and distinguished avenue of Barcelona and just a few steps from "La Pedrera" of Gaudi. The hotel is in a renovated building contemporary architecture and offers stylish rooms with modern decoration. There is a Bar with views to Passeig de Gracia and a Sky Lounge Bar in the rooftop offering a spectacular and unique overview of Barcelona. The hotel it's surrounded by beautiful architectural jewels of Catalan Modernism; pretty near to the main tourist attractions and the most prestigious shops of the city.


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Q: Airflow webserver fails with NoneType error I'm having trouble running Airflow on a local k8s (Minikube), using the official Helm chart.
This is my custom Dockerfile:
FROM apache/airflow:2.3.1-python3.10

WORKDIR ${AIRFLOW_HOME}

USER airflow
COPY ./requirements.txt .
RUN pip install --upgrade pip setuptools
RUN pip install --extra-index-url https://path/to/our/repo -r requirements.txt

And this is our requirements.txt file:
python-consul==1.1.0
python-dateutil==2.8.2
boto3==1.24.0
psycopg2-binary==2.9.3
apache-airflow-providers-amazon==3.4.0
apache-airflow-providers-databricks==2.7.0
apache-airflow-providers-postgres==4.1.0

Everything loads as expected, and I set up port-forwarding.
But when I try to get the webserver page, I get the following error:
Something bad has happened.

Airflow is used by many users, and it is very likely that others had similar problems and you can easily find
a solution to your problem.

Consider following these steps:

  * gather the relevant information (detailed logs with errors, reproduction steps, details of your deployment)

  * find similar issues using:
     * GitHub Discussions
     * GitHub Issues
     * Stack Overflow
     * the usual search engine you use on a daily basis

  * if you run Airflow on a Managed Service, consider opening an issue using the service support channels

  * if you tried and have difficulty with diagnosing and fixing the problem yourself, consider creating a bug report.
    Make sure however, to include all relevant details and results of your investigation so far.

Python version: 3.10.4
Airflow version: 2.3.1
Node: airflow-webserver-656ffc59b9-28cb9
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/airflow/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 2447, in wsgi_app
    response = self.full_dispatch_request()
  File "/home/airflow/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1952, in full_dispatch_request
    rv = self.handle_user_exception(e)
  File "/home/airflow/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1821, in handle_user_exception
    reraise(exc_type, exc_value, tb)
  File "/home/airflow/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/flask/_compat.py", line 39, in reraise
    raise value
  File "/home/airflow/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1950, in full_dispatch_request
    rv = self.dispatch_request()
  File "/home/airflow/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1936, in dispatch_request
    return self.view_functions[rule.endpoint](**req.view_args)
  File "/home/airflow/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/airflow/www/auth.py", line 43, in decorated
    return func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/airflow/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/airflow/www/views.py", line 826, in index
    dashboard_alerts = [
  File "/home/airflow/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/airflow/www/views.py", line 827, in <listcomp>
    fm for fm in settings.DASHBOARD_UIALERTS if fm.should_show(current_app.appbuilder.sm)
  File "/home/airflow/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/airflow/www/utils.py", line 771, in should_show
    user_roles = {r.name for r in securitymanager.current_user.roles}
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'roles'

A: Upgrading to Airflow 2.3.2 solved the issue.
Also, when doing tests with k8s, it's important to make sure that the docker tag that is set in the values.yaml is identical to the tag that was used when building the local docker image.
Note 2: don't mix defaultAirflowTag with airflowVersion.
The first id the tag of the docker image you wish to use. The second is the version of Airflow that you're using.


Spaceflight across Asia has advanced tremendously in recent decades, and a new trend is evolving.
A Chinese rover on the Moon. An Indian satellite at Mars. A Japanese commander of the International Space Station. An imminent launch of a Chinese lander to the far side of the Moon. Future Chinese plans for robot missions to Mars and Indian plans for Venus.
Spaceflight across Asia has advanced tremendously in recent decades, largely without the attention it deserves. The new Asian space race is a product of the tremendous technical and economic advances made across this region, but it is also a reflection of international rivalries that are typically much older.
Most of the first wave of spaceflight is government-sponsored. But a new trend is evolving in Asia. Spaceflight is now for sale.
In keeping with the way national space activity typically evolves, most of this first wave of spaceflight is government-sponsored. But a new trend is evolving in Asia. Spaceflight is now for sale.
The transition from state-sponsored space launches to commercial activity has been active for a long time, especially in the West. American businessman Dennis Tito became the first space tourist in 2001, hitching a ride with a Russian launch. But space tourism on Soyuz launches has been dormant for years, with no suborbital tourist flights yet flown.
While the media is infatuated with the prospect, space tourism has been little more than a sideshow in the commercial space arena. The real money is in practical applications such as communications and Earth observation. Thanks to such activities, private expenditure on spaceflight now outstrips that of governments.
It was inevitable that Asia would follow this trend. China has now witnessed the creation of private space companies building their own rockets, although success has so far eluded them. Japan has a small launch company that is muddling the development of a small rocket. But the most curious impending project is coming in South Korea. With little international attention, South Korea is preparing the maiden launch of the Korea Satellite Launch Vehicle (KSLV) 2, expected in late November or early December. This is South Korea's first real attempt to build an indigenous space rocket. It had earlier launched a rocket named KSLV-1, which was really just an imported Russian Angara rocket with a Korean flag. But KSLV-2 is a truly local product. Furthermore, the South Korean government intends to sell launches. While it's still a government-developed program, this is further evidence of the commercialisation of Asian spaceflight.
South Korea's space program receives little attention in general circles, but it's interesting to see how hard the commercial angle is being pushed through industry channels. South Korea regularly stages spiffy trade stands at space conferences, where hanbok-clad ladies hand you pamphlets for Korean satellite products (including satellite photography). You could buy segments of space products before. Now South Korea wants to sell it all, starting with the launch.
With so much activity in Asia, an inevitable question appears. Is the market big enough to support it all? Probably not. There will inevitably be a shakedown, especially of small, privately sponsored ventures. But it all serves as a reminder that spaceflight is global and also for sale.
Historians will see Obama's mature presidency as a high point for US relations with the region.


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Knowsley keeps golf course bidders under wraps
Knowsley Council has whittled the number of interested developers down to three as it continues its search for a partner to redevelop Bowring Park golf course in Huyton.
The names of the interested organisations wanting to manage, develop, and operate the 129-acre site in partnership with the council were not disclosed.
Knowsley Council said the selection of a preferred partner will be subject to an independent board, which will consist of representatives from the council, Bowring Park Golf Course, Friends of Bowring Park, NHS Knowsley and representatives from the private sector and voluntary and community sector.
The council added that the Friends of Bowring Park, a group formed to protect the park, has been involved in discussions and interviews with the interested partners.
The brief is to redevelop the car park, reception area, changing accommodation and club house and several outlying buildings, as well as the golf course.
The council said "a full EU tendering process is still being followed and a number of requirements need to be completed before the tendering process can be progressed".
This includes the establishment of the independent board and a public consultation exercise, both of which the council said are ongoing and the initial consultation will be completed by mid-July this year. The council added that the public survey "is to ensure stakeholder views are incorporated in any future plans".
The council also said it is not yet known if planning permission will be required as "a preferred partner has not been selected and a detailed scheme has not been agreed" and funding for the scheme "is dependent on selection of a partner".
Speaking about the public survey, Cllr Eddie Connor, cabinet member for leisure, community and culture at Knowsley Council, said: "We are committed to developing and improving facilities in Knowsley. By working with a partner with a successful track record in managing facilities of this nature, we can provide enhanced amenities for residents and visitors to enjoy.
"I would encourage as many people as possible to take part in the consultation and help shape future plans for Bowring Park and Golf Course's development."
Originally forming the heart of the ancient Roby Hall Estate, Bowring Park is the oldest public park in Knowsley.
Connor said the public survey is available at the golf course reception or any leisure centre across the borough. The survey can also be completed online by visiting the council's website http://www.knowsley.gov.uk/ or people can request a survey by calling 0151 443 3538. Closing date for completed surveys is Friday 16 July.

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Growing up was not very pleasant for me. I have experienced abuse, addiction and homelessness for many, many years. I spent five years living in a park. I came into contact with many organisations during the most difficult times of my life and too often they were not good experiences. Sometimes I was treated badly by their staff.
A lot of the time people working in voluntary sector organisations who have not experienced these issues don't understand how hard it is for a service user to seek help and change their lifestyle. That's why having people with lived experience on the staff can be so valuable.
Sometimes just by being there and having come out the other side, they are able to inspire and motivate the service users they work with. After I got clean I saw people I used to know and they could not believe it was me. They told me it made them think "there's still hope for me".
When I look back on my life at the time, I don't think I had any feelings. The only things that kept me going were drugs and alcohol. I was totally broken deep inside and didn't know where to go or what to do. I had no friends because nobody wanted to be around a mess. That's how they saw me and that's how I was.
There came a point at which I'd had enough. I just couldn't live like that any more. I needed help, so I decided to get myself arrested for shoplifting – that's how desperate I was. That was my first point of help, but it wasn't straightforward. If I could have had contact with someone who had been in those situations before and got through it, that really could have helped me.
Eventually I got help from a really good aftercare service, in particular from one member of staff, and started volunteering with it. I studied and passed all my exams. That was my turning point: I knew then that I could be someone, and I had this strong urge to support others who were going through what I had been through.
Recently, I have been working on the Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence and Multiple Disadvantage, run by AVA (Against Violence and Abuse) and Agenda, the Alliance for Women and Girls at Risk.
I was a peer researcher, interviewing women who had experienced abuse and faced other issues, such as homelessness and substance use. I found that the women I interviewed opened up and felt more relaxed talking about their own life experiences because they knew I had been through it too. They also saw that there was hope for them when they saw how I had turned my life around.
I don't think that everyone who works in the voluntary sector needs to have had the same experiences as me, but I do feel that staff without such experiences need better training so that they understand what the people they work with are going through. There can be so much going on in their lives, so many pressures, and this needs to be recognised.
This is also what the women we interviewed told us. They wanted staff to have training in the impact of abuse, and trauma particularly. They also felt that empathy was really important in building a trusting relationship between women and service providers.
Abuse can lead to all kinds of other life-threatening issues: mental illnesses, poverty, drug addiction and homelessness. If we are to support women who are facing those challenges, organisations need to work together and staff need to have a better understanding of what is at the root of behaviours. Having people with lived experience involved could make all the difference.
Sonia Braham is a peer researcher at the Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence and Multiple Disadvantage. The Hand in Hand report is released today.


Telemarketing complaints saw a 17-percent rise in calls to the Wisconsin Department of Ag, Trade and Consumer Protection in 2018, and continued to top the annual list of top consumer complaints for another year. Over 4,800 complaints were collected by DATCP officials last year, with two out of every five complaints received in 2018 being in regard to calls from unknown numbers, unwanted sales calls or scam calls. Medical Services came in second on the list, with 255 complaints – up from 195 in 2017, for a 30% increase in calls. These complaints are related to clinics, hospitals and professional services in the medical field – and were overwhelmingly related to billing disputes, misrepresentations and unauthorized charges.


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07.13.12 Truth & Wisdom
You Can Go Your Own Way
BY Elizabeth Fraser
I am 29 and it's a perplexing time of my life. I can only describe it as standing with your feet at the edge of a precipice where you momentarily feel ageless. Behind you, you can still feel what it was like to be a teenager and a twenty-something. In front, you stare at your future self while the distance to becoming her is less and less.
What makes it an even more mystifying time of my life is the fact that I became a mother last fall to a great little girl. She will be turning one in September and it's hard to believe that the better part of her first year of life is already behind us. It's a slightly bitter reminder that my life isn't slowing down, but that the days seem to pass ever more quickly. It also brings with it so much happiness because I was, in some ways, very unsure that I'd even make it through this first year with my wits intact.
You see, my daughter's father left me when I was seven weeks pregnant.
I don't want to get into a lot of the details about what happened between us. And it's not because I am ashamed of the story. It's mainly because I don't feel it's right for me to share the intimate details of such a crucial part of my daughter's origin story without having discussed it with her first. We live in a digital world where one Google search could eventually furnish my daughter with her life's story without her ever having to ask me about it first. I want her to cherish her privacy, and so I have to put up boundaries around it.
I will tell you this much about her father and I. He had come from a broken family where his mother had put a younger sibling of his up for adoption after his father left them for another woman. It's a very sad story. And there was a lot of sadness in him. But I thought he had a good heart. Maybe he does. I'll likely never know.
Now here I'll digress for an instant to admit that our pregnancy was not planned. I wholeheartedly raise my hand to accept that I did not fulfill my half of the responsibilities to make sure an unplanned pregnancy did not occur. I made a massive mistake in that regard, and as an adult I was prepared to deal with the consequences of my actions – whatever they would be.
I knew that telling him I was pregnant wasn't going to be easy. But there was part of me that expected his good-nature to be logical and think through all our options – would we co-parent? If we didn't want to have the child, would we consider adoption or abortion as a better solution for our situations in life?
His reaction was swift and definite. He told me that I either was having an abortion or I was going it alone.
I knew immediately that there was no "we" in this situation. There was me and there was him. We were on separate sides of a street, and it appeared we were walking in different directions. I felt so numb and told him I needed a few days alone to think everything over.
Taking that time out was the best decision I have ever made, because for the first time in my whole life I was faced with making a life-changing decision without council from anyone. I knew I needed to listen to my gut before anyone else's advice, or his ultimatums.
What came to me in that soul searching was this – that unplanned pregnancies, like a lot of mistakes made in life, have unintended consequences that we have to shoulder. No matter what we choose to do to, in these instances we must make selfless choices to do what will yield the best possible life for the children involved who cannot choose their own fates.
In the end, I obviously made the decision to have my child and raise her on my own. It was a really hard decision to come to and required a lot of self-examination.
While factors in my life such as my socioeconomic status and the emotional support of friends and family made it my best choice, it still hasn't always been the easiest one. Nor should it be. Your true calling is seldom the easiest one. I had to trade away a lot to become a sole-parent and in some ways, I feel like I am just staring at the tip of the iceberg of my sacrifices. Even though I am comfortable with this, I still sometimes I worry about what the future will bring in on her gales.
But I can't think about those things right now. All I can think of is how when I heard him pleading with me to not go through with the pregnancy, and then give me a litany of excuses as to why he couldn't be involved – he wasn't financially stable, he didn't love me, he didn't want to sacrifice his freedom – I stood firm in my conviction that I was doing the right thing. I'm still certain of it. At times he tried to manipulate my right to choose away from me, and I refused to let go of it.
That conviction doesn't just evaporate. It's so deep inside that I know it will always be there at my core; how I had never seen it all those years still escapes me. This type of strength and resolution helps to build strong, smart daughters. I know that it will be a large part of what helps me weather whatever storms may lay ahead.
I'm often asked if I hate her father for leaving. No, I don't. I don't even think he is a bad person. I think that he ultimately lent himself to making decisions out of fear and selfishness – but never out of malevolence.
I have not spoken with him since my first trimester. I made it clear that I was focusing on myself and my child and couldn't concern myself with how he lives with the decisions he made about our pregnancy. I seriously doubt I will ever hear from him again, and I have made some measure peace with that.
My life goes on.
In that same breath, however, my "it is what it is" attitude about him must part long enough for me to be honest and admit that his decisions have hurt me immensely. I realize I cannot live in anger or hurt though because they take up valuable space in my heart that could be given in love to my daughter.
And so those moments of sadness seldom occur, because each time I look at my daughter I know that she is meant to be here and I am meant to be her mother.
If I get spiritual about all of this and try to think about the lesson that I can glean from my journey into parenthood, I must admit that I am not sure whether or not I have really discovered its complexity or depth yet. There is much to learn. For now I simply revel in the fervor of knowing I am being swept up into the years of my life that will, without doubt, hold the most challenge and wonder.
What the man who left me saw as a death sentence was, in its purest form, the start of my real life. No matter what I think of him on any given day, I am grateful for that gift.
Featured image via grubbenvorst on Flickr
Elizabeth is a mother and freelance writer currently studying a Creative Writing at Oxford University. She is the founder of Little Weekly Words, an online subscription-based literary newsletter featuring short fiction and poetry by emerging writers. For more information about her work please visit, hellomissfraser.com or follow her her on Twitter, where she waxes poetic in 140 characters about life, literature and her passion for fashion at @hellomissfraser.
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Nice write up ……Hala Gina.
I think that everything is very full of synchronicity in ways we don't even realize, but you can kind of look at your life and say, 'I know why that happened, and now I'm happy I'm here.'
— Alicia Keys


Seventy-five years ago, Henrietta Szold, the first woman to enroll in the Jewish Theological Seminary, decided to transform her small New York study circle into a national organization dedicated to promoting Zionist ideals among American Jewish women and providing basic health care in Palestine. She called her association Hadassah, the Hebrew for Esther, a queen in Persia who saved the Jews from a massacre.
Since 1912 Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, has expanded dramatically, growing into a $60 million-a-year philanthropic empire. The organization, which is celebrating its diamond jubilee this year, now supports two large hospitals, centers for refugee children, schools and a host of other projects in Israel, as well as increasing numbers of American programs.
Leaders of Hadassah, however, say that it is more than just a fund-raising instrument. ''Anything you want to do, you can do under the umbrella of Hadassah,'' declared Ruth W. Popkin, the 18th president of the association, which has headquarters in New York. This giant sorority, which says it is America's largest women's volunteer group, is also devoted to educating its 385,000 members about Jewish culture and contemporary affairs.
Hadassah is best known for its huge medical centers in Jerusalem. Ever since its nursing school was established in 1918, ''Hadassah has been one of the most important volunteer organizations to contribute meaningfully to the establishment of medicine and education in Israel,'' said Moshe Yegar, the Israeli Consul General in New York.
Its first teaching hospital, at Mount Scopus, opened in 1939, but was destroyed after Jordan occupied East Jerusalem in 1948. After the hospital led a gypsy existence at clinics throughout the city, Hadassah dedicated a mammoth medical complex in Jerusalem's Ein Karem district in 1960.
Children have been another major item on Hadassah's agenda since 1934, when the Youth Aliyah movement was born. This program, operated by the Jewish Agency, has helped a quarter-million refugee children settle and survive in Israel. They have included Holocaust orphans, poor Sephardic Jews and a recent wave of 2,000 refugees from the Ethiopian famine. Today some 18,500 children learn the ways of life in their new homeland and receive academic and vocational training in 315 youth villages, day centers and other programs.
Hadassah's leaders say its concern for the disadvantaged people of Israel has carried it deep into education. Career-oriented training is the thread linking the 17-year-old Hadassah Community College, the Seligsberg-Brandeis Comprehensive High School and Hadassah's vocational-guidance institute, all in Jerusalem.
The Jewish National Fund, which has helped turn desert into farmland, has been another beneficiary of Hadassah. The most recent project, created with the assistance of Hadassah volunteers, has been a recreational forest near the Negev desert settlement of Ofakim.
Hadassah has also turned its attention to cultural, educational and consciousness-raising activities for its 1,700 American chapters. To recruit younger women, local groups have begun seminars on career and family issues, public-affairs discussions and classes to strengthen understanding of Judaism and Jewish life.
Her group's monthly meetings include outside speakers and soft-pedaled pedagogy in the guise of learning Israeli songs and dances, staging Purim plays and eating latkes.
Although Mrs. Popkin says that Hadassah will remain ''a women's Zionist organization,'' it has supplemented its traditional constituency in recent years. Its youth movement, Hashachar (''the dawn''), runs seven American summer camps and a work-study program in Israel. An arm for men was established in 1966 and now has grown to a membership of 20,000. A new association of ''friends of Hadassah hospital'' has members in 18 countries, Mrs. Popkin said, and an Israeli branch was established three years ago.


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By Mariquita Anderson
Strong Women Building Strong Communities
Note: This article appeared in the Winter 2009 newsletter
Sunday, November 2, was a great day all around for the Smith Club of Minnesota. More than 100 local alums spanning classes from 1934 through 2008, guests, and prospective students joined Smith President Carol Christ at The Metropolitan for the culmination of phase 1 of our oral history project, the book Strong Women Building Strong Communities. Its publication follows more than a year of work by scores of club members behind the scenes. Sixteen alumnae were interviewed for the book; honorees in attendance were Helen Anderson ('44), Virginia Humphrey ('42), Helen Kramer ('34), Ann Pflaum ('63), Sally Pillsbury ('46), Joanne Von Blon ('45), and Molly Woehrlin ('53).
More than 100 copies of the book had been preordered, and another 100 have been sold to date. President Christ purchased copies for each member of the Smith Board of Trustees, and Cecily Hines, a member of the Alumnae Association board, reports that a copy was passed around at their recent semiannual meeting, as Meri Hoverman, Alumnae Association staffer who attended the Minnesota event with President Christ, "sang its praises."
Attendees at the event enjoyed mingling with President Christ and Smith friends on the veranda. We then moved to the ballroom for a light dinner and decadent dessert catered by D'Amico. The program featured a welcome and introduction by club president Laurie Kramer, followed by a presentation complete with fascinating photos and tidbits from the book given by Laurie, Betsey Whitbeck, Marty Swain, Kate Lehmann, Jane Howard, and Mary Gover.
After the program, President Christ spoke and gave a hearty endorsement of our club's project. "This has been profoundly moving," she said as an introduction. "I feel I've had a privileged perspective on the histories of women in the 20th and now 21st centuries, and this project in a rich way does it even better, telling stories of these remarkable women."
The event was recorded by videographer Steve Date of MinnPost.com (founded by Laurie and husband Joel Kramer). Steve's excellent work can be seen by going to to the MinnPost site.
A generous gift to the club from alumna Paula Vesely ('59), earmarked for support of a program other than the scholarship fund, was allocated by the club's executive committee to help support the oral history project. Many thanks to Paula.
The next phase of the oral history project is under discussion. If you would like to participate as an interviewee, interviewer, or in one of the many production jobs, please contact one of the officers. And if you have skills as a transcriber, please advise! ›
NOTE: There are still a few copies of the 1st Oral History book available, and now we have a second, launched in May of 2012. Order yours by contacting Barbara Klaas using the contact form. Your book(s) will be keepsakes forever.
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How do you make a milkshake?
Give a cow a pogo stick.
No, silly, cows go MOOOOOO!
Once there was a farmer who had 50 cows, but when he counted them there were only 49. Where was that last cow?
He was at the moo-vies.


I just noticed a pattern among Ginga storyline. Maybe I'm just a math nerd, but this is really interesting.
GNG arch enemy is bear, then it's wolves, then in GDW it starts out with Kaibutsu, then dog again, then monkeys, then dogs, then bears and then Masamune, a dog, in GDWO. Next up, we move over to TLW with bear again.
with C being ''canines'' and Os standing for ''Other species''.
If this is true, and not just a curious coincidence, then next Ginga work will feature a dog enemy (at least arc), who will get defeated and then maybe a return of Monsoon will follow, either in the same series, as second arc, or in a whole new episode (doubt that).
This won't happen of course because it's probably too politically driven a storyline.
It would have been way cooler with Sirius leading his party. Especially because Zion didn't really fully support him, and Rigel not being exactly a leader material, I don't see either of them as keeping Sirius's legacy.


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Haaretz | Middle East News
The West's Hajj: How Qatar's World Cup Altered the Perception of Arabs
The Arab world sees the World Cup as a chance to compete with the West as an equal. The question of what should be taken and what should be forgone from the West has been engaging Arab and Muslim thinkers for centuries
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Qatar fans cheering their team during a World Cup match last month.Credit: Manan Vatsyayana/AFP
"This is the first time they're coming to an Arab state without condescension, without feelings of supremacy. Suddenly they see Arabs as equals. This is the greatest pilgrimage to an Arab state outside the hajj," Amin Khableh writes on Al Jazeera's website.
A video on social media shows an entire Brazilian family that converted to Islam after its first experience with Qatar. Several other clips show young Western women receiving help from Qatari women when putting on the hijab they bought as a souvenir.
"Suddenly they heard the muezzin, they now know the Arab kaffiyeh and they're thronging to the mosques to see the prayers," a commentator writes on a Saudi site. In those videos, the muezzin can be heard calling the faithful to prayer, as masses of fans watch the worshippers with amazement.
"The muezzin's voice enters the heart before it enters the ears," a Qatari journalist writes. Dozens of carefully chosen clips show Western fans and players full of praise for the reception they received, the order and of course the overall splendor of the World Cup in Qatar.
What happens on the soccer field is important, but the "new Arab's" image is clearly Qatar's main achievement.
"Clearly in the World Cup, 28 days when East and West meet on Arab soil, you can't erase the image instilled in the West for decades, one that deepened after the attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001," Khableh writes.
"That's an image depicting the Arab as a wild Bedouin hostile to modernity and progress, as a wealthy man who wastes billions of dollars on pleasure, drowning in wine as soon as he gets on a plane. Or as a drugged radical planting explosives and cutting off heads. Or as a woman, a chained creature looking for a place to hide behind a tent flap, amid the houses locked to keep out the light of freedom and life."
Khableh isn't just talking about the image of the Arab and the Muslim in the West. He also reflects on the way Arabs have adopted those images.
Qatar paid a fortune for pointless prestige and megalomaniac ambition
The World Cup capitulates to Islamic fundamentalism
World Cup 2022: Why Qatar protests are justified – and hypocritical
Culture shock is the term many Arab columnists are using to describe this historic meeting of the West and the Arab world, not only Qataris.
"Most of the people coming to Qatar are of Arab origin. They aren't hostile … and don't see themselves as the center of the world. They want to discover other cultures humbly and joyfully," says Lolwah Rashid Al-Khater, a Qatari assistant foreign minister.
Of course, we can disagree with the credit she gives the foreign guests, but there's a more blatant version.
A building displaying the colors of the Qatari flag in Doha last month.Credit: Jennifer Lorenzini/Reuters
"Granted, we don't have sexual and political freedom as you have, but we are stable, thriving entities that hold international events at a high standard and compete with the best," writes a commentator from the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Abed Al-Khalek. He chastises the "new colonialists and hypocritical Western Orientalists."
In other words, this time the West is competing with the East as an equal. Its victory isn't assured.
Maybe this was also the intention of Qatar's former ruler, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, who paid a fortune for Qatar's right to host the World Cup. Sheikh Hamad, an extraordinary man with both a Muslim and an international worldview, ousted his father in 1995. A year later he founded Al Jazeera, which launched a revolution in the Arab media. He wanted to prove that Islam and the West could coexist.
To him, hosting the World Cup wasn't only a huge achievement for Qatar, one worth paying bribes for and causing the death of thousands of foreign workers. It was an attempt to prove that "the Arabs" could stand side by side with the "Westerners."
Germany players covering their mouths in support of LGBTQ rights before a match in Doha last month.Credit: Molly Darlington/Reuters
And like other leaders of rich Gulf states, Hamad could afford to import the West without feeling dependent or subjugated. As stressed by the late Fouad Ajami – who taught and wrote at Princeton, Johns Hopkins and the Hoover Institution – oil states were selective in what they imported from the West, eschewing the personal and cultural freedom.
In this vein, Hamad, his son Tamim and his mother "imported" the huge residential towers that were planned by Western architects and engineers, the artistic treasures that were bought for hundreds of millions of dollars, the university branches and the World Cup. Democracy was left out, as were freedom of expression and the rights of women, workers and LGBTQ people.
The World Cup hasn't helped in these respects, save for improved conditions for workers in Qatar. Al Jazeera, which blazed trails by exposing the corruption of Arab regimes and interviewed dissidents, fell silent on Qatar and its ruling family.
Then there's the issue of homophobia. As expected, Qatar's ban on wearing rainbow armbands – joined by FIFA – set off a furor. The German players who covered their mouths in protest of the decision were lambasted by Mohamed Aboutrika, a retired Egyptian soccer player working as a commentator in the tournament.
Morocco fans celebrating in Doha on Thursday after their team qualified for the World Cup's knockout stages.Credit: Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters
German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser also criticized the decision; Aboutrika asked her in a tweet whether she came to Qatar to make fun of the country's laws. He said Qatar is a country that God has strengthened with Islam and that won't change its religion or laws.
As he put it a year ago, "Our role is to stand up to this phenomenon, homosexuality, because it's a dangerous ideology and it's becoming nasty and people are not ashamed of it anymore."
For Aboutrika, the issue is also who makes the rules. Will the condescending West once again dictate "cultural behavior" to the developing world? To Aboutrika and other Arab commentators, the fact that the World Cup is being held in an Arab country doesn't only require the visitors "from the West" to respect the country's laws, it also denotes recognition.
In contrast, Lebanese journalist Diana Moukalled writes on the Daraj website: "Is discrimination against women, harm against workers and the issue of gays a local cultural matter? That's the method the local regimes are using based on the pretext of protecting the local culture; they violate human rights. … Without a free public space, how is it possible to know that women truly believe that their repression is a cultural question and that in its name they must obey the violation of their rights?"
The question of what should be taken and what should be forgone from the West wasn't born in Qatar's World Cup stadiums. It has been engaging Arab and Muslim thinkers for centuries, but for generations the regimes drew the red lines.
The internet and especially social media have undermined the regimes' cultural monopoly. In events such as the World Cup, Egyptians or Kuwaitis no longer feel obligated to root for an Arab team. It's not a problem to be a die-hard fan of Argentina or Germany, but you don't have to adopt the underlying "culture."
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