An original, working Apple-I computer sold at auction for $375,000. Only about 200 were made in 1976, which sold for $666. Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak estimates there are only about 15 Apple-I models still functioning. But this one went cheap; in 2014, an Apple-I was sold at auction for $905,000.
This just in from the Nana Nana Boo Boo Department: Linux developers who disagree with a new "code of conduct" policy say it's arbitrary and unnecessary, and are threatening to rescind their code, potentially destroying the Linux kernel which powers millions of websites and Android phones.
SquareTrade tested the new iPhone Xs and Xs Max models, which Apple claims are water resistant and have "the most durable glass ever in a smartphone." The phones survived the "30 minute beer dunk test" but shattered badly in drop tests.
Dumb and Dumber: Reality Version. Thieves broke into the Roambee Corporation building in Santa Clara, and stole about 100 GPS tracking devices. While inside, they also left fingerprint and blood evidence. The signals were quickly tracked to a storage locker which contained drugs and other stolen property.
Here's an interactive map showing ATMs where you can buy or sell Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency.
A man used his video doorbell app to speak with a delivery driver in a video call, and then used his Tesla app to open the car's trunk to accept the delivery.
The "block universe theory" postulates that all events past, present, and future are happening simultaneously. I wrote this item in the future, while thinking about yesterday's lunch burrito. So there.
The Oculus Quest is a $399 virtual reality handset that combines the three essential traits of a next-generation VR device, according to Mark Zuckerberg whose company, Facebook, owns Oculus. He omitted the phrase "exorbitant price tag" from his talking points.
West Virginia will be the first state to test voting by smartphone, and hopefully the last.
"Apple has outright stolen Qualcomm's confidential information and trade secrets," Qualcomm charges in a lawsuit. The suit alleges that for years, Apple stole Qualcomm chip secrets and gave them to Intel, so certain iPhone components could be made cheaper.
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My atomic clock has 86,400 (give or take a leap second or two) reasons why those block universe theorists are wrong.
And speaking of burritos; burrito, gas, toilet is not simultaneous - although sometimes it's darn close.
The link about FCC and 5G accesspoints went to an article (Cities Are Teaming Up to Offer Broadband, and the FCC Is Mad) that spoke about municipal agreements regarding better broadband networks and FCC's overall attitude to cities working together to get better, faster broadband infrastructure in their area, if I understood the article. Nothing about 60 days or historical areas that might want to bar the 5G hardware. Inside the article, there was a link to this article https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/09/fcc-angers-cities-and-towns-with-2-billion-giveaway-to-wireless-carriers/ about how the FCC is setting fixed prices on what cities can charge for installations on public rights of way. Cities would be forced to lower their already set prices. But still nothing about 60 days or historic districts. I do see that FCC is siding totally with the private sector firms who choose where to install 5G hardware.
Had you meant a different article?
Dumb and Dumber must support the blockhead theory of the universe.
Sounds like Linux could be in trouble. If enough of the developers no longer allow the use of the code they wrote it could collapse.
Ha ha ha! "Linux is the best OS ever!" "I don't trust Microsoft or Google."
As for those SJW snowflakes and their dumbass CoC, that there $#|+ is why we can't have nice things (OSs in this case).
That "Block Universe" theory where a burrito is the under-structure (or it is the magic carpet allowing time travel) just does not make sense to me yet.
I was able to wrap my head around the theoretical framework of 'Superstring Theory', which posits that the universe exists in TEN (10) different dimensions... until someone decided to weed-whack the remainder 6 (maybe even 7) other dimensions.
Maybe my head deserves to be wrapped inside a burrito!


The meeting is aimed at post-doctoral students, junior professors and other junior researchers in Information Systems and Business Informatics.
The thematic emphasis of this years' meeting lies on "ways to the professorship" on Friday and on "ways to impact" on Saturday. In addition to talks, panels and workshops, the meeting offers many opportunities for networking with current and future colleagues as well as a social event at the historic Fuggerei.
This year's junior researcher meeting will be organized by the Augsburg junior researchers Dennis Steininger and Manuel Trenz together with Benedikt Berger (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) and Manuel Wiesche (Technical University of Munich).
Further information can be found on the website of the 19th Meeting of Junior Researchers in Information Systems and Business Informatics.


1. Sentence Sense: Sort the cards together that have the same picture. arrange the cards in order so that the sentence makes sense. Record the sentence on the recording sheet.
2. Halloween Syllable Sort: Sort the cards under the main cards indicating the number of syllables. Write the answers on the recording sheet.
3. Halloween ABC Order: Sort all of the cards that have the same picture and put them together. arrange the cards that are alike into ABC order and record them on the recording sheet. There are two recording sheets per page. Cut the two sheets in half and let each student choose which two they want to complete.
4. Halloween Sight Word Game: Place the cards face down on the card mat. Each student picks a sight word card. If they read the card they get to move to the next game square. If they miss the word they have to move back a square. The game uses all of the first grade dolch sight words.
5. Halloween Verb and Noun Sort: Sort the cards under the header cards marked "Nouns" and "Verbs". Record all of the nouns and verbs on the recording sheet provided.


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HomeDrone Trending NewsGoogle drones may soon fly commercially over Virginia – FreightWaves
Google drones may soon fly commercially over Virginia – FreightWaves
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Drone delivery in Canberra. Photo credit: Wing
The Trump Administration could soon be approving its first license for commercial drone delivery services, with Google affiliate Wing Aviation LLC the likely top contender.
"In the next month we expect to announce we will have our first…air carrier certificate for operating a drone airline," said Jay Merkle, head of the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Integration, as quoted by Reuters. "That is a major accomplishment for us and our partner." Merkle was attending an aviation conference in Singapore, according to the news agency.
FAA officials did not respond when asked to comment further on the proposed licensee. However, Wing Aviation, a subsidiary of Google parent Alphabet Inc. [NASDAQ: GOOGL], received FAA regulatory exemptions on March 28 necessary to enable Wing's small UAS air carrier certification program.
According to its exemption application, Wing will be looking first to "demonstrate safe commercial operation of UAS beginning in the Blacksburg-Roanoke [Virginia] area," and then expand operations in coordination with the FAA. The company has been working closely with the Trump Administration's UAS Integration Pilot Program to conduct drone delivery tests in Blacksburg at Virginia Tech University, initially delivering Chipotle burritos to students and then on-demand items to homes near campus.
After receiving an order from a mobile app, one of the company's fleet of drones can pick up a package from a business or home, fly to a designated destination, hover about 20 feet over the delivery area, and use a tether to lower the package to a precise location such as a backyard or a doorstep, according to its exemption application. Wing uses its own unmanned traffic management (UTM) system to manage the drone's flight path from take-off to landing to ensure safe operations around obstacles such as buildings, trees, and other drones.
Here's how it works.
"Within a few years, drones will provide new services from the air, changing how we run our businesses and move things around," Wing states on its website. "As demand for commercial drone services continues to grow, we need systems that will automate the support and management of these flights." The company's intent is to use its UTM platform "to support the growing drone industry by enabling a high volume of drones to share the skies and fly safely over people, around terrain and buildings, and near airports."
In granting the exemption, the FAA said delivery operations made possible by Wing "will be the first of their kind – a convergence of prior experience the FAA has with both small UAS operations and air carrier operations. As the FAA gains more data and experience related to operations of this kind and learns from each operator, policy could be adjusted going forward."
Wing's exemption request received 18 comments and was supported, unsurprisingly, by drone enthusiasts and drone lobbying associations, with concerns or opposition registered by airline pilots and aviation companies, including Boeing [NYSE: BA].
Ashland, Oregon-based Timberland Helicopters, which provides law enforcement and firefighting services, called Wing's application "too overreaching and too broad in terms of the many regulations it requests exemption from." Instead, the industry should wait until the FAA updates its existing rules, the company stated. "We need to slow down and allow the process to work and allow the FAA the time to carefully and thoughtfully proceed with a more comprehensive plan of regulatory control and allowances over UAS."
The start of that process was an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) to identify major drone safety and security issues. The 60-day comment period generated over 1,800 comments by the April 15 deadline.
Wing's move into the commercial space, meanwhile, is picking up speed. On April 8 it launched its first commercial delivery service in North Canberra, Australia. Customers there can order fresh food, hot coffee and over-the-counter medications and have them delivered directly to their home by drone in minutes.
The company plans to launch a similar service in Helsinki, Finland, sometime this spring, according to its website.
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Mistakes About the Meaning of Life
Iddo Landau explains how to avoid them
To my surprise, most of the people with whom I have talked about the meaning of life have told me that they did not think that their lives were meaningful enough. Many even presented their lives as outright meaningless. But I have often found the reasons my interlocutors gave for their views problematic. Many, I thought, did not pose relevant questions that might have changed their views, or take the actions that might have improved their condition. (Some of them, after our discussions, agreed with me.) Most of the people who complained about life's meaninglessness even found it difficult to explain what they took the notion to mean.
I will begin by briefly clarifying the notion of the meaning of life, and then point at a few of the many mistakes that, in my experience, people who take their lives to be insufficiently meaningful often make. This, I hope, may help some people realise how to make their lives more meaningful, and others to stop believing with no good reason that their lives are meaningless.
In common speech, "meaning" is used in two main ways. One has to do with notions such as interpretation, clarification, and comprehension, as in "the meaning of a red light is 'stop'". The other has to do with notions such as value, worth, or importance, as in "the conversation we had yesterday was very meaningful to me". Following contemporary discussions by, among others, John Cottingham, Thaddeus Metz, and Susan Wolf, I think that in discussions of the meaning of life, "meaning" is used mostly in the second sense.
Consider some examples: the existentialist psychologist Viktor Frankl recounts in his Man in Search of Meaning how, while he was a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps in World War II, he noted that some of his fellow inmates kept their sense of meaning while others did not. Those who kept their sense of meaning did so by maintaining some areas of worth in their lives. Frankl himself, for instance, intended to write a book after he was freed, a book, informed by his experiences in the camps, about meaningfulness and how it can contribute to treating many seemingly unrelated psychological problems. This project was of value to him and helped him maintain meaning in his life, and survive, while he was in the camps. What gave meaning to the lives of some of the other inmates was the importance of the prospect of seeing their families again after the war and caring for them. Yet others maintained their sense of worth by helping other inmates. Those who did not retain their sense of meaning, on the other hand, were those for whom nothing remained of sufficient worth or value. Meaning of life, then, has to do with worth, or value.
Likewise, in his semi-autobiographical My Confession, Tolstoy recounts how, at a certain point in his life, he went through a crisis of meaninglessness. He tells how he found himself asking questions about hitherto valued, central aspects of his life, questions such as "so what?" or "what of it?". For instance, he considered the fact that he was a great writer, perhaps the best Russian one and one of the greatest in the world. But then, he recounts, he asked himself: "so what?". Likewise, he thought of his prosperous, thriving estate. But then the question crept in: "what of it?". Similarly, he had a large, happy family whose members were healthy. But again the question arose: "so what?". Before he started sensing his life as meaningless, the value in being a great writer, having a healthy family, etc. was quite clear to him. He would only come to see his life as meaningful again once he was able to return to seeing these, or other, aspects of his life as valuable. Again, meaning of life has to do with worth or value.
The examples above are taken from the writings of luminaries, but discussions I have had with laypersons who have told me that they stopped seeing life as meaningful also suggest that meaningfulness is based on value. For example, I talked with parents who told me that ever since they lost their child in a car accident, they had found it hard to see life as meaningful. There was something very valuable in their lives, and when this was gone, they experienced life as meaningless. They would see life as meaningful again only if they found other things that they took to be of sufficiently high value.
Another person told me that she found life meaningless because she had not succeeded in becoming a central figure in her academic field. Again, for her (at that time), the main or only issue of worth was excellence in her career. Since she was blind to other issues that could be of worth in her life, she felt that her life was meaningless when she did not achieve the only thing in life she considered at the time to be valuable. Sometimes people who think that their lives are meaningless describe them as empty, but find it hard to explain what their lives are empty of. The reply is that they take their lives to be empty of sufficient value.
We can also see the close relation between meaningfulness and value if we consider common pessimistic arguments for the meaninglessness of life. One frequently heard such argument (which also appears in the philosophical literature) points to our eventual death and annihilation. As Thomas Nagel, among others, notes (although he does not accept the argument), some years or centuries after we die, no one will remember us or what we did. In a million years, the world will be exactly as it would have been had we not done what we did; moreover, it will even be exactly as it would have been had we never existed at all. Some cite this as a reason for holding that life is meaningless. But the supposition behind this argument (a problematic supposition, in my view) is that what we do in life cannot be valuable enough unless it persists for eternity.
Another famous argument claims that when considered in the context of the whole universe, our life emerges as meaningless. Perhaps we do have some effect on our immediate environment, such as our family, friends, and workplace. But we have no effect on almost all other parts of the vast, gigantic universe. We live in a corner of a negligible solar system in a negligible galaxy. The ratio between our whole galaxy and the cosmos at large is smaller than the ratio between a speck of dust in this room and the whole country. Our insufficient effect on almost the whole of the universe, the argument goes, makes our life meaningless. But this argument, too (again, a problematic argument, in my view), suggests that our life is meaningless because, when seen in the right context, and whatever we do in life emerges as being of insufficient value.
The same is true of the other arguments for the meaninglessness of life. The argument from the paradox of the end, for example, points out that after attaining a goal for which we have worked hard, we often feel, surprisingly, that the goal is not of much worth. Paradoxically, being on the way towards the goal was better than attaining it. But if the goal is actually unworthy, the means to achieve it, that is, the way towards it, also becomes unworthy. Again, meaningfulness has to do with worth or value.
This also holds true for other arguments for the meaninglessness of life. I believe that there are good replies to all of them, but wish to focus in the present context only on the point that the meaning of life is based on worth or value. Indeed, I suggest that when people complain that their lives are meaningless, they are complaining that there is not sufficient value in their lives. People who ask what the meaning of life is are asking what can be of sufficient value in life. A meaningful life is one in which there is a sufficient number of aspects of sufficient value, and a meaningless life is one in which there is not a sufficient number of aspects of sufficient value.
Noting this close relationship between meaningfulness and value is important, since it allows us to draw many implications that can be helpful for people who consider their lives insufficiently meaningful.
One implication is that people's views about the meaninglessness of their lives – even when they are strongly held – may be mistaken. We know that in other aspects of value, people often do make mistakes. Some wrongly take themselves to be bad parents, and others wrongly take themselves to be good ones. Some take themselves to be worse spouses, or better spouses, than they really are. Some people unjustifiably believe that the art they produce is not so good, and others unjustifiably believe that their art is excellent. Many, likewise, underrate or overrate their sense of humour, knowledge, or ability to play the violin. We also see this in all other spheres of value. And if this is so for all spheres of value, it is likely to be so as well for the meaning of life.
Surprisingly, many people who take their lives to be insufficiently meaningful are absolutely certain that this is the case; they are convinced that their impressions about the meaning of their life must be precise and reliable. However, seeing that meaningfulness is based on value suggests that in this sphere of value, just as in the others, we cannot just "know" for certain that our life is or is not meaningful. As in other spheres of value, so in this one, we need to inquire and learn about the issue, double-check our standards, examine implicit suppositions that might affect our views, consider arguments for and against our opinions, learn from the experience of others, and consult with people. People who take their lives to be meaningless (just like people who take their lives to be meaningful) may well be wrong.
Another implication is that the degree of meaning in life can be increased or decreased. Some people who, for good or bad reasons, take their lives to be insufficiently meaningful treat this condition as a constant, as if it were a given that could not be changed. But we see in other spheres of value that degrees of value can and often do change. Sometimes, with time, they even just change by themselves. But very often we can also alter them. For example, by opting for various actions, I can become a more moral or a less moral person than I am now. I can also affect the degree to which I am exposed to, and thus am affected by, natural or artistic beauty. I can ruin or build friendships, upgrade or downgrade my health, and practice or neglect my German. It would be surprising if in this particular sphere of value, the meaning of life, things were different from how they are in all the other spheres.
Noting that meaning in life is based on value also directs us to what we should do in order to increase meaningfulness in our lives: we should enhance what we take to be valuable in our lives. We can either import new aspects of value into our lives; augment already existing aspects of value; or de-trivialise and re-sensitise ourselves to existing value that, through familiarity and habit, we have stopped noticing. Many people, including those who take their lives to be insufficiently meaningful, dedicate more time and effort in one evening to considering which film to go to than they do in their whole lifetime to considering what would make their lives more meaningful.
The last implication I have the space to discuss here relates to uniqueness. Many people believe that in order to be meaningful, their life has to be unique. However, in most spheres of value, uniqueness is not important. Admittedly, it is important in a few spheres: for example, in creative art, value depends (among other things) on originality; just repeating what other artists have already created is not considered to be of value. Originality, in turn, presupposes uniqueness, at least at the time the artwork is presented. Similarly, scientific and scholarly achievement is valued (among other things) for its originality and innovation. Just repeating someone else's findings does not carry much worth. And that too means, of course, that at the time the scientific findings are first presented, they have to be unique.
However, in many other spheres of value – indeed, in most of them – uniqueness is not important. A person I know volunteered for several months in an immunisation project in Africa. What he did was not unique; it was quite similar to what other volunteers did. The value in his activity did not have to do with its uniqueness but, rather, with his help in preventing disability and death and alleviating suffering. Likewise, what makes the love between a parent and a baby valuable is not its difference from all other love between other parents and babies; the value is in the warmth and emotional closeness. This value is not decreased if other people, too, enjoy a very similar connection. This holds true also of aesthetic or mystical experiences. What one goes through in such experiences may well be quite similar to what others go through when they have their own such experiences. It is not the specific differences between one's own and others' aesthetic or mystical experiences that make these experiences valuable. Uniqueness is not important here. This is also true of the worth of honesty, joy, responsibility, health, curiosity, and most other spheres of value. The insistence on uniqueness, then, is yet another mistake about the meaning of life. This mistake, like the earlier ones mentioned above and many others which I do not have here the space to discuss, leads some people to unnecessarily see their lives as insufficiently meaningful and to miss ways of enhancing meaning in life.
Iddo Landau teaches philosophy at the University of Haifa, Israel. This essay is adapted from his new book, Finding Meaning in an Imperfect World, just published by Oxford University Press.
Article source: https://www.philosophersmag.com/
Categories: KNOWLEDGE
Tagged as: meaning of life, mistakes, philosophy
The secret to a meaningful life is simpler than you think
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First, the host needs the prefix information, similar to the network portion of an IPv4 address, to configure its interface, so it sends a router solicitation (RS)request for it. This RS is then sent out as a multicast to all routers (FF02::2). The RS message is ICMP type 133.
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What is the problem with StateLess Automatic Address Configuration (SLAAC)?
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This lab will assume that you have added VLANs 2 and 3 to each of your switches and all of your links are trunked.
Using Cisco Packet Tracer v7.2 or newer.
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Radar v Brdech byl projekt vojenského radaru na bezejmenném kopci ve vojenském újezdu Brdy jihozápadně od Prahy. Společně s raketami v Polsku se měl stát součástí americké protiraketové obrany v Evropě (tzv. obranný deštník).

O záměru  USA vybudovat protiraketovou obranu v Evropě začala média informovat v létě 2006. Mezi Spojenými státy americkými a Českou republikou pak probíhaly předběžné konzultace o umístění radaru. V září 2009 USA oznámily, že od svého záměru na vybudování základny ustoupily.

Místem radaru měl být bezejmenný kopec o kótě 718,8 m (po roce 2016 patří k obci Skořice).

Otázka radaru rozdělila českou politickou scénu i veřejnost. Kromě brdských obcí proti radaru nejvýrazněji vystupovala iniciativa Ne základnám. V zahraniční bylo největším odpůrcem radaru Rusko.

Všechna jednání, ve smyslu českého nezájmu o radar, skončily za vlády Baracka Obamy (2009–2017) projednáním vojenské dohody SOFA s Polskem.

Americký postoj
Důvody pro výstavbu radaru v Česku a raket v Polsku byly proklamovány jako ochrana bezpečnostních zájmů USA a jejích spojenců v Evropě před společným nepřítelem, kterým má být Írán nebo KLDR. V minulosti se však objevily informace, že ani jeden z těchto států neměl potřebné technologie k výrobě mezikontinentálních balistických raket, které by ohrozily evropský kontinent.

Plány na výstavbu protiraketového deštníku by byly porušením dohod s Ruskem, což vytvořilo napětí s tímto státem. Podle tehdejších informací Ministerstva zahraničních věcí ČR měl deštník v Evropě ochránit téměř polovinu světa (severní část západní polokoule, a převážnou část Evropy). Radar však měl být pod správou USA a nikoliv NATO jejímž je ČR členem.

Úkolem celého systému byla eliminace hrozby zasažením balistickou raketou: radar, který monitoruje raketu, vyšle informaci protiraketové základně, která má za cíl zničit hlavici v její střední části letu.

V září 2009 USA oznámily, že od svého záměru na vybudování základny ustoupily.

Český postoj
19. ledna 2007 odstartovala formální vyjednávání mezi českou vládou a reprezentací USA. Již od samého počátku prosazoval tehdejší premiér Mirek Topolánek návrh, kdy o radaru rozhodne parlament, nikoli občané v referendu. 28. března 2007 zaslala česká vláda odpověď do USA, ve které se vyslovila pro zahájení oficiálních jednání. Součástí dokumentu byl i požadavek Česka na budoucí začlenění radaru do systému protiraketové obrany NATO.

Situace vlády vzhledem k odmítavému postoji těsné většiny Čechů byla nelehká. Jen několik málo měsíců po odstartování česko-amerických rozhovorů se koalice rozhodla investovat peníze na rozvoj Brdska, zřídila speciální Komisi pro rozvoj Brdska. Vláda odmítala kritiku, že záměrně připravila prostor pro obchod "dáme Vám peníze, když podpoříte radar".

Tehdejší premiér Topolánek slíbil investovat do brdských obcí 1,25 miliardy korun, převážně na infrastrukturu, pitnou vodu a zlepšení podmínek života v těchto obcích. Tento slib nebyl nikdy splněn, vláda do doby pádu Topolánkovy vlády poskytla obcím jen 13,5 milionu korun.

Na krátkou dobu zde aktivisté hnutí Greenpeace vyhlásili mikronárod stát Peaceland jako součást protestu proti výstavbě základny systému protiraketové obrany. 9. června 2008 skončila demonstrace odvozem všech aktivistů na policejní stanici v Příbrami, když se odmítli legitimovat Vojenské policii.

Dne 3. dubna 2008 se česká vláda na summitu NATO v Bukurešti i bez podpory většiny parlamentu dohodla s Američany na výstavbě radaru v Brdech. Smlouvu, která měla být původně podepsána již v květnu téhož roku, schválila koalice 21. 5. 2008 na výjezdním zasedání v Teplicích, nakonec ji 8. července 2008 ztvrdili svými podpisy tehdejší ministr zahraničí Karel Schwarzenberg a jeho americká kolegyně Condoleezza Riceová. Kritikou vyjednané smlouvy nešetřil místopředseda SZ Ondřej Liška, podle kterého byla pasáž o začlenění do Aliance příliš stručná. 10. září 2008 pak vláda pod tlakem veřejnosti schválila také "druhou" doplňkovou smlouvu (SOFA), která vymezuje pobyt amerických vojáků.

Dne 27. listopadu 2008 Senát schválil smlouvy, které se týkají radarové základny USA na českém území. Obě dohody podpořilo 49 ze všech 81 přítomných senátorů. Dne 17. března 2009 vláda stáhla smlouvy k radaru ze Sněmovny; neměla k ratifikaci většinu. Podle Topolánka to ale neznamenalo, že by ratifikace končila. Dne 8. května 2009 vládu Mirka Topolánka nahradil úřednický kabinet Jana Fischera, který později uvedl, že o dalším postupu stran radaru rozhodne až nový kabinet. Dne 20. května 2009 ministr zahraničí Jan Kohout řekl tisku, že vláda smlouvy týkající se radaru do Sněmovny nepošle.

Podpora pravicové koalice
Výkonná rada ODS v červenci 2007 potvrdila postoj premiéra Topolánka a referendum i přes velký tlak veřejnosti odmítla. Někteří poslanci vládní koalice však takový názor nesdíleli a hlasování o radaru, ke kterému nikdy nedošlo, komplikovali. Mezi takové patřil lidovecký poslanec Ludvík Hovorka, který si přál referendum. Poté, co republiková rada SZ vydala doporučení svým zákonodárcům, rozhodli se poslankyně Věra Jakoubková a Olga Zubová radar nepodpořit.

S podzimní podporou radaru váhal i místopředseda Senátu za KDU-ČSL Petr Pithart. Kromě Hovorky a Pitharta se zbylí lidovečtí poslanci stavěli k radaru pozitivně, členství ale podmiňovali spoluprací s NATO. Naopak nečekané podpoře se mohla koalice těšit z řad tehdejších přeběhlíků sociálnědemokratické opozice, kteří v tu dobu fakticky podporovali vládu: Miroslav Svoboda, Evžen Snítilý, Petr Wolf.

Situace Strany zelených
Tehdejší senátor a ministr zahraničí Karel Schwarzenberg vyjadřoval radaru velmi silnou podporu, ačkoliv jeho domovská Strana zelených byla víceméně proti. V únoru 2007 delegáti SZ podpořili "proradarové" vedení strany a nabídku USA tak neodmítli. Jako podmínku si delegáti kladli součinnost se Severoatlantickou aliancí.

Počátkem května 2007 se západočeští zelení postavili proti rozhodnutí republikové rady a radarovou stanici v ČR odmítli. Toto rebelské křídlo reprezentoval Matěj Stropnický. O 11 měsíců později však republiková rada nabádala své zákonodárce, aby projekt nepodpořili.

Postoj levice
Vedení sociální demokracie v čele s tehdejším předsedou Jiřím Paroubkem se shodlo, že radar Česká republika nepotřebuje. Socialisté připustili výstavbu radaru pouze za okolností, že systém bude začleněn do struktur Severoatlantické aliance a v Česku proběhne referendum. Prvním pokusem byla snaha o prosazení zákona o obecném referendu, které by se mohlo vztahovat i na radar. Návrh však těsnou většinou neprošel. O dva měsíce později byl však opoziční blok úspěšnější a levici se podařilo ve Sněmovně protlačit návrh na referendum do dalšího čtení. Nápad vyhlásit krajské referendum dostal v říjnu 2008 i hejtman David Rath, ČSSD se v únoru následujícího roku pokusila takový návrh ve Sněmovně uzákonit.

Sociální demokraté měli v úmyslu využít i zdržovací taktiky v podobě předání smlouvy k posouzení Ústavnímu soudu. Reagovali tak na krok ODS, která naopak vyhrožovala odmítnutím Lisabonské smlouvy.
Jiří Paroubek byl ochoten udělat vše pro to, aby případná smlouva neprošla. Její schválení parlamentem by ale respektoval.

Neshody o počátku vyjednávání
V srpnu 2006 se expremiér Stanislava Grosse přiznal, že o radaru se poprvé začalo mluvit již za menšinové vlády ČSSD na přelomu let 2000 a 2001. On sám viděl v radaru spíše klady, především vyšší záruku bezpečnosti a odpovědnost vůči NATO. Jiří Paroubek se však ohradil tvrzením, že mu experti z Ministerstva obrany informace o konzultacích zatajovali, navíc nebyl za sociálnědemokratických vlád přijat žádný závazek. Paroubek se o radaru dozvěděl až z americké strany těsně před volbami do Sněmovny v roce 2006. Ze startu vyjednávání obvinil naopak Jiřího Payna z ODS, který o radaru údajně jednal již v roce 2000.

Postoje veřejnosti

Česká veřejnost
Český radar vyvolával mezi obyvateli napříč republikou vlnu nevole. Většina obyvatelstva jej považovala za zbytečné zvýšení bezpečnostních rizik pro obyvatelstvo. Obavy, že v případě většího konfliktu například s Ruskem by se radar stal jedním z prvních cílů, byly velmi silné. Rizika pro Českou republiku od zemí jako Írán či KLDR byla vnímána jako velmi malá.

Většina průzkumů během dvouletého období, kdy se o základně hovořilo, ukázala, že s radarem nesouhlasí v průměru přes 50 % Čechů. Většina respondentů také požadovala k této otázce referendum (kolem 70 %). Podpora radaru se naopak těšila asi 30 % obyvatelstva. Mezi příznivci radaru byli především voliči ODS, muži a lidé s dobrou životní úrovní. Mezi odpůrci převažovali naopak lidé se špatnou životní úrovní, lidé nad 60 let a ženy. Češi by také v průzkumu z února 2007 nevyměnili radar za zrušení víz do USA.

Průzkum agentury STEM ze září 2007, který si nechal zpracovat Tomáš Klvaňa ukázal, že pokud by měli Češi více informací, neváhalo by 50 % dotázaných změnit názor. STEM také v květnu 2008 uvedl, že ačkoliv agentury rozdělují obyvatele na velký tábor odpůrců a malý tábor příznivců, jsou tábory odpůrců a příznivců spíše stejně velké. Že názor společnosti není stabilní a víceméně různě kolísá, dokázala v červnu 2008 agentura CVVM. Podle ní počet odpůrců mírně roste na úkor příznivců. Společnost STEM v reakci na prezidenta Klause, že smlouvy o radaru podepíše, uvedla, že s radarem jsou ochotny smířit se 2/3 obyvatel. Podle vlády mohl konflikt mezi Ruskem a Gruzií přesvědčit obyvatele ČR, aby se k otázce radaru postavili kladně. Průzkum CVVM ze října 2008 to však nepotvrdil (základnu podporovalo 30 % obyvatel, 67 % lidí bylo proti).

Názor Čechů nezměnil ani příchod Baracka Obamy do Bílého domu, kterého veřejnost může vnímat jako racionálního a umírněného politika (na rozdíl od svého předchůdce George Bushe).

Obce v Brdech
Dne 17. 3. 2007 bylo v obci Trokavec, která byla od počátku nejhlasitějším odpůrcem radaru, vyhlášeno místní referendum. Lidé v místě plánovaného vybudování radaru zásadně odmítli zvýšená rizika spojená s případným útokem na tento strategicky důležitý cíl. Silné byly také obavy ze zdravotních rizik provozování takto silného radaru na blízké obyvatelstvo, vyplývající z toho, že anténní soustava radaru by ve dvanáctitimilisekundových impulzech vysílala výkon řádově v gigawattech. Vláda v reakci na výsledek uvedla, že referendum se konalo předčasně, lidé podle ní ještě neměli dostatek informací.

Mezi dalšími obcemi, které uspořádaly místní referenda k radaru, byl Mirošov, Strašice, Hvožďany na Příbramsku (95 % proti), Těně na Rokycansku (98 % proti), Zaječov na Berounsku (98 % proti), Vísky (všech 30 lidí proti radaru, tudíž 100 %). Skořice na Rokycansku zvolily anketu (téměř všichni dotázaní byli proti). Další ankety proběhly také v Mirošově, Strašicích, Příkosicích a Míšově (zde také proběhlo po anketě i místní referendum).

Další referenda proběhla v obcích Bezděkov pod Třemšínem, Věšín, Sedlec, Volenice, Vranovice, Vševily, Hůrky, Štítov, Láz – celkem ve 22 obcích v Brdech. Ve všech obcích občané s radarem nesouhlasili.

Starostové (Středočeského a Plzeňského kraje) více než třiceti obcí, které by byly radarem nějak "dotčeny" se v srpnu 2007 sjeli do Rožmitálu pod Třemšínem, aby jednali o společném postupu. Na návrh trokaveckého starosty Jana Neorala a starosty Příbrami Josefa Řiháka podepsalo 30 starostů zakládací listinu svazu obcí proti radaru. 29. srpna 2007 tak oficiálně vznikla "Liga starostů proti radaru". Starosta Strašic Jiří Hahner zvolil jiný postup, když pozval tehdejší ministryni obrany Vlastu Parkanovou do Strašic k jednání. Do sálu, kde se sešlo na 50 starostů, nebyli pořadateli vpuštěni novináři a televize. Na protest proti tomuto pokusu vyloučit média odešlo 25 starostů před jednáním ze sálu.

Na pozvání Evropského parlamentu se 17. 2. 2009 třicet brdských starostů (z Ligy starostů proti radaru) spolu se 130 občany Brd rozjelo na vlastní náklady třemi autobusy do Bruselu, k veřejnému slyšení v parlamentu. Cestu podpořili hejtmani ČR. Za Ligu starostů vystoupil s projevem proti radaru starosta Jan Neoral.

Starosta obce Trokavec Jan Neoral (nezávislý nestraník, kandidující na listině ČSSD) postavil svoji kandidaturu a kampaň v roce 2008 v krajských volbách do zastupitelstva plzeňského kraje na odporu proti radaru a díky mnoha přednostním hlasům z brdských obcí uspěl.

Umělci
K radarové stanici se kvůli obecně přijímané vysoké důležitosti vyjadřovali i veřejně činné osobnosti (Věra Chytilová, Jan Kačer, Zdeněk Troška). Ti neváhali zaslat prezidentu republiky a předsedům obou komor parlamentu v červenci 2007 dopis, v němž vyzývali k uspořádání referenda.

Hnutí "Ne základnám"
Jako nejsilnější a nejhlasitější odpůrce protiraketové obrany se angažovala Občanská iniciativa Ne základnám. Důvodem vzniku byla série jednání, která vedli politici a vysoce postavení úředníci za zády svých občanů a odmítání vlády více se zapojit do veřejné diskuze ohledně potenciálních bezpečnostních rizik pro místní obyvatelstvo. Iniciativa nabídla státu vysvětlovací kampaň (za poskytnutí finanční kompenzace 7,5 mil. Kč), která by byla protiváhou k oficiální – vládní – agitaci, jelikož ta bylo podle iniciativy účelově zaměřená.

Iniciativa prostřednictvím svých lídrů, mj. Jana Tamáše či mluvčího Jana Májíčka, vyzvala několikrát Topolánkovu vládu k demisi. Lídr Jan Tamáš a jeho kolega Jan Bednář také na několik týdnů zvolili jako formu protestu hladovku.

Jiné protestní akce
Angažoval se také Komunistický svaz mládeže, který ke dni 12. března 2007 získal přes 70 tisíc podpisů a o rok a půl později disponoval petičními archy se 180 tisíci podpisy odpůrců základny. Kromě toho protestní akce organizovalo místní obyvatelstvo a samospráva.

Demonstrace
4. června 2007, v den příletu tehdejšího prezidenta USA George Bushe, ukončila policie probíhající demonstraci na Hradčanském náměstí z důvodu bezpečnostních opatření.

23. října 2007 zahájil v Příbrami své turné informační autobus Nezákladňák.

U příležitosti 18. výročí pádu komunismu demonstrovalo na pražském Václavském náměstí 1 500 lidí. Protest, při kterém zazněly požadavky na referendum nebo silná kritika vlády, přišli podpořit opoziční politici nebo herečka a bývalá poslankyně Táňa Fischerová.
11. března 2008 aktivisté zprovoznili i pražskou tramvaj Nezákladňačku.

8. července 2008 protestovali aktivisté na Hradčanském náměstí při příležitosti návštěvy americké ministryně zahraničí Condoleezzy Riceové.

Demonstrovalo se i 17. listopadu 2008: organizátoři tento den spojili s výročím sametové revoluce, tedy dne spojovaného s bojem za demokracii a lidská práva.

V době návštěvy amerického prezidenta Baracka Obamy v Praze (duben 2009) iniciativa Ne základnám zintenzivnila své protesty.
Česká odnož teroristické organizace Frakce Rudé armády (RAF) pohrozila, že pokud ČR kývne na nabídku USA, podnikne akce, které povedou k vraždám, násilí nebo výbuchům. Administrativa Baracka Obamy však vybudování stabilního radaru v Brdech nepovažuje za strategicky vhodné a projekt pozastavila.

Součinnost v Polsku

Polská strana začala vyjednávat s USA na v roce 2005. Tehdejší premiér Jarosław Kaczyński nebral ohledy na tehdejší předsedkyni Rady EU a německou kancléřku Angelu Merkelovou, která požadovala začlenění systému do struktur NATO. Polsko vyslalo vstřícné gesto Rusku, když přišlo s nabídkou pozvat ruské inspektory na protiraketovou základnu. Na rozdíl od České republiky požadovalo Polsko za umístění raket modernizaci armády. Spolupracovník premiéra Donalda Tuska Slawomir Nowak zkritizoval Česko za to, že si podobné ústupky nevymohlo také. Tehdejší americký prezident George W. Bush nabídku polského premiéra Donalda Tuska vyslyšel a mínil vyhovět.

Jednání o potenciálním vybudování tzv. obranného deštníku proti raketám cizí moci nakonec separátně vedly k sepsání Dohody o strpění vojenských sil států NATO (SOFA, Status of Forces Agreement) z 11. prosince 2009 ve Varšavě, již za vlády amerického prezidenta Baracka Obamy. Dohoda určuje mezi Spojenými státy a Polskem řadu povinností a rychlejších postupů ve vojenské vybavenosti, také dopředu zjednodušuje legislativní postavení cizího vojska na území. Je možné tedy rozšíření rozmístění také raket Patriot, které by zemí ochránili před hrozbou nebo leteckým útokem z východu (Rusk), Bělorusko).

Nicméně další pomalý vývoj reálného rozmístění vedl k jednání USA v listopadu 2017, kdy ministerstvo obrany požadovalo cenu a investici za 4 patriot systémy v Polsku. Jednáním snížili cenu z 10 miliard dolarů na necelých 5 miliard za konečné 3+ baterie systému Patriot (baterie vojenských zařízení, jenž obvykle spojeny dohromady poskytují obranu).

Odkazy

Reference

Související články
 Pavel J. Hejátko

Dokumentární film
 Český mír (2010), jeho tvůrci Vít Klusák a Filip Remunda svůj snímek o brdském radaru trefně označují jako dokumentární komedii

Externí odkazy

 Americká PROTIraketová základna v ČR – na Palba.cz
 Stránka mající za cíl jasného označení místa

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 Proti raketám – oficiální stránky vládní kampaně
 Radary rakety  - stránky iniciativy Pro
 Protiraketová obrana - stránky občanského sdružení Jagello 2000

Proti
 Ne základnám – oficiální stránky iniciativy Ne základnám
 Vrtěti radarem – radarové základně věnované stránky provozované Greenpeace
 Trokavec proti radaru – stránky provozované brdskou obcí Trokavec
 Starostové proti radaru – stránky Ligy starostů proti radaru
 Radar v Brdech: Klíčové argumenty – téma Britských listů
 Peaceland – stránky nezávislého státu Peaceland vyhlášeného organizací Greenpeace

Vojenský újezd Brdy
Politické dějiny Česka
České dějiny 21. století
Česko-americké vztahy
Skořice (okres Rokycany)
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Is this usb wifi plug supported?
I am considering buying such a plug. It is described as: Mini AC600 High Performance 2.4GHz 5GHz Dual Band WiFi Wireless USB Adapter Features: 100% Brand New and High Quality This AC600 dual band adapter delivers powerful wireless AC technology to your desktop or notebook computer. Simply plug the adapter into an available USB port and connect to a wireless network to access a secure,high speed internet connection --2.4GHz or 5GHz . And with integrated dual band technology , you'll have reduced Wi-Fi interference to maximize throughput for faster streaming ,gaming ,and Skype calls . Support 802.11ac standard-- the next generation of wifi. Backward compatible with 802.11 a/b/g/n products. Ultra fast AC600 (433+150Mbps) wireless speed with 802.11 ac. Maximum speed up to 5Ghz 433Mbps or 2.4Ghz 150Mbps. Dual band connections for lag-free HD video streaming and gaming. Easy wireless security encryption at a push of the WPS button. I found it at: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mini-AC600-High-Performance-2-4GHz-5GHz-Dual-Band... Thanx for any helpful info.
Default Google-Chrome
by Mickey
Fedora 21/KDE I have in KDE Settings the Google-Chrome as default Web Browser. How do I setup that when I'm reading my Emails in Thunderbird and I click on a Web Link in a email and I want the link to open in Chrome, but it always opens in Firefox. How do I change that ?
Fedora 22 - Switched to KDE on Fedora, still starts with GNOME
by Kevin Wilson
Hi, all, I had installed Fedora 22 on x86_64 machine. I had installed kde by "dnf install -y @kde". I had selected kde by swithcdesk. I had rebooted and still it starts in GNOME. switchdesk from x windows shows that KDE is selected. I made another reboot, selecting "plasma" from the scroll option dialog in the boot screen, still it logged into Gnome and not KDE. Any ideas ? something similar to this used to work in Fedora 21, IIRC. Regards, Kevin
2 part question
by William Biggs
I have a 2 part question . 1st I would like to know how to back up f21 to upgrade to f22 ? the 2nd question is how do I do and upgrade to f22 gnome ver from f21 ?
viewvc broken?
by Glenn Holmer
Is this bug valid? Are other people seeing this? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1216264 I'm just switching from another distro, so I'm not sure if I have it set up correctly, but I'm seeing that same behavior. -- Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) "After the vintage season came the aftermath -- and Cenbe."
Install fails with /dev/mapper/live-rw does not exist
Hi, Trying to do an f22 Live Workstation install on my new Toshiba P50 laptop and the install fails with: [ 187.874987] localhost dracut-initqueue[471]: Warning: Could not boot. [ 187.891048] localhost systemd[1]: Received SIGRTMIN+20 from PID 472 (plymouthd). [ 187.893397] localhost dracut-initqueue[471]: Warning: /dev/disk/by-label/Fedora-Live-WS-x86_64-22-3 does not exist [ 187.893565] localhost dracut-initqueue[471]: Warning: /dev/mapper/live-rw does not exist [ 187.897504] localhost systemd[1]: Starting Dracut Emergency Shell... So, it boots off the DVD, so it's not a problem with the drive. I've also tried various boot options including pci=nomsi,nommconf and libata.dma=1 without success. I've included the rdsoreport.txt output here: http://pastebin.com/BrqeMY4w Perhaps someone can take a look for any ideas? Thanks, Alex
passwordless rsync?
by Dustin Kempter
Hi all, Ive been looking into a way to run rsync from server1 to server2 using ssh-keys but not allowing the user from server 1 to login to server2 or to run any other commands only rsync. Ive seen a few postings of how to do it, where they add a command="some command" line in the .ssh/authorized_keys file. But I can't seem see the same result even when I copy and paste what they had. Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
FW: Fedora Server 22 Stuck on Boot
by Christopher Bachner
Hi guys, I just installed Fedora 22 Server on my Ml350 G5. After the setup finishes and the system tries to boot fedora, I get stuck at Reached target Basic system. Any ideas how I could diagnose what causes this? Thanks, Christopher Bachner
Status of Optimus laptop graphics in F22?
by Matthew Saltzman
Does anyone know if nVidia's Optimus technology is supported natively in F22? Or do we still need to go with Bumblebee? And what's the status of Bumblebee for F22? I booted the Live DVD and it loaded the nouveau driver on my Latitude, but I couldn't tell if it was using the Intel chip or not. (There doesn't seem to be an X.log.0 on the live system.) How can I check? TIA. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu
User change in F22 not possible.
by René Harder Olsen
Has anyone noticed the same error as I. I cann't change user or log the user out. One of two things happen either it open a terminal window write som lines and hangs itslef up or it opens an empty terminal where you can log in, but it is not possible to return to the gui desktop. Any help or tip where to look would be pressiated. René
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Millennial1 business travelers in the UK are driving an evolution in corporate travel by demanding cutting-edge digital support throughout their trips and 'bleisure' advice, according to an independent global study commissioned by Travelport, the leading Travel Commerce Platform.
Millennials escalating thirst for 'bleisure' – itineraries combining both business and leisure – is also driving change. Two thirds (62%), for example, now regularly extend their business trips by a few days so they can see local attractions, compared to just one quarter (27%) of baby boomers.
To satisfy their 'bleisure' needs, most British millennial business travelers are now doing their own research before finalizing their travel plans. Among the most common tools used to build their perfect itinerary are review sites (used by 88%) and general travel advice sites (used by 84%). Looking through friends' travel videos and pictures on social media is also typical for digitally-advanced millennials (82%). More than half (56%) now use voice search technology, compared to two fifths (38%) of Gen X business travelers and one fifth of baby boomers (18%).
1 Paul 02/28/2018 09:11 Very good company.


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Home MUSIC Slow burn
Squarewave releases a long-awaited new album
by Aaron R. Conklin
Tim Radl
Pat Connaughty (left) and Jeff Jagielo blend elements from folk to grunge.
Like a fine wine or a distracted undergraduate, the members of the Madison's Squarewave took their time with their latest album, A Tighter Knot. It's a project that's been a whopping seven years in the making.
"We have hundreds of ideas," says guitarist Jeff Jagielo, who shares a musical collaboration with fellow guitarist Pat Connaughty that stretches back to their days with Ivory Library, a mainstay of the local scene in the 1980s. "The ones that work come to the surface and you eventually get 'em down. We were never trying to force the songs — the ones that end up being the best are the ones you don't struggle with."
They're also, apparently, the ones that come from a ridiculously wide range of musical genres. Jagielo and Connaughty weave and blend elements from folk to prog-rock to pop and grunge over the course of the album's 14 songs. A Tighter Knot all but bleeds standout tracks, including "Smoke for Air," a shimmering pop song with a soaring chorus that belies a bummer lyrical bent. Another cut from the album, "Can You Tell Me," is so sonically ornate the band won't play it live.
"The basic structure is pop melodicism," says Jagielo of Squarewave's deeply layered walls of sound. "I'm a fan of melody. That's one of the things I'm attracted to. The darker things — that's just what comes out."
Both Jagielo and Connaughty share with Justin Vernon (of Bon Iver) a love of retreating from the world to create music — hence the protracted creative process, completed in Jagielo's Wautoma garage. Being musical veterans has also been liberating, says Jagielo.
"At this point, we don't have any wild expectations of where the music is going to take us," he says. "In the past we would have to self-promote ourselves. Now we just create music." The album is being released on Artisanal Records, founded recently by Phil Davis, a guitarist who once played with Butch Vig and Duke Erikson in the pre-Garbage band Firetown.
The band's album release party Jan. 21 at the Harmony Bar and Grill will double as a gathering of old friends. The Dash Hounds, who contributed to A Tighter Knot, will serve as Squarewave's rhythm section, bridging a musical generation gap in the process. Dash Hounds will open the show, followed by Stone Prairie.
A Tighter Knot may have taken seven years to get here, but it's worth the wait.


The Vans Warped Tour is taking a bow this year – for real this time - and organizers want fans to be able to dress for the occasion.
A legacy collection of merchandise has been unveiled. Fans can buy retrospective t-shirts commemorating their favorite years of the tour. The shirts will be the final pieces of merch created for the online store, and represent each year and route the tour has followed since debuting in 1995.
The final Warped Tour was supposed to be last year, but organizers decided to do one more for the 25th anniversary. The celebration kicks off with a "grand opening" in Cleveland on June 8th, before going into two-day festivals in Atlantic City, NJ and Mountain View, CA.
Blink-182, Good Charlotte, 311 and Bad Religion are among the dozens of bands ready to rock the farewell events. Click here for tickets and more details.


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Michael Reiley
musician, producer and teacher
Bio (for press / media)
The Ancient Art of Listening
Once upon a time, we relied on our listening skills to tell us about the world.
In dense, shadowy forests, we listened for the crunch of leaves or the snap of a twig to tell us that animals were near. We listened when the wind picked up, warning us of an incoming storm.
After night fell, we gathered around the fire to sing songs, weave stories, and share news. The stories and songs we listened to as we sat by the hearth were passed from one generation to the next.
In fact, we're born knowing how to listen. Months before they're born, babies start to be able to hear sounds. Within hours of birth, they have been shown to recognize—and be calmed by—their mother's voice.
But we often focus on other senses to the detriment of our listening skills.
No matter where we are in our lives, listening has the potential to help us heal, focus, and relax.
If, that is, we learn to pay attention to sound and harness its energy.
I'm Michael Reiley.
As far back as I can remember, music has been a vital part of my life. I always followed my own path, building a career as an independent musician and composer. Over the years, as my meditation practice deepened, I began to see how my musical and contemplative selves were intertwined.
Once I discovered the power of Deep Listening® and followed in the footsteps of my teachers, meditation and music converged for me. They now coexist within my work, providing me with endless opportunities to explore and tap into my creativity.
Today, my work as a musician, composer, and teacher centers on how listening helps us heal, focus, and connect with ourselves and one another.
Having dedicated my life to the art of listening, I create ambient soundscapes that incorporate frequencies, field recordings, and music for various levels of consciousness, from active listening to deep sleep.
My recent projects include Echozoo, an archive of reimagined soundscapes of extinct animals and their habitats, and Celestial Music Box, a generative system that uses live star coordinate data to create sleep music.
I also lead workshops, soundwalks, and other interactive experiences where participants can experience the healing power of sound in community with one another.
As a therapeutic musician, I also play one-on-one for individuals who are healing from illness or experiencing life's major transitions. Through live, acoustic music, I am able to provide comfort, relaxation, and respite for these patients.
After several years of being a nomad, I am currently based in Italy with my partner Monica.
Affiliations, Trainings & Traditions
Certified Deep Listening® Facilitator and an associate professor at the Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Certified Music Practitioner from the Music for Healing and Transition Program.
Certificate in Music for Wellness from Berklee College of Music.
Michael is a composer at Wavepaths, a platform providing music experiences for and as psychedelic therapy
Meditation Teacher at Springboard Studio
Artist in Residence and teacher at Village of Arts and Humanities and BEEP at Temple University Boyer College of Music
Artist Residencies: GlogauAIR (Berlin), PECAH (India), ComPeung (Thailand), Listhus (Iceland), Liebig12 (Berlin), Casa Na Ilha (Brazil), Ayatana (Canada)
Supported and Presented by American Composers Forum
Webmaster and Podcast Producer for Science and Nonduality
Weekly class on Zoom exploring the intersection of mindfulness, sound, and listening.
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Live acoustic music sessions to provide comfort and healing available in-person and virtually.
In-person and online sessions where participants can explore the benefits of Deep Listening.
Listen Deeper
Bio Short (27 Words)
American composer, producer, and teacher Michael Reiley facilitates experiences in the traditions of sound therapy, sonic mindfulness, sacred music, and Deep Listening. Find out more at SoundofListening.com.
Long Bio (270 Words)
Michael Reiley is a composer, musician, and teacher. He creates sonic worlds in the traditions of sound therapy, sacred music, and Deep Listening. His work explores the nexus of inner and outer soundscapes as a mode of transpersonal connection and oneness. Through this exploration spectrums of listening consciousness are illuminated including music for sleep, dreaming, meditation, therapy, movement, and focused states of attention/awareness. His music uses techniques and technologies such as drones, binaural beat frequencies, color therapy, data sonification, field recording, tape loops, sacred geometry, esoteric frequency ratios, alternate tuning systems, extended improvisations, sound healing instruments, and more traditional instruments like piano, hand pan, and synthesizer.
Recent projects include Echozoo, an archive of reimagined soundscapes of extinct animals and their habitats, and Celestial Music Box, a generative system that uses live star coordinate data to create sleep music.
Michael is a certified Deep Listening having studied in the lineage of composer Pauline Oliveros. He currently teaches at the Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and with his somatic listening workshops around the world called Listening Bodies.
As a sound therapist Michael has studied at the Music for Healing and Transition Program which trains musicians to play improvised music at the bedside of the sick and dying.
As a composer, he has released over ten albums on labels such as Healing Sound Propagandist, Sacred Sea Records, Pregnant Void, and on his own Sound of Listening Imprint. Michael also works as a composer for Wavepaths, a platform providing music experiences for and as psychedelic therapy. He is also the webmaster, blog editor, host, and podcast producer at Science and Nonduality.


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Parafia Najświętszego Serca Pana Jezusa w Wojcieszkowie – parafia rzymskokatolicka w Wojcieszkowie.

Parafia erygowana w 1437 roku. Obecny kościół parafialny murowany w stylu neoromańsko-neogotyckim, wybudowany w latach 1898–1899, staraniem ks. Tadeusza Leszczyńskiego, konsekrowany w 1900 roku przez Bpa Franciszka Jaczewskiego.

Terytorium parafii obejmuje: Wojcieszków, Bystrzycę, Ciężkie, Glinne, Helenów, Hermanów, Kolonię Bystrzycką, Marianów, Nowinki, Oszczepalin Pierwszy, Otylin, Siedliska, Wolę Bobrową, Wolę Burzecką, Wolę Bystrzycką oraz Zofijówkę.

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Religia w Wojcieszkowie


Author nicknames. When I have a new group of students sitting in my class for the first time, I almost always begin with word ticket nicknames to loosen things up. Pull out a pile of nouns from your collection, and also make a separate pile of verbs. Have each person choose one noun and one verb from these two piles. Then create nicknames by putting them together into a phrase. For example, if I chose dolphin and dance, I could be "The Dolphin Dancer" or "The Dancing Dolphin" or "She Who Dances with Dolphins." Giggles are guaranteed. Make name tags that can be worn during future family writing activities.
With gleeful growls, the gargoyles leaped off the cathedral roof and surged through the streets of the city that shimmered with morning dew.
Here's one of my favorite uses for word tickets, and it involves another one of my best teaching tools: a board game called Dixit—specifically, the gorgeous picture cards that go with the game.
When played according to the rules, Dixit is a wonderful way to practice vocabulary, metaphor, and storytelling as a family. I highly recommend it. But I rarely play by the rules! The illustrated cards are so beautifully drawn, so evocative and fantastical and strange, that they are perfect writing prompts in themselves. Each one is a little glimpse into a mysterious story, like a freeze-frame of a movie—only that story could go in a hundred different directions.
Choose five word tickets at random (you can raise or lower this number to adjust the difficulty).
Write a story about what's happening in the picture, using all five words (or phrases) on the tickets. This means you might have to write a story about a lovesick mermaid that also includes an armadillo, a cactus, fuzzy things, something that cackles, and the color chartreuse. Expect silliness. Expect laughter. Expect lots of fun. Especially if you set the timer.
A quest for words. Finally, a few years ago I shared with Story Warren readers a creative writing activity that provides an ideal opportunity to make a family game out of word tickets: "Metaphors, Double Vision, and the Gruesome Pit of Grossness." Instead of Post-it notes in this activity, use your tickets instead. Scatter them on objects around your house and go on an expedition to discover the extraordinary landscape such words evoke in their new locations.
I hope these activities make your family giggle and squirm and gallop and chortle and snorkel and glizzle and glow. And if you come up with your own fun ways to use word tickets, let me know! I love new ideas.
Special note: Some of these activities are featured in my online writing class, "Playing with Words," which begins August 24. Until then, Story Warren readers can use the coupon code RABBITS to get 15% off registration for this or any of my other online classes. For more information, see my website www.sleepinggiantclasses.com.
Loving all your posts this summer, Jennifer. Looking forward to putting some of them into practice!


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Power of the Game: Apted's Sports Documentary
January 31, 2013 by EmanuelLevy
Michael Apted's "Power of the Game" is an ambitious documentary, aiming to explore how football creates a meaningful global bond among so many diverse countries. But it also deals with internal tensions within each country that plays the sport, including the United States.
Apted has enleavened his worthy subject matter with vivid interviews with players and organizers from places as varied as South Africa, Iran, the U.S. and Poland.
The earnest documentary has local scenes which examine the particularities of the game in individual countries as they pay tribute to its global reach.
There is plenty of match footage—ranging from the acrobatic to the violent–almost all of it from TV television broadcasts. For South Africans, for example, football–once all-white—the current state of the game reflects the country's emergence from decades of apartheid.
But many Americans view football as the reverse application of globalization, the slow acceptance of a foreign sport, starting with school play and moving up to the professional level.
In Iran, football matches, from which women are barred as spectators, are beginning to see that ban crack. Jaffar Panahi's feature "Offside" has already looked at the women's spectator ban as a reflection of broader political circumstances.
Most of the characters Apted follows in the various stories are fascinating. An Iranian woman sports journalist, who was a protester for women's rights 20 years ago, won a small victory to be allowed to enter the stadium in Tehran. Argentinian organizers talk of how the sport saves some of the players from a life of street crime, whereas Polish activists fight the strong tide of anti-immigrant racism.
Apted shifts deftly between match highlights and his interviewees. Clearly, his film's subject is overreaching in scope, much larger than his documentary can accommodate. He is less successful at exploring the challenges that the sport faces.
Power of the Game also notes that football can be a platform for racist demonstration, including some gruesome footage. Yet there are not many scenes of football hooliganism, a recurrent problem in Europe and South America.
Nor does the film deal with the growing commercialization of the game, which undermines its good merits and places World Cup games beyond the means of middle class and working class fans.


*ALL workshops are only offered privately and and semi-private at this time. Please contact to arrange your workshop.
Module 1: Intro to Crystals and Gemstones – Since ancient times, cultures all over the world have worked with crystals for spiritual, physical and emotional healing. Crystals and minerals are placed on energy points on and around the body to release negative energy, release emotional tension and bring the body back into alignment allowing the person to heal. This fun workshop will take you into the world of crystal healing where you will learn about the 7 chakras and the crystals that help to balance them.
Module 2 – Crystals for Protection – In this class we will dig deeply into the many ways that crystals can help us to stay grounded and protect us from negative energy. We'll also learn shielding, psychic protection techniques and tools to raise our vibration. We will discuss general protection techniques as well as protection for travel, EMFs, during astral travel and more. Learn how to clear your space, grid your homes and create a crystal medicine bag.
Module 3: Practical Ways to Work with Crystals – There are many ways to work with crystals besides placing them on our bodies! Learn how to create a basic crystal grid, gem water and chakra anointing oils. We will also cover how to safely work with toxic gemstones for healing purposes. We'll learn how to raise our vibration with essential oils, sacred geometry. We will also explore ways to work with crystal to manifest love and attract abundance into our lives.
Module 4: Crystal Divination – Divination is the practice of seeking knowledge of the unknown; the art or gift of prophecy. Learn how to read a crystal ball, a stone reading and how to work with a pendulum. Each student needs to bring a palm stone (or rock) with them. Every student will give a reading a receive a reading. Everyone is psychic, learn how you can tap into universal wisdom to receive messages from Spirit through the crystal kingdom.
Module 5: Crystal Healing: The laying on of stones (Chakra Balancing) – Do you want to know how to clear & balance your chakras? Would you like to learn which tools and technique you can use to achieve your spiritual, physical & emotional goals? Learn how to conduct a basic crystal healing layout on yourself our others. We will also learn how to balance the chakras using crystals while incorporating the use of a pendulum or a crystal wand for sensing energy and imbalances. We learn how to detect energetic imbalances and how to allow the chi to flow freely through the body through the use of crystals. You'll learn invaluable techniques coupled with hands-on practical exercises for healing & self-discovery.
Module 6: Crystal Therapist Tools – Learn which tools are most used in a crystal therapy session and how to use them. We will explore the many tools that professional crystal healers work with in their practice. We'll learn how to utilize these tools in a session and most importantly when to use them. We'll also explore how aromatherapy (essential oils) and sound healing work with crystal healing this course is designed for anyone looking to add crystal therapy to their healing or wellness practice.


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Церква святого апостола Івана Богослова — парафія і храм греко-католицької громади Монастириського деканату Бучацької єпархії Української греко-католицької церкви в селі Підлісне Чортківського району Тернопільської області.

Оголошена пам'яткою архітектури місцевого значення (охоронний номер 2076).

Історія церкви
Перша письмова згадка про с. Дрищів відома з 1602 року. Дерев'яну церкву освятили у 1884 році. У 1947 році с. Дрищів перейменували у с. Підлісне. До 1947 року парафія належала до УГКЦ, у 1947—1991 роках парафія і храм не діяли. У 1989—1991 роках належали до РПЦ. 3 1991 року — знову в лоні УГКЦ.

На парафії діють: спільнота «Матері в молитві» та Вівтарна дружина.

На території парафії є хрести парафіяльного значення.

Парохи
 о. Микола Потилицький (до 1947),
 о. Нестор Дзюбак,
 о. Роман Ворончак (1992—1997),
 о. Петро Заліпа,
 о. Тарас Шмиглик,
 о. Василь Дзяйло,
 о. Руслан Ковальчук (2002),
 о. Степан Гордій (з жовтня 2002).

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Церкви Чортківського району
Підлісне (Чортківський район)
Церкви Івана Богослова
засновані в Україні 1884
Культові споруди, побудовані 1884


Question: Who in Allegheny County is more likely to own the home they live in — residents with a college degree, those with some college or other post-secondary schooling, or those who never took their formal education beyond high school?
How Healthy are Allegheny County Residents?
In their own view, people in Allegheny County are generally healthier than the nation's population. They're also smoking less.
One Pittsburgh neighborhood could soon test a brand of zoning that requires developers to include affordable housing in new market-rate projects as a way to build the inventory of units available for residents earning less than the city's median income.
Allegheny County residents say their quality of life has improved since they were last surveyed seven years ago, with more of them reporting rising incomes and expressing greater confidence in the local economy.
Paying their housing costs is a struggle for an alarming number of Americans across the country and Allegheny County is no exception.


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The GOP will change its tune on Donald Trump. Just wait.
Here are 7 arguments conservatives will soon be making
REUTERS/Jim Young
byPaul Waldman
There's still time for Republicans to stop Donald Trump, but not much. Super Tuesday is in just a few days, and if the polls are correct, Trump is going to romp through those primaries winning everywhere, with the possible exception of Ted Cruz's home state of Texas. After that, his nomination will go from "likely" to "nearly inevitable." And what will those Republicans who have been fussing and fretting over Trump do then?
They'll do what any of us would: rationalize. Right now, most Republicans have two fears when it comes to Trump being the GOP nominee. He might lose badly and make Hillary Clinton the president, or perhaps even worse, he'd win and destroy conservatism. But it's one thing to say that when his nomination is hypothetical; what if it becomes real?
Here's what I predict: Without any other good options, they will quickly convince themselves that things are going to work out great. Here's a preview of just some of the arguments conservatives will be making. For simplicity's sake, I offer them in the first person.
1. Trump can beat Hillary Clinton. Democrats have some natural advantages in the electoral college, so we need someone who can mix things up. Ted Cruz would have been a Goldwater-level disaster, because the truth is that we can't just appeal to the right; we need independents, too. Marco Rubio, for his part, was too young and inexperienced. Trump can bring out non-voters, like he did in the primaries, and maybe steal a bunch of working-class whites who vote Democratic because those limousine liberals are supposedly the party of the people. See more here.
2. Have you seen his tax cut? It's yooge. Let's be honest: There's nothing we love more than cutting taxes. And according to the Tax Policy Center, Trump's tax cut is the biggest of all the candidates; it will cost $9.5 trillion over 10 years. That's bigger than anything Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush tried! Okay, so Cruz's plan gives more to the noble and virtuous job creators of the 1 percent. But still, just think how much government will have to be cut when we deprive it of all that revenue.
3. He's a businessman, and businessmen are the best of us. We've always said we wanted a businessman president, but we've never elected one. And yes, Trump's business is a little out of the ordinary, depending as it does on licensing his name and coming up with branded products like Trump Vodka, Trump Steaks, and Trump University. But it'll make a big difference to have someone in the White House whose life has been devoted to getting rich and doesn't apologize for it.
4. Maybe he really will build that wall, even if Mexico won't pay for it. We all say we want border security, right? Let's let the man build his wall. It'll cost more than he thinks and it'll lend America a little of that je ne sais quoi we associate with East Berlin circa 1972, but the public will thank us for it.
5. Sure he panders, but that will keep his popularity from plunging too low. We all remember what happened the last time we had a failed Republican president — we got Barack Obama. So if Trump moves away from conservative positions in order to be where the public is now and again, we can live with it.
6. Better strong and erratic than timid and weak. Trump hasn't thought through our national security challenges, but so what? The worst thing that will happen is he'll bomb somebody he shouldn't. The point is, we love strength, and Trump knows how to show he's strong. Just wait until he calls Putin a "little girl" and starts moving missile batteries into Eastern Europe. That'll show 'em.
7. He'll have to bring us in whether he wants to or not. There are about 3,000 appointed positions in the federal government. Who's going to fill them in a Trump administration? The government-in-exile now cooling its heels in conservative think tanks and lobbying firms, waiting for the next Republican president to get elected so they can have their old jobs back. Trump showed that with the right combination of celebrity and timing it's possible to blow into a political campaign and win. But he won't be able to do the same thing with, say, running the Department of Energy. For that he'll need our people. The fact that Trump doesn't know the difference between a deputy secretary and an undersecretary (Hah, what a rube!) means that we should have little trouble running the government the way we would have with any other president, and shaping policy to our liking.
Those are the kinds of things Republicans will be telling themselves. At first it'll be just about being handed lemons and making lemonade (or being handed Trump and making Trumpade, which sounds like a disgusting cocktail you make with Trump Vodka). But after they make this case to themselves and to each other for a while, they'll start to believe it. Selling him to the rest of the public, however, is a whole other matter.
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Rambus Reports Third Quarter Financial Results
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Business and Financial Highlights:
Expanded agreement with Freescale Semiconductor
Signed agreements with MicroSemi and ALi
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Quarterly revenue of $73.3 million; non-GAAP customer licensing income of $74.3 million
Quarterly GAAP diluted loss per share of $0.05; non-GAAP diluted income per share of $0.15
SUNNYVALE, Calif. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — October 17, 2013 — Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS), the innovative technology solutions company that brings invention to market, today reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2013.
GAAP Financial Results:
Revenue for the third quarter of 2013 was $73.3 million, up 27% on a sequential basis from the second quarter of 2013. The increase in revenue was primarily due to royalty revenue recognized in the third quarter of 2013 from SK Hynix. As compared to the third quarter of 2012, revenue was up 27% in the third quarter of 2013, also primarily due to royalty revenue recognized in the third quarter of 2013 from SK Hynix.
Revenue for the nine months ended September 30, 2013 was $198.1 million, up 12% over the prior year period. The increase in revenue was primarily due to royalty revenue recognized in the third quarter of 2013 from SK Hynix and recognition of one-time royalty revenue during the first quarter of 2013 from LSI Corporation.
Total operating costs and expenses for the third quarter of 2013 were $64.2 million, 23% higher than the previous quarter. The previous quarter included a one-time reversal of $8.5 million, for previously accrued SK Hynix related litigation costs. Additionally, during the third quarter of 2013, the Company streamlined its immersive media platform, and as a result of this action, the Company recorded a charge for the impairment of goodwill of $8.1 million and a restructuring charge of $1.2 million. Third quarter operating costs and expenses of $64.2 million included $0.7 million of general litigation expenses, $3.4 million of stock-based compensation expenses, $8.1 million of impairment of goodwill, $1.1 million of restructuring charges, $7.4 million of amortization expenses and $1.5 million of retention bonuses from past business acquisitions. This is compared to total operating costs and expenses for the second quarter of 2013 of $52.2 million, which included a credit of $6.2 million of general litigation expenses (primarily due to the one-time reversal of accrued SK Hynix related litigation costs), $3.6 million of stock-based compensation expenses, $7.0 million of amortization expenses and $3.4 million of retention bonuses from past business acquisitions. As compared to one year ago, total operating costs and expenses for the third quarter of 2012 were $104.6 million, which included $2.6 million of general litigation expenses, $5.1 million of stock-based compensation expenses, $35.5 million of impairment of goodwill and long-lived assets, $6.6 million of restructuring charges, $8.0 million of amortization expenses and $4.4 million of retention bonuses from past business acquisitions.
Total operating costs and expenses for the nine months ended September 30, 2013 were $181.8 million, which included $11.9 million of stock-based compensation expenses, $8.1 million of impairment of goodwill, $3.3 million of restructuring charges, $21.4 million of amortization expenses and $8.9 million of retention bonuses from past business acquisitions. This is compared to total operating costs and expenses for the nine months ended September 30, 2012 of $263.0 million, which included $18.0 million of stock-based compensation expenses, $6.6 million of restructuring charges, $35.5 million of impairment of goodwill and long-lived assets, $23.5 million of amortization expenses and $21.5 million of acquisition-related transaction costs and retention bonuses from past business acquisitions. General litigation expenses for the nine months ended September 30, 2013 were a credit of $3.4 million, a decrease of $14.6 million from the same period in 2012. The change in total operating costs and expenses was primarily attributable to lower general litigation expenses, lower acquisition-related transaction costs and retention bonuses from past business acquisitions, lower headcount-related costs due to restructuring, lower stock-based compensation expenses, lower consulting costs and a decreased charge related to impairment of goodwill and long-lived assets.
Net loss for the third quarter of 2013 was $5.7 million as compared to net loss of $7.8 million in the second quarter of 2013 and net loss of $58.1 million in the third quarter of 2012. Diluted net loss per share for the third quarter of 2013 was $0.05 as compared to diluted net loss per share of $0.07 in the second quarter of 2013 and diluted net loss per share of $0.52 in the third quarter of 2012.
Net loss for the nine months ended September 30, 2013 was $24.0 million as compared to a net loss of $118.2 million for the same period of 2012. Diluted net loss per share for the nine months ended September 30, 2013 was $0.21 as compared to a diluted net loss per share of $1.07 for the same period of 2012.
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require "spec_helper"

describe Ability do
  subject { ability }
  let(:ability) { Ability.new(user) }
  let(:user) { nil }

  context "guest user views a profile" do
    it { should be_able_to(:read, Profile) }
    it { should be_able_to(:read, ActsAsTaggableOn::Tag) }
    it { should_not be_able_to(:read_private_tags, nil) }
    it { should_not be_able_to(:read_private_gists, nil) }
    it { should_not be_able_to(:refresh_gists, nil) }
    it { should_not be_able_to(:edit_gist, nil) }
  end

  context "user views their profile" do
    let(:user) { FactoryGirl.create(:user) }
    let(:gist) { FactoryGirl.create(:gist, profile: user.profile) }
    it { should be_able_to(:read_private_tags, user.profile) }
    it { should be_able_to(:read_private_gists, user.profile) }
    it { should be_able_to(:refresh_gists, user.profile) }
    it { should be_able_to(:edit_gist, gist) }
  end

  context "user views another users profile" do
    let(:user) { FactoryGirl.create(:user) }
    let(:another_user) { FactoryGirl.create(:user) }
    let(:gist) { FactoryGirl.create(:gist, profile: another_user.profile) }
    it { should_not be_able_to(:read_private_tags, another_user.profile) }
    it { should_not be_able_to(:read_private_gists, another_user.profile) }
    it { should_not be_able_to(:refresh_gists, another_user.profile) }
    it { should_not be_able_to(:edit_gist, gist) }
  end
end

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