Stephen Grummon is a scholar-in-residence at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, on leave from the State Department's Policy Planning Staff. The opinions expressed here are solely his own.
What should Russia's relations be with the Middle East? Ideas emanating from this debate are varied, and include the extremist arguments of Vladimir Zhirinovsky.1 The following two articles by Deputy Foreign Minister Victor Posuvalyuk, which appeared in Arabic in the London-based daily al-Hayat, focus on Russian policy toward the Persian Gulf. They probably represent the best public articulation to date of official Russian thinking on this subject.
Posuvalyuk is a sophisticated, cosmopolitan diplomat who has enjoyed a meteoric rise in career in recent years. He was appointed as the then-Soviet Union's first ambassador to Oman in 1988 and moved on to Baghdad as ambassador in 1990, assuming a low profile during the Kuwait war. Following the war, he returned to Moscow to become the head of the Middle East bureau of the Russian Foreign Ministry (the equivalent of an assistant secretary in the State Department). In November 1994, he was elevated to deputy foreign minister. His views are not those of a voice crying in the wilderness; on the contrary, his articles should be treated as important statements by a highly qualified, perceptive, and senior Russian official.
Posuvalyuk's first article serves as a retrospective and prospective analysis. Retrospectively, he explains the Russian response to Saddam Husayn's troop mobilization along the Kuwaiti border in October 1994. Prospectively, he provides a statement of purpose for Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin's late-November 1994 visit to Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman. The second article, published after that visit, summarizes Posuvalyuk's perception of the accomplishments of Chernomyrdin's visit and reiterates key themes of the first essay.
The two articles have, however, a broader importance than to explain the transitory events of late 1994. They are part of a process of sketching out Russia's new, post-coalition policy in the Persian Gulf. How best can the country's interests be buttressed and protected? In effect, the articles are op-ed pieces, not finished policy papers with refined policy positions and operational detail. Moreover, Posuvalyuk does not address important aspects of Russia's Gulf strategy, such as policy toward Iran.
* Russia is a great power with great power interests in this vital region. It is developing political, economic, and strategic policies for the Gulf.
* Moscow wants to be a guarantor of a future Persian Gulf security system, which would include Iraq (and therefore, given his staying power, Saddam Husayn).
* Russia is uniquely placed to provide valuable political and diplomatic services to stabilize the region and defuse tensions. Indeed, this is how Posuvalyuk interprets the Kremlin's diplomacy to help prevent Iraqi aggression against Kuwait in October and its role in getting Saddam to recognize Kuwait formally.
* Moscow is building for the future, fully achieving great power status in all respects.
* Russian diplomacy in the Gulf should be seen as serious.
Two factors account for a more assertive Russian policy in the Persian Gulf. One has to do with the reestablishment of Russia as a great power. The other involves a sense that the "near abroad" (republics of the former Soviet Union other than Russia) directly affects Russian stability and security; the Middle East, in other words, can affect the Caucasus and Central Asia, and through them Russia itself.
Is Moscow going to challenge the predominant U.S. security position in the Gulf? That is unlikely, at least for the foreseeable future. But the Russians are less willing to accept the post-Gulf War policy framework for the region developed and sustained by the United States, which seeks to isolate and contain Iraq and Iran and promote close U.S. bilateral security and commercial ties with the other Gulf states. Increasingly, that approach is seen by Moscow as serving only U.S. interests.
Americans can expect a much more independent and determined Russian policy in the Gulf in the period ahead. Indeed, this is already occurring, for example on policy toward sanctions on Iraq and toward the Russian-Iranian military relationship. That Moscow has better relations than Washington with the two powers of the Persian Gulf, Iraq and Iran, could be a source of future worries. Finally, in terms of the way the United States organizes itself bureaucratically to deal with Russia and its southern neighbors, Russian policy in the Caucasus and Central Asia, in the Gulf, and, more broadly, in the west Indian Ocean basin will need to be viewed as a single unit of analysis. That is to say, Russian policy in the Gulf is not strictly a Middle Eastern policy issue, and Russian policy in the Caucasus and Central Asia is not strictly an extension of European security issues.
The first article was published in al-Hayat on November 13, 1994, and the second in the same paper on December 13, 1994. We rely on an original translation by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service for the first, and Mideast Mirror (December 13, 1994) for the second, both published here with permission.
I think that Iraq's recent step in recognizing Kuwait and its sovereignty over its territory sums up the purpose of this article, which I have written to explain the initiative we undertook during the recent Gulf crisis.
The move to recognize, however, remains part of a wider process, as I understand it. I think that the emotional storm raised around the Gulf crisis, caused by Iraq's maneuvers in the south near the Kuwaiti borders, has now calmed down. Therefore, a possibility and need arises for a calm discussion on what has happened and what could have happened, and on the drama that went on behind the new scene, a drama that has not ended yet and that began with Iraq's occupation of Kuwait in August 1990.
Russia's actions, particularly the visits paid to Iraq by First Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov and Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev, have caused many sharp reactions. There were contradictory reactions, including many positive ones. There were also hasty and even nervous comments and occasional criticisms. I also heard voices asking: How could Russia present its own initiative? I am confident that these transient shadows and scenes have generally become something of the past, and instead of misunderstanding, efforts have again been made for interaction and cooperation. I should note that during his tour, the Russian foreign minister was in constant touch with his American counterpart and the foreign ministers of Britain, France, China, and other large countries.
Let me begin with Iraq's maneuvers. Russia condemned them and clearly said in a statement it issued that "the language of ultimatums addressed to Kuwait and other states is rejected."
I will now move on to the motives of Moscow's political course in those days. These motives were sometimes misinterpreted in a way that distorted the truth and was inappropriate in essence. The most common misinterpretation was one that claimed that Moscow's only concern was to get back from Baghdad debts estimated at a few billion [no currency specified] as soon as possible. These billions were being cited in one article after another and constituted the main theme of commentaries and commentators. They said that Kozyrev went to Baghdad motivated by a desire to obtain all these billions as soon as possible.
I think, this was a superficial assumption regarding the motives that prompted the Russian leadership and the minister himself to undertake this extremely complex tour. The matter was much more delicate and sensitive. Russia is a big power that shoulders a responsibility for security in this volatile and geographically close area. It is not a remote area that makes it possible for us to disregard the political games that take place in it. It is an area close to our southern borders. The effects of what happens there are clearly felt in our political life, including our domestic life. Therefore, our primary task was to safeguard security by shifting the efforts to the political sphere. I will go further and say that during our long talks in Baghdad, we did not discuss the debts issue, because more burning issues that demanded an immediate solution were on the agenda.
Naturally, Iraq's debt to Russia is a matter of national interest. We are not disregarding it. We will try to ensure the necessary conditions to guarantee that Russia is paid back. However, this is not our primary motive right now. The main motive is to ensure security and stability. The existence of a permanent smoldering or burning fire near our borders is damaging to us.
The superficiality in reading our motives appears also in the light of the establishment and development of relations between Russia and the Gulf states as a counterbalance to the development of relations with Iraq and the repayment of the debts at some stage after the sanctions. I note here that these relations are producing tangible material results now. I would like to note in particular that Moscow is currently making comprehensive and detailed preparations for the tour Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin will make to the Gulf soon. In other words, we have something on this axis that we are proud of and do not want to lose. Still, I do not want one axis to conflict with the other. If we talk about the future, Russia is a vast country, and hence its interest in maintaining an open-door policy toward the promising and rich Gulf area. . . .
A question is often asked, as an innuendo to Russia: Do you trust Iraq when you carry out your policy, and what are your justifications? I think the way the question is worded is not sound. Confidence in politics is something that has a utopian sense, unless it is backed by practical measures like those laid down and implemented in Europe within the framework of the Conference on Security and Cooperation.
Following the known events, the U.N. Security Council's resolutions have placed Iraq under extremely severe restriction, in which it is still confined. The Security Council has forced Iraq to consistently implement the series of resolutions, including those pertaining to the liquidation of military programs, the weapons of mass destruction, missiles, and so forth. In this sense, I think that long-term monitoring is an effective and reliable means of supervision, particularly as it would take place against the background of extensive work conducted in the past years by highly qualified U.N. experts, using the most modern technology. In addition to monitoring, pressure must be exerted on Baghdad (and Russia was among the first to exert such pressure) to recognize Kuwait's independence and international borders.
In all this, Russia has not talked about an immediate elimination of the sanctions. There has been an unintentional mistake or a distortion of concepts in this regard. Russia has noted the need to begin implementing a monitoring system. (I emphasize here that this system is not a gift to Iraq, but a harsh restrictive measure and one of the methods to carefully monitor all the provisions of the U.N. Security Council resolutions). In other words, we are not proposing to end the sanctions, but to begin a test period. When this period ends and after Rolf Ekeus' U.N. commission determines that Baghdad has fully and honestly implemented the terms of resolutions, the U.N. Security Council can then start discussing the question of ending the oil embargo - not all the sanctions. In other words, the distance is still not small.
I would like to note that Kozyrev and his first deputy held extensive talks regarding the missing Kuwaiti citizens. I participated in talks held in Moscow with a Kuwaiti delegation that included persons searching for their relatives. A member of the delegation had lost two of his brothers. I thought then that had I, God forbid, lost two brothers, I would leave everything and try to find them.
On our part, we are showing extreme interest in this area on all levels, including security and defense. Relations on the security level are not shaped all at once. This field is very sensitive. In its capacity as the closest neighbor, a big maritime state, and a permanent U.N. Security Council member, Russia is increasingly interested in becoming one of the guarantors of security and stability in the Gulf area. Incidentally, I will say that looking to the future, Iraq will be one of the most important components of this system. . . .
Generally, I would like to say frankly that there are people who are trying to exploit the wave of events around Iraq to instill doubt in the Gulf states about Moscow's policy. I do not think that they have succeeded. Kozyrev's tour of the three Gulf states and his talks with their leaders convinced me that mutual confidence and good relations between Russian and the Gulf states are continuously growing. As they say, the caravan is moving on.
There have been varying interpretations of Prime Minister Chernomyrdin's tour of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Oman. This was true even before the tour started.
The most ardent of the interpreters were those who tried to sell the assumption that the Russian official's aim was to ask for money and sell weapons. Those who considered themselves more composed said the tour was purely economic in nature. All those assumptions, which attribute the tour to purely pragmatic motives, have behind them a desire to belittle the political aspect of the visit.
It is no coincidence that the foreign media gave the visit, in my view, less importance than it deserves. As a general rule, every Russian move that has a sober political aspect and constitutes a qualitative move forward is ignored by the media, which, after some time, return to their old tune about Russia being weak in the Middle East. I personally have grown accustomed to this and am no longer surprised by it, especially since it does not detract from the importance of Chernomyrdin's visit, as evidenced, among many other things, by intense interest shown by the foreign ambassadors in the four countries I visited as a member of the delegation accompanying Chernomyrdin and by the many questions they posed.
The fact is the tour was very important.
Let us start with the fact that it was the first visit by a Russian prime minister to an Arab state.
The second point is that the Russian delegation was broadly representative. Its political wing included the speakers of the two houses of parliament, the presidents of the republics of Bashkiria and Kabardina-Balkaria, Deputy Prime Minister Oleg Davidoff, two ministers, and military officers.
The visit was political before anything else, and this became clear from the talks with the Saudi monarch, the emir of Kuwait, the sultan of Oman, and the leaders of the UAE.
The basis of the political dialogue was Moscow's appreciation of the importance of the Gulf community and a recognition on the part of our Gulf partners of Russia's special importance to them.
I will not repeat what I wrote in al-Hayat before [on November 13, 1994] about the importance of Russia and its location. I will only say that I came out of the talks with a new, clear feeling that the Gulf Arabs have begun to shake off the preconceived ideas that they tried to impose on them, the gist of which is that Russia has lost its weight and status and it is no longer useful to deal with it. The Arabs have begun to realize that this propaganda (I find no other name for it) is not aimed against Russia so much as against the interests of the Arabs themselves.
Let us start with politics. There was a great hullabaloo about a drop in Russia's standing. But it was Moscow that convinced Iraq to take a decision that I believe was historic regarding the recognition of Kuwait. One can only imagine the adulation and tributes that would have been dished out by the media had this been done by another party. There was also a big uproar about the collapse of the Russian defense industry, but international experts soon bore witness that the Russian planes and tanks were no worse than others, and some of them were better. In civilian industries, Russian science has come up with inventions that are being adopted--indeed there are attempts to steal them by many parties.
In our negotiations in the Gulf, we heard a tone that differed completely from the above said claims, and we felt there was an awareness that Russia has begun to climb out of its economic nadir and is showing signs of stability emerging with some difficulty.
I would note that the agenda of the political dialogue between Russia and the Gulf states is becoming broader and deeper on the level of confidence and trust. Obviously, there are several issues on which there is no identity of views, like the situation in Bosnia, although I would not give our differences a dramatic touch even on this point. The negotiations suggested that each party was trying to understand the other's logic and motives.
And it would be naïve to believe there is a total identity of views between Russia and the Gulf states on the Iraqi issue. I would point out that no identity of views exists between the Gulf states themselves, and the shadows of those differences were visible in the negotiations. But the important point is that Moscow's policy on Iraq has found credibility in the Gulf, along with recognition of the importance of the progress achieved and a desire to see Russian effort continue.
In this regard, the Russian side announced clearly that we are against aggression and violence, that we fully support Kuwait's sovereignty, and that we are prepared to be one of the guarantors of its security. Those pledged found genuine acceptance, and there was a clear interest in continuing contacts with Russia on this matter. The Russian foreign ministry is ready for this.
As the official in charge of the region's file, I hear more than my Russian diplomat colleagues questions and doubts about the strength of our positions in the Gulf. The Gulf tour convinced me that a fundamental point can be added to the objective fact that we started establishing relations with the states of the region only a few years ago; that we started from zero and that there were flaws and blunders (no one is perfect). The fundamental point is that someone is placing obstacles in Russia's way in the Gulf, claiming that the region is already congested and the competition there is stiff. This may be true, and some may have to pack up and make room for others--not only because Russia sincerely wants to strengthen its position in and relations with the states of the Gulf Cooperation Council but also because those states themselves are showing increasing interest in Russia.
I referred above to Russian military technology. I would add that there is dual use to every Military technology, meaning that it has a civilian aspect reflecting the highest scientific achievements. Among the civilian issues is the problem of water, which could become a source of concern or even conflict in the Middle and Near East. Russia has unique technological inventions in water desalination that have futuristic horizons into the 21st century. We felt there was great interest in this subject during the visit.
I want to make it clear that the Russian prime minister asked nothing from anyone. His visit had long-term goals. It was an invitation to long-term cooperation and to positions more appreciative of the Russian market and its export capabilities.
Naturally, the question of guarantees that would insure [the] safety [of capital] was raised. In this regard, the signing of contracts designed to instill more courage and confidence in Gulf capital took on a great deal of importance. By this I mean building a legal foundation on which to build our relations. I may concede that we are late in this, but as the Russian proverb says, "Better get there late than never." This was a vital task, as Gulf businessmen and financiers asserted in their meetings with Chernomyrdin.
Another important aspect of our relations: We don't know much about each other, and our knowledge is sometimes superficial or even negative. This is especially true if we take into account the nature of the articles being published in some media. The press is now turning the spotlight on the Russian Mafia, organized crime, smuggling, and other social ailments that do in fact exist in Russia. But few bother to write that despite all the difficulties, there is in Russia a people considered one of the most talented in the world; and the most patient and benevolent. It seems to me that Chernomyrdin was able to convey this to the leaders of the Gulf states.
There is in Russia a people considered one of the most talented in the world; and the most patient and benevolent. Prime Minister Chernomyrdin was able to convey this to the leaders of the Gulf states.
Here and there, in the press and press conferences, references have been made suggesting that there is something anti-Western in Russia's advent to the Gulf region, or even a spirit of hostility to America. This is a false impression. For seventy years, the USSR mobilized all its capabilities, which were not few, in a muscle-flexing competition with the West. Our people paid a high price for this. In other words, we have encountered that lesson and absorbed it in depth. This was one of the battlefields of the cold war, and we do not want to return to it or to the logic of confrontation.
We do, however, hope for a new political logic on our partners' part, and for a position that respects Russia's interests and needs.
1 See the excerpts from Zhirinovsky's Final Surge South, and Paul Quinn-Judge's introduction to them, in Middle East Quarterly, June 1994, pp. 87-91.
2 For an elaboration of Russian and Arab differences on investing in Russia, see the article by Mark N. Katz in this issue.
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Now, doctors and scientists say such unconventional weapons may have caused the baffling symptoms and ailments that, starting in late 2016, hit more than three dozen U.S. diplomats and their family members in Cuba and China.
Ten Canadian diplomats and their relatives in Cuba suffered similar symptoms — dubbed the "Havana Syndrome" — leading Global Affairs in April to bring home diplomats' family members from the country.
The Cuban incidents resulted in a diplomatic rupture between Havana and Washington.
The medical team who examined 21 affected American diplomats from Cuba made no mention of microwaves in its detailed report published in JAMA in March. But Douglas Smith, the study's lead author and director of the Center for Brain Injury and Repair at the University of Pennsylvania, said in a recent interview that microwaves were now considered a main suspect and that the team was increasingly sure the diplomats had suffered brain injury.
Members of JASON, a secretive group of elite scientists that helps the U.S. federal government assess new threats to national security, say it has been scrutinizing the diplomatic mystery this summer and weighing possible explanations, including microwaves.
While radio broadcasting can employ waves 1.6 kilometres or more in length, microwaves range in size from roughly 30 centimetres to less than two centimetres. They are seen as harmless in such everyday uses as microwaving foods. But their diminutive size also enables tight focusing, as when dish antennas turn disorganized rays into concentrated beams.
Soviet research on microwaves for "internal sound perception," the Defense Intelligence Agency warned in 1976, showed great promise for "disrupting the behaviour patterns of military or diplomatic personnel." Washington, too, foresaw new kinds of arms: In Albuquerque, N.M., Air Force scientists sought to beam comprehensible speech into the heads of adversaries.
The basic weapon might look like a satellite dish. In theory, such a device might be hand-held or mounted in a van, car, boat or helicopter. Microwave arms are seen as typically working over relatively short distances — across the length of a few rooms or blocks. High-powered ones might be able to fire beams for several miles.
In January, the spooky impact of microwaves on the human brain never came up during an open Senate hearing on the mysterious crisis at the U.S. Embassy in Havana. But in a scientific paper that same month, James C. Lin of the University of Illinois, a leading investigator of the Frey effect, described the diplomatic ills as plausibly arising from microwave beams.
In February, ProPublica in a lengthy investigation mentioned that federal investigators were weighing the microwave theory. Separately, it told of an intriguing find. The wife of a member of the embassy staff, it reported, had looked outside her home after hearing the disturbing sounds and seen a van speeding away. A dish antenna could fit easily into a small van.
In May, reports emerged that U.S. diplomats in China had suffered similar traumas. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called the medical details of the two groups "very similar" and "entirely consistent" with one another. By late June, the State Department had evacuated at least 11 Americans from China.
For his part, Frey says he doubts the case will be solved any time soon. The novelty of the crisis, its sporadic nature and the foreign setting made it hard for federal investigators to gather clues and draw conclusions, he said, much less file charges.


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Virginia Senate Blocks Northam's Gun Control Legislation
Chip Somodevilla / Getty ImagesThousands of gun rights advocates gather near the state Capitol in Richmond, Virginia, for a rally Jan. 20, 2020. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)
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Published February 4, 2020 at 2:03pm
The Virginia Senate voted to block one of Democrat Gov. Ralph Northam's top gun control bills on Monday, and other legislation faces an uncertain future.
"The Senate Judiciary Committee voted against a bill that would make it a felony to 'recklessly leave a loaded, unsecured firearm' in a way that endangers a minor," The Associated Press reported.
"This bill will keep children safe from loaded, unsecured firearms. Like Gov. Northam's other commonsense gun safety measures, it is something that everyone — including responsible gun owners — should support," Northam spokeswoman Alena Yarmosky said.
Two Democrats — Sens. Creigh Deeds and Chap Petersen — joined with Republicans to vote the measure down, citing concerns the bill could unfairly punish law-abiding gun owners.
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The bill is one of eight that Northam is seeking to push through the newly Democrat-controlled legislature.
"Lawmakers have already signaled that at least one other Northam-backed gun-control bill — a ban on so-called assault weapons like the popular AR-15-syle rifles — may not pass," the AP reported.
Some of the governor's other proposals have passed both chambers of the legislature.
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The latter would allow "any attorney for the Commonwealth or any law-enforcement officer" to apply for a judge's order to "prohibit a person who poses a substantial risk of injury to himself or others from purchasing, possessing, or transporting a firearm."
Differences between the Senate and House of Delegates versions must be ironed out in the weeks ahead before they can go to Northam's desk to be signed into law.
Last month, President Donald Trump said Democrats in Virginia are "working hard" to take away residents' Second Amendment rights as a massive anti-gun-control rally took place in the state capital of Richmond.
Northam declared a state of emergency ahead of the Jan. 20 rally, banning firearms inside a security perimeter around the state Capitol.
Tens of thousands of gun rights advocates gathered without incident.
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Philip Van Cleave, president of the Virginia Citizens Defense League and organizer of the rally, told USA Today what Northam and Democrat legislators propose threatens Virginians' Second Amendment rights.
"The governor and leadership in the Democratic Party have declared war on law-abiding gun owners, and they're tired of it," Van Cleave said. "It's basically people saying we're fed up. We've had enough.
"The governor has touched the third rail. He has motivated people to drive across the state and from other states to come protect our rights."
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Coughing in dogs can sometimes occur every so often, for long periods at a time or can come and go in bouts.
Kennel Cough – your dog will have a dry, powerful and hacking cough with possible sneezing, eye discharge and a runny nose present.
Bronchitis – your dog will have a nagging dry cough that is aggravated by exercise or movement, they may also retch and foamy saliva can be present.
Distemper – your dog will have a dry cough with thick eye and nasal discharge.
Parasites – your dog may develop a cough as the parasites work their way into the respiratory tract.
Fungal Infection – your dog may sometimes develop a cough with a fungal infection too.
Heart Disease and Heart Failure – your dog develops a prolonged cough that occurs after exercise and worsens at night.
Heartworm – your dog develops a cough as an advanced stage of heartworm.
Collapsing Trachea – your dog will have a cough that sounds like a honk due to inflammation in the respiratory tract.
Allergies – your dog may have inhaled an irritant that he has an allergy to and this can cause a moist cough.
Auto Immune Disease – your dog may express the same cough as a dog would do with an allergy cough, a moist cough, due to the increased production of mucus.
Pneumonia – your dog will have a cough and possibly nasal discharge.
Collar is too tight – your dog may need his collar loosening as it could be putting pressure on his respiratory tract.
So it is also important to look out for the vital signs that accompany coughing as well as symptoms not to be ignored such as; fever, sickness, diarrhoea, breathing difficulties and lethargy. If your dog has just started coughing or if you have noticed they have been coughing for a few days, the best thing is to take them to the vet for a check-up, better to be safe than sorry, as coughing in dogs should never be left. A lot of the coughing symptoms are similar for non serious and serious conditions so it is hard to make a firm diagnosis without seeing a vet.


According to billionaire philanthropist and former hedge-fund manager George Soros institutions who are heavily invested in hedge funds should expect less-than-optimal performance, partly because managers take relatively high fees.
"Since hedge funds are now a dominant force in the market, they can't, as a group, outperform the market," Soros said in an interview from the Davos World Economic Forum. Soros said that funds' fees, which can be as much as 2 percent of assets and 20 percent of profits, take big bites out of results.
Soros' hedge fund was in operation until 2011. At that time Soros turned his New York-based Soros Management Fund LLC into a family office. Today that office overseas $24 billion. Soros' average returns were about 20 percent per year at the firm and with the firm's predecessor.
Another factor constraining the performance of hedge funds is the risk aversion of most managers and investors.


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<?php
namespace Cz\Framework\Objects;
use Cz\Framework\Exceptions;

abstract class ObjectBase
{
	/**
	 * @var  array
	 */
	private $container = array();

	/**
	 * Counts object values that were set.
	 *
	 * @return  integer
	 */
	public function count()
	{
		return count($this->container);
	}

	/**
	 * Returns the raw array from the object.
	 *
	 * @return  array
	 */
	public function toArray()
	{
		return $this->container;
	}

	/**
	 * Generic "issetter" method that checks whether a specific key is set in the
	 * object. A custom issetter method will be called, if exists for the key.
	 *
	 * @param   string  $key
	 * @return  boolean
	 */
	public function has($key)
	{
		$customIssetter = $this->_getMethodName(__FUNCTION__, $key);
		if (method_exists($this, $customIssetter))
		{
			return $this->$customIssetter();
		}
		return $this->_has($key);
	}

	/**
	 * Generic getter method. A custom getter method will be called, if exists
	 * for the key.
	 *
	 * Calls actual getter implementations either with or without default value,
	 * based on number of arguments passed to the generic getter.
	 *
	 * @param   string  $key
	 * @param   mixed   $default  (optional)
	 * @return  mixed
	 */
	public function get($key, $default = NULL)
	{
		$customGetter = $this->_getMethodName(__FUNCTION__, $key);
		if (method_exists($this, $customGetter))
		{
			return func_num_args() > 1
				? $this->$customGetter($default)
				: $this->$customGetter();
		}
		return func_num_args() > 1
			? $this->_get($key, $default)
			: $this->_get($key);
	}

	/**
	 * Generic setter method. A custom setter method will be called, if exists
	 * for the key. If an array is passed as the first and only argument, each
	 * of its keys is being set individually.
	 *
	 * @param   string  $key
	 * @param   mixed   $value  (optional)
	 * @return  $this
	 */
	public function set($key, $value = NULL)
	{
		if (func_num_args() === 1 AND (is_array($key) OR $key instanceof \Traversable))
		{
			return $this->_setMultiple($key);
		}
		$customSetter = $this->_getMethodName(__FUNCTION__, $key);
		if (method_exists($this, $customSetter))
		{
			return $this->$customSetter($value);
		}
		return $this->_set($key, $value);
	}

	/**
	 * Helper method to set multiple values, one by one, from the argument, which is
	 * array or Traversable object.
	 *
	 * @param   array|\Traversable  $values
	 * @return  $this
	 */
	private function _setMultiple($values)
	{
		foreach ($values as $key => $value)
		{
			$this->set($key, $value);
		}
		return $this;
	}

	/**
	 * Generic "unsetter" method. A custom unsetter method will be called, if exists
	 * for the key. If no argument passed, erases all the values.
	 *
	 * @param   string  $key  (optional)
	 * @return  $this
	 */
	public function erase($key = NULL)
	{
		if (func_num_args() === 0)
		{
			return $this->clear();
		}
		$customUnsetter = $this->_getMethodName(__FUNCTION__, $key);
		if (method_exists($this, $customUnsetter))
		{
			return $this->$customUnsetter();
		}
		return $this->_erase($key);
	}

	/**
	 * Alias method for calling `erase()` method without arguments.
	 *
	 * @return  $this
	 */
	public function clear()
	{
		foreach (array_keys($this->container) as $key)
		{
			$this->erase($key);
		}
		return $this;
	}

	/**
	 * The "actual" issetter method. Intended to be called by the public generic issetter
	 * or the custom methods.
	 *
	 * @param   string  $key
	 * @return  boolean
	 */
	protected function _has($key)
	{
		return isset($this->container[$key]);
	}

	/**
	 * The "actual" getter method. Intended to be called by the public generic getter or
	 * the custom methods.
	 *
	 * @param   string  $key
	 * @param   mixed   $default
	 * @return  mixed
	 */
	protected function _get($key, $default = NULL)
	{
		if (isset($this->container[$key]))
		{
			return $this->container[$key];
		}
		elseif (func_num_args() > 1)
		{
			return $default;
		}
		throw new Exceptions\InvalidArgumentException('Key '.$key.' not exists.');
	}

	/**
	 * The "actual" setter method. Intended to be called by the public generic setter or
	 * the custom methods.
	 *
	 * @param   string  $key
	 * @param   mixed   $value
	 * @reutrn  $this
	 */
	protected function _set($key, $value)
	{
		$this->container[$key] = $value;
		return $this;
	}

	/**
	 * The "actual" unsetter method. Intended to be called by the public generic unsetter
	 * or the custom methods.
	 *
	 * @param   string  $key
	 * @return  $this
	 */
	protected function _erase($key)
	{
		unset($this->container[$key]);
		return $this;
	}

	/**
	 * Replaces all values (for internal use, for example from constructor).
	 *
	 * @param   array  $values
	 * @return  $this
	 */
	protected function _initialize($values)
	{
		$this->container = $values;
		return $this;
	}

	/**
	 * Returns the name of a custom access method, for example:
	 *
	 *     // Returns 'getSomething'
	 *     $this->_getMethodName('get', 'something');
	 *
	 * Child classes may override this method or use a trait that will do it using a naming
	 * convention. This is a complementary method to `_getAccessParameters()`, which does the
	 * reverse thing.
	 *
	 * @param   string  $type
	 * @param   string  $name
	 * @return  string
	 */
	abstract protected function _getMethodName($type, $name);

	/**
	 * Returns access type and object key from the custom access method name, for example:
	 *
	 *     // Returns ['get', 'something']
	 *     $this->_getAccessParameters('getSomething');
	 *
	 * Child classes may override this method or use a trait that will do it using a naming
	 * convention. This is a complementary method to `_getMethodName()`, which does the
	 * reverse thing.
	 *
	 * @param   string  $method
	 * @return  array
	 */
	abstract protected function _getAccessParameters($method);
}

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Next time you see your child doing something that you don't like, whisper to yourself: "Be a guide, not a guard."
"Be a guide, not a guard" perfectly describes the kinds of parenting behaviors that create happy and responsible children. It's a term I learned at a recent training session focused on reducing controlling parenting behaviors.
This is parenting like a guard. It is inflexible, rules-based parenting that requires punishment when a child doesn't behave. The most anti-social children are often parented in this way. They don't care about the meaning of the rules set; instead they decide whether to comply based on whether they will get hurt. Controlling parenting practices are also correlated to poor mental health in children and youth.
When we parent like a guard we are trying to stop behavior through control and dominance. In an attempt to get rid of the behaviors we don't like, we use consequences. A guard expects trouble and treats people as such. A guard does not care whether you feel sad, confused or don't feel like you belong. A guard only cares if you comply. As a guard we can't be flexible and this means if a child doesn't comply, regardless of the reason, our only option is to escalate the consequences until they do. Even if this means excluding them from the very systems we want them to belong to.
When we parent as a guide we work to encourage behaviors we want to see in our children. We help children belong in our world and all the systems that come with that. We use care and compassion in our parenting practices. When we see unwanted behavior that cannot work or is unacceptable in our systems, we look at what steps we can take to help that child learn to fit better in our world. We don't use harsh consequences that will exclude the child from the system; instead we see their difficulty as a skill deficit. We don't use escalating consequences; instead we look for ways for children to want to be part of the system and to want to please us.
As guides, we help children develop internal motivation to do what is right because it's right, rather than to do what is right to avoid being punished. We want our children to comply because they want to be part of our community, they want to help us and because they understand the value of their chosen behavior.
1. See your child's perspective.
Being able to hold your child's perspective is essential to being a guide. It helps parents understand how best to help their child. It helps us identify that difficult behaviors are often related to emotions or skills deficits. This doesn't mean we accept all behaviors as okay, it means that we understand that there is a meaning to whatever behavior we are seeing.
2. Encourage behavior through praise and noticing.
Children love receiving genuine praise and being noticed. If they feel you genuinely care about them rather than that you are trying to control their behavior, they are more motivated to work for you. Children are less receptive to praise that functions to control behavior such as "aren't you a good boy for sitting up straight today?" A genuine, "I can really see you are listening, and that makes me feel good," is more effective.
Show your child what matters through the way you live. If you want to raise a kind and responsible child, lead by modeling kind and responsible behavior. Notice when your child is kind and responsible and praise the behavior.
4. Be flexible where possible.
Give your child opportunities to choose. Avoid controlling choices unless there is a good reason not to offer a choice such as safety or legality. Guides raise kids who choose to be responsible. Guards raise kids who conform to avoid a consequence.
5. Promote intrinsic goals over extrinsic goals.
Encourage your child to do things for personal growth, for health, to create meaningful relationships and contribute to their community as opposed to doing things to achieve financial success, popularity, power or for their image. People with intrinsic goals are happier and engage in more pro-social behavior.


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Kavanaugh's view on religious school funding not a tipping point
By Noah Feldman
President Donald Trump shakes hands with Judge Brett Kavanaugh, his Supreme Court nominee, July 9 in the East Room of the White House. (Alex Brandon / AP File Photo)
The latest concern from liberals about the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court is that he might vote to strike down state constitutional provisions and laws that bar direct funding to religious schools.
It's probably accurate, but the issue is more complicated than you might think. The state provisions can be traced in part to anti-Catholic prejudice going back 150 years or more. Under current Supreme Court doctrine, these provisions are already vulnerable to being overturned as religious discrimination — whether Kavanaugh is confirmed or not.
Thirty-eight state constitutions have provisions known as "Blaine amendments" or baby Blaines. Others have analogous legislation. The provisions typically specify that no state money shall be disbursed to "sectarian" institutions, including schools.
The Blaine in question is James G. Blaine, whom you might vaguely remember (if at all) from the rhyming campaign slogan against him when he ran for president as the Republican nominee in 1884: "Blaine, Blaine, James G. Blaine, Continental liar from the state of Maine."
The original Blaine amendment was proposed in 1875 — to the U.S. Constitution, not the states. It would have applied the federal establishment and free exercise clauses to the states, and it would have said that no "money raised by taxation in any State for the support of public schools … shall ever be under the control of any religious sect ... [nor] divided between religious sects or denominations."
The word "sect" in the amendment was understood by all at the time to refer primarily to the Catholic Church.
The amendment's aims were purely political. No state actively funded Catholic schools. The idea was simply to create an electoral wedge issue for Democrats in the 1876 presidential race.
Most U.S. Catholics were Democrats in the 19th century. So the Democratic Party would be under pressure to reject the amendment. Yet the party also needed Protestant votes to win a national race. And opposing the amendment would make Democrats vulnerable to the charge of catering to papal authority.
This ploy stood to work simply because of anti-Catholic bias. This prejudice was rife in Protestant America, a direct inheritance of British Protestant attitudes dating back to the Reformation and the struggles in which both Protestants and Catholics were martyred as the government changed denominations.
The Republicans even had some evidence that the wedge would do its work. A similar state initiative in Ohio had helped Republicans win the statehouse and elect Rutherford B. Hayes governor. Emulating Ohio, President Ulysses S. Grant, contemplating a run for an unprecedented third term in office, had suggested a national amendment in a speech. Blaine was just taking Grant's guidance.
The initiative worked. The Senate debates over the Blaine amendment produced some of the nastiest anti-Catholic invective ever to grace the pages of the Congressional Record.
The amendment failed, as it was always expected to do. But in the 1876 election, the parties deadlocked, and Hayes, this time the Republican nominee for president, emerged as the winner after complex negotiations.
Once the election was over, states started adopting their own versions of Blaine amendments. And it didn't end with a single wave. As territories applied for statehood, they incorporated Blaine provisions in their proposed constitutions to be approved by Congress. Thus, states kept adopting baby Blaines well into the 20th century, even as anti-Catholicism otherwise faded.
Noah Feldman, a Bloomberg View columnist. (BLOOMBERG NEWS / CONTRIBUTED PHOTO)
What is to be done about this shameful history?
On the one hand, it could be argued that the prejudice and animus that motivated the Blaine amendments should be irrelevant to their legal effects, because all they did in practice was preserve existing separation of government and religion — a value that went back to James Madison and the First Amendment.
In practice, it's unlikely that any state would have even considered directly funding Catholic schools in the absence of a Blaine amendment until recent decades and the rise of the school vouchers movement. I entertained something like this view 15 years ago, when I started writing about this issue.
On the other hand, much recent Supreme Court doctrine says that state laws motivated by bias violate the equal protection of the laws. Anti-religious bias has been held to violate the free exercise clause, too. Today my old view feels much harder to sustain in the light of how the case law has developed.
Seen through this lens, the Blaine amendments are almost certainly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court hasn't said so, but it also hasn't defended the Blaines. It just pretended that they don't exist, avoiding their legal implications even when it might have seemed relevant.
Kavanaugh might well provide a fifth vote to strike down the Blaine laws. But that isn't the end of the world, legally speaking. In truth, it will be hard for the court's liberals not to join such an opinion, given their own anti-bias jurisprudence, especially in cases like Trump v. Hawaii, the travel ban decision.
The end of the Blaine amendments would put the possibility of state funding for religious schools into the state legislatures. It's far from clear what would happen there. State vouchers for religious schooling have been constitutional for more than a decade, yet most states haven't adopted them. Teachers unions and some of the public is opposed. Plus, truth to be told, many Christians don't want the state to fund Muslim schools.
The same politics will likely apply to direct funding of religious schools.
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So the suspicions about Kavanaugh's future votes about the Blaine amendments are likely accurate. But that on its own isn't a good reason not to confirm him.


Qualcomm has announced a new reference design for a Snapdragon 845-powered VR headset, with the new mobile Snapdragon 845 system architecture boasting the bleeding edge tech that Qualcomm has.
The new Snapdragon 845 VR headset packs two displays that are pumping out 1024 x 1152 at a huge 120FPS, which makes Qualcomm the first to market with an SoC-powered VR headset at 120FPS, right? Comparing Qualcomm's mobile VR offering, the HTC Vive Pro packs a higher-res 1400x1600 per eye display, but at 90Hz.
Inside is the Snapdragon 845 which packs an 8-core Kryo 385 CPU, Adreno 630 graphics, dedicated Hexagon digital signal processor (DSP), Spectra 280 image signal processors (ISP) and even 3D audio support. Qualcomm says that with this mobile VR powerhouse we can expect it to drive 4 million pixels per eye.
Qualcomm gets some major brownie points for using foveated rendering with the new Snapdragon 845 VR headset, with an eye tracking working out where your eye is and then lowering the resolution to the areas that you're not directly looking at. These areas can be rendered at a lower resolution with what you're looking at rendering at a higher resolution, which both improves performance and reduces power consumption.


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LOCAL-LOVE
The Athletic Club of Columbus is Rejuvenated and Ready for Action
Rylan Lee
This story first appeared in the Fall/Winter 2018 issue of Columbus Weddings, published in June 2018.
Versatile in use but steadfast in its classic aesthetic, the newly renovated Athletic Club of Columbus is poised to host a day of memories.
The private social and athletic club—housed in a six-story Downtown building, the longevity of which earned it a place in the National Registry of Historic Places—is open to nonmembers who wish to host a wedding reception in its Italian-influenced, Spanish Renaissance Revival environs.
"There's always something we're looking to improve," says Lisa Sullivan, events manager for the ACC. In May, the club wrapped up its latest round of renovations of the 100-plus-year-old building, which improved some of the members-only commodities as well as the first floor space that greets the venue's visitors.
While most of the ACC's facilities and restaurants are exclusive to members, the building also houses event spaces on its second floor that are available to everyone—meaning a wedding is the perfect excuse to enjoy the luxurious aesthetic of the typically exclusive club.
In fact, the ACC hosts around 50 weddings each year thanks to a versatile ballroom space.
"[The ballroom] can divide into two spaces, so it really easily can accommodate ceremonies and receptions," explains Sullivan.
The large, L-shaped ballroom, ideal for parties of around 250, features a carpeted dining section and a hardwood lounge space, complete with a picturesque fireplace, that's perfect for post-dinner dancing.
The ACC also offers on-site catering, says Sullivan.
Along with the main ballroom, there are six smaller "parlor" rooms on the second floor that wedding parties can use. They can fill a variety of wedding-day needs, from a kids' entertainment space to a bridal party room to a space for vendors to eat.
For couples wanting to take their big day to the next level, the possibilities for entertaining extend beyond the second-floor ballrooms. The big crowd-pleaser? "The basement floor," says Sullivan, which is brimming with after-party potential.
"It's got the bowling alley, it has a billiards table and it has the ping-pong table," Sullivan says. There you can jam out to your favorite tunes either through the house system—you can use the club's Spotify or simply hook up your own phone—and enjoy personal slideshows or classic movies on the two large screens that drop down over the bowling lanes. And don't pass on the full-service bar, which can serve drinks and delectable late-night snacks to quell stomach rumblings.
Several floors above, couples and some of their guests have overnight options as well.
"Our top floor has eight hotel rooms: four regular rooms and four suites," says Sullivan. The newlyweds receive a complimentary room for the night of the wedding, but couples also can rent out rooms to get ready before the wedding or to put up other guests that night.
With a variety of spaces, the Athletic Club of Columbus offers not only a glamorous backdrop for your wedding day, but also the ability to make the day uniquely yours.
"There's nothing like it in the city," says Sullivan.


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Halloween decorations and also Halloween video games will definitely trigger all type of Halloween appears and also pictures that will definitely invoke hauntingly frightful enjoyable for any Halloween themed gathering. Halloween is actually a night for little bit of evil spirits and also little Halloween witches ahead out of the woodwork. By adding some jack-o'-lanterns that are uniquely carved to make that Halloween scary impact for your deck and making use of troubled home props to enhance your home, you may generate an excellent Halloween event program. Use as low as you wish or even formulate a number of wide arrays of Halloween crafts, video games and also a great quantity of Halloween activities that will keep the younger at heart entertained for the evening. Through opting for the correct impacts for your Halloween gathering you may have a wonderful collection of Halloween props. Halloween lightings will be a good option for your outdoor Halloween designs along with the Halloween gravestone as well as crawlers internet with a variety of especially created Halloween pumpkins with lightings in all of them on your front porch.
Halloween decors that you may make use of for your house - Halloween decors will certainly participate in the absolute most necessary function for your Halloween party. To make the Halloween motif that you are looking for, you the lot, must decide on what type of Halloween setups that you yearn for. There are actually sizable options of Halloween props offered when trying to develop a sinsiter scene facing your property. You can possess an assortment of terrible scary Halloween prop ornaments triumphant: as an example you could develop easy wonderful beasts spiders may be quickly crafted along with foam spheres dark spray coating and also chenille stems. Or even you could possibly likewise generate a home window Internet by utilizing black lace web links and anecdote that possess a key weaving pattern that will certainly permit an incorporated shade effect for an excellent Halloween Window. Through dangling the scary crawlers coming from the roofline are going to provide you a bloodcurdling outdoor Halloween ornament that people will certainly like.
Ideas for your outdoor Halloween ornament tips - By using outdoor Halloween decors you are going to have the capacity to craft your front lawn and change it into one of the most terrible and threatening haunted residence of scaries. If you have the possibility of having a big backyard you could put together a weak graveyard fencing with some Halloween monuments alongside a few other Halloween haunted props. Accomplishing this Halloween plan you might possess hovering ghost skeletal systems or crawler internet cobwebs in the divisions of the plants for even more of a scary impact. If you live in an apartment or a house you might opt for ornaments like a terrifying Halloween sign or even maybe many little bit of illuminations that appear like mini orange pumpkins around your windows and doors.
What sort of in the house Halloween suggestions can I utilize? - If your patrons have actually gotten past your grim outdoor Halloween decorations you need to choose concerning within your house as well as what type of Halloween decors you intend to create the feel of your brand-new possessed residence. You might desire ghosts, witches, demons or possibly various other weird critters that are actually floating about along with your haunted home props. Carry out not think about investing excessive time enhancing inside considering that you may effortlessly craft some basic Halloween screens for your decors around the house alongside some scary Halloween impacts outdoed with some frightfully sampling Halloween treats. Along with all this incorporated you will definitely have created the best haunted house party that you may visualize. By utilizing the effect of various howling lighting fixtures like candle lights, orange indoor Halloween lightings, or even dark lighting fixtures or orange light bulbs in lights alongside some added results of cobwebs you can easily make any sort of scary and horrifying effect to any kind of space theme. Consider choosing the Halloween ornaments for your exterior theme the age of your group. Little ones or even grown-up visitors will certainly aid you choose which Halloween decorations you will decide on. You desire to create this enjoyable and also not full of headaches for faint of soul.
What sort of Halloween produced concepts can I use? - The best Halloween designeds can easily produce your Halloween gathering a shout. When preparing a Halloween gathering, activities for a little ones's Halloween event can be just like a lot enjoyable for you seeing and also for the little bit of beasts taking pleasure in the Halloween gathering. Artistic skills are a pleasure for youngsters as well as they are going to be happy to flaunt a number of their terrifying Halloween developments. A terrific concept for assembling a kids's Halloween celebration would certainly be actually to have a variety of fun Halloween produceds preplanned for them ahead of time and also not failing to remember to consider an easy tidy up for you later on. Bear in mind the age of the guests when you are actually considering your Halloween designed project, if it also challenging or even quick and easy your little bit of ghosts might resort to true beasts. In the end of all the exciting for the kids see to it your Halloween produceds products like paints, glues, markers as well as other components that are utilized will definitely be actually non-toxic, washable, as well as safe.
What sort of Halloween party games should I possess? - Extremely prominent as always are Halloween parlor game as well as not merely the youngsters are going to be actually around to look for the small awards and also incentives yet likewise the adult Halloween outfit event goers are likewise curious about having a blast and flaunt their capabilities as well as abilities. For little Halloween bogeymans you may would like to make an effort to tweak some aged holiday season beloved games in to a Halloween video game style. As an example you can take a Halloween goodie surprise as well as make a hunt like an Easter egg hunt or as opposed to pinning the rear on the donkey, make an effort rather affixing the mouth on a Halloween pumpkin. By possessing the more mature youngsters and grownups participating in an activity of Halloween deceptions and impersonating well-known scary books as well as motion pictures you can easily generate an amusing Halloween themed event. Thus perform certainly not be afraid to modify some original video games into the Halloween party games that are going to fit your Halloween visitors grows older as well as rate of interests.
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Autonetic Afterlife
Backseat Demons
Bio: Lazermortis is a full time funeral director and embalmer by day and an 80's inspired
synthwave/outrun artist by night. Hailing from Atlantic Canada, Lazer released her debut album
Backseat Demons on June 30, 2020, which has achieved over 70K streams on Spotify with her standout
track Below The Sunrise!
Her brand new EP is a marriage between her career and her passion for synthwave, exploring how artificial intelligence might perceive death and the afterlife. Autonetic Afterlife was released July 31, 2021, and is graciously funded in part by Music NB's MID Grant Program!
Concept: Autonetic Afterlife is Lazer's imagining of what an afterlife might look like to artificial intelligence. Rebirth tells the story of a rogue sentient android running for her life in a post-apocalyptic world, only to be cornered by authorities and terminated. It is then that her artificial soul is ejected from her body and thrusted into the afterlife.
Cybernetic Surfer follows with a slower and childlike pace where a lonely bot is on a contemplative stroll. The beautiful outdoors awakens a sense of emotion in it, so vividly much so it doesn't realize it's battery has reached critical failure levels. As it dies, synapses fire and cause hallucinations resembling waves of electricity until it fades away to nothingness.
Crossing Over depicts a utopian fall from grace. An artificial spirit arrives in paradise for a brief moment, and as it is judged, is sent to purgatory for sinning with sentience. It travels aimlessly until it a gate appears. The world begins to fade into flashing emergency lights as the artificial spirit finds its body attached to several wires. It re-enters and slowly begins to wake, being born again and losing its sentience in the process.
Autonetic Highway tells the story of a fast rolling android who is addicted to thrill seeking and dangerous behaviour. His carelessness while driving one night sees him crash and at the toll of the bell he succumbs to his injuries. We witness however that his soul continues to seek thrills, shredding the roads in the afterlife like a ghost trapped in a memory.
Finally, Afterlife portrays a dark vision of artificial Hell, crawling in misery and evil. The souls swirling in the murky waters of the river Styx swim endlessly, we are filled with dread and are lost in the afterlife, never to escape.
Cover Art by Sam Todhunter Art
Mixing and mastering of Crossing Over by Nick Fowler, as well as full album master and audio engineering
Video adaptation of Crossing Over by JonBob Creative who takes his own imagination and interpretation to Crossing Over, which was released September 5, 2021. See it here!
Signify Music Dark by WEN Themes


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Heterostegane circumrubrata is een vlinder uit de familie spanners (Geomteridae). De wetenschappelijke naam van deze soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1915 door Prout.

De soort komt voor in tropisch Afrika.

circumrubrata
Dier uit het Afrotropisch gebied

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Added by daniel about 2 months ago. Updated 4 days ago.
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MC@209d54173aa7: Unexpected end of PTC connection (677) from 209d54173aa7 [172.18.1.103].
MTC@209d54173aa7: Starting external command `../ttcn3-tcpdump-stop.sh MSC_Tests.TC_sgsap_reset error'.
MTC@209d54173aa7: External command `../ttcn3-tcpdump-stop.sh MSC_Tests.TC_sgsap_reset error' was executed successfully (exit status: 0).
MTC@209d54173aa7: Starting external command `../ttcn3-tcpdump-start.sh MSC_Tests.TC_sgsap_lu'.
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I was able to spot a nullpointer deref in sgs_tx(). I think I introduced this bug recently while adding more log context to the sgsap code.


British label Peregrine has set its sights on creating the ultimate weatherproof piece this season, in the form of its newly developed waxed blazer.
Inspired by traditional styles worn in the British countryside, the heritage brand has modernised the design to create an olive-coloured button-up jacket in a relaxed silhouette, finished with textured Harris Tweed detailing.
British Millerain 6oz antique wax cotton provides all-important protection from the elements, while a five-button throat latch keeps you shielded from the wind, top to bottom.
The label, founded in 1956, played with new fabric options and innovations throughout its autumn/winter 2014 collection, expanding into Merino wool designs for the first time.
Despite being inspired by the countryside, we firmly believe this jacket will prove its worth in the city throughout the remainder of winter and transition into spring.
You can pick up Peregrine's waxed blazer now at the brand's webstore, priced £189.