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Food Notes for March 15, 2021
Sharon Yeo food, notes March 15, 2021 March 15, 2021 3 Minutes
Food Festivals Cautiously Optimistic About the Summer
On the heels of a sold-out Flying Canoe Volant this year, it's clear Edmontonians will be eager for opportunities to gather and enjoy the outdoors, especially as temperatures rise.
The two largest food-related festivals, the Taste of Edmonton and Heritage Festival, have not yet received the green light to proceed this summer. But organizers of both events are ready to modify their plans based on public health guidelines.
Taste of Edmonton had planned to return to Churchill Square from July 22 – August 1, 2021, and already put out a call for food truck vendors in January. Events Edmonton General Manager Donovan Vienneau is confident the area can safely accommodate patrons:
"We've got a rather large space, probably the biggest in history. We've also implemented a six-foot gap between each of the restaurant tents."
The Heritage Festival is more optimistic, posting, "There is hope. It was dim a while ago but the chances of us moving ahead are growing." Executive Director Jim Gibbons indicated they are also planning for a socially-distanced event July 29-August 1, 2021, with ticketing moving entirely online, and the necessary spacing across the park:
"We're going to keep the number of pavilions down. People will be much more spread out, for sure, if they're on site."
Permission to operate the festivals will require approval from the City of Edmonton, Alberta Health Services, and the province.
COVID-19-related News
It's great to see restaurants be as transparent as possible in these times – one example is Baijiu, who chose to close when a staff member was experiencing COVID symptoms; they re-opened several days later. Similarly, Kind Ice Cream closed while awaiting test results of a close contact, and re-opened a couple of days later.
The Next Act, Meat, and Pip all re-opened to dine-in service in early March. Cafe Bicyclette re-opened for regular service on March 9 after being closed since late November.
The folks behind Vintage Fork were forced to pivot – first to pizza, then to online tea sales – when their Rutherford House-based restaurant was forced to close last year.
Canadian chain Leopold's Tavern, located in the renovated Strathcona Hotel (10328 82 Avenue), is set to open its first Edmonton location later in March.
The first Alberta location of Browns Crafthouse will open in April at 10141 124 Street.
Formosa is the latest restaurant to announce their permanent closure, "due to the profound effects COVID 19 has endured on our business."
Bartender James Grant is hosting more virtual cocktail tastings on March 19-20 and April 8-9, 2021. The $60 accompanying kits can be picked up or delivered.
Wholly Handmade is hosting Nosh Food Fest on March 20, 2021 at The Agora in Sherwood Park.
Save the date for A Taste of Al Fresco, on from March 27-28, 2021. A part of Downtown Spark, a festival happening in March and April, the event will include extended restaurant patios, $15-25 food and drink deals, and a Hot Bevvy Showdown.
It was great to see Partake featured on Food Network's Big Food Bucket List this weekend.
El Beso is now open for brunch on Sundays from 10am-3pm.
Brew + Bloom continues to garner interest, and may be the "first floral cafe in Canada".
Congratulations to Jacek Chocolate, who was recognized with accolades from the International Chocolate Awards, including silver for their Whisky Bar and bronze for their 70% Costa Rica bar.
Edmonton AM highlighted Nai Nai Mie's story as a pandemic business.
EDify profiled Aditya Raghavan of Fleur Jaune Cheese.
I missed linking to Linda's list of 41 Edmonton-area women artists, makers, and entrepreneurs, including many who lead food-related businesses.
Daily Hive has a listicle of the 11 oldest restaurants in Edmonton.
MilkCrate Chef Steven Brochu and his wife cooked their way through Jillian Harris and Tori Wesszer's cookbook, Fraiche Food, and learned to embrace more vegetarian recipes in the process.
Food tech company Nabati, founded in Edmonton, raised $7.7 million to continue its expansion.
The African Diaspora Food Bank, run by the Africa Centre, will have up to $20,000 matched by Servus Credit Union for donations collected by March 31, 2021.
Urban Agriculture and Farming
A biologist studying social insects at the University of Alberta is focused on honeybees.
We picked up some comfort food for dinner from Coliseum Steak & Pizza, part of the Eats on 118 event on until the end of March. The lasagna, Caesar salad, and garlic toast was just $15 (though we chose to upsize with meatballs). It hit the spot!
Coliseum Steak & Pizza Eats on 118 deal
It seemed like too beautiful of a weekend to not indulge in some gelato, so we walked over to La Carraia for a sweet treat.
Emily enjoyed her strawberry gelato
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Q: Python 3D rotation of a point I have a point (x,y,z) in 3d that I would like to rotate.  First I would like to rotate the point around another point (0,0,0) 360 degrees.  Then I would like to change the plane that the point rotates in by 1 degree and repeat.  I have been looking at the rotation_matrix function in http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/code/transformations.py.html , however it seems as if the rotation only goes around the x,y or z axis rather than an arbitrary angle.  Does anyone know how to accomplish this?

A: Rotating around the x, y, and z pretty much is the only way to do it. Rotating a plane is exactly like rotating around an axis. Check out my scratch project for the math.

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O Regime Disciplinar Diferenciado (RDD) é objeto da Lei brasileira nº 10.792 que alterou a Lei de Execuções Penais e o Código de Processo Penal no país.

Histórico
Motivada pela organização de facções criminosas, atuantes em presídios, principalmente nos estados de São Paulo e Rio de Janeiro, a Lei foi criada com argumento motivacional de buscar dificultar as ações organizadas e supostamente lideradas por internos dos presídios, tais como o Comando Vermelho (CV), no Rio de Janeiro, e o Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC), em São Paulo.

A Lei passou a vigorar a partir de 2 de janeiro de 2003 no Brasil, aprimorando normas relativas ao interrogatório e instituiu o Regime Disciplinar Diferenciado (RDD). Baseou-se em experiências efetuadas no estado de São Paulo, nas penitênciárias de Avaré, Taubaté e no presídio de segurança máxima de Presidente Bernardes.

Aplicação
A Lei de Execução Penal, alterada recentemente pela Lei 13.964 de 2019 prevê a aplicação do RDD para o preso provisório, ou condenado, nacional ou estrangeiro. No RDD o preso é mantido em cela individual 22 horas por dia, podendo ser visitado quinzenalmente por até duas pessoas, tomando um banho de sol por dia de duas horas no máximo.

O RDD possui duração máxima de até 2 anos, sem prejuízo de repetição da sanção por nova falta grave de mesma espécie;

O artigo 52 da Lei de Execuções Penais, determina a aplicação do RDD caso haja prática, por parte do detento, de fato previsto como sendo crime doloso e que ocasione a subversão da ordem ou disciplina interna. A Lei exige  que a inclusão no regime seja aplicada por prévio e fundamentado despacho do juiz competente, e que  dependerá de requerimento circunstanciado elaborado pelo diretor do estabelecimento penal ou outra autoridade administrativa. Além disso, a decisão de inclusão no regime disciplinar deve ser precedida de manifestação do Ministério Público e da defesa

Outras medidas ainda foram tomadas, visando manter o isolamento dos presos, tais como a instalação de detectores de metais nos presídios e utilização de bloqueadores de celular e rádio transmissores.

Defesa e críticas
Os defensores da medida argüem, além de defenderem a constitucionalidade da lei, para a necessidade social da medida, como inibidora e punitiva da prática delituosa - prevenção geral negativa. Reclamam que no Brasil vem sendo substituída, com enorme prejuízo para a segurança pública, por penas cada vez mais brandas e muitas vezes os juízes substituem a pena de privação de liberdade por restrição de direitos(Direito Penal mínimo).

Porém, muitos estudiosos do Direito brasileiro consideram inconstitucional o RDD. O penalista Roberto Delmanto, por exemplo, em artigo publicado no Boletim do Instituto Brasileiro de Ciências Criminais, proclamou que o RDD fere a Constituição Federal, que dispõe, em cláusulas pétreas que "ninguém será submetido a tortura nem a tratamento desumano ou degradante e que não haverá penas... cruéis"(art.5º,III).

Ligações externas

Ver também
 Prisão

Direito penal
Direito processual

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Visiting Luang Prabang: its slow pace, quiet scenes, and spirituality make the northern Laos town a refreshing destination
By HANNAH PETRACHE
Published June 25, 2018 3:31pm
The view of the mountains welcomed us as we disembarked from the plane at the Luang Prabang International Airport.
The small town in northern Laos is slowly becoming a popular tourist destination, and on our visit, we learned why many are enchanted and enthralled by it.
Once designated as the royal capital of the country till 1975, it became a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1995. With Wat or temples placed side by side with buildings constructed in traditional Lao and European colonial styles, Luang Prabang's well-preserved architecture reflect the fusion of traditional and colonial cultures.
Buddhism at its core
We woke up early the next day, eager to explore the Pak Ou caves, one of Luang Prabang's popular sites thanks to the thousands of images of Buddha placed by devotees.
It was a two-hour scenic boat ride going up stream the Mekong River, interrupted by scenes of the Lao people fishing and doing their daily chores along the banks of the river.
One of the most respected holy sites in Laos and a pilgrim site for locals, it was my first time to see a place filled with old and damaged Buddha images, which reflected how much the Lao people revered Buddha. As we were exploring, a group came in and started praying, their voices not lost to the thousands of Buddha listening.
Back in town, we took our time visiting two of the many temples in the area, the Wat Vissounarath which was the oldest temple built in 1515 and can be identified through the watermelon- shaped stupa in the compound, and the Wat Xiengthong that housed the funeral vehicle of the royalty and the bones of King Sisavangvong.
There were less than a dozen tourists when we arrived but it doesn't mean that the temples were not worth visiting. Lesser tourists meant more time observing and learning about the role Buddhism played in the history and lives of the Lao people.
What made our Luang Prabang experience complete was observing the tradition of tak bat or morning alms. Although it required us to wake up before sunrise, so does every faithful Lao who prepared sticky rice for the monks in exchange for merit.
The practice was done in meditative silence, the saffron-clad monks walked in line while the devotees, with their knees bent, gave a handful of rice to each monk who passed by. I thought it was a beautiful custom, made more significant when I saw the monks giving away some of the rice they received to the children kneeling along their path.
The tourists were reminded however, to respect this tradition by showing reverence to the monks and participating only if it has a special meaning for them.
Luang Prabang's natural wonders
Found at the centre of town is the 100-m high Mount Phou Si, with its golden stupa visible from all corners of Luang Prabang. It was a moderate climb for an inactive person like me and we found ourselves on top in twenty minutes. As we tried to catch our breath, we were mesmerized by the 360 view of the town which was still unmarred by tall buildings and pollution. When the sun started setting, the brown waters of the Mekong River sparkled from the sun's rays and the mountains were bathed in different layers of light, painting an almost unrealistic picture.
Also not to be missed is the Kuang Si falls which is less than an hour away via tuktuk. Visitors are treated to turquoise pool of waters that beckon for them to swim especially during a very hot day.
A welcome respite
Luang Prabang, Laos may not yet be a popular destination for Filipinos but it may become one soon. The slow pace of the town allowed us to breath, appreciate the simple things in life and learn about other people's customs and traditions.
Just like its Southeast Asian neighbors Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia, Luang Prabang, Laos has a lot to offer to those seeking to experience a culture different from ours. — LA, GMA News
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Taking a trip to Pushkin, you can also visit the magnificent palace dating from the late 18th century, located in Pavlovsk, another beautiful suburb of Saint-Petersburg. It used to belong to Paul I, who was one of the most mysterious Russian Tsars. There is a unique opportunity to see one of the biggest parks in Europe, located in Pavlovsk. During the tour you''ll see the amazing Catherine palace and the park in Pushkin, including the wonderful Amber room. You'll also visit the remarkable Pavlovsk palace and the park in Pavlovsk.


As a long-time, experienced YouTuber, my first reaction to autoplay being enabled by default was pure outrage. How DARE they change something yet again?! But as usual, I went from complaining to giving it a fair shot the last week or so and it's all beginning to make sense.
I'm not going to say the feature is perfect, because I've noticed a few glitches where autoplay conflicts with a pre-set playlist sequence and ends up repeating the same video. And occasionally I move on to the next video in sequence before I have time to comment properly on the one I'm watching. But that being said, the feature has led to me spending more time on the site, which is exactly what YouTube is looking for. Another theory of mine, because I love theories, is that YouTube enabled this change as a direct response to Facebook's growing video presence, Twitter's testing of video autoplay in feeds, and the public launch of Vessel.
UPDATE: It appears YouTube has put in a ninja change in the past week for their Autoplay feature, addressing one major flaw that was impacting engagement. Instead of the next video in sequence automatically playing regardless of the action a viewer takes, the timer on the autoplay video will now pause if you have scrolled down into the comments section of the video and will progress when you have returned to the video player.
YouTube Autoplay: Response to Facebook and Vessel Threats?
On the Facebook front, this move is YouTube flexing their muscles a bit. Facebook's numbers are inflated lately, in part, due to the autoplay feature being used on Facebook videos. Those inflated numbers paint a rosy picture for Facebook, but I'm very curious to see the numbers on YouTube come next reporting period. Personally I have spent 6-7x more time on the site (if that's even possible) due to this autoplay feature alone. I say 6-7x because each autoplay list tends to get me hooked in for a good 6-7 videos before I find myself walking down some dark and twisty YouTube tunnel where it's not quite what I was aiming for anymore. I'm not sure if that's just YouTube reflecting my terrible attention span or the algorithm that's choosing my videos being completely shocked that it still has my attention.
Either way YouTube is proving itself to be superior in grabbing and holding my attention, whereas my attention on Facebook tend to be more fleeting, especially with the complete lack of a quality way to search for video content there. Users can disable the autoplay feature (by clicking on the toggle button in the upper right-hand corner of the video page you are watching), but I'm finding that watching videos in 6-7 video chunks is working perfectly for me.
On the Vessel side of things, it's just pure competition. Although much prettier than current YouTube, Vessel feels more like YouTube circa 2007, in a good way. I was pulled over to Vessel via a clever shoutout video from Veritasium and when I saw the sheer volume of my favorite YouTube creators who had also jumped on board, I couldn't help but sign up for an account.
But once on the site I didn't stay too long. My viewing habits are still too entrenched on YouTube and I have yet to discover a feature that keeps me rolling from one video to the next as well as autoplay, playlists and related videos. That's not to say Vessel doesn't hold promise either. In fact, their platform is stunningly beautiful to me and I could easily see them with the potential to take the biggest bite out of YouTube in years if they can convince more of the audience on YouTube, like myself, to make an account there.
They have listened to some of the most vocal cries from the YouTube community and brought back "Categories", a "Channel/Show" section, and separate sections for "Popular" and "New Releases". Simply put they have brought back casual browsing to combine with search based browsing which, oh by the way, they also have. Vessil's homepage is brilliant, with moving thumbnails of content that really grab my attention. I can't decide if the content is just plain awesome on the site or if my tastes in channels plus their home page algorithm make for a deadly good combination.
But before I derail this entire article touting Vessel the point is that YouTube has figured out what works for online video, namely taking the fleeting attention of Internet viewers and getting it to rest in the same place for more than 2 minutes. So while Vessel is poised to make an impact, I see YouTube's launch of autoplay as power move to slow the public launch of Vessel and keep viewers' attention trained on their own site.
So what does this all mean for video marketers? Well, as YouTube channel Veritasium mentioned in their video above, now is as good a time as ever to diversify your efforts. Don't put all of your eggs into just one video site basket. While I'm not personally high on Facebook as a video destination, all signs point to significant growth there and it's only a matter of time before Vessel begins to make an impact as well. YouTube remains the king and focusing your efforts there is still an absolute must, but there is also something to be said for spreading your efforts to other sites as well to ensure you have some diversity in your approach to video marketing.
Andy Smith has been exploring what makes YouTube and its creators tick, on his own YouTube channel, since 2010.


For years Route 66 was the main thoroughfare across the United States. Now, in one convenient volume, experience romances from Missouri to Santa Monica as ten women experience a journey they'll never forget. Come take a romantic ride on the Mother Road.
1720: Jack Hunter is about to be hanged for the murder of his neighbor. Jack knows he's innocent, and the unscrupulous constables will seize his land when he's dead. He asks Lucy Hamblin, the only girl he ever loved, to marry him in the jail. Her father broke them up four years ago, but now her father is dead. Will Lucy be willing to grant his last request and become the widow Hunter?
Molly Beluga was abandoned at the altar and has no intention of heading back there anytime soon. When she crosses paths with an arrogant fireman, she knows better than to let her heart get involved. She can't face the idea of having it broken by another failed relationship. A serious journalist working for her family's newspaper, her only plan is to focus on her career and to train her new Labrador puppy, Daisy, to behave.
Tim Holden left the family newspaper to become a fireman with the Atlanta Fire Department. After a lifetime of watching the newspaper business consume his family, he has no time for journalists, let alone a beautiful and feisty journalist with no regard for anything other than getting the story. Now thirty, he's grown tired of bouncing between short-term relationships so when an idea emerges for a fake relationship, he's intrigued.
Will these enemies sheath their swords long enough to formulate a plan that just might bring their warring families back together?
One lone woman, four grown sons, one absentee father.
After four months on the job, twenty-four-year-old Rebecca Harper has become something of a jack-of-all-trades on the Cooper Bar-6 Ranch…except for her cooking. But the four strapping sons who run the ranch in their father's absence need wise counsel more than unburnt bread, and Rebecca is perfect for the job. Whether dealing with the driven eldest, the belligerent youngest, or the personalities in between, she recognizes the source of each young man's pain is a lifetime of a father's indifference. As soon as the rogue returns, Rebecca aims to give "Mr. Cooper" a thick piece of her mind.
Not that dishing out hard truth will make her feel any more alive. Past betrayal has taught her to live at arm's length from anyone who might mean too much to her. So she cooks and cleans and counsels, at once harboring anger against a man she has never met and numbing herself against the life she has forgotten to desire.
Until one night, one thunderstorm, and one heroic stranger changes it all.
Poor and without dowry – and even worse – now orphaned, Miss Carly Blakemore is thrown into the Victorian world without aid. Carly is forced to seek a position as governess in the house of Lord Huntington, the Earl of Dunfordshire – a man alone in his own right – and under suspicion for the tragic murder of his well-known and adulteress wife. His governess's honesty and forthrightness quickly offend his noble person, and he finds himself reeling from her constant evaluation of his lack of parenting skills. However, in the midst of his resentments, he finds himself strangely drawn in by her very no-nonsense ways that drive him to madness. Carly stands her ground in head-to-head battles of will that take her to the brink of dismissal.
Carly and the earl continually fight the feelings growing between them. Both are oblivious to the clouds of deceit and intrigue that are growing around the manor house, some bent upon removing the beautiful, headstrong governess permanently. A final desperate chase leads to an interception of a ship upon the high seas headed for the Mediterranean and a secret society of white-slave traders.
Krystal Black had helped foreign dignitaries before but never was tempted to join their ranks. Prince Johann "John" van Koppelberg came to the Colorado Rockies expecting a vacation. He hadn't planned to fall in love with his tourism director.
Jenna Michaels can't risk falling in love. She has already lost too much. When she meets Evan Bryant, their mutual attraction sends her running from the possibility of another loss. Principal of Hawthorn Christian Academy Evan Bryant never thought he would be attracted to another woman after the death of his beloved wife. Meeting Jenna convinces him that he can love again, but is there hope that they can move beyond their pasts and find happiness together?
People from around the country send their mail to Christmas, Florida, to receive a special Christmas postmark. War widow Randi Pearson enjoys sending Christmas cards to men and women serving in the armed forces–until retired major Troy Brennan shows up as a post office volunteer. Can Troy convince Randi to let go of the past and move into the future?
After leaving law enforcement, Travis takes a job as temporary handyman at the Quinn landscaping business and gift shop that two sisters are try to run now that the father is dying of cancer. But he doesn't figure on getting involved in constructing a living Christmas tree, or his heart getting entangled with Reagan Quinn.
Baltimore-born Ireland Rose, daughter of Irish immigrants, must be married by her seventeenth birthday. Rose's father finds a suitable husband, Captain Camden Lovell, twenty-seven years her senior. Captain Lovell takes his bride to Charleston, provides her with a beautiful home on the Battery and good standing in Charleston Society. Three years later Rose is a widow. Captain Wyatt, her husband's trusted employee is now in charge of her affairs. Rose senses he does not like her. One day he brings a young woman with child to her – and a secret that must be kept. A little girl is born, and Rose becomes a mother. Captain Wyatt offers to marry her in name only to protect her from Charleston society gossip, but she is determined she will not marry a second time for protection. She will marry for love or live alone.
Just three months later, August 31st, 1886 the city of Charleston suffers the worst earthquake of the century. Her beautiful home is in shambles. Rose has no choice but to return to her parents' birthplace in Ireland. The only record she has of her Irish ancestry is in her mother's Bible. She and her infant daughter take the next ship to Ireland. She has begun to hope she has finally found happiness when Captain Wyatt comes with news that shatters her heart. Every person Rose loves is taken away. Her faith in God is shaken. There is a plan for her, but she can't see it. Captain Wyatt breaks her heart, not once but twice.


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T653 - CORRESPONDENCE, NEWSPAPER ARTICLES AND OTHER PAPERS RELATING TO LT. CAPT. DONALD L. WEIR OF THE LEICESTERSHIRE REGIMENT
Acquisition Terms Donated : 5 July 1985
Title CORRESPONDENCE, NEWSPAPER ARTICLES AND OTHER PAPERS RELATING TO LT. CAPT. DONALD L. WEIR OF THE LEICESTERSHIRE REGIMENT
Description The collection has been listed in the following order:
War decorations
Printed booklets
N.B. The bundles of the collection have been maintained and have been arranged in chronological order.
Extent 6 SERIES.
Administrative History Introduction (obtained from DE2913/44/27)
Captain Donald L. Weir was educated at Bedford School. At the time of the outbreak of the war in 1914 he was serving in the 2nd Leicestershire Regiment in India. Towards the end of 1914 his battalion was ordered to France where he served until 1915 gaining the Military Cross during this time. In 1915, his regiment was despatched to Mesopotamia and, for a time, he took command of his battalion. His leadership and gallantry at Sheikh Saad earned him the D.S.O. in the field.
After a spell in England he returned to France and, for a short time, took command of the 1st Battalion of his own regiment. He was later transferred to the command of the 1st Battalion of the West Yorkshire Regiment and, during this time, was awarded a bar to the D.S.O. - again for his personal leadership, gallantry, and initiative.
During the period of the war, Weir was also awarded the Serbian Order of the Karageorge (with swords) which is given for military deeds of exceptional brilliance.
D.L. Weir died of cholera in India on 21st April, 1921.


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Southern Maryland Civil War Round Table
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April 2015 Southern MD Civil War Round Table Meeting
The Southern Maryland Civil War Round Table is pleased to announce that its next meeting will take place on Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at 7:00pm at the College of Southern Maryland's Center for Business and Industry, Chaney Enterprises Conference Center, Room BI-113, at 8730 Mitchell Road in La Plata, MD.
Guest Speaker: Michael Kauffman
Michael Kauffman, author of the best seller "American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies" will speak to the Southern Maryland Civil War Roundtable about the Booth conspiracy and how it was built largely around Southern Maryland politics. Booth was often described as a Southerner, but in fact, he was a Marylander — and so were almost all of the people who were drawn into his plot. The people of Southern Maryland lived on the fault line of national politics, in a Border State, where politics had grown intensely personal through the war, and where the phrase "Brother vs. Brother" was literally true for many local families. Its geographical position — nearly surrounding the nation's capital — gave it a strategic importance far beyond that of any other state that remained in the Union.
In the fall of 1864, John Wilkes Booth set out to recruit a band of conspirators for his plot against the president. Booth knew little about the area, but he knew how the people here felt about Lincoln. He was a master of manipulation, and he took full advantage of the political climate to build his plot. When he looked for cohorts, a sympathetic ear, and a secure route of escape, he knew where he would find friendly territory. Southern Maryland was his only option.
MICHAEL W. KAUFFMAN is a political historian and graduate of the University of Virginia who has studied the Lincoln assassination for more than thirty years.
Taking a full-immersion approach to his research, he has rowed across the Potomac where Booth rowed, leaped to the stage in Ford's Theatre, and for a time he even took up residence in Tudor Hall, the Booth family home in Maryland.
Kauffman has written for Civil War Times, the Washington Post, American Heritage, Blue and Gray, and the Lincoln Herald, among others. He has lectured throughout the United States, and has appeared in more than twenty television and radio documentaries, including programs on A& E, The Learning Channel, the History Channel, National Geographic Channel, and the Discovery Channel.
His works include a modern edition of Samuel B. Arnold's Memoirs of a Lincoln Conspirator, as well as American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies, which was named as one of the best non-fiction books of 2004.His latest book, "In the Footsteps of An Assassin" is a 161-page book which guides the reader with maps, rare photos and an accompanying CD through the sites Booth encountered on his flight from Washington to the Garrett Farm, the site of Booth's death.
Southern MD Civil War Round Table Spring Field Trip
The Booth Escape Tour
This year is the sesquicentennial President Abraham Lincoln's Assassination. Therefore, it is fitting that the third annual Southern Maryland Civil War Round Table tour be the "Booth Escape Tour."
We will board the bus at CSM's La Plata Campus and head up to Ford's Theater, where we will visit the museum and the Peterson House across the street where Lincoln died.
Then we will re-board the bus to see some relevant sites around D.C., including the home of Sec. of State William Seward. Next we will drive down to the Surratt Tavern, where we will be given a tour of the facility and then onto the Mudd House. Along the way, you will dine on a box lunch (included in the price of the tour).
Our next stop takes us over to the Samuel Cox House (Rich Hill) and the pine thicket in Bel Alton. After driving by Pope's Creek, where Booth pushed off from Maryland, we will head south and drive by Cleydael, the home of Dr. and Mrs. Richard Stewart and then by the Peyton House in Port Royal, and finally to the location of the Garrett Farm, where Booth was killed.
The cost of the tour includes a Keller bus, guided tour, admission to several historic structures, and box lunch. The cost is $60 for members of the Round Table (and their guests). Those paying by or at the March 10 Round Table meeting will only pay $55. The cost for nonmembers is $70.
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Onix Work 1.8 is finally here and contains some new and exciting features.
We've also updated forms and completed other general improvements in functionality as requested by our users.
The main feature of this release is the ability to handle and follow up unresolved equipment issues. These arise whenever an inspection or operator maintenance job is filed with non-OK checkpoints from Onix Work, Onix Inspection or the Onix Worker app.
A new issues tab has been introduced in the equipment module, allowing Onix Work users to view, create and resolve equipment Issues.
Header and Sub header info are now implemented for both forms and can be activated and edited in the Settings → Forms section.
Header will be included when a job's Form Language is not English (bi-lingual).
Sub-header will always be included.
Some captions have been updated following new guidelines from DNV GL revisions.
"Test report No." has been added as a linked equipment property on the forms.
"Type designation" field has been added in the Settings → Forms section.
The header-fields for "Date" and "Expires" have been removed.
A new "Group by Document Type" option has been added to the document list in job module. When multiple jobs are selected, a potentially long list of documents can be separated so the relevant documents can be more easily selected for sending.
Extended procedure info has been moved from the History report to Sample Texts dialog to improve access. A new, combined icon clearly shows which info is available.
When multiple equipment is selected the "Change Status" function now includes the option to set Equipment Status directly.
The report dialog now has a new option to include or omit service documents.
Unused equipment properties can now be set "Inactive" in the Properties dialog.
Inactive properties will still appear on any equipment that already have them but will not be available for new equipment or products.
Your selected "Sort by"-options in various lists will now be saved for your next log on.
In Settings → Checklists, the Preview checklist is now without the "Draft" watermark.
PX and BX are added as new groups for the P and B Control Categories.
User may now opt for an alert e-mail when personal equipment is due for inspection.
In External data-sources we have added "Export Onix Tool Store Users".


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Elizabeth « Liz » Sayers (née le  à Perth) est une joueuse de tennis australienne, professionnelle de 1980 à 1997. Elle est aussi connue sous son nom de femme mariée, Elisabeth Smylie.

 mondiale le 14 septembre 1987, elle a remporté trois titres WTA en simple.

Elizabeth Sayers reste avant tout une spécialiste de double dames ( mondiale le 28 mars 1988, 35 titres).

Associée à Kathy Jordan, elle a gagné le tournoi de Wimbledon en 1985, mettant fin à cette occasion à une série de 109 matchs consécutifs (incluant les huit épreuves du Grand Chelem précédentes) remportés par la paire Martina Navrátilová et Pam Shriver.

Palmarès

En simple dames

En double dames

En double mixte

Parcours en Grand Chelem

À droite du résultat, l'ultime adversaire.

Sous le résultat, la partenaire ; à droite, l'ultime équipe adverse.

Sous le résultat, le partenaire ; à droite, l'ultime équipe adverse.

Parcours aux Masters

En double dames

Parcours aux Jeux olympiques

En simple dames

En double dames

Parcours en Coupe de la Fédération

Classements WTA

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Naissance en avril 1963
Naissance à Perth (Australie-Occidentale)
Joueuse australienne de tennis
Championne de tennis titrée en Grand Chelem (double dames)
Championne de tennis titrée en Grand Chelem (double mixte)
Championne de tennis titrée à Wimbledon
Championne de tennis titrée à l'US Open
Championne de tennis titrée aux Masters
Joueuse de tennis aux Jeux olympiques d'été de 1988
Médaillée de bronze olympique australienne


Below is a brief history of free agency, and at times the lack thereof, in the NFL.
The reserve rule allowed teams with right to resign a player in perpetuity. Players could not move on to another team by choice. Players really had three options: play for the same team, get traded or retire.
This rule bound a player to one team indefinitely. Each player contract contained this clause, allowing teams to continually resign their own players to one-year contracts with the same terms as their previous contract. This clause also remained in the new deal, which is how teams were able to sign players to one-year contracts each season in perpetuity.
In 1947, the NFL replaced the reserve rule with the "one year option" rule. Under this rule, teams had the right to use a reserve clause one time after the expiration of his player contract. The option year could not contain the reserve clause, which gave players the ability to negotiate and enter a contract with any team. This made players free agents, with no restrictions, and seemed to pave the path for unrestricted free agency.
The first player to change teams under this rule was 49ers wide receiver R.C. Owens. After playing out his option year in 1961, Owens had completed his contractual obligation with the 49ers and decided to sign a new contract with the Baltimore Colts.
After Owens left the 49ers and due to complaints from the team's then owner, Vic Morabito, NFL owners proposed (and the NFLPA later accepted) the inclusion of the "Rozelle Rule," named after then NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle, in the collective bargaining agreement.
The rule allowed the NFL Commissioner, at his discretion, the right to award compensation from a team signing a free agent to the team losing the free agent, unless the two teams agreed on a compensation package. Compensation could be in the form players, draft choices or cash considerations. Any decision the commissioner made are final and conclusive.
The court found three main things that were wrong with the rule. First of all, it was too broad. What was defended as a rule to maintain competitive balance (to stop star players from switching teams) applied equally to all players, even those who were not stars. It was also extremely restrictive because there was no end in its duration; it served as a perpetual restriction on all player's ability to freely market and sell his services on the open market for the entirety of their careers. There was also no way for teams to know what they compensation tied to signing a specific player would entail.
However, the NFLPA sacrificed its free agency victory in Mackey v. NFL for other employment benefits in the 1977 NFL CBA. The Rozelle Rule was replaced by something very similar: the right of first refusal and a compensation structure for teams losing free agents.
The settlement of the Mackey case led to a revision of the Rozelle Rule, with new forms of free agency restrictions in the 1977 collective bargaining agreement.
A free agent's original team held the right of first refusal, enabling it to retain its player by matching any contract offer by another team. The original team was also entitled to draft choice compensation from the team signing its player. However, there was an actual structure, based on a player's NFL experience and his new salary, which determined the number and caliber of draft picks to be awarded.
This allowed teams rights to its players that, contractually, no longer existed.
The 1982 collective bargaining agreement also still included the right of first refusal and draft pick compensation but adjusted draft compensation to align with multiple tiers of salaries.
With an anti-trust suit still pending and multiple offers proposed from each side, the owners unilaterally imposed Plan B free agency with the absence of a labor agreement. Owners had the right to protect 37 of its players (when the league had 47-man rosters) from becoming free agents. Players protected under Plan B were subject to the same compensation rules if signed by another team.
Unprotected players were not subject to right of first refusal or draft compensation rules. They were free to negotiate and sign with any team. This led to an influx of player movement in the NFL. However, players who were protected, essentially the team's best 37 players, were not given the same freedom and faced the same market restrictions as players before Plan B. Only one restricted player, linebacker Wilber Marshall, changed teams while the system was in effect.
On September 24, 1992, U.S. District Court Judge David Doty ruled that Eagles tight end Keith Jackson, Patriots defensive end Garin Veris, Browns wide receiver Webster Slaughter, and Lions running back D.J. Dozier were awarded a temporary restraining order and became unrestricted free agents for five days, until an evidentiary hearing could be heard.
Jackson (Dolphins), Slaughter (Oilers) and Veris (49ers) each signed contracts with new teams. Dozier remained unsigned.
That day came in 1993.
White v. NFL led to the "White Settlement," which is what brought about a new form of free agency. Any veteran with at least five years of experience (eventually lowered to four) would become unrestricted free agents. However, it allowed teams to name its most valuable player as a "Franchise" player, and in the first and final two years of the CBA, it could name a player as a "Transition" players, each of which restricted their movement on the market.
Players with three or four seasons of experience were subject to the same right of first refusal/compensation system as before, essentially what we know today as restricted free agency. Teams had exclusive negotiating rights to players with fewer than three years of experience—what we know as exclusive rights free agents.
The settlement also brought about the salary cap. In 1994, the salary cap was introduced to the NFL because player salaries in 1993 reached the agreed upon 67 percent of team revenues. Set at $34.6 million for its initial season, the cap intended to serve as an equalizer in response to free agency.


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Tyler T. Brown
August 11, 1990 — October 31, 2022
Portsmouth, VIRGINIA - Tyler Brown, age 32, passed away on October 31, 2022. He was born on August 11, 1990 to Adam and Carla Brown. Tyler married his wife Makayla on November 30, 2016 in Owensville, Ohio, and was baptized on November 10, 2019. He is survived by his parents; wife; children Cyrus, Skarlet, Xander, and Vincent; grandparents John and Helen Hoskins, Peggy Loux, and Sharon Brown; sister Rachel Brown; mothers-in-law Angie Smith and Kelly Fishel; brothers-in-law Ryan and Jase; sisters-in-law Tiffani and Hannah; good friends Christian, Kevin, Ted, Brandon, Cody L., Alex, and Cody E.; numerous aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, and cousins. Tyler was preceded in death by grandfathers Creed Brown, Carl Loux, Mike Beyersdorff, and his children Lana Alice and Adam.
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The #1 reason new parents fight
By Matthew Jones 1 February 2017
Sleep deprivation is nature's way of taking issues partners have and blowing them the hell up.
Before I became a dad I thought a lot about what kind of dad I would be and how I would handle the responsibilities involved.
I thought about the kind of relationship I would have with my child, how I would be a firm but fair father who could be singing stupid songs with his kids one minute and wisely teaching them the difference between right and wrong the next.
I thought about the physical and emotional strain becoming a father would place on me, and the financial burden of dropping to a single income.
One thing I didn't really think about was the impact it would have on my relationship with my partner.
Turns out, a hell of a lot.
We barely fought at all when it was just the two of us, but that changed dramatically once our little 'bundle of terror joy' arrived.
One of the main drivers of this, I'm convinced, was sleep deprivation. It tripled the severity of how bad either of us messed up, tripled the frequency of said messing up, and tripled the intensity of each subsequent fight after messing up.
It's not that we were fighting all the time, it's just that, in the condition our bodies and minds were in, it felt like it was always a possibility. We were so exhausted that we were reduced to our primal instincts of fight or flight.
Here's some things we learnt the hard way during our first month as partners turned parents.
Arguing whilst sleep deprived is like arguing drunk
Our arguments before baby would begin messily but quickly turn calmer and more focused on reconciliation.
Lots of "when you ______, I feel ______". And "I can see your point of view, thank you for sharing".
All that Oprah crap.
After baby, our conflict resolution became like two angry drunks yelling at each other in the streets at 2AM. These arguments would end only when we became too tired to continue.
No reconciliation, no deeper understanding of each other, just pure exhaustion to the point of no longer giving a crap about whatever it was that we can't even remember we were arguing about.
The reactions won't match the misdeeds
After I got sworn at for buying 90% and not 77% dark chocolate ("You may as well have bought fucking cocoa powder!"), I realised that for the first few months, we couldn't rely on our reactions matching the misdeeds.
Her swearing at me was 10% what I'd done, 10% the baby poop under her fingernails and 80% the less than 2 hours sleep she had gotten 4 nights in a row.
It didn't mean she wasn't annoyed with me, it's just that her reaction was 10 times overblown.
An annoyed shake of the head turned into a sarcastic insult, and a sarcastic insult turned into a character assassination so harsh it left me sobbing in a cupboard.
You need to know the difference
While it's a good rule of thumb, be very mindful that 'lack of sleep' is not always the reason that she, or you, are angry. And you need to know the difference. For example:
You're furious because she's whistling that damn song again – You're just tired mate.
She's furious because you're playing Call of Duty while she's breastfeeding and making the dinner – You're just being a dickhead mate.
How to get through it:
Unfortunately, for those first few months, sleep deprivation is an inescapable fact of new dad life. Nevertheless, here's some tips to stop you tearing strips off each other because of it.
1. Recognise that you're both exhausted
Each parent tends to think that they are the ones doing it more tough. New mums think new dads get more sleep than they actually do, while new dads think new mums are moodier than they really are.
It's not a competition for who has it worse. However crap you're feeling, trust that your partner is probably struggling just as much as you.
2. Reaffirm "We're on the same team".
Yes you may do the washing differently, yes you may notice what needs to be done at different rates, yes you may have different ideas about how to swaddle correctly, but you're on the same goddamn team!
There will never be an exact, 50:50 split of duties and tasks. Just both do what you can, when you can, and don't keep tabs.
3. Let it Go.
If you snapped at her because she put the TV on too loud – apologise, but don't beat yourself up about it all day.
If she yelled at you at 2AM because you were snoring, don't be pissy until you get an apology.
Silently forgive her and move on.
4. Small Gestures are Golden
Take one minute every day to step out of the craziness and do something to re-engage your courtship.
Find a flower in your yard (or pinch one from next door) and stick it in a vase, do a load of washing, fill in that chip in the wall that's been driving her nuts, offer to do the grocery shopping, take the baby for a walk so she can have a shower – whatever your dad energy reserves can muster.
Just don't do it expecting to be lavished upon with praise. Do it because you care.
5. End the Endless Arguments
If your argument's stuck in an endless loop and you've lost sight of what you're even fighting about, one of you needs to compassionately end it. This might mean relinquishing the last word, taking a time-out, and making up when calmer heads can prevail. But always make the effort to make up.
Sleep deprivation will win many battles in those first few months of parenthood. You must work together to ensure your relationship ultimately wins the war.
Article by Matthew Jones
Matthew is an amateur dad and semi-pro husband trying and sometimes failing to find the funny side of parenthood. Read more at Matthew's blog: New Dad Lessons
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However, the maturity of a set of technologies and their domain by agents is a process that requires practice and time. In this context, we have to analyze some limits and technological opportunities arose during the development of skills for operating in deep waters, especially in the case of Pre-salt.
No doubt the boundary of the Pre-salt included additional obstacles due to the length of the wells drilled. The costs are directly related to the depth of the wells. They increase further when horizontal drilling is employed, for example. On the one hand, this technique tends to facilitate appropriate access to the reservoir rock and contribute to increase the oil recovery factor in the deposit. On the other hand, horizontal drilling requires a larger number of meters drilled in relation to the vertical drilling, and thus more expensive. We have to remember that drilling is one of the most expensive costs in exploration and production of oil.
Moreover, drilling the salt layer is complex due to the fluidity and instability of such geological strata, including bad environmental conditions of temperature and pressure. Because it is considered as new challenge, exploring in Pre-salt layer in very deep waters is regarded as emerging and developing technological frontier. The industry indicates that there are still evolutionary stages to be followed so that the knowledge is consolidated and technologies are ideal.
However, this is not a peculiarity of the global oil industry (GOI). The technical evolution process evolves a learning curve that even faster it may take a long time, years or even decades in some cases. To illustrate, for decades some oil companies have been studying the geological formations related to the salt layers and that one is below the salt, or pre-salt (sub-salt). Scientific publications investigated in advance these formations more than half a century ago.
In the 1980s some pre-salt wells were drilled in the Gulf of Mexico, although some of them reached this layer unintentionally. However, technologies and available data led to the conclusion that exploration was impracticable in that context, although there was a latent potential. From then, seismic, information and drilling systems developed significantly, and some of them allow a more precise study of the pre-salt formations.
Currently, Petrobras ensures that holds main critical knowledge to carry out exploration in the pre-salt. We have to mention some relevant items related to the extraction, such as: i) how will the oil accumulations react when peak production is reached? ii) which is appropriate gas and water injection mix? iii) what is the appropriate volume of re-injection to achieve the optimal level of production? However, these are issues related to all new fields coming into production. Additionally, in the case of the discoveries already made, it is still necessary to identify the best alternative to transport and monetize the hydrocarbons to be produced.
In Brazil occurred an acceleration of learning about these formations from the set of findings. Elements indicate that the accumulation of specific operational knowledge has been crucial as well. It has enabling the continuous advances in the development of new materials, supplies, equipment and procedures required. It has allowed overcoming the challenges faced in deep waters and very deep waters, particularly in the pre-salt layer.
There are several methods of learning. The mechanism of learning by doing probably corresponds to one of the most important means for achieving significant technological advances. Under these conditions, of course, companies must operate by using the information they already have, increasing it until reaches the full knowledge of technology.
We have to mention that the maturation of a technology package does not guarantee successful operations, since the risk is related to this activity. Moreover, other uncertainties, such as climate source or malpractice, can distort the expected trajectory of a procedure at a time. Undoubtedly, the risk of surprises and accidents will never be null. The appropriate knowledge and technology are to reduce the likelihood of occurrence.
Other types of learning are also possible. Three of them have to be mentioned: i) learning by researching, ii) learning by interacting, and iii) learning by relating. Apparently, the first two models are often used by GOI. The third model has also been disseminating.
The first of them can be directly evaluated from R&D indicators. Table 1 shows the high growth of expenditures on research conducted by the oil and gas producer sector. This occurs as its processes and equipment cover complex technological content to require deep and fast progress. This phenomenon can be seen particularly in the offshore segment to which relevant portion of the technology investments have been directed to in recent decades.
* European banks already report R&D according to International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS), but the Americans and Japanese still implement this standard.
The second way to advance the learning curve is associated with technological cooperation. A question often raised is what is the importance of the association, formation of consortia and cooperation between oil companies? For those unfamiliar with the logic of the business strategies made by oil companies, the process of association and formation of consortia seems to be contradictory. This is because companies involved are aggressive competitors. However, in addition to the purely economic reasons, from capital necessary to investment and risk diversification in different projects, there are other technological justifications related to cognitive aspects. Let's see.
Cooperation allows the learning occurred in the deepest part of a particular company to be shared among others. This broadens the potential scope of technological advances and allows mitigation of research costs on the subject shared. And it is apt to take more advantage of tacit knowledge of workers in different companies. In practice, companies have more incentives to cooperate on product innovations to be disseminated in the industry. Generally, it is about incremental innovations to technologies of existing equipment.
Thus, companies can originate joint solutions to common problems. To illustrate, a pool of companies invested in developing a device to contain major leakages, after the oil spillage in the Gulf of Mexico.
In fact, GOI is increasingly investing in research centers and strengthening links with other research institutions. Petrobras, in particular, employs over 1600 people at its research center and maintains relations with several universities. Table 2 confirms these facts and shows that Petrobras is well ranked among the oil companies investing in R&D, especially regarding percentage of revenue invested in R&D. Most of these investments are associated with the new challenges in deep waters and subsalt.
As about one quarter of world production occurs in Brazilian deep waters, and the most important recent discoveries were here, other companies are also forming major research centers in Brazil. Although the oil sector is classified as low-tech due to investments below 1% of its revenues in R&D, the deep waters segment has been outstanding according to more complex and technological researches.
However, more innovative efforts do not guarantee overcoming all obstacles. They increase the likelihood of success. Uncertainties relate to possibilities, costs and future accidents are not likely to be fully eliminated. Regardless of company or technical team involved in the activity.
Under these conditions, companies have to invest in different forms of training to increase their scope efficiency. This tends to be reflected in the following aspects: i) increasing the exploration opportunities, ii) increasing the oil recovery factor, iii) improving the ability to produce and transport the hydrocarbons in adverse conditions, iv) reducing costs without increasing risks of accidents; v) increasing the reliability and safety of procedures and operations.
In summary, the processes of learning and technological developments tend to result from a variety of efforts involving various agents including the public level. It is advantageous that these processes are continually encouraged by governments and regulatory bodies, increasing their effects and extent across the industry. It seems to be the best way for taking advantages of hydrocarbon resources located in Brazil. Thus, the benefits of this production may be much greater than the costs involved.


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Today`s Langadu Massacre Day
Mail Staff May 04, 2022
A protest rally held on 21 May, 1989; Dhaka, Bangladesh. Feature Today is May 4, Langadu Massacre Day. Today marks the 33rd anniversary o...
A protest rally held on 21 May, 1989; Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Today is May 4, Langadu Massacre Day. Today marks the 33rd anniversary of this massacre.
On this day in 1989, the Settler Bengalis, with the help of the Army and the Village Defense Force (VDP), carried out the planned massacre in the hilly villages of Langadu Upazila of Rangamati District. This caused many hill casualties. Settlers Bengali burned down houses and destroyed Buddhist temples and Buddha statues. But even today there has been no trial for this genocide.
According to Amnesty International, retaliatory attacks on hill villagers in Langadu began two and a half hours after Langadu Upazila Chairman Abdur Rashid Sarkar was shot dead near his office on May 4, 1989, at 4-5 pm.
At least 36 men, women, and children were killed in the retaliatory attack. However, the actual death toll could be higher, the report said. Although the peacekeepers were blamed for the death of Abdur Rashid Sarkar, Amnesty International did not find any cause, the report said.
"At least six villages were attacked, hundreds of houses, numerous Buddhist temples, and two Christian churches were set on fire," the Amnesty report said.
02 June 2017; Langudu Attack. Photo: The Daily Star
Survivors flee to the hill and forests for shelter, and a large number of them cross the Bangladesh border and take refuge in the Indian state of Tripura. "
Chakma Chief Barrister Debashish Roy, former Member of Parliament Chaithoyai Roaza, former Member of Parliament Sudipta Dewan, former Adviser to the President Subimal Dewan, Rangamati District Council Chairman Gautam Dewan, and Rangamati Sadar Division Chairman demanded to justice and handed over a memorandum to the Rangamati Deputy Commissioner.
In the memorandum, they described the horrors of the massacre. They mentioned that ``Anil Bihari Chakma, a member of Parbatya Zila Parishad, former chairman of Langadu Union Parishad and headman of Langadu Mouza No. 3, was attacked at his residence despite all security measures being taken at the Upazila Sadar. Fortunately, he survived, but many of his wives and neighbors (who took hideout in Headman's residence) were brutally murdered. The assassins did not stop killing these innocent women, men, and children with firearms including knives and spears. The bodies were thrown into the house and set on fire. Anil Bihari Chakma took his wife's body out of the house and kept it under guard all night in the forest around the house. When they went to the police station in the morning to report the incident, they did not find any trace of the body. Due to the dire nature of the situation, it was not possible to bury the bodies according to religious rules. " (Source: Radar, Logang Genocide Number).
The country was under military rule at the time of the incident. The dictator Ershad was in the seat of power. As a result, the news of this barbaric massacre was not published or allowed to be published in any newspaper in Bangladesh at that time.
The Greater Chittagong Hill Tracts Student Council was born on 20 May '89 in protest of this genocide.
The Pahari Chhatra Parishad held a silent procession on the streets of Dhaka on May 21, 1969, and organized a protest rally in front of the National Press Club to formally protest against this horrific genocide. In it, the leaders of the Pahari Chhatra Parishad strongly condemned the barbaric killings and demanded compensation for the affected families, including the publication of a white paper through judicial investigation and punishment of the guilty.
On May 30, 1989, Buddhist monks staged a silent protest in Dhaka in protest of this barbaric massacre.
But in this long 33 years of power shifts in the country, no government has taken any disciplinary action against those involved in the genocide. Not only that, more than a dozen genocides in the Chittagong Hill Tracts so far have not been brought to justice. Even the proper investigation report of these genocides has not been released to date.
As these killings in the Chittagong Hill Tracts have not been brought to justice, the hill people have to face repeated communal attacks. Such barbaric attacks did not stop even after the CHT Accords. On the contrary, it can be said that more communal attacks have taken place in the CHT than before the agreement.
The military personnel encouraging Bengali settelers in The Langudu Attack on 02 June 2017;File photo
Witnessing the genocide, on June 2, 2017, another barbaric communal attack was carried out on the Langudu. Settler Bengalis, in collaboration with the army administration, attacked several villages in the hills, burning more than two hundred houses and burning to death an 80-year-old woman. In the same vein, communal attacks were carried out on the hills in Langadu in 2011.
Source: https://blogs.ubc.ca/etec530summer2014/files/2014/07/Genocide-UN-Definition.png
The government should take the initiative of proper justice by publishing the white paper on all the genocides that have taken place in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, including the Langadu genocide. Remember, the people will continue to demand justice for these killings until justice is done.
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PDT Chair Angela Peacock Nominated for Prestigious Role Model of the Year Award at European Diversity Awards!
We are delighted to announce that our inspirational chair-woman, Angela Peacock, is nominated for this year's Outnews Global Inspirational Role Model of the Year award at the prestigious European Diversity Awards!
The European Diversity Awards, which will be held at the Natural History Museum on 29th November 2016, celebrates a business person who is helping develop a culture that allows "the most skilled and talented people to succeed, regardless of gender, race, physical abilities or sexual orientation."
Here's Angela in her own words on what the award nomination means to her and the People Development Team…
"I am thrilled and humbled to have been nominated for the award of Inspirational Role Model of the Year at the 2016 European Diversity Awards.
"The organisation I founded and now Chair, the People Development Team, attracted attention when it began some twenty years ago as an all-female run company leading the way in the strategic leadership space. At that time we learnt a lot about exclusion and how our decision making processes can be hijacked by our unconscious biases. PDTGlobal has worked in the inclusion space for almost 10 years now, braking down barriers for others to walk through. We boldly challenge the assumptions of "What Leaders Look like" – extending the questioning to explore every area from background to personality, from gender to age. Recognising that this work needs to drive the strategic conversation,deliver the emotional exploration and then offer the practical has been what has cut us at PDTGlobal apart from the rest. Being one of the first to deliver this work via advanced webinar technology and to design full service long term embedding is why we have built a client base from Microsoft to Dell,European Governments, many of the largest financial service organisations in the world and even global sporting operations.
"For many years I coached and mentored people who had the capability to succeed but had either never been offered the right opportunity, or had been subjected to subtle, debilitating bias that had eaten away at their self-esteem and destroyed their leadership aspirations. I always thought it would stop- now I recognise that working frankly and loudly in this space is what is changing things for our clients."
For more insight from Angela – from what inspired her to start the People Development Team to advice about starting your own business – check out this great interview by "We Are The City" from last October. She makes a great and inspirational speaker at conferences, with some very impactful "twists" to how she approaches this work.
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Most Needed Improvement: Access Control Software
By: Brian Rhodes, Published on Feb 16, 2015
100 integrators answered IPVM's question:
"Which aspect/element of access control system technology (ie: credentials, locks, controllers, management software, system openness, etc) most needs to improve? Why?"
Software and openness were the clear top 2 responses.
Here's an overview of their answers:
In this note, we break down each of these themes, sharing detailed commentary from integrators about these problems.
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This is a really good topic. Even though I agree with the comments on the first two issues (software&openess), in my world it's the lock hardware. There are dozens of manufactures that have different software and integration capabilites, but the lock hardware is basicly the same across all manufacturers. If you install the door hardware yourself, it's a much more managable experience. If you are in a construction project, it's a complete nightmare, especailly if it's a union job. The door hardware is spec'd by one company, the security controls by another, and the installation could be by the carpenter, electrician, door installer or others. Every construction project I have been involved in has been a nightmare from a door hardware standpoint. There are too many people involved, and everybody loses. The last project we installed was a high rise in Philly. The door company spec'd a separate power supply for every door. That's over 100 power supplies, with 120VAC power, for every door. We tried to value engineer it, but it was a loud "NO". Hardware specifying needs be fixed at the design and bid process; it is costing the owner s thousands of dollars in wasted expense. Extra power supplies, too many fire alarm releases, along with unqualified installers and specifiers equals disaster. The construction industry does amazing work, but this is an area that needs major improvements.
Agreed Eric - In our little part of the world a retro-fit is even more troublesome. Making it -work good + look good + stay good are the key differences between us and our competitors. Throw in the odd historic building and the cost to acheive the above might be higher than the cost of the hardware itself.
Vickee Liang
IPVMU Certified | 02/18/15 01:28am
The company that I worked for has access control software, it already have an mobile app function. I wonder if this is something that most of the access control software brand don't have? Also I would like to know if what does user want to see on the mobile app, other than push alert for access/door/alarm event?
To answer your question, no they don't have mobile software (most). The chief complaint from my CUSTOMERS? It is to hard and cumbersome. We don't think we should have to go to school everytime we want to use the Access System. Too many levels, too many this, too much that....stop the madness!
I agree with integration.
Manufacturers do not listen, or they don't hear. I am not sure which, but there is a difference.
Jonathan Lawry
Trecerdo, LLC | 02/18/15 08:12pm
You hear comparisons made about the lack of open standards in Access compared to video, like this article. In these comparisons, people generally equate cameras with door controllers (and VMS's to access hosts).
This analogy is flawed: Cameras are much more like card readers. Door controllers are more akin to VMS's, where more functional value is added. Yes, ONVIF has seen widespread adoption in the VMS-to-Camera link....but use of ONVIF to connect from the VMS to layers above is practically non-existent.
In this light, OSDP is indeed finding traction in the controller-to-reader link, just as ONVIF has found success in the VMS-to-Camera link.
What ONVIF C is attempting to do is something that has not yet seen analogous success in video: An open standard from the VMS and above. Any differentiating feature Axis adds to the controller level has to be added to ONVIF C, and ONVIF C indirectly constrains a controller's operating logic to be set up a certain way, which may complicate adoption.
I support standards and I am certainly not advocating against them. In fact, I think peer-to-peer standards to share information between devices will make inroads Access. However, until there is a standard that allows an entire VMS to just drop right in to another system, I wouldn't expect to see it elsewhere.
Howard Dame
Lock hardware will likely continue to be a significant issue, IMO. Besides having to deal with contractors, there's also the issue of dealing with building codes and fire marshalls (usually the Authority Having Jurisdiction - AHJ). We just completed a project where the FM had pre-authorized the use of regular locks (i.e. non-exit devices) for 2 pairs of doors, but, at final inspection he changed his mind. Besides the additional cost, there was lots of scrambling to get these doors re-fitted with new hardware. What a pain -- and nothing you can do about it, except comply.
Eric mentioned, on one of his projects, that the door supplier spec'd a separate power supply each for over 100 doors. I'm not surprised. Many major lock manufacturers (Von Duprin, Yale, etc) state clearly in their product specs that the locks must be used with their own power supplies otherwise they won't honor their warranty. And most of those require such high current power supplies that you can only connect up to 2 locks per PS -- and those have to be very short cable runs.
Sometimes architects can be difficult since they may be more concerned about the appearance of the door hardware (and code compliance) than ease of installation and connection.
There are some products from Schlage & Yale that integrate the lock, reader, wireless data-comm & power completely into the lock. (Locks are low power running entirely off everyday alkaline batteries -- and for respectible periods of time.) Pretty slick actually, but there is some maintenance required -- i.e. replacing batteries every 6 months or so. But sadly, distribution of that category of locks is limited to the college and university segment -- kinda like the hotel market. It's pretty hard for a "regular" integrator to be able to buy that stuff.
Brian Rhodes
IPVMU Certified | In reply to Howard Dame | 02/18/15 11:25pm
But sadly, distribution of that category of locks is limited to the college and university segment -- kinda like the hotel market. It's pretty hard for a "regular" integrator to be able to buy that stuff.
Hello Howard:
I think most of the Schlage AD-400 wireless series (and even certain Assa stuff) is available through ADI, Anixter, and other distributors.
I'm not sure that discounts will be lowest for integrators buying through national distribution vs. being a dealer themselves, but I think those products are generally available for 'regular' integrators to buy.
Does that sound right, or am I misunderstanding what you wrote?
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Corpus Coranicum ist der Name eines 2007 begonnenen Forschungsprojekts der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Ziele des Projekts umfassen eine Dokumentation des Korantextes unter Berücksichtigung sowohl der handschriftlichen als auch der mündlichen Überlieferungsgestalt; des Weiteren werden jüdische, christliche und andere Texte aus dem Umfeld des Korans zugänglich gemacht und mit einzelnen Suren verglichen. Zum Korantext wird ein literaturwissenschaftlicher Kommentar erstellt.

Das auf 18 Jahre angelegte Projekt wird geleitet von zwei Projektverantwortlichen: Die Senior-Professorin für Arabistik Angelika Neuwirth (Freie Universität Berlin) zeichnet wissenschaftlich verantwortlich für den Kommentar. In den Arbeitsbereich von Michael Marx fallen die Leitung der Arbeitsstelle, die Erforschung der "Umwelttexte" sowie die Textdokumentation. Das Corpus Coranicum wird im Rahmen des Akademienprogramms gefördert, das von der Union der Akademien der Wissenschaften betreut und von Bund und Ländern finanziert wird. Zahlreiche Drittmittelprojekte, u. a. gefördert von der DFG, schließen sich an das Projekt an (Paleocoran; IRANKORAN).

Projektinhalte
Das Projekt umfasst drei größere Forschungsbereiche, die in jeweils eigenen Datenbanken über eine Webseite zugänglich gemacht werden und sich gegenseitig ergänzen:

Textdokumentation
Bei der Textdokumentation wird zwischen schriftlicher und mündlicher Tradition unterschieden, also zwischen den frühen Koranhandschriften und den in der islamischen Literatur bewahrten mündlichen Lesevarianten des Korantextes (vgl. Geschichte des Korantextes). Beide Traditionen sollen für jeden Koranvers online abrufbar sein und werden deshalb umfassend in zwei Datenbanken erfasst:
 Manuscripta Coranica (Datenbank der Koranhandschriften)
 Variae Lectiones Coranicae (Datenbank verschiedener Lesarten des Korans)

Manuscripta Coranica
In den Manuscripta Coranica werden die frühsten erhaltenen handschriftlichen Zeugen des Korantextes bereitgestellt; neben Bildern der weltweit in Bibliotheken und Privatsammlungen aufbewahrten Manuskripte finden sich in der Datenbank diverse Metadaten zu den Dokumenten. Diese betreffen u. a. paläographische und kodikologische Informationen, des Weiteren die Provenienz und den aktuellen Standort (soweit bekannt). Vergleichend kann auf der Website der arabische Korantext der Kairiner Ausgabe und dessen deutsche Übertragung (von Rudi Paret) abgerufen werden.

Variae Lectiones Coranicae
Da es sich bei den frühen arabischen Schriftstücken oftmals um mehrdeutige Texte handelt, weil sich das Schriftbild ohne diakritische Zeichen präsentiert (Rasm), entwickelten sich verschiedene Auslegungen des Korantextes (Lesevarianten), von denen einige in der Folge als autoritativ behandelt wurden. Um die Unterschiede zwischen den Deutungen verfolgen zu können, bietet die Datenbank Variae Lectiones Coranicae eine Synopse der in verschiedenen Exegesetraditionen verwendeten Lesarten. Jedes Wort einer Sure kann zu diesem Zweck ausgewählt und seine Varianten dargestellt werden.

Perspektivisch sollen beide Kataloge zusammen der Erforschung von schriftlicher und mündlicher Überlieferung des Korans dienen.

"Texte aus der Umwelt des Korans"
Diese Datenbank dokumentiert und interpretiert sprachliche und inhaltliche Ähnlichkeiten zwischen einzelnen Koranpassagen und vorkoranischen sowie frühislamischen Texten, die während der Entstehung des Korans in dessen Umfeld präsent waren oder präsent gewesen sein können. Die räumliche Dimension erstreckt sich dabei über europäische, afrikanische und asiatische Gebiete, wobei insbesondere jüngere jüdische und christliche Schriften sowie Texte der altarabischen Dichtung und Epigraphie untersucht werden. Zusammenfassend lassen sich diese chronologisch-topographischen Grenzen mit dem europazentrierten Konzept der Spätantike in Verbindung bringen. Die Datenbank soll durch Textanalysen Aussagen über den kulturellen und religiösen Horizont der Zeitgenossen Mohammeds sowie im Speziellen seiner Gemeinde ermöglichen.

Kommentar
Der Kommentar greift auf das Material der anderen Module zurück. Die Arbeit am Kommentar folgt der mutmaßlichen chronologischen Reihenfolge der Suren während der Entstehung des Korantextes, orientiert an der von Theodor Nöldeke erarbeiteten Chronologie. Dabei wird auch die Frage gestellt, inwieweit Nöldekes Chronologie überarbeitet und gegebenenfalls verfeinert werden sollte. Die einzelnen Suren sind über einen Zeitraum von mehr als zwei Jahrzehnten entstanden, was sich in deutlichen inhaltlichen und formalen Unterschieden widerspiegelt.

Hilfsmittel
Zur Darstellung der im Projekt verwendeten Sprachen wurde ein eigener Font entwickelt: "Coranica" Font ist mit Glyphensätzen für Arabisch, Griechisch, Hebräisch usw. ausgestattet.

Beispiel (1. Sure, 2. Vers)
Auf der Internetseite lassen sich folgende "Registerblätter" auswählen:
 Handschriften
 Lesarten
 Texte aus der Umwelt des Korans
 Kommentar
 Druckausgabe

Projekthistorie
In mehrfacher Hinsicht ist das Projekt in die Forschungstradition speziell der deutschsprachigen Orientalistik eingebunden. Es bedient sich u. a. der Methoden der Textkritik und setzt sich mit den bestehenden Vorarbeiten auseinander, zu denen die von Abraham Geiger, Theodor Nöldeke und Arthur Jeffrey gehören. Bezugspunkt bleiben dabei die "Rahmendaten der innerislamischen Tradition".

"Luxenberg-Debatte"
Die Vorbereitungsphase des Projektes (2005–2007) fiel in die Zeit intensiver Diskussionen zum erhaltenen Korantext. 2000 veröffentlichte ein unter dem Pseudonym Christoph Luxenberg arbeitender Autor eine Studie zum Koran, in der er verschiedene Textstellen durch eigene Lesarten neu interpretierte. In der Forschung ist er mit seinen Thesen, seiner Methodik und seinen Ergebnissen auf breiten Widerstand gestoßen, doch vermochte die Untersuchung eine vertiefte Auseinandersetzung mit den Überlieferungstraditionen des Korantextes anzustoßen. Schon vor Projektbeginn 2007 äußerten sich auch Neuwirth und Marx zu den von Luxenberg postulierten Annahmen; insofern kann die von Corpus Coranicum geleistete Dokumentation, Kommentierung und Interpretation des Korantextes als evidenzbasierte Replik verstanden werden. Die Auseinandersetzung mit Luxenbergs Sprachanalyse lässt sich u. a. in den vom Projekt erstellten "Umwelttexten" nachweisen. Jedenfalls leistet das Projekt Grundlagenforschung im Hinblick auf die Entstehung des Korantextes sowie dessen frühe Interpretation und kann damit zum Ausgangspunkt für weitere Debatten werden.

Gotthelf-Bergsträßer-Archiv
Ein Arbeitsschwerpunkt im Bereich "Textdokumentation" ist die Digitalisierung und Auswertung des Gotthelf-Bergsträßer-Archivs. Dabei handelt es sich um die von Gotthelf Bergsträßer und seinem Nachfolger Otto Pretzl in den 1920er und 1930er Jahren erstellte Sammlung von etwa 12.000 Fotos von Koranhandschriften und Lesartenwerken in Bibliotheken Europas und im Orient, die als Grundlage eines von Bergsträßer geplanten Apparatus Criticus zum Koran dienen sollten. Die Projektleiterin Neuwirth hat dieses Fotoarchiv von Anton Spitaler, der 2003 starb, anvertraut bekommen. Zuvor hatte Spitaler behauptet, das überaus wichtige Archiv sei 1944 bei einem Bombenangriff im Zweiten Weltkrieg in München zerstört worden.

Wiewohl die Fotos des Archivs einen wichtigen Bestandteil der Untersuchungsobjekte des Corpus Coranicum ausmachen, geht der Forschungsanspruch des Projektes weit über den ehemals von Bergsträßer anvisierten kritischen Apparat hinaus. Dieser war als Kommentar zur Kairiner Ausgabe (1929) gedacht, in dem traditionelle Lesarten sowie Handschriftenvarianten zur Herstellung eines sicheren Textes – im Sinne der historisch-kritischen Methode – verzeichnet werden sollten. Es kam nie zu einer gedruckten Ausgabe.

Literatur
 Angelika Neuwirth: Der Koran als Text der Spätantike. Ein europäischer Zugang. Verlag der Weltreligionen, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-458-71026-4
 Angelika Neuwirth et al.: Der Koran, Handkommentar mit Übersetzung, Bd. 1–2, Verlag der Weltreligionen, Frankfurt am Main 2010–2017.

Weblinks
 Corpus Coranicum Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften

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Freie Universität Berlin