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Russian Justice Ministry Adds Five New "Foreign Agents" to Its List
"The register of foreign mass media performing the functions of a foreign agent has been updated. On December 28, 2020, in compliance with the requirements of the current legislation of the Russian Federation, Darya Apahonchich, Denis Kamalyagin, Sergey Markelov, Lev Ponomarev, and Lyudmila Savitskaya were included in the register of foreign mass media performing the functions of a foreign agent." Screenshot of Russian Justice Ministry website, 28 December 2020
Human Rights Activists Lev Ponomaryov and Four Other People Added to List of "Foreign Agents"
OVD Info
For the first time, the Russian Ministry of Justice has placed individuals, including journalists and the human rights activist Lev Ponomaryov, on its registry of "[foreign] mass media acting as foreign agents," as reflected on the ministry's website.
Lev Ponomaryov, head of the movement For Human Rights, Radio Svoboda and MBKh Media journalist Lyudmila Savitskaya, 7×7 journalist Sergei Markelov, Pskovskaya Guberniya editor-in-chief Denis Kamalyagin, and grassroots activist and performance artist Darya Apahonchich.
Savitskaya, Markelov and Kamalyagin were probably placed on the registry of "foreign agents" due to their work with Radio Svoboda, which was placed on the registry of "foreign agents" in 2017.
In late December, the State Duma introduced and partly considered bills that would tighten the law on "foreign agents." Thus, repeated violations of accountability under the law can now result in five years in prison. According to the new clarifications, the status of "foreign agent" can be granted to individuals engaged in political activities and receiving money for this work from abroad. Another bill would prohibit the dissemination of information in the media produced by foreign agents unless it is specially labelled.
Translated by the Russian Reader
By hecksinductionhourin censorship, journalism, politics, putinism, regime, regions, rights, social media, zeitgeist December 28, 2020 272 WordsLeave a comment
Penalty Kick in the Teeth
Krylya Sovetov Goalkeeper to Be Punished for Unauthorized Interview in Which He Criticized Regime
According to MBKh Media and the club's website, the Samara football club Krylya Sovetov will take disciplinary action against goalkeeper Yevgeny Frolov for giving an interview not authorized by the club.
In an interview with football columnist Sergei Yegorov on the YouTube channel Futbolnyi Bigi, Frolov called the Russian president's televised addresses "empty talk."
In particular, the footballer said, "Like it or not, we won't be getting anything—the regime will just blow us off."
Prompted by media coverage, the club's management issued a statement that it and the coaching staff do not share Frolov's opinion.
"Recently, the federal and regional authorities have done a great deal to grow football in Samara Region and Russia," it says in the statement.
According to team management, the new Samara Arena stadium "would not have been possible without the support of the senior leadership not only of the region but also the country."
"By giving an interview without prior agreement with the club, [Frolov] violated the terms of his contract, harming the team's interests. The player will be punished according to the club's regulations on disciplinary actions, " the statement reads.
Krylya Sovetov goalkeeper Yevgeny Frolov. Photo courtesy of Sport
On April 26, Yevgeny Frolov gave an interview to the YouTube channel Futbolnyi Bigi. In particular, he said that Russian authorities have not been helping ordinary citizens during the coronavirus pandemic and [and the ensuing economic] crisis.
"Like it or not, we won't be getting anything—the regime will just blow us off. It will blow us off and say, 'There's no money, but hang in there.' They have money for themselves, but they have nothing for people. Take America and Europe: in many countries, [the authorities] have been helping their citizens, helping business. There is none of that here in Russia. What the president says on TV is all empty talk. There is no real action at all," said Frolov.
Source: MBKh Media
By hecksinductionhourin censorship, putinism, social media, sports, zeitgeist May 3, 2020 May 3, 2020 347 WordsLeave a comment
Russia Year Zero
Lev Ponomaryov took part in the protest outside the FSB building. Photo by Valery Sharifulin. Courtesy of TASS and BBC Russian Service
Dozens of Activists Detained at Pickets Outside FSB Building on Lubyanka Square; Human Rights Activist Lev Ponomaryov Injured
BBC Russian Service
Lev Ponomaryov, leader of the movement For Human Rights, was taken to hospital from a police station after being detained during a protest outside the FSB building on Lubyanka Square in Moscow.
According to the 78-year-old Ponomaryov, police officers did not beat him, but treated him quite harshly.
"It would be more correct to say they roughed me up. I don't remember the actual blow, but I do have a cut on my face. They grabbed me hard and dragged me," he told the BBC Russian Service.
Earlier, news agency Interfax reported that, according to Ponomaryov, a detained activist who was next to him was beaten at the Tagansky police station.
"Me and another young me were dragged from the cell. I lost my hearing aid along the way. The kid got it worse, he was young. Maybe they were bashful about beating me," the news agency quoted Ponomaryov as saying.
According to Ponomaryov, the police officers began acting roughly when all of the eleven detained activists, delivered to the Tagansky police station in the same paddy wagon, refused to enter the station one by one.
The activists joined hands. It was then, according to Ponomaryov, that the police began dragging the detainees forcibly into the station.
Police detained over forty activists during the protest on Lubyanka Square. Photo by Valery Sharifulin. Courtesy of TASS and BBC Russian Service
According to the human rights activist, the station commander watched it happened.
Ponomaryov said that he would probably petition the court to redress the needlessly harsh actions of the police and the beating of detainees.
A spokesperson for the Tagansky police station told the BBC Russian Service that they did not wish to comment on the situation with Lev Ponomaryov, since they had nothing to do with "what happened on the street."
According to Ponomaryov, despite the fact that he demanded to see his lawyer, Vasily Kushnir, he was allowed to see him only an hour after arriving at the police department.
After the lawyer arrived, an ambulance was called for the human rights activist. The attending physicians decided to take him to hospital.
Later on Saturday, Ponomaryov told Interfax that he was not found to have a concussion.
"I was checked out at First City Hospital. They did a CT scan and said that everything was more or less normal, no brain damage occurred," said Ponomaryov.
The human rights defender plans to document his injuries and file a lawsuit in connection with the beating, Interfax reports.
Marina Litvinovich, a member of the Public Monitoring Commission, told Interfax that police officers had violated the rights of both detained activists and public figures.
"Everything is bad here [at the Tagansky police department]. The police don't let the laywers in, and they even used force, including against Ponomaryov, " she told Interfax .
According to Lev Ponomaryov, police roughed up protesters when detaining them. Photo by Valery Sharifulin. Courtesy of TASS and BBC Russian Service
Alexei Melnikov, executive secretary of the Public Monitoring Commission, told Interfax that police at the Tverskoy District precinct also took a long time in allowing both lawyers and commission members to see detainees.
According to Melnikov, police officers refused to allow commission members to enter the building because, allegedly, they were not holding any detainees.
Ponomaryov was detained during solo pickets against political crackdowns. The protest took place outside the FSB building on Lubyanka Square. Police detained over forty protesters.
Among those detained were opposition activists Leonid Razvozzhayev and Sergei Udaltsov. According to OVD Info, a minor who had been filming the proceedings was also detained. Police did not specify the reason for the minor's arrest. According to OVD Info, he suffered an asthma attack in the paddy wagon.
According to Telegram channel Avtozak-LIVE, police broke journalist Fyodor Khudokormov's equipment while detaining him.
Moscow city hall had refused to sanction a rally in the city center against political crackdowns. Instead, they suggested to rally organizers that they hold the rally in the Lyublino District, in the city's far southeast, but the activists turned the offer down.
A photo of Lev Ponomaryov after his "rough handling" by police in Moscow on March 14, 2020. The photo was widely disseminated on Russian social media. Courtesy of Julia Aug
Yan Shenkman
I was at Lubyanka today during the rout of the pickets—pickets that hadn't really started yet. First, police grabbed the people holding placards, but they quickly ran out, so then they grabbed people who were just standing there.
Everyone has been writing that it was a protest against "political crackdowns." This is not quite true. I want to remind you that people came out under the slogan "We Are All in the Net(work)." The root cause and the reason people came was the Network Case in Penza and Petersburg. This is what causes such a brutal reaction among people in uniform. This was the reason why they got tough with Ponomaryov, nor was it the first time. When you sympathize with Ponomaryov, but say "there must be something" to the latest dirt about the Network, just put two and two together.
But the Network get clobbered every day. With the back of the hand. In the same way that people are beaten up in paddy wagons.
A month ago, I noticed this sneering expression on the faces of Russian National Guardsmen. It seemed to say, "You won't do anything to us. Things will be our way. We do what we like." The dogs have been given the command to attack.
By hecksinductionhourin protest, regime, rights, solidarity March 15, 2020 March 15, 2020 970 WordsLeave a comment
International Women's Day in St. Petersburg: Defying the Ban
Feminist activists queuing to picket at International Woman's Day protest on the corner of Malaya Sadovaya and Nevsky in Petersburg. Photo by AnFem
AN-FEM
The Banned Eighth of March, Petersburg
Once upon a time, the danger and risk in men's lives were considered the basis of their alleged superiority over women. Only those who walked the razor's edge looked danger and even death in the face and were thus spiritually elevated.
"My body is my business." Picketer at International Women's Day protest in Petersburg. Photo by AnFem
When today, International Women's Day, the Petersburg authorities have used the pretext of events that did not even take place, including the Shoulder to Lean On Festival, to prohibit women from publicly speaking out about the issues that matter to them in any way, all that remained for them was step onto their own razor's edge and take to the streets, risking their own safety and freedom, and thus one more time (if someone has not heard the argument) assert that archaic segregation is unacceptable.
Because, under these circumstances, each step is a small victory. Among other things, it is a victory over oneself and one's own fear. Each step is a reclaimed meter of urban space that should belong to people, but does not belong to them. It is a small step towards freedom, a step toward oneself — through the political, through the raucous intrusion into the chronotope of a spring day somewhere in the middle of an ugly regime. A small step into our common holiday. No one is free until everyone is free.
Photo reportage by AnFem
"On March 8, I think about women political prisoners, not spring." Picketer at International Women's Day protest in Petersburg. Photo by AnFem
Female Activists Hold Flash Mob Dance on the Field of Mars to Protest Violence Against Women; Pickets Held on Nevsky Prospect
Bumaga
MBKh Media reports that a feminist protest rally has taken place on the Field of Mars during which female activists played drums and performed chants protesting violence against women.
The rally featured a dance flash mob. The girls [sic] chanted such lines, in particular, as "The patriarchy is a judge / that judges me for being born. / And my punishment is / violence day after day." As MBKh Media reports, the Petersburg women borrowed the idea from Chilean feminists.
Feminist activists performing a flash mob dance and chant on the Field of Mars in Petersburg. Photo by AnFem
In addition, a series of pickets took place on the corner of Nevsky Prospect and Malaya Sadovaya, reports the web publication Sever.Realii. The picketers protested domestic violence and the law against "promotion" of homosexual relations, and in support of female political prisoners. Protest organizers had originally planned a rally [on Lenin Square], but city authorities refused to sanction it.
Thanks to AnFem for the photos and the first text. Translated by the Russian Reader
By hecksinductionhourin censorship, feminism, petrograd, photographs, protest March 8, 2020 March 8, 2020 485 WordsLeave a comment
Ivan Lyubshin: Five Years in Prison for a Social Media Comment
Ivan Lyubshin at the Kaluga city limits on the eve of his trial. Photo courtesy of Radio Svoboda
Court Sentences Kaluga Resident to Five Years and Two Months in Prison for Comment on Bombing at FSB Office
The Second Military District Court, sitting in Kaluga, has sentenced Kaluga resident Ivan Lyubshin to five years and two months in a medium security penal colony for violating Article 205.2.2 of the Russian Criminal Code, which criminalizes "exoneration of terrorism," for posting a comment on the VK social network about the 2018 suicide bombing at the Arkhangelsk office of the Federal Security Service (FSB). Pavel Chikov, head of the human rights group Agora, reported the verdict on his Telegram channel.
The prosecutor had asked the court to sentence Lyubshin to six years and one month in prison. According to Chikov, Lyubshin and his defense lawyer, Tatyana Molokanova, had insisted on an acquittal. It took the judge two hours to return the verdict.
"I called [Arkhangelsk teenage suicide bomber Mikhail] Zhlobitsky 'hero of the week, at least," meaning that he was the hero of the news. This was stretched to make it seems I'd meant he was a hero in general," the accused said in January of this year.
Lyubshin later deleted the social media comment.
The court examined all witnesses and evidence in the case over a single day, March 4, without Lyubshin present. He told OVD Info that he was on sick leave, and had a doctor's appointment that day, so he was forced to miss the court hearing.
The prosecution asked that the hearing be postponed until March 14 and Lyubshin's attendance be assured through compulsory delivery of his person to the court. The defense asked for the same postponement, but objected to the prosecution's motion for compulsory delivery.
Presiding Judge Alexei Grinev asked for a note from Lyubshin's doctors to the effect that the defendant was physically unable to attend the court hearing. The doctors refused to give Lyubshin such a note, explaining that such notes were issued only at the court's request.
The court ruled that the defendant has thus failed to appeared and postponed the hearing of the case until March 5. Lyubshin reported that the court also ruled that he be forcibly delivered to the hearing.
Lyubshin also reported that the FSB officers who were witnesses in his case left in the same car as the prosecutor after the hearing. In addition, one FSB officer, another witness in the case, tried to ask the doctors for details about Lyubshin's illness. However, they only confirmed that Lyubshin was under their care.
In October 2019, Lyubshin was placed under house arrest on charges of "exonerating terrorism." He claimed then that FSB officers who interrogated him had tortured him, but the Russian Investigative Committee declined to launch a criminal case against the security service officers in question. In late December 2019, Lyubshin was released on his own recognizance. In March 2019, after the partial decriminalization of Article 282 of the Criminal Code, the court dismissed incitement of hatred charges against Lyubshin for posts on VK. In November 2017, he was found guilty of inciting hatred (Article 282.1) and "exonerating Nazism" (Article 354.1.2) for posts on VK. He was sentenced to pay a fine of 400,000 rubles. Lyubshin was also accused of distributing pornography, but the court acquitted him.
Ivan Lyubshin is the latest in a growing list of Russians prosecuted or facing prosecution for allegedly "exonerating" the suicide bomber Mikhail Zhlobitsky on social media or in the traditional media. Lyubshin has joined the ranks of Svetlana Prokopieva, Anton Ammosov, Pavel Zlomnov, Nadezhda Romasenko, Alexander Dovydenko, Galina Gorina, Alexander Sokolov, Yekaterina Muranova, 15-year-old Moscow schoolboy Kirill, and Vyacheslav Lukichev. On March 5, OVD Info reported that Oleg Nemtsev, a trucker in Arkhangelsk Region, had been charged with the same "crime." Translated by the Russian Reader
By hecksinductionhourin censorship, regime, regions, rights, social media, zeitgeist March 8, 2020 March 8, 2020 634 WordsLeave a comment
Reading the Signs (Team 29)
Hi, this is Natasha Kurchenkova.
This week, everyone was wondering what the text of the new Russian constitution meant and, most importantly, how it would ultimately help one particular person remain in power. And here I had thought we were busy trying to divine such things all the time! When methods for making decisions are almost totally opaque, the art of reading the various signs and signals sent from the top is elevated into a cult. Some pundits show off their familiarity with sacred knowledge, while others hone their interpretive skills on national TV. What makes the process particularly crazy is that there is often no logic whatsoever in the way the system acts.
It is even harder for those whom the system has taken hostage—for example, Konstantin Kotov, sentenced to four years in prison for four peaceful ("unsanctioned") protests. He was arrested on August 12 of last year. The criminal investigation of his case took a whole three days, while the trial took another two days, and after that Kotov was sent to prison. But this week the Second Court of Appeal overturned the Moscow City Court's refusal to commute Kotov's sentence and ordered a new trial in the case. What the hell does it all mean?
Team 29 lawyer Yevgeny Smirnov, a member of Kotov's defense team, argues it is a good sign, despite the fact that the court could have immediately closed the criminal case, although it declined to do so.
"The court clearly indicated that Kotov would be released, given that the Moscow City Court had reduced his sentence to a year and the fact that, in a month and a half, under the revised rules for time served in custody, he will have been imprisoned for a year," Smirnov wrote. "All of Konstantin's defense lawyers insist on his complete innocence and will seek to have the criminal case quashed and their client exonerated. In view of the rulings made by the Russian Constitutional Court, the European Court of Human Rights, and simple common sense, such a decision is the only possible outcome."
We have also been picking up signals from the penal colonies, where we have been trying to locate one inmate. Almost nothing is known about his case, and the individual in question simply vanished a few years ago. It turns out that the official replies we have been receiving in response to a completely straightforward question also have to be interpreted. Just get a load of this:
"In accordance with Article 7 of Federal Law No. 152 on personal data, enacted 27 July 2006, persons who have received access to personal data are obliged not to disclose or distribute personal data to third parties without the consent of the person in question, unless otherwise stipulated by federal law. Given that the convicted man is not being held at [this penal colony], and it is not possible to obtain his consent, the information you have requested cannot be disclosed."
How do you not go crazy when the state speaks to you in this language?
For the time being, trying to decipher the system's signals is, alas, perhaps the most constructive way of communicating with it.
If you need a sign, this is it.
—Natasha and Team 29
* When I contacted Team 29 today, asking them for more details about the case in question, they replied that they would publish something about it after they had located the inmate in question. \\ TRR
Source: Team 29 weekly email newsletter, dated 7 March 2020. Photo and translation by the Russian Reader
By hecksinductionhourin photographs, regime, rights March 7, 2020 March 7, 2020 584 WordsLeave a comment
"Seven Years in Prison for Two Pages": An Open Letter by Journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva
Pskov journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva faces up to seven years in prison for her published comments. In November of last year—first, in a broadcast on the radio station Echo of Moscow in Pskov, then on the website Pskov Newswire—she discussed the reasons why a 17-year-old man blew himself up at the FSB office in Arkhangelsk. She has now been charged with publicly "condoning" terrorism, as punishable under Article 205.2.2 of the Russian Federal Criminal Code.
On October 1, Echo Moscow, Mediazona, Novaya Gazeta, TV Rain, Takie Dela, Snob, MBKh Media, 7×7, Pskovskaya Guberniya, MOKH, Wonderzine, and Meduza published an open letter by Prokopieva. We have joined them in this act of solidarity.
My name (our name?) is Svetlana Prokopyeva. I am a journalist, and I could be sent to prison for seven years for "condoning" terrorism.
Nearly a year ago, there was a bomb blast in Arkhangelsk. It was unexpected and stunning: 17-year-old Mikhail Zhlobitsky blew himself up in the entrance to the FSB office there. Before he did this, he wrote he was blowing himself up because the FSB had become "brazen," framing and torturing people.
The suicide bombing was the subject of my regular commentary on the radio station Echo of Moscow in Pskov. "Acting intentionally," I wrote a text entitled "Crackdowns for the State." My commentary was aired on November 7 and then was published on the website Pskov Newswire.
Nearly a month passed before Pskov Newswire and Echo of Moscow received warnings from Roskomnadzor: Russia's quasi-censor saw evidence I had "condoned" terrorism in my comments. In early December, administrative charges were filed against the two media outlets, costing them 350,000 rubles in fines when a justice of the peace found them guilty of the charges. Simultaneously, the Pskov office of the Russian Investigative Committee launched an inquiry into whether I had personally violated Article 205.2 of the Russian Criminal Code. Criminal prosecution loomed as a distinct possibility, but we laughed, thinking they must be crazy. What could they mean by "condoning" terrorism? In its warnings, Roskomnadzor failed to point to a single phrase or even word that would qualify as evidence that I had condoned terrorism. Nor could it point them out because they were not there. As it soon transpired, however, that did not matter.
On February 6, my doorbell rang. When I opened it, a dozen armed, helmeted men rushed in, pinning me to the wall in the far room with their shields. This was how I found out the authorities had, in fact, decided to file charges against me.
A police search is a disgusting, humiliating procedure. One group of strangers roots through your things while another group of strangers looks on indifferently. Old notes, receipts, and letters sent from other countries take on a suspicious, criminal tinge, demanding an explanation. The things you need the most, including your laptop and telephone, are turned into "physical evidence." Your colleagues and family members are now liable to becoming "accomplices" without even trying.
I was robbed that day: the authorities confiscated three laptops, two telephones, a dictaphone, and flash drives. When they blocked my bank accounts six months later, they robbed me again: I was only a "suspect" when I was placed on Rosfinmonitoring's list of "extremists" and "terrorists." I am now unable to get a bank card in my own name, open a savings account or apply for a mortgage. The Russian state has made it impossible for me to exist financially.
All that remained for the authorities was to rob me of the last thing I had: my freedom. On September 20, I was officially charged with violating Article 205.2.2 of the criminal code: condoning terrorism via the mass media. If convicted, I could be fined up to one million rubles or sent to prison for up to seven years.
I deny any wrongdoing. I consider the charges against me petty revenge on the part of security services officers offended by my remarks. I claimed they were responsible for the blast in Arkhangelsk. I wrote that the state's crackdowns had generated a backlash: brutal law enforcement policies had embittered people. Since legal means of protesting had been blocked, the desire to protest had been pushed into such socially dangerous channels.
Publish this quotation from my text if you are not afraid.
"A strong state. A strong president, a strong governor. A country in which power belongs to strongmen.
"The Arkhangelsk suicide bomber's generation has grown up in this atmosphere. They know it is forbidden to attend protest rallies: police can break up rallies or, worse, they can beat up protesters and then convict them of crimes. This generation knows that solo pickets are a punishable offense. They see that you can belong only to certain political parties without suffering for it and that you can voice only a certain range of opinions without fearing for your safety. This generation has been taught that you cannot find justice in court: judges will return the verdicts the law enforcement agencies and prosecutors want them to return.
"The long-term restriction of political and civic freedoms has given rise in Russia to a state that is not only devoid of liberty but oppressive, a state with which it is unsafe and scary to deal."
This is what I still think. Moreover, in my opinion, the Russian state has only confirmed my arguments by charging me with a crime.
"Their only task is to punish, to prove someone's guilt and convict them. The merest formal excuse is enough to drag someone into the grindstone of the legal system," I wrote.
I did not condone terrorism. I analyzed the causes of the attack. I tried to understand why a young man who had his whole life ahead of him decided to commit a crime and kill himself. Perhaps my reconstruction of his motives was mistaken. I would be glad to be mistaken, but no one has proven I was. It is rather primitive and crude to charge someone with a crime rather than engaging in a discussion. It is like punching someone in the face for something theyon said.
It is a punch in the face of every journalist in our country.
It is impossible to know in advance what words in what order will tick off the strongmen. They have labeled the opinion I voiced a crime. They have turned someone who was just doing her job into a criminal.
Using the same rationale, you can cook up a criminal case based on any more or less critical text. You merely need to find so-called experts who will sign an "expert opinion" for police investigators. If you know this can happen, will you tackle thorny subjects as a journalist? Will you ask questions that are certain to irritate the authorities? Will you accuse high-ranking officials of crimes?
The criminal case against me is an attempt to murder free speech. Remembering how the authorities made an example of me, dozens and hundreds of other journalists will not dare tell the truth when it needs to be told.
Post updated on July 3, 2020.; Translated by the Russian Reader
Svetlana Prokopyeva outside the Pskov Regional Court in July 2020 by Ludmila Savitskaya (RFE/RL)
By hecksinductionhourin censorship, journalism, regime, regions, solidarity, zeitgeist October 6, 2019 July 4, 2020 1,218 WordsLeave a comment
Moscow schoolchildren were smart enough to win the All-Russian Chemistry Olympiad in 2017, but the Moscow police department thinks they are not smart enough to know and speak their own minds when it comes to politics. Photo courtesy of Mos.ru, the official website of the Moscow mayor's office
Policewoman Tells Moscow Schoolchildren "You Are Kaput" and Threatens Criminal Charges If They Attend Protest Rallies
Mediazona
On condition of anonymity, a pupil at a school in Moscow has told Mediazona that today, during a lesson, a woman in a police uniform who identified herself as an inspector for minors came to his class. She threatened the schoolchildren with criminal charges if they attended protest rallies and said they would be unable to go to university.
Our source recorded the policewoman's monologue on his telephone.
"As you know, protest rallies have been going on here in Moscow. People who attend them face administrative charges for this and then criminal charges. When people say they just happened to be in the same place, it makes no impression on me. I just put them on the watch list, and they get visits not only from beat cops but also from detectives," she says at the beginning of her speech.
The policewoman then says she plans to put children on the watch list without bothering to figure out what happened.
"I do not care whether you there or not there, whether you went to a rally or were on a 'stroll,' whether you were just going to the toilet or not. I am going to put you on the watch list and that is that: you are kaput," she says.
On a second recording, made in a parallel class at the same school, the policewoman goes into more detail about the dangers of being placed on the watch list of the police's commission for the affairs of minors.
"When you are put on the watch list you can forget about your future and your plans for the future because you will not be able to get into any university. I am not talking about not being able to buy cigarettes or [inaudible] on a park bench. This is really serious. [. . .] I think your parents could also have a rough time at work. And basically, it is no fun being on the watch list, something everyone finds out later. Because we alert everyone that their employee's child has been put on the watch list for this reason and that," she says.
The school's deputy headmaster then addresses the pupils.
"The main thing you have to understand is that the people who try to get you involved in this are just manipulating you. They could not care less about your civic stance. You are just numbers to them. They count you up and say that a hundred people, a thousand people came out for the rally. During the war, people like this were called 'cannon fodder,'" he says.
"Remember that every so-called stroll in quotation marks—because, unfortunately, all children say they were strolling there—can bounce back on you in the sense that your entire educational trajectory and all your plans can be ruined very bitterly. We just worked together to try and save a pupil in the eleventh form after this situation because he was planning to go to a higher education institution connected with the law enforcement authorities. A lawyer was hired to defend him and he managed to get the charges dropped because the kid really had participated in so many academic competitions that it played a decisive role. But I would not wish what he went through on anyone. So don't do it. Be smart and realize that the money they [inaudible] will later turn into tears of blood shed by your parents in the form of heavy fines," he says.
According to our anonymous source, the preventive talks took place in the ninth and tenth forms at his school. He speculated they had probably taken place in other forms, too.
By hecksinductionhourin academics, education, politics, protest, regime, rights, society, youth, zeitgeist September 7, 2019 September 7, 2019 677 WordsLeave a comment
Five Years in Prison for a Tweet
Vladislav Sinitsa in the cage during his custody hearing on August 5. Photo courtesy of Mediazona
Court Sentences Vladislav Sinitsa to Five Years in Prison for Tweet about Children of Security Forces Officers
Moscow's Presna District Court has sentenced Vladislav Sinitsa, a financial manager from the Moscow Region, to five years in a medium-security penal colony for a tweet about the children of security forces officers, reports the Moscow News Agency.
Judge Elena Abramova found Sinitsa guilty of inciting hatred with the threat of violence (punishable under Article 282.2.a of the Russian Criminal Code). The prosecutor had asked her to sentence Sinitsa to six years in prison.
The court handed down the verdict on the second day of the trial per se.
The court questioned two witnesses: Russian National Guardsmen Alexander Andreyev and Artyom Tarasov, who, allegedly, saw Sinitsa's tweet.
Andreyev said he regarded the tweet as a call to "kidnap the children of National Guardsmen and slaughter them." However, he was unable to tell the court his own username on Twitter. He claimed he saw the tweet after searching for "Max Steklov," which is Sinitsa's username.
Tarasov also said he took the tweet as a threat.
After the witnesses were questioned, the prosecutor summarized the two volumes of the case file, including the findings of forensic experts from the Center for Socio-Cultural Forensic Testing [sic]. They found evidence in the tweet of calls for violent action against the security forces, and signs of threats and incitement of hatred towards them.
It has transpired that the people who performed the forensic examination for the prosecution had no specialized education in the field.
In turn, the defense questioned forensic experts who had examined Sinitsa's tweets at its request: Elena Novozhilova, a linguist from the nonprofit Independent Forensic Testing Center, and Maria Kulikova, an analyst with the Center for Forensic Examination and Research.
Kulikova harshly criticized the forensic examination commissioned by the prosecution. Both experts spoke of its poor quality.
Mediazona has written at length abut the criminal case against Sinitsa.
On July 31, Sinitsa supplied his own answer to the question of whether it was a good idea to publish the identities of security forces officers in a tweet published under the username "Max Steklov."
The tweet was quoted on national TV channels.
Later, on August 3, the Russian Investigative Committee opened a criminal investigation. Two days later, the Presna District Court remanded Sinitsa in custody.
Sinitsa has insisted he was not calling on anyone to do anything but had implied popular unrest could arise if the security forces continued beating protesters.
By hecksinductionhourin censorship, obscurantism, protest, putinism, regime, rights, zeitgeist September 3, 2019 September 3, 2019 435 WordsLeave a comment
"Court-Martial Putin!"
"Citizen Putin! Don't reduce Russia to Syria: don't run for president anymore. We are going to have deal with fixing the consequences of your rule for years as it is." Dmitry Skurikhin embossed this slogan on his van in early 2015—presciently, before the Kremlin sent its military to defend the Assad regime later the same year. Photo courtesy of Novy Krasnosel
Yevgenia Litvinova
[The following was dispatched by Open Russia.]
In Petersburg, an Open Russia activist was detained at a courthouse and taken to a police station for wearing a patch on his jacket that read "Court-Martial Putin."
Businessman and civic activist Dmitry Skurikhin was detained at the St. Petersburg City Court. He was at the courthouse to attend a hearing appealing a three-day jail sentence for his involvement in the Angry Mothers March.
Police detained Skurikhin because of the phrase "Court-martial Putin," embroidered on his blazer. Bailiffs stopped him at the entrance to the court and hit the alarm button, summoning a squad of armed policemen to the courthouse. Skurikhin was taken to the 29th Police Precinct, where police attempted to make him explain his "unauthorized picket" at the courthouse.
After discussing the matter with the police, Skurikhin was released. He went to the courthouse, where he was allowed inside without hindrance. But the hearing in his case, scheduled for one o'clock, had already adjourned. The case had been heard in his absence. Skurikhin has filed a complaint with the court's chairman on this point.
A businessman from Leningrad Region and father of five children, Skurikhin has gained notoriety for the political posters he puts up in one of his stores, posters inspired by current events. Local police have tried on several occasions to fine Skurikhin for the alleged misdemeanor of "placing announcements in an inappropriate place." Skurikhin has, however, been acquitted by courts on each occasion.
By hecksinductionhourin censorship, politics, protest, putinism, regime, regions, zeitgeist April 26, 2019 April 26, 2019 315 WordsLeave a comment


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This version (named "gxrank" since the original script was named "grank," I needed to differentiate between the two in my bin directory and - I'll admit - I wasted not one ounce of imagination on the title ;) will accept a URL you supply and check Google's index for your site. It will then let you know how many pages, and which ones, are in Google's index.
While this might not seem like a valuable script to have, I use it a lot to test how fast I can put sites up for people and get them indexed. For instance, I might put up a site today and do all the standard SEO falderal. Of course, I won't run this script that night, but, usually by the next day, I'll be able to run this script and, at least, get back 1 result for the base URL. Then, over time, I can run this script (usually once per day, so I can feel impressed ;) and see how many pages on my site have been indexed. This script was, most specifically, made to track high-activity blogs (at least a post a day), but I use it for smaller sites, as well. If I put a site up that has 10 pages, it's nice to know when (or should I say if? ;) those 10 pages get fully indexed.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Although this warning is on the original Google search rank index page, it bears repeating here and now. If you use wget (as we are in this script), or any CLI web-browsing/webpage-grabbing software, and want to fake the User-Agent, please be careful. Please check this online article regarding the likelihood that you may be sued if you masquerade as Mozilla.
# gxrank - how many pages does Google have in its index for you?
echo "URL with or with http(s)://, ftp://, etc"
echo "Searching For Google Indexed Pages For $url..."
echo "Finished Searching Google Index"
echo "Out Of Approximately $num_results Results"


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package pl.edu.agh.scalamas.app

import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory
import pl.edu.agh.scalamas.mas.LogicStrategy
import pl.edu.agh.scalamas.mas.LogicTypes._
import pl.edu.agh.scalamas.random.RandomGeneratorComponent
import pl.edu.agh.scalamas.stats.StatsComponent

import scala.collection.mutable
import scala.concurrent.duration._

/**
 * Runner for sequential apps.
 */
trait SequentialRunner {
  this: AgentRuntimeComponent
    with LogicStrategy
    with StatsComponent
    with RandomGeneratorComponent=>

  lazy val islandsNumber = agentRuntime.config.getInt("mas.islandsNumber")

  class Logger(loggingInterval: FiniteDuration) {
    val log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(classOf[SequentialRunner])
    val startTime = System.currentTimeMillis()
    var logDeadline = loggingInterval.fromNow

    def printOverdueLog(): Unit = {
      if (logDeadline.isOverdue()) {
        printLog
        logDeadline = loggingInterval.fromNow
      }
    }

    def printLog: Unit = {
      val time = System.currentTimeMillis() - startTime
      log info (s"$time ${formatter(stats.getNow)}")
    }

    printLog
  }

  def run(duration: FiniteDuration): Unit = {
    val logger = new Logger(1.second)
    val deadline = duration.fromNow
    var islands = Array.fill(islandsNumber)(logic.initialPopulation)
    while (deadline.hasTimeLeft) {
      val migrators = mutable.ArrayBuffer.empty[Agent]
      def migration: MeetingFunction = {
        case (Migration(_), agents) =>
          migrators ++= agents
          List.empty[Agent]
      }

      islands = islands.map(island => island.groupBy(logic.behaviourFunction).flatMap(migration orElse logic.meetingsFunction).toList)

      migrators.foreach {
        agent =>
          val destination = random.nextInt(islandsNumber)
          islands(destination) ::= agent
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      logger.printOverdueLog()
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Big Game Howie Delivers, Frogs Advance with 4-1 Win over Aggies
TCU shook off the Sunday loss and delivered a solid performance to send the Aggies home today.
By Travis Kennedy Jun 20, 2017, 6:42pm CDT
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The loser's bracket ain't so bad. In fact, it was pretty fun today. I was in Omaha to watch the Frogs lose to Florida on Sunday. That was tough to watch, but they had a very good pitcher who had an incredible day and that usually means your team is going to win. That's what happened for the Frogs today.
Brian Howard has been hyped up a lot since Jim Schlossnagle dubbed him "Big Game Howie" after his Fort Worth Super Regional clinching performance just over a week ago. In the back of your mind you wonder if fawning publicly over how clutch a player is might affect his psyche and his "clutchness". I wondered that, but it looks like Brian Howard never gave it a second thought. He just went right out and did what he does best: deliver dominant postseason pitching.
Howard pitched seven innings, giving up just one run on five hits and striking out 12 Aggies without issuing a single walk. It's almost like he took it as a challenge to show people that his nickname actually didn't quite do him justice. Through five innings, he had given up just two hits, and he was through 5 2⁄3 innings before he surrendered the only run for Texas A&M. The win improved Howard's record to 12-3 on the year, and his ERA is down to 3.77 from around 5.00 at the end of the regular season.
TCU scored first to make it 1-0 in the second inning after Nolan Brown doubled to lead off, advanced to third on a groundout by Barzilli and crossed the plate on a groundout by Wanhanen. After a quick 1-2-3 inning by Howard, Ryan Merrill homered to lead off the third and make it 2-0. On a side note, all of the locals in Omaha that I spoke to still hold TCU as one of their favorite teams to root for, and having a hometown Omaha kid like Merrill hasn't hurt.
Later in the third inning, Humphreys was hit by a pitch with one out and Skoug doubled to right-center to drive him in for a 3-0 lead. Skoug was later driven home on a single from Barzilli for TCU's fourth and final run of the game. Sean Wymer jumped into the action in the eighth and put together two straight three-up-three-down innings on just 20 pitches to ensure that was all the runs the Frogs would need.
The win puts TCU at 48-17 on the season, and ensures that they get to play at least one more game on Thursday night against the loser of tonight's game between Louisville and Florida. That game will take place at 7:00 pm CT on ESPN2. TCU will get to choose between Lodolo and Traver to take the mound in that game, and should have their entire bullpen available as well.
Like I said, today reminded us the loser's bracket ain't so bad...as long as you can keep winning.


Today is the second anniversary of Joe's passing. To honor Joe on this day, I chose a clip from an interview I did with him, in which he describes the making of "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy." (Apologies for the sound quality, but it was recorded on a cheap digital audio recorder.) The transcription is below the YouTube clip. Joe lives on through his music.
"I played 'Mercy, Mercy, Mercy' on the acoustic piano all the time. I used to play the Wurlitzer when I toured in Europe in the early fifties, in the US camps. They had a lot of those instruments at the camps, for the soldiers. Little Wurlitzers. I loved to play them. And I played them on those shows often times, for G.I.'s and all that, you know? I always loved that sound. And then when I worked with Dinah, we toured a lot with Ray Charles, and Ray Charles had one. And he did a couple of the songs, you know, 'What'd I Say,' with a Wurlitzer. And sometimes when the pianos were not in good shape–in the South it happened quite often– Dinah asked Ray to let me play on it. And I always liked that sound from way back, and I really know how to play it.


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Services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 6 at Grace Lutheran Church, 2225 Washington Street in Lincoln. Rev. Eric Lesher will officiate. Visitation will be held Tuesday, Feb. 5, from 4 -8 p.m., with family greeting friends from 6- 8 p.m. at Roper and Sons Funeral Chapel, 4300 'O' Street in Lincoln.
Memorials may be given in Carol's name to the American Heart Association, 1540 S. 70th Street, Suite 100, Lincoln, Neb. 68506.
Carol Jean (Belt) Schroeder was born on March 7, 1927, to Fred and Lydia (Hopp) Belt and raised on a farm Northwest of Emerson. Carol was baptized and confirmed at St. Luke's Lutheran Church in Emerson. She graduated from a rural grade school, Emerson Public High School, and earned a Teacher's Certificate from Wayne State Teachers College. She taught at a rural grade school for three years. Carol and her sister, Vera, moved to Lincoln and worked at Gold's Department store, and at Union National Life Insurance Company. Carol went to Beauty School to become a cosmetologist. She had a salon in their home and retired after 50 years.
Carol and her husband Norbert of 54 years, had three children, Pamela (Dan) Kunzman, Alan Schroeder, Amy (John) Filbert; three granddaughters, Katelyn and Hannah Kunzman and Abby Filbert, and one grandson, Luke Filbert.
She was preceded in death by her husband Norbert; her parents and sister, Vera Connett.
Other survivors inlcude one brother, Densil (Leora) Belt, and one brother-in-law, Dean Connett, 14 nieces and nephews, many great nieces and nephews, and "four special cousins," June (Mackling) Meech, Donald Mackling, Jack Fitzgerald and Donald Fitzgerald.


We always like to have a break after ministering when possible. Today we can do that over a meal. Ministry to hungry souls requires output from the volunteers, mentally and spiritually: Mark 6:30 The apostles gathered around Jesus and reported to him all they had done and taught.Then, because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, he said to them, "Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest." Jesus frequently rested and so we must also, to recharge our batteries as it were.
Once we have eaten and relaxed our time is up and we are back in house for the second leg of our ministry for today. The guys have spread the word that Mike is with us this day and they come to meet and greet, we have men in this meeting we didn't have in the study earlier.
As volunteers we cannot say enough good about the prison officials who clear us and the chaplains who assist us. Without their help our task would be very difficult. Today we have the prison band, we so look forward for their music. They put their heart and soul into it and help set the atmosphere for the meeting. We conduct a meeting much like any church service and Jesus honors us by attending.
As the men play and sing the guys listen and respond, some songs are written by the members and some are performed from other artists. As I get up afterward to do the preliminaries it is evident that they have helped calm the souls and now passed the service to us for our input. That is team work that facilitates ministry and we do not take it for granted.
Steven H., gives his talk. Steven speaks the scriptures of encouragement and truth, this month our theme is Trusting God and Steven gives a very solid word on that topic. The men listen and when he is done they clap. I then go forward as the transition man and check to see if Mike wants to speak but he has a glint in his eye. I know that glint, he is wanting to do the wrap up because he wants to speak to the men on the final note. So now yours truly gets up and I deliver what I believe God has laid upon my heart for the meeting. I speak about trusting God and how it has taken me places I never thought I would go such as our African mission to prisons in Kenya. God will never let us down if we trust Him. The men are attentive and you can see they are taking in the Word.
Now it is Mikes turn, he is a walking miracle and he has the floor. Silence in the room as he begins to thank all the men for their many prayers and inquiries. You can see Mike has been ministered to by our congregation and they are now being ministered to by him. He speaks on trusting God in the hard times but also the authority of the believer. A comforting message he received from a Pastor while in hospital. After Mike speaks he wraps up with prayer and then we have a few minutes to mingle and talk.
This time is so rich, this is where we find out if they understood what we were communicating. Mike has men who want prayer and I have men who tell me what I said has helped them. Steven likewise. We leave built up and the men leave encouraged. We leave commending them into the Lord's care until next time.
Now we must gather up all that we came with and proceed back to home base. Today we have been ministered to by God via the inmates, and vice versa. Jesus is alive and well in the 'Church behind Bars'.
← Prison ministry is a matter of calling.


"'TARGET ZERO' Takes Aim In South Africa"
The accent is on attitude change: leadership towards change, role-modelling towards change, creating a proactive culture and taking ownership of responsibilities to SHERQ. It is not about statistics and it applies to all Illovo employees, everyone everywhere, regardless of position and/or role.
TARGET ZERO training has been taking place at various SA Ops centres and the new signboards have been prominently displayed. Achievements include the 1 million manhours without a disabling injury at Umzimkulu mill, Umzimkulu's Ravenhill Farm, Eston Mill and Noodsberg Mill. In addition, Eston Mill and Agriculture, Umzimkulu Mill and Agriculture, Merebank and Glendale achieved and maintained a 12-month rolling DIFR (Disabling Injury Frequency Rate) of 0.
AT NOSA's Eastern region banquet, Illovo Sugar was well represented when awards were handed out. PICTURED are (from left) Eddie Padayachee (farm manager, Eston), Gary Fourie (Umzimkulu safety rep), Umzimkulu GM Vis Pillay, Mike Davies (Illovo Sugar SA health and safety manager), Jonathan Dixon (Ravenhill farm manager), Ronnie Moodley (senior SHE compliance officer, Umzimkulu), Satthesh Persadh (syrup plant) and Greg Dry (Eston).
TARGET Zero training at Sezela Downstream, with Rob Zinn leading.


We went with 2 different programs which were a treat to play as a bass trombonist.
We started with 5 days in New York. What a great city to be. You always get this WOW feeling when you drive from the airport to New York and you see the Manhattan Skyline appear!
The first evening I was invited by my good friend Johan de Meij, who lives most of the time in New York, for a nice diner together.
We went to this super good restaurant an while waiting at the bar, with a good glass of wine, a sudden surprise happened. In the corner of my eye I suddenly see a well-know smiling face.
We had a great evening together, lots of stories and memories with great food and too much wine.
I only have this very bad picture of this wonderful time.
During my time in New York I tried to relax from all the stress of the last months. I spend a lot of time on my own just to get things sorted n my head again.
After a walk in very cold weather I arrived at Lincoln Centre where we had our concerts in the Avery Fischer Hall that week.
The poster at the main entrance of the hall with our programs on it.
During this week I also had a nice lunch together with James Markey, bass trombonist of the New York Phil. What a nice guy he is and although we only met briefly in the past it felt like we know each other for years. A new friend!
And what a great player he is. He gave me his new CD "on Base". An absolute must have for every trombonist.
Super played interesting, very demanding repertoire.
James Markey and me after having a nice lunch together!
On our free day in New York I had a great time together with my colleagues Ad van Zon (solo trumpet ) and Gerrit Hommerson (Piano).
Here are some nice shots we toke during that day.
On top of the Rock. What a great view!!
Rockefeller Centre, there where my father played solo many years ago.
Piet van Dijk solo with the Royal Dutch Marine Band!
Ad van Zon ( our great solo trumpet ) on top of the Rock!!
we flew to Canada. Here the real tour started with more traveling.
Not so much time for sight seeing but a nice first visit to Canada for me.
Good concerts with a lot of success. It is obvious the people love Yannick and our band!
A good combination for sure!!
The visit to Ottawa is one I will remember well. A nice town with interesting older buildings which I, together with Gerrit, nailed on photo.
In Ottawa I also had a great meeting with Douglas Burden, bass trombonist of the NAC Orchestra in Ottawa.
Douglas is a real gentleman with a lot of history. He studied at Eastman in the time of Remington. After that he was in Chicago with Jacobs and Kleinhammer all people I would have loved to have lessons from.
I sincerely can say I have a new friend.
It was great to meet you yesterday and spend a relaxing lunch together. So much to talk about and so little time! I hope we can pick up the conversation where we left off at some point in the future.
Douglas Burden and me after our "ein Heldenleben" concert in Ottawa.
After 12 days it was back to home. It was so nice to be reunited with my loved ones. 12 days away from Aaltje is too long and how nice it was to see my grandson again.


ezs note: Montana residents - it may seem small, but your vote is just as important as any other - no more, no less. Please remember to vote, and if you haven't registered yet, please do so NOW.
ezs note: Did y'all catch that? You don't need a hard sell, or a point-by-point lecture. You just need to be a friend! Democrat, Republican, Green, Independent - it doesn't matter. As your neighborhood grows tighter, the people grow happier. Isn't that terrific?


Living in Squamish I often pass time in the estuary during the wet season. With every stroll I bring my camera; sometimes we stalk birds, or bears while other times I like to pearch up in a tree to take it all in. One day I found myself up in a tree during a slack tide only to re-discover the beauty of the westward mountains as reflected on the estuary surface.


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Opinion February 11, 2018 February 12, 2018
What happened to the Minister's Ten Pillars of Nigerian Education Reform?
The Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, while hosting the governor of Niger state at the headquarters of the Federal Ministry of Education was reported in the press to have said he plans to declare a state of emergency in Nigeria's education sector in the month of April. The statement by the Minister is in contradiction of the Minister's statement in the much publicised Ten (10) pillars of education reform interview he granted to Channels TV in 2016. In the interview the Minister specifically stated that the Federal Ministry of Education under his leadership was conducting its "needs assessment" which would influence the direction of the actions that the federal government would take with respect to the issues that relate to policy, management and provision of education in the country.
From the transcript of the Ten Pillars of Nigerian Education Reform interview, the Minister said
The road map has ten (10) pillars on which we built it and these are the areas in which we believe progress needs to be made, and these pillars are the most important areas. The first is Out-of-school children. You know Nigeria leads the whole world in highest number of children who are out-of-school, 11.5 (Million). After it we look at Basic education. Which is an area that has fallen on very, very bad times and needs to be revamped.
Then, we have the area of Technical – Vocational Education and Training. If Nigeria wishes to join the developed world and be able to compete on the global scene, certainly we need to do something about our technical education and we look(ed) at it and we have put so many activities (together) that we will do in order to catch up with the rest of the world.
There is The Development in ICT. The whole world has already gone computer(ised) and Nigeria cannot afford to lag behind. So, we intend to introduce computer technology in our classes.
The question of Teacher Education, that one, I think we'll say – teacher education, teacher education, teacher education – is the most important to me or to the plan…
Hence, he specifically mentioned five pillars out of the the said ten pillars. However, a review of these five pillars out of the ten pillars shows that there have been more misses. For instance, on the issue of the out-of-school children, nothing seems to have changed for the better, rather it appears from the most recent data that the situation has gotten worse from the initial 10.5 Million out-of-school children in the country to a more recent data of 11.5 Million which the Minister rightly highlighted in the interview.
Unfortunately, a key programme – the school feeding programme – of the present government that has been able to attract the enrolment of more children into public schools at the Basic education level has been plagued with the perennial problem of funding. This has led to inconsistency in the outcomes of the programme in different parts of the country; with the most unfortunate scenario being the abandoning of such a lofty and successful programme by a state like Kaduna state due to lack of fund to implement it as a result of an unexpected high demand than envisaged by the Kaduna state government. a new report recently released indicates that due to the present government's policies 10.27 Million children enrolled in public schools in the North West and North Central zones of the country, excluding data from Kebbi, Jigawa and Benue states. However, because the issue of the out-of-school children in the country and the provision of the Basic education are tied together, it suffices to say that the Minister has not been able to deliver on two of the ten pillars.
As for teacher education, the Federal Government under the N-Power programme promised to recruit 500,000 teachers but as at the last count the government has being able to recruit 200,000 volunteers under its two years N-Power volunteer programme , and this gives a deficit of over 300,000 teachers (60%) of the total target since all the recruited volunteers are not only in the teaching cohort of the programme. Although, in recent times, the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) was able to successfully increase the number of registered teachers in the country but the issue of teachers' professionalism with respect to continuing professional development, training and education still remains a major issue in the education sector.
On the issue of vocational education and training in the country not much has been done and the sector remains grossly underfunded with no well-defined career pathway/s for individuals that decide to take to the vocational education and training route. Lastly, is the issue of ICT in education, as mentioned by the Minister. However, it seems like a white elephant project that the government would probably not embark on, especially in an education system that lacks so many basics in its provision along with its unbelievably high number of un-met needs. So, the Minister need not look too far or wait till April before he declares a state of emergency in the country's education sector, rather he should critically appraise his tenure's 10 pillars and move on from there.
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Owu Day, 2009 – The 10th in the series.
On Saturday the 10th day of October, the crescendo of the week long 10th Owu Day in Abeokuta, Ogun State Nigeria will be flagged off with Owu indigence from all corners of the nation and the world in attendance.
This shall mark a classic numerical configuration of the 10-10-10, the 10 in Trinity: The 10th Owu Day Festival, taking place on the 10th day of the 10th month of the year (which just narrowly missed being the 10th year of the new millennium)!.
Surely some poetic and artistic inspiration may have surged behind the selection of such time rhythm!
Prior to this day, a week long activity would have kicked off on Monday, 5th of October, with various levels of entertainment and programs in the offering.
The weeks' events shall be brought to a close on Sunday 11th of October with a church service which will be attended by invited prominent guests.
Further information on this annual carnival of the Owu Kingdom and its people shall be posted as they unfold.
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On Saturday the 10th day of October, the crescendo of the week-long 10th Owu Day in Abeokuta, Ogun State Nigeria will be flagged off with Owu indigence from all corners of the nation and the world in attendance.
This shall mark a classic numerical configuration of the 10-10-10, the 10 in Trinity!: The 10th Owu Day Festival, taking place on the 10th day of the 10th month of the year (which just narrowly missed being the 10th year of the new millennium)!
Surely some poetic and artistic inspiration may have surged behind the selection of such time rhythm…with perhaps a spack of Divine manifestation!
Prior to this day, a week long activity will have kicked off on Monday, 5th of October, with various levels of entertainment and programs in the offering.
Further informations on this annual carnival of the Owu Kingdom and its people shall be posted as they unfold.
Kindly check this post regularly for unfolding information on this great event…the BREAKING NEWS!


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Emedia My Acoustic Guitar (CD-ROM)
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A fun and easy-to-follow method that transforms raw beginners into accomplished guitarists!
It's never too early to turn your children on to the wonderful world of making music. As research has shown, children who play instruments are generally more sociable, have higher self-esteem, and on average, earn better grades. Not to mention the fact they really learn to appreciate more music and have a more open mind to different styles after mastering any instrument. My Acoustic Guitar is an educational program designed for kids ages 6 and up to get the hang of one of the most popular instruments out there. The fun interface uses an animated character named Gary the Guitar who brings to life the music lessons of Kevin Garry, Ph.D, in a way that will keep them interested. Starting with the basics of tuning and learning chords, the CD-ROM goes on to more advanced sessions where kids will learn to read music and eventually play full songs. Gary the Guitar isn't the only animated aspect of My Guitar. There's also an animated fretboard that shows your child exactly where to put their fingers as the live recorded audio plays. The speed of the music can be adjusted with MIDI tracks, so kids can learn at a pace more comfortable to them. Other special features include an automatic tuner, metronome, chord dictionary, and digital recorder. Get your child started on the pathway to proper plucking with My Acoustic Guitar. System Requirements Windows: Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8 / 10 Macintosh: macOS 10.5 to 10.14 (Internet connection recommended for online activation.) Attention Mac users: As you may be aware, Apple has decided to discontinue support for 32-bit applications starting in macOS 10.15 (Catalina). If you wish to use eMedia software which requires 32-bit support, do not upgrade past macOS 10.14 (Mojave). eMedia is working on a new version that will support Catalina and future versions of macOS, but they do not yet have a release date for it. For more information regarding macOS 10.15, please visit: https://support.emediamusic.com/kb/faq.php?id=88
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USIM est un sigle qui signifie en anglais, .

Par abus de langage on dit qu'il s'agit d'une carte à puce, version améliorée de la carte SIM, dédiée à la téléphonie 3G. Il s'agit aussi d'une application stockée et exécutée sur une plateforme de type UICC (pour ) telle que principalement définie par les spécifications ETSI  (application SIM), 3GPP  (application USIM) et  (carte USIM).

Cette application est conçue pour permettre l'authentification de l'abonné (appelé  dans les normes 3G et 4G) lors d'une connexion à un réseau UMTS ou LTE, en utilisant le numéro IMSI stocké dans la carte qui permet une identification univoque de l'abonné et de son opérateur mobile. Elle comporte un ensemble d'évolutions permettant de prendre en compte les nouveautés des réseaux 3G et 4G spécifiés par le 3GPP. Elle apporte également des fonctionnalités supplémentaires au bénéfice seul de l'utilisateur (répertoire amélioré notamment).

Cette application étant plus récente que la SIM (2G), elle est très souvent livrée sur une UICC plus récente et est donc associée aux bénéfices suivants :
 une mémoire plus importante (elle permet de stocker au-delà de , mobile, fixe ou courriel) ;
 une meilleure gestion de l'identité du client ;
 un nouveau dispositif d'authentification (algorithme d'authentification « EAP-SIM »).

Format
L'application USIM peut-être déployée sur toute carte SIM ayant les ressources matérielles nécessaires (taille mémoire), quel qu'en soit le format physique. On trouve pour le marché traditionnel l'USIM sur une carte au format  (officiellement ID-000) ou Micro-SIM (officiellement Mini-UICC) ou plus récemment (2012) Nano-SIM. Avec l'éclosion du marché  (M2M), on a aussi vu la définition de nouveaux formats comme le MFF1 et le MFF2 (pour  ) destinés à l'intégration dans des boîtiers de télémétrie, des automates ou plus généralement dans un milieu industriel « hostile ». L'application USIM se trouve naturellement supportée par ces formats, de même que la capacité d'un ordinateur à faire tourner un système d'exploitation donné ne dépend pas de la forme de son boîtier.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Téléphonie mobile
 Télécommunications
 Réseau de téléphonie mobile
  (GSM)
 carte SIM
  (MSIN)
  (IMSI)
  (UMTS)

Liens externes
  3GPP TS 31.102  standard

Carte à puce
Réseau de téléphonie mobile

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Q: Set limit (or no limit) to Get all Groups in Box I'm working on a set of PowerShell functions that will be used to manage our enterprise Box implementation.  Right now I'm working on the groups section and can successfully return groups via the 2.0 API.  However, it appears that the call to the groups API has a default limit of 100 - limiting the number of groups that are returned.
From the Box dev docs:
curl https://api.box.com/2.0/groups -H "Authorization: Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN"

returns
{
    "total_count": 1,
    "entries": [
        {
            "type": "group",
            "id": "1786931",
            "name": "friends"
        }
    ],
    "limit": 100,
    "offset": 0
}

I need to get all groups in one fell swoop, or at least have a way to batch through all the groups.  Is there a way to set the limit to either unlimited (I would assume 0) or at least higher?
For some context, our first push of groups will be around 235 groups, quickly followed by another 3,000+.  I'll need to update these group memberships on a regular basis (hence the PowerShell module I'm building).

A: The Box API pattern for paging uses limit and offset query parameters. It's not documented for Groups, but it's worth a shot. The max limit is 1000 for other types of collections; I'd try that here and see how it goes.
curl https://api.box.com/2.0/groups?limit=1000&offset=0
-H "Authorization: Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN"

The API doesn't support 'unlimited' queries elsewhere, so I'd assume that to be true here as well.
Update The total_count field is useful in paging. Here's some pseudo code that aggregates the Groups in the fewest possible number of API calls:
offset = 0
groups = []

do
{
  // fetch a chunk of groups
  results = curl https://api.box.com/2.0/groups?limit=1000&offset=<offset>

  // add this chunk to your collection
  groups.add(results.entries)

  // increment the offset by the length of the chunk
  offset = offset + results.entries.length

// repeat until the number of groups you've received equals the number expected.
} while (groups.length < results.total_count)

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As you may have seen on social media, developer hhyyrylainen has built us a Thrive launching program. Why is such a thing needed? For one, the launcher handles downloading of new releases on its own – download and run the launcher, and you'll never have to manually download a full release again. It also comes with handy links and feeds from our development forum and website.
Meanwhile, developer crodnu has wrestled with the temperamental process system, the logic involved in collecting and converting compounds within cells. The compound bars featured in the GUI of our last release revealed a strange bug where cells would lose all their starting ATP and remain at near zero from then on. We've done our best to fix this and other process issues, so compound changes should now be much more readable.
As if that's not enough, we've also completely rewritten the way the game handles Lua files. Lua files are the scripting on top of the engine, and until now have been the game's major performance bottleneck. Thanks to another titanic programming effort from hhyyrylainen, the game now runs on a completely different form of Lua.
It's hard to state why this is such a major change. We recommend you look at the absolutely enormous list of code changes on GitHub to get the full picture. With this upgrade came a couple of major crash fixes, though we're still on the lookout for information which could help us fix more. If you have a crash while playing, let us know in the bug reports section of our forums, and make sure you post a screenshot of the console printout. If you don't, our programmers have nothing to go on to help fix the issue.
It's been quite a while since our last Devblog. Many minor things have happened in that time. We've collated them below for your convenience.
Not content with contributing two massive lumps of code to this release, hyyrylainen has also been making tentative steps into a potential engine conversion. Since the beginning, Thrive has run on a custom engine built with Ogre and Bullet, and let's just say it has…issues. Inability to take screenshots, difficulty using alt-tab, large file sizes, and most prominently, endless headaches for new programmers wishing to set up a development build make it unwieldly at best. It's certainly served us well, but the need for an accessible programming environment drove us to consider alternatives.
The best alternative appears to be Unreal Engine 4. Unlike all engines available when we started building Thrive a couple of years ago, it's open-source, which makes it appropriate for use in our project.
In the interests of fair comparison, hhyyrylainen is working on a copy of Thrive 0.3.4 constructed inside Unreal. You can find progress and thoughts on the relative merits here. We feel that if it's possible to develop what we already have in a reasonable timeframe without any major compromises, a complete engine switch will benefit the project significantly in future. Please test it out by downloading here.
To make it clear, this is nowhere near a certainty, merely an experiment. If it goes well, expect to see us moving into the realms of unreality sometime soon. If not, Ogre it is (unless any of you have suggestions for alternatives, and we'd love to hear them).
We recently posted a survey asking for your opinions on our outreach and web presences. You can check out a brief overview of the findings here.
The main findings centred on adjustments to our many websites. Our main website homepage has undergone significant change, incorporating: feeds from our Devblog and development forums, more prominent links to forums and Wikis, more efficient space usage, and of course the good old Disturbance. We're still working out the kinks, so let us know what you think of it and if there's anything else we could add.
Our community forums also look noticeably different. White on white was alright, but we decided it was better to showcase some concept art with a more adventurous colour scheme. If this scheme isn't to your liking, fear not – if you create a profile, you can choose from a bunch of premade themes we've worked on. Go to Profile -> Edit Profile -> Settings and under the Forum Theme dropdown, select the one you want to go on a new colourful Thrive adventure.
Our first step towards more involved self-promotion was the day r/thrive was named subreddit of the day. Exposure to new people is always a tense experience for us – will they see potential in the project or think us morons for pursuing it? Responses to the SROTD post were encouraging, and you can read our own subreddit's thread on the event – which quickly became the most upvoted submission on the subreddit ever – here.
Expect more news in the outreach department soon. In the meantime, keep spreading the word.
Anyone of an artistic nature might be interested in joining our community forum art competition, running every month in this thread. Submissions can be any form of static visual media you want – digital art, 3D models, pencil drawings, paintings, etc. Users vote on their favourites for each month, and the winning submission each month will be posted to Thrive's Facebook and Twitter feeds. Winners will also receive time machines to see the completed version of Thrive in 2150.
Terms and conditions apply. Time machine delivery dependent on someone inventing it in the future and going back in time to give it to you.
Shortly after the release of Thrive 0.3.3, we staged another livestream showing off its features, discussing random topics and answering fan questions. Despite a disconnected microphone leading to a load of us accidentally talking over hhyyrylainen as he explained the engine, it went well and we all had fun in the process. Schedules mean it'll be difficult to organise another in the near future, but keep an eye out.
And finally, memes have started appearing on our subreddit. Memes as a scientific concept are a potential feature of the game in the Society and Industrial stages (and you can read some or join some discussion on them here), but we obviously can't pass up the opportunity to make our own image-based stupid inside jokes. Does this deserve a whole section in a Devblog? Probably not. Oh well.
That's it for the latest Thrive news – stay tuned for more in the coming months!
I don't know alot about the different requirements needed by a game engine to work for Thrive but I do know a good completely open source alternative to unreal 4. It's called Godot and you can find it here: https://godotengine.org/ Hopefully that's helpful. Thank you.


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Alternative Digital Credentialing Resources
Alternative digital credentials (ADCs), also known as digital badges or microcredentials, demonstrate great promise as a strategy for closing the skills gap and supporting the alignment of industry skills with traditional and nontraditional higher education programs. Recognizing this potential, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) has made a significant investment in ADCs at the undergraduate and graduate level, as well as through a workforce training pilot seeking to rapidly upskill displaced workers through a series of stackable, non-credit ADCs leading to industry-aligned credentials.
SIUE Alternative Digital Credential Offerings
The following resources are intended to support conceptualization, implementation, and sustainability of faculty ADC development at SIUE. Current ADC offerings at SIUE have been developed by academic units and research centers including the Department of Chemistry, STEM Center, and Small Business Development Center. For more information on ADC development, resources, or to request employment data to explore curricular alignment, contact Courtney Breckenridge at crakers@siue.edu.
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General SIUE ADC Guidelines
Digital badges may be earned for activities performed inside and outside of classrooms, but the assessment of skill/competency mastery maintains the rigor and integrity of digital badges for SIUE
Digital badges are expected to make the earners more employable or to highlight a set of skills valued in the workplace or in the broader society by allowing those skills and competencies to be defined and assessed so that the earner, future employers and others understand and expect the earner to possess the described skills
Digital badges are expected to be offered over a significant period of time. Thus, there must be commitment on behalf of the unit offering the digital badge to regularly offer and assess the activities that lead to the digital badge
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Fill out a ADC Data Request Form, which can be requested by emailing Courtney Breckenridge at crakers@siue.edu.
Work with the ADC Team to engage with industry partners about how the badge would be received and utilized.
Complete ADC Request Form.
ADC Request Form and supporting documentation are then reviewed by the ADC Steering Committee.
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Carey, Kimberly & Stefaniak, Jill. (2018). An exploration of the utility of digital badging in higher
education settings. Educational Technology Research and Development. 66. 10.1007/s11423-018-9602-1.
Cheng, Z., Richardson, J. C., & Newby, T. J. (2020). Using Digital Badges as Goal-Setting Facilitators: A Multiple Case Study. Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 32(2), 406–428.
Eaton, A., & Rennie Center for Education Research and Policy. (2020). Elevating Real-World Learning: Two Cities' Efforts to Credential Real World Skills through Digital Badges. In Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy. Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy.
Fanfarelli, J. R. (2018). Designing Digital Badges to Improve Learning in Virtual Worlds. Journal of Virtual Worlds Research, 11(3), 1–10.
Higashi, R., & Schunn, C. D. (2020). Perceived Relevance of Digital Badges Predicts Longitudinal Change in Program Engagement. Journal of Educational Psychology, 112(5), 1020–1041.
Martin, W., Gutierrez, J., & Muldoon, M. (2020). Digital Badges Forging Connections between Informal and Higher Education. Afterschool Matters, 33, 16–24.
Micro-credentials and Digital Badges. (2019). Library Technology Reports, 55(3), 1–34.
Pike, R. E., Brown, B., West, T., & Zentner, A. (2020). Digital Badges and E-Portfolios in Cybersecurity Education. Information Systems Education Journal, 18(5), 16–24.
Stefaniak, J., Carey, K. Instilling purpose and value in the implementation of digital badges in higher education. Int J Educ Technol High Educ 16, 44 (2019).


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Famous personalities covered include Willie Ewing, Billy Wolfe, Gordon Wilson, Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon.
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