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Another place to capture expressions are the subways; either on the platforms or in the cars themselves. My favorite images are the one of a young woman avidly watching a movie on her smartphone, while wearing a single hair roller to tame her fringe....and of the young girl who appears to be viewing a smart phone screen on an ad on a subway platform while her mother is busy texting on her real phone.
Oh gosh, that's 36 hours in the air, Hans? Ouch!! I'm counting total transit time -- for example, a flight I almost booked from Amsterdam to Cape Town had a 2 hour hop to Vienna with an 11 hour layover, followed by a 6.5 hour flight to Ethiopia with a 17 hour layover, followed by a 9 hour flight to Cape Town. Total transit = 45+ hours. Pretty rough!
The winners of the competition get a photo commission to an exotic destination – great experience and priceless exposure, as the images are printed in Wanderlust. Many of the past winners of this competition have gone on to become professional or semi-professional photographers. "We are often been approached for the contact details of certain photographers," says Lyn. "Organisations, such as travel companies or tourist boards, sometimes want to buy an image for their own use, or to see what else the photographer has in a similar vein. It can be a fantastic showcase."
The patrician-looking (and rather taciturn) sadhu in the top photograph did tell me that he had a family, had held a managerial position in the Indian Railway from which he earned a pension (now paid to his wife), but had decided to detach himself from temporal life and was currently studying the Vedas. These are the oldest scriptures of Hinduism. He was the embodiment of a real sadhu who had really espoused the Vairāgya, and was far different from the "sadhus" I encountered on the ghats of Varanasi (below) almost 8 years later.
The image of Sapphire Kiu; a Hong Kong-based model (above), was made in early December 2018 on the famous (or infamous, depending on your point of view) Temple street, and will be part of a forthcoming audio slideshow (aka photo film) titled "The Songstress of Temple Street". It will tell the story of Qin Yi, a famous Shanghai singer in the 1930s, who "returns" to Hong Kong where she started her career. Some of the images were made in Temple's Street Canton Singing House and the Tin Hau Temple.
Don't undersell yourself. You might be doing your dream job, but you can't do it for love alone – that won't pay the bills and it will undermine your status as a professional. If clients are buying your work they should pay the going rate. I'Anson advises: "Don't give pictures away in return for an airfare or hotel accommodation. It's much harder to charge once you've set a precedent like that."
If the instability of the freelance photographer's way of life isn't for you, you can always find a day job that involves traveling. Then you can go to lots of places, be paid for it through your job, and do travel photography in your spare time. Jobs like flight attendant, global salesperson, English teacher (or a spy!) are just several of many professions that let you visit your dream locations, without being too risky on the financial side.
Tewfic El-Sawy is a New York based freelance photographer specializing in documenting endangered cultures and traditional life ways of Asia, Latin America and Africa. His images, articles and photo features have been published in various international magazines, and his travel photographs are published in guidebooks and adventure travel catalogs. He also organized and led non-traditional photo expeditions and workshops. He is passionate about documentary-travel photography and produces multimedia stories, merging still photography and ambient sound. He enjoys mixing Asian fashion, culture and history into "photo films". He recently increased his focus on South East Asia and China. He produced a well received photo book Hau Dong: The Spirit Mediums of Viet Nam; documenting an indigenous religion now recognized by the UNESCO, and is currently working on a voluminous monograph tentatively titled 'Chinese Opera of The Diaspora'. He is a faculty teaching member at the Foundry Photojournalism Workshop, and a jury member at The Travel Photographer Society's Photo contests.
Commercial travel photography provides imagery for the $1 trillion global tourism industry. It might include photographing destination hotels and resorts, tourist attractions, scenery, outdoor adventures, local events, cultures, and customs. Images are used for advertising, merchandising, and print sales. With such a huge variety of subject matter, travel photographers employ skills across all photographic disciplines: portraiture, landscape, wildlife, architectural, reportage and event photography.
The Yuen Po street Bird Garden in Hong Kong was built in the late 1990's after the former "Bird Street" at Hong Lok Street was demolished. It was built to preserve the spirit and popularity of the bird stalls that once were in Mongkok. The Chinese have traditionally liked to keep birds as pets, and this tradition is maintained in this small garden. Men (I've not seen a woman there except those selling birds, birdseed and live crickets) walk around; whistling at the caged birds, from delicate canaries to colorful parrots, admiring their plumage and a few walking their pets in cages.
Stock photography: Shooting for stock photography is a subject for a different article (or five of them) but you can see stock agencies as the middle man between provider (the photographer) and buyer (magazines and websites). In order for news agencies or image bank websites to send you on assignment, you're required to be a contract photographer. Each organization has its own contract and demands. But some photo agencies will be willing to pay for your independent travel images if they are sellable. Do not expect large amounts. But hey, it's better than nothing.
As an approved photographer on stock libraries, you can possibly get access to client briefs where you can submit your work direct to the client, meaning they'll consider you for the project and see your profile. Otherwise there's usually a marketplace type system for you to upload your images and have them added to collections based on themes, destinations and seasons.
The third image is of Jinru Lee; a student and part-time model in Georgetown (Penang Island, Malaysia). It was made in late August 2018 under the sweltering sun of Penang, and inside the Cheah Kongsi Clan House Temple on Lebuh Armenian. I was in Penang to photograph the various Hokkien operas during the Hungry Ghost festival, and took the opportunity to set a photo shoot in its streets for a forthcoming audio slideshow (aka photo film) titled "The Phantom of the Opera".
For example, a product review I did in December of 2014 led people to the product on Amazon via an affiliate link. That product sold extremely well, and people also bought other things well they were shopping. That affiliate link earned me a pretty penny. Of course, that's not always sustainable. In January and February I earned $300 and $400 respectively from affiliate sales. In March, I only earned $50.
I introduced myself, telling Chan I had read articles about him. He didn't seem surprised at all, and brought a photo book -carefully wrapped in plastic- to show me more photos and a write up about him, along with other craftsmen in Hong Kong. I had seen Sunset Survivors; a book that tells the stories of Hong Kong's traditional tradesmen and women through imagery and interviews. It covers a number of curious professions that are quickly falling into obscurity, from fortune telling to face threading and letter writing to bird cage making in the streets of old Hong Kong.
Approaching a new client can be a lot easier if you happen to be visiting that region, or if it's where you are based. Start local and contact businesses who you regularly use or that have less than desirable images on their website…put together a proposal and they'll more than likely say yes if it benefits them! If they're just starting out on social media you can offer to create a library of social media images they can use over a 3-6month period to generate interest in their product/region.
Mixing the Hanxiang Water Garden photo shoot and another in the water town of Xinchang, I produced "The Legend of Hua"; a complex photo film meshing the topic of ghosts, opium, Shanghai in its 1930's heyday, traditional Chinese cultural and supernatural elements; all revolving around a plot of betrayal. Its plot is influenced by a 1988 movie by Stanley Kwan (in turn based on a novel by Li Pi-Hua (also known as Lillian Lee), one of the most influential Chinese TV writers, film writers and reporters.
A pretty picture is not enough. It needs to be high quality and it needs to be original. For magazines, you need to consider issues such as leaving space on the image for word placement, positioning your subject off-centre so it doesn't fall down the page join, and possibly placing the subject on the right-hand side of a landscape shot for maximum impact.
I'm a 30-year-old travel journalist from Canada. Over the past 5+ years, I've been working as a digital nomad around the world. Over that time I've set foot in around 80 countries on 6 different continents. I started out as a travel writer. Soon, I started taking photos to support my articles. It didn't take long until I realized that I much preferred creating images than I did writing. Photography became my drug of choice and I went off chasing light every chance I got.
My work as a freelance travel writer has remained sort of a back-up source of income for me since moving into the photography world. I really only do it when I feel like money is tight — so, yeah, I basically do it every month. Most of the travel writing clients these days are online, and they don't pay like they used to. Still, I make enough in writing to help pay some of the bills. I've averaged about $400 a month so far in 2015 through freelance writing.
My personal opinion -after having met many such characters- in India; either in Varanasi, Rishikesh, Vrindavan et al, as well as at the Kumbh Mela, is that the majority of them are fake in the sense that they're not dedicated ascetics, but individuals who are adopted a vagabondage lifestyle, begging for alms and food...under the guise of being holy and religious.
Lyn's last tip is to have your own website. "Show off your work on Instagram and Facebook, but do ensure you have a good, easy to use website too. It should have some of your best work (with lots of keywords!), any specialities, and awards/competitions you have won, and your contact details. It's too easy to get carried away, add thousands of images, and forget the basics. Keep it simple."
There's much more to becoming a travel photographer than exploring exotic destinations and clicking your shutter. Getting up at stupid-o-clock to catch the perfect sunrise, carrying a camera that's heavier than four backpacks, skipping meals in the quest for perfect light, and missing out on the travel experience because you're too busy taking photos, are just a few of the downsides.
I don't do a lot of big stock photography, but I do stock images with TandemStock and they have done quite well for me. I haven't been stocking with them for long, but I do leave a lot of my adventure and outdoors style photos in their hands. I earn about $150 a month with them for now, which doesn't sound like a lot. However, they have made some high-profiles sales for me. For example, I was the background for Bing. I love TandemStock, and I hope they start to grow a bit.
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Cyberlab: An Ally for Teaching Scientific Collaboration
By Mike Calhoun
Often when a scientist, engineer, or medical practitioner makes a discovery, develops a new procedure, or invents a new device he or she writes a paper explaining what he or she has done. This paper is usually published in a scientific journal or, increasingly today, over the Internet. One reason for publishing these discoveries or new procedures is to give peers the opportunity to see if the discovery or procedure is reproducible. If an experiment, discovery, or new procedure is reproducible then it is considered valid.
As a middle school science teacher my challenge was to try to develop in my students an understanding of this important process. I also wanted them to know that, thanks to the telecommunication and transportation revolutions, scientists from many different countries and cultures work together on a variety of projects collaboratively. The successful scientific collaborations require tolerance of others and the ability to interact in diverse settings. This was also a concept that I wanted my students to understand and to appreciate.
Blessed with a science classroom with both a lab for conducting experiments, and enough Internet connected computers for every two students, I was able to develop a series of Web based activities that teach the importance of scientific reproducibility, peer review and the acceptance of different opinions.
Cyberlab, a Web site that I have developed and maintain, is designed to introduce students to the science protocol of peer review and research reproducibility. The Cyberlab site contains a narrative project assignment. Each project begins with a problem-solving scenario, followed by a detailed list of requirements for carrying out the project and making a final report. There are links to needed real data, as well as links to supplementary study material. The Web site includes search engines to facilitate more in-depth investigations.
Cyberlab Narratives are Multicultural
Children today live in an era of increasing racial and ethnic diversity. In a 1998 Children Now poll, over three fourths of children reported having a best friend of a different race. While diversity is easily seen in many children's lives, the question is: should they not also see it portrayed when it comes to scientific collaboration? Young people get clear messages about racial, ethnic, and class divisions and their own identity through the characters they see on television and other media. The Internet is a visual medium that goes beyond television in that it is interactive. The use of the Cyberlab web page can raise the awareness of students to the diversity, gender integration, and multicultural nature of scientific collaboration.
Project assignments range widely: there was one to verify the reproducibility of a middle school student's procedure for making a "plastic" like substance from milk; another to analyze a genetic karyotype to diagnosis Down's syndrome; and a third to investigate data concerning the discovery of a new element by British high school students. When a project is completed my students use Email to distribute their results to other participating classes in my school.
Setting Up A Cyberlab Type Web Page
It is very easy to develop and publish a web page similar to Cyberlab without the need to learn complicated computer programming code. The software that permits you to create web pages is generically known as "Web page authoring tools.†Three of the best and the easiest to use are Microsoft FrontPage 2000 (opens in new tab), Dreamweaver (opens in new tab), and Netscape Composer. Also many word processors allow you to convert documents that you create into web pages.
After you develop your web page you can publish or upload it to one of the many free Web providers, which is especially helpful given tight school budgets. Many of these web providers offer free web space, Email service, and provide simple online Web page-making tools. Three companies that will publish your Web page for free are Tripod, Homestead, and 20megsFree. Our Cyberlab is hosted on Homestead.com and 20megsfree.com. Also, commercial online services (think America Online, MSN, etc.) make it possible for members to publish Web pages for free as well.
Why Develop A Cyberlab?
The following are some reasons for developing your own web site.
You can control the content of the site.
Because the site is on the Internet, families are able to work with their children on the activities at home, and by doing so become exposed to the multicultural narratives.
The site also can contain a dedicated Email address so students and their teachers from other schools can make comments and suggestions. My class received Email from students, teachers, and interested people from around the world.
Other subjects besides science can be covered using the Cyberlab approach.
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AeroVironment to supply Raven and Puma spare parts to US Army
AeroVironment has been awarded a series of contracts for the supply of unmanned aircraft system (UAS) spare parts to the US Army.
The contracts have a combined value of $27.2m, and cover the delivery of spare parts for the RQ-11B Raven and RQ-20A Puma AE systems.
AeroVironment UAS business segment senior vice-president and general manager Roy Minson said: "Recapitalising the army's large fleet of Raven and Puma AE systems ensures that soldiers have the most effective and reliable small UAS available to support them, wherever and whenever required.
"With AeroVironment original spare parts and upgrades, operators can continue to rely on our combat-proven solutions to deliver better information on-demand, and help them operate more safely and effectively."
The latest orders take the total value of contracts received by the company since May for Raven and Puma AE UAS spare parts and Raven upgrades to $77.6m.
Weighing 4.5lb, the RQ-11B Raven is a lightweight SUAS, designed for rapid deployment and high mobility for military operations, such as low-altitude intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance and target acquisition missions at ranges of up to 10km.
Comprising three aircraft, two ground control stations and spares, the backpackable, hand-launched sensor platform is widely used by US forces for base security, route reconnaissance, mission planning and force protection operations.
"With AeroVironment original spare parts and upgrades, operators can continue to rely on our combat-proven solutions."
The Puma AE is a third-generation, man-portable and hand-launched SUAS, designed primarily for intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance missions.
Each Puma system features three air vehicles and two ground-control systems. It can fly at a maximum speed of 83km/h and stay airborne for a maximum of two hours using a rechargeable battery.
The drone can also be configured to perform battle damage assessment, maritime intervention operations, visit board search seizure and search and rescue, as well as port and coastal patrolling and drug interdiction missions.
Deliveries under the contract are expected to start within the next year.
Image: A US soldier assembles a RQ-11 Raven UAV for aerial tactical Reconnaissance of insurgents in Taji, Iraq. Photo: courtesy of the US Department of Defense, photo by tech sergeant Russell E. Cooley IV, US Air Force (released).
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Deep Dive on the Canadian Surface Combatant
In this new episode of Defence Deconstructed, David Perry is joined by Troy Crosby and Alan Williams to explore the Canadian Surface Combatant (CSC) project in details.
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Participant Biographies:
Troy Crosby was named the Acting Assistant Deputy Minister of the Materiel Group in September 2019. In November 2019, he was appointed to the position of Assistant Deputy Minister of the Materiel Group, after a 23-year military career and close to 10 years as a public servant. He is a graduate of the Collège militaire royal de St-Jean (BSc), the University of Tennessee (MSc), the Empire Test Pilots' School and the Canadian Forces Command and Staff College.
Alan Williams is the President of the Williams Group. Prior to joining the Canadian Public Service, Alan worked as a consultant and as an auditor in the private sector. He began his government career in 1972 working for Supply and Services Canada. In April 2005, Alan retired from the Public Service and does consulting in the area of policy, programs and procurement. He has written articles on leadership and has authored two books: Reinventing Canadian Defence Procurement: A View From the Inside published in 2006 and "Canada, Democracy and the F-35" published in 2012.
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Dave Perry is Senior Analyst and Vice President with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute.
Related CGAI publications:
"The Canadian Surface Combatant: Capability and Context" by Ron Lloyd & David Perry
"The Canadianization of the Joint Support Ship: From Mature Design to a Unique Canadian Solution" by Cpt (N) Douglas Campbell
"Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times" by Jonathan Sacks
"Noise" by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein
"A Monster Calls" by Patrick Ness
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'I am humbled': Andre Dickens claims victory in Atlanta mayoral runoff
By Deidra Dukes , Morse Diggs and FOX 5 Atlanta Digital Team
Andre Dickens claims victory as next mayor of Atlanta
During his acceptance speech claiming victory in Tuesday's runoff to be the next mayor of Atlanta, Andre Dickens said he was humbled by the faith put into him to be the city's next top leader.
ATLANTA - Atlanta voters decided Tuesday that Andre Dickens would become the city's next leader.
"I am humbled that you have put this faith in me to be the city's next leader," Dickens said speaking to supporters at his watch party late Tuesday evening.
The 47-year-old Dickens painted an optimistic and enthusiastic future for the city of Atlanta in his acceptance speech.
"Like they say, 'Atlanta influences everything,' and it's time we use that influence to make some real change," Dickens said. "Atlanta needs to show the world that we are leading, that we are leading on public safety, on criminal justice reform, that we are leading on affordable housing and eliminating the inequality that we have."
Dickens, a City Council member, defeated City Council President Felicia Moore in the mayoral runoff, an upset as Moore had been the frontrunner after earning 41% of the vote in the first round of voting on Nov. 2 across a nonpartisan field of 14 candidates.
"Some people counted me out, some said I was dreaming way too big. We scrapped, we scraped, we fought to get our message out to the entire city of Atlanta," Dickens said.
That snowballing support continued in the runoff, with endorsements by Bottoms, U.S. Rep. and Democratic Party of Georgia Chair Nikema Williams, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and Sharon Gay, an attorney who finished fourth in Nov. 2 voting.
"I draw circles, I don't draw lines," Dickens said. "And the circle tonight got real large."
Felicia Moore concedes in Atlanta mayoral runoff
Atlanta City Council President Felica Moore thanked her supporters and said she will do anything and everything to help Atlanta Mayor-elect Andre Dickens with the challenges facing the city.
"There's no division tonight," Moore told supporters during her concession speech Tuesday night.
Moore, 60, urged her supporters to do anything and everything they can to make Dickens' term successful saying there's no difference between her supporters and Dickens' because "we're all camp Atlanta."
"We have to be called to do the thing that we wanted everyone else to do, and that brings this city together," Moore said, specifically calling on Buckhead residents to work with Dickens and spurn secession and for Dickens to make sure he gives access to all groups.
"We have some very serious challenged to face in this city," Moore said.
Some of Moore's critics attacked her as the favorite of white voters, a frequent tactic in a city where many white and Black voters are divided by income and geography. Both Moore and Dickens are Black. Moore dismissed the notion that her support should be held against her.
Moore touted her record to appeal to voters hungry for change and position herself as someone who would bring accountability and transparency to City Hall. But Dickens portrayed Moore as a naysayer and someone who has been unable to work with others.
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FOX 5 political analyst Lori Geary and Theron Johnson, founder of the Paramount Consulting Group, sits down with FOX 5 News Edge anchors Tom Haynes and Christine Sperow about the ramifications of the runoff results as well as a look at other city races.
Like many cities across the country, Atlanta has been dealing with a spike in killings. As of Nov. 7, homicides rose 10% over the same period last year and 59% compared with 2019, Atlanta police data shows. Several of those killings captured widespread attention.
Dickens has focused his campaign on getting more officers onto the street quickly, stating he may keep current Chief of Police Rodney Bryant in his position.
Dickens has said he's willing to let Fulton County temporarily use a mostly empty city jail to relieve overcrowding.
Dickens voted for a failed measure that would have withheld a third of the police department's budget until the mayor came up with a plan to overhaul the police department.
"I'm thankful for my supporters, volunteers, and voters," Dickens said. "Atlanta voted for progress, transformation, a problem solver, and it starts right now. We can't wait any longer to address these issues."
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Transportation has been another concern, with Dickens highlighting a need for "smooth and clear roads" and sidewalks.
Dickens also aims to increase affordable housing, improve infrastructure and ensure current residents qualify for high-paying jobs.
"They say 'Atlanta's full.' There's even shirts out there saying 'We full,'" Dickens told his supporters. "They're saying 'Atlanta's full,' I'm saying 'Atlanta full of potential,' I say, 'We're full of talent,' I say, 'We're full of opportunity, we're full of leaders, we're full of potential, we are full of hope for Atlanta's future.'"
Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced in May that she wouldn't seek a second term, creating a wide-open race to succeed her. That successor could have been two-term former Mayor Kasim Reed, but he finished third narrowly behind Dickens after being dogged by corruption in his previous administration, although Reed said he himself was clean.
In an early-morning tweet, the current mayor congratulated Dickens writing:
"Congratulations to Atlanta Mayor-Elect Andre Dickens. The future of our city is in good hands."
Governor Brian Kemp also was quick to congratulate Dickens taking to Twitter to express looking forward to working with the mayor-elect writing:
"Congratulations to Mayor-elect @andreforatlanta. I look forward to working with him to combat crime, spur economic development, and ensure a brighter future for our capital city and state."
Dickens currently works for TechBridge, a nonprofit that tries to use technology to aid other charitable groups. Dickens also founded a program to train people for technology work, trying to broaden access to high-paying jobs in Atlanta. He earlier ran a family-owned furniture store chain that collapsed in bankruptcy a decade ago, something that Dickens blamed on the effects of the Great Recession.
He also thanked his friends, family, and his mentor former Mayor Shirley Franklin, who he credits with getting him into politics during his speech.
Moore said after her term as Atlanta City Council president is over, she plans to take a vacation and then will make herself available to help the city move forward.
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This is a guest post by my colleague, Rodrigo Alfaro, based on our animation work with iPads this school year.
We recently purchased a dozen iPads for teacher and student use in the LRC. These iPads are used for many tasks, including animation. We have found a great many useful apps for animation which we hope others will find useful as well.
Animation Desk Lite for iPad This app has the most features for classical (drawn) animation. Its greatest limitation is that you can only create three scenes in the Lite version. Even so, it is quite a robust application; it includes different pen and brush types, multiple layers of animation, variable frame rates, onion-skinning and even a digital stamp tool which allows you to cut and paste as well. This application is ideal for patient students who have a drawing vocation and enough passion to pursue the completion of one project for a period of time. This application also feels more intuitive if you use a stylus to draw. Animation Desk will allow you to save a scene to the Photo Library (Camera Roll) as a movie, which can then be emailed or exported to a computer with the USB cable.
This application is designed for pixilation (sequential picture) sequences. The interface is very simple to use and understand, because as soon as you open the program there is a small tutorial which guides you through the basic functions of the app. When a clip is created, the front or back camera is activated and you can start shooting right away. The tricky part is to keep the ipad as still as possible, so the animation is not jarring and inconsistent. Often times, the best method involves placing the iPad in a static position in front of where the action will take place. Since this is a purchased app, there is no limit to the amount of scenes available to shoot. You also have the option to play back the animation at different speeds. When your sequence is done, you can export to the Photo Library and email your movie from there.
This application is simple to use. It is very similar in style to Animation Desk, but the interface is less complicated. Even so, it is powerful enough to be able to do rotoscoping (drawing on pictures). It includes 2 modes: the regular drawing mode (which includes, brushes, colour swatches, a stamp tool and a smudge tool), as well as the animating mode, (which includes adding, subtracting or duplicating frames, variable frame rate, a sound recorder and export functionality to get your video out of the ipad and unto a computer. Other features (with the free version) include a shape tool, a Paint Bucket tool which is used to paint large areas of your drawing. This program is accessible and simple enough for those who find Animation Desk too complicated.


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Baker Rink's days may be numbered, President Eisgruber '83 said during his annual talk with alumni during Reunions in Richardson Auditorium.
Options also include building on the eastern side of Washington Road or converting existing dorms into a new residential college and constructing new upperclass housing in another location, he said.
Study abroad: Almost a decade after a University report cited the "expectation" that every undergraduate should experience another country, the percentage who have spent four weeks or more abroad has increased from 38 to 60 percent. But the number has "plateaued a bit," Eisgruber said, and Princeton is focusing on factors that discourage juniors from pursuing opportunities abroad.


Der Herold (1909-1941) was the name given Post und Volksblatt (established 1903) (first called Das Kansas Volksblatt, 1900-1902) in 1910 when the publishing company changed its name from Western Book and Publishing Co. to Herald Book and Publishing Co. (from 1920 on Herald Publishing Co.), but always published at Newton, Kansas. At first a five-column eight-page weekly, in 1904 it became a six-column eight-page 18 x 22-inch paper. This publication, always published by General Conference Mennonites and largely for members of that group in the Newton area, was a pioneer in Mennonite journalism with its program of combining religious and secular interests into a weekly Mennonite family newspaper. H. P. Krehbiel was closely associated with the Herold from the beginning until a few years before his death. C. E. Krehbiel served as editor until July 1920, H. P. Krehbiel October 1920-January 1922, C. Frey January-June 1922, J. B. Epp July 1922-September 1923, H. P. Krehbiel October 1923-September 1935, G. H. Willms September 1935-December 1941.
Bender, Harold S. "Herold, Der (Periodical)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1956. Web. 22 Apr 2019. http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Herold,_Der_(Periodical)&oldid=123084.
Bender, Harold S. (1956). Herold, Der (Periodical). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 22 April 2019, from http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Herold,_Der_(Periodical)&oldid=123084.
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Hyatt Suffers Second Data Breach in Two Years
Deanna Ting, Skift
- Oct 17, 2017 1:30 am
Hyatt isn't alone. But the bigger question is why does this keep happening at so many hotels? And why does it always take so long for customers to find out about these data breaches?
For the second time in two years, Hyatt has had a credit card data breach at its hotels.
Hyatt revealed last week it suffered a breach of its payment systems, exposing customer credit card data from 41 hotels in 11 countries worldwide.
It took Hyatt nearly three months to inform customers about the breach, which was discovered in July. The breach impacts customers who used credit cards at affected hotels from March 18 to July 2 of this year.
Based on Hyatt's investigation into the breach, it appears that malicious software code from a third-party was inserted onto certain hotel information technology systems. A list of impacted hotels can be found here.
The country with the most number of properties affected was China, but there were also breaches in the U.S., South Korea, Saudi Arabia, and seven other nations.
In a statement, Chuck Floyd, global president of operations for Hyatt Hotels said, "I want to assure you that there is no indication that information beyond that gained from payment cards — cardholder name, card number, expiration date and internal verification code — was involved, and as a result of implemented measures designed to prevent this from happening in the future, guests can feel confident using payment cards at Hyatt hotels worldwide."
Hyatt isn't the only major hotel company to have suffered a data breach in recent months. Most recently, a data breach at third-party hotel-reservations provider Sabre impacted multiple hotels, including those from Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, Trump Hotels, Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants, and Red Lion Hotels Corp.
InterContinental Hotels Group has announced two data breaches this year, and HEI Hotels & Resorts, which owns and operates Marriott, Starwood, Hyatt, and InterContinental properties, also suffered a credit card data breach that it revealed in August 2016.
Customers wanting more information regarding the Hyatt data breach can call various numbers for Hyatt in different regions.
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NOFA-NY is an organization of farmers, gardeners, and consumers working together to create a sustainable regional food system that's ecologically sound and economically viable. Through demonstration and education, we promote land stewardship, organic food production, and local marketing. We bring consumer and farmer together to make high-quality food available to all people.
A just and resilient farming system grounded in a diverse community now and for future generations.
Since 1983, NOFA-NY has been serving the organic and sustainable food and farming community. A year later, we became the first organic certifier in New York State. With the arrival of National Organic Standards in 2002, NOFA-NY established separate certification and education functions and offices, while maintaining a cohesive strategy to support the organic farming community. Today, we are New York State's leading organization providing effective programs and services that promote sustainable, local, organic food and farming. NOFA-NY is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization governed by a volunteer Board of Directors elected by our membership. NOFA-NY is one of seven northeastern state organizations that work together under the umbrella of the Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA) ‒ the oldest grassroots organic farming organization in the country!
Our Equity Statement
This statement is a living document, intended to guide NOFA-NY's equity work.
NOFA-NY is a membership organization committed to creating a sustainable regional food system that is ecologically sound and economically viable. In an effort to realize our vision of a just and resilient farming system, in late 2018 NOFA-NY began to evaluate the ways in which we can center racial and social equity in our work.
Food is inextricably linked to structures of power in society and therefore, our food system is inherently unjust. In the United States, the food system was built upon the forced displacement, enslavement, and subordination of peoples on dispossessed Indigenous lands. We have seen institutional inequities continue in both the private and public sectors with the denial of access to land, opportunities, and healthy foods, and with the consolidation of agribusiness. These systemic features have left certain urban and rural demographics in a state of disproportionate disadvantage, affecting health and survival.
We are committed to a reiterative process that requires us to have difficult conversations. It requires reflection and inquiry, as individuals, as representatives of our organization, and as parts of the food system as a whole.
We wish to uplift the positive contributions to our NOFA-NY community from especially those continually marginalized by systemic forces of dominance and neglect. At the same time, we acknowledge that we have not previously centered equity in our work.
We plan to build a racial and social equity lens that informs our organization's planning, decision-making, and advocacy for policies at both the State and National levels. We intend to conduct an organizational equity assessment, including an evaluation of our internal processes around board appointments, hiring, and programming.
We view this work as a long-term process that includes ongoing racial and social equity trainings and workshops for board, staff, presenters, and general membership.
We have created a small committee of staff and board members to lay the groundwork for this process. We aim to open this committee and process to NOFA-NY members and others who are interested in providing feedback and sharing knowledge.


CSC 304. Multimedia Systems (3) Prerequisite: CSC 121. Introduction to technologies of the Internet and networked multimedia systems. Issues in web page design; Internet client/server programming; collaborative computing and group work; network publishing; security and encryption; audio and video compression; ethical issues and privacy; e-commerce; and distributed object computing. Open only to students of junior or senior standing.


My teen daughter, who I refer to as Dajaa (another story), started an innocent, little Halloween-time gag that, well, escalated.
It started after I pulled twin cotton padding from a bottle of medication. I laid them out on the table and remarked that they looked like ghost poop. Dajaa agreed and took the ghost poops to her room. I thought they might end up lining a jewelry box or the like.
I had no choice but to retaliate. So I fetched the other cotton, gave it a face, and began to plot and scheme.
Heh heh I got her.
Please note, at no point here was the ghost poop's life in danger. There was indeed a fresh roll of toilet paper sitting on the bathtub ledge.
From that point on...it was war.
That's not my Stove Top. Yuck.
Took her three days to see this one.
On Halloween Day a truce was declared. There was some talk of attaching teeny halos and resurrecting the cottons as Angel Poop Wars, but I'm fairly certain all warring parties are,er, tired.


Evan McKie was born in Toronto, Canada. He received his initial ballet training in his home town and subsequently joined the Kirov Academy in Washington D.C. (1997-99). Following an invitation from Petr Pestov, he completed his studies at the John Cranko Schule in Stuttgart in 2001.
After his graduation he became an apprentice with the Stuttgart Ballet. At the begining of the 2002/03 season he was taken into the Corps de ballet. In 2005/06 he was promoted to Demi-Soloist, in 2006/07 to Soloist. His promotion to Principal Dancer followed in 2009/10 after his debut in the title role of Kevin O'Day's Hamlet.
Choreographers who have created roles for Evan McKie in Stuttgart include Wayne McGregor, Marco Goecke, Mauro Bigonzetti, Christian Spuck, Kevin O'Day and Douglas Lee. He has also worked with John Neumeier, Marcia Haydée and the late Glen Tetley.
Evan McKie is a guest dancer with the Paris Opera Ballet, Universal Ballet, The Tokyo Ballet, The National Ballet of Canada and the Ballet de Santiago de Chile. He has received international critical acclaim for his performances as Hamlet, Onegin, Siegfried in Swan Lake and as the Prince in The Sleeping Beauty. He has been twice listed in Dance Europe's Critics' Choice List for performances in Paquita and as Albrecht in Giselle.
In July 2012 Evan McKie received the Premio ApuliArte "Prix Grand Merit", a prize awarded yearly by a panel of prestigious dance journalists for the season's outstanding performances. The journalists cited McKie's performances in the title role of John Cranko's Onegin with the Paris Opera, in Rudolph Nureyev's The Sleeping Beauty with the National Ballet of Canada and in John Cranko's Swan Lake with the Stuttgart Ballet.
Evan McKie has choreographed two successful works for the Noverre Society "Young Choreographer" evenings in Stuttgart. When he is not onstage, McKie works as a photographer specializing in abstract portraits and is also a guest writer for Dance Magazine, New York. The magazine named him an honorary advisory board member in 2011.


Politicians insisting that the latest Islamic jihad attack has nothing to do with Islam have become a familiar feature of the mainstream media landscape, but last Saturday, Boston Police Commissioner William B. Evans went them all one better.
We're all Muslims deep down. We all yearn for peace.
Evans thus went farther than Barack Obama, John Kerry, David Cameron, and all the other Western politicians who insist that Islam is a religion of peace. For Evans, Islam is not just a religion of peace, but the religion of peace: to be a Jew, a Christian, a Hindu, a Buddhist, or an atheist would not make one yearn for peace.
I don't think we can tolerate bigotry toward the Muslim population. They're an important part of our city. I just want to reassure them that we're here for them.
Muslims acting avowedly in the name of Islam and jihad committed mass murder of non-Muslims, and in the wake of that attack, the Boston police commissioner took it upon himself to reassure … Muslims. However he went about doing this reassuring, it is certain that he never asked members of the Islamic Society of Boston why so many Muslims don't yearn for peace at all, but seem instead to relish war.
Nor is he likely to have asked Islamic Society of Boston members what they were doing about that, and why they had no program designed to teach young Muslims why they should reject the understanding of Islam held by the Islamic State, al-Qaeda, and other jihad groups.
-- The Islamic Society of Boston's founder, Abdurrahman Alamoudi, was once a major player in Washington and the nation's most prominent moderate Muslim. Now he is serving a twenty-three year sentence for charges including fundraising for al-Qaeda.


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Learning to Hunt
by David Sparks Ph.d, click here for bio
Program: Sportsman's Spotlight
Download Report: Learning_to_Hunt.mp3
Sam Williamson lives about 40 miles from Boulder Colorado and runs an online business called repyourwater.com. The business sells fishing and hunting apparel and the nifty thing about the whole concept is the fact that they donate some of their profits to conservation efforts. Sam also has taken advantage of his location by becoming an avid trout fly fisherman. But then, he had a fishing buddy who also hunted and the rest is history. "I have been hunting for four years and got into it through a buddy who asked me if I wanted to go hunting. I said sure and got my hunters safety. Did not grow up a hunter, just grew up a fisherman so this is kind of a new thing for me. Got into archery right away. Then archery hunting for three seasons and slowly getting into the rifle game. What made you go to archery before rifle? That's a good question. I got into archery because it was cheaper. My buddy had an older bow, a 1989 Gold Needle. He lent it to me and I just started from there.
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Q: Dynamic equivalent of Python's "from  import " In Python, it is possible to dynamically import an entire module using importlib.import_module(name), which returns the specified package or module (e.g. pkg.mod). However, is there no analogous way to dynamically import a specific function/class/etc. from a given module in the same fashion as done using e.g. from foo import bar, where the symbol bar of the module foo is imported into the symbol table of the importing module?
For example, if I try to import a symbol directly using importlib.import_module(symbol_name), I just get an ImportError:
import importlib

# Importing an entire module works fine
imported_module = importlib.import_module("os.path")
# This doesn't work
imported_symbol = importlib.import_module("os.path.basename")

Executing the code above prints the following stack trace:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/stackoverflow/dev/importtest.py", line 6, in <module>
    symbol = importlib.import_module("basename", "os.path.basename")
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/importlib/__init__.py", line 126, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 986, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 969, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 956, in _find_and_load_unlocked
ImportError: No module named 'basename'

A: You have to look up the symbol you need in the module object that is returned by import_module using getattr:
imported_module = importlib.import_module("os.path")
imported_symbol = getattr(imported_module, "basename")

A: import_module method only accept module.
You could try something as below to access the module's method/attribute
imported_symbol = importlib.import_module("os.path").basename

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Mangalore, Karnataka
Mungaru Male (2006)
Cine Awards
Sanchita Shetty is an Indian film actress, who has appeared in Kannada, Tamil and Telugu films. She made her first film appearance in the Kannada film Mungaru Male. In the next three years, she appeared in supporting roles in three Kannada films. She also appeared in a film titled Gaganachukki, which never released. In 2010, she appeared in Jayam Ravi starred Thillalangadi, its director M. Raja recommended her in the Telugu film Orange featuring Ram Charan Teja, although both the films were success. In 2012, she signed her first leading role in Kollaikaran. Then she played female lead character in Nalan Kumarasamy's black comedy Soodhu Kavvum which was a critical and commercial success and the biggest success in Shetty's career. In 2014, she signed a Kannada film after five years, Badmaash directed by Akash Srivatsa. Her upcoming movies are Ennodu Vilayadu, Enkitta Mothathe, Rum, Love Guru, Devdas Brothers.
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Who to Trust -- Pelosi or the CIA?
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is under fire for complaining that the CIA misled her in classified briefings about the Bush administration's abusive treatment of "war on terror" detainees. Republicans and many media pundits have accused Pelosi of scapegoating the CIA for her failure to protest those techniques in a timely fashion.
But the history of the CIA is replete with examples of agency officials obscuring key details when telling members of Congress about controversial programs. In the 1980s, CIA Director William Casey was famous for mumbling over such points and gruffly reacting when asked to repeat himself.
Other times, the CIA's official briefing records have clashed with the contemporaneous notes of congressional participants. For instance, former Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Bob Graham, D-Florida, says an intelligence document, which claimed he was briefed about the Bush administration's domestic surveillance program on two dates in 2001 and 2002, was contradicted by his own schedule, which showed that no such briefings took place.
Graham also said that during briefings he did attend, he was never told that the Bush administration planned to spy on American citizens.
In an interview with ABC's "Nightline" on Dec. 15, 2005 – after the New York Times disclosed the existence of the warrantless wiretapping program – Graham said he attended meetings in Vice President Dick Cheney's office and discussed surveillance activities, but added that neither Cheney nor then-National Security Agency Director Michael Hayden spoke about a plan to spy on Americans. (CIA Director George Tenet also took part in the meeting.)
"The issue was whether we could intercept foreign communications when they transited through U.S. communication sites," Graham said. "The assumption was that if we did that, we would do it pursuant to the law, the law that regulates the surveillance of national security issues. …
"There was no suggestion that we were going to begin eavesdropping on United States citizens without following the full law. There was no reference made to the fact that we were going to use that as the subterfuge to begin unwarranted, illegal — and I think unconstitutional — eavesdropping on American citizens."
Graham suggested that Cheney and the intelligence officials had lied to him and other members of congressional intelligence panels.
Cheney and other Bush administration officials – aided by Republican lawmakers – responded to Graham's comments with a fierce counterattack, much like they are doing now against Pelosi. In another "Nightline" interview on Dec. 18, 2005, Cheney said Graham, as well as other members of Congress knew that the administration intended to spy on the phone calls of some Americans.
"He knew," Cheney said. "I sat in my office with Gen. Hayden, who was then the head of NSA, who's now the deputy director of the National Intelligence Directorate, and he [Graham] was briefed as long as he was chairman of the committee, or ranking member of the committee."
'Misremembering'
Reporting on the controversy, the Washington Post quoted an unnamed, "high-ranking intelligence official" who said Graham is "misremembering the briefings."
A four-page memo from Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte, which was turned over to Congress several months later, contained the dates lawmakers were briefed about the surveillance program, briefings that began shortly after President George W. Bush signed a highly classified executive order that removed some legal restrictions against spying on US. citizens.
The memo contained four dates that alleged Graham – along with Rep. Nancy Pelosi, then ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, and their Republican counterparts, Rep. Porter Goss and Sen. Richard Shelby – were briefed on Oct. 25, 2001, Nov. 14, 2001, April 10, 2002, and July 8, 2002. A cover letter accompanying Negroponte's letter said the briefings took place at the White House.
But Graham, who famously keeps a detailed journal of his daily schedule, said he checked those dates against his own records, which revealed no briefings on Oct. 25, 2001 and April 10, 2002. The memo had claimed Graham was the only lawmaker briefed on April 10, 2002. On July 8, 2002, the document said Graham and Shelby were briefed.
"When I got those dates, I went back to my notebooks and checked and found that on most of the dates there were no meetings held," Graham said in September 2007. "In fact, in several of them, I wasn't in Washington when the meetings were supposed to have taken place. So I stand by what I said."
Graham said he did attend briefings on the two other dates but he told the Washington Post "there was no discussion of anything [about spying on Americans' telephone calls] in the meeting with Cheney."
"I came out of the room with the full sense that we were dealing with a change in technology but not policy," Graham said.
The dispute then is nearly identical to the one now playing out in Congress about a similar document cited by the CIA supposedly showing top Democrats receiving briefings about the Bush administration's torture program.
Two weeks ago, after the CIA turned over a document to Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Michigan, that contained the dates and a summary of the briefings given to a select group of congressional leaders about "EIT's" or "enhanced interrogation techniques...employed," Graham revealed that three of the four dates in which he was said to have received briefings don't match his records.
"When I asked the CIA when was I briefed, they gave me four dates, two in April and two in September of '02. On three of the four occasions, when I consulted my schedule and my notes, it was clear that no briefing had taken place, and the CIA eventually concurred in that. So their record keeping is a little bit suspect," Graham said.
One of the disputed dates for a briefing on interrogations – in April 2002 – fell in the same month as one of the supposed briefings on surveillance. In both cases, Graham said no briefings took place.
Moreover, Graham said he was not told about the CIA's torture techniques, which the agency's records claim were explained to Graham and Shelby, R-Alabama.
The CIA document also alleged that Pelosi was given a full accounting of the torture program in 2002 and 2003. In claiming last week that the CIA misled her and other members of Congress, Pelosi said the CIA briefers obscured the fact that the agency already had begun subjecting prisoners to the near-drowning of waterboarding and was using other torture techniques.


1913. This book contains two lectures by Rudolf Steiner presented on the occasion of his first visit to the Anthroposophical Society in London in May 1913. The lectures found within are entitled Occult Science and Occult Development (Initiation), and Christ at the Time of the Mystery of Golgotha and Christ in the 20th Century.


Medicaid Archives - The Law Firm of Myrna Serrano Setty, P.A.
Many seniors and their families don't use a lawyer to plan for long-term care or Medicaid, often because they're afraid of the cost. But a qualified lawyer can help you save money in the long run as well as make sure you are getting the best care for your loved one.
When nursing homes refer the families of residents to non-lawyers to assist in preparing the Medicaid application, the preparer has dual loyalties, both to the facility that provides the referrals and to the client applying for benefits. To the extent everyone wants the Medicaid application to be successful, there's no conflict of interest. But it's in the nursing home's interest that the resident pay privately for as long as possible before going on Medicaid, while it's in the nursing home resident's interest to protect assets for the resident's care or for the resident's spouse or family. A lawyer hired to assist with Medicaid planning and the application has a duty of loyalty only to the client and will do her best to achieve the client's goals.
Nursing homes can cost as much as $15,000 a month in some areas, so it is unusual for legal fees to equal the cost of even one month in the facility. It is not difficult to save this much in long-term care and probate costs. And most attorneys will consult with new clients at little or no cost to determine what might be achieved before the client pays a larger fee.
Professionals who work in any field on a daily basis over many years develop both the depth and breadth of experience and expertise to advise clients on how they might achieve their goals, whether those are maintaining independence and dignity, preserving funds for children and grandchildren, or staying home rather than moving to assisted living or a nursing home. Less experienced advisers, however well intentioned, can't know what they don't know.


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public interface GSAccountsEventListener

Listener for handling Accounts namespace events.

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Invoked after an account was logged in to successfuly.

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context - The context object that was passed to the method initiating the login.

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Ва́йсенфельс () — район в Германии. Центр района — город Вайсенфельс. Район входит в землю Саксония-Анхальт. Занимает площадь 372,41 км². Население 74 077 чел. Плотность населения 200 человек/км².
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Район подразделяется на 33 общины.

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The Princess of Pop– Britany Spears Reinvents Herself
By TwinEngine	September 19, 2016 December 14th, 2016 No Comments
Oops! She did it again- in a good way. It's official, Britany Spears has reinvented herself! The release of her newest album, Glory, and her comeback performance at the 2016 Video Music Awards has jolted the Princess of Pop back into the spotlight. We all remember her 2007 VMA's performance and the breakdown that nearly destroyed her brand and career.
Britney Spears- The Brand
Since her early debut on the Mickey Mouse Club, Britney Spears has become an international pop culture icon, with hits like "Oops! I Did It Again" and "Baby One More Time" that skyrocketed her career and placed her as one of the best-selling female artists of all time. Her brand persona transcended the music industry and her comeback and reinvention is a breath of fresh air for her fans. According to Fast Company, her new album, Glory, "hailed as a "masterpiece" and her "most adventurous album in a decade," has seemingly accomplished what the three records before it had hoped for: the rehabilitation of the nearly 20-year-old Britney Spears brand."
In her early years, Britney's reputation represented a fun, and fearless artist not afraid to push the limits. It's clear that she has tapped back into that with her new album and her latest appearance on 'The Late Late Show' with James Corbin. Where she is seen in the popular primetime special Carpool Karaoke singing along to some of her old and new hits. As well as her appearance on The Ellen Show, where the two are seen causing mischief at a local shopping mall. She's created a unique mixture of new flare with a hint of nostalgia that feels fresh and authentic for her fans. Britney's executive producer said it best that, "the key to reinventing Britney Spears for 2016 … was the Britney I knew from the outside, … always taking chances, always changing, and always doing something new."
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I suppose the dimensions are in millimeters and pressure in psi?
Well I only have 400mm of tube and currently time is restricted. Might do it if not too busy during Christmas. Shot count isn't important, I can have a 2000 psi output tank with me to refill. Finally taking a gun license next February and I'd like to have a PCP rifle to use instead of a springer.
Dimensions are in inches. Pressure and hoop stress are in psi.
What happened to the pcp rifles you built?
The valve jammed and since the chamber was epoxied it's beyond repair.
From the quality of the 2240, I suppose the stock barrel wouldn't be very good. Still, not very willing to install decent one and design a completely new receiver... Gonna spend the co2 cartridges that came in with it and see what it can do.
2240 is...inexpensive. Stock barrels are hit and miss...some are horrid...some are VERY good. Most benefit from having the forcing cone/chamber/transfer port/ leade area de-burred and polished and a re-crown. Some bores can use a bit of lapping too.
Trigger will benefit from a lighter sear spring, shim the side play out of the guts, stone and lube the contact points. Lots of info available with a quick google search.
Yeah I started searching about the trigger as it was a bit heavy for my likings.
Dunno if I dare to change the barrel... Maybe I'll drill the transfer port into the receiver and cut off the rear of the barrel.
Yep thats what I have in mind, a spring guide seems like a standard mod.
How did you mill the curve of the receiver bottom?
Shallow pass with a 3/8" ball mill.


There is something about fear that I really appreciate. Something about the moment that fear turns into blind panic and terror. When this happens and it lasts long enough, it dissolves into surrender, softening, letting go.
I'm not talking about the fear that comes up when our live and safety is threatened in this moment. I'm not talking about the fear when bombs fall, someone is coming at us with a knife, we get into a car crash.
I'm talking about anticipating fear. The fear that something will happen in the future. The fear that we won't create enough income, that our husband is gonna leave us, that we'll get a disease and die, that we'll lose connection when we express our authentic truth. Those scenarios our mind chooses from all the possible scenarios and believes to be true. Anticipating fear.
When that fear grasps you long enough, there comes a moment when you cannot sustain it anymore. Your system doesn't have enough capacity to be and terrified and continue living. It collapses.
Thàt's the moment to catch. Thàt's the opportunity to wake up to this moment and realize that all you have is the present moment. That there is really nothing else but this moment. This waking up is not the result of a mental exercise, trying to convince yourself that the future has no reality. It is a visceral experience of understanding your future is beyond your control. You feel in your body that the only thing you can influence is your intention, thoughts, speech and action, right now.
Once that awareness sunk in with me, I completely relaxed. My fears dissipated. All that was left is gratitude. For my hands which are able to hold a pen and write. For the four walls that keep the cold outside, and the warmth in. For the faucet that gives me easy access to water. For the carpenter that made the chair that supports me. For my husband who works, holds me, appreciates me. For my family and friends who are willing to help.
The gratitude list is endless. I giggle. My experiences are faster than my gratitude. There is só much to be grateful for, that I can't keep up with it.


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Commanders of troops will be held responsible for a Strict observance of this order.
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Table of Contents > Asia >
The government of Mahathir Mohamed, beginning his third decade as prime minister, continued to crack down hard on potential political challengers, arresting key opposition leaders, banning political rallies, and breaking up public gatherings with force.
The year began with the prime minister's popularity in decline. In November 2000, the ruling coalition suffered a by-election defeat in Mahathir's home district in Kedah state and the government faced increasingly vocal opposition protests. In response, it turned the draconian Internal Security Act (ISA) against its political opponents. Among those targeted under the ISA, which allows detainees to be held indefinitely without charge or public airing of the evidence against them, were minority Shi'a Muslims, supporters of jailed former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, and youth leaders in the opposition PAS (Partai Islam Se-Malaysia) party, although individuals linked to specific violent acts were also among those detained. In the wake of the September 11 attacks in the United States, authorities used global concern with terrorism to justify their actions.
The government detained six Shi'a Muslims under the ISA between October 2000 and January 2001, three of whom reportedly were still being held in November. Other ISA detentions of Shi'a Muslims in previous years were said by government officials to be necessary to prevent "religious disharmony" that could damage the nation's political and economic development.
On November 5, 2000, police punched and kicked participants at a peaceful demonstration outside the city of Klang, fired tear gas and water cannons, and arrested 126 people demonstrating in support of Anwar Ibrahim. The National Justice Party (Partai Keadilan Nasional or Keadilan), founded by Anwar's wife, Wan Azizah, had applied for but been denied a permit to hold the demonstration.
In January, nine government opponents were arrested and charged with rioting in the run-up to the November 2000 by-election in Kedah. The nine were accused of trying to prevent busloads of supporters of the ruling coalition (Barisan Nasional), whom they believed were traveling to the area to vote illegally, from reaching the polls.
In January, police also forcibly prevented political speeches and stopped cultural displays at a multi-cultural festival organized by the opposition, despite having issued a permit for the festival. Police also stopped a book launch party at a restaurant attended by more than 1,000 former Labour Party members. The book was a historical account of the leftist party disbanded three decades ago.
In February, police arrested four protestors, including Keadilan Vice-President Tian Chua and columnist/filmmaker Hishammuddin Rais, at a demonstration calling for former Attorney General Mohtar Abdullah to be for abuse of power in conducting the prosecution of Anwar. On February 14, police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse 15,000 to 20,000 people at a Keadilan political rally in Kampung Lahar, held on private property. Police had refused to grant a permit for the rally.
On February 9, Marina Yusoff, former vice president of Keadilan, was fined 5,000 ringgit (approximately U.S. $1,315) for asserting in a speech in September 2000 that the ruling coalition had sparked anti-Chinese riots in 1969 following a local election defeat. On March 5, Keadilan youth leader Mohamed Ezam Mohamed Nor was arrested and subsequently charged with sedition for remarks published in Mingguan Malaysia newspaper in which he reportedly stated that he would continue leading street demonstrations until the government was brought down. On March 6, police arrested nine people who held a candlelight vigil for him outside a police station. Ezam was released on bail on March 13, but, as described below, was subsequently rearrested less than a month later under the ISA.
Ethnic violence broke out on March 9 when ethnic Indians and Malays clashed in Kampung Medan, a poor quarter of Kuala Lumpur. Police reported that six people, including five of Indian origin, were killed and over fifty injured. Most of the wounded were also ethnic Indians. Four opposition party leaders jointly challenged the official casualty figures, suggesting the actual figures were higher: in response, the government threatened to charge them with sedition, though no charges were ultimately brought. Indian community representatives continued to demand further investigation.
On April 10-11, just days before public protests planned to mark the second anniversary of the sentencing of former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, the authorities detained seven opposition leaders under the ISA, then three other people in the following days. Most of the ten, who were all held incommunicado until May 4, were members of Keadilan. The authorities alleged that they were plotting to overthrow the government but produced no evidence to substantiate this. On May 30, in an unusual and courageous ruling Judge Hishamuddin Yunus ordered the release of two ISA detainees on a writ of habeas corpus, and suggested that the parliament should review and either scrap or amend the ISA to reduce its potential for abuse. By mid-November, authorities had released three more detainees, but five had been served with two-year detention orders and were being held at the Kamunting Detention Centre. The five are: Tian Chua, Ezam Mohamed Noor, Hishammuddin Rais, Saari Sungib, and Lokman Nor.
In July, the authorities detained two student activists, Khairul Anuar Ahmad Zainuddin and Mohamad Fuad Mohamad Ikhwan, under the ISA, the former for twenty three days and the latter for ten days.
Also in July, the government banned all political rallies stating that they would undermine the country's security. When PAS subsequently planned a series of meetings to protest the policy, police refused to grant permits and dispersed those who attempted to attend. On August 2-4, police arrested an additional ten people under the ISA, all of whom were affiliated with or supporters of PAS, including four prominent youth leaders. The authorities said the ten belonged to a group that planned to overthrow the government, sometimes labeling the group the Malaysian Militant Group and sometimes the Malaysian Mojahedin Group. One of those detained, Nik Adli Nik Aziz, was the son of a leading PAS official. The authorities alleged he had received military training in Afghanistan and had learned bomb making from Muslim rebels in the Philippines, but he denied this and PAS leaders emphasized that they used only peaceful, democratic means in their struggle against the ruling coalition. As of mid-November, nine of the ten remained in custody after being served two-year detention orders.
Four days after the September 11 attacks in the United States, Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Ahman Badawi sought to justify the ISA as providing "an initial preventive measure before threats get beyond control," and on October 10 two other alleged members of the Malaysian Mojahedin Group were detained under the act. PAS leaders, however, dismissed the detentions as a "political ploy" and challenged the government to bring charges and produce the detainees in open court.
The government maintained important restrictions on press freedom. Under the Printing Presses and Publications Act, newspapers were required annually to obtain licenses to publish from the government and those held to have breached the terms of their license could be restricted or shut down. The PAS organ Harakah, formerly a biweekly publication, continued to be restricted to two issues per month for allegedly breaching the terms of its license in 2000 by selling to non-PAS members. In March, editions of both Far Eastern Economic Review and Asiaweek, which had been chronicling the growing opposition to Mahathir and signs of political unrest, were held back by government censors. Mahathir had complained that the photo of him on the cover of an earlier edition of Asiaweek had made him look like "an idiot."
Authorities also appeared to be struggling for a way to rein in independent Internet daily malaysiakini.com, winner of an International Press Institute 2001 Press Freedom Award. As part of its effort to promote Malaysia's multimedia corridor, the government had promised there would be no Internet censorship, and Internet sites were exempt from media licensing provisions. Early in the year, ministers accused malaysiakini.com of receiving funds via a Bangkok press group from financier George Soros, long pilloried in the government-controlled Malaysian press as personally responsible for the Asian economic crisis in 1997. On February 11, an information ministry official said that malaysiakini.com would be barred from covering government press conferences "because their credibility is doubtful." On May 23, the deputy home affairs minister told parliament that the government was monitoring "every article" published by malaysiakini.com to ensure that its writings did not upset public order.
The threat of multimillion dollar libel awards against journalists and media publications, said to be the highest such awards among the fifty-four countries of the Commonwealth, also continued to limit press freedom. A Bar Council publication in March noted that, since businessman and one-time Mahathir insider Vincent Tan won a 10 million Ringgit (approximately U.S. $2.2 million) judgment against a group of media defendants in 1994, more than seventy libel cases had been filed against journalists and media defendants, many seeking millions of dollars in damages.
Serious questions remained about the independence of the judiciary. In March, the Kuala Lumpur Bar Committee issued a memorandum concluding that "the administration of justice in Malaysia is in its darkest hour since independence." By early November, however, a number of developments suggested that the appointment in December 2000 of respected jurist Dzaiddin Abdullah as chief justice was beginning to have a positive impact. On March 15, former police chief Abdul Rahim Noor was sentenced for the prison beating of Anwar Ibrahim, though only to a two-month term. In June, a federal court dismissed contempt charges that had been laid against Anwar's lawyer, Zainur Zakaria, when he petitioned for the removal of two of the prosecutors during Anwar's trial. The May 30 decision of Judge Hishamuddin Yunus to order the release of two ISA detainees was also a powerful reassertion of judicial independence.
In another important decision on June 8, high court judge Muhammad Kamil Awang overturned the results of the March 1999 state elections in Likas (Sabah) after finding that the electoral roll included nonexistent voters. (Sabah's three million population includes an estimated 500,000 immigrants, mostly from neighboring Indonesia and the Philippines). The judge also sparked a police investigation into improper judicial interference when he disclosed that one of his superiors had ordered him in 1999 to dismiss the case.
On October 16, prominent human rights lawyer Karpal Singh was put on trial for sedition for comments he had made in January 2000 while lead defense counsel for Anwar Ibrahim. Following reports that increased levels of arsenic had been found in Anwar's blood, Singh had suggested in court that "people in high places" were trying to poison his client. He faced up to three years in jail if convicted.
It was a difficult year for migrant workers. In May, the government announced plans to expel 100,000 illegal migrant workers. Government figures showed that 50,953 illegal immigrants were detained in nationwide operations between January and the end of June. In August, the government announced plans to amend the Immigration Act to punish illegal migrant workers and employers who engage them with imprisonment and caning. Officials justified the measures as necessary to stem the influx of illegal migrants, who they blamed for an increase in serious crime.
Human rights groups continued to play a critical role in investigating and publicizing abuses. In response to the increased use of the ISA, rights groups such as Aliran, Hakam, and Suaram (Suara Rakyat Malaysia) helped form a new umbrella organization called AIM (Abolish ISA Movement), which campaigned actively on behalf of detainees' rights and for repeal of the law. Some human rights workers were among those detained: Badaruddin Ismail (also known as Pak Din), a member of Suaram's secretariat, was among those detained under the ISA. He was released on June 5.
With the government still exerting substantial control over major media outlets, Malaysia's alternative media and rights groups were also important sources of independent information about human rights and related developments.
Malaysia's national human rights commission (Suhakam), established by the government in late 1999, also began to speak out more forcefully, though its performance was uneven. It called for review of the ISA and urged the government, unsuccessfully, to allow Anwar to travel to Germany for surgery for back injuries that he apparently sustained as a result of being beaten in custody. In early August, Suhakam criticized the police in a report on freedom of assembly. The commission said police had refused to grant permits for public gatherings without adequate justification, and had given protestors insufficient time to disperse and used excessive force against them. It called for amendment of the Police Act to remove the police permit system and require only that police be given advance notice of an assembly, to provide that any conditions should not restrict free expression, and to require the police to exercise restraint in dispersing demonstrators. The commission also recommended amendment of the Public Order (Preservation) Act 1958, which it said unduly restricted freedom of assembly. Later in August, Suhakam published the results of its five-month inquiry into police conduct in connection with the November 2000 Keadilan-sponsored rally near Klang. The commission accused the police of using excessive force in crowd control and in the arrest and treatment of detainees. The government said it would study Suhakam's findings and recommendations.
The trial of Irene Fernandez, head of Tenaganita (Women's Force), already the longest trial in Malaysian history, entered its sixth year. Fernandez faced three years in prison if convicted on charges of malicious publishing for her July 1995 memorandum on abuses in immigration detention centers. Several former detainees testified in 2001, corroborating allegations in the report of the existence of torture and sexual abuse in the camps.
The continuing crackdown in Malaysia evoked little international response either in the region, including from Japan, the country's largest bilateral aid donor and one of its most important investors, or from Western governments.
In April 2001, Foreign Minister Syed Hamid complained when a dozen foreign Malaysia-based diplomats attended a private briefing by Wan Azizah on the health of her husband, Anwar Ibrahim. The minister said he would summon the diplomats and explain to them "the actual political situation" in Malaysia.
The Bush administration shifted its position on Malaysia following the September 11 attacks. In late June, Wan Azizah visited Washington and met senior U.S. State Department officials and members of Congress. A few weeks later, Syed met with U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and was reportedly told that a meeting between President Bush and Prime Minister Mahathir could take place only if there were progress on Anwar's case and in the treatment of political dissidents. However, when Mahathir and Bush met at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Shanghai in late October, Bush reportedly made no public comment on Malaysia's human rights record.
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Q: Problem resetting root password on an embedded device Linux embedded file system run entirely on raw NAND flash, use Full Image's RootFS. Linux v. 2.6.26.5, U-boot 2009.03 bootloader. After the Kernel is fully loaded, when I try to submit command, the device show the console login prompt.
So I need reset a root password on device. I tried do this with U-boot by adding single and init=/bin/sh arguments at the end of kernel boot parameters:
setenv bootargs ${bootargs} single init=/bin/sh

Then I've been dropped into the Busybox shell command line with root privileges, from here I tried to run passwd command to reset the root password.
BusyBox v1.10.2 (2015-09-06 10:58:05 CST) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
# help

Built-in commands:
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    . : [ [[ alias bg break cd chdir continue echo eval exec exit
    export false fg hash help jobs let local pwd read readonly return
    set shift source test times trap true type ulimit umask unalias
    unset wait

# passwd
passwd: unknown uid 0
# cd etc
# cat passwd
cat: can't open 'passwd': No such file or directory
# ls -l
...
lrwxrwxrwx    1 1014     1014           11 Oct 26  2015 passwd -> /tmp/passwd

How to reset the root password?
Edit: from log
# df
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
df: /proc/mounts: No such file or directory

# cd dev
# ls -l
crw-r--r--    1 0        0          5,   1 Jan  1 00:05 console
crw-r--r--    1 0        0          2,   0 Oct 26  2015 nfs

A: You're in a busybox emergency shell and your actual root partition is obviously not mounted yet.
You can list the available devices via ls /dev and mount your respecive root partition via mount /dev/<root_device> /<mount_point>.
After that you can edit the passwd under the respective mount point.


The Victoria Transport Association's (VTA) Industry Think Tank has held its first meeting to set priorities for the freight sector.
VTA president Paul Freestone said: "Whilst there is no silver bullet, it is the little things that add up. As an industry, we recognise the need to raise our profile in advocating the case for change.
The Industry Think Tank was established to provide a focus for the sector in generating ideas and actions that can immediately improve the sector.
Revolving around the urban freight task, the meeting has suggested low-cost options including sequencing of traffic lights, re-marking of lanes, implementing clearways during peak hours and the introduction of high productivity vehicles.
The meeting also brought up longer term issues such as completing the Melbourne road network, improving intermodal freight linkages and a prioritised list of infrastructure projects.
VTA CEO and chairman of the Think Tank Philip Lovel said as the freight industry came to face an unprecedented challenge with cost increases, a collaborative approach was essential to find innovated solutions.
"The cost of moving goods is going through the roof. In the past the freight sector could achieve efficiencies that meant the consumers were insulated. These opportunities have dried up, and the public is about to experience some real price increased because of these cost rises," Mr Lovel said.
Also proposed at the meeting were a number of trials and case studies to "give freight a go", including after hours access trials to local businesses, a 24/7 taskforce to demonstrate the benefits of wider access, high productivity vehicle trials and a rail efficiencies summit to map an action strategy.
"The Industry Think Tank will pursue these issues to achieve some immediate wins and to advocate future change," Mr Lovel said.


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Valery Syutkin responded to rumors about the birth of a son from a surrogate mother
Former lead singer of the "Bravo" group Valery Syutkin dispelled rumors about the birth of Leva's son from a surrogate mother. The musician admitted that his baby was born thanks to the IVF procedure.
In August last year, the 62-year-old singer and his wife Viola became parents again. It was rumored that a surrogate mother was carrying the child for the couple. The singer in an interview emphasized that he was "absolutely indifferent to the versions put forward" about the birth of his son, but did not go into details.
After some time, Syutkin decided to admit that the couple resorted to using the IVF procedure.
"If I had my way, I would have given birth to three, but … it didn't work out. The two previous pregnancies ended badly. This became a great stress, the consequences of which had to be dealt with for a long time. Then we decided to resort to IVF. It didn't happen all at once, it took three years. My doctor told me: "There are few women as determined as you," – said Viola in an interview with the magazine "Caravan stories".
According to Syutkin, he was present at the birth of his eldest daughter and even personally cut the umbilical cord, but he was late for the birth of little Leva while he was filling out the necessary documents. The singer laments that he did not pay enough attention to his older children – daughter Lena and son Maxim, because then it was just the peak of his career.
"If Max and Lena say that dad was only seen on TV or in magazines, they would be right. They clearly did not receive their father's attention, they have every right to be offended, I honestly admit it. My life in those years is endless tours, "the artist recalls.
Only with age did the consciousness come of what is really important, and Syutkin began to devote more time to his family.
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A car thief sends Tyler police and Smith County deputies on a car chase, which ends in a collision. It happened around 7:00 p.m., Friday at the intersection of East Front Street and South Southeast Loop 323. That's where authorities say the suspect lost control of his car and struck two vehicles.
The suspect then fled the scene on foot. If you saw anything call the Smith County Sheriff's Department.