so I'll just kick off with a few first.
and to companies that have less than 30 employees.
I turned 30 last years, it was perfectly welcome to hear this.
they meet one or two of those categories.
what are you most looking forward to and most scared of in the next 30 years?
the world is in a very big transformation because of the chip technology.
that 200 years ago when the first industry have a lot of great people.
electricity revolution come a lot of success people.
So now the technology come.
This new technology will also create a lot of successful people, interesting careers.
is going to create a lot of social problems.
and my view is a first technology revolution cause the first world war.
Second technology revolution cause the second world war.
Now we under third, so what, what's gonna happening?
People worry about artificial intelligence.
People worry about computer and data's and privacy insecurities.
But whether you're worried, it will come.
So the thing is how you change yourself.
the world is going to be huge change.
together with another war against ourselves.
and somebody was number three and then become number one.
join a good company to learn how to do things properly.
You're still can afford to lose, to fail.
you should do things that you are good at.
that's very interesting I want to try something new.
spending time training and developing young people the next generation.
better stay with your grandchildren.
But this is normally general like that.
Not everybody like, but most of the people were like that.
and with our knowledge, with our physical power.
It's time you need to change.
if you want to be successful tomorrow, it's impossible.
If you want to be successful a year later, it's impossible.


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Health Sciences Research (Renal)
University of Bristol · Bristol Medical School
The programme comprises two 10-credit units and two 20-credit units, along with a 120-credit research project. You will have a choice of two different projects: in renal sciences or in renal epidemiology/health sciences. The project consists of an extended period of research work, followed by writing a thesis, a viva and an oral presentation. You can choose to undertake a clinical placement alongside the project.
The MRes Health Sciences Research (Renal) programme is new for 2019. In it you will develop essential skills for postgraduate research with a particular emphasis on renal sciences. The MRes is suitable for graduates in medicine, dentistry, veterinary science and bioscience subjects who wish to develop their renal research skills.
This course is run by members of Bristol Renal, a group that covers the translational spectrum from basic science to applied health services research. The group comprises about 50 research staff including eight principal investigators, clinical lecturers, post-doctoral researchers, clinical and non-clinical research fellows, PhD students and technicians.
Eight-month laboratory and epidemiology renal research projects will be offered to students, including those with links to the UK Renal Registry here at Bristol. In-depth independent performance analysis metrics (SciVal, Elsevier) demonstrate that Bristol is a top research grouping internationally for glomerular disease and proteinuria. Our world-class research environment will also be evident in the research-led lectures delivered on this course.
Bristol Renal has strong links to the clinical (adult) renal unit at Southmead Hospital and paediatric renal unit at Bristol Royal Hospital for children, offering the unique option of a clinical placement within your renal research project.
This programme is also suitable for medical, dental and veterinary students interested in pursuing a renal-focused research-intensive intercalation option after three years of study.
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By Raff & Becker, LLP posted in Paid Family Leave on Monday, December 18, 2017.
Starting January 1, 2018, most private employers in the state of New York will be required to have Paid Family Leave coverage for employees. This coverage will be funded through payroll contributions from the employee, and it will permit eligible employees to take paid time away from their jobs in specific circumstances to care for children or certain close family members. The Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) differs in some respects from Paid Family Leave in that FMLA does not provide any paid benefit, but does provide an unpaid leave of absence to covered employees for their own serious health condition, as well as for all the family leave categories covered by the Paid Family Leave Law. A fact sheet from New York State provides clear information about Paid Family Leave coverage and how it will impact employers and employees alike. We have addressed some key concerns you may have about Paid Family Leave coverage below.


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The Cathay Pacific Story
Our history and where we are going.
American Roy C Farrell and Australian Sydney H de Kantzow founded Cathay Pacific Airways on 24 September, 1946. Initially based in Shanghai, the two men eventually moved to Hong Kong and established the airline. Legend has it that Farrell and a group of foreign correspondents thought up the airline's unique name in the bar at the Manila Hotel!
An investment in the future
The new company began to operate passenger flights to Manila, Bangkok, Singapore and Shanghai. Expansion was fast and, in 1948, Butterfield & Swire (today known as the Swire Group) took a 45% share in the company. Under the leadership of John Kidston Swire, Butterfield & Swire became wholly responsible for the management of the airline.
Taking the jet age by storm
The 1960s represented our coming of age. Between 1962 and 1967, business grew at an average rate of 20 percent a year. We also initiated international services (another world's first) to Osaka, Fukuoka and Nagoya in Japan.
"Between 1962 and 1967, business grew at an average rate of 20 percent a year."
The old and only "Betsy"
"Betsy", a converted Douglas DC3, is fondly remembered as our first aircraft. Sold in 1955, "Betsy" was discovered, almost 30 years later flying cargo around the Australian outback.
We bought the aircraft back, repainted her in the original 1940s livery and returned her to Hong Kong. Today, "Betsy" hangs suspended from the ceiling at the Hong Kong Science Museum.
In the early 1970s, we started to make use of the latest technology with our computerised reservation system and flight simulators. The first Boeing 747-200 arrived in Hong Kong in mid-1979, and by the end of the year, we had applied for traffic rights to start flying to London. As more B747's joined our fleet, we expanded our services to Europe and North America.
The glory years
The 1980s was a spectacular decade for the airline industry. Amidst a worldwide economic boom - spearheaded by Asia, more business travellers, tourists and cargo were flying than ever before. It was during this decade that we expanded our international network to include London, Brisbane, Frankfurt, Vancouver, Amsterdam, Rome, San Francisco, Paris, Zurich and Manchester.
What's in a million?
Eighteen years after the company was founded, we celebrated carrying our one millionth passenger. Nine years later, in 1973, we were carrying one million people every year. Today, we carry approximately one million passengers each month!
A change of image
The early 90s was a difficult time for the airline industry. Nonetheless, we remained positive, safe in the knowledge that Hong Kong – our home, was arguably the best location in the world for an airline. At the same time, we launched a new programme to offer unprecedented levels of passenger service. We also made another important decision – changing our green and white striped livery to the dynamic and now famous Asian "brushstroke" image.
Into the new millennium
Cathay Pacific City, our headquarters located at Hong Kong International Airport, was completed in the middle of 1999. The new complex was another sign of our confidence in the future of Hong Kong and heralded the move into a new era for the airline.
Cathay Pacific and Dragonair
On 28 September 2006 Cathay Pacific signed an agreement that brought Dragonair into the Cathay Pacific Group as a wholly owned subsidiary. At the same time Cathay Pacific established a closer relationship with Air China, with each airline taking a 17.5% stake in the other.
A new home for
Cathay Pacific Cargo
The Cathay Pacific Cargo terminal opened in December 2012. The terminal is best-in-class and has been used as an example of how a terminal should be built for others around the world.
A new brand, a new promise
In 2014 Cathay launched a refreshed brand, including new livery on our aircraft and an emboldened and expanded brand promise, Life Well Travelled. In November 2016, Dragonair, our sister airline and regional carrier was renamed Cathay Dragon in a move designed to help further connect and align the brands, and leverage the strong brand awareness of our two different carriers in different markets Ultimately both brands are working towards delivering the same brand promise.
The Cathay Pacific Group, including Cathay Dragon, operates more than 150 aircraft, flying to over 170 destinations worldwide. We are committed to growing our operation to help strengthen Hong Kong's role as one of the premier international aviation hubs.
Between 1962 and 1967, business grew at an average rate of 20 percent a year."


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Forex Education | What are CFDs?
Now that I have defined Forex you may have a better understanding of the industry and I can shed some light on CFDs.
These are financial instruments used to speculate on the Forex Market. A CFDs is an acronym for Contracts for Difference. These financial instruments were created to hedge for possible risks, but subsequently evolved into speculation instrument. They give traders the opportunity to benefit from the price movements of a specific financial instrument (like: stocks, commodities, equities, equity indexes, forex) without owning them.
A CFD is a tradable instrument that mirrors the movements of an underlying asset. It is perfect for profiting from short term trades without having the costs associated with the ownership of the asset. It can also be considered a contract between the client and their broker. Trading CFDs have several major advantages, and these have increased the popularity of the instruments over the last few years.
Trading a CFD provides a higher leverage than traditional trading. Depending on the underlying asset the leverage could go from 1:2 (50% margin) to 1:100 (1% margin and most common in Forex Market) or all the way to 1:1000 (found only with the underlying asset FX). Indices, commodities and stocks normally have a smaller leverage.
Lower margin requirements mean less capital outlay for the trader or investor, and greater potential returns. However, increased leverage can also magnify losses.
Most CFD brokers offer instruments from all the world's major markets. This way traders can easily trade any market while open from their broker's platform.
Thanks to the fact that a trader, using CFDs, doesn't have to own the underlying asset they can enter both long and short positions. Certain markets have rules that prohibit shorting at certain times. This requires the trader to borrow the instrument before shorting or have different margin requirements for shorting as opposed to being long. All of these features are not generally present in the CFDs market.
CFD brokers offer many of the same order types as traditional brokers. The includes Stop Loss, Take Profit, Stops, Limits and contingent orders such as One cancels the other and If Done. Guaranteed stops are also available in some type of accounts.
Due to the of the small margin requirements for trading CFDs, most brokers reduces their first minimum deposit.
Many brokers, depending on the type of account, do not charge commissions or fees of any kind to enter or exit a trade. The broker makes money by charging the trader for the spread. The trader must buy the ask price and sell/short. In addition, the trader must take the bid price.
The spread depends very much on the volatility and the liquidity of the underlying asset. It is usually small in a high liquidity and low volatility, market and big in a low liquidity and high volatility market.
As you can see trading CFDs comes with a series of advantages, like low margin requirements, easy access to global markets. Moreover, no shorting or day trading rules and little or no fees. However, high leverage could magnify losses, but the risk can be limited with Stop Loss orders.


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Letter: Get something 'constructive done'
I read Governor Burgum "announces task force to examine higher education governance". Somehow it seems that all North Dakotan's have been to that rodeo maybe two or three times. Governor Burgum will chair the task force but is cautioned by a Mino...
Opinion by Leon Mallberg
I read Governor Burgum "announces task force to examine higher education governance". Somehow it seems that all North Dakotan's have been to that rodeo maybe two or three times.
Governor Burgum will chair the task force but is cautioned by a Minority Democratic Leader not to have any "preconceived notions about what he wants to accomplish". That is tried and true, gold standard, politically correct DEEP STATE SPEAK. You will find the same lying on the ground in cow pastures. All the members, Governor included, are to come to the first meetings as a clean slate, with the question "why am I here and why are you here". The first words spoken are "What do you think" and the response is "No, what do you think". Someone please give me a break!
The task force is made up of the Governor and 15 members. The operative phrase used by the Governors Staff is "Go out and round up the usual suspects". I'm wondering if we might get a better result by just taking 15 random names out of the the North Dakota Phone Directory. History indicates we couldn't do any worse and may even bring Higher Education in line.
Higher Education is controlled by eleven (11) fiefdoms across the State. All legislators are in the harness for their respective college except for maybe three or four in the Bowman and Ashley areas. And the battle cry, in disguise, and never spoken of in open meetings is "Economic Development" not "Higher Education". The schools for the blind, deaf and the school in Grafton –they are there for economic reasons and not in the interest of the run of the mill North Dakotan.
Let's remove our heads from where the "sun don't shine" and try and get something constructive done this time.
Leon L Mallberg, Dickinson
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Top tire manufacturers in Indonesia plan to expand their sales networks this year, confident a strengthened economy will lead to improved automotive sales . Hankook Tire Sales Indonesia, owned by South Korean tire producer Hankook Tire, will expand its retail distribution network and launch new SUV-related products to increase its market share to double-digits in 2020 from 8 percent last year, president director Yonsoo Sh…
Computer viruses caused estimated losses of VNĐ20.9 trillion (US$902 million) to Vietnamese users last year, much higher than the VNĐ14.9 trillion reported in 2018, reported Bkav Technology Group. The group's report focused on cyber security last year and forecasts for 2020. The proliferation of computers infected with data encryption malware and advanced persistent threat (APT) malware were the main cause of these huge losses. T…
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According to a survey announced by many consultancies, the Hanoi real estate market in the last months of 2019 and the beginning of 2020 shows upbeat prospects, with a blooming apartment segment Apartment price slightly increase According to a survey from CBRE Vietnam, in the fourth quarter of 2019, the Hanoi apartment market saw many positive changes, with apartment prices increasing steadily in all segments, with the average price recorded at $…
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Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has signed a directive to promote the development of digital enterprises in Việt Nam with a target of developing 100,000 tech firms by 2030. Digital transformation is creating new development spaces – digital economy, digital society and e-government – based on rapid expansion of digital technologies such as artificial intelligence, Big Data, machine learning, deep learning, block …
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Jollibee raises $600M from offshore debut
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Philippines | PEZA extends ITH for firms hit by Taal
Locators in ecozones in the Calabarzon (Cavite-Laguna-Batangas-Rizal-Quezon) area currently enjoying income tax holidays would be allowed to extend the period of their ITH commensurate to the number of days their operations are affected by the Taal Volcano eruption, the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) said. In a press briefing yesterday, PEZA director general Charito Plaza said the agency would adjust the running time of the ITH for loc…
Exporters told: Tap modern tech for quality, world-class products | Philippines
Exporters are encouraged to employ new technologies to produce internationally competitive products and services, and help grow Philippine exports deemed the linchpin of economic growth in the country. Trade Undersecretary Abdulgani Macatoman said access to information in the digital era dramatically improves the lives of billions of people in the world through increasingly powerful computing devices and network, digital services and mobile devic…
Damage from Taal hits P3 billion; fisheries most affected
DAMAGE from the eruption of Taal Volcano has reached P3 billion, with the fishery sector suffering the most devastation, the Agriculture department said on Friday. Thousands of people have left their homes after the volcano spewed a column of ash 14 kilometers into the air on Sunday. The ashfall reached as far as cities near the capital, forcing financial markets to suspend trading and the Manila airport to close. Taal Volcano, one of the world&r…
New Asian Development Bank (ADB) president Masatsugu Asakawa assumed office yesterday, becoming the 10th president of the Manila-based multilateral bank since its establishment in 1966. Asakawa succeeds Takehiko Nakao who stepped down on Jan. 16. "I am honored to assume the role of ADB president and to begin working in close cooperation with our 68 member countries. ADB has been a trusted partner of the region for more than …


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package godot

import (
	"github.com/shadowapex/godot-go/gdnative"
)

/*------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//   This code was generated by a tool.
//
//   Changes to this file may cause incorrect behavior and will be lost if
//   the code is regenerated. Any updates should be done in
//   "class.go.tmpl" so they can be included in the generated
//   code.
//----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

//func NewVisualScriptPreloadFromPointer(ptr gdnative.Pointer) VisualScriptPreload {
func newVisualScriptPreloadFromPointer(ptr gdnative.Pointer) VisualScriptPreload {
	owner := gdnative.NewObjectFromPointer(ptr)
	obj := VisualScriptPreload{}
	obj.SetBaseObject(owner)

	return obj
}

/*
Undocumented
*/
type VisualScriptPreload struct {
	VisualScriptNode
	owner gdnative.Object
}

func (o *VisualScriptPreload) BaseClass() string {
	return "VisualScriptPreload"
}

/*
        Undocumented
	Args: [], Returns: Resource
*/
func (o *VisualScriptPreload) GetPreload() ResourceImplementer {
	//log.Println("Calling VisualScriptPreload.GetPreload()")

	// Build out the method's arguments
	ptrArguments := make([]gdnative.Pointer, 0, 0)

	// Get the method bind
	methodBind := gdnative.NewMethodBind("VisualScriptPreload", "get_preload")

	// Call the parent method.
	// Resource
	retPtr := gdnative.NewEmptyObject()
	gdnative.MethodBindPtrCall(methodBind, o.GetBaseObject(), ptrArguments, retPtr)

	// If we have a return type, convert it from a pointer into its actual object.
	ret := newResourceFromPointer(retPtr)

	// Check to see if we already have an instance of this object in our Go instance registry.
	if instance, ok := InstanceRegistry.Get(ret.GetBaseObject().ID()); ok {
		return instance.(ResourceImplementer)
	}

	// Check to see what kind of class this is and create it. This is generally used with
	// GetNode().
	className := ret.GetClass()
	if className != "Resource" {
		actualRet := getActualClass(className, ret.GetBaseObject())
		return actualRet.(ResourceImplementer)
	}

	return &ret
}

/*
        Undocumented
	Args: [{ false resource Resource}], Returns: void
*/
func (o *VisualScriptPreload) SetPreload(resource ResourceImplementer) {
	//log.Println("Calling VisualScriptPreload.SetPreload()")

	// Build out the method's arguments
	ptrArguments := make([]gdnative.Pointer, 1, 1)
	ptrArguments[0] = gdnative.NewPointerFromObject(resource.GetBaseObject())

	// Get the method bind
	methodBind := gdnative.NewMethodBind("VisualScriptPreload", "set_preload")

	// Call the parent method.
	// void
	retPtr := gdnative.NewEmptyVoid()
	gdnative.MethodBindPtrCall(methodBind, o.GetBaseObject(), ptrArguments, retPtr)

}

// VisualScriptPreloadImplementer is an interface that implements the methods
// of the VisualScriptPreload class.
type VisualScriptPreloadImplementer interface {
	VisualScriptNodeImplementer
	GetPreload() ResourceImplementer
	SetPreload(resource ResourceImplementer)
}

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Since Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is still in production limbo at the moment, Chris Pratt is using his free time to take on a drastically different character in Taylor Sheridan's next film.
Guardians of the Galaxy and its sequel have brought some of the most beloved characters to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. That's a major feat considering that prior to the first Guardians of the Galaxy's release, there had been six years worth of incredible character building and storytelling regarding Marvel icons like Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) and Captain America (Chris Evans). Though the comic is more obscure, James Gunn's band of outcasts and outlaws won the hearts of Marvel fans all over the world.
Sadly, due to the recent controversy that involved Gunn being fired from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, the upcoming trilogy-ender seems to be stuck in production limbo with no signs of moving forward anytime soon. There's still no telling when we'll be able to see the film, which was supposed to act as an end to this current run of Guardians of the Galaxy team members, but that doesn't mean you can't catch the actors in other roles.
According to a report from Variety, Chris Pratt is planning to star in the upcoming film from Oscar-nominee Taylor Sheridan. The film is currently titled Fast and will feature Pratt as former special ops commando, something closer to his role in Zero Dark Thirty than Jurassic World or Guardians of the Galaxy. After being recruited by the DEA, Pratt's character is hired to lead a strike team set to take down drug dealers. Unfortunately for Pratt's character, these drug dealers are protected by the CIA.
We'll be sure to keep you updated on all news regarding Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 as soon as more information becomes available. What is your opinion on Chris Pratt's new role? Are you happy to see him take this film instead of another CGI-filled adventure film? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below!


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About the art of Mick Coulas from Revel4Ever!
Canadian born, Toronto educated Illustrator Mick Coulas hung up his airbrush in 1996 and began Photoshop and 3D modeling. He has executed many realistic composites with retouching for many editorial clients including The Wall Street Journal. Mick also composites and retouches images for advertising or promotion. Among his many talents, his humorous illustration and caricature has been seen in Maxim Magazine, Penthouse Magazine, and recognized by Communication Arts Magazine. Mick now lives and works in Florida and collaborates with his wife Candace Lourdes on designs for casual and fun apparel.
Our Dye Sublimation production is not like a silkscreen process. The printing dyes the fabric, and never interrupts the breathe-ability of the fabric. Also the image will never become cracked or peel off. We try to bring the best quality and thoughtfulness to our apparel.
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Poll finds support for Same Sex Marriages
Added by QNA on 19 July 2011
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Under New Zealand law same sex couples can have their relationship recognised in law by entering a civil union. Same sex partners cannot marry. Recently, the State of New York made it possible for same sex partners to marry, which created some interest here in New Zealand.
Research New Zealand asked a question in their most recent social poll to establish the attitudes of New Zealanders to same sex marriages.
Some 60 percent of New Zealanders 18 years and over believe that same sex marriages should be permitted in New Zealand; 34 percent are opposed. Two percent state that there is little or no difference between civil unions and marriage; a further two percent do not know.
Females are in favour of same sex marriages to a larger extent than males by 66 percent to 54 percent. Likewise, a higher proportion of males than females oppose same sex marriages at 41 percent to 27. The attitude to same sex marriage is strongly related to age group; in the age group 15–34 years, 70 percent are in favour compared to 44 percent among those 55 years and over.
There were no significant differences in attitude between respondents in other demographics such as ethnicity, area, income.
"This shows that attitudes in this area are in advance of legislation", said Research New Zealand Director Emanuel Kalafatelis.
The Research New Zealand poll of 500 people aged 18 and over was conducted by telephone on 6–9 July 2011. The maximum margin of error for the sample as a whole is +/- 4.6 % (at the 95% confidence level). The data has been weighted to ensure it is an accurate representation of New Zealand's general population. The poll was not taken on behalf of any organization, but as part of Research New Zealand's monthly survey of attitudes and opinions.
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Q: C# :How can i set Memory stream as the asp.net image control's source property? I have an asp.net image control in one ASP.NET page and have a Memory Stream which has an image.How can i convert this memory stream to set it as the image source without storing the image in the hard disk ?

A: The image control takes an ImageUrl - a path to where the image is located.
There is no property that takes an actual image (or image data).
What you can do is write a HttpHandler that will stream your images from whatever source - set the ImageUrl to use this handler.
Here is an example for a general file handler using a memory stream - it's a good starting point for what I suggest.

A: you'll have to either write that file onto disk or make another page (action on the same page?) that writes the content of your MemoryStream into the Response, and then point the image control to that source.

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Another comic, nothing special to update.
New comic, number 25. Like the picture? If you count 1-75, this comic makes 100 whole comics. Time to celebrate? Nah. Enjoy.
New comic up this morning, but I forgot to make a new post about it.
Episode 23. Nothing major to update.
New comic! 22! I added a new red button for the last frame so you should be able to tell when the end of a comic is. Hopefully, someone reads the news.
New comic up. I'm gonna keep the site picture because if I do make comics more often, I'd have to keep finding tons of new pictures. Of course, if anyone has any funny pictures and wants to e-mail them to me or something, please do.
New comic, number 20. You can see I've made an update to the main menu and the comic menu, it shouldn't be too difficult to figure out.
New comic up. I think there might be some weird loading problem with the music version. If nothing seems to load, wait a minute or two. If nothing pops up then, just goto the non sound version. I don't know why the music version isn't working, but I know that I've checked the code several times and it doesn't seem to be a Flash problem.
The reason this comic is slightly late compared to the others is because I just recently reformatted and it took a while to get Flash working again. Also, I've been pretty busy as of late, but enjoy the new comic.
New comic! 19! New (old) character! Comic! Forum! 5 days!
Comic 15 is up, hopefully it's a bit longer than the last one. If you get lost because the action is a little fast, you can always use the previous and next buttons! See, they really were good ideas!
New episode/comic! Nothing else to say! Enjoy?!?!?!?!?!
If you can read this, congratulations. Your DNS server now knows the new IP. Isn't that wonderful? Just as a side note, if you used to have ftp access, and suddenly don't, you'll need to contact me to set your account back up. Same with databases... the databases are still there, I just don't have the usernames/passwords.
In case you were wondering about the pop-ups, it seems that my host's server has caught a trojan. It randomly adds a trojan downloader popup into the html of pages it serves. My host is aware of the problem and is currently trying to fix it. In the meantime, use a pop-up blocker.
Newest comic! Got it done in a whole 7 days! Enjoy! !! Exclamation mark!
Another new comic is up! Have fun with number 12. Also updated the quotes page. Not much other news. Enjoy!
The eleventh comic is up. Along with it, many changes. First of all, the Aldahar, Random, and Quest for PEZ menus are split up. There are four submenus in the Quest for PEZ menu. The Cast button does not work because I am still planning a cast page. For the New Comic Menu, the Old Comic Menu, and the Games Menu, use the Backspace key to go from that menu to the Quest for PEZ menu. I also put the Kyrie game back up. In the new comic, there is a next frame button and a previous frame button. It should be pretty simple to figure the new button out. Anyways, enjoy the new comic!
Questions? Comments? E-mail the Webmaster. :: Comic questions or comments? E-mail Pez-Man.


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How much different is Iranian women?
The easiest way to stand out from the crowd of women covered from head to toe in dark fabric is to wear a colorful coat. Especially in big cities one can see many women who like to break the monotony of prescribed apparel. I noticed that young women frequently match black clothes with turquoise ones, with a very elegant result. The scarves on their heads are not always black either and they do not cover the whole head but only the back of it.
However, what is the most conspicuous is their make-up. In the post-revolutionary times make-up was still absolutely forbidden. A woman who would make a public appearance with lipstick on her mouth could be punished with flogging or a high fine. That has changed.
Today, we can see on the streets many women with delicate make-up which enhances their features, most often their big beautiful eyes. In bigger cities there is no dearth of girls with strong make-up: clearly defined eyes, colorful eye shadows, rouge on the cheeks, and intense color of lipstick. All that within the boundaries of good taste as Iranian women are truly elegant.
Apart from make-up there is one more way of highlighting the eyes. It is very radical and rather irreversible: rhinoplasty. One cannot but admit that many Iranian women are very "nosy" and, to be more beautiful, they decide to undergo a nose surgery. Actually, the 2 or 3 women walking the streets with plaster on their noses were not enough to raise our curiosity, however, with the number systematically growing we started to wonder what was going on.
Our Iranian colleague explained to us that a nose job was done not only to enhance beauty but also to raise the prestige of the person. If one can afford such an operation one is perceived as well-off. That is so strongly imprinted on the people's minds that there are a few (and I write "people" as the phenomenon also concerns men) who proudly strut down the streets with a plaster on their noses even though they had not undergone the operation. They only do it to come off as rich. A nose surgery costs from 500 to 2000 American dollars. Supposedly, in 2006 in Tehran alone about 35 thousand people underwent the plastic operation.
Another subject is wedding fashion. A few times we were able to get a glimpse of a bride in a car beside her prospective husband. Those were just moments and we could not see much. However, one day, in front of a photo lab, our eyes were treated to the view of a bride at her loveliest, that is in her wedding gown, with full make-up on, and an intricate hairdo, with only a hooded cape lightly thrown over the shoulders. What a sight! We were so shocked with the richness and elaborateness of the dress and with the fancy hairstyle that we did not even take a photo. We would probably not have be allowed to take one anyway, though. We later learned that such wedding make-up costs more than 200 dollars, for the most modest designs, and much more for complex ones like the make-up we had seen.
It is hard to even describe what the bride had on her face. It was the whole palette of colors, including shiny golden and silver elements. One cannot say that the make-up was kitschy or exaggerated because it contributed to the finished piece (not necessarily of art) constituted by the face, the dress, the car, and the whole environment. The view was truly unforgettable.


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South Suburban could gain partner for ice rink
The amenity would be part of new $50 million facility
The Highlands Ranch Metro District is contemplating whether it wants to pay $10 million to South Suburban Parks and Recreation for an ice rink in its new facility. "Colorado doesn't have enough ice …
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The Highlands Ranch Metro District is contemplating whether it wants to pay $10 million to South Suburban Parks and Recreation for an ice rink in its new facility.
"Colorado doesn't have enough ice rinks," said Allen Dreher, a member of the metro district's board of directors. "We just flat out need it."
South Suburban plans to repurpose its existing 50-year-old facility north of the Streets at SouthGlenn, 6631 S University Blvd., and build a new $50 million facility on a piece of land at the corner of Holly Street and County Line Road in Centennial.
The site can hold a 200,000-square-foot facility, which will be home to two ice rinks, a field house with two synthetic turf fields, gymnasium and administrative offices, according to a presentation from South Suburban Executive Director Rob Hanna at a June 26 metro district board meeting in Highlands Ranch.
A third ice rink at the facility is in question. If approved by board members, the metro district would partner with South Suburban and fund one of three rinks using money from refunded debt, according to Terry Nolan, general manager of the metro district. A decision has to be made by the end of the July, as South Suburban's project is quickly progressing. The facility's design is expected to be complete by the end of this year and construction is slated to finish by 2020.
"We are getting to a point where we have to know that or it's going to slow the project down and we can't do that," Hanna said at the board meeting. "We have to keep moving."
The conversation of an ice rink in Highlands Ranch began two years ago, when the metro district hired a consulting firm to conduct a study of the need for such an amenity. The firm determined that one ice rink was needed, which would not have been functional on its own, Nolan said.
In 2017, the metro district started talking to South Suburban about a potential partnership. South Suburban currently maintains ice rinks at Family Sports Arena in Centennial, 6901 S. Peoria, and South Suburban Ice Arena in Centennial, 6580 S. Vine St. The parks and recreation district serves about 155,000 residents, according to Hanna.
Hanna and Scott LaBrash, who serves on South Suburban's board of directors, emphasized the benefits of having multiple ice rinks in a region. Hockey tournaments, they said, bring business to the surrounding communities.
"With those really big tournaments come a lot of people and a lot of people normally with a lot of money," LaBrash said. "I see it as a win for everything around those facilities."
Dreher is a proponent of the metro district funding an ice rink at South Suburban's new facility. He watched his now 21-year-old grandson grow up playing hockey.
"It disciplined him," Dreher said of his grandson, who while playing hockey demonstrated dedication, hard work and respect. "They are expected to uphold the image of hockey."
Dreher continues to see the need for additional ice rinks in the area. More high schools in Highlands Ranch, he said, want to have hockey teams but can't because of limited time on the ice, leading to schools combining forces. Mountain Vista High School, for example, has players from ThunderRidge High School and Highlands Ranch High School.
"The youth of Highlands Ranch would be users," Dreher said of the new rink.
The rink would also serve figure skaters and recreational skaters.
Chris Kanive, president of the Colorado Skating Club, which has a little more than 100 teenage members from across the Denver metro area, thinks having three ice rinks would make South Suburban's new facility that much better. His 11-year-old daughter has been competitively figure skating for the last four or five years, he said.
"Ice sports are growing and ice availability is pretty important for the sports and the kids to develop," said Kanive, who lives in Centennial.
But not everyone is on board with the ice rink proposal.
Members of the Highlands Ranch Senior Club, comprising people 50 and older, worry that the ice rink would take away from getting a senior center in Highlands Ranch, which has been a priority of the club's for several years.
"Don't get me wrong, I love ice skating," club member Janet Gibley said during public comment at the board meeting. "But please don't do anything with an ice rink. Please focus on the senior population in Highlands Ranch."
Nolan and Dreher assured that the ice rink wouldn't jeopardize the possibility of a senior center.
"It doesn't compete for money with a senior center," Nolan said.
Dreher added:
"Everybody can win if we do it right."
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Macnaghten est un patronyme pouvant désigner:

Patronyme
 (1830-1913), homme politique anglo-irlandais
 (1807-1888), homme d'affaires et administrateur britannique
 (1722-1761), propriétaire et meurtrier anglo-irlandais
Melville Macnaghten (1853-1921), policier britannique de Scotland Yard
William Hay Macnaghten (1793-1841), administrateur britannique des Indes

Voir aussi
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Homonymie de patronyme

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Q: Long foreach on PHP 504 error I am developing software documentation control vehicles.
I need to generate a report of all companies that use the software and determine their vehicles to todods which have permits to drive or not.
For a vehicle has permissions, more than 10 documents are controlled, with expiration dates, paper stocks, etc.
The report should be similar to this:
Company 1:
-Vehicle 1
-Vehicle 2
-Vehicle 3
-....
firm 2
-Vehicle 232
-Vehicle 456
-....
I do a foreach per vehicle, and a foreach per document.
For the type of controls to do, it is impossible to do everything in a single query MySQL.
My problem is that it takes so long that the nginx always throws me "504 Gateway Time-out".
I wonder if there is some technique to run the server-side script as if it were in the background, and when finished save the file to the server and notify the user via an e-mail.
I'm having this problem in several other projects, where CRONS run that update data. And if the volume of data is very large, always scritp stops before finishing.
The server is nginx / 1.4.6 (Ubuntu). I do not want to increase the max_execution_time.

A: Ignoring user abort might help you - http://php.net/manual/en/function.ignore-user-abort.php
However, I would either revise the process to eliminate foreach loops, or just split the process into smaller chunks and set up a cron job to do one chunk at a time.


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Woodland Four-est (Forest) Themed Birthday Party Decor | DIY Ideas and More!Creative Wife & Joyful Worker Woodland Four-est (Forest) Themed Birthday Party Decor | DIY Ideas and More!
I am excited to share this birthday is one of the first that I did everything on my own (with help from the kids, of course). Usually I will have the cake, cupcakes, all the sweet things made by other creatives. This time around I wanted to try my hand at baking. On Sophie's actual birthday when I asked what she wanted to do she responded with, "Bake with Grammy." (awwww, heart melt right) Well, that actually opened my eyes to how much Sophie really enjoys baking. She always asks to be involved when I set up parties, so this time she got to! From helping with the simple balloon garland backdrop decor, painting forest trees, helping make the cake and taste testing it too, Sophie got to help!
If you would have asked me a week ago what her party was going to look like, I would have had no idea. I knew I wanted to do a Forest theme. Or should I say, Four-est Theme. Sophie has such a love for exploring and being outside that it fit so perfectly. Everything within the set up was done with the idea to keep it simple. Let's take a look at some of the woodland forest birthday party decor and DIY's.
I wanted to add a couple things that I do for each party to save a little money and make the planning process easier.
Sketch out your party set up before you design it in real time.
Don't feel like you need SO MUCH STUFF. Just a couple of treats are plenty!
Save things from previous parties. I have a couple party boxes and can usually reuse a few things every time. This party, the plates, straws, cake topper and forks were all used at previous parties.
A white cake stand goes a long way.
Creating something to tape and tie your backdrops onto is amazing. Thank you Goldn Grasses for lending me this one.
Printables are a hit! Google/ Search Pinterest your theme + free printable and you might be surprised what you will find. Click HERE for the one from this party.
I did the same method to make this Simple coloured Balloon Garland Backdrop as I did for Evelyn's birthday party. A few difference are that I used multi-coloured and sizes of balloons. I was a fan of the smaller balloons in this woodland themed backdrop as it allowed me to fill the gaps easier and add smaller pops of colour throughout.
Hand Painted and cut tree "wall decals" // Sophie painted sheets of paper green and after they dried we cute them out into tree shapes and taped them to the wall behind to look like little tree wall decals.
This is something that was a common theme when I was looking up different woodland and forest themed parties for decor. So, not my original idea, but I loved it so much I had to include it. The tree bowls in the front were labeled, Bear Poop, Branches, and Clouds. I wanted to add Wild Berries in there too but opted out due to the though of having berry juice all over my rug.
Surprisingly an easy cake to pull off. On my Instagram post on the cake I had friends say it turned out "pinterest worthy" (win!). I made two boxes of a Betty Crocker cake mix and was able to make the three layers plus a dozen cupcakes, not bad right. To create the naked cake look I just applied a slopping amount of icing in between the layers and using the dull edge of a butter knife to smooth it out along the edges. Icing was applied around the top and ended up turning out like little trees.
I had no idea how this was going to go over with the kids. First of all, there were some kids outside on the trampoline, some playing with toys in the bedroom and some watching a movie. When I announced that we were going to do a scavenger hunt the kids all jumped up from their spots and came to play (minus the oldest who was 9, though my 8 year old joined in!). I shared the game as a free printable for you to download and use, great for a birthday party or really anytime with the kids.
At the end of the day, what is most important is that the kids have fun! That they did! Even though it was on and off raining they were running around inside and outside, eating cake and laughing along the way.


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Are our soap operas a good influence?
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Among Singapore Indians, there seems to be a love-hate dichotomy towards South Indian soap operas. These drama serials, from Metti Oli, to Roja to Kolangal to Vamsam etc. often run into hundreds of episodes, sustained by millions of homemakers in South India. They have also found a captive audience among a select group of Singapore Indians.
Interwoven into the plots and storylines are themes such as in-law relationships, rivalries between families, matters of familial pride, marriage harmony, domestic abuse and other domestic squabbles. The storylines themselves are not particularly edifying but more black-and-white presentations of good vs evil, with doses of villainy, wallowing in misery, evil schemes and perpetuation of gender stereotypes.
While many Singapore Indians cringe at the vacuousness of these drama serials, they have also found a captive audience among a select group of SG Indians.
These soap operas seem to be a showcase of the worst of humanity and pettiness. And to top it off, an endless sequence of overdramatic reaction shots when there's a new development.
However, are we being overly judgmental and exercising double standards? After all, Western soap operas are not that enlightened also, if only better in production quality.
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R. Kala says:
Too much of drama and negativity! Waste of time and energy watching them! Moreover the dramas can affect a person emotionally too! May also instill unwanted ideas or thoughts in a person's mind!
kdr.singam says:
Different people have different tastes / derive their pleasure out of different things. We have to learn to respect others' way of lifes
t.shan-0243 says:
I agree. They promote jealousy, pettiness, disunity, vices of all kinds, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law rivalry, gangsterism, etc. This thought process becomes part of our culture and promotes disunity. We should be watching shows that encourage good values and behavior.
rasabalan.palayyan says:
All the soap opera are negative influences as, they get the audiences hooked. The time is wasted on negativity which, affects the brains. Instead, the time can be spent on more positives and more beneficial activities. Moreover, it is addictive.
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Is Islamophobia equivalent to racism or anti-Semitism ? The view from the Balkans
There is some resistance among liberal intellectuals to the term 'Islamophobia', because it is assumed that Islam is a religion, therefore an ideology, and it is questioned if one can be prejudiced against an ideology. Yet such a distinction is not satisfactory from the standpoint of a scholar of the Balkans; or indeed, from the historical standpoint generally. To treat chauvinism against a religious community as being fundamentally different from chauvinism against an ethnic or racial group is to superimpose a modern understanding of religion onto the past. We may believe in the ideals of the separation of church and state; and of religion as a private, personal matter of conscience; but it is anachronistic to impose this liberal ideal onto past human history.
We are all aware of the distinction between religious and racial anti-Semitism, but also of the connections between the two – of the fact that even the Nazis used religious background to determine who was Jewish. In the Balkans, at least, the model for chauvinism that anti-Semitism provides – in which prejudice against a religious community evolves into an ethnic or racial prejudice – is the rule rather than the exception. Religious and ethnic prejudice are not distinct categories, and it makes no historical sense to see them as such.
The Ottoman Empire ruled over much of the Balkans from the late Middle Ages until the nineteenth century, and it was the Ottoman system that laid the basis for modern ethnicity and nationality in the Balkans. The Ottoman empire was organised on the basis of different legal statuses for Muslims and non-Muslims, in which Muslims were the dominant and privileged group but Christians and Jews nevertheless enjoyed a degree of communal autonomy. This laid the basis for the different religious communities to evolve into separate nationalities.
When the Orthodox nationalities of the Balkans rose up against the Ottoman overlords during the nineteenth century with the goal of establishing their independence from the empire, the process involved the expulsion or extermination of much of the non-Christian population, which was identified as an alien, non-national element. This process of ethnic or religious cleansing was directed primarily against the Muslim population that was concentrated in the towns. But it targeted also the Jews, who were also concentrated in the towns and who were, in the eyes of the predominantly peasant and Christian rebels, equally alien and part of the Ottoman presence. This was something that occurred in the violence that accompanied the uprisings themselves, with rebels spontaneously massacring non-Christians. But it also took place more quietly in the decades that followed the establishment of autonomy or independence, as the new governments encouraged ethnic homogenisation.
Thus, for example, in Serbia during the nineteenth century, the number of mosques in the main cities rapidly declined. The Serbian capital of Belgrade was largely Muslim before the nineteenth century. But following the establishment of an autonomous Serbian principality in the first decades of the nineteenth century, the Muslim population was mostly expelled and most of the mosques were destroyed or dismantled. Similarly, the Jewish communities suffered restrictions they had not suffered in the Ottoman period, and were expelled or relocated from the towns outside Belgrade. This, of course, is a generalisation: the extent to which Muslims or Jews were massacred, expelled or persecuted varied according to country and period. This was not a matter of Nazi-style total extermination. Persecution and expulsion alternated and overlapped with efforts at cooption, assimilation and toleration. But the model of nationhood remained very much one that was based on Orthodox Christianity, in which non-Orthodox were, at best, viewed as less national than the Orthodox.
This model of religiously determined nationhood was not adopted only by Orthodox Christians, but also by the Muslim Turks. The establishment of a Turkish nation-state in the 1910s and 1920s involved the extermination or expulsion of literally millions of Christians. Formally, they were Greeks or Armenians. But this included Turkish-speaking Christians who were excluded from the Turkish nation solely because of their religion. Turkish nationhood, therefore, was based on the Muslim religion: it was inclusive of Kurds and other non-Turkish-speaking Muslims who inhabited Anatolia. But it was exclusive of Turkish-speaking Christians.
After establishing their nation-state, the Turks had a rather better record of treating the Jews than did the Balkan Christians. This was a legacy of the fact that the Muslims, as the elite group in the Ottoman Empire, had not viewed the Jews as outsiders in the same way that the Christians had done. But there was still some anti-Jewish activity on the part of the Turkish state which, with Nazi encouragement, reached its peak during World War II. Furthermore, in the great anti-Greek pogrom in Istanbul in 1955, Jews were also targeted.
Another example serves to illustrate the connection between religion and ethnicity in the Balkans. Both Serbia and Croatia entered the modern age with relatively small Jewish communities that could readily assimilate into the dominant Serbian and Croatian nations respectively. By contrast, in Bosnia there was no dominant nationality. So members of the Sephardic Jewish community in Bosnia developed a distinct sense of nationality of their own. They saw themselves as distinct from the Ashkenazim, who were culturally different. And as they were not oppressed by a dominant nationality that treated them as outsiders, they were less receptive to Zionism than were the Jews of most Central European countries. So the Bosnian Sephardim followed the general Bosnian pattern, whereby the different religious communities evolved into different nationalities.
There were some exceptions to the general rule of religiously based nationhood in the Balkans. The Albanians are the only major example of a Balkan nation for which religion is not the determining factor. The most likely explanation is that Albanian nationalism originated with the Catholic population among the Albanian-speakers. And the Catholics were not legally and economically subordinate to Muslim landlords in the way that Orthodox peasants throughout the Balkans were subordinate to Muslim landlords. So there was not the same degree of class oppression tied into the religious divide between Catholics and Muslims among the Albanian-speakers, as there was between Orthodox and Muslims among the Slavic-, Greek- and Turkish-speaking peoples. Interestingly, the Albanians' record with regard to the Jews during the Holocaust was about the best in all of Nazi-occupied Europe; Albanians sheltered Jews more solidly than almost any other occupied people.
Another interesting case, for the purposes of comparison, is that of the Croats. Croatia was not part of the Ottoman Empire, so its social structure was not determined by the Ottoman system. Croatia had a relatively small Jewish community, so its anti-Semitism was fairly typical by the standards of Christian Europe. However, Croat nationalists were almost unique in Europe in the extent to which they were ready to embrace Muslims. Ante Starcevic, the father of integral Croat-nationalism, viewed the Bosnian Muslims as the purest of all Croats. According to the tradition he established, the Bosnian Muslims were the 'flower of the Croat nation'. This was possible for Croat nationalists because, unlike the Orthodox peoples of the Balkans, Croatia had not been ruled and oppressed by the Ottomans. The Islamophile character of Croat nationalism was, of course, a way for it to lay claim to Bosnia, where the Catholics were only a small minority.
The different ways in which Serb and Croat nationalist ideology perceived the Muslims became apparent during World War II. Serb extreme nationalists – the Chetniks – carried out systematic massacres of Muslims and Catholics, and also murdered Jews or handed them over to the Nazis. Croat extreme nationalists – the Ustashas – carried out systematic massacres of the Orthodox Serbs and Jews. But not of Muslims, as the policy of the Ustashas was to treat Bosnian Muslims as Islamic Croats. In contrast to the nationalism of the Orthodox peoples of the Balkans, it was only in the 1990s that the Croat-nationalist mainstream became overtly anti-Islamic; this was due to the policy of the Croatian despot Franjo Tudjman, who aimed to join with the Serbs in partitioning Bosnia. What made the difference for Croat nationalists by the 1990s, compared to the 1940s, was that by then the Muslims had been formally recognised within the Yugoslav constitutional system as a nation in their own right, distinct from the Serbs and Croats. When Muslims could no longer be viewed as Islamic Croats and potentially assimilated, they became open to persecution by expansionist Croat nationalism.
By this period – the 1990s – both Serb and Croat nationalists were more likely to identify with Israel on an anti-Muslim basis than they were to indulge in anti-Semitism. Although the more extreme elements among Serb and Croat nationalists in the 1990s did sometimes express anti-Semitic views, they were generally astute enough to know the propaganda value of not being seen to be anti-Semitic, and they did try to appeal to Jewish opinion – though not very successfully. Albania and Croatia, therefore, are the exceptions that prove the rule: firstly, that anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish prejudice in the Balkans are essentially similar, in that both are prejudices directed against ethnic groups that have their origins in religious differences; and secondly, that Muslims are targeted and persecuted as an alien ethnic group – like the Jews – not simply as a religious community.
To go back to the case of the Serb Chetniks in World War II: they were an extreme-nationalist movement that systematically persecuted and killed the non-Orthodox population in Bosnia: Muslims, Croats and Jews. The Chetniks were engaged in a vicious war against the Yugoslav Partisans, who were a multinational resistance movement led by the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. The Chetniks identified the Communists with the Jews, but also with the Muslims and Croats. One Chetnik leader even accused the Communists of destroying Orthodox Churches, and building mosques, synagogues and Catholic churches. In World War II, however, it was still possible for the Chetniks to waver between massacring Muslims, and attempting to co-opt them, on the grounds that Bosnian Muslims were 'really' Serbs. So as late as World War II, both Serb- and Croat-nationalists could still make some pretence at treating the Muslims as a religious group within their respective nations. One can compare this to the confusion among modern anti-Semites, until quite late in the day, as to whether the Jews were a religious or a racial group.
By the 1990s, however, despite lip service to the traditional nationalist view, that Bosnian Muslims were really just Islamic Serbs or Croats, in practice, this kind of assimilationism was no longer possible or relevant. Muslims were treated in practice as a hated, alien ethnic minority. There was no policy of forced conversion. Serb nationalists, and to a lesser extent Croat nationalists, ethnically cleansed Bosnia of Muslims who spoke their language, much as the Serbian regime attempted to cleanse Kosovo of the Albanians who spoke an entirely different language. Rather like anti-Semites, extreme Serb and Croat nationalists in Bosnia in the 1990s simultaneously viewed Muslims as a racially alien element, while portraying them in their propaganda as part of an international, global threat to Christian Europe.
Of course, there are differences between Islamophobia and anti-Semitism: anti-Semites traditionally portray the global Jewish conspiracy in terms of sneaky, intelligent puppet-masters working behind the scenes, whereas Balkan Islamophobes portray the global Islamic conspiracy in terms of mindless but fully visible – indeed visually striking – fanaticism. Hatred of Islam and Muslims has, for all its intensity as felt by Balkan Christian nationalists, never quite achieved the intensity of being an all-consuming end in itself, as it has for some anti-Semites. And of course, Balkan Islamophobes do not formally treat global Islam as a race, in the way that anti-Semites treat global Jewry as a race. But we are ultimately talking about ideological window-dressing used to justify the same type of persecution and violence.
It is nonsensical to argue that the systematic destruction of mosques and the Islamic heritage in Bosnia by Serbian forces, combined with a propaganda that stressed the role of mujahedin and of foreign Islamic states, was not an expression of Islamophobia, on the grounds that Islamophobia does not exist. But equally, it is nonsensical to argue that this campaign was genuinely motivated by hostility to Islam as an ideology: there was no pretence that Muslims were a danger because they might indoctrinate the Serbian population with subversive views. Serb nationalists in the 1980s and 90s made much of the growing threat of the Bosnian Muslims in Bosnia, and of Albanian Muslims in Serbia. But the danger they presented was not that these groups would spread Islam to the Serbs, and Islamify Serbia. Rather, the danger was that these groups would increasingly outbreed the Serbs, and turn them into increasingly small minorities in their own countries.
Thus, we are not talking about a threat equivalent to the Communist threat, as it was viewed in McCarthy's US, or to the counter-revolutionary threat, as it was viewed in Stalin's USSR. Muslim children in Serb-occupied Bosnia were not simply deported along with their parents, as they might have been if they were viewed as the children of subversives. Still less were they subjected to ideological reprogramming. Rather, they were themselves singled out for rape, torture and murder. Muslim women were raped with the stated goal of making them give birth to Serb babies. Biljana Plasvic, the Bosnian Serb vice-president, theorised about the Muslims being a genetically defective offshoot of the Serb nation.
In sum, Islamophobia, in the Bosnian war, was an expression of hatred directed against an ethnic group, or groups. One of the paradoxes of this is that for all the Islamophobic hatred directed against the Balkan Muslim peoples by Balkan Christian nationalists, and indeed by the anti-Muslim bigots in the West who supported them, the Bosnian Muslims and Kosovo Albanians are among the most secularised Muslim peoples in the world. Just as Jewish atheists will always be the Christ-killers or ritual slaughterers of Christian children in the eyes of certain anti-Semites, so Bosnian Muslim and Albanian atheists will always be jihadis in the eyes of Islamophobes.
This paper was presented at the conference 'Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe: Comparisons – contrasts – connections', that took place at University College London on 22-24 June.
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