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Remember The Tankers This Weekend
By Harrodsburg Herald | October 30, 2019 | 1
Weekender Oct. 31-Nov. 7
The 2112th Transportation Company, Kentucky National Guard, marching in last year's parade.
The big event this week is the Memorial Ruck March and Parade honoring the Harrodsburg Tankers, which is hosted by the 103rd Brigade Support Battalion, Kentucky National Guard, and the City of Harrodsburg.
The opening ceremony is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 2, at Old Fort Harrod State Park (100 South College Street).
A 10K Ruck March and a 5K Run will start at 9:30 a.m. The parade down Main Street is slated to start at 12:30 p.m.
The event will happen rain or shine.
• Live music at Lemons Mill Brewery (166 Marimon Avenue). Thursday, Oct. 31, 7–10 p.m. Food by Paradise BBQ. (859) 265-0872 or Facebook—Lemons Mill Brewery.
• Haunted Frontier at Old Fort Harrod State Park (100 South College Street). Colonial-era scare fest continues through Thursday, Oct. 31, through Saturday, Nov. 1, starting at 7 p.m. 734-3314 or parks.ky.gov/parks/recreationparks/fort-harrod.
• Snuggleween at Terrapin Hill Farm (3696 Mackville Road). Three day Festival and Halloween party featuring Rumpke Mountain Boys and other acts. Starting Thursday, Oct. 31, at noon through Sunday, Nov. 3, at 5 p.m. Tickets: $40–$65 in advance. Kids 12 and under free. www.terrapinhillfestivals.com.
• Trivia Night at Kentucky Fudge Company (225 South Main Street). Friday, Nov. 1, starts at 7:30 p.m. 733-0088 or Facebook—kentuckyfudgecompany.
• Fall Festival at Burgin Independent School (440 East Main Street, Burgin). Friday, Nov. 1. Chili supper starts at 5 p.m. Festival starts at 6 p.m. Erica Sexton, 748-5282.
• Field of Horror at Devine's Corn Maze and Pumpkin Patch (623 Talmage-Mayo Road). Friday, Nov. 1, and Saturday, Nov. 2, starting at dark (approximately 7:30 p.m.) Admission price the same as regular Admission: $10 for 13 years and up, $8 for children 5-12 and free for children 4 years and under. No flashlights allowed. 859-613-5066 or devinescornmaze.com.
• Memorial Ruck March and Parade honoring the Harrodsburg Tankers at Old Fort Harrod State Park (100 South College Street). Saturday, Nov. 2, 9 a.m.–2 p.m. Opening ceremony at 9 a.m., 10K Ruck March/5K Run at 9:30 a.m., parade down Main Street at 12:30 p.m. downtownharrodsburg.com or 734-6811.
• Pickers and Grinners at Kentucky Fudge Company (225 South Main Street). Saturday, Nov. 2, 10 a.m.–noon. 733-0088 or Facebook—kentuckyfudgecompany.
• Cobwebber Brooms at Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill (3501 Lexington Road). Learn the Shaker art of broom making. Saturday, Nov. 2, 10 a.m.–2 p.m. $65 per person, includes all materials, one complimentary admission and voucher for 20-percent off dining at the Trustees' Table (excluding alcoholic beverages). 1-800-734-5611 or shakervillageky.org.
• Grand Opening of the Studio Annex T (875 Phillips Lane). Saturday, Nov. 2, 1–4 p.m. Small art holiday special. www.kathleen-obrien.com or 734-7731.
• Open mic night at Studio G (223 South Main Street). Saturday, Nov. 2, starting at 7 p.m. Facebook— StudioG.GVP or 734-4394.
• Trivia night at Lemons Mill Brewery (166 Marimon Avenue). Tuesday, Nov. 6, 6:30 p.m. (859) 265-0872 or Facebook—Lemons Mill Brewery.
• Veteran's Appreciation Luncheon at the Willows at Harrodsburg (180 Lucky Man Way). Thursday, Nov. 6, 1–2 p.m. Free and open to community. RSVP Laura at 859-310-2184.
• Author Gurney Norman at Mercer County Public Library (109 West Lexington Street). Thursday, Nov. 7, 6 p.m. mcplib.info or 734-3680.
Jake on November 3, 2019 at 1:42 am
In rememberance and in honor of the men that made up the Harrodsburg Tankers there was a parade. I think that was a good idea as far as trying to honor the men that served in the Philippines and fought in WWII. What needed to be done better is making people more familiar with the events that the Tankers went through. My Great Uncle Morgan French was the last surviving member of the Harrodsburg tankers. He passed away 2-24-12.
In War, he endured what many couldn't fathom. As a POW he caught malaria and even dug his own grave, preparing for what he thought and knew was a great possibility with the prospect of death. Morgan French along with many other men have great stories that could be told if the facts and events were known, and able to be referenced for their authenticity. I don't have enough time or room here to type much more, but if the Harrodsburg Herald put together something in the paper that told who the members of the tankers were, providing a short depiction of the men's character, personality, and background, and then tell the tale of what they encountered, what they endured, and why they did it. That would help people understand and appreciate their sacrifices. Which then may help people to recognize and respect the small parade that was marching down the streets in Harrodsburg, and in memory of the Harrodsburg Tankers. Their memory deserves an extra effort that be given to ensure local people know about them, and are familiar with who they were. Having information available helps to give people some idea of what the men went through. Its important for this younger generation I think because it can help them know about the sacrifices that were made for future generations. Freedom here in the USA wasn't and isn't free. Least we forget to honor our local heroes. Past, present, and future. Didn't they earn it, don't they deserve it? If we as a society don't take proper measures in regards to topics like this one that took place back in the 1940's, and attempt to keep their memory alive, they'll be forgotten and nobody will know who they were or why there is an Army tank in the middle of Harrodsburg. Their sacrifices weren't done so they could be remembered abd immortalized, but their sacrifices for damn sure deserve something better than the poorly orchestrated parade that was held.


Andrew Lilico of Europe Economics has an article in today's Telegraph with which I at once agree and disagree. I join his affirmation of the Church of England's proposed move to more proactively support credit unions like London Mutual Credit Union. This can provide a more ethical alternative to payday lenders and their exploitative interest rates. However, I don't believe credit unions can ever be an alternative to the regulation of payday lenders.
First, it seems to me (admittedly I'm not an expert in this area) that even if credit unions successfully scale up, they will (rightly) be more conservative in their lending practices than less ethical payday lenders. Sometimes people want to (or feel compelled to) borrow but, for their own good, should not be allowed to, and certainly not at extremely high interest rates. People can get into debt traps. When this happens they need help to climb out (e.g. Christians Against Poverty), not help to dig themselves deeper in. (Sometimes paternalism is another word for "helping vulnerable people".) Credit unions may not lend to such people. But some other less scrupulous payday lender will be ready to make the loan if they calculate can make a quick buck. Such a loan would be profitable to the unethical lender at the expense of other lenders already owed money by the unwise borrower; and/or at the expense of (harm to) the borrower themselves in the longer run.
Second, even the most proactive credit union will not be known to everyone who could benefit from their services. When the unethical payday lender comes knocking they will not know they have a better alternative. An un- or underregulated payday lender will lure them into an exploitative debt contract.
Potentially unethical and exploitative activities will always need to be regulated. Additional competition from credit unions is to be welcomed, supported and financed by us all. But it will not magic away the unhealthier practices of the payday loan industry.
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Rhodochrosite; a rose-colored ornamental gem rarely seen in transparent form…
Argentina's "national mineral" and Colorado's "state mineral," rhodochrosite was first identified in Romania in the 1800s. As the name suggests in Greek, it comes in different shades of pink. Due to its South American sources, it is also known as "Rosa del Inca," "Inca Rose," or Rosinca.
Rhodochrosite is a manganese carbonate mineral (MnCO3) with low hardness of 4 and three directional perfect cleavage. The structure is very similar to calcite since it is a calcite group mineral with remarkable coloration thanks to manganese. Despite its low durability, rare transparent red, orange-pink crystals are faceted and used in jewelry. Transparent rhodochrosite is highly sought after by collectors, especially when sourced from Colorado's Sweet Home Mine. There are other transparent rhodochrosite sources such as the Kalahari region in South Africa and the Pallasca Province in Peru. However, neither of these sources has provided regular production. On the other hand, the massive form of rhodochrosite is produced in many localities in the world, most notably Argentina. Other localities include Romania, Germany, New South Wales in Australia, Tasmania, Mexico, and China.
Rhodochrosite and lapis lazuli inlayed box measuring 6 x 4⅛ x 2 inches.
Courtesy of Heritage Auctions.
Rhodochrosite has been used as an ornamental material for carvings, beads, and inlays, due to its low hardness for a very long time. Beautiful pink color contrasting with white banding in massive form is the typical appearance of the massive material. The pink and white banding is also called "bacon stripe pattern" and the most valuable ones are translucent with concentric banding revealing the stalactitical formation. While smaller, individual stalactites are sliced to be used in jewelry, larger pieces and grown together columns are cut into large plates as display pieces. Aesthetic plates are collectable and demand high purchase prices per object. Such pieces are best known from Argentina and Peru, although same sources may produce facet grade single crystals too.
A 21.86 ct rhodochrosite from Sweet Home Mine, CO.
Courtesy of Mayer and Watt. Photo by Geoffrey Watt.
The Sweet Home Mine in Colorado, however, has been known for its stunning, transparent, single crystals suitable for faceting since the 1800s. More economical mining techniques of the later part of the 20th century made the transparent red rhodochrosite a collector's gem. Collectors are aware that Sweet Home Mine demands a premium, yet the deeper red stones from South Africa may be as expensive since the source is diminishing now. China also produces nice transparent pink material at more affordable levels.
Vividly colored, transparent faceted rhodochrosite is sold at higher per carat prices, while the massive form is generally sold by per gram in most cases, per piece when it is a polished slice or carving. Strands of polished beads are available and priced per strand. Buyers need to be aware of simulants such as glass or resin since the pretty pink color with white banding is easily imitated in carvings and beads. Also, another massive gem material rhodonite with similar color pink is confused with rhodochrosite but standard gemological testing should resolve that issue.
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Not a single word on Dutch-Caribbean people
by Jeroen Dewulf
[Review of: The Postcolonial Low Countries: Literature, Colonialism, and Multiculturalism. Edited by Elleke Boehmer and Sarah De Mul. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2012. 266 pp. Cloth $ 90.00.]
As the editors Elleke Boehmer and Sarah De Mul of The Postcolonial Low Countries rightly argue, little attention has traditionally been paid to Dutch-speaking areas in global analysis of the cultural legacy of Europe's colonial policies. In this respect, the publication of a new volume that attempts to reach a broad range of scholars interested in the legacy of Dutch and Belgian colonial policies in the contemporary Low Countries and their former overseas possessions in Africa, Asia, and the Americas should be welcomed.
Several of the articles presented in this collected volume meet high academic standards. This is the case, for instance, with Henriette Louwerse's chapter on the Dutch–Moroccan author Hafid Bouazza, Ieme van der Poel's comparative study of Moroccan diasporic writing in Catalan and in Dutch, and Liesbeth Minnaard's article on the perception of Amsterdam in a short story by the Turkish–German author Emine Sevgi Özdamar. As these references indicate, however, the editors' choice for the term "postcolonial" in the volume's title is misleading.
Although the book also includes a hand-ful of contributions in the field of postcolonial studies, such as Pamela Pattynama's excellent study on "reflective nostalgia" among repatriates from the former Dutch East Indies (today's Indonesia), the focus is primarily on the cultural and social effects on contemporary Dutch and Flemish society of the wave of immigrants from Morocco and Turkey who came to the Low Countries as "guest workers" in the 1960s and 1970s. It is remarkable that a volume which the editors ambitiously present to readers on its cover as "the first book to bring together critical and comparative approaches to the emergent field of neerlandophone postcolonial studies" does not include a single contribution on the largest truly postcolonial minority group in Dutch society: Dutch–Caribbean people with roots in Suriname and the Antilles. This surprising omission makes the exaggerated claims about the editors' innovative approach sound empty. The omission also substantially weakens the editors' claim that there is no academic attention for "non-metropolitan neerlandophone cultures and literatures" in the Low Countries. When reading such blunt and unfounded criticism from editors who overlooked the nation's Caribbean community, one wonders whether they are even aware of the existence of a journal like OSO—Tijdschrift voor Surinamistiek en het Caraïbisch Gebied, which has been publishing cutting-edge research on Surinamese and Dutch–Caribbean cultures and literatures since 1980.
The Postcolonial Low Countries was written at a time when the Netherlands was ruled by a right-wing minority government that had the tacit support of Geert Wilders's populist anti-Islam party PVV. Although understandable in the tense political climate of the time, the decision by the editors and some of the authors to take a political stand in their contributions gave the book at times a pedantic undertone that is more appropriate for a political pamphlet than for serious scientific research. The same applies to the volume's many over-dramatizations, such as the unfounded claim by Isabel Hoving that in today's Netherlands "there are very few platforms left that allow for anything other than a punishingly negative view of migration and multiculturalization."Another unfortunate characteristic of this study is the disturbingly aggressive tone vis-à-vis existing journals and studies in the field of Dutch colonial and postcolonial studies. One of the victims of this iconoclastic approach is Indische Letteren, a highly respected journal that has been publishing groundbreaking research on colonial and postcolonial literature related to the former Dutch East Indies since 1986. Precisely because the Dutch East Indies and Indonesia are so often overlooked in the field of colonial and postcolonial studies, it is regrettable that Elleke Boehmer and Frances Gouda felt it necessary to launch such a vitriolic attack against one of the few prestigious journals on literature from that part of the world. This reaction is even more surprising since Gouda herself contributed to this journal and Pattynama, one of the contributors to
The Postcolonial Low Countries, is a member of the journal's editorial board. Boehmer and Gouda's cryptic accusation that the journal's "concerns with colonial belletrie are noticeably moved by a defensive nostalgia that expresses at times as anti-Foucauldian empiricism" is also contradicted by Pattynama's conclusion in the same volume that "colonial nostalgia . . . should not glibly be rejected as conservative and inauthentic" because it can also serve as "a dynamic, meaningful tool of identification."
The editors' self-proclaimed innovative approach to the analysis of literature, colonialism, and multiculturalism in the Low Countries can also be challenged by editorial decisions that contradict the book's alleged focus on interculturality, multilingualism, and transnationalism. It is, for instance, difficult to understand why the editors, who claim to have overcome established borders between cultures, nations, and languages, present a work on the Low Countries that completely left out the second major language of that area: French. The omission of the French-speaking part of the Low Countries makes the editors' "intercultural turn" feel as unconvincing as that of a study on interculturality in Canada that would limit itself to the country's English-speaking provinces. The complete omission of French culture in a book on the cultural identities of the Low Countries aimed at an international reading public is unacceptable. Without, for instance, acknowledging the profound impact of French culture in Belgium and the country's historical attachment to the principle of
laïcité, crucial differences between the debate on the use of the headscarf in Belgium as compared to the Netherlands cannot be properly explained to readers who are unfamiliar with the Low Countries.
The Postcolonial Low Countries suffers, in fact, from a lack of concern for the cultural and historical specificities of the different geographical areas composing the Low Countries. Without providing the necessary foundations, the editors' self-proclaimed innovative approach to postcolonialism, hybridity, creolization, and multiculturalism in the Low Countries feels like building a new house by beginning with the roof. Due to this construction failure, Boehmer and De Mul's collected volume fails to achieve its overly ambitious goal.
Jeroen Dewulf is Queen Beatrix Professor in Dutch Studies at the University of California, Berkeley
[from Comparative Literature Studies, Volume 52, Number 2, 2015, pp. 420-422 (Review)]
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Following a demonstration at the Ekoparty security conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, last Friday, reports have sprung up across the web about a USSD exploit on Samsung smartphones that can wipe a user's phone with just one tap.
During his Ekoparty talk, 'Dirty Use of USSD Codes in Cellular Network', Ravi Borgaonkar, a researcher from the Security in Telecommunications department at Technical University Berlin, showed how a single line of code could be used to restore factory settings and even lock the SIM card of a Samsung smartphone.
USSD codes are special dialled codes that execute a command when input into a phone. Some networks use these to let users check their credit balance, while many users will be familiar with the code *#06# to discover their device's IMEI number.
Borgaonkar explained that Samsung devices recognise a USSD code that executes the 'Factory data reset' command and wipes all data on the phone. In the wrong hands, this USSD code could be included in a line of a code triggered by users when clicking a malicious link, unbeknownst to them.
The code could also be executed by a QR code or NFC tag, as demonstrated by Borgaonkar nine minutes into the video below. Here, contact with the NFC tag triggers a link to automatically open in the default browser of a Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone, without asking the user's permission first. This link then executes the code which brings up the phone's Dialler application, dialling the USSD code without any input from the user.
The security risks of NFC tags that don't ask for permission to execute commands have been highlighted at security conferences before. Borgaonkar also points out the risk of using popular QR scanner QR Droid, which is guilty of loading links automatically without first asking permission.
While Borgaonkar's demo showed this exploit could be executed on Samsung Galaxy S II and S III devices, further investigations into this issue shared by users across the web show that the flaw exists on various models of Samsung devices. It appears the fault lies with Samsung's TouchWiz user interface (which is used on most of its smartphones including the Galaxy S II, S III, Beam and Ace) and how it handles a 'tel:' prefix in hyperlinks to initiate the phone's dialler.
Reports from Pocket-lint suggest that users running Android Gingerbread or newer are at risk, while investigations by The Next Web indicate that users with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean may be impervious to the automatic execution of the code, and others have suggested that users with a third-party browser as their default may also be safe.
SlashGear reports that this flaw has been patched in certain S III devices for some time, but it's clear that vulnerabilities remain elsewhere as various contradicting experiments on the XDA Developers forums indicate.
Samsung has not yet officially commented on the matter but is reportedly investigating the issue. It is hoped that a security patch will be released for all devices soon.


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Preamble – Fundamental Principles
The tradition of Franco-German, international and intercultural youth work
The Franco-German Youth Office (FGYO) and its partners have a longstanding tradition and experience of Franco-German and international youth work. Today, three principles in particular are at the forefront of its work: "Mobility and intercultural learning for all", "by young people, for young people", and "beyond the borders of the European Union". In this context, "Mobility and intercultural learning for all" means that the FGYO advocates making a mobility experience possible independent of geographical or sociocultural background. Intercultural learning through mobility means opening oneself up to the world, accepting oneself, and showing tolerance to others as well as personal, linguistic, and professional enrichment. In the work of the FGYO, programs and projects "by young people, for young people" are developed and implemented. The active participation and empowerment of young people play a central role in international youth work. "Beyond the Borders of the European Union," there are numerous FGYO programs open to third countries, e.g. to countries in the southern and eastern Mediterranean region. The project "Youth for Peace" invites participants from all over Europe and beyond, including, for example, participants from Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, Tunisia, Morocco or Egypt.
Peace educational work on history and memory is a central approach used by the FGYO and its partner organizations. Youth exchanges can improve the relationship between the societies of former enemies in war and contribute to dismantling mutual stereotypes, clichés, and prejudices. Through a sensitive interaction with history, one can work constructively with others on somewhat antagonistic or conflictual interpretations of history and cultures of memory.
A further tradition of Franco-German and international youth work is the promotion of multilingualism: Speaking the language of the partner country does not only mean communicating in a language different than one's own; it also means understanding its history, culture, and particularities. The goal of the International Youth Meeting "Youth for Peace" is also to raise awareness for the discovery of the languages, cultures, and histories of other countries and to awaken their interest in either learning new languages or improving existing language skills.
Intercultural dialogue and exchange will be promoted by the method of language animation developed by the FGYO. The method is comprised of activities that make it easier for participants who do not speak the same language to communicate during international youth meetings.
Founded in 1963, the FGYO and its concept, principles, and methods have inspired various other national and international youth exchange organizations and continues to do so today.
The International Youth Meeting "Youth for Peace"
The international youth meeting should contribute to the development of a European and transnational culture of memory, especially among the young generation. These efforts will be based on the traditions of the culture of memory and the peace educational approaches and methods of the FGYO and its project partners.
The international youth meeting gives youth a voice. The young people will express their ideas for building a peaceful Europe and peaceful relations between Europe and the countries in the European Union's southern and eastern neighborhoods.[1] To do so, the youth will convey their "Ideas for Peace" to politicians.
The unique nature of the experience and encounter, with particular attention to multiperspectivity, multilingualism, interculturalism, transnationalism, and diversity makes the youth meeting a long-lasting personal experience.
1. Goals of the Educational Program:
Intercultural encounters and understanding between 500 young people from Germany, France, and other countries of the European Union, as well as from the eastern and southern neighborhoods of the EU.
Common memory work dealing with the end of World War I (WWI) and its consequences for Europe, paying particular attention to multiperspectivity. Multiperspectivity is understood here as a means of opening participants up to other narratives and perceptions of historical events and developments and encouraging them to consider the sociocultural practice of selecting and dealing with historical facts and sources in different countries and time periods as well as the subjectivity of the historical discourse without relativism or historical negationism. The goal is to develop the skills necessary to deal with differences (see Vademecum, Berlin/Paris 2015).
Locating one's own family history in the context of world history is a further objective.
Using the end of World War I as a starting point for a discussion about the challenges and possibilities for ending war and actively building peace that also reflects on other past and current conflicts.
The collaborative conception and presentation of 100 ideas for peace in Europe and with its neighbors, which will be shared and discussed with high-ranking political decision makers on 18.11.2018.
The appreciation of multilingualism among the participants through language animation.
Language and Language animation: English will be the main working language during the youth meeting. German, French, and other languages will, however, also be present at times and highly valued. For pragmatic, financial, and logistical reasons, the main working language of the youth meeting will be English, with the exception of the opening and closing ceremonies, during which a simultaneous translation into German and French will be provided in addition to the English language. This is explained by the particular involvement of the two neighboring countries France and Germany (whose governments have appointed the FGYO to prepare and execute the event) in the preparation and execution of the event. However, the youth leaders will be encouraged to take into account the linguistic diversity of the groups for which they are responsible using the multilingual method of language animation. Language animation uses playful and interactive methods to create a positive group dynamic and sensitize the participants to all languages present. It will make it possible for them to learn a few everyday words or specific expressions in other languages that they previously did not know or had only partially mastered and ultimately promotes sustainable intercultural learning in the sense that language in also a bearer of culture and expresses worldviews.
During each of the nine workshop modules, the youth leaders are free to decide which intercultural and peace educational methods they would like to use. These should nevertheless be as interactive, participative, creative, interdisciplinary, and multiperspective as possible. A change in perspective related to history and memory should be promoted. As inspiration for further methods, it is recommended that they use the Vademecum "History and Memory in International Youth Meetings" (edited by FGYO, Berlin/Paris 2015). A PDF version of the Vademecum can be downloaded in English, German and French).
The workshop modules should include creative and historical-political approaches, and the youth leaders are free to see how they combine both approaches.
3. Target Groups:
500 young people will come together during the international youth meeting. Among them are 400 youth or young adults between the ages of 18 and 22 and 100 youth between the ages of 15 and 16. Young people were invited from a total of 52 countries defined according to the principle of concentric circles:
Germany, France, and all other 26 EU Member States
5 EU candidate countries: Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Turkey
2 potential candidate countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo
The Eastern Neighborhood: Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Russia
The Southern Neighborhood: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan
The goal is to ensure as much social diversity as possible and a fair gender balance among the 500 participants from formal and non-formal fields of education.
The 100 school students between the ages of 15 and 16 will participate in the event only from 16 November in the evening until 18 November (see also the short description of the Youth for Peace Project; and the short description of the school initiative of the Institut francais d'Allemagne (IFA) (only available in German and French). These 100 younger school students are referred to as "IFA Peace Ambassadors" in the project documents and during the youth meeting.
4. Approach to Diversity
The international youth meeting "Youth for Peace" takes a holistic approach and wishes to support intercultural encounters, peace education, and multiperspectivity in addition to transnational and personal awareness and sensitivity. The experience of cultural diversity should at the same time sensitize participants when dealing with racism, homophobia, antisemitism, islamophobia and the like.
The international youth meeting "Youth for Peace" will bring together many diverse young people of different geographical origins, sexes, social classes and life experiences. The "Youth for Peace" meeting must therefore constitute a space in which everyone will feel comfortable and respected in their diversity, while at the same time also ensuring every participant's physical safety at all times. This is naturally the responsibility of the organizing team and youth leaders, but cannot be achieved without the cooperation and commitment of the young participants themselves.
Discriminatory behavior or sentiments (such as sexism, racism, homo- and transphobia, classism) as well as intentions to harm others physically or psychologically will not be tolerated. The youth leaders, as well as the support assistants, have been made aware of these questions and are available to the participants for guidance, offering support to those affected by harmful sentiments and discriminatory behavior and acting as mediators in case of tension. The youth leaders and organizers will work to ensure respectful behavior during one-on-one encounters and openness towards the differences between participants is encouraged.
[1] The following countries are understood as "neighbors" of the EU: the five EU candidate countries: Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Turkey; the two potential candidate countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo; Russia and all of the countries that are involved in the Eastern and Southern Partnerships as a part of the European Neighborhood Policy. This includes those in the Eastern Partnership: Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia; and in the Southern Partnership: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan.
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Qwilt QB-Series Video Fabric Controller Honored With 2013 Innovation Award From Broadband Technology Report
Wins High Marks in BTR's 2013 Diamond Technology Reviews for Breakthrough Innovation in Online Video Delivery; Garners Additional Accolades from Streaming Media Magazine and Light Reading
REDWOOD CITY, CA--(Marketwired - Oct 1, 2013) - Qwilt, a leading provider of online video delivery and transparent caching solutions, today announced that its flagship product, the Qwilt QB-Series Video Fabric Controller, is co-winner of the distinguished Broadband Technology Report (BTR) Innovation Award for 2013. The product received a 3.5 diamond rating in BTR's premiere annual Diamond Technology Reviews program, "The Diamonds." The company also announced that it has been honored among the '100 Companies that Matter Most in Online Video' by Streaming Media Magazine, and is a finalist for Best New Product (Mobile) in Light Reading's 2013 Leading Lights Awards.
Established by BTR in 2004, the Diamond Technology Reviews is the cable industry's most elite annual product review program, evaluated by a prestigious panel of multi-system operator (MSO) executives and consultants. 2013 marks the first year for BTR's overall Innovation Award, for a new technology that has made a positive impact on cable end users with respect to reliability, efficiency, capacity, cost savings, bandwidth, and quality of service. The BTR Innovation Award is given to the product that shows the single most advanced technical capability or "game-changing" technology introduced in 2013.
"Online video is clearly one of the most critical industry challenges network operators will face over the next decade," said Tim Hermes, Founder and Publisher of Broadband Technology Report. "Qwilt's QB-Series appears to be a great solution for operators looking for a cost-effective solution to deliver OTT video with the quality of service consumers require."
Qwilt's Video Fabric was engineered from the ground-up to deliver large volumes of video traffic from the subscriber edge, with unprecedented reliability and performance. Qwilt's QB-Series Video Fabric Controller monitors video traffic on operator networks to identify trending and popular titles, and then stores them locally at the subscriber edge, in close proximity to the end user. This eliminates the need for replication of content streams from origin sites or content delivery networks (CDNs), reducing network traffic and congestion for operators, and delivering a seamless, high quality viewing experience for consumers.
"We are truly honored to receive both this innovation award and strong score from Broadband Technology Report. This recognition is further validation that our solution, which optimizes online video with vastly improved QoE at a fraction of the cost for network operators, is the type of innovation the market is hungry for," said Alon Maor, Qwilt CEO. "With a bevy of premium content options from providers like Netflix and Hulu, and a proliferation of connected devices in the average home, online video is growing exponentially and is showing no signs of stopping. Our unique and transparent approach to video delivery is rapidly becoming a critical part of the new Internet architecture that is required to support the streaming video ecosystem. We remain singularly focused on our goal to see the Qwilt Video Fabric deployed globally to ensure operator networks can support the future demand for streaming video at scale."
Learn More About Qwilt's Award-Winning Video Fabric Controllers
Visit http://www.qwilt.com/products/ for more information.
About Qwilt
Qwilt addresses the impact of OTT video on operator networks with a unified, turnkey solution that combines transparent caching, video delivery and analytics technologies deployed at the subscriber edge. Qwilt QB-Series Video Fabric Controllers optimize delivery of streaming video content to relieve network traffic congestion for operators and deliver a higher quality viewing experience for their customers. A growing number of the world's leading cable, telecom and mobile service providers rely on Qwilt to optimize their networks to support growing consumer demand for online video content as a primary entertainment source. Founded in 2010 by industry veterans from Cisco and Juniper, Qwilt is backed by Accel Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Marker and Redpoint Ventures. Learn more at www.qwilt.com.
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Qwilt and QB-Series are trademarks of Qwilt. All rights reserved. All other trademarks or trade names referenced here are the property of their respective owners.
Hope Nicora
Bhava Communications for Qwilt


It's a common misconception that cleansing teas are the same as detox teas.
Even though they often have similar ingredients, a cleansing tea will generally have a few tweaks that change the chemical composition and reaction of the tea. While you can expect detox tea weight loss programs to help you shed pounds by helping your detox organs - kidney, liver and skin - work faster to declutter your system, cleansing teas tend to target your digestive system. And both of these teas differ significantly from protein shakes, which while they could help you lose weight, contain more nutrients than teas. To understand how cleansers and detox teas work, you'll be seeing a flat tummy tea reviews - because the product contains both cleansers and detox teas.
eant to last you about 4 weeks.
Remember the two types of teas are different, so will their ingredients be.
The detox tea contains lemon balm leaf, peppermint leaf, dandelion root and leaf, cleaves leaf, liquor ice root, green tea leaf, cardamon pods and caraway seeds.
The ingredients in the cleansing tea are - senna leaf, cassia chamaecrista pods, pepermint leaf, caraway seeds, dandelion roots, liquorice and rhubarb root.
If you've come across flat tummy tea reviews, you should know by now that you need to have a strainer because the tea does not come prepacked.
This is the detox tea. You're to steep this in very hot water for about five to seven minutes. Then strain and drink. You're meant to take this in the morning.
With your cleansing tea. Rhubarb roots are a little bit harsh, so you'll want to leave this in hot water for just 3 minutes or there about. You're meant to take this at night. Every night during the first week, and at about 3 nights a week afterwards.
Reduces Bloating: or your body's water retention. Ingredients like senna leaf and traces of caffeine in the cleanse tea have been known to flush excess water out of the system. So drinking this overnight, can improve your bowel movement the next morning.
Builds Up Immunity: green tea is a well-known antioxidant which rids your body of free radicals. Your body's natural immune systems will be stronger in this detoxified environment.
Controls Weight: lemon balm boosts your body's energy consumption, so you won't just be losing water weight, you'll also be preventing excess calories from accumulating and turning to fat.
Healthy Glowing Skin: once your body's clean from the inside, it will reflect on your skin as well. One of the major causes of acne is a buildup of toxins in the body, which the kidney and liver have been unable to expel.
You Get To Eat Normally: unlike protein shakes, detox tea weight loss products like flat tummy teas do not require you to replace whole meals. You can drink your tea right before or after your breakfast or dinner. Skipping meals, as encouraged by protein meal replacements can be discouraging, especially if the tastes of these shakes are off putting.
Honestly that depends on how much effort you put into achieving your goal. Just drinking your tea while living a sedentary life, filled with junk foods will mean your flat tummy tea takes a long time to show visible results. However, a person with an active lifestyle, who eats healthy could notice results in less than a week. From flat tummy tea reviews, you'll notice that some users said they stopped been bloated after just 3 days of use.
Some of the ingredients - like senna leaf - acts as a laxative, so a possible side effect of drinking flat tummy tea is that you should expect a lot of visits to the bathroom in the near future. Also, because the cleanser acts as a diuretic (meaning you'll pee a lot), you can expect to feel dehydrated. So try to replenish.
There are no testing's on how flat tummy tea will affect pregnant and breastfeeding mothers, so if you fall in this category and you're feeling self-conscious about your mummy tummy, just wait till your child isn't so dependent on you before taking this tea.
The manufacturers also warn that drinking flat tummy tea could affect the effectiveness of contraceptive tablets, so if you're taking any, you may want to look for alternative contraceptives.
While some people may be put off by the side effects of flat tummy tea, it's important to remember that it's not meant to be used as a long term solution. Just the help you solve an immediate bloating problem. Protein shakes might be more suitable as a long term solution.


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Dijsselbloem: Greece might need capital controls
Greece could be forced to copy Cypriot-style capital controls to prevent bank runs, according to Dijsselbloem (r) (Photo: consilium.europa.eu)
By Benjamin Fox
Brussels, 18. Mar 2015, 09:28
Greece could be forced to resort to Cypriot-style capital controls in a bid to prevent depositors taking their money out of the country, the chairman of the Eurogroup has warned.
Speaking on Tuesday (17 March), Jeroen Dijsselbloem told Dutch broadcaster RTL Nieuws that "the pressure on Greece is growing," adding that "the amount of cash, money – at least this is what I'm told – is declining by the day".
However, he added, EU politicians have thought through "various scenarios" that "don't at all have to immediately be exit scenarios".
He pointed to Cyprus, which remained in the eurozone despite becoming the first member of the single currency to impose capital controls.
"The banks were closed a while, and capital controls - cash flows in the country and out of the country - were tied to all manner of conditions," he said.
Cyprus was forced to introduce capital controls in March 2013 in a bid to limit a run on its banks as a €10 billion bailout programme was messily agreed with the EU. Initially, the government set restrictions on bank money transfers and withdrawals, including a daily cash withdrawal limit of €300. Many of the restrictions are still in place.
Iceland also has capital controls in place, nearly seven years after it imposed them during its banking crisis in 2008.
Dijsselbloem, who is also the Dutch finance minister, made his remarks on the eve of local elections in the Netherlands.
The Greek government reacted angrily, with spokesman Gabriel Sakellaridis stating that "it would be useful for everyone for Mr Dijsselbloem to respect his institutional role in the Eurozone."
"We don't easily understand the reasons which motivate him to make statements which do not fit with the role with which he has been trusted. Everything else is fantasy. We believe it is unnecessary to remind him that Greece cannot be blackmailed."
But Dijsselbloem's remarks will do little to halt the flow of bank deposits out of Greek lenders.
Savers removed €12 billion from Greek bank accounts in January - figures which were likely replicated in February - dropping bank deposits to their lowest level since 2005, on the back of fears that Alexis Tsipras' Syriza government will be unable to re-negotiate the terms of Greece's bailout.
Greek banks are now increasingly dependent on emergency funding from the European Central Bank after the Frankfurt-based bank withdrew a waiver that allowed Greek banks to access its cheap loans using government bonds and government-guaranteed assets as collateral.
In total, the ECB is currently providing around €80 billion in support for Greek banks.
Cyprus sets out plan to end capital controls
Stop 'wasting time', Dijsselbloem tells Greece
ECB to tighten noose on Greek government
Tsipras' economic policy architect resigns
Cyprus lifts last capital controls after two years
Cyprus has announced a roadmap to eventually lift capital controls in the eurozone country, but the process could take some years.
Officials representing Greece's creditors will return to Athens this week, as Tsipras' left-wing government is told to stop wasting time in talks on the bailout programme.
The European Central Bank is set to make it illegal for Greek lenders to increase their purchases of short-term government bonds in a move that will tighten the funding noose on the Greek government.
Marxist economist Giannis Milios had become very critical of the prime minister concessions to his European partners.
Cyprus has lifted its last remaining capital controls just over two years after becoming the eurozone's first country to impose cash restrictions.


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The house is currently undergoing a programme of refurbishment and the plan is to have this completed early in the New Year. This will include a newly fitted kitchen.
Parking is available and there is an attractive rear garden.
Pearsons in Winchester will be happy to arrange viewings shortly with a view to tenants being able to occupy the house once work is finished. A monthly rent of £865 is quoted. Call Pearsons on 01962 853344 to find out more.


Unlike the NBA, the NFL and its teams frown on their best players skipping from town to town while in the prime of their careers. So it's worth understanding that the best players slated for this year's free agency already have been taken off the market through franchise tags and multi-year deals in advance of Tuesday's kickoff.
The typical NFL player declines too rapidly and sometimes without warning. Signing older players can saddle a salary cap with too much "dead money" that's still on the books while the player is out of the league. Sorry Wes Welker, Greg Jennings, Sebastian Vollmer, Osi Umenyiora, Dwight Freeney, Charles Woodson, Ronde Barber and Brian Urlacher, to name a few.
Unless Adrian Peterson hits the market, skip running backs with high mileage. There are too many good, young, cheap models available to go spending money on a used one. Sorry Ahmad Bradshaw, Reggie Bush, Felix Jones, Steven Jackson and slippery little LaRod Stephens-Howling.
A doctor can clear a guy, but if the guy's body is breaking down, it's breaking down. Jake Long is 28 and might be the best left tackle of his generation. But are you willing to pay more than $10 million a year to a man who might be heading down the same path that Tony Boselli traveled? Sorry Jake, Brent Grimes, Danny Amendola, Fred Davis and Kenny Phillips.
Watch out for household names. If a former first-round draft pick is on this list in his 20s, he's either a major injury risk, unreliable or he's been a flop for the past four years. Take on a resurrection project only when it's financially easy to bail when it fails. Sorry Sedrick Ellis, Glenn Dorsey and Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie.
Pittsburgh not only stands to lose the best receiver and overall player available (Mike Wallace), it's also in danger of losing the best cornerback. He's a big, confident corner on the rise. And he's only 26.
His sack total dipped from 11.5 in 2011 to three last year. But he played 94 percent of Houston's defensive snaps. He also switched positions during the season. A target for 3-4 teams. He's also only 26.
A 6-4, 235-pounder with the athleticism of a big receiver. He had a career-high four TDs last year and doesn't turn 26 until April. Could become a star in a better offense with a better quarterback.
In a market virtually devoid of quality inside linebackers stands a special 6-1, 254-pounder with 59 starts at age 26.
He's not the most complete player, but he's the kind of good, young pass rusher that rarely hits the open market. At 26, he also has plenty of time to become a great pass rusher..
He turns only 26 in April. A 6-4, 330-pounder with 54 starts in 54 games.
He's not the most consistent player, but he's 25 years old and plays cornerback at 6-3, 218 pounds.


Iraqi authorities are holding 1,400 foreign wives and children of suspected Islamic State fighters after government forces expelled the terrorist group from one of its last remaining strongholds in Iraq.
Most came from Turkey. Many others were reportedly from former Soviet states, such as Tajikistan, Azerbaijan and Russia. Other Asians and a "very few" French and Germans were also among them.


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Stock Keeper
Azadea Group
Ref: KP561-2425
- Classify, store and tag items in the warehouse on a daily basis as per shop procedures and items' characteristics, in order to ensure timely finding and release of products
- Participate in the inventory of products and report the end-of-day inventory status to Shop Manager
- Receive merchandize, count it physically and electronically in order to ensure accuracy of information and inspect its quality to report discrepancies
- Assist Sales Associates in replenishing stocks on the shelves in order to ensure availability of products at all times
- High School Degree
- Teamwork: level 1
- Relationship Building: level 1
- Customer Focus: level 1
- Attention to details: level 2
- Self - Development: level 1
- Change and Adaptability: level 1
- Initiative: level 1
Azadea Group is a premier fashion and lifestyle retail company that owns and operates more than 50 leading international franchise concepts across the Middle East, North Africa, Asia and Europe. Since its inception in 1978, the Group has grown a substantial chain of stores representing leading international brand names in fashion and accessories, food and beverage, home furnishing, sporting goods and multimedia.With over 11,000 employees, the company boasts a solid infrastructure overseeing more than 600 stores spread across 15 countries including Algeria, Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Ghana, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar and United Arab Emirates.
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At up to 40% lighter than other polymer cases, Pelican Air cases will lighten the loads of the dedicated pros across the world who have set out to change the game.The Pelican Air 1745 case is also the first Pelican Air case to feature Press and Pull latches, tested for extreme pressure and impact situations. These latches keep the lid shut through rough handling but are easy to open on arrival.
With 8 cubic feet of internal space and standard Pick N Pluck foam, the Pelican Air 1745 is the deepest long case that provides the option to stack multiple items on both bottom and top layers or just use the top layer to nestle long individual equipment. Contact us for custom foam requirements.
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This wiki-page will show the lore and a screenshot of all the warps starting with the letter N.
A village in Lamedon close to the Morthond which forms a natural border between Anfalas and Lamedon. The village exist of a main keep surrounded by some houses with a small dock. This place is not mentioned in one of Tolkien's works.
A small village in the remote northwestern parts of the Shire. It lays strictly within the Westfarthing near the border of the Northfarthing in the Shire.It had few neighboring settlements, apart from the village of Nobottle to the west. The water flowed through the town on its way out to Rushock Bog. The name Needlehole referers to a narrow hole or opening in this area.
Newbury is village of Buckland, about three miles to the north of Bucklebury and Brandy Hall, standing close to the Hedge that protected Buckland from the Old Forest, near the Brandywine Bridge and next to Crickhollow. There are twenty houses. The name implies that it is one of the more recent settlements in Buckland. The line of the Hedge followed an arch around the village showing that it was already established when the High Hay was created.
Also called the Wetwang Marshes. It is located south of the Emyn Muil. It is a great marshland region that formed opposite the wide delta where the river Entwash flowed into the Anduin. Nindalf is the Sindarin name for "wet flat field".
Nobottle is small village in the Shire's Westfarthing, but far to the north of the East road. It lays to the west of Needlehole in the more sparsely populated area of the Shire. The name Nobottle comes from the Old English for "new building". There are ten houses.


OTTAWA, CANADA – Genome Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) today announced a $3.3 million investment in CanSHARE – a panCanadian program that will enable innovation in the use of genomic data for health care for patients in Canada and worldwide. This program will create the policies and tools for Canadian clinicians and researchers to share genomic and clinical datasets across Canada and with international partners.
The program will strengthen Canada's ability to help rapidly advance the objectives of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH), which is looking to create a common strategy using interoperable approaches and initiatives to enable the responsible, secure and effective sharing of genomic and clinical data for the benefit of patients worldwide.
CanSHARE is led by McGill University Professor Dr. Bartha Maria Knoppers, a member of the GA4GH Steering Committee and Chair of the Public Population Project in Genomics and Society (P3G), an international consortium dedicated to the development and management of multidisciplinary research infrastructures around the world. CanSHARE is co-led by Dr. Michael Brudno of The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, and Dr. Jan Friedman of the University of British Columbia. Other team members include some of Canada's most renowned clinicians and researchers in genomics and related areas of life science.
The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) is an international coalition dedicated to improving human health by maximizing the potential of genomic medicine. GA4GH brings together 375 of the world's leading institutions in healthcare, research, disease advocacy, life science and information technology to create the tools and approaches needed for responsible, voluntary, and secure sharing of genomic and clinical data.
CanSHARE will further the objectives of the GA4GH, and will also reach beyond to impact other international bodies with investments in big data, including several international consortia where Canada plays a major role such as the International Cancer Genome Consortium, International Rare Disease Research Consortium, and International Human Epigenomic Consortium.
The $3.3 million in funding for CanSHARE is provided from multiple sources, including Genome Canada, CIHR, Génome Québec, Genome British Columbia and the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation. In addition, TELUS and Genome British Columbia will support approved CanSHARE "New Initiatives", as Pilot Projects. These initiatives will be dedicated to improving human health by maximizing the potential of genomic medicine through effective and responsible data sharing.
The program will draft a number of policies related to consent, privacy and security, paediatrics, accountability, and ethics review equivalency. It also involves demonstration projects that touch on data related to rare diseases, cancer and other disease areas.
The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) was formed in 2013 to accelerate the potential of genomic medicine to advance human health and today brings together over 375 leading institutions worldwide working in healthcare, research, disease advocacy, life science and information technology. GA4GH Members are working together to create a common framework of tools, methods, and harmonized approaches and supporting demonstration projects to enable the responsible, voluntary, and secure sharing of genomic and clinical data.
Genome Canada is a not-for-profit organization that invests in genomic science and technology and its translation into applications across multiple sectors to produce social and economic benefits for all Canadians.
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) is the Government of Canada's health research investment agency. CIHR's mission is to create new scientific knowledge and to enable its translation into improved health, more effective health services and products, and a strengthened health care system for Canadians. Composed of 13 Institutes, CIHR provides leadership and support to more than 13,000 health researchers and trainees across Canada.


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package net.malisis.core.client.gui.component.interaction;

import java.util.function.Function;

import org.lwjgl.input.Keyboard;

import net.malisis.core.client.gui.event.ComponentEvent;
import net.minecraft.client.gui.GuiScreen;

/**
 * The Class UIPasswordField.
 */
public class UIPasswordField extends UITextField
{

	/** Character to draw instead of real text. */
	private char passwordChar = '*';

	/** Actual stored password *. */
	private StringBuilder password = new StringBuilder();

	/**
	 * Instantiates a new {@link UIPasswordField}.
	 */
	public UIPasswordField()
	{
		super();
	}

	/**
	 * Instantiates a new {@link UIPasswordField}
	 *
	 * @param passwordChar the password char
	 */
	public UIPasswordField(char passwordChar)
	{
		this();
		this.passwordChar = passwordChar;
	}

	/**
	 * Gets the masking character used when rendering text.
	 *
	 * @return the masking character
	 */
	public char getPasswordCharacter()
	{
		return passwordChar;
	}

	/**
	 * Sets the masking character to use when rendering text.
	 *
	 * @param passwordChar the masking character to use
	 */
	public void setPasswordCharacter(char passwordChar)
	{
		this.passwordChar = passwordChar;
	}

	@Override
	public String getText()
	{
		if (password == null)
			return "";
		return password.toString();
	}

	/**
	 * Updates the text from the password value
	 */
	protected void updateText()
	{
		this.text.setLength(0);
		this.text.append(password.toString().replaceAll("(?s).", String.valueOf(passwordChar)));
		guiText.setText(text.toString());
	}

	/**
	 * Adds the text.
	 *
	 * @param text the text
	 */
	@Override
	public void addText(String text)
	{
		if (selectingText)
			deleteSelectedText();

		final StringBuilder oldText = this.password;
		final String oldValue = oldText.toString();
		String newValue = oldText.insert(this.cursor.index, text).toString();

		if (this.filterFunction != null)
			newValue = this.filterFunction.apply(newValue);

		if (!fireEvent(new ComponentEvent.ValueChange<>(this, oldValue, newValue)))
			return;

		this.password = new StringBuilder(newValue);
		this.updateText();
		this.cursor.jumpBy(text.length());
	}

	/**
	 * Sets the text.
	 *
	 * @param text the new text
	 */
	@Override
	public void setText(String text)
	{
		if (password == null) //called from parent ctor
			return;
		if (filterFunction != null)
			text = filterFunction.apply(text);

		password.setLength(0);
		password.append(text);
		updateText();
		selectingText = false;
		if (focused)
			cursor.jumpToEnd();

	}

	@Override
	public void setFilter(Function<String, String> filterFunction)
	{
		this.filterFunction = filterFunction;
		this.password = new StringBuilder(this.filterFunction.apply(this.password.toString()));
	}

	/**
	 * Delete selected text.
	 */
	@Override
	public void deleteSelectedText()
	{
		if (!selectingText)
			return;

		int start = Math.min(selectionCursor.index, cursor.index);
		int end = Math.max(selectionCursor.index, cursor.index);

		password.delete(start, end);
		updateText();
		selectingText = false;
		cursor.jumpTo(start);
	}

	/**
	 * Handle ctrl key down.
	 *
	 * @param keyCode the key code
	 * @return true, if successful
	 */
	@Override
	protected boolean handleCtrlKeyDown(int keyCode)
	{
		return GuiScreen.isCtrlKeyDown() && !(keyCode == Keyboard.KEY_C || keyCode == Keyboard.KEY_X) && super.handleCtrlKeyDown(keyCode);
	}

	@Override
	public String getPropertyString()
	{
		return password + " > " + super.getPropertyString();
	}
}

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FORMER REID'S COFFEE PALACE
128 LYDIARD STREET NORTH BALLARAT CENTRAL, BALLARAT CITY
The Former Reid's Coffee Palace, a three and four-storey Victorian Free Classical boom style building (interiors and exteriors), which presents as a two-storey building to Lydiard Street,…
FORMER BANK OF VICTORIA
29 CAMP STREET BEECHWORTH, INDIGO SHIRE
The Former Bank of Victoria, also known as the Former CBC Bank, including all of the main building, the former servants' quarters at the rear and the rear wall. History Summary During the…
LONDON TAVERN
The London Tavern, including the three brick wings of the former hotel, built in stages in 1859, 1860-61, 1863-64 and 1865-66, and the 1862 brick bath house in the courtyard. History…
FORMER OVENS DISTRICT HOSPITAL
13 CHURCH STREET BEECHWORTH, INDIGO SHIRE
The Former Ovens District Hospital (formerly known as the Old Hospital Ruins), consisting of: the front facade of the former hospital, the remainder of which was demolished in 1940;…
26 FINCH STREET BEECHWORTH, INDIGO SHIRE
The Residence at 26 Finch Street, Beechworth, which includes a complex of mainly timber buildings constructed in the mid-nineteenth century. These include a two-storey cottage with what was…
The Residence at 39 Finch Street, Beechworth consisting of a brick house and outbuilding built c1862 and the later kitchen building, now joined to the house, which was added in 1867. History…
FORMER METHODIST CHURCH
26-30 FORD STREET BEECHWORTH, INDIGO SHIRE
The 1857 former stone church and the 1869 former Sunday school building. History Summary The first Methodist services in Beechworth were held in the open air by a local Methodist miner and…
Christ Church, Beechworth, including the main church building (the nave completed in 1859, and the tower and chancel completed in 1864, and including the pipe organ) and the c.1855 building…
FORMER BANK OF NSW
87 FORD STREET BEECHWORTH, INDIGO SHIRE
The Bank of New South Wales, Beechworth was built in 1856-7 on a prominent corner in the centre of the town. An agency for this bank had been opened in Beechworth in 1853, and three years…
ST ANDREWS UNITING CHURCH
115 FORD STREET BEECHWORTH, INDIGO SHIRE
St Andrew's Uniting Church in Beechworth, consisting of the stone 1857 church, the 1883 brick Sunday school and hall at the rear, the gateposts on the Ford Street corner and the Grey Myrtle…
9 WILLIAM STREET BEECHWORTH, INDIGO SHIRE
The house known as Bellevue at 9 William Street, Beechworth and the former stables at the rear. History Summary Bellevue is thought to have been built in 1861 as a boarding house. In 1866 it…
JOHN KELLY'S FORMER HOUSE
44 KELLY STREET BEVERIDGE, MITCHELL SHIRE
John Kelly's Former House at Beveridge, c.1860, a substantially intact example of vernacular timber construction. History Summary As a child, Ned Kelly (1854-1880) one of Australia's most…
OLD SWAN INN
4 HAMILTON HIGHWAY FYANSFORD, GREATER GEELONG CITY
The Old Swan Inn including the buildings and outbuildings (interiors and exteriors); archaeological deposits, features and artefacts, including the ford and track; plantings, garden features…
5-15 WILLOBY AVENUE GLEN IRIS, STONNINGTON CITY
Malvern House (also known as Valentines) is a large Italianate two storey mansion in ornate stuccoed brick with a servants¡¯ wing and a detached laundry building. HOW IS IT…
Stonnington City
HAWTHORN RAILWAY STATION COMPLEX
54 BURWOOD ROAD HAWTHORN, BOROONDARA CITY
The Hawthorn Railway Station Complex including its platforms, the weatherboard-clad Station buildings alongside Platform 1, the canopies over the Platforms, the roofed footbridge linking the…
336 GLENFERRIE ROAD AND 3-5 SOMERS AVENUE AND 7 SOMERS AVENUE MALVERN, STONNINGTON CITY
Stonington is a two-storey Boom-style mansion constructed in 1890 to a design by noted architect Charles D'Ebro for Cobb and Co coachline proprietor John Wagner. It served as the residence…
RINGWOOD RAILWAY STATION
130-136 MAROONDAH HIGHWAY RINGWOOD, MAROONDAH CITY
The Ringwood Railway Station which comprises the brick station building, a timber station building, a timber signal box, platforms, railway tracks and other railway-related…
FORMER PRESBYTERIAN MANSE
27 LYONS STREET WILLIAMSTOWN, HOBSONS BAY CITY
The Former Presbyterian Manse, including the 1856-57 building, its verandahs, and the c.1882 additions. The mid-1980s single-storey-addition, and 1991 garage and pool enclosure buildings,…
BENALLA BOTANICAL GARDENS AND ART GALLERY
BRIDGE STREET WEST BENALLA, BENALLA RURAL CITY
The Benalla Botanical Gardens occupy a triangular site of approximately 5.1 hectares bounded by the shore of Lake Benalla to the north-east, Bridge Street to the south-east and the row of…
FORTUNA VILLA
22-48 CHUM STREET GOLDEN SQUARE, GREATER BENDIGO CITY
Fortuna is a picturesque nineteenth century villa and garden developed from 1857 by two of Australia's wealthiest gold magnates, Christopher Ballerstedt from 1854 and George Lansell after…
Greater Bendigo City
MAWARRA
6 SHERBROOKE ROAD SHERBROOKE, YARRA RANGES SHIRE
The property Mawarra, Sherbrooke comprises a house designed in 1925-27 and attributed to the architect Harold Desbrowe-Annear and a garden designed by the prominent and influential garden…
FAWKNER PARK
24-88 COMMERCIAL ROAD SOUTH YARRA, MELBOURNE CITY
Fawkner Park is a trapezoidal shaped public park of 41 hectares (101 acres) established in the southern part of the City of Melbourne. It contains a wide range of landscape design elements…
Victorian Heritage Inventory
ROYAL PARK
FLEMINGTON ROAD AND ROYAL PARADE AND GATEHOUSE STREET AND THE AVENUE AND ELLIOTT AVENUE AND PARK STREET AND POPLAR ROAD AND MACARTHUR ROAD AND OAK STREET AND BRENS DRIVE PARKVILLE, MELBOURNE CITY
Royal Park is a large public park of 188 hectares established in 1854 in the northern part of the City of Melbourne. It contains a wide range of designed and informal landscapes…
KARORI
106 DEVONSHIRE LANE MOUNT MACEDON, MACEDON RANGES SHIRE
Karori is a six acre (2.4 hectare) hill station property on Turitable Creek on the steep southern slopes of Mount Macedon, with a picturesque timber house set amidst an extensive garden. The…
10-18 MAIN STREET STAWELL, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
Central Park at Stawell is located near the centre of Stawell and comprises a sports oval, a timber grandstand and other buildings and a number of memorials, set amidst ornamental gardens…


This course is dedicated to the analytical and numerical treatment of selected methods in image and surface processing. To this end, imaging fundamental problems of image reconstruction with applications for CT and MRI imaging and a shape calculus for large triangulated surfaces with applications in modelling and animation in computer graphics will be investigated.
In the first part, we will consider thin shell models along with a suitable discretization, e.g. via discrete differential geometry and discuss numerical simulations of thin shell deformations. The computation of smooth deformation paths which obey certain interpolation constraints is a fundamental task in typical computer graphics applications such as keyframe animation. To this end, an adaption of the classical spline model to Riemannian manifolds along with a suitable time discretization is presented. Furthermore, we will discuss efficient numerical schemes, for example representing a triangle mesh in terms of edge lengths, triangle areas, and angles between neighboring triangles as principal degrees of freedom.
In the second part, we will study variational methods in image reconstruction related to the famous Mumford Shah problem. This will lead to problems in the space of functions of bounded variation and a powerful convex optimisation duality calculus for the resulting functionals will be developed. Taking into account appropriate spatial finite element discretizations one obtains very high dimensional, nonlinear optimization problems. To solve these problems a particular focus will be on novel, efficient algorithms based on suitable primal-dual formulations. We will discuss concrete examples for the reconstruction of 3D images in computer tomography and magnetic resonance imaging.
Knowledge in analysis, basic knowledge on finite element methods and functional analysis are required.


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The L.A. Memorial Coliseum, built for the 1932 Olympics and used again as the host stadium in 1984, could be the site of a third Olympics as Los Angeles is expected to officially become a candidate to host the 2024 Summer Games.
Should Los Angeles host the Summer Olympics again? Absolutely!
Should the city throw its hat into the ring for the 2024 games? Why not!
Ever since Boston's Olympic plans imploded so spectacularly in a complete absence of local support, all eyes have looked to Los Angeles – not just because the city was among the bidders when the U.S. Olympic Committee picked Boston for 2024, but because Los Angeles could host the Olympics tomorrow without having to build a single facility.
Compare that to Boston, which hadn't even determined where to build its Olympic stadium.
In L.A., the Coliseum stands ready to host its third Olympics; heck, it even has a torch and Olympic rings already in place. The Rose Bowl and Dodger Stadium are available; so are Staples Center, Pauley Pavilion and Galen Center. StubHub Center in Carson has its huge soccer stadium, along with a tennis stadium and velodrome nobody knows about. There's a swim stadium on the USC campus and another at Exposition Park.
And that doesn't include a potential NFL stadium or two, or the new soccer stadium planned to replace the Sports Arena.
L.A. just finished an Olympic test run: the Special Olympics World Games that wrapped up earlier this month. The Special Olympics was smaller – about 6,500 athletes came to L.A, compared with 10,000-plus who attended the 2012 Olympic games in London – and the crowds were much smaller, too. But the Special Olympics went off without a hitch.
L.A. has another thing going for it: The 1984 Los Angeles Olympics is considered to be the last Games that didn't lose money for the host city. The surplus – yes, there was leftover money – continues to fund the LA84 Foundation, which supports youth sports programs throughout the region.
What would the Olympics mean for Orange County? L.A.'s original Olympic bid didn't include Angel Stadium, The Pond or any other Orange County venues; the nearest events would probably be in Long Beach.
When I sat in the stands at the Coliseum during the Special Olympics opening ceremonies, I remarked that this was probably as close as I'll ever get to seeing an Olympic opening spectacle, especially here in L.A.
David Medzerian's column runs on Sundays; reach him at dmedzerian@ocregister.com.


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If You Don't Know! News & Politics Roundup: Man Commits Suicide On Steps Of U.S. Capitol Building, & MORE!
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According to reports, a suicide was committed near the U.S. Capitol building's West Front on Saturday, causing authorities to lock down the area. After shots rang off, several witnesses came forward saying a man shot and killed himself on the U.S. Capitol building's steps. See one photo from the incident above. [Gawker]
SeaWorld is facing yet another lawsuit, after allegedly "misleading" visitors with its claims that the whales who live there are "healthy and happy." Reports say, "the lawsuit claims, the orcas are drugged and kept in shallow holding pools exposed to the sun where they are sunburned and then painted with black zinc oxide to diguise the injuries." Read more here. [BusinessInsider]
Firefighters spent hours trying to get a 700-pound man to a hospital on Friday, and all via a rope-and-pulley system. The man was having trouble breathing when help arrived and successfully got him from his sixth floor NYC apartment, and into an ambulance. [HuffingtonPost]
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How can a credit score from TransUnion and Experian be 50 points different?
There are several reasons why this can happen. One is that the information in the reports may be different. Lenders aren't required to report information to the credit reporting companies. Those that do report may choose to report to only one or two of the credit reporting companies. If there is an item on one report that is not on the other, the credit scores will be different as a result.
A more likely reason is that the scores themselves are simply different. There are many different credit scores from a variety of different companies. There are different scores for different types of lenders and different types of lending, and what are called "generic" scores, that are used for a range of lending and business risk management.
Different models may have different score ranges, or scales. So, even if you get two different numbers, they likely mean the same thing in terms of credit risk. For example, a score of 700 on a scale that goes up to 850 might indicate the same lending risk as a 760 on a scale that goes up to 990, so your credit score would likely not be the same on both.
When you get two different scores, set the numbers aside and look at the description you should have received that explains what the numbers mean in terms of credit risk. If both say the same thing -- we hope "excellent" — then they both show the same level of credit risk even though the numbers are different.
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The Tri-City Citizens Union for Progress is a non-profit community corporation focused on maintaining quality of life in the western Newark, NJ neighborhood where it was founded. They have ongong projects in housing management, health care, and education.
Since its founding in 1967, the Tri-City Citizens' Union has worked to maintain quality of life in Newark, NJ.
To many people Newark, New Jersey seems to be the epitome of the decaying, depressed, Eastern urban center. The city's population has declined 20% in the last decade. Whole blocks of homes, factories, and warehouses lie vacant. One Newark neighborhood—with a population of 40,000 people—has only one supermarket. At the same time, unemployment has reached incredible levels and high blood pressure affects one out of every ten residents. It's little wonder that great numbers of people—who remember the 1967 riots which ripped through vast areas of this town—shake their heads in resignation and consider Newark a wasteland, an unsalvageable city.
The Tri-City Citizens' Union for Progress—a multi-purpose non-profit community corporation based on Newark's western edge—however, thinks differently. Since its founding in 1967, Tri-City has worked in its twelve-square-block neighborhood to maintain and improve the quality of life for area residents. For eleven years, then, Tri-City has focused on providing essential services: housing, health care, and education. Its underlying goal has always been the same: to foster local economic development and to provide local leadership.
After the 1967 race riots, for instance, when much of the city's housing was abandoned because nobody wanted to invest in Newark, the people at Tri-City didn't abandon their neighbors. Instead, they sponsored the purchase and rehabilitation of Amity Village I, 96 units of housing which were designed to be owned collectively.
Tri-City manages the co-op and does its best to keep rents low. In cases where it is needed the community group helps residents secure rent subsidies. As evidence of the success of this project, Tri-City has purchased another 200 housing units in the neighborhood. These units, now called Amity Village II, are scheduled for co-op conversion next year.
And there's more. In April of 1972 the TriCity group opened a community education center—the People's Center—which has since become the focus for a number of community projects. The Center, for example, houses a day-care program for 30 children aged two to four, and an after-school program for 65 children between the ages of five and nine.
At the same time, the Tri-City Women's and Children's Health Action Project provides VD screening for women, cancer and high blood pressure tests, and help with gynecological problems, all for free. Children are given no-cost physical examinations, plus tests and (where applicable) immunizations for tuberculosis, lead poisoning, hearing impairment, and vision problems. And to make a good thing even better, all of these programs are open to residents of the whole neighborhood, whether they are Amity Village people or not.
Dolores Anderson, manager of Tri-City's maintenance crew, explains that all these programs are "growing by leaps and bounds," that economic development is Tri-City's byword, and that the group realizes that the real keys to revitalization are jobs and skills. The management contract with Amity Village, for instance, has enabled the organization to hire a black contractor—on staff—and to provide training opportunities for local residents.
The city of Newark has recently granted Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) funds to Tri-City, and these will enable the group to run six or eight maintenance-trainee programs. The nonprofit corporation hopes to expand this and other services beyond the cooperative and into the rest of the neighborhood.
At this time, of course, many contractors still refuse to work in Newark. Tri-City hopes to fill that gap, to provide essential services, and at the same time to generate jobs, income, and security within its target community.
The citizens' group is also looking past the basic rehabilitation work that occupies them now. Since the cost of energy has become a significant part of the cost of housing, Tri-City has extended its concerns to cover improved insulation and alternate energy sources. Three buildings in Amity Village I have been insulated to date, and the crew has purchased a portable insulation blower to help it do future jobs faster, easier, and more efficiently. In addition to that, Tri-City has installed its first domestic solar-powered hot-water system on top of the cooperative units on 18th Avenue. That initial system (which should be in operation by the time you read this column) is meant to demonstrate what might be done more extensively in the future.
The only obstacles standing in Tri-City's way at this time are the twin constraints of funding and time. The group has great ideas for the future—plans which could stimulate the economic growth of its neighborhood, improve the health of area residents, provide jobs, and teach the people that they can work together to change their situations. But these plans take time, and the staff is already overworked. The maintenance crew, for example, cannot install more new insulation right now because it is too busy making necessary repairs on old buildings and other property. Projects which might generate income are in limbo because no one has the time to pursue them.
This situation, however, may be about to change. For one thing, part of the neighborhood has been declared a Neighborhood Preservation Area by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). This means that federal money will be available to homeowners in the area for rehabilitation work, and Tri-City hopes to arrange a contract for organizational and orientation work with neighborhood property owners. The provision of municipal CETA funds to Tri-City is also a good sign. If the group is able to secure the level of funding that it needs, Tr-iCity will be an exciting example of true grassroots neighborhood preservation.


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The Substance Abuse & Addiction certificate helps students understand the nature and impact of substance abuse and will provide the academic preparation needed for licensure as a Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor (LCDC).
For more information please review the Catalog page or contact Dr. Shelia Lumar at Shelia.lumar@untdallas.edu.
New students can select HSML on their admission application, however non-HSML majors can select Substance Abuse & Addiction as a specialization certificate in their respective major. Current students who are passionate about serving populations living with mental health and substance use should change their major to HSML. To change your major, you may contact your academic advisor.


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