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Ex-Cameron aide arrested in UK hacking scandal
Former Downing Street communication chief Andy Coulson surrounded by media as he leaves Lewisham police station in south London, after being arrested in a phone hacking and police corruption scandal, Friday July 8, 2011. Coulson, British Prime Minister David Cameron's former communications chief and Clive Goodman,an ex-royal reporter for the News of the World tabloid were arrested Friday, the latest to be swept up in a scandal over phone hacking and bribing police that has already toppled a newspaper and rattled the relationship between top politicians and the powerful Murdoch media empire. (AP Photo/PA, Dominic Lipinski) UNITED KINGDOM OUT NO SALES NO ARCHIVE
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Prime Minister David Cameron's former communications chief and an ex-royal reporter were arrested Friday in a phone hacking and police corruption scandal that has already toppled a major tabloid and rattled the cozy relationship between British politicians and the powerful Murdoch media empire.
The 168-year-old muckraking tabloid News of the World was shut down Thursday after being engulfed by allegations its journalists paid police for information and hacked into the phone messages of celebrities, young murder victims and even the grieving families of dead soldiers. Its last publication day is Sunday.
The hacking revelations horrified the nation and advertisers, who pulled their ads en masse. News International, the British arm of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., jettisoned the paper in hopes of saving its $19 billion (12 billion pound) deal to take over satellite broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting. But the British government on Friday signaled the deal would be delayed due to the crisis.
In what could be an emergency damage-control move, Rupert Murdoch was flying in to London, according to the Financial Times. News International declined comment on the report.
Many expressed astonishment that 43-year-old Rebekah Brooks, who was editor of News of the World when some of the hacking allegedly occurred, was keeping her job while the paper's 200 staff were laid off.
The Murdoch group has shown, "an almost maniacal desire to protect Ms. Brooks at all costs," said industry analyst Claire Enders.
Brooks told the paper's soon-to-be-laid-off staff Friday that she was staying on as chief executive of News International, adding that the paper was "working hard to put our own house in order and do the right thing."
Brooks appeared to hint at revelations to come, telling the journalists that "in a year's time it'll become apparent why we did this," according to a leaked audiotape of the meeting obtained by Sky news.
"Eventually it will come out why things went wrong," she said, noting that that would also be a very bad moment for the company.
Saying "this is not exactly the best time in my life," Brooks pledged to "get vindication" for the paper and its staff.
"If you think this is a bundle of laughs trying to get his company's reputation back, it isn't," she said, adding that she believed she would be "much more useful leading the company through" the firestorm.
However, News International announced after the meeting that Brooks had been removed from the paper's internal inquiry into the wrongdoing. Instead, the paper's standards committee will report to Joel Klein, a former New York City schools chancellor who now heads News Corp.'s education division.
The police investigation into the phone hacking drew uncomfortably close to the prime minister Friday with the arrest of Andy Coulson, Cameron's once-powerful communications chief and a former editor of News of the World.
Coulson, 43, was taken into custody Friday morning on suspicion of corruption and "conspiring to intercept communications." Hours later, he was released on bail until October. He refused to answer questions from reporters as he left a police station.
Police also arrested Clive Goodman, the former News of the World journalist who served a jail term in 2007 for hacking into the phones of royal aides. This time the arrest was on suspicion of making illegal payoffs to police for scoops. He was also later released on bail.
Detectives searched Coulson's house in London and Goodman's home south of the city in Surrey on Friday, as well as the newsroom of a second tabloid, the Daily Star Sunday. That paper is owned by Richard Desmond's Northern & Shell media conglomerate, and Goodman has done work for the paper since his release from jail.
The Daily Star Sunday said detectives spent two hours at its offices and took away a disc containing a record of Goodman's computer activity. The paper said there was "no suggestion whatsoever" that Goodman acted improperly during his time at the Star.
Late Friday, police announced that a third suspect, a 63-year-old man from Surrey, had been arrested for alleged payments to police and they were searching his home. His name was not released.
Allegations of phone hacking by the News of the World first surfaced more than five years ago, but the original police investigation - which saw Goodman and another man jailed - has now been criticized as incomplete and compromised by new bribery allegations.
The Metropolitan Police reopened the hacking inquiry earlier this year, and say they are looking at the names of over 4,000 people as possible victims.
Cameron, realizing that the crisis was knocking at his 10 Downing St. door, moved quickly to distance himself from it. Like predecessors including Labour Prime Ministers Gordon Brown and Tony Blair, Cameron courted the powerful Murdoch empire, whose endorsement is considered capable of swinging elections.
And he's not the first prime minister to hire a former journalist as his top communications aide - Blair's powerful aide Alastair Campbell also had a tabloid background.
On Friday, Cameron acknowledged that British politicians and the press had become too close and promised investigations into both the tabloid's actions and future media regulation.
"The truth is, we've all been in this together," Cameron told reporters at a hastily arranged news conference. "Party leaders were so keen to win the support of newspapers that we turned a blind eye to the need to sort this issue. The people in power knew things weren't right but they didn't do enough quickly enough."
Coulson quit as editor of News of the World after Goodman and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire were jailed in 2007 for hacking into the phones of royal aides. Coulson maintained he knew nothing of the hacking, and was hired soon after as Cameron's director of communications, but resigned in January as it became clear the hacking at the tabloid had been widespread.
Opposition Labour Party leader Ed Miliband had urged Cameron to apologize for "the appalling error of judgment he made in hiring Andy Coulson." Cameron refused, saying Friday that Coulson remained a friend, but clearly moved a further step away from his former aide.
"(Coulson) gave me assurances," Cameron said. "He said he had resigned because of what had happened, but he didn't know the hacking had taken place."
"I took a conscious choice to give someone who had screwed up a second chance," Cameron said. "He worked for me, he worked for me well, but actually he decided in the end the second chance wouldn't work, he had to resign all over again for the first offense."
Cameron said press self-regulation by the Press Complaints Commission had failed and a new body, independent of the media and the government, was needed to properly enforce standards.
Cameron also suggested Brooks, who is a personal friend, should have resigned as chief executive of News International. He said there were also questions to be answered by James Murdoch, the heir-apparent to his father's media empire.
"I want everyone to be clear: Everything that has happened is going to be investigated," Cameron said.
He said a judge will be appointed to lead a thorough investigation of what went wrong at the News of the World, including alleged bribery of police officers, and a second inquiry to find a new way of regulating the press.
The scandal exploded this week after it was reported that the News of the World had hacked the mobile phone of 13-year-old murder victim Milly Dowler in 2002 while her family and police were desperately searching for her. News of the World operatives reportedly deleted some messages from the phone's voicemail, giving the girl's parents false hope that she was still alive.
That ignited public outrage far beyond any previous reaction to press intrusion into the lives of politicians and celebrities, which the paper has acknowledged and for which it has paid compensation to some prominent victims, including actress Sienna Miller.
Dozens of companies pulled their advertising from the paper this week, fearing they would be tainted by association. James Murdoch then announced Thursday that this Sunday's edition of the tabloid would be its last and all revenue from it will go to "good causes."
It's widely suspected News International will launch another paper into the Sunday market that has been dominated for decades by News of the World. Brooks said "no decision has been taken yet on any new publications or expanding existing ones."
But according to online records, an unnamed U.K. individual this week bought the rights to the domain name "sunonsunday.co.uk."
The British government gave its qualified approval in June to Murdoch's News Corp. purchasing the 61 percent of British Sky Broadcasting that it doesn't already own, on the condition it spins off news channel Sky News as a separate company.
But Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt said Friday there had been a huge number of responses to a public consultation on the takeover, said to exceed 100,000 submissions, and that will delay the approval process.
Despite the public outcry, many analysts think Britain will still sanction the takeover but delay it until at least September.
A billion pounds ($1.6 billion) was wiped off the value of BSkyB Friday, with shares closing down 7.6 percent in London as investors recoiled at the bad news. Shares in the Nasdaq-listed News Corp., which owns 39 percent of BSkyB, were down 3.5 percent at $16.82 around midday in New York.
Danica Kirka, Cassandra Vinograd and Raphael G. Satter contributed to this report.


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Q: Creating Views on a Sybase ASE database from a stored procedure on a different database on the same server? I am trying to create a view on a database from a second database using a stored procedure.  I can create the stored procedure with the SQL below if I run this on the target database:
IF OBJECT_ID ('databasename..v_MyView') IS NOT NULL
    DROP VIEW v_MyView
GO

CREATE VIEW v_MyView
AS

    select FirstName, LastName, Address
    from databasename..t_UserTable
    where SalesPersonId = 21563

GO

I was hoping I could just prefix the line:
CREATE VIEW v_MyView

with:
CREATE VIEW databasename..v_MyView

and then call this from inside a stored procedure on a second database on the same server but this does not work.
The error back from DBViz is:
 16:26:28  [CREATE - 0 row(s), 0.000 secs]  [Error Code: 166, SQL State: S1000]  CREATE        VIEW does not allow specifying the database name as a prefix to the object name.

... 1 statement(s) executed, 0 row(s) affected, exec/fetch time: 0.000/0.000 sec  [0 successful, 0 warnings, 1 errors]
Any ideas or suggestions please?
ASE 15.0, jTDS Type 4 JDBC Driver for MS SQL Server and Sybase, 1.2.7

A: Create the following stored procedure and put it in sybsystemprocs:
create procedure sp_user_create_view
    @a_view_name        varchar(255),
    @a_view_query       varchar(16000)
as
begin
    if object_id(@a_view_name) is not null
    begin
        exec ('drop view ' + @a_view_name)
    end

    exec ('create view ' + @a_view_name + ' as ' + @a_view_query)
end
go
grant execute on sp_user_create_view to <user/group/role as appropriate>
go

Then switch your starting database, in my case testdb and execute:
use testdb
go
exec tempdb..sp_user_create_view object_name, 'select name from sysobjects'
go

This will create the view 'object_name' in tempdb.
use tempdb
go
set rowcount 5
go
select * from object_name
go
name
----------------
object_name
sysalternates
sysattributes
syscolumns
syscomments

(5 rows affected)
set rowcount 0
go

This was tested on Sybase ASE 15.7

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Why WSL and Women's Championship ending was the right decision
Posted on May 27, 2020 in Articles, Women's Football
Jessy Parker-Humphreys looks at the reasoning behind the Women's Super League and Women's Championship being brought to an end due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
In news that surprised absolutely no one, the Football Association confirmed on Monday that the Women's Super League and Women's Championship would not be resumed.
In a statement, the FA said: "Following overwhelming feedback from the clubs, the decision to bring an end to the 2019/20 season was made in the best interest of the women's game, and to enable clubs, the FA Women's Super League & Women's Championship Board and The FA to plan, prepare and focus on next season when football returns for the 2020/21 campaign."
It had been widely reported for well over a week that clubs would be voting for the season to end. Reasons given varied from players having already mentally clocked out to the unrealistic cost that restarting the season would require.
We can confirm that a decision has been made to end the 2019-20 season in the @BarclaysFAWSL and @FAWC_.
— The FA (@FA) May 25, 2020
While the decision to end the season will understandably come as a disappointment to fans, on balance, it is probably the right one.
The dogged attempts to resume the Premier League might make it seem like men's football is more valued in this country. The fact is – of course it is. It is not a desirable reality, but it is one that has unavoidable material effects on the women's leagues.
Elite women's football is a lot more comparable to lower league men's football in terms of pay and contract structure. Most women footballers will have one year contracts, while many in both the Women's Super League and the Women's Championship work other jobs to supplement their income.
Ending the league now gives players out of contract the opportunity to move on, as can be seen by announcements from Inessa Kaagman who will be leaving Everton and Courtney Sweetman-Kirk who will be leaving Liverpool. The clarity of the season finishing also allows players to pursue full-time income opportunities outside of football if necessary, without having the expectation of being called back to the training ground hovering over them.
The huge cost of testing, and potentially having to put players up in quarantine accommodation, is a burden that clubs are simply unable to take on board. The assumption that parent clubs could choose to pay if they were willing to invest more in their women's game is not one that can be uniformly made across the top two leagues.
Not all parent clubs are in the Premier League, meaning their coffers are likely to not be as overflowing as might be imagined, and some women's teams are not even affiliated with a men's team. Durham Women's parent company, for example, is Durham University. The financial burden of what restarting the women's leagues might look like is more complicated than assuming the money must be there somewhere. The vast financial differentials between clubs mean pursuing a league restart could only serve to skew the women's game more towards the super-club dominance that has already begun to exist.
Ending the season also releases some of the scheduling pressures facing the women's game following tournaments delayed by coronavirus. With the Olympics now pushed back to 2021, and the Euros to 2022, there is every chance that international players will be expected to play three back-to-back international tournaments. Forcing back-to-back seasons on top of the intensity of summer competitions would only serve to risk injury and likely lower the quality of the game. At least now, players will have a proper break before what could be a punishing schedule to come.
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Beyond all of this lies the assumption that the decision being taken within men's football in England is the correct one. There has been disagreement across Europe's top leagues about whether it is practical or desirable to restart football so soon, with France, Scotland and the Netherlands all agreeing to finish their men's leagues.
Women's football in England should not exist simply to mimic every decision made by the Premier League. Instead, it has an opportunity to create a different, and better, football environment within the country.
The discussions around restarting the Premier League have seen clubs appear to prioritise their financial wellbeing above the health concerns of their teams. With players like N'Golo Kante taking compassionate leave to protect themselves, it is hard not to feel slightly uncomfortable as the Premier League machine marches on towards a return.
For the Women's Super League and the Women's Championship, the decision made has clearly still come from a financial place – but it is one that surely sides more with player wellbeing. Taking those financial and personal considerations together, it is hard to see how any other one could have been made.
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The history of Maine is riddled with a past that vacillates between tourism and industry as key components of our economic picture, and as such, we have collected boxes upon boxes of memories of what we think is the past. Our memories are not always faithful to the facts, however, and when we try to relive what we think is the past, it never really quite achieves satisfaction to our expectations. Today, as we seem to be looking to embrace the tempting vagaries of what has been dubbed "eco-tourism" by the UN, we are once again drifting away from a rich, industrial based economy towards that ever so fleeting economy of the tourism dollar.
Pondering the possibilities, I am reminded that Maine has enjoyed pockets of popularity that made us world leaders in the vacation industry in many ways. The Poland Spring House, Mt. Kineo, Old Orchard Beach, Bar Harbor, and many other communities have billed themselves as "the place to recreate" over the last nearly two centuries. Biddeford pool immediately popped into my mind as I was reflecting upon Maine's history this morning, and so I pulled a few things out of the many resources available to share with you here.
Moses F. Sweetser writes about Biddeford Pool in his 1889 "Here and There in New England and Canada;"
Biddeford Pool, down near the mouth of the river, was in former days one of the pet resorts of the Maine seaboard, visited every returning summer by hundreds of city families. But a few years ago the chief hotels were burned down, and the remaining house (the SeaView) and cottages hardly suffice to accommodate their would-be patrons. For the place has great natural beauties and advantages, which should be more fully and freely developed. The Pool itself is a shallow salt-water lagoon two miles long, filled high by the returning tides, and affording capital opportunities for safe boating, while to the eastward is a long sandy beach, rolled hard by the surf, and to the north, beyond the famous Wood-Island Light, the eye rests contented on the curving lines of Old-Orchard Beach and the dim seaward projection of Prout's Neck. On one side of the narrow outlet of the Pool rises the grim little Fort Hill, where the colonists erected their stronghold of Fort Mary, in 1708, after the truculent Indians had captured their stone fort up near the falls. For many years, from the early provincial times, the Pool was as beneficent as Siloam or Bethesda in the belief of the Maine farmers, who had a fancy that whoever bathed therein on the 26th day of June would be healed of all diseases. This is indeed the festival of Sts. Vigilius, Maxentius, and Anthelm, but what connection these Latin worthies may have had with the coast of Maine is not clear.
A steamboat runs from Biddeford to Biddeford Pool twice daily, and crosses also to Camp Ellis, the terminus of the Old-Orchard-Beach Railroad, where connection is made for Old-Orchard Beach.
Fortune's Rocks and Goose Rocks, with their small hotels and clusters of cottages, are reached by stages from Biddeford; and their bold and rugged coast-scenery, and opportunities for fishing and gunning, attract many visitors. Fortune's Rocks is a series of iron-bound promontories projecting into the sea from the lower end of the magnificent beach running north to Biddeford Pool; and has cottagers from Boston, New York, Washington, and other cities, with lakes rich in water-lilies, and comfortable old farms on the landward side. The rocks afford a wonderful marine garden, where star-fish, sea-anemones, sea-urchins, and other strange creatures dwell, with seals sunning themselves on the outer ledges.
Most people today look upon Biddeford Pool as a place where the elite live with their high dollar beachfront homes, but this really isn't the case in relation to the history of Maine. Early on, the area had been a farming and fishing community, with no pretense towards being a tourist haven. Life in those days was hard, with most people just barely scraping by in the harsh wilderness of Maine. In the 1700s several rounds of war and depredation between the English settlers and the aboriginal populations created a need for garrison houses and forts to be constructed for protection. At one time the area was actually evacuated due to the Indian wars for a time.
But time progressed, and as the Biddeford/Saco area slowly grew into a viable and long lasting community, agriculture receded and industry took over as the power of the Saco Falls and other locations of water power caused manufacturing businesses to flourish. Sawmills, and gristmills grew and other facilities such as carding mills and various other manufactory's were established, creating in turn a new source of income to the citizens of these communities.
During the early 1800s the value of the fresh and invigorating coastal air created an opportunity for businesses serving the tourism trade to flourish, and several hotels and boarding houses were erected to accommodate those travelers seeking refuge from the sweltering heat and pollution of the now growing industrialized cities of the interior. The Yates House and the Highland house, both shown here as woodcut reprints from "The Shores of Casco Bay" [J.S. Locke, 1880] became the big names in the trade, and accommodated several hundred guests at a time between the two.
The proximity of the sandy beaches of Old Orchard and Pine Point, a short carriage ride away, added to the lure of the Biddeford Pool location. It must have been a wonderful experience to visit the area in Maine's bygone days, but unfortunately, a series of fires destroyed most of the larger hotels and boarding houses over time, and none of them were rebuilt, once gone. As the train and trolley systems came into being, it made other communities more attractive in their newness and lower costs, and Biddeford Pool succumbed to the cycle of growth and change that afflicts all communities.
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The Universidad de Costa Rica (U.C.R.) and the Psychological Research Institute (IIP) at U.C.R, are honored to be hosting the IACCP Regional Conference in July, 2019.
The University was founded more than 70 years ago, and it is the largest and most prestigious university and research center in the country. It offers more than 250 undergraduate programs, as well as over 450 postgraduate study programs. Our leadership in academic studies and research efforts in the region, combined with our modern and highly sophisticated conference facilities, allow us to proudly offer an ideal venue to host the 2019 Regional Conference. We extend to all of you our most heartfelt "Bienvenida" (Welcome).
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Since the Twitter Revolution and the penetration of the Internet, social media has dramatically altered how the world interacts and responds to crisis. The United States Army has yet to fully recognize the role social media plays in determining the organization, momentum, and scope of crowds. As demonstrated throughout history, particularly in the twenty-first century, crowds are a highly disruptive means for society to communicate their agenda for change and threaten the status quo. By...
DTIC ADA587318: Overmatch: Enabling the Infantry Rifle Squad as the Foundation of the Decisive Force
Upon assuming duties as the Chief-of-Staff of the United States Army, General Martin Dempsey announced a priority focus on the infantry squad. Anticipating uncertainty in the future operational environment, and an enhanced role of the squad based on an increasing battlespace, Dempsey established a requirement to ensure that the rifle squad would be enabled with what he termed overmatch. While previous attempts by the Army to reform the composition of the squad have focused on adjusting manning...
DTIC ADA583732: The Transatlantic Essay Contest and the Planning Principles of the North African Campaign
The North African campaign of World War II began with Operation Torch on November 8, 1942. The campaign required the coordination of air, ground, and naval forces in time, space, and purpose to ensure a near simultaneous amphibious assault on multiple objectives from two ports of debarkation, separated by 3,000 miles of enemy-infested ocean. Making matters more complex, military professionals from the two nations involved, and their respective services, had diverging opinions on the conduct of...
DTIC ADA583845: Empathy for Carnivores
Empathy is arguably a one-word summary of the rationale for Red Teams, Human Terrain Teams, and the U.S. military's vast attention to culture over the last decade. Once the military must co-opt others instead of coercing them, empathy becomes a professional mandate. Properly understood and applied, empathy improves critical and creative thinking, campaign design, and operational assessments. It is not merely a trait contributing to good character; it also benefits professional competence....
DTIC ADA589717: Breaking through the Tension: The Operational Art of Special Operations in Phase Zero
Since the conclusion of the Cold War, the United States has espoused engagement as its leading strategic principle. Despite this emphasis, engagement has yet to coalesce into a grand strategy. The U.S. military, as one component of U.S. power abroad, is often sub-optimized in the pre-crisis, peacetime realm where engagements occur. In this environment, colloquially titled Phase Zero, the U.S. military lacks an operational art. Defined as the linkage of tactics to strategy, the operational art...
DTIC ADA589551: Transnistria: The Hot Nature of a Frozen Conflict
Over the past 20 years a conflict reminiscent of the Cold War has raged on in Eastern Europe, rarely making the headlines in the West. A source of regional insecurity and transnational threats, the Transnistrian conflict remains a major issue for the European community. Although considered frozen, the conflict between Moldova and its separatist region of Transnistria is a real geopolitical challenge, with all attempts to terminate it ultimately resulting in failure. A cause of this situation is...
DTIC ADA583990: Imperial Japanese Navy Campaign Planning and Design of the Aleutian-Midway Campaign
In May 1942, the Japanese found themselves in a favorable military situation. Previous successes had convinced Japanese naval planners that it was now possible to produce a strategic victory that could end the war through a negotiated peace. Employing the largest combined fleet of the war, the Aleutian-Midway campaign intended to satisfy that purpose. Merging the traditional battle fleet with battle proven aircraft carriers, the plan incorporated almost every major combat vessel in the Japanese...
DTIC ADA583880: The Engine of Change: The Evolution of Culture into the Army Planning Process
The human domain and culture have always been a consideration in military operations. Throughout the Army's history, commanders have learned this aspect of war, adapting and integrating their operational plans to address various disparities in cultural norms. Yet during the period after Vietnam, the United States Army as an institution neither recognized nor prepared itself to address these considerations. Instead it focused on preparing for state-on-state, high intensity warfare. After the...
DTIC ADA589543: Clausewitz's Trinity: Dead or Alive?
Prussian Carl von Clausewitz's meta-theoretical concept known as the Trinity has the potential to serve as an analytical vehicle to understand war in both a historical and contemporary context. An inherent historical misconception, however, restrains the Trinity from reaching its full potential. One of the three elements, policy, refers directly to the form of government represented by the nation state. Thus, critics argue, the Trinity's only relevance exists in state on state warfare....
DTIC ADA587345: 2012 Center for Army Leadership Annual Survey of Army Leadership (CASAL): Army Civilian Leaders
CASAL is an annual survey sponsored by the Combined Arms Center to assess the quality of Army leadership and leader development. 2012 findings are based on responses from Army civilian leaders. The report provides findings for over 200 survey questions. Civilian strengths in leader attributes and competencies are reported. Army civilian leaders are strong in getting results, understanding complex situations, and making good resource decisions. Civilian leaders, like uniformed leaders, can...
Topics: DTIC Archive, CENTER FOR ARMY LEADERSHIP FORT LEAVENWORTH KS, *ARMY, *CIVILIAN PERSONNEL,...
DTIC ADA583879: Bridging the Transition Gap
The transition period separating major conflict operations and subsequent stability efforts marks a pivotal point in securing policy objectives. A common understanding and appreciation of the transition period in its own context may facilitate a better foundation for long-term stability efforts. This research will identify characteristics within the transition period that the U.S. government and involved stakeholders should consider in the post-conflict environment. The monograph will examine...
DTIC ADA589625: The Military Applications of Cloud Computing Technologies
Cloud computing -- remotely hosting network services and data -- is an emerging concept in the business world that enables the use of mobile devices, increases security, and allows more effective information sharing within organizations. Within the last year, the U.S. Department of Defense has mandated that its networks be consolidated to achieve the goals of efficiency, effectiveness, and security. Through cloud computing across the network as an entire enterprise, efforts such as the Joint...
DTIC ADA589624: Determining Factors for EU Military Intervention
The United States has long urged greater contributions to regional security by its allies. Given the Obama administration's shift in emphasis to Asia, it is reasonable for the United States to urge the European Union (EU) to play a greater role in regional security. However, arguing for a greater role does not produce actual commitments. Hence, an important question for U.S. military planners is as follows: When will the EU actually commit forces to regional security missions? An analysis of EU...
DTIC ADA584025: Division Restructuring to Support the Joint Operational Access Concept
Doctrine and the methods of employment within the strategic, operational, and tactical context of conflicts drive changes to the way in which the Army structures and employs its elements to meet these emerging and developing trends. Form follows function: the Army adjusts its organizational structure to conform to doctrinal requirements for force structure and capabilities. Changes in Army doctrine under Doctrine 2015 represent a tectonic shift in doctrinal concepts. Doctrine 2015 focuses on...
DTIC ADA584192: President Truman and (the Challenge of) the Potsdam Conference 1945
This monograph examines how well U.S. President Harry S. Truman was prepared for the Potsdam Conference (17 July to 2 August 1945), which is seen as a crucial turning point in modern history. A review of his preparation before the conference and his actions during the conference reveals whether Truman had a strategy with achievable objectives. The monograph argues that Truman did have a strategy for the Potsdam Conference, which was coordinated with Roosevelt's former advisors, the Department...
DTIC ADA584193: Impacts of Worldview, Implicit Assumptions, Biases, and Groupthink on Israeli Operational Plans in 1973
This monograph examines the impact of cognitive constructs such as worldview, complexity, implicit assumptions, biases, groupthink, and cognitive blind spots on Israeli operational planning during the Arab-Israeli War of 1973. Documentation of this conflict provides insight into the inner workings of Israeli planning groups. The investigation shows that Israeli leaders and planners struggled with cognitive biases, flawed assumptions, faulty worldview, and groupthink. The biases included...
DTIC ADA607044: Central Asia in Context: Local Rules of the Great Game
The Central Asian states balance influences from Russia, China, and the United States, as well as those of other Central Asian actors. This monograph analyzes, through qualitative research, how these governments' actions in their own self-interest affect United States' theater security cooperation. Three case studies look at (1) Kazakhstan's security engagements with other Central Asian nations, as well as Russia, China, and the United States; (2) Kazakhstan's energy involvement with these...
Topics: DTIC Archive, ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLLEGE FORT LEAVENWORTH KS, *GOVERNMENT(FOREIGN),...
DTIC ADA583869: The Army Profession: A Narrative
In 2010, the Secretary of the Army, John M. McHugh, and the Army Chief of Staff, General George W. Casey, directed the TRADOC Commander, General Martin Dempsey, to conduct a review of the Army profession. General Dempsey's review gave rise to the Army Profession Campaign. In the literature supporting the Army Profession Campaign, Army leaders described the Army as a profession with two sub-professions: the Army Profession of Arms and the Army Civilian Corps. Defining civilians a part of the...
DTIC ADA589575: Development of a Model for Nerve Agent Inhalation in Conscious Rats
This study characterizes the development of a head-out inhalation exposure system for assessing respiratory toxicity of vaporized chemical agents in untreated, non-anesthetized rats. The organophosphate diisopropyl fluorophosphate (DFP) induces classical cholinergic toxicity following inhalation exposure and was utilized to validate the effectiveness of this newly designed inhalation exposure system. A saturator cell apparatus was used to generate DFP vapor at 9750, 10950, 12200, 14625 and...
Topics: DTIC Archive, ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH INST OF CHEMICAL DEFENSE ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND MD,...
DTIC ADA589559: First Time Go: Creating Capacity for Enduring Stability in Post-Operational Environments
Why do Army stability operations fail to produce enduring stability in target countries? The Army has access to innumerable resources for mission accomplishment. Yet, when the U.S. Army pulls its last combat and peacekeeping or stability troops out of the supported country, historically, the nation too quickly returns to a security dilemma which threatens or destroys the opportunity for enduring stability. This research identifies institutional causes within the U.S. Army that limit its...
DTIC ADA583720: Logistics Junior Officer Development in a Period of Persistent Conflict
The Army uses two very different deployment models for sustainment units. Brigade Support Battalions within Brigade Combat Teams deploy as battalions after training together. Sustainment units outside of Brigade Combat Teams, echelons above brigade units, deploy as individual company and platoon teams. Those units train with one headquarters and deploy and work for another headquarters unit. As echelon above brigade units transition on the battlefield, company commanders can have four or more...
DTIC ADA587444: The Responsibility to Protect: Intervention is Not Enough
Officially adopted by the UN in 2005, the responsibility to protect did not make many international headlines until NATO's intervention in Libya in 2011. This monograph highlights the issues associated with precluding recurring violence after an R2P intervention when the international community does not remain committed to post-conflict consequence management. Case studies specifically dealing with Rwanda, Kosovo, and Libya examine the conditions that led, or did not lead, to intervention, the...
DTIC ADA587447: An Analysis of Operational Art: Field Force Synchronization in Vietnam from 1965-1967
This monograph analyzes the synchronization of field force operations in Vietnam from 1965 to 1967. Although the terminology of operational art did not yet exist in doctrine, operations during the period of rapid force escalation demonstrate the success at which MACV and the field force headquarters and commanders coordinated and synchronized actions in time, space and purpose. This synchronized coordination did not occur without challenges. As Carl von Clausewitz described through his...
DTIC ADA587314: Iran's Post-9/11 Grand Bargain: Missed Opportunity for Strategic Rapprochement Between Iran and the United States
One of the most significant foreign policy dilemmas for the United States is the current stalemate with the Islamic Republic of Iran. The history of U.S.-Iran relations, since the CIA orchestrated coup of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadeq in 1953, is one of mutual distrust and policy error. Although successive American presidents since Iran's 1979 revolution have tried to improve relations, each effort failed because both sides refused to adjust the context through which they viewed the...
DTIC ADA583871: General Creighton Abrams and the Operational Approach of Attrition in the Vietnam War
General Creighton Abrams assumed command of U.S. Armed Forces in the Republic of South Vietnam in the summer of 1968. This change in leadership has been viewed as a radical departure from the operational approach implemented by his predecessor, General William Westmoreland. This monograph proposes that U.S. Armed Forces in South Vietnam consistently followed a strategy of attrition from the introduction of battalion-sized combat troops in 1965 through the Westmoreland-Abrams transition, and...
DTIC ADA589619: Preparing for the Future, Looking to the Past: History, Theory, and Doctrine in the U.S. Army
The Army is in transition. It is reflecting on its experiences during combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan while preparing for evolving threats. This is not a new predicament. In the past, the Army has been able to effect change by drawing lessons learned from its experience and from theory, and by articulating institutional ideas about the nature of future warfare in doctrine. The most recent evolution of the Army's operations doctrine is Unified Land Operations. However, this doctrine...
DTIC ADA589618: Women in Combat Arms: A Study of the Global War on Terror
The recent institutionalization of women in combat reignites a long-standing debate on their roles in the military, a debate that elicits emotionally charged responses from proponents and critics alike. While much of the current discourse concerns hypothetical discussions of women in direct combat, there is a population of female soldiers who have contributed as front line trigger pullers throughout the past 12 years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan. These women are Army aviators who have served...
DTIC ADA587453: The Effects of Railroads on the Emergence of Operational Art During the American Civil War, 1861-1865
The American Civil War has been called the first modern war. Despite the multiple books on the subject and historical study dedicated to the Civil War, little has been written on the impact of the railroad on the emergence of operational art. Moreover, even less has been written about the management of the railroad itself being a contributing factor to the successful application of the railroad to support operational art. The general picture most historians have is that the railroads were a...
DTIC ADA587323: Achieving Operational Flexibility Through Task Organization: How the American Forces in Europe Beat Nazi Germany by Making the Difficult Routine
On the eve of World War II, the United States Army was a small cadre force without deployable combat divisions. Because of years of preparation and planning during the interwar years, the Army completed the transformation into a huge organization with multiple army groups spread across the world in less than four years. This new army displayed remarkable battlefield flexibility. Doctrine and training guided senior leaders in the European Theater of Operations to ensure overwhelming combat power...
DTIC ADA583736: Understanding Strategic Success and Tactical Failure in 1973: An Examination from a Spatial-Temporal Perspective
On 6 October 1973 at 2:00 pm, the world witnessed a conflict that continues to be discussed and researched within the professional military community. This battle would be the fifth engagement between Egypt and Israel. Both actors and environments were a familiar backdrop to the outside community that observed this region. The armies used modern equipment and techniques on the desert floor of the Sinai Peninsula. Military powers of the period would observe the event and modify their existing...
DTIC ADA583734: Corps Level Operational Art in Vietnam: A Study of II Field Force Commanders during Major Named Operations
This monograph explores two major U.S. operations and the reaction to one enemy offensive to illustrate evidence of U.S. operational art in Vietnam. The operational level is identified as the corps headquarters responsible for nesting Military Assistance Command-Vietnam's (MACV) military guidance, the strategic direction issued by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the national government's aims with the tactical maneuver of subordinate divisions and battalions. During the Vietnam War, the Field...
DTIC ADA583733: The Korean Military Advisory Group -- Developmental Challenges during Ongoing Conflict
On July 1, 1949, Brigadier General W. Lynn Roberts initiated the Korean Military Advisory Group. This element had been approved by both the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as well as President Truman, and served as the primary advisors, mentors, and trainers for the South Korean Army. Initially consisting of 500 men, this element would soon be tested as tensions, and eventually war, began with North Korea. The Republic of Korean Army had roughly 100,000 untrained, unequipped, and ill prepared men. Of...
DTIC ADA583989: Learning Is the Journey: From Process Reengineering to Systemic Customer-Service Design at the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Benefits Administration
This monograph borrows from multiple disciplines to argue for an organizational shift from process reengineering to system design to improve government customer-service delivery. Specifically, the monograph proposes a transformation in claims processing within the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). A systemic approach embracing analytical understanding, holism, and emergent learning is required. The proposed system design is an attempt to...
DTIC ADA589721: Evolve or Die: The U.S. Army's Darwinian Challenge
In an effort to ensure future success and relevance, the Army, at the end of 2012, published its Army Capstone Concept (ACC). The ACC sets an azimuth into the future and lays a course for the Army as it moves towards the future operational environment (FOE). The ACC advocates for an institutional and operating force consisting of organizations, leaders, soldiers, and civilians trained and educated, exhibiting and imbued with the principle of operational adaptability. Organizational and...
DTIC ADA583961: Female Engagement Teams: Making the Case for Institutionalization Based on U.S. Security Objectives in Africa
The U.S. military first began using Female Engagement Teams (FET) in Iraq in 2009 as a means to balance security concerns with cultural sensitivities; form rightly followed function. Eventually it was recognized that FETs could be employed beyond conducting searches of the local female population, and their responsibilities grew to include activities such as community relationship building and connecting Afghan families to the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. While it is clear...
DTIC ADA587324: Partners or Competitors?: The Evolution of the DoD/CIA Relationship Since Desert Storm and its Prospects for the Future
Over the last decade, wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and global counterterrorism operations have led to a significant increase in the partnership between the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Department of Defense (DoD). While recent conflicts helped develop the CIA/DoD relationship, legislative action and organizational changes that began in the 1990s in response to Desert Storm and the changing post-Cold War landscape set the foundation for partnership development. Although the CIA/DoD...
DTIC ADA587316: Department of Defense In-Transit Visibility Modifications
Extending operational reach within a Defense Support of Civil Authorities (DSCA) environment demands a comprehensive procurement infrastructure with detailed emphasis on real time cargo, passenger, and equipment tracking. Improvements to the distribution process will lead to fundamental shifts in the ability of logistics professionals to assist ground commanders to develop sustained civil support operations. Logistical operations dictate the execution of military operations, and the loss of...
DTIC ADA583843: The Dragonian Subsurface Abyss and Submarine Force's Ability to Counter the Rising Threat
In January 2012, President Obama formally announced America's shift in strategic focus to the Asia-Pacific region. In March 2013, budget cuts and impending force reductions led Defense Secretary Hagel to order a reassessment of DoD capability to implement the new strategy. Regardless of the outcome of this assessment, the Asia-Pacific region will almost certainly remain a centerpiece of the current administration's national security policy for the near future. While the administration seeks the...
DTIC ADA583992: Canadian Unilateralism in the Arctic: Using Scenario Planning to Help Canada Achieve Its Strategic Goals in the North
Climate change and global warming could open up the Arctic to unprecedented energy and resource development and maritime traffic as temperatures rise and the ice recedes. Each of the Arctic nations has made domestic and foreign policy statements on the Arctic, with each stating that they are prepared to do what is necessary to defend their interests in the region. The Arctic Council is instrumental in promoting dialogue and cooperation in the region and all of the Arctic nations have agreed to...
DTIC ADA586932: Security Cooperation and Deterrence in Korea
The United States' insufficient investment in security assistance and cooperation to build the capacity of the Republic of Korea's (ROK) military before the start of the Korean War contributed to the ROK's inability to deter or effectively conduct military operations. Since the Korean War, the U.S. strategy to deter North Korean aggression and maintaining security and stability in the Pacific precipitated the need for increased security assistance and cooperation to the ROK. In an era of...
DTIC ADA583828: Chinese Operational Art: Understanding the Present through the Lens of the Past
This monograph seeks to determine if China's military has a uniquely Chinese type of operational art when compared to the United States. The study asserts the importance of history, particularly China's unique philosophical and military traditions, in understanding the operational art of the People's Liberation Army (PLA). The philosophical ideas present in Confucianism and Taoism bring clarity to contemporary PLA doctrine and activities. The study compares Chinese philosophical and military...


Welcome to Belfast Airport. Let's step back in time with some airport history facts, figures and famous people!
Aldergrove was selected to be the Royal Flying Corps training establishment during the First World War.
After World War I, Aldergrove remained open for Royal Air Force aircraft and for the fledgling civil traffic to and from Northern Ireland.
Royal visitors, King George V and Queen Mary visited Northern Ireland. It was quite the affair, with aircraft landing at Belfast (then called Aldergrove) with cameramen and reporters and returned to London with newsreel films and photographs of the event.
This year saw Northern Ireland's own Special Reserve unit No 502 (Ulster) Squadron RAF formed at Aldergrove.
Northern Ireland's first regular civil air service started in 1933 with a Glasgow to Aldergrove route operated by Midland and Scottish Air Ferries.
By 1934, Aldergrove was Northern Ireland's civil airport and this year saw the first London service begin to Nutts Corner. The flight flew from Croydon, via Birmingham and Manchester to Belfast and was operated by Railway Air Services.
During the second World War, Aldergrove remained an airbase. After the war civil flights were moved back to Aldergrove due to less variable weather conditions than at Nutts Corner.
Operations by the 1960s were transferred to Aldergrove and the first passenger flight to land was a BEA Viscount from Manchester. In October this year HRH Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother reopened Aldergrove as a civil airport and introduced the terminal building.
On their tour of the UK, the Beatles came through Belfast International and caused quite a stir!
The first regular jet service began in 1966 with a British United BAC 1-11 to Gatwick. By 1969 annual passengers at the airport had reached 1 million.
The Minister of Development announced an expansion plan for the airport to cope with the increased passengers numbers. It cost £3 million.
The airport became officially known as Belfast International in the early 1980s, having been refered to as Aldergrove up until now.
Famous passengers, President Bill Clinton and first lady, Hillary Clinton via an official Air Force One.
The concorde visited on it's farewell tour.
Belfast International Airport is the principal gateway to the north of Ireland and sees over 5 million passengers through the terminal each year.


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15 Actors Who Released Albums
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'The Mule' Trailer: Clint Eastwood's The Old Man and the Cartel
Clint Eastwood plays an octogenarian who becomes a drug courier in his latest drama.
Bradley Cooper May Reunite With Clint Eastwood For 'The Mule'
This would be their first collaboration since 2014's American Sniper.
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Five Best Train Movies to Stream After 'The 15:17 to Paris'
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'The 15:17 to Paris' Review: A Clint Eastwood Train Wreck
Clint Eastwood's retelling of the 2015 Thalys train attack stars the real-life American heroes who took down the gunman, but it's a gamble that fails in every regard.
'The 15:17 to Paris' Trailer
For his latest about the soldiers who saved a train full of passengers from a terrorist in 2015, Eastwood is conducting an experiment: the soldiers are playing themselves.
Clint Eastwood Boards 'The 15:17 to Paris' Terrorist Movie
You may remember, a few years ago in 2015, reading a news story about two American soldiers and their buddy who saved a whole train full of people traveling to France from terrorist hijackers. It's your classic tale of American bravery in the face of grave danger, and so is right up the alley…
Clint Eastwood's 'Every Which Way But Loose' Getting Remade
By the late '70s, Clint Eastwood had made a name for himself as the tough-guy star of cop-on-the-edge flicks and spaghetti Westerns, his permanent grimace a symbol of macho heroism. As the star of the Dirty Harry franchise, he fashioned himself as a protector with an edge, and in Sergio Leone…
Clint Eastwood's Next Film Will Be About Jessica Buchanan
Clint Eastwood is no doubt riding high off the success of airplane pilot true-life drama Sully, and he's ready for his next biopic. Today, he announced he would be tackling the story of Jessica Buchanan, the aid worker who was abducted in Somalia in October 2011.
'Sully' Review: Clint Eastwood and Tom Hanks' Take on an American Hero
Even by the standards of a biopic about an incredibly famous man at the center of an incredibly famous real-life event there isn't a ton of suspense in Sully. Everyone who was alive and conscious on January 15, 2009 remembers what happened that day, when Captain Chesley "Sully" …
George Lucas Met Baby Yoda On the Set of 'The Mandalorian'


Rick "The Horror" Story is a retired American professional mixed martial artist who fought in a number of promotions, most notably the UFC and PFL. He has been awarded both "Fight of the Night" and "Submission of the Night" once respectively. His career professional MMA record was (21-10).


Godfrey Yogarajah was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka on the 2nd of June 1963. He graduated from the Union Biblical Seminary in Puna India with a B.Th. and a B.D. He is the General Secretary of the National Christian Evangelical Alliance of Sri Lanka (NCEASL) where he has served since 1990, for the past 20 years. Godfrey Yogarajah also served as the General Secretary of the Evangelical Fellowship of Asia for 7 years, from 2001 to 2008.
A vigorous campaigner for religious freedom in Sri Lanka and Asia, Godfrey's efforts were recognized and honoured with the 'Good Samaritan's Award' presented by Advocates International in 2004. He was also presented with the "Pro Fide Award" for 2005, for his contribution to the rights of the minorities by the Friends of the Martyred Church Finland.
Mr. Godfrey Yogarajah has given leadership to NCEASL to be involved in the areas of missionary and church planting, religious liberty and ministering to the persecuted church; and relief and development. Presently NCEASL is also working extensively in the refugee camps of Sri Lanka providing food, nonfood items, medical and psychosocial support to the IDP's. NCEASL is also working with the ex combatants who are being rehabilitated by the government of Sri Lanka.
He presently serves as the Executive Director of the religious liberty commission of the World Evangelical Alliance.
Mr. Yograjah is married to Roshani who is working with the de-mining project of the United Nations in Sri Lanka.


The Area Preparation Tractor (APT) is an area preparation machine that can save demining organisations time and money while increasing safety for everyone in the field. APT derives from the demining machine completed within the European project TIRAMISU.
The base machine is a small and powerful vineyard tractor that has proven robust and reliable over many years. We have added industrial remote controls, innovative blast resistant wheels and armouring, but left it possible to drive the machine conventionally when required.
Small and very powerful (80+HP), the APT can power a wide range of tools while climbing steep slopes and weaving between trees and other obstacles, so it is perfect for preparing the ground in advance of manual deminers over almost any mined terrain.
The mulcher attachment that we provide is built around a popular agricultural implement that has proven strength and durability. Blast-resistant, it can easily cut undergrowth up to 10 cm in diameter or process the ground surface to depths up to 8 cm when that is desired.
Remotely controlled, the APT-796's articulated chassis makes it incredibly manoeuvrable. Its blast resistant wheels can take multiple AP mine detonations without a problem and its armouring protects against the frag associated with fragmentation mines. Recent independent tests in Croatia confirmed its ability to withstand multiple blast mine detonations under mulcher and wheels – and bounding fragmentation mines at close quarters. As an area preparation machine APT-796 is not designed to detonate mines, but when it does, the machine keeps going and it can be very useful to know where the mines were!
> APT-796 is not designed to withstand the detonation of AT mines and has not been tested against them.
> The 100% reliable remote operating range of the machine is 200 metres. It actually works at greater distances and it automatically shuts down if radio contact is ever lost.
To get to the worksite, the manual controls remain in place so the machine can be driven over roads at up to 37 kph. Lights, brakes and driver protection make APT road legal in Europe, so it can be registered for road use in most countries. To prevent any damage to the road surface, the machine is supplied with two sets of wheels, four traditional pneumatic wheels and four blast resistant wheels. An easy jacking system makes changing wheels simple. When transporting itself from site to site, the APT can pull a trailer carrying tools, equipment and consumables.
To deploy over large distances, it is advisable to use a transportation vehicle. Fuelled up and ready to go, APT weighs 3500 kg. The mulcher attachment weighs another 1200 kg. Because APT is able to climb steep ramps, many kinds of transportation vehicle can be easily used.
> Although APT-796 is new, the base machine (the agricultural tractor P796V EVO) and implements have been proven durable and reliable over many years.
> Simple operator training is complemented by simple instructions for both operation and routine service.
APT-796 is a reliable and proven multi-purpose system designed to be used in demining operations. And when the demining is over, it can be simply converted for traditional agricultural activities that make use of the cleared land. It can plough or rake the ground as well as cut vegetation and help harvest crops. Its power-take-off can also be used to power rice-mills, flour grinders or generators. So APT is the first demining machine that has been designed to be converted to peace-building uses when no longer used in mine action operations.
Organisations seeking to empower local communities and help rebuild rural economies after conflict should find its relatively low-cost and high versatility attractive. For any organisation working in demining to build peace, APT-796 is an affordable asset.
With its blast-resistant wheels fitted, APT-796 is 4 m long and 1.5 m wide. With the mulcher attachment fitted, those dimensions are 4 m long and 1.9 m wide. Its articulated chassis complements its steering wheels to allow the machine to turn in a circle of radius 2.8 m. The proven chassis is strong enough to allow the use of heavy attachments.
APT-796 is so named because it is built on the well proven P796V EVO agricultural tractor. A range of engines are available with the standard model being the KDI2504TCR manufactured by Kohler. This is an energy efficient, low-emissions unit with long service intervals and well proven performance. Other engines can be fitted to other models.
A standard, category I, three point linkage attachment at the rear allows hydraulic lifting and positioning of most COTS agricultural tools.
Power to the primary attachment is drawn from a power-take-off (PTO) at the rear of the tractor. An infinitely variable gearbox means that the tractor can be driven in either direction at any speed, so the PTO can be used to carry tools at the front or the rear during use.
An additional hitch at the front allows a secondary attachment to be powered hydraulically. Effectively, APT can have two three-point-linkages and use two tools at the same time.
Another hitch allows light tools to be attached to the side so supporting the attachment of, for example, large loop detector arrays for use during BAC.
Designed with engineers from the University of Genoa and independent demining specialists, our wheels have been subjected to many tests and iterative refinements. The end-result is deceptively simple and very effective. The wheels are designed to withstand AP blast mine detonations and also absorb the shock so that the bearings and axles are not affected. Charges up to 280g TNT were used during development and independent tests at CTDT in Croatia have confirmed that we have achieved our design aims.
point linkage lift, and the PTO shaft.
The operator controls APT's attachments using a set of four unidirectional proportional joysticks.
The LED indicators and display that are mounted on the RC transmitter provide feedback information including indicating which steering switching modes are active, engine parameters, working parameters, warnings and alarms.
Co-funded by the European Community's Seventh Framework programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement nr: 284747 (TIRAMISU).


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SENVIC AGM 2021
Notice of AGM
Date: Thursday 7 October 2021
Place: Online – Members will be emailed an invitation to join the virtual AGM.
Join SENVIC now to directly receive a notice of meeting with your personal link.
Download the Notice of meeting here.
Download a Proxy Form.
The formal AGM will commence from 4.00pm and conclude by 4.45pm. The formal AGM will be followed by a panel and facilitated open-floor discussion of current issues and challenges, concluding at 5.30pm.
Opening and apologies – Chair
Confirmation of Minutes of last AGM – None
Presentation – Chair
Presentation – CEO
To receive and consider the Annual Review, Financial Report and the Independent Auditors' Report for the financial year ended 30 June 2021.
Appointment of officeholders:
Re-appointment of Cinnamon Evans as a director.
Appointment of Alyson Skinner and Nathaniel Diong as new Directors.
Close of official Annual General Meeting proceedings.
Members are requested to contact SENVIC at 2021AGM@senvic.org.au if they have any queries in respect of the AGM.
SENVIC Annual Review 2020-2021
The SENVIC Annual Review 2020-2021 is available for download here.
We are excited to announce that following a three week public promotion and call for applicants, two new Non-executive director appointments are recommended for approval at the AGM:
Alyson Skinner
Alyson is Manager of the Venus Bay Community Centre and for the past 18 months has been a member of the Gippsland Social Enterprise Collective, SENVIC's Gippsland Local Lead to establish a network of existing and emerging social entrepreneurs in Gippsland. Alyson has been an active leader in the Collective, providing input and liaison to SENVIC and working with the team to provide appropriate learning and development opportunities to regional Victoria.
As Manager of the Venus Bay Community Centre, Alyson established the Community Recycling Enterprise and continues to experiment with other community enterprises that strengthen community resilience and local engagement.
Alyson has extensive board and committee experience including with Neighbourhood Houses Gippsland and was a former elected Councillor of South Gippsland Shire Council. Alyson is currently participating in the inaugural SENVIC Social Enterprise Leaders Fellowship. She has a positive and vibrant personality and will bring a valuable regional perspective to Board deliberations.
Nathaniel Diong
Nathaniel is an award-winning speaker, innovator and leading authority in the Future of Education. As CEO of Future Minds Network, he's delivered career-readiness programs in schools and universities world-wide. Today, the social enterprise has taught thousands of students to build their own businesses and harness entrepreneurial skills like creativity for the future workplace. The social enterprise has empowered students to create innovative solutions tackling the UNs SDGs and has donated over $100,000 in programs to help young people in disadvantaged communities find employment, practice technical skills and prototype apps from their living room.
2021 Young Australian of the Year finalist, Nathaniel is an international startup mentor and Giant in Residence at Blackbird – Australia's leading venture capital firm. He helps early-stage startups streamline their marketing & comms, strategic plans and measure impact to land corporate partners. Nathaniel also sits on the Advisory Board of SparkTeen, alongside the former CEO of Techstars.
Through immersive workshops and keynotes, Nathaniel helps young people unlock their endless creativity. He helps corporates, NGOs and educational institutions leverage the potential of Gen-Z, harness innovation and the Future of Work. An international speaker, Nathaniel is a regular MC, moderator and guest presenter at Monash University, TEDx, and more: http://nathanieldiong.com
Questions from members
Questions for the Directors can be submitted to 2021AGM@senvic.org.au.
The Board will endeavour to prepare answers to these questions, where necessary they will be moderated and curated to cover common ground.
The Chairperson will allow a reasonable opportunity for Members as a whole to ask questions during the AGM.
Questions can be posted in the meeting by clicking the 'Chat' tab at the top of the page, typing your question in the window below and clicking the 'paper airplane' button.
You are welcome to participate in online discussion before the meeting by clicking the '(Discussion) Board' tab and responding to a thread.


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Q: How to handle purchase order in every sales order in Odoo? Can Odoo handle purchase orders in every sales order that the items are not yet received by the warehouse?
I have this situation where customer 1 and customer 2 order the same products which are not yet in stocks (on-hand-qty = 0). So Odoo will automatically generate a purchase order to buy the items to the vendor and the company will also purchase enough stocks to compensate for the two customers? Now with 45 days lead time until the products will be receiving in the warehouse.
Example:
Item in warehouse = 0
Customer 1 buy 50 units of an item on the same day but different store.
Customer 2 buy 50 units of the same item on the same day but different store.
The company buys 200 units of the same item Since the lead time for the vendor to deliver the product is 45 days now there is Customer 3 which buys the same product on the same day but different stores but only buys 50.
Now in Odoo, it will generate 4 PO ( 3 for the Customer 1,2,3 and 1 for the company) How to make it 2 3 PO instead of 4? since it will compensate the number of items from the company's order but it will wait for 45 days? then another Customer 4 will buy the same items...etc. It will be a series of RFQ that are not necessary to do automatically.


Although blockchain technology is still closely associated with Bitcoin, this past summer's surge in initial coin offering (ICO) investment showed the true potential of the blockchain for other forms of cryptocurrency and uses beyond Bitcoin.
At this point, we are beginning to understand that everything on the internet can be thought of as a transaction; the blockchain is therefore useful in its own right. There are obvious reasons for its utility. Because blockchain technology is both "trustless" and decentralized, it leaves no room for hacking, and no single person or company has total control over it or its content.
When people started realizing the potential of the blockchain beyond Bitcoin, developers and engineers began building their own programs — and the potential to change the way we consume information arose.
Think of the hundreds of articles and the sheer amount of information we encounter online every day. How do we know what is credible? We tend to believe, even if only subconsciously, that because something was published on the internet, it must be true. It's important to remember, however, that anyone can publish on the web. Eduardo Martins, for instance, faked being a war photographer on Instagram. He succeeded to the point that he secured over 100,000 followers on the platform, and the BBC and Vice interviewed him about his work. It turned out, however, that his identity had been forged and his photographs were stolen. "Fake news" as a whole is becoming more and more complicated to detect, even with "credible" news sources.
Digital asset management gives protection to anyone who uses the internet as a platform for their voice. Because the blockchain is decentralized and public, anyone can look up content that is on the blockchain. Po.et is an example of an organization working to reclaim value for content creators, publishers and consumers through blockchain technology.
The concept behind Po.et is very simple. Someone writes an article for a digital magazine and the article is then registered in the Po.et network. The network adds this article into its blockchain ledger, which can be searched by anyone. If somebody wants to look up a writer or contributor in their database, any articles the individual has registered will appear.
With blockchain technology, Po.et uses an open ledger to record metadata and ownership information of digital assets. It uses "Proof-of-Existence" as its protocol, a new concept that maintains a less technical blockchain with no mining needed. Po.et's goal is to become the global framework for readily-available digital creative works: a new standard for digital asset verification.
The platform lends itself to various possibilities. Let's say there's an up-and-coming publishing agency that wants only the most credible writers. Authors with a Po.et background can show all their original work (and prove its veracity) on the blockchain. Not only that, but it is also possible to see what kind of websites writers' work has been published on and how audiences have responded. Further, Po.et allows an author's work to be republished lawfully (by purchasing the license of the article), which will also make money for the given article's author.
In the not-too-distant future, when we scroll through our feeds, we may only be interested in content that has been accredited by a blockchain. Authors will think twice about what they create because it will stick with them forever. Artificial intelligence (AI)-integrated data-pullers will be able to fact-check everything in plain text — and for once, our reputations will mean something on the internet.
Oftentimes, what a content creator needs for their website has already been published. There are many topics which are written about multiple times so as to avoid stealing. Tagging digital assets will make it easy for content creators to purchase assets that they need for their website, which will keep quality consistent on the internet: we can avoid the inherent dilution of the same story being told a hundred times.
Owners of the digital asset will still have total control over their property: they can decide who can and who should not be able to purchase their asset.
It seems likely that, in the near future, managing rights to digital content will be one of the very real ways we see blockchain innovation influencing the future of enterprise the world over.


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Strengthening School Preparedness for Tsunami in Asia and the Pacific
Tsunami Preparedness in Sri Lanka
NEWS | Tsunami Ready: Women Spearheading Climate Action in Sri Lanka
22 February 2019: The 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami claimed the lives of more than thirty-five thousand Sri Lankans and affected more than one million people across the island. It damaged a total of 183 schools, 18 vocational and industrial training institutes and 4 universities, affecting the studies of nearly 100,000 students across fourteen Coastal Districts. Read more>>
NEWS | Building the Resilience of 8,250 Students through Tsunami Drills
05 Novmber 2018 - To reduce the loss of lives associated with tsunamis, five tsunami drills were conducted in five schools in Sri Lanka recently. These drills are part of 90 drills conducted in 90 schools across 18 countries including: Bangladesh, Cambodia, Fiji, Indonesia, Malaysia, Maldives, Myanmar, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Timor Leste, Tonga, Vanuatu and Viet Nam. Read more>>
VIDEO | UNDP Tsunami Drill in Galle, Vidyaloka Madya Maha Vidyalaya
18 May 2018 - UNDP together with the Ministry of Disaster Management, Ministry of Education, Red Cross, Sri Lanka Navy and School development societies, will design, implement and coordinate a school simulation programme in five selected schools affected by the Tsunami in 2004. The first of these drills was held on 03 April 2018 at the Vidyaloka Madya Maha Vidyalaya in Galle with the participation of 2500 studentsl. Read more>>
NEWS | Damaged by the 2004 tsunami, Sri Lanka Brings Tsunami Education and Evacuation Drills to Schools
03 April 2017 - A series of tsunami drills was kicked off today in Galle, Sri Lanka to raise awareness about the tsunami risks and importance of schools' tsunami preparedness. The first tsunami drill mobilized 2,500 students of Vidyaloka Madya Maha Vidyalaya school. Read more>>
NEWS | Sri Lanka among 18 Asia-Pacific Countries to Participate in a Regional Tsunami Preparedness Project
10 July 2017 - Japan Pledges $1.5 million for Tsunami Awareness and Disaster Risk Information in Asia-Pacific. The project is implemented by the United Nations Development Programme and funded by the Government of Japan. Read more>>
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Project Countries:
ASIA-PACIFIC BANGLADESH CAMBODIA FIJI INDONESIA JAPAN MALAYSIA MALDIVES MYANMAR PAKISTAN PAPUA NEW GUINEA PHILIPPINES SAMOA SOLOMON ISLANDS SRI LANKA THAILAND TIMOR LESTE TONGA VANUATU VIET NAM
Project Donor
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Final Results in Sri Lanka:
students, teachers and members of school administration have participated in the drills
schools have organized tsunami education, developed evacuation plans, conducted drills
Shairi Mathur
Disaster Risk Reduction Specialist,
UNDP Bangkok Regional Hub
: shairi.mathur@undp.org