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Q: Does [UIApplication sendEvent:] execute in a NSRunLoop? I read this apple doc about runloop:

A run loop is an event processing loop that you use to schedule work and coordinate the receipt of incoming events... A run loop receives events from two different types of sources. Input sources deliver asynchronous events... Timer sources deliver synchronous events...

Now I know performSelector:withObject:afterDelay: and NSTimer run in a runloop.
The doc doesn't mention touch events as input sources. I wonder:
Q1: Do touch events sent by [UIApplication sendEvent:] run in some default runloop too?
Q2: If Q1's answer is YES, is that default runloop the same runloop handles performSelector:withObject:afterDelay: and NSTimer events?

A: I won't pretend on accurateness of my answer its only just my guesses.
What I will cover in this answer:

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*Mach IPC/RPC. (Inter-process communication/Remote-procedure calling)

*Project Purple. (iOS codename)

*GraphicsServices. (Private Framework)

*SpringBoard. (iOS GUI app)

*Runloop itself. (It's role in all of this)

I'm not really familiar with mach, (I'm planning to learn it more deeply in future) but I know basic primitives on which mach kernel operates. Mach kernel uses ports for communication between processes by sending messages. You can think of a process as your application.

Project purple is simple codename for iOS. Why I mention this? Because there is a mach 'Purple system event' port which is used to send system event for SpringBoard application.

As I know there are private GraphicsServices framework which has:

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*Checking for device capabilities. (Camera, Bluetooth, GPS, etc.)

*Get screen size/dimensions, orientation

*Presenting/Hiding/Managing keyboard

*And of course sending events (touches, volume setting, silent ringer switch, device locking, etc.)

GraphicServices framework is sending all events using mach 'Purple system event' port.
Here you can look at its headers if you are interested:
https://github.com/rpetrich/iphoneheaders/tree/master/GraphicsServices

iOS have application called SpringBoard that is what user see when navigating on his iPhone/iPad/iPod and it's responsible for launching applications, sending them events receiving notifications from them and so on. And I think that you've already guessed that SpringBoard receives events from Purple system event port and almost all of them are passed to active application. (There are some events that only related for SpringBoard, for example device locking.)
For more information about SpringBoard look there:
http://theiphonewiki.com/wiki//System/Library/CoreServices/SpringBoard.app

And now what's the role of runloop in all of that? If you look at the source code for CFRunloopRef you can see that it works tightly with mach ports. (Source code can be found at : https://www.opensource.apple.com/source/CF/CF-476.10/CFRunLoop.c)
When you call CFRunLoopRun it simply waits for messages from port(s).

On the given screenshot you can see that UIApplicationMain function calls GraphicServices framework infinity loop for running modally and waiting for events via call mach_msg that enters in trap : mach_msg_trap. It puts thread into sleep and wake up when new event arrives. Also UIKit as I see registers its own callback for events that SpringBoard deliver. We will see later in stack trace PurpleEventCallback and _PurpleEventCallback function calls on event arriving. This functions acts as a bridge between all GraphicServices and UIKit stuff. (I mean we receive GSEvent that is wrapped by UIKit in UIEvent, etc.) You can see that function names are easter eggs for 'Project Purple' codename.
As for UIKit I assume that it register its own CFRunloopSourceRef that invokes _UIApplicationHandleEventQueue function and handles such stuff as touches and other. (delegates them to your application) See screenshot (How is touch handled by system):

And when application suspends - UIKit invalidates this sources. Look at screenshot. (I've set symbolic breakpoint on CFRunLoopRemoveSource and as you can see in stack trace UIKit prepares to suspend application.) Then I choose CFRunLoopSourceInvalidate frame to find out if this run loop source is related to mach stuff. The CFRunLoopSourceInvalidate method has following prototype :
void CFRunLoopSourceInvalidate (
   CFRunLoopSourceRef source
);
So using lldb and having knowledge that arguments should be stored in a registers on method invocation I've printed out register values and read suggested argument to be related to mach stuff. As you can see - it's true.

UIKit also notifies about successful launch, successful suspending etc. Whom it notifies? SpringBoard. There is specific method that used to send events for specific mach port called GSSendEvent(). Port passed there is the application's event port. For more information look:
http://iphonedevwiki.net/index.php/GSEvent
Also some screenshots that demonstrate this communication:
Application finished its launching and reports this back to SpringBoard:

Application received event and you can see it's doing some internal things, setting status bar, instantiating view controller from storyboard, reporting back, etc:

Suspending application call stack:

Summary:
GraphicServices uses 'Purple system event' port to send events related to touches, device locks, suspending active application etc.
SpringBoard receives messages from 'Purple system event' port and sends them to active application by getting its event port. UIKit receives them, handles them, and may sends result back to SpringBoard using SpringBoard event port.

A: Not necessarily. performSelector:withObject:afterDelay: and NSTimer will run on the runloop of the thread that called events them, whereas sendEvent: should run on the main runloop.


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Q: Range of function $f(5x-4)$. If range of function is $(3,8)$
If the domain and range of function $f(x)$ is $[-4,5]$ and $(3,8)$.Then Domain and range of $f(5x-4)$ is

What i try :: Here $-4\leq x \leq 5$. Then $-24 \leq 5x-4\leq 21$. So domain of $f(5x-4)$ is $[-24,21]$ But i did not understand How can i find range of function.Help me please.

A: Saying that the domain of $f$ is $[-4, 5]$ and that the range is $(3, 8)$ means the following:

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*$f(x)$ is defined if and only if $-4 \le x \le 5$

*For every $x$, one has $3 < f(x) < 8$

*For every value $v\in (3, 8)$, there is at least one $x\in [-4, 5]$ such that $f(x)=v$
With this we see that

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*$f(5 x- 4)$ is defined if and only if $-4 \le 5 x- 4\le 5$, that is to say $x\in [0, 1.8]$.

*For every $x$ one has $3 <f(5x-4)< 8$

*For every value $v\in(3, 8)$, let $y\in [-4,5]$ satisfy $f(y)= v$, let $x\in[0, 1.8]$ be such that $5x-4=y$. One has $f(5x-4)=v$.

Hence the domain of $f(5 x - 4)$ is $[0, 1.8]$ and its range is $(3,8)$

A: Please take domain of the function as $-4\leq (5x-4) \leq 5$ and the range of the function remains $(3,8)$.

A: Hint:
Determine the inverse function of $u(x)=5x-4$, and deduce $u^{-1}\bigl([-4,5]\bigr)$.

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Woman stabbed outside East Vancouver Safeway
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A woman was stabbed in the parking lot of Safeway at Commercial and Broadway in East Vancouver on Sunday afternoon.
According to Vancouver Police Department spokesperson Const. Jason Doucette, the 47-year-old woman was walking with her husband when she was suddenly stabbed by another woman.
Doucette said the woman's husband, along with two Safeway staff members and a customer, took hold of the attacker and held her down until police arrived at around 12:30 p.m.
"The stabbing victim was taken to hospital with what is now believed to be non-life-threatening injuries," he said. "Two of the men who helped out also received relatively minor injuries."
Doucette said it was not known at this point whether the suspect and attacker knew each other.
"We are very thankful for the brave actions of those who intervened to stop this woman from escaping," he said.
The suspect, a 38-year-old Vancouver woman, was taken to hospital for medical assessment. Police did not say if she was hurt during the attack or while being held down.
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Munich, Germany, January 25, 2023 (AFP) – Bayern Munich sporting director Hasan Salihamidzic has slammed striker Serge Gnabry for his "amateur" visit to Paris Fashion Week, saying "the title is on the line" .
Gnabry flew to Paris after Bayern's 1-1 draw with Leipzig on Friday, sharing photos of the trip on social media.
Salihamidzic reacted after Bayern's 1-1 draw at home to Cologne on Tuesday.
Gnabry was substituted at half-time. Coach Julian Nagelsmann said after the match that he wanted to bring "a breath of fresh air".
Salihamidzic later suggested that the German striker wasn't completely focused.
"It's amateur, it's exactly what Bayern Munich is not, frolicking somewhere when you have the day off," said the sporting director, hinting that the former Bayern striker Arsenal could suffer the consequences.
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"We'll talk about it on Wednesday, for sure. Of course, we have to talk about it."
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In the heart of the Melbourne CBD, sought after for its prime location at the corner of Swanston St, lies 260 Little Collins – a nine-story block of modern residential apartments encased in a beautifully preserved art deco building. Constructed in 1919, the building lends its history to former clothing retailer Cann's. Whilst the exterior had worn well overtime, for the residents however, the building had begun to show its age. Besides from the obvious cosmetic upgrades it needed, the overall security of the buildings foyer and fire-access were becoming a problem.
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By coreyWIIM@coreyWIIM Feb 28, 2017, 6:00pm CST
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The Detroit Red Wings made the smart choice. They traded defenseman Brendan Smith to the New York Rangers for a 2nd round pick in 2018 and a 3rd round pick in 2017.
It has been obvious for a few months now that the Red Wings, for the long term success of the franchise, needed to be sellers. And with today's trade General Manager Ken Holland finally admitted it is time.
Smith was set to become an unrestricted free agent in July, and with a little over $67 million committed to the cap next season there was not much room for a Smith extension, especially with some of the other contacts the Wings have on the books. There was talk of possibly extending Smith but the two sides could not agree to terms. With the contracts Holland has handed out it prevented even a reasonable deal for Smith could get made to remain here.
This type of deal for a core player like Smith is the first for the Red Wings in a really long time. Getting assets for the future has been the calling card this season after the team has struggled. This deal is encouraging going into tomorrows 3pm trade deadline, in that more deals like this may follow.
Smith, from being a healthy scratch in key games last season, one could tell his time was coming to an end in Detroit. Regardless whether you felt the Wings misused Smith during his time here, or if you feel he should be in the top of the defensive depth charts here, it was clear when guys like Jonathan Ericsson were playing and Smith was scratched that there was no future for Smith in Detroit.
When you're in the situation the Red Wings are in getting prospects and draft picks is always a smart idea. Now it is up to the scouting staff and Holland to use these two picks in the next two drafts to add to the prospect pool in Detroit and find the next good Red Wing players. If they use these two picks wisely, the Red Wings have a chance to make this a great deal.
With the current cap situation it has become clear the best way to fix the defense is through the draft, yes that means we have to be patient, but for a last place team with little to no cap space and bad contracts there are no quick fixes. Now if the Red Wings do not make a few more of these type of deals to help in this cause, mainly Thomas Vanek and Steve Ott, we'll all be scratching our heads trying to figure out the true direction of the team.


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Tasmania's own Hannah Gadsby has come to the world's attention through her multi-award winning stand up show "Nanette" which played to sold-out houses across Australia, London, Edinburgh, New York, and Los Angeles before launching on Netflix in June as the first Australian Netflix Original Comedy Special and stopping the comedy world in its tracks. The overnight success of Hannah Gadsby was more than ten years in the making, with her award-winning stand-up shows a sellout fixture in festivals across Australia and the UK. She played a character called Hannah on the TV series "Please Like Me" and has hosted three art documentaries, inspired by comedy art lectures she created to accompany collections at major galleries.
2006: Triple J's Raw Comedy – Winner, and Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Second place. 2007: Best Emerging Comedy Award. 2008: Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Moosehead Award, and Sydney Comedy Festival, Directors' Choice Award. 2010 Festival Directors' Choice Award – Winner, and Helpmann Award for Best Comedy Performer – Nominee. 2011: Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Barry Award – Nominee, and Helpmann Award for Best Comedy Performer – Nominee.
2013: Helpmann Award for Best Comedy Performer – Nominee, and Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Barry Award – Nominee. 2017: Adelaide Fringe, Best Comedy, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Barry Award – Winner, Helpmann Award for Best Comedy Performer, and Edinburgh Festival Fringe Comedy Award – Joint Winner. 2019: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special, and Peabody Award.


WASHINGTON Volkswagen AG (VOWG_p.DE) has agreed to pay $175 million to U.S. lawyers suing the German automaker on behalf of 475,000 polluting vehicle owners, two people briefed on the agreement said Friday. In August, lawyers representing the owners sought up to $332.5 million in fees and costs for their work in a $10 billion settlement. The latest costs means VW has agreed to spend up to $16.7 billion to compensate U.S. owners and address claims from states, federal regulators and dealers.


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03/05/2019 Hollywood Undead - Tour 2019 @ Nottingham, Rock City
01/05/2019 Hollywood Undead - Tour 2019 @ Sheffield, O2 Academy
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23/04/2019 Hollywood Undead - Tour 2019 @ London, O2 Academy Brixton
20/04/2019 Impericon Festival 2019 @ Leipzig, HALLE:EINS - LEIPZIGER MESSE
28/07/2018 Heavy Montréal 2018 @ Montreal
26/07/2018 Hollywood Undead - Tour 2018 @ Poughkeepsie, The Chance
25/07/2018 Hollywood Undead - Tour 2018 @ Hampton, Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom
28/06/2018 Aerodrome Festival 2018 @ Panenský Týnec
27/06/2018 Telekom Volt Festival 2018 @ Sopron
19/06/2018 Hollywood Undead - Tour 2018 @ Hannover, Capitol
17/06/2018 Hollywood Undead - Tour 2018 @ Milano, Magazzini Generali
15/06/2018 Download Festival Paris 2018 @ Bretigny, Base aérienne 217
14/06/2018 Nova Rock 2018 @ Nickelsdorf
11/06/2018 Hollywood Undead - Tour 2018 @ Cracow, Klub Studio
01/06/2018 Rock am Ring 2018 @ Nürburg, Nürburgring
01/06/2018 Rock im Park 2018 @ Nuremberg
04/05/2018 Hell And Heaven Fest 2018 @ Mexico City
03/05/2018 Hollywood Undead - Tour 2018 @ Houston, House of Blues
02/05/2018 Hollywood Undead - Tour 2018 @ San Antonio, Aztec Theater
28/04/2018 Fort Rock 2018 @ Fort Lauderdale
27/04/2018 Welcome To Rockville 2018 @ Jacksonville
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24/04/2018 Hollywood Undead - Tour 2018 @ Dallas, House of Blues
10/03/2018 Hollywood Undead Tour 2018 @ Ekaterinburg, Teleclub
08/03/2018 Hollywood Undead Tour 2018 @ Rostov, Rostov-On-Don DK Rostselmash
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04/03/2018 Hollywood Undead Tour 2018 @ St Petersburg, A2
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27/02/2018 Hollywood Undead Tour 2018 @ Helsinki, Icehall
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18/02/2018 Hollywood Undead Tour 2018 @ Wrocław, Centrum Koncertowe A2
17/02/2018 Hollywood Undead Tour 2018 @ Warsaw, Stodola
16/02/2018 Hollywood Undead Tour 2018 @ Prague, Forum Karlin
14/02/2018 Hollywood Undead Tour 2018 @ Linz, Posthof
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10/02/2018 Hollywood Undead Tour 2018 @ München, Tonhalle
09/02/2018 Hollywood Undead Tour 2018 @ Bologna, Zona Roveri
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30/01/2018 Hollywood Undead Tour 2018 @ London, Koko
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10/11/2017 Hollywood Undead Tour 2017 @ Omaha, Sokol Auditorium
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06/11/2017 Hollywood Undead Tour 2017 @ Saskatoon, O'Brians Event Centre ( Formerly The Odeon Event Centre )
31/10/2017 Hollywood Undead Tour 2017 @ Seattle, Showbox SoDo
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23/10/2017 Hollywood Undead Tour 2017 @ Santa Cruz, The Catalyst
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Start September working in this fantastic Teacher of Boys Physical Education role for a thriving independent school trust who are graded as running Outstanding schools!
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Talking about the relationship between currency price and computing power from mining-RHY Global Mine - the first share in the global mine!
There has always been a saying in the mining circle that the change in computing power is of reference value to the trend of the currency price. So, what is the relationship between computing power and currency price? First, to put it simply, the increase in computing power means that the mining machines involved in mining are increasing, and the increase in computing power has an impact on the mining cost and market competition of the mine owners.
Speaking of the increase in computing power, let's talk about the factors affecting the computing power of Bitcoin. In the second half of last year, the price of mining machines fell sharply. Some mainstream miners also introduced ways to make concessions based on market conditions, such as The price adjustment of the ant mining machine and the Avalon mining machine has exceeded 50%.
Therefore, at many second-hand mining machine trading websites, the price of second-hand mining machines of ant mining machine S9 is currently around 800-900 yuan, and the price of new mining machine of official website is 1510 yuan. Avalon's 7nm series products A921 and A920, the highest computing power is 20T, the latest official price in January 2019 is only 1,500 yuan up and down, currently sold out.
Then we will talk about the relationship between currency price and computing power. The above shows that although the price of bitcoin is declining, with the decrease of mining machine cost, many miners are still willing to "batch the bottom" and the mining machine market does not. Shrinking. In addition, with the rapid iteration of mining machinery technology, major manufacturers compete to launch high-power, low-power mining machine products.
At the end of July last year, Avalon launched the Avalon A921 with a 7nm chip. In August, Bitland released the S9Hydro water-cooled mining machine of the Ant Mine. In September, Shenma Mining also followed the release of the M10 mining machine with 16-nanometer chips. Many mining people have bluntly said that the competition of mining machine manufacturers has entered a stage of white-hot. The faster and faster iterative update speed has led to an increase in the overall shipments of the mining machinery industry. The dilemma of insufficient shipments is now very rare, and a large number of new mining machines support the huge calculation power of the mine.
However, with the continued sluggish currency prices last year, many individual miners have been struggling, and large mines with cheap electricity bills are not affected by this, even when the price of coins is low to the price of many mining machines on the market. It is also possible to use low-cost electricity to mine at low cost, but many individual miners are hard to get past.
Therefore, there has been an industry consensus at this time, the mining circle is being reshuffled, and mining will become more and more large-scale. Large mines and large miners with strong capital and cheap power resources will continue to occupy the living space of small miners. For example, in the early years, the RHY mines in overseas mines were laid out. With overseas mines in the Middle East and Georgia, the mining and mining charges were more than half cheaper than the domestic mines. The mining electricity fee of 0.3 yuan allowed many miners to choose the RHY mine. The mine can still dig a good income. Since the bear market, the mining lease and power lease of the RHY mine have been very hot, attracting the miners who are mining for low-cost mining.
Therefore, despite the current bear market price decline, the large mines headed by the RHY mine continue to be deployed and continue to invest in mines to compete for power. As a result, we have seen that since last year Not only has the net computing power not fallen, but it has been increasing in volatility.
Therefore, we can see that in the logical relationship between power and currency, the price is the cause, and the calculation is the result. The increase in the price of the currency amplifies the mining profit, attracts the large-scale entry of capital and miners, and causes the increase in computing power, which in turn affects the mine mining cost and market competition. Of course, if you want to earn a steady income from mining, you have to look at the price level of electricity.


— Ahead of this week's WWE Superstar Shake-up, the latest edition of "WWE List This!," looks at five Superstars who benefited from it last year. At the beginning of the video, a graphic is shown featuring a collage of WWE Superstars, with those not affiliated with either Raw or SmackDown LIVE placed in the middle. The free agents consist of talent recently promoted from NXT (Aleister Black, EC3, Heavy Machinery, Lacey Evans, Nikki Cross, and Ricochet), and Sami Zayn.
After undergoing surgery on both of his rotator cuffs, Zayn returned to action last Monday on Raw in an impromptu Intercontinental Championship Match against Finn Balor.
But after Balor narrowly retained his Intercontinental Championship, the full extent of Zayn's transformation over the past nine months or so became apparent. Sami didn't just shave his head and change his gear; he underwent a top-to-bottom enlightenment during his time on the shelf and formed some less-than-savory opinions about the WWE Universe.
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Looted Gospel Manuscript from Hobby Lobby Owners' Collection to Be Returned
The Eikosiphoinissa Manuscript 220 was among hundreds of objects taken from the Kosinitza Monastery by Bulgarian separatist troops in 1917. After a long journey, it ended up in the collection of the Museum of the Bible in Washington DC.
In recent years, the Museum of the Bible's collection, originally owned by the Green family in Oklahoma City, founders of the arts and crafts chain Hobby Lobby, has been found to hold many objects that were smuggled out of their respective countries of origin or brought into the US improperly. A 2016 report in The Atlantic uncovers the family's extensive collection and how it was built with little regard for the provenance, or background, of some of its items.
One such item is a rare 10th-11th-century hand-written gospel manuscript to the Greek Orthodox Monastery of the Virgin Eikossifinissa (also known as the Kosinitza Monastery) in northern Greece. The historic document was among hundreds of objects looted from the site by Bulgarian troops in 1917 during violence that broke out in the region.
In January, the Museum of the Bible informed Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew that it held one of the world's oldest hand-lettered gospels, and subsequently offered to return it.
In response to the Museum's gesture, Bartholomew said the museum can continue to display the work until October 2021. He also loaned the museum three more manuscripts from the same collection as a gesture of gratitude for the gospels' return.
The museum, which opened in 2017, has started to more thoroughly investigate its collection and has returned other antiquities. Now closed, the museum had a pre-pandemic attendance of one million visitors per year.
The Eikosiphoinissa Manuscript 220 was among 431 manuscripts and 470 other works pillaged from the monastery's library, including icons, vestments and liturgical objects.
The Museum of the Bible's website links to a report on the atrocities committed in the region by Bulgarian partisans known as komitadji, as well as the looting carried out under the direction of a Czech war reporter, Vladimir Sis, who presented himself as a Bulgarian archaeologist.
The museum has created a vast timeline of the manuscript and has incorporated it into its online exhibition.
The objects were carried out on 24 mules, and were sold by Sis in the 1920s, finding their way into collections in Europe and the US. The Ivan Dujcev Center for Slavo-Byzantine Studies in Sofia holds around 300 of the looted manuscripts, in violation of the Treaty of Neuilly, which required Bulgaria to return all cultural objects taken during the First World War.
According to research done by the Museum of the Bible, the Eikosiphoinissa Manuscript 220 was sold in New York in 1958 by the dealer H. P. Kraus and purchased at Christie's by the Green Collection in 2011.
Other manuscripts from the monastery have been tracked to the US, according to the Museum of the Bible's research, where donors gave them to Princeton University, Duke University, the Morgan Library and the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (LSTC).
In 2016, the LSTC handed back a rare ninth century manuscript of the entire New Testament (also known as Codex 1424), which had been bought by the seminary's former president Levi Franklin Gruber from a European book dealer in 1920, and donated to the school by his widow.
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Introducing to you my very first piece of my own furniture collection: Hexagon with a 'twist'. When I first decided to get into this, I had no idea what it was that I wanted, or what I was drawn to at the time, I just knew I wanted it to be different and most of all creative. After so many rough sketches, I then realized I wanted to incorporate something traditional into something fresh, I also noticed that I was repetetive with geometric shapes and patterns, especially hexagons, therefore I decided to concentrate on that particular shape and work on how to develop my designs further to produce something beautiful.
The Hexganon with a ' twist' can function both as a stool and a side table and can also be available in different colors! I have to admit that this is by far the best piece I have ever designed, I am so happy with it and received many good feedback which only motivates me to move on to the next one.


Just more evidence that the password authentication system is antiquated and insecure.
Despite overwhelming evidence that our passwords are too weak, and that password authentication is easily exploited, users and companies don't seem to be taking any corrective action. The recent Ashley Madison hack shows us again, that users are incredibly lazy when it comes to creating passwords.
Research firm CynoSure Prime was able to efficiently crack the encryption hashes, and decrypt more than 11 million usernames and passwords, giving them access to the majority of the account details that were leaked.
And as we usually see when passwords are analysed, the top passwords included "123456," "password," and "DEFAULT." Many of the top 100 passwords revealed had a number of problems in common, and all were symptomatic of poor password selection. Many of the entries contained only lowercase letters, few included numbers, none used special characters, and all three lines of the keyboard (e.g. "qwertyuiop") appeared in the top 100.
While it's easy to blame users for bad passwords — and you're right to do so — CynoSure's detailed write-up explains precisely how they decrypted the passwords, and they were able to compromise 2.6 million accounts in a matter of hours. This is a damning indictment of Ashley Madison's entire authentication and security system.
It's becoming more apparent that the current username and password system, clearly isn't working. End-to-end encryption, password managers, two-part authentication have become imperative. The industry is also moving in the direction of biometric authentication.
Bottom line: Weak security is no security. Companies need to take the responsibility for protecting user data and implement technological solutions that are already available. The Ashley Madison hack is a prime example of both users and businesses are utterly failing to protect data both parties would rather have kept secret.


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Q: What does $P(\overline{N})$ mean? Sorry, this must be laughably trivial, but I have to be sure. I am a grade 12 math tutor, and while running through some older exam questions I encountered this problem:
$$\text{If } P\left(N\right) = \frac{1}{4}\text{, determine } P\left(\overline{N}\right)$$
The multiple choice answers are:
$$\text{A. }\frac{-1}{4}\quad\text{B. }\frac{1}{4}\quad\text{C. }\frac{3}{4}\quad\text{D. }4$$
I eliminated A and D, because $0 \leq P(\text{Anything}) \leq 1$. My intuition tells me that $P\left(\overline{N}\right) = P\left(\lnot N\right)$ so the answer is C. Wolfram says that the bar could mean the arithmetic mean of a set of values or negation of a logical expression. Either way I would like some clarification on this notation.

A: In general,
$\bar N$
means the complement
of $N$
(i.e., everything except $N$).
So,  $P(N)=1/4$
means that the probability of $N$ happening
is $1/4$.
Therefore
$P(\bar N)$
means the probability
of everything except $N$,
and this is $1-P(N) = 3/4$.


As Deadline was first to reveal, Focus Features has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Race. with Stephan James playing Olympian Jesse Owens, opposite Jason Sudeikis and Jeremy Irons, in the Stephen Hopkins-directed. Mister Smith Entertainment is handling worldwide sales on Race. The film starts production this month, and it is one of several films about the sprinter who ruined Hitler's plans to showcase the superiority of German athletes in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. This film has the support of the Jesse Owens Foundation, the Jesse Owens Trust and the Luminary Group.
Sudeikis will star as Owens' obsessive coach and mentor Larry Snyder, who, after a prestigious track career himself, became a coach at Ohio State University. Snyder coached athletes who set 14 world records and won eight Olympic gold medals. Irons will portray Avery Brundage, the head of the American Olympic committee who fought to have the 1936 Olympics take place in Berlin. Anna Waterhouse and Joe Shrapnel wrote the script, and produced by Jean Charles Lévy for Forecast Pictures, Luc Dayan for ID+, Kate Garwood and Stephen Hopkins for Totally Commercial Films, Louis-Philippe Rochon and Dominique Séguin for Canada's Solofilms, and Karsten Brünig and Thierry Potok for Germany's Trinity Race GmbH.
There are several other Jesse Owens film in the works. Disney is developing a movie based on the Jeremy Schaap book Triumph, with The King's Speech scribe David Seidler scripting a full scale biopic. Another package has Anthony Mackie hoping to play the sprinter and Jamie Linden and Jason Spire producing a script by George Olson, and there is also another film with Greg Nava writing and directing, and Bill Gerber producing. That script centers on the incredible but largely unknown relationship between Owens and Lutz Long that began at the '36 Olympics despite Hitler's anger over the sportsmanship these two athletes showed each other. The story also includes the heroic but tragic events concerning runners Stoller and Glickman and Fencer Helene Mayer. There is a lot of rich terrain here, but as usual, these things become a footrace.


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package org.datavec.api.transform.filter;

import lombok.Data;
import lombok.EqualsAndHashCode;
import org.datavec.api.transform.condition.Condition;
import org.datavec.api.transform.schema.Schema;
import org.datavec.api.writable.Writable;
import org.nd4j.shade.jackson.annotation.JsonProperty;

import java.util.List;

@EqualsAndHashCode
@Data
public class ConditionFilter implements Filter {

    private final Condition condition;

    public ConditionFilter(@JsonProperty("condition") Condition condition) {
        this.condition = condition;
    }

    /**
     * @param writables Example
     * @return true if example should be removed, false to keep
     */
    @Override
    public boolean removeExample(Object writables) {
        return condition.condition(writables);
    }

    /**
     * @param sequence sequence example
     * @return true if example should be removed, false to keep
     */
    @Override
    public boolean removeSequence(Object sequence) {
        return condition.condition(sequence);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean removeExample(List<Writable> writables) {
        return condition.condition(writables);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean removeSequence(List<List<Writable>> sequence) {
        return condition.conditionSequence(sequence);
    }

    /**
     * Get the output schema for this transformation, given an input schema
     *
     * @param inputSchema
     */
    @Override
    public Schema transform(Schema inputSchema) {
        return inputSchema;
    }

    @Override
    public void setInputSchema(Schema schema) {
        condition.setInputSchema(schema);
    }

    @Override
    public Schema getInputSchema() {
        return condition.getInputSchema();
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return "ConditionFilter(" + condition + ")";
    }

    /**
     * The output column name
     * after the operation has been applied
     *
     * @return the output column name
     */
    @Override
    public String outputColumnName() {
        return condition.outputColumnName();
    }

    /**
     * The output column names
     * This will often be the same as the input
     *
     * @return the output column names
     */
    @Override
    public String[] outputColumnNames() {
        return condition.outputColumnNames();
    }

    /**
     * Returns column names
     * this op is meant to run on
     *
     * @return
     */
    @Override
    public String[] columnNames() {
        return condition.columnNames();
    }

    /**
     * Returns a singular column name
     * this op is meant to run on
     *
     * @return
     */
    @Override
    public String columnName() {
        return condition.columnName();
    }
}

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Galaxy S5 fingerprint scanner hacked with glue mould!
By Vicky Singh Rao April 16, 2014
The researchers fooled the new handset using a mould made out of glue!
The fingerprint sensor on Samsung's Galaxy S5 handset has been hacked less than a week after the device went on sale. Berlin-based Security Research Labs fooled the equipment using a mould it had previously created to spoof the sensor on Apple's iPhone 5S. The researchers said they were concerned that thieves could exploit the flaw in Samsung's device to trigger money transfers via PayPal.
The payments firm played down the risk.
"While we take the findings from Security Research Labs [SRL] very seriously, we are still confident that fingerprint authentication offers an easier and more secure way to pay on mobile devices than passwords or credit cards," it said.
It added that even if users were hacked it would cover their losses. A spokesman for Samsung was unable to comment.
SRL created its hack by lifting a real fingerprint from a smartphone screen and then carrying out a fairly elaborate process to create a mould out of glue and graphite spray. This was then swiped across the sensor that sits in the phone's home button.
Apple's iPhone 5S is also vulnerable to spoofed fingerprints!
"The fingerprint mould was actually one I made for the Apple device back in September," project manager Ben Schlabs told the BBC.
"All I had to do was take it out of the reject pile as it wasn't one of the ones that ended up working on the iPhone 5S for whatever reason."
"It was the first one I tried and it worked immediately on the S5."
Although the fake fingerprint proved easy to use, Mr Schlabs added that he was concerned that Samsung's software would not lock out thieves who had less luck, allowing them to make repeated attempts.
"But the way it works is that if it fails five times and asks for a password, if you just turn the screen off and back on again you can have another try."
This is not true of the iPhone 5S.
Reveal transactions:
While Apple currently limits its fingerprint scanner to unlocking the iPhone and verifying purchases in its own online store, Samsung has allowed its sensor to be used by third-party apps that add its Pass API (application program interface) to their code. The researchers were able to use the mould to access PayPal's app. PayPal's mobile app is the first to take advantage of this. The software can be used to send and request money and reveal past transactions. SRL acknowledged that the fingerprint scanner made it simpler to access, but criticised the company for not requiring a second form of authentication, such as a Pin code.
However, PayPal said Galaxy S5 users should not be deterred from using the feature.
"The scan unlocks a secure cryptographic key that serves as a password replacement for the phone," it said.
"We can simply deactivate the key from a lost or stolen device, and you can create a new one."
PayPal also uses sophisticated fraud and risk management tools to try to prevent fraud before it happens. However, in the rare instances that it does, you are covered by our purchase protection policy.
Rory Cellan-Jones tests out the Samsung S5:
Tech blog Engadget agreed that users should not be too concerned.
"The odds are low that a street thief will get past your phone's defences, or that a talented hacker will get in before you've had a chance to remotely wipe your content," it reported.
But Mr Schlabs said that did not mean the risk of fingerprint hacks could be ignored.
"If you think into the future, once ATMs have fingerprint scanners and once heads of state start using fingerprint authentication it's going to become a lot more attractive," he said.
"Our method is pretty rudimentary and has been around for at least a decade and it worked on a phone that was only released last week."
"Once people develop better or faster methods, or once there are fingerprint databases of images that get leaked, it's definitely a concern."
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Hi, I have two issues.
Issue number 1 : I have this website http://restaurantmasdesmoulins.fr on the network. but when logged as editor, I can't reach http://resto.valleeduweb.fr/wp-admin which is the original domain even whatever parameters in domain mapping are. This is exclusively for this domain.
However I need to use the original domain as a way for my client to upload images because for an unknowned reason, I receive an HTTP error when I try to upload images throught the mapped domain (for all my network). So this is issue number 2.
Note : my URL for loggin is [website.com]/manager. I have granted you support access.
I have accessed your site and created myself an Editor account on a sub-site in question to test it. I was able to login but I was, indeed, taken to the mapped domain instead of the domain I used (the original one) and attempting to access /wp-admin via original domain I was given an error, requesting me to login again.
That is the issue you're referring to, correct?
Both Administration Mapping and mapped domain options are set correct and with this configuration, user should be taken to the admin area over the domain that he/she used in browser.
I see that you got other mapped domains for other sub-sites on your setup. The issue happens on this sub-site only, correct?
Was it like that "from the start" or did it started to happen just recently (if yes, were there any changes made to the site recently whatsoever?)?
Let me also know please, how was the login slug changed. Are you able to temporarily bring back default one and see if the issue still happens?
Everything stated is correct. It happend recently since I add a new A DNS zone for my client (mail.restaurantmasdesmoulins.fr on another IP address 78.192.102.36). It is the only difference I see with my other sub-sites.
I would like know likewise why i get an HTTP error in Media when connected through the mapped domain when I want to upload an image (for any sub-site). My host may have change something but I don't find the words to explain to him what is wrong.
The login slug was here since the begining. I just disable it so you see it has no effect. Il will activate it again in a couple of hours so my client won't be disturbed.
I was doing some extensive testing on your site and I can see the errors but there's no information about what's causing them and I can't replicate this on my installation.
I don't think that adding that DNS zone should be causing this but it's worth giving it a shot with reverting that option.
If that doesn't help you should perform a basic troubleshooting test by disabling your other plugins and switching to default WP theme to see if original domain admin will load after that.
Also try using default .htaccess rules to see if .htaccess might be the cause here.
The php version was out of date.
As for the login thing. I wanted to take another look at the setup but the support access is no longer active. It's time valid so I assume it just expired. Would you mind enabling it again for me?
Let me know when it's active, please.
After testing your site again I got some unexpected results, at one moment during the test I was actually able to access original domain in backend with my editor account.
The thing is that the only thing I changed was language for that user to English, but when I then selected French and then English again I wasn't able to access it anymore.
Do you have any kind of server side caching that might be returning some cached results and cause this issue?
If you do can you try disabling it temporarily so we can see if the issue is related to that?


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Applied Materials: Fiscal 3Q Earnings Snapshot
By Marin Independent Journal |
PUBLISHED: August 16, 2018 at 4:16 p.m. | UPDATED: August 20, 2018 at 7:09 a.m.
SANTACLARA, Calif. (AP) _ Applied Materials Inc. (AMAT) on Thursday reported fiscal third-quarter profit of $1.17 billion.
On a per-share basis, the Santaclara, California-based company said it had profit of $1.17. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, were $1.20 per share.
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Applied Materials expects full-year earnings in the range of $4.41 to $4.49 per share, with revenue ranging from $17.1 billion to $17.4 billion.
Applied Materials shares have declined 7.5 percent since the beginning of the year, while the Standard & Poor's 500 index has risen 6 percent. In the final minutes of trading on Thursday, shares hit $47.27, a climb of slightly more than 6 percent in the last 12 months.
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More than 40 years ago, in Nigeria, a young scientist named Rattan Lal encountered an idea that changed his life — and led, eventually, to global recognition and a worldwide movement to protect the planet's soil.
Lal was fresh out of graduate school, recruited to join the newly established International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, and given an assignment that, in hindsight, seems ridiculous in its ambition. "I was 25 years old, in charge of a lab, given the mandate of improving quality and quantity of food production in the tropics!" Lal says.
He struggled. The problem was the soil. Because of climate and geological history, it was more fragile than what he'd seen in India, where he grew up, or Ohio, where he'd received his Ph.D. Lal cleared parts of the forest for his research plots, but when the soil lost its vegetation and was exposed to sun and rain, it quickly deteriorated. What Lal calls the "life blood of the soil" — the so-called organic matter, made of microbes and decomposing roots, which holds moisture in the soil and provides a fertile bed for growing seeds — vaporized or washed away, leaving behind gravelly dirt as hot and hard as a road.
One day, a famous scientist named Roger Revelle came to visit. Revelle was one of the pioneers in the field now known as climate science. Lal told Revelle about his problems; about how the organic matter kept disappearing. Revelle pointed out that it was escaping into the air in the form of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas. Then Revelle asked a question: "Can you put it back?"
"That simple statement, 'Can you put it back?' was my introduction to climate and soil," Lal says.
Lal, now a professor at Ohio State University, is courteous, polite and soft-spoken. But that can be misleading. "I am by nature competitive," he says. "You're either going to be in the top one, two, three, four or you are not going to survive."
It's a lesson from childhood. He grew up poor, in a village in India. He and his family were refugees from present-day Pakistan. His ticket out of poverty was a government stipend — a few dollars each month — to study at university. To earn that money, his grades had to be in the top five in the class, and he was haunted by fear that he'd lose it. "That insecurity never really left me," he says.
When Lal returned to Ohio State as a professor of soil science in the late 1980s, the insight from that conversation with Revelle became his calling card. He pushed a new view of soil, arguing that it's more than a simply a place where farmers grow crops. It's also a vast global reservoir of carbon that has been a major source of carbon dioxide emissions. Until the mid-20th century, cultivating the soil released more carbon dioxide than burning fossil fuels. Even today, farming and clearing forests for agriculture is responsible for roughly a quarter of global greenhouse emissions.
Farmers control that reservoir; they can continue to mine the soil by tilling it, spilling carbon into the air, or they can refill it, restoring some of the carbon that was previously lost. Soil that's rich in organic matter also is healthier in many other ways. It acts like a sponge, holding water, and it also contains nutrients like nitrogen.
In the American Midwest, for instance, the undisturbed soil of the prairie once was incredibly rich in carbon. Much of it was lost after settlers began plowing it to plant grain. Deforestation and land clearing continues in parts of Latin America and Africa.
Lal began experimenting with farming practices to see how they affect the level of carbon in that reservoir, and he discovered that it's actually possible to refill it at least partially by capturing carbon from the air. Some of those experiments are still ongoing. Nall Moonilall, a Ph.D. student at Ohio State, shows me one of them, an array of square plots at the university's research farm. For the past 30 years, Lal has been monitoring the effects of covering the soil with mulch. Some of the plots have been covered with different amounts of straw mulch every year. Others remained bare. Those bare soil plots now contain less than 1% carbon, but "the carbon content in plots that receive the maximum amount of mulch is probably upwards of 4%," Moonilall says. That's a healthy amount of soil carbon, close to what Midwestern soils contained before they were first plowed.
It also adds up to to tons of carbon in a single acre of soil, simply from adding mulch to the surface each year. Researchers also have found that farmers can enrich soil by leaving it undisturbed. Instead of tilling the soil before planting, which releases stored carbon into the air, farmers can deploy equipment that opens up a narrow slice in the soil and inserts the seeds. Such "no-till" practices have been widely adopted by American farmers in recent decades. Even better, at least from an environmental point of view, farmers can stop growing crops altogether, returning the land to permanent pasture or wetlands.
Lal was not the only scientist exploring this field. In fact, some of his colleagues and rivals in soil science privately criticize him for spreading himself too thin, publishing articles at a ferocious pace yet not always breaking much new ground. Few of them, though, were the equal of Lal when it came to bringing soil to the attention of policymakers and the general public.
Just in the past few years, dirt has turned trendy. Books have appeared, many of them featuring Lal. There's a TED talk about soil health. Agricultural industry giants like General Mills and Bayer are offering to pay farmers to adopt practices that restore carbon to the soil. There's a catchy new name for it: regenerative agriculture. A startup company called Indigo Carbon released a video calling this "the most promising technology we have to address climate change."
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The Loud Silence: The plight of refugee male survivors of conflict-related sexual violence
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"At first I even never told the doctor about what happened to me, because it is not easy to talk about it..." – Male survivor of conflict-related sexual violence based in Kampala.
Sexual violence against men and boys is not a new phenomenon in many parts of the world, especially in war zones and post-conflict communities but, surprisingly, the vice has continued to receive very little attention and recognition both at policy and program levels. Additionally, the many legal jurisdictions have narrow definitions of sexual violence offenses that recognise female counterparts, but not male victims.
Having worked close to a decade with male survivors of conflict-related sexual violence at Refugee Law Project, I have observed with deep empathy how men and boys still grapple with unspeakable pain and shame because of one or multiple experiences of extreme forms of violations, especially anal rape. And yet, ironically, they have challenges sharing their ordeals with service providers, let alone their spouses – all of which has profound negative impacts in service access and uptake as well as devastating consequences for communities at large.
From my daily interaction with the survivors, they present multiple issues including loss of respect from community and household members. Studies and experiences have shown, and using the ecological model of healing, that recovery and rehabilitation largely depend on household and community support. However, gender socialization processes present men and boys as strong; male victims reporting an experience of sexual violence risk having characteristics - including 'weak men' - attributed to them by their own communities and families which they very much trust. Even worse, male survivors are sometimes reminded by their own family members of what they have gone through, and thereafter stigmatized and isolated from service provision. In addition, the severe effects that can result from sexual violence such as anal bleeding, difficulties passing stool, walking and sitting, swellings and wounds in the anus, and post-traumatic stress disorder among others continue to impact negatively on their lives.
Unlike female survivors of sexual violence who more often open up and share their conflict experiences during screening for such violations, my experience with male survivors is the opposite. Is it that male survivors don't want to share their ordeals or it is the usual complex questions of masculinity? This question and many more are worth deeper and broader contemplation; are there safer spaces to enhance disclosure? What happens when a man walks to a service provider and reports a rape experience? Could it be that survivors are not heard or there are no services available for them? From experience, several male survivors have reported that few service providers, community and families provide time to listen to them, nor are there safer and friendly spaces where they can share their ordeals.
But what's the breadth of the issue? Male survivors in Kampala continue to struggle for safer spaces, have challenges seeking audience of trained and experienced medical, legal or psychosocial providers who can listen without stigmatizing and doubting the experiences at the very first instance. For those who have tried to seek support, a significant fraction have struggled through with embarrassing questions from ill-informed service providers – many of whom have difficulties differentiating between consensual and non-consensual sex, and as such, quickly label male survivors as homosexuals.
Some of these unfortunate situations have forced male survivors to resort to isolation, self-harm and self-blame for having failed to defend themselves and their families from the aggressors. Besides the shame, such situations compound phobia to disclose experiences and as such push them further to uncomfortable corners of silences and intense suffering – with likelihood that failure to address the trauma could lead to inter-generational trauma.
In addition, posters and SGBV referral pathways currently developed by the majority of service providers, especially in refugee hosting areas, seldom depict men and boys as survivors of sexual violence. Rather, they portray men as perpetrators worthy of police custody, and women and girls as survivors. This has negative consequences on information sharing and service uptake. From my close interaction with male survivors, it takes a great deal of time and courage for a male survivor of sexual violence to 'finally' share his sexual violence experience with a service provider.
While the situation is indubitably uncomfortable and requires urgent interventions, getting men to 'report' experiences of violence is possible. However, it requires a lot of rigour and intervention techniques. Firstly, rapport building between service provider and known survivors is an important entry point. It also means that service providers exercise courage with 'open hearts' and non-judgmental approaches towards men and boys. Also, with the information available, service providers need further training on working with male survivors of sexual violence including through sharing best practices with psychological and health service providers already working with them.
Besides professional support, survivors need spaces within which they are comfortable to share with fellow survivors. At Refugee Law Project, and through the support groups created for refugee male survivors in Kampala, Gulu, and Isingiro, we have documented progress in increasing disclosure, peer-to-peer support as well as service-seeking attitudes and uptake. This has essentially been achieved through strategic capacity building of the support groups and encouragement of the members to actively participate in their own projects as well as those of RLP and other partners. Currently, RLP works closely with male survivor self-help groups including Men of Hope in Kampala, Men of Peace in Nakivale and Men of Courage in Acholi sub-region in the aspects of recovery, healing, justice and livelihood so that they feel at home even when they are away from their home country. As far as disclosure and self-help support is concerned, these groups continue to be a home away from home for survivors – important spaces within which male survivors not only support one another but also share experiences for healing.
But how did RLP achieve this? How has it been possible to get male survivors in self-help groups? As is often said, 'Innovation is Life'. RLP has over the years embraced proactive means of enabling survivors (both men and women) to disclose experiences of sexual violence in a more timely manner and with specialized services. How has this been achieved? Through supporting survivor-led community awareness sessions on conflict-related sexual violence from which many more survivors have since acquired spaces in which to report their own experiences of sexual violence. Also, and through an innovative model dubbed "Screen-Refer-Support-Document" model, RLP has proactively been asking questions which other service providers have ignored, and have henceforth successfully identified thousands of survivors - including male survivors of sexual violence – from which equally large numbers have since obtained professional physical and psychological support.
What lessons do we learn? Where do such innovative approaches lead us to? While such questions are eminent and worth pondering about, its high time service providers understood the dynamics confronting male survivors including underscoring the fact that men and boys can be raped and that male survivors are as vulnerable as women and girl survivors in the community. It's prudent for us to break the cultural barriers and stereotypes around issues relating to sexuality and sexual violence against both men and women and embrace inclusive programming (including safer spaces) for all survivors – be they male or female. It is worth re-echoing that avoidance and denial of realities in confronting sexual violence against men and boys will only ease the process of burying our heads in the sand but will not enable us to progress with the struggle in tackling 'real issues', including the plight of male survivors of sexual violence.
This is a struggle that requires leaving no one behind, leaving no stone unturned. Above all, it's a struggle that begins with attitudinal change – and it begins with you and me. Together we can achieve a more peaceful society and reduce sexual violence in conflict!
Written by Wokorach Mogi, SGBVP Officer, Refugee Law Project.
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