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Q: Probllem with install vb2Py "This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip" I have a problem with installing some library converting VBA code to Python code. When I type:
pip install --trusted-host pypi.org --trusted-host files.pythonhosted.org vb2py

i get output like this:
error: legacy-install-failure```

× Encountered error while trying to install package.
╰─> simpleparse

note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.
hint: See above for output from the failure.

A: just installed vb2py today on a PC. It seems that simpleparse installation happened without any problem. You can try to install it directly from https://sourceforge.net/projects/simpleparse/files/
Simpleparse latest version is there available as an .exe

A: i just formatted my PC last weekend. Running Windows 10.
I downloaded and installed Anaconda. In Anaconda prompt, i called "pip install vb2py". It worked. Just converted a .bas file. No complains about simpleparse.
It didnt looks like that the python 2.7 was necessary here. I barely know how to create an environment

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Treating sub-valence correlation effects in domain based pair natural orbital coupled cluster calculations: an out-of-the-box approach
acs2Ejctc2E7b00352.pdf
Bistoni, Giovanni
Riplinger, Christoph
Minenkov, Yury
Cavallo, Luigi
Auer, Alexander A.
Neese, Frank
Chemical Science Program
KAUST Catalysis Center (KCC)
The validity of the main approximations used in canonical and domain based pair natural orbital coupled cluster methods (CCSD(T) and DLPNO-CCSD(T), respectively) in standard chemical applications is discussed. In particular, we investigate the dependence of the results on the number of electrons included in the correlation treatment in frozen-core (FC) calculations and on the main threshold governing the accuracy of DLPNO all-electron (AE) calculations. Initially, scalar relativistic orbital energies for the ground state of the atoms from Li to Rn in the periodic table are calculated. An energy criterion is applied for determining the orbitals that can be excluded from the correlation treatment in FC coupled cluster calculations without significant loss of accuracy. The heterolytic dissociation energy (HDE) of a series of metal compounds (LiF, NaF, AlF3, CaF2, CuF, GaF3, YF3, AgF, InF3, HfF4 and AuF) is calculated at the canonical CCSD(T) level, and the dependence of the results on the number of correlated electrons is investigated. Although for many of the studied reactions sub-valence correlation effects contribute significantly to the HDE, the use of an energy criterion permits a conservative definition of the size of the core, allowing FC calculations to be performed in a black-box fashion while retaining chemical accuracy. A comparison of the CCSD and the DLPNO-CCSD methods in describing the core-core, core-valence and valence-valence components of the correlation energy is given. It is found that more conservative thresholds must be used for electron pairs containing at least one core electron in order to achieve high accuracy in AE DLPNO-CCSD calculations relative to FC calculations. With the new settings, the DLPNO-CCSD method reproduces canonical CCSD results in both AE and FC calculations with the same accuracy.
Bistoni G, Riplinger C, Minenkov Y, Cavallo L, Auer AA, et al. (2017) Treating sub-valence correlation effects in domain based pair natural orbital coupled cluster calculations: an out-of-the-box approach. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.7b00352.
Giovanni Bistoni, Alexander A. Auer and Frank Neese gratefully acknowledge the Priority Program ''Control of London Dispersion Interactions in Molecular Chemistry'' (SPP 1807) of the DFG for financial support. Yury Minenkov and Luigi Cavallo gratefully acknowledge the financial support from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).
American Chemical Society (ACS)
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
10.1021/acs.jctc.7b00352
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.jctc.7b00352
Articles; Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division; Chemical Science Program; KAUST Catalysis Center (KCC)

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Yann Masseyeff's Lifeline on display at Place Vendôme
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Installed on the Place Vendôme, Yann Masseyeff's "Ligne de Vie" is a monumental work that continues his work and his reflection on the evolution of the human being in the face of the uncertainty of passing time. The artist unveils here an alignment of 66 sandstone sculptures, implanted in a regular rhythm that reminds us of the ineluctable passing of time.
This line defines a metamorphosis that ends as it began, creating the cycle of life and leaving a unique imprint on the character of each individual's life.
A French artist born in Dakar, Yann Masseyeff draws on a multitude of cultural influences.
As a young man, he was introduced to drawing, then attracted by the work of the material, he naturally turned to ceramics. He models the clay, creating an almost primal dialogue with his sculptures and making them resonate with his creative energy.
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I haven't seen either of these, and neither is shown on modernlib.com. If anyone has these, I'd be grateful to receive scans or photocopies. I also need to date them by spring or fall of a given year according to the dating key on modernlib.com (or you could scan or photocopy the list of titles inside the jacket and I could date it from that). Neither of these is reproduced on modernlib.com so if you have them I'm sure Scot would appreciate scans as well.
I also need to date Dj 4 of A Virgin Heart (this is shown on modernlib.com so I know someone has it).


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Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2 review: how it should have been [análise/vídeo]
November 6, 2020 by Manoj
The Galaxy Z Fold 2 is yet another attempt by Samsung to score a foldable smartphone on the market. The first Galaxy Fold had two versions: one very problematic, which never appeared in stores, and another that came to be sold, but still had a face of product in beta. Then, Samsung bet on the Galaxy Z Flip, which stoked the nostalgic feelings of many people who had a flip phone in the 2000s.
With these past experiences, we are talking about Samsung's third or fourth generation of foldable cell phones. It is still an extremely expensive and niche product, but it promises to be more refined than previous models. Is it worth it? I already say that I no longer wanted to return the device to Samsung, but I will share my experiences in the next few minutes.
Galaxy Z Fold 2 video review
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Design and external screen
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2 (Image: Paulo Higa / Tecnoblog)
As I said at the beginning of the year, the Galaxy Fold was a prototype. The Galaxy Z Fold 2 is the finished product. There is no way to compare the two devices properly: apart from the fact that both are foldable cell phones and turn into a small tablet, the new model has a much superior finish, cutouts for selfie cameras that don't look like gambiarras and a much more comfortable external screen to use.
The design lines of the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra were a clear inspiration for the Galaxy Z Fold 2, especially in the rear cameras, which create a pronounced bump in the housing. The bronze color, which is a strong bet by Samsung in the latest products, pleases me for being elegant and escaping the sameness of the black and silver of the electronics industry, without being too flashy.
The weight of 282 grams and the thickness of almost 17 mm when folded are similar to those of the previous generation, so you should feel the Galaxy Z Fold 2 in your pants pocket at all times (and others around you too). Other features inherited from the first Galaxy Fold are the fingerprint reader on the side and the stereo speakers with excellent quality and high volume, as I would expect from a good tablet.
Closed, the Galaxy Z Fold 2 looks like a more conventional smartphone, leaving aside the giant frames of the previous version. The 6.2-inch external display is quite tall, with a 25: 9 aspect ratio, interrupted only by the 10-megapixel front camera hole. Those who are used to large cell phones will still be surprised by the first days of use, since the virtual keyboard is narrower, but typing was comfortable after I got the hang of it.
The AMOLED panel of the cover has quality as expected for a top of the line, with good definition, strong brightness and the perfect black of the technology, but it does not escape much of that, with a refresh rate of 60 Hz and a glass feeling to the touch. Despite being a much needed change to make the phone more useful when folded, an edge-to-edge screen is something that Samsung could (and should) have included since the first generation.
The new folding screen
The big advances, for me, are in the internal screen and the hinge. In the first Galaxy Fold, I complained about the brightness of the foldable AMOLED, which was significantly weaker than Samsung's "ordinary" line tops. And it only had two positions: either fully folded, or fully open. After a Galaxy Z Flip in the middle, Samsung seems to have learned ways to make a foldable smartphone more interesting.
The 7.6 inch screen has excellent definition, strong brightness for viewing content even in sunlight and a 4: 5 aspect ratio; it is taller than broad. An interesting addition was the variable refresh rate, between 11 and 120 Hz, which seems to create an even greater sense of fluidity than on the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra's "small" 6.9-inch screen. There is no longer a huge notch for the front cameras, which enlarged the useful area of the panel.
Numerically, the 7.6 inches of the Galaxy Z Fold 2 don't seem like much when we have a vast offer of 6.7 or 6.9 inch phones on the market, but the display area of the Samsung folding smartphone is almost double normal, thanks to the proportion of the panel. Editing a document, surfing the web or reading a book are much more enjoyable tasks in the Samsung folding. Only a Galaxy Note pen was missing to complete the package.
The new hinge features tiny internal brushes to prevent debris from entering and improving the product's resistance, but the most interesting detail is the fact that it can fix the screen at any angle between 75 and 115 degrees. This opens up possibilities, such as taking pictures with a longer exposure time or shooting with the rear cameras without the help of a tripod. You can even leave your smartphone open on the table to use it as a mini-notebook or watch a video.
To be fair with an expensive R $ 14,000 cell phone, I just didn't like the factory-installed protection on the folding screen: it has a kind of sticky look, which reminds me of those cheap films you find in accessory stores of dubious origin. And, of course, there are still limitations inherent to the current state of technology: the crease in the middle of the screen remains very visible and there is no IP certification for water protection.
The Galaxy Z Fold 2 runs Android 10 with the One UI 2.5 interface and brings the same visual aspect as other Samsung phones, with square icons with rounded corners, clean screens and interfaces more thought to be used with one hand. The main adaptations for the foldable format are Flex mode and multitasking.
Flex mode takes advantage of the flexibility of using the hinge to adapt applications. If you want to type text, you can use the Galaxy Z Fold 2 as a mini-notebook, leaving the virtual keyboard at the bottom half of the screen and the document at the top. The division also works on YouTube: you can make the video occupy one half while you browse the comments on the other.
A nice possibility is to make a video call by leaving the Galaxy Z Fold 2 on the table, with the internal front camera pointing at your face, as in an ordinary laptop, leaving your hands free. Unfortunately, this only works on a few applications, such as Google Duo (who uses this?). The most popular of all, WhatsApp, did not yet support Flex mode at the time of this review, in November 2020.
With a larger screen, there's also room for real multitasking. A bar accessible from the side allows you to quickly open an application in split view: you can write text in Samsung Notes while you browse an article through the browser, for example. You can also run two applications at the same time in a pop-up view, as if they were desktop windows. This brings us to another feature of Samsung's expensive smartphones: DeX.
DeX simulates a desktop experience, with windows floating on a desktop and a bottom bar to switch between running applications. As with the Galaxy Note 20, it is possible to activate DeX mode on any TV with Miracast support without wires; there is also the option to connect the phone to an external screen with an HDMI cable. I missed an autonomous DeX mode, like the Galaxy Tab line, which could make more people out there drop a notebook.
The cameras of the Galaxy Z Fold 2 are good, but don't expect the same whim as the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra. The optical set is more similar to that of Samsung's 2019 phones, without the 108 megapixel sensor or even the 8K recording of the new models. Here we have two 10-megapixel front cameras and three rear cameras: a main, an ultrawide and a telephoto lens, all with 12 megapixel resolution.
Like any top of the line two years ago, photos in ideal lighting conditions are great by any criteria with the main lens: the definition is excellent, there is no visible noise and the dynamic range is very good. The telephoto lens has a 2x optical zoom, which already helps to frame more distant objects or capture photos in macro, while the ultrawide is satisfactory, presenting small chromatic aberrations, but doing a good job in general.
Photo taken with the rear camera of the Galaxy Z Fold 2 (Image: Paulo Higa / Tecnoblog)
Photo taken with the Galaxy Z Fold 2 ultrawide rear camera (Image: Paulo Higa / Tecnoblog)
Photo taken with the main rear camera of the Galaxy Z Fold 2 (Image: Paulo Higa / Tecnoblog)
Photo taken with the rear telephoto camera of the Galaxy Z Fold 2 (Image: Paulo Higa / Tecnoblog)
In the dark, Samsung's night mode is about creating a show of light and colors that doesn't please everyone, but that satisfies me visually. Photos with the main camera have low noise and show a certain sharpening filter to improve sharpness, but it is not as aggressive as in some Motorola models, for example. With ultrawide and telephoto lenses, night shots are at the "satisfactory" level: they are not incredible, but they are also not to be thrown away.
The front cameras, both internal and external, have good quality within what is expected of a Samsung, with that embellishment filter activated by default that smooths out the imperfections of the face and divides opinions among the western public. But the format of the Galaxy Z Fold 2 opens up another possibility: you can use the external screen to frame your face in one of the rear cameras, taking "selfies" with much better quality than with a small front camera sensor.
Photo taken with the front camera of the Galaxy Z Fold 2 (Image: Paulo Higa / Tecnoblog)
Hardware and connectivity
The Galaxy Z Fold 2 sold in Brazil has 12 GB of RAM, 256 GB of space (without the possibility of expansion) and a Snapdragon 865 Plus octa-core processor, from Qualcomm, a manufacturer that has been a bit lost on the Samsung line tops sold in the Brazilian market.
With this set of hardware, I don't need to waste time talking about performance: it's excellent, even for running games with graphics at maximum. This is also the most powerful Android launched in Brazil so far, taking into account that the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra arrived in the country with an older Samsung Exynos 990 chip.
The 5G is not yet a decisive factor of purchase, but it is useful for a device like the Galaxy Z Fold 2, which has guaranteed updates until 2023, when the technology should be present with force in Brazil, at least in the capitals. The device supports both the 5G DSS that is being adopted by operators in the initial phase and the 5G in frequencies below 6 GHz that will be auctioned by Anatel in mid-2021. Unfortunately, no millimeter waves here, like any other cell phone launched in the Brazil so far.
In numbers, the battery's 4,500 mAh capacity looks good if you think of the Galaxy Z Fold 2 as a, say, normal phone. But Samsung's foldable smartphone instigates you to consume more audiovisual content, and the audience itself of this type of device must get used to using multiple productivity apps at the same time. In other words, in practice, we are talking about a tablet with a theoretically below average battery. But until she surprised me, see?
In my quarantine pattern, with three hours of Netflix, one hour of web browsing and half an hour of Asphalt 9, always with maximum brightness, screen in adaptive mode and Wi-Fi, the Galaxy Z Fold 2 went from 100% to 49%. As expected, the bright 7.6-inch screen with a refresh rate of up to 120 Hz consumes considerable power, but Samsung has done a great job of optimizing resources here.
I confess that I missed a faster loading. As the Galaxy Z Fold 2 has a double battery (there are two cells of 2,250 mAh), Samsung could well include a more powerful charger than the 25 watt adapter included in the box, a number that is already common in competitive mid-range phones and on the Samsung Galaxy A line itself. Well, at least the charger is still included in the box.
It is obviously not worth it, we are talking about a fourteen thousand reais cell phone. Fourteen. Thousand. Reais. A cell phone. Do you know what you can do with all this money?
But if you don't need an honest answer to the "is it worth it" question and if money isn't an issue, the Galaxy Z Fold 2 is an excellent product. If the first Galaxy Fold looked like a prototype that happened to be available in stores, the Galaxy Z Fold 2 is the finished version of that test. It is what the Galaxy Fold should have been from the beginning to show what it came from.
Although the technology still exposes its limitations, such as the considerable thickness, the crease on the screen and the design without water protection, the Galaxy Z Fold 2 fulfills the proposal of being a "compact" smartphone when folded and a tablet when opened. The screens of conventional cell phones are getting bigger, but they are not expected to arrive at 7.6 inches anytime soon. And even if they did, Samsung could adopt an eight- or nearly nine-inch foldable screen without changing the design so much.
Working, watching a movie or playing on a bigger screen is better. All of this could be done on a tablet, but here we come in the same analogy as the cameras: the best camera is not the $ 10,000 lens DSLR, it's the one you have at the moment (and it's almost always a smartphone). We are probably reaching an era in which the best tablet may not be a tablet: if you have a Galaxy Z Fold 2 in your pocket, it is the best tablet and also the best smartphone.
If the Galaxy Fold was the most sensational smartphone of the decade I would never buy, the Galaxy Z Fold 2 is the most sensational smartphone of the decade that I would love to buy. It is still a product for early adopters who want to have the latest technology in hand even though they know that the next generations will be much better and cheaper. But if you can afford to spend that money on a cell phone, there is little reason to look back.
5G, reverse wireless charging, UWB: nothing is missing
Flawless performance and fluidity
Sophisticated design with more expensive final product
New screen and hinge open up possibilities for use
Screens with excellent quality and strong brightness
Worse cameras than the Galaxy S20 and Note 20
This crease on the screen is not really cool
Lack of water protection
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Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus octa-core (3.1 GHz Kryo Prime) and Adreno 650 graphics chip
Storage: 256 GB
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Drums: 4,500 mAh, 25 W fast charging (wired), wireless charging and reverse charging (Wireless PowerShare)
Operational system: Android 10 with One UI
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Barbary Lion
Science and History of the North African Lion
P. leo leo
Cultural Impact
Barbary Lion Twitter Feed
Patterns of lion decline in North Africa
The last pockets of habitat where lions were seen in the mid 20th century (1930s – 40s). Well-known populations in central Morocco (Ifrane) and western Algeria (Oran) had already disappeared.
Although there is no definitve survey data for barbary lion presence in North Africa, it is possible to use the information from reported sightings to map the final decline of the species. A quick summary is given in the figure opposite. The mid-grey expanse is the Maghreb ecosystem which was suitable habitat for lions stretching from south-west Morocco through to north-east Tunisia.
The lightest grey patches in central Morocco and north central Algeria indicate where lions had been present up to the 1920s. The darker grey regions indicate where the last micro-populations survived from the 1930s up to the early 1960s (at the latest). The important last populations may well have been completely isolated in North Setif, Biskra and Batna, the Saharan Atlas, southern Morocco on the Saharan fringe, and the southern High Atlas. It is possible that lions traversed the arid zones between the High Atlas, the Saharan fringe and the Saharan Atlas mountains, but the rest of the Algerian populations in the east were probably quite separate after the early 1900s.
Black SA, Fellous A, Yamaguchi N, Roberts DL (2013) Examining the Extinction of the Barbary Lion and Its Implications for Felid Conservation. PLoS ONE 8(4): e60174. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0060174
This entry was posted in Extinction, History and tagged Algeria, Atlas Mountains, barbary, Extinction, extirpation, lion, maghreb, Morocco on December 4, 2014 by Simon Black.
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Ultimate Lollywood (2): Some Say I Am Sweety
Filed Under >Adil Najam, Music, Society, TV, Movies & Theatre
About a year ago I did a short post and somewhat presumptuously titled it "Ultimate Lollywood." Let me suggest, equally presumptuously, that I may have now found an exemplar of what it means to be "Lollywood" that is even more "ultimate," maybe even "Lollywood supreme". Judge for yourself.
As was the case with my original selection, this song is also sung by Naheed Akhtar. But unlike that first selection, this never became a "super hit"; and understandably so. The lyrics are intriguing; and obviously the "poet" was thinking in Urdu as he (I presume it has to be a "he") write them:
Some say I am Sweety,
Some say a Queen of Beauty,
I am alive, heart is beating,
But my soul is hurting!
Let me confess that in varied – and maybe disturbing – ways this song has mesmerized me ever since I first saw this. Its not just the words, its the music, the dancing (especially of the jumping 'extras' in the background), the clothes (notice the shirt prints the men are wearing), the set (open sky, rooftop nightclub; did anything that at all looked like this ever exist anywhere?). Everything is quintessentially Lollywood, and could not possibly be more so.
But most of all I wonder how some Lollywood producer got Naheed Akhtar to sing this song (by the look of those on the set she would already have become a "senior funkaar" by then. More importantly, how did they get Zeba Begum and Babra Sharif to play this role (by this time Zeba was already clearly the grand damme of Pakistani cinema and Barba Shareef must also have been a major star).
I hope I do not come across as making fun of the song or those in it. I am not. It is nostalgia that the song triggers in me, not ridicule. Lollywood was, and is, in the business of selling dreams, not realities. It reflects the imaginations of movie-goers; and that is exactly what this video does: it gives s a glimpse into the imagination of a certain group of people at a certain point in time. Those of us who are unfamiliar with those people, their aspirations or their times, may find this funny, but let us instead be thankful for being allowed a peep into that world. It is a simple world. maybe a naive world. And, even when it implies naughtiness, an innocent world.
13 responses to "Ultimate Lollywood (2): Some Say I Am Sweety"
sajid raza khan says:
hahahahaha !
Love this song… what the hell is Sweetyyyyy?
and who is hungary and thristy ?
Lollywood rocks !
cheersssssssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!
ShahidnUSA says:
Ha ha, And I thought white men cant jump.
Looks like in those days there was only one dance director and a choriographer for the entire movie Industry, considering the same dancing steps in every movie. I call it a chicken dance.What a torture. Thanks to the fastforwarding remote control.
Dancing is a human right and a natural way for the body to express its emotions and its healty. No one should be deprived of that if its kept kosher and clean.
If Pakistan counts its blessings, it has four major very beautiful cultures, entirely different from eachother (no need to copy west).
If they were marketed tactfully, you may not be able to handle the influx of the tourists (foriegn exchange).
Dont frustrate & suffocate the society, unless you want to see the long lines of the creams of pakistan lining up outside the foriegn embasies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDLiVwpv89s
PS: If you go online and translate english poetry to Urdu and then translate it back to english, it would sound equally funny.
RubRakha
Lateef says:
Wah wah wah.
Yeh hai Lollywood!
Enjoyed this and cannot get the tune out of my head now. Funny, but also catchy.
Ultimate Lollywood (3): Mast Qalandar in English
Lollywood Billboard Art
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Ultimate Lollywood (1): Tu Turu Turu Tara Tara


With a name like "The Gardens", we knew we had to create a unique space that drew on nature for inspiration. We wanted this clubhouse to feel as calming as the sea, as fresh as a garden, and as unique as the residents who would use it. We painted the paneled walls of the main sitting area a dark, navy blue. For the vaulted ceilings, we designed rustic columns with hand sewn timbers that catch the eye and elevate the space while retaining the feeling of home.
We sprinkled warm, natural reclaimed wood elements throughout the space that add to the "homey" feel we were going for. But, we like contrasts. We mixed the natural elemental wood pieces with dynamic patterns, bold colors, and unique trim details. Throughout the large, open space, we placed unexpected black and white patterns that contrast beautifully with richly colored fabrics that bring lively pops of color and personality to the room.
We always strive to bring the client's unique style and brand to life. In the case of this clubhouse, the client's brand informed two design choices: the navy blue anchored our palette and a verdant, live wall acted as a natural divider between the kitchen and the game room.
We wanted the clubhouse to be a place for kicking back, playing, and socializing. To that end, we made sure there were plenty of plush couches and chairs to sink into, a row of custom designed benches surrounding a pool table, and a kitchen complete with an island and chairs.
The Gardens at Easton feels clean yet classic, modern yet homey.


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Anton Tadich
Dr. Anton Tadich
Soft X-ray Spectroscopy Beamline, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
Dr Anton Tadich received his PhD from La Trobe University (Victoria, Australia) in 2008, working in the photoemission instrumentation group led by Professors John Riley and Robert Leckey, who pioneered the technique of Angle Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy (ARPES) in Australia. Following his PhD, Dr Tadich obtained a position as a beamline scientist at the Soft X-ray Beamline, Australian Synchrotron, where he currently works today.
Alongside his beamline colleagues, Dr Tadich is responsible for the training and management of visiting scientists at the beamline, as well as the maintenance and development of beamline instrumentation and techniques. He has significant expertise in synchrotron-based photoelectron spectroscopy, vacuum instrumentation and surface science techniques, and is an expert in the application of these tools to investigate the chemical and electronic structure of low dimensional condensed matter systems such as surface-transfer doped diamond, 2D materials, transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) and topological insulators/semimetals. Anton is a national expert in the technique of Angle Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy (ARPES) for measuring electronic bandstructure, and he is responsible for managing the only ARPES detector in Australia, a toroidal electron spectrometer, based at the Soft X-ray Beamline.
Anton is an active researcher within the condensed matter physics community, and maintains a number of collaborations with local and international research groups. He is a Partner Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low Energy Electronics (FLEET, www.fleet.org), and is currently the President of the Vacuum Society of Australia (VSA).
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About fishing kayak design, innovation, upgrades, accessories, etc.
This article is based on questions emailed to us by Dan from Southern Australia, and on our response to his questions.
Indeed, the kayak business is extremely competitive.
This includes small, medium size and big kayak companies.
Our competitors offer products that are essentially the same, namely variations on sit-in and sit-on-top (SOT) kayaks.
If you look at the designs (forms) themselves, you'll find no noteworthy change in the past 40 years since such kayaks were first roto-molded.
None of our competitors has any technological advantage over the others, so they are forced to compete by offering many accessories, whether that makes sense or not, plenty of unnecessary detail in their designs, intensive promotion (hype), and price.
Wavewalk has a proprietary technology that puts us in a different category.
We keep expanding, and we're very attentive to what our clients say. Our clients spend long hours on the water, and they demand a system that's robust, comfortable, and works perfectly in all circumstances, so this is what we offer them.
Nothing beats simplicity in design, and since our kayaks beat any other kayak in terms of functionality, there is no real demand from us to add accessories and detail to what we offer.
We used to offer anchors, stake-out poles, paddle clips, a variety of deck mounted rod holders, and even more paddles, until we reached the conclusion that our clients are best served when they buy such accessories in fishing and boating stores after they got the kayak from us, and know exactly which accessories they actually need. We may be losing a few dollars on each sale, but at least we know that our clients face a better choice than what we could have possibly offered them, and they're not pushed to buy products they might not necessarily need, or may not be the best choice for them.
Our clients consider the W kayak to be the world's best fishing kayak (see customer reviews > ). Clients who've fished out of other craft including motorboats consider the W to be the world's best personal fishing craft. Our recently introduced motorized W kayak successfully competes against small motorboats (see: http://microskiff.us ). This is to say that we keep leading in true, substantial and meaningful innovation, because that's what we focus on.
Typically, people who are new to the fishing from kayaks tend to be impressed by things that are not necessarily meaningful, such as hatch covers, seats that are hyped as being ergonomic, "consoles", cup holders and other accessories.
The W500 is the leader in performance and versatility among personal fishing craft including kayaks, canoes, dinghies, jonboats, and small microskiff.
Foam noodles may not look great to some people, until they realize how useful they are.
Regarding the foam noodles, they are to float your boat for recovery in the event of an accident, not to prevent tipping. I have mine (4) bungeed against the underside of the hull, between the pontoons. This puts them out of sight and out of the way.
I use my W500 for fishing and have owned numerous other crafts over the past 35 years: fiberglass skiff, ultra-light kayak, john boat, inflatable, aluminum bass boat, folding boat and square-ended canoe. The W500 exceeds them all in fishability, transportability, maintainability and access to ANY water. I usually just use the paddle but when I am on larger bodies of water I just snap on my 2hp-4stroke Honda and jet to the next likely spot at about 8 mph. When I'm done the W500 slides on top of the car and the motor goes in the trunk.
Sorry for the enthusiasm, it is the one hazard of having bought this as my LAST boat.
I think most of our clients end up not using flotation modules, possibly because after using their W kayak many times, they can't imagine capsizing it. That might not be the wisest attitude to adopt, especially if you go in deep water.
As for W dealers, I guess they're happier too, since they have to carry less items in stock.
And don't forget how useful the noodles are in creating stealth while fishing in shallow water. Without them, even the slightest noise created by constantly rotating between fishing rods and paddles would send redfish into the next county. They also serve in securing additional lures within easy, quiet reach by inserting the hooks into the foam.
True. Rigging your kayak for fishing is not just cheaper and more effective, it's also fun!


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namespace backend\modules\userManagement\models\rbacDB;

use Exception;
use backend\modules\userManagement\components\AuthHelper;
use Yii;
use yii\rbac\DbManager;

class Permission extends AbstractItem
{
	const ITEM_TYPE = self::TYPE_PERMISSION;

	/**
	 * @param int $userId
	 *
	 * @return array|\yii\rbac\Permission[]
	 */
	public static function getUserPermissions($userId)
	{
		$dbManager = Yii::$app->authManager instanceof DbManager ? Yii::$app->authManager : new DbManager();

		return $dbManager->getPermissionsByUser($userId);
	}

	/**
	 * Assign route to permission and create them if they don't exists
	 * Helper mainly for migrations
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	 * @param string       $permissionName
	 * @param array|string $routes
	 * @param null|string  $permissionDescription
	 * @param null|string  $groupCode
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	 * @throws \InvalidArgumentException
	 * @return true|static|string
	 */
	public static function assignRoutes($permissionName, $routes, $permissionDescription = null, $groupCode = null)
	{
		$permission = static::findOne(['name' => $permissionName]);
		$routes = (array)$routes;

		if ( !$permission )
		{
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			}
		}

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		{
			$route = '/' . ltrim($route, '/');
			try
			{
				Yii::$app->db->createCommand()
					->insert(Yii::$app->getModule('user-management')->auth_item_child_table, [
						'parent' => $permission->name,
						'child'  => $route,
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			{
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				// so just go to the next route
			}
		}

		AuthHelper::invalidatePermissions();

		return true;
	}
}

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Islam and Islamism. By Daniel Pipes.
The Ideological Response
The Clash of Ignorance
by EDWARD W. SAID
The Nation, October 22, 2001.
Samuel Huntington's article "The Clash of Civilizations?" appeared in the Summer 1993 issue of Foreign Affairs, where it immediately attracted a surprising amount of attention and reaction. Because the article was intended to supply Americans with an original thesis about "a new phase" in world politics after the end of the cold war, Huntington's terms of argument seemed compellingly large, bold, even visionary. He very clearly had his eye on rivals in the policy-making ranks, theorists such as Francis Fukuyama and his "end of history" ideas, as well as the legions who had celebrated the onset of globalism, tribalism and the dissipation of the state. But they, he allowed, had understood only some aspects of this new period. He was about to announce the "crucial, indeed a central, aspect" of what "global politics is likely to be in the coming years." Unhesitatingly he pressed on:
"It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural. Nation states will remain the most powerful actors in world affairs, but the principal conflicts of global politics will occur between nations and groups of different civilizations. The clash of civilizations will dominate global politics. The fault lines between civilizations will be the battle lines of the future."
Most of the argument in the pages that followed relied on a vague notion of something Huntington called "civilization identity" and "the interactions among seven or eight [sic] major civilizations," of which the conflict between two of them, Islam and the West, gets the lion's share of his attention. In this belligerent kind of thought, he relies heavily on a 1990 article by the veteran Orientalist Bernard Lewis, whose ideological colors are manifest in its title, "The Roots of Muslim Rage." In both articles, the personification of enormous entities called "the West" and "Islam" is recklessly affirmed, as if hugely complicated matters like identity and culture existed in a cartoonlike world where Popeye and Bluto bash each other mercilessly, with one always more virtuous pugilist getting the upper hand over his adversary. Certainly neither Huntington nor Lewis has much time to spare for the internal dynamics and plurality of every civilization, or for the fact that the major contest in most modern cultures concerns the definition or interpretation of each culture, or for the unattractive possibility that a great deal of demagogy and downright ignorance is involved in presuming to speak for a whole religion or civilization. No, the West is the West, and Islam Islam.
The challenge for Western policy-makers, says Huntington, is to make sure that the West gets stronger and fends off all the others, Islam in particular. More troubling is Huntington's assumption that his perspective, which is to survey the entire world from a perch outside all ordinary attachments and hidden loyalties, is the correct one, as if everyone else were scurrying around looking for the answers that he has already found. In fact, Huntington is an ideologist, someone who wants to make "civilizations" and "identities" into what they are not: shut-down, sealed-off entities that have been purged of the myriad currents and countercurrents that animate human history, and that over centuries have made it possible for that history not only to contain wars of religion and imperial conquest but also to be one of exchange, cross-fertilization and sharing. This far less visible history is ignored in the rush to highlight the ludicrously compressed and constricted warfare that "the clash of civilizations" argues is the reality. When he published his book by the same title in 1996, Huntington tried to give his argument a little more subtlety and many, many more footnotes; all he did, however, was confuse himself and demonstrate what a clumsy writer and inelegant thinker he was.
The basic paradigm of West versus the rest (the cold war opposition reformulated) remained untouched, and this is what has persisted, often insidiously and implicitly, in discussion since the terrible events of September 11. The carefully planned and horrendous, pathologically motivated suicide attack and mass slaughter by a small group of deranged militants has been turned into proof of Huntington's thesis. Instead of seeing it for what it is--the capture of big ideas (I use the word loosely) by a tiny band of crazed fanatics for criminal purposes--international luminaries from former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi have pontificated about Islam's troubles, and in the latter's case have used Huntington's ideas to rant on about the West's superiority, how "we" have Mozart and Michelangelo and they don't. (Berlusconi has since made a halfhearted apology for his insult to "Islam.")
But why not instead see parallels, admittedly less spectacular in their destructiveness, for Osama bin Laden and his followers in cults like the Branch Davidians or the disciples of the Rev. Jim Jones at Guyana or the Japanese Aum Shinrikyo? Even the normally sober British weekly The Economist, in its issue of September 22-28, can't resist reaching for the vast generalization, praising Huntington extravagantly for his "cruel and sweeping, but nonetheless acute" observations about Islam. "Today," the journal says with unseemly solemnity, Huntington writes that "the world's billion or so Muslims are 'convinced of the superiority of their culture, and obsessed with the inferiority of their power.'" Did he canvas 100 Indonesians, 200 Moroccans, 500 Egyptians and fifty Bosnians? Even if he did, what sort of sample is that?
Uncountable are the editorials in every American and European newspaper and magazine of note adding to this vocabulary of gigantism and apocalypse, each use of which is plainly designed not to edify but to inflame the reader's indignant passion as a member of the "West," and what we need to do. Churchillian rhetoric is used inappropriately by self-appointed combatants in the West's, and especially America's, war against its haters, despoilers, destroyers, with scant attention to complex histories that defy such reductiveness and have seeped from one territory into another, in the process overriding the boundaries that are supposed to separate us all into divided armed camps.
This is the problem with unedifying labels like Islam and the West: They mislead and confuse the mind, which is trying to make sense of a disorderly reality that won't be pigeonholed or strapped down as easily as all that. I remember interrupting a man who, after a lecture I had given at a West Bank university in 1994, rose from the audience and started to attack my ideas as "Western," as opposed to the strict Islamic ones he espoused. "Why are you wearing a suit and tie?" was the first retort that came to mind. "They're Western too." He sat down with an embarrassed smile on his face, but I recalled the incident when information on the September 11 terrorists started to come in: how they had mastered all the technical details required to inflict their homicidal evil on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and the aircraft they had commandeered. Where does one draw the line between "Western" technology and, as Berlusconi declared, "Islam's" inability to be a part of "modernity"?
One cannot easily do so, of course. How finally inadequate are the labels, generalizations and cultural assertions. At some level, for instance, primitive passions and sophisticated know-how converge in ways that give the lie to a fortified boundary not only between "West" and "Islam" but also between past and present, us and them, to say nothing of the very concepts of identity and nationality about which there is unending disagreement and debate. A unilateral decision made to draw lines in the sand, to undertake crusades, to oppose their evil with our good, to extirpate terrorism and, in Paul Wolfowitz's nihilistic vocabulary, to end nations entirely, doesn't make the supposed entities any easier to see; rather, it speaks to how much simpler it is to make bellicose statements for the purpose of mobilizing collective passions than to reflect, examine, sort out what it is we are dealing with in reality, the interconnectedness of innumerable lives, "ours" as well as "theirs."
In a remarkable series of three articles published between January and March 1999 in Dawn, Pakistan's most respected weekly, the late Eqbal Ahmad, writing for a Muslim audience, analyzed what he called the roots of the religious right, coming down very harshly on the mutilations of Islam by absolutists and fanatical tyrants whose obsession with regulating personal behavior promotes "an Islamic order reduced to a penal code, stripped of its humanism, aesthetics, intellectual quests, and spiritual devotion." And this "entails an absolute assertion of one, generally de-contextualized, aspect of religion and a total disregard of another. The phenomenon distorts religion, debases tradition, and twists the political process wherever it unfolds." As a timely instance of this debasement, Ahmad proceeds first to present the rich, complex, pluralist meaning of the word jihad and then goes on to show that in the word's current confinement to indiscriminate war against presumed enemies, it is impossible "to recognize the Islamic--religion, society, culture, history or politics--as lived and experienced by Muslims through the ages." The modern Islamists, Ahmad concludes, are "concerned with power, not with the soul; with the mobilization of people for political purposes rather than with sharing and alleviating their sufferings and aspirations. Theirs is a very limited and time-bound political agenda." What has made matters worse is that similar distortions and zealotry occur in the "Jewish" and "Christian" universes of discourse.
It was Conrad, more powerfully than any of his readers at the end of the nineteenth century could have imagined, who understood that the distinctions between civilized London and "the heart of darkness" quickly collapsed in extreme situations, and that the heights of European civilization could instantaneously fall into the most barbarous practices without preparation or transition. And it was Conrad also, in The Secret Agent (1907), who described terrorism's affinity for abstractions like "pure science" (and by extension for "Islam" or "the West"), as well as the terrorist's ultimate moral degradation.
For there are closer ties between apparently warring civilizations than most of us would like to believe; both Freud and Nietzsche showed how the traffic across carefully maintained, even policed boundaries moves with often terrifying ease. But then such fluid ideas, full of ambiguity and skepticism about notions that we hold on to, scarcely furnish us with suitable, practical guidelines for situations such as the one we face now. Hence the altogether more reassuring battle orders (a crusade, good versus evil, freedom against fear, etc.) drawn out of Huntington's alleged opposition between Islam and the West, from which official discourse drew its vocabulary in the first days after the September 11 attacks. There's since been a noticeable de-escalation in that discourse, but to judge from the steady amount of hate speech and actions, plus reports of law enforcement efforts directed against Arabs, Muslims and Indians all over the country, the paradigm stays on.
One further reason for its persistence is the increased presence of Muslims all over Europe and the United States. Think of the populations today of France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Britain, America, even Sweden, and you must concede that Islam is no longer on the fringes of the West but at its center. But what is so threatening about that presence? Buried in the collective culture are memories of the first great Arab-Islamic conquests, which began in the seventh century and which, as the celebrated Belgian historian Henri Pirenne wrote in his landmark book Mohammed and Charlemagne (1939), shattered once and for all the ancient unity of the Mediterranean, destroyed the Christian-Roman synthesis and gave rise to a new civilization dominated by northern powers (Germany and Carolingian France) whose mission, he seemed to be saying, is to resume defense of the "West" against its historical-cultural enemies. What Pirenne left out, alas, is that in the creation of this new line of defense the West drew on the humanism, science, philosophy, sociology and historiography of Islam, which had already interposed itself between Charlemagne's world and classical antiquity. Islam is inside from the start, as even Dante, great enemy of Mohammed, had to concede when he placed the Prophet at the very heart of his Inferno.
Then there is the persisting legacy of monotheism itself, the Abrahamic religions, as Louis Massignon aptly called them. Beginning with Judaism and Christianity, each is a successor haunted by what came before; for Muslims, Islam fulfills and ends the line of prophecy. There is still no decent history or demystification of the many-sided contest among these three followers--not one of them by any means a monolithic, unified camp--of the most jealous of all gods, even though the bloody modern convergence on Palestine furnishes a rich secular instance of what has been so tragically irreconcilable about them. Not surprisingly, then, Muslims and Christians speak readily of crusades and jihads, both of them eliding the Judaic presence with often sublime insouciance. Such an agenda, says Eqbal Ahmad, is "very reassuring to the men and women who are stranded in the middle of the ford, between the deep waters of tradition and modernity."
But we are all swimming in those waters, Westerners and Muslims and others alike. And since the waters are part of the ocean of history, trying to plow or divide them with barriers is futile. These are tense times, but it is better to think in terms of powerful and powerless communities, the secular politics of reason and ignorance, and universal principles of justice and injustice, than to wander off in search of vast abstractions that may give momentary satisfaction but little self-knowledge or informed analysis. "The Clash of Civilizations" thesis is a gimmick like "The War of the Worlds," better for reinforcing defensive self-pride than for critical understanding of the bewildering interdependence of our time.
Islam and Islamism.
By Daniel Pipes.
The National Interest (Spring 2000): p87.
Faith and Ideology
ONE CANNOT emphasize too much the distinction between Islam--plain Islam--and its fundamentalist version. Islam is the religion of about one billion people and is a rapidly growing faith, particularly in Africa but also elsewhere in the world. The United States, for example, boasts almost a million converts to Islam (plus an even larger number of Muslim immigrants).
Islam's adherents find their faith immensely appealing, for the religion possesses an inner strength that is quite extraordinary. As a leading figure in the Islamic Republic of Iran maintains, "Any Westerner who really understands Islam will envy the lives of Muslims." Far from feeling embarrassed about its being temporally the last of the three major Middle Eastern monotheisms, Muslims believe that their faith improves on the earlier ones. In their telling, Judaism and Christianity are but defective variants of Islam, which is God's final, perfect religion.
Contributing to this internal confidence is the memory of outstanding achievements during Islam's first six or so centuries. Its culture was the most advanced, and Muslims enjoyed the best health, lived the longest, had the highest rates of literacy, sponsored the most advanced scientific and technical research, and deployed usually victorious armies. This pattern of success was evident from the beginning: in A.D. 622 the Prophet Muhammad fled Mecca as a refugee, only to return eight years later as its ruler. As early as the year 715, Muslim conquerors had assembled an empire that extended from Spain in the west to India in the east. To be a Muslim meant to belong to a winning civilization. Muslims, not surprisingly, came to assume a correlation between their faith and their worldly success, to assume that they were the favored of God in both spiritual and mundane matters.
And yet, in modern times battlefield victories and prosperity have been notably lacking. Indeed, as early as the thirteenth century, Islam's atrophy and Christendom's advances were already becoming discernible. But, for some five hundred years longer, Muslims remained largely oblivious to the extraordinary developments taking place to their north. Ibn Khaldun, the famous Muslim intellectual, wrote around the year 1400 about Europe, "I hear that many developments are taking place in the land of the Rum, but God only knows what happens there!"
Such willful ignorance rendered Muslims vulnerable when they could no longer ignore what was happening around them. Perhaps the most dramatic alert came in July 1798, when Napoleon Bonaparte landed in Egypt--the center of the Muslim world--and conquered it with stunning ease. Other assaults followed over the next century and more, and before long most Muslims were living under European rule. As their power and influence waned, a sense of incomprehension spread among Muslims. What had gone wrong? Why had God seemingly abandoned them?
The trauma of modern Islam results from this sharp and unmistakable contrast between medieval successes and more recent tribulations. Put simply, Muslims have had an exceedingly hard time explaining what went wrong. Nor has the passage of time made this task any easier, for the same unhappy circumstances basically still exist. Whatever index one employs, Muslims can be found clustering toward the bottom--whether measured in terms of their military prowess, political stability, economic development, corruption, human rights, health, longevity or literacy. Anwar Ibrahim, the former deputy prime minister of Malaysia who now languishes in jail, estimates in The Asian Renaissance (1997) that whereas Muslims make up just one-fifth of the world's total population, they constitute more than half of the 1.2 billion people living in abject poverty. There is thus a pervasive sense of debilitation and encroachment in the Islamic world today. As the imam of a mosque in Jerusalem put it not long ago, "Before, we were mast ers of the world and now we're not even masters of our own mosques."
SEARCHING FOR explanations for their predicament, Muslims have devised three political responses to modernity--secularism, reformism and Islamism. The first of these holds that Muslims can only advance by emulating the West. Yes, the secularists concede, Islam is a valuable and esteemed legacy, but its public dimensions must be put aside. In particular, the sacred law of Islam (called the Shari'a)--which governs such matters as the judicial system, the manner in which Muslim states go to war, and the nature of social interactions between men and women--should be discarded in its entirety. The leading secular country is Turkey, where Kemal Ataturk in the period 1923-38 reshaped and modernized an overwhelmingly Muslim society. Overall, though, secularism is a minority position among Muslims, and even in Turkey it is under siege.
Reformism, occupying a murky middle ground, offers a more popular response to modernity. Whereas secularism forthrightly calls for learning from the West, reformism selectively appropriates from it. The reformist says, "Look, Islam is basically compatible with Western ways. It's just that we lost track of our own achievements, which the West exploited. We must now go back to our own ways by adopting those of the West." To reach this conclusion, reformers reread the Islamic scriptures in a Western light. For example, the Koran permits a man to take up to four wives--on the condition that he treat them equitably. Traditionally, and quite logically, Muslims understood this verse as permission for a man to take four wives. But because a man is allowed only one in the West, the reformists performed a sleight of hand and interpreted the verse in a new way: the Koran, they claim, requires that a man must treat his wives equitably, which is clearly something no man can do if there is more than one of them. So, they conclude, Islam prohibits more than a single wife.
Reformists have applied this sort of reasoning across the board. To science, for example, they contend Muslims should have no objections, for science is in fact Muslim. They recall that the word algebra comes from the Arabic, al-jabr. Algebra being the essence of mathematics and mathematics being the essence of science, all of modern science and technology thereby stems from work done by Muslims. So there is no reason to resist Western science; it is rather a matter of reclaiming what the West took (or stole) in the first place. In case after case, and with varying degrees of credibility, reformists appropriate Western ways under the guise of drawing on their own heritage. The aim of the reformists, then, is to imitate the West without acknowledging as much. Though intellectually bankrupt, reformism functions well as a political strategy.
THE THIRD response to the modern trauma is Islamism, the subject of the remainder of this essay. Islamism has three main features: a devotion to the sacred law, a rejection of Western influences, and the transformation of faith into ideology.
Islamism holds that Muslims lag behind the West because they're not good Muslims. To regain lost glory requires a return to old ways, and that is achieved by living fully in accordance with the Shari'a. Were Muslims to do so, they would once again reside on top of the world, as they did a millennium ago. This, however, is no easy task, for the sacred law contains a vast body of regulations touching every aspect of life, many of them contrary to modern practices. (The Shari'a somewhat resembles Jewish law, but nothing comparable exists in Christianity.) Thus, it forbids usury or any taking of interest, which has deep and obvious implications for economic life. It calls for cutting off the hands of thieves, which runs contrary to all modern sensibilities, as do its mandatory covering of women and the separation of the sexes. Islamism not only calls for the application of these laws, but for a more rigorous application than ever before was the case. Before 1800, the interpreters of the Shari'a softened it somew hat. For instance, they devised a method by which to avoid the ban on interest. The fundamentalists reject such modifications, demanding instead that Muslims apply the Shari'a strictly and in its totality.
In their effort to build a way of life based purely on the Shar'i laws, Islamists strain to reject all aspects of Western influence--customs, philosophy, political institutions and values. Despite these efforts, they still absorb vast amounts from the West in endless ways. For one, they need modern technology, especially its military and medical applications. For another, they themselves tend to be modern individuals, and so are far more imbued with Western ways than they wish to be or will ever acknowledge. Thus, while the Ayatollah Khomeini, who was more traditional than most Islamists, attempted to found a government on the pure principles of Shiite Islam, he ended up with a republic based on a constitution that represents a nation via the decisions of a parliament, which is in turn chosen through popular elections--every one of these a Western concept. Another example of Western influence is that Friday, which in Islam is not a day of rest but a day of congregation, is now the Muslim equivalent of a sabb ath. Similarly, the laws of Islam do not apply to everyone living within a geographical territory but only to Muslims; Islamists, however, understand them as territorial in nature (as an Italian priest living in Sudan found out long ago, when he was flogged for possessing alcohol). Islamism thereby stealthily appropriates from the West while denying that it is doing so.
Perhaps the most important of these borrowings is the emulation of Western ideologies. The word "Islamism" is a useful and accurate one, for it indicates that this phenomenon is an "ism" comparable to other ideologies of the twentieth century. In fact, Islamism represents an Islamic-flavored version of the radical utopian ideas of our time, following Marxism-Leninism and fascism. It infuses a vast array of Western political and economic ideas within the religion of Islam. As an Islamist, a Muslim Brother from Egypt, puts it, "We are neither socialist nor capitalist, but Muslims"; a Muslim of old would have said, "We are neither Jews nor Christians, but Muslims."
Islamists see their adherence to Islam primarily as a form of political allegiance; hence, though usually pious Muslims, they need not be. Plenty of Islamists seem in fact to be rather impious. For instance, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in New York, Ramzi Yousef, had a girlfriend while living in the Philippines and was "gallivanting around Manila's bars, strip joints and karaoke clubs, flirting with women." From this and other suggestions of loose living, his biographer, Simon Reeve, finds "scant evidence to support any description of Yousef as a religious warrior." The FBI agent in charge of investigating Yousef concluded that, "He hid behind a cloak of Islam."
On a grander level, Ayatollah Khomeini hinted at the irrelevance of faith for Islamists in a letter to Mikhail Gorbachev early in 1989, as the Soviet Union was rapidly failing. The Iranian leader offered his own government as a model: "I openly announce that the Islamic Republic of Iran, as the greatest and most powerful base of the Islamic world, can easily help fill up the ideological vacuum of your system." Khomeini here seemed to be suggesting that the Soviets should turn to the Islamist ideology--converting to Islam would almost seem to be an afterthought.
Contrary to its reputation, Islamism is not a way back; as a contemporary ideology it offers not a means to return to some old-fashioned way of life but a way of navigating the shoals of modernization. With few exceptions (notably, the Taliban in Afghanistan), Islamists are city dwellers trying to cope with the problems of modern urban life--not people of the countryside. Thus, the challenges facing career women figure prominently in Islamist discussions. What, for example, can a woman who must travel by crowded public transportation do to protect herself from groping? The Islamists have a ready reply: she should cover herself, body and face, and signal through the wearing of Islamic clothes that she is not approachable. More broadly, they offer an inclusive and alternative way of life for modern persons, one that rejects the whole complex of popular culture, consumerism and individualism in favor of a faith-based totalitarianism.


The U.S. women's soccer team has advanced to the championship game of the FIFA World Cup tournament in Canada for the second straight time, beating Germany in a semifinal match on Tuesday, 2-0.
Lloyd scored on a penalty kick in the 69th minute after the referee ruled that Germany's Annike Krahn had obstructed striker Alex Morgan. Replays showed the penalty took place just outside the box.
In the 85th minute, O'Hara scored from close range past German goalie Nadine Angerer after taking a perfect centering pass from Lloyd.


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import models.Tables.DataSource
import play.api.data.Form
import play.api.data.Forms._
/**
  * Created by info on 27.10.2016.
  */
case class DataSourceForm(name: String, description: String, loadCommand: String)

object DataSourceForm {

  def from(q: DataSource): DataSourceForm = {
    DataSourceForm(q.name, q.description, q.loadcommand)
  }

  def fillFrom(q: DataSource): Form[DataSourceForm] = {
    form.fill(from(q))
  }

  def form = Form(
    mapping(
      "name" -> nonEmptyText,
      "description" -> nonEmptyText,
      "loadCommand" -> nonEmptyText
    )(DataSourceForm.apply)(DataSourceForm.unapply)
  )

  // access rights?
}


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Virat Kohli may bat at No.3 in second ODI as India aim to keep series alive
India have a dismal ODI record at the Saurashtra Cricket Association stadium in Khanderi as they have lost on both the previous occasion when they played at the venue.
By: Sports Desk | Updated: January 17, 2020 11:14:02 am
India captain Aaron Finch and Australia captain Aaron Finch shake hands after Australia won the first one-day international cricket between in Mumbai. (AP Photo)
India face Australia in the second one-day international (ODI) at the Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Rajkot with the series on the line. Kohli and Co. will go into the game 0-1 down after a thrashing in Mumbai, courtesy David Warner and Aaron Finch, who hit unbeaten hundreds. The talking point going into the match has been Kohli's batting position and it is certain that the Indian captain will return at his favoured number three spot.
Kohli's batting average while playing outside number three, since the start of 2015 is a meager 9.43. He managed to score 66 runs in 8 innings with the highest score of 16.
With a concussed Rishabh Pant out of the second game, Rahul is a certainty as he will keep wickets.
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It would also be interesting to see which among the experienced Kedar Jadhav and rookie Shivam Dube makes the squad.
The toss-up could be between Yuzvendra Chahal and Kuldeep Yadav as Ravindra Jadeja looks certain to keep his spot.
On the other hand, a high on confidence Australia will be looking to seal the issue to register back to back series wins in India, a rare feat for any visiting team. The Finch-Warner combination will look forward to carrying the momentum.
Their middle-order comprising the experienced Steve Smith, in-form Marnus Labuschange, Ashton Turner and Alex Carey looks more or less settled.
If all of them fire in unison, along with the openers, then it will hard for the opposition bowlers.
However, it will be quite a test of their middle-order at the Saurashtra Cricket Association stadium.
Rajkot not happy hunting ground for India
India first played a ODI at the SCA Stadium on January 11, 2013 against England and lost by nine-runs in a thriller. Then they played their second ODI against South Africa at the same venue on October 18, 2015 and this time they lost by 18 runs.
So, the Virat Kohli-led side, who are 0-1 down in the three-match series, would surely like to change the record to keep themselves afloat in the series.
Meanwhile, Australia is unbeaten in 50-over format when they have played in Rajkot. Australia have played only one ODI against India here and won that game.
The team from Down Under then played a lone T20 at the SCA Stadium where they suffered a drubbing at the hands of the hosts.
Australia first played in Rajkot on October 7, 1986 at the old stadium and Australia had won the match by 7 wickets, chasing a 261-run target, with then skipper Allan Border remaining unbeaten on 91.
Then a T20 match between the two sides was played at SCA stadium on October 10, 2013, which was won by the hosts by six wickets.
Pitch Report: The 22 yards at the Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium tends to favour the batsmen but spinners are expected to play a role. Sunny skies and a dry pitch will surely bring the tweakers into play. However, only two ODIs have been played at the stadium, and it was South Africa's Morne Morkel who enjoyed success by resorting to sharp bouncers and the slower short ball in 2015.
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Form guide – (last five completed matches)
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Squads-
India: Virat Kohli (Captain), Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, K L Rahul (wicketkeeper), Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Kedar Jadhav, Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Navdeep Saini, Jasprit Bumrah, Shardul Thakur and Mohammed Shami.
Australia: Aaron Finch (Captain), Alex Carey (Wicket-keeper), Patrick Cummins, Sean Abbott, Ashton Agar, Peter Handscomb, Josh Hazlewood, Marnus Labuschange, Kane Richardson, Steve Smith, Mitchell Starc, Ashton Turner, David Warner and Adam Zampa.
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At age 27 with financial support from fishermen and the Icelandic Confederation of Labour he passed an entrance examination and was admitted to the Royal Danish Art Academy for higher education in the arts where he completed his studies. During the Copenhagen years he became acquainted with various styles including impressionism, expressionism and cubism but he also became an accomplished draughtsman, possibly one of the finest Iceland ever had. Later he also took shorter trips to France and Italy. Later in his life his art frequently also included abstract painting.
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How to Recognize & Face the Challenges to Working College Students
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Balancing the Load
A large majority of undergraduate college students work while going to school. Some students work to earn spending money or to gain job experience. Most, however, work to pay living expenses and tuition. In fact, undergraduates are more likely to be employed than to attend school full-time, attend a four-year college or university, live on campus, or apply for or receive financial aid. Academic and demographic characteristics do not vary much in employed students. Students work regardless of age, gender, race or ethnicity, dependency or marital status, full-time or part-time school status, or income. While the number of hours students work varies regarding type of institution attended (public vs. private institution) and income, being employed in college takes a toll on academics and the college experience.
Although most employed undergraduates do not find work overly stressing, the challenges facing these students include limitations in course schedule, the number of academic hours they can take, course choice, and access to campus facilities. Students experience more stress unsurprisingly, as the number of hours they work increases. In addition, undergraduates who work in off-campus jobs feel that their employment increases these limitations.
Working part-time hours seems to have little negative impact on a student's academic performance at most types of institutions. Undergraduates who work between 1 to 20 hours per week have actually shown a higher grade point average (GPA) than undergraduates who do not work. Students' GPAs, however, decline slightly as they work more hours. Academic performance is not the only factor of college success to consider when students work over 20 hours per week. Students who work more than part-time hours while in college have less persistence in earning their degree and are more likely to drop out before completing it.
With these all of these challenges facing working students, how can they balance the load? First of all, students should slow down if they begin feeling burned out. Looking at their schedule critically can help them find some more time for studying and sleeping. Working students should also do whatever it takes to get more organized. Scheduling study hours when students are at their peak, whether it is morning or night, can maximize academic performance.
Working college students should consider reducing the number of academic hours they are taking. Students should remember that for each hour they attend class, 1-3 hours should be devoted to completing assignments and studying. And, students should not forget to do some of the activities they enjoy doing. Having fun helps manage stress and can make undergraduates better students and better workers.
Of all the challenges facing working college students, completing a degree in four years is really a challenge in itself. Earning a degree actually takes five or more years. Graduating in a certain number of years does not matter. What matters is graduating.
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Social Sciences and Humanities students celebrate their achievement awards
Sixty-eight students from the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Languages, who are currently in their second and third year of studies, have been awarded a University of Westminster Achievement Award in recognition of their success in coming top of their Undergraduate degree course studies last session.
The School held a ceremony on 16 January 2013 to mark the occasion. Students and their guests were welcomed by the Dean of School, Dr Jeremy Colwill, and there were brief speeches from Professor Morgan-Tamosunas, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, and from Mamie Barden, the Senior Scholarships Administrator. The students were then each presented with a Certificate and a cheque for £1,000 by their Head of Department and the Deputy Vice-Chancellor.
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Why Raiders' coach Jon Gruden is growing…
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Why Raiders' coach Jon Gruden is growing frustrated with tackle Trent Brown
Raiders tackle Trent Brown's inability to stay on the field is testing Jon Gruden's patience
Las Vegas Raiders offensive tackle Trent Brown, center, warms up alongside offensive tackle Andre James (68) and guard Jordan Roos during an NFL football training camp practice Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020, in Henderson, Nev. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP, Pool)
By Jerry Mcdonald |
PUBLISHED: September 14, 2020 at 3:27 p.m. | UPDATED: September 15, 2020 at 7:14 a.m.
Raiders coach Jon Gruden had no injury news to report Monday, but the frustration was in his voice as it pertains to right tackle Trent Brown.
Asked if he was "concerned" given the amount of training camp Brown missed and then playing just three snaps in a 34-30 road win over the Carolina Panthers, Gruden's response included some dry sarcasm.
"It's obviously a concern, but I'm good at it," Gruden said during a Zoom teleconference. "I'm good at being concerned about it. Really good at it."
Brown was a spectator throughout much of training camp with an injury that was never specified. He missed five games last season with a torn pectoral, finishing on injured reserve. He was listed with a calf injury heading in to the Carolina game and was a full participant in practice by the end of the week.
After three plays against Carolina, Brown was on the training table, having his right calf worked on. He did not return. Brown's replacement, Sam Young, lasted 15 snaps before leaving with an undisclosed injury and giving way to Denzelle Good, a guard by trade who had no work at tackle.
Good ended up being Sunday's unsung hero, performing admirably at a foreign position.
The Raiders also lost middle linebacker Nick Kwiatkoski after 22 plays with a pectoral injury. According to an NFL Network report, the injury is not a tear and that although Kwiatkoski could miss some time, it's not as severe as was feared initially.
Gruden has not publicly questioned Brown's ability to play. A calf injury, particularly when it supports a 6-foot-8, 380-pound man, has the potential to be debilitating. As much as Gruden understands that, the Raiders paid Brown a maximum of $66 million over four years, making him temporarily the highest paid lineman in the NFL. Brown's salary cap number of $21.5 million is the same as quarterback Derek Carr.
While Gruden isn't saying he thinks Brown could play, it's important to note what he's not saying. Gruden is not gushing about all the hard work Brown is doing to get back on the field. Some of that is sheer frustration over not having one of his most valuable players and maybe not entirely fair to Brown.
One thing to understand about Gruden is he reveres players who play through injury. He's fond of saying the best ability is availability. Gruden watched with admiration as Kolton Miller fought his way through a rookie season with a knee injury yet played in every game. He is convinced the experience made Miller a better player. Gruden holds center Rodney Hudson in high regard because he's nearly impossible to get off the field.
When Josh Jacobs fractured his shoulder in Week 7 last season and then kept playing through Week 14, Gruden seemed as impressed with the toughness of his rookie runner as much as the yardage he was providing. He even pointed out that Jacobs took a pain-killing injection to finish the game in Green Bay, something that happens often in the NFL but is seldom volunteered as a topic of conversation.
Rookie receiver Henry Ruggs III injured a knee late in the first half against Carolina, but he returned to play and finish the game. Ruggs wasn't targeted as a receiver or given the ball on a run from scrimmage in the second half after flashing the ability that made him the No. 12 pick in the first round of the draft with three catches for 55 yards and two rushes for 11 yards before the injury.
Ruggs played though, and Gruden made note of it Monday.
"I like the fact that he came back and played through something," Gruden said. "That's what the great ones do. They play through pain, they play through difficult situations. He did that."
When wide receiver J.J. Nelson said he couldn't play last season in Week 4 against Indianapolis after being cleared medically with a knee injury, he was released two weeks later.
We'll know more about Brown Wednesday when the Raiders begin preparations to host the New Orleans Saints on Monday Night Football.
Raiders coach Jon Gruden walks the sidelines without a mask Sunday against the Carolina Panthers.
WHO WAS THAT UNMASKED MAN?
The NFL sent out a memo to all 32 teams threatening discipline for coaches and sideline staff not wearing masks in violation of COVID-19 protocols.
One of those coaches was Gruden.
"I'm sure they're directing it at me," Gruden said. "I've got to do a better job keeping my mask over my face. It was really hot. You have a headset on and it's hard to communicate at times with that mask. I've just got to do a better job with that mask."
VERSATILITY IS GOOD
Gruden praised Good for stepping in at tackle after Brown and Young departed. Good started last season at left tackle when Richie Incognito began the season on suspension and later played on the right side in place of Gabe Jackson.
"I've never been in a game where you lose two players at one position in the first 10 snaps," Gruden said. "It's a credit to him, big time, for being able to not only go out there and finish the game but finish well. He did some good things in pass protection, he did some good things in the running game. When Derek Carr switched the play late he was able to pick it up and get his assignments. So I'm really proud of him."
Quarterback Derek Carr's change of play calls included the name `Cindy Gruden.'
CARR'S `CINDY GRUDEN' AUDIBLE
While watching a television replay, Gruden was amused to hear Carr change one play at the line of scrimmage by calling out "Cindy Gruden Tiger Woods" before receiving the snap.
"I don't know what he's been up to at the line of scrimmage, but he'd better keep my wife out of it from now on," Gruden said.
Carr completed 22 of 30 passes for 239 yards with no turnovers and drew high praise from Gruden.
"Derek Carr played a super football game yesterday," Gruden said. "No sacks, no interceptions, 34 points, did a great job throwing the ball accurately, tight windows, and made some great plays for us."
PRESSURING THE QUARTERBACK
The Raiders gave Teddy Bridgewater far too much time to throw with a defensive line that recorded just one sack and seldom pressured the quarterback.
The theory was to use eight bodies and keep players fresh. Eight men played with the following snap counts: Clelin Ferrell (52), Maxx Crosby (51), Maliek Collins (47), Johnathan Hankins (39), Arden Key (29), Carl Nassib (20), Maurice Hurst (20) and Kendal Vickers (9). Ferrell played both end and occasionally inside.
Nassib and Hurst combined for the lone sack. Gruden cited a flight to an East Coast time zone and wearing black jerseys in humid weather as factors but is counting on improvement against the Saints and Drew Brees.
"Any time you watch a game like that and the quarterback has his chance to get his second and third look, get to checkdowns, it's not good enough," Gruden said. "Our players know that and they're capable of better."
LAWSON CAN RETURN
Cornerback Nevin Lawson, who served a one-game suspension for swinging a helmet at an opponent in last year's season finale in Denver, has come off the NFL's suspended list. The Raiders have yet to make a corresponding transaction to the 53-man roster to bring Lawson back.
FLORES IN THE BOOTH
Former Raiders coach and Hall of Fame candidate Tom Flores will join Brent Musburger and Lincoln Kennedy in the radio booth for the Monday night game against New Orleans, the club announced on its website.
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