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The Deserter: A Novel (Hardcover)
By Nelson DeMille, Alex DeMille
(FICTION--SUSPENSE/PSYCHOL)
*NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*
An "outstanding" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) blistering thriller featuring a brilliant and unorthodox Army investigator, his enigmatic female partner, and their hunt for the Army's most notorious—and dangerous—deserter from #1 New York Times bestselling author Nelson DeMille and Alex DeMille.
When Captain Kyle Mercer of the Army's elite Delta Force disappeared from his post in Afghanistan, a video released by his Taliban captors made international headlines. But circumstances were murky: Did Mercer desert before he was captured? Then a second video sent to Mercer's Army commanders leaves no doubt: the trained assassin and keeper of classified Army intelligence has willfully disappeared.
When Mercer is spotted a year later in Caracas, Venezuela, by an old Army buddy, top military brass task Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor of the Criminal Investigation Division to fly to Venezuela and bring Mercer back to America—preferably alive. Brodie knows this is a difficult mission, made more difficult by his new partner's inexperience, by their undeniable chemistry, and by Brodie's suspicion that Maggie Taylor is reporting to the CIA.
With ripped-from-the-headlines appeal, an exotic and dangerous locale, and the hairpin twists and inimitable humor that are signature DeMille, The Deserter is the first in a timely and thrilling new series from an unbeatable team of True Masters: the #1 New York Times bestseller Nelson DeMille and his son, award-winning screenwriter Alex DeMille.
Nelson DeMille is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty novels, six of which were #1 New York Times bestsellers. His novels include The Deserter, (written with Alex DeMille), The Cuban Affair, Radiant Angel, Plum Island, The Charm School, The Gold Coast, and The General's Daughter, which was made into a major motion picture, starring John Travolta and Madeleine Stowe. He has written short stories, book reviews, and articles for magazines and newspapers. Nelson DeMille is a combat-decorated U.S. Army veteran, a member of Mensa, Poets & Writers, and the Authors Guild, and a member and past president of the Mystery Writers of America. He is also a member of the International Thriller Writers, who honored him as 2015 ThrillerMaster of the Year. He lives on Long Island with his family.
Alex DeMille is a writer, director, and film editor. He grew up on Long Island and received a BA from Yale University and an MFA in film directing from UCLA. He has won multiple awards and fellowships for his screenplays and films, including The Absence, which was named Best Film at Comic-Con in 2012. He has edited numerous commercials, shorts, and independent feature films, among them My Nephew Emmett, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short in 2018. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter. The Deserter is his debut novel.
PRAISE FOR THE DESERTER
"[O]utstanding...In typical DeMille fashion, the last hundred pages move along like a ballistic missile, exploding in a satisfying finale on a remote airstrip. DeMille and son provide it all in this rumble Through the jungle – authentic detail, lively dialogue, a vividly drawn setting, and an exhilarating plot."—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, STARRED REVIEW
"Nelson DeMille simply gets better every time he puts pen to paper. Maybe this time it has to do with a little help from Alex DeMille. I'm not sure if that's true, but what I'm sure of is that it's a blessing to have another DeMille with superb storytelling skills on the horizon. THE DESERTER will soar to the top of bestseller lists in record time, without any hesitation. It can't fail. This book is absolutely stunning."
— Book Reporter
PRAISE FOR THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE CUBAN AFFAIR
"[An] action-packed, relentlessly paced thriller… A line from the novel perfectly describes this page-turner: 'Sex, money, and adventure. Does it get any better than that?'"
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"DeMille's latest is a timely stay-up-all-night, nail-biting page-turner featuring his iconic tongue-in-cheek, articulate, rhythmic narrative. His affably irreverent protagonist, fantastic believable supporting characters, and tense, realistic Cuba-set scenes including some jaw-dropping revelations make this a must-read for his many fans."
—Library Journal (starred review)
"The Cuban Affair feels authentic and real, and it provides knuckle-white tension mixed in with levity."
"The opening of The Cuban Affair is dynamite—crisp, funny and dramatic—and the climactic conclusion is masterful action writing, fast, precise and genuinely gripping."
"This is powerful, mythic stuff, like Confederate gold and Nazi treasure...As the true nature of the charter-boat owner's job becomes clear and the betrayals begin, DeMille mounts a long, magnificent sequence with boat chases, helicopter rescues, and tracer fire. They're all described in that visceral style the author has mastered."
"This book has that incredible wit that Nelson DeMille has, and nobody writes characters like Nelson does."
—Tampa Bay Times
"Nelson DeMille has outdone himself. I thought that Plum Island was one of my favorite thrillers of all time, but I was wrong—DeMille is always going up a gear and The Cuban Affair is going to be one of the top ten thrillers of the year."
—Strand Magazine
"DeMille's known for penning hot thrillers (Plum Island, Night Fall), and this one—his 20th—doesn't disappoint...DeMille keeps it fast-paced, with fascinating details about contemporary Cuba."
"With his latest, The Cuban Affair, DeMille cements his reputation as an author of compelling, finely crafted and at times, humorous standalone thrillers. he Cuban Affair bursts with DeMille's signature authenticity—a byproduct of DeMille's passion for research."
"Ambitious...a masterpiece of both form and function. Storytelling at its very best."
—BookTrib
"The Cuban Affair offers romance, adventure and an astute and amusing look at today's Cuban communist police state."
"Bestseller Nelson DeMille's reputation precedes him, and his new novel delivers...This one will keep you on the edge of your seat."
—Bookish.com
"With his signature humor and heart-pounding pace, DeMille does not disappoint in this brilliantly written novel."
"The thriller charts a satisfying course. A good day's work from an old pro."
Publication Date: October 22nd, 2019
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REALSOFT and PALCO successfully develop and implement the electronic solution for Jordanian parliamentary elections of 2016
November 30, -0001
REALSOFT Advanced Applications together with PALCO completed developing the electronic systems designed for managing the parliamentary electoral process through connecting all voting centers with the central database.
The electoral electronic systems included all the electoral process phases, starting from the preparatory stages (pre-elections/pre-experiments), through the voting and votes screening systems designed specifically for the elections day, and ending with smart systems for data collection and statistical reports on the post-election stage and extracting and disseminating results and reports.
On the other hand, all candidacy applications all over the Kingdom were received and processed using a system connected with a database for voters' lists, and all electronic nomination procedures were followed through the systems designed for that purpose.
The systems designed for elections consist of two main sections: administrative systems work internally inside the Independent Election Commission as backend systems to manage the whole process, and systems that operate outside the Independent Election Commission such as; the voting and screening ballots systems in voting centers.
All the electoral systems are linked with a centralized database that works as the basic unit of the system, and based on that, the company has developed a system to manage the administrative processes in the backend system where there are many screens designed to make it easier for the user to perform administrative operations on two main levels: the first level, to follow-up with the electoral process systems both the voting and screening systems in voting centers, which represents the lower level of monitoring the administrative processes, and the other level which is the top-level of management, and it focuses on monitoring the workers in the previous level, in addition to providing statistical reports to review the overall systems and it's levels.
The system also offers the ability to define and prepare the basic functions and working environment for the electoral system, by allocating a section in the screens to enter basic data needed by the system to begin preparations for the electoral process, such as: inserting provinces and constituencies, and other basic system requirements. The system also allows through the follow-up department, to create and identify, activate and deactivate the users, as well as, giving them permissions either on other systems or on the backend system operations or its features such as changing the password for users and some other features.
On the other hand, the system displays ratios and number of voters on several levels (kingdom, province, department), in addition to the displaying primary and final results, votes screening status, winners result, and auditing results on multiple levels.
Besides that, the company provided a special system for the voting process and has linked it with the central database which lead to linking all voting and ballots stations all over the kingdom, which resulted in accuracy in the process and preventing voters from voting in more than one voting station through preventing them from casting ballots in other than their allocated ballot boxes by linking their names with their voting stations, where and through the ballot system, the employee in the center can check the names of the voters eligible to participate in the elections, and it enables the user to know whether the person has previously voted or not, alongside with details about when, where, and in which ballot box.
If a person hasn't voted yet, his voting status will change to "voted" after they cast their ballot (pointing that electronically) and this information will be circulated to all polling stations across the kingdom. The system doesn't allow second editing for the information entered, which prevents errors, knowing that every ballots box is linked with the center through (3) back-up services that enable a ballots box committee to audit the elections process even during electricity blackouts.
In addition, the system allows the attendees (presenters, observers and media) in the ballot counting room to review the details of every voter on a screen connected with device of the user entering the data to ensure the process integrity and accuracy.
The electoral system is equipped with a data encryption feature to prevent even the system administrator to access the data and deal with it, since only the data entry user can handle the data through special screens. The electoral system inside voting stations displays the number of voters updated moment by moment, where the data is available to everyone around the clock.
Moreover, the system instantly displays numbers and statistics related to the elections process online through the special screen connected to the Business Intelligence (BI) system in order to allow those interested in following up with the process in numbers and statistics, moment by moment, as the system displays the total number of registered citizens eligible to vote, along with the number detailed in terms of gender. The system also compares those number with the number of citizens who participated in the elections, total and in gender based as well.
The system is featured to display the elections numbers and statistics smartly on the form of graphs of statistical significance, which gives the researchers, decision-makers, and other interested parties information that are easy to read and understand and derive information from. In this context, the system displays a graph showing the distribution of the total numbers of voters (i.e. citizens who attended polling stations and casted their ballots) at the level of each province, and displays another graph that shows the distribution of the overall numbers of voters (i.e. citizens eligible to vote whether participated or not) (allowed) election, whether elected or not) at the level of each province.
The system can also display the information using an intelligent diversity of forms and on multiple levels, it also provides a news ticker that showcases the overall number of citizens who voted in each province.
On the other hand, the company deployed the Geographical Information Systems (GIS) techniques through the Operations Room system; which allows the user to follow up with the electoral process before the voting process begins and it allows following up with the state of each ballots box whether it's in use or not during the voting process, by recording the login and logout times of each center where the system displays the previous information on a map indicating the centers using points on a colored map with several colors, each color states the center connectivity status with the system, for example; red indicates there's no connection, while green demonstrates that there's a connection, making it easier for managers and employees to identify areas that require follow-up, visually .
The company also provided an application running on portable systems (tablets) and works offline, which also allows the citizen to know the ballots box where he's entitled to vote in before entering the voting station.
In the same context, the system allows the user to track the status of screening votes and how much was achieved after compiling the votes, during screening and after completing it, by displaying the completion percentage of votes all over the Kingdom and the ability to display the ballots boxes that have been completed, the boxes that are not done yet, in addition to the boxes in progress, and the completion percentage for each one of them through querying. The system displays this information in the form of colored points on the map so that each point represents a center and each color represents a completion status; for example, red represents a center with unfinished work, green represents a center with finished work. Moreover, the system provides the former properties on several levels (provinces, constituencies, polling and screening centers, and the entire Kingdom).
For its part, the Independent Election Commission praised the solution provided by the company, for achieving the requirements of the electoral work to the fullest and for the effort made by the company in overcoming the difficulties relating to the electoral process
It is noteworthy that, REALSOFT Advanced Applications developed the solution for the former elections in 2007.
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CargoLogicAir adds Tel Aviv to fast-growing scheduled cargo network
British all-cargo airline, CargoLogicAir (CLA), is adding Tel Aviv to its growing network of scheduled freighter operations.
Starting on 10 November 2017, the London Stansted-based airline will operate a weekly Boeing 747-400F service to Tel Aviv via Frankfurt. The flight will depart Frankfurt for Tel Aviv on Friday evening before returning to Frankfurt on Saturday morning. In December, the outbound service ex Europe will switch from Frankfurt to Hahn Airport.
CargoLogicAir has appointed Rom Top Aviation as its general sales agency partner in Tel Aviv.
Dmitry Grishin, CEO of CargoLogicAir, commented: "Our customers have indicated a high level of demand for a 747 freighter service connecting the heart of Europe and Tel Aviv and we are able to meet their requirements with a route that also gives direct connectivity into our growing global network. We expect to carry a diverse range of cargoes on this route, including regular shipments of pharmaceuticals, hi-tech products, aerospace components and perishables."
CLA launched its first scheduled cargo route in August with twice-weekly 747-400F flights from London Stansted Airport to Mexico City International Airport via Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. The routing of this service also incorporates stops in Houston, Frankfurt and Abu Dhabi, enabling the airline to provide a wider choice of Europe-Mexico, Europe-Middle East and U.S.-Middle East connections. Last month, CLA also commenced a weekly route connecting London with Frankfurt, Dubai and Hong Kong.
By utilising its network to connect with global partners, CLA is also able to offer cargo deliveries to Moscow, Chicago and to points across Asia, including Shanghai, Beijing, Chengdu and Tokyo.
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A Preview of Nor(DEV):Con - The IJYI Way Podcast
In a very special edition of The IJYI Way podcast we are delighted to be joined by the four keynote speakers from this year's nor(DEV):Con conference. We chat about what's coming up at the conference, a sneak preview of their keynote talks and insights from their own vast experience of the software development industry.
nor(DEV):Con is the biggest Developer Conference in the East of England running on 26-29th February and has a fantastic line-up of workshops and speakers.
nor(DEV)Con's 4 keynote speakers are:Jennifer Wadella – Lead Angular Developer at Bitovi based in Kansas City, USAKaren Poulter – Head of IT Development and Architecture at Hutchinson PortsChris O'Dell – Backend Engineer at MonzoDr Gail Ollis – Researcher and Lecturer at Bournemouth University
IJYI will be podcasting live from the event so make sure you check out our Twitter and LinkedIn feeds on the day.
You can listen to our other podcasts here.
Hello and welcome back to The IJYI Way. Today's podcast is slightly different for two reasons. Firstly, because we are taking a preview look at nor(DEV):Con, the huge developers conference that takes place in Norfolk. It's running on the 26th-28th of February. It's coming up in a couple of weeks, and it is going to be a corker. We've got over 31 speakers. There are five tracks. There are 40 sessions. Or more there's a workshop day on the 26th of February, and then the keynotes. The tracks and sessions all kick off and run on the 27th and the 28th. And apparently there's still a few tickets left, although they are going fast, so you'll need to get those nor(DEV):Con this year is even bigger and better than before. And so we've decided to do something slightly different, which is to get all the speakers together remotely. Yes, no one is here in the studio with me today instead everyone is down the line, so I'm gonna warn you now to expect some pops, clicks, whistles, strange noises and very possibly things breaking because it's live and we have never done this before. We've got people dialing in from all over the UK and also Jennifer Wadella who is dialing in from Missouri and yes, that's Kansas City, which is in Missouri, not Kansas. No doubt you've been following the news. And of course, the subsequent tweets by the president of the USA. You will know how many people can get that wrong. I'm gonna hold my hands up and say that I did think that Kansas City was in Kansas myself. So I've learned something there too. So without further ado, I would like to say a big hello to Jennifer Wadella, who is the lead angular developer at Bitovi.
Hello. Thank you for having me
No also dialling in we have Monzo Bank engineer, formerly from seven Digital. Chris Odell. I'd like to thank as well we have joining us one of the U. K's first cyber psychologists, Dr Gail Ollis. I would also like to thank the head of IT Development and Architecture at three UK ports. That seaports before that, of course, she had a low pressure job of being head of ITat Stanstead airport and after that, an even lower pressure job off being the head of I T. Suffolk Police. Karen Poulter.
Hello, nice to meet you.
Also joining us are Alex Scotton and Sean Church, who are two of the organiserands on co-founders of NorDev.
And finally completing the lineup. Last, but definitely not least as we are sponsors this year of NorDev. It's a great pleasure to introduce John Nicholson, who is the CTO and co founder of IJYI And I am Andrew Walker. I'm an old friend of IJYI's and I'll be there, live at NorDev roving around with a camera trying to get interviews with people on. We will be popping those out in our social media channels as it goes on. So do follow us on Twitter @ijyltd and check in on our LinkedIn page. There will be more coming life from NorDev. Okay, So before we dive in and meet our keynote speakers, I'd like to turn to Alex and Sean and just ask you tell us a little bit more about, NorDev and how it got started.
So all kind of came out of a kind of original meet up called Hot Source almost 10 years ago now where they were doing, kind of cross platform doing design and development and business etc. Actually, from their kind of broke out came kind of specialized meet-ups, there's SyncNowrich. That does start-up in business angle Norfolk developers ourselves that do the development and tech business angle. Then you've got, um, hot sources are still around doing the graphics UX desinger thing. And then we've also got a new, um, meet-up on stage Search Norwich as well, who were taking over the kind of search and marketing our aspects of the local area as well.Oh, yeah, it's a very vibrant, vibrant city for communities.
Okay, so there are over 31 speakers that are going to be appearing at NorDev this year, and we've got the four keynotes with us, and what I want to do is just have a quick chat with you and find out a little bit more about what you're talking about and what's brought you to Norwich and I want to start that one with Jennifer in Kansas City, Missouri, because I'm guessing people in Kansas City, Missouri, don't often think. Oh, you know what? I'm going to go the Norwich to speak at a conference!
No, not necessarily. That being said, I did get the opportunity to attend NorDevCon last year, and it was delightful and I was super happy. And also, it's the filming location of one of my favourite movies star dust.
Okay, now I'm going to say there are a few squeaks coming down the line if you're listening. In case you were wondering, No, we don't actually have a duck in the studio. There's some interference coming through in there just to say that we've got people dialling in so dialling in on the telephone lines. Plus, we've got stuff that it's streaming in through the computers on That's using different platforms, including Microsoft teams. So, yeah, we are going to get a little bit of weirdness there, so we'll soldier on through it. Jennifer, Angular has got huge now. There was a massive conference in London called Angular Connect last year, and that's I had some friends have come over from that one of the big ones in Europe. Um, tell us more about your work in angular, and I guess your work in Dev.
Um, well, in Kansas City, Missouri, we are a very dotnet heavy town and so I think that's why we have a lot of Angular development here is it feels safe. And it felt familiar, especially for teams that are trying to do full stack development. So that's been kind of my entryway. Like, I've been writing JavaScript for almost a decade and have touched almost every framework but Angular is a place that I fell into and ended up really, really enjoying. Um and ah have been pretty actively involved with the community for a year, and they're just really, really great people. They're great regular conferences all over the world if you get a chance to attend. So that's what I do for my day job. I love helping clients figure out how to write better code, how to upgrade existing code bases. You know, there's there's always just a lot of great stuff to learn and explore and discover in the angular ecosystem, Um, but to your other note. So for about seven years and I've run a nonprofit that I found it called Kansas City Women of Technology to try to get more women into tech careers in Kansas City. And so we do run a lot of programming and educational coding workshops for women and as well as just general networking and tech events for for women of any level of technology.
Okay, And now, turning to Chris Odell Chris, I'm going to disclose now I'm a huge fan of a big Monzo customer myself. What's your talk about at NorDev this year?
Thanks. Okay, so, my keynote talk is going to be about the developer experience. So as in taking all the kind of skills from UX and thinking of flow in terms of how development gets through your company, focusing into how the developers experience to build that. So what I mean is in Monzo, we have a team there called the Engineering Effectiveness Team and we kind of treat the engineering experience as a product and we work by putting metrics around how often we do things like deployments and how long PRs are open and just try and find the bottlenecks in the process. Possibly it's, um tooling. Or maybe there are some metrics that are not easy to discover and we'll do whatever we need to kind of like free up developers flow through there. So I've got some information on what we've discovered. What we changed and yeah hopefully it's things that you can take and take to your own company and improve the flow of the development there, too.
Karen, I know that you're talking about change on managing change is DevOps and the sort of new ideas that, you know, we associate with fast moving, agile startups. The kind of thing that comes up in the IT work that you do in the ports Or do you face a a different set of challenges?
Oh, yeah. Different challenge I'm the person that's always representing the old school. A lot of the company's I've worked in have been facing that challenge. You know, a lot of talk about agility and moving faster. Lots of CEOs desperate to make that happen. But the businesses and the maturity that's required and the clarity of vision isn't always there. So it's that for me, it's about trying to understand the best of what's new and what's going out there. But be realistic about the maturity of the the organization, you know, and temper the enthusiasm, too. Do some of these new things. The classic is is that, you know, is if we work in an Agile way, we never need to write anything down again, and we can just free flow everywhere without, you know, any sense of clarity about what we're trying to achieve, which clearly isn't isn't the truth for anybody that's ever delivered a project like that or in that way. But there's a lot of confusion out there. Lots of businesses that are trying to, evolve quickly and and haven't really understood the building blocks of of what makes a Google or an Apple or whomever they've bean to see work differently and do you know what, I think that that's, um, that's a large part of what I do.
Dr Gail Ollis. You're representing a whole new branch of research NorDev this year, which is really interesting because unlike many of the other disciplines we've been talking about in terms of developing and that kind of stuff, Cyber psychology didn't exist 20 years ago. So what's your speech?
Yeah. Okay, so I think mine actually complements Chris's quite nicely where she's looking at developer experience, from a tools and processes point of view. I am looking at the human side of that. So I was a software developer myself for a long time, went and studied psychology as a result of what I saw there. So I want to talk about a little bit about my research, but also about psychology and my experience a bit about compassion in development and maybe a bit about security. So understanding all the human aspect, but without calling it soft skills because that kind of puts across the wrong impression.
Jennifer, your talk is about developing new approaches to development and being Agile. So what holds people back do you think when they're working in tech and trying to get more Agile?
My keynote is about kind of fear of failure and why we're scared to try things. And it's actually inspired by not necessarily just technology, but my foray into fermentation particularly brewing kombucha, um, and so kind of talking about the parallels between trying something that is quote unquote low cost um, in the fear of just experimentation and how that could be a really limiting mindset when it comes to not only brewing, but learning and discovering and technology and how even our entire educational system is is set up to, uh, cause this this fear of failure, the fear of trying with us and what we could do to combat that.
Karen, your keynote is all about managing change, right?
It's a, you know, a lighthearted look with, hopefully, some things that will be relevant to everybody thats either trying to take a user group on a new on a new journey with software or trying to manage a team that's struggling with the way things are or the big thing for me is that anyone that's got a job in IT these days is probably a very likely changing the worlds of the people that surround them at an incredible pace and I think it is therefore hopefully will give people a little bit of something they can take away with them and use in their day to day…. to make their lives a bit easier.
Okay, now I'd like to bring in John Nicholson IJYI CTO. Now you are speaking this year you're not a keynote speaker. It's not. It's not a thing. I'm just saying. But what is your work?
Yeah, Yeah, I'm giving a workshop on something I've been researching and looking into a metamorphic testing and how we can test untestable systems, which is slightly scary because I'm still not fully sure how we do that. You know, we'll we'll work through it.
Okay, Now I've got to ask it. How do you test an untestable system? Is there an easy answer?
In short, no. There is no easy answer. But I'm going to talk through one of the proposed methodologies people have been using, which allows us to try and create tests without a test oracle or a defined truth of if I give this input, that output is what I'm expecting.
Now one thing that struck me is all the keynotes at NorDev this year are women. Is that a sign that finally we're seeing that change in the IT industry that, you know, we've been working towards with most of diversity and inclusion initiatives, Chris tells about Monzo is that a diverse organization. Do you work in a diverse team?
Yes, well Monzo is amazing at the diversity angle. It's fantastic. I think it's the only company I've worked in where I think the rate off women to men is in. The engineering department is over 20% and that sounds like a small number. But it's huge. It's absolutely huge. So I'm really enjoying it, the ratio is quite different it's fantastic.
Jennifer. You design courses for women in technology and advise companies on diversity. So have you noticed a big change?
Um, we do not have enough time in this podcast for my thoughts, but in a nutshell. The biggest change I see or we still have stripes to go. I have really big fights with employers that don't wanna hire quote unquote junior developers, but the problem is, we have to train people from somewhere. I can't just, like snap my fingers and produce like senior level women engineers. Sorry, that's not the way the world works, so we're still fighting that battle. But the biggest change I've seen as a woman in the industry is I feel a little bit less like screaming into the void, meaning when we're calling out problematic behavior in the industry, when we're starting to like get men listening to us saying, Oh, I understand, I see there's a problem How is my behavior affecting this? What can I do? I feel like we've made huge progress in that area versus just screaming, either being ignored or told that were unreasonable and things like that.
Karen, with your experience in more traditional areas like the ports and police, have you noticed that there's a shift in the diversity organizations? Or, you know, is it again, a different kind of challenge that you face?
Yeah, it's very interesting. I think I can safely say every environment I've worked in has had a real desire to make a change in this area to increase diversity not just in terms of women but in terms of sexuality and religion and race and all of the different all of the different strands of diverse. I think there is a really acknowledgement these days that having a workforce which is representative of the people around you and, you know, is able to bring a diversity of opinion and challenges. That is a really rich and the right thing to do so happy with that. What I would say is I don't think always lands very well. I think I, uh I will always have an inward to groan when somebody asks me how it feels to be a woman in management or woman in IT. And that happens because for me, I don't personally perceive myself as different from the people around me, and I'm just here doing a job. So it's slightly strange when you're singled out for that kind of conversation, but at the same time, there isn't still an issue in society. I think the point is, though, when where we are starting to turn around a little bit as a society and as employers is that I think I hope that people these days have got a little bit more confidence to speak out when those things happen. So I think it's, um, all of our all of our responsibilities to create an environment where poor behaviour is challenged and that people are safe to speak up because, you know, it's all very well having policies and good intentions, but it's it's it's what people experience day today in their work life that really speaks of, of whether we get it or wrong.
Gail, as a cyber psychologist, are we living in more diverse spaces? Are online world transforming things? Or is there still some way to go?
No, I do think we still have more to go. I think we've made some progress. One of my first job interviews when I was out of university, I was asked, You know, I'm not really allowed to ask you this, but are you going to run off and have babies on? I got invited by a professional institution to bring my wife to their annual dinner dance. So we've moved on a bit from that. But where I'm working now, there's a gender pay gap of 15% if you are a BAME woman that goes up to over 20%. So there's still an issue in the pay there. We are kind of still treated a bit as unicorns. So yeah, I'm with Karen on that. I don't want to be a woman in tech. I just wanna be a geek like any other geek, so I will not talk in a full length session about being a woman in tech because I just want to be a person in Tech. I will do it lightening talks. I've done it a couple of times, but I don't want to be defined by it. Yeah, we've got a way to go and we do need I think in some ways almost the fact that people recognise diversity as a thing means now they sometimes have a tendency to turn to us to kind of try and solve that and go and talk about it when we just want to get on with doing it. But I think it's a bit of a responsibility for women be visible, at least in that and be available to talk to. I hadn't realised that actually, I had a student couple of years ago who really enjoyed doing a presentation I'd asked them to do, they sent me an email afterwards, saying how much she enjoyed it, even though she didn't feel she belonged there in front of a room of men and that made me go. Yeah, okay, I didn't think there was much scope for doing stuff, especially for women, because it just it just is doing the unicorn thing and singling them out more. I'm flagging that they're unusual, which is going to discourage them. But actually, they do need that bit of support. Just to, help them feel they belong when they're so horribly outnumbered.
All right, well, listen, that more or less wraps it up. That's about all the time we've got. I'd like to thank speakers for joining us. And, um yeah, that's Jennifer Wadella who's in Kansas City, Missouri!
Well done, sir. Thank you for having me.
Okay. Chris Odell from Monzo. I'd like to say thanks very much, can't wait to meet you at, NorDev.
Thank you very much for having me as well
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HSBC sorry if you're listening, but your card's just aren't even close! I'd like to give a big thank you as well to Dr Gayle Ollis who is a lecturer in cyber psychology at Bournemouth University.
Thanks very much, looking forward to NorDev
A big thank you to Karen Poulter from three UK ports.
And as always I'd like to thankJohn Nicholson, who's the CTO and cofounder of IJYI And also Sean Church and Alex Scotton at NorDev.
Thanks for having us.
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Mid term elections came and went, and they certainly changed the landscape in terms of drugs. Not only did Maryland and Missouri pass cannabis legalization measures for recreational use; Colorado also made a big move when it became the second state to legalize psychedelics by allowing entheogenic plants. What does this mean for the state?
How did the vote go?
Mid term elections aren't always exciting, particularly because they're not for presidential candidates. But that doesn't mean exciting things can't happen, and Colorado is a great example of this. This year, while five states allowed residents to vote on recreational cannabis legalization measures, Colorado did it a bit more like Oregon, putting it to their people to choose if they wanted to legalize some psychedelics.
And the people said yes! Coloradoans had Proposition 122 put before them, the Decriminalization and Regulated Access Program for Certain Psychedelic Plants and Fungi Initiative. The winning yes vote came from a massive 91.46% of the voting population (you read that right), which was comprised of 1,296,994 votes. The no end accounted for a mere 8.54% of the voting population, with 121,111 votes. To say Colorado really wanted legal psychedelics, is practically an understatement.
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So what does this Proposition 122 do? The newly passed Colorado measure works to define specific plants containing psychedelics, as natural medicines. These include dimethyltryptamine (DMT); ibogaine; mescaline (but not the peyote plant, which is technically already covered federally under the American Indian Religious Freedom Act, while the other mescaline-containing plants were never federally illegalized, making for a loophole); and psilocybin; and psilocyn, the compounds found in magic mushrooms.
It also decriminalizes the personal possession, use, transport, and cultivation of these plants, so long as the person is 21 or older. Along with this, it creates the Regulated Natural Medicine Access Program which will be used to open an industry of licensed healing centers where such medications can be administered as a part of natural medicine services.
How does this differ from Oregon?
Colorado is not the 1st state to pass a law to legalize psychedelics. In fact, its technically the 2nd state to pass a recreational legalization, and the 3rd state to offer some form of access measure. The most well-known, is the first to do it, Oregon. In the 2020 elections, Oregon also put it to its people to decide if they wanted to specifically legalize psilocybin mushrooms.
In November 2020, 55.75% of the voting population gave a yes vote to Measure 109: Psilocybin Mushroom Services Program Initiative. That equaled 1,270,057 votes. 44.25% of the voting population voted no to the measure, comprised of 1,008,199 votes. This measure came with far less specifics than the Colorado measure, and there was uncertainty for many months over what kind of a legalization it was, and if it counted more as medical. In 2022, Oregon released its first draft rules for the industry, making a few things clear.
According to these rules, not only does this only relate to magic mushrooms, but only one kind of magic mushroom applies: Psilocybe cubensis. Meaning once its not this particular magic mushroom, the legalization no longer holds. But it also doesn't apply to some other important things. Like personal possession, or the ability to self-cultivate the mushrooms. Oregon only went as far as to legalize use of the mushrooms in approved centers, under the eye of trained, but not medical, tripsitters. Everything outside of this specific scenario, is not legal.
Colorado and its move to legalize psychedelics is much wider-reaching. It involves many different plants with psychedelic compounds, it allows the personal possession of the plants, and the personal cultivation of them. Though it will set up centers for use, it doesn't disallow the personal use of the substances outside of this. As it relates specifically to plants containing psychedelic compounds, it excludes psychedelics like LSD and MDMA, which are synthetically-made, and do not appear in nature.
But didn't Colorado already legalize MDMA?
Yes, Colorado has been on a rampage. Not only was Denver the first city in the US to pass a decriminalization measure for psychedelics in 2019, but in 2022, Colorado passed HB 1344, which was officially signed off on in June of this year, after essentially racing through the state's congress at nearly unprecedented speeds.
HB 1344 is an interesting bill. It doesn't exactly legalize MDMA, because it's not federally legal yet. What it does is work as a pre-emptive legalization. As in, the second the US passes a federal legalization, Colorado is already ready to go with laws set up to govern the use of the drug in the state. This means, should it not get a federal pass, HB 1344 is useless. It goes into action only upon the federal passage.
Colorado legalizes MDMA for pilot program
How likely is this federal passage? Very likely. When the FDA gives 'breakthrough therapy' status to the medication a company is working on, a status meant to quicken a drug to market in the case of it being a new therapy that can offer benefits that existing therapies don't offer; it means a government agency is literally pushing for it to happen. And such is the case for both MDMA and psilocybin on a federal level.
In the case of MDMA, the company leading the charge is MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies), which not only has this breakthrough therapy status, but which organized its Phase III trials directly with the FDA to ensure that results meet regulation. It would be short-sighted to believe that a legalization isn't coming, especially considering how well the trials have been going for the treatment of PTSD.
But wait…Connecticut gives access to psychedelics too, right?
If you're paying attention, I said Colorado is actually the 3rd state to pass some form of a legalization measure. Oregon was first, and as it turns out, Connecticut was second, though with a different kind of measure, which isn't considered an outright legalization. It's also strictly for medical use.
Connecticut passed Bill No. 5506, which actually makes use of an existent federal pilot program, that is unfortunately, not often accessed. The federal program is the FDA's expanded access program, which allows the use of drugs that have not been approved yet and are still under investigation. The point of the program is to allow patients in dire need, to access medications that have made it at least through Phase I, with the thought being that dire circumstances allow for dire measures to be taken.
Connecticut's bill really just accesses this program through its own pilot program, and is meant to begin in the state in 2023. Once the compounds it allows are officially approved by the federal government, the pilot program ends, and the new legalization measures take over. The Connecticut bill specifically allows for the access of yet-unapproved psilocybin and MDMA medications.
This pilot program will allow access solely on a medical level, which is different from both Oregon and Colorado. It comes with absolutely no recreational aspects, and does nothing to allow for personal possession, use, or cultivation. What it does do, is reinforce the usefulness of both psilocybin and MDMA in treating different disorders, and works to start getting access to these compounds, to patients in need.
The psychedelics boom is happening very quickly. Way more quickly than the cannabis boom, which realistically paved the way of the former. Had we not gotten the country acclimated to marijuana, it probably would've been harder to push for psychedelics. But with weed now legal in just about half the country, psychedelics are sliding by much faster, and more easily.
Besides the three states just mentioned which have some measure in place, there are plenty of other states that have been/are considering full-state legalizations (California, Washington, Michigan), and a multitude of locations that have decriminalized use. These include: San Francisco, Oakland, Santa Cruz, and Arcata, in California; as well as Denver, Colorado; Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, and Detroit, in Michigan; Washington, DC; Somerville, Cambridge, Northampton, and Easthampton, Massachusetts; and Seattle, Washington.
Should we expect more? You better believe it. Which one will be next, and how long it may take, are undetermined, but the trend is in place, and we know from watching cannabis, that the snowball becomes an avalanche. States where legislation was recently introduced include New Jersey with its Psilocybin Behavioral Health Access and Services Act; California with its SB-519 to decriminalize several compounds and open facilitated use centers; Oklahoma which introduced HB 3414 to study psilocybin and give access to patients in need; and Hawaii, which passed SB No 3160 to create a task force to implement psilocybin medications for adults medically.
Colorado shows that the push to legalize psychedelics didn't end with Oregon, and that we can expect way more. It also shows the progression already in motion for these laws, as it offers a much wider legalization than its predecessor. It will be interesting to see what happens next in this world.
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Preliminary Approval Given to $208.7 Million NCAA Settlement
Mar 26, 2017 by Breitbart
About 40,000 college football and basketball players will not need to submit a claim to receive a portion of the $208.7 million the NCAA will pay to settle a federal class-action lawsuit that claimed the value of their athletic scholarships was illegally capped.
U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken in California gave preliminary approval Tuesday to the settlement that was agreed upon by the NCAA and plaintiffs in February. Hagens Berman, the law firm representing plaintiffs, says each eligible person will receive approximately $6,500 and it can begin mailing notice to class members by July.
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In January 2015, the five wealthiest college conferences — the Atlantic Coast Conference, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and Southeastern Conference — passed NCAA legislation that allowed schools to increase the value of an athletic scholarship by several thousand dollars to the federally determined actual cost of attending a college or university.
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Rodriguez and Escudero, who has an elbow injury, will not be able to play today. Diego Carlos is isolated with coronavirus.
Valencia is in the stage of formation of the team, which has been headed by Javi Garcia since last summer. The new mentor has relied on experienced base players and talented youth from his football school.
After 20 rounds of the current championship, the "orange" have six victories and six peaceful outcomes, which brought 24 points and 11th place in the standings. In the last game guests lost to Atletico (0:3). The bats made their tournament path in the Cup of the Sun by knocking out Terrace (4:2), Eklano (4:1) and Alcorcon (2:0), for which we gave prediction.
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Real cup fighters meet and we expect a duel under the highest voltage on every centimeter of the football field. Sevilla are confidently playing in La Liga and do not mind getting the Spanish Cup. Valencia is only gaining momentum, while it has serious potential.
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No talks on sports betting until tribes' exclusive rights recognized
Published August 31. 2020 5:08PM
George Henningsen
Sportech, PLC's recent op-ed blamed the Tribes for "blocking" legislation to legalize sports betting. A more candid approach would acknowledge that both the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan Tribal Nations supported legislation legalizing sports betting as proposed by the Connecticut Jobs and Revenue Act. As beneficiaries of their own "exclusive" monopolistic contracts, Sportech, and the lottery too, should better appreciate why the tribes insist that the "exclusivity," for which they paid $8 billion, can only be modified with their consent.
The op-ed demonstrates that Connecticut's tribal gaming history remains misunderstood and misrepresented. It's time to set the record straight.
1. Connecticut didn't "give" the Tribes the right to casinos. The federal Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (1988) mandated state governments to negotiate "Compacts" with tribes authorizing gaming on reservations to the same extent allowed within state borders but subject to tribal regulatory oversight.
2. Connecticut resisted that mandate and fought the Mashantucket Tribe in court. The tribe won. Reluctantly, the state entered negotiations. Consensus was illusive and the federal mediator stepped in to sanction an agreement known as "Procedures." Mohegan's Compact mirrors Mashantucket's "Procedures" word for word.
3. Operation of slot machines ("video facsimiles of games of chance") remained a point of contention. A "moratoria" section was adopted allowing for future resolution by mutual agreement.
4. Foxwoods opened in February 1992 as a "table games only" casino with incredible success. As 60% of a typical casino's revenue is derived from slots, that meant money was left on the table. Federal law precludes states from "taxing" tribes so the parties utilized the moratoria language to grant the tribe "exclusive" rights to slots in exchange for 25% of the "win." (February 1993 MOU.) Shortly thereafter, via MOU amendment, the tribe guaranteed the state $113 million annually to erase the state's deficit.
5. The MOU was amended again in April 1994 when Nevada casinos sought to circumvent the "exclusivity" covenant. Their pitch? Table games only. Without slots, they argued, the tribes would be obligated to continue payments, while the Nevada casinos built up capacity in Connecticut. (See "Preamble" 1994 amended MOU.)
6. Governor Lowell Weicker adamantly opposed casino expansion and feared that misguided legislation would result in lost slot revenue. He closed the loophole, expanding tribal "exclusivity" to include all "commercial casino games." Close examination clearly supports that it was the state's intent in 1994 to limit all future casino gaming to the tribes. We are committed to, and confident of, our ability to prove that in court if necessary.
7."…all future casino gaming" as opposed to the oft-analyzed term "casino games" is not a mischaracterization. Courts look at the "intent of the parties" when resolving contract disputes. In this instance, the intent is inherently clear. Some argue that "casino games" is self-explanatory. Why then, did the legislature request opinions from the attorney general? Then Attorney General Richard Blumenthal (now a U.S. senator) opined that the term means "games prevalent in casinos." Attorney General George Jepsen called it an "open question." My point? Courts won't be swayed by tortured analysis of phrasing, nor will they give credence to political opinion. Respectfully, it's irrelevant. What is relevant, though not binding, is Rhode Island's recent court finding that sports betting IS "casino gaming." Further, sports betting was clearly "prevalent" in Nevada casinos in 1994 — the only state jurisdiction where such wagering was legal.
8. Prof. Daniel Wallach's committee testimony was interesting but not germane. He didn't acknowledge, nor explain, why the attorney general's opinions differed from his own.
9. The state deliberately chose not to clarify the term "exclusivity," nor to draw distinction among games, opting instead for the more generic and all-encompassing term "commercial casino games."
10. Wallach asserts that sports betting isn't referenced in the Procedures. True. The MOU is meant to address what CANNOT be operated by others as opposed to what CAN be operated by the tribes.
11. Money and odds are integral to gaming. Legislation that wagers $250 million for the chance to "win" $13 million to $15 million and guaranteeing tribal litigation defies logic. It's made all the more puzzling when supported by an administration that is cowed into inaction by the mere "threat" of litigation by unnamed parties.
Where do we go from here? Rhetoric aside, the tribes are open to discussions, including those that might involve Sportech. "Exclusivity," however, is ours to share. If that's not acknowledged, we will once again be waiting for a federal court decision. In the meantime, Connecticut citizens will spend dollars in other states or play illegal markets and two of Connecticut's largest employers, who also happen to be minority, family-owned and operated businesses, are snubbed. Very sad.
George Henningsen is chairman of the Mashantucket Pequot Gaming Commission.
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Lord Henry Cavendish (* 1673; † 10. Mai 1700) war ein englischer Adliger und Politiker.

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Cavendish war der zweite Sohn des William Cavendish, 1. Duke of Devonshire aus dessen Ehe mit Lady Mary Butler, Tochter des James Butler, 1. Duke of Ormonde. Als jüngerer Sohn eines Dukes führte er ab 1694 die Höflichkeitsanrede "Lord" Henry Cavendish.

Ab 1690 unternahm er eine Grand Tour durch das Heilige Römische Reich sowie die Niederlande und studierte 1691 an der Universität Padua.

Am 30. Oktober 1695 wurde er als Abgeordneter für das Borough Derby ins englische House of Commons gewählt und am 26. Juli 1698 wiedergewählt.

Am 3. August 1696 heiratete er Rhoda Cartwright († 1730), Tochter des William Cartwright aus Bloxham in Oxfordshire. Mit ihr hatte er eine Tochter, Mary Cavendish (1700–1778), die 1716 John Fane, 7. Earl of Westmorland, heiratete.

Er starb im Alter von 27 Jahren und wurde am Familiensitz seines Vaters, Chatsworth House in Derbyshire, begraben.

Literatur
 Stuart Handley: Cavendish, Lord Henry (1673–1700), of Soho Square, Mdx. and Latimer, Bucks. In: Eveline Cruickshanks, Stuart Handley, D. W. Hayton (Hrsg.): The History of Parliament. The House of Commons 1690–1715. Cambridge University Press, 2002, ISBN 0521772214 (Online).
 Charles Mosley (Hrsg.): Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage. Band 1, Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, Wilmington 2003, S. 1127.

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Editorial → The Last Word
By Syed Iqbal Zaheer November, 2010 Editorial 0
Scholars of Islam have always maintained that when `aql (intellect) clashes with naql (revelation), then naql should be given an unchallengeable position. Indeed, `aql should never be allowed to clash with naql. That would mean treating them on par, equal footing. But rather, `aql has to be kept one level below, well suppressed, and naql always on top, controlling it, guiding it.
But with the onslaught of `aql in the modern times (actually it is nafs), it gained precedence over naql.
This was the making of modern science. We say 'modern' because humans developed science in previous epochs too. But that science, although quite advanced even by modern standards, remained subservient to revelation. Modern science on the other hand, invented such technological tools, produced such gadgets and utilities in such numbers and at such great pace, that it conquered the hearts, and the humans decided to give revelation the option to retire from active life.
Gradually, science captured the minds and imaginations to such extent that it became a religion. Whatever it said, or its spokesmen (the scientists) said, was revelation, the new Bible; but in sharp contrast to the old Bible, this new Bible was invincible and infallible.
Consequently, science changed almost every concept held as true by the humans since times immemorial. One of them was the concept held about mind and heart. Science said assertively that the heart was nothing more than a pumping machine. Its job is to supply blood to the body. It expands to accept incoming blood, and contracts to pump it out. It has no other function and all ideas about it as the "the seat of emotional, intellectual and volitional life, and the center of all moral and spiritual functions" are traditional, mythical, and so, wrong.
The scientific findings were that it is actually the brain which is the seat of emotional, intellectual, and volitional life. It is the brain, and not the heart, that is the center of all moral and spiritual functions.
To facilitate a basic understanding of the brain, the following lines should help: The brain is endowed with a special type of cell. They are called neurons. Some 100 billion neurons in the brain control and direct the activities of the entire body, including those of the heart. The heart-beats of the heart, follow instructions sent across by the mind.
The above is a simple medical illustration of the human brain. (Courtesy, http://phototakeusa.com/).
Different parts (known as lobes) are shown in different colors, which perform different functions. Red area indicates speech control center; light blue handles skilled movement; dark blue commands voluntary movement; the dark green area is responsible for sensation; while light green is for sensory interpretation. The area shown in pink is for speech interpretation. While purple is for visual interpretation; dark purple is involved in hearing and the yellow area is thought to handle hearing.
The above is of course a simple illustration. The brain is primarily for receiving, analyzing, and processing data, and then sending out commands. Millions of data is received every minute and processed. How exactly the brain processes them is not fully understood. But a slightly deeper look into its physical make-up will reveal the novelties.
Like the bricks of a building, the human body's smallest unit is called a cell. It is not visible to the naked eye. There are about 100 trillions of them in an average person. They come in different sizes and shapes. But most look something like the illustration below.
(Source: http://people.eku.edu/)
Cut into half, the above is a common human cell. We shall not go into any further details. The illustration is here for comparison with the brain cells.
Within the brain, there happen to be a very different kind of cells. Known as Neurons, they are drastically different in size, shape and functions from cells in other parts of the body, or even from other 90% of the cells in the brain itself.
(Courtesy: Nature's Destiny, by Michael Denton
Free Press, 1998, p. 322)
Illustrated above is a single neuron (also called nerve cell) – one of the three kinds of which the brain is composed.
As seen above, it has a cell body (c), an axon (a), and dendrites (d). The dendrites receive signals from other nerve cells and transmit to the nerve cell body where the data is processed. (They are the input channels). The axons carry the nerve impulses from the nerve cell body to other never cells. (They are the output channels). All the billions of cells in the brain are interconnected.
The cell body (c) is like any other cell. It can be compared to a super-computer. It is 0.025 mm thick, and like other cells has a nucleus, mitochondria, Golgi complex, etc. The axon (a) can be a meter long. Some axons are as long as tall a person is: the neuron body is located in the brain while the axon is in the toe. The dendrites (d) are always short and a mere 0.001 mm thick.
As stated above, the neurons in an average brain number 100 billion (1011). They make a staggering total of 1015 connections with other cells. They are electrically excitable, and transmit information by electrochemical signaling. As thought by the scientists, they are also found in the spinal cord and the nerve and ganglia of the peripheral nervous system.
However, as against scientific findings, for thousands of years humans have believed that the heart is the seat of emotions. "Follow your heart," they would say, if you were dithering over something. Or, "I have a feeling in my heart that this won't work." Or, they say about a kind man, "A man of soft heart." Even a scientist would say, "I love my profession from the bottom of my heart."
Several statements of the Prophet also accorded the same status to the heart. He would supplicate in words:
يَا مُقلبَ القُلوبِ ثَبتْ قَلبِي عَلى دِينِك
"O turner of hearts, affirm my heart in Your religion."
He also supplicated in words,
واهدِ قَلبِي
"(O Allah), Guide my heart."
But, in the light of modern science, how could he have supplicated in those words? Isn't the mind which sees, hears, contemplates, weighs down the arguments, and then accepts or rejects? Would it not be proper to seek from Allah that the 'mind' be guided? After all, the heart does not think!
The Prophet also reported about himself that when he was a little boy, a few non-humans had seized him, cut open his breast, taken out the heart, removed something from it, and cast it away. Then they washed the heart with Zamzam and placed it back. Should the angels not have rather cleansed the brain?
The Qur'an also left no room about the central function of the heart. It said (64: 11):
وَمَنْ يُؤْمِنْ بِاللَّهِ يَهْدِ قَلْبَهُ [التغابن : 11]
"And, whosoever believes in Allah, He guides his heart."
It said that the heart plays the central role in accepting or rejecting religious truths. It said (50: 37):
إِنَّ فِي ذَلِكَ لَذِكْرَى لِمَنْ كَانَ لَهُ قَلْبٌ [ق : 37]
"In that is a reminder for him who has a heart."
It also asserted that the heart is the organ where spiritual diseases are located. It said about the hypocrites (2: 10):
فِي قُلُوبِهِمْ مَرَضٌ [البقرة : 10]
"There is a disease in their hearts."
It asserted this fact for no less than 12 times.
The Qur'an not only gave the prime place to the heart in matters involving religion, but also attributed thought process to it. It said (7: 179):
لَهُمْ قُلُوبٌ لا يَفْقَهُونَ بِهَا [الأعراف : 179]
"They have hearts whereby they do not understand."
All the above goes against scientific findings.
What made it difficult is that not once did the Qur'an refer to the mind or the brain, although humankind knew of its existence and the Arabs referred to an idiot as "dameegh" from which the Urdu word "dimaagh" has been borrowed.
Even if there was room in the above usages to interpret as referring to "the seat of all emotional, intellectual and volitional life, and the center of all moral and spiritual functions – residing somewhere in the human body," a famous Prophetic tradition has been difficult to reconcile with modern science.
It says,
أَلا وَإِنَّ فِي الْجَسَدِ مُضْغَةً إِذَا صَلَحَتْ صَلَحَ الْجَسَدُ كُلُّهُ وَإِذَا فَسَدَتْ فَسَدَ الْجَسَدُ كُلُّهُ أَلا وَهِيَ الْقَلْبُ
"Lo. Within the body is a piece of flesh which, if it is ordered, the whole body is ordered and when it is disordered, the whole body is disordered. Lo. It is the heart."
By identifying the heart as a piece of flesh, this hadith apparently makes a strong case for the heart as placed in the breast; although, to be accurate, since the Prophet did not use the word 'breast' but 'the body,' there is room for saying that the allusion could either be to the heart in the breast, or, alternatively, to another piece of flesh, somewhere else in the body.
But the Qur'an narrowed the location of the 'heart' of its usage by placing it in the breast. It said (22: 45):
فَإِنَّهَا لا تَعْمَى الأَبْصَارُ وَلَكِنْ تَعْمَى الْقُلُوبُ الَّتِي فِي الصُّدُورِ [الحج : 46]
"It is not the eyes that go blind but the hearts that are in the breasts that go blind."
Thus, the 'heart' of the Qur'an and Prophetic statements is narrowed down to its existence within the breast.
The above of course completely contradicted science.
But here comes the surprise of the century. The Qur'an and Hadith stand vindicated. The heart has its own brain, complete with neurons, dendrites, axons, memory, thought processes, data handlers, and rest of the neuron paraphernalia.
Back in 60s neurophysiologists had discovered a neutral pathway and mechanism whereby input from the heart to the brain could 'inhibit' or 'facilitate' the brain's electrical activity. It was discovered that the heart is the most powerful generator of rhythmic information patterns in the human body. The conclusion was that as a critical nodal point in many of the body's interacting systems, the heart is uniquely positioned as a powerful entry point into the communication network that connects body, mind, emotions, and spirit. (http://www.heartmath.org/)
Amazingly, the neurons of the nervous system of the heart, numbering some 40,000, group together to form what could be called the 'brains' of the heart. On the one hand they regulate and control cardiac functions of the heart, while, on the other, are responsible for functions like learning, memory (both short and long-term) and even 'feel' and 'sense.'
Indeed, in some respects, the heart seems to be more powerful than the brain. Its electrical field is 60 times greater in amplitude than the electrical activity generated by the brain, and the magnetic field produced by the heart is more than 5,000 times greater in strength than the field generated by the brain. It is so strong that it can be detected with the help of magnetometers from the distance of a few meters from the body. This opens up the possibility of hear-to-heart transfer of information through heart-brain synchronization of two people when they interact.
After two decades of research, it is now firmly established that the brain in the head is not the only brain in the body. There are at least two others, one in the heart and another in the gut. (Thus, it turns out that to say, "I have a gut feeling" is perfectly scientific). In fact, the gut has many more neurons (about 100 million) but the brain in the heart seems to control higher human senses, perceptions, emotions and feelings. It can also 'remember' feelings associated with other people and alter the heart rhythm when people meet with each other. Thus, feelings such as of love, hatred, etc. reside precisely in the heart.
By 1991 research had advanced and for the first time the idea of "heart brain" was introduced by the scinetists. By now it is firmly established that the heart has its own intrinsic nervous system that operates and processes information independently of the brain or the nervous system.
The specialists of this newest scientific discipline are called Neurocardiologists. They have discovered a profound communication link between the heart and the brain. And, what is surprising, they have discovered that although communications take place from both directions, more information is sent across by the heart to the brain than the other way round. The messages from the heart are sent to the brain through several pathways to an area called the 'medulla,' located in the stem of the brain.
This relatively new area on ongoing research is releasing study results almost weekly. The Institute of Heart Math has now published photographs of neurons in the heart–some taken with a confocal microscope. Researchers call these neurons "the little brain in the heart."
The heart is not merely a mass of muscles pumping out blood. It constantly communicates with the brain and rest of the body using neurons, biochemicals, blood pressure waves, and electricity. It has its own nervous system impacting on information processing of the brain.
So, once again, the Qur'an and Sunnah have the last word. Naql has precedence over `aql. And the Prophetic guidance in matters confusing, whether allowed or not in Islam was,
اسْتَفْتِ قَلْبَكَ
"Ask your heart"
What pricks your heart as something "not so good," is sin.
"Since emotional processes can work faster than the mind, it takes a power stronger than the mind to bend perception, override emotional circuitry, and provide us with institutive feeling instead. It takes the power of the heart."
– Doc Childre, founder, Institute of HeartMath
60-65 percent of cells are neural cells and not muscle cells as previously thought.


As part of PVM's organization-wide celebration of 70 years serving Michigan seniors, the Sales and Marketing Department was proud to launch the first official PVM web store on our website at the beginning of the second quarter. This web store allows residents, board members, staff, and families throughout the PVM network to select and purchase various items of clothing and unique accessories branded with the village logo of their choosing, or the newly designed PVM 70th anniversary logo. Available garments include dress shirts (for men and women), golf polos, caps, jackets, and t-shirts as well as other fun and useful accessories. Seasonal updates to the store are also planned, with different weather and holiday-related items available for limited periods throughout the year. In addition to the logo of their choosing, customers also have the option of having the PVM web address embroidered on any item they purchase at the time of checkout.
Generously funded by a grant from the PVM Foundation, the goal of the web store is to offer apparel and accessories that not only answer the numerous calls from residents and staff for PVM-related wearables, but to also help spread awareness of PVM anywhere it might be worn or featured. All monies exchanged through the store will go to supporting the continued evolution and upkeep of the apparel store, and to the purchasing of stock to fill future orders.
Now is the time to show your PVM pride! Join us in celebrating our 70th Anniversary by stopping by pvmstore.org and shopping the web store today!


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Yamaha Motif — это серия музыкальных рабочих станций, впервые выпущенных Yamaha Corporation в августе 2001 года. Главные конкуренты — Korg Kronos, Roland Fantom-G и Alesis Fusion.

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Motif Classic

Первые синтезаторы серии Motif, теперь называемые «Motif Classics», были выпущены в 4-х вариантах в 2001 году:

Motif Rack — это звуковой модуль без клавиш, созданный для управления внешними клавишами (MIDI-контроллером). Эффект Balanced hammer был взят из цифровых фортепиано Yamaha Clavinova.

Motif ES

Motif ES, преемник оригинальной серии синтезаторов Motif, выпущенный в 2003 году:

В январе 2006 года Yamaha выпустила две 'lite' версии Motif ES — с 61 клавишами Mo6 и 88 клавишами Mo8. Хотя и содержат только половину полифонии и ещё меньше пресетов звуковых программ, эти модели включают все Motif ES-пресеты семплов, вместе с арпеджиаторами и секвенсором. Недостатком является отсутствие профессиональных функций Motif ES-подобных mLAN подключений, PLG интеграции, семплинга и возможности подключения нескольких педалей.

Motif XS

Серия Motif XS была анонсирована в 2007 году:

Было объявлено, что операционная система основана на MontaVista Linux.

Так же, как и в случае с Motif ES, на основе XS выпускались лайт-версии MOX6 и MOX8. А так же был начат выпуск еще более упрощенных версий - ММ6 и ММ8.

Motif XF

Серия Motif XF была анонсирована 2 августа 2010 года:

Аналогично предыдущим двум поколениям Motif (ES и XS), параллельно выпускались лайт-версии MOXF6 и MOXF8.

Motif XF, в отличие от всех предыдущих поколений Motif, не имел рэковой версии (звукового модуля).

В это время также выпускались еще более облегченные варианты этой модели - MX61 и MX49 (имели соответственно 5 и 4 октавы).

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Синтезаторы Motif часто можно увидеть на сцене церемоний вручения Грэмми, Оскар, Американский идол и прочих известных шоу.

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 Yamaha MM
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 Motifator.com
 MotiFreak.com
 Yamaha Motif Voice Libraries
 MotifCity - Instructional Books, Sounds, Consulting
 John Melas Editors and Utilities
 Motif XS Video Demo
 Yamaha Motif XS Series Keyboard Review at yamahamusician.com
 Yamaha Motif ES simplified operation tutorial

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Diocese of Rochester Permanent Diaconate Information
September 27, 2020 by Marie Smith
The deacon is a man of faith, who is called from the community that already recognizes his dedication to service. He makes a lifetime commitment to serving the People of God by proclaiming the Word, assisting and presiding at liturgies, and ministering in the areas of charity and social justice. A deacon gives witness to his availability to the community by addressing present and emerging needs of the Church. The Diocese is inviting interested men of strong and active faith, who can demonstrate a record of service in the communities in which they live, work and worship, who may wish to explore a possible call to ordained ministry as a permanent deacon, to first speak with their pastor for an initial conversation. They may also contact Deacon Edward Giblin, Director of the Office of the Permanent Diaconate, at edward.giblin@dor.org, for additional information. A potential candidate must be at least 35 years of age and no older than 62 years of age at the time of ordination after a five (5) year period of formation. He must be in good health, emotionally mature, have stable relationships and must have the wholehearted support of his wife (if married) and family to enter the phase of inquiry. Because the parish is the primary experience of Church for most inquirers, the parish community is asked as well to invite from among its members men who exhibit strong faith and a spirit of service and encourage them to consider a possible vocation to the permanent diaconate.
For information about The Diocese of Rochester Permanent Diaconate speak with your Pastor and contact:
Deacon Edward Giblin, Director of the Office of the Permanent Diaconate
Email: Edward.Giblin@dor.org
Article: Diocese of Rochester Permanent Diaconate
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Superstar Salman Khan has confirmed that he will be starring in the Hindi adaptation of another hit Korean film, "Veteran".
The actor, who is currently awaiting the release of "Bharat", which is also an official remake of 2014 Korean drama "Ode to My Father", said his brother-in-law, actor-producer Atul Agnihotri, has acquired the rights of "Veteran".
The 2015 Korean film revolves around a detective, who hunts down a young and successful man running a crime syndicate.
"I am doing 'Veteran'. Atul has the rights. It's a nice film. We will do this film after Sanjay Leela Bhansali's film," Salman said in an interview here.
The 53-year-old superstar will start working on the third installment of "Dabangg", followed by Bhansali's "Inshallah", that will see him teaming up with Alia Bhatt for the first time.
Salman is currently busy promoting his home production film "Notebook" featuring newcomers Zaheer Iqbal and Pranutan Bahl. It releases on March 29.