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Kristin White Appointed Canon to the Ordinary for Congregational Development and Leadership
In May, I wrote to you to share my thinking about the ways my staff and I can best foster congregational vitality and support innovative ministry in our communities. To advance that work, I announced that I was opening a search for a canon to the ordinary for congregational development and leadership.
Today I am delighted to announce that I have called the Rev. Kristin White to that position. Kristin is an experienced leader, a lifelong Episcopalian, and a skilled pastor and priest. Since 2012, she has served as rector of St. Augustine's Episcopal Church in Wilmette, Illinois, and was previously associate rector of Church of the Holy Spirit in Lake Forest, Illinois. A native of eastern Oregon, she also has deep experience as a leader in rural congregations and communities. She will join us on October 1.
In the Diocese of Chicago, where I was fortunate enough to serve with her before I became your bishop, Kristin is currently president of the Standing Committee, a member of the diocesan endowment committee and a diocesan consultant and trainer with the College for Congregational Development. Previously, she co-created and co-led Organized Redemption, a Christian community organizing training series, and served as dean of the Evanston Deanery, a member of the Commission on Ministry, the Task Force on the Diaconate, and subsequently, the Deacon Leadership Team.
For nearly a decade prior to being ordained a priest, Kristin taught high school English and facilitated student mentoring and leadership. She holds degrees from Cottey College, Western Oregon University, Willamette University, and Seabury-Western Theological Seminary. Kristin and her husband, John, are the parents of a college-age daughter, Grace.
Kristin writes that she is committed to doing all she can to help the church she loves grow more and more into the fullness to which we are called as the Body of Christ. In my time as your bishop, I have seen with joy the many ways that you share this deep commitment, and I look forward to welcoming Kristin to our ministry.
Faithfully,
Bishop Jennifer
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Would Withdrawn Standard Improve Safety for Government Employees?
Commenting on the Bush administration's new initiative to reduce injuries and illnesses among federal employees, American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) President James "Skipper" Kendrick, CSP, urged the administration to re-examine a standard OSHA removed from the regulatory agenda to assure long-term success of the program.
That process would be made easier, said Kendrick, if the administration hadn't withdrawn the Injury Illness and Prevention Standard, also known as the safety management standard, that called for employers to implement workplace safety and health management programs. The standard was withdrawn from OSHA's regulatory agenda in August 2002.
"SHARE arms the many federally employed safety, health and environmental practitioners, including ASSE members, with the authority of your office in fulfilling their long-standing commitment to helping make sure that federal workers go home safe and healthy from their jobs each day," Kendrick wrote in his letter to the president. "SHARE also puts into place a larger framework for working towards safer and healthier workplaces that leading private sector corporations already employ. As those corporations have long understood, this improved focus of commitment at the highest executive level will mean fewer injuries and less illness for federal workers, leading to greater productivity and lower costs to the federal government."
Kendrick said his primary concern is that when program measurement, as called for by SHARE, is based solely on what are known as "trailing" indicators such as lower workplace injury and illness case rates, lower lost-time injury and illness case rates, timely reporting and fewer lost days, "Success can too easily be compromised by short cuts and compromises to achieve paper instead of real gains,"
Trailing indicators measure results, he noted, but do not adequately show managers where a program does and does not work. "They only show whether an outcome was good or bad," he said.
What safety and health practitioners consider as "leading indicators," such as safety program design and management measures, are a better indication of the quality of the management of a safety program, Kendrick told the president. "These leading indicators, along with the trailing indicators, provide a better, more comprehensive picture of the program and may suggest how the program can be more cost effectively managed."
Kendrick said ASSE wants the Bush administration to turn to the Injury Illness and Prevention Standard as a resource to enhance SHARE and help it establish a more comprehensive program, completely integrated into the organization, with both trailing and leading indicators.


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It's All In A Nickname
"Bogie" With Wife and Pals in Photoplay, September 1938
When Did Bogart Become Bogie/Bogey?
Humphrey Bogart being a favorite actor makes me endlessly curious over major and minor aspects of his career. Monday's post on Chain Lightning addressed everything but the central question arising from that otherwise forgot '50 release, to wit: Was this a first time ads referred to Bogart as "Bogey"? Preliminary dig found fan mags calling him that (or close-spelled "Bogie") from 1938, latter first mention I found of the nickname, an apt label considering he played mostly bogeymen at the time. Not much choice within the name Humphrey Bogart after all --- suppose kid pals ever called him "Hump"? 1939 saw HB answering to "Bogey" in Modern Screen, and by 1941, with stardom conferred by High Sierra and The Maltese Falcon, the tag is firmly affixed by fan press.
"Bogey" became all the more shorthand for Bogart after his marriage to Lauren Bacall. Casablanca had made him a romantic lead, status confirmed thanks to taking of a near-child bride. He'd bear the nickname lighter for fun-loving vehicles directed by Howard Hawks (To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep) to make Bogart more a regular guy with a sense of humor. All Through The Night and Across The Pacific had anticipated this, and now Bacall would afford Bogart a love-teammate to renew his brand for remainder of the 40's. They would be "Bogey and Betty" in the monthlies, gently spoofed in WB cartoons Slick Hare and Bacall To Arms (where HB's caricature is billed as "Bogey Go-Cart"), and photographed together for Sunday sections. Spelling meanwhile varied between Bogey and Bogie, finding its way to official publicity for a first time (that I found) in Key Largo's pressbook, not ads, but prepared reviews and articles for submit to newspapers.
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Note "Bogey's the test pilot!"
I believe Chain Lightning to be the first, and only, time that "Bogey" was used in (studio-prepared) ad art for a Humphrey Bogart film. "Okay, Bogey! let 'er rip!," plus the star's action pose, suggests a show less serious than customary for him, and note Warners ID'ing itself as The "White Heat" Company, nod to a previous year's hit, and tip-off that Chain Lightning will be more of the same. This would be Bogart's penultimate film for WB, The Enforcer of 1951 back to serious selling and use of the proper name. Later it became common to use Bogey/Bogie in support of oldies at campus sites, but this was less distributor-sanctioned than individual programmer-driven. The shorthand that brought his public closer to late-30's and 40's Bogart became hipster-slang for Protest Era rebirth of a star turned icon, Jean-Paul Belmondo summing up with murmur of "Bogey" when he sees a poster for The Harder They Fall in 1960's Breathless. The tag would stay for 1981's "soft rock" tune, Key Largo, wherein Bertie Higgins sings, "We had it all, just like Bogie and Bacall." This may have the last high-profile pop cultural reference to Bogart by his nickname, unless another has gotten by me since.
Previous Greenbriar Explores of the Bogart Cult HERE and HERE.
UPDATE --- 3/4/16: Noted writer and historian William M. Drew has done further research on the Bogey/Bogie question and kindly shares his findings with Greenbriar. Here are vintage newspaper articles he attached to accompany information supplied by Mr. Drew in the Greenbriar comments section for this post:
Richard M. Roberts sees double meaning in Warners' selling blurb for "Chain Lightning":
Perhaps I'm bringing down the tone of the conversation and letting the scatological portions of my brain take prominence, but doesn't the ad for CHAIN LIGHTNING telling Bogey to "let `er rip!" bring on a whole new meaning to the term "sonic boom"?
Mike Mazzone reveals a personal connection with Bertie Higgins and the "Key Largo" song ...
Interesting post on "Bogey"
Reminded me of something I hadn't thought of for years.
"Key Largo" by Bertie Higgins, Bertie must have been a Bogart fan as he also a couple years later, released songs titled "Casablanca" and "Tokyo Joe"
Don't know the lyrics, so I'm not sure about any more references to "Bogey"
My Dad loved music and even got one of his songs recorded in Cleveland back in the 50's. He often commented that he considered "Key Largo" as well written and a favorite song of his.
On a final note, Bertie Higgins is from Tarpon Springs, Florida. My sister bought his family home in Tarpon in the late 70's (location shooting for "Beneath the 12 mile Reef, was also shot in Tarpon Springs) and I have fond memories of Sunday dinners and Holiday gatherings there.
Further research and information on Bogey/Bogie from William M. Drew:
After reading your latest item on the topic of when Humphrey Bogart first became known as Bogey or Bogie, at least in print, I just now checked the various newspaper archives as well as the fan magazines. The earliest I've found, which were in syndicated columns, predate the fan magazine references by a year. I have attached to this e-mail two newspaper pages from 1937 containing these columns. The first comes from a column by none other than Harriet Parsons as it appeared in the March 21, 1937 edition of the "Springfield (Massachusetts) Republican." In it, she calls him a number of times "Bogey." The other, taken from the June 30, 1937 edition of the "Illinois State Journal" published in another Springfield, is in Hubbard Keavy's "Life in Hollywood" column in which, relating an anecdote about the on-going filming of "Dead End," he refers to Bogart as "Bogie."
In the years from 1938 to 1940, there were many references to him in the press as "Bogey" and "Bogie," including a frequent play on words about his playing "bogie" men in the films. So it had become a very common nickname for him in print prior to 1941 and his attainment of super-star status with "High Sierra" and "The Maltese Falcon." However, despite its common usage in press articles, that was not necessarily how his friends addressed him. When I interviewed her for my book, "At the Center of the Frame: Leading Ladies of the Twenties and Thirties," Claire Trevor told me that she as well as many of his sailing friends most often called him "Bogart" rather than "Bogie." No one, she said, ever called him "Humphrey" other than as a joke.
Thank you for continuing to publish such an informative and absorbing blog on film history.
William M. Drew
Author/historian James Curtis (the recent and excellent William Cameron Menzies bio) shares illuminating data re Bogey v. Bogie:
Thanks to a sharp memory from fifty years ago, I can add the following to the topic of "Bogey" vs. "Bogie":
Here in Los Angeles, the station that had the old Warner pictures was KHJ, which, at the time, was part of RKO General. Probably more than any other station in the market, KHJ made a practice of showcasing old films, most prominently on the "Million Dollar Movie" which repeated the same title seven or eight times over the space of a week. The station's longtime announcer, the bespeckled Wayne Thomas, was an unabashed movie fan and would tape special segments for the M$M slots when some filler was needed. One time, Thomas learned that Basil Rathbone was shooting COMEDY OF TERRORS at a nearby studio and asked him in to talk about the Sherlock Holmes movies the station was then running in prime time. Another time, he got Jack Pierce to do a makeup job on him after screening CREATION OF THE HUMANOIDS. (I hope these, and other such segments, survive somewhere. It's be great to see TCM show them.)
Anyway, for a while, KHJ had a nightly movie series called "The Flick." It was hosted by a congenial Tiparillo-puffing fellow named Jack Denton. The gimmick of "The Flick" was that each night of the week was programmed to a specific category, and Monday night was always Bogart night. (This was 1966, and the station had enough Warner titles to sustain such a streak.) Denton's show came on at 11:00 p.m. and was afforded an open-ended slot. The films, therefore, were shown uncut, and if Denton had a special guest, there was room for them, too. One night, Denton's guest was Joe Hyams, whose biography of Bogart--unquestionably the best book he ever wrote--was then in the stores. I remember that Denton specifically asked Hyams about the spelling question, since the title of his book was "Bogie" with the "ie." Hyams replied that he had, of course, seen it both ways, but decided to go with the "ie" because that was how Bogart himself spelled it in handwritten notes. And, I guess, Hyams had, in his capacity as Hollywood columnist for the New York Herald Tribune, received more than his fair share of such notes over the years.
Personally, I'm more obsessed with when Bogie started wearing a toupee.
Randy said...
One time, Thomas learned that Basil Rathbone was shooting COMEDY OF TERRORS at a nearby studio and asked him in to talk about the Sherlock Holmes movies the station was then running in prime time.
I hope he had better luck with Rathbone than a friend's father had. My friend's father was a newspaperman and was attempting --mid 1960s -- to conduct an interview with Rathbone about his career, but found him plagued by a curious kind of amnesia. Sherlock Holmes... Son of Frankenstein... Casanova's Big Night... The Court Jester... Mr. Rathbone had absolutely no memory of those pictures. However, The Adventures of Robin Hood... Captain Blood... Anna Karenina... pictures like those he remembered quite well and was willing to talk at length about.
That color on-location photo with Bogart, Houston and Holt was terrific. Thanks so much for sharing that one!
Glad you liked it, Toby. It was certainly a happy surprise to come across.


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It was mid-afternoon on Saturday, June 5. Stephan "Steph" Klamperer, Director of the Physicians Review Board of the Sensible Care Health Maintenance Organization, sat at the back table of Bistro Pesto. He was waiting to meet someone.
He was finishing a piece in The Wall Street Journal, an article entitled, "Over 65: A Sinkhole for Health Dollars?" He recalled that some wags in his organization, mainly those who had to spend phone time with physicians or their secretaries, called him "Strep" instead of "Steph." He didn't give a good goddamn. It was a tribute to his strength of will. He was faithful to reason, and his head was not easily turned by every dribbling columnist. To anyone who shrieked about his health care cost-cutting, he would say: Read the studies. Inform yourself. The quality of health care wasn't on the line, it was the whole health care system, which would be able to heal people only so long as it could afford to heal people. Without pruners like himself, the whole health care tree would choke itself in overgrowth, and die.
Sometimes he thought it was his German ancestry that bred into him a sense of what was workable, that made him so realistic. Not whimsical like the Irish, or hot-blooded like the Italians or the Latin Americans. Of course, the master race theories were only that, theories, and he knew better than to speculate in public, but you had to admit that some people could be dragged off track more easily than others, and you had to wonder why. Take his wife, Carmela. A mix of Greek and Mexican ancestors, both types well known to let their emotions run away with them—and Carmela's emotions were certainly exploding out of control these days, as she tended to their son in the hospital. The woman could not seem to get a grip on herself.
All you could do in any situation, home or business, was to make the most reasonable decision. It was obvious to Stephan that he had been asked to direct the Physicians Review Board because he was strong enough to keep his head when all the others were losing theirs. He was calm enough to make a dispassionate choice based on the treatment statistics. He could dismiss irrational appeals for the dreck they turned out to be. He had a gift for returning to essentials. Was there a serious statistical chance of increased duration of life, or not? If not, then better get the lamenting over with. The sooner a person realized that human beings were not designed to live forever, the better the chance of a rational medical decision. The health insurance world was besieged by hysterics who clung to life at any cost, then tried to blame reasonable men like himself for rejecting their preposterous claims.... He envisioned a national slogan, SOME PRICES ARE TOO HIGH FOR PERFECTION, which could surely bring the newly formed Fiscal Independence Party into play for next year's presidential race. It was human nature to expect perfection, he supposed. But human nature just wasn't going to get it.
Stephan pulled out his personal note pad, embossed with the Sensible Care logo. It was one of those more recent nature-centered logos, in this case a tiny cradle suspended from a branch in full leaf. It was a moral, for those who could read it: Sensible people accept the fact that everyone's bough will eventually break.
Stephan's esophagus and stomach lining surged with indignation. He could feel it completely, at last, this closing anger that would resolve the matter. It was good, right. The notion had been absurd from the beginning. He had humored the woman [Melanie Nash-Dennison, a pharmaceutical executive who had asked Stephan to join her in quietly introducing to the market a secret miracle formula] to bring her under his control, where he could make certain, and continue to make certain, that her scheme would never reach the market.
The gall. Some magic potion to keep you healthy forever, no matter how you chose to conduct yourself? If it were true—and surely it wasn't—it would produce a world full of drinking, cavorting, gluttonous, smoking, snorting, pill-popping, murderous, whoring fools, even more irresponsible and irrational than the ones we have today. Order, good sense, reason, self-discipline, everything that made life worthwhile would vanish. The few decent people left would be overwhelmed, their lives ruined. Didn't Mel realize that the continuing terror of death was the only reason the human race ever had to use any self-restraint? … He wrote beneath the cradle in his tidy handwriting, When the bough breaks.


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Snow, ice, sleet, fog, gale force winds, rain, more heavy snow; only once in the mid 1980's do I remember anything like this in South Devon. Thick snow, huge drifts and frozen pipes, and here we are again, a second year running, early frost followed by ice and snow and it's only December.
For nearly thirty years we have lived in this valley unthreatened by harsh weather. Winters are mild; grass usually continues to grow, slowly of course and sugar free, throughout the coldest months. Our hardy Dartmoor sheep graze happily on the hills all year round.
OK, yes, we West Country people are very spoilt, and that's why we stay here. My neighbouring farmer flagged me down on icy roads last week to pass the time of day. Chatting in the lanes is a local tradition.
"Alright?" he says, a local greeting.
Alas, next day more heavy snow fell here.
What has happened to that Gulf Stream that's supposed to whirl so warmly round us and keep the west coast of the British Isles safe from Canadian winters; we do share the same latitude, oh dear. The Gulf Stream has been responsible for rendering us our mild weather in this, our southernmost British peninsular since time began. Where has it gone?
Pondering, I Google Gulf Stream. I am told this warm Atlantic Ocean current, one of the strongest in the world, starts in the Gulf of Mexico, bringing warmth northwards towards us, as it flows past Florida driven by the prevailing south west winds. As it flows north the warm water evaporates and becomes increasingly salty. In the north Atlantic the warm water meets the Artic cold, the heavy salt water sinks forming a deep current which sets up a pulling mechanism splitting the Gulf Stream and drawing it to the north west coast of Africa and towards the western part of the UK and Europe warming us and thus stopping us experiencing our rightful lot of those icy Canadian winters. Are you with me so far? I think I'm somewhat out of my depth.
Now, some scientists say Global Warming is causing the melting of the Arctic and disrupting this pattern and, ironically, causing colder winters. The science, I have to admit, is hard for me to grasp but as I tramp unaccustomed, across fields of ice and snow, lower buckets into an icy stream, stamp on frozen water troughs hoping to release just a tiny trickle for the sheep and donkeys, I know something is afoot. It just isn't usually like this! The valley is transformed into a sparkling white alien wonderland backed by an azure sky, bathed in the golden glow of a low winter sun which, in turn, casts wild distorted shadows on the ground. A flock of Redwings are feeding on frozen windfall apples and Bluetits jostle for the bird feeders.
The farmyard is an ice rink, the lanes resemble the Cresta Run, most of the villagers are snowed in at the bottom of steep South Hams hills. I watch children hurling themselves down a neighbour's field on a wobbly toboggan.
Suddenly the sun vanishes, the sky turns black, a north easterly wind swings in across the hills bringing yet more snow. Even the dogs look dejected as we slide down Steep Field into the valley.
After such a dry summer, hay and straw prices are at a premium so careful feeding is essential; no margin for waste this year. Today we brought the ewes down from the top of the hill to Sunday Orchard, the big steep field nearest the farm yard.
So enthusiastic were they, they nearly had us off our feet. From here we will feed them every day and keep them in tip top condition till lambing starts on St Valentine's Day.
Well done Chris, our handsome Whiteface ram. Having given us wonderful lambs for the past two years, he will go to pastures new this year so that we may introduce new blood and avoid in breeding. We will miss such a gentle chap so expertly bred and raised by Claire Butcher, our Whiteface Dartmoor chairman.
Meanwhile up the road, the brown crossbred ewes are with our home grown ram, the grumpy Cliff. His fate rests with the configuration of his progeny; I fear his temperament might influence his future.
I am always amazed at how quickly our lamb sells. Once they have tried it, people love it and keep coming back. Whiteface Dartmoor sheep are an old fashioned breed and the lambs mature slowly. They reach maturity much later than commercial breeds. This has its drawbacks; we must keep them and feed them for longer. But the result is meat with the depth of flavour of mutton without the fat; rich dark tender meat.


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Below is a 60m x20m dressage arena. The horses and riders enter at A. The letters mark where the "movements" must be performed. Riders must memorise the test. A Grand Prix test consists of 33 movements.
Dressage fills the first two days of competition in eventing. Each horse and rider performs a dressage test in front of a panel of judges. The judges' scores are converted into penalty points, which are carried forward to the next stage of the competition, the cross-country.
The Cross country phase of eventing is an endurance test. The object of the endurance test is to prove the speed, endurance and jumping ability of the true cross-country horse. At the same time, it demonstrates the rider's knowledge of pace and the use of this horse across country.
The cross-country test occurs on day three of the competition, and is where combinations must gallop (at a speed of 570 metres per minute) and jump up to 45 fixed fences on a course between 5,700m and 6,270m long. Every horse and rider combination accrues points for jumping errors and time penalties, which are added to any penalty points awarded during the dressage test to give a cumulative score.
The cross-country phase is the phase that appeals most to spectators and riders alike. It is the ultimate challenge to prepare a horse for this rigorous test. Unlike other sports, where only the human will and body are pitted against the clock, in eventing, two minds and bodies have to work as one.
Because the lowest score wins, each combination of horse and rider seeks to complete the cross-country with as few penalties as possible. If larger faults occur, such as multiple refusals, the horse will be eliminated (E) from competition and will not be allowed to finish the course. Riders may also choose to retire (R) on course if their horse is having a poor run. This prevents the rider from continuing the competition, but is often a good choice if the horse is physically or mentally overfaced by the challenges. Mandatory Retirement (MR) occurs if the horse falls, even if he is not noticeably injured, to help protect the horse's welfare. Withdrawing (W) only occurs if the horse is taken out of competition when he is not on course. A rider may be disqualified (DQ) if they endanger their mount or other people on course.
Below: Cross-country jumps are fixed obstacles, made of solid materials such as timber or stone. They are varied and often quite beautiful in design.
4th cumulative refusal or crossed tracks on the entire course: elimination.
Note: the horse is only allowed to jump from a standstill if the obstacle's height is no higher than 30 cm (for example, banks and ditches). Jumping any other obstacles from a standstill (a "prolonged halt") counts as a refusal.
Note: horses are allowed to step sideways, but any step back is considered a refusal.
The eventing competition gets a grandstand finish on day four with the jumping tests (widely known as 'show jumping').
Here the horses and riders must negotiate a course of show jumps in an arena. The jumps are designed so that the rails will fall down if knocked. Penalties are awarded for jumping errors and time penalties.
The Jumping competition requires horse and rider to navigate a course of jumps that fall if knocked, demanding precision, speed and perfect technique.
At 4-star level eventing, the show jumps are a maximum of 1.30m in height, considerably smaller than in pure "jumping" events where jumps are 1.60m. Considering horses are required to gallop at high speed over fixed obstacles for close to 7kms the previous day, this element of the competition is still regarded to be highly difficult.
Penalties from this final phase are added to their previous dressage and cross-country scores to determine the overall rankings.
The number of stars that appear after the class name indicates the level of the class. The higher the number, the greater the difficulty.
It takes a very special horse to excel in all three phases of eventing. It takes a minimum of 4-5 years to get a horse to the Olympic level. On average 4-star horses range in age from 10-18 years. Thoroughbreds have been very successful in eventing due to their ability to gallop, their athleticism and their bravery. A warmblood/throughbred cross is also very popular for eventing.
As an additional attraction, eventing is the only high-risk Olympic sport that permits men and women to compete as equals. There are no separate divisions for either rider or horse. Some of the top riders in the world today are women from many nations.


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Birthplace: Hallowell, ME
Location of death: Portland, ME
Remains: Buried, Oak Grove Cemetery, Gardiner, ME
Occupation: Politician
Party Affiliation: Whig
Executive summary: US Senator from Maine, 1841-47
The American senator George Evans was born in Hallowell, Maine on 12 January 1797. He was graduated at Bowdoin in 1815, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1818. He began to practice at Gardiner, but afterward removed to Hallowell, and attained eminence as a criminal lawyer. He was a member of the legislature in 1825-28, and was speaker of the house in his last year. He was then chosen to congress as a Whig, and served six terms, from 1829 until 1841, when he was elected to the U. S. Senate, and served in 1841-47. During his twelve years in the House, although his party was in the minority, he exerted a commanding influence. In the Senate he was chairman of the committee on finance. Henry Clay is reported to have said that Evans knew more about the tariff than any other public man in the country. His speeches on important and complicated economical questions were very effective. He was a candidate for the vice presidential nomination when General Zachary Taylor was nominated for president, and after the latter's accession in 1849 was appointed chairman of the Mexican claims commission. He was Attorney General of Maine in 1853, 1854, and 1856, and was for twenty-two years a trustee of Bowdoin College, which gave him the degree of LL.D. in 1847. He died in Portland, Maine, on 5 April 1867.
University: Bowdoin College (1815)
Administrator: Trustee, Bowdoin College
Attorney General of Maine (elected 1850, 1854, and 1856)
US Senator, Maine (4-Mar-1841 to 3-Mar-1847)
US Congressman, Maine 4th (1839 to 3-Mar-1841, resigned)
US Congressman, Maine 8th (1837-39)
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In general, registering for UvA courses must be done using SIS, the Student Information System. SIS may also be used to drop courses, check grades, and update your contact info. First year students do not have to register for first semester courses during the official course registration period in June. Alternative arrangements will be made for them. As of the second semester, all students (including first year's) need to register through SIS. Note that you need to re-enrol for the next academic year through Studielink before you are able to register for courses during the registration period in June.
Normally students should register for around 30 EC worth of courses and projects each semester. Only during the registration period it is possible to drop courses; after the deadline all registered courses will stay in your list. If you do not attend or fail a course, then it will end up as a ' not attended' or 'fail' in the system. However, not attended or failed courses will never appear in official transcripts nor on your diploma supplement.
As the Master of Logic is an interdisciplinary Master's programme, courses are organized by different Graduate Schools and Educational Institutes. At times, this can be confusing. In particular for first year students in their first semester or in case a student has for some reason been unable to register before the deadline.
In those cases please read the instruction below carefully.
To register for regular courses, first check the UvA Course Catalogue to find out which Graduate School or Educational Institute is responsible for a given course. This determines the applicable deadline (typically around one month before the start of the semester, also for courses in the second block of a given semester) and the way to register in your first semester or after the deadline (if possible).
First-year students: Please use this form to register for your courses for your first semester only. This form will open after regular course registration is closed. The deadline for course registration for first-year students in the first semester is two weeks after the start of the semester.
Students starting the programme in the second semester should use the form mentioned here above, at 'Late registration'. This is only possible after the start of the semester, February 1.
If neither of these options work, please send an email to vakaanmelding-fnwi at uva.nl.
Due to an explosive increase in the number of students of the master programme Artificial Intelligence in 2018/19, the course registration of their mandatory courses has been closed to all non-AI students. These courses include two MoL electives: Natural Language Processing 1 and Knowledge Representation.
For Natural Language Processing 1, we have organized an alternative: the course is still in our list of electives. MoL students are allowed to attend the lectures and tutorials of one of the groups, namely the group supervised by Samira Abnar. Administratively, the course is organized as a MoL project (but will NOT count towards the maximum of 24 EC in research projects). This means that registration is not via SIS but via email: to register you have to send an email to Samira and the MoL office using Registration NLP1 as subject. Registered students are expected to attend the course, please no fake registrations in this case.
Knowledge Representation: the course has been removed from our list of electives and is no longer accessible to MoL students but another course by the same lecturer (Frank van Harmelen) has been added to our list: Seminar Combining Symbolic and Statistical Methods in AI. The latter course is open to MoL students. Students specifically interested in Knowledge Representation are invited to contact the lecturer to discuss possible alternatives, including self-study options.
Contact Tanja if you encounter problems with registration.
Late registration: For questions and problems related to registration, please contact the Programme Administration Philosophy. If you are late, you will most likely be put on a waiting list.
First-year students: Please send an email to the Programme Administration Philosophy, or go to their office in person. You have until two weeks after the start of the semester to contact them. Please mention that this is your first semester as a Master of Logic student and give them your UvA identity number and a list of the courses you wish to be registered for, including the course codes (to be found in the Course Catalogue).
Obtain permission from the relevant Master's programme at the other university to take their course (e.g., in view of prerequisites, space constraints). Should they in turn ask for permission from the MoL, please ask for a letter granting this permission by emailing mol-illc at uva.nl. Please beware that permission to take a course is not the same as permission to use that course towards graduation.
Enrol as a bijvakstudent at the other university. Some universities explain how to do this on their website; some you have to contact directly. While enrolled at the UvA you do not need to pay tuition fees at the other university. They will, however, require a 'proof of payment', which you can get at the Student Service Desk of the UvA in the Roetersstraat 11, Amsterdam, building E (REC-E).
Keep the transcript you obtain from the other university in a safe place. Include the transcript when you seek approval for the complete content of your study programme by handing in your approval form. If you are uncertain whether the Board of Examiners will accept the course as part of your graduation package, please contact us at mol-illc at uva.nl.
More specific information for courses at the Vrije Universiteit, VU can be found here. But please note: the info at 'UvA students at FNWI' on the bottom of the page does not apply to MoL students, since the MSc Logic is not a joint programme with VU.
Registration for courses in the MasterMath is an exception to the rules above. Instead, visit the MasterMath website to register. The grades will be automatically registered at the UvA.
To register for the projects organized in January and June, first contact the lecturer of the project in question and ask for permission to join.
Then register via https://datanose.nl/#specialenrol, using the course code which you can find in the description of the project.
Registration of Individual Research Projects is also done by the lecturer. Right at the start of the project he or she registers the project in DataNose with the title of the project, a short description, and in case the amount of EC is not 6, an explanation. When the project is finished the lecturer enters the grade in DataNose (for projects the grade is Pass or Fail).
If a request for late registration for certain courses is not granted and you feel this is not right, please contact Tanja Kassenaar.


Cherry Tomatoes (Solanum esculentum var cerasifera): growing, planting, caring.
Cherry tomatoes grow easily on balconies and terraces!
Cherry tomatoes are easier to grow than regular tomatoes - requiring very little care, they are rarely subject to diseases, and are delicious for snacks.
You may commence to sow under shelter or indoors starting in February, in a greenhouse or next to a window, avoiding direct sunlight. Prepare a bed of gravel or clay pebbles to facilitate draining and prevent the roots from rotting. Add potting soil specially for sowing up to about 2/3 of the container and tamp down lightly. Then fill to the top, without tamping down the new soil. Sow your seeds, spaced approximately 4 cm apart for each seedling – a few seeds in the middle of a pot will be enough. Water regularly. It will take about a week of temperatures above 20°C before you see the first germination — this is the time when the seedlings need the most light. Sowing outside is only possible in warm climates - when temperatures exceed 20 ° C, sow directly in the sun, in fine soil mixed with sifted compost. Place 2 or 3 seeds for each square meter, and cover very little. Water gently, you will have to keep the soil moist the first weeks.
If you've sown in a seeding tray, transplant the seedlings to small individual pots as soon as the first leaves appear. Continue to water regularly, eventually adding a little organic fertilizer.
Tomatoes like soils that are rich in humus, ideally enriched before planting, with a great exposure to the sun! Starting in the beginning of May, once there's no more risk of freezing, place them in your planter or garden in a sunny place, sheltered from the wind. Leave at least 80 cm between each plant, allowing light to shine all over, and also to protect against disease. Useful little peculiarity about tomatoes — they can be regrown by cutting roots from the vines. Take advantage during planting — bury them deeper than the neck, tilting the root in the hole, then use a guiding stake to straighten it.
If you have sown directly in open soil, then three weeks after sowing, keep only one vigorous plant per spot, and eventually transplant the others.
To prune or not? For the cherry tomato there is no real need - just leave it grow.
Tomatoes enjoy mostly cool, light soil that can warm up quickly, and regular, unchanging moisture. This means it's useless to water if, for example, we're talking about a plant grown in open soil — proper mulching is the best way to conserve humidity. The root itself should go 30 to 40 cm down to find water. Additionally, if you water too much at the beginning, the stem will only produce superficial roots and you'll end up needing to water them constantly! Pro tip: never water during direct sunlight: this can burn the foliage, and this wastes water. Rather, water in the late-afternoon or evening, but not too late! You risk exposing your plants to mildew if the foliage stays wet throughout the night. Also pay attention not to massacre the roots with an overpowered water jet. Favor pots with a water reserve if you're cultivating on a deck or balcony, or place saucers of water under the pots.
Mulch between the plants one to two weeks after the final planting with a natural mulch which holds in moisture. Ideally, leaf and yard waste works perfectly — grass cuttings, cut branches, and dead leaves! This will limit soil evaporation and thus the need for watering and weeding.
Harvesting takes place approximately ever four to six months after seeding, according to growth conditions, generally starting in mid-August and going until the end of autumn if the climate permits. You can pick the tomatoes when fully ripe, or let younger ones ripen by placing them on a windowsill.
A variety of diseases are fairly common among tomatoes, but we can avoid these with a few simple steps. Mildew, unfortunately very common, causes brown marks on the leaves. Powdery mildew presents as a sort of white felt on the leaves, while aphids cause the leaves to curl in on themselves. Once mildew has gotten in your plants, it's not easy to get rid of! As soon as you see brown leaves, remove them delicately, taking care not to shake the stem and root of the plant to avoid spreading the disease. Don't compost the diseased leaves. Disinfect any tools used. As a preventative measure, you can also try spraying a mixture of water with sodium bicarbonate and a bit of black soap.
Once the last fruit is harvested, if you want to use the plot again, don't forget to pull out the plants to make room for autumn plantings! Correctly remove the roots and avoid composting the remains if the foliage shows signs of disease.


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The Venue 7 and 8 families have been reworked upon and now it is updated with Android 4.4 KitKat. Dell introduced the Venue line of tablets last year, including 7-inch and 8-inch Android (4.2.2 Jelly Bean) powered models, and, Venue 7, had an older Intel Atom processor. Both the new Venue tablets will be available at the company's online store starting July 1.
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The Dell Venue 7 has been priced at $159.99 (Rs. 9,500 approximately), while the Venue 8 pro comes at $199.99 (Rs. 12,000 approximately). The changes definitely appear to be for the better, as the Android-based Venues now feature the latest Intel dual-core Atom processors — the 1.6GHz Z3460 for the Venue 7 and the 2.1GHz Z3480 for the Venue 8.
Apart from Venue 7 and Venue 8 tablets, Dell also launched a range of 2-in-1 devices and all-in-one PCs, including the Inspiron 11 3000 Series, Inspiron 13 7000 Series, and Inspiron 20 3000 Series.
The Venue 7 tablet features a 7-inch IPS display with WXGA (1280×800 pixels) resolution. It is powered by a dual-core Intel Atom (Z3460) 'Merrifield' processor clocked at 1.6GHz coupled with 1GB of RAM. There are some other improvements also which include a thinner, lighter chassis, but sadly the RAM has been reduced to half of the size. They continue to include 16GB of built-in storage, which can be further expanded via microSD card (up to 64GB). Notably, both the Venue 7 and Venue 8 tablets are backed by a 4550mAh battery. The Venue 8, on the other hand, comes with an 8-inch display IPS display, as the name suggests. The screen sports full-HD (1920×1200 pixels) resolution. It is also powered by a dual-core Intel Atom (Z3480) 'Merrifield' processor clocked at 2.1GHz alongside 1GB of RAM.
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The Venue 7 tablet sports a 5-megapixel rear camera, while there is a 1-megapixel front-facing camera also. Meanwhile, the Venue 8 tablet sports a 5-megapixel rear camera and also houses a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. Dell hopes the upgrades will help the Venue compete against the bevy of Android tablets in the marketplace, including the saturation bombing approach of Samsung, the leader thanks to its offering more than 10 Android slates at the moment. Commenting on the launch, Sam Burd, Vice President and General Manager, Dell Personal Computing Product Group said, "The Dell Venue tablets are designed to be essential companions to power projects, provide entertainment, and share meaningful moments with family and friends. Dell customers have more flexibility than ever before to have their technology move with them throughout the day and become a seamless part of their lives."
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We're only five days into 2018 and already, there's some not-so-great news and it concerns what may arguably be the best show ever created, Game of Thrones. HBO has confirmed that the eighth and final season won't air until 2019. We know. Devastating.
According to Screenrant.com, even though there will only be six episodes to finish the series out, producers will need more time to ensure the final season lives up to the hype. The white walkers have just broken through the wall with their army of wights and undead dragon, after all. There are also a few variables producers didn't have to consider before. Episodes are going to be longer than their usual 50-60 minutes. Not to mention, Game of Thrones needs to film during the cold months to properly portray the winter, which has now come to Westeros. Additionally, Screenrant reports, Game of Thrones used to be able to film separate story lines simultaneously, as some characters were filming in Northern Ireland or Iceland while others filmed in warmer weather. Now that storylines are intersecting (Daenerys and Jon Snow, for example), there will be less need for separate locations and multiple crews.


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F-35 JETS ON HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH COMPLETE LIVE WEAPONS TRAINING
Fighter jets embarked on HMS Queen Elizabeth have been undergoing live weapons training in the North Sea.
The F-35B Lightning jets have stepped up to the next level of training after the pilots completed their carrier qualification in both day and night time conditions.
617 Squadron, 'The Dambusters', and the US Marine Corps' VMFA-211 jets, spent three days on exercise, dropping 500lb Paveway IV high explosive bombs onto a dedicated range off the coast of the UK.
The training proved HMS Queen Elizabeth's ability to deliver F-35 strike mission sets from weapon prep through to execution.
Captain James Blackmore, Commander Air Group, said: "Working with British and American live weapons is a new experience for the Royal Navy, and the next step on the road toward full operational capability.
"Everyone needs to step up a gear to ensure we are ahead of the game as we move toward HMS Queen Elizabeth's first operational deployment next year, as from that moment onwards we need to be ready to do this for real."
HMS Queen Elizabeth is currently leading a nine-ship Carrier Strike Group with 15 jets and 11 helicopters. It is the highest number of jets to embark on the 65,000-tonne carrier.
Commander Mark Sparrow Royal Navy, commanding officer of 617 Squadron, said: "The first week of GroupEx set the baseline for higher tempo deck operations on the Squadron.
"That was a springboard for the next phase, which was to load live weapons on the aircraft, which we had not done from HMS Queen Elizabeth before. It was an opportunity to end-to-end test all the systems within the ship and the squadron, from building and loading the weapons all the way through to successfully releasing them on target.
"It's a fantastic achievement and hugely beneficial for junior pilots, both Royal Navy and RAF, to build the confidence that they can fly from the carrier, refuel, hit the target on a range and then return to slot back into a busy flying programme on-board."
The live weapons training comes as HMS Queen Elizabeth proved she can defend herself from air threats as she exercised with the Royal Navy's Hawks from 736 Naval Air Squadron, the Royal Navy's 'attacker' squadron.
The jets from RNAS Culdrose have been taking part in training with NATO ships as well as RAF Typhoons and the Lightning stealth fighters.
The squadron is used to test ship's companies and fighter controllers in how to respond to hostile aircraft or incoming missiles.
It is part of the annual multi-national Exercise Joint Warrior, which is taking place off the east coast of Scotland this month.
The black-painted 736 squadron jets were operating from RAF Leeming in Yorkshire before moving up to Aberdeen International Airport for the start of Joint Warrior.
Lieutenant Commander Jason Flintham, 736's Commanding Officer, said: "Our role is to be the enemy – the bad guys if you like. It's not easy, but we try to be as difficult as possible and push the abilities of our personnel to respond to a high-speed aerial threat.
"In one situation, 736 Squadron provided four Hawks as part of an 11-aircraft airborne threat against 11 RAF Typhoons. With 22 aircraft in the air fighting on this occasion, it was super exciting to be involved with and it demands much concentration and skill from my navy pilots.
"These large-scale exercises are key to the delivery of the UK's Carrier Strike Group, and 736 Squadron is at the forefront of preparing our ships for future operations around the world."


California-based SaaS startup CaptainPanel has raised $1.2 million in seed funding from Kuwait's Faith Capital and 500 Startups (MENA), Faith Capital and 500 Startups announced in a joint statement today.
Founded in 2017 by Abdullah Shalabi, a Kuwait national, CaptainPanel is an online solution that comes with a booking software for operators of fishing charters, boat rentals, diving centers, and water sports activity organizers. The startup also owns and runs FishFishMe, an international marketplace for fishing charters and watersport activities.
A big number of water activity businesses still rely on pen and paper to manage their bookings which requires a lot of time and effort on the operations side. CaptainPanel helps them take all of this online through its booking software and different other services which also include revamping the websites of these businesses and working with them on their digital marketing.


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Kasmanda Palace Hotel is located in the foothills of the Himalayan ranges, in the city of Mussoorie and is approachable by a motor road and has parking facilities for over 20 cars.
The closest international airport is the, ' Indira Gandhi International Airport' situated in New Delhi at a distance of 280 kms from the town of Mussoorie. While the 'Jolly Grant National Airport' in the Dun valley is at a distance of 55 kms.
Kasmanda palace hotel has 14 elegant and spacious double bedroom designed to offer you comfort that's inextricably linked to moments of yesteryears. A wonderful amalgamation of modernity fused with antiquity.


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FoE In Pakistan: 2017 Gets Off To An Ominous Start
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Media Analysis January 2017: murder, arrests and fear
Killings, Attacks and Threats against Journalists
In the context of freedom of expression the year 2017 got off to an ominous start. In January 2017, a journalist was murdered, five bloggers and online information practitioners were kidnapped, three journalists were arrested, five journalists sustained attacks and injuries, two journalists received verbal threats, two journalists were temporarily banned from working, two journalists were fined and a police case registered against three journalists and the chairman of the private electronic media regulator.
According to documentation of these cases by the Pakistan Press Clubs Safety Hubs Network and the media, of the total of eight categories of attacks and harassment occurring in January 2017, a total of 24 journalists and other information practitioners and the chairman of the independent broadcast media regulator sector were affected. These included four cases in Sindh province, two cases each in Balochistan and Punjab provinces as well as Islamabad and one case in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).
MURDER: The most serious case this month involved an attack on January 14, 2017 in Kalat town in Balochistan by unknown assailants on Mohammad Jan, a reporter for local newspaper Tawar. He was on his way to work when he was shot dead. Police has not been able to ascertain either the motive behind the murder or the identity of the attackers.
ABDUCTIONS: Five online information practitioners, bloggers and rights activists – Salman Haider, Waqas Goraya, Asim Saeed, Ahmed Raza Naseer and Samar Abbas – were abducted from Islamabad, Lahore and Faisalabad in early January 2017. All, except Abbas, returned home by the end of the month but have refused to talk about their ordeals. The identities of those behind the kidnapping have not been ascertained but similarities in their abduction patters and their post-return behaviors indicate possible involvement of a single source. There were allegations that the state security apparatus was behind the abductions but these were not substantiated. The Ministry of Interior also refused to confirm or deny who could have been involved. After their return, the four bloggers have refused to file charges against anyone. Widespread reports in electronic and social media indicated their secular activism and criticism of security agencies and religion were likely reasons behind their vengeful abductions.
ARRESTS: In this month, three journalists were arrested.
In the first case, on the morning of January 5, 2017 Samaa TV reporter Imdad Phulpoto was arrested in Khairpur in Sindh by the police. The arrest was made in a criminal case filed against his brother. Phulpoto was released the same day after several hours of detention without any charges.
In the second case, on January 20, 2017, two journalists were arrested by the police and sent to Central Prison Sukkur in Sindh based on a court decision against them issued on January 9, 2017. The journalists included Akhlaq Jokhio and Qurban Gadehi. Both work for Sindhi-language weekly print magazine Saahti Awaz and are based in Naushero Feroze town. Both have been sentenced to jail terms of five years and fine of Rs50,000 each. They were convicted for their journalism work dating back to 2015 about the alleged misappropriation of a graveyard by property developer Shahid Akram, also a former local union council chairman, for personal benefit. Jokhio and Gadehi have appealed their convictions in Sindh High Court.
ATTACKS & INJURIES: In the same month, five journalists sustained attacks and injuries.
In the first case, Ghulam Asghar, a correspondent for Sach TV in Layyah in Punjab, was shot in the spinal cord on January 5, 2017. He required extensive medical treatment. Police registered a case and arrested at least one suspect.
In the second case, Zubair Dhillon, a Neo TV reporter based in Faisalabad in Punjab, was on January 19, 2017 beaten up by policemen officials on Jan 19 while on official duty for the coverage of a public rally by politician Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari.
In the third case, Shoaib Tareen, a reporter for Sach TV in Dadu in Sindh was attacked on January 24, 2017, and injured by unknown persons. Police are investigating the case.
In the fourth case, Sajid Kukikhel, correspondent for Mashriq newspaper in Khyber Agency of FATA and former president of Jamrud Press Club, and Amir Zada, the correspondent for Express newspaper in Khyber Agency of FATA, were on January 27, 2017 beaten and harassed by the Khasadar Police Force in Bara subdivision while they were covering a political event. Police have refused to register a case against their attackers.
VERBAL THREATS: In this month, two journalists received verbal threats.
In the first case, Zaman Mehsud, a journalist from South Waziristan in FATA based in Tank in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and a correspondent for Ummat newspaper, says that on January 21, 2017 he received on his phone a call from an unidentified person who threatened him of dire consequences for his reporting.
In the second case, Fareedullah Kakar, a reporter for Waqt TV based in Harnai in Balochistan, on January 31, 2017, received threats on the phone from unknown persons for investigating the death of a boy at a local clinic and warned against reporting the death.
BANNED: In this month, two journalists were temporarily banned from working. The administration of state-managed Pakistan Television (PTV) in Islamabad, restrained current affairs anchorpersons Ms Tanzila Mazhar and Ms Yashfeen Jamal from working until an investigation into a case of sexual harassment they had filed against a senior male colleague.
FINED: In this month two journalists were fined Rs50,000 each by a court in a defamation case against them filed by a property dealer. On January 9, 2017 a local court convicted Akhlaq Jokhio and Qurban Gadehi who both work for Sindhi-language weekly print magazine Saahti Awaz based in Naushero Feroze town in Sindh. Both were also sentenced to jail terms of five years and fine of Rs50,000 each. Both have appealed their convictions in Sindh High Court.
LEGAL CASE: On January 28, 2017, complying with an order issued by an anti-terrorism court in Karachi in Sindh, the police registered a case against Mir Shakilur Rehman, the owner of Pakistan's largest media group, the Jang Group, hosts of Geo TV current affairs talkshow Apas Ki Baat, Najam Sethi and Muneeb Farooq, and Chairman Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) Absar Alam for "hatching conspiracy by hurling baseless allegations against the military, the government and the judiciary." The complaint was filed by a private citizen Gul Khan.
Threats, Attacks & Harassment against Media Institutions
In the month of January 2017, no case of a physical attack on media offices were documented by the Press Clubs Safety Hubs Network. However, a police case was filed against the heads of Jang Group and Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) for alleged defamation of the military and the judiciary. There were no known cases of written or verbal threats, formal ban or enforced censorship on a media house this month. No information was available on a media house being served with a legal notice from either official quarters or from private parties.
Threats, Attacks & Harassment against Various Types of Media
In the month of January 2017, a total of eight categories of attacks and threats against a total of 24 practitioners of various types of media were documented by the Press Clubs Safety Hubs Network and the media.
These included 11 cases of violations against print media, 10 against television media, five against online information practitioners and one case against the private broadcast media regulator. No cases were documented against radio media or a freelance journalist.
Of the 11 cases against print media practitioners, three related to police cases against them, two cases each related to fines, physical assaults and injuries, and arrests while one each related to verbal threats and murder.
Of the 10 cases against TV media practitioners, three related to police cases against them, three cases related to physical assaults and injuries, two related to bans, one related to verbal threats and one related to an arrest.
Of the five cases against online information practitioners all five cases related to abductions.
Threat Actors Attacking and Harassing Journalists and Media
During January 2017, the various reported or suspected threat actors attacking, threatening or harming media practitioners included courts, which convicted two journalists and fined them, police which arrested two journalists and jailed them, law enforcement agencies which beat up two journalists, media managers which temporarily banned two journalists from working, and other unidentified actors which abducted five journalists and attacked and injured another three journalists.
The information collected here is based on reporting by victims or their families and does not necessarily imply it is verified, unless specified. The information filed here is in good faith and aimed at analyzing trends for the sole purpose of informing strategies to reduce threats against media and its practitioners.
Advocacy on Journalists' Safety by Press Clubs Safety Hubs Network
In January 2017, the Pakistan Press Clubs Safety Hubs Network spent a busy month. Some of the key advocacy activities on journalists' safety in this period included the following:
National Press Club, Islamabad, Safety Hub
Safety Hub Manager attended a press conference on missing bloggers and met with the family of one of them to offer assistance.
Safety Hub Manager along with Rawalpindi-Islamabad Union of Journalists Secretary Shakeel Ahmad pursued the case of reported abduction of missing crime reporter for Khabrain newspaper Mazhar Shaikh with his family, which registered a case with Islamabad Police.
Safety Hub Manager consulted senior colleagues to consider a strategy to raise the issue of a ban imposed by Speaker Ayaz Sadiq on live coverage or mobile-phone coverage of National Assembly proceedings.
Dera Ismail Khan Press Club Safety Hub
Safety Hub Manager met Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Director Information Amir Husain Shah at his office in Peshawar and discussed issues relating to safety of journalists in the province in general and in D I Khan district in particular. Shah said the provincial government is interested in legislation on the issue of journalists' safety. He also informed that the government has established a medical aid fund for assistance of journalists of the province.
Safety Hub Manager attended an MoU signing ceremony between Media and Security Research Organisation (Masro) and Gomal University for training of journalists in Dera Ismail Khan, and spoke about challenges facing journalists in the region.
Karachi Press Club Safety Hub
Safety Hub Manager visited press clubs in Thatta, Badin, Mithi, Mirpurkhas, Hyderabad, Nawabshah, Sukkur and Shikarpur in Sindh province to deliver IEC [information, education and communication] materials on the theme of safety of journalists and to sensitize their members on security and safe journalism.
Safety Hub Manager delivered training and IEC materials on journalists' safety for the staff Dawn News TV in Karachi.
Safety Hub Manager conducted for the Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) an orientation on physical and digital security of journalists and safety protocols for more than 30 editors of different newspapers.
Quetta Press Club Safety Hub
Safety Hub Manager met with the family of and other stakeholders on seeking justice for the murder of Mohammad Jan, a journalist based in Kalat, by unidentified attackers.
Peshawar Press Club Safety Hub
Safety Hub Manager consulted with Sajid Kukikhel, ex-president of Jamrud Press Club and correspondent of Mashriq newspaper in Khyber Agency, and Amir Zada, the correspondent of Express newspaper in Khyber Agency, after they were beaten up and harassed by local tribal police while on duty.
Safety Hub Manager visited Charsadda and Mardan press clubs for the distribution of IEC materials for sensitizing journalists on safety issues.
Lahore Press Club Safety Hub
Safety Hub Manager pursued the cases of two journalists assaulted and injured in Punjab, including Zubair Sajid Dhillon, a reporter for Neo TV in Faisalabad and Ghulam Rasool Asghar, a correspondent for Sach TV in Chowk Azam.
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Funny Software Mishaps That Left Users Laughing
It's hard to imagine our lives without the apps and innovative features surrounding us. These technologies make things easier – until they stop working, that is. A cell phone or computer glitch can sometimes be so frustrating that it makes us want to live off the land in an isolated cottage far away. But other times, these tech mishaps are so ridiculous that we just can't help but laugh. So keep scrolling to get a good chuckle from real people's hilarious technical difficulties.
"Healthy Living Isn't Available in Your Country"
Fitbits and fitness trackers are all the rage these days, and it's easy to see why. It's always interesting to track your bodily metrics and see your fitness data. But we've never seen a fitness tracker acting this way before. According to this app, "Healthy Living" isn't available in the user's country. But, with the way the error message reads, it almost seems like this person isn't allowed to do any healthy living, app or not.
You don't need a fancy watch to start your fitness journey, but it certainly does help. So this message feels hilariously offensive.
We Know That Dog's Small, but Is It Really Only 327 Calories?
There's a not-so-new movement in AI and technology circles where people use these innovations to help with dieting and fitness routines. In the picture below, you see an interesting system at work where you can take a picture, and the AI will tell you how many calories are in each piece of food that it can see. The only problem is that the app's creators forgot to tell it that household pets aren't food!
We're not sure if this helps, but that dog has got to be way more than 327 calories, right?
No Face, No Service
We've seen some pretty hilarious technology mishaps over the years, but this bus station malfunction is one of the most ridiculous we've ever seen. They probably wanted to tell people to wear face masks, but the person coding the billboard forgot to check how many letters of space he had. So, instead of a helpful covid warning, we have an ominous message that looks like it could've come out of a horror movie.
Who is walking around out there without a face on anyway? Wasn't that the plot of the film, Spirited Away?
Everything Alright in There?
While most of these technology glitches have been pretty funny, this one is actually pretty ominous. We're not sure if this was a user error, a strange prank, or something else entirely. But this bus looks like it could use some serious help. We'd suggest that the guy standing in front of the camera try to go somewhere else, too. This bus depot does not look like the place to be late at night.
There are so many good television shows and movies about talking cars, buses, trains, and airplanes. We just wish the real-life talking ones said stuff that was even half as fun!
When Siri Has a Brain Fart
If we're being honest about it, not all AI was created equal. Some of them are much smarter than others, and here we see an example of the latter. The weirdest part is that the microphone picked up what they said, alright. Siri literally wrote, "It doesn't look like you have an app named 'App Store.' If you'd like, I can help you look for it on the App Store."
Speaking of AI annoyances, does anyone have a friend on their phone whose name you have to purposely mispronounce to get voice control to call them? Isn't that the worst?
Today's Weather: 90% Chance of Raining Hands
This is one of the funniest technology glitches we've seen, and it happened when a local news studio's graphics machine broke during a live broadcast of the weather. As their meteorologist stepped onto the screen to deliver the forecast, the graphics machine began projecting duplicates of her in varying sizes, mirroring the reporter's every move. She started laughing, as did everyone else in the studio and watching at home.
When technology malfunctions, the best thing to do is to keep your chin up and laugh through it. If there's no way for you to fix the problem yourself, forget about it and go to an expert.
A Casual Evening Run
When trying to get in shape, the most important thing to do is set goals for yourself. You want to ensure that you're continuously improving so that your body doesn't get too comfortable and stops its growth process. But we think this user guy might be taking things a little too far. With an average time of zero seconds per mile on this run, we don't see any way they could improve any more!
Clearly, this is a technology glitch. Unless it's not, and Superman just forgot to turn off his Fitbit before a long night saving the world.
Employers Be Like
We think it's pretty stellar when a company asks us for our salary expectations when applying for a job. You often have to go in blind, and then everybody winds up disappointed when their offer is too low, and you two can't reach a deal. That's basically what happened here anyway, as their offer was way too low. Apparently, they're not paying anything for this position at all! According to the computer, "Answer must not be greater than 0."
This has to be a system error because we're pretty sure it's illegal to make people work without paying them. Wait, never mind. We forgot that internships exist.
Sounds Like All Our Exes
We love when companies show appreciation to us for our continued support. It's not much, especially considering these corporations make millions of dollars yearly, but we still love getting a little coupon or deal every now and again. Still, we're unsure what this food delivery app is driving at with this coupon deal. They're offering a whopping $0 off the customer's order despite them not being a new user because "we still love you." Sounds like a toxic ex.
At this rate, we might as well just eat in the restaurant. It's not like the delivery services are doing us any favors!
This Sim Is Ready for Their Midnight Snack
Video game glitches never cease to make us laugh. From the original batch that popped up on YouTube, like the infamous Laddergoat, to the Fortnite and Apex clips we see today, this tradition is about as old as the internet. Still, in all that time, we're not sure if any game has been as good for fun glitches as the Sims. Take a look at this one and see if you can tell what's wrong!
If you can't figure it out, the Sim is trying to sleep while holding a plate of food. This would be some crazy training for someone who wanted to be a waiter!
Feels Like Apple Maps Had an Agenda
Apple has lots of funny jokes built into the back-end programming for their apps, which is great! One of those jokes back in the day was a feature on Apple Maps, where if you zoomed all the way out of the North American continent, everything became one giant Disappointment Lake. A pretty apt name, don't you agree? What's more disappointing, though, is just trying to use Apple Maps regularly, but that's a topic for another time.
We can understand why the person who posted this picture thought this was funny, but you know what's even funnier? Every year thousands of people actually travel to Disappointment Lake.
This Smartwatch Clearly Wants Its Owner to Kick the Bucket
Sometimes, smartwatches can be so frustrating. Half the time, it seems like the system only operates with half of the information it needs. Like here, where the tech is having trouble reading the person's pulse effectively. It's alright for the device to struggle, but what's not alright is the device not realizing that a living human being is going to need to have a heart rate above 0 bpm. That's pretty basic, no?
AI has been trained to do a lot of things for us, but one of the hardest things for a scientist to teach a computer is a little bit of common sense.
This Would Take Fighting Over the Charger to a Whole New Level
There's a feature on most computers where you can turn on and display the exact battery percentage you have left. That way, you know exactly when you'll need the charger (or how much time you have left if you forgot it). But, due to a glitch in this person's computer, they really know exactly how much battery they have left. Like, really, really. Down to way too many decimal points.
No one actually needs to know their battery percentage this specifically. If you're ever dealing with a display like this, maybe try restarting the computer and seeing if that helps.
And That's How He Learned He Had an Identical Twin
The cameras on most of our phones nowadays are so powerful that it's no problem to snap a quick picture of anything we want. Back in the day, when we were dealing with film and exposure, you never knew how your picture would come out. Still, somehow this guy had an old film trick happen in his new digital camera when he snapped a photo of his family and wound up duplicated!
Even though it must have been shocking to learn that he had a twin, the rest of this picture is pretty nice. This will probably remain a sweet memory for this family, camera glitch or not.
Get It Together, Grammarly
For as long as we can remember, we've had a little person in our computers telling us when we spell something wrong. Microsoft Word underlines misspellings in red for us and, later, even started identifying incorrect grammar. So it's no surprise that nowadays, there are entire programs dedicated to making sure your writing is perfect, from grammar and spelling to conciseness and flow. But what happens when these trusted apps so many of us depend on get it totally, completely wrong?
This happens. We get nonsense like "Everyn't many book" as a suggestion. You really can't trust anyone these days.
When It's Almost 5 O'clock so the AI Decides That's Enough for Today
We cannot stand it when we try to get in contact with a company, and we get thrown into an automated answering system for hours on end. It used to be that you could pick up the phone and get a real person on the other end. Now, you have to be very articulate, calm, and patient while talking with a robot, and even if you do that perfectly, you still probably won't get what you're looking for.
Here, this person was dealing with an automated answering service in a chat window, which should have been even easier for the computer! But no. After the customer said they needed more help, Amazon's AI wished them a nice day and exited the chat. Savage.
This Train Isn't Letting Societal Expectations Hold It Back
A lot of futuristic movies that have computers becoming sentient make the computers out to be incredibly smart and malicious. But, here, we see a train struggling with its own sentience, except it can't figure out what it really is. It doesn't think it's a train; it actually thinks it's a pie, which doesn't make much sense. But, hopefully, it gave all the passengers on the train a good laugh.
And we wholeheartedly believe this train can be whatever it wants to be as long as it doesn't involve taking over humankind and the world.
Workplace Red Flag Number 1: Mixed Messages
This workplace wants future employees to know that, around here, you need to be way better than perfect to pass. This person was taking an allergy awareness test to gain certification for their workplace, and they wound up failing the class. The required score to pass was an 80%, but for some reason, they were told they failed even after getting a perfect score. But at the same time, they were also congratulated for passing.
Hopefully, these employers were understanding and didn't make the person retake the entire course. That just sounds like a lot of unnecessary work.
We Have More Time Than We Thought Until Computers Take Over
Some technologies are incredibly helpful, and then others are just creepy. For example, stuff like facial scanners and even lock screens that use Face ID is awesome and practical but also a bit eerie. There's just something intrusive about a piece of technology being able to distinguish between different human beings. Although, then we see images like this one, and we realize that there's still hope for the computers to stay dumb after all.
Maybe there's more time than we thought until computers rule the world.
We'd Choose "po"
We make it a habit to try to be honest in our day-to-day lives. So, if we saw a survey from a company asking us to evaluate their website, we would give them an honest answer. Now, if this was the website, we don't know if we could give them an honest answer. The lowest rung on this survey is that the website looks very poor, but in reality, it honestly looks like trash.
Thousands of website developers available for hire on the internet could do a better job than this. Hopefully, this survey taught the company what it needed to know.
When the Pilot Takes a Wrong Turn
It must be so much fun to drive an airplane. There are no rules of the road or lanes to follow, so you can really just enjoy yourself up there. Admittedly, there are actually lanes you're supposed to follow, protocols, and things of that nature. But, you'll never be flying an airplane and miss your highway exit. At least, we didn't think so until we saw the image down below.
It looks like this very standard Western Hemisphere flight has taken an unforeseen detour to the Southern coast of West Africa. Not exactly what you want to see if you're rushing to a business meeting.
Romania Decided Not to Leave 2020 Until Things Get Better
It seems like we all keep saying the same things to each other year after year. Next year will be better; next year will be better. Well, here, they just decided not to move on to the next year. Things can't get any worse if they don't change, right? That also means they can't get any better, but they can address that later. For now, let's just pretend December has more than 31 days.
This isn't the worst thing to happen, but it reminds us of that Parks and Rec episode where April schedules all of Ron's meetings for a date she doesn't think exists. Guess what happens, then?
The Glitch Did This Model Dirty
If you work in the marketing or advertising field, you have to figure out what will grab people's attention and make them want to buy your product. Sometimes, that's a catchy jingle or a good-looking model in the advertisement. Here, the tactic seems to be to scare the heck out of the user and to hope that it motivates them to act. What do you think, though, is it working?
That's probably not actually what this company wanted. This looks more like a glitch than anything, but it's a glitch that gives us a lot of ideas for a new horror movie villain, you know?
That Emoji Is Definitely Possessed
A few years ago, we were all still using the actual keypad to send emoticons to each other. Then, we had emojis, and now we've got bitmojis and Snapchat filters and all kinds of other fun ways to send messages back and forth between friends. But, this technology, like any other technology, can still malfunction. Here, we see a case where someone's thumbs up bitmoji has suddenly become a thumbs up the devil bitmoji.
There's something incredibly satanic about that cartoon face, even though we're pretty sure it's supposed to be cute. Honestly, though, the second one isn't that much better.
Please Consult a Doctor Immediately
If there's one bit of technology we really want to work correctly all of the time, it's medical technology. These are the systems and algorithms that are supposed to keep us alive, and if they malfunction, how are we supposed to get a proper reading and develop a proper diagnosis? That's why this parent was probably exasperated when they got their child's health test results back. There is no way that the kid actually has a BMI of infinity!
Maybe the doctors planned to send this out as a mock test and a sick burn before providing the real results. Then again, those would be some questionable doctors.
When You Don't Do Apple's Software Update
We buy technology with the express purpose of using it. So, if it stops working, you're naturally going to be a little frustrated. That's why this person was so surprised when they saw their sibling using their phone like this. The kid apparently has no problem maneuvering and doing everything they need, but we don't know if we'd be as forgiving. Can you imagine yourself using a phone that's tilted at an angle like that permanently?
We can't imagine this is a permanent problem either. The kid is probably just too lazy to head to a phone store and get it checked out. Or he doesn't want his mom to find out he broke it.
Next Run Will Be Through the Bermuda Triangle
If there's one thing people love, it's speed. We're always building faster cars, sleeker planes, and setting new world records in running. But, we're having a hard time believing this was a human's doing and not just a computer malfunctioning. This Fitbit screenshot says the wearer went on a three-minute morning run, crossing the Atlantic twice in the process and going through at least three different countries. We just have one question: What was in that guy's coffee?
There have actually been reports recently of companies hacking into fitness data and using that information to track customers and create even more tailored ads and content. Spooky stuff!
The PC Had a Long Night
It's always annoying when you want to use the computer, but you need to wait for an update to finish going through. It's even worse if it's a long update, like the type you might have to wait all night for. Luckily, this guy thought ahead and started the update right before he went to bed to maximize computer time. But, when he woke up, the only thing maximized was his frustration.
Something crashed during the night, but we're not sure how he could've prevented it from getting worse. Still, this has got to be a nightmare for any computer owner.
When Your Computer Starts Using Hieroglyphics
The whole point of keeping a wristwatch is so that you always know what time it is. Most people don't need that anymore since they have their phones in their pockets or their computer clocks to check whenever they need to know how late it's getting. But this person, unfortunately, has lost their computer clock. So, they will be having a little bit of trouble telling the time on their computer from now on.
This is another one of those glitches that we feel could be dealt with after a quick reset. But, we're not computer experts, so don't take our word for any of that.
We Love When Our Technology Keeps Us in Suspense
We love when we're having a problem with our computer, and a stranger on the internet is able to perfectly explain how to fix it for us. For some reason, those unqualified internet strangers seem to be much better at that kind of thing than the computer manufacturers themselves. If you look here, you'll see someone who tried to use their computer's internal help bot and wound up getting just about as much help as you'd expect.
This is why every company needs a customer service line staffed by real people! Pay a living wage and do good service, and everybody's happy!
Crashed Cursor Creates Cursed Cottage
Sorry for the alliteration above, but this is a pretty cursed image. Wouldn't you agree? This guy's PC started crashing, so his mouse toggle was duplicated all over the screen wherever he moved it. So, before shutting the system down and fixing things, he decided to have a little fun and create this piece of art. To us, though, this seriously looks like something you would see during the climax of a horror movie.
Of course, there are other programs and ways for a person to draw than to force their PC to crash. Still, we can't imagine this guy doesn't do this every time the computer starts freezing now.
French, the Language of Love
Learning a new language is hard. You need to constantly practice new words and rehearse the old ones you already know while still conjugating new verbs and finding ways to understand larger snippets of conversation, all at once. That's why apps like Duolingo are so popular. But, even the infamous Duolingo isn't perfect all the time. In this case, they're asking someone to learn a word that we're pretty sure is completely made up.
We're not fluent in French or anything, but we took it in school for a few years, and we've realized that the ampersand, hashtag, and semicolon don't have sounds in that language.
What Is Going On In This Fallout Game
We know that the Fallout games are about a world after nuclear war and the apocalypse occurs. But is this really what we should expect when all of that goes on? What happened to the rest of that person's body? They're just eyes and a shirt! Come to think of it - maybe this is a cheat code that someone found in the game where you can make everything but your eyeballs invisible.
There are loads of exciting cheat codes in different video games that let you do things like this. Still, seeing it for the first time in a while is always creepy.
Exactly What We Want to See Before a Horror Movie
Some people love horror movies, and others hate them. We fall in the hate camp, to be honest. You have to be pretty measured in order to make a horror movie that doesn't just depend on cliches or jump scares. Still, if you had a whole theater working with you to scare viewers before they start watching the movie, just like they're doing here, it would be way easier to scare the pants off everyone.
People who are going to see a horror movie are usually already on edge, so doing something like this is a great way to really push them to the limit.
This Feels A Little Passive Aggressive
If we do something good, we want to be congratulated for it. But, if we do something awful, we don't want people rubbing it in our faces. We're not sure what this popup is from, it may be a video game minigame, but it gives off "rubbing it in our face" vibes. Why not just say, "Sorry, you lost," instead? That feels like it would be a much nicer way to celebrate that someone lost the game.
At the end of the day, this is just a game. But, the more we think about it, this video game is really art imitating life, huh?
The Greeks Knew What They Were Doing
When we talk about ancient societies, we're usually so impressed with how much they were able to do with the limited technology of their times. The Ancient Greeks are one of those societies. Now, the current-day Greeks have made some pretty incredible inventions too, and they've got some beautiful scenery in the country. Still, though, Google Maps probably isn't the place you want to go to see that scenery though, or else this is going to happen.
This happens anytime you take an image from directly overhead and try to terraform it onto a 3-D model. But, you can zoom in at all different parts of the globe and see fun stuff like this, which is pretty awesome.
Even the Emergency Alert Is Panicking
Emergency alert systems, like the ones that warn us of amber alerts or incoming earthquakes, are vital in keeping people calm and safe. But, we want you to imagine something. If you were on the receiving end of this emergency alert message, would you be able to stay calm? We're trying to read between the lines here, and it sounds like there's lightning coming, and people need to stay out of the water, but we're honestly not sure.
A few years ago, a US defense alert system told people on the island of Hawaii that a ballistic missile was incoming, which was a false alarm. So, at least this glitch wasn't that bad.
Is This Some Type Of Test?
Do you remember those apps that are supposed to improve your brain function by making you do little tests? There's stuff like click the word, not the color, and then they give you an assortment of blue, red, and green written in all different colors. That's basically what's going on here, where we've got company titles and completely different logos connected to them. In our opinion, Wendy deserves much better than that.
If we had to rank the fast-food restaurants listed on this test, you already know that Subway is coming in last. Dominos is second last. Pizza Hut, it depends if it's 90s Pizza Hut or now Pizza Hut.
When the Planetarium's Computer System Gets Hacked
Seeing these error messages on a computer for the first time was so scary back in the day. This technology was already confusing enough, and we thought we had broken it all of a sudden. Luckily, a quick reboot will take care of this blue screen mess most of the time. Unfortunately, the people in this situation didn't really have time for a reboot. They had a planetarium full of kids to entertain ASAP!
We used to love going to the planetarium. But, they also always made us really sleepy. Was anyone else trying to catch naps during those school field trips to see the stars?
Trying to Read This Hurts Our Brains
Spelling isn't for everyone– it's incredibly hard sometimes! There's a reason there's a nationally televised spelling bee competition every year. Still, we can't imagine it's just lousy spelling that made this receipt look like this. Either this person is under the influence, or the computer is seriously malfunctioning because something is wrong. The only thing spelled remotely close to right is the one place they wrote "McDonald," and that's about it!
As poorly as all this is spelled, we bet it still tasted amazing. There's something about that sweet, unhealthy, unsustainably farmed poison that we just can't get enough of.