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Japan's Young Women Find Few Job Options
Companies, squeezed by recession, revert to tradition and trim their intake of female graduates
By Cameron W. Barr Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor. Monitor news assistant Miharu Hasegawa contributed to this report.
TOMOKO KOGUCHI, a senior at Waseda University, one of Japan's best private colleges, is job hunting. She says she has written to 300 companies over the past few months and has been invited to interview at 42 of them.
The outcome: no offers. One company told her she was on a reserve list.
Ms. Koguchi also reports that her 16-student senior seminar at Waseda includes 14 men - all of whom have received offers of employment.
If this year's job market is grim for Japan's blue-suited young recruits, as would-be employees are called here, it is especially severe for the women. Only one-half of Waseda's 1,400 women seniors had been offered a job by mid-July. By contrast, 70 percent of the school's 3,865 male seniors had gotten a nod.
``Our staff is desperate,'' says Hiroshi Baba, director of Waseda's career planning section. In a measure of that desperation, Mr. Baba held a job fair late last month - the first in Waseda's 112-year history. To generate more opportunities for female graduates, he tried to bar companies that hadn't hired at least two women in each of the past three years from the fair, but ultimately allowed 50 companies that did not meet the standard to join the 400 that did.
Despite the backtracking, Baba's criterion was an unusual attempt to counter one of the lesser-noticed effects of the Japanese recession: the tendency for companies to curtail or stop hiring women for entry-level positions, particularly for job tracks that lead to roles in management.
Some experts are concerned that the economic downturn, now in its fourth year, could limit or even undo recent advances women have made in gaining entree to corporate Japan.
``Plainly, the companies are saying `We don't need any girls,' '' says an executive at a large Tokyo-based chemical corporation. Concerned about the repercussions of her comments, she asked that neither her name nor her company's be used. (See related story.)
Judging from both anecdotes and statistics, Japan's young women are facing a much tougher market than their male counterparts. According to a survey of 225 large corporations released on July 17 by a national federation of labor unions, the average company planned to hire 49 women next spring, a 56 percent drop from the 113 women taken on two years ago. The figure for men was 102, down 42 percent from 177.
For male graduates, the problem may be a matter of not getting a job at their first-choice company. Another survey this summer reported that there are enough jobs for men, but only 6 positions for every 10 women.
The women who are trying to preserve their avenue into corporate Japan are battling a de facto division of labor that emerged during Japan's postwar decades of concentrated economic development, says Yoko Sato, who covered women's issues for a leading Japanese newspaper before retiring to run a municipally funded women's center in Tokyo.
Women who stayed home or did clerical and menial chores in offices effectively facilitated the utter devotion to company that Japan's ``salarymen'' are famous for, she says. While the system may have had its efficiencies, she adds, ``Men and women are seeing that such a division of labor is not always happy.''
An equal-opportunity law in 1986 prompted many corporations to employ more women and to admit them to the elite executive-trainee job tracks that were once reserved for men. The boom economy of the late 1980s also allowed managers the financial latitude to hire more women.
But corporate chiefs are now saying they can't risk hiring women. The Japanese stereotype says most women graduates enter the work force for a few years and then leave when they marry or become pregnant.
AT the same time, however, women employees report that companies are doing little to accommodate working mothers. In interviews, women at three major Japanese firms said corporate efforts to create flex-time programs or to design policies to welcome back women who had left to have a baby were superficial and insincere.
Part of this insincerity is perhaps due to ignorance, since there are so few women managers to tell their male colleagues what should be done. Keio University professor Sumiko Iwao's 1993 book, ``The Japanese Woman,'' reports that only 5 percent of Japan's working women are managers, compared with 29 percent of the men.
Tokyo-based Citizen Watch Co. Ltd., the world's leading watchmaker, has more than 3,100 employees, 460 of whom are women. One of them is a manager.
Company president Michio Nakajima, a male executive with unusual candor, says he is ready to move more women into management, ``but not immediately.'' He adds: ``In starting new things in the past, Citizen has taken an attitude to follow suit to the major current of other companies, so we will wait and see.''
He suggests that women lack the will to become full-fledged employees and says they tend to leave after a few years. The new batch of recruits Citizen hired this spring included 31 graduates -
all men.
Despite the hiring slowdown, Ms. Sato finds several encouraging, long-term factors: Japan's birthrate is declining, which will mean broader opportunities for all Japanese; women who have already made it into management tracks will be reaching positions of power in a decade or so; and as Japanese society slowly relaxes in its affluence, men are spending less time at work, creating openings for women.
There is also the expediency argument. In a globalized economy, where women are active players in competing corporations, Japan's companies will need to conform, some observers say.
Waseda's Baba says he is often invited to speak to corporate audiences. He says he tells them: ``Unless you employ women and promote them, you won't survive in the 21st century.''
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Questionnaire for Policy holders
This survey is an initiative of the Financial Services Authority to assess the impact of COVID-19 on the insurance sector in Seychelles and understand how businesses have responded to the pandemic. We will compile this information in a report, highlighting key trends and opportunities for the sector that arise out of the pandemic. The data will solely be used for the purpose of the research and will remain confidential.
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Advisory in respect to recurrent issues relating to entities purporting to be licensed and regulated by the Financial Services Authority
The Financial Services Authority ("FSA") issued an advisory dated August 30th, 2019 advising the general public and potential investors to be vigilant when engaging with entities providing services within the Financial Technology ("Fintech") landscape, including but not limited to services pertaining to virtual assets, such as crypto-currencies and other services that are required to be undertaken only by approved, licensed or regulated persons. It is important to note that a vast majority of these services are being offered over the internet and the operators in question are not based in the Seychelles.
Regrettably, it has recently come to the FSA's attention that it appears that there continues to be a number of companies purporting to be carrying on businesses and providing services related to the Fintech realm, when they are not authorized to do so. Furthermore, some of these entities are claiming that they are licensed and regulated by the FSA which is not correct.
For clarification purposes, the FSA licences and regulates entities as can be found here only.
The FSA would like to inform the public in general that it has come to be aware that some of these businesses are set up as International Business Companies ("IBCs") that may be registered in Seychelles. It is necessary to note that being an IBC does not translate that an entity is licensed or regulated by an Authority but rather that it has been set up or incorporated as company in Seychelles. To carry out any activity, the IBC, similar to any legal person, has to have the appropriate authorisations in the form of a licence to carry out specific activities.
As such, this Advisory is being issued in order to alert members of the public and investors alike when it comes to their dealings with such unauthorized service providers. The FSA also strongly advises that the public and investors be aware of the risks that are associated with such services, including but not limited to the potential loss of funds.
The FSA would like to inform members of the public and investors that whilst it is necessary that it is contacted in cases of perceived wrong doing by the service providers in question so that it can carry out necessary enquiries, it would equally like to point out that in such cases it is difficult for the FSA to assist members of the public and investors with some form of redress, such as the retrieval of any funds from the providers concerned, in view that they are not licensed nor regulated by the FSA and often times are not based or conducting the activity in the Seychelles.
Before engaging the services of such companies and any other entities providing services specified herein, it is recommended that investors and members of the public undertake careful due diligence to evaluate the investment opportunity. The following questions, amongst others, should be duly considered:
What do I know about this company and the services being offered?
Is the business a company? If yes, where is it incorporated?
Is the business licensed to provide the services being advertised particularly when it includes the taking or holding of client funds?
Does the business itself express or disclose in a clear manner the risks associated with the services being offered?
Do I understand both the opportunities (i.e. the potential gains) as well as the potential risks (such as, the loss of funds) associated with such services?
Is this company regulated and if yes, by which Regulatory Authority?
Does this company have appropriate Anti-Money Laundering (AML) controls in place?
If yes, under the law of which country/jurisdiction(s) are those controls based on?
What dispute resolution mechanisms exist if there is a dispute with this company?
If yes, which country/jurisdiction(s) is identified as the jurisdiction for dispute resolution.
In light of the above, the public is invited to provide the FSA with any relevant information on any entities purportedly operating in or from within Seychelles, and on any improper activities engaged in by such entities.
The FSA has issued this Advisory pursuant to Section 4(1)(m) of the Financial Services Authority Act, 2013.
The Financial Services Authority
Advisory in respect to the International Business Company ("IBC"): Mek Global Limited (207897), linked to the Cryptocurrency Exchange: KuCoin
Issued on February 12th, 2021
This advisory is issued by the Financial Services Authority ("FSA") pursuant to section 4(1)(m) of the Financial Services Authority Act, 2013 ("FSA Act") and is addressed to the general public and to potential investors in respect to the scope of the FSA's regulatory function.
Reference is made to the FSA's alert posted on February 4th, 2021 on the International Business Company ("IBC"), Mek Global Limited with IBC number 207897 and a recent interview by the FSA that was aired on February 11, 2021. At this point in time, the FSA has deemed it important to convey additional information in relation to the IBC in view of it being aware of certain information being circulated within the public domain that may not necessarily represent the true facts of the case and the position of the FSA on the matter.
With regards to the information available on the public domain concerning an alleged "hack" on the cryptocurrency exchange platform of KuCoin, that apparently took place over the course of 2019 and 2020 the FSA hereby informs the public that whilst it is concerned at the allegations being made involving a Seychelles IBC, it recognizes that the alleged illicit act may have a negative impact on the platform as well as to the users of the platform concerned.
The FSA would also like to inform the public that the exchange platform appears to be affiliated with the IBC, Mek Global Limited. The FSA wishes to inform the public that enquiries into the affairs of the IBC was initiated in 2019 following receipt of certain information from both domestic and international supervisory counterpart authorities. It is to be noted that the IBC was eventually struck off the Register of IBCs in November of 2020 by the FSA, but is yet to be dissolved.
As part of its procedures in matters such as these the FSA also issued an alert on its website on February 4th, 2021 to advise the public that whilst the IBC Mek Global Limited was incorporated in Seychelles under the International Business Companies Act, 2016, the company is not regulated or licenced by the FSA to conduct businesses of any type in Seychelles including those that were being offered by the online platform which also made reference to the IBC in question on the platform.
The public is thereby advised that the FSA's enforcement action (i.e. the striking-off) against the IBC Mek Global Limited was as a result of its own separate investigations and enquiries in the affairs of the IBC and was not in any way linked to the recent publications of the "hack" on the KuCoin platform which has been published recently.
In light of the situation involving KuCoin and the allegations concerned, the FSA would like to inform that whilst it is following the situation closely, it cannot at this point in time provide any positions on the allegations made or on the status of any investigations that could be in progress by any investigative authorities in any state.
All the above said, the FSA hereby draws the attention of the general public and investors to its Advisory in respect to entities claiming to be licensed or regulated by the FSA where the FSA sets out the scope of its regulatory ambit, such that its regulatory oversight extends only to the activities of persons, in or outside of Seychelles, that are licensed or regulated by the FSA under the relevant regulatory legislations. For more information on entities licenced and regulated by the FSA, please click here.
The FSA is cognizant that businesses operating the in sphere of financial technologies, or fintech, is highly susceptible to attacks by cybercriminals. In that regard, the FSA strongly urges investors and members of the public to undertake careful due diligence when evaluating an investment opportunity in fintech and to exercise extreme caution in respect to the services offered by unlicenced and unregulated companies.
Alert: Mek Global Limited (207897)
This notice is issued by the Financial Services Authority ("FSA") pursuant to section 4(1)(m) of the Financial Services Authority Act, 2003 in relation to the International Business Company ("IBC"), Mek Global Limited with IBC number 207897.
Through information available in the public domain, Mek Global Limited appears to be affiliated with an online trading platform for virtual assets, namely KuCoin Cryptocurrency Exchange Platform, and is soliciting investors and customers through its website: https://www.kucoin.com/
The FSA hereby informs the public that Mek Global Limited does not hold any licence issued by the FSA to undertake such type of activity. Therefore, the entity is not being regulated by the FSA nor has it been in the past.
The FSA strongly urges investors and members of the public to exercise caution in respect to the services offered by Mek Global Limited.
Scam Alert: LELMM GLOBAL
This notice is issued by the Financial Services Authority of Seychelles ("FSA") drawing attention to the following website: https://lelmm.com/ and the fact that contrary to what is being mentioned on this website's User Agreement, the entity known as LELMM GLOBAL is not licensed nor regulated by the FSA in any capacity. Details on the website are as follows:
Website: https://lelmm.com/
LELMM GLOBAL does not hold a valid license of any type from the FSA Seychelles. The entity is not regulated by the FSA Seychelles, nor has it been in the past.
The FSA Seychelles urges investors and members of the public to exercise extreme caution in respect of LELMM GLOBAL.
Consumer Education - Pyramid Schemes
Revocation of the securities dealer licence (Licence number SD014) of Aronex Corporation Ltd.
The Financial Services Authority hereby gives notice to the general public, pursuant to section 28(2)(c) of the Financial Services Authority Act, 2013 ("FSA Act"), that the securities dealer licence held by Aronex Corporation Ltd has been revoked pursuant to section 29(1) of the FSA Act, effective January 21st, 2021.
Therefore, note that effective January 21st, 2021, Aronex Corporation Ltd no longer holds the above mentioned licence.
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National Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Committee holds second meeting
The National Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) Committee, has started work towards its objective of strengthening the Seychelles' AML/CFT framework.
Scam Alert: Axis Market FX
This notice is issued by the Financial Services Authority of Seychelles ("FSA") drawing attention to the following website: https://axismarketfx.com/ and the fact that contrary to what is being advertised on this website, the entity known as Axis Market FX. is falsely advertising that they are licensed and regulated by the FSA to conduct business as a Securities dealer. Details on the website are as follows:
Website: https://axismarketfx.com/
Type of licence: Securities Dealer
Axis Market FX. does not hold a valid license of any type from the FSA Seychelles. The entity is not regulated by the FSA Seychelles, nor has it been in the past.
The FSA Seychelles urges investors and members of the public to exercise extreme caution in respect of Axis Market FX.
Circular No 13 of 2020 – Acceptance of digitally signed documents
This Circular is being issued with the aim of notifying all stakeholders of the Financial Services Authority's ("the Authority") acceptance of electronic documents that have been digitally signed, in accordance with the Seychelles' legislations.
The Electronic Transactions Act, 2001 provides the framework for the authentication of documents by affixing of digital signatures and the Electronic Transactions (Affixing of Digital Signature) Regulations, 2018 stipulates the requirements for foreign authorities to be recognized as Certifying Authorities. The Recognition of Foreign Certifying Authorities' Notice published in the Official Gazette on the 14th October, 2019 provides for the list of Certifying Authorities recognized by the Controller of Certifying Authorities.

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New York City FC hire Ronny Deila as manager days before MLS SuperDraft
Rachael Kriger, Senior Editor
MOTHEREWELL, SCOTLAND — OCTOBER 17: Celtic manager Ronny Deila reacts at the end of the match during the Ladbrokes Scottish Premiership match between Motherwell and Celtic at Fir Park on October 17, 2015 in Motherwell, Scotland. (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty images).
New York City, New York — After a long search in the offseason, New York City FC has their next manager. On Monday morning, the club announced that Ronny Deila, a native of Norway, is the Eastern Conference club's next coach.
Deila penned a three-year deal. He began his coaching career in 2008, joining Strømsgodset Toppfotball in his native Norway. He remained at the club until 2014, before pursing an opportunity with Celtic. Deila spent two seasons in Scotland, and then returned to Norway to coach Vålerenga.
In Scotland, Deila led Celtic to back-to-back Scottlish Premiership titles.
"When the opportunity came up to join New York City FC as their new head coach, it was a dream come true for me to manage an amazing Club in a great city," Deila said, via a press release.
A former defender for clubs like Odd and Viking, Deila is inheriting a team that won first place in the Eastern Conference last year. However, New York City fell out of the playoffs in the Conference Semifinals, losing 2-1 to Toronto FC. At the end of the season, manager Domènec Torrent decided to leave the club.
Delia said he wants to build NYCFC, not remake and overhaul the club.
"When I come in, it's important to continue to build on what's already proven to be a strong foundation and to get some of my ideas across," Deila said. "The way I want to play and the way NYCFC has played is very similar. I'm a very attacking coach. We want to have the ball as much as possible, but also try to be direct when you have those opportunities."
Faith in Ronny Deila
New York City is already showing faith in their new manager.
The club decided to give Deila a three-year contract that extends until 2023. However, details of the contract were not disclosed to the media. Deila said that while supporting the players is a top priority, he also wants to establish a good relationship with the supporters.
"I'm ready to see our supporters and hopefully we'll have a wonderful relationship," he said. "I'm going to do everything I can to play good football the City way. I'll give everything from myself to the Club and I'm sure we're going to achieve fantastic things in the future."
Ronny Deila's accolades, courtesy of NYCFC.
Meanwhile, according to Brad Sims, NYCFC CEO, the club formed a relationship with Deila "for a long time."
"We've been very impressed with his coaching acumen and his belief in playing a style that fits our attacking ethos," Sims said. "He's an experienced manager that has succeeded in winning trophies at clubs with high expectations like we have here at NYCFC. Importantly, not only are we getting a wonderful coach, but also an exceptional person. I can't wait for our fans to meet Ronny and get to know him."
For Deila, the biggest thing he wants to work on right away is consistency.
"I think consistency is an important thing," he said. "Consistency in the way we play and to keep on improving in the City style. The group of players have been here for a while and they're ready to take the next step together. Winning a title will be a big goal for myself and for the club."
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The Thomasite (April 2023)
Literary Historical Fiction
Victoria Grageda-Smith was born in the Philippines, the eldest of ten children in a family of humble means. Through full academic merit scholarships, she graduated Magna Cum Laude in her pre-law class and ranked among the top of her law class at The College of Law, University of the Philippines. She also earned a Master of Law degree from The University of Michigan School of Law. She served as associate counsel in a large, prestigious Manila law firm before becoming the only female attorney in the twenty-five-lawyer legal department of one of Southeast Asia's oldest global corporate conglomerates. She was on track to establish her own law firm when life threw the proverbial wrench at her well-laid plans: she met, fell in love with, and married an American, and moved to the US to build a life with him. The challenges of an immigrant having to start over in both personal and professional lives, plus motherhood sans her support network of Philippine family and friends amid her husband's frequent career-related travel, compelled her to choose to be the at-home parent. It was while raising their young children she rediscovered a childhood passion: creative writing. She wrote while doing laundry, cooking, and waiting for their children to get out of school, private lessons, sports, and other extracurricular activities, and after tucking them into bed. Now, she's an award-winning author published in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.
Her debut novel, THE THOMASITE, will be published and released by Orange Blossom Publishing in spring 2023. It's a literary historical women's fiction novel that evokes THE KING AND I meets WAR AND PEACE in US colonial Philippine Islands. She's also the author of the Driftless Unsolicited Award-winning novella, FAITH HEALER (Brain Mill Press, 2016). The first time she submitted to a nationwide short story writing contest, her story, "Portrait of the Other Lady," won first place, including publication in a Los Angeles area newspaper (Ventura County Star, November 28, 2004). Her poems, some of which have been honored with distinction in poetry contests, are published by literary journals that include, among others, the Crosswinds Poetry Journal, New Millennium Writings, Reed Magazine, Lyrical Iowa, and Dicta (The University of Michigan School of Law literary journal). Her essay, "Gatekeepers and Gatecrashers in Contemporary American Poetry: Reflections of a Filipino Immigrant Poet in the United States," appears in the anthology, OTHERS WILL ENTER THE GATES: IMMIGRANT POETS ON POETRY, INFLUENCES, AND WRITING IN AMERICA (Black Lawrence Press, 2015). She's also the author of a new literary women's fiction book manuscript, DAUGHTERS OF THE BAMBOO, a collection of Filipino American immigrant tales of love, dreams, struggles, and hope, and of THE ACCIDENTAL ITALIAN, a blended women's fiction-romance genre novel manuscript. Among her works-in-progress are THE JAPANESE LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN, a novel set during the Pacific War in World War II, and MOTHER OF EXILES, a poetry manuscript anchored on the theme of the Filipino diaspora and immigrant experience. Follow her in VictoriaGSmith.com, Facebook at Author Victoria G. Smith, Instagram, and Twitter @AuthorVGSmith.
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The Thomasite
In 1901, a young American teacher, Eleanor Karsten, sails on the U. S. Army Transport Thomas with more than 500 other U.S. educators in response to Pres. McKinley's call to teach and help establish a public school system in the new U.S. territory, the Philippine Islands. Various challenges, including malaria, a cholera epidemic, war, and racial and
religious prejudice test her resolve to fulfill her mission.
Her loyalties are further tested when she falls in love with a native man, Diego Santiago, whom she suspects to be the leader of the local insurrection. Her journey takes her through love and loss of mythic proportions, awakening her to the ramifications of America's expansionist policy of "benevolent assimilation," where she finds herself the student rather than the teacher.


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Margaret Ann Player and her family have made a gift of $100,000 to name the Ensemble Rehearsal Room in the Sharon and Ron Matthews Ministry Center in memory of her late husband Richard Player Jr. Mr. Player, who passed away in 2015, served as a trustee of the university for 16 years and built many of the buildings on campus through his company Player, Inc. Mrs. Player is a founding member of the university's Friends of Music group and of the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra. Mr. and Mrs. Player were awarded the University Medallion in 2014 for their long and distinguished service to Methodist University.
Alumnus Jurgen Stanley and his wife Dee Dee have made a $100,000 gift to name the conference room in the Matthews Ministry Center in their honor. Stanley, a graduate of the Class of 1977, is the owner of J&S Holdings. Mr. Stanley was named the Alumni Business Person of the Year in 1998 by the university's Reeves School of Business.
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"Squaw" has been used as a derogatory term for an indigenous woman.
By Susannah Sudborough
Ten New England landmarks have had their name changed to remove a derogatory term for indigenous American women.
The landmarks' names changed because they include the word "squaw," which originally was just the Algonquin word for "woman," but over the years, it has been used as a racist and sexist term for Native American women.
In November 2021, Interior Sec. Deb Haaland issued a secretarial order which deemed the term derogatory and tasked the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to identify landmarks with the term in their name with the intent of renaming them.
"Racist terms have no place in our vernacular or on our federal lands. Our nation's lands and waters should be places to celebrate the outdoors and our shared cultural heritage – not to perpetuate the legacies of oppression," Haaland, who is part of the Pueblo of Laguna tribe in New Mexico, said in a news release about the secretarial order.
Since then, the USGS has identified over 650 geological features with the word "squaw" in the name. Five of these landmarks are in Massachusetts, three are in Connecticut, one is in New Hampshire, and one is in Maine.
The review process Haaland created for the renaming of the landmarks included soliciting suggestions from locals about what a suitable replacement name would be.
Here is a list of the landmarks:
An island in Barnstable called Squaw Island has been renamed Halls Island
A swamp on the aforementioned island called the Squaw Island Marshes has been renamed the Halls Island Marshes
Squawbetty Hill in Raynham has been renamed Betty Hill
A large rock in Quincy called Squaw Rock has been renamed Nickerson Rock
A mountain in Great Barrington named Squaw Peak has been renamed Peeskawso Peak
A mountain in Plainfield called Squaw Rock has been renamed Half Hill Rock
A stream in Ashford called Squaw Hollow Brook has been renamed Upton Hollow Brook
An island in Branford called Squaw Rocks has been renamed Sunset Point Rocks
A bay in Sandwich called Squaw Cove has been renamed Eastman Cove
An island in Penobscot County called White Squaw Island has been renamed No Name Island
The USGS did not identify any geological features with the word "squaw" in them in Vermont or Rhode Island.
There have been mixed reactions to the renaming of these landmarks in Massachusetts.
In Barnstable, local indigenous people were split as to whether Squaw Island should be renamed.
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In Quincy, local indigenous people, the mayor, and at least one city councilor opposed the name change.
But in Great Barrington, local indigenous people supported the name change and took the opportunity to rename Squaw Peak to Peeskawso Peak, which includes the Mohican word for "virtuous woman."
In her secretarial order to have the names of landmarks changed, Haaland also created the Advisory Committee on Reconciliation in Place Names to look further into identifying and changing names of landmarks that include derogatory words.
Haaland's effort to remove derogatory terms from landmark names is not unprecedented.
According to the news release, in 1962, Interior Sec. Stewart Udall identified the n-word as derogatory and ordered the Board on Geographic Names (BGN) to develop a policy to eliminate its use. In 1974, the BGN identified a pejorative term for Japanese people as derogatory and eliminated its use.
Furthermore, the news release said, several states, including Montana, Oregon, Maine, and Minnesota, have passed legislation banning the use of the word "squaw" in place names.
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Trefaldighetskyrkan – Kościół Świętej Trójcy w Karlskronie, Szwecja. Świątynia została zaprojektowana przez Nicodemusa Tessina młodszego i zbudowana w latach 1697-1709.

Wygląd kościoła to okrągły budynek z dachem kopułowym, który jest nietypową dla Szwecji konstrukcją.

Kościół znajduje się na głównym rynku miasta – Stortorget, na wyspie Trossö.

Kościół ma status zabytku sakralnego według rozdz. 4 Kulturminneslagen (pol. Prawo o pamiątkach kultury) ponieważ został wzniesiony do końca 1939 (3 §).

Przypisy

Trójcy
Szwecja w XVIII wieku
Wydarzenia 1697
Wydarzenia 1709
Karlskrona

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Q: How to start SQL Developer with the correct Java Version? I've Java 1.8 installed on my Mac OS Yosemite... and Terminal shows the following:
mccoy:~ daniel$ which java
/usr/bin/java
mccoy:~ daniel$ java -version
java version "1.8.0_25"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_25-b17)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.25-b02, mixed mode)
mccoy:~ daniel$ env | grep JAVA
JAVA_OPTS=-Dnode.name=DANIEL -Xmx4g
JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_25.jdk/Contents/Home/jre
mccoy:~ daniel$

But SQL Developer still starts with some older Java 1.7 and complains... how can I fix this?

A: As @ruffin pointed out in the comment above I had to edit the package itself! It includes a sqldeveloper.sh script that changes my currently set JAVA_HOME. Just had to comment it out!

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Break-in reported at Bremerton's Crownhill Elementary Wednesday
Laptops, Chromebooks taken, a school official said.
by Gabe Stutman
Wednesday, December 5, 2018 4:05pm
BREMERTON — Crownhill Elementary was burglarized overnight, school officials said Wednesday.
"We are saddened to discover this morning that someone broke into our school last night," a Facebook post from the school's account read at 8:50 a.m. "It appears many expensive items were stolen."
Bremerton School District spokesperson Karen Bevers confirmed the burglary and said police were investigating the matter. She said pricey electronics were taken including laptops, Chromebooks, and a speaker system.
"They did take quite a bit of stuff — valuable things," she said. "It's going to be a hit for the school district."
Crownhill is a Pre-K through 5th grade elementary school in west Bremerton, with an enrollment of about 432 according to state figures. Its student body is among the poorest in the county, with 57 percent of students receiving free or reduced-price meals, state data show.
Bevers noted there was no sign of damage done to the building when staff discovered the burglary Wednesday morning.
Bremerton Police are investigating the incident. Detective Keith Sargent said it was not yet clear whether a single person, or multiple people were involved.
"We're in the middle of investigating it," he said.
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One Of Those Things
"We're there," my host said, stopping the car by the side of the road and opening his door. "Let's go."
"Here?" I asked, looking around. There was nothing to see except dust brown scrub forest in all directions. "Where is it?"
"In the forest," my host said, pointing away to the right. "Did you expect something huge? I did say it was a small place."
I shrugged, getting out of the car and reaching in for the bag with my water and camera. The day was hot and the sweat began trickling down my neck immediately. "Yes, well, let's get along and see it."
My host grinned. Though he was fat and ten years older than me, he didn't seem at all affected. "Sure you want to come?" he asked. "We'll have to walk through the forest a bit."
"Let's go," I repeated. The heat was already irritating me, and a cloud of tiny insects had decided to start accumulating around my head. I swatted at them, and they scattered only to gather again.
"Come along then," said my host, and started down the embankment. I followed him down to where a narrow, almost invisible trail wended its way into the wood. "Mind your step," he called over his shoulder. "It's rough. Not too many people come this way anymore."
We walked into the scrub forest. The trees were short, hardly above head height, and spiny. "All this was farmland once," my host said, pushing aside a branch that had thrust itself across the path. "It's only gone back to scrub over the last hundred years or so."
There were ruins among the trees, the remnants of walls and tumbled stones. It was almost impossible to identify what they had once been, but it was probably a large village at one time. The stump of a broken pillar thrust up towards the sky like a shattered tooth.
My host pointed it out. "That was still standing when I was a boy," he said. "There was a parasol on top, maybe to give shade to travellers on hot days. A lot of this has deteriorated over the last few years."
I took a swallow of water. "How old are these ruins?"
My host shrugged. "Nobody knows. Actually, nobody's interested in finding out. Two hundred years, perhaps." He stopped and pointed a finger. "There's the temple."
I looked. It was a hump of black stone, barely visible above the trees. "That's all?" I asked, disappointed.
"Yes, it's small. Want to turn back?"
I hesitated, and checked the time. My train wasn't for two hours yet. "No," I said. "Since we've come this far, let's just go and have a look."
My host grinned again. "You won't be disappointed," he said. "The architecture is quite unusual, and that's what you want to see, isn't it?"
A moment later, we ducked under a spiny expanse of branch and arrived in an open space. Before us was the temple.
It was, I realised, rather larger than I'd imagined at first, being low and spread out. The sides and back merged into the rock from which it was carved, and there were carved pillars supporting a porch at the front. The carvings were partly effaced, but enough was left to show that they had been fairly elaborate once.
"The rock caves are inside," my host said, leading the way up the shallow steps to the porch. "The temple's much older than the village back there. Again, nobody knows how old it is, but perhaps four or five hundred years."
I'd expected the inside of the temple to be dark, but it was surprisingly well-lit, sunlight entering through narrow windows set high up in the rock walls. The floor was of roughly finished stone, the walls smoother and covered in paintings which had faded over the years until they were scarcely visible.
"The idols have all been removed," my host said. "I think they're in a museum somewhere. They should really restore this place, but nobody's interested. I once sent a letter to the Archaeological Survey about it."
"And what did they say?" I asked.
"I don't know," he told me. "They never replied." He waited while I took pictures of some of the better-preserved paintings. "Now come this way."
I hadn't noticed that the back of the chamber had a narrow passage, leading deeper into the rock, and low enough that I had to bend my head in order not to bump it. Only a few steps, though, brought us into another chamber, round, airy, and filled with light.
"Wow," I said. It was all I could find to say. "Wow."
My host laughed. "I thought you would like it," he said. "Nice, isn't it?"
"It's lovely." I looked up at the ceiling, where a circle of apertures set like a rosette let in golden afternoon sunshine, which reflected off the highly polished pillars. "I wish I could have seen it when it was in use."
"You mightn't have liked it much," my host said dryly. "This temple was dedicated to the god Sarvagunasampanna, and according to what I know he wasn't one of the nicer ones. I don't know if you've heard of him? There are tales of human sacrifice and so on." He preceded me down a set of stairs into another large chamber, to one side of which was a stone dais. The wall above the dais was scored and cut about.
"There he is," he said.
I peered at the wall. The carving had almost vanished with time, but I could make out lines and the shreds of old paint. The figure was hulking, vaguely simian, and faintly suggestive of brooding menace.
"There's one statue still here," my host said. "It's out this way."
We walked out of the temple and down another flight of stairs. "You mean the idol is outside the temple?" I asked. "That's a little unusual isn't it?"
"It used to be inside, on the dais," he replied, glancing at me over his shoulder. "At least so the story goes. But it's been outside for centuries at the least."
We walked down another path. This one had clearly been much wider and better kept once, and paved with flat stones which were now cracked and pushed apart by gnarled roots and by grass which had itself grown old and wiry.
"There was a battle here once, long, long ago" my host said. "If we went a little further and dug around a little, we'd probably still find some of the old weapons, swords and spears, maybe a helmet or so."
"Oh?" I asked, not particularly interested. Battles aren't my kind of thing. "Who fought whom?"
"I'll tell you later." We turned a bend and my host pointed to the left of the path. "There," he said. "That's the god Sarvagunasampanna himself, on his flying chariot."
I looked. For a moment I wasn't sure what I was seeing, and then the statue jumped into view. It was a mass of polished black stone, much higher than a tall man. The chariot hadn't any wheels that I could see, or horses, but black wings spread out on either side of a hulking central figure, one hand raised, finger pointing. A smaller figure knelt in front, probably in the role of charioteer.
My host said something, but I hardly heard him. The statue pulled at me, drawing me to it. The feathers of the wings, heavy and stylised though they were, looked as though they'd start flapping at any moment, raising a storm of dust and dried leaves. The charioteer was exquisite in detail, his muscled arms flexing as he pulled on invisible reins, his face sharp-featured beneath a conical cap. But the entire shape of the statue drew one's eyes upward to the god himself.
The god Sarvagunasampanna was a giant. His immense pot belly thrust out proudly from under an immense chest. His arms were like trees, one movement of which might overturn mountains, and ended with hands like clubs. His shoulders were humped with muscle, ridges of it flanking his thick neck. And his face...
I blinked. Somehow, I couldn't see the god's face. I could see his head and the coils of his hair, but his features blurred and shimmied in the sunlight. I squeezed my eyes shut and opened them again. It was still the same.
Stepping over the broken stones, I went closer to the statue and stood looking up at it. Even from here, I couldn't see the face. It was as though one of those maddening specks which float in one's eyes had decided to take up residence in front of the statue's features.
"If you're going to take pictures," my host called, "you'd better take them. We'd better start back if you're going to make your train."
I glanced at him. He was watching me with a strange expression, as though filled with inner amusement which he didn't want to let out. Suddenly impatient, I turned back to the statue and took some photographs, and put the camera back in the bag without checking the images. "Let's go," I said.
"Of course," he said, with a tiny bow. We went back the way we'd come, but skirted the side of the temple and made our way back to the car in silence. I was sweating and irritable, and glad that we weren't talking.
It was only when we were back on the road, and the air-conditioning had dried the sweat on my body, that my host spoke. "Got good pictures, I hope?"
"I think I have," I said, "but I'd better check." Taking out my camera from the bag, I went through the images. The temple had photographed much better than I'd expected, the sunlight through the narrow windows filling the chambers with a soft glow. I went through all of them with approval, and then came at last to the pictures I'd taken of the god on the chariot. And then I hesitated and shook my head.
Even in the pictures, the statue's face was blurred and obscured. In every single photo I'd taken of the god, though I could see everything else perfectly clearly, the statue's face was invisible.
"Well?" my host asked. I glanced at him. He was watching me out of the corner of his eye as he drove. The same amused expression was on his face. "How did the pictures come out?"
"Um, excellent, really. Except there seems to be a problem with the camera with a few of them. Maybe a spot of dirt on the lens..."
"Oh, your camera's fine," he said. "There's no problem with your camera, though it didn't take photos of the face of the statue."
I frowned. "How do you know that?"
He didn't reply for about a kilometre. The scrub forest slid by on both sides. Then he shook his head.
"Believe it or not," he said, "nobody can see the face on that statue. It's been photographed many times – I've done it myself, often, on film back in the old days and now on the digital camera – but it's impossible to see the face on the pictures either. You can actually climb on the statue and feel it, and the features are there – but you can't see them. At least not...ordinarily...if the tales are correct."
"What tales?" I asked.
He glanced down at his watch as he drove. "There's just enough time to tell you the story," he said. "Mind you, all this is just something I've heard. I can't answer for its veracity either way."
His name, (my host said) was Qutb-ud-Din, but he referred to himself as the Destroyer. He was one of the raider chieftains who came down from the hills back in the old days, to storm and loot the cities and temples of the plains, and return home laden with pillage. But Qutb-ud-Din wasn't quite like that.
Unlike his peers, who raided for loot, Qutb-ud-Din's one passion in life was the destruction of idols and temples. He was a fanatic in that, and led an army of like-minded fanatics who burned and hacked their way across the plain, reducing even the smallest shrines they found to rubble. Even the Sufi Muslim tombs of the saints weren't immune from the Destroyer, for he considered Sufism the equivalent of idol-worship.
Back then, there was a small kingdom here, little more than a principality. It had been substantial once, but by the time of this story, war and famine had reduced it to the point where it was only a matter of time till it collapsed completely. Only the fact that it had neither riches nor fertile land to offer had saved it from invasion by the stronger realms to the east and south.
On the throne sat the king Rudrakumar. He was young and callow, and completely under the thumb of his ministers, who ruled what was left of the territory for their own profit – but the treasury was empty, and profit there was almost none.
It was at this time that the Destroyer swooped down from the north on one of his expeditions. If he were anyone else, of course, he would never have bothered with Rudrakumar's territory – it was too impoverished to be worth the trouble. But the Destroyer wasn't out for loot, he was out to wreck temples; and Rudrakumar's kingdom had several.
Now Rudrakumar had a wife called Shashikala, who was young and beautiful and had a fiery temper. The story goes that when Rudrakumar heard that the enemy was coming, he was advised by his ministers to abandon the kingdom and flee. But Shashikala would have none of that.
According to the tale, she stormed into the meeting where Rudrakumar and his ministers were discussing his plans to flee, with a sword in her hand. "If you won't fight," she said dramatically, "then I will – with this sword, I will fight on my own and do what I can. Surely, when the men flee like women, the women can fight like men!"
So Rudrakumar was shamed into agreeing to fight, but he had almost nothing to fight with; his poverty-stricken kingdom could only muster an army of couple of thousand, and there was neither time nor equipment to raise further forces. Obviously, an army as small as that could not hope to defend the entire kingdom – it could, at most, fight one battle. After talking it over with his generals and his astrologers, Rudrakumar chose this area to fight the Destroyer, should he invade.
At the time I'm talking about, the temple we just visited wasn't lying abandoned as it is now. Though it was never as grand as the great temples to the west and south, it was very well-known in this part of the country, and pilgrims came even from neighbouring kingdoms to worship at it and ask for the god's blessings. So if the Destroyer came, he would most certainly try and destroy it. And it was clear to everybody that he would succeed, because what could Rudrakumar's tiny army, ill-equipped and badly trained, hope to achieve against his hardened host of warriors?
One day word came that the Destroyer was definitely coming down country and would reach the kingdom's borders within days. The ministers held meetings among themselves, and muttered darkly about the queen and how she had turned the king's head and would be the cause of the doom of them all. The generals drilled the soldiers and tried to mould them into fighting shape, but it was a lost cause, and everyone knew that too.
Then it was that one night, when the moon was new and only stars lit the land, the queen Shashikala quietly left the palace on silent feet, with a black cloak thrown over her to hide her from prying eyes. She walked through the darkness, along the path that we had seen, until she came to the temple. And there she threw off her cloak, flung herself down in front of the great idol of the god, and begged for his aid in this moment of calamity. And in return she promised him human sacrifice – blood in such amounts that he had never tasted before, and never would again.
Nobody knows if the god answered. But the next morning, when the priests came, they saw that the great idol – with its winged chariot and charioteer – had somehow moved bodily out of the temple, and was standing by the side of the path, looking out across the fields. And though they tried their utmost, they could not shift it, for it seemed to have become part of the bedrock beneath.
There's an old inscription on a palm-leaf book that is in the local museum. It's mostly about things religious, and has nothing directly to do with the story, but when it mentions the god Sarvagunasampanna, it has some curious words:
His face is the sun and burns him who would look upon it –
But life is a shadow unto night
And when done, the sun again
Shines, on him who can see.
Be that as it may, the priests could make nothing of the moving of the idol, or decide if it were a bad omen or good. Nor did they have time to gather and pore over their books to decide, for that night the sky in the north was glowing with the red of burning villages, for the Destroyer had come.
The battle happened right before the temple, just as Rudrakumar's generals had thought. The sun glittered on the swords of the Destroyer's men as they swarmed forwards, not imagining that they would face any resistance at first. And when they saw Rudrakumar's pitiful little army they laughed and kept coming.
But they did not laugh long. Some say that the god himself came to life and showered boulders down on the invaders from his flying chariot. Others claim that his fiery gaze swept over the enemy and charred them to cinders. Even so, there was a time when the defending army swayed backwards, and would have broken in defeat; but of a sudden, a figure appeared in the midst of battle, loose hair flying in the wind, and sword slashing. It was Shashikala, and she slew ten with each blow, if you can believe the tale. Be that as it may, by the time evening came, the Destroyer himself and no less than five thousand of his men lay slain on the ground before the temple. But on Rudrakumar's side, all lay dead too, with just the king himself kneeling on the ground, cradling the dying Shashikala's head on his lap; for she had kept her promise to the god, and sacrificed herself too.
And even as the last of her life slipped away, she turned her head and looked up at the idol, and her eyes widened with surprise. Though Rudrakumar turned to look, he could not make out what she saw; and when he turned back to her, she had slipped away from him, but her eyes were still open and fixed on the statue. And then he saw that the eyes of them all – the Destroyer's soldiers and his own – were turned towards the idol, even though the dust of battle drifted down into them from the darkling sky.
"Here we are," my host said, braking. "Still in time, too."
The little railway station was almost deserted in the heat. A couple of small dogs lounged in the shade, tongues lolling. A solitary worker trudged along, pushing a wheelbarrow. Everything seemed to be sleeping.
"Thanks for everything," I said, getting out of the car and reaching for my bags in the back. "I really appreciate all of it." I hesitated. "If I can ask you, though – what do you yourself believe, about why we can't see the statue's face?"
"I?" He shrugged and looked away. "I don't know – there has to be some explanation, but I can't think of any. It's just one of those things."
A whistle sounded in the distance. "You'd better go," he said. "Your train is coming."
A couple of years later, I met the person who had first introduced me to my host. We got to talking, and the subject of my trip came up. "He showed me around," I said. "He was very pleasant and filled with local lore. How is he, do you know?"
"Oh, you haven't heard?" my friend replied. "He's dead."
"Is that so? When did that happen?"
"A few months ago. He hadn't been in good health for a while – not since his heart attack last year. One morning he wasn't there at home. They found his car parked on the roadside near an old temple cut from the rock –"
"Yes...I know the one you mean. And?"
"They found him lying in front of the statue that's outside the temple. You've probably seen it, it's huge. He'd been dead for hours already by then. Just one curious thing." She hesitated.
"Yes?" I already knew what was coming. "What was curious?"
"They say he was found with his eyes wide open, and staring up at the statue's face." She glanced up at me from her coffee. "The doctor who examined him said that the way he was lying when he died – he must have wrenched his head around to look up at the statue. Now you tell me why he wanted to go out there in the middle of the night to die, and why he was looking up at the old idol's face?"
"I don't know," I said. "It's just one of those things, I suppose."
"People," she replied. "They're strange, aren't they?"
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Heavenly Reward
One night Rebecca woke to find an angel sitting at the foot of her bed.
She rubbed her eyes and made sure that she was awake and not imagining things. She wasn't. It was a real live angel, white nightgown, wings, halo, everything. The angel smiled at her and extended a celestial hand.
"Hello, Rebecca," he said. "I've come to take you to Heaven. Come along."
"Take me to Heaven...?" Rebecca asked, astonished. "You mean, the real Heaven? Me?"
"You," the angel confirmed. "Shall we go?"
"But I'm not dead yet!" A sudden thought came to Rebecca. "I'm not dead, am I?"
"No, no, not at al." The angel shook his head deprecatingly. "Death is for other people. You will reach Heaven just as you are. Come."
Well, one doesn't turn down an invitation like that, so Rebecca got out of bed, just as she was, and took the angel's hand. At least , she thought, she was dressed for the part in her own long white nightgown. Probably she'd grow her own wings and halo in time.
A shimmering silver staircase opened up on the other side of the room. The angel led Rebecca to it and they began climbing Heavenwards.
"What's Heaven like?" Rebecca asked.
"It's wonderful," the angel enthused. "You'll see in a minute. Plenty of entertainment, a great medical plan, the works. Of course," he added, "few people get there in their own bodies like you, so their experience might be a bit less...complete."
"Why am I chosen for this honour?"Rebecca asked. "Is it because I attend church every day and never miss a prayer meeting? It's that, isn't it?"
"No, no." The angel waggled a wing. "All that doesn't matter. Plenty of people go to church every day. We don't care about that."
"Then it was my opposition to gay marriage? I did always say homosexuality was unnatural!"
"Gay, straight, bi, what do we care?" The angel laughed so hard his halo threatened to fall off, and he had to grab at it quickly. "Doesn't make a difference."
"Oh, then it was because I was always against abortion. I knew threatening to kill those abortionists would bring me my reward."
The angel shrugged. "Whether a kid gets killed before or after getting born, it's still dead either way. As far as we're concerned it's not a factor."
"It was because I refuse to believe in Evolution, is that right? I knew I was right in rejecting it as the work of the devil!"
The angel smiled at her over his shoulder. "Forget about all that," he said. "Evolution exists, whatever anyone believes about it. The devil doesn't exist, though."
"The devil doesn't exist?" Rebecca was flabbergasted. "What about hell and damnation, then?"
"Doesn't exist either. Heaven does...but it's all integrated these days. An all-faith Heaven. You'll see."
They had come to a set of huge gates made of pearl and inset with silver and gold. The angel took a platinum key from his pocket and inserted it into a lock. With a creak of unoiled hinges, the gate swung open.
""After you," he said.
"So what was it that earned me this honour?" Rebecca asked. "I've always been good and chaste. I haven't drunk or fornicated or listened to that evil rap music or..."
"There you have it," the angel interrupted.
"What? That I haven't drunk or listened to that disgusting rap?"
"No, the bit about not fornicating. That was what we wanted."
"That's all? That I'm a virgin? Nothing more?"
"Nothing more." The angel ushered Rebecca on to a landscape of clouds in tasteful pastel colours. "Here we are in Heaven."
"I knew it," Rebecca said, feeling the excitement rush through her veins. "I knew I was right in abominating those sluts, fornicators and Jezebel whores. I just knew I would get my reward for keeping my purity."
"Yes, you do." The angel squeezed her hand encouragingly. "And now for your reward, as promised."
"What is it?" Rebecca jumped up on her toes like a little girl in excitement.
The angel smiled again. His teeth were very straight and white, proof of Heaven's excellent dental plan.
"You get to shag a suicide bomber," he said.
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Wham Bam Thank You Scam
In the beginning there were the mugus. You know who they were – if you've been online at all, you will have got mail from them at least once or twice. "Dear Friend," the letters would begin, "forgive my indignation at contacting you in such a manner, but..." and he would go into a description of how he has funds in a foreign bank which he's desperate to share with you. Or she would have a heartbreaking story of how her parents were killed in a civil war in Darkest Africa, leaving ten million dollars, and she's stuck in a refugee camp and desperate to get out. You know the drill.
I used to have a lot of fun with mugus. Baiting them is a superb cyber sport, but one needs both patience and an audience for that. I mean, what the hell's the point of mocking mugus if you don't have someone to laugh and applaud as you go along? And I'm not the Ebola Monkey Man, after all.
In recent times, anyway, the mugus seem to have disappeared. I can't tell the reason. Maybe I no longer give off whatever vibes attract mugus these days. Maybe all the mugu mail is going to my spam folder and I no longer check my spam folder, I just delete the lot outright. Maybe it's just that people are getting smarter.
Here, hold that last thought. What am I saying? People are not getting smarter. People are not getting smarter at such an accelerated rate, at least here, that some of the older scams are resurfacing. Like, you know, the text message sent to your phone saying "you've won a random phone lottery and send your contact details including phone number back to us." If your phone number won the lottery, idiot, and they've sent you a text to the phone, ask yourself at least why the hell they would want your phone number?
Morons.
But these morons are everywhere, apparently, since according to the police they're complaining that they were ripped off by people who promised them the money they'd won as soon as they paid the processing fees. I'd say the scammers are welcome to their money because obviously they're too dumb to deserve it.
But a couple of the other scams going around aren't that simple at all.
The first is the Facebook Friend Scam. This is apparently quite popular in India now, especially in this part of the country where the young have just discovered Fakebook. It works like this:
The scammer sets up a fake ID, pretending to be a young and attractive person living in a foreign country – preferably somewhere on the other side of the globe. He/she (or, for convenience, it) then befriends young and callow people of the opposite sex, and gets close enough to them to find out what they want most of all. They then say they've sent the dupe a gift of that item by parcel.
A few days later, then, the scammer or a confederate phones the dupe, claiming to be from the Customs and Excise, and says that the parcel has been seized by the department for non-payment of import duties or some other gobbledygook. The dupe is asked to pay the difference (an account number being helpfully provided) or else the parcel will be disposed of or returned to sender. Obviously, this "gift" being something he or she really wants, the dupe won't want to lose it. If he or she contacts the "sender", it says it's so sorry and will send the money, but it's going to take a few days, so please go ahead and pay it, honey pie. Of course once the money is paid, neither the "sender" nor the "customs office" is ever heard from again.
Who was that masked man?
Now in all these cases the dupe's own greed is the motivating factor; nobody who isn't greedy can be scammed in this way. But there's another route to scamming, and that deals in something more powerful than greed: fear.
This, then, is the other new scam here: you get a phone call from a distant part of the country, too far for you to visit easily or conveniently, saying that a case has been registered against you in a court there and the police have issued a non-baliable warrant for your arrest. (This is more plausible than it sounds; the Indian police have been known to make false cases against people in order to ask bribes to withdraw them; I myself know a man in Goa who is, at this writing, defending himself in court after refusing to pay a bribe to have a false police case withdrawn.) They tell you that they are a law firm who are willing to go to court to fight your case for you and get a stay order on the arrest warrant, as soon as you forward a retainer to the account number they'll provide. If you fall for this, of course, they will continue asking money for affidavits and court appearances till you wise up.
The essential requirement for this scam to succeed, of course, is that you have to be driven to panic and unable to think clearly. Otherwise you might wonder, for example, how police in a part of the country you've never visited even know you exist, let alone register a case against you. And they try and pile on the pressure, pretending that the handcuffs are already clinking, so that you can expect the cops anytime. You cannot be allowed to take the time to think. Is that clear?
Because these are on the way. Yo.
Now, I can think of a couple of ways of turning the tables on these crooks. If your Fakebook "friend" talks about sending you a gift, insist on sending one to her first. Say that in your culture, it's forbidden to accept a gift unless you've given one already. Watch her immediately try to wriggle out of being sent a gift, because that would immediately prove that the address she gave (if any) is fake.
And if the other lot call, just say, "Oh, my brother the police officer will take care of that. What was your number again? He'll call to discuss the case with you."
Evil, aren't I?
Labels: scams
Raghead: Waltz With Bashar (Part VI)


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As of today, students, professors and faculty at college campuses across the state may carry permitted concealed weapons, part of Senate Bill 11, which was passed in the wake of a slew of horrific shootings on college campuses, like the deadly massacre at Virginia Tech. But Southern Methodist University will remain gun-free, as the campus has utilized its right to opt out of the new law.
The campus has been weapon-free since 1994, and decided to stay that way despite the statewide law. Only private universities have the option to ban concealed firearms, public universities must allow students and faculty to carry legally obtained weapons.


Hello Owner Builder in the Northern Territory!
Did you know that the rules are slightly different in the Northern Territory for Owner Builders compared to other states?
You're not required to complete an Owner Builder course in the NT (lucky you!).
The Building Practitioners Board (BPB) requires you to apply for an Owner Builder Certificate for work over $12,000. As part of the application process, there is an expectation that you read the Owner Builders manual they provide.
The BPB is a part of the Northern Territory Government and will be your main point of contact for you as an Owner Builder building or renovating in the NT.
Make sure you add the Customer Service number to your speed dial as they will be a great 'go-to' for information, guidance and support throughout your build – 1300 300 630.
CLICK HERE to go direct to the NT Government BPB page.
We'd love you to take a good look around our site and also visit our Pinterest page for inspiration.
And if you'd like to learn from other OB's, come and join our Facebook group!


Lydia Smith Connor, Age 71, passed away on April 7, 2019 in Lakeland, Florida. Lydia was born on March 22, 1948 in Philadephia, Pennsylvania. Lydia is survived by a loving family. No services are scheduled at this time. Condolences may be sent to the family at www.casketstore.net.


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The Division of Pediatric Endocrinology provides consultative and continuing care to children with potential or established endocrine disorders on referral from a primary care provider.
Common conditions, such as short stature and obesity, should be referred when the primary care evaluation has suggested the possibility of an endocrine cause. In concert with the Pediatric Diabetes Resource Center , the division provides comprehensive self-management training to families of children with diabetes mellitus.


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Statement of Allegations: In the Matter of Global Energy Group, Ltd. et al.
IN THE MATTER OF
ALLAN WALKER, PETER ROBINSON, VYACHESLAV BRIKMAN,
NIKOLA BAJOVSKI, BRUCE COHEN and ANDREW SHIFF
STATEMENT OF ALLEGATIONS
OF STAFF OF THE ONTARIO SECURITIES COMMISSION
Staff of the Ontario Securities Commission ("Staff") make the following allegations:
1. This proceeding involves the distribution of securities consisting of units of series of New Gold Limited Partnerships ("New Gold"), to members of the public by Global Energy Group, Ltd ("Global Energy") and persons related to Global Energy.
2. Staff allege that the course of conduct regarding the trading of the securities of New Gold occurred during the period from approximately June of 2007 up to and including June 25, 2008 (the "Material Time").
3. Approximately $14.75 million (U.S.) was raised from the sale of the securities of New Gold to approximately 200 investors (the "New Gold Investors") as a result of the activities salespersons, representatives or agents of Global Energy.
4. The sale of the New Gold securities has also been the subject of an investigation by the United States Attorney General and securities regulatory authorities in the State of Kentucky.
II. GLOBAL ENERGY and NEW GOLD
5. Neither Global Energy nor New Gold has never been registered with the Ontario Securities Commission (the "Commission") in any capacity.
6. Global Energy was purportedly based in and an operated from the Bahamas. The partnerships underlying the securities of New Gold were purportedly registered in Kentucky and/or the Bahamas.
7. The primary business of Global Energy was selling the securities of New Gold through its salespersons operating from offices in the Toronto area (the "Ontario Offices").
8. The other operating office of Global Energy was located in Lexington, Kentucky and operated by a lawyer named Bryan Coffman ("Coffman").
III. THE INDIVIDUAL RESPONDENTS
9. Christina Harper ("Harper") is a resident of Ontario. During the Material Time, Harper was one of the directing minds of Global Energy, overseeing the salespersons, representatives or agents of Global Energy selling the securities of New Gold from the Ontario Offices. Using an alias, Harper also held herself out as an officer of Global Energy.
10. Vadim Tsatskin ("Tsatskin") is a resident of Ontario. During the Material Time, Tsatskin was one of the directing minds of Global Energy who also directed the sales of the New Gold securities from the Ontario Office. Tsatskin, Coffman and others created the securities of New Gold for sale to members of the public.
11. Michael Schaumer ("Schaumer"), Elliot Feder ("Feder"), Oded Pasternak ("Pasternak"), Alan Silverstein ("Silverstein"), Herbert Groberman ("Groberman"), Allan Walker ("Walker"), Peter Robinson ("Robinson"), Vyacheslav Brikman ("Brikman"), Nikola Bajovski ("Bajovski"), Bruce Cohen ("Cohen") and Andrew Shiff ("Shiff") were all residents of Ontario during the Material Time.
12. During the Material Time, Schaumer, Feder, Pasternak, Silverstein, Groberman, Walker, Robinson, Brikman, Bajovski, Cohen and Shiff all worked at the Ontario Offices and all sold securities of New Gold to members of the public.
13. During the Material Time, Harper, Tsatskin, Schaumer, Feder, Pasternak, Silverstein, Groberman, Walker, Robinson, Brikman, Bajovski, Cohen and Shiff (the "Individual Respondents") were not registered with the Commission in any capacity to trade securities.
IV. BREACHES OF THE ACT BY THE RESPONDENTS
Unregistered Trading in Securities of New Gold Contrary to Section 25(1)
14. As set out above, Staff allege that the Respondents traded in securities of New Gold from the Ontario Offices during the Material Time.
15. Members of public in Canada were contacted by salespersons, agents and representatives of Global Energy from the Ontario Offices and solicited to purchase the securities of New Gold.
16. The actions of the Respondents related to the securities of New Gold constituted trading in securities without registration contrary to section 25(1) of the Securities Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. S. 5, as amended (the "Act").
Illegal Distribution of the Securities of New Gold Contrary to Section 53(1)
17. New Gold has never filed a prospectus or a preliminary prospectus with the Commission or obtained receipts for them from the Director as required by section 53(1) of the Act.
18. The trading in securities of New Gold as set out above constituted distributions of these securities by the Respondents in circumstances where there were no exemptions available to them under the Act contrary to section 53(1) of the Act.
Fraudulent Conduct Related to Trading in the Securities of New Gold Contrary to Section 126.1
19. During the Material Time from the Ontario Offices, Global Energy, Harper, Tsatskin, Schaumer and Feder and other representatives or agents of Global Energy provided information to the New Gold Investors that was false, inaccurate and misleading, including, but not limited to, the following:
the use of the New Gold Investor funds;
the law governing the trading in the securities of New Gold;
the source of the investment income produced by the securities of New Gold;
the actual ownership and location of Global Energy and the sales offices of Global Energy;
the registration of the partnerships underlying the securities of New Gold;
the underlying assets of the securities of New Gold; and
the estimated production figures of the alleged assets of the securities of New Gold.
These and other false, inaccurate, misleading representations and omissions were made by the Respondents with the intention of effecting trades in the securities of New Gold.
20. The salespersons, representatives and agents of Global Energy, including, but not limited to, Harper, Schaumer, Feder, Pasternak, Silverstein, Groberman, Walker, Robinson, Brikman, Bajovski, Cohen and Shiff used aliases when selling the securities of New Gold to members of the public.
21. The directing minds of Global Energy knew or ought to have known that aliases were being used when the securities of New Gold were sold to members of the public by the salespersons, representatives or agents of Global Energy.
22. Approximately $3 million of the total funds raised through the sale of the securities of New Gold were paid out to the salespersons, representatives or agents of Global Energy located in Toronto including the Individual Respondents. The New Gold Investors were not informed of this fact.
23. Global Energy, Harper, Tsatskin, Schaumer and Feder as well as and other salespersons, representatives or agents of Global Energy engaged in a course of conduct relating to securities that they knew or reasonably ought to have known would result in a fraud on persons purchasing the securities of New Gold contrary to section 126.1 of the Act.
V. Conduct Contrary to Ontario Securities Law and Contrary to the Public Interest
24. The specific allegations advanced by Staff related to the trades in the securities of New Gold during the Material Time are as follows:
the Respondents traded in securities of New Gold without being registered to trade in securities, contrary to section 25(1)(a) of the Act and contrary to the public interest;
the actions of the Respondents related to the sale of the securities of New Gold constituted distributions of securities where no preliminary prospectus and prospectus were issued nor receipted by the Director, contrary to section 53(1) of the Act and contrary to the public interest;
Global Energy, Harper, Tsatskin, Schaumer and Feder engaged or participated in acts, practices or courses of conduct relating to the securities of New Gold that Global Energy, Harper, Tsatskin, Schaumer and Feder knew or reasonably ought to have known perpetrated a fraud on persons or companies, contrary to section 126.1(b) of the Act and contrary to the public interest; and
Harper and Tsatskin, being directors and/or officers of Global, did authorize, permit or acquiesce in the commission of the violations of sections 25(1)(a), 53(1) and 126.1(b) of the Act, as set out above, by Global Energy or by the salespersons, representatives or agents of Global Energy, contrary to section 129.2 of the Act and contrary to the public interest.
25. Staff reserve the right to make such other allegations as Staff may advise and the Commission may permit.
DATED at Toronto, June 8, 2010.


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WATCH: Homeless man attacks & knocks down female police officer in San Francisco Chinatown, as bystanders rush to help
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A homeless man, suspected of vandalizing property and shouting racist slurs in San Francisco Chinatown, has been captured on video attacking an Asian police officer as she approached to detain him.
The incident happened near Portsmouth Square on Friday night, but videos of the scuffle shared online on Sunday, show how the incident unfolded as a female officer attempted to detain a heavily-built male suspect without any backup.
At first the man seems to be cooperating, but as the officer approaches, pulling on her gloves, he suddenly turns around and grabs her. After struggling for several seconds, he easily pins her down to the ground.
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Multiple bystanders rushed to help the officer, and it took as many as four people to subdue the suspect, before the backup arrived roughly a minute later.
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The officer was injured and transported to the local hospital, but her wounds were non-life threatening, according to local media reports.
UPDATE: Less than 2 hours before allegedly attacking @SFPD officer, which resulted in ambulance being called for her, the suspect reportedly had damaged teens' rental scooters, and officers told him to leave the area, witnesses say pic.twitter.com/hUDFknUlcK
— Henry K. Lee (@henrykleeKTVU) May 30, 2021
The suspect has not been identified, but according to witnesses, he was a homeless man who had been vandalizing rental scooters and yelling racial slurs at Asian passers-by earlier in the day. After receiving a warning from police he refused to leave the area, and attacked the officer when approached again several hours later.
Asians attacked in two separate incidents on San Francisco buses on same day, week after Asian women stabbed at bus stop
'Political' BLM & LGBTQ flags should be banned from US embassies, Republican-proposed Stars and Stripes Act says
Russian woman arrested in Minsk after grounding of Ryanair flight could be deported home after trial, says Belarus' chief diplomat


On the previous post (see here), I talked about the concept of Containers, Azure Container Service and Azure Service Fabric. Now that you know the concept and have an idea how to implement it, let see how can you deploy containers in Azure.
Install the Docker virtual machine extension. You can either add the extension to an existing Azure virtual machine running a Docker-supported distribution of Linux or include it when deploying a new Azure virtual machine via a Resource Manager template or a command-line script. The extension installs the Docker daemon, also called the Docker Engine; the Docker client; and Docker Compose. The Docker daemon is necessary for an Azure virtual machine to function as a Docker host.
Note: Docker Engine is a lightweight software component that runs as a daemon on a Linux operating system. It provides the environment for running containerized apps.
The Docker client is management software that allows you to interact with the Docker Engine via a command line, which allows you to create, run, and transfer containers.
Docker Compose is a utility for building and running Docker apps that consist of multiple containers.
Provision a Docker Azure virtual machine available from the Azure Marketplace. Use the Azure portal to deploy a Linux virtual machine to run Docker containerized workloads. During the virtual machine deployment, Azure automatically provisions the Docker virtual machine extension, which installs all the necessary Docker components.
Deploy an ACS cluster. This allows you to provision and manage multiple instances of Docker containers residing on clustered Docker hosts.
Use the Docker Machine driver to deploy an Azure virtual machine with support for Docker containers. Docker Machine is a command-line utility that allows you to perform several Docker-related administrative tasks, including provisioning new Docker hosts. The utility includes support for deploying Docker hosts on-premises and on Azure virtual machines. You must include the ‑driver azure parameter when running the docker-machine create For example, the following command deploys a new Azure virtual machine named dockerazurevm1 in an Azure subscription. You specify the subscription ID, create an administrative user account named mrdocker, and enable connectivity on TCP port 80.
With the default settings, the virtual machine has the size Standard_A2 and resides on an Azure virtual network named docker-machine in a docker-machine resource group in the West US region. A default network security group associated with the virtual machine network interface allows inbound connectivity on TCP port 22 for Secure Shell connections and on TCP port 2376 for remote connections from the Docker client. The command also generates self-signed certificates that help to secure subsequent communication from the computer where you ran Docker Machine and store the corresponding private key in your user's account profile.
For the full syntax of the docker-machine create -d azure command, refer to Microsoft Azure.
Docker Machine is available on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X operating systems. For installation instructions and links to download locations, refer to Install Docker Machine.
Choosing the most convenient and efficient way to run containers in your environment depends on the location of Docker hosts. Docker Machine allows for managing an on-premises and Azure-based Docker host in a consistent manner.
During Azure virtual machine provisioning, Docker Machine generates the self-signed certificate that you can use to establish a Secure Shell session to the Docker host. It also stores the certificate's private key in your user account profile. This allows you to continue managing the Azure virtual machine from the same computer on which you initiated the virtual machine provisioning. To simplify management, you should also configure environment variables within your Windows command shell. To identify the environment variables to configure, run the following at the command prompt, where dockerazurevm1 is the name of the Azure virtual machine you deployed by running the docker-machine create command.
This should return output similar to the following.
You can now start a container on the Azure virtual machine by running the following command.
This automatically locates the container named container_name, publishes it on port 80, initiates its execution in the detached mode, and ensures that the container always restarts after it terminates, regardless of the exit status. With the detached mode, the console session is not attached to the container process, so you can use it to continue managing the Docker host. In the attached mode, the console session displays the standard input, output, and error from the Docker container.
For the full syntax of the docker run command, refer to Docker Run.
The docker run command attempts to locate the latest version of the container locally on the Docker host. By default, it checks the version against the Docker Hub. This is a central, Docker-managed repository of Docker images available publicly via the Internet. If there is no locally cached container image or its version is out-of-date, the Docker daemon automatically downloads the latest version from the Docker Hub.
You can set up a private Docker Registry to maintain your own collection of container images. A private Docker Registry runs as a container based on the registry image available from the Docker Hub. You can store your private images in an Azure storage account.
Start a registry container on a Docker host by running the following command.
In the preceding command, storage_account_name and storage_account_key represent the name and one of the two keys of the Azure storage account you created in the previous step. This provisions a new registry container and makes it accessible via TCP port 5000.
Note: To allow inbound connections on the port that you specified when executing the docker run command, be sure to update the network security group associated with the Docker Azure VM network interface where the registry container is running.
Build a new Docker image by running the docker build command, or pull an existing image from Docker Hub by running the docker pull command.
Use the following docker tag command to associate the image you created or downloaded in the previous step with the private registry.
In the preceding command, image_name represents the name of the image. This tags the image and designates a new repository in your private registry.
To upload the newly tagged image to the private Docker Registry, run the following command.
This pushes the image into the private registry.
To download the image from the private registry, run the following command.
If you run the docker run command, the Docker daemon uses the newly downloaded image from your private registry.