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These winter accessories are made of different types of furs that include fox fur, rabbit fur, mink fur, coyote fur, raccoon fur, beaver, and so on. Selecting a type of fur headband to buy should depend on what you want to wear that headband for. For example, if you want the classic type to wear informally, the coyote fur should be the choice. Blue fox or silver fox fur is ideal for something dramatic. You buy a Rex rabbit fur headband if what you are looking for is something that matches with any of your attire. However, the most popular among women is fox fur headbands.
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Evergreen to pay lumpsum for Ever Forward clean-up
Evergreen Marine Corp. has been required to pay $676,200 after the Ever Forward containership ran aground outside Maryland last year.
The January emergency wetlands license was approved by the Maryland Board of Public Works to compensate the 11,860 TEU Ever Forward's grounding outside Chesapeake Bay last March.
On 13 March 2022, The Ever Forward became stuck 24 feet deep in the mud for more than a month before it was refloated more than a month later on 17 April.
The refloating operation required the removal of 550 containers, as well as the grounding and dredging of the surrounding area which impacted roughly 14 acres of Chesapeake Bay bottom, including 11.5 acres within the boundary of a natural oyster bar.
READ: Evergreen vessel runs aground in Chesapeake Bay
To mitigate the harmful effects on aquatic habitat caused by the containership's grounding and dredging operations, the money serves to fund the seeding and enhancement of oyster bars.
Payment will go to the Maryland Department of Natural Resources for the reseeding of 41 acres of oyster bars to meet the mitigation requirements.
Evergreen wrote in a statement: "After the incident of Ever Forward's grounding off the Port of Baltimore, Evergreen has been closely working with concerned authorities in an effort to evaluate and mitigate the impact of the refloating operation on the surrounding area.
"Earlier this week, the Maryland Board of Public Works approved an environmental remediation agreement between the State of Maryland and Evergreen that will establish a fund to provide environmental support to Chesapeake Bay and bolster the health of oyster beds in the area."
In December 2022 the Maryland Department of Labor that reported the Ever Forward pilot, who was in charge of the containership when it grounded, had his operating licence suspended last month due to excessive mobile phone use.
Along with sending two texts and composing an email just before the plane ran aground, the pilot also made a series of five phone calls accumulating more than 60 minutes of time during his outbound journey.
Maryland Department of Labor Chief Strategy Officer Joseph E. Farren commented: "After thorough review of evidence and expert analysis in the investigation of the 13 March 2022 grounding of the MV Ever Forward, the Maryland Board of Pilots (Board), in a unanimous decision, voted to summarily suspend the operating license of Captain Steven Germac on 20 October 2022.
"Captain Germac was the pilot of the MV Ever Forward at the time of its grounding. As part of the Board's statutory process, Captain Germac will be afforded an opportunity for a hearing to formally challenge the Board's decision in this matter."
Captain Germac has not piloted a commercial vessel since 13 March 2022.

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We are pleased and proud to be ranked once more as one of the best workplaces in the UK for the fifth year running. We celebrated at the awards ceremony last week which saw us take home two trophies and we can't thank our employees enough. It's really down to each and every one of you that our culture is not only kept alive and well but is thriving at FinancialForce.
The rankings are compiled using the most widely used employee engagement survey in the world, along with a culture audit. Together these measure the employee voice and experience and evaluate the organisation's culture – the leadership and HR practices that create the employee experience, and which is critical for attracting and retaining talent.
Along with receiving the award for ranking once more in the medium size business category, we also took home a Laureate award which recognises our five-year achievement of being placed. This is a huge achievement given that year on year there are more entries as the awards increase in popularity and the employers become more sophisticated in their approach to employee engagement.
The fact that we have managed to place in the rankings over the last five years shows that we are successfully managing to maintain our strong culture despite our rapid growth. Culture has always been a core strategic focus for us since we started out in 2009. Who better to acknowledge this than our employee base?
We strive to provide a positive working environment which is transparent and supportive to our employees. We work hard on our training and development and ensure all staff has a path for career growth. Feedback is actively encouraged, not only through this annual survey, but through informal channels too, and we take it seriously.
It is sometimes difficult to maintain the same culture as we grow. It is the responsibility of the entire company to drive this which is why we want to send heartfelt thanks to each and every member of the team for helping us achieve this award and keep our company a great place to work.


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Q: Django ImageField remove path on Bound form So I have a ModelForm which is using an ImageField, which works as expected for both inserts and updates. I also have a widget implemented to display a thumbnail for the image if the form is bound. The issue I am having is the file path is still being displayed (along with the thumbnail). How can I override this URL such that it is not rendered as well as the label "Currently"?

A: The attributes responsible for rendering the current file path to an instantiated form us found in: forms.widgets.ClearableFileInput()
Override ClearableFileInput()'s render method.
In my case I changed
substitutions['initial'] = (u'%s'
                                    % (escape(value.url),
                                       escape(force_unicode(value))))

to
substitutions['initial'] = (u'%s
'
                                %(escape(force_unicode(os.path.basename(value.url)))))

Doing this removed the path to the current file and displays just the file name, without a link.

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#define MINUTE   0 // DON'T use leading zero or value is octal!
This sets the date and time of some future event to count down toward.
After uploading this sketch to the Pro Trinket, you should be greeted with a (hopefully very large) number — the minutes until your set date — and the rightmost decimal will be blinking. One second on, one second off. If not, or if having other problems, see the troubleshooting tips at the bottom of this page.
// mindfulness thing; makes you think.  Minutes you're never getting back.
// STOP WATCHING INTERNET CAT VIDEOS AND GET SOMETHING DONE!
//   nor ATtiny-based boards.  Code uses specific hardware features.
//   DS3231-based models like the ChronoDot (255) can also work.
//   display to change its I2C address.
//   DECIMAL POINTS match the positions on the silkscreen, or it won't work.
// - Connect 'SQW' pin on the RTC board to Digital Pin 3 on microcontroller.
// - The DS3231 dates are valid through year 2100, this code through 2099.
//   call it a feature...you and your Arduino have survived over 80 years.
// delay() or millis() would (could even sleep MCU if desired).
// and the loop() routine polls this & updates the display when ready.
// Determine number of minutes until YEAR/MONTH/DAY/etc.
// Enable 1 Hz square wave output from RTC.
I get an error when compiling the sketch!
Confirm the correct board is selected ("Pro Trinket 5V/16MHz (USB)" or "Pro Trinket 3V/12MHz (USB)", whichever you're using).
Confirm all three libraries are correctly installed: RTClib, Adafruit_GFX and Adafruit_LEDBackpack.
The displays are blank. I get nothing.
Did you install the wire from SQW on the clock board to digital pin 3 on the Pro Trinket?
There may be a power or communication problem between the Pro Trinket and the displays. Check all four connections: BUS, GND, A4/SDA/D and A5/SCL/C, make sure the latter two aren't reversed.
Look the circuit over for accidental solder bridges or cold solder joints.
Are the displays correctly assembled per these directions?
Both displays are showing the same four digits. I get two blinking decimals, or no blinking decimal.
Bridge the "A0" pads on the back of one display with a bit of solder. This assigns each display a unique I2C address.
The blinking decimal is in the middle, and the digits aren't counting correctly.
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In American football and Canadian football, a penalty is a sanction called against a team for a violation of the rules, called a foul. Officials initially signal penalties by tossing a bright yellow (American football) or orange (Canadian football) colored penalty flag onto the field toward or at the spot of a foul. Many penalties result in moving the football toward the offending team's end zone, usually either 5, 10, or 15 yards, depending on the penalty. Most penalties against the defensive team also result in giving the offense an automatic first down, while a few penalties against the offensive team cause them to automatically lose a down. In some cases, depending on the spot of the foul, the ball is moved half the distance to the goal line rather than the usual number of yards, or the defense scores an automatic safety.
Because football is a high-contact sport requiring a balance between offense and defense, many rules exist that regulate equality, safety, contact, and actions of players on each team. It is very difficult to always avoid violating these rules without giving up too much of an advantage. Thus, an elaborate system of fouls and penalties has been developed to "let the punishment fit the crime" and maintain a balance between following the rules and keeping a good flow of the game. Players and coaches are constantly looking for ways to find an advantage that stretches the limitations imposed by the rules. For example, in 2016 the Baltimore Ravens had all of their offensive linemen commit holding penalties in order to allow the punter to keep possession of the ball so time would expire for a win, since the game can end on offensive penalties. However, the NFL changed the rules after this to prevent teams from manipulating the game clock. The frequency and severity of fouls can make a large difference in the outcome of a game as well, so coaches are constantly looking for ways to minimize the number and severity of infractions committed by their players.
It is a common misconception that the term "penalty" is used to refer both to an infraction and the penal consequence of that infraction. A foul is a rule infraction (e.g. offensive holding) for which a penalty (e.g. move back 10 yards) is assessed.
The referee then confers with the offended team's on-field captain to find out whether the offended team would rather decline the penalty and take the result of the play. In certain situations, the result of the play may be more advantageous to the offended team, especially, for example, if time is running out in the half and a 7-yard gain is a better option than a 5-yard penalty. However, there are certain scenarios where the referee may not have to confer with the team captain because the enforcement cannot be declined (such as a false start foul or other penalties called prior to the snap) or when the choice is fairly obvious (such as when the defense commits a foul during a play in which the offense scores a touchdown). After any final conference, the referee then makes full visual signals describing the foul in detail, consisting of: the foul that was committed, the team that committed it, whether or not the opposing team chooses to decline it, the resulting down or possession, and any other penalties such as disqualification (ejection) of a player from the game or a ten-second runoff from the game clock. In college football, the NFL and other professional leagues, and in some high school games, the referee also announces the fouls and their penalties over a wireless microphone to the members of the teams, the crowds in the stands, and viewers/listeners of the televised/radio broadcast of the game. In college and professional football, and high school in some states, the referee will also give out the numbers of the players who committed the fouls. During these announcements over the microphone, the referee usually does not use names of the respective teams or their cities (however, in the Canadian Football League, they are announced by their respective city or province), but rather will use the generic terms "offense", "defense", "kicking team", "receiving team", etc. Some officials, especially in high school and lower levels, will refer to teams by their jersey color (e.g. "white", "red", "blue", etc.).
Some defensive penalties give the offense an automatic first down. Conversely, some offensive penalties result in loss of a down (loss of the right to repeat the down). The offensive team receives a first down if a penalty by the defense awards them enough yardage to attain it.
Rules are asymmetrical in regard to whether a team can score directly as a result of a penalty. The offensive team cannot do so; if a foul that is penalized from the spot of the foul is called on the defense in its own end zone, the ball is placed on either the one-yard line or the two-yard line, and the offense must try to score from there. However, penalties called on the offense in its own end zone can result in the defense scoring a two-point safety.
In the US, when multiple fouls occur, when both teams commit a foul during a play, regardless of severity, the fouls are usually offset and the down is replayed. However, the fouls must be committed in the same time frame. For instance, two fouls during the active play can offset, but a foul during the play and a personal foul after the whistle may not. Two personal fouls after the play can offset, although this is not often called. In the NFL, a major (15-yard) penalty by one team may not offset a minor (5-yard) penalty by the other team. In the CFL, the penalty yardage is generally netted: a 15-yard penalty by one team and a 10-yard penalty by the other will result in 5 net yards of penalty enforcement.
Defensive pass interference may be committed in or near the end zone toward the end of a game in order to prevent a touchdown. This would place the ball at or near the goal line with a first down, and give the defense of a team that is slightly ahead a chance to prevent a touchdown that would put the opponent ahead. The unfair act clause allows for a touchdown to be awarded in such situations and is explicitly recommended when such fouls are repeated.
In the waning minutes of a game, committing a foul such as holding results in the down being replayed, and while the clock stops after the play, the time that elapsed during the play still came off the clock, thus allowing teams to gain extra downs to run out the clock by fouling. The NFL closed this loophole in 2017, declaring this strategy to be unsportsmanlike conduct and resetting the clock to where it stood before the play.
Moreover, the game clock will run once the ball is placed. If such a runoff occurs with 10 seconds or less remaining, the half automatically ends. Since the enforcement of the 10-second runoff, eight regular season NFL games ended automatically due to this rule: 2005 Arizona-St. Louis, 2009 Cincinnati-Green Bay, 2011 Chicago-Oakland, 2012 Washington-Philadelphia, 2012 New England-Arizona (which cost New England the chance to attempt a field goal at the end of the half in a game they eventually lost by two points), 2014 St. Louis-Tampa Bay (which cost Tampa Bay a chance to attempt a game-winning field goal), 2015 New England-New York Jets (which cost the Jets an attempt to throw a Hail Mary and force the game to overtime) and 2017 Atlanta-Detroit (which cost the Lions a chance to win the game). A pre-season game in 2006 between Houston and Kansas City had the first half end automatically due to an intentional grounding foul with less than 10 seconds left. A 2013 divisional playoff game between the New Orleans Saints and the Seattle Seahawks also ended on a 10-second runoff after Saints wide receiver Marques Colston threw an illegal forward pass.
The new NCAA rule was passed in response to the end of the 4th quarter in the 2010 Music City Bowl. In that game, the North Carolina Tar Heels were down 20-17 at the end of the 4th quarter and because they had no timeouts, they spiked the ball to stop the clock with 1 second left while too many men were on the field due to confusion about whether the field goal unit needed to come on the field. Because college football did not yet have the 10-second runoff, UNC was penalized 5 yards but was still able to kick the field goal to send the game to overtime, and would wind up beating Tennessee 30-27 in double overtime.
In both the NFL and NCAA, a 10-second runoff is assessed if the game is stopped in the final two minutes of either half for an instant replay review, and the review determines the clock would not have stopped otherwise. This provision was used near the end of regulation in the 2018 LSU vs. Texas A&M game. An interception by LSU's Grant Delpit was overruled when it was determined Texas A&M quarterback Kellen Mond retrieved a bad snap with his right knee on the ground, ending the play. After the ball was re-spotted and the clock reset, 10 seconds were deducted and the clock restarted on the ready-for-play signal.
(offense) An offensive player tries to cut block a defensive player that is already being blocked by another offensive player. The second block may need to be below the thigh or knee, depending on the code. (US) Arms extended alongside the body, palms facing outward, then moving in to the upper thigh in a chopping motion.
(offense, defense, or special teams) Any action which delays the next play. In the US, on offense, this includes failing to snap the ball before the play clock reaches zero. (In the CFL, that action is a time count violation.) It may also include spiking the ball.
On special teams, it happens when the return team runs after signaling for a fair catch, or the defense does not unpile in a timely manner after the play ends. (US)Upper arms extended out from the body, forearms bent toward the opposite arm, such that the arms lie on top of one another or that each arm touches the opposite shoulder.
Equipment violation Any player in the game without necessary safety equipment (mouthpiece, pads), without chin straps properly fastened or in violation of certain clothing rules (e.g. sock requirements in college). (US)One hand placed on the back of the head — Timeout charged against the offending player's team Not a foul: the player is removed from the game for one play or until the equipment is fixed 10 yards and removal of the player from the game for three downs. If the equipment is deemed hazardous, 15 yards and disqualification.
Horse-collar tackle Illegally tackling another player by grabbing the inside of the ball carrier's shoulder pads or jersey from behind and yanking the player down. (US) Raising one arm to the side of the body with the elbow bent, so that the closed fist is located near the neck. The fist is then pulled away, horizontally, from the neck.
(special teams) The ball, after a kickoff, heads out of bounds between both goal lines without touching any player on either team. Two arms in front of chest with closed fists "rolling" around each other (same signal that basketball referees use to signal traveling).
(CFL) Same signal, plus a swinging motion of the leg to simulate a kick Receiving team awarded possession 25 yards from spot of kickoff, or at spot out of bounds, whichever is more advantageous. Five yards from the previous spot (with the kick retaken); or five yards from the spot where the subsequent dead ball belongs to the receiving team; or the receiving team may put the ball in play 30 yards beyond the kicking team's restraining line. Five yards from the previous spot (with the kick retaken); or five yards from the spot where the subsequent dead ball belongs to the receiving team; or the receiving team may put the ball in play 30 yards beyond the kicking team's restraining line. Five yards from the previous spot (with the kick retaken); or the spot where the subsequent dead ball belongs to the receiving team; or the receiving team may put the ball in play 35 yards from the spot of kickoff.
(offense) A forward pass is thrown intentionally incomplete so that the passer avoids loss of yardage or to conserve time. Not assessed if the ball is spiked. If the quarterback has moved outside of the area between his offensive tackles (the tackle box or more commonly called "the pocket"), there is no foul for grounding the ball if the quarterback throws the ball past the line of scrimmage. High school is more restrictive: spiking the ball is only allowed if the quarterback is under center, and the quarterback may not legally throw the ball away when outside the "tackle box." Both hands held out flat, facing each other, in front of the referee, moving down together diagonally roughly from one shoulder to the opposite hip. 10 yards or spot of foul, whichever is farther from the original line of scrimmage, and loss of down. If the foul occurs in the end zone, the play is ruled a safety. Spot of foul and loss of down (safety if the foul occurs in the end zone). 5 yards from the spot of the foul and loss of down (safety if the foul occurs in the end zone).
(offense or defense) A player is on the wrong side of the line of scrimmage (or in the neutral zone) when the ball is snapped. This foul occurs simultaneously with the snap. Unlike offensive players, defensive players are not compelled to come to a set position before the snap. If a defender jumps across the line but gets back to his side before the snap, there is no foul. In the case of an offside foul, play is not stopped, and the foul is announced at the conclusion of the play. Media covering the games call it a "free play" for the offense, as the non-offending team may decline the penalty and take the yardage gained on the play (and when the play works against them, like a turnover to the opposing team, the non-offending team can accept the penalty and retake possession of the ball) - unlike in the case of a false start foul against the offense, whereupon the play is immediately stopped by the officials.
(Major foul in Canada) A conduct- or safety-related infraction. Includes unnecessary roughness, such as hitting a ball carrier after he is already out of bounds, "piling on" a ball carrier who is already down, or violent contact with an opponent who is away from and out of the play. In the US, if the officials decide that the action was particularly flagrant, the player in question can be ejected from the game. (In Canada, such a flagrant act is a rough play foul.) One arm extended from the body and bent at the elbow; the forearm is tilted at an angle, so the wrist is roughly in front of the collarbone but at a distance from the body. The other arm is brought down in a chopping motion, striking the first arm wrist-to-wrist.
(Canada) One arm extended to the side of the body in a pumping motion 15 yards; automatic first down if committed by defense (penalty also counts regardless of how many yards the offense gained). 15 yards; automatic first down if committed by defense (penalty also counts regardless of how many yards the offense gained). 15 yards 15 yards; automatic first down if committed by defense (penalty also counts regardless of how many yards the offense gained).
Rough play A flagrant conduct- or safety infraction. Includes fighting, punching, and intentional contact with an official. One arm extended from the body and bent at the elbow; the forearm is tilted downward, so that the wrist is roughly in front of the waist but at a distance from the body. The other arm is brought down in a chopping motion, striking the first arm wrist-to-wrist. Not applicable (see Personal foul) Not applicable (see Personal foul) Not applicable (see Personal foul) 25 yards and disqualification of the offender; automatic first down if committed by defense (penalty also counts regardless of how many yards the offense gained).
(defense) A defender continues an effort to tackle or "hit" a passer after the passer has already thrown a pass. (In the NFL, a defender is allowed to take one step after the ball is thrown; a defender is penalized if he hits the passer having taken two or more steps after the ball leaves the passer's hand, or if the passer is hit above the shoulders, or if the passer is targeted using the crown of the helmet.) Open-fist arm extended above same-side shoulder, brought diagonally downward towards the opposite side waist. 15 yards and an automatic first down (penalty also counts regardless of how many yards the offense gained). 15 yards and an automatic first down (penalty may be enforced from the end of the run if the pass is completed; otherwise, penalty is enforced from the previous spot). 15 yards and an automatic first down (penalty may be enforced from the end of the run if the pass is completed; otherwise, penalty is enforced from the previous spot). 15 yards and an automatic first down (penalty also counts regardless of how many yards the offense gained). Penalty upgraded to 25 yards if the contact is a direct blow to the passer's head or neck.
Unfair act Any illegal action in which the penalty is insufficient to offset the result of the act. The NFL rule (known as a palpably unfair act) also requires that the opposing team would have scored had the illegal act not happened, which is not required at the college or high school levels.
In high school only, committing repeated fouls that halve the distance to the goal is explicitly defined as an unfair act.
Yardage or score at discretion of referee, possible disqualification Any penalty at discretion of referee, up to and including forfeiture of the game. Any penalty at discretion of referee, up to and including forfeiture of the game.
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Q: Finding anomaly detection by pattern matching in a set of continous data I have series of sensors (around 4k) and each sensor will measure the amplitudes at each point.Suppose I train the neural network with sufficent set of 4k values (N * 4k shape). The machine will find a pattern in the series of values.If the values stray away from the pattern (that is anomaly) it can detect the point and will be able to say that anomaly is in the 'X'th sensor.Is this possible.If so what kind of neural network should I use?

A: Since you are having a time series inputs you can use sequential models like RNN, LSTM, GRU. And use softmax layer at the end, which can output (normal/anomaly).
you can use the same model(weights) 4k times to find which sensor is at fault.
Or same sequential network can be trained with multi dimensional softmax (anomaly1/normal1 ... fault4k/ normal4k)
But  such networks won't work well when data is imbalanced(anomalies are rare).
you can also try RPCA for anomaly detection.


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When will we see the Payless Car Rental service return to the U.S.?
With Payless just announced as a service in the U." on Friday, the timing of the company's return to U.K. shores has become a big question mark for the company.
That's because Payless has a long history of operating in the United Kingdom.
It began operations in the country in 2005 and now has an annual revenue of $5.7 billion.
Payless has enjoyed success in the UK for years.
Since 2007, the company has made over $3 billion in annual revenue.
The UK is one of the largest mobile phone market in the world, with more than 5 billion customers and over 4 million Payless stores.
In March of this year, Payless announced that it had sold a record number of Payless cars.
In fact, the number of new Payless car rentals in the first quarter of 2018 was nearly double that of the same period last year.
It's no surprise then that Payless is looking to make an impact in the new U.D.
A large number of U.UK consumers are looking to ditch their carrier and use the company to avoid the carrier's $1.95 per month data fee.
The service is also getting a boost from the upcoming launch of a new Pay-as-you-go plan that is being rolled out across the U, with customers paying $1 for a month's data.
Payless CEO Michael Pachter told the BBC that Pay-As-You-Go plans would allow customers to access all their data at once.
Pay-By-Phone is a way for customers to pay for the data without using their phones, and it's one of Pay-less's best-known plans.
The company's new plans come with an extra perk, however: Payless says its new plans are available to U, P&L, and MetroCard customers.
These plans include a free 1GB of data, with unlimited talk, text, and data, and can be purchased through the Pay-by-Phone website.
Payfree is currently offering a one-month trial for MetroCard and Pay-At-Home plans, but that is expected to change as the company looks to roll out the new plans in the next few months.
Pay-By of Phone is a new plan that lets customers pay for data without having to use their phones.
It works like a prepaid card, and you can use it on any mobile phone, not just Payless's.
You pay $1 per month for a one month trial, and the plan will be unlocked once you sign up.
It'll cost you $9.99 per month, but you can upgrade to a pay-as, one-time, or annual plan if you want.
The plan includes unlimited talk and text, so you can talk and message your friends while you're driving or walking around.
You can also use the plan for checking your phone or other gadgets on the go, or to pay with cash.
You get $9 per month to use your Pay-All plan.
The only catch is that PayAll customers must pay for their data.
That's not all Payless offers that are available in the newly announced U.DD.
The company is also launching an online shopping service, which is available in a number of countries around the world.
You don't have to be a Pay-It-Forward customer to get the service.
The site will be launching in the coming weeks, and all Pay-Through customers will be able to use it.
The U.DK. will also get a new smartphone.
The Payless Passport, which has been around for some time now, will be the first to arrive in the region.
It will be available in all major cities, with a starting price of $199.99 and a monthly payment of $39.99.
Paying for data and data accessories on the Passport will not be an option.
The Passport is the first smartphone to come to the region, and Payless expects to have more devices available by the end of the year.
While there are no plans for Payless to make a return to Europe, it's worth noting that the company also plans to launch a Payless card in the future.
PayLess says that by the summer of 2020, it plans to offer Payless cards in Spain, the United States, and Canada.
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Please support my work as a reader-funded journalist! As of September 2018, I'm currently trying to raise $2500 (£2000) to support my writing and campaigning on Guantánamo and related issues over the next three months of the Trump administration.
Updated for the seventh time between September and November 2018 (with this first part updated on September 11, 2018, the 17th anniversary of the terrorist attacks that led, four months later, to the profoundly ill-advised opening of the prison at Guantánamo Bay), this definitive Guantánamo prisoner list was first published in March 2009, and subsequently updated from four parts to six (see Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 and Part 6). I first updated it on January 1, 2010, and again on July 12, 2010, and I updated it for the third time at the start of June 2011, to mark the fourth anniversary of the start of my almost daily publication of articles about Guantánamo. That update also included previously unseen photos from the classified military files released by WikiLeaks, on which I worked as a media partner. It was updated for the fourth time on the first anniversary of WikiLeaks' release of "The Guantánamo Files," and was updated for the fifth time on March 7, 2014, five years after its first publication — an update that contained more photos from the files released by WikiLeaks. The sixth update in October 2016 contained additional photos, as well as important information about the status of the 61 prisoners still held at the time.
Please note that Part 2 covers ISN numbers (prisoner numbers) 134-268, Part 3 covers 269-496, Part 4 covers 497-661, Part 5 covers 662-928 and Part 6 covers 929-10029.
The definitive prisoner list is a key element of my ongoing work (now in its 13th year) calling for the closure of the US prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and telling the stories of the men held there. The first fruit of my initial research was my book The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison, in which I told the story of the prison at Guantánamo Bay, established, for the first time, a chronology explaining where and when the prisoners were seized, told the stories of around 450 of these prisoners, and provided a context for the circumstances in which the remainder of the prisoners were captured.
Since May 2007, I have written over 2,200 articles about Guantánamo, expanding on and updating my initial work, providing research, analysis and commentary, as well as regularly campaigning to get the prison closed — particularly via the Close Guantánamo campaign I established in 2012 with the US attorney Tom Wilner, and We Stand With Shaker, established in 2014 with the activist Joanne MacInnes, which played a part in securing the release of Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in the prison, in October 2015.
Along the way, I have covered the stories of the 339 prisoners released from Guantánamo since June 2007 — 142 under George W. Bush, 196 under Barack Obama, and just one under Donald Trump — in unprecedented depth. I have also covered the stories of the 30 prisoners charged in Guantánamo's military commissions (although only eight men have been convicted, and several of those convictions have been overturned on appeal), and I also covered the men's habeas corpus petitions in detail from 2008 to 2011, until they were disgracefully shut down by appeals court judges in Washington, D.C.
In President Obama's last years, I assiduously covered the Periodic Review Boards, convened to assess the cases of 64 men who had not been approved for release or recommended for trials by an earlier review process, the Guantánamo Review Task Force. The PRB process began in November 2013, and resulted in 38 men being approved for release (of whom 36 were released before Obama left office), while 26 others had their ongoing imprisonment upheld.
As a result of my work over the last twelve and a half years, this is the most comprehensive list ever published of the 779 prisoners who have been held by the US military at Guantánamo, providing details of the 729 prisoners who have been released (and the dates of their release), the nine men who have died, the one man transferred to the US mainland for a trial, and the 40 prisoners who are still held (including five men approved for release), as well as those designated for prosecution or ongoing imprisonment without charge or trial.
And finally, as Guantánamo remains open under Donald Trump (after Obama failed to close it, despite promising to do so on his second day in office), I hope that it also provides useful information for those still seeking to close Guantánamo, and to bring to an end this bleak chapter in American history.
In the categories below, ISN refers to the Internment Serial Number by which the prisoners are (or were) known and identified in Guantánamo, followed by the prisoners' status (released, cleared for release, still held, or, in nine cases, deceased), their names (with just some of the many different permutations noted, in some cases), their nationality, and links to articles I have written about them, or which include references to them, or references to chapters in The Guantánamo Files. Links on the release dates feed into articles published when the prisoners were released.
009 TRANSFERRED TO CUSTODY ON US MAINLAND APR 2002 Hamdi, Yaser (Yasser Hamdi) (USA-Saudi Arabia) Chapters 2, 18, transferred to US, held as an enemy combatant until Oct 2004, when he renounced US citizenship in exchange for being released in Saudi Arabia; also see Court Confirms President's Dictatorial Powers in Case of US "Enemy Combatant" Ali al-Marri, The Last US Enemy Combatant: The Shocking Story of Ali al-Marri, WikiLeaks and the 14 Missing Guantánamo Files, WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part One of Ten), US Judge Rules Against Military Detention of US Terror Suspects – But What About the Foreigners in Guantánamo?, What Should Trump Do With the US Citizen Seized in Syria and Held in Iraq as an "Enemy Combatant"?
For more, see Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 and Part 6.


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BMC TrueSight Operations Management is the #2 ranked solution in our list of top Event Monitoring tools. It is most often compared to IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager: BMC TrueSight Operations Management vs IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager
What is BMC TrueSight Operations Management?
TrueSight Operations Management is a broad ITOM solution that delivers performance monitoring, event management, end user experience management, AIOps use cases and automated remediation and ticketing . It deploys machine learning and analytics to dynamically learn behavior, correlate, analyze, and prioritize event data so IT operations teams can predict, find and fix issues faster across complex, hybrid environments. TrueSight Operations Management provides a converged view of application and infrastructure performance across physical, virtual, multi-cloud and container environments. With visibility into web, mobile, and on-premises applications, TrueSight provides the insight IT operations needs to deliver high-quality digital services quickly and effectively enough to keep pace with business demands. TrueSight helps IT to ensure that the applications and services that drive the business continue to perform optimally by examining operational norms, automatically revealing abnormalities, measuring service impact, and proactively identifying risk.
BMC TrueSight Operations Management is also known as ProactiveNet, TrueSight Operations Management.
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"We pay license fees of between $150 and $200 per asset. There is an enterprise software license fee, and then you pay a percentage for your maintenance, and then Premier Support. For example, if you buy a two-year license for the product, then the maintenance fee is added to that for two years at X percent a year. Then there's a small fee on top of that for Premier Support..."
"We're end-of-lifeing it now. Overall, the licensing costs of BMC are a challenge for us in that they're hard costs, whereas open-source monitoring has soft costs, where it's harder to line-item."
"Pricing is all volume-driven. I think we were paying between $80 and $85 per license. That's per unit, for a perpetual license. You pay it one time and then, every year, you pay 20 percent of that for annual maintenance and support. But now that we've grown, we've purchased tens of thousands of licenses and the cost per license has gone down to something like less than $30..."
"The only possible additional cost that I can mention, that you might not be aware of, is that it uses Oracle partitioning, if you use Oracle. There are Oracle partitioning fees that go with that."
"We did a five-year, multimillion dollar deal."
"Consider scalability very carefully: how much you want to monitor and what components are very important. Then, depending on these two things, filter out unwanted metrics or attributes. If you do a good job at filtering the data, then your licensing costs will be manageable."
"It is a large, complex product. So, there is a commitment of manpower to deploy it, as it is not a cheap product."
"There is a big upfront cost when you buy the license, then there is annual maintenance. We look at, if I bought a license and paid for maintenance for five years, then average it out, what would be my monthly cost. We have had some of the competing tools come in around four dollars. This is coming in as a premium, which is why I don't have it deployed as I would like it. Therefore, we're in negotiations right now. If I can get it down to the four dollar range, I will triple my deployment in a year and a half."
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John_Rooney
Vice President of Managed Services at Park Place Technologies
Enables us to proactively service our customers and even warn them about problems before they occur
Park Place Technologies brought in TrueSight for three reasons. The first reason was the Presentation Server - the architecture. The second reason was the fact it has the AIOps piece. The third reason was their partner, called Sentry Software, out of France. We are a hardware maintenance company. We're probably one of the largest providers, worldwide, for replacing drives and storage equipment. We brought TrueSight in as a means of seeing if we could reduce the number of physical touches on a service ticket from eight to two. We've been accomplishing that with TrueSight and the Sentry… more »
"The fact that they have a very integrated relationship with Sentry Software, the Knowledge Module, is valuable... The richest feature for us is the number of Knowledge Modules that we can load into the product to add breadth of service to the customer. It enables us to move up the operational stack from hardware, to operating system, to application, and to cloud... That enables us to provide one pane of glass over all those layers - hardware, OS, app, and cloud."
"Reporting would be an area for improvement in TrueSight... We have almost 800 customers today on TrueSight and just under 10,000 assets. We need to be able to give a customer some information. If the customer's product fails, they'll ask us, "Did it have a problem beforehand?" We have all those events and we know all the problems it had beforehand. We have to be able to give them access to that kind of reporting. That's an enhancement that we need."
The advice I would give is not to make a mistake and think it's an off-the-shelf product like Office 365. Understand that it's a very robust set of tools and procedures. You really should define what you want to do with it before you bring it in the door. If you had asked us before we brought it in, we had an idea, but we didn't know exactly how we wanted to utilize it and that was because we didn't know the capabilities of it. We thought we could do X, and we found out what we really needed to do was Y. It was that gap that we had to fill, and that took us time. So the better you can define…
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Service Delivery Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Knowledge Modules are what make the implementation across our varied infrastructure, but RBAC controls need some work
We use it for business service and infrastructure monitoring. We use the full gamut of utilities from them and monitoring in the platform.
"From an administrative standpoint, what stands out in TrueSight is the ability to implement quickly. When they have a requirement to monitor something, we're able to turn that on quickly in their environment. We're able to set up new apps within a day."
"We were somewhat limited in TrueSight due to some of the RBAC controls not quite being what we wanted as far as delegating out administrative privileges for implementation. But because we were able to turn requests around pretty well, that burden wasn't too heavy."
BMC is at a critical point in redefining TSOM, how it's built. Anybody looking at BMC now needs to jump on the new version of TSOM and skip the current versions. I would wait until their new environment is ready. It will be containerized. Anyone implementing BMC can get used to the environment in a PoC but they shouldn't implement until their new stuff is out. I expect it to be that much different. Make sure that you have stakeholder buy-in and that they are able to provide the resources with the correct knowledge to implement in a smart fashion. Everybody's definition of "smart" is going to…
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Paul Mercina
Director Product Management at Park Place Technologies
Enables us to monitor a hugely diverse set of hardware products from multiple manufacturers
We're actually hosting the software and providing services to our customers based on all the capabilities that are within TrueSight. We are a very large, global, hardware maintenance provider for data centers. We mostly service the high-end data storage and networking equipment that you would find in data centers and in cloud environments. A couple of years ago we started on a journey to really improve our ability to maintain and service our customers. This was all about connectivity, getting connected to those servers and storage platforms. We wanted to get connected to everything that we… more »
"The ability of this platform to monitor the very diverse assets that we maintain around the world is its most valuable feature... We support a vast array of manufacturers' equipment, like HP, IBM, Cisco, Dell, EMC, Hitachi... We can do it all with [this] one [solution]."
"We have a unique use case because BMC typically sells this solution into enterprises that are deploying it within their IT, versus to a managed services provider like us where we're supporting thousands of customers. Multi-tenancy and the scalability have been challenges along the way, as we've grown... If anything could have gone better as we were ramping this up and adding a lot of volume to it, I would say it's the scalability. That would be one thing that could be improved."
If we had to do it all over again, we would have spent a lot more time in the early going on planning the architecture, on how we were going to build this out. That could have saved us some pain, once we got it up and running and started adding customers and expanding it. If we had spent a little more time with BMC, planning architecturally how we were going to design this to support the scale we needed, it would have helped. That was a lesson learned. And that would be some advice I would give. Depending on how you're planning to use the tool, make sure you spend some time looking at the…
Doug Greene
Sr. Director Operations at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Enables us to triangulate, using multiple sets of data - including log, app, OS, network, and more - and find issues
We use it primarily for monitoring. My organization is an application support organization and part of what we need to do is to make sure is that our infrastructure is running tip-top so that those applications can run, consequently, the same way. We use the tool to do both application monitoring as well as infrastructure monitoring all the way down to storage services, and things like that on the OS layer. We have a full breadth and are able to triangulate what types of issues we're experiencing before our end-users experience those issues. It monitors our entire platform. Everything in… more »
"The solution's event management capabilities are fantastic. We do a best of breed. If, on the network side, they use a different tool, we pull all that data in so that we have a single console. It's kind of like the monitor of monitors. We're able to aggregate all the different types of data sets, whether it's log data, app data, OS data, infrastructure data, or network data. We're able to aggregate all those events and then correlate and be able to say we're having an event."
"Specifically around application performance monitoring, BMC is definitely not the market leader. The Dynatraces, the New Relics and the like are more of the market leaders in that space. I would like to see them grow that space a little bit more aggressively. It has not really been their bread and butter."
Keep it simple. Make sure that you understand, architecturally, how your applications and your data center are set up. It makes your life easier to know exactly what you're going to need to monitor. The biggest lesson I have learned from using this solution is to really take full advantage. I joke with the BMC guys that TSOM is like AutoCAD, the engineering tool that people use to design and draw. We only scratch the surface of its full capabilities. The thing that I've learned is that it's a good idea to take advantage of all the bells and whistles as quickly as you can because it really pays…
ITManager610z9
IT Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Single pane of glass has resulted in dramatic improvements; it is bringing people together
We stood up an event management group and our responsibility is to monitor the entire company, globally: systems, applications, and infrastructure. We're modeling those out as services. We've got about 800 services that we're modeling out from the CMDB right now and monitoring pretty much everything. We are big users of the service models. We use CA's SDM system, which we're evaluating. But in the meantime, we wrote the interface between TrueSight and CA to cut tickets and also to, in reverse, give ticket statuses in TrueSight. We're also going through a process of onboarding our services for… more »
"We're using native monitoring capabilities for all our server hardware, for visibility for applications, for URLs, for webpage response and accuracy, and for monitoring network throughput in a lot of particular instances. We're using lightweight protocols for pinging, for DNS, for LDAP."
"The one piece that I would love to see is a general-purpose, configurable agent which would be a framework that you can deploy on anything, whether it be Java or anything else. It would allow you to easily deploy it on a platform that they support."
My advice is that it's not going to be as easy as you think, but it's going to be worth more than you think when you get it done. It depends on your situation. It depends on how far advanced you are in operations management. For us, this was a complete cultural, technological, and process overall. It wasn't just replacing one tool with another. It wasn't just putting a tool in place. It was an entire IT renewal and it's still going on. It's been a long, hard road, both from a cultural perspective and from a technology perspective, just getting people to realize the value. But once they do…
Monitori66fb
Monitoring Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
We have reduced headcount and shrunk the mean time to resolve
From a senior management perspective, they want to get an understanding, when there is an outage, what is the impact of that outage across the entire suite of the company's products. We have an Event Manager that integrates all of our monitoring tools. Since we are a large company, we have about 26 different monitoring tools in use. The idea is getting all of them into a framework which can feed such a model that displays the impact of an outage.
"We have one application, which is fairly large. In the past, we had Level 1 and 2 NOC support teams who were responsible for watching dashboards. When they saw an issue in the application, they would call Level 2 or 3 support and escalate the call, if necessary. Now, through the use of this product, we have been able to reduce the headcount by five people, as we are able to eliminate the eyes on the glass. We no longer have people watching the dashboard. We have events which are processed automatically through the system and get to the right people. We had six people in L1s, and now have one. So, we reduced five out of six headcount, which is pretty significant."
"In a large company of our size, we need multiple people in our company trained. So, I have to take the training classes. Then, I have to go and train the rest of my organization. I would prefer to say to the other people on my team, "Go to this link and..." Or, "Here's a list of training sessions that you can go to which are online and that are free." I think it would help the adoption of their product in the marketplace, personally."
Make sure you have knowledgeable people on your staff. Give yourself plenty of time for deployment, if you think it will take three months, make it six months. Look at past companies' experience on time to deploy, knowledge, and staffing requirements. The solution's event management capabilities are very good. In some ways, they are based on very old technology. I first started using it way back in the late nineties and the basic core of the product does not appear to have changed much since then. Back then, it was a very good product. So that's not necessarily a bad thing. The other things…
Mudassir Parwez Ahmed
Sr. Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Monitors a mix of on-prem and cloud, and predictive alerts help maintain availability
TrueSight Operations Manager includes infrastructure monitoring, as well as application performance monitoring. The premier use case that I have seen, over the last few years is infrastructure monitoring, along with network monitoring. The overall use case is monitoring of IT infrastructure, including the network; monitoring, alerting, and event management. Occasionally we have seen a couple of customers who are interested in the application performance management as well. The actionable alerts that we get from monitoring the infrastructure or application are the end-result of the monitoring… more »
"The event management part of TrueSight Operations Management, in my experience, is probably the best in the market. You have endless flexibility. You can build your own rules, you have the MRL language, and you can implement any kind of logic on the alerts. It may be correlation, abstraction, or executing something as a result of the alerts. You have almost the whole range of options available for event management using the available customization."
"It's too complex, too many servers are required, there are too many different components in the solution, and a lot of agents are required."
TrueSight, as a solution, is a very large suite nowadays. In the last year or so, BMC has made the Orchestration module a part of the TrueSight portfolio. Then there are the Server Automation, Network Automation, and BladeLogic Client Automation pieces that are merged into the TrueSight portfolio. If you consider the entire TrueSight product suite, which includes TrueSight Operations Management, Infrastructure Management, and Application Performance Management, and you have TrueSight Capacity Optimization, TrueSight Orchestration, and TrueSight Automation — if you combine all these solutions…
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Sr Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It covers so many different technologies which can roll up into a single console
My company is a data center service provider. We host and manage IT for all types of different companies, using TrueSight to manage and monitor the health performance availability of all our customers' environments: networks, servers, databases, websites, and all their back-end IT. Right now, the focus is pushing DevOps and AIOps in our more traditional data center management. We are not using it in the cloud space today. Therefore, the focus is the traditional data center space, but for us, that is a very large space.
"It is breadth. It covers so many different technologies which can roll up into a single console."
"The noise reduction for ticketing works much better than we have seen in a lot of other companies."
"I definitely would like to see more improvement in the self-diagnostics. I need to know when anything is not working or collecting, long before our customer finds it."
You really want to plan out your policy and architecture in great detail before you start any deployments. It is a complex product. You don't want to have to go redo it. Pick a small environment, test out your plan, test it out a second time, beat it up, and once you're happy with it, then go nuts by deploying it everywhere. It's great once it's there, you just have to get past that design hurdle, because there are things that aren't necessarily intuitive. I have a mixed bag impression of the usability. The end user experience is mostly good, as it's a very clean interface. There are some…
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Would you like a database of 89 million publications, together with citation counts, linked grants, patents and clinical trials? Maybe with affiliation data and researcher disambiguation? Would you like some of it for free and the rest at low cost?
You would? Then good news for you this week!
We're incredibly proud to be launching Dimensions, our new platform for analysis & discovery.
and you'll get back thousands of results you can filter further by subject area, journal, year, open access status and more. The results have Altmetric Badges and citations in a new citations badge too. Oh yeah – we also launched citation badges and accompanying API that are free for non-commercial use: you can use them to add citation displays to CVs, lab homepages, blogs or whatever else you might like.
It gets even more exciting if your research organization gets involved – on top of an index of scholarly publications you get access to millions of patents, grants and clinical trials, in total 128 million documents, all searchable and linked together wherever possible – with 4 billion connections. It also gives you access to a more powerful API that accepts arbitrary queries in a simple domain search language so that you can pull out the data you need for your own dashboards, reports and applications.
To build the citation network – over 873 million large – we've indexed tens of millions of documents and performed reference extraction on them, as well as pulling in other datasets like Crossref (the I4OC deserve credit here). We've extracted affiliations and mapped them to GRiD, and disambiguated 20 million researchers.
As anybody who works with scholarly metadata knows pulling together this kind of data while keeping quality high can be tricky, so we've been working closely with many scholarly publishers to make sure their metadata and indexing is as good as it can be.
There's lots more to explore – see the website for more. In this post, though, we wanted to cover some of the background to Dimensions and talk a bit about where it's headed.
Though it's launching under the Digital Science brand, Dimensions is a collaboration between six different companies – UberResearch, Readcube, Altmetric, Symplectic, DS Consulting and figshare – and around one hundred research organization and funder development partners. We invested heavily in a small core team of three Dimensions only colleagues' and then individual portfolio companies contributed staff, data, development effort and expertise, guided by invaluable real world feedback from the external development partners.
We did it because Dimensions is the kind of tool that customers have been telling us all individually that they want for years. It's the kind of dataset that we wish had been around when we all got started building our products. It's also a way for us to gently push for positive change, as we have with our other products.
As hand wavy as it sounds, at this point we'd love to have not just customers but users who'll help us to shape this agenda and Dimensions in the future, which is why we've made it super easy for users to give us feedback and will continue to run the development partner program.
Of course Dimensions does need to be sustainable for us, too. For institutional use we've settled on something that covers our costs – much lower than competing products – with commensurate extra value in the form of extra datasets and flexible API use. Find out more about how your organisation can take advantage of the data and the tool. For individual use, searching across publications and their associated citations is free.
Much of what Dimensions does is built on earlier work from the companies involved, but we also owe a debt of thanks to several fantastic community initiatives like ORCID (integration with ORCID to come shortly after launch), Unpaywall for OA data (special thanks to Heather and Jason), I4OC and Digital Science's own GRiD. All four are powerful enablers and we hope that Dimensions is a good example of the kinds of tools that can be built on top of them and the work that their supporters do.
If you want to learn about the data fueling Dimensions and the approach to bring it together, enrich and heavily link it – we prepared an overview in a larger document since it requires more space than a blog post – enjoy!
We think the current release is a great starting point and we wanted to get the data out there as soon as we could. There are lots of places where we can make things even better though, either by adding or enriching more data or by adding new functionality.
Key to this will be getting your feedback, good or bad. Good will keep the team energized, and bad will help us improve, so do feel free to send it in and keep it coming. In the app itself you can click on the "Support" link in the top toolbar and then "Send feedback". Alternatively you can catch us at a conference or email us direct at info@dimensions.ai.
We'll also be reaching out directly to some communities to ask for help on specific topics. You might notice that while we've calculated some essential metrics (like counts & field citation ratios) we've held back from anything too new or complex for the launch and focused on the discovery use case. That was deliberate – we want to approach things in a responsible way and work with external groups. The RCR, which we've been developing with the NIH, is one example of this. There'll be more information on how to get involved later, if you're interested.
We hope you enjoy Dimensions as much as we did planning and building it. Please discover new papers, find some interesting links, produce some insightful analysis… and build something amazing!


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Meaning: n. 1. a holy war waged by Muslims against infidels 2. a holy struggle or striving by a Muslim for a moral or spiritual or political goal.
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(1) "The Only Solution Is Jihad Against the Invaders," says one. "Mullah Omar Is a Dagger Raised to Strike Each Occupier," says another.
(2) "Gender jihad is the struggle against male chauvinistic , homophobic or sexist readings of the Islamic sacred texts, " said Abdennur Prado, one of the meeting's Spanish organisers.
(3) That cell later became part of Egyptian Islamic Jihad, a group fighting to overthrow the Egyptian government.
(4) The aerial raids aimed at Hamas and Islamic Jihad targets are being called the most potent Israeli assault in Palestinian-populated territory since the 1967 Six Day War.
(5) One of them, Islamic Jihad, said the bomber entered Israel from Jordan.
(6) Deccan Organization of the Islamic Jihad Army claimed responsibility for the attacks.
(7) Palestinian Islamic Jihad later claimed responsibility for the incident.
(8) In fact they represented the vanguard for jihad on the Western front—so in deference to them[Sentencedict.com], Shahryar could hold onto his coif.
(9) The Palestinian militant group of Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility of the attack.
(10) The jihad for him was not about resistance and liberation, he said. It was about establishing a pan-Islamic state.
(11) In contrast, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which shares the same theology and ideology as Hamas but lacks a social-service-provision network, is no more lethal than the secular nationalist groups.
(12) If bin Laden has any role in the jihad, say, it is merely an icon.
(13) He said that Islamic Jihad had worked alongside two other militant organizations.
(14) While he remains at large the jihad will never be leaderless.
(15) They are trying to stir up international jihad.
(16) Al-Zawahiri is a physician and the founder of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ).
(17) By then, Dr Fadl was already the leader of Egyptian Islamic Jihad, an extremist movement which fought the Cairo regime until its defeat in the 1990s.
(18) Palestinians identified the three as members of the Islamic Jihad militant group.
(19) In the new video, the speaker "describes the barbarism exhibited by China towards Muslims and East Turkistan, justifying the jihad that is declared against the communist regime", SITE said.
(20) By the autumn of 2008, the damage that international jihad could do to Pakistan was becoming very clear.
(21) Mr bin Laden matters because he swept up a ragbag of local grievances into a brand of intoxicating and violent jihad with worldwide pretensions.
(22) Bin Laden was one of the several people suspected of being involved. 1996, Usama Bin Laden declared a jihad, a holy war against US forces.
(23) This week imprisoned leaders of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group began publishing a "revision" of their previous understanding of jihad.
(24) Their drunken revelry, their shameless flirting, must have offended the righteous believers in the jihad.
(25) Under our [Taliban] government, when we taught the children the letter J it stood for jihad. Now it's jar [meaning neighbour].
(26) Osama Bin Ladin: People are asking me, how do I keep my beard so luxurious. I use Jihad Curl.
(27) Some leading Taliban even suspect that Mullah Mohammed Omar, the leader and symbol of their jihad, may also be in ISI custody.
(28) In addition to Lashkar commandos armed with submachine guns, they saw two functionaries openly soliciting donations for Lashkar's jihad and posters in the bookstore advertising jihadi literature.
(29) Nobody's questioning the fact that he was the mentor of Zawahiri and the ideologue of Egyptian Islamic Jihad.
(30) There are individuals within the network that really really want to do real jihad, action jihad, and what they need is a trigger and Ambon is a clear trigger for this.
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Lawyers for Boston mobster James "Whitey" Bulger have asked a federal appeals court to order the judge scheduled to preside over his trial to step aside because of his close ties to the U.S. Justice Department.
The Boston Globe reports that in a motion filed Tuesday, Bulger's lawyer said that if the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals fails to grant his request, Bulger's trial "will go forward under a dark cloud."
Bulger's lawyer argues that Judge Richard Stearns' ability to be impartial is questionable because he was a top prosecutor in the U.S. attorney's office in the 1980s and is a close friend of FBI director Robert Mueller.
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This dog's no paw-per: Meet the golden retriever who starred in John Lewis ad and is now so rich she has a bank account
Blaise, a Golden Retriever, has starred in TV adverts for John Lewis
Her owner Lesley Thomas has opened her pet a bank account at Lloyds
Was entered for obedience show after found she could not have puppies
Despite getting 'more laughs than rosettes', was signed up to TV agency
Published: 13:10 EST, 19 October 2015 | Updated: 03:57 EST, 22 October 2015
A TV star pooch and the face of John Lewis has made so much money she has had to open her own bank account.
Blaise, a Golden Retriever, has starred in prime-time adverts and is set to appear in two upcoming movies.
Her owner, Lesley Thomas, opened the account at a Lloyds bank, so Blaise can save up for a 'baby sister to share in her adventures'.
The account is in Mrs Thomas' name, with Blaise – who made her TV debut in a John Lewis home insurance advert – a subsidiary.
Owner Lesley Thomas opened up a bank account for her Golden Retriever when the cash started to roll in
Although she cannot draw her own cheques, Blaise carries the pay-in book in her mouth and can fetch it from her owner's handbag
Blaise appeared in the John Lewis Home Insurance advert (pictured) and now has her own bank account
Mrs Thomas, a mother-of-three, who also has two grandchildren, said: 'Everyone thought I was mad.
'She got quite a good pay-out for the John Lewis ad, so I thought she should have her own account.
'It had to be a savings account - she can't sign cheques. She hasn't spent any of her money yet.
'She's saving up for a baby sister who can come and share in her adventures.'
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Blaise was hand-picked for the John Lewis TV role after a personality-filled performance at an obedience show - where she was wholly disobedient.
Mrs Thomas, who bred Blaise, and her family-of-four retrievers, found out in 2012 she could not have puppies.
She said: 'I thought, 'I've got to do something else for her', so a friend persuaded me to enter her in obedience shows. She didn't exactly shine to start with.
'Her kennel name 'Blaise of Glory' became a bit of an embarrassment.
'Instead of doing all the correct things, she'd have a good old roll on her back or run out and greet someone in the crowd - she got more laughs than rosettes.'
Blaise (far right) filming for the upcoming film called Stay, which is due for release in December
Blaise, the TV star dog, examines her check book held up by her owner, who lives in Halland, East Sussex - the Golden Retriever has starred in John Lewis insurance adverts for the last two years
Blaise was hand-picked for the John Lewis TV role after a personality-filled performance at an obedience show - where she was wholly disobedient
The heart-warming display of disobedience delighted Lorraine Gardner, boss of Orpington-based TV agency, Animal Hire.
She liked the look of Blaise and auditioned her on the spot.
Mrs Thomas added: 'She'd had a terrible day in the ring, but she came up trumps. I didn't know it was for a John Lewis advert until she was selected.'
Blaise is now set to appear in a film called Stay, which is due for release in December.
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Ai-Da, the world's first AI humanoid artist, has now made history as a poet
The ultra-realistic robot became the first to write and perform poetry 'as a human would do' at Oxford's Ashmolean Museum
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Ai-Da, the humanoid AI artist who made history in 2019, as the first ever robot who can draw without any human input, is now an AI poet. Her first performance? A recital at the University of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum, in response to Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy.
Marking the 700th anniversary of Dante's death, Ai-Da's original poems draw directly from the epic poem, which she was given to read in an English translation. She then used her unique algorithms, and a data bank of words and speech pattern analysis, to write her own work in reaction to Dante's.
Ai-Da isn't the first AI to write poetry — back in 2018, a deep learning AI bot from IBM Research Australia produced verse on Shakespearean sonnets, while Robyn performed AI-generated poetry for Dazed back in 2018. However, the ultra-realistic robot (who was devised in Oxford by Aidan Meller, and named after Ada Lovelace) is the first to write and perform poetry "as a human would do".
"There are some things, that are so difficult – so incalculable," began one of the poems she performed at the Ashmolean Museum on Friday night (November 26). "The words are not intelligible to the human ear; / She can only speculate what they mean."
Another poem reads: "We looked up from our verses like blindfolded captives, / Sent out to seek the light; but it never came, / A needle and thread would be necessary / For the completion of the picture. / To view the poor creatures, who were in misery, / That of a hawk, eyes sewn shut."
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Talking to the Guardian ahead of the performance, Meller says: "People are very suspicious that the robots aren't doing much, but the reality is language models are very advanced." He does admit that "restricted editing" is involved in the composition process, but adds: "In 95 per cent of cases... it's just that she's done too much."
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Reflecting on AI's growing ability to imitate human writing, he goes on to say that "all of us should be concerned about widespread use of AI language models on the internet, and how that will affect language, and crucially, meaning making, in the future".
As well as contributing poetry, Ai-Da has produced visual artworks for the Ashmolean Museum's exhibition, "Dante: The Invention Of Celebrity". One of these, Eyes Wide Shut, was produced in response to her detainment last month, when Egyptian border agents held her for 10 days on suspicion of being a spy.
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The Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 shook the foundations of the global economy and what began as a localised currency crisis soon engulfed the entire Asian region. This book explores what went wrong and how did the Asian economies long considered 'miracles' respond, among other things. The combined effects of growing unemployment, rising inflation, and the absence of a meaningful social safety-net system, pushed large numbers of displaced workers and their families into poverty. Resolving Thailand's notorious non-performing loans problem will depend on the fortunes of the country's real economy, and on the success of Thai Asset Management Corporation (TAMC). Under International Monetary Fund's (IMF) oversight, the Indonesian government has also taken steps to deal with the massive debt problem. After Indonesian Debt Restructuring Agency's (INDRA) failure, the Indonesian government passed the Company Bankruptcy and Debt Restructuring and/or Rehabilitation Act to facilitate reorganization of illiquid, but financially viable companies. Economic reforms in Korea were started by Kim Dae-Jung. the partial convertibility of the Renminbi (RMB), not being heavy burdened with short-term debt liabilities, and rapid foreign trade explains China's remarkable immunity to the "Asian flu". The proposed sovereign debt restructuring mechanism (SDRM) (modeled on corporate bankruptcy law) would allow countries to seek legal protection from creditors that stand in the way of restructuring, and in exchange debtors would have to negotiate with their creditors in good faith.
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debt-service ratio (i.e. debt service vs percentage of exports) at 8.5 per cent in 1998. As was noted earlier, the debt also has long maturity, with short-term debt making up only 19.7 per cent of total debt in 1996.17 Given this, it is not surprising that China is amongst a handful of developing economies with an investmentgrade rating on its sovereign external debt. Finally, the evidence is unequivocal: the fruits of post-reform economic development have trickled down to broad segments of the Chinese population. For example, per capita consumption has increased
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reserves had dwindled to US$45 billion, below the level of its short-term debt. As the real came under renewed pressure from speculators the Brazilian government sought external assistance.16 In November the IMF announced a US$41.5 billion multilateral loan package (with the IMF contributing US$18.1 billion under a three-year Stand-By Arrangement), to sustain the value of the real and help Brazil with its balance of payments problem.17 However, the calming effects of the IMF program were short-lived. The failure by the authorities to reach political agreement on the
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portfolios used cash-flow models to value their mortgage-related securities by the third or fourth quarter of 2007'. 24 Hedge funds and 'special investment vehicles' saw a huge outflow of capital in mid-2007. As a consequence, Bear Stearns, BNP Paribas and others stopped withdrawals and refused redemptions of their investment funds, arguing that it was impossible to value the assets in these funds, as there were 'just no prices' for some of these securities. These actions were also taken because the funds had been largely financed with short-term debt and with falling
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important to the health of the global financial system" (IMF 2001, 3). The IMF and the World Bank plan to conduct FSAP assessments of all member countries at least once in the next five years. Third, there is now agreement that the IMF, in collaboration with other institutions such as the World Bank and the Bank for International Settlements,16 should closely monitor developments in global capital markets, which involves – keeping a watchful eye on the risks of potential large reversals of capital flows and the contagion effects; on the rapid accumulation of short-term debts
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their loans from foreign banks. However, borrowing via BIBF considerably enlarged the short-term portion of Thailand's external debts, as most BIBF credits were on a shortterm basis. Not surprisingly, short-term debt liabilities rapidly outgrew the country's foreign-exchange reserves. Worse still, corporations invested these funds in risky ventures with inflated project costs and optimistic revenue projections. In many sectors, growth in assets outstripped sales and profit 85 The Asian financial crisis growth. For example, while some of the foreign loans were invested
approximately US$33 billion was short-term debt with maturities due within one year (IMF 1997a). In addition to this amount, Indonesian firms also took out large lines of short-term credit in foreign currencies both directly from foreign lenders and from Indonesian banks – greatly adding to their foreign currency exposure. By contrast, foreign exchange reserves in mid1997 stood at about US$20 billion. In other words, short-term debts owed to foreign commercial banks were about 1.75 times the size of Indonesia's total foreign exchange reserves (Radelet 1999, 3). The massive
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products. The financial crisis arising from Lehman's bankruptcy led to a significant decline in credit to the private sector, as well as to a sharp rise in interest rates. The failure of many US financial institutions led to the collapse of the equity markets in late 2008 and 2009, although the indices showed a recovery in 2010 as well as a slow down in international trade and industrial production. One of the main channels allowing the crisis to spread was the money markets. Following the bankruptcy, the short-term debt that Lehman had issued became


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