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Google updates search engine algorithms on a regular basis. This is done to perform a level playing role in the world of search engine optimization. The webmasters should optimize their sites within the guidelines stipulated by the Google search engine. If there are attempts to optimize web pages beyond ethical means, the websites should bear the brunt from Google. In worst case the site might be banned from the search results altogether or the page rank will come down. Hence, webmasters should follow the updates released by Google at regular intervals so that they can make the most of the Google rankings.
You should know 'what is Panda?' so that you can take steps to recover from Pandas effect. You should know the fact that Google Panda is penalty that is imposed at domain level. If you present low quality content on a single web page, you will bear the risk of entire domain being penalized. You should undertake SEO measures at the overall website level as well as the content level. You should avoid all kinds of black hat SEO methods that you might have implemented in the past.
It is important that you should have a set of keywords for each post. You should present useful content to the audience and there should not be very short articles. You should index only useful web pages. If your website contains improper SEO structure, it will be penalized. To recover from Pandas effect, your website should not have duplicate content. If there are too many advertisements on your website, your site will be affected with Panda. The website loading time and poor grammar will also impact the results of your site.
the traffic pattern from the day the Google Panda was announced. This gives you clue to undertake right ways to recover from Pandas effect.
You should reconsider the advertisement vs. content ratio. Your advertisements should not exceed the content presented on your site. There should not any broken links on your website. If you want to fix broken links very quickly, you can install a plug-in to support this aspect.
You should do well research about a topic and should present high quality content of reasonable length. The Meta title and the Meta description should be improved. You should take note of the importance of on-site SEO optimization. You should understand the fact that the quality of content posted on your website will greatly enhance your website's rank. You can undertake promotions through social bookmarking sites to improve the performance of your site. If you select a niche based site, you can recover from Pandas effect.


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Serial Robbers in Fort Worth Targeting Hispanics
Group of four armed men linked to 11 robberies in last two weeks
By Chris Van Horne	• Published July 12, 2013 • Updated on July 12, 2013 at 6:55 pm
Fort Worth police are asking for help in tracking down a group of serial robbers.
Police believe the group of four armed men is connected to 11 robberies in the city over the last two weeks. The robberies appear to be random, but all the victims are Hispanic.
"These guys are very prolific at what they are doing," Detective Brian Raynsford said. "They're specific in their targeting, they are armed."
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From surveillance video from the morning of July 5, police have video and pictures of three of the four men they're looking for in connection with the robberies. They were caught on two different stores surveillance cameras trying to use a stolen credit card following three robberies in the hours before.
"The victims are Hispanic in their descent," Raynsford said. "They are out at late hours in the night -- they can be in their front yards, they could be walking down the street, they could be sweeping up a parking lot."
The criminals have robbed several people at apartment complexes, including two incidents on East Seminary Drive in south Fort Worth.
Others have been robbed in their neighborhood. A man was robbed late last month at Lydon Avenue and Northwest 27th Street.
And they've also targeted businesses. An employee at a taco shop on Hemphill Street was robbed of his cellphone, wallet, watch and keys. The robbers took off in an older model, white sport utility vehicle.
"These guys are unusual in their method of the targeting," Raynsford said. "It seems like all the crimes are conducted randomly; the victims are all the same."
While no one has been hurt, police fear that could change.
"A shot was fired during a robbery that we believe is related to these individuals," Raynsford said. "It's only a matter of time before it does escalate and ... someone gets to the hospital or worse."
Police are concerned that the group may strike again on Friday, a pay day. It's not clear why the men may be targeting Hispanics.
Anyone with information is asked to call Raynsford at the Fort Worth Police Robbery Unit at 817-392-4370 or call Crime Stoppers at 817-469-TIPS (8477).


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// Licensed to the .NET Foundation under one or more agreements.
// The .NET Foundation licenses this file to you under the MIT license.
// See the LICENSE file in the project root for more information.

using System;
using System.Collections.Immutable;
using System.Linq;
using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
using System.Threading;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Diagnostics;
using Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Editor.Shared.Preview;
using Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Editor.Shared.Tagging;
using Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Editor.Shared.Utilities;
using Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Editor.Tagging;
using Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.ErrorReporting;
using Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Options;
using Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Shared.Extensions;
using Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Shared.TestHooks;
using Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Text;
using Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Text.Shared.Extensions;
using Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text;
using Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text.Editor;
using Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text.Tagging;

namespace Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Editor.Implementation.Diagnostics
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Diagnostics works slightly differently than the rest of the taggers.  For diagnostics,
    /// we want to try to have an individual tagger per diagnostic producer per buffer.
    /// However, the editor only allows a single tagger provider per buffer.  So in order to
    /// get the abstraction we want, we create one outer tagger provider that is associated
    /// with the buffer.  Then, under the covers, we create individual async taggers for each
    /// diagnostic producer we hear about for that buffer.
    ///
    /// In essence, we have one tagger that wraps a multitude of taggers it delegates to.
    /// Each of these taggers is nicely asynchronous and properly works within the async
    /// tagging infrastructure.
    /// </summary>
    internal abstract partial class AbstractDiagnosticsTaggerProvider<TTag> : AsynchronousTaggerProvider<TTag>
        where TTag : ITag
    {
        private readonly IDiagnosticService _diagnosticService;

        /// <summary>
        /// Keep track of the ITextSnapshot for the open Document that was used when diagnostics were
        /// produced for it.  We need that because the DiagnoticService does not keep track of this
        /// snapshot (so as to not hold onto a lot of memory), which means when we query it for
        /// diagnostics, we don't know how to map the span of the diagnostic to the current snapshot
        /// we're tagging.
        /// </summary>
        private static readonly ConditionalWeakTable<object, ITextSnapshot> _diagnosticIdToTextSnapshot =
            new();

        protected AbstractDiagnosticsTaggerProvider(
            IThreadingContext threadingContext,
            IDiagnosticService diagnosticService,
            IGlobalOptionService globalOptions,
            IAsynchronousOperationListener listener)
            : base(threadingContext, globalOptions, listener)
        {
            _diagnosticService = diagnosticService;
            _diagnosticService.DiagnosticsUpdated += OnDiagnosticsUpdated;
        }

        private void OnDiagnosticsUpdated(object? sender, DiagnosticsUpdatedArgs e)
        {
            if (e.Solution == null || e.DocumentId == null)
            {
                return;
            }

            if (_diagnosticIdToTextSnapshot.TryGetValue(e.Id, out var snapshot))
            {
                return;
            }

            var document = e.Solution.GetDocument(e.DocumentId);

            // Open documents *should* always have their SourceText available, but we cannot guarantee
            // (i.e. assert) that they do.  That's because we're not on the UI thread here, so there's
            // a small risk that between calling .IsOpen the file may then close, which then would
            // cause TryGetText to fail.  However, that's ok.  In that case, if we do need to tag this
            // document, we'll just use the current editor snapshot.  If that's the same, then the tags
            // will be hte same.  If it is different, we'll eventually hear about the new diagnostics
            // for it and we'll reach our fixed point.
            if (document != null && document.IsOpen())
            {
                // This should always be fast since the document is open.
                var sourceText = document.State.GetTextSynchronously(cancellationToken: default);
                snapshot = sourceText.FindCorrespondingEditorTextSnapshot();
                if (snapshot != null)
                {
                    _diagnosticIdToTextSnapshot.GetValue(e.Id, _ => snapshot);
                }
            }
        }

        protected override TaggerDelay EventChangeDelay => TaggerDelay.Short;
        protected override TaggerDelay AddedTagNotificationDelay => TaggerDelay.OnIdle;

        protected override ITaggerEventSource CreateEventSource(ITextView textViewOpt, ITextBuffer subjectBuffer)
        {
            return TaggerEventSources.Compose(
                TaggerEventSources.OnDocumentActiveContextChanged(subjectBuffer),
                TaggerEventSources.OnWorkspaceRegistrationChanged(subjectBuffer),
                TaggerEventSources.OnDiagnosticsChanged(subjectBuffer, _diagnosticService));
        }

        protected internal abstract bool IsEnabled { get; }
        protected internal abstract bool IncludeDiagnostic(DiagnosticData data);
        protected internal abstract ITagSpan<TTag>? CreateTagSpan(Workspace workspace, bool isLiveUpdate, SnapshotSpan span, DiagnosticData data);

        /// <summary>
        /// Get the <see cref="DiagnosticDataLocation"/> that should have the tag applied to it.
        /// In most cases, this is the <see cref="DiagnosticData.DataLocation"/> but overrides can change it (e.g. unnecessary classifications).
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="diagnosticData">the diagnostic containing the location(s).</param>
        /// <returns>an array of locations that should have the tag applied.</returns>
        protected internal virtual ImmutableArray<DiagnosticDataLocation> GetLocationsToTag(DiagnosticData diagnosticData)
            => diagnosticData.DataLocation is object ? ImmutableArray.Create(diagnosticData.DataLocation) : ImmutableArray<DiagnosticDataLocation>.Empty;

        protected override Task ProduceTagsAsync(
            TaggerContext<TTag> context, DocumentSnapshotSpan spanToTag, int? caretPosition, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
        {
            return ProduceTagsAsync(context, spanToTag, cancellationToken);
        }

        private async Task ProduceTagsAsync(
            TaggerContext<TTag> context, DocumentSnapshotSpan spanToTag, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
        {
            if (!this.IsEnabled)
            {
                return;
            }

            var document = spanToTag.Document;
            if (document == null)
            {
                return;
            }

            var editorSnapshot = spanToTag.SnapshotSpan.Snapshot;

            var workspace = document.Project.Solution.Workspace;

            // See if we've marked any spans as those we want to suppress diagnostics for.
            // This can happen for buffers used in the preview workspace where some feature
            // is generating code that it doesn't want errors shown for.
            var buffer = editorSnapshot.TextBuffer;
            var suppressedDiagnosticsSpans = (NormalizedSnapshotSpanCollection?)null;
            buffer?.Properties.TryGetProperty(PredefinedPreviewTaggerKeys.SuppressDiagnosticsSpansKey, out suppressedDiagnosticsSpans);

            var buckets = _diagnosticService.GetPushDiagnosticBuckets(
                workspace, document.Project.Id, document.Id, InternalDiagnosticsOptions.NormalDiagnosticMode, cancellationToken);

            foreach (var bucket in buckets)
            {
                await ProduceTagsAsync(
                    context, spanToTag, workspace, document,
                    suppressedDiagnosticsSpans, bucket, cancellationToken).ConfigureAwait(false);
            }
        }

        private async Task ProduceTagsAsync(
            TaggerContext<TTag> context, DocumentSnapshotSpan spanToTag,
            Workspace workspace, Document document,
            NormalizedSnapshotSpanCollection? suppressedDiagnosticsSpans,
            DiagnosticBucket bucket, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
        {
            try
            {
                var id = bucket.Id;
                var diagnostics = await _diagnosticService.GetPushDiagnosticsAsync(
                    workspace, document.Project.Id, document.Id, id,
                    includeSuppressedDiagnostics: false,
                    diagnosticMode: InternalDiagnosticsOptions.NormalDiagnosticMode,
                    cancellationToken).ConfigureAwait(false);

                var isLiveUpdate = id is ISupportLiveUpdate;

                var requestedSpan = spanToTag.SnapshotSpan;
                var editorSnapshot = requestedSpan.Snapshot;

                // Try to get the text snapshot that these diagnostics were created against.
                // This may fail if this tagger was created *after* the notification for the
                // diagnostics was already issued.  That's ok.  We'll take the spans as reported
                // and apply them directly to the snapshot we have.  Either no new changes will
                // have happened, and these spans will be accurate, or a change will happen
                // and we'll hear about and it update the spans shortly to the right position.
                //
                // Also, only use the diagnoticSnapshot if its text buffer matches our.  The text
                // buffer might be different if the file was closed/reopened.
                // Note: when this happens, the diagnostic service will reanalyze the file.  So
                // up to date diagnostic spans will appear shortly after this.
                _diagnosticIdToTextSnapshot.TryGetValue(id, out var diagnosticSnapshot);
                diagnosticSnapshot = diagnosticSnapshot?.TextBuffer == editorSnapshot.TextBuffer
                    ? diagnosticSnapshot
                    : editorSnapshot;

                var sourceText = diagnosticSnapshot.AsText();

                foreach (var diagnosticData in diagnostics)
                {
                    if (this.IncludeDiagnostic(diagnosticData))
                    {
                        // We're going to be retrieving the diagnostics against the last time the engine
                        // computed them against this document *id*.  That might have been a different
                        // version of the document vs what we're looking at now.  But that's ok:
                        //
                        // 1) GetExistingOrCalculatedTextSpan will ensure that the diagnostics spans are
                        //    contained within 'editorSnapshot'.
                        // 2) We'll eventually hear about an update to the diagnostics for this document
                        //    for whatever edits happened between the last time and this current snapshot.
                        //    So we'll eventually reach a point where the diagnostics exactly match the
                        //    editorSnapshot.

                        var diagnosticSpans = this.GetLocationsToTag(diagnosticData)
                            .Select(location => GetDiagnosticSnapshotSpan(location, diagnosticSnapshot, editorSnapshot, sourceText));
                        foreach (var diagnosticSpan in diagnosticSpans)
                        {
                            if (diagnosticSpan.IntersectsWith(requestedSpan) && !IsSuppressed(suppressedDiagnosticsSpans, diagnosticSpan))
                            {
                                var tagSpan = this.CreateTagSpan(workspace, isLiveUpdate, diagnosticSpan, diagnosticData);
                                if (tagSpan != null)
                                {
                                    context.AddTag(tagSpan);
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
            catch (ArgumentOutOfRangeException ex) when (FatalError.ReportAndCatch(ex))
            {
                // https://devdiv.visualstudio.com/DefaultCollection/DevDiv/_workitems?id=428328&_a=edit&triage=false
                // explicitly report NFW to find out what is causing us for out of range.
                // stop crashing on such occations
                return;
            }

            static SnapshotSpan GetDiagnosticSnapshotSpan(DiagnosticDataLocation diagnosticDataLocation, ITextSnapshot diagnosticSnapshot,
                ITextSnapshot editorSnapshot, SourceText sourceText)
            {
                return DiagnosticData.GetExistingOrCalculatedTextSpan(diagnosticDataLocation, sourceText)
                    .ToSnapshotSpan(diagnosticSnapshot)
                    .TranslateTo(editorSnapshot, SpanTrackingMode.EdgeExclusive);
            }
        }

        private static bool IsSuppressed(NormalizedSnapshotSpanCollection? suppressedSpans, SnapshotSpan span)
            => suppressedSpans != null && suppressedSpans.IntersectsWith(span);
    }
}

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DENNY'S LAUNCHES NEW HISPANIC TELEVISION CAMPAIGN
Spanish-language creative speaks to Denny's renewed focus on food, service and hospitality
SPARTANBURG, S.C.–(HISPANIC PR WIRE – BUSINESS WIRE)–Jan. 6, 2003–Denny's announced today the debut of a new Hispanic television advertising campaign designed to speak directly to Spanish-speaking consumers.
The new commercial is the first creative effort of Denny's newly-appointed Hispanic agency of record, cruz/kravetz: IDEAS. It will air in select markets.
The 30-second spot features Marta, a Latino actress who was selected because she captures the spirit and the hospitality-orientation of the typical Denny's employee as she goes about her serving duties. Marta encounters a sleepy-eyed security guard who sips his early-morning coffee, a young boy mischievously enjoying his whipped cream topped hot chocolate, and an animated family sharing stories at the end of the day. The spot concludes with Marta saying: "All of us at Denny's are here to give you an enjoyable experience."
"cruz/kravetz: IDEAS was able to capture the essence of the Denny's experience by showing guests in typical Denny's situations," said Margaret Jenkins, Denny's senior vice president and chief marketing officer. "The creative includes an invitation to try one of our Classic Lunch meals and frames the food in a very appetizing way."
"The campaign seeks to create brand relevance for a consumer who enjoys good food and appreciates the experience that Denny's provides. The spot integrates a strong food message with Marta's commitment to service. It's the right blend of messages for the Hispanic audience," said Maite D'Amico, president and chief creative officer at cruz/kravetz: IDEAS. "The new tagline — En Denny's, nos ocupamos de ti (At Denny's, we take care of you) — will be featured in all Spanish broadcast and print efforts."
Denny's is the nation's largest full-service family restaurant chain with approximately 1,700 locations. The company has ranked among the top 10 leaders in corporate diversity by Fortune magazine in its annual "America's 50 Best Companies for Minorities" during each of the past five years. Denny's stock is traded under the ticker "DNYY" and information is available on Denny's website at http://www.dennys.com
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Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond
author: David Gilbert
PM Press
A nice Jewish boy from suburban Boston—hell, an Eagle Scout!—David Gilbert arrived at Columbia University just in time for the explosive Sixties. From the early anti-Vietnam War protests to the founding of SDS, from the Columbia Strike to the tragedy of the Townhouse, Gilbert was on the scene: as organizer, theoretician, and above all, activist. He was among the first militants who went underground to build the clandestine resistance to war and racism known as "Weatherman." And he was among the last to emerge, in captivity, after the disaster of the 1981 Brinks robbery, an attempted expropriation that resulted in four deaths and long prison terms. In this extraordinary memoir, written from the maximum-security prison where he has lived for almost thirty years, David Gilbert tells the intensely personal story of his own Long March from liberal to radical to revolutionary. Today a beloved and admired mentor to a new generation of activists, he assesses with rare humor, with an understanding stripped of illusions, and with uncommon candor the errors and advances, terrors and triumphs of the Sixties and beyond. It's a battle that was far from won, but is still not lost: the struggle to build a new world, and the love that drives that effort. A cautionary tale and a how-to as well, Love and Struggle is a book as candid, as uncompromising, and as humane as its author.
"David's is a unique and necessary voice forged in the growing American gulag, the underbelly of the 'land of the free,' offering a focused and unassailable critique as well as a vision of a world that could be but is not yet—a place of peace and love, joy and justice." —Bill Ayers, author of Fugitive Days and Teaching Toward Freedom "Like many of his contemporaries, David Gilbert gambled his life on a vision of a more just and generous world. His particular bet cost him the last three decades in prison, and whether or not you agree with his youthful decision, you can be the beneficiary of his years of deep thought, reflection, and analysis on the reality we all share. If there is any benefit to prison, what some refer to as 'the involuntary monastery,' it may well look like this book. I urge you to read it." —Peter Coyote, actor, author of Sleeping Where I Fall "This book should stimulate learning from our political prisoners, but more importantly it challenges us to work to free them, and in doing so take the best of our history forward." —Susan Rosenberg, author of An American Radical
One of America's most celebrated political prisoners since his appearance in the Academy Award nominated film, The Weather Underground, David Gilbert is also the author of No Surrender, a book of essays on politics and history. For more about David, see his profile page on the Kersplebedeb website.
About Boots Riley (introduction)
A popular leader in the progressive struggle for radical change through culture, Boots Riley is best known as the leader of The Coup, the seminal hip-hop group from Oakland, CA. Billboard Magazine declared the group "the best hip-hop act of the past decade." Riley recently teamed with Tom Morello (of Rage Against the Machine) to form the revolutionary new group, Street Sweeper Social Club.
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Glenn Archer, research VP at Gartner, believes services provided by governments will be very different in the future due to the use of Internet of Things devices and machine learning technologies.
Archer, formerly the Australian government's CIO, also expected that by 2022, more than 25 per cent of police officers will be functionally equivalent to Robocops, leading to a 40 per cent reduction in traditional crime.
By 2025, an increase in demand of human services will be offset by the decrease in cost to run government through the use of predictive analytics, he said at the 2015 Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in the Gold Coast.
In the same year, more than 30 per cent of online government services to citizens will be discontinued. He said governments will use data as mechanism to complete interaction with citizens, and automate the need for citizens to interact with agencies.
For instance, a citizen does not need to file income tax return as government will use information derived from the employer, investment organisation, bank and other parties that can automate the process of completing the tax return. This is already being practiced by the Finnish taxation agency Vero Skatt, he said.
Digital government is one that is designed and operated to take advantage of digital data in optimising, transforming and creating government services.
Data sits at the centre of digital government, said Archer. Internet of Things devices will be, without a doubt, the most substantial provider of digital data to government in the future. Smart machines, meanwhile, will improve the capacity of the engagement with citizens, replacing and support support contact centre operations.
He said digital government is a journey, consisting of five phases.
The first, e-government is the dominant form in place today. Its success is measured by the number of services online and adoption and usage of these services. The second phase is marked by transparency and openness, and the third is being data-centric.
The fourth phase is going fully digital and the fifth is smart government. These two are the aspirations of governments.
As the government digitalises, it must be truly multichannel, he said. This means allowing citizens to move across channels in the middle of a transaction.
He said some IoT devices like drones, cameras and vehicle protection systems are now being commonly used by local governments and citizens. They provide improved usage of city assets like power and water.
Meanwhile, he predicted all smart machine categories will be relevant.
These are the 'movers' category which include drones and autonomous vehicles ; the 'doers' category which include robots; and 'sages' or smart advisors and virtual personal assistants.
He said the reality, however, is governments exist to support the people.
"We need to be conscious what is the experience of the people at the end of this. Governments must design human centred digital services," he stressed.
They must make sure the citizens are supported, investing in people to people services where these are more needed.
He said these are during 'digital civic moments'. For instance, if a person loses a job, within 30 minutes, the provider of unemployment benefits can interconnect to support an effective response to that individual. The individual will be advised not only of benefits but a list of potential employers in the area and can even partially complete applications to these roles.
In case of an event like a crash on a train track, the first response team will use smart devices, drones and sensors to check what is inside the containers with chemicals that were involved in the accident. The hospitals can be alerted of incoming patients.
He recommended CIOs assess their agency and organisation with the Digital Government Maturity Model, and to focus on data and information architecture.
Make the case for urgency, and develop a simple high level roadmap addressing the impact of IoT and smart machines, he said.
"Identify where there is opportunity to improvem do not worry about you compare with other government agencies, states or nations," he said.


Special to the Daily/David GidleyBlasting work to expand the eastbound bore of the Twin Tunnels, shown here in mid-March, and road-striping operations were put on hold because of a succession of snowstorms that brought several feet of snow to the High Country.
No fewer than five planned blasting operations at the Twin Tunnels construction site had to be canceled this week due to a succession of snowstorms that brought several feet of snow to the High Country.
The project to widen Interstate 70 and the eastbound tunnel bore to accommodate a third lane of traffic is on a very tight schedule, but Colorado Department of Transportation officials say crews plan for weather delays and will be able to make up the time lost.
Workers, who are using explosives to expand the tunnel bore, planned to blast six times in the last week, but were able to blast only once.
The storms also put striping operations on hold, forcing crews to make up the work during heavy traffic. They are working around the clock six days a week in an effort to complete the bulk of the $106 million project by December.
But transportation officials say even on a tight schedule, they built in makeup days to adjust for delays caused by the snow.
Eastbound traffic is currently being diverted around the construction site on a 35 mph frontage road. Traffic has to be stopped in both directions for up to a half hour for blasting operations.
Transportation officials said they hope to have the project completed in a single construction season to help minimize the traffic impacts on the already congested I-70 mountain corridor during peak travel times.
The purpose of the project is to help reduce that congestion – which is at its worst in the eastbound direction on Sundays and holidays at the height of the ski and summer seasons – by widening the highway in a bottleneck area just east of Idaho Springs.
The new third lane will continue through the tunnels to the base of Floyd Hill, where it will join an existing third lane that runs all the way into Denver.
"We're chasing that three-lane section back four miles," CDOT engineer Jim Bemelen said.
It's the first in a series of far-reaching projects planned to reduce traffic on the I-70 corridor.


I have a lot of ships on the NA, 46 in port, not any confusion for me there. On SEA only 9 port slots. I want to grind to the Khabarovsk, keeping the other slots for ranked tier ships, specifically the IJN line for the next season. Working on the RU CL/CA line slowly for future seasons. That port slot or tier ships is so valuable, without knowing what the future holds, how far off the next season is, it is difficult to make the right choice.
Is there a schedule for Ranked Battles? When one Ranked Season finishes we should know the start of the next Season.
Is there a schedule for Ranked Battles? (To help with an informative decision on the ships we sell/keep) When one Ranked Season finishes we should know the start of the next Season. For a person with limited port slots and living in the low to mid bracket of income, port slots are not cheap. (I spent all my money on the NA Server. Communication and chat is clearer, less of a language barrier (for me)) There are questions. What tier ships should be included in ranked seasons? T8 seems popular. For a person with limited port slots it is difficult to decide what tier ships to keep. If I have money I will spend, but until the funds arrive WG need to keep me/us satisfied, keep our interest to keep us playing and paying. Myself, I think T8 is too big a difference in the upgrades. With that input aside. I will finish with the most important question. What is the Top Tier the next Ranked Battles will include?
My guess was the same. Compensation is calculated by amount of damage inflicted. Another Q. Is the full amount fined given to the other involved party or only a portion? I was thinking that it should be calculated by the direction the ships collide, then I thought that it could be abused. i.e. deliberately collide with other ships on your portside. With this in mind, 'Compensation calculated by amount of damage inflicted/recieved' is much better. Though I just got rammed again and again it cost me more, this time the other ship turned into my starboard side and T-Boned me, the other ship mounted the Furutaka like a ragging bull on heat, mounting the stern.
Can someone please explain how the compensation calculations work. It seams really unfair, marine navigation does not seem to come into the calculation. I recently was rammed on my portside. The cost for me was 14,393 credits and 57 exp. Whilst the other ship was clearly in the wrong, their cost was only 71 credits. Its happened numerous occassions where the other ship is clearly in the wrong but the majority of the cost was borne by me.
Edit: Upon my memory delay, I realised I had the Muli-Line Carousel Mod installed. Upon removal of the mod, Camouflage was returned Mod: Multilined Ship Carousel by Hornethappy -Small Icon version Maintainance version 0.5.0.3 Issue: Camouflage Missing Screenshots: Ship: AllMap: PortOccurrences: Since Maintainance version 0.5.0.3Tested:Yes, Tried restartSeverity: Low impact, Visual, makes me play more cautiousDetails: Camouflage option missing at port, Exterior menu.
In the recent Maintenance v0.5.0.1 quick Messages are available during battle, it would be nice to have the chat feature in the F1 Help during battle.
Ready for the upcoming patch on next Tuesday?
AMD Catalyst™ 15.9 Beta Driver for Windows® Release Notes http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/latest-catalyst-windows-beta.aspx For Compatability please see the the Releas notes at the above link Only relevant WoW info. More on official AMD website: Highlights of AMD Catalyst™ 15.9 Beta Windows Driver Resolved Issues:  World of Warships may crash on some AMD Radeon HD5000 and HD6000 series products	Driver Links The AMD Catalyst™ 15.9 Beta Driver can be downloaded from the following links: AMD Catalyst™ 15.9 Beta Driver for Windows® 10, Windows 8.1 & Windows 7 32-bit	AMD Catalyst™ 15.9 Beta Driver for Windows® 10, Windows 8.1 & Windows 7 64-bit	So is this still the best way to enable Replays https://na.wargaming.net/support/Knowledgebase/Article/View/398/20/enabling-replays-in-world-of-warships-closed-beta I search for ages on the forums Enable Replays gets a lot of hits, FAQ?
It would improve networks if the isp's would stop throttling upload speeds. I was in Japan a 5 years ago and the upload speeds there were awesome, so fast that the Wifi interface could not handle it, LAN was the solution.


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Lawsuit: State of Oregon doesn't own word 'engineer'
by: Hannah Button
Posted: Apr 25, 2017 / 10:34 AM PDT / Updated: Apr 25, 2017 / 10:34 AM PDT
BEAVERTON, Ore. (KOIN) — A Beaverton man who has spent years working to prove red light cameras are setting drivers up for tickets they can't avoid is in the midst of a legal battle over whether the State of Oregon owns a particular word.
Swedish-born electronics expert Mats Jarlstrom says he's proved the formula used for red light cameras is flawed when it comes to some drivers making right hand turns.
Jarlstrom shared his research at a conference for people behind national traffic policies. But when he took his potential breakthrough to Oregon's Board of Examiners for Engineering, the board accused him of calling himself an engineer without having a state license.
He was fined $500 for "unlicensed practice of engineering", even though he says clients at his electronics business don't require or even care if he's licensed. He could face further punishment if he continues to call himself an engineer and talks about his research.
"They turn it around and want to kill the messenger," Jarlstrom said.
His frustration was felt all the way in Washington D.C. where the Institute for Justice, which fights for peoples' constitutional rights, decided to back him.
The group filed a federal lawsuit, arguing the State of Oregon can't own the word engineer and "…to vindicate the right of Plaintiff Mats Järlström to talk and write freely without fear of government punishment."
Jarlstrom's lawyers claim the government has no legitimate interest in restricting who can talk about or critique engineering principles.
"Criticizing the government's engineering isn't a crime; it's a constitutional right. Under the First Amendment, you don't need to be a licensed lawyer to write an article critical of a Supreme Court decision, you don't need to be a licensed landscape architect to create a gardening blog, and you don't need to be a licensed engineer to talk about traffic lights. Whether or not you use math, criticizing the government is a core constitutional right that cannot be hampered by onerous licensing requirements." – Institute for Justice attorney Sam Gedge
According to the National Council of Examiners of Engineering and Surveying, there were 481,717 licensed engineers in the U.S. in 2016. But the National Society of Professional Engineers estimates about 2 million people are practicing engineering.
Many engineering professors aren't required to be licensed engineers. At Oregon State University, only 13 of 45 faculty members in the Civil and Construction Engineering department have their engineering licenses. The university encourages but does not require their faculty members to become licensed engineers.
"The number drops dramatically outside that department because it's not as critical to their success," Scott Ashford, Dean of the OSU College of Engineering, said.
The Institute for Justice is representing Jarlstrom for free, and they're not seeking any monetary damages. Jarlstrom says this is all about principles.
Eric Engelson, communications coordinator for the Oregon State Board of Examiners for Engineers and Land Surveying did "not have any comment on the open litigation."
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) -- The Salem Police Department has arrested a man accused of setting several fires at Salem City Hall last month.
According to SPD, Scott David Henry of Salem began setting fires in the basement o the parking structure of City Hall in the early morning hours of December 26. The initial fires caused little damage, however, more fires were started adjacent to offices on the second level. One of the fires set near Peace Plaza burned and caused roughly $5,000 in damage to an industrial service cable belonging to a construction company doing renovations to the Salem Public Library.
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) -- Police have arrested a man they say was the driver of a hit and run collision that killed a pedestrian in November.
On Friday, investigators located the suspect and identified him as Jason S. McFadden.


Talented singer, 9ice, has admonished artistes to do less of freestyle songs if they wanted to make music that will last for decades.
The singer said that the art of painstakingly writing one's songs as well as singing about things that the audience can easily relate to were key ingredients to making songs that won't easily fade off.
"To make music that will last longer than your lifespan or for some decades is by not recording majority of your songs by freestyle. It's by writing your songs, first writing, second writing, third writing then your final writing before you even record the song. Check your lyrics, criticise (critique) your lyrics, make sure they're deep. Make sure they're things people can relate to, use the language, experiences that they can relate with. Make choices of topics that affect people. Don't talk about Chicago in Nigeria, talk about Idumota market, things that they know. Don't talk about things that they don't know, don't talk about the life that you don't live. These are the things that can guide you to write songs that can last long than your lifespan," he told Planet TV.


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Протокол Мэннинга — секретный протокол встречи президента США Дж. Буша и премьер-министра Великобритании Тони Блэра, состоявшейся 31 января 2003 года и посвящённой началу войны в Ираке. Автором протокола стал Дэвид Мэннинг, главный советник Тони Блэра по иностранным делам. Как следует из протокола, администрация Буша заранее решила развязать войну против Ирака: президент Буш сообщил, что США готовы применить все доступные средства и «выкрутить ООН руки», чтобы получить необходимую для начала вторжения резолюцию Совета Безопасности ООН. Более того, подчеркивал Буш, военная кампания может быть начата даже в отсутствие такой резолюции. Пять дней спустя, Колин Пауэлл принёс на заседание ООН пробирку, заявив, что такое количество сухого порошка с агентами сибирской язвы привело к остановке работы Конгресса (при рассылке писем со спорами сибирской язвы тогда погибли пять человек и еще 17 человек заразились), а количество неучтенных иракских биологических агентов с сибирской язвой – это многие десятки тысяч подобных пробирок. Вопреки распространённому заблуждению, он никогда не утверждал, что в пробирке находится иракская сибирская язва. Три недели спустя после описанной в протоколе встречи Тони Блэр заявлял членам британского парламента, что Великобритания «готова идти до конца, чтобы добиться мирного разрешения конфликта».

В протоколе записано следующее высказывание Дж. Буша:

Публикация
Впервые предположение о существовании такого протокола было сделано в книге , написанной профессором Университетского колледжа Лондона Филиппом Сэндсом в 2005 году.

В марте 2007 года редакция «Нью-Йорк Таймс» получила пятистраничный протокол в своё распоряжение и подтвердила его подлинность.

См. также
 Иракская война
 Casus belli
 «Опасные секреты» (2019)
 Операция под фальшивым флагом

Примечания

Американо-британские отношения
Война в Ираке
Политические скандалы Великобритании
Президентство Джорджа Уокера Буша

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Q: Text color in natural table heading in ConTeXt I'm new to ConTeXt and having a problem with colors of header in a "natural table". I want to have the text in the header displayed as white, and not gray. Here is what I have right now
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Excess in Stray Dog
By Chris Fujiwara
Stray Dog is above all a film of atmosphere. The film establishes right away that it's hot in Tokyo, and never lets us forget it for a second. By piling on naturalistic details to keep the heat constantly in our minds—fluttering fans, the mopping of brows, a cop hitting the back of a witness' electric fan to make it oscillate between them—Akira Kurosawa creates a visual and behavioral excess that highlights the fixation of his hero, police detective Murakami (Toshiro Mifune), on retrieving his stolen gun.
The excess in the film is also stylistic. Although the director himself rejected the film as "too technical," Stray Dog is a great success of style. Through the constant unfurling of interposed surfaces (multiple superimposed images, the strips of mesh and garlands down which the camera cranes at the Wellesian Blue Bird club), Kurosawa evokes a world in perpetual motion. But by dwelling so fixedly and at such length on their labyrinthine interplay, Kurosawa implies that for all its dazzling contrasts, this world, like Murakami, is stuck. Only the rain can release it, and we wait, with the characters, for the freeing cloudburst.
The sequence in Stray Dog in which Murakami goes undercover in the streets of Tokyo to look for the gun lasts slightly over nine minutes—much longer than necessary to advance the plot and convey that his search goes on for some time. The feeling of excessive length comes from the lack, or the randomness, of variation: the viewer's main impression is the ever-dawning awareness that the sequence has nothing new to give. Kurosawa's intention is to heighten our identification with Murakami as he slogs through the lower depths. By immersing us in the world's chaos so thoroughly, the director makes us rely all the more on Murakami's obsession as a potential source of meaning and order, while at the same time showing how inadequate it is to pose the problem of this chaos in the specific terms of a missing gun.
In one passage of the undercover sequence, Kurosawa holds on an extreme closeup of Murakami's eyes. Over this shot, other images are superimposed: Murakami's feet as he walks the pavement, shots that tilt down from the skyline to milling city dwellers, an overhead shot of a crowded street. This succession of images implies a succession of times. But by keeping the shot of the eyes as a constant underlying layer, and returning to it when the other images disappear, Kurosawa cancels the implied temporal movement. The main principle of the sequence is indifferentiation: superimpositions recombine spaces and points of view; various times melt into a simple repertory of experience; Murakami becomes one with the crowd.
The implication of "we're all in this together" is affirmed earlier in the film, when the woman pickpocket whom Murakami has been following all day takes pity on him and buys him a beer, then lies down next to him and comments on the beauty of the stars. But just as no two stars are alike, no two destinies are alike, and this is Kurosawa's main point. Look again at the long undercover sequence: the sheer number of anonymous subjects who cross the camera's vision is bewildering. By hinting at the myriad of actions, stories, concerns, and outcomes that come into contact, however fleetingly, with Murakami's quest, Kurosawa suggests the multiplicity of possible individual solutions to the problems raised by the film.
Its openness to this multiplicity is a key aspect in which (despite surface similarities) Stray Dog differs from American film noir. Violence as catharsis; the possibility that physical action can solve, by metaphor, a political, social, or moral problem; the ability of individuals to perform acts that have symbolic validity for their societies—these are the basic conditions of American action cinema, including that hybrid or offshoot or mutation labeled film noir. In Stray Dog, action solves no wider problems—only the immediate ones of recovering the gun and catching the criminal—and yields no release. It's tangential to the larger sphere of society, as Kurosawa stresses in the climactic sequence by shifting our attention from the cop and the culprit to a young woman practicing piano nearby; and even within its own sphere (of narrative cause and effect), it is unsatisfying and inconclusive, as Kurosawa makes us feel by lingering on the murderer's tortured scream and, in the final shot, on Murakami's silent gaze out the hospital window.
Kurosawa's great originality with rhythm and structure is most evident in this final section: the rain finally comes, bringing a logical end to the film, but the film continues, tracking the object of Murakami's obsession across a series of now-liberated landscapes to which his quest is irrelevant. It's in its suggestion, through a multiplicity of rhythms, textures, and moods, of the range of human possibilities and of multiple worlds that ignore each other, that Stray Dog is most fervent and haunting.
Chris Fujiwara is the author or editor of several books on film, including Jacques Tourneur: The Cinema of Nightfall, The World and Its Double: The Life and Work of Otto Preminger, and Jerry Lewis.
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Bergman Island: Form and Feeling
In this shape-shifting exploration of creativity, couplehood, and artistic influence, Mia Hansen-Løve offers a glimpse at the existential heavy lift required by her deceptively simple autofictions.
By Devika Girish
On Film / Essays — Jan 31, 2023
This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection: Staying Power
Filled with evocative images and guided by the unique aesthetic sensibility of the landlocked kingdom of Lesotho, Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese's film is an exploration of the power of grief that is paradoxically uplifting.
By Zakes Mda
Lars von Trier's Europe Trilogy: Straight to the Bottom of the River
One of contemporary cinema's most provocative filmmakers launched his career with three deeply unnerving, deliriously genre-blending portraits of Europe.
By Howard Hampton
Imitation of Life: On Passing Between
In its ambivalence toward its provocative themes, John M. Stahl's groundbreaking exploration of racial identity demonstrates the insolubility of Hollywood's representational conundrum.
By Miriam J. Petty


Michael F.Cullinan shares these select baptism records from Currow Roman Catholic Parish, Killeentierna, 1803-1880, extracted from The LDS Film 0883740, item 4. The film notation indicates some years during this period are missing. It adds that Currow Roman Catholic Church is officially called Killeentierna Roman Catholic Church. It is within the Currans Civil Parish, Dysert (near Killeentierna), and Killeentierna.
This list of select surnames is alphabetized by the child's surname. Also check the Mother column for other surnames you might be researching.
McCarthy Andrew Jan 29, 1806 Eugene McCarthy ?
McCarthy Charlotte Oct 02, 1807 Corn. McCarthy Hannah ?
McCarthy Justin Jun 10, 1832 Justin McCarthy Ellen ?
McDermott Catherine Mar 24, 1805 Charles McDermott ?


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Latin American asylum seekers hit US policy "wall"
Trump's new restrictions mean long waits simply to register claims
View of the border between Nogales, Sonora and Nogales, Arizona from the Mexican side. (Eric Reidy/IRIN)
First of three articles from the US-Mexican border reporting on the humanitarian impact of shifting US immigration policies. Read the second and third instalments.
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The movement of thousands of Central American asylum seekers and migrants north from Honduras towards the southern border of the United States has precipitated threats from US President Donald Trump – ahead of next week's midterm elections – to block the group's entry by deploying troops to the US-Mexican border.
Under international law the United States is obligated to allow asylum seekers to enter and file claims. However, immigration officials at the country's southern border have for months been shifting toward legally dubious practices that restrict people's ability to file asylum claims.
"Make no mistake, the administration is building a wall – one made of restrictionist policy rather than brick and mortar," said Jason Boyd, policy counsel at the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA).
As a result, hundreds, possibly thousands, of asylum seekers have been left waiting for extended periods of time on the Mexican side of the border in need of shelter and basic services. Firm numbers for those affected are difficult to come by because no one is counting.
Some of those turned away explore potentially dangerous alternatives. Aid and advocacy groups as well as the Department of Homeland Security say the wait has likely pushed some to attempt to enter the United States illegally, either with smugglers or on their own via perilous desert routes.
While some of those in the so-called "migrant caravan" are searching for economic opportunity, others are fleeing gang violence, gender-based violence, political repression or unrest – all increasingly common factors in Central America and Mexico that push people to leave their homes.
Menacing phone calls
When people from the migrant caravan reach the southern border of the United States, they may find themselves in a similar position to Dolores Alzuri, 47, from Michoacan, a state in central Mexico.
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In late September, she was camped out with her husband, daughter, granddaughter, and aunt on the Mexican side of the DeConcini port of entry separating the twin cities of Nogales – one in the Mexican state of Sonora, the other in the US state of Arizona.
Alzuri and her family were waiting for their turn to claim asylum in the United States, with only a police report in hand as proof of the threats they faced back home. Camping beside them on the pedestrian walkway just outside the grated metal door leading to the United States, nine other families waited to do the same.
Over the preceding month Alzuri had received several menacing phone calls from strangers demanding money. In Michoacan, and many other parts of Mexico where criminal gangs have a strong presence, almost anybody can receive calls like these. You don't know who's on the other end of the line, Alzuri explained, but you do know the consequences of not following their orders.
"If you do not give [money] to them, they kidnap you or they kidnap your family," Alzuri said. "They destroy you. They kill you. That is why it is so scary to be in this country."
Other people she knew had received similar calls. She also knew that those who didn't pay ended up dead – pictures of their bodies posted on Facebook as a macabre warning of what happens to those who resist.
Fearing a similar fate, Alzuri packed her bags and her family and travelled north to ask for asylum in the United States. A friend had been granted asylum about nine months ago, and she had seen on television that other people were going, too. It seemed like the only way out.
"I had a problem," she said, referring to the phone calls. "They asked us for money, and since we did not give them money, they threatened us."
Before leaving her home, Alzuri said she filed a police report. But the authorities didn't care enough to act on it, she said. "They are not going to risk their life for mine."
Despite the danger at home, Alzuri and others in similar situations face an increasingly difficult time applying for asylum in the United States. At the Nogales crossing, asylum seekers must now wait up to a month simply to be allowed to set foot inside a border office where they can register their claims, aid workers there say.
Those waiting are stuck in territory on the Mexican side that is controlled by gangs similar to the ones many are fleeing, though local aid groups have scrambled to find space in shelters, especially for women and children, so people will be safer while they wait.
The situation hasn't always been like this.
In the past, asylum seekers were almost always admitted to register their claims the same day they arrived at the border. Since May, however, there has been a marked slowdown in registration.
US Custom and Border Protection (CBP), the federal law enforcement agency responsible for screening people as they enter the country, says delays are due to a lack of capacity and space. But asylum advocates say similar numbers have arrived in previous years without causing a delay and the real reason for the slowdown is that CBP has shifted resources away from processing asylum seekers – not just in Nogales but across the southern US border – resulting in people being forced to wait for long periods or turned away altogether.
This is happening despite the insistence of high-ranking Trump administration officials that asylum seekers present themselves at ports of entry or face criminal prosecution for crossing the border irregularly. Such contradictory policies, asylum advocates argue, are part of a broad-based effort by the Trump administration to dramatically reduce the number of people able to seek protection in the United States.
"Our legal understanding is that they have the legal obligation to process asylum seekers as they arrive," said Joanna Williams, director of education and advocacy at the Kino Border Initiative (KBI), a Nogales-based NGO. "There's no room in the law for what they are doing right now."
A system in crisis
In the past decade, migration across the southern border of the United States has undergone a dramatic change. Every year since the late 1970s US Border Patrol agents apprehended close to a million or more undocumented migrants entering the country. In 2007, that number began to fall, and last year there were just over 310,000 apprehensions – the lowest number since 1971.
At the same time, the proportion of people entering the United States from the southern border to claim asylum has increased. Ten years ago, one out of every 100 people crossing the border was seeking humanitarian protection, according to a recent report published by the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), a non-partisan think tank in Washington DC. Today that number is about one in three.
According to Boyd of AILA, the increase is being driven by ongoing humanitarian emergencies in El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala, an area of Central America known as the Northern Triangle. These countries have some of the highest homicide rates in the world and are wracked by gang violence, gender-based violence, extortion, and extra-judicial killings. "Many of the individuals and families arriving at the US southern border are literally fleeing for their lives," said Boyd.
But the system that is supposed to provide them protection is in crisis. Beginning in 2010 the number of asylum requests lodged in the United States started to balloon, mirroring an upward trend in global displacement. Last year, 79,000 people approached the US border saying they had a credible fear of returning to their home country, compared to 9,000 at the beginning of the decade.
The increase in credible-fear claims, as well as asylum requests made by people already in the United States, has strained the system to a "crisis point", according to the MPI report. This has led to a backlog of around 320,000 cases in US immigration courts and people having to wait many months, if not years, to receive a hearing and a decision.
Senior officials in the Trump administration, including the president, have consistently lumped asylum seekers and economic migrants together, positing that the United States is being "invaded" by a "massive influx of illegal aliens" across the southern border, and that the asylum system is subject to "systematic abuse" by people looking to gain easy entry to the country.
"They have said they cannot go back to their countries. If they are sent back they are going to be killed."
People working on the ground with asylum seekers refute this. Eduardo Garcia is a communication coordinator at SOA Watch, an organisation that monitors the humanitarian impact of US policy in Latin America. He has spent time in Nogales speaking with people waiting to claim asylum.
"The stories of many of the people we have talked to… are stories of people fleeing gang violence, are stories of people fleeing because one of their sons was killed, because one of their sons was threatened, because one of their family members [was] raped," he said. "They have said they cannot go back to their countries. If they are sent back they are going to be killed."
Still, the Trump administration's zero-tolerance policy on immigration – responsible for the recent child-separation crisis – has also included measures that have restricted access to asylum in the United States.
In May, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Justice Department would begin criminally prosecuting everyone who irregularly crossed the US southern border, including asylum seekers. In June, that policy was followed by a decision that the United States would no longer consider gang and sexual violence – precisely the reasons so many people flee the Northern Triangle – as legitimate grounds for asylum. Around the same time, CBP appears to have deprioritised the processing of asylum seekers at ports of entry in favour of other responsibilities, leading to the long waits and people being turned away, according to humanitarian workers and a recent report by the DHS's Office of Inspector General.
And even as these restrictive policies were being put in place, Trump administration officials have been encouraging asylum seekers to try. "If you're seeking asylum, go to a port of entry," Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen said in an 18 June press conference. "You do not need to break the law of the United States to seek asylum."
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"I came here with the hope that if I asked for asylum I could be in the United States," said Modesto, a 54-year-old from Chimaltenango, Guatemala. In mid-September he was sitting in a mess hall run a couple hundred meters from the US border run by KBI, which provides humanitarian assistance to migrants and asylum seekers.
Modesto had already been in Nogales, Sonora for several months. Like Dolores Alzuri, he fled his home because criminal gangs had tried to extort money from him. "I worked a lot and was making a living in my country," Modesto explained. "The problem in particular with the gangs is that they don't let you work… If you have money they extort you. If you don't have money they want to recruit you." And people who don't cooperate: "They're dead," he added.
The situation Modesto found when he arrived in Nogales, Sonora was far from what he expected. For starters, there was the long wait at the border. But he also discovered that – as an adult travelling with his 18-year-old son – even once he entered the United States he would likely end up in a detention centre while his case slowly made its way through the overburdened immigration courts – a practice that has also increased under the Trump administration. "I don't want to cross… and spend a year in prison when my family needs my help," he said.
Modesto is in some ways an exception, according to Williams of KBI. Many of the people arriving in Nogales, Sonora are families with children. Once in the United States they will likely be released from immigration detention with ankle monitoring bracelets to track their movements. These people often choose to wait and to claim asylum at the port of entry when there is space.
After more than 100 people piled up to wait at the border in May, local humanitarian groups set up a system to organise and keep track of whose turn it was to submit an asylum claim to US immigration officials. They also scrambled to find spaces in shelters so people were not sleeping on the walkway over the weeks they needed to wait.
"I don't want to cross… and spend a year in prison when my family needs my help,"
Now, only people who are likely to enter soon are camped on the walkway. When IRIN visited, about 40 asylum seekers – mostly women and children – sat on one side of the walkway as a steady stream of people heading to the United States filtered by on the other. Some of the asylum seekers were new arrivals waiting to be taken to a shelter, while others had been sleeping there for days on thin mats waiting for their turn. Volunteers handed out clean clothing and served pasta, as a CBP agent opened and closed the metal gate leading to the United States, just a few tantalisingly short feet away.
The slowdown of processing "leaves people stranded – in really dangerous situations sometimes – on the other side of the border, and completely violates our obligations under both domestic and international law," said Katharina Obser, a senior policy adviser at the Women's Refugee Commission, an NGO that advocates for women, children, and youth displaced by conflict and crisis.
As a result, some people arrive, find out about the wait, and leave. "We're fairly certain that those are individuals who then end up crossing the border through other means," Williams said.
The DHS Office of the Inspector General came to a similar conclusion, finding that the contradiction between Trump administration rhetoric and policy "may have led asylum seekers at ports of entry to attempt illegal border crossings."
Border-wide
The situation in Nogales, Sonora is far from isolated, according to Boyd of the AILA. "Recent turnbacks of vulnerable asylum seekers have been documented throughout the US southern border," he said, including at many ports of entry in Texas and California. In those states, asylum seekers have reported being stopped as they approach the border and told they cannot enter because immigration officials don't have the capacity to process their claims.
"Turnbacks form part of a comprehensive set of practices and policies advanced under this administration that appears aimed at shutting out asylum seekers from the United States," Boyd continued.
Meanwhile, people like Dolores Alzuri – and most likely some of the thousands of Central Americans who are travelling north from Honduras in the hope of claiming asylum – are left with little choice but to wait. Moving somewhere else in Mexico or returning home is not an option, said Alzuri. "The violence is the same in every state," she said. And crossing the desert, "that's a big danger."
She and her family don't have a back-up plan. "Let's hope that I do get [asylum], because I really do need it," she said. "You don't live comfortably in your own country anymore. You live in fear that something will happen to you. You can't walk around on the streets because you feel that you're being followed."
(Additional reporting by Genesis Lara)
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When I started KingsTeamInternational back in 2004, our mission was simple – and it has not changed.
Our original motto, "Making the world a better place, One Person and One Business at a time – is rooted in my business background as a network marketer from 1999 to 2004. Much of the focus back then was always on personal development – becoming a better person; The leaders in that company would always talk about how their success financially, was tied directly to the changes and improvements they made on themselves, mentally. I spent 5 years in the same company, and met some of the most dynamic people I've ever met (still to this day) – It was evidently clear that personal development, would lead to making People better; and that Could lead to a better world.
I brought that motto with me, as I started on this mission to first help more business owners get online. In 2004, not many small business owners had websites. Today, everyone has a website – but not all websites are equal. That being said, there are still several business owners who still do not have a website or, are not very happy with the website they currently have.
Meanwhile, there are even bigger issues outside of that – which really and truly do matter To all of us, who are business owners. That is really what this one is all about. Because of all the hurt, and pain in the world – it's important that WE do more; and continue to get Better!
So, our mission of making the world better, continues.
So, last night I was watching some Documentaries on ISIL – especially since the POTUS just laid out a plan to 'degrade and destroy' their organization; That being said …. those ISIL Cats are serious; They are on some "either you're a Muslim, and following it by the book, or we are putting these bullets in you" ….
When Rumsfeld got up on that Podium and said we'd be fighting over there for 100 years; I think he knew something the rest of us didn't. It's almost like a new Holy War is about to break out; which is funny because I'm not sure what is 'Holy" about War. But, that being said, the way these cats were talking in those documentaries; They mean business. Which is sad – because we already know how their decision to talk that way, is Going to Prompt our Military, to put even more people in the grave; I get it, on 9/11 we lost a lot of innocent people; But, in retaliation, America has put 100,000's of people who had nothing to do with 9/11 – in the grave.
They say two wrongs don't make a right; and there is so much Wrong going on in our world right now; that Making Things Right becomes 'fantasy talk' — will people ever be able to Stop Judging other People? …. so that people can Get along? … and Coexist??
There is a lot of hurt, pain and sadness in our world today; and I believe this is a role where the business owner Can do something to help. The business owner has a lot of power in our world; Some have Great Power and with great power comes great responsibility. When we look at the big businesses – the major corporations; we find one sad story after another. Almost none of these companies are seriously committed to doing good in the world. Most are sorta like those Kermit Meme's we see on social media; They act like none of this, is any of their business.
How are we as business owners going to make the world better, while pretending that none of the world problems, are also Our problems?
The simple answer is – we cannot.
Home based business owners are in no way shape or form, as great or as powerful as big business – at least, not by themselves. However, when they come together there is the potential to compete; if thousands come together, there is an even better chance of them competing – and if hundreds of thousands come together; they become just as great; and just as powerful.
It's what I like to call, "The Voltron Example" ………..
In case we have any business owners here of a younger generation, think, Power Rangers.
Teamwork really does make the dream work; and as business owners if we are making sure that we are working on ourselves; and then building teams of people who are doing the same; We can create dynamic teams that get 'more done' because they are more powerful together. The only real way to combat hate, is with love – and with so much Hate in the world, the need to spread love is even more urgent than ever.
But a few people spreading love is only going to have so much of an impact. Once again, we see how more of us; need to do more – and come together on the same mission, to make our world better – and to do that, our world needs to be more loving; more tolerant; more respectful.
Business has the power to influence people to move in that direction like no Individual has.
But, knowing that most of us will never BE a fortune 500 company – that is always where network marketing comes into the picture; and why it's always held a special place in my heart. I know it's untapped potential power. However even it's power is facing a threat, as more and more companies launch; pulling 'networks' apart. I'm even starting to see more and more networkers beefing with networkers. "Wars" are being started over who's company is better – and this is the opposite of what our industry is supposed to be about; Just as the hate & violence we saw in the video, seems to go against what religion is about.
So you see, this mission to make the world better – really and truly requires all of us to play a part in it.
Do what you can, from YOUR corner of the world; eventually all of us will come together like Voltron; and we can save this world from the evil forces which continually work to gain an advantage. To those of you on the side of good; this is how you know we are needed, when it comes to making the world better; One person, and One business at a time.
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Cryptojacking is becoming a real menace
Cryptojacking — the malicious practice of hijacking one's computer resources to mine cryptocurrencies — has taken off in a big way near the end of last year. According to a report by Symantec, published on Wednesday, cryptojacking has surged by 8,500% last year, especially since September — which is roughly the time when the price of Bitcoin and Ethereum really hit the stratosphere. SEE ALSO: Someone hacked a Tesla cloud account to mine cryptocurrency Besides being lucrative, cryptojacking is generally simpler to do than installing malware on someone's computer, and it often goes unnoticed by the victim. "Cyber criminals use coinminers to steal victims' computer processing power and cloud CPU usage to mine cryptocurrencies," the report says. "The barrier to entry for coin mining is pretty low—potentially only requiring a couple of lines of code to operate—and coin mining can allow criminals to fly under the radar in a way that is not possible with other types of cyber crime."
While not necessarily as destructive as malware, cryptojacking is far from victimless. It can cause computers to overheat and create damage that way.
In organizations, it can cause all sorts of problems, including incurring significant financial costs if the organization is billed based on its CPU usage, the report says. We've seen cryptojacking pop up everywhere last year, from web sites to Chrome extensions to apps in Apple's Mac App Store.
Symantec says it discovered 1.7 million coin miners on computers in December, which should give you an idea of how widespread the practice is. On the other hand, ransomware — a type of malware often tied to cryptocurrencies — has decreased in 2017, both in terms of new ransomware families being detected and ransom demands being lower. Ransomware, which typically encrypts a person's data and asks for a cryptocurrency payment to unlock it, asked for $522 on average, less than half than it did in 2016.
However, as was seen in the example of NotPetya — the highly destructive malware that affected banks and other crucial infrastructure in 2017 — ransomware is often used as a decoy or a tool of disruption instead of actual profit. Check out an overview of Symantec's 2018 Internet Security Threat Report here. Read more from mashable.com…
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Lead generation is a topic that many entrepreneurs know about. Discovering ways to get leads is critical in business. Fortunately, the following article is available to offer invaluable strategies to readers.
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