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Incoming NATO Commander Calls For Permanent Combat Brigade in Europe
April 21, 2016 18:18 GMT
By Mike Eckel
U.S. General Curtis Scaparrotti: "I think [the Russians] are pushing the envelope in terms of our resolve." (file photo)
WASHINGTON -- The incoming head of U.S. military forces in Europe said he supports a permanent brigade-sized presence of U.S. combat troops in Eastern Europe to deter Russia's expanded and assertive actions.
U.S. Army General Curtis Scaparrotti also told a Senate hearing on April 21 that he supported putting U.S. aircraft carriers in the Mediterranean Sea to send a "strategic message" to Russia and Iran.
The comments by Scaparrotti, who is expected to be confirmed as head of U.S. European Command in the coming weeks, reflect the growing push in Washington and some European capitals for a greater military presence, particularly among NATO members who have felt threatened by Russia's actions.
In the wake of Russia's forcible annexation of Ukraine's Crimea Peninsula, the conflict in eastern Ukraine, and Russia's campaign in Syria, the United States and NATO have struggled to recalibrate their response to Moscow's saber-rattling.
The U.S. administration earlier this year announced it would quadruple defense-related spending in Europe and would bring the number of combat brigades rotating into Eastern Europe to three. A brigade typically has between 4,200 and 4,700 troops.
But NATO allies like Poland, or the ex-Soviet Baltic states, have called for a more permanent presence of troops to deter Russia.
"I personally believe that a permanently stationed armored brigade in Europe would be best," Scaparrotti told senators.
It "gives you a little more substance, a little more strength in relationship building," he said.
The buzzing of a U.S. warship in the Baltic Sea by Russian fighter jets, and the close encounter by a Russian jet with a U.S. reconnaissance plane in recent days have also spooked U.S. policy makers and prompted calls from lawmakers for the administration to do more.
Scaparrotti, whose command will also make him NATO's lead military officer, called the flyby that occurred April 12 "absolutely reckless and unjustified."
"I think [the Russians] are pushing the envelope in terms of our resolve, pushing the envelope in terms of international law," he said. "From a military perspective, we should sail and fly wherever we are allowed to by international law, and we should be strong, clear, and consistent in our message in that regard."
Scaparrotti also suggested he would support sending more sophisticated weaponry to bolster Ukraine and its government forces in their fight against Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine.
Washington has provided counterartillery radar, night-vision goggles, and other equipment, but has repeatedly declined Ukraine's request for "offensive weaponry."
Scaparrotti said he supported sending Ukraine antitank missiles like the Javelin.
In June, the U.S. and NATO forces are scheduled to hold one of the largest war games in years in Poland, featuring around 25,000 troops in exercises that are likely to anger Russia.
CORRECTION: This article has been amended to remove a reference to the U.S. supplying Ukraine with mortars.
Mike Eckel
Mike Eckel is a senior correspondent in Prague, where he reports on developments in Russia, Ukraine, and around the former Soviet Union, as well as news involving cybercrime and money laundering. Before joining RFE/RL in 2015, he worked for the Associated Press in Moscow. He has also reported and edited for The Christian Science Monitor, Al Jazeera America, Voice of America, and the Vladivostok News.
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Jamie Lendino LG Optimus T (T-Mobile) The LG Optimus T has everything most Android fans need, including a stylish and comfortable design, a responsive UI, and standard screen and Android versions for maximum Android Market compatibility.
LG Optimus T (T-Mobile)
By Jamie Lendino
Responsive screen and UI. Runs Android 2.2. Mobile hotspot capability. Long battery life.
Screen is a bit small. Screen, camera, and CPU are a generation behind the class leaders.
The LG Optimus T has everything most Android fans need, including a stylish and comfortable design, a responsive UI, and standard screen and Android versions for maximum Android Market compatibility.
The LG Optimus T is an excellent budget Android-powered cell phone, much like its cousins the Optimus S (Free, 4 stars) on Sprint and the Vortex on Verizon. While it isn't the most powerful T-Mobile smartphone, it's a terrific value as it's currently on sale for free with contract. We say go for it; if you don't need the myTouch 4G's ($199.99, 4.5 stars) extra power, this is a great phone.
Design and Call Quality
Since the Optimus T and Optimus S are so similar, I'll focus mainly on the differences in this review. The Optimus T measures 4.5 by 2.3 by 0.5 inches (HWD) and weighs 4.5 ounces. It's made of soft-touch, burgundy-colored plastic that feels comfortable and looks good, with a similar silver accent band around the edge as the Optimus S. The 3.2-inch, 320-by-480-pixel glass capacitive touch screen is a little small, but it's bright, vibrant, and responsive in person. The four hardware function keys beneath the screen are laid out differently than the Optimus S, but work equally well. Typing on the on-screen keyboard was accurate in both portrait and landscape mode, although it's a bit more cramped than on larger phones.
The Optimus T is a quad-band EDGE (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) and dual-band HSDPA 7.2 (1700/2100 MHz) device with 802.11 b/g Wi-Fi. That means it works on T-Mobile's and foreign 3G and 2G networks. Voice quality was good all around, with a warm tone in the earpiece, and clear transmissions to and from other callers. Reception was fine, and calls sounded clear through an Aliph Jawbone Icon ($99, 4 stars) Bluetooth headset.
The voice dialing app constantly misunderstood my friends' names; I eventually gave up on it. I had better luck with Google Voice Actions voice search, which had no problem bring up a map of pizza places or calling nearby restaurants. The speakerphone sounded thin, but was just loud enough for outdoor use. Battery life was excellent at 11 hours and 17 minutes of talk time in EDGE mode.
UI, Apps, and Wi-Fi Calling
LG added some custom widgets to the Optimus T's five home screen panels, plus a text messaging icon near the bottom. The main menu is cluttered with some game demos and other bloatware. The 600-MHz Qualcomm MSM7627 and faster Android 2.2 OS revision offer more responsive performance than on the Huawei Comet (Free, 3 stars).
The Optimus T works as a mobile Wi-Fi hotspot. Tethering costs $15 per month when purchased with T-Mobile's $30, 5GB plan. As a proper Android phone, the Optimus T syncs e-mail, calendars, and contacts with Microsoft Outlook and Exchange. The stock WebKit browser is excellent for iPhone-formatted pages. It's also good for desktop HTML, but I'd recommend a larger, higher-resolution phone like the myTouch 4G or Vibrant for heavy desktop site browsing.
T-Mobile preloads the same Android-based Wi-Fi calling app we found on the Motorola Defy ($199, 4 stars) and the myTouch 4G. T-Mobile's Wi-Fi app is powered by Kineto. Wi-Fi calling worked OK in testing, but it was a little thin and staticky sounding. It'll still save you if you're in a T-Mobile dead zone. You can also load Google Voice on this thing, too, if you want to make Google Voice calls. But no matter what we did, VOIP calling on the Optimus T wasn't as good as on T-Mobile's Wi-Fi enabled, UMA-powered BlackBerrys, which make the clearest Wi-Fi calls of all.
Multimedia, Camera, and Conclusions
The standard size 3.5mm headphone jack is always good for music lovers. The microSD card slot underneath the battery cover worked fine with my 16GB SanDisk card; T-Mobile throws in a 2GB card to get you started, and there's 166MB of free internal memory. Music tracks sounded clear and full over Motorola S9-HD ($129, 3.5 stars) Bluetooth headphones, with just a touch of hiss in the background. The music player displays large album art thumbnails and is simple to navigate. There's also a built-in FM radio. Standalone WMV, 3GP, MP4, and even AVI videos played smoothly in full screen mode, although 720p files wouldn't play at all.
The 3.2-megapixel auto-focus camera has no LED flash. As with the Optimus S, the T had few issues, with natural, balanced photos both indoors and out. Shutter speeds were fast; only dim indoor rooms looked excessively noisy. Recorded 640-by-480 videos looked fine at 15 frames per second. The Optimus T offers a few more configuration settings for resolution and exposure than the Optimus S.
All told, the Optimus T is an easy pick for a budget Android phone on T-Mobile. Other options: the T-Mobile myTouch 4G remains our Editors' Choice, thanks to its fast CPU and high-speed HSPA+ network support. The Motorola Defy is the outdoorsy klutz's choice with its rugged construction, although it still costs $100 up front. The Huawei Comet is cute if you really like your phones as small as possible, but its 240-by-320-pixel screen resolution looks blurry and doesn't work with a lot of Android Market apps.
Compare the LG Optimus T (T-Mobile) with several other mobile phones side by side.
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Bottom Line: The LG Optimus T has everything most Android fans need, including a stylish and comfortable design, a responsive UI, and standard screen and Android versions for maximum Android Market compatibility.
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In the debate about whether investors should consider including a portfolio allocation to commodities, one of the main arguments against doing so has been the huge amount of cash flowing into commodities over the past decade. The influx has rendered past data irrelevant because this increased demand virtually doomed commodity futures contracts to trade in large contango.
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Diversity & equality in business
Liberal-Conservative coalition
Casting ahead to the 2015 election, no party leader likes what he sees
Gavin Kelly
Politicians often don't get to fight the election they want, but our economic deterioration is already giving the next campaign the look of a nightmare
Sun 9 Sep 2012 16.00 EDT First published on Sun 9 Sep 2012 16.00 EDT
Chancellor George Osborne: the economy casts a long shadow over the 2015 election. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA
As the Westminster tempo cranks up, just as the marvel of the Olympic and Paralympic summer winds down, the main party leaders will be looking for ways of securing immediate momentum. Following his bumpy reshuffle David Cameron needs to demonstrate to an increasingly sceptical public that he hasn't become the prisoner of a divided party and a fractious coalition. Meanwhile, Ed Miliband has to show that he has what it takes to make a popular pitch that resonates with the public on how to secure shared prosperity in straightened times, as President Obama did at the Democratic convention last week.
Yet both leaders know that as well as successfully negotiating the party conference season they also need to cast ahead in order to get a fix on the shape of the 2015 election. It certainly isn't going to be the campaign either would have liked. Indeed, it won't even be the election they didn't really want but thought they'd have to make the best of. 2015 has the look of a nightmare for all sides involved.
Occasionally the imperatives facing the nation at election time and the underlying aspirations of the victorious party leader are in harmony. Blair in 1997, Thatcher in 1979 and Macmillan in 1959 can each lay claim to having been leaders successfully channelling the prevailing public mood while keeping within touching distance of their own instinctive political projects (though all such judgments are coloured by the corrective tint of hindsight).
The victor in 2015 may not be so fortunate. David Cameron – whose natural comfort zone still remains talking breezily about the good times and giveaways around the corner – didn't come into politics to preside over an enervating decade of economic pessimism any more than Ed Miliband did to shrink the state. Yet that is where they are headed.
Above all, this is because of our still deteriorating fiscal position. Last autumn, before the double-dip recession and the full-blown euro crisis, the Office for Budget Responsibility downgraded its growth projections, pushing back the date at which the structural deficit will be eliminated to 2017. Their forecasts now look implausibly rosy compared with those of others. Even before recent gloomy public finance figures and the growing realisation that the chancellor's "debt rule" is very likely to be broken, no one would have been surprised if George Osborne was forced to announce a further lengthening of the era of austerity, with cuts spilling out across the decade.
This presents something of a challenge for all the party leaders. The initial Conservative strategy of going into 2015 having "cleared up Labour's mess", and offering major tax cuts for families, feels like a distant dream. What they are still coming to terms with, however, is the realisation that the revised plan for a 2015 parliament of two halves – "finishing the job" of austerity during the first few years before sunlight creeps through thereafter – appears increasingly optimistic. George Osborne may well end up in the unhappy position of trying to convince the public, in a haunting echo of the 2010 campaign, that he is still the man to bring the nation's finances back into balance by the end of the next parliament.
You might think that this would make the opposition's strategy straightforward. It certainly provides them with plenty to aim at. But it could destabilise Labour too. Their initial hope of turning the election into referendum on who has the best plan for "jobs and growth" will doubtless still feature but it may struggle to get a hearing with the public unless Labour also have convincing answers to the fiscal questions that dominate all elections – the next one more than ever.
A likely fallback position, invoking the 1997 playbook by sticking to the Conservative's spending totals for several years with the expectation of increases later in the parliament, is also looking hopeful. And if the structural deficit is set to be with us for most of the decade it is likely to erode any wriggle-room that some on the centre-left hope exists to "do a Hollande", adopting a slightly slower path of fiscal consolidation than their Tory rivals.
Nor will Nick Clegg be spared. Having already boxed himself in by committing to undertake a coalition spending review that locks his party into shared spending plans until 2017, a promise that looks increasingly implausible, any further extension of the austerity era would only deepen his misery. Every time Osborne's fiscal plans are downgraded, so is confidence in Clegg's political judgment.
The two main parties can mount a case about why they are best placed to respond. The Conservatives rest heavily on their conviction that if the exam question set for the next election is "how to secure a parliament of cuts" then Labour will never be the answer. Labour's riposte will be that the more difficult the economic news the stronger the yearning will be for a "change election" on the economy and the greater the premium on fairness in austerity – fertile terrain for Miliband, stony ground for the incumbent Cameron.
A test of political leadership is adapting to new times and reinventing yourself as the person most able to manage them. Prospective prime ministers often don't get to fight the election they want. Whoever wins in 2015 will be running against themselves, as well as the fiscal headwinds.
Vince Cable rebuffs Conservative right on deregulation
Business secretary reasserts control over department and lifts veil on dispute with Theresa May over immigration 'red tape'
Vince Cable reiterates his opposition to 'fire at will' employment laws
Business secretary says he will resist Tory calls for no-fault sackings and remained convinced of need to raise tax on rich
Labour in Commons challenge over big benefit shakeup
Iain Duncan Smith faces questions over whether he should delay implementation of universal credit until key issues are settled
Tory backbencher reveals plot to oust David Cameron
Bob Stewart says he was approached to run as 'stalking horse' while Zac Goldsmith reportedly offers seat to Boris Johnson
Lib Dem MP criticises Nick Clegg over reshuffle
Ed Balls: Lib Dems should join forces with Labour over Plan B for economy
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La calle Bizcocheros es una calle de la ciudad Jerez de la Frontera, (Andalucía, España).

Arteria principal del antiguo y medieval barrio de San Pedro, pese a su cercanía al centro comercial de la ciudad, ha sabido combinar el sabor de tradicional barrio andaluz y comercios tradicionales con casas señoriales y patios de vecinos junto con nuevos equipamientos comercial y nuevos vecinos.

La calle alberga como monumento principal al templo de San Pedro, si bien, es sobre todo el tránsito de vecinos, el sabor de los comercios, la paleta de colores y el constante baño de luz lo que la hacen una calle diferente.

Origen
Arteria principal del barrio de San Pedro, su origen primitivo era el camino que transcurría junto a las antiguas huertas del convento de Santo Domingo y que servía de acceso de los judíos jerezanos a su cementerio, llamando fonsario.

Tras la conquista de la ciudad por Alfonso X El Sabio, el entonces arrabal de San Pedro fue creciendo de forma perpendicular a la calle Bizcocheros, dando pie a calles estrechas y encaladas.

Viviendas destacadas

La casa número 29 fue reconocida con el premio Europa Nostra de la Unión Europea por su rehabilitación y restauración, ya que consiguió rescatar, conservar, y reproducir todos los elementos del inmueble pertenecientes al siglo XVII

En el número 3 vivió la escritora y periodista jerezana Carmen Carriedo de Soto, conocida María de Xerez.

En la actualidad

Actualmente, la definen numerosos comercios tradicionales, talleres alternativos y casas con deliciosos patios llenos de flores, rejas en los balcones y una paleta de colores propia de la melancolía andaluza.

Esta calle fue sometida a un intenso proceso de semipeatonalización, terminado en 2009

Recorrido

Tradicionalmente ha sido una zona comercial, aunque recientemente ha ido perdiendo relevancia.

La calle se podría dividir en dos tramos:

 Desde Rotonda de los Casinos hasta Iglesia de San Pedro

La cercanía al centro comercial ha permitido que persista la actividad comercial: oficinas, cafeterías y comercios relacionados con el comercio justo y bienestar.

 Desde la Iglesia de San Pedro hasta Calle Caldereros

Se encuentran comercios más tradicionales, como la pastelería La Holandesa (desde 1934), sombrererías, hasta convertirse en una zona prácticamente residencial llegando a la calle Caldereros.

Referencias

Bibliografía

Enlaces externos

 Bizcocheros en JerezSiempre
 Reportaje sobre la calle Bizcocheros

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I have been more than part of the Twitter hysteria surrounding the new burger venue opening in Glasgow. It was a boring afternoon and I received a message on Yelp giving me a 'heads up' about a new burger restaurant opening in Glasgow city centre. This wasnt just any burger restauant, THIS one is co-owned by Ben Dantzic and James Forrest who met while working in the Michelin Starred Peat Inn. Michelin calibre chefs making burgers? Oh my! I had the opening day, 5th of July at noon, in my diary so that House of Herby could 'meat' Burger Meats Bun.
Given that it was opening day, I expected a few hiccups as they settled in. You could be easily fooled into thinking it was an established restaurant. The service was brilliant – and not in a 'try hard' way. The staff were lovely – and to that, may I also say they were relaxed and chilled. They worked quickly and knew the menu, even though they had to double check a few things.
I'd like to credit Michelle and her fancy-pants camera for my photos!
We placed our orders, and then like Christmas we all got our gifts. It was literally like Christmas – everyone unwrapping, oooh-ing, aaahhh-ing and urging one another to look at their burgers!
I ordered the Fiery burger which had been taunting me on a daily basis as I looked at the menu. After our meal we had a chat with Ben who told us about their quest for ingredients – they looked high and they looked low and left no farm unturned! It paid off! The brioche bun from Big Bear Bakery contained a beast of a burger sourced locally from Aberfoyle Butchers. This was topped with Toma Raschiera (Raschera?) cheese from George Mewes, jalapeños, tomato, pickles and lettuce and a healthy dose of their homemade chipotle mayonnaise.
This burger was the best I've ever eaten. It was medium cooked and was SO juicy and moist. It was amazing – the definition of succulence. The meat just had so much flavour – like a good steak converted into a patty. My second favourite element was the home made chipotle mayonnaise – it was creamy but gave a fantastic kick. Then the cheese, oh the cheese. So much stringy, cheesey goodness.
Tip: use the wrapper to hold the burger to avoid drips going everywhere (kind of like how you'd eat a burrito). They don't hand your table a full roll of kitchen roll for no good reason! You're gonna get messy!
Then there was silence. Everyone descended into synchronised eating. It was glorious. I shared a couple of sides: Seoul chicken wings and the Thai chilli cheese fries.
The Seoul chicken wings were gorgeous. They weren't as the waitress described – I had expected them to be spicy, so I was a little disappointed at first. Absolutely delicious and moreish despite the lack of spice. Chicken wings can be hit or miss with me, and these were a hit – not a piece of fat! Just meat and bone! They were so lovely that they became addictive!
Thai chilli fries – yum yum yum. When I ordered these I didn't know what to expect, but what came out visually didn't surprise me. Home cooked chips topped with melted cheese, hot sauce and sliced chillies. They were fiery but just beautiful. A mixture of crispy chips, soft potatoey (I know that not a word), gooey cheese and crunchy chilli.
I topped my meal off (nearly topped myself off) with some dessert. These are the fresh made donuts with dipping sauce. I didn't order them but had a try. To describe them I'm going to both quote and paraphrase a hilarious comment: "One of these is enough to feed a small village!" They're very heavy, so if you ate as much as I did then I'd share them! The dipping sauce was very strange but beautiful – like a spicy butterscotch.
And my dessert: the Burger & Shake! This is a macaron (NOT MACAROON) style burger – it's genius! The macaron makes the bap, a chocolate ganache is the burger, a passionfruit gel makes the cheese and a raspberry coulis makes the ketchup. The shake was gorgeous – creamy milk with an almond taste. Our waitress brought over the bouquet garni that they used to flavour the supremely creamy milk – it smelled really beautiful and it had a mild but definite almond aroma. It turns out that the flavoring is actually tonka bean and woodruff! A new one for me!
The main thing that the owners want from this restaurant is to produce a simple menu, buy locally sourced produce to create top quality food and serve it in a trendy, relaxed environment. They've achieved this without a doubt. I'm no expert, but I knew today I was eating a pretty special burger. What's even better is that they offer free WiFi as well as Gluten Free options, hooray!
Now, my final words on the matter: Go now. I'll come with you.
That macaron burger is without a doubt the most adorable thing I have ever seen!
It's SO cute, especially with the little milk bottle!
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Grant number like: RZ-50804-07
Northwestern University (Evanston, IL 60208-0001)
Cynthia Robin (Project Director: November 2006 to March 2011)
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Chan: The 2,000 Year History of an Ancient Maya Farming Community
Analysis and interpretation of archaeological material from the ancient Maya farming community of Chan, Belize, in order to gain a fuller understanding of life at this site throughout its 2000-year period of occupation. (24 months)
The Chan project will investigate the over 2000 year history of an ancient Maya farming community in Belize. The Chan site was occupied between 900 B.C. and A.D. 1250. Its ancient inhabitants constructed a productive landscape of agricultural terraces across Chan's hilly terrain. By bringing together an international team of US and Belizean archaeology professionals, graduate and undergraduate students to study the extensive collections of artifacts and ecofacts from the Chan site we will be able to investigate the founding, development, long sustainability, and ultimate demise of an ancient agrarian community. Our collaborative research brings together expert archaeological analysis of traditional categories of "macro-artifacts" (ie., ceramics, lithics) with more recent assessments of "micro-remains" (ie., micro-artifacts, carbonized plants, and soils) to develop a fuller understanding of life in an ordinary community in ancient times.


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The Newsletter 74 Summer 2016
Multicultural education in Indonesia
Stefani Nugroho

Reviewed title: Raihani. 2014. Creating Multicultural Citizens: A Portrayal of Contemporary Indonesian Education, London and New York: Routledge, ISBN 9780415844147

Diversity is the cornerstone of Indonesia's national identity; it is proclaimed in the country's motto, and celebrated on many occasions, from the obvious Youth Pledge Day to the unrelated Kartini Day. However, alarmingly, there have been few reflective discussions about what living in a plural society should entail. This book is relevant because it initiates this discussion by studying how education in Indonesia constructs or obstructs multicultural attitudes among its citizens, particularly with regard to cultural and religious diversity. Written by Raihani, currently a professor at the State Islamic University of Riau, this is a timely project.
The book opens with three chapters that are introductory in nature. The general introduction is followed by an overview of the various paradigms regarding multiculturalism. Raihani argues for critical multiculturalism that emphasizes the representation of minority narratives, and critical reflections on dominant discourses of the majority groups. The next chapter deals with the history of education in Indonesia, particularly the longstanding disparity between state schools and madrasahs (Islamic day schools). Under decentralization regulations, general schools are funded by the regional government. This is not the case for madrasahs, which remain under the national government and tend to be underfunded. The chapter also discusses other recent changes, like school-based management, school-based curriculum, teacher certification programs and the introduction of international standard schools. For readers who are familiar with paradigms of multiculturalism as well as the history of education in Indonesia, these chapters could be skimmed over.
The next eight chapters contain the crux of his research. In each of them, Raihani explores the extent to which multiculturalism is nurtured in a particular element of education. With the exception of an analysis of the Education Law in chapter four and the concluding last chapter, the six other chapters contain observations and interviews with the principals, teachers, and students of six secondary schools in Yogyakarta and Palangkaraya. The types of schools vary: three state-owned schools (one general, one vocational, and one madrasah), two private schools (one is owned by Muhammadiyah, a large Islamic organization, and one is a Catholic school), and one pesantren (Islamic boarding school). Through this strategy, Raihani obtains a sample that roughly represents the types of schools in Indonesia (secular-religious, state-private, general-vocational). Interestingly, despite the wide range of schools studied, there is insignificant difference between them with regard to multicultural education. As each subsequent chapter shows, the formation of multicultural attitudes is not a priority in the Indonesian education.
One of the key issues is the neglect of multiculturalism in the national policy. The Education Law 2003 reflects the process of democratization in Indonesia. It mandates that every citizen has an equal right to education, and ensures greater involvement from the community. However, according to Raihani, the Law does not contain articles on multicultural education. Multiculturalism is weakly implied in references to education as a human right, and the role of education in creating democratic citizens. A strategic implementation of the law, the Ministerial Decree of 23/2006 that outlines the expected outcome for primary and secondary education, shows that multicultural attitude is not one of the competencies targeted by school subjects, with the exception of anthropology. Only anthropology provides a platform for discussions on tolerance and respect for cultural and religious diversity, but the course is only available for students in the low-prestige language stream.
Without a clear mandate from the government, the extent to which multiculturalism is aspired to depends on individual school principals and teachers. In chapter five, Raihani shares his findings on leadership styles of the school principals and their policies. Although all the principals are aware of and appreciate diversity, they do not have clearly articulated strategies to cultivate multiculturalism. Some of the policies are outright contradictions to multiculturalism. Thus for instance, in the vocational state school, all Muslim female students are obliged to wear jilbab, in the general school owned by Muhammadiyah, all female students, including those who are not Muslims, have to wear jilbab, and in the general state school, the minority religions are not given dedicated rooms for their religion classes. Accusations of ethnic or religion-based favoritism have also been made towards principals, for instance, when sending teachers to professional development programs.
The practices related to the teaching of the subject 'Religion' are discussed further in chapter six. Despite the potential of the subject to build mutual understanding among people of different religions, Raihani finds that the confessional framework does not fully accommodate this. The confessional approach of religious teaching emphasizes truth claims and doctrines. There is little room for new and contextual interpretation, let alone comparative discussions with other religions. Here too, very much depends on the teachers' initiatives. While some teachers engage in a comparative approach, many are reluctant to do so.
In chapters seven and eight, Raihani focuses on the students and their points of view. Based on interviews and observations of extra-curricular activities, Raihani argues that one of the unintended consequences of these activities is the interaction with fellow students from different religious or ethnic backgrounds. Although this is undoubtedly positive, the fact that it is unintended, once again, highlights the lack of systematic cultivation of multicultural ideas in the students' learning activities. In the subsequent chapter, Raihani presents the results of his focus group discussion with students regarding their ideal community. Most students are in favor of diversity, although a small number of students would rather live in a homogeneous society. In terms of personal relationships, interethnic marriages are more acceptable than inter-religious marriages. Differences between religions are perceived to be more unsurmountable. Given the confessional approach in religious teaching, this stance is unsurprising.
In chapters nine and ten, Raihani ventures to other types of inequality in the school setting. Thus in chapter nine, he discusses injustices based on economic class, and the discrimination against students that do not take the natural science stream. Chapter ten looks closer into an Islamic boarding school (pesantren) and shows that the hierarchies are based on economic class as well as family lineage, the latter giving a higher status to offspring from religious leaders. In comparison to the discussion of multicultural attitudes in relation to ethnic and religious diversity that are five chapters long, the discussions in these two chapters are too cursory, and lack clear connection with the other chapters. The issues explored in these two chapters might be better served if they are presented as separate studies.
Overall, the book shows that the education system does not aim to transform Indonesians into multicultural citizens. This alone should be a warning for the future of the nation. Based on Raihani's study, there is a great possibility that the next cohort of leaders will consist of people who are not critical of systemic inequalities and majoritarian discourses. Therefore, this book should not only be of great interest to scholars in Indonesian studies, but also to educators and policy makers in Indonesia.
Stefani Nugroho, Postdoctoral Fellow Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei (swarati@gmail.com).
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The U.K. Is Ignoring the Immigration Challenges of the Future
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In March, Priti Patel, the British home secretary, announced people seeking protection as refugees in the United Kingdom will—for the first time—have their claims assessed based on how they arrived in the country. The government will seek to remove asylum-seekers who entered the U.K. after first passing through "safe countries."
Migrants who enter in ways deemed illegal and cannot be removed will receive a new temporary protection status rather than an automatic right to settle and will be regularly reassessed for removal from the U.K. People entering illegally will also be further punished with limited family reunion rights and limited access to benefits. Under the new plan, migrants who come to the country through a safe and legal resettlement route—such as the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme—will, conversely, attain indefinite leave to remain immediately.
It has been deemed the biggest overhaul of an immigration system in decades. Yet the changes—which essentially create a two-tier system where those who are able to access safe and legal resettlement routes are rewarded and those who can't are punished—ignore what might become the biggest driver of future migration: climate change.
While data on migrants who go missing en route to their destinations is systematically tracked by organizations, such as the International Organization for Migration, less information is available about what happens to asylum-seekers when they arrive. Over the years, numerous unaccompanied minors seeking refuge in the U.K. have disappeared. Statistics on missing asylum-seekers are based largely on anecdotal evidence and have varied from the hundreds to the thousands. Evidence consistently points, however, to a need for the United Kingdom's Home Office to improve waiting times linked with processing and resettlement decisions to help reduce vulnerable asylum seekers—often unaccompanied children—being exploited by gangs and traffickers.
Waiting times are likely to increase following Brexit given that previous arrangements, such as the Dublin Regulation, no longer apply to the U.K. In the past, this rule allowed the U.K. to return some asylum-seekers to EU member states without considering their asylum claims. The regulations also allowed a legal route for reuniting separated asylum-seekers with family members in the U.K. New plans to replace such mechanisms, including shipping asylum-seekers to new areas for processing such as the Isle of Man, Gibraltar, and the Scottish islands, have been denied by the government. Yet a lack of return agreements to transit countries makes any new regulations difficult to enforce and risks increasing the uncertainty migrants face while they await the results of their asylum claims.
It is important for the U.K. to get its immigration system right, and it has struggled with this in the past. In 2018, the Windrush scandal saw the British government apologize for mistaken deportations, detentions, and deportation threats made to Commonwealth citizens' children, who, despite living and working in the U.K. for decades, were told they were there illegally because of a lack of official paperwork.
Following Beijing's imposition of a punitive national security law on Hong Kong in June 2020, the British government more recently introduced a visa to allow those from Hong Kong with British National Overseas (BNO) status to live and work in the U.K. for five years and eventually apply for citizenship. Yet the scheme, which doesn't apply to those born after 1997, has been criticized for excluding many young people involved in protests against the national security law. They will instead be forced to seek asylum, which is a less certain process and involves the lengthy waiting times that come with it.
The immigration system's recent overhaul would have been a good opportunity for collaborative thinking about the impact that future issues, such as climate change, will have on migration. After all, the U.K. will co-host the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference with Italy. Once again, the government missed an opportunity. The difference between asylum-seeking and migration processes is likely to grow when, like other developed countries, the U.K. prepares for a shift in large-scale human migration facilitated by resource scarcity and extreme weather events.
The current system of international law is not equipped to protect the new category of climate migrants who have been largely invisible in migration and climate debates for many years. With greater climate hazards occurring as a consequence of climate change—including, but not limited to, rising sea levels, wildfires, ocean acidification, desertification, loss of biodiversity, and reduced agricultural yields—many regions have become, and are becoming, largely unlivable.
Climate migrants already exist, with those in Pacific island states like Kiribati and Tuvalu being displaced due to rising sea levels and farmers in West Africa being forced to leave their land because of droughts and flooding. At present, no multilateral strategy or legal framework exists to account for climate change as a driver of migration.
There has been much debate on whether to include climate migrants by granting them the status of refugees under the definition provided by the 1951 Refugee Convention or to create a new convention to protect climate migrants. Yet as severe climate change displaces more people, the problem will be increasingly difficult for the international community to ignore.
Like other countries, the U.K. could benefit from adopting a change in perspective from what it has become accustomed to—asylum-seeking because of political conflicts—to a model of large-scale human migration due to resource scarcity and climate disasters.
After all, climate change and conflict are not mutually exclusive. The climate, migration, and security nexus has been cited as key to explaining the effectiveness of financial recruiting strategies by groups like al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. Nigeria, Niger, Algeria, and Morocco, separated by the Sahara Desert, are linked by existing international migration routes to Europe. Within the region, seasonal labor migration is widespread, particularly in areas vulnerable to rainfall fluctuations. The destabilizing effects of climate change therefore connect to security and conflict-reduction efforts within this region as well.
Although climate migrants who flee unstable conditions resemble refugees, international legislation does not recognize them as such. Unlike individuals fleeing war or persecution who may eventually seek to return to their home countries when it is deemed safe to do so, climate migrants may have nowhere left to return to. Islands within Micronesia, for example, have shrunk in size and had their water and food security greatly threatened. While it is difficult to attribute climate change as the sole factor for migration, the individuals fleeing such circumstances go where they can rather than where they should.
The U.K. should have the foresight to ensure climate migrants are defined as asylum-seekers and not economic migrants. At the moment, policy has not yet caught up with reality. Furthermore, instead of focusing just on the end point of the asylum-seeking process, the U.K., along with the rest of the international community, could benefit from focusing on what's pushing people to migrate.
This could include, for example, bolstering climate resilience in countries where people are being displaced by the impacts of climate change. Climate resilience projects in countries should be prioritized to reduce migration pressures, including multilateral and international arrangements to support irrigation infrastructure, regional water cooperation, and improving livelihoods through better targeted development aid. For example, better funding of sea wall development in Kiribati is needed to reduce the impact of rising sea levels and thus reduce the need for people to migrate in the first place.
Finally, there is the issue of work. As it stands, there is a ban on working for almost everyone in the asylum system while they wait months, and often years, for a decision on their asylum claims.
Instead, all asylum-seekers who have been waiting more than six months for their claim to be processed should be allowed to work. This would strengthen their chances of being able to integrate into their new communities, allow people seeking asylum to provide for themselves and their families, and help challenge forced labor and exploitation.
Such sensible policies would allow the U.K government to go beyond its goal of reducing the number of asylum-seekers arriving spontaneously and act early on the even more pressing issue of climate migration.
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Season-ticket sales at Easter Road are continuing to soar following a record number being snapped up by fans for this campaign.
After selling 13,500 for this season, Hibs launched their campaign for 2018/19 at the end of last month and today the club revealed sales are already running ten per cent ahead of the same point 12 months ago.
With Neil Lennon's side battling for a second-place finish on their return to the Ladbrokes Premiership, attendances at Easter Road are averaging more than 18,000, the highest since the 1950s, with crowds pushing towards the ground's 20,400 capacity on a number of occasions – four times the gate has exceeded 20,000.
Such has been the demand for tickets that Hibs have opened sections of the South Stand – which traditionally houses away fans – to their own support to cope while they've also launched a scheme under which season-ticket holders who can't attend certain matches can release their seats for others to use.
Prices have been increased for the first time in several years although they've been described as "modest" with the exception of children tickets, held at only £25 in the Famous Five lower family section.


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Prayer is the foundation of our shared ministry in Haiti. We invite you to join with members of the Heartline Family from around the world as we gather together to pray.
On August 7, we're setting aside dedicated time to pray for the families we serve in Haiti, Heartline's programs, as well as for you and your loved ones.
Mark your calendar for August 7 and set aside time to pray.
Invite your friends and family to participate. We'll share an interactive family guide that includes creative activities for kids and adults!
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This Couple Won Halloween By Pranking People With Their 'Levitating' Star Wars Bike
Star Wars fans are going to LOVE this couple's Halloween getup.
By Melissa Locker
It may be early on Halloween, but this couple already won the costume contest.
YouTube vloggers Jesse Wellens and Carmella Rose dressed up as Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia, but not in their classic Star Wars garb. Instead, they dressed as Luke and Leia as rebels zipping through the forest world of Endor from The Return of the Jedi and the only thing missing was an Ewok or two.
While that retro costume would certainly rate well with Star Wars fans, Wellens and Rose had a plan to put their costume over the top. With a little help from some friends at Lithium Cycles, they built a replica of a Speeder Bike that looked like it was actually floating and rode it through the streets of Manhattan. The sight was exhilarating enough that even wizened, seen-it-all New Yorkers couldn't help but gawk.
The entire escapade was captured on video YouTube prankster Casey Neistat, who has teamed up with Wellens before for Halloween pranks like Aladdin and Silver Surfer taking magic carpet rides through the city. Watch Neistat's video to see how the custom Star Wars Speeder Bike was built.
This story originally appeared on Time.com.
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A three-day hackathon in Minsk became a significant milestone for our project. The Minsk hackathon in collaboration with Imaguru Startup Hub on October 5-7th was a great success for us, and helped us spread the word of our Sandbox project and recent SDK release.
During this event, we told developers about the advantages of DAO.Casino protocol and taught them the basics of creating decentralized games with the use of our SDK. To achieve these goals we also held a Blockchain School session with a workshop, followed by a meetup the following day, that was attended not only by the hackathon participants but all blockchain game development enthusiasts. Our developers shared their expertise on blockchain development and answered the questions from the audience.
After the opening ceremony and a brief introduction of our SDK, we cut straight to the chase. Lead Solidity Developer Alexander Davydov started by talking about DAO.Casino protocol in general, then Ilya Shviryalkin, Full Stack Developer, went on and talked about testing processes implemented in the protocol. Senior Full Stack Developer Alexander Stepanchenko gave a lecture on creating own SDK from scratch at the end of the evening.
The next day Ilya Shviryalkin talked about the protocol's structure, its dependencies, and the dc-cli library, followed by our Lead Game Developer, Sergey Pomorin, giving his report on the development of decentralized games.
On the third day of the event, the hackathon finally kicked off. In the beginning, the participants pitched their ideas and formed teams. That went smoothly in an informal and friendly atmosphere.
The two remaining days of the hackathon were split into checkpoints during which teams demonstrated their progress, requested help and shared their solutions. Our mentors assisted the participants along the way. The hackathoneers were excited by a workshop by our Full Stack Developer, Gaidar Sinyakov, about the development of a game using React.JS library.
On Sunday, with the last checkpoint left behind, the teams showed their projects, and our jury started evaluating the results to determine the winners in each nomination.
The "Best Game on DAO.Casino Protocol" award went to the team that coincidentally named itself "The Winners." They described themselves as relatively inexperienced developers who had recently taken up Imaguru Blockchain School. After Sergey Pomorin had shown them how easy it is to create a blockchain game with the use of our SDK, they were unstoppable and went ahead to develop what appeared to be the best game of the competition!
The idea conceived by a team called Panda was deemed to be the best blockchain-project, which involved DAO.Casino protocol integration experiments with decentralized messaging (with the use of DC-messaging repository). The result was a decentralized database for interpreters with a built-in ranking system.
The "Best DAO.Casino protocol smart-contract" award went to a Split Cash team. They managed to develop a smart-contract for a lottery on their own, using Dice and Lootbox logic as a template.
DAO.Cases team won the «Best Visuals» award. They worked on a roulette game but didn't quite finalize the backend on time. The team is determined to finish their project and applied to Sandbox alongside with two other teams participating in the hackathon.
We are proud of this hackathon - we got a lot of valuable feedback on our SDK, shared our experience in developing decentralized games with the participants, invited talented teams to participate in our Sandbox and finish their games on DAO.Casino protocol.
Our team learned a lot as well, we got better at supporting fellow developers, consulting hackathon participants on various aspects of development and, last but not least, working as a team (we were easy to spot because we wore stylish branded shirts and hoodies). We extend our sincere gratitude to our colleagues in Minsk, and Nazar, who is one of our first supporters, gets special credit for sticking with us from the start!


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By Rose Robertson | Photography by Tom Gennara | April 2020
The office of fertility and life ministries works to uphold the dignity of human life
It's as if Jenny Ingles stood in front of a column of perfectly aligned doors, each bringing her an opportunity to open subsequent ones. The first door opened during a college course called Christian Love. The professor and class discussion provided fruitful ground for Jenny, then a professed atheist, to realize her views on sexuality were in alignment with Catholic theology. Door #2 was another class Jenny took, this time with her husband as they prepared to convalidate their marriage in the Church. Experiencing infertility, the required Natural Family Planning (NFP) class became an answer to their prayers. Successfully birthing three children using NFP, Jenny began teaching NFP to other couples. The result was door #3, becoming the full-time director of fertility and life ministries in 2018.
The work of fertility and life ministries is based on Catholic teaching which upholds the sacredness and sanctity of all human life. "I wish every Catholic fully understood what it means to be the image and likeness of God in your marital relationship. That is the real meaning of sexuality. If everyone understood that, all other things would fall into place," says Jenny.
Jenny's department, which is funded with DSA support and housed in the department of vocations, works hard to give substance to that wish. While both divisions, life and fertility, overlap in many areas, there are a few specifics to each one. The fertility piece provides NFP education as a part of marriage preparation, and is responsible for training individuals to teach those classes. The diocese prescribes to several NFP methods or models: the Billings Method, the Creighton Model, the Marquette Method, and the Couple to Couple League, and works at having trained staff available for each of them. Constantly looking for ways to reach and better serve the diocesan population, Jenny is currently working on locating and training instructors who speak Vietnamese and Spanish.
"This is all about working with God's natural plan for the female body to plan pregnancy. Contraceptives take God out of it. Our offices provide NFP practitioners who are knowledgeable on Theology of the Body and Humanae Vitae. We help people understand the Church's teaching on sexuality and the beauty behind it," Jenny says.
In terms of the life aspect of her ministry, Jenny says: "I've been working on getting all the individual ministries our various parishes provide to network in order to have a stronger pro-life presence in the diocese. We have found the truly successful pro-life parishes are the ones that vibrantly embrace the four pillars of prayer, activism, education and healing. Our goal is to be a resource for parishes to locate what they need in order to offer all four of those pillars to their own parishioners." One of the ways Jenny helps parishes tackle this is by offering grants for resources or materials. Applications are always available.
"Our long term goal is to end abortion. I want every person in the pew to know where they can turn if they or someone they know is post-abortive or considering it. Abortion has affected a lot of people. There is a need for healing, to know God loves them, forgives them and wants to pour out his mercy on them," she says.
Jenny's ministry is one that often deals with despair. She says, "A lot of brokenness comes out in our sexuality, in our spousal relationships. Jesus meets people in a very profound way when learning Theology of the Body. When couples encounter God's truth, they find joy, hope and love and when they start to heal themselves, they can work on their relationship with their spouse and with God. They become disciples."
The office of fertility and life ministries, and all of its offerings, is available to every parishioner in the diocese because of DSA funding. DSA dollars provide grants for pro-life services at parishes, to fund Crisis Pregnancy services, Sidewalk Counseling initiatives, and miscarriage support, to name a few. A significant portion of funding goes to training both NFP teachers and registered nurses to help couples use NFP. NFP instruction is also part of marriage preparation classes. The Diocese of Lansing is one of the few dioceses which provide these services free of charge. Jenny's dream is for her office to have sufficient financial resources and trained nurses to allow every parish to have an active and thriving pro-life and pro-NFP community, and that these communities in turn offer education and intercessory prayers to promote the sanctity of life.
Jenny's willingness to venture through each of the doors that have popped up in her life have deeply affected her faith. She says: "This ministry has helped me see how delicately and lovingly Christ works in people's lives and the resulting healing. It is very humbling to be part of the intimacy couples share and to watch God working through them."
Q: What is NFP?
A: "Natural Family Planning (NFP) is the general title for the scientific, natural, and moral methods of family planning that can help married couples either achieve or postpone pregnancies.
For a 2020 NFP class schedule, to register, or for answers to other NFP FAQs, visit: www.DioceseofLansing.org/NFP.
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You've got $W$ your vector of weights, $x$ your data, and $b$ a bias term (usually equal to one).
Using these you want to ask: with $x$ what is the output $h$?
Context: Let's apply to NLP. $x$ is a set of word vectors comprising a sentence. I want to get $h$ which tells me if this sentence is talking about food of some sort.
Why do we want a bias term??? Well, here's a discussion, but typicall it's to shift the activation function to between 0 and 1 or something like that.
What's $f$? It's your probability distribtion function (sort of). Typically it's the sigmoid function, which looks pretty.
Setup for later: Note, the derivatives of these functions are pretty too.


Request documents. If your insurer did not send you the determination letter, your policy, the medical necessity criteria, or instructions and forms for filing an internal review, call your insurer and request these documents.
Call your health care provider's office. Contact your health care provider's office to ask for help with the internal review process. Someone in his or her office might help you fill out the forms to request an internal review and draft a strong appeal letter.
Submit the internal review request. You or someone in your health care provider's office should submit the internal review forms along with the letter from your health care provider and any additional information that your insurer requested. Be sure to follow your insurer's instructions closely and make a copy for your own records of all documents you or your health care provider submitted to the insurer.
Follow up. Follow up with your insurer regularly until you hear back. Be sure to keep a record of the name of any representative you speak with about the internal review, the date and time you spoke with that person, a confirmation number for the call, and a summary of your discussion.
How long should the internal review process take?
The internal review process should take a maximum of 30 days if you have not yet received the requested service or treatment and a maximum of 60 days if you have received the service or treatment but are waiting for reimbursement.
During an external review, an independent third party reviews your insurer's decision. Your insurer will no longer have the final say over whether to approve a treatment or pay a claim. Under Utah law, you are entitled to request an external review if your insurer denies your coverage after an internal review.
You can also request an expedited external review if your medical situation is urgent and waiting would jeopardize your life or ability to function. If you are requesting an expedited external review, you should ask your insurer if you can also skip the internal review process altogether.
You should submit your request for an external review to either your health insurer or the Utah Department of Insurance ("Department") within 180 days of your insurer's last denial letter. You can find a copy of the Health Benefit Plan Independent Review Process request form here.
"Certification of Treating Health Care Provider for Expedited Consideration of a Patient's Independent Review" form on page 5 of the request packet (this form is for expedited external review requests only).
Any additional or new information or documentation not included with your request for an internal review.
If you are requesting an expedited external review, you should contact the Insurance Department at (801) 538-3077 for instructions on the fastest way to submit your request.
The external review process should take no more than 45 days after the independent review organization is assigned to your case. If you requested an expedited external review, the process should take no longer than 72 hours after your request is received by the independent review organization. Within the next business day, if the external review process is found in your favor, the insurer must approve coverage or send you a reimbursement.
How do I file a complaint with the Department?
If you are a Utah resident, your insurer denies your claim after the external review process, and you do not have a self-funded plan (i.e., your employer self-funds the health benefits you receive and uses an insurance company or third party administrator to handle the claims), you can file a complaint with the Department. You can submit your complaint through the online complaint portal here or contact the Department at (801) 538-3890 in the Salt Lake City area or at (800) 439-3805 to receive a printed complaint form.
The Department will forward a copy of your complaint to the insurance company and request a response. The Department will review the insurance company's response and provide you with its findings. The process typically takes three to four weeks to complete.
How do I file a complaint with the Attorney General?
If you are a Utah resident and your claim is denied after the external review process, you can file a complaint with the Utah Attorney General's Office.
The Attorney General's Office will forward a copy of your complaint to the insurance company and request a response. The insurer has ten days to respond to the complaint. The complaint process typically takes between three and six weeks to complete. The Attorney General's Office can require the insurer to reverse its decision and provide coverage.
If you have questions regarding insurance appeals, you can contact the Utah Department of Insurance at (801) 538-3890 or (800) 439-3805 (in-state). The Department is open from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday.
If you have questions regarding filing a complaint, you can reach the Attorney General's Office at (800) 244-4636. The Attorney General's Office is open from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday.
 Health Benefit Plan Independent Review Process, Utah Ins. Dept., https://insurance.utah.gov/wp-content/uploads/261IndependentReviewRequest.pdf (last updated Feb. 2016).
 Health Reform: Independent Review of an Adverse Benefit Determination, Utah Ins. Dept., https://insurance.utah.gov/consumer/health/independent-review (last visited July 20, 2017).
 Complaint Form, Utah Attorney General, http://attorneygeneral.utah.gov/complaint-form (last updated Nov. 14, 2014).


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The Incredible Story Of The Boat That Found R' Reuven Bauman Z"L
Urgent 48 Hour Campaign!
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We cried. We davened. We moved on.
But Rabbi Bauman's family still needs our help.
The tragic disappearance and passing of Rabbi Reuven Bauman zt"l gripped us all.
This young, vibrant and loving husband, father, rebbi and friend made the ultimate sacrifice. At the tender age of 35, Rabbi Bauman gave his life in order to save the lives of his talmidim.
From the moment we heard the news, we worried. We davened. Some traveled to Virginia to search. When our worst fears were confirmed R"l, we cried. We shook our heads. But our lives moved on.
Unfortunately, Rabbi Bauman's wife and five young children are unable to do so. In the blink of an eye, they were left without the backbone of their family: The doting father who took responsibility for his family and showered his children with love. The selfless ben Torah who served as the ultimate role model for his children to aspire towards.
The void is gaping.
From what all of us gleaned from Rabbi Bauman's final moments, we can somewhat understand how much he loved his own children…how he would do absolutely anything to help them live a happy and fulfilling life.
Hashem placed this tzaddik's ultimate wish in our hands…
A special fund has been set up to help secure the financial future of Rabbi Bauman's wife and children and provide them menuchas hanefesh as they work to rebuild their lives without Totty.
The fund is managed under the auspices of Rabbi Sender Haber of Norfolk, VA and Rabbi Yisroel Teichman of Monsey, NY. Almost spontaneously, thousands of yidden from around the globe contributed over $600,000 towards this fund. Ashreichem Yisroel. Still, a lot more is needed to provide them adequate security.
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Q: Powerbroker domain profile identical to local profile so no folder created I log into my Ubuntu 14.04 as my local user "dan". I just used Powerbroker to join it to my domain, but it doesn't create a new profile when I log in as my domain user, which also happens to be "dan", because the folder dan already exists. I removed the part where the login assumes the default domain sudo /opt/pbis/bin/config AssumeDefaultDomain true, so I'm forced to log in as domain\dan -- thinking it would create a folder in my home directory as domain.dan or domain\dan -- similar to how Windoze does it, but it still logs into my local/original user "dan" even if I log in as domain\dan.
I renamed my existing /home/dan to dan-old, and I can now log in as my domain user, so I am wondering how to make it so Powerbroker creates a special kind of "domain" folder in my home directory. I believe when I set it up, I used the following command sudo /opt/pbis/bin/config HomeDirTemplate %H/%U to create the home folders. Can I add another variable so it appends something to the home folder so I can differentiate between a local user and domain user? Maybe %H/%U-%domain (where %domain is my netbios domain name -- of course, that variable is just made up).
If there is an easier way to do this I would appreciate anyone's know-how. I will be adding MANY Ubuntu 12.04 and Ubuntu 14.04 computers to the domain, and currently they all log in with usernames that match their Windows Active Directory domain name so I'd rather do it right the first time.

A: I just left out:
/opt/pbis/bin/config HomeDirTemplate %H/%U

and instead of creating a folder (or trying to and failing because it already exists) in /home/dan, it creates folders such as:
/home/local/domain/dan

Perfect actually! :)

A: after setting up AD for Windows clients we decided to also allow for Linux clients.
So we created a folder "userhomes" on our server which we exported to the network as nfs.
We then created "new" home folders, where each user stored his home directory.
This is at least a bit like roaming profiles.
Just install nfs on your server with:
sudo apt-get install nfs-kernel-server

then create a folder, where you store the home directories:
sudo mkdir /userhomes

and then edit /etc/exports like this (where you replace the IP with your network):
"/userhomes/" 192.168.178.0/255.255.255.0(rw,async,no_root_squash,insecure)

Finally just restart nfs-kernel-server, to have the folder exported to the network.
sudo service nfs-kernel-server restart

On the client side, als local root user mount the networkfolder on boot time:
First, install nfs-common:
sudo apt-get install nfs-common

second, change /etc/fstab, to mount the folder once the machine starts:
pdc.mydomain.lan:/userhomes /home/local/mydomain nfs rw 0 0

(change your domain name, server and folder names accordingly)
the last thing to do is to make and initially mount the folder for it to work in future:
sudo mkdir /home/local/mydomain && mount /home/local/mydomain

last but not least tell PBIS to change the home directory template!!!
sudo /opt/pbis/bin/config HomeDirTemplate %H/local/%D/%U

That's it!!
This will cause your machine to:

*

*load network files system of your pdc on boot time

*store home folders of your users on the server accordingly.

Hope this is of help, even if only for ohters.. ;)

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US envoy to Sri Lanka says threat is real as security forces maintain high alert
Sri Lankan security forces also said they were maintaining a high level of alert amid intelligence reports that the militants were likely to strike before the start of the holy Islamic month of Ramadan.
Sri Lankan security personnel inspect the debris of a car after it explodes when police tried to defuse a bomb near St Anthony's Shrine in Colombo on 22 April 2019, a day after the series of bomb blasts targeting churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka. Picture: AFP
Reuters | 630 days ago
COLOMBO - The US ambassador to Sri Lanka said on Tuesday that some of the Islamist militants involved in the Easter Sunday bombings on the island were likely still at large and could be planning fresh attacks.
"Tremendous progress has been made towards apprehending those plotters but I don't think the story is over yet," Ambassador Alaina Teplitz said in an interview. "We do believe that there is active planning under way (for more attacks)."
Scores of suspected Islamists have been arrested in the multi-ethnic island nation since April 21 suicide bomb attacks on hotels and churches that killed more than 250 people, including 42 foreign nationals.
"Security will stay tight for several days because military and police are still tracking down suspects," a senior police intelligence official said.
Another government source told Reuters a document has been circulated among key security establishments instructing police and security forces across the country to remain on high alert because the militants were expected to try a strike before Ramadan.
Ramadan is scheduled to begin in Sri Lanka on 6 May.
Teplitz told Reuters that the risk of more attacks remained real.
"We certainly have reason to believe that the active attack group has not been fully rendered inactive," she said.
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation is assisting Sri Lankan authorities in the investigations but Teplitz declined to give more details.
The government has lifted a ban on social media platforms such as Facebook, WhatsApp and viber, a source at the president's office said. The ban had been imposed immediately after the attacks to prevent the spread of rumours.
The government has also banned women from wearing face veils under an emergency law put in place after the Easter attacks.
Authorities suspect members of two previously little-known groups - National Thawheedh Jamaath (NTJ) and Jammiyathul Millathu Ibrahim - of carrying out the attacks, although the Islamic State extremist group has claimed responsibility.
Authorities believe Zahran Hashim, the founder of NTJ, was the mastermind and one of the nine suicide bombers.
In India, police said they had arrested a 29-year-old man in the southern state of Kerala, close to Sri Lanka, for planning similar attacks there. The man had been influenced by speeches made by Zahran, the government's National Investigation Agency said in a statement.
Sri Lanka's 22 million population is mostly Buddhist but includes minority Christians, Muslims and Hindus.


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Halfway to our Goal at Champion Hill
$90,000 to go to save 66 acres at this pivotal battlefield!
Save Champion Hill »
I wrote to you last month about the 66 historic acres on Champion Hill that needs to be preserved. I am pleased to send you an update today that we have raised half ($90,000) of the $180,000 needed to save this land!
The May 16, 1863 Battle of Champion Hill was the largest, bloodiest and most significant action of Ulysses S. Grant's Vicksburg Campaign. Located in the absolute heart of the battlefield, these 66 historic acres deserve our protection.
The purchase price is $640,000, and we are currently applying for a federal matching grant for $260,000. Thanks to the generosity of a fellow Civil War Trust member who wishes to remain anonymous, we have received a generous commitment of $200,000 for the preservation of Champion Hill. This brought our goal to $180,000. Now, we need just $90,000 more to make sure this land will never fall victim to development!
Together, you and I have already saved 406 acres at Champion Hill. Permanently preserving another 66 acres will enhance this battlefield as a memorial to the brave soldiers who gave their lives on that land 152 years ago. Let us honor those 5,400 soldiers who were killed, wounded or captured that day and save these crucial 66 historic acres at Champion Hill!
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U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers joined the Civil War Trust and local preservationists on May 23 to announce protection of 118 acres at Mill Springs.
War Department: Making History at Champion Hill
In the most recent episode of our video series, War Department™, Historian Terry Winschel discusses the fighting on our target 66-acre tract at the Champion Hill battlefield.
"We are fighting the battle for Vicksburg"
In this article by Sam Smith, learn about the seesaw Battle of Champion as Union and Confederate forces struggle for control of the Jackson Road—the very land that the Civil War Trust is working to preserve!
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Even before Super Tuesday, Clinton is thinking about a likely matchup with Trump
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Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton visits key states in her quest to become the Democratic nominee for president.
The former secretary of state, senator and first lady is the Democratic nominee for president.
July 31, 2016 Hillary Clinton is seen aboard the campaign bus in Cleveland on the third day of a bus tour through Pennsylvania and Ohio. Melina Mara/The Washington Post
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Hillary Clinton and her allies are shifting their attention to a likely general-election contest against Donald Trump that they expect to be strongly negative — and for which they are planning an intensive effort to draw out minority voters who feel demonized by the billionaire real estate mogul.
Clinton is still waging a hard-fought nomination battle against Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont — including 11 contests on Tuesday — and some Democrats supporting her are wary of looking too far over the horizon. But increasingly sure that Trump will win the Republican nomination, Clinton appears this week to be running a two-pronged campaign against both Sanders and an eventual Republican opponent who sounds a lot like Trump.
On Monday, for instance, Clinton lingered on what she called "scapegoating" and "finger-pointing" in the Republican race — clearly signaling her willingness to criticize Trump.
"The mean-spiritedness, the hateful rhetoric, the insults — that's not who we are," Clinton said in Springfield, Mass., a day ahead of the Super Tuesday voting that is expected to place her firmly in the lead for the Democratic nomination. "It really undermines our fabric as a nation."
A Clinton-vs.-Trump general election would put the former secretary of state and first lady head to head with an unconventional candidate who has seized on a current of nationalist and anti-immigrant discontent. Trump has been talking about the general-election matchup for a while, predicting that he will defeat Clinton in unexpected places, including New York and such Rust Belt states as Michigan that Republicans haven't won since the 1980s.
"People are going to be surprised," he said Monday during a rally in Radford, Va., where he also took a few swings at Clinton.
"Honestly, she should not be allowed to run," he said. But "Bernie Sanders is over, he took a big beating. Took a big beating."
What became clear Monday is that Clinton and her surrogates are also preparing for a showdown with Trump.
Sen. Timothy M. Kaine (D-Va.), a Clinton supporter mentioned regularly as a potential vice presidential pick, came out swinging at an appearance in the Virginia suburbs of Washington on Monday, criticizing Trump for saying during a debate this month that the U.S. military is a "disaster."
"That's a quote. From a guy who wants to be commander in chief," Kaine said. "I don't want somebody who is the commander in chief to talk that way about 1.6 million young men and women who volunteer in a time of war to serve their country. I want a commander in chief who respects the military and their families and who will speak about them with gratitude, not contempt."
Clinton's campaign declined to speak on the record about a general-election contest against Trump, saying the focus is on the primaries. But a senior campaign aide who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss campaign strategy did note that Clinton was the first candidate — Democratic or Republican — to criticize Trump directly over his comments about Mexican immigrants and, later, Syrian refugees.
[The GOP's implosion over Donald Trump's candidacy has arrived]
Trump captures the nation's attention on the campaign trail
The Republican candidate continues to dominate the presidential contest.
Businessman Donald Trump officially became the Republican nominee at the party's convention in Cleveland.
Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event at Trump Doral golf course in Miami. Carlo Allegri/Reuters
Several Clinton supporters said that if Trump is the GOP nominee, those comments are likely to be the focus of a major line of attack with the goal of boosting turnout among Latinos and other immigrant and minority voters who are turned off by Trump's rhetoric. They said Trump is the Republicans' own worst enemy in a general election, even as he holds mass appeal among white working- and middle-class voters likely to determine the party's nomination.
And Clinton's allies will have the resources to wage those attacks on the airwaves. At the beginning of February, Priorities USA Action, the largest super PAC supporting her, had nearly $45 million in its war chest and had spent a relatively modest amount — about $4 million — boosting Clinton in the primaries.
The super PAC plans to raise at least $200 million in the 2016 cycle, the lion's share of it intended for the general election.
"It became clear by last summer that Donald Trump wasn't going anywhere and this was a real campaign," said Priorities USA spokesman Justin Barasky. "Our main focus has always been the general election."
"Generally, we're going to do everything we can to make sure she wins," he added.
The crux of Clinton's strategy, several allies said, would be to compare Trump's immigration program to hers: a wall and a hard line on deportation vs. a path to citizenship and an emphasis on keeping families together. This construct has already been used by Clinton, as well as by surrogates in Nevada and Colorado, and Clinton allies envision it as a rallying cry for Hispanic support in the general election.
Clinton's recent pitch to "break down every barrier," for instance, is an implicit contrast to Trump's promise to build a wall along the border with Mexico and to deport all 12 million immigrants living in the United States illegally. And her occasional appeal to bring more "love and kindness" into the political sphere appears to have Trump in mind.
"We don't need to make America great," Clinton said Saturday, playing on Trump's signature promise after her big victory in South Carolina's primary. "America has never stopped being great. We do need to make America whole again. Instead of building walls, we need to be tearing down barriers."
Her campaign also plans to hold one or more huge rallies with Hispanic supporters, including elected leaders, entertainers and writers, said a Clinton donor familiar with her Hispanic outreach efforts. One such event could come before the Democratic convention in July and another after, the supporter said.
Already, Clinton has targeted Trump directly on Twitter and on the stump, usually over immigration and the threat to U.S. influence abroad from what she has called "loose talk."
On Sunday, Clinton retweeted Sanders on the subject of Trump: "America's first black president cannot and will not be succeeded by a hatemonger who refuses to condemn the KKK," the message said. That was a reference to Trump's refusal to disavow the support of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.
[Sanders says he'll stay in until all 50 states have voted]
Trump claimed last year that Mexico exports "killers and rapists" to the United States, producing one of Clinton's first and most pointed denunciations of him.
Latino voters are baffled by the rhetoric, and while few believe Trump could actually deport so many people or build the wall he promises, many are worried and offended, said Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Democratic Caucus and a Clinton supporter. Trump's broadsides come in an election year when some Republican leaders had hoped to make a values-based appeal to Hispanic voters and improve the party's image with the nation's fastest-growing demographic.
A recent Washington Post-
Univision poll showed that 74 percent of Hispanic voters say Trump's views on immigration are offensive. The poll found that 82 percent of Hispanic voters want the next president to support a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants — and that 43 percent would not vote for a candidate who opposes such a policy.
Becerra predicts that a wave of new and motivated Hispanic voters will oppose Trump. "Donald Trump is building his own wall to keep Latinos from voting for him. It may be the only wall he builds," he said.
Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Tex.), a Clinton supporter, told MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell on Monday that Trump has turned the race "into a farce" and is energizing Hispanic voters to oppose him.
It has never been easier, Castro said, for him to persuade friends and associates to vote.
"When one candidate is saying you're a murderer and a rapist, it's kind of a no-brainer" that voters will prefer the alternative, Becerra joked.
[Poll: The Hispanic electorate in 2016]
Although Trump boasted Monday that he had done well among Hispanic voters in Nevada's Republican caucuses and would continue to do well with that large and growing voter group, Democrats supporting Clinton say they are confident he could attract no more than about one in four Latino voters nationally.
At his rally in Radford, Trump said he believes there is more enthusiasm among Republican voters than among Democrats, pointing to voting totals in the South Carolina primary. Although Clinton's victory there showed her enduring strength among black voters, lower turnout may bode ill for Clinton in the long haul, Trump suggested.
"I drew — the Republicans drew — so much more, so many more votes. Like double. And they went down because there's no enthusiasm for Hillary. None," Trump said. "We went way up because, whether people like me or not, there is enthusiasm on the Republican side. That I can tell you. There is enthusiasm. Big, big, big enthusiasm."
Trump has perfectly captured the mood of the Republican base, said pollster Stanley Greenberg, who worked for former president Bill Clinton. Greenberg released findings Monday from a poll of likely GOP voters showing that immigration and cultural differences are main drivers for white, working-class Republicans.
"Why is it Donald Trump appears to be headed to be the Republican nominee? He understands the Republican electorate better than anyone else" this cycle, Greenberg told reporters.
But that understanding comes at the potential cost of alienating more than Hispanic voters in the general election, he said. Women, Catholics and moderate Republicans generally expressed worry about a Trump candidacy.
Greenberg's survey of 800 likely Republican voters found that 20 percent of Republicans have not decided whether they would back Trump or Clinton in a head-to-head contest.
Meanwhile, although Clinton remains focused on the Democratic nomination, her campaign hopes that her outreach to Latinos in upcoming primary states will lay the groundwork for boosting turnout in the general election. She is favored Tuesday in Texas, where Hispanics are a sizable portion of the electorate.
In addition, the political arm of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus announced its support for Clinton on Monday.
Clinton is also looking past Super Tuesday to Florida, an important swing state and the next one on the primary calendar with a large and influential Hispanic population. Clinton is holding her Super Tuesday evening rally in Miami, where Trump and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) also are scheduled to be that day. All are focused on the state's March 15 primary.
Jose DelReal in Radford, Va., and Scott Clement contributed to this report.
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