In the wake of Netanyahu's campaign pledge to extend sovereignty over Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria, the Defense Ministry revealed it had approved plans for over 3,600 new housing units in those areas.
The Israeli Defense Ministry's Civil Administration High Planning Subcommittee, which authorizes construction in Judea and Samaria, advanced plans for 3,659 homes according to a statement issued by a government official on Sunday, reported Times of Israel.
As part of the decision, 1,226 homes were reportedly cleared with final approval for construction even before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced he plans to extend Israeli sovereignty to all Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria if he succeeds in elections scheduled to take place this week.
The balance of the homes cleared the "deposit" stage, an earlier planning phase in the approval process.
With a total of 3,659 homes advancing, this batch of approvals represents the largest group of homes advancing toward construction since Donald Trump took office.
Among the communities in which new housing units were approved are Shilo, Peduel, Mitzpe Jericho, Elon Moreh, and Rehelim.
Construction projects in Etz Efrayim, Givat Ze'ev, Karnei Shomron, Beitar Illit and Ma'ale Adumim received final approval for construction.
Haresha also received the green-light for 720 new homes, eliminating uncertainty regarding the town's status more than 20 years after the first families started the community. While Haresha's growth had been thwarted by claims that its access road traversed private Palestinian land, a legal opinion issued by Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit in November 2017 authorized the community's presence.


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Cette chronologie des arts étrusques classe les différentes traces de la production étrusque par leurs noms et suivant ses différentes périodes historiques.

Périodes considérées

Civilisation villanovienne

 Vase biconique
 Fibule
 Premières importations de céramique grecque

Période orientalisante

 Canope,
 Vase à décoration plastique
 Bucchero a cilindretto
 Premières fresques de tombes des métropoles

Période archaïque

 Sculpture funéraire
 Bas-relief en pietra fetida
 Sculpture cinéraire
 Bucchero a stampo
 Importation de céramique attique à figures noires
 Vase François

Époque classique

 Importation de céramique attique à figures rouges
 Imitation de céramique grecque
 Grand bronze (Arringatore)
 Sarcophage
 Urne en albâtre ou en marbre
 Céramique à vernis noir

Période hellénistique

 Urne en terracotta
 Orfèvrerie à granulation et à filigrane
 Tablettes inscrites

Notes et références

Bibliographie
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Sources
 Panneau synoptique du musée archéologique national de Chiusi

Articles connexes
 Art étrusque
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Liens externes
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Art etrusque
Art étrusque
Vie quotidienne chez les Étrusques

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Q: React.memo isn't working - what am I missing? I'm in the process of refactoring some of our components so I'm trying to incorporate memoization as some components may re-render with the same values (for example, hotlinked image URLs unless they are the same).
I have a simple component:
const CardHeader = props => {
    // img is a stringand showAvatar is a boolean but it's always true
    const { ..., showAvatar, img } = props;

    return (
        <CardHeader>
            <ListItem>
                // AvatarImage shouldn't re-render if img is the same as previous
                {showAvatar && <AvatarImage img={img} />
            </ListItem>
        </CardHeader>
    );
}

And then the AvatarImage:
const AvatarImage = React.memo(props => {
   console.log("why is this still re-rendering when the img value hasn't changed?");
   const { img } = props;

   return (
        <ListItemAvatar>
            {img ?
                <Avatar src={img} />
                :
                <Avatar>
                    Some initials
                </Avatar>
            }
        </ListItemAvatar>
    );
});

I have also tried passing in second argument of memo:
(prevProps, nextProps) => {
    return true; // Don't re-render!
}

But the console.log still shows every time. I'm obviously missing something here or don't quite understand how this works. This component is a few levels down, but it passes in the img if it's available every time so I'd expect it to know that if the img was passed in the previous render and it's the same it knows not to re-render it again but for some reason it does?
Thanks all. It's much appreciated.

A: Well it is either showAvatar is not always true or CardHeader ListItem component magically decides whether show children or not
Example

const { useState, useEffect, memo, createContext, useContext } = React;

const getAvatars = () => Promise.resolve([
{
  src: 'https://i.picsum.photos/id/614/50/50.jpg'
},
{
  src: 'https://i.picsum.photos/id/613/50/50.jpg'
}
])

const Avatar = ({src}) => {
console.log('avatar render');
  return
}

const MemoAvatarToggle = memo(({src}) => {
console.log('memo avatar with \'expression &&\' render');
  return

  {src ?  :
Test
}

})

const CardHeader = ({children}) => {
  const luck = Boolean(Math.floor(Math.random() * 1.7));

  return

    {luck && children}

}

const ListItem = ({children}) => {
  return

    {children}

}

const ShowAvatarContext = createContext()

const App = (props) => {
  const [avatars, setAvatars] = useState([]);
  const [toggle, setToggle] = useState(false);
  const [showAvatar, setShowAvatar] = useContext(ShowAvatarContext);

  useEffect(() => {
    let isUnmounted = false;
    let handle = null;

    setTimeout(() => {
      if(isUnmounted) {
        return;
      }
      setShowAvatar(true);
    }, 500);

    getAvatars()
      .then(avatars => {
        if(isUnmounted) {
          return;
        }

        setAvatars(avatars)
      })

    const toggle = () => {
      setToggle(prev => !prev);
      handle = setTimeout(toggle, 1000);
      //setShowAvatar(prev => !prev);
    }

    handle = setTimeout(toggle, 1000);

    return () => {
      isUnmounted = true;
      clearTimeout(handle);
    }

  }, []);

  return

    <CardHeader>
      <ListItem>
        {showAvatar && avatars.map((avatar, index) => <MemoAvatarToggle key={index} src={avatar.src}/>)}
      </ListItem>
    </CardHeader>
    {toggle ? 1 : 0}

}

const ShowAvatarProvider = ({children}) => {
  const state = useState(false);

  return <ShowAvatarContext.Provider value={state}>
      {children}
    </ShowAvatarContext.Provider>
}

ReactDOM.render(
    <ShowAvatarProvider>
        <App/>
    </ShowAvatarProvider>,
    document.getElementById('root')
  );

A: Do you have StrictMode enabled? That will cause a component memoized with React.memo to render twice.
More information:

*

*https://reactjs.org/docs/strict-mode.html

*My React Component is rendering twice because of Strict Mode

A: memo will not block re-render if the component is actually referenced the changing props or functions.
In your scenario your AvatarImage referenced img, in this case if parent's state's img is changed, then your component will be re-rendered.
Alternatively, if your parent is just changed other props instead of img, then the AvatarImage will NOT be re-rendered.
Alternatively, if any props but you didn't add memo to AvatarImage, then AvatarImage will be re-rendered for each of parent's state updated.

A: You need to memorized img props too.
const CardHeader = props => {
  const { showAvatar, img } = props;
  const updatedIMG = React.useMemo(() => img, []);
  return (
    <CardHeader>
        <ListItem>
           {showAvatar && <AvatarImage img={updatedIMG} />
        </ListItem>
    </CardHeader>
  );
}

Above one would work

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We speak to Roberta McIlraith of OCULA about achieving the best possible vision and the importance of exceptional eyewear.
Gaynor Stanley spoke with some thought-leaders around town as to why Christchurch is soaring towards the stratosphere when it comes to tech industries and entrepreneurs.
An avid collector of all things sports, Lawson has built up quite the collection of memorabilia.
Ella James suggests three simple ways to make a change for good in the world.
We know we need to move our bodies to be fighting fit for whatever life throws our way, but among the excuses is the one about not knowing where to start.


Celebrating man's first steps on the Moon 50 year ago, The Moon—From Inner Worlds to Outer Space highlights the role of the Moon in art and science and culture to this day. The exhibition presents approximately 200 works and objects—from Galileo's 17th century sketches to space objects, moon rocks and contemporary art installations.
Team: Originally created by Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, the exhibition is curated by Susanne Østby and designed by Andrea Pinochet in consutation with Espen Vatn for Henie Onstad Kunstsenter.
The exhibition showcases works of Picasso, Miró, Ernst, Dubuffet and Matisse, as well as avant-guard works from the Cobra, Fluxus and Schwitters collections.
Team: The exhibition is curated by Caroline Ugelstad and designed by Andrea Pinochet in consutation with Espen Vatn.
Exhibition design for Henie Onstad Kunstsenter showcasing works by Mark Boyle, Joan Hills, Sebastian Boyle, Georgia Boyle & Soft Machine, with a room room dedicated to the Boyle's unique psychedelic light show for the legendary Soft Machine concert at the art center in 1971.
Høvikodden became a key place of work for the Boyle Family, and in the mid 1980´s, "The Boyle Family Archive" was established at Henie Onstad.
Team: The exhibition is curated by Lars Mørch Finborud in consutation with +groma.
Exhibition at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter presents Marina Abramović's retrospective The Cleaner, the most extensive presentation of Abramović's works in Norway to date.
In line with Henie Onstad Kunstsenter's history, the exhibition at Høvikodden presents several of Abramović's performances. The exhibition will consists of more than 120 works produced over five decades and is a unique opportunity to connect with Abramović's full-length artwork.
Team: The exhibition is curated by Tone Hansen and Lars Mørch Finborud in consutation with +groma, and organized by Moderna Museet, Stockholm, in collaboration with the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, and Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn.


Cao Yue, a Ph.D. student from University of California, Riverside, delivered a stunning show at the GeekPwn 2016 Macau Contest on May 12 attended by top-caliber white hat hackers worldwide. Cao succeeded in remotely hijacking TCP connections at his random choice.
In the 1990s when the Internet was just kicked off and developed, Kevin David Mitnick rose to global fame after he performed "Session Hijacking", based on then vulnerable TCP (Transmission Control Protocol).
Now, as TCP has been fairly developed and fortified after so many years' improvement, Cao could still find its vulnerability, which is of great importance to driving the industry toward beefing up cyber-security.
Cao Yue displayed his magic attack technique at GeekPwn Macau contest sponsored by the charismatic white hat hacker team KEEN. Provided that he gets to know a user's IP address anywhere in the world, Cao was able to hijack the user's communications remotely. In the onsite testing demo, the targeted user's computer screen, following an attack, popped up with a false log-on page. After the user inserted his/her account name and password, amazingly the whole thing reappeared on "attacker" Cao's computer.
The demo means that most Android or Linux system in the world could be possibly attacked with communications being hijacked, anytime, anywhere in the world. Unlike Trojans, phishing and other cheating software, Cao's attack technique could be so easy to succeed, with the victim doing nothing wrong.
To successfully hijack a TCP communication or letting the targeted user believe a received TCP segment is valid, the attacker needs to know the TCP port number and sequence number. The unpredictibility of more than 4 billion sequence numbers and more than 60,000 port numbers constitutes the security cornerstone of TCP – as these ports and sequence numbers make up more than 280 trillion possibilities.
In actual network environment, TCP port number and sequence number are almost impossible to be brute-force attacked on account of limitations of broadband width and communication duration. Nevertheless, Cao showed the technique that he was able to detect and arrest TCP port and sequence numbers within 1-2 minutes.
Cao Yue said: "GeekPwn is a promising and rapidly growing platform. Giving into full play of our Geek spirit, it has enjoyed widespread prestige among Chinese in California and has attracted our team to the contest in Macau".
According to Cao, his team consists of 5 members from University of California, Riverside, with Prof. Qian Zhiyun, a known TCP security expert, as their tutor. It took the team about six months to constantly improve the attack efficiency and success rates.
Cao got in touch with cyber security when he was a freshman, joining University of California, Riverside's Network Security Workshop. To improve programming algorithm and modeling thinking, he attended ACM programming contest and mathematical modeling contest. He started to research on information security and joined the university's cyber security research task force when he was a junior. Now, his main research courses into TCP security and wireless networking security.
The three GeekPwn contests to date have come up with a slew of security findings and probes, insiders and analysts say. Technological innovations and breakthroughs via GeekPwn has made it a world-leading platform. The so-called "white hat hackers", a term coined for ethical computer programmers, who hack in order to find weaknesses and vulnerabilities in systems, which will be submitted to manufacturers to improve cyber security.
GeekPwn was organized by Shanghai-based Keen, the security research team and designed to focuses on helping worldwide leading software and hardware firms discover and fix security vulnerabilities. GeekPwn contests is now held twice a year. Macau contest is added this year on May 12th with more international style and same level of award as GeekPwn Carnival contest to improve smart device manufacturers' security sense and ability globally. GeekPwn will give several annual best awards to extraordinary security geeks.
KEEN is the first Asian team to win prizes in the history of Pwn2Own. It has also won more Pwn2Own prizes than any other Asian teams. Up to now, hundreds of KEEN's security outcomes have been applied to every Windows PC, every Apple device and every Android device.


The distance between Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and Crow Agency, Mt, Usa is approximately 901 km or 560 mi.
To reach Winnipeg, Manitoba in this distance one would set out from Crow Agency, Mt bearing 54.2° or NE and follow the great circles arc to approach Winnipeg, Manitoba bearing 61.8° or ENE .
Total annual precipitation averages 100.4 mm (4 in) more which is equivalent to 100.4 l/m² (2.46 US gal/ft²) or 1,004,000 l/ha (107,334 US gal/ac) more. About 1 1/4 as much.
The altitude of the sun at midday is overall 4.3° lower in Winnipeg, Manitoba than in Crow Agency, Mt.
The table shows values for Winnipeg, Manitoba relative to Crow Agency, Mt. You can also view this comparison the other way around from the perspective of Crow Agency, Mt vs Winnipeg, Manitoba.


Light rain tomorrow through next Thursday, with high temperatures peaking at 61°F on Tuesday.
Windy until afternoon and rain until evening.
Breezy in the morning and mostly cloudy until afternoon.
Breezy starting in the afternoon and light rain starting in the evening.


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Vietnam reports five imported COVID-19 cases on September 27
Five new imported cases of COVID-19 were detected on September 27, raising the national count to 1,074, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.
VNA Sunday, September 27, 2020 18:59
Vietnam goes through 25 consecutive days without community infections
Vietnam reports no new COVID-19 cases on September 26
Saturday, September 26, 2020 18:50
No new COVID-19 cases, eight recovered patients recorded
Friday, September 25, 2020 19:02
No locally-transmitted COVID-19 cases for 22 consecutive days
Five new imported cases of COVID-19 were detected on September 27, raising the national count to 1,074 (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Five new imported cases of COVID-19 were detected on September 27, raising the national count to 1,074, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.
The new patients arrived in Tan Son Nhat airport in HCM City on a flight from France on September 25 and were quarantined in the southern province of Binh Duong immediately after arrival.
Among all the cases, 691 are domestically infected cases, including 551 recorded since the new outbreak began on July 25.
As of 6pm on September 27, a total 999 COVID-19 patients had been treated successfully. The fatalities remained at 35.
Among patients under treatment, there is no longer any critical case, while three have tested negative for SARS-CoV-2 once, four twice and 12 thrice.
A total 16,829 people are being quarantined nationwide./.
Topics: COVID-19
COVID-19 imported cases Binh Duong province quarantine vietnamplus vietnam news agency
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) has announced a water resources planning scheme for the 2021-2030 period with a vision to 2050, which was approved by the Prime Minister in December 2022.
Health Ministry warns of risks of COVID-19 outbreaks
The Ministry of Health (MoH) has warned of the potential risk of COVID-19 outbreaks due to the emergence of new variants of SARS-CoV-2.
HCM City ready to respond to COVID-19 pandemic during Tet
Ho Chi Minh City's health sector is ready to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic during the upcoming Tet (Lunar New Year) holidays and festival season 2023.
Hanoi develops human resources for health sector
Hanoi aims to have doctors at all healthcare stations by 2025, according to a human resources development plan for the 2022-2025 period issued by the municipal People's Committee.
HCM City sets targets for viral hepatitis prevention
Ho Chi Minh City targets to reduce the rate of hepatitis B virus infection in children under five years old to less than 0.5%, and prevent mother-to-child transmission of the hepatitis B virus by 2050.
Vietnam reports additional 71 COVID-19 cases on January 9
Vietnam recorded 71 new COVID-19 cases on January 9, according to the Ministry of Health.

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Pandemic Legacy: Eight months on from her Covid jab, my wife is still struggling to get back to 'normal' and I'm powerless to help....
An ex GP with a seriously ill wife explains why we should all cherish the NHS
Dr Peter Curtis spend his working life in the NHS, but when he retired he saw the service from the other side, as his wife developed a serious illness and he became her carer.
Monday, 9th April 2018, 10:40 am
Updated Monday, 9th April 2018, 10:46 am
Denise Curtis, who has Parkinson's Disease
Here, the former Leyland GP tells his story, and explains why we should cherish the NHS
"Ten years ago I retired from General Practice after 33 years working in the NHS.
"Since then my life has changed in so many ways. Nothing can compare with the pleasure that comes with six grandchildren and now having the time to be involved with them.
Wheelchair rugby player Myles Pearson in action
"My wife Denise and I now live with our younger daughter and her family and our elder daughter and family live across the road. This all came about because of the worsening of Denise's
"Parkinson's disease and the realisation that she (and I) would need extra help at sometime in the not too distant future.
"When Denise was first diagnosed, she regularly attended the excellent NHS Neurology service at Royal Preston Hospital.
"Through the clinic we were able to access the Parkinson's Nurse and Parkinson's UK who have both provided invaluable help, support and advice.
"I became Denise's full time carer eight years ago and between us we have had to overcome the hurdles of claiming for Disability Living Allowance, Personal Independence Payments and Continuing Healthcare assessments.
"A three-month stay in hospital after an emergency surgical admission three years ago brought up issues because being next of kin has no legal basis unless you also have a 'Lasting Power of Attorney for Health and Care decisions'.
"As a result the decisions whether to operate or not and whether to agree a 'Do Not Attempt Resuscitation' were actually made by the doctors, albeit after discussion with me.
"After a long stay in the surgical ward, Denise was transferred to the Neuro Rehab unit as her severe illness had taken away her mobility and she needed rehabilitation and assessment for her needs at home. Unfortunately Physio and OT treatments were unsuccessful and Denise was at risk of becoming a 'Bed Blocker'.
"Whilst the family desperately wanted Denise home, we needed all the bells and whistles that would enable this - electric hoist, hospital bed, air mattress, 'tilt in space' wheelchair, PEG feeding tube instruction, day and night carers etc.
"Providing this care package at home needed a 'Continuing Healthcare' assessment. This is a very daunting process where you can feel that it is all stacked up against you. I was not allowed access to Denise's records to see what care she would need at home as I did not have the Power of Attorney. A large hint that Denise would not be able to be discharged home unless I saw any appropriate records soon sorted that out.
"The assessment was an emotional but successful one and we finally had Denise back home.
"Since coming home things have run reasonably smoothly with occasional flare-ups of symptoms and complications needing GP intervention. The hoist broke down last Easter weekend with same day replacement. Some issues with the pump for the feeding tube were sorted out with a quick replacement and the bed was replaced because of a problem with the cot sides.
"The wheel chair had a prompt repair to its tilt mechanism. Denise has carers visiting daily and four nights a week. We have contact with the District Nurse or dietitian as needed and I am sure there are others I could contact if necessary.
"All of these services and all the equipment needed have been provided directly or indirectly by the NHS, efficiently and at no cost to us. What have I learned from this? Firstly, having been a GP actually gave me very little true insight into many of the problems faced by carers (this may of course have been my fault). I am still learning. When you become a full time carer you can become very protective and also introspective. Do not decline help out of hand. DLA and now the PIP claims benefit from insider knowledge and Parkinson's UK were particularly helpful to us. Continuing Healthcare assessments are especially difficult. I had to do a lot of research on the internet for this and I benefitted from being able to ask a GP colleague to extract more information from Denise's GP records to help fill in some gaps. Make sure you have Lasting Power of Attorneys for 'Health and Care' and 'Property and Financial'.
"Finally, cherish the NHS for you will all have the need for it at some time from cradle to grave."
As we continue our series celebrating 70 years of the NHS, a local Paralympian has explained what it means to him.
From starring for Team GB at the London 2012 Paralympic Games to rubbing shoulders with royalty, athlete Myles Pearson said he owes it all to the NHS.
The 25-year-old wheelchair rugby star from Warton had a series of operations when he was a youngster and needed regular physio.
Myles who competed in the Egmont Games in Denmark with his club West Coast Crash over the weekend, said: "My condition is such that I needed my legs to be straightened out so I had various different surgeries to straighten them, and also my hands as well.
"I needed physio to maintain it. The local NHS provided physios, who not only provided physio but provided support for both my parents to show them how to do it.
"I'm able to do it independently now but without the NHS when I was younger, that would have been impossible.
"There's lots of things we need to look after and I think the NHS is one of them. You could have so many more sportsmen coming through, being supported by the NHS, people like me.
"Just by maintaining what we have now, could lead to more success for the country in the future."
Myles was born with arthrogryposis, which causes curved joints in parts of the body at birth.
But thanks to the NHS, former St Bede's RC School pupil was able to take part in London 2012 – and was the youngest member of Team GB's wheelchair rugby team at the age of 19.
The sport is nicknamed 'murderball' and is Myle's passion. He took it up after first playing wheelchair tennis and plays for West Coast Crash, based in Southport.
"I was hugely lucky to have amazing physios," he said after beating Holland on Friday morning. They also gave support to my folks (mum Joanna Pendered and dad Martyn Pearson) as well, and I know they can't thank them enough."
Boris Johnson: Number of Covid fines handed out by Lancashire Police revealed as Sue Gray's investigation into Downing Street parties continues


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We missed a chance to do prisons right
Fri, 2015-03-13 16:20 +0000 — Chris Dornin
As you may know, the project to build a new women's prison is running way over budget and planners are going back to the drawing board. That could be a blessing. What if they built a proper community corrections system and a smaller women's prison with the original funding? I wrote this legislative testimony about it a year ago before the designs were finalized. My comments below are somewhat dated now, but lawmakers have a rare second chance to make the best decision for women prisoners, for the state budget and for public safety.
(Presented March 9, 2014)
By Chris Dornin, founder, CCJR, cldornin@aol.com
We should thank New Hampshire lawmakers for funding a new $40.4 million prison for women. If the facility gets proper staffing, it will prepare offenders for the street far better than we have done in Goffstown. The whole medical department there operates from a 600-square-foot space. But we could have built a smaller prison and a community corrections network for the same price. Those missing new halfway houses and sober houses were vital to helping women offenders rebuild their lives and families. Many of them have addiction, childcare and employment issues that sent them to prison in the first place.
Maybe Medicaid expansion will give these parolees the healthcare insurance they need to buy meds, counseling, preventive care and addiction treatment. Maybe their personal health coverage will create a decentralized aftercare system in response to their new ability to pay for it. Or maybe Medicaid expansion will last two years and sunset.
This continuum of treatment isn't a dream. Sullivan County solved a similar jail crowding problem by building a community corrections center and renovating the existing jail. The Ricci Green Associates consulting firm advised them to build a $45 million jail. The county did $1.3 million in renovations instead to the existing lockup and added a $5.6 million community corrections center four years ago. Here's what county administrator Greg Chanis said about that frugal decision on the county website:
"In Sullivan County, we were able to work with the public and our key stakeholders to go in a direction of developing a strong reentry system and build a smaller facility that met our needs.The leadership from the county commissioners, the superintendent, the county attorneys, and community providers and a strong reentry committee allowed us to build a strong conceptual design that the public could understand and support."
When New Hampshire closed Laconia State School, an institution twice as big could have replaced it. Instead, we launched a revolution in treatment based on area agencies, family care and community residences. Likewise, we built a small new state hospital and a network of mental health centers, group homes and subsidized housing for people with mental illness. Both community systems are under stress now from years of budgetary neglect, but the principle is still valid. Restore people in the most normal setting.
It may be too late to change the plan for this women's prison, but we can delete that special room where the worst inmates would talk to each other in classes and group therapy from separate maximum security booths as if they were rival Mexican drug lords or residents in a profit-making prison. That space belongs in Abu Ghraib. There's similar talk of importing women from other states to fill our facility, defray some of its cost, and expand the range of rehabilitation.
We should proceed here with caution. Families of prisoners have told lawmakers many times it is cruel and unusual punishment to imprison their loved ones far away. But prison reformers might be open to housing Vermont or Massachusetts women here instead of in Arizona or Mississippi. That would be much better for them. Likewise, women federal prisoners from New Hampshire should do their time here.
No matter how well the new prison teaches and trains women and addresses their mental health, post traumatic stress, parenting and substance abuse issues behind razor wire, we lack serious plans for state-funded rehab programs on the outside to keep women from going back to prison. Ultimately, we are perpetuating a 19th century philosophy of corrections based on vengeance, segregation and the demonization of prisoners in secrecy. That's what our practice of shunning unavoidably says to the outside world, even when the personnel are as caring as the staff we are blessed to have in Goffstown, even when the designs allude to a college quad, but with razor wire instead of ivy on the walls. All a passerby sees is the razor wire.
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Simmer this custard five minutes over hot coals, but do not let it come to a boil. Then set it away to cool. Having boiled an ounce of the best Russian isinglass in a pint of water till it is entirely dissolved and the water reduced to one-half, strain it into the custard, stir it hard, and set it aside to get quite cold.
Whip to a stiff froth a quart of rich cream, taking it off in spoonfuls as you do it, and putting it to drain on an inverted sieve. When the custard is quite cold, (but not yet set or congealing,) stir the whipt cream gradually into it.
Take a circular mould of the shape of a drum, the sides being straight. Cut to fit it two round slices from the top and bottom of an almond sponge-cake; glaze them with white of egg-, and lay one on at the bottom of the mould, reserving the other for the top. You can get the mould at a tinner's.
Having thus covered the bottom, line the sides of the mould with more of the sponge-cake, cut into long squares and glazed all over with white of egg. They must be placed so as to stand up all round-each wrapping a little over the other so as to leave not the smallest vacancy between; and they must be cut exactly the height of the mould, and trimmed evenly. Then fill up with the custard and cream when it is just begin ning to congeal; and cover the top with the other round slice of cake.


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Zāʾ
Author(s): Wensinck, A. J.
, Zāy, 11th letter of the Arabic alphabet, with the numerical value of 7. For its palaeographical pedigree, see arabia, plate i. It belongs to the sibilants ( al-ḥurūf al-asalīya) and corresponds to the same sound in the other Semitic languages. It is pronounced like English and French z. In the spoken Arabic of to-day z may also represent other sounds of the classical language, such as d̲h̲ and ẓ. In Persia and Turkey Arabic ḍ is often pronounced z. (A. J. Wensinck) Bibliography W. Wright, Comparative Grammar of the Semitic Languages, Cambridge 1890, p. 57 sq. A. Schaade, Sibawaihī's Lautleh…
Source: Encyclopaedia of Islam, First Edition (1913-1936)
Zāb
(1,014 words)
Author(s): Yver, G.
, a region of Algeria. The name Zāb (plur. Zibān) is given to the area around Biskra measuring about 125 miles from W. to E. and 30 to 40 from N. to S. It is a rather flat plain shading in the south into the Sahara and bordered on the north by the southern slopes of the Saharan Atlas, but having easy communication with the depression of the Hodna and the plateaus of Constantine through a wide gap which opens up between the hills of Zāb and the Awrās. Being subject to desert influences Zāb has only rare a…
al-Zāb
Author(s): Honigmann, E.
, the name of two left bank tributaries (al-Zawābī) of the Tigris. 1. The Upper or Great Zāb ( Zāb al-aʿlā or al-akbar) was known already to the Assyrians as Zabu ēlū, the "Upper Zāb". The Greeks called it Lykos (Weissbach, s. v., N°. 12 in Pauly-Wissowa, R.E., vol. xiii., col. 2391 sq.; on the name see J. Markwart, Südarmenien, Vienna 1930, p. 429 sq.), the Byzantines however have again ό μέγαΣ ΖάβαΣ (Theophan., Chron., ed. de Boor, p. 318, 320). In Syriac it was called Zābhā, in Armenian Zaw (Thomas Arcruni, ed. Patkanean, 111/iv., p. 143; transl. Brosset, in Collection d'hist. Arméniens, i. 1…
Zābag
Author(s): Ferrand, Gabriel
(), inaccurately transcribed Zābed̲j̲ < Sanskrit Jāvaka, the name of an island. The Arabic transcription, so far as I am aware, goes back to the ninth century a. d. We do not see why the Arabic has rendered by a sonant the guttural occlusive surd of the Sanskrit. The fact that we might be dealing with a form borrowed from a highly sonorous Prākrit hardly seems to me to require to be considered here. The Chinese knew this place-name as early as the seventh century under various forms which are reproduced in Chinese characters in L'empire sumatranais de Çrīvijaya: S̲h̲e-li Fo-s̲h̲e < Skr. Śrī Vijay…
Zabāniya
(4 words)
[See Malāʾika.]
Zabīd
Author(s): Strothmann, R.
, a town in the Tihāma of Yaman, on the road running from north to south from Mecca to ʿAden, halfway between the Yaman highlands and the Red Sea, about 16 miles from the coast. At this distance the country is suitable for agriculture in view of the better water-supply, and the town itself is adjoined by two wādīs, in the north the Wādī Rimaʿ and the south the perennial Wādī Zabīd, from which it has taken the name which has replaced the original al-Ḥusaib. In contrast to the rest of the Tihāma it is famous for its gardens with date-palms, ¶ a little corn, indigo and various medicinal plants; th…
Zabūr
Author(s): Horovitz, J.
(a.), probably a loanword from the South, but already used by pre-Islāmic poets in the sense of "writ"; in this sense it is still found in al-Farazdaḳ, Naḳāʾiḍ, lxxv. 1. From the second Makkan period onwards, Muḥammad uses the plural zubur in order to denote the revealed books (Sūra xxvi. 196; iii. 181; xvi. 46; xxxv. 23) as well as the heavenly writings, in which human deeds are recorded (Sūra liv. 43, 52). The singular zabūr, on the other hand, occurs in the Ḳurʾān exclusively in connection with Dāwūd. In the early Sūra xvii. 57 Muḥ…
[See Zakārīyāʾ.]
Ẓafār
Author(s): Tkatsch, J.
, 1. now a group of ruins near an insignificant village in southern Yaman, about 10 miles S. W. of Yarīm, celebrated in ancient times as the capital of the Ḥimyar kingdom (also called Ẓafāri; see Yāḳūt, Muʿd̲j̲am, iii. 576; i. 196; South Arabian inscriptions give the radicals ẓ-p[f]-r; it is reproduced in Ethiopie as Ṣafār). ¶ The royal city is mentioned by Pliny, Natur. Hist., vi. 104 as regia Sapphar and in the Periplus Mar. Erythr., § 23 as μητρόπολιΣ ΣαΦάρ in which χαριβαήλ (Karibaʾil), "king of the Homerites (Ḥimyar) and Sabaeans" ruled, of that dynasty which, succ…
al-Zafayān
Author(s): Bräu, H. H.
, nickname of the rad̲j̲az poet ʿAṭāʾ b. Usaid Abu 'l-Miḳāl (according to another reading: Miḳdām). He belonged to the Banū ʿUwāfa, a branch of the tribe of Saʿd b. Zaid Manāt b. Tamīm, whence he was known as al-Saʿdī or al-Tamīmī. It is clear from one of his poems that he went through the rising of Abū Fudaik (73 = 692) and was roughly a contemporary of al-ʿAd̲j̲d̲j̲ād̲j̲. (H. H. Bräu) Bibliography A few quoted fragments of his urd̲j̲ūza's from a defective copy of the Dīwān, ed. by Ahlwardt in Sammlungen alter arab. Dichter, Berlin 1903, vol. ii.
al-Ẓāfir
[See Fāṭimids , above ii. 91.]
al-Zahāwī
Author(s): Kratschkowsky, Ign.
, Ḏj̲amīl Ṣidḳī, the greatest Arabic poet of modern ʿIrāḳ, born in Bag̲h̲dād on 29th Ḏh̲u 'l-Ḥid̲j̲d̲j̲a 1279 (June 18, 1863), died on Feb. 23, 1936. His father Muḥammad Faiḍī al-Zahāwī, muftī of Bag̲h̲dād, was of Kurdish descent of the house of al-Bābān, members of which had once been emīrs of Sulaimānīya [q.v.]; according to a legend, they trace their family back to the famous Arab general Ḵh̲ālid b. al-Walīd [q.v.]. His grandfather lived for a time in Zahāw in Persia, whence the nisba. His mother was also of Kurdish descent. He was a pupil of his father in the traditional Muslim br…
Zāhid
[See Zuhd.]
al-Ẓāhir
[See the articles Baibars I , Barḳūḳ , Fāṭimids , Supra, ii. 90.]
Ẓāhir
[See Bāṭin.]
Author(s): Zetterstéen, K. V.
bi-Amr Allāh Abū Naṣr Muḥammad b. al-Nāṣir, an ʿAbbāsid Caliph. As early as Ṣafar 585 (March-April 1189) the caliph al-Nāṣir had designated his eldest son Muḥammad as his successor. Later however, he changed his mind in favour of his younger son ʿAlī but since the latter died in 612 (1215—1216) and al-Nāṣir had no other male heirs, he had to come back to Muḥammad and again have homage paid to him as heir-apparent. Regarding the treatment given the future commander of the faithful in his father's house…
Ẓahīr al-Dīn
Author(s): Huart, Cl.
(Saiyid) al-Marʿas̲h̲ī, son of the Saiyid Nāṣir al-Dīn, descendant of a family of ¶ Saiyids, Persian statesman and historian, born in 815 (1412), was at the court of Muḥammad, Sulṭān of Gīlān, for whose son Kārgiā Mīrzā ʿAlī he composed the Chronicle of Ṭabaristān from the earliest times to 881 (1476). The sovereign employed him on various missions, sent him to the help of Malik Iskandar, son of Malik Kayomart̲h̲ of Rustamdār, who was fighting his brother Malik Kāʾūs and entrusted him with other military expeditions; among these …
Ẓahīr-i Fāryābī
, Abu 'l-Faḍl Ṭāhir b. Muḥammad, Persian poet of the xiith century, born at Fāryāb near Balk̲h̲ in 551 (1156), a pupil of Ras̲h̲īdī of Samarḳand, entered the service of Ardas̲h̲īr b. Ḥasan, ispahbad of Māzandarān (d. 607 = 1210), then went to the court of Tog̲h̲ān, prince of Nīs̲h̲āpūr (d. 582= 1186); after being imprisoned for six years, he left Ḵh̲urāsān for'ʿIrāḳ ʿAd̲j̲amī where he wrote panegyrics on the Atābek Ḳizil-Arslān b. Ildigiz about 583 (1187). Towards the end of his life, he retired from the world and led a life of…
al-Ẓāhirīya
, a school of law, which would derive the law only from the literal text ( ẓāhir) of the Ḳurʾān and Sunna. In the "branches" of law ( furūʿ al-fiḳh) it still further increased the number of contradictory detailed regulations by many divergencies, peculiar to it alone. More important is its significance for the principles of legislation ( uṣūl al-fiḳh), the development and elucidation of which it considerably furthered by its uncompromising fight against raʾy, ḳiyās, istiṣḥāb, istiḥsān and taḳlīd [q. v.]. In the ʿIrāḳ the Ẓāhirī mad̲h̲hab, also called Dāʾūdī after its founder [see dāʾūd b.…
Ẓāhir al-ʿOmar
Author(s): Lammens, H.
In Syria, he is called Ḍāhir (local pronunciation of Ẓāhir) al-(āl-)ʿOmar, from the name of his father ʿOmar, s̲h̲aik̲h̲ of the Banū Zaidān, nomads who had settled in the district of Ṣafad [q. v.]. In 1750, Ẓāhir lord of Tiberias and the upper Jordan, came to an arrangement with the Metwalis of Galilee to drive out the Turkish officials by degrees; after which he seized the ruined port of ʿAkkā which was to serve him as an outlet for the export of cotton and silk. He repopulated the town and hu…
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Q: Dynamic mysqli prepared statement I need help creating a method for dynamic mysqli prepared statements. The code below has errors. I know I'm completely off with the way mysqli_stmt_bind_param is set up but I can't figure out a solution. My coding style is probably strange since I'm using OO php, but procedural mysqli. I haven't had the time to figure out OO mysqli since the books and videos I read/watch use procedural mysqli. Most of the solutions I've seen for this problem use OO mysqli. I'd prefer to get a short-term fix for this rather than having to learn PDO after I spent so much time learning mysqli.
public function create($sql, $param_type, $param){
    //param_type should be set as $param_type = "'ssss'" so that single quotes get passed into the variable
    //param should be an array
    //param array items should be escaped
    $stmt = mysqli_prepare($this->dbc, $sql);
    mysqli_stmt_bind_param($stmt, $param_type, join(array_values($param), ", "));
    $result = mysqli_stmt_execute($stmt);

    if($result){
        return true;
    } else{
        return false;
    }
    mysqli_stmt_close($stmt);
}

A: To use OO mysqli is simple:

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*Change every mysqli_blah($this->dbc) call to $this->dbc->blah().

*Change every mysqli_stmt_blah($stmt) call to $stmt->blah().

*Profit!

Also, always check the return value from prepare() and execute().  They return false when there's an error in parsing or execution, and you need to check for these and report errors every time.
The mysqli_stmt_bind_param() function is tricky because it expects a variable number of arguments, one for each letter in the param type argument, not a string of comma-separated values.  Also, it requires you pass variables by reference, not scalars, and not a single array.

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*WRONG: mysqli_stmt_bind_param($stmt, "sss", "red,green,blue");

*WRONG: mysqli_stmt_bind_param($stmt, "sss", "red", "green", "blue");

*WRONG: mysqli_stmt_bind_param($stmt, "sss", $param_array);

*RIGHT: mysqli_stmt_bind_param($stmt, "sss", $param1, $param2, $param3);
This makes it difficult and confusing to do what you're doing: writing a general-purpose function to prepare and execute an SQL statement with a dynamic number of parameters.  You have to use call_user_func_array() but you have to rewrite the array of arguments as an array of references.
I wrote examples in a couple of my past SO answers:

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*How to bind an arbitrary number of values to a prepared statement in mysqli?

*mysqli_prepare vs PDO
PDO solves this much more easily, you don't have bind anything, you just pass an array to execute().


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Q: Multi environment configuration of SPA with vendors REST backend I'm working on a single page application based on Angular 1.5.
The backend for the app is external vendor REST service.
Application will be run on 3 environments:

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*local

*staging

*production

On each environment there is different URL to the backend:

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*local => backend.local

*staging => backend.staging

*production => backend.production

On each environment i want to be able to run end2end tests by protractor, in this case backend will be mocked (Backend URL should point to dedicated MockServer instance)
E2E test mode

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*local => mockserver.local

*staging => mockserver.staging

*production => mockserver.production

Additionaly it would be nice to build application only once and then just deploy on each environment and run E2E test before users can test it by hand.
What is the best way to handle configuration to achieve those requirements?

A: I use a properties file on the webserver on each environment with the url. This way I can deploy 1 application on all environments.
As an alternative you can store your urls in a seperate 'applicationparam' table in the database


A few years ago, my family was moving from Texas to Illinois. We had a very short timeframe to sell our house and make the move. As I prayed about it, I felt God wanted us to make the move between February 15th and February 28th, a two week window of time―that was less than two months away.
I wondered what to do. It was critical that we sell our house quickly. Then I was reminded of the Israelites in Exodus, chapter 14.
"Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us to the desert to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt? Didn't we say to you in Egypt, 'Leave us alone; let us serve the Egyptians'? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!" (Exodus 14:11-12).
"Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the LORD will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again. The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still" (Exodus 14:13-14).
Even Moses couldn't have guessed that God was going to part the Red Sea for them to cross, but he knew that God had brought them this far, and He could bring them home.
In my own small way, I felt like Moses with my back up against the Sea. I was about to panic when I got that realtor's letter. But I decided to "stand firm." As if in confirmation of my decision, I read another story in 1 Kings 18 where God answered the prayers of one man, Elijah, over the misguided prayers of 450 others. It was close enough to my situation up against the 470 realtors mentioned in the letter that it gave me goose bumps!
Three weeks later we had a buyer for the house. We finalized the sale on February 26th and pulled out of town on February 28th.
Standing orders are good orders. If God hasn't directed a change in your plans, the best plan is to "stand firm" in the plan He's already given you.
Don't give in to fear. Stand firm in God!


The glass ceiling in the corporate world is not broken, but it is starting to crack.
Women are getting on to corporate boards at greater speed, and in greater numbers.
(America, Germany, India, Italy and Norway) women it lists as directors reached the position faster than their male counterparts did.
In America, for example, women got there 9.8 years after leaving university and men after 10.9 years.
This suggests that younger women are making good progress in the boardroom. Overall, however, females are still lagging behind the males.
The proportion of people in leadership roles (director-level and above) that is female in the five countries varies from 17% in India to 35% in America.
a campaign there called the 30% club has managed to increase the share of female directors of FTSE 100 companies from 12.5% in 2010 to 30.6%.
But as the world marks International Women's Day on March 8th, it is clear that the glass ceiling has not shattered.
Some firms may be paying only lip service to the idea of female leadership.
a statistical bunching of American companies with exactly two female directors.
The authors suggest this is directly related to the average number of female directors on S&P1500 boards in the period studied (2004-13), which was 1.92.
By opting for two women, businesses could claim they had "above average" female representation.
In any case, a rise in the number of female directors is a narrow measure of female economic success.
and board members may be able push through more female-friendly policies lower down in their organisations.
But the vast majority of women would never expect to become directors.
What they value is an opportunity to get a well-paid job and to be free from discrimination while doing it.


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Q: Using HTTPS and httpWebRequest I am sending httpwebrequests to the paypal api server and this uses https. I did the normal things that you normally do with http requests, and it worked. Do I need to do anything special to properly use https, or is specifying https in the request URL enaugh to make it work?
Thanks!
Btw my requests are being sent from my server, so it isn't as important to encrypt them as if they where being sent from the client computer, but still I want to do it right.

A: Simply swapping http with https is fine enough while using HttpWebRequest. It requires no special handling for https requests.

A: Changing the URL to https should be enough provided that there are no issues with the certificate.
SSL will check for 3 things when it comes to certificates:

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*The cert was issued to the URI that you are hitting

*The cert is not expired

*The cert was issued by a trusted authority (e.g.: Verisign)

Of these criteria, #3 is the most commonly failed check. You can programatically ignore any or all of these errors (at your own risk). Here is an example on how to do that.
That said, if this is for the Paypal api, you should not have any certificate errors.

A: Work with https if you use method SetCookies(Uri, string) of CookieContainer class server will reject your request!
To use cookie after login you must use single cookie object!


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Home & Garden|Embracing Miami's Past and Future
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Currents | Q+A
Embracing Miami's Past and Future
Allan Shulman has designed the newly opened 5,000-square-foot Miami Center for Architecture and Design.Credit...Moris Moreno for The New York Times
By Linda Lee
Allan Shulman, the 51-year-old principal of the architectural firm Shulman & Associates in Miami, first became known for historic preservation. He rescued the 1915 Browns Hotel on lower Ocean Drive, which was built of pine. And he found a way to save much of the Art Deco Lincoln Theater on Lincoln Road, turning it into a stylish glass-walled H & M store. His new, 5,000-square-foot Miami Center for Architecture and Design (known as MCAD) opened last Friday in part of the 1912 main Miami Post Office, on Northeast First Avenue, in Downtown Miami. Over the years, the building had suffered much indignity, including a spell as an Office Depot. Now, as the new headquarters of the American Institute of Architects Miami chapter, it will be a place for free community events as well as professional gatherings. Speaking by phone from his office in the Miami Design District, Mr. Shulman, president of the Miami chapter, offered details about MCAD and opinions on the city's building scene. (The interview has been edited and condensed.)
Your office said MCAD cost an impressively low $60 a square foot. What considerations went into its design?
We wanted it to be a contemporary space, because Miami has a contemporary image. So the back half is open-plan, kind of an industrial space, with a floating metal staircase built out of the steel used for street construction. For the large public room, we wanted to imbue what fragments were there with the ghost of memory. We couldn't fully restore the extraordinary brick vaults, because of the budget. The new hanging globe lights are a reflection of the original design. When it was built in 1912, the limestone-and-steel post office was one of the most permanent civic structures in Miami, a city that was largely wood.
Wasn't it nepotism for you as the head of the Miami A.I.A. to hire yourself as the architect?
I can assure you I would never have chosen myself. Even before I became president, there was no time to do a competition. Because of the budget, all the professional work, including mine, had to be donated. Most of the fixtures and furniture were donated. The lighting, glass, carpet, wood floors, even hardware were donated.
With all the new buildings going up in Miami, could there be a new real estate bubble?
No. Although the last recession seemed like a bubble, I think the building was just out ahead of the actual market. Almost everything built has been enthusiastically absorbed. I'm pretty convinced that the new projects have to do with the changes in the city, where urban life has come alive and the neighborhoods have grown into diversified districts. Miami is very much a city of cities, with no strong gravitational center. Probably the most dynamic place now would be Brickell, where development today dwarfs what happened during the previous boom. There are towers going up all over the place.
What is the worst building in Miami and Miami Beach?
The worst structure is the I-95 highway, especially the I-95 and I-395 interchange. The impact of that structure, and the autos moving at high speed through Overtown and cutting though everything, will take generations to heal, if it will ever heal. Although where I-95 goes through downtown and over the river, it becomes a beautiful experience.
The best new building?
I'm thinking it's more of a trend of buildings. The recent work of Herzog & de Meuron, like the 1111 building on Lincoln Road, with the open parking garage, and the new Perez Art Museum Miami, are notable for the way they have plumbed Miami's tropical identification. Those buildings brought tropicalizing architectural features to contemporary designs. These days no stone is left unturned in making projects into an opportunity to show design. It's proof that an architectural culture is ascendant.
What about the rising sea? Is Miami doomed?
No, I'm an optimist. Miami changes rapidly. It always has. I live in a different city from the one I moved to 22 years ago. People will rise to whatever challenge comes. We will create new environments. Maybe stilts, or the city will reconfigure itself. It will survive.


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Color Cry, Len Lye, 1952.
Courtesy of the Len Lye Foundation.
From material preserved and made available by Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision.
Lens on Lye
Guest Spotlight on the pioneering artist and experimental film maker.
Artists, experts, scholars, specialists and Len Lye film fans will share their insights on the artist and experimental filmmaker in a brand new series coming to Instagram weekly, inspired by the current exhibition 'The Absolute Truth of the Happiness Acid' (6 Jun — 1 Nov 2020).
To launch this series, media scholar Alla Gadassik reminds us that Lye's work is not only to be seen or heard but to be felt and expressed (particularly in the body) and that by simply tuning in to the actual rhythmic and sensory effects, we achieve the same euphoric bliss as psychedelics.
"Turn on, tune in, drop out" is the most iconic phrase in American psychedelic counterculture, promoted by controversial psychologist Timothy Leary as a path to personal and social happiness aided by drugs like lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD, or acid). Leary's phrase intentionally uses the language of media advertising, channeling the "turning on" and "tuning in" of radio and television toward a different kind of virtual trip. As the phrase implied, postwar Westerners were already consuming reality-altering drugs on a mass scale – the drugs of non-stop media broadcasts and their mind-numbing, brainwashing effects on slack-jawed bodies hanging limp on living room armchairs. In contrast, Leary and fellow counterculture spiritualists called for short-circuiting the faulty wiring of modern brains and thereby rebooting society one consciousness at a time. As Leary later wrote in his autobiography Flashbacks:
"Turn on" meant go within to activate your neural and genetic equipment. Become sensitive to the many and various levels of consciousness and the specific triggers engaging them. Drugs were one way to accomplish this end. "Tune in" meant interact harmoniously with the world around you — externalize, materialize, express your new internal perspectives. "Drop out" suggested an active, selective, graceful process of detachment from involuntary or unconscious commitments. "Drop Out" meant self-reliance, a discovery of one's singularity, a commitment to mobility, choice, and change."
Around the same time that Leary's phrase grew in popularity and public awareness, Len Lye began touring a lecture on his work he titled "The Absolute Truth of the Happiness Acid." The parallel to LSD was deliberate. What Lye promoted, like Leary, was a way to attain happiness by activating one's neural and genetic equipment; interacting more harmoniously with the world; externalizing, materializing, and expressing internal perspectives; and discovering one's own singularity amidst mobility and change. The key difference was that Lye's method to accomplish these things wasn't to drop acid, but to tap into his genetic code (his DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid) by making and enjoying abstract ("absolute") art using his body. Forget TV and LSD, tune into abstract animated film!
Part of Lye's philosophy as a filmmaker and kinetic artist was to make work that didn't rely on any specific cultural knowledge, artistic training, or even language among its audience. All you need to do to "get" Lye's work and be transported by it, as far as he was concerned, is to have a body and a pulse (to this, we should add a capacity to see and hear). Lye's approach to art may seem naive in the context of the highly intellectual and politicized world of avant-garde art at the time and since then. And he may also be taking a huge leap with his assumption that audiovisual art taps into a universal form of aesthetic experience. Yet it also explains why written descriptions of his work are doomed to miss the mark. It's not just that moving images and sounds are incommensurate with words. There's something about trying to "make sense" of films like Kaleidoscope, Color Cry, or Particles in Space that fails to translate their direct rhythmic and sensory effects on the body.
Consider how often our intensely happy and unhappy moments are expressed through facial and bodily contortions or barely legible interjections like "blargh!" and "ewww!" or "squee!!!" and "woohoo!!!" When we follow such animated exclamations with a tepid clarification or a confession that "it's hard to explain," we're not revealing a problem with our communication skills. We're recognizing that we need to invent gestures and sounds for something that just feels a certain way. So, the next time you see an animated film by Len Lye or encounter one of his kinetic sculptures, consider turning your body on and coming up with your own moves and strings of sound that resonate with your internal experience. You'll be tuning in to Lye's work just fine.
Stay tuned for further exploration into Len Lye's work in the weeks to come.
You can follow Alla on her Instagram: @allacontentgenerator
Alla Gadassik is a media history and theory professor at Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver, Canada. Her research bridges the disciplines of cinema studies, philosophy of technology and histories of media practice. Particular areas of interest include cinematography, film editing and animation methods as they transformed across different disciplines interested in movement.
Len Lye, Color Cry, 1952.
Image edit courtesy of Alla Gadassik.
Quote is taken from Len Lye's lecture "The Absolute Truth of the Happiness Acid."
Len Lye: The Absolute Truth of the Happiness Acid
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Govett-Brewster welcomes Assistant Curator, Contemporary Māori Art
Monday 10 October
The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery / Len Lye Centre is excited to announce curator and artist Taarati Taiaroa (Te Āti Awa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Apa) will join the Gallery in the role of Assistant Curator, Contemporary Māori Art.


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Former Ukrainian Defense Minister says he resigned because his military plan to regain Crimea in 2014 was not supported
Admiral Ihor Tenyukh, who served as acting Minister of Defense between February 27 and March 25 in 2014 says that he resigned from the position because, after the decision had been made to bring the Ukrainian Armed Forces to full combat readiness, his suggestion to "go for a breakthrough" in the Crimea was not supported.
"My plan consisted of going for a breakthrough, because this is a war. My plan was not supported, and so I resigned," he said while testifying as a witness in the Kyiv Obolonskyi District Court in the Yanukovych high treason case on Wednesday.
Tenyukh stated that after being appointed head of the Defense Ministry, his suggestions were partially taken into account. The armed forces were brought to full combat readiness, but without leaving the military facilities. Authorization was also not given to use the assault aircraft and bombers.
The witness is convinced that declaring a state of war in Ukraine at that time would have given clarity to the actions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. He also mentioned that on February 28, 2014, at an NSDC (National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine) session, Ukraine discussed the option of declaring a state of war, but such a decision was not made.
In addition, Tenyukh noted that on March 3, 2014, he gave the order and authorization to open fire on anyone crossing the borders of the military facilities in the Crimea, but for various reasons his orders were not followed.
"I gave the instruction to 'maintain a rigid defense' and not to allow the military facilities to be captured, so that we would have time to bring the armed forces to a state of readiness even before the decision was made by the political leadership to use the armed forces," he emphasized.
The former acting defense minister also recounted that between March 3-4 he contacted Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu and told him that Russia had to withdraw its divisions in Crimea to their permanent stationing points.
Tenyukh is convinced that the Ukrainian Armed Forces were deliberately destroyed during the years of Yanukovych's presidency. Many personnel were dismissed, and patriotic pro-Ukrainian officers were replaced with "more loyal and pro-Russian" officers.
Ukraine, Crimea, Ihor Tenyukh


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39901 April 7 Event 1724 – Premiere performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion BWV 245 at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.
39902 April 7 Event 1767 – End of Burmese–Siamese War (1765–67).
39903 April 7 Event 1776 – Captain John Barry and the USS Lexington captures the Edward.
39904 April 7 Event 1788 – American pioneers to the Northwest Territory arrive at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers, establishing Marietta, Ohio, as the first permanent American settlement of the new United States in the Northwest Territory, and opening the wes
39905 April 7 Event 1789 – Selim III became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
39906 April 7 Event 1798 – The Mississippi Territory is organized from disputed territory claimed by both the United States and Spain. It is expanded in 1804 and again in 1812.
39907 April 7 Event 1805 – Lewis and Clark Expedition: The Corps of Discovery breaks camp among the Mandan tribe and resumes its journey West along the Missouri River.
39908 April 7 Event 1805 – German composer Ludwig van Beethoven premiered his Third Symphony, at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.
39909 April 7 Event 1827 – John Walker, an English chemist, sells the first friction match that he had invented the previous year.
39910 April 7 Event 1829 – Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, commences translation of the Book of Mormon, with Oliver Cowdery as his scribe.
39911 April 7 Event 1831 – Emperor Pedro I of Brazil resigns. He goes to his native Portugal to become King Pedro IV.
39912 April 7 Event 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Shiloh ends: The Union Army under General Ulysses S. Grant defeats the Confederates near Shiloh, Tennessee.
39913 April 7 Event 1868 – Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation is assassinated by Irish Republicans, in one of the few Canadian political assassinations, and the only one of a federal politician.
39914 April 7 Event 1890 – Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal.
39915 April 7 Event 1906 – Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
39916 April 7 Event 1906 – The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco.
39917 April 7 Event 1908 – H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman.
39918 April 7 Event 1922 – Teapot Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome petroleum reserves in Wyoming.
39919 April 7 Event 1927 – First long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
39920 April 7 Event 1933 – Prohibition in the United States is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the XXI amendment.
39921 April 7 Event 1939 – World War II: Italy invades Albania.
39922 April 7 Event 1940 – Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
39923 April 7 Event 1943 – The Holocaust: In Terebovlia, Ukraine, Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress to their underwear and march through the city of Terebovlia to the nearby village of Plebanivka where they are shot dead and buried in ditches.
39924 April 7 Event 1943 – Ioannis Rallis becomes collaborationist Prime Minister of Greece during the Axis Occupation.
39925 April 7 Event 1945 – World War II: The Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship ever constructed, is sunk by American planes 200 miles north of Okinawa while en route to a suicide mission in Operation Ten-Go.
39926 April 7 Event 1945 – World War II: Visoko is liberated by the 7th, 9th, and 17th Krajina brigades from the Tenth division of Yugoslav Partisan forces.
39927 April 7 Event 1946 – Syria's independence from France is officially recognised.
39928 April 7 Event 1948 – The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.
39929 April 7 Event 1948 – A Buddhist monastery burns in Shanghai, China, leaving twenty monks dead.
39930 April 7 Event 1954 – United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino theory" speech during a news conference.


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I didn't know where should I ask about it.
PS3 . Its a PS3 forum, What did you expect?
Really it depends on the individual. Xbox has more games. PS3 plays dvd's, Blu-ray movies, games and you can surf the web. I have both. IMO the PS3 offers a little more for the money.


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Let this scribe make a confession: He is no authority upon the subject – 'Life and Events of Syed Hussain Sharafuddin Shahwilayat'. He is neither a historian nor a scholar chronicler or a very strong devotee of any cult or tradition. This article is simply based upon some folk stories, magazines, books, stray observations, cluttered thoughts and last but not least – some figments of unintended imagination. The reader is free to accept, reject, condemn and challenge any content of it at his own standards of merit and knowledge.
Before I describe the brief history of the Saint Sharafuddin Shahwilayat I feel it would be justified if I share few thoughts about Tasawwuf which could be simply described as the traditional Islamic science of self-improvement and spirituality. It is related to Sufism and defines our relationship with Allah. According to Moulana Ashraf Ali Thanwi – Many people have misunderstandings about tasawwuf. Many think that it is something beyond the Qur'an and Sunnah. Errant Sufis as well as the superficial ulema, although on the opposite ends of the spectrum, are together in holding this mistaken notion.
Consequently the first group has shunned the Qur'an and Hadith while the second group has shunned tasawwuf. Actually, although the term tasawwuf, like many other religious terms in use today, evolved later, the discipline is very much part of the Shariah. The department of the Shariah relating to external deeds like salat and zakat is called fiqh while the one dealing with the internal feelings and states of the heart is called tasawwuf. Both are commanded in the Qur'an. Thus while commanding Salat and Zakat, the Qur'an also commands gratefulness and love of Allah and condemns the evil of pride and vanity. Similarly, in the books of hadith, along with the chapters on Ibadat, trade and commerce, marriage and divorce, are to be found the chapters on riya' (show off) takabbur, akhlaq, etc. These commands are as much a mandatory requirement as the ones dealing with external deeds. Its focus is tahzeebe akhlaq or the adornment of character; its motive is the attainment of Divine pleasure; its method is total obedience to the commands of the Shariah.
Sufism traces its origin precepts to Hazarat Mohammed (PBUH) through his cousin and son-in-law, first Imam and 4th Caliph of Islam Hazrat Ali (KAW). There is only one connection 'Naqshbandiya' which claims its origin to Hazrat Abu Bakar, the 1st Caliph of Islam. According to great Iranian scholar Abu Rayhan Albiruni, the 'Sufi' word is derived from the Greek word 'Sofia' meaning wisdom. The Sufi practiced asceticism and shunned the pomp and pursuit of pleasure flouted by Umayyad, Abbasi, Khilji and Toughlaq dynasties. They never preferred the company of feudal aristocrats for pleasure.
Today the picture of gun-totting terrorists, bombs and preachers-of-hate is in absolute contrast to the cool, inspiring, loving, smiling and reassuring images that conjure up when we remember Nund Reshi, Lalleshwar or Dehat Bibi, the saints of Kashmir Valley.
(The eyes met and I gave up all the symbols of faith, my beloved spoke some enchanted words and made me a bride). You instantly knew the creator of these words – Ameer Khusrau.
Tasawwuf is the soul of Islam. Its function is to purify the heart from the lowly bestial attributes of lust, calamities of the tongue, anger, malice, jealousy, love of the world, love of fame, niggardliness, greed, ostentation, vanity, deception, etc. At the same time it aims at the adornment of the heart with the lofty attributes of repentance, perseverance and.
In India the concept of Tasawwuf is followed and practiced in different forms and different schools. They are not radically different from each and a subtle nuance of names categorizes them as beautiful branches of the same spiritual plant that shades over the schism that prevails in basics of belief. I am giving below the most popular schools of Tasawwuf.
The Chishtiyya order emerged out of Central Asia and Persia. The first saint was Abu Ishaq Shami (d.940–41 A.D.) establishing the Chishti order in Chisti Sharif within Afghanistan. The notable saint Moinuddin Chisti (d. 1236 A.D.) has championed this order within India, making it one of the largest orders in India today. Scholars also mentioned that he had been a part-time disciple of Abu Najib Suhrawardi. Khwaja Moiuddin Chishti was originally from Sistan (eastern Iran, southwest Afghanistan) and grew up as a well traveled scholar to Central Asia, Middle East, and South Asia.[He reached Delhi in 1193 A.D. during the end of Ghurid reign, then shortly settled in Ajmer-Rajasthan when the Delhi Sultanate formed. Moinuddin Chishti's Sufi and social welfare activities dubbed Ajmer the "nucleus for the Islamization of central and southern India." The Chishti order formed KHANQAH to reach the local communities, thus helping Islam spread with charity work. Islam in India grew with the efforts of dervishes, not with violent bloodshed or forced conversion. Until this day, both Muslims and non-Muslims visit the famous tomb of Moinuddin Chishti; it has become even a popular tourist and pilgrimage destination. Jalaluddin Muhammad Akbar (d. 1605 A.D.), the 3rd Mughal ruler frequented Ajmer as a pilgrim, setting a tradition for his constituents. Successors of Khwaja Moinudden Chishti include eight additional saints; together, these names are considered the big eight of the medieval Chishtiyya order. Moinuddin Chisti (d. AD 1233 in Ajmer, India), Qutubuddin Bakhtiar Kaki (d. AD 1236 in Delhi, India), Fariduddin Ganjshakar (d. AD 1265 in Pakpattan,Pakistan), Nizamuddin Auliya (d. AD 1335 in Delhi), Nasiruddin Chiragh Dehalvi, Bande Nawaz (d. AD 1422 in Gulbarga, India), Akhi Siraj Aaine Hind (d. 1357 in Bengal India, Alaul Haq Pandavi and Ashraf Jahangir Semnani (d. AD 1386, Kichaucha India).
The founder of this order was Abdul-Wahir Abu Najib as-Suhrawardi (d. 1168 A.D.). He was actually a disciple of Ahmed Ghazali. The teachings of Ahmad Ghazali led to the formation of this order. This order was prominent in medieval Iran prior to Persian migrations into India during the Mongol Invasion. Consequently, it was Abu Najib as-Suhrawardi's nephew that helped bring the Suhrawardiyyah to mainstream awareness.
The origin of this order can be traced back to Khwaja Ya'qub Yusuf al-Hamadani (d. 1390 A.D. ), who lived in Central Asia. It was later organized by Bahauddin Naqshband (b. 1318–1389 A.D.) of Tajik and Turkic background. He is widely referred to as the founder of the Naqshbandi order. Khwaja Muhammad al-Baqi Billah Berang (d. 1603 A.D.) introduced the Naqshbandiyyah to India. This order was particularly popular Mughal elites due to ancestral links to the founder, Khawja al-Hamadani. Babur, the founder of the Mughal dynasty in 1526 A.D., was already initiated in the Naqshbandi order prior to conquering India. This royal affiliation gave considerable impetus to the order.
The Qadiriyyah order was founded by Abdul Qadir Gilani who was originally from Iran (d. 1166 A.D.).[ It is popular among the Muslims of South India. As a widespread order, the Qadiriyyah had a prominent sheikh in India. Muhammad Mayan Mir (d. 1635 A.D.) was a famous scholar known for significant non-Muslim tolerance and community service work. Worlds largest religious organisation Dawate-E-Islami also belongs to the Qadiriyyah order whose founder was Moulana Ilyas Qadri.
Sufism helped the assimilation of the Afghani Delhi Sultanate rulers within mainstream society. By building a syncretic medieval culture tolerant and appreciative of non-Muslims, they contributed to the growth of stability, vernacular literature, and devotional music in India. Literature related to monotheism and the Bhakti movement also formed syncretic influences in history during the Sultanate period. Sufi scholars traveling from all over continental Asia were instrumental in the social, economic, and philosophic development of India. Besides preaching in major cities and centers of intellectual thoughts, Sufis reached out to poor and marginalized rural communities and preached in local dialects such as Urdu, Sindhi, Panjabi versus Persian, Turkish, and Arabic. Their teachings of humanity, love for God and Prophet (PBUH) continue to be surrounded by mystical tales and folk songs today. Sufis were firm in abstaining from religious and communal conflict and strived to be peaceful elements of civil society. Furthermore, it is the attitude of accommodation, adaptation, piety, and charisma that continues to help Sufism remain as a pillar of mystical Islam in India.
To begin with, very few history books are available in India now where he is mentioned in any form in relation to larger SUFI Movement of India. Perhaps, his father was shy of éclat and preferred the ascetic life of Amroha which was often referred as Qasba Azizpore in those days. He didn't make Delhi or any royal city of his final abode. There is no provision of SAJJADA NASHEENI in his hierarchy that is so common and necessary in Sufi Schools. One can safely conclude that he had a limited spiritual domain and he loved the simple life of towns and villages.
He was the son of Mira Ali Buzurg who was a learned scholar. His mother's name was 'Umme Habeeba' and she was the daughter of Syed Abdul Moueed Ali. Syed Jalaluddin Haider Surkh Posh, the famous saint of earlier Muslim Indian Sultanete, was the real brother of Bibi Umme Habiba.
They migrated to the city of Sauda in Syria and from there to 'Wasit' a hamlet in Iraq. This town was established at the bank of River Dajla by Hajjaj Bin Yussuf in 83 AH. After a lapse of considerable time new designs of agriculture and water resources diverted water to other canals and waterways and it resulted in scarcity of water in the town. Political and Administrative frictions compounded and made life unbearable for the descending generations of Syeds of Abbasid Kingdom. Syed Mira Ali Buzurg had three sons and one daughter.
Feeble- thin, devoid of cheer.
Or see the spring showers.
In fire of sad and sorrows.
Another's sorrow and grief I can't see.
Frenzy of beauty is naught to me.
Cries for water and food, I can't see.
A statement issued by the Gujarat government had said that Jaswant Singh's book questions the role of Sardar Patel during the partition of India as well as his patriotic spirit and charged him for trying to defame Patel by distorting facts.
IT IS the story of Jaswant Singh. His book titled "Jinnah, India, Independence and Partition" was released on August 17, 2009 and banned in Gujarat with immediate effect a Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled state. He was given a cold shoulder and finally shown the door in the initial storm of political hara-kiri.
Let us not discuss here about the very open arms that this party always held out to Salman Rushdie and Taslima Nasreen in the name of freedom of speech. A statement issued by the Gujarat government had said that Jaswant Singh's book questions the role of Sardar Patel during the partition of India as well as his patriotic spirit and charged him for trying to defame Patel by distorting historical facts.
In his intuitive moments of sincerity and honesty the ex-army men and ex-foreign minister of India Jaswant Singh has emphatically blamed Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Patel and the Congress rather than Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah for partition of India. Ihe paid his tributes to Jinnah in the following words " the epic journey of Jinnah from being the ambassador of Hindu-Muslim unity, the liberal constitutionalist and Indian nationalist to the Quaid-e-Azam of Pakistan". Jaswant Singh set no inhibitions in declaring in an interview with Karan Thapar on television channel.
And here are his more than million billion $ comments on the plight of the Indian Muslims today: "Look into the eyes of the Muslims that live in India and if you truly see through the pain in which they live in to [the] land which they belong; we treat them as aliens".
Pearls of wisdom from the honest man"…He (Jinnah) created something out of nothing and single-handedly stood against the might of the Congress and the British who didn't really like him…Gandhi himself called Jinnah a great Indian. Why don't we recognise that? Why don't we see (and try to understand) why he called him that?…I admire certain aspects of his personality; his determination and the will to rise. He was a self-made man.
Mahatma Gandhi was the son of a Diwan. All these (people) – Nehru and others – were born to wealth and position. Jinnah created for himself a position. He carved in Bombay a position for himself. He was so poor that he had to walk to work…He told one of his biographers that there was always room at the top but no lift…and he never sought a lift".
According to Jaswant Singh : Indian leaders had not only misunderstood Jinnah but made a demon out of him. According to him the demonisation of Jinnah was a direct result of the trauma of partition.
So Mr. Bhagwat and Mr. Gadkari, let us know if Jaswant Singh has disown any of his statements ? If your answer is Yes, please show us.
If your answer is a singular No, God bless you in whatever form you worship.
You are making compromise after compromise. You accepted Advani Ji's double speak in many on many of faux pas and blunders. The saving grace in Advani Ji's case is that he did put many Alzheimer kind of excuses in his comments on Kandhar and made a 180 degree turn on Jinnah when caught in the wrong box.
Jaswant Singh is made up of a different mettle. Jaswant Singh has come a long way from the deserts of Rajasthan.
He had also been rough two wars whilst in service (1962 and 1965) before joining politics. He has served seven terms in Parliament, and, in the BJP-led governments of 1996 and 1998-2004, held charge of six ministries of the Government of India, including External Affairs, Defence and Finance. He is as an authority on Indian foreign policy and national Due credit should be accorded to him for dexterously steering India out of the turbulent diplomatic times in the aftermath of the nuclear tests.
Today he is returning on his own terms – only to show you that your party is devoid of any ideology. You need power at the expense of every principle you trumpeted since the birth and rebirth of you communal out-fit.
I welcome the honorable comeback of Jaswant Singh. It augurs well for Indian Democracy. Good-bye the divisive philosophy of Golwalker, Hedgware and Shyama !


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Kuwait: Authorities must halt imminent execution of seven prisoners
Miércoles, 16 de noviembre, 2022
The death penalty is a violation of the right to life and the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment
Responding to the news that Kuwait plans to execute seven prisoners tomorrow after a five-year hiatus in executions, Amna Guellali, Amnesty International's Deputy Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, said:
"The Kuwaiti authorities must immediately halt these executions. The death penalty is a violation of the right to life and the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment. Amnesty International opposes the death penalty in all cases without exception, regardless of the nature or circumstances of the crime, the guilt, innocence or other characteristics of the offender or the method used by the state to carry out executions.
Amna Guellali, Amnesty International
"While the Kuwaiti authorities have a duty to bring those responsible for serious crimes to justice, suspects must be tried in accordance with international law in trials that meet Kuwait's international human rights obligations.
"Kuwait must urgently commute these and all other death sentences to prison terms and review its laws on the death penalty. The authorities must immediately establish an official moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty entirely."
On 14 November 2022, Counselor Mohammed Al-Duaij of the Office of Public Prosecution announced that seven individuals — four Kuwaiti men, a Syrian man, a Pakistani man and an Ethiopian woman —would be executed on 16 November, having been convicted of murder. Al-Duaij told the Kuwait daily newspaper al-Qabas that the announcement of such executions "acts as a deterrent" and that executions are "a legitimate matter for retribution", citing a verse from the Quran.
If carried out, these executions would be the first to take place in Kuwait since 25 January 2017, when a group of seven people, including one member of the royal family, were hanged in a mass execution.
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Jueves, 17 de noviembre, 2022
Kuwait: Las autoridades deben detener la ejecución inminente de siete personas


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Title: Bluebook Vol 109 no 1.
Description: 1970 (February). First edition (& 1st printing). Magazine. Covers loose (spine torn), a fair copy. February 1970 issue. True adventure, true crime, and other lurid, sensational accounts, including ''I Sailed The Hippie Love Ship To The Mediterranean Port Of Passion'' and ''Unisex - The assault On American Virility''.


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Captain James Lawless, who has been before the marine public for fifty years, during the last forty of which he has been prominent as shipbuilder, owner and master, is still in prime vigor, owing in great measure, doubtless, to his freedom from all ills that flesh is heir to, and to the temperate life which he has chosen to adopt.
Captain Lawless was born in Old Niagara, November 2, 1839, and is the son of John and Mary (Graley) Lawless, natives of Ireland. They came to America in 1842, locating in Old Niagara, Canada, where the father, who was a stationary engineer, followed his business. He lost his life while endeavoring to save life and property at the time the steamer Zimmerman was destroyed by fire at the dock in 1861. The deck gave way under him and he fell into the fierce flames, and was burned to death. The steamer plied between Toronto and Old Niagara in the passenger and freight business. Mr. Lawless was mourned by his fellow-townsmen because of his sterling integrity and humanity to man. The wife and mother was laid to rest in 1870 at Alton, Illinois.
Young James acquired his education in Old Niagara, for which his father paid the usual fee of twenty-five cents per month, but according to the legend the tax on the resources of the paternal strong box did not continue many months, as James, not liking enforced confinement any more than he did his teacher, ran away from home when he was but ten years of age and went to St. Catharines, where he engaged in delivering for a butcher for the handsome stipend of $2.00 per month. One fine day he concluded to throw up his job as not worthy of a lad of his genius, and applied for and obtained employment in the shipyard of Lewis Shickluna, where he thoroughly learned all branches of the shipbuilding trade. The Captain remained in the shipyard until 1855, when he went to Vermilion, Ohio, the home of a great number of old-time owners and skippers, and shipped on the schooner Exchange, owned by Capt. A. Bradley, and commanded by Capt. Joseph Grover. The next spring he shipped as seaman on the schooner F.T. Barney. In 1857 he again joined the schooner Exchange as mate, closing the season and all of that of 1858 on the steamer Queen City, commanded by Capt. George Stone, and he insists that it is owing to his association with Captain Stone and to his advice and good judgment that his success in life is greatly due. In 1859 Captain Lawless shipped on the schooner Berlin (the first three-and after on the lakes) with Capt. William Wadsworth, closing on the Miami Belle with Captain Parks. The next season he joined the schooner Philip Minch as seaman, but was soon promoted to the office of second mate. In the spring of 1861 he shipped on the schooner Queen City, closing the season on the R.J. Bemis. The next spring he was appointed mate on the schooner Exchange, Capt. C. Rewell, master, and held that berth two seasons. During the season of 1864 he was mate, Capt. James Stone, on the schooner S.J. Kimball, and on the Escanaba with Capt. George Stone, and the next year was again under Capt. C. Rewell as mate on the schooner Negaunee, followed by a season as mate of the Exchange with Capt. M. Thompson.
He was made master of the schooner S.H. Kimball in 1868, and sailed her two seasons and in the spring of 1870 was appointed to the command of the schooner George Worthington, and for thirty-one years his success as a shipmaster was uninterrupted, having also acquired a money interest in many vessels during these years. 1871-72 he sailed the schooner Escanaba; the Negaunee five seasons; the S.J. Tilden in 1878; and the next two seasons the Thomas Quayle. He then turned his attention to steam vessels, and in the spring of 1881 was appointed master of the Henry Chisholm, sailing her two seasons, followed by three in a like position on the steamer Selah Chamberlain, and one on the E.B. Hale. In the spring of 1887 he took command of the steamer City of Cleveland, and sailed her three seasons. In the spring of 1890 the Captain entered the employ of Hurley Brothers, of Detroit, as master of the steamer Majestic, and sailed her successfully five seasons, after which he took command of the steamer Superior, which office he held two seasons. His next boat was the E.B. Hale, which foundered with him in Saginaw bay, without involving loss of life, however, and was the only boat lost during the Captain's sailing life. In the spring of 1898 he assumed command of the schooner John Martin. Being an industrious man he has spent many of his winter months in the shipyard, laying down and superintending the construction of vessels.
He owns an interest in the steamers City of Cleveland, Gladstone, Pasadena and Thomas Quayle. During his long experience as master he has been instrumental in rescuing many seamen in distress.
Socially, he is a member of the Ship Masters Association, and carries Pennant No. 43.
On February 22, 1863, Capt. James Lawless was united in marriage to Miss Eliza, daughter of R.S. and Laura (Brooks) Harris. Five children have been born to this union, four of them still living: Fred S., who became a sailor and was master of the Oregon, but is now engaged in the plumbing business in Cleveland under the firm name of Patterson, Lawless & Co.; Cora, the wife of E.L. Coen, a banker in Vermilion; Miles, cashier of the Erie County Bank in Vermilion; Bertie, who died at the age of four years; and Olive, a graduate of the Vermilion high school. The Captain's only grandchild is Edward Coen. The family homestead is pleasantly situated in Vermilion, Ohio.


I just requested it for you.
And Adrian, good egg that he is, has already done it. What a guy, as I said on that list.
So, I'm sending it along to someone who does.
them to the table of contents. It works by the way.
Fixing those. We'll see how it goes.
which won't produce the desired result of a footnote.
so I am somewhat out of date. I thought there was a newer Watcom package somewhere. Do we not have this as RPM, yet?
I also am testing SeaMonkey with xul.dll loaded high, and a few other things running, so perhaps I'm just low on shared memory. Do not consider that something to fix, yet.
I'll have a new help commit a little later on.