Personally, I am biased towards responsive design. There is something inherently cool about the idea of having a site that looks good and is usable on more than one screen dimensions, it just feels like it is a more flexible, configurable approach and I feel comfortable with that. Having said that, I have to admit I am by no means a responsive design nor a mobile developer guru, I am just a RWD enthusiast, where RWD stands for Responsive Web Design (and Rear Wheel Drive by the way, I like both). So, let's put it all out there on the table and see what we can come up with. You are more than welcome to join me on this journey and your feedback and opinion are of vital importance, this is meant to be an open discussion.
Instead of building a separate site for users accessing your site via a mobile device, you build a one-fits-all site, that adjusts dynamically to the size of the screen, all the elements get re-arranged or even resized, to provide a user friendly interface on all screen sizes.
Flexibility. There is only one site to maintain, feature and content wise. You don't end up having an out-dated mobile site, just because you didn't have time to apply that "new feature" on the mobile site as well. One site, one love. Peace.
Similar user experience on all devices. Users don't need to re-educate themselves on using your site when they access it on a mobile device. Branding is kept intact and the user gets this feeling of continuity and consistency across all devices.
A/B testing. You can easily set up A/B tests or Experiments, since it is exactly the same codebase for mobile and desktop.
Reporting/Analytics. It is up to you to get either the sum of any analytics metrics for your mobile or desktop visitors or split it, based on screen resolution or any other criteria.
SEO, Google recommends it, and we trust Google. It makes web crawling easier for Google, and your site stands a better chance to get ranked higher.
One link to share, link, interact with. Any part of your site has one URL across all devices, making it really easy for users to share content, link to content and you don't need to come up with some mobile to desktop URL mapping implementation.
Effort. Yes, setting up a responsive site is not an easy task, but thankfully, there are some frameworks that can help you with this, for example Twitter Bootstrap. Changing an existing site to a responsive site is even more of a big task, definitely feasible, but time consuming.
Performance. A responsive site will normally load everything that the desktop site would load. Of course, there are ways around this. Mobile devices are not as powerful as desktop computers or laptops, so this can be an issue. Add to this that mobile internet connections are slower than our internet connection at home and you might end up with some frustrated users leaving your site before they give it a chance. We all know how important performance is, and especially in case of e-commerce sites, this translates to revenue loss.
Build a site that will be rendered in case the user visits example.com via a mobile device. This is a separate site, new code base, that of course might re-use some of the backend services or even share the same CMS with your main site. This is completely up to you and the way you will implement it. In some cases, developers tend to strip features off the desktop site, to create a less cluttered environment. This is tricky… In some cases, if there is a need to start chopping features or reducing steps (i.e. checkout) maybe it is time this happened on the desktop site as well. After all, it is the same users, and it might well be the case that some features should be removed from the desktop site as well. Moreover, it can get really frustrating, when you realize that some features can't be reached via your mobile. You add an additional level of complexity, by having to remember all the things that have been excluded from the site. So, in many cases, the task that should take place before building a mobile site, is actually revisit the desktop site and get rid of all the extra "fat".
Fully customized user experience. Since we are talking about a different site, different code base, sky's the limit. You can provide your users with a totally new user experience, tailored for small screens. This could make sense especially in case of e-commerce sites.
App look and feel. Yes, you can make your mobile site look and behave similar to a mobile app.
Less effort. It is generally an easier task to create a mobile site than switch an existing site to RWD. But of course, eventually, you end up with two sites to maintain, and keep synced with each other.
Performance. Loading less resources can significantly increase the performance of your site and drop loading time, which means, more happy mobile users.
Flexibility. As mentioned above, with two sites to maintain, making a decision to add a new feature means that you have to consider how this feature or any kind of change can fit or reflect to the mobile site. And of course, in many cases (been there, done that), you make the decision that you will leave the mobile site as is. Little by little, you end up with a mobile site/time machine, stuck in last year's desktop site.
Redirection. The same pages, from a business point of view, for example a product page, have actually different URL's, which means that you have to come up with some URL's mapping logic, when switching from mobile to desktop and vice versa. Also, you are responsible for checking via what kind of devices your users access your site, so that you redirect them to the right version, mobile or desktop.
Sharing. As the URL is not the same, sharing a page becomes more tricky.
SEO. Google recommends that your site is responsive, who am I to disagree?
Let's just make one thing clear, there is no perfect solution, or a solution that works in all cases. And of course, there is bad implementation of RWD or extra-ordinary implementation of a mobile site… At the end of the day, it all boils down to what the timeframe for the project and the available resources are. For example, if you have a live, non-responsive site, it might be more difficult to change it, or your team might be specialized in building mobile sites, instead of using RWD. It would be really interesting to hear what you have to say and share your experience with either of the two approaches.
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Very thorough.. Great post! We lean towards responsive design, too. Equal branding on all web-enabled devices is invaluable. But really, either is better than having a traditional website and looking at it from a smartphone!
Thanks guys, it would be great to know your approach on this subject and maybe a bit more in depth, how you guys went about it, your mobile site I mean. What were the challenges that you faced, etc.
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A Reporter at Large
A Marine's Private War
By Barry Werth
The New Yorker, December 18, 2000 P. 64
A REPORTER AT LARGE about a father's fight with Walter Reed hospital personnel over the circumstances of his daughter Katie's death. . . Describes how Marine Col. William Tyra III's daughter died under unstated circumstances at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. . . Describes his exemplary military record as a Marine aviator. . . In late February, 1998, Katie asked her mother to look at an uncomfortable, pea-size lump on her neck. A physician subsequently determined that it was a ranula—a blocked salivary duct—and referred Katie to Walter Reed. . .. In May, a few days after Tyra was told that there was no need for a further investigation into Katie's death, he flew back to Fort Worth, to resume his command of five squadrons—five hundred active-duty personnel and eight hundred reservists. His adjutant, Captain Gregg Yetter, recalls that Tyra was "preoccupied with grief" but that, as always, he set a high standard of accountability for himself and his troops. Tyra, who customarily drank between fifteen and twenty cups of coffee a day, switched to decaf. He ran up to six miles in the afternoons in ninety-degree heat, clocking six-to-seven-minute miles. After work, he drove to a Barnes & Noble superstore, where he pored over medical books in an effort to understand Katie's hospital records. . . The more Tyra studied the records—the surgical chart, a nurse's notes on the resuscitation, and summaries by a third-year resident, Captain Michael Hamner, Major Byron Edmond, the supervising anesthesiologist on Katie's case, and other doctors and nurses who had treated his daughter—the more he felt that a series of mistakes had brought about Katie's death. . . Describes a series of theories and roadblocks placed in the way of his investigation. . . On March 8, 1999, Army Medical Corps, Major General Leslie Burger called Tyra and said that, as a result of the nearly completed investigation, Walter Reed had a new theory about the case: Hamner's negligence with clindamycin was not necessarily the cause of Katie's death. The hospital now suspected that the drug Inderal, the beta-blocker she had been taking to prevent migraines, might have interacted with three other drugs that she received during anesthesia— vasoconstrictors that were intended to raise her blood pressure. When she was subsequently given another beta-blocker, esmolol, to lower her heart rate, the combination of drugs proved lethal. . . Tyra's interrogations elicited still another plausible explanation for Katie's death: it wasn't simply a rapid infusion of clindamycin or the inter-reaction of vasoconstrictors and beta-blockers that had killed his daughter; it was the ill-timed administration of the beta-blocker esmolol that had prevented her heart from pumping more blood when her body was in shock. . .. Barbara Tyra, as the administrator of Katie's estate, initiated a suit against the United States for ten million dollars. The charge was the wrongful death of her daughter. . .. The previous month, Tyra had reluctantly decided to retire from the Marine Corps. He believed that, as a private citizen, he would be freer to press for a more complete investigation—one that would broaden its focus beyond simply the most junior officer involved in his daughter's death. . . In Tyra's unforgiving view, the number of culpable participants in his daughter's death was rapidly widening beyond Hamner. He found it odd that Edmond had failed to mention esmolol in his official report. (Edmond says that it was "an oversight.") Then there were the hospital's commanding officer, Colonel Frederick Erdtmann and an outside doctor, Colonel Thomas Pennington, who was a staff anesthesiologist at Brooke Army Medical Center, at Fort Sam Houston, in San Antonio, who had supervised, respectively, the first and second investigations—both of which Tyra regarded as misleading and incomplete. . . Hamner was charged with involuntary manslaughter by culpable negligence, as well as with two lesser charges of having made false official statements and having been derelict in his duty. At his trial, which is scheduled to begin on January 15th, the defense, according to their lawyer, Frank Spinner, will admit that Hamner knew all along that he had falsely reported his administration of clindamycin. But Katie's autopsy report listed the cause of her collapse as "unclear," and Spinner has told me that he intends to argue that, since no one knows for sure what killed Katie, it isn't possible to establish Hamner's culpability beyond reasonable doubt. Nor, he maintained, is there any evidence to show that Hamner knowingly put Katie at risk. . . In August, the Army had granted Edmond immunity from any prosecution that might arise from his testimony in the case against Hamner. Tyra feared that culpability in the case would be limited to the most junior officer involved, and he is pressing for a full-scale investigation by the Inspector General in the Department of Defense—an action that could further delay Hamner's trial. On December 11th, a court session is scheduled at Fort Belvoir that will address the issue of whether superior officers in the Army and the Marines exerted—or appeared to have exerted—unlawful command influence in persuading the Army to prosecute Hamner.
This article appears in the print edition of the December 18, 2000, issue.
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International Journal of Dynamics and Control
Jian-Qiao Sun, University of California, Merced, USA
H. Y. Hu, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
H. Yabuno, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan
W. Zhang, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China
Tamás Insperger, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary
Yang Xiang, University of Western Sydney, Penrith South DC, NSW 1797, Australia
Jorge Isaac Chairez, National Polytechnique Institute, México,D.F., Mexico
Eric Butcher, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, USA
Robert Seifried, University of Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring, Germany
Wei-Hua Zhang, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China
Kyoungchul Kong, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea
Stefano Lenci, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy
Paweł Olejnik, Lodz University of Technology, Poland
Elbert Einstein Nehrer Macau, National Space Research Institute (INPE), São Paulo, Brazil
Raoul R. Nigmatullin, Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University, Republic of Tatarstan, Russian Federation
Mergen H. Ghayesh, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
Guruprasad Samanta, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, West Bengal, India
Saeed Tavakoli, University of Sistan and Baluchestan, Zahedan, Iran
Cristina Ioana Muresan, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Steve Suh, Texas A&M University, Texas, USA
António Mendes Lopes, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Yen-Chen Liu, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Guo-Kang Er, University of Macau, Macau SAR, China
Tsung-Liang (Anthony) Wu, National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Vai Pan Iu, University of Macau, Macau SAR, China
Jingwei Huang, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China
Naser Pariz, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
Rubens Junqueira Magalhães Afonso, Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA), São José dos Campos - SP, Brazil
Riccardo Caponetto, Universita' degli Studi di Catania, Catania, Italy
Sergio A. David, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Shinichi Maruyama, Gunma University, Gunma, Japan
Efrén Mezura-Montes, University of Veracruz, Veracruz, México
Yuanguang Zheng, Nanchang Hangkong University, Jiangxi, China
Xiangying Guo, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China
Y. S. Chen, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
E. Kreuzer, Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany
A. Naess, Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim, Norway
G. Rega, University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome
G. Stepan, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
W. Q. Zhu, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
S.C. Sinha, Auburn University, Auburn, USA
Tomasz Kapitaniak, Technical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland
Alex Poznyak, CINVESTAV-IPN, México,D.F., Mexico
Yusuf Altintas, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Masayoshi Tomizuka, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Sunil Kumar Agrawal, Columbia University, New York, USA
J. Awrejcewicz, Technical University of Lodz, Poland
B. Balachandran, University of Maryland, Maryland, USA
L. Q. Chen, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
Felix Chernousko, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
H. Flashner, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
Z. L. Huang, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Jun Jiang, Xi'an Jiao tong University, Xi'an, China
C. W. Lim, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
N. Perkins, University of Michigan, Michigan, USA
Tsuyoshi Inoue, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
Shaopu Yang, Shijiazhuang Tiedao University, Shijiazhuang, China
Zaihua Wang, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China
M. Wiercigroch, Aberdeen University, Aberdeen, UK
J. Xu, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
W. Xu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China
Keqin Gu, Southern Illinois University, Illinois, USA
Qingjie Cao, Harbin Institute of Technology, School of Astronautics, Harbin, China
Eckehard Schöll, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Yong-Xin Guo, Liaoning University, Shenyang, China
Qian Ding, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
Daniil Yurchenko, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Rong-Fong Fung, National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, Taiwan


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Athol Man Struck by Passenger Train
Benito Baeza
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Toward a Poetics of Fusion
Robert Morrissey
in The Economy of Glory
Published by University of Chicago Press
Published online May 2014 | e-ISBN: 9780226924595 | DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226924595.003.0007
The Economy of Glory
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226924595.001.0001
From the desolate island of Saint Helena emerges a work in which the epic material characteristic of the Bulletins and the intimate self-representation characteristic of Rousseau's Confessions are fused together to form a strangely seductive hybrid operating along an axis with glory at one end and authenticity at the other. The Mémorial plays masterfully with multiple registers of story, point of view, and voice to give force and power to a tale constantly threatened by immobility and ennui. The challenge is to give the reader a text that will rise above the very boredom it is relating. Las...
From the desolate island of Saint Helena emerges a work in which the epic material characteristic of the Bulletins and the intimate self-representation characteristic of Rousseau's Confessions are fused together to form a strangely seductive hybrid operating along an axis with glory at one end and authenticity at the other. The Mémorial plays masterfully with multiple registers of story, point of view, and voice to give force and power to a tale constantly threatened by immobility and ennui. The challenge is to give the reader a text that will rise above the very boredom it is relating. Las Cases creates an open, polyphonic work in which the adventure of the text plays as important a role as any of the actors it represents, and which textually puts on display the workings of the politics of fusion. Against his jailor Sir Hudson Lowe, Napoleon enters into a struggle to the death for recognition, in which the ideal of glory is reworked and projected onto the everyday with Napoleon becoming an everyman figure.
Keywords: Las Cases; Saint Helena; epic; fusion; national reconciliation; polyphony; ennui; recognition; everyman
Subjects: Modern History (1700 to 1945)


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The Bone Bridge- Chapter 14
(My internet connection has been wonky all day and I could barely get into my template here on blogger much less access email, comments or anything else. So I'm just going to post Chapter 14 right here while I can and hope that I can later get into the template for the Bone Bridge's dedicated blog to post it there. As always, comments, complaints, suggestions, whatever, are always welcome and appreciated. Since there was about a four and a half month layoff between the last chapter and this one, you might want to reread Chapter 13 at the other blog in order to get back up to speed.)
"OK, Adam, same rules apply. This better not wind up on your Facebook page. No one would believe you, anyway."
"Sis, gimme some credit, OK?"
"Anyway, I'm fresh out of training and I get assigned to just my second case. You ever hear about Soviet experiments in the paranormal?"
"Sure. I watched every documentary about the paranormal that I could find the first time I got out of the hospital."
"OK. So my second assignment involves safeguarding this Russian who was seeking asylum. She was a very highly-prized asset of the Soviets and their psychotronics division…"
"What's psychotronics?"
"You'll find out soon enough. Don't interrupt."
"OK, OK."
"So she comes here ostensibly attached to a Russian delegation for a chess match taking place in New York City. But they're not there for chess. Somehow, she slips her handlers and reaches the State Department requesting asylum. Pretty soon, Justice gets involved then, finally, the CIA.
"Now, the CIA's position on paranormal research isn't just an official one. They really underestimate the advances that were made by the Soviets in that field. So they handed it off to us. That's what we do."
"Wait a minute. You've only been working for the government for a few years. Didn't the USSR, like, collapse about 20 years ago?"
"Yes but that doesn't mean the Russians didn't continue their research in these parascientific disciplines. It continued straight through during Gorbachev, then Yeltsin all the way down to Putin. And this woman was part of the proof why. They weren't about to throw away all those results and discoveries when they could still be used to tip the balance of world power.
"So this woman, whose first name was Galina, approached us, asking for political asylum. She's all freaked out about some project the Russians were working on, something having to do with remote assassinations."
"Remote assassinations? You mean like snipers?"
"Well, no, not exactly. This woman, and our agency tested her, had the ability to affect organic matter from a great distance. All she needed was a picture and little else and by using remote viewing, she was able to home in on that person no matter where on the planet they were.
"Then she would go to work on them. We still don't completely understand how she was able to do it or what she used to key on these people. Even she didn't pretend to understand it. All she knew was that she could do it and how to do it. Back when she was a teenager, they placed a frog in front of her. It was tied down so it couldn't move. They had an EKG hooked up to it so they could monitor its heartbeat. Without touching it, she concentrated on it and was able to actually slow down or speed up its heart rate. Eventually, she stopped the frog's heart entirely. We actually saw the file footage after the Soviet Union fell and read copies of the notes that were taken.
"So she was trained to do this to people at greater and greater distances until finally they honed and somehow amplified her abilities to the point where she could actually kill someone from thousands of miles away. It required a hell of a lot of effort. It would take her hours just to track the person down. The further away they were, the more time and effort it took. Then, when she got a lock on them, she would have to rest for about half a day."
"Suppose the person started moving again while she was resting?"
"Didn't matter. She had a lock on them, just like a laser-guided missile locks on a moving target. She just developed some connection to them that only she could break. Anyway, she'd done a couple of remote assassinations for the Russians until she realized she couldn't do it anymore. That was the reason they attached her to that Russian delegation. They wanted to get her in the head of the Russian dissident who was the reigning world chess champion. Remember Vasiliy Tochilkin, the Russian expatriot?"
"Uh, sounds familiar."
"He was the guy they wanted to lose. If she killed him by bursting a blood vessel, so much the better. For political reasons, they didn't want him beating the Russian champion. But she slipped away before the first match."
"So we vetted her, tested her, took down all the information she knew about the Russians' psychtronic research. She was the real deal, Adam. We brought in federal prisoners and had her tested on them and she could do to them everything she claimed she could."
"You used human guinea pigs??"
"Adam, they were violent prisoners with no chance of rehabilitation. This was their one shot to do something positive for society."
"Did she kill any of them?"
"No. That would've defeated the purpose of her defecting. But she fucked up their heart beats something fierce. Some of the inmates were complaining of PVCs or irregular heart rates months after the experiments."
"So where do you come in?"
"My job… My job was to guard her physically, and to look for signs that someone else with her abilities couldn't reach her psychically. As far as Galina and our agency knew, there was no one who came close to having her abilities. Still, we kept a close eye on her. Or we thought she did."
Elle sighed and looked down at her interlocked fingers.
"Someone did reach her. On my watch. Just because she was a prized asset in their psychic research and development program doesn't mean she was privy to classified information involving other subjects any more than a lab rat knows what's going on in the next cage. They had someone who was at least as deadly as she was.
"She…collapsed one day while we were testing her in what we thought was a safe lab. Galina was dead before she fell out of the chair. The autopsy revealed that her heart literally exploded or came undone. The ME said he'd never seen anything like it before. She died right in front of me, Adam.
"To Oliver's credit, he didn't blame me. He couldn't. After all, I'm what the adepts at the agency call a gentile. How ironic is that?"
"A gentile?"
"That's what they call those of us who don't have paranormal abilities like telekinesis, psychic, or psychotronic powers.
"So, that was how my second assignment ended up. She's still the only one I ever lost and while I don't blame myself for Galina's death, there's still this… stubborn sense of responsibility that I can't shake, as if I should've or could've done more."
"Sis, you couldn't do more."
"I know that, Adam. But that woman died literally on my watch. It was all so… sudden."
"So she was killed by another remote assassin?"
"Well, that's what we thought at first. But then when we reviewed the security tape we realized that things weren't adding up. First, when a subject is the victim of a remote assassination, there are warning signs. It doesn't happen all at once. The subject will complain of headaches, being distracted, chest pains, whatever. With Galina, there was none of that. But she didn't have a simple heart attack. Her heart literally exploded from inside. That just doesn't happen in real life, Adam."
"What did kill her?"
"We still don't know. But she managed to get out one word: Jodl."
"Yodel?"
"After some research, we realized that there was a Nazi doctor named Heinrich Jodl who did experiments in vivisectioning during WW II."
"Wait a minute. Isn't that like carving up people while they're still alive?"
"Exactly. But Jodl committed suicide when the Russians liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945."
"Well, here's the kicker. A guy we've been tracking for about two years now, some East German prick named Hans Dietrich, former secret policemen, went to Buchenwald a few years ago on a ghost safari, paid for by the unified German government. There'd been reports that Jodl was still haunting the place and actually hurting tourists. After Dietrich did his thing, there were no more Jodl sightings. That was the year before Galina defected."
"So you thing this Yodel guy did this to the Russian chick?"
"Can't tell you. How can you prove something like that? But if that is the case, it's pretty frightening on a couple of levels."
"Yeah. It means you have an East German Commie who's using ghosts to kill people for whatever Commies may be left in Russia."
"Exactly. And that's why we're so interested in what happened at the Ritz Carlton in Boston on Halloween night. Several of the victims died the same way Galina did."
"You mean…?"
posted by jurassicpork @ Saturday, September 26, 2009 4 comments
At September 26, 2009 at 2:09 PM, KathyG said...
Robert please keep these chapters coming, it's starting to get good and now I'm hooked. I'm looking forward to reading the rest of it.
At September 26, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Anonymous said...
Totally agree with KathyG....this is a great story. Lots of prep for the big bang! Do you like writing something other than politics for relaxation or ? Used to keep a shorcut on my desktop for The Bone Bridge but figured you gave up on it and lo and behold it has risen
again....well done.
At September 27, 2009 at 4:18 PM, jurassicpork said...
Yeah, I can tell by the whopping two comments that both posts on both blogs has elicited. I already have the first drafts for chapters 15 & 16 done and am well into chapter 17 (which goes into Dietrich's childhood during the Checkpoint Charlie days). But it'll be a while before I waste time posting them here or anywhere. The attention and interest it's generating just doesn't make it worth putting online.
At September 27, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Anonymous said...
Well, JP, make that three...
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How did we get here?: A short history of Syrian Kurds in Rojava
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Giorgio Trichilo
Under the umbrella name of the TEV-DEM, the Kurdish YPG have gained some international recognition. Credit: KurdishStruggle/ Flickr.
As Turkey has launched military operations within Syria, principally targeting Syrian Kurds, it is worth understanding why and how we have reached this situation.
Out of the many 'factions' that have emerged from the fragmentation of the Syrian state with the ongoing conflict since 2012, there is one local actor that has been able to carve out for itself a space as a protagonist: the Syrian Kurds.
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With the power vacuum created by the progressive defeat of ISIS on the ground and the retreat of Bashar Al-Assad's army, in 2016 they have been able self-proclaim an autonomous region named the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria (DFNS), also known as the 'Rojava' in the hopes of obtaining the decades-long objective of a constitutional recognition of Kurdish rights and democratic autonomy of Kurdish people.
The presence of a Kurdish political faction, the PYD under the umbrella coalition known as the TEV-DEM, along with a well-trained armed force, the YPG, has allowed the Kurds in Syria to obtain enough military resilience and international political recognition that has made of them one of the key regional players.
A Tacit Collusion
In 2012, as Assad was rapidly losing ground to jihadists and rebel factions, the Syrian regime needed to mobilize its armed forces to protect Damascus's more exposed southern and eastern flanks. According to several analysts what this amounted to was a form of tacit, and later more evident, collusion of the PYD with the regime. [1]
The PYD was able, unlike other Kurdish groups, to position itself to the eyes of the regime as a militarily reliable combat force, with an anti-Turkish standing and an aim of seeking greater autonomy while remaining within the confines of a unitary Syrian state. Through a strategic lens striking a deal with the PYD was a convenient bet. Having a Kurdish-controlled enclave to the northeast fighting ISIS would alleviate Assad from the jihadist menace and also hinder Turkish support for Syrian opposition groups moving through the porous border.
The Kurds also had key interests in maintaining an open relationship with the regime. Logistically, given that Turkish troops soon sealed off the region's land borders, the regime allowed Qamishli airport to be used by Kurds in Rojava as an aerial access point to Damascus, Latakia and Lebanon.[2]
As also stated by Asya Abdullah, PYD co-chair: "We believed this from the start, and we saw the Syrian regime as the core of the problem in Syria, but also as a part of the solution."[3]
It does not come as a surprise therefore if in this time of need to deal with Turkish aggression, the YPG and SAA have come to a military agreement to fight jointly on Syria's northern border.
Western Intervention: Boosting YPG Capabilities
The fight against ISIS was critical to Kurdish territorial expansion and in the establishment of their cantonal system.
While the YPG was able to liberate key cities under jihadi controlled territory, namely the strategic city of Tell Brak, and of Kobane (1/15) it is only since 2015, with the official entrance of the US-backed coalition support and airstrikes that it was able to achieve a substantial impetus to unify the envisaged Rojava cantons of Afrin, Jazira and Cizîrê.
The US strategic objective, especially once prospects of regime change were seen to be diminishing, was one dedicated to containing ISIS.[4] The PYD/YPG was the best alternative for the US to achieve such a goal without overly involving its own troops. This came in the form of financing and re-organizing the military disposition of the YPG by integrating other Arab and Syriac Christian militias, to form a professional army in Northern Syria that would fight under the banner of the SDF.[5]
Since then the US objective has been that of assuring the integral functioning of the SDF while maintaining political inclusion of all forces under the SDF structure.[6]
While this attempt naturally came with its misalignments, holistically the YPG has been able to gain substantial ground against ISIS.
What is clear is that with the US's financial and logistical support the YPG gained a valuable military ally capable of guaranteeing its territorial expansion (acknowledging the regional presence occupied by Syrian Kurds) while shielding it from large and open confrontations with Turkish and regime forces.
It is therefore evident how any scaling back of US support will be critically detrimental to the viability of the SDF security architecture and complicate the advance of the SDF.
Russian Intervention: Appeasement and Mediation
However, the PYD too has largely benefited from Russia and enjoys rather good relations with the country although its strong links with the US has made it a double-edged sword, forcing Russia to play a delicate balancing game in Syria.
The PYD has had a political representation office in Moscow since 2016. Russia has opened several diplomatic channels and allowed for the political inclusion of Kurds on numerous occasions at the Russian-brokered Astana talks, which act as a parallel platform of dialogue to the UN-sponsored Geneva talks.[7]
The biggest benefit the PYD provided Russia initially was its anti-Turkey standing especially when it viewed Turkey as a direct opposer of the Assad regime, almost provoking a direct military confrontation after the downing of a Russian fighter jet. However, the progressive strengthening of US influence through the Kurds, has called for a realignment between Russia and Turkey for strategic containment purposes.
Indeed, the Turkish military operations Olive Branch and Euphrates Shield that brought to the capturing of Afrin and other areas in Northern Syria under the Rojava administration, came to be seen by the PYD above all as a Turkish aggression with Russian consent.[8]
At the same time, in trying not to excessively upset the power balance with the PYD/YPG and prevent Erdogan from further infiltration within Syrian territory, Russia has created de-escalation zones acting as practical buffer zones to protect the YPG using Syrian regime forces right after Turkey-backed opposition forces defeated Daesh and reached Manbij.[9]
Therefore, through Russian involvement, the PYD has been able to further its legitimacy and condition as an established actor. With American, Russian and inherently Syrian consent the YPG has been able to insulate itself from the Turkish threat, which remains the primary adversary of the PYD in the conflict, especially now that the ISIS threat has been largely quelled.
Turkey: A declared enemy
While the Rojava has seen important developments in transforming itself from a fringe movement to a substantial armed element in the war, its position remains precarious and is far from being a consolidated entity.
This is primarily because Turkey is determined to continue to undermine any formation of Kurdish autonomy, which it sees as a pretext for the creation of a wider independent Kurdistan.[10]
Turkey makes no distinction between the PKK (considered to be a terrorist organization by both the USA and EU) and the PYD and sees the emergence of a well-backed power as a direct threat to its territorial integrity and national security interests.[11]
However, while Turkish military capacities continue to far outweigh those of Syrian Kurds, the Turkish strategy comes with its perils. Turkey risks entrenching itself in a protracted war that in the long-run may undermine the international and domestic credibility of the President itself if he is not capable of achieving his stated objectives. Accelerating the resolution of the Syrian conflict would ultimately require Turkey to come to a political understanding with the PYD.
However, any form of appeasing the Syrian Kurds would project a weaker image of Erdogan's intransigent stance towards PKK insurgents whom he is fighting at home.
An uncertain future
The survival of the 'Rojavan' project and its ambitions will be inevitably conditioned by the willingness of great powers (namely Turkey, Russia, Iran, US) and Assad, who previously voiced approval for a Syrian Constitutional Committee, comprising Kurdish representatives.
These prospects have for the moment faded as talks have been quelled in favour of rifles.
Gorgio Trichilo
[1] Sary, Ghadi, Kurdish Self-governance in Syria: Survival and Ambition, In: Chatham House: Middle East and North Africa Programme, September 2016, pp. 8
[2] Ibid, pp.15
[3] Ibid pp.9
[4] Holterman, Jay, Syrian Kurdish Autonomy: A Decisive Strategy for Bashar al-Assad, Joint Military Operations Department Naval War College USMC, 30 October 2015.
[5] Reuters, The conflict in Syria: US planes drop weapons for fighters fighting state organization in Hasaka, In: BBC News, 12 October 2015.
[6] Statement of General Lloyd J. Austin III, Commander of U.S. Central Command, before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Operation Inherent Resolve," 16 September 2015
[7] Syria talks led by Russia, Iran and Turkey revived in Sochi, In: Al Jazeera, 30 July 2018.
[8] "We know that, without the permission of global forces and mainly Russia, whose troops are located in Afrin, Turkey cannot attack civilians using Afrin airspace," a PYD leader statement said.
[9] Taşkömür, Fatima, Russia's PYD Game in Syria, In: TRT World, 7 November 2017
[10] Vita, Lorenzo, Trump sguinzaglia Erdogan: "In Siria, la Turchia farà il resto", In: Gli Occhi della Guerra, December 22 2018.
[11] Chiaruzzi, Michele, L'offensiva Turca contro i Curdi, In: Atlante Treccani – Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 28 January 2017


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Does Secunia PSI Create A Windows Startup Registry Entry Named FSM?
I am trying to verify if Secunia PSI 2.0.0.1003 makes a Windows 7 Ultimate 32-Bit Startup Registry Entry named FSM?
It does not have anything listed in the properties for it and no files associated with it.
You can download my HiJackFree log and KillSwitch log there if you want to know more about my system.
mogs RE: Does Secunia PSI Create A Windows Startup Registry Entry Named FSM?
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FSM-based programming is generally the same, but, formally speaking, doesn't cover all possible variants as FSM stands for finite state machine and automata-based programming doesn't necessarily employ FSMs in the strict sense.
ddmarshall RE: Does Secunia PSI Create A Windows Startup Registry Entry Named FSM?
There's no such entry in the Registry on my systems running Secunia PSI.
goodjohnjr RE: Does Secunia PSI Create A Windows Startup Registry Entry Named FSM?
I uninstalled Secunia PSI and the FSM entry was still in my startup, so I deleted the entry with HiJackFree, and then I installed the newest Secunia PSI again; and no FSM entry was created, so I still have no idea what that FSM entry was.
Well it is gone for now, still a mystery though, but we will see.


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Despite still sidelined with injury, Dolly's Montpellier moved up to sixth on the French Ligue 1 table with a resounding 2-0 success over Caen.
'Lebo' came on in the 60th minute for his French Ligue 1 outfit RC Strasbourg who scored late to beat Bordeaux 1-0, moving them to fifth on the log standings after 22 matches.
Still locked at 17 goals in 22 outings, Veldwijk made the starting line-up but could not help Rotterdam claim all maximum points as they were held to a 1-1 draw by Telstar in the Dutch second-tier.
Jacobs featured for 90 minutes but was on the losing side for Queen of the South who suffered a narrow 2-1 to Partick Thistle.
'Shabba' was once again an unused sub for Erzurumspor during their 1-1 draw with Besiktas, which saw them stay in the relegation zone.
Serero's Vitesse Arnhem suffered a narrow 1-0 defeat to Fortuna Sittard in the Dutch Eredivisie.
Bottom-of the-log Guingamp suffered yet another league defeat, this time going down 1-0 to Reims.
With 'Ben 10' still sidelined with injury, his French Ligue 1 outfit Amiens were narrowly beaten 1-0 by Olympique Lyon at home.
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Armed Forces of Ukraine Drowned Attempts of the RU Army to Return Positions
On September 20, the Ukrainian army in the Nova Kakhovka destroyed a Russian barge with military personnel, heavy weapons and equipment for the construction of a pontoon
The Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed all the bridges that the Russian army could use to spread to the opposite side of the Dnipro and get the support of its army. Cut off from the supply of weapons, food and help, the Russian army is forced to look for alternative ways to cross. The operational command of the South of the Ukrainian Armed Forces stated that today, September 20, the Ukrainian army destroyed a Russian barge, on which there were soldiers, heavy weapons, and equipment for the construction of a pontoon crossing.
"Attempts to set up an alternative crossing across the Dnipro, in the area of Nova Kakhovka and Kozatsky, were unsuccessful. The crossing could not withstand fire control and stopped. The barge, loaded with weapons, equipment and personnel, having fallen under fire, replenished the submarine fleet of the invaders" operational command South.
The Ukrainian army struck at 4 enemy concentrations of forces in the Berislav, Genichesk, Kakhov and Kherson regions. Bridges and pontoons were also hit. During the day, the Russian army became scant by 90 personnel, 3 tanks, 8 armoured vehicles, 3 Msta-B and Msta-S howitzers, 4 Akatsia self-propelled guns, 2 Giacint-S guns, and an ammunition depot in Pravdino.
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My beloved hometown of Minneapolis is vastly cooler now than it was just a week ago, a year ago, definitely more than two years ago. Why? Two things – Food Carts and Open Streets. Urbanites are letting their actions demonstrate their desire to be in the public realm, enjoy the public realm, be urban – and have a good meal to boot!
First, food carts. They are popping up all over downtown, and elsewhere. They line Marquette Avenue, and out come the crowds to the sidewalks (the publci realm) where nobody but smokers used to hang out. I guarantee the designers behind the recent rebuild of Marquette and 2nd did not have food carts in mind. But in a happy coincidence, there are no midday buses, so the northbound curb lane of Marquette is the perfect space for a row of food carts. It just goes to show that people yearn to embrace and enjoy their public realm, if you give them a reason to do so. Take that, skyways! Just see for yourself….
Second, the second annual Open Streets (the Minneapolis version of Cyclovia) was held this past weekend on Lyndale Avenue. The hours were longer and there was more to do this year. I daresay more streets will have to be added to the venue some day! I took my kids, and we simply sat in the shade, watched the bikes, skateboards, dogs, scooters, roller blades and people of all ages go by. My kids played cars in the street – the only cars on Lyndale Avenue were Hot Wheels! It was great. Instead of "Build it and they will come," perhaps "Close it and they will come" is more appropriate to describe Open Streets. Well, see for yourself….
We eat this stuff up. We crave urbanity. The press reports Open Streets as an event dedicated to bikers and walkers (true) designed to promote healthy living. What they don't realize is we clearly crave this stuff. These streets and sidewalks are ours, and when we can have the streets to ourselves, free of the tyranny of the motorized vehicle, it is staggering how wonderful it feels. And simply wandering out on to the sidewalk and choosing from any number of delicious meals from food carts, how can you beat that?
Food carts and Open Streets demonstrates a clear demand for a more balanced public realm. A public realm not designed around cars and intended for cars first, but rather a public realm designed for and used by (gasp) the public!
Great! But how long will it take for city leaders and politicians to embrace this and take real measures to expand the public real for, say, 365 days of the year rather than one, or allow food trucks to stay during rush hour, etc.?
It is up to us to tell them just how much we like this stuff.
We at the Minneapolis Bicycle Coalition (the host of Open Streets) are working toward another event this year (Lowry Ave N), but are working with the City to improve the permitting process. Such improvements are important to make it easier (and less costly) to host such community events. I'm hopeful those improvements will be made and the City will serve to support Open Streets (and not just offer permitting steps to go through to get there). With good staff and enthusiastic elected officials, hopefully we'll have more Open Streets in the future!


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Models are the backbone of Bookshelf. They encapsulate most of the functionality that you'll need to work with your
data.

## Creating your own Models

To create your models you should use the {@link Bookshelf#model bookshelf.model} method and add any methods and
relations that are needed. The first argument to `model()` should be a string, defining the model's name. The second is
an object with the instance methods and properties you want to set on your model, and the third argument is only used if
you want to add static methods and properties.

The following example sets up a new model that could be used to manage customer sessions on a website.

```js
const Promise = require('bluebird')
const bcrypt = Promise.promisifyAll(require('bcrypt'))

// Defining our Customer model
const Customer = bookshelf.model('Customer', {
  // Instance properties and methods are defined here
  tableName: 'customers',

  account() {
    // This establishes a relation with the Account model
    return this.belongsTo('Account')
  }
}, {
  // Static class properties and methods
  login: Promise.method((email, password) => {
    return new this({email})
      .fetch()
      .tap((customer) => {
        return bcrypt.compareAsync(password, customer.get('password'))
          .then((valid) => {
            if (!valid) throw new Error('Invalid password')
          })
      })
  })
})
```

This model could then be used in a controller to login the customer like this:

```js
const Customer = bookshelf.model('Customer')

Customer.login(email, password).then((customer) => {
  res.json(customer)
}).catch(Customer.NotFoundError, () => {
  res.json(400, {error: email + ' not found'})
}).catch((error) => {
  console.error(error)
})
```

Note that this would return the entire `customer` object including the password. This is usually not desirable, so in
actual production applications you should use the model's {@link Model#hidden} or {@link Model#visible} properties to
hide certain attributes when serializing the model.

### Validation

There is no built-in way to validate your models before saving them to the database. However you can use any third-party
validation library and it should be relatively easy to integrate. Here's an example using
[checkit](https://github.com/tgriesser/checkit):

```js
const checkit = require('checkit')

const Customer = bookshelf.model('Customer', {
  initialize() {
    this.constructor.__super__.initialize.apply(this, arguments)
    this.on('saving', this.validateSave)
  },

  validateSave() {
    return checkit(rules).run(this.attributes)
  }
})
```

### Events

There are several events fired by models at different stages of the query request process. For more information about
this see the {@tutorial events} guide.

**Note**: This section of the documentation is still a WIP. For more in-depth information about models check out the
{@link Model API Reference}.

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Business Mentorship for Muslims
Abu Dhabi Global Market Spearheads Islamic Fintech In Mideast
As a means of evolving the Islamic Financial system, Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) has partnered with Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank in an effort to support Shariah-compliant Fintech -related measures. These measures include the development of online banking, artificial intelligence, distributed ledgers, blockchains etc.
ADGM will be launching its Inaugural Fintech Innovation Challenge where they will, in collaboration with Securities Commission Malaysia, be accepting 11 technology startups for a five week program.
"Both entities will also seek to develop local Fintech entrepreneurship through mentorship and knowledge transfer across incubation, accelerator, academic and internship programs." Said the international finance center.
The Dubai International Financial Center signed an MoU in July with the Dubai Islamic Economy Development Center in an effort to enhance the emirate's Islamic Fintech ecosystem. As Malaysia leads the race in Sharia-compliant Fintech companies, with UK and Indonesia following their lead – major Islamic Financial markets such as Bahrain and UAE are also following suit. These late comers have now seen the potential of what can become a revolutionary implementation as smart phones and other sophisticated gadgets invade the Middle East. According to Accencure, a consultancy firm, only 1% of US$50 billion in Fintech investment (globally since 2010) went to the Middle East and North Africa.
However, it goes without saying that times have changed, and one must change with it to benefit the Muslim population. In the 9th century, a Muslim man from Baghdad could cash his check in China. Checks were derived from an Arabic instrument, a written vow that goods would be paid upon delivery, as a means of protecting traders from traveling with large sums of money which exposed them to robbers. Innovation in Islamic Financial systems has always been a tradition and this was pointed out by Khalid AL Rumaihi – head of Bahrains Economic Development board. He complained at Arab and Middle Eastern companies' procrastination and lack of infrastructure and venture capital.
Other cities like Cairo have launched two tech incubators to nurture startups. Abu Dhabi has masterminded the regions first "regulatory sandbox" which allows new products to be tested for two years without the whole regulatory compliance. Dubai's new Fintech accelerator, also the first in its region, is now accepting applicants. The number of Fintech startups has risen from 20 in 2010 to 105 to 2015 and is expected to grow.
A report by EY, a consultancy, claims that 40 of the biggest Islamic banks have approved investment of up to $50 million in digital initiatives. At almost 100 million customers worldwide, Fintech can help it reach its potential at six times that amount. Blockchain technologies can streamline transactions between institutions which offer different Shariah-compliant options.
Ranking above Frankfurt, Dubai which wasn't even considered as part of the financial world just few decades ago, now have a foothold as the world's 18th largest financial center. This growth proves that it can also become a hub for Fintech companies. They can provide services that would link Asia to Africa, for example, in ways that were hitherto unimaginable. So for the smart countries that can forecast the new wave, its either surf or drown. Countries that do not have the opportunity to surf due to lack of mentors or training centers, may perhaps stay afloat and catch a wave when the opportunity arises.
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This Charming Elderly Couple Has the Most Beautiful Love Story
"If I had my life all over again I'd want her as my partner. That's for sure."
By Kelly O'Sullivan
Just in time for Valentine's Day, the internet hit us with one of the sweetest love stories we've heard all year.
A viral Facebook clip from the British E.R. documentary series "24 Hours in A&E" introduces us to John and Iris, a charming elderly couple who have been married for 65 years.
John is in the hospital for a heart problem, but he focuses all his attention on his wife, who sits beside him in the hospital room. Prepare to get mad at your own husband as John recalls the exact day they had their first date: 70 years ago on June 28, 1946. The couple saw the 1946 film noir The Dark Corner and then shared a meal of beans on toast together. When John saw the movie playing on television years later, he recorded it for them to watch on special occasions.
Iris chimes in at one point, commenting that John's mother didn't like her because she was "too skinny". What a problem to have!
Just as our hearts begin to melt over the most adorable couple of the year, John reveals that his wife is in the beginning stages of Alzheimer's disease.
"The snag is, you know, it's not going to get any better," John says in the video. "It's sad. But I mustn't be greedy. We've both had a good life together." And then we start crying.
The touching clip has earned over 490,000 likes on Facebook. For even more proof that true love does exist, check out the comments section: thousands of people shared their own love stories, or those of their parents and grandparents.
(h/t The Huffington Post)
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