Raw Brass cases are selected by traveling trumpet players because of their proven durability. Ted Curson recently sent us these shots of his custom Yellow & Royal Blue Model 111 case. These bright colors are a lot of fun and it's sure hard to lose this case!
Ted is perhaps best-known for recording and performing with Charles Mingus.
Curson got interested in playing trumpet through the fact that the local newspaper salesman had a silver trumpet that he was playing on the streets while selling newspapers. Curson's father could not afford a trumpet and besides, he wanted Ted to become an alto player like his idol, Louis Jordan. Finally, when Ted was 10 years old, his father found an old trumpet for him in the Navy Yard. He soon after formed a band, the Bebop Trio, with friends from the neighborhood.
Curson attended Granoff Musical Conservatory. At the suggestion of Miles Davis, he moved to New York in 1956. In 1961 he recorded his first record with pianist Cecil Taylor.
Curson is a resident of Montclair, New Jersey.


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Diversity in global maize germplasm: Characterization and utilization
Maize (Zea mays L.) is not only of worldwide importance as a food, feed and as a source of diverse industrially important products, but is also a model genetic organism with immense genetic diversity. Although it was first domesticated in Mexico, maize landraces are widely found across the continents. Several studies in Mexico and other countries highlighted the genetic variability in the maize germplasm. Applications of molecular markers, particularly in the last two decades, have led to new insights into the patterns of genetic diversity in maize globally, including landraces as well as wild relatives (especially teosintes) in Latin America, helping in tracking the migration routes of maize from the centers of origin, and understanding the fate of genetic diversity during maize domestication. The genome sequencing of B73 (a highly popular US Corn Belt inbred) and Palomero (a popcorn landrace in Mexico) in the recent years are important landmarks in maize research, with significant implications to our understanding of the maize genome organization and evolution. Next-generation sequencing and high-throughput genotyping platforms promise to further revolutionize our understanding of genetic diversity and for designing strategies to utilize the genomic information for maize improvement. However, the major limiting factor to exploit the genetic diversity in crops like maize is no longer genotyping, but high-throughput and precision phenotyping. There is an urgent need to establish a global phenotyping network for comprehensive and efficient characterization of maize germplasm for an array of target traits, particularly for biotic and abiotic stress tolerance and nutritional quality. 'Seeds of Discovery' (SeeD), a novel initiative by CIMMYT with financial support from the Mexican Government for generating international public goods, has initiated intensive exploration of phenotypic and molecular diversity of maize germplasm conserved in the CIMMYT Gene Bank; this is expected to aid in effective identification and use of novel alleles and haplotypes for maize improvement. Multi-institutional efforts are required at the global level to systematically explore the maize germplasm to diversify the genetic base of elite breeding materials, create novel varieties and counter the effects of global climate changes.

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Home » Blackbaud School Website System » Four Blackbaud K–12 Schools Earn 2020 WebAwards Honors
September 21, 2020 Daren Worcester
For the third consecutive year, Blackbaud K–12 websites were honored in the annual WebAwards. Congratulations to Crossroads School, Graland, and Regis Jesuit High School for earning Outstanding Website honors, as well as Episcopal High School for its Standard of Excellence recognition.
The WebAwards are a prestigious and competitive competition hosted by the Web Marketing Association. A panel of independent industry experts judge the websites on a 0–10 point scale in seven categories—Design, Innovation, Content, Technology, Interactivity, Copywriting, and Ease of Use. The top-scoring website in each category receives Best in Industry, as The Shipley School did last year; sites with a score over 60 points are awarded Outstanding Website; Standard of Excellence recognizes sites that scored above the average for all entries in the category.
The winning Blackbaud K–12 websites were entered into the School or Education categories, where they were judged against other private schools, colleges and universities, and education-themed sites. These four sites all utilized Blackbaud K–12's professional-level design and strategic consulting services, and are powered by our content management solution for private schools, Blackbaud School Website SystemTM.
Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences
Crossroads School for the Arts and Sciences is an independent K–12 in Santa Monica, California with two campuses and approximately 1,190 students.
"Our new website does an excellent job at showcasing the unique Crossroads experience and highlighting our core values," said Ginette Buffone, website manager. "It's packed with content, yet organized and curated in a way that is easily digestible and easy to navigate. It has been a fantastic marketing tool for us, and we are beyond thrilled that it is being recognized with this honor."
Graland Country Day School
Graland Country Day School is a private school in Denver, Colorado, serving students in preschool through middle school.
"Going into this project, we wanted a website that would uniquely reflect the essence of our brand," said Karyn Huberman, director of marketing and communications. "The Blackbaud design team took our interests to heart and mapped out a concept that truly embodies and reflects our school's personality, while also delivering information in a visually appealing way."
Regis Jesuit High School
Regis Jesuit High School is a coeducational Roman Catholic school with single-gender classrooms in the Denver-metro area.
"Designing the new Regis Jesuit website could not have gone any better," said Charisse Broderick King, director of communications. "It was a fully collaborative effort with our Blackbaud designer, who worked diligently throughout the process to listen and understand what we wanted and needed." Regis Jesuit is also utilizing Blackbaud K–12's managed and retainer services. "We continue to work with her to make improvements to our site structure and design today to ensure that it remains as functional now as it was on the day we launched."
Episcopal High School
Episcopal High School is a coeducational boarding school with approximately 440 students in Alexandria, Virginia.
To learn about the design strategy and creative thinking behind these websites, read our article, "What are the Top Private School Website Design Trends for 2020?" You may also be interested in seeing our WebAwards winners from 2019 and 2018.
Daren Worcester has been a member of the Blackbaud K-12 team for 17 years, assisting hundreds of independent schools through a variety of website development roles. A former copywriter and a published author with an appetite for SEO, Daren currently serves as the senior content marketing manager for K-12.
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Die orthodoxe Auferstehungsikone oder Anastasis-Ikone (von  "Auferstehung") stellt die Auferstehung Jesu Christi in einer für die westliche Tradition ungewohnten Form dar. Bei aller Verschiedenheit der Einzelheiten beinhaltet diese Ikone immer die gleichen Symbole und Typen.

Im Gegensatz zur westlichen Tradition, wo die Malerei versucht, das unfassbare Geschehen der Auferstehung im Bild darzustellen, stellt die orthodoxe Auferstehungsikone nicht das Geschehen selbst, sondern dessen geistliche Auswirkung dar: den Sieg Jesu über Tod und Hölle.

Die Ikone nimmt Bezug auf die Osterpredigt von Johannes Chrysostomos, die bis heute in der orthodoxen Osterliturgie als Predigt gelesen wird:
"Heute ruft der Hades und stöhnt: Besser wäre mir gewesen, ich hätte Mariens Sohn nicht aufgenommen. Denn da er zu mir gekommen, hat er meine Herrschaft vernichtet und die ehernen Tore zertrümmert; die Seelen, die ich einst besaß, hat als Gott er auferweckt."

Das Bild stellt einen felsigen Abgrund dar. Jesus steht im Zentrum des Bildes auf zwei Tafeln in Form eines Andreaskreuzes, die die Pforten der Hölle symbolisieren. Er ist oft weiß gekleidet, und sein Mantel weht, um die Dynamik anzudeuten, mit der er von oben herab die Pforten der Hölle stürmt. Unter ihm ist ein schwarzer Abgrund, in dem man oft teuflische Marterwerkzeuge und den gefesselten Satan erkennen kann.

Links und rechts sind einige Personen aus dem Alten Testament angeordnet, auf der linken Seite Adam, dem Jesus die Hand reicht, um ihn zu sich emporzuziehen. Hinter Adam sieht man die Könige David und Salomo und Johannes den Täufer, der auf Jesus zeigt. Auf der rechten Seite ist Eva, der Jesus auf einigen Ikonen ebenfalls die Hand reicht, oft auch noch Abel, ein Jüngling mit Hirtenstab.

Der Inhalt der Ikone ist reflektiert im Hymnus aus der orthodoxen Osterliturgie:
"Christ ist von den Toten erstanden, er hat den Tod durch den Tod niedergetreten und denen in den Gräbern Leben gewährt" .

Weblinks

 Svetlana Ivanova: Ikonographie von Ostern: "Höllenfahrt" oder "Auferstehung"?
 Osterpredigt von Johannes Chrysostomos (Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon)
 Verschiedene Darstellungen der Auferstehungsikone aus dem 13. bis 15. Jahrhundert
 Orthodox Christian Information Center: Icon of the Resurrection
 Osterglaube aus dem Schauen

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It's been a month since class has began at City College, and students are better familiarizing themselves with their professors, classmates, schedules and even clubs.
Fall Club Rush, was a two day event held at the AH/BT Upper Plaza which provided students with a variety of club options to join. Whether one was looking for camaraderie via creativity, advocacy, health, culture, language, business, or still undecided, this was the place to come and explore.
The venue was held on September 28-29 and drew "within the hundreds" stated Brett Patterson, the Inter Club Council representative.
The ICC is also known as the "club of clubs" and works under the Associated Students Government, which meet on a weekly basis to unite and strengthen the club's efforts on campus.
Patterson also mentioned that on Monday, 18 clubs were represented, and then 12 clubs on Tuesday. Each club had a six to eight foot table, and some had their own red City College canopy, others didn't, but that didn't matter because the cooler Fall weather was settling in. Each club had their own method to draw in potential members. Some had pamphlets and savvy spokesmodels, others had colorful displays with a mannequin dressed in red, or a live DJ spinning the jams.
The guys across from Patterson weren't quite as political, but equally as passionate about their cause. Their draw was technology.
"It's actually really easier to grab people in, because they were more interested in the 3D printer, and then if you want to build something more complicated … come to the club," explained Matt Pedler, the San Diego City Robotics Club spokesman. He was showing the crowd how to make parts for their robots.
"I don't eat my friends," read Keith Burke's t-shirt. He was starting a new group called Animal Rights and Food Politics. Burke is a Professor in the alcohol and other drugs studies in behavioral sciences at City College, and mentioned that approximately 30-40 people showed interest in his advocacy.
"I have a personal interest in this topic both from a social justice issue because there are a lot of people who are being fed awful processed chemical ladened foods, in addition to factory farms that many of the animals that we are concerned with, are in horrific places to work and terrible places for the animals to live," Burke said.
And then the "reactive" side to the health issues was present as well.
American Medical Student Association was set up to help students entering into the pre-ped program for medical school, by providing them with resources for test preparations and extra curricular activities to garnish experience.
There are approximately 37 clubs listed on the City College website. The variety of clubs that are available to join are quite plentiful and diverse; from Photography to the Veterans Club; from Lupus and Autoimmune Disease Awareness to the Hip-Hop Club. If you missed out on these two days, and are curious about getting involved with a group of individuals with similar interests, reach out to ICC President Nilo Ondevilla or Brett Patterson for more information.
Fake fraternities, Greek campus groups that aren't real frats. Now that's an idea for a movie. SDSU fraternities get a lot of press.
But, some folks say frats are a mere mockery of real life. Fun for kids, but with no preparation for the real world. So a fake frat would be indistinguishable from a true one. Or something.


Can you use this to make your computer run to 2 monitors at the same time?
How do i decrese the brightness?
"That's what I do but it may depend on how you want to configure it. I use two output ports from the computer (for me, one HDMI and one VGA because I did not have two separate HDMI ports on the computer). The VGA goes to my primary monitor which is always on. The HDMI goes to the second one with the switch between the monitor and the computer. Thus, I use the switch to turn my second monitor on or off."
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Over the past few years, the law has had to adapt to keep up with changing technologies.
A raft of new computer-related offences are now incorporated in the Crimes Act.
For example, section 308C of the Crimes Act makes it an offence to perform any unauthorised computer function with the intention of committing a serious indictable offence, or facilitating the commission of a serious indictable offence.
A 'serious indictable offence' is any offence which is serious enough that the prosecution may elect to take the matter up into the District Court, a higher jurisdictional court, but not quite so serious that it must be dealt with so automatically.
To be found guilty of this offence, the prosecution must also prove that you knew that the computer function in question was unauthorised.
You may also be charged with this offence even if it is technically impossible to commit the serious indictable offence, or if the serious indictable offence alleged is to be committed at a later time.
If found guilty, you will face the same maximum penalty that applies for the serious indictable offence in question.
This means that the applicable penalty will vary from situation to situation.
While being charged with a serious computer offence can have a negative impact on your life and future, our lawyers can give you the best possible advice about your options and how to fight the charges.
Maximum penalty: The maximum penalty applicable if the person had committed, or facilitated the commission of, the serious indictable offence in this jurisdiction.
(c) any unauthorised impairment of electronic communication to or from any computer.
(3) For the purposes of this section, a "serious indictable offence" includes an offence in any other jurisdiction that would be a serious indictable offence if committed in this jurisdiction.
(b) whether the serious indictable offence is to be committed at the time of the unauthorised conduct or at a later time.
(5) It is not an offence to attempt to commit an offence against this section.
Our lawyers have considerable experience fighting and winning serious computer cases, and can give you the advice you need when it comes to securing a positive result in your case.
Our lawyers fight hard in every case to have the charges dropped at an early stage so that our clients can get on with their lives as quickly as possible.
We are frequently able to obtain these outstanding results thanks to the efforts of our lawyers, who take the time in each case to meticulously examine the evidence in order to identify any problems with the prosecution case.
Where problems are found, our lawyers can write to the prosecution asking for the charges to be dropped on this basis.
This often means that our clients are spared the time and expense of a defended hearing or criminal trial.
However, should your case proceed to court, you can rest assured that our expert senior lawyers will fiercely defend your rights and interests.
Our fearless advocates will go the extra mile to win your case by raising all possible defences, along with all favourable evidence, in a compelling manner.
Our lawyers are skilled at the art of cross-examination and will deconstruct any prosecution witness testimony in a strategic manner.
We can also assist should you decide to plead guilty to the charges – in these cases, our lawyers will prepare effective sentencing submissions which highlight the need for a lenient penalty.
Our ability to obtain outstanding results in even the most serious computer matters is unmatched.
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Former EPA Official Finds Hope in the Middle of the Climate Crisis
"Those of us who've been working on environmental justice and climate justice," says Mustafa Ali, "understand we're talking about housing, transportation, the environment, public health and jobs."
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Mustafa Ali photo by Larry French/Getty Images for SiriusXM.
"Because the current administration is so anti-science, so anti-environment, so anti-climate, people who weren't paying attention before are paying attention now."
Until he resigned last year, Mustafa Santiago Ali served as the Senior Advisor for Environmental Justice and Community Revitalization at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, where he'd worked since 1992. Under the direction of the agency's first administrator of the Office of Environmental Equity, Dr. Clarice Gaylord, Ali helped begin the EPA's effort to recognize and address the disproportionate impacts of pollution on communities situated closest to industrial polluters, communities where people — often people of color — live in poverty. He worked with the Clinton administration on Executive Order 12898, which established a federal program to address environmental justice in communities of color and low-income communities, and in 2007, he went to Capitol Hill to work as a Brookings Institution Congressional Fellow with Rep. John Conyers. He returned to the agency the next year, and stayed until the Trump administration proposed cutting nearly $2 billion from the EPA's already meager $8.2 billion budget, and a leaked memo revealed plans to eliminate the Office of Environmental Justice that Ali had helped found. (Congress ultimately rejected the cuts in the current federal budget, passed in March of 2018).
Ali is now the Senior Vice President of Climate, Environmental Justice & Community Revitalization for the Washington, DC-based Hip Hop Caucus, a national nonprofit that joins the hip hop community to the civic process of politics, social change and the environment. At the recent Climate Reality Conference in Los Angeles, he spoke on a panel of environmental justice advocates, which included Catherine Flowers and mark! Lopez of East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice. Ali had audience members join hands and reaffirm their collective power to effect social and political transformation. I spoke with him afterwards in the over-air-conditioned lobby of the Los Angeles Convention Center.
Capital & Main: You spent 24 years at EPA, beginning when George H.W. Bush was still in office, and stayed through the second Bush administration, too. How did you weather other more conservative administrations?
Mustafa Santiago Ali: When I started, at the end of [then-EPA Administrator] William Reilly's administration in 1992, we were really blessed that there was a lot of energy around environmental equity, which became environmental justice. A number of the leaders had gotten together in 1991, through the first National People of Color [Environmental Leadership] Summit in Washington, DC, and put together a set of recommendations before they began to engage with the federal government. One of those recommendations was the creation of an Office of Environmental Equity/Environmental Justice. Those recommendations drove a lot of work that happened in both Republican and Democratic administrations in the early days.
We began to move forward on the creation of the environmental justice small-grants program during the first Bush administration. In the transition to the Clinton administration, we were able to move things forward because an executive order came that I was blessed to be able to work on. Out of that executive order came the interagency working group, which means there are now 17 federal agencies – back then it was 11 — and a couple of White House offices that have distinct responsibility for environmental justice.
There had been successes under all of those administrations. There were challenges in that certain administrations were more tied into business and industry. But all of them made progress before this administration we're in now.
So even Bush II. They had an office to doctor studies done by scientists within Fish and Wildlife, for instance. But you're saying there was still progress on environmental justice then?
There was. It was incremental, and I don't want to oversell it. But without a doubt, it existed. No one ever talked about eliminating the Office of Environmental Justice under Bush.
How hard was it for you to leave?
I had to struggle with it. I prayed, I talked to my parents, I talked to my mentors. There were a couple of times I was going to jump out right at the beginning [of the Trump administration]. Maya Angelou has that great quote about how when someone tells you who they are, believe them. But there's always that thing, you know, maybe they'll have a road to Damascus moment. Maybe there'll be this transition. But it wasn't going to happen. That was being overly hopeful.
I knew the policies they were moving forward on literally could kill people. I knew that, because even when things are moving in a somewhat positive direction, people are still very vulnerable. And I knew that these folks, they just didn't care about all of these leaders, these grassroots leaders and others, who sacrificed everything to try and strengthen environmental laws, to try to get real enforcement actually happening. They've put into their own reports that they know their policies are going to kill people – especially people of color.
Enforcement of environmental crimes is almost non-existent.
I knew that was coming. They were very clear about what they wanted to do around air pollution issues. And since I led the inter-agency working group, I knew that the cumulative effect is that more people were going to get sick and more people were going to die.
You've addressed in your career an overlooked part of environmental justice: the impact of natural and man-made disasters on disadvantaged communities. We saw it in Katrina, in Harvey, and we saw it in Irma and Maria. There are vulnerable people who suffer a disproportionate share of the impacts of these events.
The reason for that — we saw it in Hurricane Maria, all the lives that were lost — is if you don't have a specific focus and understanding of the additional impacts that happen in vulnerable communities, you can't protect folks and help them recover. Flint, the BP oil spill, the hurricanes — we can go down the line in terms of disasters. It doesn't matter if you're talking about low-income white communities, communities of color or indigenous communities. You've got to be thinking, What are the additional things we need to do to help those people?
The Trump administration has been trying to weaken many regulations for chemical facilities and hazardous waste facilities that were written to protect the public. That will also affect vulnerable communities when disasters happen.
They're actually extracting wealth from these communities. Lots of times people think, Oh, these communities in Appalachia. These communities in the Rust Belt. What wealth is there? But when [industries] continue to put these [dangerous facilities] in these communities, housing values plummet, while everyone else's are going up. So you're taking wealth from these communities.
In the same way, when people say climate change isn't real, that means [those communities] can't invest in renewables. That means that communities in the Rust Belt that really need new jobs never get a chance at them. So once again you are taking wealth away from these communities.
How do you get those people to care — the people in the Rust Belt, for instance, who may not understand how they're being harmed by these policies? You tweeted a story about people in Kansas whose water had been contaminated for seven years, and the state health department knew about it but didn't bother to tell them.
That was intentional. It was intentional because sometimes we've set up these barriers in our country around environmental justice. That's a shame. It's about those black people, brown people, maybe indigenous people, and white brothers and sisters [who] sometimes don't think they're going to be impacted also. When we don't help everybody understand that these impacts affect everybody, then we allow people to put these boxes around it and say, "Well, I care, but that's something that's happening to these other folks."
Even in some of the disadvantaged communities of color, it can be hard to get people to care. People are busy feeding their kids. I heard Van Jones make the point years ago at the Bioneers Conference that you can't knock on doors in marginalized communities and scream about how the polar bears are dying. How do you reach out to those people who are already stressed just getting through a day in their lives? How do you talk to them about pollution, let alone climate?
I like to anchor my message in what's going on in people's lives. Normally I would talk about how 27 million people in our country have asthma. Seven million kids. Most folks of color in the urban setting can relate to asthma. They have kids or grandchildren or nieces or nephews [with] asthma. Then we have a conversation about, Okay, where's that coming from? How is this situation being exacerbated? It's because of pollution that's coming out of these plants and pollution coming from the backs of cars. Then I link them into, "Well, did you know that there's currently policy being made that's going to let more pollution come out, so there's going to be more health impacts?"
Those of us who've been working on environmental justice and climate justice for a while understand we're talking about housing, transportation, the environment, public health and jobs. So I talk to people also about their vote, not only in the environmental context, but in the context of the violence that continues to happen in some communities. And how your vote makes the decision about who's the police chief, who's the district attorney. I bring all that together. Then people are like, "Yeah, I got power. And my power's tied up in my vote. And the vote will determine the resources coming into my community, and who's leading that process."
In California the climate fight on the environmental justice front lines and the legislative space are often at odds. It's frustrating, because as mark! Lopez of East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice said on your panel, the frontline communities in the environmental justice fight are where our climate problems begin.
I've noticed that [about California]. Legislators can't do something because of how it will affect business or industry, [but] people in the environmental justice space are saying, "We're the ones who are going to be affected by pollution first. We're the ones who have to deal with this first." [The answer lies in] creating authentic collaborative partnerships.
If we're in a relationship, it means you care about me, and I care about you. In a good marriage, a healthy friendship, many times you care more about the other person than you do about yourself. We've got to get to that. That will get to a greater understanding of how to create a policy that's truly protective of everyone.
You mentioned that 200,000 people die every year prematurely because of air pollution. Can you imagine if 200,000 people were dying of bird flu?
It would be a public health emergency.
But we don't move like we would move if it were a public health emergency. How do you convince people who are making the laws that it is?
We've got two different dynamics going on. One, we really need to accelerate the creation of renewable energy jobs, to create a just transition for the workers in those industries, and to get new people into that space.
Two, we've got to get the money out of politics. We know that's an even harder fight than getting renewable energy jobs in place. There's an addiction to that money. I was at Netroots Nation and many of the political leaders who came to that signed the no fossil-fuel money pledge. If you don't have any accountability to the fossil-fuel world and that money that exists there, then you're less likely to make decisions based on a monetary thing, and you're more likely to be basing your decisions on public health.
You say you're a realist, but also an optimist. What is your cause for optimism right now?
This is an interesting time. I think that our country had to go through this. If we're going to have real talk, we have to acknowledge that there's been no administration that's lived up to what they should be doing on these issues. But now because the current administration is so anti-science, so anti-environment, so anti-climate, people who weren't paying attention before are paying attention now. Foundations are saying we've got to shift our portfolios to better support this work. We have a common destiny that's tied to this.
Even scientists. I have a science background and it hasn't always been the case that scientists [were involved in public policy]. There've always been good scientists, but it's not like the larger scientific organizations were saying we need to do more. Now that is happening. For all the craziness the current administration tries to do and does, [it has] also been a catalyst for people saying we've got to start honoring each other. We've got to start working together. That's what keeps me going — I see these new relationships forming.
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Did I have bad intention with that CNN iReport article? No.
A few hours ago, I posted an opinion piece on CNN iReport detailing the question paper leak matter which would generally fall under the category of current affairs. Quickly after the link hit the social media, all hells began to break loose. Suddenly I'm the traitor damaging the country's image more than anyone else. I'm under fire (not criticism, but hatred) for penning about this on CNN's citizen journalism platform. In this post, I'd like to explain myself and write about the things that I've learned from this experience.
I am a technology journalist but I write about current affairs from time to time especially when I have a voice to share about something. The question paper leak is a disaster for the country and I've observed with rather amazement that despite newspaper reports confirming the leaked question papers were largely matching the original ones, the authority seems to be at ease about it. Whenever something concerns me, I tend to write about it. It's not like I can change the world by writing, but if I can provoke constructive thoughts among the readers, why not do it?
Besides my little experience writing for various web and print magazine as tech journalist, I'm a student. My goal in life is to be a journalist. I am yet to get admitted into a undergraduate program to study journalism, so pardon me if I don't know all the journalism ethics there is to know. But to explain the situation, here's why I wrote this on CNN iReport.
Fact: CNN iReport is a Citizen Journalism site. In simpler words, you can sign up right away and post your thoughts. It's a blog. So anything published there does not mean it's on CNN. Majority of us tend to make the same mistake thinking that something on iReport means it's on CNN. It's not.
Because I want to be a journalist, occasionally I try to spend more time than usual on writing pieces. For my blog, like this one, I would just write down whatever I have in mind, add an accompanying image and tags, and hit the publish button before sharing it with my friends on Facebook and Twitter. But when I do more than that, like studying sources, spending more time editing and perfecting each and every paragraph, I tend to publish it wherever possible. Yes, those write-ups will help me shape my writing and presenting my skill to the editors. I would admit that because it's no secret. But don't misunderstand that for 'fame'. A designer does not design and publish for fame, he does it for his portfolio. It's almost always the same for other careers as well.
Why it didn't strike me that publishing that story would be a bad idea
Because I didn't know writing about what's happening is a crime. I didn't know writing about something that is a widespread disaster for my country somehow makes me a traitor. I would like to ask any journalist reading this piece, if I were working for CNN — or any other international agency for that matter — and my editor asked me to write a story on this topic, what should I have done? Decline him because I'm a Bangladeshi and I wouldn't write anything — no matter how true — that puts a bad image on my country? I seriously want to know what journalism ethics say about this.
From what I understand, journalism ethics means you have to remain true about what you write and your point of view should be neutral. I'm not sure if that's true, correct me if I'm wrong. But with that article, I've written in a tone supporting Bangladesh. I urged the authority to take action against this — something an average CNN (or any other news media, unless an editorial) would not never do. I guess I should have just stayed low and write nothing about it. That would hide the reality from spreading and thus paving the way for this to continue happening.
I've also been criticized for not writing anything good about Bangladesh on an international platform. I quoted my first CNN iReport which was written in a neutral point of view. That topic might be controversial right now; but back then, it was a huge matter and I can't count how many people have had positive thoughts on that piece. But I was repeatedly being asked about why I didn't write about particular good topics, as if I'm a staff writer at the CNN and I should do all the writing. (Reminder: CNN iReport is open to all and anyone can publish their stories, writings, or articles.) Even so, if anyone would approach me to write about something, I wouldn't have declined. It's not like I never wrote good stuff about Bangladesh or its history. You can't blame me for just writing current affairs that cause for concern, can you?
Why the take-down
At the end of this, you might ask that if I felt I haven't done anything wrong by publishing that story on CNN iReport, why did I take it down? Well, the answer is simple. I want the actual situation (the question paper leak) to be resolved, not create another situation because of my few hours' worth of work. If there has to be a discussion, let that be about what's going on, not about what I wrote about what's going on.
I am a Bangladeshi and I've always been proud to say that. Despite it being a third-world country with a very small space on the world map, our people have managed to achieve big things that make the country proud, almost none of which come from the government. We have youngsters who are now shaping the IT industry in Bangladesh and making a new landmark in our country.
So believe me when I say hurting its image was never the intention of that piece. It was an opinion piece written from a neutral, if not partial to Bangladesh, point of view and the idea was to grab attention of the authority before it was too late. I do apologize for hurting the sentiments of others who read it.
But still I'd love to know what journalists, journalism students, and those with good idea on journalism ethics have to say about this. If an appointed journalist is asked to write about something that — though true — might hurt the image of the country, what should he do?
P.S.: Like most other times, I've managed to reap some good things out of this experience. I always like people who are brave enough and open enough to 'say it to my face.' I've observed some people who have been sharing this link on Facebook and calling me a "known stupid" after unfriending me from their list. But they could've just messaged me saying what they think and let me know that they are hurt by my writing.
It's good for me that they unfriended me. I don't want people who talk, or criticize, behind my back. I only thank those who stayed in touch and openly shared what they felt.
P.S.S.: The piece is live on this blog. This is not CNN, so I hope you are okay sharing my thoughts on my personal blog.
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Noname John says:
Bro, your efforts are laudable indeed. However, in the context of our beloved "golden" nation, your attempt at free speech was bound to be misread and be the subject of persecution. Imo, as long as our country shall remain in the political grip of dynastic politics, we will continue to be that way we have been. Salam and take care bro.


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Q: HTTP Authentication type Negotiate in iOS client application Is the "Negotiate" HTTP Authentication scheme supported in iOS apps?
I'm trying to access a server that uses this authentication scheme. I'm currently using the ASIHTTPRequest class, which internally uses the CFNetwork library. Authentication fails to happen, and tracing through the ASIHTTPRequest code I see that it fails after an CFHTTPAuthentication object that is created by calling the CFHTTPAuthenticationCreateFromResponse function fails a check with the CFHTTPAuthenticationIsValid function. The error returned is "kCFStreamErrorHTTPAuthenticationTypeUnsupported = -1000". The response that it uses to try to create the CFHTTPAuthentication has the "WWW-Authenticate = Negotiate" header. This makes me think that the Negotiate scheme is not supported. However the library documentation for CFHTTPAuthentication lists "kCFHTTPAuthenticationSchemeNegotiate" as "Available in iOS 2.0 and later".
Following is the relevant parts of the code from ASIHTTPRequest.m from the attemptToApplyCredentialsAndResume method.
// Read authentication data
if (!requestAuthentication) {
    CFHTTPMessageRef responseHeader = (CFHTTPMessageRef) CFReadStreamCopyProperty((CFReadStreamRef)[self readStream],kCFStreamPropertyHTTPResponseHeader);
    requestAuthentication = CFHTTPAuthenticationCreateFromResponse(NULL, responseHeader);
    CFRelease(responseHeader);
    [self setAuthenticationScheme:[(NSString *)CFHTTPAuthenticationCopyMethod(requestAuthentication) autorelease]];
}

//SNIP

// See if authentication is valid
CFStreamError err;
if (!CFHTTPAuthenticationIsValid(requestAuthentication, &err)) {

    CFRelease(requestAuthentication);
    requestAuthentication = NULL;

I'm also somewhat confused about the Negotiate scheme itself. As I understand it, it's supposed to try to use the Kerberos scheme if possible, and then fall back to the NTLM scheme if not. The NTLM scheme is supported on iOS, but this fallback doesn't seem to be happening, at least not in the way CFHTTPAuthenticationCreateFromResponse handles it.

A: Safari on iOS 7 supports Single Sign-On (SSO) via HTTP Negotiate:

To configure SSO, iOS supports a configuration profile payload that allows MDM servers to push down the necessary settings. This includes setting the user principal name (that is, the Active Directory user account) and Kerberos realm settings, as well as configuring which apps and/or Safari web URLs should be allowed to use SSO.

Source:  iOS Security, Feb 2014 (page 18)

A: I know this question was asked a decade ago, and some things may have radically changed during this time in Apple and iOS. However, the server should send not only Negotiate but also advertise NTLM capability, otherwise a fallback to NTLM would never happen.
These types of issues are tricky to troubleshoot especially with not enough technical documentation available and when you suspect your own code to be wrong. I recently came across a similar issue and saw Microsoft IIS documentation on how to configure Kerberos for a website, which states to send WWW-Authenticate: Negotiate, NTLM  (in this order).

A: There is no support for Kerberos on the iPhone. Negotiate falls back to NTLM but do not expect iOS to support a proprietary auth scheme. There may be exist third party implementations.

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I imagine the date would depend on the army, and also if for ceremonial use as opposed to on campaign.
For France, officers and sergeants on campaign were ordered to carry muskets in lieu of polarms as of 1758, although I believe that this practice had been adopted earlier by units serving in the Americas. Officers and NCOs in the French army carried a sword (a straight-bladed epee, not a sabre) alongside their other weapon, so this would be the case regardless of if they were also carrying a spontoon, a halberd, or a musket. French private soldiers also carried epees, until 1764 (again, different in the Americas, where they turned them in and were issued with tomahawks); Grenadiers carried a sabre throughout. The polearms are pretty useless as a weapon - the main use I have seen them put to in re-enactment is for aligning a rank - and the private soldiers' epees were notoriously shoddy, as are their modern reproductions.
I think that I am correct in saying that some sort of polearm was reintroduced into the Napoleonic French service for the men detailed to guard Eagles.
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