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Scientology library: "Membership"
canada • church of scientology of california (csc) • cost • dead agenting (black pr, smear campaign) • e-meter • fair game • federal bureau of investigation (fbi) • front groups • infiltration • internal revenue service (irs) • kidnapping • l. ron hubbard's credentials • lavenda van schaick • lawsuit • mary sue (whipp) hubbard • medical claims • membership • michael james meisner • michigan • office of special affairs (osa) (formerly, guardian's office) • operation snow white • real estate • scientology's "clear" state • tax matter • theft
10 matching items found between Jan 1980 and Dec 1980. Furthermore, there are 332 matching items for all time not shown.
Scientologists lose appeal / Not religious, Judge rules — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Source: Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
MELBOURNE. - A Supreme Court judge in Melbourne ruled yesterday that the Church of the New Faith, practising scientology, was not a religious institution. The church had asked Mr Justice Crockett to rule that it was a religious institution and not liable to pay State payroll tax. The church had appealed against the refusal of the Commissioner of Payroll Tax to exempt it from paying payroll tax. Mr Justice Crockett said an institution did not become religious in character simply because ...
Tag(s): Anderson Report (Australia) • Australia • Church of Scientology Incorporated (Australia) • Church of Scientology of California (CSC) • Church of the New Faith • Hubbard Association of Scientologists International (HASI) • Justice Crockett • L. Ron Hubbard • Membership • Religious cloaking • Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) • Tax matter
Item contributed by: Zhent (Anonymous)
Scientology religion claim sham, says judge — The Age (Australia)
Author(s): Prue Innes, Aileen Berry
Source: The Age (Australia)
The Scientology organisation's claims to be a religion were a sham, a Supreme Court judge said yesterday. Some of its services were grotesque, a mockery of religion, he said. Mr Justice Crockett made the comments in dismissing an appeal by the organisation, calling itself the Church of the New Faith, against a decision of the Commissioner of Payroll Tax not to grant it exemption from the tax as a religious institution. The Guardian of the Melbourne Church of Scientology, the Reverend ...
Tag(s): Aileen Berry • Anderson Report (Australia) • Australia • Church of the New Faith • E-Meter • Elaine Allen • Justice Crockett • Membership • Prue Innes • Psychological Practices Act • Religious cloaking • Tax matter • The Age (Australia)
Scientology's war against judges — The American Lawyer
Author(s): James B. Stewart
Source: The American Lawyer
On September 5, 1980, as U.S. District Court Judge Charles Richey was recuperating from two pulmonary embolisms and exhaustion, lawyers for the Church of Scientology and the Justice Department gathered before Judge Aubrey Robinson, Richey's successor in the two-year-old conspiracy case against 11 members of the Church of Scientology. Judge Richey had already convicted and sentenced nine of the original 11 defendants, but the remaining two, recently extradited from England, were about to go on trial. "Particularly from the standpoint of ...
Tag(s): Ben Bradlee Jr. • Clearwater Sun (Florida) • David Susskind Show • Dead agenting (Black PR, smear campaign) • Duke Snyder • Flo Conway • Fraud, lie, deceit, misrepresentation • Frederick "Fred" Cain • Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) • Gábor Szabó • Harassment • Henning Heldt • Infiltration • Internal Revenue Service (IRS) • International Investigations, Inc. • James "Jim" Siegelman • James B. Stewart • Judge Aubrey E. Robinson Jr. • Judge Charles R. Richey • Judge George L. Hart Jr. • Judge Louis Oberdorfer • Julie Christofferson Titchbourne • Kidnapping • LaVenda Van Schaick • Lawrence Stifler • Lawsuit • Leonard B. Boudin • Mary Sue (Whipp) Hubbard • Membership • Michael Lee Hertzberg • Michael Nussbaum • Morrison J. "Mo" Budlong • New York Daily News • Operation Freakout • Operation Snow White • Paulette Cooper • Philip Hirschkop (Herschkopf?) • Private investigator(s) • Raymond Banoun • Richard L. Bast • San Diego Union-Tribune • Slave labor • St. Petersburg Times (Florida) • Synanon • Tax matter • The American Lawyer • The Scandal of Scientology (book) • Theft • Threat of legal action, lawsuit • Threat of physical harm • Tonja C. Burden • Washington Post
Churches join Scientology fight // Challenge IRS denial of group's tax-exempt status — Los Angeles Times (California)
Author(s): Russell Chandler
Tag(s): Auditing • Church of Scientology of California (CSC) • Cost • Dean Kelley • Internal Revenue Service (IRS) • Inurement • Judge Charles R. Richey • Lawsuit • Los Angeles Times (California) • Membership • Operation Snow White • Russell Chandler • Tax matter • [needtotag]
Group linked with Scientology cult denied school lease — Cupertino Courier
Author(s): Mike Myslinski
Source: Cupertino Courier
An education group organizing in the Cupertino School District area may have tried to play down its affiliation with a controversial religious cult, the Church of Scientology. The non-profit Applied Scholastics Inc. (ASI) has also held unauthorized training courses for three district teachers at the district's Hoover School after a request to have the district sponsor ASI programs was turned down by Associate Superintendent for Instruction William Zachmeier. "We're not a front for Scientology," stressed ASI Executive Director Lisa Patella. "Our ...
Tag(s): Apple Schools • Applied Scholastics • Children, youth • Cupertino Courier • Doug Smith • Frank Zurn • Front groups • Jeffrey G. "Jeff" Quiros • John Biagiotti • John Gordon Clark Jr. • Julie Christofferson Titchbourne vs. Church of Scientology, et al. • Lisa Patella • Membership • Michael J. Flynn • Mike Myslinski • Schools • Study technology (Study tech) • Training Routines (TRs)
Scientology: Anatomy of a frightening cult [Canadian edition] — Reader's Digest
Author(s): Eugene H. Methvin
Source: Reader's Digest
The faithful inner core serve as thieves, decoys and spies. The shocking story behind one of the most dangerous "religious cults" operating today IN THE late 1940s, pulp writer L. Ron Hubbard declared, "Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million, the best way would be to start his own religion." Hubbard did start his own religion, calling it the "Church of Scientology," and it has grown into an enterprise today grossing ...
Tag(s): American Medical Association (AMA) • American Psychiatric Association (APA) • Anne Rosenblum • Apollo (formerly, "Royal Scot Man"; often misspelled "Royal Scotman", "Royal Scotsman") • Auditing • Better Business Bureau (BBB) • Blackmail • Canada • Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) • Commissions • Communications Course • Cost • Dead agenting (Black PR, smear campaign) • Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health (book) • Engram • Eric McLean • Eugene H. Methvin • Fair game • False imprisonment • Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) • Field Staff Member (FSM) • Fraud, lie, deceit, misrepresentation • Income • Internal Revenue Service (IRS) • Julie Christofferson Titchbourne • L. Ron Hubbard's credentials • Lawsuit • Margaret Thaler Singer • Mary Sue (Whipp) Hubbard • Medical claims • Membership • Michael J. Flynn • Michael James Meisner • Nancy McLean • Office of Special Affairs (OSA) (formerly, Guardian's Office) • Operation Snow White • Potential Trouble Source (PTS) • Raymond Banoun • Reader's Digest • Recruitment • Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF) • Royalties, license, trademark, management fees • Saint Hill Manor @ East Grinstead (UK) • Salary • Scientology's "Clear" state • Suicide • Threat of physical harm • Training Routines (TRs) • U.S. Department of Justice • World Federation of Mental Health • [needtotag]
Defector describes Scientology // Scientology at Gilman — Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California)
Author(s): Terry Colvin
Source: Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California)
The Church of Scientology first moved into Riverside County when it opened a mission in Riverside in 1972. Later, it was revealed that the Church had a secret operation at La Quinta, near Indio. Now, from court records, it has been learned the church has established its worldwide command center at Gilman Hot Springs near Hemet. Here is the second of a two parts on the Gilman operation. ''[I do not have the first part of this special Gilman coverage. Of ...
Tag(s): Adelle "Dell" Hartwell • Anne Rosenblum • Apollo (formerly, "Royal Scot Man"; often misspelled "Royal Scotman", "Royal Scotsman") • Arthur Hubbard • Cause Resurgence Rundown aka "Running Program" • Commodore's Messenger Organization (CMO) • Diane Voegeding • Doreen Lea Gillham • Ernest "Ernie" Hartwell • False imprisonment • Freeloader's debt • Gold Base (also, "INT Base") @ Gilman Hot Springs • Heber C. Jentzsch • Lawsuit • Mary Sue (Whipp) Hubbard • Membership • Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California) • Real estate • Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF) • Ronald L. Pook • Silvana Garritano • Slave labor • Statistics (Stats) • Suzette Hubbard • Terry Colvin • Weapons
Drug unit is linked to church — Detroit News
Author(s): Peter Shellenbarger
Source: Detroit News
LANSING — The Michigan Department of Corrections paid more than $100,000 during the last three years to a drug treatment program with veiled ties to the controversial Church of Scientology. Leaders of the drug program, known as Narconon, admit it is based on Scientology teachings, but they deny any affiliation with the church. A state corrections official said he was satisfied that Scientology does not run Narconon. Church records obtained by The Detroit News showed, however, that Scientology leaders created Narconon ...
Tag(s): Cost • Criminon • Detroit • Detroit News • Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) • Kenneth Drogorub • LaVenda Van Schaick • Lawsuit • Membership • Michigan • Narconon (aka Scientology drug rehab) • Office of Special Affairs (OSA) (formerly, Guardian's Office) • Peter Shellenbarger • Public funding • Real estate • Recruitment • Scientology's "Clear" state • William C. Benitez
The Scientology Papers: Secret Ontario documents found in U.S. cult's files — Globe and Mail (Canada)
Author(s): John Marshall
Source: Globe and Mail (Canada)
Confidential documents from various Ontario Government offices including an attorney-general's communication about police intelligence operations have been found in U.S. Church of Scientology files. The documents were part of the evidence submitted by federal attorneys in the Washington prosecution of U.S. leaders of the cult on charges of conspiring to steal government documents and obstruct justice by cover-ups and by kidnapping an informer. Of 12 indicted, including two in Britain and the informer, nine have been tried, convicted and sentenced by ...
Tag(s): Canada • Casey Hill • Church of Scientology of California (CSC) • Court • Dead agenting (Black PR, smear campaign) • Destroying/hiding/falsifying evidences • E-Meter • Fair game • Front groups • Globe and Mail (Canada) • Hypnosis • Infiltration • John A. Lee • John Marshall • Kenneth J. Whitman • Kidnapping • L. Ron Hubbard's credentials • Lawsuit • Legal • Mary Sue (Whipp) Hubbard • Medical claims • Membership • Michael James Meisner • Ontario • Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) • Operation Snow White • Red box • Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) • The Scientology Papers (series) • Theft • Toronto
Scientology office opens — Detroit Free Press
Author(s): Harry Cook
Source: Detroit Free Press
The Church of Scientology of Michigan opened its new state headquarters Monday in the former Burton Abstract & Title building in downtown Detroit. The church group, which claims 4,000 adherents in Michigan, bought the 50-year-old, four-story stone structure from Burton in October for $650,000 cash. The church headquarters had been at 3605 Rochester Road in Royal Oak. Citing a desire "to be more centrally located for our parishioners," Suzanne Lee, Scientology's local public relations director, said the church spent the last ...
Tag(s): Church of Scientology of Michigan • Detroit Free Press • Harry Cook • Membership • Michigan • Real estate • Suzanna Lee

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Q: How do I populate Select Options from Redux store? I am using react-select
I have a form that creates a new contact. In my redux store I have groups that are already created. When I click the Select to show the options I would like to load the options from my redux store.
The "groups" from redux store has only one value, that is title: String in the GroupModel in the backend.
I understand that react-select needs to have a label: '', value: ''
If I create an array myself and pass the values in it works fine. But with redux nothing is working. I cant find any answers anywhere online which seems trivial to me....
Here is my component below
import React, { useState, useEffect } from 'react';
import { useDispatch, useSelector } from 'react-redux';
import PropTypes from 'prop-types';
import Select from 'react-select';
import { createContact } from '../../actions/index';
import { Button, Form, FormGroup, Input, Label } from 'reactstrap';
import Divider from '../common/Divider';

const ContactForm = ({ hasLabel }) => {
  const dispatch = useDispatch()

  // State
  const [contact, setContact] = useState({
    group: '',
})

  // Submit Handler
   const handleSubmit = e => {
    e.preventDefault()
    dispatch(createContact(contact))
   };

  // Change Handler
  const handleChange = e => {
    setContact({...contact, [e.target.name]: e.target.value})
  };

  // bringing in our state from redux
  const groups = useSelector((state) => state.groups)

  return (
  <>
    <Form onSubmit={handleSubmit}>

        <FormGroup>

          Choose Group/List
            <Select
              name="group"
              options={groups}
              getOptionlabel={({title}) => title}
              getOptionValue={({_id}) => _id }
              onChange={() => {}}
              isMulti
            />
        </FormGroup>

    </Form>
  </>
  );
};

ContactForm.propTypes = {

  hasLabel: PropTypes.bool
};

ContactForm.defaultProps = {
  layout: 'basic',
  hasLabel: false
};

export default ContactForm;

A: Ok.... So my solution above was pretty much correct. The issue I had was the getOptionlabel needed to be getOptionLabel <--- notice I forgot to capitalize the L in label....
I hope someone who needs to use react-select with redux finds this post and it helps.
So basically just bring in your redux state with useSelector or connect,
then make sure to use the props below in your Select component
getOptionLabel={({title}) => title}
getOptionValue={({_id}) => _id}

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Cavuto ist der Familienname folgender Personen:

Antônio Roberto Cavuto (* 1944), Bischof von Itapipoca
Neil Cavuto (* 1958), US-amerikanischer Fernsehmoderator und -kommentator

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Bay View offers an array of services far beyond full service restorative work. Diagnostic wax-ups, computer imaging and estimates are a must for the contemporary dental practice. For the growing or transitioning practice, our support with FREE staff training is a huge benefit. This can vary from digital photography to diagnostic waxing with everything in between. We are also proud to offer the services of a full-time graphic designer for marketing support. At Bay View Dental Lab, we really are your partners, and do everything we can to be a resource.
Our computer imaging service is NOT from a "smile library" but rather an original made through realistic changes of the original. Our graphic designer teams-up with our certified technicians, whose experience and expertise are used in a collaborative effort to produce results that are esthetic and achievable.
Digital photography has become as important to predictably successful cosmetic dentistry as the articulator is to successful functional dentistry. We consider it so important that we offer training FREE to doctors and staff for any Bay View customers.
Once the proper tooth position has been established through either a diagnostic wax-up or set-up, the tooth position and bone position can be evaluated for proper implant placement and inclination. Simply send a copy of the CT Scan in for our implant specialists and they will arrange an online web conference with you and the surgeon, and you will benefit from an interdisciplinary approach to implant treatment planning.
At Bay View Dental Lab we understand the true value of the diagnostic wax-up to our clients. We can share out expertise and make suggestions on materials, case design, sequencing, equilibration and estimates. We can provide four types of wax-ups: the basic diagnostic wax-up, the full contour wax-up, the case presentation wax-up and the orthodontic wax-up.
We realize the importance of staff in helping give you our best work. Much of what we need are staff tasks, in fact most of what we need will involve records generated by your chair-side or lab assistant. A better trained staff increases productivity per hour for the doctor.
For clients seeking the highest level of personal interaction with their technicians, we offer our Request Team Service. Our small group of Master Technicians from around the world specializing in metal ceramics, all ceramics, gold and implant work are available, by request, to work as your private technician.


Whether you have been running your business for over 20 years or just starting out, you cannot deny the importance of regularly reviewing your business' performance.
Many business owners may put off reviews in fear of the actual results, but understanding why your business is performing the way it is is crucial for growth and development.
Think about the quality and delivery of your products and services. Do they solve a problem for your customer/client, fulfil a want or need, keep customers returning? Analysing trends in products and services will also help you to identify which products or services need to be altered or removed or if new ones are needed. Also, by regularly reviewing trends you may realise gaps in the market or opportunities you did not know existed.
Do you have a steady flow of loyal customers or are you struggling to make sales? This is a big factor in whether or not you need to change your business model. Be sure to take into consideration external factors that may influence sales, i.e., poor consumer spending in your industry, changes in technology, etc. If the type of customers you are attracting is changing also be sure to adapt to these changes appropriately, i.e., different marketing campaigns, honing in on a niche, hiring new staff to keep up with demand and so on.
Develop good financial procedures, such as visiting an accountant to receive financial statements, i.e., profit and loss, cash-flow statement and balance sheet. Financial statements analyse how your business is performing financially for a set time period. They indicate the general financial health of your business and can help you to recognise areas that require action.
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After over a century with its unique genus status declared null, the Brontosaurus has been officially declared distinct from Apatosaurus.
Every child learns about and learns to love the Brontosaurus -- the gigantic sauropod named for thunder. Learning, therefore, that it has been considered not a distinct genus at all, but an Apatosaurus under another name since 1903, is an epic dinosaur let-down.
According to a new study, though, the Brontosaurus can officially now be reinstated as its own discrete genus, distinct from the Apatosaurus.
Brontosaurus was discovered by prolific paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh -- who is responsible for the discovery or description of dozens of new species, partially due to his participation in the Bone Wars of the 19th century -- the rivalry between Marsh and fellow paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope to discover the most dinosaurs.
In 1879 Marsh announced that he had found two almost complete sauropod skeletons at Como Bluff in Wyoming -- missing, crucially, their skulls. He modelled the skull on the skull of another sauropod he had found that had a similar build -- Camarasaurus -- and called one of the skeletons the Brontosaurus excelsus, or "noble thunder lizard".
But in 1903, after Marsh's death in 1899, another sauropod was discovered that resembled both Apatasaurus ajax and Brontosaurus. Because Marsh and Cope had rushed many of their descriptions due to the rivalry between them, paleontologist Elmer Riggs concluded that there were not enough differences between Brontosaurus and Apatosaurus to warrant two different genera, so he folded Brontosaurus into the latter, renaming it Apatosaurus excelsus.
Brontosaurus skeletal reconstructions by Marsh in 1883 (top) and 1891 (bottom). Images public domain.
The name stuck around, though -- until the 1970s, when researchers discovered that Apatosaurus (and Brontosaurus) was more closely related to Diplodocus than Camarasaurus -- and that its head, rather than having the boxy shape associated with Camarasaurus, was more slender and horse-like. Multiple skulls were reassigned to Apatosaurus -- and the idea that Brontosaurus was a mistake was cemented.
But according to a new study conducted by paleontologists in Portugal and the UK, there are in fact enough significant difference to warrant classifying Brontosaurus once again as its own genus.
"Thanks to several new and relatively complete finds, we were now finally able to reassess the validity of all the species of Diplodocidae, and study their relationships in more detail then anybody else before,"explained Emanuel Tschopp, a Swiss national who led the study during his PhD at Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Portugal.
"It's only normal that such a study, also has some unexpected outcomes that overthrow years of research, like the resurrection of Brontosaurus."
The 300-page study, published in the journal PeerJ, examines 81 different skeletons, 49 of which belong to the Diplodocidae family, across 477 morphological characters using statistical approaches to establish a boundary between species and genera -- making it the most extensive phylogenetic analys of sauropods ever completed.
"This detailed data on Diplodocidae allowed us to basically recreate their branch on the tree of life from scratch. This led us to three main findings: first, we found conclusive evidence for an additional, new genus within the group, which we call Galeamopus. Second, Supersaurus, a genus previously known from the USA alone, now also includes the Portuguese genus Dinheirosaurus," Tschopp said.
"And finally, we found that differences between the genera Apatosaurus and Brontosaurus are numerous enough to revive Brontosaurus as its own genus, a name which has long been considered invalid in the scientific community."
Study co-author Roger Benson of the University of Oxford noted that there are distinct dinosaur genera with fewer differing traits from other members of their families.
"The differences we found between Brontosaurus and Apatosaurus were at least as numerous as the ones between other closely related genera," he said, "and much more than what you normally find between species."


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Q: Input step with timeout which continues with default settings using Jenkins pipeline Description of desired Jenkins pipeline:

*

*Wait 1 minute for input ("Is this a release build? yes/no")

*

*If input is yes then do a release type build (with build number and deployment)

*If it times out or user said no then do a testing build

*If user pressed Abort do normal abort

My current code is:
try {
    timeout(1) {
        input message: 'Do you want to release this build?',
              parameters: [[$class: 'BooleanParameterDefinition',
                            defaultValue: false,
                            description: 'Ticking this box will do a release',
                            name: 'Release']]
    }
} catch (err) {
    def hi = err.getCauses()
    echo "Exception thrown:\n ${hi}"

    echo err.getLocalizedMessage()
    echo err.getCause()
    echo err.toString()
    echo err.getClass().getName()
}

But this gives identical (as far as I can tell) behaviour and caught errors for user pressed "Abort" and input timed out.
Here is the output for timed out:
[Pipeline] timeout
[Pipeline] {
[Pipeline] input
Input requested
[Pipeline] }
[Pipeline] // timeout
[Pipeline] echo
Exception thrown:
 [org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.support.steps.input.Rejection@5ac94906]
[Pipeline] echo
null
[Pipeline] echo
null
[Pipeline] echo
org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.steps.FlowInterruptedException
[Pipeline] echo
org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.steps.FlowInterruptedException
[Pipeline] End of Pipeline
Finished: SUCCESS

When I press 'Abort' it is the same except for the hex after Rejection@
It would be great if the input step could optionally continue with default options after a timeout.
EDIT: Added more print to the error to try to determine it's type

A: You could extract the information about the user that rejected from the Exception cause. org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.support.steps.input.Rejection has a getUser() method (which returns 'SYSTEM' for a timeout and full user name for an abort).
try {
    timeout(time: 15, unit: 'SECONDS') {
        input message: 'Do you want to release this build?',
              parameters: [[$class: 'BooleanParameterDefinition',
                            defaultValue: false,
                            description: 'Ticking this box will do a release',
                            name: 'Release']]
    }
} catch (err) {
    def user = err.getCauses()[0].getUser()
    echo "Aborted by:\n ${user}"
}

Do note that this requires an approval for the groovy sandbox (Manage Jenkins > In-process Script Approval).

A: I have implemented similar behaviour recently.
This declarative pipeline code requries BRANCH_TO_BUILD parameter to be provided on start (only if it is started manually, otherwise default value will be used) then interactive input for the Git branch is activated.
So user has several options:

*

*keep no action (default value will be used)

*confirm default value

*input new value

*abort execution pressing [Abort]

And yes, remember to confirm Groovy functions as Blazej wrote
pipeline {
    agent none

    parameters {
        string(name: 'BRANCH_TO_BUILD', defaultValue: "develop", description: 'GIT branch to build')
    }

    environment {
        GIT_URL = 'ssh://user@git/repo.git'
        BRANCH_TO_BUILD_DEFAULT = 'develop'
        BRANCH_TO_BUILD_REQUESTED = "${params.BRANCH_TO_BUILD}"
    }

    stage('Configure the build') {
        agent none
        steps {
            echo "Prompt a user for the branch to build (default: ${BRANCH_TO_BUILD_DEFAULT})"
            script {
                try {
                    timeout(time:30, unit:'SECONDS') {
                    BRANCH_TO_BUILD_REQUESTED = input(
                        message: 'Input branch to build',
                        parameters: [
                                [$class: 'TextParameterDefinition',
                                 defaultValue: BRANCH_TO_BUILD_DEFAULT,
                                 description: 'Branch name', name: 'Enter branch name (or leave default) and press [Proceed]:']
                            ])
                        echo ("User has entered the branch name: " + BRANCH_TO_BUILD_REQUESTED)
                    }
                } catch(err) { // timeout reached or input Aborted
                    def user = err.getCauses()[0].getUser()
                        if('SYSTEM' == user.toString()) { // SYSTEM means timeout
                            echo ("Input timeout expired, default branch will be used: " + BRANCH_TO_BUILD_DEFAULT)
                            BRANCH_TO_BUILD_REQUESTED = BRANCH_TO_BUILD_DEFAULT
                        } else {
                            echo "Input aborted by: [${user}]"
                            error("Pipeline aborted by: [${user}]")
                        }
                }
            }
        }
    }

    stage('Checkout') {
        agent{node {label 'worker-1'}}

        steps {
            echo "Checkout will be done for Git branch: ${BRANCH_TO_BUILD_REQUESTED}"
            checkout([$class: 'GitSCM', branches: [[name: "*/${BRANCH_TO_BUILD_REQUESTED}"]], doGenerateSubmoduleConfigurations: false, extensions: [], submoduleCfg: [], userRemoteConfigs: [[url: ${GIT_URL]}]])
            }
    }

}

A: I don't think that the suggestions about checking for user 'SYSTEM' work. Jenkins terminates the build with user 'SYSTEM' both in the case of a timeout and when someone clicks the red X to cancel the job.
I found a solution posted on a message board for how to tell the difference:
long startTime = System.currentTimeMillis()
try {
    timeout(time: timeoutInSeconds, unit: 'SECONDS') {
        input 'Test'
    }
} catch (err) {
    long timePassed = System.currentTimeMillis() - startTime
    if (timePassed >= timeoutInSeconds * 1000) {
        echo 'Timed out'
    } else {
        throw err
    }
}


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De-sanitizing Christmas #3: Meet the Parents (2008 Update)
Posted by: Chris L
in Devotional, Theology
In Part I of this series, we examined the need to view the entire Christmas story arc, and in Part II we discussed the probability of Jesus' birthday on Sukkot (mid-September to early-October), as opposed to the semi-synchretistically chosen date of December 25.
In this installment, we will examine Jesus' parents, comparing common belief/depiction of them to a contextual probability of who they were.
Marriage Customs
In Middle-eastern Jewish culture in the first century, like today, girls are considered to have reached an "age of accountability" at the age of twelve, or their first menstruation, whichever comes first. Upon reaching that age, the family would search for a prospective future mate for their daughter.
Upon finding an appropriate "match", the families would gather together and announce a betrothal between the daughter (the lesser party, in that culture) of one family and the son (the greater party) of the other family. In that celebration, a blood sacrifice (typically a goat) would be made and a binding covenant declared between the families. Once declared, the betrothal could only be nullified in agreement between the two families, without cause. If there was cause, such as infidelity, to break the covenant, the patriarch of the family violating the covenant could be subject to death, if the offended family so desired. This was a serious thing! (See here for more information on the bloodpath ceremony, which also has significance in the Easter story.)
In the Galilee region, once a betrothal was declared, the son would build a room onto his family's house, preparing it as a place for he and his bride to live (these multi-room, multi-family houses, called insula, have been extensively excavated in Galilee cities in the past several decades). Once the father of the bridegroom decided that the time was right for the wedding to come about, he would tell his son, and the entire family would go to pick up the girl and bring she and her family back for the wedding celebration. At the culmination of the first night of the wedding feast, the bride and groom would enter their new home together and consumate the marriage (while everyone else waited and celebrated outside – talk about pressure to perform!). This image of bride and groom, preparation and wedding feasts is used in multiple stories told by Jesus.
But that's a topic to examine a different day.
All cultural indications from the Jewish culture and the Galilee region would suggest that Mary was 12-13 years of age at the time of her betrothal. Also, considering that most betrothal periods would last from 6 months to two years (at most), these cultural indicators would suggest that Mary was 12 – 14 years old when she received the visit from the angel Gabriel.
This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit. (Matthew 1:18)
How often do we see Christmas reenactments on TV or at our churches in which Mary is a young twentysomething girl, as opposed to a 6th-, 7th- or 8th-grade girl? Not only that, but she's 9 months pregnant!
If we only know a little bit about Mary, we know even less about Joseph.
Once again, if we follow Galilean Jewish tradition, Joseph would have been at least 13, though it is possible he was a few years older, since he is identified with a profession, which he would typically have learned from his father between the ages of 12 and 16.
There are a number of religious traditions which have suggested that Joseph was significantly older and a widower when he was betrothed to Mary. However, this came from the Catholic tradition which insisted this had to have been the case, specifically because of the belief that Mary remained a virgin after Jesus' birth (a mistaken interpretation of Matthew 1:25). Thus, since Jesus had at least 4 brothers and 2 or more sisters (see Mark 6:3), many Catholics will argue that these siblings had to have come from Joseph via a prior marriage. However, this is highly unlikely and not supported by scripture.
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Mary-uh?
In Matthew 1, we read about Joseph:
Because Joseph her husband was a righteous man and did not want to expose her to public disgrace, he had in mind to divorce her quietly.
So, already, we can see Joseph's an honorable fellow, unwilling to have Mary and/or her father disgraced (or potentially, killed) for her "infidelity". What we might miss, not knowing this culture, is that Joseph was, in turn, exposing himself to a great deal of public disgrace in not divorcing her.
In not taking action to distance himself from Mary, Joseph was de facto admitting that he was the father of Mary's baby (which would have been seen as a moral failure on his part, in primary responsibility), which should have resulted in an immediate binding declaration of marriage (without celebration) and a disgrace to him and his family.
Hold this thought for a minute.
In Luke, we learn about the census of Caesar Augustus in approximately 4 B.C., and the events around Jesus' birth.
In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) And everyone went to his own town to register.
So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child. While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.
This passage is all we have in the Bible about the events specifically around the circumstances of Jesus' birth. And it begs some questions, based on the context we've discussed – questions that don't often get asked.
1) If Joseph was of the house and line of David, so was his father. Since he was not yet married, it would be sufficient for his father or grandfather to register his family in the Roman census. Instead, we have a 15- or 16-year-old boy taking his 9-months'-pregnant, 13-year-old bride-to-be on a dangerous 40+ mile journey on foot (owning a donkey was a symbol of wealth, which does not seem to be indicative of Joseph's circumstance). If he was not yet married, he should not have been responsible for registering his family-to-be. Why isn't Joseph's family with him?
2) There was no room for them in the inn. In the middle-east, hospitality is prized above almost all other social values, so for there to be no room – in a town from which Joseph is descendant – is very strange. No, make that incredibly strange. So – why would there be no room for a boy and his imminently expectant bride-to-be in a community which should have relatives, and where his father's family should be staying?
Culturally, the best answer to these questions (and other similar ones) is that, in taking an obviously expectant Mary as his bride, Joseph was ostensibly admitting "guilt" in the circumstances. he had brought some degree of shame upon himself and his family, and was living out the consequences. This would explain why Joseph and Mary didn't have any support from their extended families, why he would have to take Mary with him, and why nobody in Bethlehem would have room for them.
[NOTE: Another possibility which has been suggested is that Joseph had no extended family, but this does not make as much sense, as Joseph was learned in a profession - as a tekton, a mason - that would have required familial apprenticeship to learn.]
All too often, we paint an incredibly sanitized Christmas in our own cultural context, missing out on the desperate and dire circumstances of Jesus' birth and the cultural lowliness and shame surrounding them. In trying to exalt Jesus (which is a good thing – don't get me wrong), we miss how low God allowed himself to go on the cultural and societal ladder in entering this world.
He came in the circumstances of the lowliest of the low, exhalting Himself in serving all other people, and dying the worst of deaths on our behalf. If we do not let him be who he was, we cannot fully appreciate who he is and what he went through for us – in life and in death.
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FIFA 13 looks like it will definitely be "Better With Kinect" as it will feature advanced voice controls for more realistic gameplay.
Ever since the debut of the Kinect, gamers and athletes have clamored for a sports game that integrates the technology in an organic way. In its E3 press conference, EA finally demonstrated Kinect features in FIFA 13. After the sneak peek, it was clear that the Xbox 360 version of FIFA 13 is worthy of the slogan, "Better With Kinect."
For starters, FIFA 13 will feature full voice command support. Using voice commands, you'll be able to instruct your squad as if you were right on the field. Changing formations, making substitutions and switching tactics will become second nature as you make plays without ever having to pause the game. This should introduce a whole new level of on-the-fly strategy previously impossible in any FIFA game.
You'll also be able to talk to your computer-controlled teammates as if you were playing beside them. With this feature, you can call for a shot or a pass with ease, which should make games a lot more enjoyable for athletes used to communicating with teammates as they sprint down the field.
Finally, you will be able to push back in real time against referee decisions. As demonstrated in the E3 video, referees will in turn react to your treatment of them—good or bad. If you don't like a referee's call and use foul language, expect a yellow card.
FIFA 13 looks like it will finally deliver the intuitive voice controls athletes have been requesting for years. Although no firm release date has been set, the game should be available in late August. If you want to play it "Better With Kinect," you will need the Xbox 360.
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The Mile High city is home to more apartment complexes than ever before. If you're new to Colorado, welcome! One problem that many citizens do not anticipate comes in the form of small, flat insects that feed on their blood while they sleep. Yes, bed bugs are gross, and yes, they have been known to spread across multi-family living spaces. If you're in need of professional bed bug detection services in Denver, the team at Advanced K9 Bed Bug Seekers is here and ready to help! Our experienced team and top-trained dog, Tracker, will provide complete bed bug inspections to ensure your home is free of this troublesome pest.
If you're worried about bed bugs this winter, it can help to take a few steps to minimize the chances of an infestation. Read on to learn about a few of our tips, and be sure to call us if you're worried about your residence!
Donation centers have made the process of buying used furniture both economical and affordable. However, this method of furniture acquisition holds a high potential for bed bug problems. Before you buy that used couch, be sure to inspect it for any signs of bed bug infestations, including reddish stains, dark spots, or tiny eggshells.
Bed bugs can flourish in clean environments, but it can help to know that they prefer to hide in cluttered environments. We recommend reducing the amount of stuff laying around your place to reduce the number of hiding spots. Not only will this help you feel better about the state of your home, it will also make it easier to spot signs of a bed bug infestation before things get worse!
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Events from the year 1870 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents
 Monarch – Victoria
 Prime Minister – William Ewart Gladstone (Liberal)
 Parliament – 20th

Events
 28 January
 General Post Office takes over business of private telegraph companies.
 Inman Line's  departs Halifax, Nova Scotia, on a passage for Liverpool on which it will be lost with all 191 aboard.
 5 March – first ever (unofficial) international football match, England v Scotland, takes place under the approval of the Football Association at The Oval, London.
 10 May – Jem Mace wins the boxing championship of the world, defeating fellow Englishman Tom Allen at Kenner, near New Orleans.
 19 May – the Home Government Association is established in Ireland by Isaac Butt to argue for devolution for Ireland and repeal of the Act of Union 1800.
 late Spring – Army Enlistment (Short Service) Act allows reduction in length of enlistment to the British Army as part of the Cardwell Reforms.
 2 June – competitive examination for entry to the British civil service introduced.
 8 June – the final splice to the first telegraph submarine cable to India is made off Porthcurno, Cornwall.
 23 June – Keble College, Oxford, opens, the first new college of the University of Oxford in more than a century.
 2 August – official opening of the Tower Subway beneath the River Thames in London, the world's first underground passenger "tube" railway. Although this lasts as a railway operation only until November, it demonstrates the technologically successful first use of the cylindrical wrought iron tunnelling shield devised by Peter W. Barlow and James Henry Greathead.
 4 August – British Red Cross established as the British National Society for Aid to the Sick and Wounded in War by Lord Wantage.
 9 August
 Elementary Education Act 1870 drafted by William Edward Forster MP encourages elementary education by creating a system of secular School boards in England and Wales at whose schools attendance may be compulsory. Women are eligible to stand and vote for local school boards where created.
 Married Women's Property Act confirms that wives may own property of their own.
27 August – White Star's first ocean liner RMS Oceanic is launched by Harland and Wolff in Belfast.
 7 September – masted turret ship HMS Captain capsizes off Cape Finisterre, less than 5 months after commissioning, due to design flaws, with the loss of 481 lives.
 1 October – postcards and halfpenny postage stamps introduced by the Post Office.
 19 October –  is wrecked on Inishtrahull (Ireland) with the loss of 179 lives.
 Undated – the David Greig grocery chain begins with a store in London.

Publications
 1 January
 Completion of the Ordnance Survey one-inch-to-the-mile "Old Series" maps of England.
 The Northern Echo newspaper launched in Darlington.
 April–September – serialisation of Charles Dickens' novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood, only half complete due to his death on 9 June.
 Edward Jenkins' satire Ginx's Baby: his birth and other misfortunes.
 William Robinson's gardening book The Wild Garden.
 Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Poems, exhumed from Elizabeth Siddal's grave.

Births
 7 January – Gordon Hewart, 1st Viscount Hewart, English judge and politician, 7th Lord Chief Justice of England (died 1943)
 25 January – Fred Spiksley, footballer (died 1948)
 5 February – C. E. Brock, painter and illustrator (died 1938)
 12 February – Marie Lloyd, music-hall singer (died 1922)
 4 March – Thomas Sturge Moore, poet, author and artist (died 1944)
 17 March – Horace Donisthorpe, entomologist (died 1951)
 9 May – Harry Vardon, golfer (died 1937)
 4 August – Harry Lauder, Scottish entertainer (died 1950)
 11 August – Tom Richardson, cricketer (died 1912)
 12 August – Hubert Gough, general (died 1963)
 22 August – Bertram Fletcher Robinson, journalist, editor and author (died 1907)
 1 September – Leopold Wharton, English-born American film director (died 1927)
 22 September – Charlotte Cooper, tennis player (died 1966)
 21 October – Horace Hood, admiral (killed in action 1916)
 22 October – Lord Alfred Douglas, minor Uranian poet best remembered as a lover of writer Oscar Wilde (died 1945)
 30 October – Lawrence Grant, film actor (died 1952 in the United States)
 18 November – P. Morley Horder, architect (died 1944)
 18 December – Saki (H. H. Munro), short-story writer (killed in action 1916)
 Doncaster, racehorse (died 1892)

Deaths
 2 January – Ignatius Bonomi, architect and surveyor (born 1787)
 9 January – Elizabeth Sackville-West, Countess De La Warr, peeress (born 1795)
 20 January – Sir George Seymour, admiral of the fleet (born 1787)
 25 January – Janet Taylor, mathematician and navigational instrument maker (born 1804)
 30 March – William Hale, inventor (born 1797)
 25 April – Daniel Maclise, historical painter (born 1806)
 6 May – Sir James Young Simpson, physician and researcher (born 1811)
 14 May – Thomas Dale, Anglican priest, Dean of Rochester (born 1797)
 17 May – David Octavius Hill, Scottish painter and pioneer photographer (born 1802)
 24 April – Louisa Stuart Costello, miniature-painter, poet, historical novelist and travel writer (born 1799)
 9 June – Charles Dickens, novelist (born 1812)
 27 June – George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon, diplomat and statesman (born 1800)
 12 September – Eleanora Atherton, philanthropist in Manchester (born 1782)
 25 September – John Braithwaite, engineer, inventor of the first steam fire engine (born 1797)
 6 October – James Giles, painter (born 1801)
 21 October – Charles George James Arbuthnot, general (born 1801)
 8 December – Thomas Brassey, railway contractor (born 1805)
 9 December – Patrick MacDowell, sculptor (born 1799)
 28 December – Philip Hardwick, architect (born 1792)

See also
 1870 in Scotland

References

Years of the 19th century in the United Kingdom


Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation (MFTBC) is first OEM to launch dedicated brand for its electric trucks and buses.
Showing clear commitment to electrify complete range of trucks and buses in upcoming years.
Unveiling E-FUSO's Vision ONE concept all-electric heavy-duty truck with a range of 350 kilometers.
First series-produced all-electric light-duty truck "eCanter" is delivered to first customers in Japan: Seven-Eleven and Yamato Transport Japan.
Kawasaki, Japan – Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation (MFTBC), an entity under the umbrella of Daimler Trucks Asia, today strengthened the commitment of its FUSO brand for alternative drivetrains by announcing it will electrify its complete range of trucks and buses in upcoming years. At the Tokyo Motor Show, MFTBC launched its new product brand E-FUSO–being the first OEM to launch a brand dedicated to electric mobility of trucks and buses. As proof, MFTBC showcased a concept all-electric heavy-duty truck with a range of up to 350 kilometers. The truck–named E-FUSO Vision ONE - marks the top end of the electrification process the company will move towards in upcoming years.Substantial investments as well as access to the Daimler Network of battery and charging technology will back this strategy, and make E-FUSO the frontrunner in electric trucks.
The E-FUSO Vision ONE all-electric heavy-duty truck has a Gross Vehicle Weight (GVW) of 23.26 tons and a payload of 11.11 tons, which is only 1.8 tons less than its diesel counterpart. It can operate within a range of up to 350 km on a single charge. While the electrification of long-haul trucks will still need substantial time to become technically feasible, the potential application for the Vision ONE heavy-duty truck is regional intra-city distribution.
By developing the eCanter - from extensive design, development, testing and now through production, MFTBC gained valuable insights, which will help to bring an electric heavy-duty truck onto the streets within the next four to five years.
In addition to the E-FUSO Vision ONE, MFTBC also showcased its eCanter, the first series-produced all-electric light-duty truck, which was recently launched in New York City.
The eCanter has a GVW of 7.5 tons and a range of 100-120 km on a single charge. The first small series of the eCanter has been handed over to customers including: the convenience-store giant, Seven-Eleven, and Japan's largest delivery logistics provider Yamato. And in the United States, to United Parcel Service (UPS), and several NGOs, including Habitat for Humanity, Wildlife Conservation Society, and The New York Botanical Garden, who have also purchased the eCanter. It is, therefore, in operation in two of the world's largest megacities, New York City and Tokyo, demonstrating FUSO's concrete steps towards reducing air and noise pollution in urban areas, and its vision to help shape sustainable urban environments.
With the launch of the product brand E-FUSO, MFTBC underlines its commitment to electrify its complete range of products. The commitment goes beyond the development of the heavy-duty truck, which marks the top end of the electrification process. In upcoming years, all truck and bus models by FUSO will include an additional electric powertrain alternative. The timing for the launch of each model will be in relation to the required technology and feasibility.
Under the overarching motto "Light Up Tomorrow", which embodies MFTBC's vision of transforming and revolutionizing the commercial vehicle sector, FUSO also showcased its flagship all-new Super Great heavy-duty truck as a tractor. And with this model, FUSO introduced the new "colored by FUSO" service that gives customers the option to choose from 350 different factory-painted body colors. This saves customers up to 150,000 JPY, in repainting costs for the body after purchase. The fourth vehicle being showcased is the all-new FUSO Aero Queen bus launched in May this year. The model shown at the booth is equipped with luxurious seats, and a VR-system which allows visitors to experience a whole journey without having to move an inch.


Mark your calendar for Thursday, December 8th, 7 p.m. so you can come out and hear how we're opening a community-Owned, democratically operated grocery store that focuses on selling locally grown, sustainably produced food and goods. Also hear about our new developments and where we are in our overall plan.
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Spaeth Purple Beech has attractive deep purple foliage which emerges burgundy in spring. The serrated pointy leaves are highly ornamental and turn an outstanding burgundy in the fall. Neither the flowers nor the fruit are ornamentally significant. The smooth silver bark is extremely showy and adds significant winter interest.
Spaeth Purple Beech is a dense deciduous tree with a distinctive and refined pyramidal form. Its average texture blends into the landscape, but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition.
Spaeth Purple Beech will grow to be about 60 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 35 feet. It has a low canopy with a typical clearance of 4 feet from the ground, and should not be planted underneath power lines. It grows at a slow rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live to a ripe old age of 120 years or more; think of this as a heritage tree for future generations!
This tree should only be grown in full sunlight. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions, but will not tolerate standing water. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution, and will benefit from being planted in a relatively sheltered location. This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America.


I know some of you have received emails stating animals at our shelter have suffered frostbite and have contacted our department and others with your concerns. Thank you for your concern for the pets at our shelter and be assured their health and safety are our primary concern.
As to the circulating emails, our kennel buildings are all equipped with automatic heating units. These units are thermostatically controlled and operate throughout the day / night as needed. All of the units were recently checked and serviced prior to the cooler weather arriving.
All dogs in the kennels have access to this heat system and no animal has suffered frostbite at the shelter.
The dog in which the circulating email references was maintained at another animal shelter prior to arriving at the Devore facility on Wednesday (11-24). Upon arrival at Devore, the dog was observed licking the top of its left front leg and the area appeared irritated. The dog did not display signs of discomfort or distress, only the licking of this area of the leg. To ensure the health of the dog, it was immediately transported to a veterinarian for examination / treatment, was maintained at the veterinary hospital over the Thanksgiving Day holiday, and on Friday (11-26) was released from the veterinary hospital, transported back to the Devore Shelter, where it was adopted. The diagnoses from the veterinarian was not frostbite and the dog did receive treatment for its diagnosed condition. The time this dog was at the Devore Shelter was a few minutes upon the date of transfer and the time it arrived back from the veterinary hospital until it was adopted.
While in fact, our shelter does use water in the daily cleaning / disinfecting of the kennels and water is used to rinse the kennels clean throughout the day as needed, no animal is subjected to freezing concrete floors. Again, the health and safety of the animals is our primary concern.
Again, thank you for your concern and I invite you to come and visit our shelter.
Thank you for your factual, informative response.
Having shared the sequence of events with animal rescue groups, why would the animal rights activists want to continue to "badmouth" Devore animal shelter?
Spreading rumors about the treatment of animals at the shelter is not helpful to the public, to the animals, or to reputable rescue groups.
Spreading these rumors is not beneficial to the reputable rescue groups that like networking with Devore and helping the animals because these rumors make us look like we are uninformed and even worse - irrational.
Are there any laws which protect the people or organization that are harmed or threatened by the Internet? Someone needs to be held accountable if their actions are hurting animals, the shelter, or the staff.


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Nonconsensual Experimentation and Harassment
"We intend that men shall be free to live by no man's leave under the sun." Statement from the Nuremberg Trials
Guatamalan Nonconsensual Experiments Revealed
U. S. Unearths A Horror and Apologizes for Syphilis Guatamalan Experiments ('46 – '48)
Stephen Smith, Globe Staff
Picking through musty files in a Pennsylvania archive, a Wellesley College professor made a heart-stopping discovery: US government scientists in the 1940s deliberately infected hundreds of Guatemalans with syphilis and gonorrhea in experiments conducted without the subjects' permission.
Medical historian Susan M. Reverby happened upon the documents four or five years ago while researching the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study and later shared her findings with US government officials.
The unethical research was not publicly disclosed until yesterday, when President Obama and two Cabinet secretaries apologized to Guatemala's government and people and pledged to never repeat the mistakes of the past — an era when it was not uncommon for doctors to experiment on patients without their consent.
Even so, Reverby found in the files a story of almost singular exploitation and deception, conducted in a foreign land because, the nation's surgeon general at the time acknowledged, it could not have been done in the United States.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/10
/02/wellesley_professor_unearths_a_horror_syphilis_experiments_in_guatemala/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39456324/ns/health-sexual_health/
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/books/blog/2010/10/tuskegee_experiment_remix_syph.html
Susan M. Reverby
Education: Bachelor's from Cornell University in industrial and labor relations, 1967; master's from New York University, 1973; doctorate from Boston University in American studies, 1982.
Professional: Professor of women's and gender studies at Wellesley College; first professor hired in women's studies in 1982.
Research interests: History of medicine, nursing, and American women; two books on the Tuskegee syphilis study.
Other work: Community organizer in New York and women's health activist; health policy analyst; consumer representative on the Food and Drug Administration's Obstetrics and Gynecology Devices advisory panel from
1993-1997; ACLU of Massachusetts board, 1998-2007.
SOURCE: Wellesley College
Remembering The Tuskegee Experiments
Syphilis Study Still Provides Disbelief, Sadness
by Tuskegee Legacy Committee Chair Dr. Vanessa Gamble.
Listen to Alex Chadwick's report.
July 25, 2002 –Thirty years ago today, the Washington Evening Star newspaper ran this headline on its front page: "Syphilis Patients Died Untreated." With those words, one of America's most notorious medical studies, the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, became public.
"For 40 years, the U.S. Public Health Service has conducted a study in which human guinea pigs, not given proper treatment, have died of syphilis and its side effects," Associated Press reporter Jean Heller wrote on July 25, 1972. "The study was conducted to determine from autopsies what the disease does to the human body."
. . . But it wasn't until 1997 that the government formally apologized for the unethical study. President Clinton delivered the apology, saying what the government had done was deeply, profoundly and morally wrong:
"To the survivors, to the wives and family members, the children and the grandchildren, I say what you know: No power on Earth can give you back the lives lost, the pain suffered, the years of internal torment and anguish.
"What was done cannot be undone. But we can end the silence. We can stop turning our heads away. We can look at you in the eye and finally say, on behalf of the American people: what the United States government did was shameful.
More NPR stories on the Tuskegee Syphilis Study.
Eileen Welsom
Journalist Extraordinaire
Denver-based journalist Eileen Welsome reveals how as a reporter for the tiny Albuquerque Tribune (circulation 35,000) she uncovered one of the country's great Cold War secrets: the U.S. government had knowingly exposed thousands of human Guinea pigs with radiation poisoning including 18 Americans who had plutonium injected directly into their bloodstream. [includes rush transcript]
Medical Experimentation
In a Massachusetts school, seventy-three disabled children were spoon-fed oatmeal laced with radioactive isotopes.
No these are not acts of terrorism by common criminals.
These are just some of the secret human radiation experiments that the U.S. government conducted on unsuspecting Americans for decades as part of its atom bomb program.
In a gruesome plot that spanned 30 years, doctors and scientists working with the US atomic weapons program, exposed thousands of unwilling and unknowing Americans to radiation poisoning to study its effects.
For years, the experiments by the U.S. government and the identities of their human guinea pigs were covered up.
Then after a six-year investigation, investigative reporter Eileen Welsome uncovered the names of 18 people who were injected with plutonium in the 1940s without their knowledge by federal government scientists. In 1993, she published her finding in The Albuquerque Tribune and later received the Pulitzer Prize for her work.
Another six years later, Welsome published "The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War."
The book gives a detailed account of the unspeakable scientific trials conducted by the U.S. government that reduced thousands of American men, women, and even children to nameless specimens. . . .
http://www.democracynow.org/2004/5/5/plutonium_files_how_the_u_
Hazel O'Leary,
Secretary of Energy with Courage and Strength Dealt with Nonconsensual Testing
. . . The Committee had its origins when public controversy developed surrounding human radiation experiments that were conducted half a century ago. In November 1993, the Albuquerque Tribune published a series of articles that, for the first time, publicly revealed the names of Americans who had been injected with plutonium, the man-made material that was a key ingredient of the atom bomb. Reporter Eileen Welsome put a human face to what had previously been anonymous data published in official reports and technical journals.
As World War II was ending, she wrote, doctors in the United States injected a number of hospitalized patients with plutonium, very likely without their knowledge or consent. The injections were part of a group of experiments to determine how plutonium courses through the human body. The experiments, and the very existence of plutonium, were shrouded in secrecy.
They were conducted at the direction of the U.S. government, with the assistance of university researchers in Berkeley, Chicago, and Rochester (New York), with the expectation that the information gained could be used to limit the hazards to the thousands of workers laboring to build the bomb.
On reading the articles, Secretary of Energy Hazel O'Leary expressed shock, first to her staff, and then in response to a question posed at a press conference. She was particularly concerned because the Department of Energy had its earliest origins in the agencies responsible for building the atomic bomb and sponsoring the plutonium experiments.
During the Cold War, these agencies had continued to do much of their work in the twilight zone between openness and secrecy. Now, the Cold War was over. The time had come, Secretary O'Leary determined, to make public anything that remained to be told about the plutonium experiments.
Subsequent press reports soon noted that the plutonium injections were not the only human radiation experiments that had been conducted during the war and the decades that followed.
http://www.hss.energy.gov/healthsafety/OHRE/roadmap/achre/preface_2.html
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Kelb Publishes In this edition of Kelb's Newsletter, we are providing articles to our membership, about experiments, the federal government performed on unwitting U.S. citizens, 1946 – 1990 and later.
We open with the current article exposing the Guatamalan experiments, revealed by Wellesley researcher, Susan Reverby. We believe her findings are very important and again, put the spotlight on a time period when our federal government experimented on vulnerable and unwitting subjects, without their consent, including children. These children are now adults. They are MKUltra Project survivors. Please read these articles.
They are part of the larger group of experiences, history, and unauthorized acts, Kelb deals with and is acting on. And as always, we urge you to continue surviving.
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The Government has been criticised for its vague response to some of the questions posed by January's Defence Select Committee's report on cyber-security, including wildly mis-stating the amount of funding being channelled to the DSTL Cyber and Influence Centre.
In a letter from Conservative Committee chairman James Arbuthnot to Armed Forces Minister Andrew Robathan, the Government is taken to task for failing to provide enough detail on contingency planning in the event of a cyber-attack on the UK.
The Government also needed to provide a more comprehensive explanation of how it planned to check that the Ministry of Defence supply chain had been secured.
The Committee said it was also unclear about which agencies other than the Ministry of Defence had been given responsibility for specific aspects of cyber-defence.
"In the conclusion to our Report, we urged the Government to take a more vigorous approach to cyber-security in the context of defence," said Arbuthnot.
The Government also needed to report back on how well it had coped with cyber-attack incidents so that Parliament could judge its progress towards stated targets.
Embarrassingly, Arbuthnot also pulled the Government up over its admission that the true backing for the Defence Science & Technology Laboratory (DSTL) Cyber and Influence Centre was £18 million and not £80 million as claimed in a previous submission.
"We are concerned to know whether this will be sufficient given the scale of the task," wrote Arbuthnot.
The issue of funding and exactly how much is being spent created uncertainty, said one commentator.
"The UK government needs to show serious monetary commitment to defending itself against cyber threats," commented Dr Jarno Limnéll, director of cyber-security at security firm Stonesoft.
Demonstrating its weight is key to deterrence, and most importantly real direction is needed in the protection of critical infrastructure against cyber-attack," he said.


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Wade Eckman
Wade Eckman is the President and CEO of CPS Payment Services. He is responsible for the overall direction and performance of CPS Payment Services. Mr. Eckman has nearly 20 years of Finance experience comprised of leadership roles in industry and within the Big 4 Consulting Industry. Prior to CPS, Mr. Eckman was a Partner in KPMG LLP's Advisory Services practice. At KPMG, Mr. Eckman helped lead the Southeast Financial Management Practice. For Fortune 500 CFO's, Mr. Eckman focuses on delivering strategic and tactical consulting engagements such as Finance Process Transformation, Cost Optimization, Merger Integration, Organizational Re-Design and Shared Services Strategy and Implementation. Prior to his extensive consulting career, Mr. Eckman was the CFO of a renewable energy re-marketer.
Mr. Eckman holds a BS from Louisiana State University and a MBA from The College of William and Mary.
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Ken Barrett is the Executive Vice President of Operations. Mr. Barrett is responsible for the day to day activities of the Operations Group. Mr. Barrett has more than 15 years of leadership in Professional Services and Operations with Fortune 500 organizations.
In his professional services roles, Mr. Barrett led teams that advised clients on creating process efficiencies for the purposes of cost take-out and organizational restructuring. Mr. Barrett served a variety of industries and a multitude of functions, specifically finance & accounting, supply chain, and servicing. Experiences include: process redesign & implementation, system design, project management, organizational restructuring (international and domestic), and implementing business performance monitoring. Prior to his professional services career, Mr. Barrett served as Operations Director for a Fortune 500 retailer where he and his teams led the organization and execution of many functional processes including, but not limited to, Customer Service, Supply Chain & Analysis, Transaction Compliance, and Fraud Control.
Mr. Barrett holds a BA degree from the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, a Master of Science (MS) degree and a Master of Business Administration (MBA), both from Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Richard Otruba is the Executive Vice President of Technology. Mr. Otruba is responsible for the development, enhancements, and maintenance of the CPS technologies that enable the CPS disbursement services. Mr. Otruba has 20 years of experience in IT management and software consulting. For over 5 years, he has owned and operated a private software consulting partnership, 2Labs, LLC. During this time, Mr. Otruba has had a lead role in managing, developing, and deploying software solution for clients spanning various industries including, but not limited to, Retail, Telemedicine, Healthcare, and Financial Services.
Mr. Otruba has extensive experience in full lifecycle software development and excels in integrating all aspects of business into the software development process. He has expertise in architecting .Net and Java based software for both web and client-server based solutions. He has served as database administrator for solutions integrating either Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle databases. Mr. Otruba is an outspoken advocate for the use of Agile software development processes and test-driven development practices.
Prior to 2Labs, Mr. Otruba was Director of Software Development for a Chicago-based software consulting company. In addition to contributing to the management and delivery of software solutions for Fortune 500 companies, he was responsible for internal management and staffing of IT resources. Prior to this role, Mr. Otruba was the Director of Engineering Services for a software product and services company where he gained direct experience with the design, development, deployment, and support of a product-based solution. He has both a bachelor's degree in Finance and Computer Science from Northern Illinois University.
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Scott Saltmarsh is the Vice President of Business Development. He is responsible for the Sales and Marketing departments at CPS. He and his team work with potential and existing clients to develop the optimal solution and services for each client. Mr. Saltmarsh also manages our alliance business partner relationships in the market place.
Mr. Saltmarsh brings over 25 years of experience to the role in sales and sales leadership for some of the biggest names in technology.
Mr. Saltmarsh held both direct and indirect sales leadership roles at Oracle Corporation and took that background to Mercury Interactive where he helped to create the "Partner Sales Program" which contributed over 60% of revenue. Most recently he was in charge of Business Development for KPMG in the Southeast's retail and energy verticals. Throughout his career he's focused on Fortune 500 companies including; The Coca-Cola Company, BellSouth, Southern Company, Chick-fil-A and Georgia-Pacific.
Mr. Saltmarsh holds a Bachelor's degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont.
Jeff Wiesinger
Executive Vice President, Finance
Jeff Wiesinger is the Executive Vice President of Finance. Mr. Wiesinger is responsible for the CPS Finance Department and the CPS client implementation team. Mr. Wiesinger and his team work with the clients to define requirements, implement the CPS E-Payment technology, and train the functional users of our clients.
Mr. Wiesinger has more than 20 years of experience in consulting on a broad range of functional and technical information systems projects, with special emphasis on implementing and supporting accounting systems and financial software.
Eleven years ago Mr. Wiesinger founded Financial Systems Specialists, Inc., a specialty software consulting company in Indianapolis, Indiana. Mr. Wiesinger created and implemented software solutions that incorporated industry best-practices. Mr. Wiesinger used a deep understanding of the accounts payable process, EDI and corporate treasury to work train end-users on the use of new software technology.
Mr. Wiesinger has experience in a wide spectrum of industries including financial services, telecommunications, retail, non-profit and state government. In 2009, Mr. Wiesinger developed an Oracle ERP solution to mirror the MasterCard payment process that create payments, send and receive files and reconcile outstanding transactions.
Prior to founding Financial Systems Specialists, Inc., Mr. Wiesinger was a Manager at KPMG, LLP and KPMG Consulting, LLC. While at KPMG, he deployed new technologies to the audit process, and earned a Certified Public Accountant designation. Mr. Wiesinger holds a Bachelors of Science degree with majors in Business Administration and Accounting from Grace College, Winona Lake, Indiana.
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Requiring only half the bitrate of its predecessor, the new standard & HEVC or H.265 & will significantly reduce the need for bandwidth and expensive, limited spectrum. HEVC (H.265) will enable the launch of new video services and in particular ultra HD television (UHDTV).
State-of-the-art video compression techniques – HEVC/H.265 – can reduce the size of raw video by a factor of about 100 without any noticeable reduction in visual quality. With estimates indicating that compressed real-time video accounts for more than 50 percent of current network traffic, and this figure is set to rise to 90 percent within a few years, HEVC/H.265 will be a welcome relief for network operators.
New services, devices and changing viewing patterns are among the factors contributing to the growth in video traffic as people watch more and more traditional TV and video-streaming services on their mobile devices.
Ericsson has been heavily involved in the standardization of HEVC since it began in 2010, and this Ericsson Review article highlights some of the contributions that have led to the compression efficiency offered by HEVC.


It's hard not having my own horse anymore.
I spent a full decade of my life, the most important years of it, with the most amazing horse.
I miss Pie, and the connection a rider has with her horse. Sometimes I feel like a musician without an instrument, a writer without hands, or a singer without a voice.
So I've been going to the rescue we adopted Dewey from, Whimsical Equine Rescue, once in a while when I'm home visiting my parents, and riding some of the horses there.
The first horse I rode was Sisco, a middle-aged grade gelding. He had a very calm and sweet disposition, and hadn't been ridden consistently in years, but he did his best to listen to the cues. And towards the end of our ride, he was already picking things up a little quicker.
Sisco checking out the barrel.
The other horse I rode was Benji, a young, spotless Appaloosa. He tested me at first, moving around when I went to mount him, but there was no meanness in him. And it didn't take me long to realize how clever he was and how quickly he picked things up. He was good with his rein cues, was starting to understand leg cues, and had a smooth, comfortable trot. He was simply a joy to ride.
Benji has since been adopted, and I'm sad I won't get to ride him again, but I'm glad he found a home. He'll make his new owner very happy.


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Why NASS Delayed Passage Of 2022 Budget
16 Dec, 2021 by AljazirahNews
BY EKEBUISI OKOROCHA/ ABDUL LATEEF BAMGBOSE
Nigerians looking forward to the passage of the N16.39 trillion 2022 Appropriation Bill this week may be in for a shocker as the planned passage of the national budget by both chambers of the National Assembly before the week runs out has suffered a setback: the financial requirements from the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for 2023 general is yet to be presented and captured.
This is as the National Population Commission, NPC, declared that the scheduled National Census for next year would cost N400billion.
Last minute efforts made by the Senate Appropriation Committee to get the requirement details from INEC on the 2023 general elections at a special session yesterday failed as the chairman of the electoral body, Prof Mahmud Yakubu, was absent at the session.
The commissioner who represented the chairman of the umpire body at the session, Alhaji Zuru Abdulrahman Abdul, informed the committee that the details being sought for could not be given by him but only by the INEC chairman.
Abdul said,"Mr Chairman and members of this distinguished committee, we have listened to you and appreciated the concern on funding the 2023 general elections as regards the need to capture some of the projected expenses in the 2022 budget.
"But such financial details can only be given by our chairman who is presently abroad and billed to return on Sunday or Monday morning.
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"In the light of this, financial details requested for shall be made available on Monday next week", he said.
Consequently, the chairman of the committee, Senator Jibrin Barau (APC Kano North) ruled for adjournment of the session to Monday.
In a brief media chat with journalists thereafter, Senator Barau said the latest development would not make passage of the 2022 budget this week possible.
"The 2023 general elections and projected National Head counts slated for next year are very important the reason why we want to make provisions for them in the 2022 budget.
"As a result of the importance of the two, passage of the 2022 budget will no longer be possible this week as earlier planned and clearly stated on our time table", he said.
In the time table released in October, a report on the budget was supposed to have been laid by the Appropriation Committee on Tuesday, December 14, 2021 and passage fixed for Wednesday or Thursday this week.
In line with Senator Barau's disclosure to journalists, the Senate at the end of its session yesterday, adjourned to Tuesday December 21, 2021 for another session, strongly indicating that the budget might be laid, considered and passed that day, signaling a week behind schedule.
Meanwhile, the NPC chairman, Alhaji Nasir Isa Kwarra, told the committee that the total estimated cost for the national census slated for next year is N400billion.
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The committee at the end of the session said submissions gotten from NPC will be added to the expected one from INEC on Monday next week as parts of the report to be laid before the Senate for consideration and passage possibly Tuesday next week.
You would recall that the Independent National Electoral Commission ,INEC, has said the onus of having a new electoral framework ahead of the 2023 general elections resides with the National Assembly and the Presidency.
Festus Okoye, the INEC's Commissioner, said this at the Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room National Stakeholders' Forum on Elections on Monday in Abuja.
According to him, as far as the electoral management body was concerned, INEC was still operating with the existing electoral legal framework because the new one was not ready.
He said that there were some fundamental issues around the new electoral framework. One of the big issues as far as the electoral management body is concerned is related to the deepening of democracy through the use of technology.
Okoye said that INEC, from the beginning, made a determination that it is important in the national interest to reduce human interference in the electoral process, and based on that, decided to deepen the use of technology in the electoral process.
"INEC is the first electoral management body in Africa to introduce online voter registration exercise and based on this you can see the astronomical rise in the number of young persons who have done their pre-registration before capturing their biometrics.
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"Now, what is it in the new electoral bill that is different? Prior to this particular period, the uploading of polling units results was just for public views.''
Okoye said that the second issue related to internal democracy in political parties had been very challenging and difficult to handle.
He said that looking at the existing electoral legal framework, two methods of voting in primary elections have been imputed there, direct and indirect primaries.
According to a reliable source from the commission who pleads anonymously, the INEC deliberately waits for the assenting to the new Electoral Act by Mr President as the Commission through a letter had advised him to go ahead and assent to the bill. As the bill if assent to by President Buhari will enable INEC prepare adequately on time to serve Nigerians better come 2023 general elections as modalities and necessary preparation would be properly done, the source said.
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