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IDLIB – Open Letter to UN Syria Envoy Staffen de Mistura re proposal about "safe corridors" that would put civilians at risk of arrest, torture and death
Posted on September 2, 2018 by Ronan L Tynan
Dear Mr de Mistura
I was shocked and frankly appalled that you could seriously propose sending hundreds of thousands of Syrian civilians in Idlib, many extremely vulnerable families with over one million children, back to the government controlled areas from where they fled through allegedly "safe corridors". Worse still you cannot but be aware that such a suggestion gives encouragement to the Assad regime, Russia and Iran to launch an attack on a region that has become if anything one of the world's largest de facto refugee camps, albeit for internally displaced people Indeed, so many there have already been forced to flee multiple times already to escape slaughter by the regime and its allies before reaching Idlib. But you know all that! Therefore, how could you even make such a suggestion when you also know about the warcrimes and crimes against humanity committed by the Syrian regime and its allies against civilians, and documented by various UN agencies?
Your job is to help to protect civilians and in making your "safe corridors" suggestions you give the impression you are feigning ignorance of what happened in Syria over the last seven years? Indeed, reflecting on the recent statements by Assad's Air Force Intelligence chief Jamil al-Hassan, you will be well aware that the Syrian regime has already begun building an even more repressive state. Speaking to a group of 33 senior officers he reportedly said: "A Syria with 10 million trustworthy people obedient to the leadership is better than a Syria with 30 million vandals. … After eight years, Syria will not accept the presence of cancerous cells and they will be removed completely." He also said that there are three million Syrians on his wanted lists and that judicial cases have been prepared against them, and that anyone deemed a 'hindrance' to the regime's consolidation of power would be labeled a 'terrorist' and dealt with accordingly. In Syria, as you know, a "wanted list" is usually a "death list."
Germany has issued an international arrest warrant for Jamil al-Hassan, a welcome move by the European country that has welcomed the largest number of Syrian refugees. Indeed, al-Hassan's comments about refugees were especially disturbing (and even more chilling from the perspective of civilians in Idlib) describing those planning to return as 'sheep' saying the corrupted ones would be filtered out and the 'good ones' would be used. But what does that mean? A recent investigation by the Irish Times showed that returning Syrian refugees faced threats, arrests and even death. For example, of four who were killed, three died in regime custody between two and four months after returning.
Surely people forced to flee multiple times in Syria have suffered enough at the hands of the regime and its allies because the latter have chosen to fight their "war" primarily against civilians using scorched earth/ethnic cleansing which explains why Idlib now has a population of up to four million people. Those who made it to Idlib have lost everything. Meanwhile, tens of thousands remain 'forcibly disappeared' by the regime; over five hundred thousand are probably dead; more than half the population of Syria have been forced to flee their homes; millions are wounded physically and mentally including a majority of the country's children, and 92% of civilians casualties are blamed on Assad and his allies.
If your "peace making efforts" in Syria are based on sacrificing potentially millions of civilians you should resign because you have apparently chosen not to confront all of those responsible for warcrimes and crimes against humanity?
Ronan Tynan
'Syria – The Impossible Revolution'
Paul Conroy To Introduce Premiere 'Syria-The Impossible Revolution' – Hong Kong Theatre, LSE Wed. Next 6.30pm
Posted on October 16, 2017 by Ronan L Tynan
Paul Conroy wounded when his colleague the late Marie Colvin, Sunday Times war correspondent was killed in Baba Amr by Assad regime artillery.
RONAN TYNAN – Producer/Director – 'Syria – The Impossible Revolution'
Could not think of a better person than photographer Paul Conroy to launch our documentary 'Syria – The Impossible Revolution' because he was wounded in a brutal attack on the press centre he was working from in Baba Amr, Homs in 2012. A targeted artillery barrage in which his colleagues Sunday Times' war correspondent Marie Colvin and French Photographer Remi Ochlik were killed because the Assad regime, as documents that have come to light show, wanted journalists covering indiscriminate civilian slaughter stopped. The regime succeeded beyond its wildest dreams because after these murders the major networks effectively withdrew and the phrase "could not be independently verified" or similar words became common discounting the incredible courage of local Syrian media workers risking their lives to report on what often appears like a brutal war against civilians.
Paul Conroy was seriously wounded in an attack designed not just to intimate the media, but to erase Western media coverage from the frontline in a conflict in which civilians have paid, and continue to pay a terrible price.
But why does there appear to be such little outrage at the indiscriminate slaughter of civilians, an apparent lack of interest and concern even as the numbers now dead exceed more than 500,000 by some estimates. Worse still against a background where half the population have fled their homes and five million are now refugees outside the country?
ISIS or Daesh certainly helped Assad to cover up his relentless repression as they sought publicity for their crimes against journalists, and anyone deemed an "apostate", distracting from his regime's industrial scale repression. All of which only serves to underline that Syrians who risked their lives in 2011 taking to the streets to peacefully protest and demand an end to brutal dictatorship and some form of democracy ultimately still find themselves often caught between fascists with beards and fascists in suits? In that context, I am constantly haunted by Amnesty's description of the regime's Saydnaya prison as 'a human slaughterhouse' where thousands have disappeared and many tortured to death.
Three years in the making this feature length documentary offers unique insights into the roots of the Syrian Revolution and how what began as a peaceful uprising turned into a very brutal conflict as the Assad regime cracked down.
'Syria – The Impossible Revolution,' a film by Anne daly and Ronan Tynan, seeks to unravel the roots and 'complexities' of the bloodiest conflict in the Middle East as well as the politics of the Western response. It also examines why some elements on the Left are on the same page as the extreme Right defending the Assad regime against "US imperialism" apparently oblivious to the role of Iran and especially Russia and her indiscriminate bombing of civilians as well as hospitals which many charge are warcrimes?
The film traces the roots of the Syrian revolution through the regime of Assad's father up to the fall of Aleppo. Using extensive archive and interviews with a wide range of people directly involved as well as experts on the region, the documentary seeks to offer some understanding about a conflict that has plumbed new depths in terms of the toll it has extracted on civilians. Some suggest more than five hundred thousand are already dead, half the population have fled their homes and five millions are now refugees in Europe and neighbouring countries with little prospect of returning any time soon.
'Syria – The Impossible Revolution' was made by Esperanza Productions co founded by award winning filmmakers Anne Daly and Ronan L Tynan.
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The Power of Art & 'Syria – The Impossible Revolution' – How Drawings Allow Us To Confront Horror & Not Turn Away?
Posted on October 3, 2017 by Ronan L Tynan
Syria-The Impossible Revolution – TRAILER from Esperanza Productions on Vimeo.
The world turning away from Syria as if people do not want to know – my abiding impression after three years working on the documentary 'Syria – The Impossible Revolution'. Why such indifference to egregious violence and horrific suffering inflicted on civilians including children? Normally the world starts to pay attention when the death toll mounts but over five hundred thousand have already been killed in Syria and it does not seem to make any difference? Indeed, in the seventh year since the Assad regime brutally crushed a mass peaceful uprising in 2011 the regime and its allies are still bombing hospitals in Idlib. Not only are these warcrimes being ignored they are not even making news anymore!
Making a film of any kind about the conflict in Syria means showing egregious violence against civilians. But how do you do that without making it impossible to watch even by hardened veteran? Marc Nelson the artist solved that problem for us when I approached him after seeing how powerful his drawing are on Twitter. Of course we had to plough through hours of archive video, including footage of so many extremely violent atrocities of all kinds making this documentary. However, Marc's drawings convey the horror and the crimes, but in not forcing the viewer to turn away he also leaves room for outrage!
Many have already commented very positively to us about the drawings we used are in the trailer. Obviously in a feature length documentary that focuses on the Syrian Revolution and the conflict that developed in Syria when the peaceful uprising was brutally crushed must use considerable video archive. But in telling that story when people are already turning away we wanted to make it possible for anyone to watch without switching off. "The power of art" may have been turned into a cliche in some quarters but as some have already told us the drawings helped draw them into the story where graphic violent video footage might have turned them away!
Thanks Marc!
Ronan L Tynan
Director and Co-Producer
A feature length documentary made by Esperanza Productions 'Syria-The Impossible Revolution' will premiere in London on October 18 in the Hong Koing Theatre at 6.30pm in the London School of Economics. The film with be formally launched by photographer Paul Conroy who was wounded when his colleague war correspondent Marie Colvin was killed when the Assad regime targeted their press centre in Homs, Syria in 2012.
Will A US-UK Trade Agreement Threaten Public Services in Britain and Reduce Food Standards Based on American High-Intensity, High-Chemical, Low-Animal Welfare Farming?
Posted on January 28, 2017 by Ronan L Tynan
Growth hormones in beef and GMOs as standard in the British food chain only part of the high cost of a US-UK Trade Agreement
The reality of what a trade agreement with #Trump's 'America First' might look like came painfully into focus for many in the United Kingdom this week. First, full competition in the realm of public services is a given as far as the Americans are concerned. This no doubt will alarm many after the reassurances from brexit campaigners that leaving the EU would allow Britain to protect the NHS. Worse still the UK will have a very weak bargaining position. Indeed, desperation weighing on the British side will tempt the Americans to extract the toughest imaginable deal. That is the nature of trade negotiations.
But it is not only the NHS that will be at risk in any trade agreement with Trump's America. Food standards will also come under enormous pressure. This means beef and pork produced using growth hormones, chicken washed in chlorine, fruit and vegetables treated with endocrine-disrupting pesticides and genetically engineered and modified foods will all have to become legal in the UK in the interests of "fairness" to giant American food corporations. In fact it is important to emphasise that Trump's negotiators would be seen as negligent if they do not absolutely insist on that. Never mind that such dangerous methods of foods production pose a threat to human health – which US corporations pay large amounts in campaign contributions to get through Congress – but also could spell the end for much of British agriculture.
Perhaps that is why in spite of her renowned euroscepticism Margaret Thatcher was such a big fan of the Single Market because as one of the Big Three with France and Germany inside the EU, the UK could never be pushed around. Not so as we see now? Outside the EU the British market is very small in global terms and the UK's ability to negotiate will correspondingly be drastically reduced.
EU regulations ban American style food production in Europe protecting not only European farmers but also the health of consumers. Indeed, the EU has easily resisted immense pressure by the US to accept its high-intensity, high-chemical, low-animal welfare farming. But outside the Single Market, May and her government will not have that leverage to resist American style food regulations.
Public services, agriculture and food productions are only some areas that will be affected by a US-UK trade deal. Again it is important to constantly remember these are hard fought negotiations but outside the EU, and under pressure to secure a trade agreement, acceptance of US labour and environmental standards must inevitably be demanded of the UK to ensure a "level playing field" for American corporations as well.
Many in Britain who criticised the so called "burden of EU regulations" in advocating brexit are in for a very painful shock when they realise the role they play in protecting consumers and businesses. In the United States on the other hand business seems to have the upper hand – in terms of influencing regulations – and this will be reflected in the trade agreement that the UK will be forced to accept if it wants an agreement?
Ronan L Tynan is a documentary filmmaker and co-founder of the award winning Esperanza Productions.
Twitter: @RonanLTynan
'The Singer of The Revolution'
I was reminded on Twitter yesterday of Syria's 'Singer of The Revolution' Ibrahim Kashoush – a compelling symbol of the 2011 peaceful Revolution which demanded an end to the Assad dictatorship and its replacement by democracy. Kashoush's inspirational voice leading the chorus of the song that became synonymous with his name – Bashar, Leave From Here' – can be seen in this video recorded at a mass demonstration against regime violence on the main square in Hama in late June, 2011. That very inspiring performance – a seminal moment in early months of the Revolution – is believed to have cost him his life as immediately afterwards he was murdered by Assad's Shabiha with his vocal chords out.
Assad's propaganda machine including well paid PR companies in the West and his army of social media trolls have sought to bury the peaceful mass uprising for democracy dismissing those courageous Syrians who took to the streets as terrorists as he brutally sought to put down the Revolution. Indeed, many Syria specialists expressed amazement at the time that so many turned out to demand democracy because of the very brutal nature of the dictatorship – they thought the people would be too afraid!
Hama where the 'Singer of the Revolution' became famous was the location of a chilling massacre by Assad's father when he put down an uprising there in 1982 which cost anything up to 40,000 lives. There remains much speculation about how many were killed in Hama in '82 but one thing is certain, an enduring hunger for freedom and democracy is palpable, and was very evident on the main square that fateful night in late June 2011 when Ibrahim Kashoush sang his heart out.
Bashar, depart from here
You lost all your legitimacy
Depart depart, Bashar
Bashar, you are not one of us
Take Mahir (Basher's brother) and depart from here
Bashar, you are lying
You had bad speech
Freedom is very near
Since the murder of singer Ibrahim Kashoush more than half a million Syrians have been killed mostly by Assad and his allies Russia, Iran and Hezbollah, as he showed he was and is prepared to literally wade through the blood of his fellow citizens to stay in power. Meanwhile, half the population of the country have been forced to flee their homes creating the biggest humanitarian crisis of the 21st Century.
Ronan L Tynan is currently producing a film documentary about the Syrian Revolution with Anne Daly. He is co-founder of the award winning Esperanza Productions.
@RonanLTynan
Israel Edges Towards the Abyss, Narges Mohammadi – HR defender, Syria's Holocaust Within a Holocaust, Yemen – Saudi Arabia Turning Weddings Into Funerals
Posted on May 22, 2016 by Ronan L Tynan
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Israel Drifts Even Further Towards The Abyss
There was a watershed moment in Israeli politics this week when Defence Minister Moshe Ya'alon, whom I regard as a very right politician, was replaced by someone who is very dangerously further to the right. Indeed, many are worried about his replacement given the extreme racist and downright Fascist rhetoric he has used against the Palestinians in the past. In other words, what Ya'alon said about his replacement Avigador Liberman cannot be ignored – "extremist and dangerous forces have taken over Israel and the Likud movement and are destabilising our home and threatening to harm its inhabitants. Which means it is fair to suggest Israel is on the edge of the abyss? And in case you think I am engaging in hyperbole former Prime Minister Ehud Barack said, also speaking about Liberman's appointment, Israel has been "infected by the seeds of fascism".
This is not just an internal political matter in Israel. Lieberman with tensions rising and another conflict a real possibility with the Palestinians will almost certainly present himself as a "War Minister." At a time when Prime Minister Netanyahu is doing everything, including expanding illegal settlements, to make the Two State Solution impossible, and ensure even the possibility of talks is out of the question, it is truly frightening he would even think of making some one like Liberman defence minister.
Given the warcrimes committed against the Palestinians in Gaza in 2014, especially against unarmed civilians including women and children, the risks of further atrocities are now at an all time high with Liberman as defence minister.
Next week – Why is the world ignoring this very dangerous threat to peace – the degeneration of Israeli society under a leadership moving from the extreme right to the militaristically neo-Fascist in trying to make its apartheid occupation permanent?
Narges Mohammadi – Extraordinary Human Rights Defender – Iran (See photo)
Without any doubt the person that most impressed me this week was Narges Mohammadi. Her courage seems beyond human. However, just reading about her it is very clear she is all too human which is why her defence of human rights in Iran is all the more extraordinary. Not least because she is in very bad health. Already serving a six years sentence for her human rights work in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison, she has just been sentenced to a further shocking sixteen years mainly for her courageous work opposing the death penalty.
Next week – Why is the world ignoring and not demanding the immediate release of this wholly innocent and very courageous Human Rights Defender?
Yemen – SaudiArabia Turning Weddings Into Funerals
This week I was utterly devastated by a video of an extended family, uninvolved in politics literally massacred during a wedding celebration by a SaudiArabian airstrike literally out the blue. The family was used to fighter jets flying over on their way to bomb elsewhere and because they had no involvement in the conflict assumed wrongly they were safe. They went public out of a deep sense of injustice.
"We did nothing wrong."
However, what was even more terrifying about that video is that it highlighted only one of several examples of similar bomb attacks on families in Yemen – innocent families just trying to get on with their lives.
Link to video documentary – 'Weddings Into Funerals' here: https://youtu.be/69hBwcHDBCo – Produced by Mwatana
The US and the UK firmly back SaudiArabia's campaign in Yemen making us complicit. President Obama and Prime Minister Cameron being the most important and intimately involved supporters of this Saudi campaign and therefore have a case to answer. Indeed, that is no idle or mischievous allegation. If you supply weapons in any conflict, and they are used to commit warcrimes – you are complicit!
As war continues in Yemen – the poorest country in the Middle East – all the indications are it will turn into a potentially genocidal famine?
Next week – Why is the world ignoring this video and the considerable evidence of egregious warcrimes Saudi Arabia is implicated, and which the US and the UK appear to be complicit through massive arms supplies, logistic, intelligence support and targeting?
Syria – The Torture Prisons – 'Holocaust' within a 'Holocaust'
Syria and the indiscriminate slaughter of civilians especially by the Assad regime with Russian air support is probably the world's hell on earth at the moment. But there is one area of indiscriminate and brutal slaughter that in spite of its large-scale and systematic nature is simply not getting attention. This is the use of his prisons by Assad as virtual death camps. Many groups including Amnesty and the UN have reported on this aspect of his forgotten reign of terror. Indeed, as thousands have been tortured to death in those prisons the UN has used the word "extermination".
Next week – Why is the world ignoring this 'holocaust' within a 'holocaust'?
This week I nailed my colours to the mast on twitter but I don't think anyone really noticed. I tweeted that if we all became human rights defenders, activists or advocates we would literally have peace and justice in our time. Idealistic? Definitely not – just common sense! Tyranny triumphs as the saying goes when good people remain silent. Unfortunately silence is the default position for too many of us? So to help break the silence or at least give myself a weekly agenda to make even a small impact against that silence, that makes us complicit, I will write up a Review/Agenda once a week – hopefully every week! But would appreciate reaction and support for those featured.
Ronan L Tynan is an award winning documentary filmmaker and co-founder of Esperanza Productions – http://www.esperanza.ie.
What does the defeat of the "Euro Sausage" by the "Great British Sausage" say about Brexit?
When Jim Hacker the feather light-weight minister needed some kind of public policy victory to underline his suitability to become British Prime Minister, in the final episode of 'Yes Minister', what better way to achieve that than by appearing to defeat the dreaded European bureaucrats? And what better issue upon which to prove his credentials as a defender of British sovereignty than by standing up for the integrity of the "Great British Sausage"? Pandering to a deeply ingrained perception in the UK that the European Union is constantly coming up with daft ideas that cost and or irritate the British public the plot was based on an attempt by EU Commissioner Maurice to create a standard "Euro Sausage". However, the problem of course was easily solved by negotiations with Commissioner Maurice that secured the survival of the unique British Sausage. But rather than announce that Hacker pretended to have a show down with the Commissioner, appearing like Wellington at Waterloo trouncing an unlikely Napoleon, and in securing victory milked its PR value to burnish his standing for the top job.
I was reminded of that final episode of Yes Minister listening to Leader of the House of Commons Chris Grayling MP when he said nothing would or need change if the UK left the EU. Of course Grayling is wrong and the battle over the "Great British Sausage" shows why in a compelling way. This is because in all of the debates about Brexit the real reason the UK could face very real economic damage if the British people vote to leave the EU is because of what are euphemistically called non-tariff barriers. More specifically leaving would mean no influence or real ability to resist regulatory changes that could seriously damage UK businesses and producers. At present, as Minister and ultimately Prime Minister Hacker showed the UK knows how to get its way on trade matters with Brussels. But a much better example to show how Britain knows how to use EU regulatory machinery to protect British jobs was provided when the Commission published a plan to set the maximum decibel level for lawnmowers.
This caused outrage in the UK. How dare the EU tell Britain what noise level her lawn mowers should emit. Ministers initially even called for an enquiry when door stepped by a notoriously eurosceptic media. Then the news broke – shock, horror and indeed dismay! Not only had the then Sir Humphrey and his fellow top mandarins in Whitehall agreed to that EU Directive, they had actually drafted it and carefully steered it through the Commission bureaucracy.
But why? How could they even think up such a regulatory idea? Whitehall mandarins doing to the British public what only evil, power grabbing Eurocrats are supposed to spend their every waking moment doing?
To protect British jobs of course!
Germany decided to virtually ban sound coming out of her lawnmowers to ensure the peace of German gardeners, a policy that would have put UK manufacturers out of business. Sir Humphrey et al easily beat the Germans hands down by simply getting the EU to set the decibel for European lawnmowers at a level that would ensure UK lawnmower makers continue to prosper protecting jobs.
But the key point of that story is what Germany actually did was create a non-tariff barrier. However, the UK was inside the EU tent as one of the big three and almost effortlessly dealt with that problem.
So when a member of the UK government like the Leader of the House of Commons Chris Grayling says nothing will change if Britain leaves the EU he is not just utterly wrong, but appears to give the impression he is detached from the reality of the way trade machinery actually works?
Even if the UK could get a status quo deal with the EU like Norway – paying the same contribution as now and accepting EU migrants – but without access to influence trade regulations it is very easy to see how quickly British businesses and jobs would be put at risk. Trade is dynamic. The regulatory processes are changing all the time. Worse still those regulatory regimes are often highly complex and if you are not around the table you simply cannot remain competitive in terms of meeting standards if you have no power to help set them.
So influencing regulations if the UK leaves the EU will be very problematic. But imagine what it will be like in negotiations with the US and China – both economies far larger than Britain and better able to dictate terms. Remember the EU as the richest and biggest market in the world gets very advantageous trade deals because if has so much to offer especially 500 million consumers. In other words, acting alone the UK will be in an almost frightening position with no bargaining leverage compared to the EU – hence Obama's "bottom of the queue" remark which was not meant to be insulting but a statement of fact! When you consider that the UK does three and a half times more trade with the EU than the United States, and ten times more with the EU than China British businesses are essentially stuck (and many happily so) with the EU as their largest market. No surprise really as it is the biggest and richest in the world.
So Jim Hacker's bid for Prime Minister in defeating EU attempts to regulate the "Great British Sausage" offers a sobering reminder just how powerless the UK would be to protect British businesses and jobs outside the European Union…….?
"Will I be next?" Hong Kongers ask as China shows no sign of halting abductions and releasing publishers
Many Hong Kongers must be asking themselves – "will I be next?"- after five workers in a local publishing house Mighty Current were systematically kidnapped over the last three months beginning with one of the joint owners Gui Minhai, a Swedish passport holder, who was abducted at his holiday home in Thailand. Three workers followed including general manager Lui Bo and two colleagues Cheung Jiping and Lam Wing-ke kidnapped at different times when they went to visit family on the mainland. Then Paul Lee or Lee Bo, a British passport holder, and the other joint owner of the firm was abducted in Hong Kong and bundled across the border. This means two EU citizens are amongst the five kidnapped by Xi Jinping's security police, and with no sign they will be released soon the European Union must threaten sanctions against China?
These abductions must be urgently addressed because if the EU allows Xi Jinping to normalise China's version of "extraordinary rendition" anyone who dares to criticise Xi Jinping and his CCP is at risk, and not only Chinese citizens? Especially as two of the five are Swedish and UK passport holders!
These kidnappings also illustrate why we know very little about the fundamentals of the Chinese economy when it is so clearly under stress, with no one taking GDP figures seriously and general acceptance that almost all statistics are massaged to make the Chinese Communist Party or CCP look good. Meanwhile, governments around the world are trying to work out how to cope if there is a major China crash without access to reliable information. Therefore censorship in China not only poses a threat to the Chinese people it also poses a risk to our freedom of expression, and even our prosperity…?
When I first read about the kidnapping of 5 people at Hong Kong's Mighty Current publishing house by Chinese security agents I thought of Ai Weiwei who in spite of his considerable fame outside China was made to 'disappear' and it took sometime before the authorities even owned up to having abducted him. Being made to 'disappear' is becoming ever more common as Xi Jinping's ruthless crack down on dissent continues. However, under the 'one country, two systems' agreement under which Hong Kong formally became part of China again in 1997 when the UK relinquished control, abductions and disappearances are not supposed to happen. In fact, Hong Kongers enjoy political rights and freedom of expression unimaginable on mainland China. So is Xi reasserting sovereignty in complete contravention of the "one country, two systems" agreement?
After the "new relationship" inaugurated by Prime Minister Cameron and Chancellor Osbourne with President Xi in London recently the idea that a British citizen could be snatched off the streets of Hong Kong and bundled off to the mainland was thought inconceivable? However, it seems that Cameron and Osbourne in not raising human rights with their Chinese guest we must ask did they effectively normalise Xi's brutal crackdown and set the scene for the abductions in Hong Kong?
While attempts last week in Beijing by UK Foreign Secretary Hammond to raise Lee Bo's abduction are welcome, it is clear that his representations are not taken seriously because even at his joint press conference with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi the latter appeared to confirm Bo is being held by China while officially refusing to confirm that is the case. Wang said: "… based on the basic law of Hong Kong and China's nationality law, the person in question is first and foremost a Chinese citizen.
"It is not necessary for anyone to make groundless speculations."
In other words, mind your own business?
The only problem is that of the five two hold foreign passports – Lee Bo as noted is a UK passport holder, and Gui Minhai, holds a Swedish passport and was kidnapped in Thailand in October – the first to go missing. This means it is harder for Xi Jinxing's government to cover up these abductions because like it or not governments must make representations to seek to protect their citizens.
The Chinese Communist Party's record on human rights was brought sharply into focus in London also during Xi's state visit when Shao Jiang, a student leader during the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, protested in front of his limousine at gross human rights abuses. His personal demonstration was a reminder of what happened in 1989 when so many thousands all across China were murdered – and not only on Tiananmen Square – when the CCP brutally crushed that peaceful uprising.
Cameron and Osbourne also had no excuse in not raising rights abuses with Xi as he has been running that ruthless crack down for some time with many human rights lawyers and journalists 'disappeared' or in prison, with the most publicised cases that of journalist Gao Yu 71 and human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang. Both are now free having served time in prison simply for doing their jobs, but it is worth noting that Gao became very ill in custody denied proper health care, and was at risk of dying, and Pu is no longer allowed to practise as a lawyer and is still under a form of almost supervised house arrest. Therefore as Xi Jinping continues his ruthless crack down against journalists and lawyers, and indeed anyone not towing the Party line on the mainland is it any surprise the abductions have caused real alarm in HongKong? Especially as it appears the "One Country, Two Systems" policy which is supposed to guarantee their human rights and freedom of expression is in the process of being repudiated in a very disturbing manner?
Respect for human rights in China is important to everyone, and not only the Chinese people, because she has become such a powerful country. The failure of Cameron and Osbourne to even raise human rights abuses effectively normalises brutality and abuse of power. Other dictatorships and authoritarian regimes take comfort in China's ability to apparently get away with ease with these gross abuses. However, these abductions in Hong Kong are a new and very dangerous precedent and represent a kind of "extraordinary rendition with Chinese characteristics". The US was embarrassed into dropping rendition as policy, unless we manage to make China do the same the world will indeed become an even more dangerous place for anyone who does not adhere to the Party line.
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How Roseanne Barr's salvo on Twitter shows how blind faith in Netanyahu creating 'Apartheid State of Israel'
Posted on September 26, 2015 by Ronan L Tynan
Unprovoked salvo I received from Roseanne Barr……
My reply – polite and to the point? – and Roseanne blocked me………
And my reflection on our brief exchange:
"Look it up toad" – you could imagine the well known comedian Roseanne Barr screaming in a sitcom. But when she directed such fire at me on Twitter for simply praising the remarkable courage of a young Palestinian girl in seeking to overcome loosing her legs in Netanyahu's murderous assault on Gaza it was not so funny!
Mind you it did bring forcefully home to me she is a member of that misinformed community in the United States who believe Israel can do no wrong. However, it is equally clear that people like Ms. Barr in defending Netanyahu's warcrimes are boltering an increasingly racist political culture that is turning Israel relentlessly into an apartheid state. A case made in the Guardian in very convincing terms by none other than two of Israel's most distinguished former diplomats Alon Liel and Ilan Baruch (September 9, 2015).
Indeed, the article was alarming because it was written by two distinguished Israelis who have spent their whole lives defending Israel. So when they write that the advocates of peace, equality and democracy "have been horribly dispirited of late" every so called friend of Israel should take notice? And it is worth quoting at length the source of some of that depression – what they describe as "a period of real bleakness:"
"Forced evictions of Palestinian farmers from their land in the Jordan Valley and from the Hebron district – to make room for more settlements – clashes between settlers and soldiers, the burning of a church, the stabbing of a 16-year-old girl at the Jerusalem gay pride parade, and the murder of 18-month-old Ali Dawabshe, along with his father and mother, as a result of a deliberate arson attack by extremist settlers in the Palestinian village of Duma"
The article was written prior to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's visit to London, and presumably to press Prime Minister Cameron to impress on Netanyahu the urgency of reviving peace talks and moving swiftly towards the only formula that guarantees Israel's future – the Two State Solution. In particular, they urged Cameron to formally – and swiftly – recognise Palestine as a sovereign state. Cameron of course did no such thing. Like Roseanne Barr he offered what looked like blind support, which Liel and Baruch clearly indicate is the reason we are now "racing towards a single Israeli-Palestinian state that will end up as the apartheid state of Israel."
The full text can be found here: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/09/british-palestine-sovereign-state-netanyahu-israel
Netanyahu crying wolf helped push the US into Iraq war – will he be allowed do the same over the Iran Nuclear Deal?
Posted on July 20, 2015 by Ronan L Tynan
People everywhere, especially in the United States, have a right to be reminded just how irresponsible Prime Minister Netanyahu has been in crying wolf for the last three decades about Iran, especially when he attacks the historic agreement just negotiated with the Iranians to eliminate even the possibility they could build their own nuclear weapons. Close examination of Netanyahu's record literally vaporises his credibility. Raviv Drucker writing in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz on March 8, 2015 reviewed that record which is a must read for anyone vulnerable to Netanyahu's rhetoric about the Iran Deal.
1992: Netanyahu said with doom laden hyperbole Iran would have a nuclear bomb within three to five years. That is 23 years ago and they still don't have the bomb!
1993: Netanyahu once again made another of his doom laden predictions extending by a years the date by which the Iranians would finally acquire a nuclear bomb to 1999. That prediction appeared in Yedioth Ahronoth the Hebrew language daily as an opinion piece, and like all of his other predictions it was very embarrassingly wide of the mark.
1996: July to be precise and freshly installed as Israel's new prime minister addressing a joint session of the US Congress, Netanyahu said Iran was busy building an atomic bomb with "worrisome speed."
2002: As a "worried citizen" Netanyahu appeared before the US Congress and played a starring role in unleashing the dogs of war on Iraq, delivering what amounted to a knife in the chest to the American people offering "evidence" of Iraqi weapons programs that was not just wrong, but outrageously false! He claimed that there was "no doubt" Saddam Hussein had a nuclear weapons program and was so advanced he said that Hussein had centrifuges the size of "washing machines." Worse still he was even more creative in claiming knowledge of Iraq's chemical and biological weapons – which as we now know they did not have! Finally, in arguing the case for war with Iraq he claimed it would have a positive effect on the entire region and lead to the fall of Iran….! As we now know it destabilised the entire region and led to the rise of ISIS.
2013: Netanyahu said the Interim Agreement with Iran was the 'deal of the century' and predicted the sanctions regime would quickly fall – which it did not, a fact Drucker pointed out even Israel now concedes. He also said Iran would not keep to the agreement which it did.
Against that background, US Senators and Members of the House of Representatives relying on Netanyahu as a primary witness against the Iran deal are not just betraying the American people, they are also letting people down everywhere who care about world peace.
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Trace Adkins will kick off this year's annual Mardi Gras celebration at Universal Orlando Saturday.
The country superstar leads the first of 12 concerts held on select nights through March 25. Adkins has topped the Billboard country music charts with "Songs About Me," "Ladies Love Country Boys" and "You're Gonna Miss This." Other concert headliners include Olivia Newton-John, UB40, Jason Derulo and Earth, Wind & Fire.
The Mardi Gras celebration begins Saturday and continues for 50 consecutive days. The annual event includes a nightly parade featuring Mardi Gras floats, New Orleans-inspired music, colorful dancers and stilt performers.
In a new twist this year, Universal Orlando's annual passholders can sign up to throw more than a million beads from the parade floats. Float riders are chosen at random and the spots are filled on a first-come, first-serve basis.
This is the first year the parade will roll through the park every night. The parades only ran on concert nights during previous Mardi Gras celebrations.
Authentic New Orleans-style cuisine like jambalaya, grilled andouille sausage and gumbo will be served in The French Quarter Courtyard.
Also debuting this year, guests that arrive after 6 p.m. can park for free.
Mardi Gras is included with admission to Universal Studios.


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The One About Commitment in an Open World
Or: How I learned that I may have open-world agoraphobia (or ADD, or actual commitment issues.)
Surprise, surprise dear reader mine! This post has nothing to do with relationships and commitment to things that actually matter. This post has everything to do with my attention span, and lack thereof, when it comes to big wide open video game worlds.
Video games have really changed in the past two decades. Lost are the linear, level-by-level, story driven experience and the deceptively simple side scrolling jump-duck-shoot actions. Gone are the days of the character's back story being provided in the liner notes of your game box.
(Did you know that the original residents of the Mushroom Kingdom have been transformed into all of the inanimate objects that Mario & Luigi smash, break, and POW their way through to defeat Bowser, who is actually a master magician? Of course you did, because you read the liner notes.)
Games have changed to provide more exploration and deviation from traditional storytelling than ever before. These open-world games typically provide hours of extra content alongside the protagonist's story campaign in the form of side-missions, exploration, tchotchkes to collect and non-playable characters to save.
While most people look at these vast playable areas and can't wait to get their Marco Polo, Indiana Jones, and Ferdinand Magellan on; I look at these vast playable areas … and squint. The maps are big and labeled with tiny font (it's not my eyes…it's you, game.)
What's that marker mean? Where's the legend? How do I make it bigger? Seriously, where am I supposed to go now? Was the campaign marker the red one, or was that the cross-dressing circus ringleader's fake tiger I was supposed to save?
I wish I was joking. Maybe I should just sit closer.
Typically, with a good story-focused game, I have no problems going from Point A to Point B, chasing one McGuffin after the next. Once that map opens up and I'm given options of what to do…well, I hope that the world can wait and the impending doom is not really all that impending, because I'm going over there, to look at that other thing instead.
What happens then is one random side quest after the next. Chasing things that have no bearing or matter to the actual story arc or narrative progression, but might be neat. Then, I get tired, because I'm old now, and I go to bed. Repeat this for a few days, then weeks, and now I have a vague recollection of what I was really supposed to be doing.
What do I do then, oh wanderer, mine?
When is it time to move on, and when can you still go back? Who am I kidding? We have to go back. We have to go back, Kate!
Sorry, wrong open world. Although, now that I'm thinking about it, LOST was really just an open world television series. Writers were free to jump from the main story line to random side missions on a whim. Leaving hundreds of unfinished fetch quests, side missions, back story and character relationships unfinished when the final campaign mission was played.
Back to these big games. For some, it can be exciting to pull up that pause menu map and see just what may be in store for you as you uncover the grayed out areas of the map that have yet to be explored.
In my case, it can also be a little overwhelming. If you haven't noticed from reading this, and other posts; my attention, just like my writing, and my driving, can drift easily. I tend to suffer from, what I have come to call, open-world syndrome. I have commitment issues when a game presents too much to do. I start to drown in the tchotchkes and macguffins, and lose all sense of direction.
This is how come it's so hard to go back to games that have been in the dreaded backlog for so long, even when I know that it's going to be a good game to finish. What was I doing to begin with, and what do I do next?
So, here's what's going to happen, oh wanderer mine. Over the next few months, I'm going to go back to those mysterious islands of intrigue and distraction and see how I fare. Will I brave the quests and follow the story and see that completion percentage rise? Or, will I follow the bright shiny promises of the new and unexplored?
Here's just a taste of what's to come, because I know you all can't wait.
Gasp, I know, I know. It was everyone's "Game of the Year" without actually winning the game of the year award. An epic saga of the waning wild west. I spent most of my time riding my horse and hunting different animals than any real wild-westing.
Another audible gasp. This one actually won "Game of the Year – 2018" from The Game Awards. This time there was Kratos and Boy, a boat, a giant snake, and a talking head hanging from your belt that would tell wild stories, but only when you were in the boat.
Final, audible gasp. I mean, it's a Zelda game! And in many players minds it's THE Zelda game. This game had so many things going for it, and that's what may have actually led to it's demise.
I should feel bad about my unfinished investments. Shouldn't I? My under-developed cast and and my cheated on characters. After all, I knew going in that I should be ready to settle down and become a monogamous player as I devote all of my time to this one world. A world so meticulously created for me, the explorer.
What would you do with a wide open world?
*This post was brought to you by distraction, exploration, animal pelts, backtracking, and falling asleep on the couch. As well as a feature called #MaybeInMarch, where we were encouraged to take a look at our backlog of unfinished games, unexplored territories, and finish them, maybe.
**Also, the picture was taken using the in-game photo mode during a play through of Assassin's Creed: Origins, in which I did actually finish the story (and spent way too much time fiddling with the in-game photo mode.)
If you're still reading this then you must be dying to know what game I chose to finish, or rather, start to finish for my #MaybeInMarch challenge. Well, me being me, I couldn't even finish a blog post about distraction in the allotted time frame of March, and like any good gamer out there, I started a brand new, story driven, open world game. It's going well so far. I may even finish the story. I guess there's #AlwaysInApril!
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Red Metal April 3, 2019 — 12:04 pm
I feel that being a Japanese-developed game of a style that originated in the West, Breath of the Wild ended up bringing a lot of new things to the table. Despite containing many of the same things as something like Far Cry, it still felt fresh even when the style became oversaturated. I also feel the scenario really complemented the open-world format. Rather than attempt to cram a standard narrative into an open-world game, Nintendo placed the onus on the player to find the story beats themselves. It's easily one of the best games of the 2010s any way you slice it.
Dave April 3, 2019 — 6:06 pm
Thanks for reading! There definitely was a lot of responsibility placed on the player to find the story this time around. It was always a lot of fun whenever I did pick it back up, but I always felt that I was never really getting anything done. There were a lot of reasons I fell away from BotW besides the large open world, but it didn't help the story, in my case!
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This photo of a Black Iceberg was posted on January 4, 2013, on Reddit and went viral with more than 1.17 million views in less than 48 hours. (Photo: Reddit)
An amazingly ominous picture of a black iceberg on social media platform Reddit.com is creating quite a stir among online denizens as it went viral within hours of it being published on January 4, 2013.
The iceberg stands in sharp contrast to another whitish iceberg in the photo which seems to have been taken during the day. The image has thus far been viewed some 1.17 million times, got more than 20,000 'up votes' and, strangely, another 17,000 'down votes', with more than 1,200 people commenting on the Reddit post.
According to the Canadian Encyclopedia, most icebergs are white except along freshly calved ice cliffs, which tend to appear blue. "Others may appear green, brown or black, or combinations of these colours," it says.
"The various colorations are caused by differences in density, air-bubble content and impurities," the encyclopedia explains. "For example, black ice is of high density and bubble free; dark layers indicate the presence of rock materials derived from the base of the parent glacier. Occasionally, rocks may be found on the original upper surface of the iceberg. As the iceberg melts, these materials precipitate into marine or lake sediments."
The Black Iceberg picture, as it is being referred to online, was posted by Reddit user Rundboll, who did not mention where this picture was taken although other users have been speculating that the image must have been clicked somewhere in New Zealand.
Black icebergs are indeed scarcer than white icebergs, but the Tasman Glacier Lake in New Zealand is known as the 'home of the black icebergs'.
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Dr. Barquin's career in the information technology industry spans five decades over five continents. His career with IBM included technical assignments and corporate management, with overseas postings and responsibilities in Asia and Latin America. Afterward, Dr. Barquin served as President of The Washington Consulting Group, where he had direct oversight for the performance of major consulting contracts for the U.S. government.
Dr. Barquin is Chairman of the Board of the Atlantic College, and from 2000 to 2008, served as a Director of the Washington Hospital Center. He is a member of the Department of Homeland Security's Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee and the Digital Government Institute Advisory Board.
An electrical engineer and mathematician by training, Dr. Barquin holds a Ph.D. from MIT. He is the author and editor of six books and more than 200 technical and management publications. Dr. Barquin has held faculty appointments at MIT, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the University of Maryland.
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I will state up front that I may be doing something wrong, but what seems like a simple task is a mess. Most of the foods I am eating are very simple foods, skim milk, egg whites, chicken no skin, etc. When I do a search for the above foods it's a miracle when or even if I can locate them, and the list of foods that come before what I'm searching for are laughable. I just did a search for "egg whites" and I went thru 3 pages of everything but egg whites. I had results for cakes, eggplant, dehydrated whole eggs, etc. WTH is the deal with the search function? Am I royally screwing something up or is it just that bad? If I am doing something wrong then please tell me how to correct the error of my ways and I will do so with much haste and beg forgiveness. If I am not the issue, this is a serious flaw of Fitday that needs immediate attention.
The only thing I can think of is that the foods you cite are very common - chicken, milk, etc., and used in a lot of dishes. cooked in different ways. I agree there are a lot of items for each of these.
It is frustrating. However, IMO, it's more frustrating when the search doesn't allow me to look through those pages and just gives me the reply that the item is not found!
In the case of 'egg whites,' 'egg white' gives better results.
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As mentioned above, a lot of food search issues arise from folks entering the plural form of the food item.
A very popular mistake is "scrambled eggs" Which produces search results from fast food menu items. Searching for "Scrambled Egg" produces the expected results.


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The Education Gap
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Mark Thoma writes,
David Brooks says, "Especially in these days after Katrina, everybody laments poverty and inequality. But what are you doing about it? For example, let's say you work at a university or a college. You are a cog in the one of the great inequality producing machines this country has known. What are you doing to change that?"
Let me defend universities against the implied notion that colleges aren't doing anything to address these problems…I chaired the University's Scholarship Committee, the committee responsible for allocating the entire pool of University scholarship money. As Chair, I had the committee reexamine each step in our process to try and identify hidden bias in the award of scholarship money…I resent the implication that we do not care, are not sensitive to, or are not taking action to address these problems. We are.
In my view, the issue is larger than universities' policies concerning admissions and financial aid. It concerns how universities are financed, and how this affects the distribution of income.
First, consider state subsidies for universities. These are almost certainly regressive. Much of the subsidy goes to raise the rents earned by administrators and professors. Much of the rest goes to affluent students. The taxes that pay for the subsidies come from all economic classes.
Second, consider university endowments. Again, they serve to increase rents of employees and to subsidize those students who attend the most elite institutions–a student population that is disproportionately affluent.
Imagine instead what might happen if state funds and alumni donations funded vouchers for student tuition.
Compared with reforming university finances, tinkering with admissions and scholarship policies is beside the point. It may "show that you care," but has little practical significance.
drtaxSacto
As someone who has spent most of a career discussing this very issue, I am interested that you would pick it up. Ultimately, the literature in the field suggests that first, there are some public goods implications (the ground breaking research about price elasticities by Hansen and Weisbrod) generated a lot of discussion. The process in most states at this point is to recognize the regressivity of the subsidy and in most states prices are rising relatively quickly for public sector institutions – many of those same states have made a serious commitment to establishing equity payments to those who cannot afford to attend the newly priced institutions. Some of those are institutionally limited others are more general. Unfortunately, because of the emotional side of the argument, I think the full implementation of vouchers for higher education is not likely to be implemented. In some states, student aid which allows students a range of choices beyond the public sector is pretty good. In others it is not.
There is one other set of questions involved – here Jim Doti (Chapman) has recently published a paper on the subject. Independent colleges have, for the last 20 or more years, in response to their competitive issues with the publics and for their own purposes and goals, have offered increasingly generous tuition discounts in the form of aid – most of those are need based. At some point that discounting becomes decreasingly effective. Doti's paper looks at the trendline for institutions and wonders when higher education pricing will become more like a commodity.
Finally, there is something from the national commission on college costs (which I served on) – the final report of that Commission made a distinction between cost, price, subsidy and net price. For a lot of reasons, most public policy discussions do not make those distinctions clear. Gordon Winston and the Williams Center on Higher Education has done some really interesting work in that area,which deserves a much wider readership.
Roger McKinney
Don't you think the financial benefits of a college degree are overstated? Except for law, medicine and possibly engineering, the pay for other fields isn't better than that for the trades, where most new jobs are created anyway. Education is a good example. Oklahoma cranks out thousands more teachers than the state can employ, so we export over half of them. Most carpenters and plumbers earn more than teachers. In my field, economics, you need a doctorate to earn more than a carpenter.
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The professors don't get rents, they get subsidized curiosity as part of their pay package. Professors that leave academia don't get grants and grad students and libraries that order magazines and books for them free anymore.
They have to settle for making twice as much money. Poor babies…
A Serious Budget
I'll bet Ken at ChicagoBoyz had fun putting this together: As one who thinks that taxes are plenty high enough, on the rich as well as on everyone else, and that budgetary problems should be solved by budget cutting, it's time to go to work. Here's my first cut, which actually yields a $347.47 billion surplus: I'm l...
Males, Females, and College
USA Today writes, Currently, 135 women receive bachelor's degrees for every 100 men. That gender imbalance will widen in the coming years, according to a new report by the U.S. Department of Education. (I got to the story by following Glenn Harlan Reynolds to The American Council of Trustees and Alumni blog.) Here i...
Mark Thoma writes, David Brooks says, "Especially in these days after Katrina, everybody laments poverty and inequality. But what are you doing about it? For example, let's say you work at a university or a college. You are a cog in the one of the great inequality producing machines this country has known. What are y...
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Q: Java rest WS to download docx I´m developing a Springboot rest-based web app. One of the WS must return a .docx document. The code is:
@RequestMapping(value = "/get-doc",method = RequestMethod.GET, produces="application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document")
public @ResponseBody HttpEntity<File> getDoc() {
    File file = userService.getDocx();
    HttpHeaders header = new HttpHeaders();
    header.set("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=DocxProject.docx");
    header.setContentLength(file.length());

    return new HttpEntity<File>(file,header);
}

but I´m facing this error:
org.springframework.web.HttpMediaTypeNotAcceptableException: Could not find acceptable representation

I searched other questions but none of them gave me a solution, mainly because they use javax.ws.rs but I don't want to rely on it.
What I´m looking for is a solution to the error I get or an alternative to my code (not javax.ws.rs dependant).
Thanks in advance.

A: Try returning array of bytes. Simplifying your code:
@RequestMapping(value = "/get-doc",method = RequestMethod.GET, produces="application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document")
public @ResponseBody byte[] getDoc() {
    File file = userService.getDocx();
    FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(file);
    byte[] doc = IOUtils.toByteArray(fis);
    return doc;
}

IOUtils is from org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils. I have not tested, but I have a similar method that return an image. I hope this help you.

A: You can set the stream directly in response.
@RequestMapping(value = "/get-doc",method = RequestMethod.GET)
public void getDoc(HttpServletResponse response){
     InputStream inputStream = new FileInputStream(file);
     IOUtils.copy(inputStream, response.getOutputStream());
     ..
     response.flushBuffer();
}

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About program Liberal Arts
Center for Oriental Studies
Center for Classical Studies
Center for Ancient Russia Studies
Center for Theoretical Folklore Studies
Center for Cultural Studies
Сenter for Historical-Literary Studies
Сenter for Comprehensive Historical Studies
Center for Economic and Social history
Centre for Classical Studies
Centre director
Nikolai Grintser, Director of SASH
grintser@mail.ru
grintser-np@ranepa.ru
Nikolay Grintser
Oleg Aurov
Alexey Belikov
Ksenia Danilochkina
Ekatherina Ilyushechkina
Anna Kasatkina
Maria Kasian
Boris Nikolsky
Mikhail Shumilin
Elizabeth Shcherbakova
The Centre for Classical Studies brings together scholars specializing in Ancient Greek and Roman history and culture, as well as those who specialize in history of Classical influence upon Medieval and Modern Europe. The Centre's research activity is related to current problems of modern Classical Studies (first of all, those of History of Classical Literature) and Classical Reception Studies. Attention is specifically paid to the topics bringing forth the connection between antiquity and modernity.
Project 1 Semantics of name in Ancient Greek tradegy
N.P. Grintser is finishing his "Semantics of name in Ancient Greek tragedy" project, which is to result in publication of the relevant monography. The latter is to demonstrate the crucial role of etymology as an artistic device in Athenian drama, its connection to both archaic ideas of significance of a name and the sophists' linguistic theories emerging during that era.
Project 2 Literature and politics in formation of European culture
Interaction between literature and politics in Classical and Early Middle Ages Europe is the central topic of the Centre's 2015 projects. Under this topic research will be conducted upon Ancient Greek tragedy and comedy, Augustan Roman poets and poets of Early Roman Empire, Early Medieval hagiography and historical prose. Special attention will be paid to different forms of political discourse as represented in Classical and Medieval literary works, as well as to the status of literature itself as a social and political phenomenon.
Project 3 A new translation of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex
N.P. Grintser and B.M. Nikolsky are preparing a new translation of Sophocles' tragedy Oedipus Rex, which, upon poetical editing, is specifically intended to be staged in Russian Academic Youth Theater.
Project 4 A commentary upon Sophocles' Antigone
N.P. Grintser is preparing a new introduction and an extensive commentary to accompany the reprinting of Sophocles' Antigone (translated by A.V. Parin). The new translations and commentaries prepared are to be subsequently included into the electronic base of Classical texts commented upon under the inter-centre SASH project of "Text – translation – commentary: developing of a multilevel digital environment for Classical texts storage and analysis".
Project 5 Euripides' Cyclops: text, translation, academic commentary
Cyclops is the only surviving satyr play. B.M. Nikolsky is preparing to publish it in a new translation with academic commentary.
Project 6 A commentary upon Ovidius' Metamorphoses
Ovidius' Metamorphoses is one of the most influential Classical texts as far as European culture is concerned and, at the same time, it is among the Classical texts particularly intensively discussed upon by Western Classicists. M.V. Shumilin with A.V. Podosinov and A.V. Zhurbina are preparing a Metamorphoses edition for the "Noted works of literature" series, which would introduce Russian reader to current discussions upon the interpretation of the poem as well as to the history of Metamorphoses' reception in Russia and worldwide.
Project 7 Research upon Middle Irish paraphrases of Latin texts
The corpus of Middle Irish texts based upon Classical plots (the earliest of these date from the 11th – 13th centuries) is particularly intriguing since their exact sources are often unclear. Some Irish works probably stem from Classical texts that have not survived till our days – these might prove to be just some brief notes by the scholiasts, yet they still contain some lost information upon Classical literature. M.V. Shumilin, working within a group comprised from Celtic Studies scholars as well as Classicists, conducts research upon said Irish works' sources and is also preparing commented-upon editions of the most interesting texts of the corpus translated in Russian.
Project 8 A commented-upon translation of History of Spain (Crónica general) into Russian
O.V. Aurov is the supervisor for the commented-upon translation of History of Spain (Crónica general) into Russian. This chronicle is one of the key literary works of Medieval Spanish historical tradition as well as of Spanish literature and Medieval Castilian language (the direct predecessor of modern Spanish language).
Project 9 Research upon the Libri Feudorum manuscript tradition
The Libri Feudorum is a notable work of Medieval scholarly feudal law that had been taught at Medieval universities; thus a sufficient number of its copies, ordered by students as well as by professors, has survived. Studying these copies provides insight into particularities of tutoring at Medieval universities, and at the same time enables us to trace the spreading of influence of Bologna model of higher education (which the Libri Feudorum stem from).


From the makers of Discovery's most-watched series CANADA'S WORST DRIVER, LAST STOP GARAGE stars a motley crew of mechanics who operate out of CRB Automotive – a family-owned garage in North West River, located at one of the furthest driveable points on the eastern seaboard. Using their sometimes questionable backwoods resourcefulness, the ingenious automotive hack specialists put their "mechanical magic" to work, fixing and building just about anything for anyone in the remote town of 553 residents. With a whole lot of heart, they "get'er done, Labrador-style." Just as the community relies on the shop, the mechanics rely on the eccentric locals for wisdom, parts, and a helping hand.
At the age of 15, Collin started his own repair shop inside a shed in North West River. Collin and Corey grew up fixing snowmobiles, vehicles, and anything else that came through the door to earn money. After years of hard work, he established CRB Automotive (CRB stands for "Collin R. Baikie"), a business that is essential to the community. In addition to running CRB, Collin is a professional MMA fighter and former Quebec middleweight Victory Champion. He trains every day and spends approximately 7 months a year training a alongside UFC stars George St. Pierre and Chad Laprise. This has made him a local celebrity and mentor within the community.
Corey dropped out of school in grade eight and moved out on his own when he was just 16. As a natural born gear-head and problem solver, he taught himself how to build and fix machines of any kind – from small engines to massive dump trucks. After work, he likes to trick out snowmobiles and invent gadgets from scratch. Corey is the self-taught mad genius that can fix and build anything. He comes up with the plans, assigns the tasks, and bosses around the assistant mechanics in the shop. Corey has the unique ability to turn nothing into something with his MacGyver-like magic.
Leander is Collin's father and biggest fan. Leander has his hands in every aspect of the family business and is always trying to expand the CRB empire with newfangled ideas (a restaurant! a corner store! a gym!). As someone who grew up in North West River, he knows everyone and is incredibly resourceful at finding parts the garage needs. Leander and Ross are the dynamic and highly unconventional duo on a constant quest to acquire whatever it takes to get the job done. When he is not at the shop, Leander is very active as a musician with a strong local following.
Ross is CRB's Gas Bar Manager and expert scrounger. At times, he can be very cantankerous, but no one will tell him off or fire him because, well, he's been at CRB from day one. Ross has been friends with Leander since childhood and even though they often bicker like an old married couple, they love playing music together and will leave no stone unturned when chasing down materials for projects. Ross can be stubborn and combative, especially when grappling with Leander's more hare-brained ideas, but his gruff exterior belies a quick wit and a soft heart.
Melinda is a hard-driving, whip-smart lady who takes no nonsense from anyone. She is married to Leander and they have three grown children, Amanda, Justin and Collin and four grandchildren. She is often referred to as "mom" of the shop, looking out for everyone, giving financial advice and helping out wherever she can.
Justin is Collin's older brother and a part owner of CRB. His engineering work takes him all over the country but he always finds his way back home to North West River. When he's there, Justin lends a helping hand to whatever projects Collin and Corey are working on. He's a university graduate and his professional training often puts him in conflict with Collin's more 'backwoods' enthusiasm: Justin likes to plan; Collin likes to blow things up. But sibling rivalry never gets in the way of helping the customers at CRB.
Tyler is Collin's first cousin and a mechanic at CRB. With Corey's guidance, he is rapidly learning the automotive trade and is often relied upon to make house calls when someone in the community needs a helping hand. Born and raised in North West River, Tyler lives for the outdoors. He's widely regarded as one of the region's best hunters and is always willing to share some fresh game.
Amy is Collin's 2nd cousin and Corey's girlfriend. She is a beautiful tomboy that can drive just about any motorized vehicle including dump trucks and doesn't mind helping the mechanics bleed brakes. She is a crack shot with a rifle who loves to hunt partridges and moose. She appears to be shy, but Amy can step up to the plate as a warrior when required.
Kyle is Collin's cousin. He's the shop assistant that's charged with doing all the dirty jobs from cleaning toilets to shoveling out cars in the ditch. Kyle's mix of dedication and absent-mindedness always gets him into strange situations that will make everyone sigh. He's earned the nickname 'Clydesdale' because he's strong, loyal, and a true work horse.
The CRB crew reboots a ski club's snowmobile and builds a custom rescue sled with a detachable stretcher for the trails.
Collin and Corey help the owners of an adventure trekking business transport their huskies and sled across the rough roads of Labrador.


During the 2017 Walking Festival we strolled along a portion of the Bath Skyline walk with Mr B's Sam Drew, appreciating the wonderful variety of landscapes on offer. At the same time chatting about Anna Pavord's marvellous book Landskipping, in which she ponders the different ways landscapes have been managed and appreciated from the eighteenth century to the present.
Mr B's Famous Walking Book Group is still going strong, with monthly walks.


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WriteMyPaperBro Free Essay Examples Music Essay About The Strokes — Angles Album Review
Essay About The Strokes — Angles Album Review
I remember the exact place I was when I bought the first single off of The Strokes' third album First Impressions of Earth. I was sitting in my Vegan-Vegetarian dorm, at the University of Vermont, hating my life because of the first part of this sentence. I bought the track "Juicebox," and got prepared for the third album from one of my favorite bands. You see in high school I was very into the indie rock scene, and in 2001, when The Strokes dropped Is This It, garage rock was reborn to my generation. You can imagine my excitement when I purchased the first single off of their new album Angles. "Under Cover Of Darkness" sounded a bit poppy for my Strokes, but it was still a catchy song, so I waited for 12:00am today wearing my nerdy thick-brimmed glasses of excitement. I should also add that you get about as much flack as a Justin Bieber fan for liking The Strokes these days, but that doesn't stop Shia Labeouf and I from rocking our Magna Tee. No no, I walk around Boston with pride when that shirt is on, while he fights evil robots and Starbucks patrons.
I waited until the morning to give Angles my first listen through, even though I downloaded it at 12:01am. This was mostly because my girlfriend wouldn't let me listen to it before bed. The album starts with "Machu Piccu," and a different sound than its predecessors, but then you hear Julian's voice and realize it's the real deal.
The album then goes into their single "Under Cover of Darkness," and then launches into "Two Kinds of Happiness," which sounds like a mix between a Cure track and a Cars track, although you can't help but groove to it. My two favorite tracks on the album after listening to it a few times are "Games," and "Life Is Simple In the Moonlight." If you are looking grab one song off of the album to test the water, I would advise against the single, because it is not representative of the rest of the record. Pick up "Machu Piccu" and you will be head bobbin in no time.
All in all, I am very pleased with the album, but I would have been pleased if it had sucked, just because this album was 5 years in the making and I've been hooked on the Strokes for 10 years now. It comes off as a bunch of songs that sound like other bands' songs, and not as much a record of Strokes songs. This album gives me the impression that the band is still trying to find its true, more mature sound. All of the components are there, and in the final track of the album "Life Is Simple In the Moonlight," you hear what the band could and should sound like ten years after Is This It.
In the last moments of the record a more complex and full sound prevails, leaving a satisfied smile on your face. This is a must have for anyone who likes the current "indie" rock scene — Grace Potter, Vampire Weekend, and Florence and her Machine would never have sold an album if these guys hadn't done what they did. The Strokes reinvented the Rock and Roll band that liked to have too good of a time. In other words, they brought back savagery to music, and for this, I thank them. Enjoy and remember — life is all about the Angles.


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Real-time Decision Support System for Pharmaceutical Applications
Shanmathi N., Jagannath M.*
School of Electronics Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
*Corresponding Author E-mail: jagan.faith@gmail.com
Online published on 30 January, 2019.
The decision support system for pharmaceutical applications plays a major role in handling the critical situation of patients. The effective and efficient real time monitoring has to be provided and the accurate decision has to be made in advance by the decision making system continuously by acquiring the biosignals. Thus, in the current world, remote health monitoring has to be implemented effectively in order to avoid critical situation and fatal death. The main aim of the project is to develop a prototype which constitutes the multimodal biosignal acquisition system, thereby providing multi-label classification and clinical decision support system (CDSS). Several studies have been focused in the related areas which effectively provide the faster diagnosis for the critically ill patients. It is highly demandable for the critically ill patients to be treated in the right time with the proper and effective treatment which can be done efficiently using the CDSS and multi-label classification. The proposed system includes the biosignal acquisition like temperature, heart rate and ECG (electrocardiogram) using the sensors such as BMP180, pulse sensor and ECG electrodes with sensor module (AD8232) which are interfaced with Raspberry Pi. The acquired biosignals are further updated in cloud continuously. The updated database in the cloud is exported to Matlab® for performing multi-label classification through which the patient's critical situation can be identified. Thus, whenever the patient is found to be in unstable state, an alert is sent to the physician by effective CDSS to take the necessary clinical interventions. Therefore, on developing the logical learning model using the multi-label classification, decision support system can be enhanced using the context-awareness methods to predict the future vital signs and thereby providing appropriate pharmaceutical drugs to the ill patients.
Pharmaceutical applications, clinical decision support system, multi-label classifications, disease labels, context-awareness.


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Q: Обновление в форме опций (в input select) по ajax Не получается обновить список опций в select после добавления новой категории.
Есть форма:
    <form id ="add_category" enctype="multipart/form-data">

    Название
    <input type="text" class="uk-input" name="name" id="name" required>

    Родительская
    <select name="parrent" class="uk-select" id="parrent">
        <option value="" selected>Без родительской</option>

<?include $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . "/updates/category_list_admin.php";?>

    </select>

    Сортировка
    <input type="number" class="uk-input" name="sort" id="sort" required>

    <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Добавить категорию" id="submit" class="uk-button uk-button-default">

В неё подгружаются опции из файла category_list_admin.php его содержимое:
            $sql = "SELECT * FROM category WHERE parrent=''";
            if($result = $conn->query($sql)){
                foreach($result as $row){
                $category = $row["name"];
                $category_id = $row["id"];
                echo "<option value=\"$category_id\">$category</option>";
            }
            } else { echo "Ошибка: " . $conn->error;}

На странице с формой добавляю скрипт, чтобы после добавления новой категории без перезагрузки страницы в форме появлялись новые опции, но почему-то не работает. Опции в форме не обновляются.

то после добавления новой категории, в новом диве корректно отобразится весь список категорий. Почему это не работает в форме с опциями я не понимаю.


The Delegation of the European Union to Ghana is part of the European Union External Service, and is one of the more than 130 Delegations throughout the world. The Delegation has the status of a diplomatic mission and officially represents the European Union in Ghana.
Having arrived in Ghana on the eve of the great Kofi Annan's funeral, his life and the lessons he shared with us are in my thoughts. A great statesman and diplomat, he will continue to serve as an inspiration for my time here in Ghana. Now more than ever his words resonate: "We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children".
The EU has a long standing partnership with Ghana under the ACP-EU Cotonou Agreement. We value highly our close partnership with Ghana and we share a broad common agenda to promote regional economic integration, peace and security, democracy, rule of law and human rights as well as to tackle crucial global challenges, such as climate change.
There have been important successes in our political cooperation. For example, Ghana was the first country to sign a Voluntary Partnership Agreement to ensure the wood produced and exported to Europe is of certified origin. And in 2016, Ghana and the EU signed and ratified an interim Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) that brings European and Ghanaian markets closer together and can attract more investment to Ghana by lowering tariffs and making trade easier without harming traditional commercial sectors. Indeed, 100% of Ghana's exports enter the European market free of any duties and quotas thanks to the interim EPA.
In recent years, Ghana has experienced strong growth, developed its economy and strengthened its rule of law and respect for human rights. Consequently it has become a lower middle income country and focused on improving the well-being and prosperity of its 28 million inhabitants. These are great successes but as we have seen recently with the launch of the SDG Baseline report and Ghana's poverty profile, significant challenges remain on curbing poverty and putting a stop to the trend of increasing inequalities and regional disparities. The EU is convinced that Ghana can continue to pave the way for sustainable economic and social development on the African continent.
As Ghana's largest development partner, Europe is proud to see that our development cooperation has an impact on the daily lives of the Ghanaian people. Over the past 10 years alone, the European Commission and its Member States have provided on average more than € 400 million per year in official development assistance to Ghana, far more than any other development partner. Creating sustainable jobs for Ghana's youth is a top priority for the EU and our diverse portfolio of projects spans from agriculture and climate change, to decentralisation and anti-corruption, to technical and vocational education and training and skills-building.
In his 2018 State of the Union address, EU President Jean-Claude Juncker gave a strong message about a new vision of the relationship between Europe and Africa: "We agreed that donor-recipient relations are a thing of the past. We want to build a new partnership with Africa. We are proposing a "new Alliance for Sustainable Investment and Jobs between Europe and Africa. This Alliance –as we envision it – would help create up to 10 million jobs in Africa in the next 5 years alone".
In the new related communication launched by the European Commission (Communication on a new Africa – Europe Alliance for Sustainable Investment and Jobs: Taking our partnership for investment and jobs to the next level) the following priorities have a direct link with job creation, actions as: boosting strategic investments for job creation and strengthening the role of the private sector; investing in people by investing in education and skills; strengthening business environment and investment climate and tapping the full potential of economic integration and trade.
I welcome you to this website of the European Union in Ghana where you can find out more about relations between the European Union and Ghana, and our development cooperation projects in Ghana. You can also use this website as an entrance to find out more about the European Union and its relations with the rest of the world.
I am looking forward to working with all the Ghanaians who are interested in developing our partnership.