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The Greek Red Cross is sending a second large delivery of humanitarian aid to Ukraine, continuing its practical support of those impacted by the ongoing war, according to an announcement on Tuesday. Specifically, three trucks loaded with 40 tons of humani...
The Greek Red Cross is sending a second large delivery of humanitarian aid to Ukraine, continuing its practical support of those impacted by the ongoing war, according to an announcement on Tuesday.
Specifically, three trucks loaded with 40 tons of humanitarian aid left from the central warehouse of the Hellenic Red Cross in Athens on Tuesday morning, bound for Siret on the Romanian-Ukrainian border and from there to Chernivtsi, Ukraine in order to deliver the aid directly to the Ukrainian Red Cross. Along with the aid, a mobile Red Cross Health Unit will also be going to Ukraine, complete with professional nurses and a rescue vehicle manned by volunteer rescue workers.
The Greek Red Cross, thanked members of the public, companies and organizations from all over Greece for their huge and touching response to the call to assist those stricken by the war.
Anyone wishing to assist those impacted by the war in Ukraine via the Hellenic Red Cross can visit their website. (www.redcross.gr)
Source: AMNA
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WILLIAM MURCHISON: Actions have consequences
"If you … intend to be first in, and hit your enemy in the belly, and kick him when he is down, and boil your prisoners in oil (if you take any!), and torture his women and children, then people will keep clear of you." — John Arbuthnot Fisher, Baron Fisher of Kilverstone (1841-1920)
Well. Um. Yes. We can agree, probably, that the mighty commander of the Royal Navy at its mightiest (the early 20th century) was talking for effect, much to the relief of potential captives of the world's mightiest empire. What a point all the same: Don't cross the British line; you'll be very, very sorry you did.
I wouldn't bet on President Donald Trump's having ever heard of the great Fisher. But the understanding Fisher wished to convey — that of the need for deterrence and punishment of bad behavior — is as old as humanity.
Trump grasped the point when he ordered the taking out of Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani. Soleimani had more than merely crossed Uncle Sam; he had contrived the deaths of approximately 600 American military personnel. It was time he understood that bad actions have bad consequences, the objective being to prevent their recurrence. That, as it happens, is what Trump meant when he said he wasn't trying to start a war; he was trying to prevent one from breaking out.
The proposition is so logical you would suppose one or two of the Democrats' presidential candidates would have gotten it, along with a majority share of media writers and talkers.
Why didn't they? My guess comes in two parts — and it's only a guess, due to my longstanding inability to get inside others' minds and crawl around (the pattern practiced at The New York Times and elsewhere.)
The first part of my guess is that an inadequate number of people care anymore about history and its lessons, save when the past can be used to shame adversaries. The endlessly silly debate over Confederate statues is case in point. That dead people have anything useful to tell live people is no longer a widely accepted assumption.
Then there's the second facet of my guess: Because Trump issued the shoot-to-kill order, there had to be something wrong with it — some reflection on his mental processes, some indifference to real-world consequences. Besides, it takes attention away from impeachment!
The main point requiring nutrition and sustenance is, in any case, the Fisher point, however outrageously expressed. There are subtler versions; for instance, that of the fourth century Roman military strategist Vegetius: "Let him who desires peace prepare for war." Like Lord Fisher, Vegetius is sending a message: You won't hurt us without cost to yourself.
The truth is the malignant Soleimani got away for a long time — the whole of the present century, practically — with targeting Americans and the American interest. Letting him alone for some considerable period was possibly pardonable from an American standpoint, in that you can't swat all your enemies at once. You swat those you can. All the same, given his latter role in the destruction of Syria and the subversion of Iraq, Soleimani made himself an indispensable target. His hands dripped as if with blood. Letting him roam about, killing whomever he wanted to kill under whatever circumstances, would have amounted to criminal negligence on America's part.
Yes, goes the progressive riposte, and what about the unknowable consequences of wiping such an insect from your boot sole? Aren't there other insects out there, with extensive stingers? What if they swarm us? What if — we really get down here to brass tacks — Iran goes nuclear?
Another of history's lessons, a supplement to the need for warning off the wicked, is that none of us can see infallibly the consequences of specific actions. "You commit yourself and then you see," said Napoleon Bonaparte. One thing we should be able easily enough to see is that right and wrong aren't fictions or brain fevers. They live. So, generally, do those who choose correctly between them.
William Murchison is writing a book on moral reconstruction in the 21st century. His latest book is "The Cost of Liberty: The Life of John Dickinson." To find out more about William Murchison, and to see features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
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Report: Senator Max Baucus Received More Campaign Money from Health and Insurance Industry Interests than Any Other Member of Congress.
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"Insurance, Health Interests Fill Baucus' Coffers"
Montana Senator Max Baucus, the chair of the Senate Finance Committee, is the Senate's point man on healthcare reform. A new article in the Montana Standard finds that Senator Baucus has received more campaign money from health and insurance industry interests than any other member of Congress. The article says, "In the past six years, nearly one-fourth of every dime raised by Baucus and his political-action committee has come from groups and individuals associated with drug companies, insurers, hospitals, medical-supply firms, health-service companies and other health professionals." [includes rush transcript]
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Montana Senator Max Baucus, the chair of the Senate Finance Committee, is the Senate's point man on healthcare reform. Over the past few weeks, he's held a series of hearings on the issue. Senator Baucus has said a national single-payer healthcare system is "off the table," has refused to include any single-payer advocates in the committee hearings. He eventually met with single-payer advocates after a series of protests, in which thirteen people were arrested after being thrown out of his hearings. However, he expressed no willingness to reverse his principled opposition to a single-payer system that would eliminate for-profit healthcare.
Now, a new article in the Montana Standard finds Senator Baucus has received more campaign money from health and insurance industry interests than any other member of Congress. The article says, "In the past six years, nearly one-fourth of every dime raised by Baucus and his political-action committee has come from groups and individuals associated with drug companies, insurers, hospitals, medical-supply firms, health-service companies and other health professionals."
The article was written by Mike Dennison, a reporter for the Montana Lee Newspapers State Bureau. He writes for four daily newspapers in Montana and covers healthcare closely. He recently interviewed Senator Baucus twice on the issue. He joins us by Democracy Now! video stream from his home in Helena.
Mike, welcome to Democracy Now! Go through the financial support that Senator Baucus gets from the health insurance industry.
MIKE DENNISON:
We're talking about the health insurance industry and the health industry, which is HMOs, hospitals, physicians, pharmaceutical companies — that's probably where the bulk of his money has come from. The report that we prepared showed, out of about almost $15 million he's raised in the last six years, both for his campaign and his leadership PAC, 23 percent of that came from insurance and health interests, and about 18 percent of that was from the health sector and a large amount from pharmaceutical — not the companies, but people who work for pharmaceutical companies and pharmaceutical PACs, about $830,000 just from that sector alone. The total amount was about $3.4 million, which we believe is probably more than any other member has received.
In terms of the percentage, however, you look at Charles Grassley, the ranking member of the — ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, which Baucus chairs, he received 23.5 percent of his money from the health and insurance sectors during that same time period. And also, you look at, for instance, Senator Christopher Dodd from Connecticut, who's been more or less running the Senate Health Committee meetings in the absence of Ted Kennedy, he received about 23 percent of his funds from the same sectors, as well. But in terms of straight dollars, I think Baucus is probably the top dog.
President Obama was confronted recently about Senator Baucus's financial ties to the insurance industry. It was at a town hall meeting in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, in mid-May. He was questioned by a local resident, Linda Allison.
LINDA ALLISON: My question is, so many people go bankrupt using their credit cards to pay for healthcare. Why have they taken single payer off the plate? And why is Senator Baucus on the Finance Committee discussing healthcare, when he has received so much money from the pharmaceutical companies? Isn't it a conflict of interest?
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: If I were starting a system from scratch, then I think that the idea of moving towards a single-payer system could very well make sense. That's the kind of system that you have in most industrialized countries around the world. The only problem is that we're not starting from scratch. We have historically a tradition of employer-based healthcare. And although there are a lot of people who are not satisfied with their healthcare, the truth is, is that the vast majority of people currently get healthcare from their employers, and you've got this system that's already in place. We don't want a huge disruption as we go into healthcare reform, where suddenly we're trying to completely reinvent one-sixth of the economy.
That's President Obama not answering the question about Senator Baucus's health insurance financial ties. The resident who asked the question, Linda Allison, says she was partly inspired to raise the point after seeing Democracy Now!'s coverage of single-payer advocates that morning who disputed Baucus's hearing. Have you asked, Mike, Senator Baucus directly about his financial ties to the health insurance industry and the health industry?
Well, I haven't spoken — well, a little bit. We got statements from his office last week about why — what he has to say about the money he's receiving. And what he said was, "Well, sure I've got a lot of money, but we have to raise money, and this is how we do it. And there's many times when I have gone against the health insurance industry in the plans that I'm proposing." And he listed out several times.
He said that before, that we're going to have guaranteed issue of health insurance, we're going to squeeze the insurance industry a little bit. But at the same time, they're actually supporting some of these changes, because in the bills that are being prepared, everyone's going to be required to buy insurance. There's going to be individual mandates. And as far as the drug companies and the hospitals, I'm not so sure we have examples there where they're really going to give up too much.
What we've asked Senator Baucus is, where are the people who are making all the money from healthcare going to give? Where is going to be the people who have been profiting who have to give up something? Where? And he has answered us a little bit, but it's not something he comes out and says a lot.
Mike Dennison, what about the constituents? What about Montanans? As we traveled through Montana, from Missoula to Helena to Bozeman, there were many healthcare activists who would come out to all the different events. What is the constituency of Montana saying to Senator Baucus?
Well, I went to some of the meetings he had about three weeks ago. There was twenty across the state in various communities. And a lot of the people there at those meetings were saying, "Why no single payer? Why isn't it being considered, at least?" And even for the people who weren't single-payer advocates, I got the sense the majority of the people at the meetings that I went to and the coverage that I read were saying to Senator Baucus, "Please give us something that works. Please give us something that addresses the problems out there. Don't just give us a corporate healthcare reform plan."
And how does he respond to his constituents?
Well, the staffers that we saw at these — they're saying, "Look, we're going to have a public option in the plan, and Senator Baucus is going to fight tooth and nail to get this — to keep the public option in there." A lot of these people are going, you know, "What's the public option? We don't know what this is. We don't know what the details are." And we don't know the details yet. And Senator Baucus, himself, when we've asked him about public option, saying, "What is it going to be?" he's ambivalent about that and says, "Look, we'll have a strong public option." But when it comes to details, we just haven't seen them yet. We'll see them in the next couple of days, I guess.
The Washington Post revealed almost thirty key lawmakers helping draft landmark healthcare legislation have financial holdings in the industry, totaling nearly $11 million worth of personal investments.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has at least $50,000 invested in a healthcare index.
Republican Senator Judd Gregg, a senior member of the Health Committee, has up to $560,000 worth of stock holdings in major healthcare companies, including Bristol-Myers Squibb and Merck.
The family of Democratic Congresswoman Jane Harman held at least $3.2 million in more than twenty healthcare companies at the end of last year.
Senator Kerry, John Kerry, and his wife Teresa Heinz Kerry hold at least $5.2 million in companies such as Merck and Eli Lilly.
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee plans to hold a key hearing today to discuss healthcare reform. On that twenty-two-member panel, at least eight Senators have financial interests in the healthcare industry. The hearings will be held by Democratic Senator Chris Dodd, whose wife serves on the boards of four healthcare companies. She received more than $200,000 in salary and stock from her service last year.
And Republican Senator Johnny Isakson holds at least $165,000 in pharmaceutical and medical stocks.
Democratic Senator Kay Hagan holds at least $180,000 in investments in more than twenty healthcare companies.
Dr. Quentin Young, your comment?
DR. QUENTIN YOUNG: Well, it's appalling, and I think your listeners can see how the republic is in danger. Our Congress people are paid huge amounts — by "paid," they get donations. What a silly thing that is! And I know there are many in the reform movement who say until we get financial — campaign financial reform, it's going to be hard to pass anything. But I'm particularly pained by Obama, who didn't answer the question that was put to him about the ability of money to corrupt the legislature.
But I think the public is getting wise. And although Mr. Baucus continues to say he won't support hearings, even, for single payer, there are going to be hearings. And for the first time, the single-payer movement, of which I'm a proud member, is getting voice. It's just natural that the public would go for it, because they have had good experience with public medicine in this country and worldwide.
And the time is running out. I think Obama understands this; he's a highly intelligent person. He caved. And I thought it was almost ludicrous when he talked about the good experience some people have had with employee-based insurance. That's one of the most rapidly dwindling sources of healthcare we have in the country today. People are left out in the cold after decades of union-gained health benefits. And we have to act fast. And I'm hopeful this movement will catch on and the Congress will become representative of the people's will.
Well, speaking of running out of time, Dr. Quentin Young, we are. Thanks for joining us, a more than half a century member of the AMA, national coordinator for Physicians for a National Health Program.
And in Helena, Montana, I want to thank Mike Dennison very much for being with us. We'll link to your articles for the Montana Lee Newspapers State Bureau. He's written extensively on healthcare and Senator Baucus, speaking to us from his home in Helena.
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Jog will be available on March 10, and it's sort of like a?celebration?song. For Uemura it's a song of progression and reaching new points in your life, especially with her recently turning 30. With so much meaning it's kind of hard not to like it! Plus how can you not smile after watching how much fun Kana is having in the video! Live it up!


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With more than 350 visually stunning books to his credit, Nobuyoshi Araki has established himself as one of the most published photographers in the world. But the Japanese artist is also known as the premier purveyor of erotic images in a country known for its sexual, uh, stiffness. With input from Araki devotees Björk, Richard Kern, Takeshi Kitano and Daido Moriyama, among others, filmmaker Travis Klose explores the genius behind the lens.
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We suggest that government funding of basic research should emphasize quality rather than quantity, that the social sciences, multidisciplinary efforts, and projects relevant to Canadian needs should get higher priority, and that the peer system should be improved."
No, this is not the initial recommendation from the Naylor advisory panel that reviewed fundamental science, but it could well have been. Rather, the quote is from the concluding volume of the Senate Special Committee of the Senate on Science Policy in 1977 (otherwise known as the Lamontagne Committee).
At a CSPC panel on the future of Canada's Fundamental Science Review report a panel of distinguished speakers spoke to the growing intersection of science and public policy; among them the chair of the report David Naylor. In his remarks, he referred to the fact that it has been 40 years since there has been such a review; a comment that the science minister has often made in her own statements about the expert panel she appointed.
But that four-decade-old review--the Special Senate Committee on Science Policy chaired by the Harvard-trained economist, Maurice Lamontagne-- had a much broader remit at a time when the interface between science and policy was nascent in Canada. The Senate Committee was launched 50 years ago in 1967 to consider and report on the science policy of the federal government with the object of appraising its priorities, its budget and its efficiency in the light of the experience of other countries and the requirements of the new scientific age. Indeed, the federal government already had a structure for science advice and research in the guise of the National Research Council, the Science Secretariat to the Privy Council Office and the Science Council of Canada, and the OECD was just completing a review of Canada's science policy as seen from the international perspective. But this was not sufficient according to the Senate inquiry; a gap remained in better understanding of how all of the science and innovation systems were connected.
Lamontagne had considerable grist for the Senate mill and began a large-scale public inquiry that was to last a decade when its fourth and last volume was ultimately published in 1977. Begun in March 1968 with a number of hearings and over 12,000 pages of written briefs and evidence, the first volume reviewed the historical evolution of Canadian science policy and its efforts compared to other selected countries; the second volume described the targets and strategies needed for strengthening science, technology, and yes---innovation; and the third described the government organization that would be needed to implement a more coherent national science policy.
It is the fourth and last volume that drew the attention of the Naylor expert panel but only from the optic of the role of basic or fundamental research. Lamontagne's final report, on the other hand, explored the evolution of science support in Canada, the then emerging crisis in government (eroding federal labs) and poor funding of university sectors along with the persistent weakness of the industrial sector in support of R&D and innovation.
It concluded with some commentary on unfinished business. Among this latter list was how to involve Parliamentarians more effectively in the debate of science in public policy; the need for an institute on future studies (akin to foresight surrounding emerging technologies); a Canadian Innovation Bank for venture capital support and a new Canada Innovation Award; increasing the budgets of the granting councils including addressing the indirect costs for research; transforming the NRC; and having government departments and agencies appoint science policy advisors to name a few. New structures of governance for science policy needed to be examined.
Today, 50 years after its debut and despite the Lamontagne Committee's calls for some coherence on a national scale, we still have a rather patchworked science and innovation policy framework that has a long way to go if the country and its citizens are to meet the challenges of the emerging knowledge age with all of its lights and shadows. As Lamontagne put it, the standard and quality of life in this country will be largely determined by the way in which the people and their institutions respond to the prospects and perils of the applications of science and technology.
Is it not time for a new truly national roadmap?


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Q: my rspec output is so long it pushes the error out of view Forgive me, I'm just trying to learn to test, but i know this is ridiculous. Anyone know what could be causing this?
I'm following along at devwalks.com and I'm on the part one of the testing track.
Failures:

  1) Creating posts Can create a job
     Failure/Error: visit '/'
     ActionView::MissingTemplate:
       Missing template posts/index, application/index with {:locale=>[:en], :formats=>[:html], :variants=>[], :handlers=>[:erb, :builder, :raw, :ruby, :coffee, :jbuilder]}. Searched in:
         * "/Users/Andy/Desktop/rails/phototest/app/views"
     # /Users/Andy/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.1/gems/ <-- this line repeats around 50 times with different subfolders/files

Finished in 0.03078 seconds (files took 2.7 seconds to load)
2 examples, 1 failure, 1 pending

Failed examples:

rspec ./spec/features/creating_posts_spec.rb:4 # Creating posts Can create a job

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A: If you run rspec with the -b option it will give a full backtrace:
bundle exec rspec -b spec/features/creating_posts_spec.rb:4

A: It's exactly as the error states: You don't have the posts/index view yet. Try adding app/views/posts/index.html.erb to your application

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Collier, fired by Bentley in March, filed a lawsuit against the governor, former advisor Rebekah Caldwell Mason and ALEA Secretary Stan Stabler the following month. Collier, who has accused Bentley and Mason of having an affair, alleged that the two fired him for cooperating with an investigation into Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard. The lawsuit also accuses Bentley of breaking a law prohibiting the termination of employees over truthful statements in an ethics investigation.
Collier also accused all three of defamation and invasion of privacy over a report that alleged "possible misuse of state funds" during Collier's time with the agency. Collier has denied those allegations and said he would cooperate with any investigation.
In the Monday filing, Ben Espy, one of the attorneys representing Bentley, asked Montgomery County Circuit Judge Johnny Hardwick to dismiss the part of the complaint against the governor's re-election campaign, or barring that, to demand a more definite statement of the charges. The motion called Collier's lawsuit "general, vague (and) ambiguous" and said the complaint failed to state a claim against the gubernatorial campaign.
Collier sues Bentley, Mason, Stabler
"The only basis of the complaint against this defendant appears to be the allegations that Defendant Mason is an agent or servant of (the Bentley campaign)," the filing said. "Said allegations in this regard are insufficient and not in accordance with the Alabama Rules of Civil Procedure."
Neither Bentley nor Mason nor Stabler have filed a formal response to the lawsuit. Ken Mendelsohn, an attorney for Collier, called the filing a "common-type motion" and that he expected Bentley to file his own response shortly.
"If they need additional factual information to understand the complaint, I'll supply it," he said Monday.
Shortly after his firing, Collier held a press conference in which he accused Bentley and Mason of having a relationship and of using state resources to pursue it, though he said he had no proof. Bentley acknowledged making inappropriate remarks to Mason, but both he and Mason have denied having a physical affair, and Bentley has denied misappropriating money.
Gov. Bentley fires ALEA Secretary Spencer Collier
Mason stepped down from the governor's office at the end of March. The Alabama Ethics Commission appears to be looking into a complaint about Bentley filed by State Auditor Jim Zeigler over the relationship and whether Mason, who has not been on a state payroll since 2013, was working as an unregistered lobbyist on behalf of the Alabama Council for Excellent Government (ACEGOV), a dark money group working to advance Bentley's agenda.
Collier's accusations have led to an impeachment drive against Bentley in the Alabama House of Representatives. The governor says he has done "nothing illegal or unethical."


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Jones played his entire professional career with the Seattle Seahawks, where he was a seven-time All Proselection and eventual NFL 2000s All-Decade Team honoree. Starting in each of his 180 games in Seattle, the Seahawks attempted more than 5,500 passes with Jones on the field, while Jones gave a total of only 23 quarterback sacks, and was penalized for holding just nine times. On February 1, 2014, Jones was selected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in his first year eligibility. On Decembber 5, 2010, in a game versus the Carolina Panthers, in front of a crowd of over 66,000, the Seahawks honored the career of Jones by retiring his #71 jersey.
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Automated data tiering is performed through purpose-built software and hardware appliances, and works to continuously monitor the data that's rotated within an organization's storage tiers. It works on a predefined data policy that classifies data into various levels. For example, frequently accessed and critical data is moved to the storage tiers with the fastest access rates. Similarly, less used data is moved to lower-end storage media/tiers.
Solid state disks (SSD) incorporate principles of automated data tiering by having a built-in flash memory that stores frequently used data and applications for quicker access.


Delivering mobile content in Africa isn't straightforward, typically there is complexity at the network level where there is a mix of devices and low to high bandwidth connectivity options. James McNab, Managing Director for Basebone Africa and MEF EMEA Board Director shares how to overcome this complexity in Africa.
Basebone has built a business on providing mobile entertainment and value-added services through paid subscription portals across 10 countries in four continents. Its focus is on high growth, mobile first regions. In South Africa alone the company has over 30 million paid subscriptions achieved since market entry.


These are handcrafted marble tiles that are decorating part of the facade of the Grande Mosquée Hassan II in Casablanca. It's the largest mosque in Africa, and the 5th largest in the world. It has the world's tallest Minaret at 210 meters (close to 700 feet) and was built in 1993. A maximum of 105,000 worshippers can gather together for prayer: 25,000 inside the mosque hall and another 80,000 on the mosque's outside ground. A very beautiful and colorful capture that makes for a wonderful piece of decorative art.


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Q: Iphone/Ipad emulator for windows I want to getting flexible with Sencha Touch. I write my codes and viewing on Google Chrome well but I am searching an Ipad and Iphone simulator/emulator runs on Windows. I want to look and feel my codes in Ipad and IPhone. Is there any simulator/emulator available for Windows?
Thanks.
EDIT: There is no emulator or simulator for Windows. However PhoneGap is available on Mac OS and really made great improvements by months. If you use Mac OS and need something like this I strongly recommend PhoneGap. If you need this tool in Windows, probably there is no other way then install Mac OS a virtual machine on Windows.

A: I think you might be thinking of the PhoneGap Simulator. It's an Adobe Air app so it will run on anything and while It's meant to be used with the hybrid framework, Phonegap, you can put any URL into the app. It is helpful for debugging web based apps, but it may not be workable for your needs.
Alas, they do not have a device profile for the iPad.


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'A catastrophic blow to clean athletes'
Russia sports doping ban cut in half, drawing widespread condemnation
Citing 'matters of proportionality,' Swiss-based Court of Arbitration for Sport slashes initial four-year ban imposed by World Anti-Doping Agency
By Coralie Febvre	18 December 2020, 9:52 am 0 Edit
The Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) headquarters in Moscow on December 17, 2020. (Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP)
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AFP) — Russia's ban from international sport was halved to two years on Thursday and its athletes were cleared to compete as neutrals, drawing condemnation from athletes and anti-doping advocates.
The Swiss-based Court of Arbitration for Sport cut the initial four-year ban imposed by the World Anti-Doping Agency, citing "matters of proportionality" and the "need to effect cultural change and encourage the next generation of Russian athletes."
"The consequences which the Panel has decided to impose are not as extensive as those sought by WADA," a CAS statement said.
"This should not, however, be read as any validation of the conduct of RUSADA (Russia's anti-doping watchdog) or the Russian authorities," it added.
The CAS judgment comes after WADA hit Russia with the four-year ban last year for doping non-compliance after finding data handed over from its tainted Moscow laboratory had been manipulated.
The saga first erupted in 2016 when Grigory Rodchenkov, the laboratory's former head, blew the whistle over state-backed doping at the 2014 Winter Olympics in the Russian resort of Sochi.
Alexander Zubkov of Russia carries the national flag as he leads the team during the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, February 7, 2014. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, file)
The shortened ban imposed by CAS runs until December 16, 2022, encompassing the Tokyo Olympics, Beijing Winter Games and the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, which ends two days later.
Russia's flag is forbidden, but its athletes will be allowed to compete in a uniform bearing the word "Russia," as long as it also says "neutral athlete," the court said.
Government representatives including President Vladimir Putin are barred, but they may still attend if invited by the host country's head of state, CAS added.
WADA president Witold Banka said he was "disappointed" that the four-year ban was cut, but still called the ruling "an important moment for clean sport."
"WADA is pleased to have won this landmark case," Banka said, adding that the verdict "clearly upheld our findings that the Russian authorities brazenly and illegally manipulated the Moscow laboratory data in an effort to cover up an institutionalized doping scheme."
'Devastating decision'
But there was strong condemnation elsewhere. US Anti-Doping Agency chief executive officer Travis Tygart, who played a key role in exposing cycling's Lance Armstrong doping scandal, called it a "devastating decision."
"At this stage in this sordid Russian state-sponsored doping affair, now spanning close to a decade, there is no consolation in this weak, watered-down outcome," Tygart said.
He called it "a catastrophic blow to clean athletes, the integrity of sport, and the rule of law" and, in an interview with AFP, said the ruling was a "tragedy" for the global fight against drug cheats.
British Olympic gold medal-winning cyclist Callum Skinner tweeted, "The biggest doping scandal in history goes unpunished," and Global Athlete, which advocates for sportspeople, called the ruling "farcical."
"The fact that Russian Athletes can compete as 'Neutral Athletes from Russia' is another farcical façade that makes a mockery of the system," Global Athlete wrote. "If athletes from Russia can still compete, it is not a sanction. Russia has not been banned; they have simply been rebranded."
Rodchenkov's lawyer Jim Walden also slammed the decision, saying it showed the tribunal was "unwilling and unable to meaningfully deal with systematic and long-standing criminality by Russia."
International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach (L) and chair of IOC Inquiry Commission into alleged Russian doping at Sochi 2014, Samuel Schmid, attend a press conference following an executive meeting on Russian doping, on December 5, 2017 in Lausanne, Switzerland. (AFP Photo/Fabrice Coffrini)
However, Mikhail Bukhanov, acting head of Russia's anti-doping agency RUSADA, said: "Today's results are a victory for Russia."
"The court decided not to accept the theses that WADA demanded. Of course, this is a significant precedent," he added.
The CAS verdict followed a four-day arbitration hearing between WADA and the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) at a secret location last month.
The showdown, in front of three CAS judges took place following WADA's decision last year to declare RUSADA non-compliant after the Russian body was accused of manipulating drug testing data.
While Thursday's CAS verdict was of paramount importance to Russia, WADA also had plenty on the line.
The organization, founded in 1999, has been criticized by US lawmakers over its handling of the scandal and failure to implement governance reforms.
As a result, the US has threatened to pull its annual $2.7 million financing.
Athletics' global governing body meanwhile has given the Russian federation until March next year to produce a comprehensive plan to fight doping and be reinstated to the sport, or face expulsion.


The Stedelijk presents a retrospective comprising over 200 drawings and paintings by the South African artist Marlene Dumas who has lived in Amsterdam since 1976.
The artist now works mainly with oil on canvas and ink on paper but in the past has used a range of media. Recurring subjects in her work include the physical reality of the human body and its psychological value, and the extreme fringes of life's cycle, from birth to death.
This is the first major solo exhibition of Dumas in the Netherlands in two decades, and includes some of her most important works, from the late 1970s to the present day. Highlights include rarely-seen drawings from her studio, and the 100-piece series Models from the collection of the Van Abbemuseum.


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How Russians Are Dealing With an Internet That's Gone Dark
By Chris Stokel-Walker
March 10, 2022 2:58 PM EST
In early March, Russia's internet began to feel like a ghost town. TikTok stopped publishing new posts. Media outlets pulled out their correspondents. YouTube stopped its creators from earning money on their videos. The digital hush is the end result of a series of dominoes toppling after the invasion of Ukraine, including new Russian legislation that criminalizes spreading so-called "fake news" within the country.
In response, Russians say they have had to decide how to stay safe while keeping in touch and, where possible, still voicing their dissent. One woman in Saint Petersburg was just a teenager in 2011, when she saw anti-corruption protesters revolt against Putin but didn't take action herself. Now in her 30s, though, as Russian troops invaded and bombed Ukraine, she decided enough was enough. "I don't know how any person can stand for this," she says.
Read More: Why Russia Hasn't Launched Major Cyber Attacks Since the Invasion of Ukraine
Deciding how to voice that dissent is a challenge. She, like many other Russians who told TIME about their efforts to avoid state censorship, spoke on the condition that they remain anonymous because they feared running afoul of the fake news law. She says that her friends who feel they can't stay silent are trying to find a way to speak out despite the censors. They've begun finding artwork and photographs that they post on their timelines in the colors of the Ukrainian flag, but aren't too blatant—enough to give them plausible deniability should the police come calling. "Right now," she says, "we're scared."
Her own social media profiles remain in private mode. Offline dissent has already been dangerous enough for her—she was arrested earlier this month (along with more than 13,000 others), and bussed to a police station where she was held in a cramped cell.
Less tolerance, more fear
The crackdowns—online and off—show Russia's increasing lack of tolerance for political dissent, as it wages a war that has ostracized it from the international community. The "fake news" law in Russia is punishable by 15 years in jail, or a fine of 1.5 million rubles (currently $11,500, as the ruble continues its freefall).
The new legislation, originally proposed by an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is an escalation of previous rules. "What we're seeing now are not radically new laws," says Yevgeniy Golovchenko, a researcher of Russian media and disinformation at the Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science, part of the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. "But it's a more strict version."
Although the new penalties are clear, the law's enforcement isn't. "We don't really know how [the law] will work and who will be charged for violating it," says the woman in Saint Petersburg. "For me, as I understand it, I can't express my opinion on what's going on if it's not the same as the official government opinion."
Big tech platforms like TikTok have ceased operations in the country because of the new law, while others like Instagram have added labels to Russian state-sponsored content and begun demoting its distribution within the app. The Tow Center for Digital Journalism has tracked the full list of platforms that have adapted to Russia's new norms.
Read More: How Russia Is Stepping Up Its Campaign to Control the Internet
That affects Russian influencers who've made their livelihood on the platform. Before the invasion, influencer Niki Proshin posted videos to TikTok that showed his everyday life: things like his daily meal routine, and a guide to the Moscow Metro. They're seemingly mundane topics, but he sees them as an attempt to bridge the divide between Russia and the West. Now, though, he's begun deleting any videos that could potentially be caught up in Putin's dragnet. Proshin had previously posted videos from the protests in Saint Petersburg, which he says he did not take part in but instead documented impartially. "I just took them down because I have no idea how [Russian authorities] might translate the words I used," he says.
Scaring the population into submission is Putin's goal, says Ilya Yablokov, a lecturer in journalism and digital media at the University of Sheffield who specializes in Russian media and their dissemination of disinformation. Yablokov points out that before the law was passed, a number of Russian celebrities who spoke out against the invasion suddenly found their TV shows had vanished from state channel listings. "It sends out a particular signal," he says. "If you go against us, we're going to kill your career and kill everything."
Fears have also spread to Russian nationals living outside the country, who may be worried about implicating their loved ones back home if they voice dissent. "Everyone I know believes the same thing: that this is wrong," says one Russian national of Ukrainian heritage in her 20s. She's living in the U.K. but has family and friends still in Russia. "It's so difficult to talk about publicly if you're still in Russia, or have connections there."
She says that recently, a small group of friends in Russia gathered to install software that would help them access darkened sites through a virtual private network, or VPN. They all opposed the invasion, and she says the gathering was also an offline way to talk about the unprecedented crackdown on their freedom of speech. "They mostly just got drunk and really sad," she says.
Gathering to install VPN software might be the hottest ticket in Russia right now. Overall, interest in VPNs has soared nearly 1,000 percent according to one analysis. Using a VPN is still potentially risky, however.
"Some VPNs are created more equal than others," says Alan Woodward, a cybersecurity professor at the University of Surrey. If the server is based in Russia, "it's not going to prevent them tracking you down if they can take a look at that server. Others with servers overseas might be known to the security services, and hence you connecting is a dead giveaway," he says. There are concerns that some VPNs may have backdoor access for Russian authorities, while Russia may have advanced ways of examining how internet traffic flows through a VPN, which could put users at risk.
Still, some sites and apps continue as usual and have become their own kind of gathering place. One of those is Clubhouse, where a rolling chat room in Ukrainian, Russian and English is approaching two weeks of non-stop broadcasting. The room gives updates on the invasion, discusses the ramifications for the world, and acts as an under-the-radar place to vent for Russians opposed to the war as they speak to the rest of the world about their disgust.
Many have also turned to Telegram, where Russian dissidents and opponents of Vladimir Putin are thriving. Russian-language Telegram groups discussing Ukraine have gained 2.7 million followers since Feb. 24, according to an analysis by social media listening firm Logically. There, much of the conversation isn't about international sanctions or economic impact—it's how to get your VPN running.
On March 7, Telegram CEO Pavel Durov reassured users that he wouldn't submit to Russian government demands to breach users' privacy by handing over their personal details.
Fears and workarounds are well-founded, says Yablokov: "It is frightening, especially if your whole life, property, family connections, work and everything is in Russia."
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Auditorium du Louvre is located in Paris. Arrange to visit Auditorium du Louvre and other attractions in Paris using our Paris trip itinerary planner.
The night tour of the palace, dinner at Five O ' afternoon, the flip side into the audience is the best choice for self-service travelers! In addition to the three treasures of the town store, the most primitive walls of the basement of the Louvre, linked to the Egyptian artifacts, are very historical paintings! The king left behind the decorative art, collecting paper drunken gold fans of the utensils and room, if there is not too much time, young children are not impressed! Spend time talking about the Vinci, the revival of the arts, the proportion of gold, the ancient Egyptian religious life and death, presumably can let the children from the body of art artifacts impressed!
Initially, the glass pyramid I have aroused skepticism, but when I saw and felt all the monumentality, the view certainly has changed.
The Louvre auditorium is a platform that plays host in a variety of fields such as conferences, symposiums, public concerts, film showings and many more. The glass pyramide architecture is amazing.


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Q: How many parts in the partitions of n are equal to k? By partition, I mean a set of positive whole numbers (order doesn't matter, there can be duplicates) that sum to n, each member in that set is called a part.
Let $p(n)=$ the number of partitions for n.
Let $p(n,k)=$ the number of parts in all the partitions of n who are equal to k.
For instance if n=4, we have (4),(3,1),(2,2),(2,1,1),(1,1,1,1).
Then $p(n)=5$
$p(n,1)=7, p(n,2)=3, p(n,3)=1, p(n,4)=1$
Note that $p(n)=\frac{\sum_{k=1}^n k*p(n,k)}{n}$
I am interested in any fun things we can say about $p(n,k)$, including recursive formulas. I doubt there is a closed form solution, as there doesn't seam to be one for $p(n)$. Ramanujan, Hardy and Littlewood came up with a great asymptotic formulas with "the circle method".
Since we can add a k to any partition of $n-k$, we have:
$p(n,k)=p(n-k) + p(n-k,k)$
If $k>n-k$, then $p(n-k,k)=0$ since you can't have a part be greater than the final sum.


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title: Grove - Circular LED
category: Display
bzurl: https://www.seeedstudio.com/Grove-Circular-LED-p-1353.html
oldwikiname:  Grove - Circular LED
prodimagename: Circular_LED.jpg
surveyurl: https://www.research.net/r/Grove_Circular_LED
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![](https://github.com/SeeedDocument/Grove-Circular_LED/raw/master/img/Circular_LED.jpg)
This is a unique ring– it has a florid body with 24 controllable LEDs. Maybe it will drive the inspiration out of you to make a glowing magic ring! There is a 1*1 square hollow-out in the middle of this module, where you can place a Grove Encoder in and make it a rotary visual encoder!

[![](https://github.com/SeeedDocument/Seeed-WiKi/raw/master/docs/images/300px-Get_One_Now_Banner-ragular.png)](https://www.seeedstudio.com/Grove-Circular-LED-p-1353.html)

##   Features
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*   Circular shape
*   24 LEDs, about 5.5 mA drive current for each channel.
*   Controllable LEDs with florid effects
*   Grove Interface.

##   Schematic
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![](https://github.com/SeeedDocument/Grove-Circular_LED/raw/master/img/Circular_LED_schmatic.jpg)

##   Specification
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 Item

 Min

 Typical

 Max

 Unit

 Voltage

 4.5

 5

 5.5

 VDC

 Current

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 5.5 for each LED

 mA

 Dimension

 Ring Form:4.5 diameter

 mm

 Net Weight

 12

 g

##   Interface
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![](https://github.com/SeeedDocument/Grove-Circular_LED/raw/master/img/Circular_LED_Interface.jpg)

##   Usage
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###   Hardware

With the definition "CircularLED circularLED1(10,9);" in the demo, please connect this module to the D9 Grove Connector of [Grove base shield](/Base_shield_v2) with the 4- pin Grove cable. You can also connect the "Yellow" signal to D9 and "White" to D10 with jumper wires.

###   Software

Please download the CircularLED lib and test this module with_CircularLEDtest_ example. You can click [here](/Upload_Code) to learn how to upgrade the sketches.

 ![](https://github.com/SeeedDocument/Grove-Circular_LED/raw/master/img/Circular_LED_shining.gif)

 Please also refer to the [Grove-Encoder](/Grove-Encoder) to learn more about this module.

##   Source
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- [CircularLED Library](https://github.com/SeeedDocument/Grove-Circular_LED/raw/master/res/CircularLED.zip)

- [Grove Circular LED schematics PDF File](https://github.com/SeeedDocument/Grove-Circular_LED/raw/master/res/Circular_LED_v0.9b.pdf)

- [Grove-circular LED eagle files](https://github.com/SeeedDocument/Grove-Circular_LED/raw/master/res/Grove-circular_LED_eagle_files.zip)

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


With so many babies around, expected, and imagined, I've decided to adventure into knitting toys. I've had the book Knitted Toys by Zoe Mellor for quite some time, but never tried to knit anything from there. I love the book because it is bright, colorful and has great ideas. The directions are easy to follow and it doesn't look like any of the projects are above an intermediate knitting level. There are charts for some of the projects included.
I knit up the Flat Ted (see picture above). I used Lion Brand Baby Soft which was a mistake. I probably would have been better off doubling up the yarn or using a smaller needle. The size six needle created two large of a gauge. It still is cute but could have looked much better and was hard to embroider. After two attempts at creating the face, I gave up and decided to create icords out of Caron Simply Soft Orange and Black that I had lying around. I think it looks okay, but it could certainly look better.
Many of the patterns included in the book call for Jaeger Baby Merino. One such pattern was the Squeaky Pig which I desperately want to make if I can find the right yarn. I have searched online but can't find this yarn anywhere. I have a feeling it either no longer exists or is only available in Germany.
This is a fun book with great ideas. Maybe I'll use scrap yarn to make the snake next. I need more stuffing!
Tomorrow is Memorial Day and the unofficial start of summer. In Southwest Florida, it has been summer for about a month now. The days are above ninety degrees and no one wants to spend time out in the summer. While the pool looks appealing, the air-conditioning is much more comforting. I'm about five inches into my light summer scarf/shawl after a week's worth of work. I should have this done by Labor day if I'm lucky. Once it is completed, it'll be my favorite summer accessory. The warm weather is a good time to work with lightweight materials such as cotton, linen, silk and bamboo. I'm using very, very fine wool. I'd love to make a skirt out of linen, but right now I don't have the budget or the time to cover such a large project.
Summer is a great time for reading for those of us who love to delve into a novel while relaxing pool side or beach side. I recently finished The Help by Kathryn Stockett. This is something that I could not put down. If I only had five extra minutes in the morning before rushing off to work, I spent those few minutes perusing a few more pages. This is a story of the maids who work in the deep south in the early sixties and the families that they take care of. If you like reading, go out, buy or borrow this book and tell your friends. I hope that this will change how we think of people and class structure. Society has changes but in some ways, it never will. Kathryn Stockett allows the reader to empathize with Miss Skeeter – the upper class white woman who decided to write the stories of the black maids, as well as the maids themselves, Minnie and Aibileen. I read this in five days despite work, school and even a guest visiting (read a few pages, talk a bit, sneak back to read another page). This one will definitely win awards and hopefully be discussed in classrooms as part of regular curriculum some day.
I have a two week respite from classes before returning to the overwhelming summer schedule. I have been focusing on school and other things and have taken a break from knitting. Like all hobbies, sometimes people just need to take a moment to reorganize. My felted bag has an issue that I have to fix and the chunky shawl is short of yarn. A lot of times when you have a large project and run into a problem, it is easier to simply put it aside and take a break. Most of the time, that problem remains in the corner for months or even years. Then, all of a sudden, the light will go off and you'll pick up the needles with fervor, onto the next great idea.
Instead of writer's block, this seems to be more of a knitter's block. It's easier to leave everything alone until I get that desire back. In the meantime I want to indulge in books, movies, writing, and guiltily- the Sims 3. I know it is terrible and unproductive- but I love the game. I'm trying to keep this to a minimum because it is easy to get lost in the imaginary world of the people I create and control. Why put all the work into writing myself, when I can make my character do it and make money on it in my world.
Right now, I am enjoying The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. I am only about 150 pages into the grandiose novel but I am enjoying it. His story is set in 12th Century Europe. The characters are interesting and fluid. The plot is thick but intriguing. Tom Builder and his family are traveling across England trying to find work, preferring to work in Cathedrals. Prior Phillip is a genuinely pious priest but also a proven leader despite his youth. He becomes engulfed in the politics of his day. I still have a long way to go in the novel but am looking forward to it.
A while ago I was at the library, wandering around, when I discovered these little playaway books on preloaded mp3 players. First of all, I am one of the few people out there who do not have an ipod or an mp3 player or even a smart phone. I found these little devices that have one book recorded on it, and that you can borrow for three weeks at a time (longer if you are a chronic renewer like me). I listen to them at work, at the gym, and while knitting. So far I've listened to Marley & Me, Songs of the Hunchback Whale, Blue Diary, and Water for Elephants. I started The Time Traveler's Wife but it bored me. I couldn't stand the speaker for Beach Road. I'm currently listening to The Wednesday Wars, which is directed at children, but is written (spoken) well and is a perfect cutesy book to have at work. My next one will be The Joy Luck Club.
I've read most of these before with my absolute favorite being Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen. The narration is split between the 90 or 93-year-old Jacob Jankowski and his 23-year-old memory. He described both his life at a nursing home, his aging body and loneliness at a point when his children are too old to take care of him. Across the street, the circus is setting up and a fellow resident begins to claim that he used to carry water for elephants. Jacob becomes angry at this, saying Mr. McGuinty is a lyer. A nurse, Rosemary, takes pity on him and begins to treat him like a human being instead of another body.
We listen to him tell about being 23, days away from taking his final exams in Veterinarian School at Cornell University when his parents are killed in a car accident. This occurs during the Great Depression. Jacob finds out that the bank is foreclosing on his parents' home and goes to take the finals. He walks out of the room without answering a single question. Fate takes him to the railroad tracks where he jumps into a car only to find out that he's on a circus train.
The rest is an adventure. Jacob discovers circus life and the meaning of love for both the beautiful Marlena and the surprising elephant Rosie. This is an absolute must read- or listen. There is even a movie in the works, which is planned to come out in 2011.
Songs of the Humpback Whale was also a fantastic experience. Listening to it was even better because there are five narrators in five voices. I believe that this brings it to life far more than actually reading it could- and Jodi Picoult is a great writer. This is a journey of self discovery by five very different people who are connected by life and events that are beyond their control. A mother, father, daughter, uncle and lover all reflect on the actions that take them to a quaint apple orchard in Massachusetts. While listening, you salivate at the description of the crunching apples, shiver when the cool northeastern winds blow, and feel the characters as if they are standing next to you.