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The Great Lakes-Ohio Valley Ethnohistory Collection (GLOVE), 1953-1966, is a unique assemblage of primary and secondary resources pertaining to the Native American occupancy of the region. These items were assembled in the 1950s by Indiana University professor, Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin and her eight-person research team to support the Great Lakes-Ohio Valley Ethnohistory Project. This U.S. Department of Justice funded research activity was responsible for the preparation of in-depth reports concerning American Indian land use and tenure. These reports were intended to be used in the government's defense against cases involving alleged treaty inequities and which were brought before the Indian Claims Commission, a body and a process authorized by federal legislation signed into law on August 13, 1946.
These materials cover history and land use of tribes and groups in the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes region from the 1600s until the late 1900s, and record the findings of the Indian Claims Commission.
A finding aid of the collection is located on Archives Online at Indiana University.
At this time our library and most of our archives are only available for on-site research. Please note that the materials are non-circulating. Researchers may visit Monday-Friday 10:00am-4:00pm, though prior appointments are suggested to ensure materials and staff are available.
To make an appointment, please fill out our Research Request form (pdf) and email it to gbl@indiana.edu.
The collection is valuable for its original purpose of providing evidence for legal disputes of land and treaty violations; however, it is also an incredible resource for anyone researching American Indian or colonial history topics. The narrow focus on American Indian land use and occupancy may seem of limited value to some researchers, but many topics are inadvertently covered by these gathered documents.
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For instance, many of the documents in the Tribal History Documents series of the GLOVE might only consist of 3 pages of a 200 page book or 1 page from a 5 page letter discussing travel, people, plants, and animals; the way that the collection was originally assembled provides a roadmap for studying Native history. Imaginative digital strategies are allowing us to highlight the full value of the information contained in the complex relationships within the collection by connecting our partial document to its original source. On the Indiana University Archives Online Finding Aid, researchers can find a link to an online Zotero bibliography digitally creating a library of resources by tribe. This process has begun with the Powatawatomi tribe documents and will be continuing thorugh the rest of the series.
The Indian tribal groups include the Chippewa (Ojibwa), Delaware, Huron (Wyandot), Illinois, Kickapoo, Mascouten, Menomini, Miami (Miami proper, Wea, Piankashaw, Eel River), Ohio Valley Iroquois, Ottawa, Potawatomi, Sac, Shawnee, Sioux (Santee Dakota), and Winnebago.
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Cuban environmentalist 'prisoner of conscience' says free on parole
By Nelson Acosta and Sarah Marsh
Reuters• July 3, 2018
HAVANA (Reuters) - The Cuban environmentalist activist Ariel Ruiz Urquiola who was on a hunger strike to protest his sentencing to a year in jail for contempt of authorities said on Tuesday that he had been freed on parole after an unusually broad campaign for his release.
"Without the support, the pressure made, without the international help, my liberation would not have been possible," Ruiz Urquiola said by telephone after being released from hospital. "They gave me an 'extrapenal license' for health reasons."
Ruiz Urquiola was hospitalized because of his hunger strike. He said he had been treated with an intravenous drip and was now in good health and on his way home.
The Cuban government has not commented publicly on the case and did not reply to request for comment.
Amnesty International had called Ruiz Urquiola, who has a history of criticizing the government on environmental issues, a "prisoner of conscience" after he was sentenced on May 8 for calling two forest rangers "rural police."
The organization, which campaigned for his release, has said the rangers interpreted this as "rural guards," which has a negative connotation in Cuba, referring to officials from the dictatorship that preceded Fidel Castro's 1959 leftist revolution.
Many Cuban alternative news outlets reported on his arrest, particularly after he went on the hunger strike three weeks ago and was sent to hospital.
Calls for his release using the hashtag #freeariel spread on social media, an unusual occurrence in a country where many Cubans often worry about publicly challenging the government.
Cuban troubadour Silvio Rodriguez, a staunch supporter of the Cuban revolution, also got involved, saying Ruiz Urquiola's "case should be revised and given a better solution".
Last week, the United States called for all "political prisoners" in Cuba to be released.
The U.S. State Department highlighted the cases of Ruiz Urquiola and Eduardo Cardet, a human rights activist and leader of the opposition Christian Liberation Movement.
Cuban dissidents have said they are often targeted by authorities and most often detained for hours or days.
"What has been surprising to me is that this crossed over from an issue important to only dissidents to one that includes an increasing number of more mainstream public figures and indie digital sites," said Cuba expert Ted Henken at Baruch College in New York, author of several reports on the internet in Cuba and emergent independent media.
The Cuban government has maintained that it does not have political prisoners, and characterizes Cuba's small but vocal dissident community as mercenaries on the payroll of the United States.
In June, the Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation (CCHRN), a non-government group that monitors human rights and prisoners' issues, put the number of political prisoners at around 120.
It said short-term detention of dissidents had been steadily declining for two years. It said there were 128 such arrests in May this year, compared with 373 last year and 724 in 2016, the year U.S. President Barack Obama made his historic trip to Havana.
(Reporting by Nelson Acosta and Sarah Marsh; Editing by Toni Reinhold)

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1. Gold is rallying today as the US dollar slumps and the gain is due to the US dollar sell-off. Kitco.com reports that gold is up ENTIRELY due to the dollar rally in fact. Gold spot is up 0.91% for the day due to a 0.96% increase thanks to the US dollar slump and gold SELLING that brings gold down by 0.05%. So it is 0.96%-0.05% = 0.91% GAIN but it's all because of a lame buck.
If you want to read more and understand this, you can read it here: Gold Trading Signals: Don't Be Fooled!
2. The stock market liked the fact that Dr. B has reiterated his willingness to do more quantitative easing (read that print money we don't actually have). The market knew this though, so the earlier gains are slipping away a bit. At this point the stock market rally is fading fast (3:23 pm ET). If we close below yesterday's high, be suspect that this rally is much of anything.
3. The US Dollar Index as represented by UUP needs to stay above 21.42. It fell into the middle of the pennant that had formed over the past 2.5 months after breaking out above the top resistance line of the pennant just two days ago. Falling through the bottom line of the pennant could bring the dollar back to the prior lows. My feeling is that the dollar is going to continue holding onto some strength and see-saw back and forth as Europe gets its act together, which it has definitely not.
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The Most Heated Rivalries in History
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History is abundant with scientists and politicians competing for the top with rivals just as prepared as they. Rivalries have often resulted in threats, espionage and even serious outburts of violence.
Bone Wars
During the 19th century, paleontologists Edward Cope and Othniel Marsh began digging in search of a new species of dinosaur. The 2 scientists began their expedition as friends but a rift grew between them with the discovery of fossils in 1860.
There are accounts that Marsh bribed workers from Cope's team to bring him the bones discovered by his rival. This rivalry between the 2 paleontologists set off what history has called the "Bone Wars" which continued for 2 decades.
Spies were hired, excavation sites were sabotaged, discoveries were destroyed and ultimately the war brought financial ruin to both Marsh and Cope.
The Struggle for Power
The hatred between political titans Robert F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson started in 1960, when president John F. Kennedy named Johnson his vice president. His younger brother, Robert, was enraged and pressured Johnson to give up the post face-to-face. But Johnson refused.
The intolerance between them was evident only in their inner circles up until the assassination of JFK in 1963. That was when the real war for the presidential seat heated up between Johnson and Robert Kennedy.
In the end, LBJ was chosen as the new American president and his term continued until 1969. But his years as president were marked by his severe rivalry with Robert Kennedy, who never stopped criticizing him, both in front of the Senate and in front of soldiers in Vietnam.
War of the Brushes
The painters Caravaggio and Giovanni Baglione also led one of the most famous historical rivalries, starting in the year 1600. Their feud began after Baglione started painting chiaroscuros similar to Caravaggio's famous painting Amor Vincit Omnia.
Caravaggio accused him of plagiarism and in response drew a caricature with Giovanni Baglione's face on the Devil's body. But this wasn't enough for the painter and he began propagating a series of comic poems in which he spoke of how he used Baglione's paintings as toilet paper.
Offended, Baglione sued and was able to put Caravaggio in jail for several days. After Caravaggio's death, his rival wrote a book explaining that he had died as miserably as he had lived.
The Talented Composer and the Great Genius
Another of the most emblematic rivalries was between the talented composer Antonio Salieri and the musical genius at the time - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Even though Salieri's gift was undisputed, it remained far behind the never-before-seen talent of Mozart, and this according to some sources bred a serious envy on part of the Italian composer.
Other theories even claim that Salieri poisoned Mozart, while others say the story of their rivalry is highly overexaggerated.
One of the notebooks kept by Beethoven, who because of his deafness could only communicate with his friends by writing, contained the following: Salieri feels horrible once again. His sanity has really gotten cloudy. He won't stop talking about how he's responsible for Mozart's death, that he gave him poison.
However, the contemporaries of the 2 composers deny this to be true, pointing to the legends surrounding Mozart's death as unverified rumors.
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Raising Caine: Michael Caine in Harry Brown
The late film critic Pauline Kael once said that Michael Caine, in acting terms, is what Jean Renoir was in directing terms. What she meant, of course, is that their technique is invisible. "The goal of Caine's technique seems to dissolve all vestiges of 'technique,'" she wrote of his role as the aging English professor in Lewis Gilbert's Educating Rita (1983). "He lets nothing get between you and the character he plays." That's been true in many roles over a very long career.
Early on, Caine brought you snugly into the secret world of intelligence officer Harry Palmer in The Ipcress File (1965) and Funeral in Berlin (1966), he calmly revealed the manipulative womanizer in Alfie (1966) and aptly displayed the bravura of his adventurer in The Man Who Would Be King (1975). In his middle period, Michael Caine still varied the parts he played, but the verve he displayed was more subdued. Whether he was the quietly ambiguous psychiatrist in Dressed to Kill (1980), or the creepy sex peddler in Mona Lisa (1986), Caine created a relaxed prescence whereby his charm (as in Educating Rita, or Woody Allen's 1986 film Hannah and Her Sisters) could draw you in. On other occasions, his comfort in revealing the impacted rage of a gutted soul (as in Mona Lisa) would fascinate you even as the character he portrayed repelled you. Although he has definitely made some bad choices over the years (Blame it on Rio, Jaws: The Revenge), the transparency of his style of acting hasn't tarnished him, as it has some other actors. The reason for that just might be that Michael Caine doesn't suffer embarrassment for his choices because for him acting is as much a job as it is an art.
In the 2009 vigilante drama, Harry Brown, which was released on DVD in North America on Tuesday, you wouldn't be wrong in saying there's very little art in Caine's performance as a geriatric avenger. (It's probably the first time in movie history that we have a vigilante with emphysema.) But while the picture is artfully dour, kitchen-sink realism that's spent too much time in the sink, Michael Caine does give Harry Brown what little class it possesses. Brown is an elderly, retired former Royal Marine who did his time fighting the IRA in Northern Ireland. In the present, though, he's fighting off his grief over losing his wife to a long illness. He's also bearing witness to the violence of his crime-infested council estate in South London.
After his wife's funeral, while playing chess with his best friend, Leonard (David Bradley), he learns that Leonard has been bullied by the gangs of young drug dealers in the public underpass. While Leonard hopes to defend himself with an old bayonet, the next day, he is found murdered by investigating detectives, played by Emily Mortimer and Charlie Creed-Miles. Some of the suspected gang members are arrested, but the police unfortunately can't make the charges stick because no one will talk and they are forced to let them go. After Leonard's funeral, Harry himself gets accosted near the underpass but his former skills as a marine kick in. He turns the weapon on his assailant and kills him. Upon doing this, Brown begins a mission to clean out the crime at the estate while the police begin to suspect a vigilante in their midst.
Director Daniel Barber (whose previous work was the 2007 short film, The Tonto Woman, based on an Elmore Leonard short story and nominated for an Oscar) is too civilized to turn the screws on the audience to stir up a blood lust in the way other revenge dramas like Death Wish (1974), or The Brave One (2007) did. But Barber does little to dramatize the rot that has set in. He simply puts it on the screen with the hope that our revulsion towards it alone will suffice. (In one scene, when Harry goes to purchase a gun, he visits the creepiest grow-op you've ever seen, where human life is so debased that you wonder how these severely doped out proprietors could even find the energy to plant a seed.) Since Barber doesn't show us how the organized criminal element thrives in that neighbourhood (he merely concentrates on the violence the gang perpetuates), or manipulate our desire for vengeance, the film ends up becoming dramatically inert. Its grimness ultimately weighs on you like a fungus. Fortunately, Caine's performance doesn't. He plays Brown not as an avenging angel, or as our hero to clean up the scum, but instead he's a man with few options left to survive. Upon shooting one gang member, you can see that he gets little pleasure out of it; rather, he reminds the dealer that if had he done just one humane deed, Brown might have spared him.
Caine's work in Harry Brown is tuned subtly to the needs of the role because there's no self-righteousness to define him (as it did Charles Bronson in Death Wish). And that's what gives the part some human texture despite what little character Caine is given to play. Late in the picture, Mortimer's detective reminds Brown that he's no longer in Northern Ireland. But Brown says to her, without any air of speechifying, that at least in Northern Ireland he was up against people who had a cause, the havoc in South London is being done by people out for "entertainment."
Harry Brown also has little in common with the violent gangster Caine played in Get Carter (1971), where he was also on a path of vengeance over the death of his brother. In this picture, Michael Caine is playing a man with too many regrets and very little solace. When he sets out on his path to kill, he's neither transformed into a killing machine, or destroyed by his actions. Harry Brown, in the end, is just looking for another day to play a quiet game of chess.
-- Kevin Courrier is a writer/broadcaster, film critic, teacher and author. His forthcoming book is Reflections in the Hall of Mirrors: American Movies and the Politics of Idealism.
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Do you have a general tendency of living and pursuing a self-regulation-words-unaware lifestyle, whereby you are used to saying things and not following through with your purposeful actions?
Then you need better personal management of your words in your self-development efforts.
When you improve your personal management of the words you say, you will be able to focus on developing your ability to do what you say and also say what you will do - no more and no less.
Your key to achieve self-regulation development of your words is to be aware of events, things, processes and phenomena that trigger your thought utterance patterns.
Take, for example, your being tired.
Do You Respond or React to Events Things Processes and Phenomena When Tired?
To respond to something, anything, is to be careful about how you address the issue.
But to react is mostly to lash out at something, anything.
Now, take some time and assess whether you normally react when you are mostly tired, maybe after a long day of working.
Do you mostly respond to things when you are in your normalcy - your normal state or condition?
If your reaction comes from being tired, then you have just found the root cause of your lack of response.
You are now Aware of thing that compromises your ability to respond to events , things, processes, and phenomena in nature, society and thought. Of course this is just an example.
You might find more things that cause you not to respond. This approach also applies to your words.
How Can You Develop Good Responsive Abilities With Your Words?
You need to develop your own personal management system in your mind that you consciously use to self-regulate your responses.
One way is for you to review your entire set of activities in your normal day.
Maybe you have too many activities that end up exhausting your energy to a point where you are left with not energy to do other activities remaining in your normal day.
For example, you are the kind of person who believes that you must not miss a phone call, otherwise you loose "business". Could it be that too many activities are the actual root cause for the type of reactions that you find yourself in.
Take a break! Review your series of action before your responses in words in subsequent activities. This is your best way to develop good responsive abilities in with your words.
Any Ability That You Believe You Own - Prefixed by the word "Your" - You Would Have Spoken It Before Owning It.
Here is an example using the word "purpose".
You can find this word in any dictionary of any language. But when you "travel" with your mind, fetch, download, install and configure - inside you - your purpose, you have just transformed the general word purpose to the particular phrase "your-purpose".
To make this more clearer for you take any tangible item you bought in a store - your watch.
When a watch is displayed on the shelf of the jewellery shop, it is just a watch. But when you bought that same watch, it ceases to just another watch.
The watch becomes your-watch and no one will not be able to see that this is your-watch.
You should apply the same serious awareness to your words!
Take time to think upon this verbalization and you will begin to perceive victory engulfing you.
Think upon the combination - formulate-speak-action.


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Departmental spending will rise from £345 billion this year to £397 billion in 2010.
An additional £400 million allocated for operations this year.
This on top of the increase in the defence budget to £37 billion by 2010.
This will provide over £500 million worth of investment for improvements in accommodation for members of the armed forces and their families.
The Foreign Office budget, including spending £460 million in 2010 on the British Council, the BBC World Service, and the launch of BBC Farsi and Arabic TV channels.
A new single budget for security that brings together the work of the police, the security services and all parts of the government responsible for addressing the threat from terrorism.
Funding for intelligence agencies will rise to £3.5 billion a year in three year's time.
This includes £700 million over the next three years for the Home Office for its work in combating the terrorist threat.
Additional resources to the Home Office and Ministry of Justice that will now rise to £20 billion by 2010, to guarantee neighbourhood policing in every community, build 9,500 extra prison places and finance over £400 million in technology to strengthen our border security.
Investment in science and university research will rise to over £6 billion a year in three years time.
Will expand the single fund for health research to £1.7 billion by 2010.
The main rate of corporation tax will be cut from 30 pence in the pound to 28 pence next year.
From next year capital gains tax will be just one rate of 18 per cent.
The chancellor will consult on charging non-domiciled taxpayers, with a view to consider introducing a charge after seven years, then a higher rate after ten.
Budget for DEFRA increased to £4 billion in three years to help tackle climate change and protect the countryside.
This includes provision of £800 million a year by 2010 for flood defences.
The climate change levy will rise in line with inflation next April.
Push for European-wide agreement to a lower rate of VAT, in Britain of five per cent, for the most energy efficient products.
Publishing an interim report by Professor Julia King, which shows by choosing the most efficient cars on the market today drivers can cut emissions and their fuel bills by up to quarter.
Aircraft emissions should be part of the EU emissions trading scheme.
From 2009, the government will levy the duty not on individual passengers but on flights, to encourager more efficient use of planes.
A new Environmental Transformation Fund will have a three year budget of £1.2 billion, which will provide investment in new energy technologies, and resources to meet our obligation to support poverty reduction in the poorest countries through environmental protection.
Overseas aid will rise from £5 billion to £9 billion by 2010.
Reaffirmed commitment to double multilateral and bilateral aid to Africa from 2004 to 2010.
Doubling the amount of child maintenance a family can receive without affecting their family benefits to £20 a week next year and then £40 a week in 2010.
Increasing the child tax credit by a total of £175 a year from next April, with a further increase in 2010 - so that for families on low incomes, children's benefits and tax credits will be worth at least £3,500 a year for the first child.
The Pension Credit for older people with just a small pension of their own will rise be £5 a week from next April - £260 per year - for a single person; and by £7.65 per week and £397 per year for a couple - guaranteeing every person over 60 at least £6,450 a year.
The start date for flat rating the State Second Pension will be brought forward to 2009.
Direct funding for social care will increase to £1.4 billion by 2010 to provide new homes for older people and people with disabilities.
An extra £200 million will be given next year to deliver to guarantee free off-peak national bus travel for pensioners across England and Wales.
The level of new house building will rise to 240,000 a year by 2016. In total an extra 3 million new homes between now and 2020.
Over £4 billion will be spend over the next three years to help people living in poor quality housing make renovations to their homes.
The government will aim to increase the supply of housing to help first-time buyers enter the market.
Grants to local authorities for local services in England will increase to £26 billion by 2010.
We have provided sufficient resources to ensure local authorities can keep overall council tax rises substantially below 5 per cent.
Budget will increase to £2.2 billion in three years time to guarantee funding for the arts, free access to museums and five hours of sport a week for every child.
The total amount of untaxed inheritance for married couples and civil partnerships will be raised from £300,000 to £600,000.
By 2010, the combined tax free allowance for couples will rise to £700,000.
Civil partnerships to earn the same rights as married couples.
A quarter of a billion pound fund to ensure all children at school are ready to learn and benefit from personalised support.
Over the next three years investment will rise by four per cent above inflation.
Investment in health in England will rise from £90 billion this year to a total of £110 billion in 2010.


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Blizzard hits Moldova bringing heavy snow and strong winds
Vineri, 6 Ianuarie 2017 18:48 2017-01-06 18:48:17 PUBLIKA.MD Comments
(6:35 p.m.) 17 villages in Leova, Comrat, Basarabeasca and Taraclia districts have remained with no electricity. The traffic in other 4 localities in Cahul district is blocked. Meanwhile, rescuers have another intervention truck on the spot.
(5:07 p.m.) Drivers who encounter traffic problems due to snowfall are urged to notify authorities and officials of the Ministry of Transport. According to representatives of Emergency Situations, 20 localities in 4 district remain without electricity.
(5:05 p.m.) An accident has occurred near Troinita Noua village, and the traffic has been blocked for several hours. A bus has skidded and has overturned. According to Emergency Situations Service, the traffic of trucks on several routes in the country is still prohibited.
(4:35 p.m.) The traffic in the capital is still heavy.
(3:34 p.m.) The border crossing is not authorized on two border crossing point. The Airport's information service informs that the snowfall and strong wind had triggered an up to two-hour delay in the take-off and landing of planes bound for London. Also, the landing of a plane from Bucharest was delayed too. At the same time, today, there were delays in the take-offs and landings of planes flying to and from Russia and Istanbul and the Vienna-Chisinau flight was cancelled.
(2:00 p.m.) Heavy snow and blizzard has been recorder all over the country. Cars are stuck in drifts in the south of country at this time all over the country. Civil Protection and Emergencies representatives urge people not to start long journeys on routes in the south of the country.
"Rescuers were asked to get two truck on two blocked national routes. Employees of Emergencies Ministry of Internal Affairs managed to unlock transport. The rescuers managed to get out two buses and two cars near Vulcanesti town who were stuck ", said press officer CPESS, Liliana Puscasu.
(1:00 p.m) Emergencies Service Employees are working in nonstop regime and urge people to call 901 if they get stuck in snow.
Bizzard and strong snowfall has hit three center-south regions along with easy snow in north of Moldova. The air mass is expected to reach -20 degrees Celsius.
See more: INTERACTIVE MAP: Driving on Moldovan roads RIGHT NOW.
The Ministry of Transport and Roads Infrastructure informs that people are traveling in winter conditions on the roads in the center, and southern Moldova. During the night 12 trucks have intervened along with 29 workers cleaning the roads. 86 tons of material skid has been used.
"Today, snow will fall until 3 p.m. after witch the blizzard will start to slow down. Right now it's snowing hard in the south and the central region of the country. The air mass is expected to reach -20 degrees Celsius" , informs meteorologist Genadie Rosca.
With snowfall intensifying, the number of workers of the State Road Administration has been increased, and by this time we have a road section where the traffic is stopped. MTRI urges drivers to be vigilant and adapt the traffic speed to the weather in order to avoid accidents.
According to PUBLIKA.MD reporter, there were no accidents recorded, except in Telenesti district where two cars have crashed. The INP has increased the number of trucks on local and national roads.
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"COMPARING THE POSSIBLE EFFECTS OF TWO MULLIGAN MOBILIZATIONS WITH MOVE" by S Fermin, L Bianco et al.
Decreased ankle dorsiflexion can be a factor that limits participation in activities and predispose individuals to chronic issues. Traditionally, stretching protocols, strengthening of muscles, balance training, as well as traditional joint mobilizations have been used to increase ankle dorsiflexion. Although current methods have been successful at mitigating ankle dorsiflexion restrictions, alternative treatments should be researched. PURPOSE: Determine possible effect of two Mulligan Mobilization with Movement Techniques on ankle dorsiflexionMETHODS: Individuals were recruited at three college athletic training clinics located around the United States. Participants were randomly allocated into two groups, the Mulligan Ankle Dorsiflexion MWM in weight bearing and the Mulligan Fibula MWM for Dorsiflexion in non-weight-bearing. Once allocated, clinicians applied a single treatment with the appropriate glides for three sets of ten. Distance from wall and Tibial angle for the weight-bearing dorsiflexion lunge test was collected pretreatment, post treatment, at a 48-hour follow up, and at a one week follow up. RESULTS: Significant effect was found for both techniques for WBLT Distance over time (F(3,33) = 29.38,ηp2=.78, p < .001), when observing pairwise comparison a statistical significance was observed (ADMWM: pretest 5.00 ± 2.75cm, posttest 7.07 ± 2.75cm, 48 hour 7.57 ±2.50cm, 1 week 7.43 ± 2.37cm; FMWM: pretest 4.50 ± 2.61cm, posttest 6.17 ± 2.38cm, 48 hour 6.50 ± 2.66cm, 1 week 6.50 ± 2.59cm). Significance was also observed WBLT Angle over time (F(3,33) = 53.6, ηp2=.88, p < .001), a statistical significance can also be observed when looking at pairwise comparison (ADMWM: pretest 30.7 ± 5.12° posttest 38.6 ± 4.35°, 48 hour 39.7 ± 3.10°, 1 week 39.1 ± 2.41°; FMWM: pretest 28.8 ± 4.22°, posttest 35.7 ± 4.27°, 48 hour 37.5 ± 5.24°, 1 week 37.8 ± 3.37°). CONCLUSIONS: The results support the use of both the Mulligan Concept techniques to increase ankle dorsiflexion ROM. The immediate increases in ankle dorsiflexion ROM were maintained at one week follow-up.
Fermin, S; Bianco, L; and Oates, R (2018) "COMPARING THE POSSIBLE EFFECTS OF TWO MULLIGAN MOBILIZATIONS WITH MOVEMENT TECHNIQUES ON ANKLE DORSIFLEXION," International Journal of Exercise Science: Conference Proceedings: Vol. 8 : Iss. 6 , Article 74.


SYDNEDY: Fisher and Paykel has launched its latest Italian-made Designer Series cooker, the 600 mm Freestanding Cooker OR60SDBGX.
Designed and built in Fisher and Paykel's cooker factory in northern Italy, the cooker follows the release of the larger 900 mm model and features an electric oven with grill, heat, bake, classic bake and fan bake functions and a four gas burner hob on top.
The cooker will sell for a recommended retail price of $2,200.
The 600 mm model will target the replacement market, as it will fit in the standard 600 mm gap in most kitchens.
The new model fits with Fisher and Paykel's current design style and is made of stainless steel. It comes with slim line handles, full width smoked glass and what the company terms 'contemporary' controls.
"This model's styling integrates seamlessly into Fisher & Paykel's family of Designer kitchen appliances," said Fisher and Paykel national marketing manager Peter Russell.
"The Designer Series of appliances put us firmly in the premier European style category," he said.


During Fashion Week, Everything She Wants went to a preview for Laura de Waal's stylish vegan handbag line, Veggani. I'm a huge animal welfare advocate and appreciate the idea of swapping a leather handbag for one made with quality vegan leather. So I chatted with the Philly designer via email about what inspires her, her cool hometown, and more.
Everything She Wants: How did you get started?
Laura de Waal: I attended art school (SMFA) in Boston and then did an internship with a retail company which really started me down my path of design. I continued to design and work for other brands for the next few years. Throughout my twenties I shuffled back and forth between the design retail world and working for non profits. As a little girl, my best friend and I always thought that we would start a brand together.
Unfortunately, due to literally residing on different continents now, my childhood BFF is not my design partner, though her own talent and creativity still inspire me. For my SS16 Line the 'ACE' bag is named in honor of her. Ultimately, I want to create beautiful modern handbags that have a positive impact on the people creating them and a positive energy for the people buying them.
ESW: Why did you start a vegan handbag line?
Laura: I myself have always been an animal lover and advocate. I have fostered over 12 dogs in the past and have been a proud 'mommy' over the years, currently to an adopted cat and two adopted dogs. I am also a vegan and once I really cared about what I was putting in my body the logical step was to also care about what I am putting on my body. I did not feel there were enough modern vegan brands out there to promote this growing conscientious lifestyle. I also wanted to stay true to myself and of course not harming animals in the process of creating my line was very important.
Today, that is also much easier with the quality of materials that we now have available out there. Many of our linings are made from post consumer plastic bottles and the hand feel is really luxurious and super soft.
ESW: One of your bags is named 'Maya' after Maya Angelou. What do you find most inspiring about Dr. Angelou?
Laura: I name all of my bags after women which I find inspiring and do so as a small nod to them as they are the women who have made me who I am today. There is nowhere on the site or the bags themselves that I explain the name of each bag as it is more of a small personal touch in my creative process, however you are correct the Maya was named after Maya Angelou.
I feel like Maya Angelou's raw insightfulness and also beautiful way to express herself through her poetry has been inspiring to many people. I have always admired her writing since reading I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. I think she was a beautiful soul and was not afraid to share herself or her art with the world. My 'Maya' bag holds more than you expect and is simple yet beautiful and lays effortlessly on your shoulder.
ESW: Philly is such a cool city. What are a few of your favorite vegan restaurants and places to shop and explore?
Laura: If you are vegan and in Philadelphia then you may want to do yourself a favor and try VEDGE as it has been described as one of the best vegan restaurants in America.
Also in Philly, a cute little store that I like to visit is Art Star in the Northern Liberties area.
It's like visiting a mini hipster craft fair and I always leave with something original, and right across the street is Soy Cafe where you can grab a vegan smoothie before continuing to explore the city. Or if you want to relax longer, half a block away is Green Eggs which serves an awesome vegan French toast and other ridiculous good brunch food for the non-vegans in your group. To be honest Philadelphia has become very veggie and vegan friendly, most restaurants offer something interesting to serve their vegan customers. You can even get the famous philly cheesesteak vegan versions: try Tattoed Mom, Joe's Steaks or Govinda's.
For shopping, If you are in center city near Rittenhouse Square, the Anthropologie there is in a beautiful building and was one of the original stores (Anthro is a Pennsylvania brand). Also in Rittenhouse, swing by Philly Eye Works for our local fabulous eyewear in great candy colors.
To do something a little off the beaten path from visiting the Liberty Bell, we have the 'Magic Gardens' on South Street which is a huge art installation of found objects and glass tiles started in the 1960's covering a whole building and courtyard. [For more street art], you can also take a tour by Mural Arts to learn about the murals and graffiti across Philadelphia. With Philadelphia having more [public] murals in the U.S than any other city, you can also just stroll the city and stumble across many on your own.


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Engineers at UC San Diego overcame the Kerr Effect, eliminating regeneration on fiber-optic runs of less than 12,000 kilometers. Here's what this breakthrough means.
Fiber-optic technology is a fascinating way to move digital bits around. Complicated I dare say as well. Not so, however, for the researchers who continue to make amazing advances.
For example, in a February 2015 TechRepublic article, I wrote about how researchers at University College London (UCL) overcame challenges presented by 16 Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (16 QAM), doubling throughput on long-distance fiber-optic runs, and doubling the distance (5,890 kilometers [3,660 miles]) an optical signal can travel before it needs regenerating.
Just five months later, the distance record of the UCL research team was trounced by a team of electrical engineers from the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego). In their paper Overcoming Kerr-induced capacity limit in optical fiber transmission, the researchers described how they bested a different set of challenges to once again double the distance (12,000 kilometers [7,456 miles]) traveled before optical-signal regeneration is required.
As light travels in a fiber-optic cable, two things affect it: attenuation and distortion. The trick is to know when to amplify (reverse attenuation) the signal and when to regenerate (remove distortion) from the signal (Figure A). It is also important to note, as the diagram shows, that amplification happens more frequently than regeneration, which is a good thing because regeneration is expensive. Every wavelength traveling in the cable needs to be processed.
In the original Star Trek, Captain Kirk always wanted more power. Scottie would inevitably give reasons why more power was a bad idea — something about distorting the warp field. Still, Scottie managed to give Kirk the power he wanted.
The researchers at UC San Diego were also looking to increase power. The more power you applied to electromagnetic signals (light), the farther they traveled before needing amplification. There is a catch. "Today's fiber-optic systems are a little like quicksand," said team member and research principal Nikola Alic in an interview with Scientific Computing. "With quicksand, the more you struggle, the faster you sink. With fiber optics, after a certain point, the more power you add to the signal, the more distortion you get, in effect preventing a longer reach."
Alic is referring to the Kerr Effect.
Team member Stojan Radic, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC San Diego, explains to Scientific Computing how the team made use of the distortion, or what he calls crosstalk.
"Crosstalk between communication channels within a fiber-optic cable obeys fixed physical laws. It's not random. We now have a better understanding of the physics of the crosstalk. In this study, we present a method for leveraging the crosstalk to remove the power barrier for optical fiber. Our approach conditions the information before it is even sent, so the receiver is free of crosstalk caused by the Kerr effect."
The team's research paper mentioned the engineers distorted the information being transmitted in a predictable manner. At the receiving end, using optical tools called frequency combs, the distortion was reversed and the digital information retrieved. Team member, Bill Kuo, responsible for developing the frequency comb, said the process preempted the distortion effect that occurs as optical signals travel along the fiber-optic cable.
Success! Even after upping the power 20 fold, the research team retrieved information from optical signals that traveled 12,000 kilometers. Standard amplification was required, but regeneration was not needed.
Bridging 12,000 kilometers without regeneration has several advantages: significantly reduced costs, the ability to carry more data, and reduced latency. Less latency results from not having to regenerate the optical signal unless the run is over 12,000 kilometers, an important consideration when routing transoceanic fiber-optic cables.
The research team included Nikola Alic, Vahid Ataie, Bill Kuo, Lan Liu, Evgeny Myslivets, Stojan Radic, and Eduardo Temprana, all members of the UC San Diego Photonics Systems Group. The University of California has filed for a patent on the team's research.


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Discussion in 'Christmas Light Shopping Bargains' started by Pircy, Mar 1, 2015.
Hi guys. I was not sure where to put this however, seeing there is no Halloween tab, here seems the best place. I saw this skeleton in an Aldi catalogue in Brisbane. This skeleton is 85cm tall, has movable limbs and at $49.95 is reasonably priced. Surely one of you servo boffins could make it move and do cool things!
I found this party supply place in Cannington (WA) that had a heap of cool Halloween stuff left over that they were selling off real cheap.
They had full size witch's, skeleton's etc.
but I am not into Halloween so it did not interest me all that much.
But if anyone over here is they are on the corner of William st and Albany hwy right at the back corner of the complex.


New Delhi, May 5 (UNI) CNBC-TV18, ICICI and CRISIL India jointly announced the winners of CNBC-TV18 Emerging India awards to recognise the contribution of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) towards the growth of the Indian economy.
Suprajit Engineering, Bangalore was awarded in the Auto, Ancilliaries and Engineering section, Arch Pharmalabs in the Pharma and Chemicals section and AVT Natural products in the FMCG, food and and agribusiness section.
The award in the gems and jewellery section was given to Vaibhav Gems Ltd, textiles and apparel to Sabare International Ltd, Information Technology and Communications to People Interactive India Pvt Ltd respectively.
Action Construction Equipment Ltd got the award in the infrastructure section and MakeMyTrip India Pvt Ltd in the travel and tourism section, LNB textiles got honoured for retail trade whereas Fire Pro systems got the award in the commodity trade and others section.
Indian SMEs with a maximum net worth of Rs 75 crore were eligible for the award which saw a total of 35,000 entries.


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Iraqi Communist Party
الحزب الشيوعي العراقي
Al-Ḥizb al-Shīūʿīy al-ʿIrāqīy
Hamid Majid Mousa
Path of the People[1]
Iraqi Democratic Youth Federation
Marxism–Leninism
Nonsectarianism
Political position
National affiliation
Civil Democratic Alliance[2]
International affiliation
International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties
Seats in the Council of Representatives of Iraq:
Seats in the local governorate councils:
iraqicp.com
Politics of Iraq
Since its foundation in 1934, the Iraqi Communist Party (in Arabic: الحزب الشيوعي العراقي Al-Ḥizb al-Shīūʿīy al-ʿIrāqīy, Kurdish: حزبی شیوعی عێراق) has dominated the left in Iraqi politics. It played a fundamental role in shaping the political history of Iraq between its foundation and the 1970s. The Party was involved in many of the most important national uprisings and demonstrations of the 1940s and 1950s. It suffered heavily under the repressive regimes of the Ba'ath Party and Saddam Hussein, but remained an important element of the Iraqi opposition, and was a vocal opponent of the United Nations sanctions imposed on Iraq after the Kuwait War of 1991. It opposed the United States invasion of Iraq in 2003 but since then has participated in the new political institutions. It received little support in the Iraqi general elections of 2005. The party reportedly gained some seats in each province in which the 2013 Iraqi governorate elections were held.[4]
Roots of the Party: 1924-1929
The history of Marxist ideology and organization in Iraq can be traced to a single individual, Husain Al-Rahhal, a student at the Baghdad School of Law, who in 1924 formed what is now seen as the first "Marxist" study circle in Iraq. This group of young intellectuals initially began meeting in Baghdad's Haidarkhanah Mosque (a location also famous as a meeting place for revolutionaries in 1920) and discussing "new ideas" of the day. They eventually formed a small newspaper, Al-Sahifah ("The Journal"), which detailed a decidedly Marxist ideology. Membership in this circle included such influential Iraqis as Mustafa Ali, Minister of Justice under Abd al-Karim Qasim, and Mahmoud Ahmad Al-Sayyid, considered Iraq's first novelist.[5] Al-Rahhal, an accomplished polyglot, was able to translate articles from various European Communist and Marxist newspapers, thus introducing many new ideals into Iraqi intellectual society.[6] While the paper lacked a definite agenda or program, the majority of the writing was centered on the need to break down the strong influence of tradition in Iraqi society. This included equal rights for women and the abolition of feudal practices.[7] After six issues and several government crackdowns, the paper published its final issue in 1927 and was permanently shut down. From this point on Al-Rahhal exerted his influence only from the background, most notably through the youth organization Nadi Al-Tadamun ("The Solidarity Club"). Through this organization he helped to inspire Iraq's first student demonstrations on January 30, 1927 (over the firing of certain controversial teachers) and February 8, 1928 (over the visit of prominent British Zionist Alfred Mond to Iraq).[8]
In 1929, a sharp decline in international commodity prices caused a more than 40 percent drop in the value of Iraqi exports. This led to a national economic depression and massive wage reductions for many of Iraq's workers.[9] It was at this time that Communist circles began growing among young men in Basra (led by Ghali Zuwayyid) and Nasiriyyah (led by Yusuf Salman Yusuf, "Comrade Fahd"). Several circles were also growing in Baghdad, led by such notables as Asim Flayyeh, Mahdi Hashim, and Zaki Khairi. These young men had first met during the student demonstrations of 1927 and 1928.[10] These groups were brought together through the boycott of the British-owned Baghdad Electric Light Company, lasting from December 5, 1933 until January 2, 1934.[11] Finally, on March 8, 1935, Jamiyyat Dudd Al-Istimar ("The Association Against Imperialism") was founded. Three days later a manifesto was issued, calling for the unification of all workers and peasants and demanding cancellation of debts, redistribution of lands, and extensions of worker's rights, including an eight-hour day.[12] The organization, with its founders acting as regional leaders, set about publishing Iraq's first underground paper, Kifah Al-Shab ("The Struggle of the People"), and began attacking prime minister Yasin al-Hashimi, resulting in swift police crackdown and the arrests of almost all of the major leaders. By December 1935, the paper ceased to exist, having reached a circulation of about 500.[13]
After the coup of October 29, 1936, the Iraqi Communist leaders and organizers who had eluded imprisonment helped to lead the wave of peaceful demonstrations occurring across the country, such as Ghali Zuwayyid in Basra.[14] The party found supporters on the "Committee for National and Progressive Reform" (which organized popular support in Baghdad) and even secured two supporters in the newly elected parliament.[15] Bakr Sidqi, the leader of the coup and now the new power in the government, quickly issued attacks on the party, and was met with labor strikes across the nation. Sidqi responded with further crackdowns, and many of the Communist reformers fled the cause. Despite the assassination of Sidqi in 1937, the damage had been done, leaving the leadership of the party in the hands of Zaki Zkhairi, who sought new support for the party among the lower ranks of the military throughout the late 1930s.[16]
Yusuf Salman Yusuf (Comrade Fahd).
World War II posed a difficult predicament for the ICP, who looked to the Soviet Union for guidance but also vehemently opposed supporting the British Imperialist occupiers, whose occupation of Iraq in 1941 was partially premised on keeping supply lines open to the USSR. After Adolf Hitler's invasion of the USSR in 1941, the ICP hesitated to officially lend their support to either side. While their ideological allies were the Soviet Union, the Soviets were allied with the British Imperialists, and the Germans also had significant influence in Iraq during the time of the Ottoman Empire. The party eventually ceded to supporting the Allies in May 1942, which essentially aligned them with the monarchy and the oppressive landowners for the time being.[17] In 1941 Yusuf Salman Yusuf became secretary general of the party, and set about revamping the organization and expanding membership among the working classes. He successfully laid the basis for the mass party of later years, and under his leadership the party became a considerable force among the Iraqi working class and a major focus for protest against British involvement in Iraqi affairs. In 1942 some of his decisions fell under criticism, and eventually split the party into several factions, each with their own newspaper.[18] In 1944 the party launched a clandestine campaign to organize the nation's industrial workers, spearheaded by lower middle class intellectuals. This led to a party conference in March 1944 and eventually to the party's first congress in 1945, at which the dissidents of 1942 were reinstated into the party ranks.[18]
Anti-British sentiment came back into the forefront of party concerns in April 1945, as the cost of living in the country grew higher and higher. The party attacked the government with criticisms and outright condemnations after the killing of protestors in June and July 1946, and as a result Comrade Fahd was arrested and sentenced to death, later reduced to life in prison.[19] Between 1944 and 1946, major percentages (30-60%) of oil and railway workers, along with port workers in Basra, were unionized, all with ICP members as union leaders. As a result, massive strikes were organized between 1945 and 1947, demanding wage increases and the legalization of union organizations. The government initially granted wage increases, but soon dismantled the unions and arrested their leaders, contributing to Al-Wathbah, a period of urban unrest in Baghdad, beginning in January 1948. Another major issue for the party at this time was the Palestinian Question. Despite earlier support of Palestinian rights of self-determination, in July 1948 the party fell in line with Moscow's position of supporting a Zionist state.[20] The party lost many supporters among the public because of this, and many members also resigned and left the party ranks in anger.[21]
While this period brought many organizational victories for the party, it also brought devastating response from the government, due to the party's role in the al-Wathbah uprisings. Fahd and two comrades were publicly hanged in 1949, after being accused of organizing agitation from prison. The party was nearly decimated, and a period of reconstruction was to follow.[22]
After the devastations of the late 40s, the composition of the party went through some serious changes. The severely weakened organization was carried through the early 50s by growing Kurdish support and for the period 1949-1950 the party was actually led from Kurdistan instead of Baghdad. Nearly the entirety of the old, largely Baghdadi leadership had been imprisoned, creating a void the Kurdish members quickly filled. This period also saw a drastic drop in Jewish membership, undoubtedly connected to the massive exodus of approximately 120,000 Jews from Iraq at this time.[23] Between 1952 and 1954 a series of uprisings led to the establishment of martial law, the outlawing of all political parties, cultural circles, unions, and independent media, and the arrests of their leaders. This policy was instituted during one of Nuri al-Said's many periods of control over the government. The ICP, which had always been an illegal organization, adopted a new national charter in 1953 which differed from the 1944 charter in that it accepted possible secession of the Kurdish people. At this time, according to one source, the party numbered about 500.[24] Riots over prison conditions broke out in June and September 1953, first in Baghdad and then in Kut, resulting in the deaths of many Communist political prisoners at the hands of the police. This caused a national outcry and won many sympathizers to the side of the Communist cause.[25] At the second party Congress in 1956, the party officially adopted a pan-Arabist stance. This was inspired not only by the arms agreement between Egypt and the USSR in July 1955, but also by Egypt's nationalization of the Suez Canal the following year, resulting in an Anglo-French-Israeli attack on Egypt.[26] This pro-Nasserist stance would eventually become a point of conflict after the 1958 revolution. In 1958, the party supported the revolution and the new government of Abd al-Karim Qasim, who relied to a considerable degree on its support.
The party under Qasim, 1958–63
Abd al-Karim Qasim (The Leader).
The relationship between the party and Qasim was very positive. Qasim was very pro communist, giving many ranks to communists and establishing good relations with the Soviet Union.
The party under Ba'athist rule
The Ba'athist coup of 8 February 1963 was accompanied by street fighting as Communist activists and supporters resisted the coup attempt. Fighting in Baghdad continued for three days, concentrated in the party's strongholds in the poorer, mainly Shia, districts. When the Baath consolidated its power the ICP suffered an unprecedented campaign of mass physical liquidation. Leading figures and cadres of the Party were tortured to death, including Husain al-Radi. The total number of communists killed is unknown, but was certainly in the thousands.
In the mid-1960s the U.S. State Department estimated the party membership to be approximately 15000 (0.47% of the working age population of the country).[27]
In 1967 Aziz al-Hajj split from the ICP, establishing the Iraqi Communist Party – Central Command, and initiated an armed struggle, which the ICP at the time opposed.
In 1973 ICP secretary Aziz Muhammad signed a National Action Pact with President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, forming a National Progressive Front together with the Ba'ath Party. The ICP was permitted to operate legally, publish and revive its flanking organisations. Alexei Kosygin's visit forced the Iraqi Communist Party (ICP) to improve its relations with the Ba'ath Party; two ICP members were given cabinet positions and repression of the ICP ended.[28] However, this was coupled with elements of repression, and by the autumn of 1974 the party tried to increase its security through a more clandestine mode of operation. In 1978 Saddam Hussein unleashed a renewed campaign of repression against the party, including the execution of large numbers of party members. In 1979 the party officially broke with the regime.
In 1993 the Kurdish branch of the party was transformed into a semi-autonomous party, the Communist Party of Iraq – Kurdistan.
After the occupation of Iraq
The Iraqi Communist Party opposed the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 but decided to work with the new political institutions established after the occupation. Its secretary, Hamid Majid Mousa, accepted a position on the Iraqi Governing Council. The party was the principal component of the People's Union (Iraq) list for the general election on January 30, 2005 (see Iraqi parliamentary election, January 2005) but filed separate lists in some governorate council elections (see for instance Ninawa governorate council election, 2005). For the Iraqi parliamentary election, December 2005, the party has joined the Iraqi National List of Ayad Allawi, along with other socialist, secular, moderate Sunni and moderate Shiite parties.
Party institution, symbols and leadership
The party newspaper is Tariq ash-Shaab (Path of the People). It also publishes the magazine Al-Thakafa Al-Jedida (The New Culture).[29]
The youth wing of the party is the Iraqi Democratic Youth Federation.
The motto of the party is a free homeland and a happy people (Arabic: watanun hurrun wa sha'bun sa'id).
The following is a list of persons who served as Secretary or First Secretary of the Iraqi Communist Party, the party's primary leadership position. Given the occasional suppression of the party and resultant lapses in its activity, the position was at times vacant.
Assumed Position
Left Position
1 Amin Flayyeh May 1935 December 1935
2 Abdullah Mas'ud 1941 October 1941
3 Yusuf Salman Yusuf (Comrade Fahd) October 1941 February 1949
4 Baha' al-Din Nuri September 1949 (effectively, officially appointed only in August 1951) April 1953
5 Abd al-Karim Ahmad al-Daud April 1953 June 1954
6 Hamid Uthman June 1954 June 1955
7 Husain al-Radi (Salam 'Adil) June 1955 February 1963
8 Aziz Muhammad August 1964 1993
9 Hamid Majid Mousa 1993 current
Batatu, Hanna. The Old Social Classes and New Revolutionary Movements of Iraq. London. al-Saqi Books. 1978, republished, 2004. ISBN 0-86356-520-4
Ismael, Tareq. The Rise and Fall of the Communist Party of Iraq. Cambridge University Press (2008).
Salucci, Ilario. A People's History of Iraq: The Iraqi Communist Party, Workers' Movements and the Left 1923-2004. Haymarket Books (2005) ISBN 1-931859-14-0
Franzén, Johan. Red Star Over Iraq: Iraqi Communism Before Saddam. Columbia University Press, 2011. ISBN 0-231-70230-2 (Reviewed in The Montreal Review)
Yusuf Salman Yusuf
Rayat ash-Shaghilah
Co-ordinating Committee of Communist Parties in Britain
↑ http://communist-party.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&id=1614:iraq-government-raids-headquarters-as-communists-celebrate-78th-anniversary&catid=129:solidarity&Itemid=161
↑ "Iraqi liberals losing ground to Islamists". Al-Monitor. 31 April 2014. Retrieved 31 January 2014. Check date values in: |date= (help)
↑ http://www.alsumaria.tv/Iraq-Elections-2014/Coalitions/67/%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%AA%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%81-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AF%D9%86%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%82%D9%84
↑ Ali Abel Sadah (24 April 2013). "Maliki Falls Short of Majority In Early Election Returns". Al-Monitor. Retrieved 28 April 2013.
↑ Batatu, Hanna. The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978. page 393.
↑ Salucci, Ilario. A people's history of Iraq: the Iraqi Communist Party, Workers' movements and the Left, 1924-2004. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2005. Page 23.
1 2 Salucci, Ilario. A people's history of Iraq: the Iraqi Communist Party, Workers' movements and the Left, 1924-2004. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2005. Page 24.
↑ Benjamin, Roger W.; Kautsky, John H.. Communism and Economic Development, in The American Political Science Review, Vol. 62, No. 1. (Mar., 1968), pp. 122.
↑ Tripp 2010, pp. 200–201.
↑ http://www.althakafaaljadeda.com
ICP site (Arabic)
Tariq ash-Shaab, ICP's official newspaper
Iraqi Letter (English)
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Movement for Change (9)
Islamic Virtue Party (6)
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Reserved Christian seats
National Rafidain List (Assyrian Democratic Movement) (2)
Chaldean Syriac Assyrian Popular Council (2)
Democratic Uruk List (Iraqi Communist Party) (1)
Reserved minority seats
Hareth Shanshal Sunaid (1) [Mandaean seat]
Yazidi Movement for Reform and Progress (1) [Yazidi seat]
Council of Free Shabaks (1) [Shabak seat]
Hizb ut-Tahrir
Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party
pan-Arab organization
al-Awda
Unrepresented
Badr Organization
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Cyclone Yaas likely to cross Odisha coast between Rajnagar and Baliapal: CEC
May 24, 2021 Environment
Bhubaneswar: Cyclonic storm 'Yaas', which lay centered about 530 km south-southeast of Paradip on Monday, is likely to move in a north-northwesterly direction and cross the Odisha coast somewhere between Rajnagar in Kendrapara district and Baliapal in Balasore district in the forenoon of May 26, according to the Centre for Environment and Climate (CEC), Siksha 'O' Anusandhan here.
While crossing the coast, the wind speed would be between 80 to 100 km per hour and gusting up to 120 km per hour, Dr. Sarat Chandra Sahu, Director of CEC, said.
There was, however, the probability that this wind speed could be little less as most of the meteorological parameters such as upper atmosphere outflow and wind shear (difference in wind speed between 1.5 km to 12 km height from the surface) were not supporting intensification of the system, Dr. Sahu said.
Latest analysis showed that the system would be located about 140 km from Paradip at 5.30 pm on Tuesday and lay close to Rajnagar in Kendrapara district early on the morning of May 26 before crossing the Odisha coast near Chandbali or its neighbourhood and the wind flow would continue till May 26 night, he said.
Model products were changing from hour to hour making it difficult to predict the cyclone track, he said.
However, the point of landfall could change based on actual data, he said adding wind speed reaching 35 km to 50 m per hour, would continue from Monday afternoon off and along the coastal belt.
The wind speed would increase in Jagatsinghpur on Tuesday morning while the wind speed would rise in Kendrapara, Bhadrak and Balasore districts in the afternoon and continue till May 26. Once a cyclone moved ahead, the wind speed in the rear side would decrease, he said.
Light to moderate rain would continue from Monday afternoon till Tuesday forenoon followed by heavy rainfall in the districts of Kendrapara, Cuttack, Bhadrak, Balasore, Jajpur, Mayurbhanj, Dhenkanal and Keonjhar till Thursday afternoon.
"Zonal wind from west to east is very strong and it will have effect over Bangladesh and eastern West Bengal upto 25th evening but Odisha's Balasore and Mayurbhanj districts from the night of May 25 as the earth moves from west to east," he said adding this wind became stronger when any cyclonic system formed.


Vero Software, a world leader in CAD CAM software with a proven track record of reliable product delivery, has released an update (SU01) to Edgecam 2018 R1. This release includes updates of relevance to manufacturers, new capabilities and/or bug fixes that improve the base release.
ECAM-28443 Profiling Helical - gouges part with Compensation as "Wall is not vertical - cannot generate exact helices"
ECAM-35492 Profiling Helical - first pass creates incomplete arc and gouges model.
About Vero Edgecam 2018 R1. Vero Software releases Edgecam 2018 R1, which includes updates of relevance to manufacturers. When a user makes an edit to an existing command, Edgecam 2018 R1 will not automatically regenerate the remaining instructions. When editing a tool command, there will now be no regeneration if the alteration does not affect the corresponding cycles with aspects such as coolant or high-speed.
Two new items of functionality in the Roughing Cycle reportedly provide time savings in the milling, turning and MTM environments.
The Waveform Roughing Strategy now gives users the ability to determine the radius size when using the helical approach option, by simply entering maximum and minimum values, which will aid the tool's entry into the component.
Edgecam 2018 R1 provides support for Deep Hole Drilling - also known as Gun Drilling. The new strategy empowers the user to control entry, exit and intermediate drilling conditions.
The Profiling cycle used in both milling and turning, now has two new items of functionality. A Spring Cuts field has been added to the Multi Passes tab, which means tool deflection can be removed where necessary, by adding extra neutral passes, known as Spring Passes. This will be used typically when machining hard materials...repeating the profile pass can result in improved accuracy and surface finish.
Support for JT Open files is incorporated for the first time. This is a lightweight 3D model format developed by Siemens PLM Software.
An Editing Manual Milling function provides for editing a manually created milling feature, instead of having to recreate an entire feature when extra edges are required.
In addition, the Move Point function within the Inspection module has two further options: 'Fixed Axis,' and 'Fixed On Surface,' giving the ability to align a measurement point along a fixed axis, or a solid face. And the Plane Feature command has been enhanced enabling users to choose to evaluate 'flatness' on more than four probe touches.
Edgecam 2018 R1 continues the evolution of updating cycle dialogs with pictures and context-sensitive help, by updating the B-Axis Contouring Cycle, and 3- and 5- Axis cycles.
Another new feature that delivers time savings is the Pass Boundary To Cycles function, in the Feature Properties window. An improved toolpath is generated when the user engagers Current Stock, and picks a solid feature. Rather than use the stock limits, which can sometimes lead to unwanted passes, the toolpath is now clipped back to the feature's natural boundary.
Finally, additional functionality has been added to the B-Axis Contouring Cycle, which was introduced in the 2017 R2 edition. Maximum Angular Increment will improve the surface finish by refining the NC output, while machining complex turned profiles, according to the company.
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The Cool Evil EP by Otis the Destroyer was recorded at Big Orange Studios by Stuart Sikes except for "Sour Tsunami", which was recorded at Mosaic Sound Collective by Charles Godfrey. All songs were mixed by Stuart Sikes, mastered by Erik Wofford at Cacophony Recorders, and the EP was self-produced by the band. Influenced by Fugazi, Smashing Pumpkins, and My Bloody Valentine, Cool Evil maintains the same level of song craft as their first album Keep Bashing, but adds more shoegaze type elements. Pulling from late 90's guitar records, the sounds are big and organic.