Often, when we want to start a new page in our life, we tie such a wish to some favorable circumstances in the unknown future, a turnabout in our career, or a special date or event.
This postponement is accompanied by the belief that power will come to us at that time to invigorate us after a period of indolence and reawaken hope after despair.
Rather than being swept along by their currents, one would benefit from them, retaining one's real self in the face of them, just as flower seeds buried under heaps of earth cleave their way up to the light where they release their refreshing fragrance. They transform the soil and muddy water into joyful colors and pleasant scents; we can do the same if we take control of our time and preserve our freedom of action while confronting adverse conditions. We are able to fulfill much without waiting for external help.
By harnessing hidden internal powers, buried faculties, and limited or trifling opportunities, man can build himself anew. There is no time to linger. Help is given to those who are walking their way towards the truth, but the power of running or climbing will not be showered on those who are crippled with inaction. That is impossible. Do not hinge the building of your life on some chance that may or may not break forth from the unknown. This will not bring you anything good.
Every postponement of a life-renewing plan through which you get yourself on the right track only prolongs the dark period you want to deliver yourself from, and keeps you defeated and powerless in front of temptations and carelessness. It can even drag you down a steeper slope, and here lies the calamity.
It is important to rearrange your life from time to time, to look critically into its different corners to dig out the defects and failures, and create a short and long-term scheme to eliminate them. Every few days, you look into the chaos of your desk drawer and tidy up the scattered scraps, messy books, and useless papers. You put everything in its proper place and throw the meaningless things into the trash. The rooms of your house become messy by the end of the day, and so busy hands go up and down, here and there, to clean the dirty furniture, dump any waste into the bin, and restore everything to order and beauty.
Does our life not deserve such an effort?
Does it not deserve to have its affairs examined from time to time to see if there are any problems that need solving, or any sins weighing it down that need purifying?
It deserves to have its profits and losses considered after every stage forged through this life journey, and to be restored to equilibrium and stability whenever it is shaken by crises or conflicts.
More than any other creature, humans need to delve deeply within and explore themselves in order to protect their private and public lives from disease and disunion. Their moral and mental structure rarely remains intact and concrete with sharp collisions against desires and temptations. If left to destructive forces, morality and sensibility will inevitably be ruined, like the spilled beads of a necklace whose string has broken.
Hence, continuous work is necessary to organize and accurately monitor oneself.
Before every new morning, God exhorts people to renew their lives with the break of dawn, having rested their bodies after a day's labor and upon rising from their beds to face a new day. At that decisive time they can think over their stumbles, falls, and sins; at that peaceful time every one of us can renew his life and rebuild himself anew with the shining rays of light, hope, and new beginnings, guided by the "Voice of Truth" calling out everywhere to restore the wandering and revive the weary.
If you can be among those who remember God during that special time of closeness to Him, be among them. It is the time when night goes and morning comes, and out of the debris of the near or distant past you can rise to build your future.
Do not be discouraged by your countless sins. Even if they are as much as the ocean foam, God will not mind forgiving them all for you as long as you turn to Him repentantly and hurry your steps for His Mercy and Pardon. Past ingratitude should be no barrier to sincere repentance.
"Allah says: "O son of Adam, as long as you call upon Me and put your hope in Me, I will forgive whatever you have done, and I will not mind.
O son of Adam, even if your sins were to reach the clouds of the sky, then you were to seek My Forgiveness, I would forgive you, and I will not mind.
These and similar Words of God revive hope to a deadened will and stir up a dull and somewhat ashamed person with a determination to resume walking towards God and renew life after a bad, passive past.


ROHNERT PARK, Calif., August 21, 2018 – According to a recent study, living together may not help either partners' financial health. More individuals are living together rather than getting married. Nearly 30 percent more American couples lived together in 2016 than in 2007. Cohabitors (unmarried romantic partners that live together) may view living together as a way to save money, reduce rent, pool incomes and stabilize expenses in order to pay off student loan debt, but they may not actually improve their financial health. Ameritech Financial, a document preparation company that assists borrowers in applying for and maintaining enrollment in federal repayment programs like income-driven repayment plans (IDRs), understands the enormous financial stress that young couples are under especially due to high monthly student loan payments.
Often, the decision to begin cohabiting is not a formal one but occurs gradually without clear communication. Individuals move in together as a way to spend more time with each other because it is convenient and/or because it is a way to test the relationship. Cohabitation, like marriage, may also provide an opportunity to pool resources, establish economies of scale and potentially work toward a shared financial future like paying off student loans.
Committed couples working hard for a common cause can accomplish a lot, married or unmarried. But student loan debt can put a tremendous amount of pressure on relationships.
Unfortunately, although cohabitors are equally capable of establishing joint accounts for the purpose of paying shared expenses, they are more prone to frequent and earlier disruptions in their relationships. This results in economic disadvantages; for example, less asset accumulation, decreased likelihood of owning a home and less ability to keep up with debts (both consumer and student loan debt). The researchers recognize that living together may not be the root cause of poorer financial outcomes. It may be that individuals with poorer financial health are more likely to live together. Therefore, the research outcomes may be based on prior history rather than the condition of living together. However, those under financial stress (like those individuals who have more student loan debt than they can handle) are less likely to have long-term planning and may be forced to deal with day-to-day spending instead of buying a home or having children.
For those who are living day-to-day because they are overwhelmed by student loan debt, an IDR may ease this burden enough to look at more long-term planning. Ameritech Financial has helped thousands of borrowers find the right repayment plan for them and assist with the application process for such programs.
"As a company, we will never make judgments about how people conduct their lives," said Knickerbocker. "We want to assist people to be freer from the financial burdens that impact their quality of life. We want to be the best experts at helping them find solutions to overwhelming student loan debt.


The main objective of EUMSSI is developing technologies for identifying and aggregating data presented as unstructured information in sources of very different nature (video, image, audio, speech, text and social context), including both online (e.g., YouTube) and traditional media (e.g. audiovisual repositories), and for dealing with information of very different degrees of granularity.
The resulting platform will be potentially useful for any application in need of cross-media data analysis and interpretation, such as intelligent content management systems, personalized recommendation, real time event tracking, content filtering.
The multimodal analytics will help organize, classify and cluster cross-media streams, by enriching its associated metadata. A core idea is that the process of integrating content from different media sources is carried out in an interactive manner, so that the data resulting from one media helps reinforce the aggregation of information from other media, in a cross-modal interoperable semantic representation framework. This will be accomplished thanks to the integration in a multimodal platform of state-of-the-art information extraction and analysis techniques from the different fields involved. Interoperability and interactive reinforcement of the data aggregation and a high-level semantic, conceptual and eventive representation will distinguish this proposal from others that incorporate multimodal search.
Nowadays, a journalist has access to a vast amount of data from a plurality of types of sources to document a story. Some of the sources provide structured data streams (e.g. AFP, Reuters etc.) while others provide unstructured and heterogeneous information (e.g. Social Web). One task of a multimedia journalist is to monitor, gather, curate and contextualise the relevant information for the target audience. He needs to go through an enormous amount of records with information of very diverse degrees of granularity, in order to put information into context and tell his story from all significant angles, and, at the same time, he needs to reduce the noise of irrelevant content. This is extremely time-consuming, especially when a topic or event is interconnected with multiple entities from different domains.
At a different level, many TV viewers are getting used to navigating with their tablets or iPads while watching the TV, the tablet effectively functioning as a second screen, often providing background information on the program or interaction in social networks about what is being watched.
Both the journalist and the TV viewer would greatly benefit from a system capable of automatically analysing and interpreting unstructured multimedia data stream and its social background, and, with this understanding, be able of doing such things as: contextualising the data; making further suggestions; contributing with new, related information; filtering unwanted content; etc.
The EUMSSI consortium has been created with the main objective of developing methodologies and technologies for identifying and aggregating data presented as unstructured information in sources of very different nature (video, image, audio, speech, text and social context), including both online (e.g., YouTube) and traditional media (e.g. audiovisual repositories), and for dealing with information of very different degrees of granularity.
A core idea is that the process of integrating content from different media sources is carried out in an interactive manner, so that the data resulting from one media helps reinforce the aggregation of information from other media, in a cross-modal interoperable semantic representation framework. Once all the available descriptive information has been collected, an interpretation component will dynamically reason over the semantic representation in order to derive hidden, or implicit, knowledge, following an event-centered structure, so as to answer such questions as: what are the themes or topics in the data stream?, what type of situation is being represented?, what kind of participants does it involve?, when and where is it happening?, what are the attitude and sentiment being expressed?
This will be accomplished thanks to the integration in a multimodal platform of state-of-the-art information extraction and analysis techniques from the different fields involved (image, audio and text analysis) plus the addition of the information generated by exploring the social context. Actually the mechanisms of social intelligence will be a core asset for interacting with the other modalities and reinforcing the aggregation and interpretation of the data.


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5 Volusia/Flagler teams to watch as spring football practices start
Chris Boyle @ChrisBoyleDBNJ
High school football champions will be crowned in Daytona Beach at the end of the 2019 season. The first steps along the path to greatness will be taken over the next month.
Monday marks the first day of allowable, non-contact football practice in the state of Florida. Teams can begin contact drills as early as Saturday, according to the Florida High School Athletic Association's website.
All but one team (New Smyrna Beach) will participate in a full game, exhibition or jamboree in mid-May. Between now and then, programs can schedule up to 20 practice sessions.
With football in the air, let's take a look at five teams — listed in alphabetical order — who are worth monitoring.
Few local teams will return the type of talent next fall that Atlantic possesses.
The Sharks boast a handful of All-Area underclassmen, including linebacker Tyler Berrong, wide receiver Maximus Campbell and safety Jaye Brockington, all of whom claim multiple FBS offers.
Second-year head coach DJ Mayo oversaw tremendous growth in the culture at Atlantic, and it's easy to forget the Sharks started 3-0 en route to a 5-4 finish. A year prior, the team went 0-10 for the second time in three years.
The team will need to take a big step forward, though, as it enters a difficult District 9-5A alongside Eau Gallie, Merritt Island, Palm Bay and Rockledge.
The Bulldogs produced the area's biggest turnaround last fall, going from 2-7 to 8-3, including an opening-round playoff loss to eventual Class 8A champion Jacksonville Mandarin.
Offensive Player of the Year Dionte Marks and Demaurez Bellamy carried the load, but those two players are set to head to Florida and USF, respectively. DeLand will have the luxury of returning a pair of passers with varsity experience, All-Area second team selection Leon Rolle and Jadyn Nirschl.
Under Armour All-American Avantae Williams figures to get a bigger crack at offensive touches. Expect just about every major school in the country to make the rounds at 800 N. Hill Ave. to check in with the 6-foot, 170-pound athlete. While coaches are there, they would be wise to scout the productive linebacking duo of Ty Woulard and Ian Schoenwetter.
Father Lopez
Last fall, the Green Wave were one of the last two local programs standing, earning a spot in the second round of the state playoffs for the first time since 1984.
Returning to the playoffs will prove enough of a challenge for Father Lopez as the redesigned Region 2-3A adds four new teams to the mix (Cornerstone Charter, Frostproof, Lake Alfred Discovery and Lakeland Christian).
Head coach Matt Knauss confirmed two of his top offensive weapons — quarterback T.J. Lockley and running back Nate Braswell — transferred to nearby Mainland. Additionally, defensive coordinator Pat Brown is now the head coach at Seabreeze.
Don't write off the returning group, though. Newly crowned 238-pound weightlifting champion Ryan Waddell led the area in tackles, Wayne Matthews ran for nine touchdowns, freshmen Eddie Whipple and Antwan Scott were All-Area picks and quarterback Andrew Acebal got his feet wet at Spruce Creek.
Flagler Palm Coast
Coming off its second straight trip to the playoffs, FPC is set to lose several impact starters, notably linebackers Nelson Paul (SMU) and Tallin Coates (Stetson), defensive back Dennis Shorter (Bethune-Cookman) and offensive tackle Verneal Henshaw Jr. (Georgia Southern).
Like DeLand, FPC will also have a pair of quarterbacks who saw snaps last year — rising senior Donovan Montoyo and rising sophomore Preston Roberts. Four offensive linemen return, and there's depth in the backfield as well with burner Ty Jenkins and bruiser Marc Genis, recovering from a season-ending ACL tear.
As for the defense, it will likely be carried by a couple of current sophomores. Linebacker Malakai Grant tallied 132 tackles, 18 TFLs and seven sacks, and cornerback Ja'Corey Benjamin broke up 15 passes and hauled in two interceptions.
Rounding out the list, it's Mainland which, for the first time since 2010, exited the playoffs after just one game. However, the Bucs ran their streak to 25 consecutive appearances.
And there's no reason to believe they can't do it again with dual-threat quarterback Taron Keith back in the fold. Keith totaled nearly 2,400 yards from scrimmage with 21 touchdowns in his first year as the starter.
Rising seniors Ra'Mello Dotson and Shayne Brennen figure to be on the D-I radar, along with Keith. The defense features several players who can get after opposing quarterbacks, including LaRon Davis, Everald Reid, Chad Johnson and Maliak Brunson.

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In The Changing World Of Commercial Real Estate, A Degree Is Becoming A Requirement
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September 19, 2018 Joseph Pimentel, Bisnow
For Casey Flannery, an administrative job out of college at a commercial real estate firm in Memphis, Tennessee, soon sparked an interest in trying her hand at brokerage.
But it was only after Flannery, 29, took that position that she realized the complexity of brokerage and wished she would have taken some finance and real estate courses when she was in college.
"If I was made aware that pursuing a real estate degree or classes was an option, I might have pursued it," said Flannery, who has a bachelor's degree in mass communications and a master's degree in journalism.
"It would have helped me prepare," she said.
For decades, most employees in certain commercial real estate sectors, especially in brokerage, development, research, analysis and finance, have found their way into the industry like Flannery, by manner of chance.
With the exception of a select few, most kids don't grow up wanting to work in commercial real estate, Portland State University Executive Director of Center for Real Estate Julie Gibson said.
"Most people fall into it through family and friends," Gibson said. "Historically, many young people have learned on the job. There was not a tailored career path."
But times are changing and the demand for employees with commercial real estate degrees or a business degree with an emphasis on real estate is growing.
As the industry has evolved, so have its requirements.
"You don't necessarily need a real estate degree," Dallas-based Whitebox Real Estate President and Managing Director Grant Pruitt said. Pruitt was studying medicine before switching his major to real estate at SMU in the mid-2000s. His father and uncle are commercial real estate brokers.
"However, we look for someone who could be able to handle accounting and finance that are necessary for the commercial world," Pruitt said. "It's a steep learning curve if they didn't have that background in accounting and financing."
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Casey Flannery
The barrier to entry for commercial real estate is about two inches from the floor, said Mark Stapp, executive director of the Master of Real Estate Development program at Arizona State University. Companies sometimes accept someone with a real estate license and a strong résumé, he said.
"You do not have to have a degree to get into this business," Stapp said. "But the industry should want it. It increases the level of critical thinking skills necessary for the business to provide the benefits of the entire community."
RETS Associate principal Jana Turner said a college degree in general is essential. RETS Associates is a Southern California-based recruiting service for commercial real estate companies.
"It shows initiative, discipline and commitment," Turner said. "Clients are looking for people with financial acumen."
Companies that are hiring out of school want people who are invested in real estate from day one, said Johnny Renaudo, chief operating officer for nationally recognized commercial real estate recruiting firm RealREPP.
"The moment that kid sets foot on campus, companies want them to study commercial real estate and do internships their sophomore to senior year at real estate companies," he said.
In the last 15 years, universities offering real estate courses and degree programs have begun popping up, Gibson said, noting there are more than 100 universities offering a bachelor's in real estate and about 65 graduate programs nationwide.
Portland State began offering a graduate certificate program in 2002. Eleven years later, the university started a master's program and will launch an undergraduate program in the near future.
"In the last cycle, in the 2000s, before the recession, employers found an increase in need for specific commercial real estate education in finance and fundamentals," Gibson said.
The University of Houston began offering a master's degree in real estate in 2011 and a bachelor's degree in 2016.
"There was a demand from the student population — both in the graduate and undergraduate level — and there's been a lot of industry demand," said Keith A. Richards, executive director of the real estate program at the University of Houston's Bauer Real Estate Program. "We're in Houston, it didn't make sense for us not to have a real estate program."
With programs starting to meet the demands of employers, the question remains whether there is demand from students.
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But Are Students Interested?
James Kane is often surprised by the lack of interest from his fellow students about a possible career in commercial real estate.
The 21-year-old recently graduated with a real estate and international business degree from the University of Central Florida. He often speaks to young undergrads about pursuing a major in the university's real estate program, but he always gets the same response: "Why don't you just get your real estate license?" Kane said. Or "I don't want to sell homes."
Kane and Ross Wightman, a 24-year-old recent UCF real estate graduate, often find themselves fighting the real estate industry's negative perception — that it is only for home transactions.
Since most people's first experience with real estate is seeing a headshot photo of a real estate agent on a sign staked in front of a home for sale, Kane, Wightman and others have to educate them.
"I have to explain to them what commercial real estate is and the business of commercial real estate," Kane said. Kane and Wightman said they are probably two of 40 or so students at UCF who majored in real estate among a 60,000 student body.
"It is relatively unknown," Wightman said about the field among students. "There is a demand from employers for the real estate student but there is not a lot of demand for students to go into the real estate program. It's not viewed as [being as] prestigious as finance or an accounting degree so people see it as a fallback degree."
Tim Becker, the director of the Kelley A. Bergstrom Real Estate Center at the University of Florida, said it is a challenge to get students interested in real estate, which can jeopardize a program.
"Part of it is if you ask a normal person not in our industry, 'What is a career path in real estate?' [they think] 'Oh, you're going to be a Realtor.' I think that's the stigma that a lot of kids have when they come in. They think we're training people to sell homes," Becker said.
"Once they learn about what the industry is and what they can do in it, then they get excited about it," he said. "But it's still not going to be as popular as finance or the allure of going to Wall Street."
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Dallas-based Whitebox Real Estate President and Managing Director Grant Pruitt
As the membership chair for the local North Texas chapter of SIOR, the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors, Whitebox Real Estate's Pruitt said the organization has been looking to give away a $12K one-year scholarship to a student interested in pursuing a career in commercial real estate brokerage.
Yet, for the past three years, the organization has yet to identify a college student for the scholarship, he said.
"We found that there's just not a whole lot of students wanting to go into brokerage," Pruitt said. "The academic world is not typically a proponent of teaching their students brokerage. They are pushing the finance or analyst positions."
If universities are able to draw students into these degree programs, they have an opportunity to reshape the makeup of the industry.
Courtesy of Cristian Goodson
Cristian Goodson
Pursuing Diversity Through The New Generation
On his 19th birthday, Cristian Goodson received a gift from a girlfriend. It was a book on how to build a $100M real estate portfolio from the ground up.
The book changed his life, Goodson said. A few months later, he got his real estate license and finished his associate of arts degree at a local community college before transferring to the real estate education program at San Diego State University.
"That was it for me," said Goodson, now a 23-year-old senior at SDSU who serves as an advisory and transactions intern at CBRE. He is also the executive director of sponsorship at the Real Estate Society of San Diego State University.
Goodson, who is African-American and Hispanic, is part of the new generation of students pursuing a commercial real estate degree. He is a minority, educated and hungry to network. In May, he was one of six college students nationwide to receive the NAIOP diversity student scholarship.
"I want to make a difference," Goodson said. "We can repurpose property for the benefit of the human species. If you want to make a lasting change, this is it."
Portland State's Gibson said with more commercial firms now looking for a real estate-specific educated workforce, colleges need to step up and recruit diverse undergrads.
"When you think about commercial real estate, it has always been a white male-dominated industry," Gibson said. "I think before a lot of it is the industry hired their friends and family. How do you change that diversity if you continue hiring your friends and family?
"Universities could be a big key in real estate education," she said.
Stapp of Arizona State said trying to recruit a diverse student body to the real estate program is much easier said than done. Legally, universities are prohibited from marketing the program to one ethnic group or gender over another. Instead, ASU partners with CREW or local ethnic organizations to get the word out to the student body.
"We establish good collaborative partnerships with groups so they could provide awareness for our student base," Stapp said.
But he said more needs to be done.
Flannery, the broker from Memphis, said colleges need to do more to recruit women and minorities. As the only woman in her office, she has joined CREW and works to mentor other young women about the industry.
Though she may not have pursued commercial real estate if she had known about it in college, it would have been great if she was aware of the option.
"I didn't even know what it was or it being an option," she said. "I think a lot of people don't realize it's a big business. You drive by retail spaces, office buildings and don't process how those buildings came to be or who owns them or even how goods are transported from a warehouse to your homes."
Contact Joseph Pimentel at joseph.pimentel@bisnow.com
Related Topics: University of Houston, Arizona State University, RETS Associates, University of Central Florida, Grant Pruitt, Jana Turner, Portland State University, Julie Gibson, Whitebox Real Estate, College degrees, Commercial real estate degrees, RealREPP, Johnny Renaudo, Casey Flannery, Mark Stapp, Keith A. Richards, James Kane, Ross Wightman, Tim Becker, Cristian Goodson
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Taiwan vows not to 'give in' to China's 'big bully' as 29 fighter jets fly near island
by Harriette Wendell June 23, 2022, 5:32 pm 12.4k Views
The threat posed by Beijing was "more serious than ever", Taiwan said, after China conducted a large-scale military exercise on Tuesday, featuring fighter jets and heavy bombers.
According to Newsweek, the Taiwanese Air Force dispatched fighter jets and readied air defense missiles as 29 People's Liberation Army (PLA) planes flew inside the identification zone. Air Defense Forces (ADIZ) of the island throughout the day, in what has become an almost daily occurrence.
"The #PLA's latest large-scale exercise shows that the military threat from authoritarian #China is more serious than ever," Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said. tweeted Wednesday from the ministry account.
"But there is no way #Taiwan will give in and surrender its sovereignty and democracy to the big tyrant. Not a chance! JW," he wrote, ending with his initials.
An ADIZ is a self-declared buffer zone under international airspace, where countries require passing aircraft, military and civilian, to identify themselves. The zones are not regulated by international law, but are respected by Taiwan's neighbors including Japan, South Korea and China.
Newsweek reports that the PLA's latest air exercise included 12 Chinese fighter jets and six nuclear-capable heavy bombers, as well as a number of support aircraft that carry out electronic and anti-submarine warfare, collection intelligence, airborne early warning and control, and long-range fillers.
Taiwan's Ministry of Defense issued a illustrative map On Tuesday, it showed Chinese warplanes flying over southern Taiwan in the Western Pacific.
It was the strongest display of air power near the island since Taipei followed 30 PLA sorties on May 30 and 39 sorties on January 23, according to Newsweek.
Chinese planes have frequently intruded on Taiwan's ADIZ since September 2020, and Taiwan has publicly reported the thefts, which it considers provocative. The United States – the island nation's staunchest international supporter – has warned that Beijing's military drills risk being miscalculated and threatening.
According to Washington-based defense analyst Gerald Brown, 972 Chinese aircraft sorties entered Taiwan's ADIZ in 2021, more than double the Taiwanese government's estimate of 380 flights in 2020.
The PLA's aerial incursions around Taiwan have totaled 522 sorties for the year so far.
Taiwan reports no PLA activity on the mainland side of the Taiwan Strait "midline", the unspoken buffer zone in the middle of the passage. It also does not regularly report activities occurring outside the boundaries of its ADIZ.
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Fitness apps and other smart devices embedded with GPS satellite chips and other sensors may use satellite data to help users stay fit and healthy, but, according to Penn State and Penn State Dickinson Law researchers, they unwittingly open a gateway to privacy-related legal and ethical headaches and are a repeated source of national security threats.
In a session at the Penn State Law Review annual symposium held on March 22, the researchers and Dickinson Law professors said that immediate focus is needed on how vast quantities of data, collected from sensors embedded in smart devices combined with both government-owned and privately owned satellite mapping technologies, is aggregated, used, disseminated, and bought and sold. Government-owned satellite mapping technologies, including global positioning satellites provide free, worldwide access for use in GPS chip-embedded devices.
"A lot of recent attention has focused on analyzing legal frameworks and ethical complexities behind the data collection of smart devices, software apps and social media platforms, as well as addressing privacy concerns of and privacy-law based challenges to satellite-based mapping platforms," said Anne Toomey McKenna, Penn State Dickinson Law's Distinguished Scholar of Cyber Law and Policy and a Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS) co-hire. "However, there is a gap in the privacy and cyber-related legal literature regarding the analysis of the technology and law behind government and private satellites and how the private sector uses satellite data through smart devices and apps."
A recent release of data from a mobile fitness app demonstrated just one example of the threats that can lurk beneath what initially could be considered a harmless dissemination of satellite data, said McKenna, who was joined in the talk with Jenni Evans, professor of meteorology and atmospheric science and ICDS director, and Amy C. Gaudion, associate dean for academic affairs and assistant professor of law at Penn State Dickinson Law.
In 2018, Strava, a social fitness network that uses GPS data to track workouts for cyclists and runners who wear fitness devices, released a map of the 13 trillion GPS points collected from their users during their workouts. The map included data points that security analysts say could reveal the locations of secret U.S. special forces bases.
"All it took was a startup company using aggregated data from publicly available sources to create a national security crisis overnight," said McKenna. "The Strava case is just one example of the types of adverse effects a lack of interdisciplinary scholarship on this subject can have on an unaware public. Privacy law scholars need to address how government-owned satellite data is made available to private organizations and who can access it."
Amy C. Gaudion, associate dean for academic affairs and assistant professor of Law, Penn State Dickinson Law; Anne Toomey McKenna, Penn State Dickinson Law's Distinguished Scholar of Cyber Law and Policy and Penn State's Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS) co-hire; and Jenni Evans, professor of meteorology and atmospheric science and ICDS director spoke on the potential for satellite data to cause serious problems for people, organizations and governments at Penn State Law Review's annual symposium held this year in Pittsburgh. IMAGE: Penn State
McKenna said legal considerations about issues of satellite data are often overshadowed in the legal community by issues surrounding data collection from smart devices, software apps and social media platforms.
Gaudion and McKenna recommended steps to address these complex issues, including:
Update domestic and international space object registries to add requirement for data collection, use and dissemination.
Ensure that aggregation of satellite geolocation and smart device data is on the agenda of international framework dialogues about cyber governance and information privacy.
Ensure that U.S. policymakers recognize and appreciate the scope and scale of the privacy and national security threats posed by the aggregation of satellite geolocation and smart device data.
Amend the relevant U.S. authorities for improved coordination of commercial, privacy and national security interests.
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Spanakoriso is basically "rice with spinach" in Greek and if you take a quick look on Pinterest, you will find many dishes consisting of regular rice with very finely cut spinach (more resembling Mexican rice). George turned it into a creamy risotto, so quite unlike those ones.
Mostly known as the likeable presenter of Masterchef Australia, George Calombaris is a very accomplished chef who really revamped the Greek/Cypriot cuisine into a fine dining affair at his – 2 hatted – Melbourne restaurant The Press Club. At the moment his emporium expands to 4 other restaurants (3 locations of Hellenic Republic, Mastic, Gazi, 5 outlets of the Jimmy Grants chain) and his molecular gastronomy sandbox The Press Club – Projects. It's always a pleasure to see George performing one of his masterclasses in Masterchef Australia and churn out amazing dishes.
This 300-page Greek cookbook is highly recommended and a joy to read as well. The testimonials are very funny, but more importantly the mix of recipes in Greek is great, informative and accessible. They do sometimes showcase some of the "cheffy" culinary techniques that boost the look and taste of George's dishes.
The key component for this dish to get its vibrant green colour is blanching the leaves of a bunch of curly parsley (about 30-45 seconds) and transfer them immediately to an ice bath. In the meantime sweat off a finely chopped spring onion clove of garlic until soft, add 125ml / half cup of double cream and bring to a simmer. Take it off the heat, add the drained and squeezed parsley to the cream and blitz it until fully smooth and then put the cream into the fridge until last-minute addition to the risotto. The chlorophyl from the curly parsley will give it an intense green colour and due to the blanching the flavour of the parsley will remain intact. Please note that it only works with curly parsley, not with flat-leaf parsley!
The taste was great, but it obviously is a classic combination to begin with. We really liked the spinach and freshness coming from the lemon juice and zest.
The recipe is easy to follow, accurate, but definitely serves 6 rather than 4, also due to the fact that you add 500gr / 1 pound of spinach.
I followed the ratios from the recipe: 300gr / 10.5 oz risotto rice to 1 liter/4 cups of chicken or vegetable stock. There is no white wine involved, but in the end you do add the parsley cream. This a 2-step risotto recipe, so you first add 1 cup of hot stock to the risotto rice that was toasted in 60ml /4 tbsp of olive oil and stir until fully absorbed, then you add all remaining stock to the pan, stir and cook for 10 minutes with the lid closed. Remove the risotto from the heat and let it stand covered until you're ready sautéing the spinach (which needed to be done in 2 batches and takes about 10 minutes). Finally, finish by stir in the spinach, parsley cream, lemon juice and lemon zest. Do note that the spanakoriso will thicken a little bit due to the reaction between the lemon juice and the parsley cream!
According to the note to the recipe, the spanakoriso should remain "loose" and not dry, however it turned out very wet and the risotto rice was still undercooked and chalky. My best guess is that too little stock was absorbed during a relatively short cooking period, so I'd recommend cooking the rice at least 15 minutes and add all but 100ml / 2/5th cup of stock in the second batch, so you can adjust the consistency later on if needed.
George finishes the spanakoriso it with grated kefalougaviera cheese. According to the recipe, if you can't find any (or its non-PDO sibling kefalotyri) you can substitute it for parmesan cheese. However, as these Greek cheeses are made from sheep's milk or mixture of sheep's and goat's milk, it would be better to use Pecorino Romano rather than parmesan (which is made from cow's milk).
Feta cheese – or a mix of feta and kefalougaviera/pecorino – would be great too as it is used in the filling of spanakopita, the fabulous Greek spinach and cheese pastry!
Verdict: 8/10; Tasty, so will be made again, but likely not according to this recipe.
As said, the quantity definitely was for 6 persons, so we had ample leftovers. So after a night in the fridge, I used the slightly firmer spanakoriso for some arancini based on the Rich and Creamy Saffron Arancini With Mozzarella recipe I found here on Serious Eats.
The only reason that I chose this recipe was the fact that a 2:1 water and flour "slurry" was used instead an egg wash as coating agent for the panko breadcrumbs.
The slurry worked very well and after 4 to 5 minutes in the hot oil (180C/355F) we got 10 very crispy and lovely oozing arancini!


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The Maine transplant had been out with her boyfriend, Alex Douglas, 42 at nearby Lucky Dog on Bedford ave when they got into an argument told law enforcement sources.
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Obituary for James Dimick
James Dimick, age 91, of Northfield, passed away on Monday, December 2, 2019 at the Northfield Retirement Center. James Roger Dimick was born June 9, 1928, on the family farm in Almena, Wisconsin, to Richard and Florence (Fornell) Dimick. He graduated from Barron High School in 1946 and joined the USMC afterwards, serving with the 2nd Amphibious Battalion out of Camp LeJeune. After his honorable discharge in 1948, Jim attended St. Cloud State University, graduating in 1952 with a Bachelor of Science in physical education and biology. He later earned his master's degree from the University of Minnesota. Jim married […]
James Dimick, age 91, of Northfield, passed away on Monday, December 2, 2019 at the Northfield Retirement Center.
James Roger Dimick was born June 9, 1928, on the family farm in Almena, Wisconsin, to Richard and Florence (Fornell) Dimick. He graduated from Barron High School in 1946 and joined the USMC afterwards, serving with the 2nd Amphibious Battalion out of Camp LeJeune. After his honorable discharge in 1948, Jim attended St. Cloud State University, graduating in 1952 with a Bachelor of Science in physical education and biology. He later earned his master's degree from the University of Minnesota. Jim married his high school sweetheart, Nancy Hopkins, at the Methodist Church in Cumberland, Wisconsin, on June 10, 1950. Jim spent 15 years teaching and coaching at high schools in Wisconsin and Minnesota, developing ten championship teams, before joining the faculty of St. Olaf College in 1967. He coached the St. Olaf baseball team to 14 conference championships and a record of 587-320-15. The team was selected to the NCAA Division III Regional Tournament 14 times. Jim was the coach of the College All-Star Baseball Team that toured Alaska and Korea in 1979. He served on the U.S. National Baseball Team staff in 1989 on a tour of the U.S., Cuba, and Puerto Rico. He conducted baseball clinics all over the world and the U.S. Jim was a past president of the American Baseball Coaches Association and served on its board of directors for many years. He was awarded the Minnesota Baseball Outstanding Achievement Award. Both the MIAC Coach of the Year and the Minnesota Retired Coach Award are named in his honor. St. Olaf retired his number (32) in 1997.
Jim was called to be a coach. He knew how to lead the players he coached to be honorable, hard-working young men. He was even more gifted as a husband, dad and grandfather, loving his family with faithfulness, gentleness, and devotion. He was a good friend, a delightful storyteller, and a servant of God. He will be missed by so many whose lives were immeasurably gifted by his presence.
As Jim himself said: "I would rather be remembered as a good father, a good churchman, and a caring coach who was more concerned about the contributions to society by my athletes than by the trophies left standing on the shelves."
Survivors include his children Mary (René) Clausen of Moorhead; Jim Jr. (Martha Holton) of Minneapolis; Betsey (Mark) Hofeldt of Dayton, OH; Dan (Cahrene) of Northfield; Jill (Ralph Pribble) Oliveri of St. Paul; John (Meghan) of Northfield; 13 grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; other relatives and many friends. He was preceded in death by his beloved wife Nan in 2010.
Jim's family would like to express their gratitude to the fine staff of the Northfield Retirement Community, the Allina Hospice team, and his doctors: Gary Carlson, Mark Labenski, and Maxwell Leither. The family also gives thanks for Pastor Tim McDermott and the community of Bethel Lutheran Church in Northfield where he belonged as a member for 52 years.
A gathering of remembrance will occur in the Black and Gold Ballroom of Buntrock Commons on Friday, January 17, 2020 between the hours of 4 and 8 p.m. A celebration of Jim's life will be held on Saturday, January 18, 2020 at Boe Chapel on the St. Olaf College campus at 10 a.m. Interment will take place at Ebenezer Cemetery in rural Almena, Wisconsin, next to Nan, in the spring. Memorials may be directed to Bethel Lutheran Church of Northfield, MN or the St. Olaf College baseball program.
Arrangements are with the Benson & Langehough Funeral Home. www.northfieldfuneral.com
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Steve Koestner	on December 4, 2019 at 7:51 am
When we lived in Northfield we attended Bethel Church as a family. When my father passed away, Jim reached out to me to express his concern. His compassion was remarkable. It was like talking to my own father who had just died. He offered to take me out to breakfast to just talk things through. His kindness was unmatched. I will always remember Jim a large man with an even bigger soul. Thanks Jim for your arm around my shoulders when I needed it most !!
Connie DeGrote	on December 7, 2019 at 9:52 am
Jim was a great person in so many ways and to so many! The world is so much better because of what he gave to it.
I am sorry we will be unable to attend his memorial service.
Tom Moriarty	on December 8, 2019 at 8:43 pm
I met Coach Dimick at St Olaf field when St Scholastica played there in early 2000's. I mentioned I knew his son Jim from his days in LeSueur. He asked about my son, what position he played and the CSS team in general. Later I ran into him at a Dundas Dukes game when his grandson was playing. He enjoyed learning how many of the players were doing, not just in baseball. Gracious, kind, considerate man. Baseball gave him an insight to many individuals who played the game, and his joy was how the game was played by the players he had coached.
My sympathies to the family.
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The 2009 Cheltenham Gold Cup, sponsored by Totesport, featured 16 runners, but was billed as a rematch between stable companions Denman and Kauto, who had finished first and second in the race in 2008. On that occasion, Denman had fared better of the pair, staying on well in the closing stages to win by 7 lengths. However, after surgery for an irregular heartbeat the following September and a heavy defeat, at odds-on, on his reappearance at Kempton in February, "The Tank", as he was affectionately known, was sent off 7/1 second favourite, despite being defending champion. Kauto Star, ridden, as usual, by Ruby Walsh started 7/4 favourite.
In race dominated by the market leaders, Paul Nicholls' apparent third string Neptune Collonges led his stable companions Kauto Star and Denman coming down the hill for the final time, but was quickly joined, and passed, at the third last. From the home turn, at least for a stride or two, it appeared that the long-awaited rematch might develop, but it soon became clear that Kauto Star was travelling, by far, the better of the pair.
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Becker's biopic, released in the US as Modigliani, is based loosely upon this Italian artist's last days in Paris. Played by Gérard Philipe, Modi, as he is called, is a brooding drunkard, little recognized for his stylized portraits of street denizens. He is wracked by self-doubt, which is destructively realized through trysts with a wicked English writer, Beatrice (Lilli Palmer). Modi's pact with dissolution seems sealed until he meets an aspiring bourgeois artist, Jeanne, cast in the angelic countenance of Anouk Aimée. Becker reconstitutes the bohemian life of Paris with decorative accuracy—the cafes where Modigliani sketches, the exhibition at the Galerie B. Weill, the modeling sessions at the Academy. In the most startling episode, an American tycoon suggests that Modi's painting would make the ideal label for a new perfume—a suggestion from which the painter flees in outrage. The Lovers of Montparnasse is really about a wrecked man unable to rise above the gravity of his failure. In the sad gestures of Philipe (who himself would soon die), we realize that Modigliani's paintings are the artifacts of a fall.


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Arsenal boss Jonas Eidevall warns against rushed reaction to WSL pitch problems
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Arsenal boss Jonas Eidevall cautioned against sides making swift spending decisions (Isaac Parkin/PA) (PA Wire)
Arsenal boss Jonas Eidevall cautioned against implementing kneejerk solutions to the Women's Super League's frozen pitch postponement problems, despite admitting they were "really bad advertising" for the game.
The Gunners' trip to Brighton was one of three WSL matches called off on a controversial weekend that also saw Chelsea's contest with Liverpool abandoned after just six minutes, a particularly heavy blow to the Reds supporters who left Merseyside at 5am for the trip to London.
Injured Arsenal forward Vivianne Miedema was among the many top-flight players and managers to demand change, on Sunday tweeting: "Players' safety should always come first. Luckily no one got injured today. Only way to fix this is to demand undersoil heating or playing our games in men's stadiums. FA and clubs please do better."
Eidevall's opinion differed somewhat from his striker as he said: "I think the easy thing is always to try to fix the topic of the day. I completely agree with (Chelsea boss) Emma (Hayes) what happened in that game and to play those minutes was really bad for the league.
"That's not going to be good for women's football. We need to take really, really good decisions of where the investments should be going in order to grow the game long term, and I'm very doubtful that that should be put into undersoil heating at the moment."
Eidevall admitted finding a solution over the next few seasons could prove challenging, acknowledging the commercial incentive for January WSL football also plays a factor in why games in the first month of the year might be a necessity.
He said: "I think it's the difference between short term and long term. Short term, early communication is the key because it saves fans money and time for not travelling to grounds. But I also think from a league perspective it also saves us from not seeing pictures like we saw from Chelsea v Liverpool, which is obviously I think really bad advertising for women's football and the WSL.
"There are so many things you would like to invest in the women's game at the moment, and I think when you are seeing for example the cost for undersoil heating and then you would compare that to saying that you would invest in the academy system, for example, in order to develop more British players into the league. I don't think it's easy in how you would prioritise the money."
Eidevall's third-placed side next host Aston Villa in their Continental Cup quarter-final.
While Arsenal have explored moving Thursday's contest to the Emirates Stadium, the club stated it "was not feasible due to essential pitch maintenance".
Thursday's forecast predicts another cold evening, with temperatures hovering around six degrees in London. Arsenal hope to avoid any embarrassing scenes or unnecessary travel by carrying out a pitch inspection at Meadow Park at 12pm on Thursday where a final decision will be made, well in advance of the 7:45pm kick-off.
Eidevall said plans for the women's side "to be at the Emirates permanently" were part of the club's overall ambitions, but it was too soon to immediately implement any kind of any marquee stadia requirements throughout the top flight.
"That's something you have to look into but that's long term," he said. That's not something that we can do tomorrow, but it's something that could be done, in say the next five years, in order to say this is the requirement and it's going to be effective from this date and now everyone has a set amount of time where you can meet them.
"And if you want to play in the league then you have to fulfil these requirements, which I think is sensible. I think all professional leagues around the world have stadium requirements, so it's just for the league to set them."
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OTTAWA COUNTY, Mich. – Grant Gerig is in the fight of his life against cancer. But on Tuesday, he learned that he isn't doing it alone.
Gerig is an Ottawa County Sheriff's reserve deputy who found out just a few weeks ago that he has rectal cancer. Now, the sheriff and his deputies are making sure Gerig knows they have his back.
To help remind him he has plenty of support, the sheriff and a large number of the department surprised him at his house in an emotional showing of support for one of their own.
"We know that we can't cure cancer for you, but we know that we can give you a hug we can tell you we love you and that you're not fighting alone," said Jeff Potter with Shields of Hope,is a non-profit group run by public safety officers in West Michigan. Their mission is to spread encouragement to people diagnosed with cancer and let them know they have a community backing them up.
Gerig was given a Shields of Hope coin tto symbolize his ongoing fight against cancer. He also got to sign the Shields of Hope car, where there are more than 30 names of others like him.
Gerig goes in for surgery Wednesday.
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Oplotnica (Municipality, Slovenia)
Keywords: oplotnica | wheel: mill (white) | grapes: 3 (red) |
Flag of Oplotnica, horizontal and vertical versions - Images by Željko Heimer, 17 January 2002
Presentation of Oplotnica
Municipal flag of Oplotnica
Coat of arms of Oplotnica
Slovenia: Municipal flags
The municipality of Oplotnica, named after a small river, was formed in 1998, from parts of the municipality of Slovenska Bistrica. It is located on the south-western slopes of Pohorje.
Željko Heimer, 17 January 2002
The flag and arms of Oplotnica are prescribed by Decision Odlok o grbu in zastavi, adopted on 12 October 1999, and published in the official Slovene gazette Uradni list Republike Slovenije, nr. 91/99, 10 November 1999.
The symbols were designed by Valt Jurečič of Heraldika d.o.o. and Heraldica Slovenica, who kindly provided drawings from which the images shown on this page were made.
The flag is rectangular, in proportions 2:5, vertically divided yellow-blue-yellow, the middle blue field being square and containing the attribute from the coat of arms, the white mill wheel.
Stanič & Jakopič [j2s05] give the following colour specifications:
- Yellow: Pantone 109
- Golden yellow: Pantone 1225
- Green: Pantone 355
- Blue: Pantone 300
- Red: Pantone 185
- Black: Pantone Black
Željko Heimer, 9 May 2006
Coat of arms of Oplotnica - Image by Željko Heimer, 21 January 2002
The coat of arms of Oplotnica can be blazoned as "Per fess or and azure in chief three grapes gules slipped sable and leaved vert and in base a mill whieel argent".
Oplotnica is located in a traditional vine growing region, thus explaining inclusion of the grapes in the coat of arms.
Valt mentioned that the municipality wanted to have on its arms symbols of the river energy potential, as mills and saw have been powered by water for ages. This was symbolized with the mill wheel and waves. The authorship of the coat of arms is also claimed by a citizen of Oplotnica, who acted as the contact between the municipality and Heraldika d.o.o. However, both the idea and the drawing of the symbols are products by Valt and his company.


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Canada's commitment to Mali questioned after coup forces president to resign
By Lee Berthiaume The Canadian Press
Posted August 29, 2020 6:32 am
In this image made from video, Malian troops, believed to be part of a detachment possibly mutinying, man an impromptu checkpoint and stop and search traffic in Kati, Mali Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020. AP
When armed soldiers arrested Mali's embattled president earlier this month and forced him to resign on television in a coup that has been widely condemned by the international community, Canada was among those to speak out in unequivocal terms.
"Canada strongly condemns the coup d'etat in Mali," Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne said in a statement on Aug. 19, using diplomatic language usually reserved for only the most serious denunciations.
Read more: Mali military wants to put off new elections for 3 years
The minister went on to promise that Canada would work closely with West African countries, the African Union and United Nations to return Mali to civilian rule and continue implementation of a peace deal that ostensibly ended a civil war in 2014.
Champagne's statement largely reflected the priorities of not only Canada but much of the global community in Mali: maintaining peace and stability in a part of the world where war and instability could have serious ramifications for Africa and the West.
Yet there is a sense that despite sending hundreds of peacekeepers to Mali and investing hundreds of millions in assistance in the country in recent years, Canada has become largely disengaged from it thanks to a lack of political will and interest.
"It's kind of a token involvement," said Bruno Charbonneau, an expert on Mali at the Royal Military College Saint-Jean. "You throw money at the thing and hope it sticks somewhere, it has an impact. The political interest or will from Ottawa is not really there."
2:11 International community condemns Mali coup
Mali has teetered on the edge of instability since 2012, when the country's military launched its first coup even as nomadic rebels in the north supported by jihadists linked to al-Qaeda rebelled against the government in Bamako.
Civilian rule was eventually restored and a peace agreement between the Malian government and rebel groups signed ending the rebellion, but the country continued to be riven by intercommunal divisions and violence as well as rampant corruption.
The coup on Aug. 18 that saw president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita arrested and forced to resign was an "exclamation point" or culmination of all those factors coming together, said Jonathan Sears, an expert on Mali at the University of Winnipeg.
Read more: Mali's junta denies military carried out coup, vows return to civilian rule
In an interview with The Canadian Press last week, Champagne said the federal government was rethinking its relationship and support for Mali in light of the coup. But he insisted Canada could not and would not simply walk away from the country.
Canada has a long history in Mali. Not only has the West African nation been a top recipient of Canadian foreign aid for most of the past 50 years, it has also been home to a large number of Canadian-backed mines for gold and other precious minerals.
Canada's most visible contribution to Mali in recent years, however, was the yearlong deployment starting in August 2018 of hundreds of peacekeepers to provide helicopter-borne medical evacuation and logistical support to the United Nations.
Yet the UN had to practically arm twist Canada into the mission and the federal Liberal government resisted repeated requests for Canadian troops to stay longer, all of which was seen as a signal of its lack of real interest in the country.
0:52 Opposition supporters celebrate amid reports of coup in Mali
Two years later, Canada has 10 military officers working at the UN mission headquarters in Bamako and five police officers helping train local security forces — far fewer police officers than the 20 that were promised in 2018.
While the European Union on Wednesday elected to suspend its own military and police training missions due to the coup, it wasn't immediately clear whether the UN — including Canadian troops and police — would be following suit.
"Canadian officials are continuously monitoring the situation, but no change to police deployments to Mali are envisaged at this time," RCMP spokeswoman Robin Percival said in an email.
Read more: Mali army colonel declares himself head of junta, urged to release ousted president
Meanwhile, Mali remains one of Canada's top aid recipients; the West African nation has received more than $1.6 billion since 2000, according to the federal government, including almost $140 million in 2018-19.
But while Sears says that money is making a difference to some communities, his concern is that Canada is not doing enough to address the more foundational issues afflicting Mali.
Those include the numerous internal divisions that are contributing to the growing instability and violence plaguing Mali, as well as the growing disillusionment with the country's governing class due to corruption and other challenges.
"They've kind of enabled individuals in communities to cope with the larger structural problems," Sears said of Canadian projects in Mali. "But these small successes actually kind of further entrench the larger problems."
0:43 Helicopter crash in Mali kills 13 French troops
Even before the coup, some critics, such as former Canadian diplomat Louise Ouimet, had started to question the degree to which Canada was really helping Mali as it struggles to overcome its longstanding problems and chart a sustainable path forward.
"My country, Canada, seems absent from the discussions in Bamako, at least the media do not report it, while Mali has been an important country for international co-operation for more than 40 years," Ouimet wrote in an online post last month.
Mali isn't the only place where the government is facing questions; the federal Liberals have been accused of largely ignoring international affairs and faced calls for a foreign-policy review after Canada lost its UN Security Council bid in June.
Charbonneau said it would be unfair to blame a lack of Canadian involvement or interest in Mali for this month's coup, which some are hoping will finally pave the way for real reform in Bamako and usher in a new era of peace and stability for the country.
Read more: Canada condemns coup d'etat which forced Mali's president to resign: minister
"Having said that, I have made the point that Canada should have taken much more of a leadership role in Mali, which they didn't obviously," he said. "There needs to a discussion about the approach that people are taking and have taken in Mali."
For his part, Sears is hoping Canada will step up and be among those preaching patience as the international community pushes for a return to civilian rule amid fears that a vacuum could lead to more instability and violence and empower jihadist groups.
"I'd like to see Canada be a voice for not rushing transition," he said. "Because my concern is we're going to reproduce most of the flaws of the previous transition and not really take into account some of the problems that have gotten worse since 2013."
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Kia's Klassy Koup
Kia presents a vehicle that's smart-looking, inexpensive, sporty and comfortable
By Eric Adams
Yes, it's a coupe, spelled with a "K" and dispensing with the traditional "E"—but that's okay by me. Because if you convert the "K" back to a "C" and leave the "E" off, you have "coup," which this car also decidedly is. It's a coup for Kia—a surprising accomplishment. A victory.
Kia's first coup was hiring a designer from Audi, Peter Schreyer, to help ramp up the sophistication of their lineup. He does that marvelously with the Koup, a smart-looking, inexpensive two-door that's sporty and comfortable. On the outside, the design, which sits lower than the four-door version of this car, the Forte, is surprisingly suave, bearing a striking crease below the windows and extending to the headlights and a nicely trimmed front-end fascia--where the grill, headlights, and air intake all come together. The rear end seems to ride a bit higher than the car "wants," but that's essential for creating usable back seats and trunk storage. Inside, the cabin is quiet and nicely packaged, with design details, such as ever-changing LED lighting, that's edgy enough to appeal to a younger set without scaring off the grown-ups who might be looking for a compact coupe.
The 187 horsepower in the SX package is no slouch—just ten years ago most big sedans had far less than that. And the Koup uses it well. Though the power delivery appears to be somewhat poorly metered by the five-speed automatic transmission—it tends to peter out at higher RPM's—the car nevertheless shoots up to 60 mph in a respectable 7 seconds. That careful metering of power, on the other hand, helps it maintain a combined city/hwy mpg of 26. The suspension, independent up front with a stabilizer bar, and a torsion beam suspension in the rear, makes for terrific handling on smooth twisties but a clangy ride on rough pavement.
As with all the Asian manufacturers, you get a lot for your money. The $20,000 test Koup we had included traction control and stability control bundled up with its anti-lock brakes. Elsewhere, stunning two-tone alloy wheels, front and rear disk brakes, a six-speaker audio system with Sirius satellite radio and Bluetooth wireless, and a power sunroof round out the impressive checklist. (Nor can you argue with Kia's 10 year/100,000 mile powertrain warranty.) This is a terrific package that's more than competitive with Honda's Civic Si and Scion's equally sporty tC.
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Philippines: Motor vehicle sales rise strongly in October
November 18th 2013 | Philippines | Commercial and other vehicles
Sales of locally assembled motor vehicles hit a record 16,800 units in October, the first time monthly sales figures breached the 16,000 mark, rising by 11.4% year on year, according to the Chamber of Automotive Manufacturers of the Philippines and Truck Manufacturers Association.
Last month's record sales highlights rising demand for vehicles as economic growth picks up while interest rates have fallen to record lows. Vehicle-assemblers are ramping up production capacity in response to the increased demand. The Philippine unit of Japanese company, Toyota , the country's biggest vehicle-maker plans to increase output by 10% to meet the continuing rise in demand.
Despite the rosy outlook, however, reports are rife that another Japanese carmaker, Nissan, plans to shut down its production facility in the Philippines and instead shift to importing completely built-up vehicles. Last year, the Philippine unit of Ford closed its factory south of the capital, Manila, after deciding to ship cars from affiliate factories in Thailand and other Asian countries.
The possible closure of another vehicle factory a little over a year after Ford—the country's only car exporter—shut down its production facility has triggered fresh worries that vehicle production in the Philippines could further lose its competitiveness with lower or zero tariffs after the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Free Trade Area comes into effect in 2015. A lawmaker has warned that the Philippines could lose as much as P250bn (US$5.8bn) worth of output from automotive and automotive-parts makers if the industry disappears.
The worries may be overstated, as the industry is not likely to be completely wiped out by ASEAN economic integration. Auto-parts makers are able to export to other auto-production hubs in the region. The motor vehicle industry is presently lobbying the government for greater fiscal incentives, with some alarmism to be expected as part of the sector's efforts to get support.
Still, the government, which already recognises the need for some form of fiscal incentives to help the industry remain competitive, must hurry up with an industry road map to help local vehicle-assemblers cope with some of the higher costs of doing business in the Philippines such as more costly electricity and the poor state of transport infrastructure.
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Earnestine Vaughn Jones
January 25, 1934 - August 18, 2019
Earnestine Vaughan Jones was born in Waggoner (Tulsa County) Oklahoma on January 25, 1934 to Sophronia Waters Vaughan and her husband Ernest Vaughan. Early in her childhood, her parents divorced, and she and her mother moved to the Greenwood district of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Earnestine's life changed for the better when her mother Sophronia met and married Sylvester Mitchell of Tulsa.. She attended Dunbar Elementary, George Washington Carver Junior High School, and graduated from Booker T. Washington High School in 1950. She received awards while attending school and was also a member of the Girl Scouts of America. After graduating from High School, she matriculated at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri. She was a member of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority chapter while at Lincoln. She met her future husband and life companion James E. Jones during a chance encounter at Lincoln and after a long courtship, they married in September 1954. In 1955 she graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree. While she was completing her degree, her husband James was drafted into the United States Army so after graduation, she joined him at his new station in Germany. Towards the end of James' draft obligation, she returned to Oklahoma in 1956 and later that year gave birth to the first of her two children, James. Her second child, Carol was born in Kansas City in 1960. September is called the "Family Month" because she married and later gave birth to her children in that month.. The young family lived in different parts of the country during the early year of their marriage, among which were Tulsa, Oklahoma, Fort Worth, Texas, Kansas City, Missouri, Oakland, California, and then finally Prince George County, Maryland outside Washington, D.C. where they settled to raise their family. Her husband James had begun work in the District of Columbia government, and once both her children were in elementary school, she also joined the D. C. government, starting first as a counselor at Junior Village and then working in the Food Stamp program then finally as an Analyst. It is often hard for a child or even a young adult to appreciate what a parent does while raising them. It is only after many years does a child realize the many things a parent does, like going to Parent Teacher conferences, taking the children on library trips, visiting the Smithsonian museum, visiting the parks in the area. Especially fun were the family trips taken each Summer from Maryland to Oklahoma to visit her parents and family, and then to Texas to visit her husband's family. She and her husband worked to provide a safe and supportive environment for her children and also nieces and cousins that came to live with them. She was happiest being at home and doing things with the kids. Their marriage gave an example of what a strong, loving marriage is like. In 1992, her husband James became ill and she retired from the D. C. government to care for him. They moved to Arlington, Texas in 1993 to be closer to James' family, joined the Cornerstone Baptist church and was active in Sunday School and became members of the senior group at the church. Their marriage and their love for each other was an inspiration to everyone they met. Their marriage continued for 64 years until her husband transitioned in 2018. Earnestine Jones departed on August 18, 2019.
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