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5 Games That Need A "Snyder Cut"
Shrill cries of "release the Snyder Cut!" were answered today with the premiere of Zack Snyder's Justice League. This got me thinking: If screaming at studios to release the original versions of their films can actually yield results, why not do the same for video games? Actually no, don't do that. It's super rude.
But the point still stands: If we could experience the original cuts of games before they were revised into their final forms, what would we play? Here's a list of good games that I would love to play in their original incarnations, for better or worse.
I'm particularly salty about this one because although I enjoyed BioShock 2 well enough, the original vision for the game's Big Sister sounded so much cooler. When BioShock 2 graced Game Informer's cover, Irrational Games planned on making the Big Sister a singular character and persistent enemy in the vein of Resident Evil's Mr. X or Nemesis. She was going to be extremely powerful; you'd never kill her, only repel her for a while. The Big Sister was also supposed to play a major role in the narrative, being one of the Little Sisters that Jack rescued in BioShock 1 who returned home and established a new order.
I thought this premise sounded awesome and was crushed when the team changed gears and made the Big Sister just another, faceless enemy type. Every time I gunned one of them down while playing I felt disappointment instead of triumph knowing how fundamentally different, and, in my opinion, more interesting, the game would have been in its original form.
Unlike the first incarnation of Justice League, Devil May Cry turned out great after some development reworking and helped pioneer the stylish action sub-genre. I say "rework" because some fans may not realize that Dante's debut was originally developed as one of the earliest prototypes for Resident Evil 4.
Hideki Kamiya was put in charge and given the freedom to do as he pleased, so he did. He stripped away a lot of Resident Evil's design hallmarks and replaced them with faster-paced combat, added copious amounts of concentrated "radness," and centered it on a superpowered, too-cool-for-school genius named Tony, who eventually evolved into Dante. Capcom turned the project into DMC after realizing it was too radical of a departure for an RE title.
But you know what? I'd love to play a fully-realized version of that prototype. A full-fledged Resident Evil title with the irreverent attitude of Devil May Cry starring this "Tony" character would probably be a disaster, but it's a style clash I need to see. Resident Evil 4 gets re-released once a month anyway so give us the Kamiya Cut next time!
Speaking of Resident Evil 4, it took a few return trips to the drawing board for that game to turn out as great as it did. The game went through several iterations, but the rendition I'd like to play a full game of is the famous "hook man" version. Instead of facing zombies and bioweapons, Leon was to be infected by a weird disease and battle paranormal foes, including an apparition of a man wielding a hook. A demo of this idea was shown at E3 2003, which you watch watch in full here.
It was quite the departure, and Capcom apparently scrapped it due to the strain it caused having to make double the assets for both the real and spiritual worlds. A few gameplay elements carried over to the final release, though, like the over-the-shoulder camera. With Resident Evil seemingly dipping its toe into the supernatural again with the upcoming Village, it's reignited my never-to-be-fulfilled desire to play a full version of the hook man demo.
After Portal stole the show in The Orange Box, Valve got hard to work creating several prototypes to follow-up on its success. Legend has it that the studio originally envisioned the series as having a completely different mechanic with each entry, and a prototype called F-Stop was one of them. Instead of hopping through portals, players used a camera to capture polaroid photos of objects, then used the images to spawn said objects somewhere else in the environment. It was an inventive idea (one that Superliminal sort of taps into) that didn't become publicly known until Valve gave indie developer BoxandRocks permission to record itself playing a build of the game. You should check out that footage if you've never seen it.
Valve of course changed its mind and stuck with what brought them to the dance for Portal 2, and I think most would agree that worked out well for everyone involved. But F-Stop seemed like a fascinating idea, one I'd love to see get explored with the full budget and attention Portal 2 got.
Of all the games deserving of the "release the director's cut!" rallying cry, Hideo Kojima's Konami swan song probably tops them all. It's well known that the game was developed during a not-so-great period in the relationship between Kojima and Konami. Due to budget constraints, quite a bit of content was cut from Phantom Pain (despite it already being an obscenely expensive game). Depending on who you believe, it's the primary reason players have to replay missions ad nauseam just to progress the story during the game's second half.
The most glaring example of removed content is Episode 51: Kingdom of the Flies, which would have Big Boss pursue Eli and his fellow child soldiers to Africa after Eli steals Sahelanthropus. This mission was, again, supposedly cut for budget reasons and can be experienced as a 20-minute cutscene told through a mix of in-game graphics and storyboard/concept art. Chapter 51's premise seemed very cool, and it sucks that you can't actually play it.
With all of the headaches that seemed to exist during Phantom Pain's development, it's amazing it's as good as it is now. But we can't help but wonder what it'd be like to play a version of the game developed during a more copacetic relationship between Kojima and Konami.
What games would you like to see get the Snyder Cut treatment, so to speak? Share your picks down in the comments!
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Draw, Trace, Never Make a Mess on this Water Painting Doodle Book.
Just fill the Magic Pens with water, grab a friend and draw on the large magic mat pages.
Colours will magically appear, and then will slowly disappear after 4 to 5 minutes.
Encourage creativity, build fine motor coordination, help kids master writing their alphabet and numbers.
Great for when travelling in the car (as there is no mess), or for when you have a playdate and want the kids entertained!
Makes the perfect gift idea for any child.


One of the most beautiful places I've ever skied is Cortina, Italy. When you're at the top of the mountain where the World Cup is held, all you can see in every direction are peaks and sky, the steep edges of the Dolomites ringing the summit view as if the valleys below don't even exist. Up there, you are closer to the stratosphere than you are to the earth, but there the earth is too, below you and all around you, pushing up rock and jagged snowy hills that seem so unconquerable—unconquerable to everyone but you, standing there on the top of the mountain with the world laid out before you.
That is where I stood—and how I felt—the morning after I tied the all-time record for the most World Cup wins ever by a female skier. It was daybreak, and the sky had blanched to a powdery blue, with just a few sun-rimmed clouds washing through the peaks and coloring the snow below a shimmery gold. I still had to race that day and I was on the hill so early to inspect the course, but I wasn't concerned about the competition ahead. Instead, all I could think about was what I had just accomplished—tying a world record, something I had never thought possible—and all I had endured to stand at that place at that point in time. I was immensely relieved and proud, but most of all, I felt strong, physically and mentally, like I could do anything with my body and mind that I put my heart to.
I hadn't always felt this way, though—so strong, so unstoppable, so on top of the world in more ways than one. Over the course of my career, there had been days, weeks, even months when I felt low, unsure of myself, worried about whether I would ski again, and even worried whether I was too muscular and big to fit into some American ideal of an athlete. I never doubted my ability per se, but getting strong and fit and feeling as good about my body as possible required a journey of sorts. But standing on my skis in Cortina on January 19, 2015—the same day I would go on to not just tie but break the all-time record for most World Cup wins ever—I knew it was a journey that had changed my life and body indelibly, for the better.
I wanted to write this book to share with you my journey and give you the inspiration, tips, and tools you need to change your life and body, too. No matter who you are, what you do for your living, or what your body looks like now, you can get stronger, leaner, healthier, and happier, just as I have. I'm not a coach, trainer, or nutritionist, but I am an Olympic athlete who's tried nearly every exercise and diet there is, and I know what works and what doesn't.
What I've learned, too, is that there's more than one way of exercising and eating that can make you feel good about yourself and your body—and having more than one option is a fabulous thing. While plenty of diet and fitness experts will recommend only one way to eat or work out to lose weight or get healthy, I find restrictions to be extremely limiting. We all have different bodies, genetics, preferences, and lifestyles, and I believe that if you want to look and feel your best, you need options that will empower you, not rules that will make exercising and healthy eating that much more difficult.
Since I was young, my life has been about my body, as I've spent nearly all of the past three decades managing my energy, working on my strength, eating and exercising for optimal performance, and preventing and rehabbing the injuries that are as much a part of skiing as the cold and the snow. I'm constantly assessing how I feel, how my muscles look and respond, what exactly is going on in my body, and whether I'm eating the best foods and doing the most effective workouts I can to get to the top step of the Olympic podium.
What I've learned along the way is that no matter what kind of body type you have, making it your goal to get strong rather than to lose a bunch of weight, reach a certain number on the scale, or simply get skinny is a healthier, more sustainable, and ultimately more effective way to change your body—and change it for good. When you make your goal to get strong, you're setting an intention to help your body become fitter and healthier, not just smaller or thinner. You agree to try new ways of eating and exercising that you can sustain for life—not just for a few weeks or months—as you find those foods and workouts that you actually enjoy, not just the ones you eat or suffer through because you want to lose weight. When you work to get strong, you also agree to get mentally fit, building up your confidence in and out of the gym as you feel better about yourself. You stop doing the workouts you don't like, you stop eating too little or those foods that don't taste good, and you stop the body shaming, as you focus on feeling good about what you eat, how you exercise, and how you look and feel. Because getting strong doesn't mean just getting lean, but trying to find personal purpose and empowerment, too. Because when you're strong, you too can do anything you set your mind, body, and heart to. Trust me . . . I know.
My journey to get strong started when I was a teenager, although my quest to be an athlete began when I was much younger. The oldest of five, I was born in Burnsville, Minnesota, a suburb outside the Twin Cities. By no stretch of the imagination could Burnsville be considered a ski town. We had just one hill, Buck Hill, with a 310-foot vertical drop—shorter than most waterslides.
But Buck Hill was only five minutes from my family's home, and my father, Alan, a former ski racer and junior national ski champion, was a ski coach there. When I was just a baby, he took me out in a backpack on the hill, and before I was three, I was learning to take my first turns on skis.
With my Grandpa Don at the Junior Olympics.
I always enjoyed skiing more than the other sports I tried as a kid—soccer, gymnastics, ice-skating, running, and the other activities that most children try in grade school. Nothing made me happier than being on a mountain, especially when I was racing down one as fast as I could. I wasn't particularly quick on skis when I was young—quite the opposite, in fact—but I always looked forward to my time on the mountain. It was fun being outside in the snow, carving down the hill run after run, first with my father, then with my friends. When it got too cold to ski anymore, I'd huddle inside the lodge with hot chocolate and doughnuts, and to me, the sport was much more special than any soccer game.
By the time I was seven, I knew that I wanted to race. I joined the Buck Hill team, which was led at the time by Erich Sailer, the first development coach ever to be inducted into the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame—he was also my father's coach when my dad was a racer. I wasn't fast, and I can remember Erich chiding my father that he had produced a turtle of a daughter on the hill.
That I was slow only fueled my determination to get faster, and when I was nine, I convinced my parents to let me travel alone to a ski camp in Austria. I was the youngest camper there by several years, but my age didn't bother me. My dad had given me an envelope full of different kinds of foreign currency—Austrian schillings, German marks—and I felt incredibly grown up and independent. Plus, I was skiing with kids who were so much older and better than me, and I had no choice but to keep up or get left behind. All in all, the experience was just what I needed to boost my confidence in myself and my skiing. It was also my first exposure to speaking German—or rather, not being able to speak it—and after returning home, I immediately decided to start learning the language.
Several months later, something incredible happened. At the local ski shop down the road from my family's home, I met Picabo Street, who at that time was the most successful American female skier. I had posters of Picabo plastered on my bedroom wall, and when I finally met her in person, it was like seeing a superhero—I couldn't believe she was real. I had never met a professional ski racer before or even really knew that skiing could be something you could do as a full-time career. Yet there was Picabo, a woman who had made a life out of skiing, and I thought to myself, I want to do that, too.
Afterward, I took my racing more seriously. I spoke with my father, and we realized together that if I wanted to get better, I would need to start skiing in the mountains, not just on little Buck Hill. I began making trips to Vail, Colorado, for training camps, mostly with my mother at first, but as I got faster and faster and started to show real potential, eventually my whole family, including my four siblings—my sister Karin and the triplets, Reed, Dylan, and Laura—all moved to Vail with me.
I was only thirteen at the time, but I was old enough to know that my family was making a giant sacrifice, all for my skiing career. To move to Vail, my parents had to sell the house they'd built in Burnsville, which had been their dream home, and my brothers and sisters had to leave their friends and everything familiar to go to new schools and make new friends. This put a tremendous amount of pressure on me and made me that much more resolute in my training—because there was no way I was going to let my family down.
One of the earliest indicators that I would make it as a pro skier occurred the year after we moved to Vail, when I won the juniors competition at Trofeo Topolino in Italy. I was just fourteen, but the victory made me the first American female ever to win the title. Every skier who'd won Topolino before had gone on to win a World Cup—the premier event in alpine skiing, part of a large international circuit. Standing on the Topolino podium in Italy, thousands of miles from Vail, I finally felt that whatever turtle Erich Sailer had seen at Buck Hill was long gone and that I was at last headed in the right direction.
My next step was to make the U.S. Ski Team, which required passing a physical fitness test. I joined my parents' gym and began strength training. My father also started me on a regimen of doing 100 push-ups and 100 sit-ups every night, and took me to the track on the weekends to run.
I hated running; in fact, I loathed it (and I still do). When I ran, everything hurt: my knees, shins, quads. At that time I didn't like lifting weights either, but I did both regularly and religiously, and when I was fifteen, the work paid off: I made the team's developmental program.
Once on the team, I knew my physical training was just beginning. The team had a sponsorship agreement with a cycling company, which allowed me to get a nice road bike for little money, and I started riding instead of running. Cycling was a big boon to my ability to get fit: I loved it, which meant I was able to do more aerobic exercise more often, with more energy and enjoyment. When I was in Minnesota, where my family moved back to after I made the team, I would ride for miles on long, scenic farm roads to neighboring towns. In Colorado, I started biking up Vail Pass, which was challenging, but so much more exciting—and rewarding—than running an arbitrary number of miles around a track.
As I got stronger and stronger off skis, I became faster and faster on the hill, and my status on the team quickly progressed from developmental to C, then B, then A Team, or the top tier of alpine racers in the country. At age sixteen, just one year after earning a berth on the team, I raced my first World Cup in Park City, Utah, and then picked up my first official World Cup points shortly after in Val d'Isère, France, in what would become a very familiar race for me over the next fifteen years.
In 2002, my life changed in an extraordinary way: I made the U.S. Olympic team. I could hardly believe that the girl from Buck Hill would now be an Olympic athlete—a term that carried so much weight in the world and one that I had only dreamed about for years, like so many other aspiring skiers. Once I was at the Games, it almost didn't matter to me how well I raced—simply making the team was a success in itself. At the opening ceremony in Salt Lake, I remember walking into the stadium and letting the roar of the crowd wash over me. Lost in the noise and the emotion of the moment, I started to feel a huge sense of relief welling up inside of me as I realized that the sacrifices my family had made were paying off in a very real, qualitative way. Days later, I placed sixth in the combined event, the best result from the U.S. women's team at the Games that year.
After the Olympics, I continued to improve in small, measured ways, but I wasn't progressing as quickly as I had before. I knew I could be doing more to get my body stronger, and at my dad's recommendation, I used two years of a paid advance against my potential earnings to hire my first real coach, a Polish trainer named Jacques Choynowski who had helped transform other elite skiers in the past.


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Big Discounts for the Nintendo eShop
Nintendo has announced a new offer of big discounts in the Nintendo eShop for the Wii U and Nintendo 3DS. Running through December, several games, including fan favorites, will be available for at least 30 percent off their normal prices. Link from the Zelda series kicks off the first round of limited-time discounts on select games. Wii U and Nintendo 3DS owners can visit the Nintendo eShop each Thursday to see which character's games are next.
Between 9 a.m. Pacific today and 9 a.m. Pacific on Nov. 21, Wii U and Nintendo 3DS owners with a broadband Internet connection can visit the Nintendo eShop to purchase the following discounted games.
On Nintendo 3DS:
The Legend of Zelda ($4.99) $3.49 30%
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX ($5.99) $3.99 33%
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link ($4.99) $3.49 30%
On Wii U:
In this article:Nintendo, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo eShop, Wii U
One of the joys of using the Nintendo DS game console is that you
always have many options to choose from. Comments: The long awaited sequel
to the iconic Deus Ex, a game that received tons
of awards and accolades for its "pioneering designs in player choice and multiple narrative paths".
Sure, the story might sound very similar to
Borderlands or Fall Out, but I guarantee you this game will be awesome if
just for the technology and the chance to experience id's latest
engine. Before you can get Mew in Pokemon Heart – Gold or Soul – Silver for the Nintendo
DS, you'll have to make sure your system is connected to the Internet.
You may be wondering why a technology reporter who traditionally focuses on Web 2.

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Q: Angular 2: component reusability. Cannot bind data I tried to bind data in my component in order to can use select and select department for employee.
My component code looks like this:
  getAll(){
    if(this.searchString.length > 0){
        this._employeeService.getEmployeesBySearch(this.searchString,this.pageNumber, this.pageSize).subscribe(data => {this.bindData(data,this.departments)});
    }else{
         this._employeeService.getEmployees(this.pageNumber, this.pageSize).subscribe(data => {this.bindData(data, this.departments)});
    }
  }

   bindData(data,departments) {
            this.employees = data;
            for (var i = 0; i < this.employees.length; i++) {
                for (var j = 0; j < this.departments.length; j++) {
                    if (this.departments[j].departmentNo == this.employees[i].departmentNo) {
                        this.employees[i].Department = {
                            departmentNo: this.departments[j].departmentNo,
                            departmentName: this.departments[j].departmentName,
                            departmentLocation: this.departments[j].departmentLocation
                        }

                        };
                        break;
                    }
                }
            }

and my html table is really simple.

                    Employee
                     Department
                    Salary
                    Edit
                    Delete

                    {{employee.employeeName}}
                    {{employee.Department.departmentNo}}-{{employee.Department.departmentName}}
                    {{employee.salary}}
                    <button class="btnEdit" (click)="showEdit(employee)" >Edit</button>
                    <button class="btnDelete" (click)=deleteEmployee(employee)>Delete</button>

The problem is that it throws an error:

Error trying to diff '[object Object]' in [employees| searchString:listFilter.value in EmployeeComponent@30:20].

I really don't know why it happend since in my model (from backend side I have included Department object). Without binding everything works fine, any suggestions? (in Angular 1 this approach works like a charm).
data looks like
"[ {
    "employeeNo":4,
    "departmentNo":4,
    "employeeName":"Branka Bilic",
    "salary":30000.0000,
    "lastModifyDate":"2016-02-01T00:00:00",
    "Department":{
        "departmentNo":4,
        "departmentName":"Sales",
        "departmentLocation":"Pula"
    }, etc...
}]"

My pipe for search by name of employee looks:
import {Pipe} from 'angular2/core';

@Pipe({
    name: "searchString"
})
export class SearchPipe{
    transform(value: any, args: string[]): any{
        let filter = args[0].toLocaleLowerCase();
       return filter ? value.filter(employee => employee.employeeName.toLocaleLowerCase().indexOf(filter) != -1) : value;
    }

}

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Q: How can I keep multiple controls in focus? I have a tree view on the left side. Selecting a node displays relevant information in a form on the right side.
Would I be able to keep the tree and any one control (textbox, combobox, checkbox) on the right in focus at the same time? This will enable a user to select a field, make a change, select another node, and without having to go back and select the same field again, just type and change the value of the same field.
Thanx.
EDIT
I suppose one could implement such behaviour manually:
private Control __cFocus;

private void {anyControl}_Focus(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    __cFocus = (Control)sender;
}

private void treeView1_AfterSelect(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    __cFocus.Focus();
}

I was just wondering if there exists an automatic / more elegant solution
EDIT 2
Ok, so it seems I'll have to implement it manually. Manual implementation it is then. However, now there seem to be another problem; not sure if I should ask this as a separate question.
When selecting a node the textbox gains focus as intended, but only when using the keyboard. It doesn't work when selecting a node with the mouse. First I thought that it might be a mouse event that's interfering, but stepping revealed that the MouseUp event fired first and then the AfterSelect event which sets the focus, so I don't think it's interfering. The textbox's Enter event is also fired, but for some reason it loses focus again to the tree.
Thanx

A: no, you cannot keep two controls in focus at the same time.  But what you can do is set the focus to the target control in the treeview AfterSelect event
private void treeView1_AfterSelect(object sender, TreeViewEventArgs e)
{
    textBox1.Focus();
    textBox1.SelectAll();
}

then in your textbox leave, save the changes, like so:
private void textBox1_Leave(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    //save changes here
}

this way, everytime you select an item in the treeview, check your textbox for change and save as needed, then you will refocus on the textbox for your next edit

A: There only can be one element having the focus!
But I have an idea for you that might solve your problem. Assuming you have a window with a TreeView and a TextBox. Set the HideSelection property of the TreeView to false and subscribe the AfterSelect event (like edeperson already answered) like this:
private void OnTreeViewAfterSelect(object sender, TreeViewEventArgs e)
{
    textBox1.Text = e.Node.Text;
    textBox1.Focus();
}

Then subscribe the KeyDown event of the TextBox and do following in the event method:
private void OnTextBoxKeyDown(object sender, KeyEventArgs e)
{
    if ((e.KeyCode == Keys.Up) || (e.KeyCode == Keys.Down))
    {
        treeView1.Focus();
        SendKeys.Send(e.KeyCode == Keys.Up ? "{UP}" : "{DOWN}");
    }
}

At last subscribe the Leave event of the TextBox and do following in the event method:
private void OnTextBoxLeave(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    if (treeView1.SelectedNode != null)
    {
        treeView1.SelectedNode.Text = textBox1.Text;
    }
}

And, voilá it should work like you expected it...

A: If you want to focus on it , you can  use usercontrol. you can put your textbox on usercontrol   and set focus of this textbox on usercontrol using set properties on treeview select.

A: No you may not, only one control may be in focus at any given time.
See Moonlight's comment for one way to achieve the behavior that you seek.


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Moses Simon signs for Levante
By Timileyin Omilana
06 August 2018 | 8:36 pm
PSG owner sues over illegal transfer payment claim
Moses Simon Photo credit: Lavente FC
Super Eagles winger, Moses Simon has joined Levante from from Belgian club, Gent.
The 23-year-old Nigerian signed a five-year deal with the Spanish La Liga club.
During his stint in the Belgian top-flight outfit, he won the league in the 2014-15 season and the Super Cup title in the 2015-16 campaign.
He joined Slovakia club, AS Trencin in 2014 from GBS Academy and scored 13 goals in 33 league appearances in his one season at the club.
The winger joined Gent in 2015 where he scored 21 goals in 108 league appearances.
He has made 20 appearances for the Super Eagles since his debut against Uganda on March 25, 2015 and scored his first goal for Nigeria in an international friendly against Niger on September 8, 2015.
Simon was named in Nigeria's preliminary 30-man squad for the 2018 World Cup but he did not make the final 23 due to injury.
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Heiner Bielefeldt (* 12. April 1958 in Titz-Opherten) ist ein deutscher Theologe, Philosoph und Historiker. Er ist Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Menschenrechte und Menschenrechtspolitik der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Von Juni 2010 bis Oktober 2016 war Bielefeldt Sonderberichterstatter für Religions- und Weltanschauungsfreiheit des UN-Menschenrechtsrats.

Werdegang
Bielefeldt studierte Philosophie und katholische Theologie in Bonn und Tübingen (Examen 1981 und 1982). Anschließend studierte er Geschichtswissenschaften in Tübingen (Examen 1988). Von 1983 bis 1990 arbeitete er als wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft, später als wissenschaftlicher Angestellter am "Interdisziplinären Forschungsprojekt Menschenrechte" an der philosophischen Fakultät der Universität Tübingen. 1989 promovierte Bielefeldt dort mit einer Arbeit zu den Gesellschaftsvertragstheorien zum Dr. phil.

Von 1990 bis 1992 war er Mitarbeiter am Lehrstuhl für öffentliches Recht und Rechtsphilosophie an der Juristischen Fakultät der Universität Mannheim. Anschließend wechselte er an den Lehrstuhl für öffentliches Recht und Rechtsphilosophie an der Juristischen Fakultät der Universität Heidelberg. Die Jahre 1993 und 1994 verbrachte er als Stipendiat der Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung einen Forschungs- und Lehraufenthalt an der "Faculty of Law" sowie am "Department of Philosophy" der University of Toronto. Im Februar 2000 habilitierte er sich im Fach Philosophie am Fachbereich 9 (Kulturwissenschaften) der Universität Bremen.

Im April 2000 wurde Bielefeldt zum Hochschuldozenten an der Universität Bielefeld ernannt, verbunden mit Lehrverpflichtungen an den Fakultäten für Rechtswissenschaft und Pädagogik. Von 2003 bis 2009 war Bielefeldt Direktor des Deutschen Instituts für Menschenrechte in Berlin. 2007 wurde er zum Honorarprofessor an der Rechtswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Bielefeld ernannt.

Seit 2009 hat er den neu geschaffenen Lehrstuhl für Menschenrechte und Menschenrechtspolitik der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg inne. Der Lehrstuhl ist am dortigen Institut für Politische Wissenschaft angesiedelt, Bielefeldts Lehrtätigkeit erstreckt sich über die Disziplinen der Politischen Wissenschaft, der Philosophie, der Rechts- und der Geschichtswissenschaft.

Tätigkeitsfelder
Seit 1995 ist Bielefeldt Mitglied der interdisziplinären Forschungsgruppe für multi-ethnische Konflikte an der Universität Bielefeld, Fakultät für Pädagogik. Aus dieser Forschungsgruppe ist 1996 das Institut für interdisziplinäre Konflikt- und Gewaltforschung (IKG) unter der Leitung von Wilhelm Heitmeyer hervorgegangen.

Bielefeldt engagiert sich im Interreligiösen Dialog und war Mitglied des Kuratoriums der Muslimischen Akademie in Deutschland. Er ist Mitglied des Kuratoriums der Christlich-Islamischen Gesellschaft. Daneben ist Bielefeldt Mitglied der Deutschen Gesellschaft zur Erforschung des Politischen Denkens sowie im Beirat der Zeitschrift für Menschenrechte. Zur Frage der Beschneidung bezeichnet er ein generelles Verbot der religiösen Knabenbeschneidung als unverhältnismäßig.

Im Juni 2010 wurde Bielefeldt vom UN-Menschenrechtsrat als Nachfolger von Asma Jahangir zum Sonderberichterstatter der Vereinten Nationen für Religions- und Weltanschauungsfreiheit ernannt.

Bielefeldt sagte 2010 auf der 65. UN-Generalversammlung vor dem Menschenrechtsausschuss der UN-Generalversammlung:"Kleine Gemeinschaften, wie die Zeugen Jehovas, Baha'is, Ahmadis, Falun Gong und andere, werden manchmal als 'Kulte' stigmatisiert und treffen häufig auf gesellschaftliche Vorurteile, die sich zu vollwertigen Verschwörungstheorien ausweiten können".

Positionen

Christenverfolgung
Infolge einer nach der US-Invasion des Iraks einsetzenden Welle christenfeindlicher Gewalt, floh ein großer Teil der christliche Bevölkerung aus dem Land. Trotzdem vertritt Bielefeldt die Auffassung, dass man mit dem Begriff der Christenverfolgung vorsichtig sein sollte. Er begründete diese Ansicht damit, dass nirgendwo Christen allein von Verfolgung bedroht seien "sondern auch andere Minderheiten wie die Jesiden, die Baha'i oder Angehörige der Ahmadiyya-Gemeinde". Zudem würden Repressionen gegen Christen "in der Regel nicht alle" innerhalb der christlichen Gemeinschaft "gleich hart" treffen. So handele es sich bei Ermordungen von Christen im Iran oft um die Ermordung von Konvertiten zum Christentum oder von missionierenden Christen. Daher sei der Begriff Christenverfolgung "einerseits zu eng  (...) weil er nichtchristliche Gruppen ausblendet" und "andererseits zu unspezifisch (...) weil er die Differenzen zwischen den verschiedenen christlichen Gruppen nicht berücksichtigt".

Islamischer Staat
Bezüglich des Islamischen Staats erklärte Bielefeldt, dass "derartige Verbrechen", wie sie der Islamischer Staat verübte, "auch im Namen des Christentums verübt worden sind oder immer noch verübt werden." Als Beispiel für derartige Verbrechen im Namen des Christentums zitiert Bielefeld die Lord's Resistance Army, die "ebenfalls Blutorgien veranstalte", sowie nicht näher genannte "christliche Milizen in Zentralafrika", die auch brutal vorgehen würden. Dabei handelt es sich bei der Lords Resistance Army um eine politische Organisation innerhalb eines ethnischen Konflikts. Der Gersony-Bericht The Anguish of Northern Uganda, welcher die am meisten zitierte Quelle über die Lords Resistance Army darstellt, kam zu dem Schluss, dass "die LRA kein politisches Programm oder keine Ideologie hat, zumindest keine, die die lokale Bevölkerung gehört hat oder verstehen kann". Die Lords Resistance Army wird auch in wissenschaftlichen Quellen als nicht-christliche bzw. nicht-religiöse Gruppe eingestuft,
obwohl sie nach eigenen Aussagen für die Errichtung eines Gottesstaates auf Erden nach dem Willen Gottes kämpft, wie es sich in der Bibel im Allgemeinen sowie im Dekalog im Besonderen geoffenbart habe.

Weitere Funktionen
 Commonwealth Initiative für Religions- oder Glaubensfreiheit (CIFoRB), Mitglied des Beirats
 Mitglied der Deutschen Kommission für Gerechtigkeit und Frieden
 Beiratsmitglied des Migrationsrechtsnetzwerkes der Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart
 Mitglied des Kuratoriums der Hirschfeld-Eddy-Stiftung
 Mitglied des wissenschaftlichen Beirats des Theologischen Ethikprogramms an der Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
 Mitglied des Redaktionsausschusses der Zeitschrift für Menschenrechte
 Mitglied des Beirats (2010–2013) der Bundesagentur für Anti-Diskriminierung (ADS)
 Mitglied des wissenschaftlichen Beirats der Forschungsstelle Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses (KCID) an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

Auszeichnungen
 2014: Ehrendoktor der Theologischen Fakultät der Universität Luzern
 2017: Bundesverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse
 2017: Distinguished Service Award des Zentrums in Anerkennung seiner herausragenden Verdienste, um die weltweite Religions- und Glaubensfreiheit.
 2017: Alfons-Auer-Ethik-Preis der Katholisch-Theologischen-Fakultät der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg für sein Engagement für Religionsfreiheit
 2020: Mitglied der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

Veröffentlichungen (Auswahl)
Als Autor
 Neuzeitliches Freiheitsrecht und politische Gerechtigkeit. Perspektiven der Gesellschaftsvertragstheorien. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1990, ISBN 3-88479-497-3.
 Zum Ethos der menschenrechtlichen Demokratie. Eine Einführung am Beispiel des Grundgesetzes. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1991, ISBN  3-88479-555-4.
 Wiedergewinnung des Politischen. Eine Einführung in Hannah Arendts politisches Denken. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-88479-783-2.
 Kampf und Entscheidung. Politischer Existentialismus bei Carl Schmitt, Helmuth Plessner und Karl Jaspers. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1994, ISBN 3-88479-857-X.
 Philosophie der Menschenrechte. Grundlagen eines weltweiten Freiheitsethos. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft Darmstadt und Primus, 1998.
 Kants Symbolik. Ein Schlüssel zur kritischen Freiheitsphilosophie. Alber, Freiburg i.Br. 2001. (Reihe Praktische Philosophie. Band 69), ISBN 3-495-48018-8.
 Muslime im säkularen Rechtsstaat. Integrationschancen durch Religionsfreiheit. transcript, Bielefeld 2003, ISBN 3-89942-130-2.
 Menschenrechte in der Einwanderungsgesellschaft. Plädoyer für einen aufgeklärten Multikulturalismus. transcript, Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-89942-720-2.
 Auslaufmodell Menschenwürde? Warum sie in Frage steht und warum wir sie verteidigen müssen, Herder Verlag, Freiburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-451-32508-3.
 Freedom of Religion or Belief. An International Commentary, Oxford OUP, 2016.

Als Herausgeber von Sammelbänden
 mit Volkmar Deile, Bernd Thomsen: Menschenrechte vor der Jahrtausendwende. amnesty international-Publikation. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-596-11691-0.
 mit Wilhelm Heitmeyer: Politisierte Religion. Ursprünge und Erscheinungsformen des modernen Fundamentalismus. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-518-12073-5.
 mit Heike Alefsen, Bernd Thomsen, Katharina Wegener (Red.): Menschenrechte im Umbruch. Fünfzig Jahre Allgemeine Menschenrechtserklärung. Hrsg. Amnesty International. Luchterhand, Neuwied 1998, ISBN 3-472-03352-5.
 mit Jörg Lüer: Rechte nationaler Minderheiten. Ethische Begründung, rechtliche Verankerung und historische Erfahrung. transcript, Bielefeld 2004, ISBN 3-89942-241-4.
 mit Petra Follmar-Otto: Konzeptionelle und redaktionelle Arbeit für: Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend, Zwangsverheiratung in Deutschland. Deutsches Institut für Menschenrechte, Baden-Baden 2007
 mit Franz-Josef Hutter, Sabine Kurtenbach, Carsten Tessmer: Menschenrechtsfragen. Loeper Literaturverlag, Karlsruhe, 2008, ISBN 978-3-86059-521-3.
 mit Volkmar Deile, Brigitte Hamm, Franz-Josef Hutter, Sabine Kurtenbach, Hannes Tretter: Jahrbuch Menschenrechte 2009: Religionsfreiheit. Böhlau, Wien 2008, ISBN 978-3-205-78190-5.
 mit Marianne Heimbach-Steins: Religionen und Religionsfreiheit. Menschenrechtliche Perspektiven im Spannungsfeld von Mission und Konversion. Ergon Verlag, Würzburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-89913-729-3.
 mit Andreas Frewer: Das Menschenrecht auf Gesundheit. Normative Grundlagen und aktuelle Diskurse. Transcript-Verlag, Bielefeld 2016, ISBN 978-3-8376-3471-6.
 mit Caroline Welsh, Christoph Ostgathe, Andreas Frewer: Autonomie und Menschenrechte am Lebensende. Grundlagen, Erfahrungen, Reflexionen aus der Praxis. Transcript-Verlag, Bielefeld 2016, ISBN 978-3-8376-3746-5.

Weblinks

 Heiner Bielefeldt am Erlanger Institut für Politische Wissenschaft
 Aufklärung ist nicht abgeschlossen Interview auf Quantara.de (2010)
 Ich bin gegen die Burka und gegen ein Burka-Verbot Interview auf tagesanzeiger.ch (2015)
 Interview, Pro Medienmagazin 4/2012, S. 6–7

Einzelnachweise

Neuzeithistoriker
Römisch-katholischer Theologe (20. Jahrhundert)
Römisch-katholischer Theologe (21. Jahrhundert)
Philosoph (20. Jahrhundert)
Philosoph (21. Jahrhundert)
UN-Sonderberichterstatter
Menschenrechtsaktivist (Deutschland)
Hochschullehrer (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Standort Erlangen)
Konfliktforscher
Weltanschauungsfreiheit
Religionsfreiheit
Person (interreligiöser Dialog)
Träger des Bundesverdienstkreuzes 1. Klasse
Ehrendoktor der Universität Luzern
Mitglied der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Deutscher
Geboren 1958
Mann
Absolvent der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Hochschullehrer (Universität Bielefeld)

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Discussion in 'General Scientology Discussion' started by Leland, Aug 6, 2016.
I've only seen these in Florida....but suppose they are nationwide?
The name of this franchise.....kinda weird. Or perhaps chosen to be "new age?"
That's nearly impossible. When you look at the pictures, what can you see ?
Impressive, ("ideal") buildings, which are sterile and ..... nearly empty - exactly like in the Co$.
In England the word is spelled "yoghurt." It comes from the Turkish. I actually drank some homemade roadside yoghurt from a jug in Turkey when I visited on a road trip in 1970: I was expecting something civilized and familiar and it tasted disgusting, Anyway, I digress.
Change the store name to "Woghurtology" and the cult connection would be perfect.
There's a certain store front in the shopping district in downtown that always catches my attention in the corner of my eye when I'm walking down the street . I always think it says the "S" word and then I look straight at it and realize it says "Vinology". That damn "ology" suffix gets me every time!
In England the word is spelled "yoghurt." It comes from the Turkish.
I actually drank some homemade roadside yoghurt from a jug in Turkey when I visited on a road trip in 1970: I was expecting something civilized and familiar and it tasted ********, Anyway, I digress.
Probably you got something which is called: "Ayran"
Basically that is yoghurt mixed with water and salt. Oh yes, occasionally it is mixed with lemon balm, mint, basil, goat milk, dill or black pepper.
Maybe you want to edit the ********, because you could be punished for insulting this wonderful drink.
We were offered something in a glass jug that sounded like "yogoort?" and I assumed it was like the familiar yoghurt. If the guy had called it "Ayran" -- however that gets pronounced in Turkish it doesn't look like it will sound like "yogoort" -- I would have refused it on the basis of it not being the greatest of ideas to drink who-knows-what from a Turkish roadside person*. He wasn't even a vendor; just looked like a yokel intrigued by six young white foreign peeps including two girls.
*Admittedly there's not a whole lot of difference between who-knows-what with a familiar name from a Turkish roadside person and who-knows-what with an unfamiliar name from a Turkish roadside person. Ah, the naivety of youth!
Maybe you want to edit the ********, because you could put be punished for insulting this wonderful drink.
I looked at the link. This stuff would be funny if it weren't so goddam sick. They fined a company the equivalent of $70,000 for "insulting Ayran".
But what else would be expected from a culture that cuts off your head for insulting Mohammed or Islam?
Yes, I tried one once and they are highly sterile. Not just the store designs....but the "getting the yogurt structure" of the franchise system also.
The stores are extremely clean.
I guess....sterile has its plus points...when dealing with food and food consumption.
Many times I wondered how business owned by Public Scientologists......could get away with blatant usage of Cult Words or Cult Themes in their business titles and Company names...without getting into trouble with the Cult.
Though....I don't think any Public Cult Businesses have used "Ology."
It also makes me think that LRH himself jumped on that bandwagon of using Cult words.... with his "Clear Sound."
I have no doubt that he saw the success of "Dolby" ....and its world wide acceptance as a Audio Standard.....and tried to carve out a slice of that pie for himself.
I am so glad that he did not succeed at that....!!
I get the impression this is a franchise started by a Scientology upstart who is still in the warm and fuzzy zone before the SRA arrives.
To paraphrase James Coburn in Waterhole #3, "Maybe we take Scientology too seriously"…."Maybe we don't take Scientology seriously enough".
ST PETE FLORIDA—September 27, 2013– Team USA's Olympic hero, Ryan Lochte, will trade in his swim cap for a yogurt hat with the launch of two new flavors exclusive to Yogurtology and sales benefitting his personal charities.The concept was born from a "what if" brainstorm at The Clear Agency when the local franchise ownership team Jordan Levy, Jaclyn Levy, Ean Mendelsohn and Grant Levy who own 8 (soon to be 9 in Orlando) stores hired the firm to come up with a big idea to launch the Gainesville location and provide deep exposure for the brand.
For the campaign, Clear worked with Lochte's New York Agent to develop a line of Premi-Yum flavors exclusive to the franchise, with proceeds benefiting Ryan Lochte's personal charities (Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy and the Mac Crutchfield Foundation).
Yogurtology has pledged to donate a generous $20,000 to Ryan's charities, with the expressed intention to raise even more.
"Community is at the heart of the Yogurtology brand. With Ryan Lochte, we saw the opportunity to really make an impact in not only the Gainesville community, but that of his charities. Says Jaclyn Levy, Director of the Florida Stores for Yogurtology.
"I'm proud to partner with a brand that not only values giving back, but rewards giving back. It's cool to know that anyone near a Yogurtology location can help PPMD and the Mac Crutchfield Foundation just by eating frozen yogurt," said Lochte.
You know things are slow in scio world when we're talking about yogurt.
Or when a franchise's most important marketing decision is made with no regard about being inadvertently associated with a controversial international cult with a following numbering in the millions.
I suspected that you got some variant of Kefir. If someone puked milk through a nose full of sinus-infection induced snot, they'd approximate the texture and taste of Kefir. And don't anyone tell me I should taste the authentic stuff. I have.
Just don't order the TR0.
Or the Xenumango, Sec-Checkcherry or BigBlueberry.
So I guess old Tampa money.
LOL....It could even be a spoof of a sorts....that they made up that company name.


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In Combustible, Muslim Karachi, A Christian Erects A 140-Foot Cross
June 17, 2015 • Parvez Henry Gill says the cross is intended as a "symbol of peace." But in a city where sectarian violence is common, the cross could become a target. Gill acknowledges that death threats are common.
A Pakistani man reads a newspaper at a closed market in Karachi on Wednesday following the arrest of Altaf Hussain. For more than two decades, Hussain has wielded control over his party — and, by extension, parts of the city — from half a world away in London. Asif Hassan/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
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June 5, 2014 • Altaf Hussain has been running his powerful Pakistani political movement from self-imposed exile for 22 years. After he was arrested in London on Tuesday, Karachi came to a grinding halt.
Pakistanis check the site of a bomb blast in Karachi on Sunday. Pakistani officials say the blast has killed dozens of people in a neighborhood dominated by Shiites. Fareed Khan/AP hide caption
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Blast Targets Shiites In Pakistan; Dozens Killed
March 3, 2013 • At least 28 people were killed in the blast outside a Shiite mosque as people were leaving evening prayers. Sunday's attack follows an attack on Shiite Hazaras in Quetta last month that killed more than 90 people.
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Thank you for your online enquiry, I am sorry to hear you are in distress and concerned about your symptoms. After a TURP it is common for gentleman to have urinary symptoms, sometimes these symptoms usually resolve within a few days but sometimes they can last a little longer in some individuals. A TURP can irritate the urethra and in some cases can cause a urinary tract infection. A urine sample with your GP can indicate whether you have a urinary tract infection.


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As its name implies, LaserBand 41 boasts 41 medical-grade lasers (no LEDs) to stimulate hair follicles at the cellular level, to promote hair growth, and counteract hair thinning. And with its Flex-fit head band design, it should be comfy for almost all head shapes and sizes.
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Create a WPF "control" that is run in an external process
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Feds Urged to Do More to Track School Sexual Abuse
By Evie Blad — February 04, 2014 | Corrected: February 21, 2019 5 min read
Corrected: An earlier version of this story used a previous name for an advocacy group formed to prevent sexual abuse of students in schools. The group is now called Stop Educator Sexual Abuse, Misconduct, and Exploitation, or SESAME.
Federal agencies are not doing enough to track incidents of child sexual abuse by school personnel, and they are failing to provide adequate guidance to states and districts about how to prevent and respond to such acts, a report by the Government Accountability Office says.
The report, released last week, depicts a fractured system of background checks that often fail to detect potential red flags, and divergent and sometimes conflicting policies between states and districts for reporting, investigating, and responding to suspected cases of sexual misconduct.
While the U.S. departments of Education, Justice, and Health and Human Services have resources to guide prevention efforts, none has taken a lead role in collecting data or coordinating a federal response, and many state and local agencies are unaware such guidance exists, the report says.
"The sexual abuse of students and sexual misconduct by public K-12 school personnel is a complex problem, and such behavior is particularly egregious because schools are entrusted with educating the nation's children," says the report, compiled after investigators surveyed state education agencies in every state and the District of Columbia, visited six school districts, and reviewed files from five sexual-abuse investigations. "There are no simple solutions to this problem, and, although states and school districts are taking some positive steps, current efforts are clearly not enough."
The prevalence of sexual abuse of children by school personnel is unknown, in part because some cases go unreported. A 2004 report for the U.S. Department of Education found that nearly 9.6 percent of students are victims of sexual abuse by school personnel at some point in their education careers.
The report synthesizes discussions over several decades regarding sexual abuse of students. A 1998 investigative series by Education Week, updated in 2003, found that districts are often unprepared to identify and respond to such behavior because, unaware of its prevalence, they consider it a rare and idiosyncratic occurrence.
"Where there's no data, there's no problem," said Terri L. Miller the president of the Las Vegas-based Stop Educator Sexual Abuse, Misconduct and Exploitation, or SESAME. She called the report "a positive step" in raising awareness among parents and school administrators about the frequency of abuse by school personnel.
Much 'to Be Done'
In a response appended to the report, Deborah S. Delisle, the assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education, said the department will explore strategies to better track data, revise its training materials to reach a wider audience, and examine ways to better collaborate with other federal agencies.
"As this report acknowledges, the department has voluntarily undertaken efforts to address the issue of sexual abuse of students," Ms. Delisle wrote. "Still, there remains much that needs to be done."
In the survey, 46 states said they require background checks of applicants for jobs in public schools, but their methods vary widely. Thirty-six states use both state and federal sources of criminal data to gather information on applicants, but others only check for state criminal violations. And while most states require background checks for teachers, not all do for other school staff or volunteers, the study says.
Further, the report says such checks are often incomplete because state sex-offender registries rely on local courts for up-to-date information and because data are difficult to track between states.
And inappropriate behavior by educators that may signal their plans for sexual misconduct is not always illegal.
For example, a teacher may "groom" students for abuse, gaining trust by singling them out in class, touching them excessively, or communicating with them frequently through social media, the report says. Those behaviors are frequently prohibited by state codes of professional conduct, but those standards generally only apply to staff members with teaching licenses. What's more, states inconsistently enter such violations into the national data clearinghouse used in some state background checks.
By way of example, the report cites a male 2nd grade teacher who was convicted of aggravated criminal sexual abuse of 10 girls in two districts.
The first district disciplined the teacher for keeping pornography on his work computer, and his contract was not renewed after a parent complained of inappropriate behavior from the teacher, who told her daughter that she reminded him of a movie star and often stared at her. Neither instance triggered a criminal complaint, and the information was not relayed to the second district, which discovered his sexual behavior after another parent's complaint.
Prevention and response efforts are also weakened because of uncertainty about whether the questionable behavior should be reported, who should report it, and to whom, the study concludes.
Some districts require staff members to report suspected abuse to school administrators, who may conduct their own investigation before contacting law-enforcement or child-welfare authorities—a step that can delay reporting and complicate investigations, the report says.
Conflicting goals and methods among agencies may also get in the way. For example, child-welfare groups may act quickly to prevent future abuse, which can tip off suspects, while police sometimes like to surprise suspects, the report says.
Such conflicts are eased in some areas by formalized coordination among agencies, and they could be further addressed by clear federal guidance, the report says.
The GAO also recommends that the Education Department do more to inform school leaders of their obligations under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which requires schools to have procedures in place to protect students from sexual violence by school personnel.
Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., who requested the GAO investigation, said he plans to request congressional hearings aimed at "addressing the shortcomings of child-abuse laws and regulations."
Mr. Miller introduced a bill last year that would require criminal-history checks for all public school employees, applicants for employment, and contractors with unsupervised access to students. The House of Representatives passed the bill in October.
"We must take every available and reasonable step we can to ensure that the people and schools that are entrusted with our children every day protect them from abuse," he said in a statement.
Evie Blad
Staff Writer, Education Week
Evie Blad is a reporter for Education Week.
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A version of this article appeared in the February 05, 2014 edition of Education Week as Report Highlights Weaknesses in Tracking School Sexual Abuse
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Nirvi Shah & Lesli A. Maxwell, November 16, 2011
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Q: Regarding the winding number My main question is about part B, but I would also be grateful if you can tell me what you think about part A.

Define a smooth vector field
$X$ on $S^1$ as follows:
$X(x,y)=(-y,x)$. For a smooth map $f:S^1\to M$ we define $f^{'}(t)=d_tf(X_t)$ for $t\in S^1$.
Assume that there's given a smooth map
$\gamma:S^1\to R^2\setminus \{0\}$.  Define
$f:S^1\to S^1$ by
$f(t)=\frac{\gamma(t)}{\| \gamma(t)\|}$.
Recall, the winding number of $\gamma$ is defined as: $n(\gamma)=deg(f)$ where on both circles we put the standard orientation.

A. If $u\in R^2 \setminus \{0\}$, define  $R_u=\{au: a>0\}$. Show that there exists a vector $u\in R^2\setminus \{0\}$ such that for all $t\in \gamma^{-1}(R_u)$ the derivative $\gamma^{'}(t)$ is not parallel to $u$, show that for this $u$ the set $\gamma^{-1}(R_u)$ is finite.

B. If $u$ as in part A, for $t\in \gamma^{-1}(R_u)$  define $\epsilon(t)\in \{\pm 1\}$ to be the sign of the ordered basis $(u,\gamma^{'}(t))$. Prove that:

$n(\gamma)=\sum_{t\in \gamma^{-1}(R_u)} \epsilon(t)$.
My try:
Part A:
Method 1: I tried to use a theorem (1) that states:
If $M, N$ are smooth n-manifolds , $f:M\to N$ ia a smooth proper map, $y\in N$ is a regulr value of $f$ then $f^{-1}(y)$ is finite.
Regarding the question, $f$ is smooth since $\gamma$ is smooth and $\|\gamma\|$ is smooth (except in $0$ which does not belong to $S^1$). $f$ is also proper, by  a theorem: if $X,Y$ are topological spaces hausdorff and compact and $f:X\to Y$ is contiuos then for every compact $K\subset Y$ , $f^{-1}(K)$ is compact.
In our case $f$ is smooth so continuos and $S^1$ is compact and hausdorff therefore $f$ is proper. So using theorem (1) we get that there is a regular value $v\in S^1$ such that $f^{-1}(v)$ is finite.In particular $y\in R^2\setminus \{0\}$. Consider $R_y=\{ay: a>0\}$  and assume by contradiction that there is $t\in \gamma^{-1}(R_y)$ such that $\gamma'(t)$ is parallel to $y$ .
Since $f$ is the projection of $\gamma$ on $S^1$ so $d_t(f)=0$ and so $f$ is not surjective and this contradicts that $y$ is a regular value of $f$. Thus for this $y$, for all $t\in \gamma^{-1}(R_y)$ : $\gamma'(t)$ is not parallel to $y$.
In addition, $f^{-1}(y)$ is finite if
$t\in \gamma^{-1}(R_y)$ iff $\gamma(t) \in R_y$ iff $\frac{\gamma(t)}{\|\gamma(t)\|}=y$ iff $t\in f^{-1}(y)$
So $\gamma^{-1}(R_y)$ is finite.
Method 2:
Notice that $f$ is the composition of $\gamma$ with the radial quotient $q: R^2 \setminus \{0\} \to S^1$ ( $q$ is the map $R^2\setminus \{0\} \to S^1$ defined by $v\to \frac{v}{\|v\|}$ )..
This quotient just projects out the radial component of any vector (what does radial component mean in this context?), so the condition that $\gamma'(t)$ is not parallel to $u$ is equivalent to the condition that $f'(t)$ is nonzero, i.e. $f$ is a submersion at $t$. Also notice that $R_u$ is $q^{-1}(v)$ where $v := q(u) = \frac{u}{\|u\|}$, so the condition that $\gamma'(t)$ is not parallel to $u$ for all $t$ in $\gamma^{-1}(R_u) = f^{-1}(v)$ is equivalent to the condition that $v$ is a regular value of f. By Sard's Theorem, this holds for almost all $u$. For such a $u$, the usual preimage theorem says that $f^{-1}(v) = \gamma^{-1}(R_u)$ is a 0-manifold. It must be compact because $S^1$ is compact, so it's finite.
Part B:
Definition: if $M, N$ are smooth oriented n-manifilds without boundary and $f:M\to N$ a smooth map. For a regular value $y\in N$ of $f$ and under the condition $|f^{-1}(y)|<\infty$, define $deg_y(f)=\sum_{x\in f^{-1}(y)} sgn (d_xf)$  where $d_xf:T_xM\to T_yN$ an isomorphism ($T_xM, T_yN$ are oriented).
We have that $deg(f)=deg_v(f)$ by a theorem.
Translating as in Part A, the expression given on the RHS is equal to
$\sum_{t \in f^{-1}(v)} sgn (d_t f)$.
Since $v$ is a regular value for $f$, it suffices to show that $sgn(v, \gamma'(t)) = sgn(d_t f)$ for all $t \in f^{-1}(v)$. By subtracting off an appropriate multiple of $v$ from $\gamma'(t)$, you get $d_q(\gamma'(t)) = f'(t)$, so $(v, \gamma'(t))$ has the same orientation as $(v, f'(t))$. This orientation is $+1$ if $f'(t)$ is a positive multiple of $X_t$, and $-1$ if $f'(t)$ is a negative multiple of $X_t$, and these are equivalent to saying that $d_t f$ preserves or reverses orientation, respectively.
I did not understand how this works, what does it mean to subtract off an appropriate multiple of $v$ from $γ′(t)$?, and do how we get then that $d_q(\gamma'(t)) = f'(t)$?
Any clarification would be welcomed.

A: Let $\gamma=(\gamma_1,\gamma_2)$. Define
$\Gamma: S^1 \times \mathbb{R}^+ \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^2\setminus \{0\}$ by
$(t,a)\rightarrow (a \gamma_1(t),a\gamma_2(t))$. Then
$D\Gamma = \begin{pmatrix} a\gamma_1'(t) & \gamma_1(t) \\ a\gamma_2'(t) & \gamma_2(t) \end{pmatrix}$ and
$\text{det}(D\Gamma) = a(\gamma_1'(t)\gamma_2(t) - \gamma_2'(t)\gamma_1(t))$.
As $a>0$,  $\gamma'(t)$ is not parallel to $\gamma(t)$ iff
$\text{det}(D\Gamma) \neq 0$
iff $u = \Gamma(t,a)$ is a regular value.
By Sard, $\exists\,u$ a regular value. If $u \notin \text{Image}(\Gamma)$ then $\gamma^{-1}(R_u)=\emptyset$ and  both (A) and (B) are trivially true (geometrically, $0$ is not contained in a bounded component of
$\mathbb{R}^2\setminus \text{Image}(\gamma)$ and hence $n(\gamma) = n(0,\gamma) = 0$).
So let $u=\Gamma(t,a)$ be a regular value. Since $S^1$ is compact, Image($\gamma$) is bounded and the distance of $\gamma$ from $0$ is also positive; ie, $\text{Image}(\gamma)$ is contained in an annulus $\{0 < a_1 < \lVert(x,y)\rVert < a_2  < \infty \}$. Then $\gamma^{-1}(R_u) \subset Y = S^1\times [a_1,a_2]$ and by restricting $\Gamma$ to $Y$ we get a proper map and hence $\gamma^{-1}(R_u)$ is finite. Therefore (A).
To deduce (B), let $g:S^1\rightarrow S^1\times \mathbb{R}^+$ by $t\rightarrow (t,1/\lVert \gamma(t) \rVert)$.  Then $f = \Gamma \circ g$ and $df = D\Gamma \circ dg$. Note $dg(\partial_t) = (1, *)$ does not reverse orientation and hence $sgn(df)=sgn(D\Gamma)$. Now $(u_1,u_2) = (a\gamma_1(t),a\gamma_2(t))$ and $a >0$, so $sgn(u,\gamma') = sgn(\gamma,\gamma')=sgn(df)$. Hence (B).


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Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) is a free antivirus program created by Microsoft for Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7, that provides protection against viruses, spyware, rootkits, and trojans. It replaces Microsoft's Windows Live OneCare (which was subscription-based) and Windows Defender (which protected only from adware and spyware).
Hardware requirements for MSE, depend upon the operating system. For Windows XP, it requires at least a 500 MHz processor and 256 MB of RAM. For Windows Vista and Windows 7, it requires a 1 GHz processor and 1 GB of RAM. For any Windows version it requires 140 MB of free disk space, a VGA display resolution of 800 × 600 or higher, and an Internet connection.
Before it installs, MSE checks that the installed Microsoft Windows is a legitimate registered copy. It will then disables the old Windows Defender and sets Windows Update to its fully automatic mode. Allowing Windows to automatically install updates can cause problems, so you probably want to turned it off again through the control panel.
Virus definition updates are published three times a day. Using default settings, archived files are decompressed, and then scanned. File downloads and e-mail attachments are also scanned. If an application exhibits suspicious behavior, Security Essentials Dynamic Signature Service attempts to better identify malicious files by checking for updates.
Testing by AV-Test found that Microsoft Security Essentials detected and removed all malware samples. It also generated no false positives — it didn't flag any clean file as being malicious.
Before taking action against a suspect file, it prompts for user input. If no response is received in ten minutes, then the suspected malware is handled according to its default action, letting Security Essentials determine what to do with the malware. System Restore points are created before removing found malware.
Paid antivirus program vendors Symantec and McAfee claim their offerings are better than Security Essentials (however, I think if they want to stay in business they should consider switching to the video game business). I personally have been using AVG Technologies free antivirus software and found it very good, but I will still be switching to Microsoft Security Essentials in order to avoid AVG's constant nag screens to switch to their paid version.