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Joshua Frank: Obama
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By Joshua Frank
Sen. Barack Obama isn't quite sure how he feels about the lopsided situation between Israel and Palestine. Less than two weeks after Obama gloated to AIPAC about his love for Israel, he unexpectedly admitted the truth while campaigning in Iowa recently. "[N]obody is suffering more than the Palestinian people…" said Obama, "the Israel government must make difficult concessions for the peace process to restart…" The truth hurts indeed, and Obama has been feeling the wrath of the pro-Israel activists since his statement last week.
Nonetheless, Obama shouldn't be trusted on the issue. While Rep. Dennis Kucinich hired avid pro-Palestine advocate Noura Erakat to sit on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Obama has been backpedaling — assuring AIPAC and others that he is unwavering in his support for Israel's continued bullying of Iran and occupation of Palestine.
"[Iran] is a genuine threat" to the United States and Israel, expressed Obama at a forum sponsored by AIPAC on March 12 in Washington D.C., only one day after his lucid remarks in Iowa. At the event Obama also reiterated that he would not rule out the use of force in disarming Iran, a position shared by the other leading Democratic presidential contenders, Hillary Clinton and John Edwards.
Earlier this month on March 2, Obama spoke at an AIPAC Policy Forum in Chicago where he clearly laid out his full stance on Israel, promising he would not alter the U.S./Israeli relationship. "[W]e must preserve our total commitment to our unique defense relationship with Israel by fully funding military assistance and continuing work on the Arrow and related missile defense programs," he said. "This would help Israel maintain its military edge and deter and repel attacks from as far as Tehran and as close as Gaza."
So while Obama admits that Palestinians suffer more than Israelis, he still won't do a damn thing to balance out the asymmetrical relationship. In fact, Obama has made it clear that U.S. tax payers will continue to foot the bill for Israel's ever-growing arsenal of weapons and missiles if he is indeed elected president in 2008.
In Obama's March 2 speech, he even had the audacity to declare that "we have to press for enforcement of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701, which demands the cessation of arms shipments to Hezbollah, a resolution which Syria and Iran continue to disregard. Their support and shipment of weapons to Hezbollah and Hamas, which threatens the peace and security in the region, must end."
If Obama is truly interested in invoking U.N. Resolutions to prop up his case for a military assault on Iran, we may as well note the some 65 Resolutions the senator has blatantly ignored that condemn Israel's actions — past and present — including Resolution 242 which calls for the withdraw of "Israeli armed forces from territories occupied" during the Six-Day War of 1967.
Sen. Obama, despite his acknowledgment of Palestinian suffering, has little to offer those who recognize that lasting peace in the Middle East will only begin when the U.S. radically alters its relationship with Israel. Continued funding of Israel's illegal occupation won't end the violence — it'll only continue it.
-Joshua Frank is the author of Left Out! How Liberals Helped Reelect George W. Bush and edits www.BrickBurner.org.
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Time To Talk A Little Volunteer Magic
Anyone who's followed my blog for the past few years is very much aware that I am a passionate college football fan. One of those annoying ones who will watch any game, any time during the season and will re-watch particular favorites on the DVR the other nine months of the year. And anyone who knows me on any level is very well aware that my LOVE is reserved for only one team and that's the Tennessee Volunteers. I come by it naturally--Tennessee born and bred with practically every member of my family sporting orange and white. And when I was a wild child, doing theater up and down the eastern seaboard, I perfected my love of the Vols through two things--understanding the game of football in a way few women back then did, and bartending at a sports bar in Florida, where for one week every fall I was the most unpopular girl with the busiest bar in the Florida Keys.
No matter how long I tended bar or where, I have never worn any colors but my own school's.Every bar owner who interviewed me for a job, I told two things. First, I will double your Saturday day shift business from August to April. (Like college hoops too--who doesn't?) And second, I will never wear any gear other than Volunteers gear. The last bar owner was skeptical, seeing as Ohio State is only a few minutes away. But after the first two weeks of football season, he bought in--just like all the others did.
Unfortunately, being a Vols fan hasn't been easy, especially over the last decade. After a series of epic and abysmal hiring decisions by the University of Tennessee AD, the Vols' two biggest rivalries have unprecedented losing streaks. We've lost nine in a row to Alabama, and eleven in a row to the Florida Gators. Not because those teams are always so vastly superior, in my opinion, but because of the miasma of depression and failure that seeped like Legionnaire's disease into the sanctum sanctorum known as Neyland Stadium.
But suddenly things are different up on the Hill.
Any real football fan who isn't blinded by mindless team bias knows that Butch Jones has been building a monster on Rocky Top. And while some Vols fans and the sports media were hyping Tennessee last summer, I went on record with Ryan McGee at ESPN during a substitute gig hosting Paul Finebaum`that I thought the Vols would go 9-4, but a couple of lucky breaks could take them to 11-2.
Sometimes it sucks to be right.
But I also told Ryan that THIS year would be the Volunteers' coming out party. And man--it sure is starting to look that way. Seventeen starters return from a team that last year was too inexperienced to make certain those couple of balls bounced their way. That includes probably the strongest overall backfield in the SEC, a veteran defensive unit that's chomping at the bit under new Defensive Coordinator Bob Shoop, and the top special teams unit in the country in 2015. The schedule is favorable with both Florida and Alabama coming to Neyland, a major out of conference matchup with Virginia Tech slated for the 'neutral site' of Bristol Motor Speedway, just up the road from Knoxville. and the SEC East currently in coaching flux.
In the words of Rod Gilmore as Evan Berry sliced up Northwestern with a 100-yard interception return for a touchdown with 8 seconds to go in the Outback Bowl a few months ago: "2016 is going to be a good one for the Vols if it keeps rolling like this!"
Why thank you--yes it is rolling...rolling...rolling, and I don't mean the Tide.
I have a lot of friends. Many--okay, most--of them are football freaks like me. The cornerstone of our friendship is based on and around football. But there's a catch. While we all love our respective teams, we try to keep the fangurl blindness out of it. Do we backslid into 'my team is better than yours'? Of course we do. But we don't lose our minds over a little 'Alabama sucks' or "Vols choke again'. We can discuss each other's teams and players knowledgably and without prejudice. And I gotta tell you something--
The rest of the SEC is starting to take notice.
Don't believe me? If you've never met LSU Dad, you should. His videos are both insightful and hilarious. And this is what HE thinks:
Sports media makes fun of Butch Jones and his cliches, and I have to admit--I got a little tired of "brick by brick" and "analytics" and some of his other favorite sayings too. But it's funny--this year, Butch Jones doesn't seem to be as hung up on those cliches. It's like he used them to mask what was really going on behind the scenes, and now he knows that...well...he doesn't have to. Because he can't. Offseason moves so far have been huge. Keeping Alvin Kamara, Cam Sutton, and my hometown, same high school (Northeast Eagles in Clarksville!) favorite Jalen Maybin-Reeves was a HUGE win for UT--bigger than signing some of the new recruits, frankly. Hiring Bob Shoop was another massive power play.
But here's why things are different on the Hill.
Today is UT's graduation. We are literally sixteen weeks away from opening kickoff. Sixteen weeks and seven hours from now, the college football season will begin. I've been a Vols fan for longer than I will admit--birth, most likely--and I have to tell you: it's been painful to root for UT the past ten years or so. Literally PAINFUL. Even the past couple of years, when our way-too-young team started to close in on the season, the doubts would begin--not only for the fans, but the players. And why not? Eleven losses in a row to Florida. Nine losses in a row to Alabama. These teams are arguably our biggest rivals. And as those circled dates drew closer on the calendar every year, the same feeling began to churn in all our guts.
Dread.
But not this year.
This year, when Florida players started mouthing off--looking at you Jalen Tabor--no one was scared. No one was angry. Everyone was like--knock yourself out, pal. Jalen Hurd, our running back, summed it up best.
6'0. 190. Just talkin' for attention. Not going to end well buddy.
Considering that he's a 6'4", 240 lb running back who delivers hits like this--
--perhaps Jalen Tabor should reconsider poking the beast with a pointy stick. Especially when that beast has fifty pounds on you and runs 19.1 MPH on an elevated treadmill and 23.1 mph on a flat one. I'm no physicist, but I'd be willing to bet that the Jalen vs Jalen collision will favor the big guy in smokey grays.
Yes, I said smokey grays--and probably a Checker Neyland triumph as well.
Senior captain Jalen Reeves-Maybin (again--MY hometown and high school)in his response to the Tabor brou-ha-ha displayed something else I really like.
Reeves-Maybin said he prefers to let his play do the talking."We're not gonna feed into that," Kamara said. "We're not too thirsty for attention."
"Just play the game," Reeves-Maybin said. "Play the game. Let it speak (for itself). You don't see great players out there saying stuff like that. Just play."
As for Alabama, my friends who root for the Tide are a little uneasy about the Third Saturday in October--which this year actually IS on the Third Saturday in October. October 15th, in fact--the day before my milestone *mumblemumble* birthday. A group of Finebaum callers are renting a cabin in the Smokies for that weekend and all going to the game. I'm looking forward to meeting them in person as they've all become such dear friends of mine. And nothing would be a better birthday present than driving back to Gatlinburg in a car with five Alabama fans who just watched the Tide get beat in Neyland Stadium.
I'd be able to cross one thing off my bucket list. Happy birthday to me.
The great thing about college football is that you never know what's going to happen. Regardless, though, I'm starting to see a quiet confidence creeping up Rocky Top. Silly fans--the kind who always think their team is going to go undefeated--don't count. But the knowledgeable fans, the sports media, the coaching staff, and the players--they do. While the returning veterans, the favorable schedule, and the feeling that everything is in place cannot be discounted, the main difference I see between the Vols of 2016 and the Vols of the past decade is in the mindset.of the players. Not just the seniors, but the new guys as well. Ever hear of Jonathon Kongbo?
Is Tennessee's struggle back to the top of the heap over at last? I don't know. Maybe. Sure is starting to feel like it. The important differential is, I think, that the players don't believe UT is back. They KNOW Tennessee is back. The traditions are back. The power is back. The joy is back. The confidence is back. And it's infectious.
I'm not going to predict a record for the season, or wins over the Vols' biggest rivals. I'm not going to predict All-Americans or Heismans or playoff spots. After all, we are talking about the SEC--anything can happen. But it's foolish for anyone to deny after watching the progress UT has made over the past three years that Butch Jones wasn't kidding when he said he was rebuilding the whole program. The Vols just posted their highest collective GPA in the history of the program. Players are matriculating. And some of our guys, like Josh Dobbs, find ways to make a difference in both small ways and big. All of these things are WINS. The Vols are just better all-around, both on the field and off. They're committed to their path--and that kind of commitment doesn't just show up one day out of the blue. Commitment comes with confidence.
Confidence leads to wins. And if the Vols are winning in the classroom, winning on graduation day, winning in the realm of life, then they have learned how to win on the field as well.
It's good to see Rocky Top with its swag back.
So I'm planning to go to several games--the Battle of Bristol, the Florida game (where I fully expect to see smoky grays and Neyland checkered), and Alabama. Planning to drop off some orange roses on the General's grave, and tailgate with all the Volunteers I know and love online. Probably will bring some gator fritters in September and wear my gator boots. In October I'll dig out 'the' sweatshirt--the one I've only worn to the Third Saturday in October games I've attended since I bought the shirt in 1999--'the' sweatshirt is undefeated in three games in Knoxville and two in Tuscaloosa. I may chuck a couple of things at Lane Kiffin if I get close enough. And I'll be certain to be there with signs that will show up on TV if either Gameday or SEC Nation does their pre-game show at Neyland on those days. But for now, Team 120 has inspired me to deliver a line I haven't delivered since Phillip Fulmer was the coach.
See you in Atlanta..And if UT quarterback and senior captain Josh Dobbs is right, see you in Tampa too.
Because THEY believe, they've made a believer out of me.
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Soon after saying it had no plans to change the way Windows Media Player handles the download of DRM licenses, Microsoft now says it will release an update in the next 30 days to help thwart the threat of spyware infection.
Microsoft will patch its Windows Media Player after all.
One week after saying it had no plans to change the way WMP (Windows Media Player) handles the download of DRM licenses, Microsoft now says it will release an update in the next 30 days to help thwart the threat of spyware infection.
The about-face comes amid reports that malicious hackers are rigging .wmv files and using the anti-piracy mechanism to infect computers with spyware, adware, dialers and computer viruses.
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Posted on June 7, 2016 by lclalor
On December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy," according to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Japan launched a surprise attack on the United States at Pearl Harbor. Nearly 2500 men died and another 1100 were wounded that day and nearly 20 ships and 200 planes in the Pacific fleet were crippled or destroyed. On December 8, the U.S. declared war on Japan and entered World War 2.
Today in this tropical paradise, it's hard to imagine the chaos and carnage of that long-ago day. Displays at the Pearl Harbor Visitor Center help to set the historical stage, then present and interpret the events.
Entrance to World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument at Pearl Harbor
Interpretive historical displays at Pearl Harbor Visitor Center
WWII historical displays at the visitor center
Each day the National Park Service issues 1300 free tickets on a first come, first served basis. The national monument opens at 7 am and visitors are encouraged to arrive early to secure a ticket. To plan ahead and ensure our access, we reserved our tickets in advance at www.recreation.gov for a convenience fee of $1.50 each. You must arrive one hour early to pick up your ticket or it will be re-issued to another visitor. The extra hour ensured time to tour the visitor center before our tour began. We scheduled our visit for 2:30 pm and took the city bus from Waikiki to Pearl Harbor for $2.50 one way. There are shuttles from Waikiki for $15 roundtrip or tour companies that charge considerably more but this plan worked well for us. While traveling, I often take the local bus to have an authentic experience.
Just before our appointed tour time, we lined up outside the Pearl Harbor Memorial Theater for a brief presentation by a park ranger, then we watched a short film about the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Pearl Harbor Memorial Theater featuring film on the attack of Pearl Harbor
After the film, we filed out to the boat dock and boarded the shuttle boat that took us to the USS Arizona Memorial.
Boarding our shuttle boat
The shuttle boat to the USS Arizona Memorial
The battleship USS Arizona was completely destroyed early in the attack and sank where it lies to this day. The memorial was built over the hull which entombs over 900 sailors whose bodies remain within it.
Sign that shows placement of the memorial over the remains of the USS Arizona
Arrival at the USS Arizona Memorial
The USS Arizona Memorial
Names of the 1177 crewmen who died in the attack
The memorial is a solemn and sacred place. Visitors are invited to contemplate here in silence or speak in a whisper. Men should remove their hats as a show of respect unless it's part of their uniform.
An opening in the floor of the memorial offers a view of the sunken ship below.
USS Arizona visible beneath the memorial
This was a moving experience and a sobering one. The USS Arizona Memorial conveyed the catastrophic loss of life in a personal and emotional way. Two facts brought tears to my eyes. First, there were 38 sets of brothers on the USS Arizona and 23 sets perished. Second, any survivor of the USS Arizona is entitled to have his ashes interred on the ship should he desire it. To date, 39 crew members have done so.
Based on events in November 2015.
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Middle East risk is an international problem for contractors
11 July, 2017 | By COLIN FOREMAN
Carillion is the latest international firm to report problem projects in the region
Before the London Stock Exchange opened for the week on 10 July UK construction company Carillion issued a trading update statement.
The statement said that it has conducted a review of selected projects with the Netherlands' KPMG and expects contract provisions totalling £845m ($1.088bn); has sold 50 per cent of its business in Oman; will exit Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Egypt; and will suspend dividend payments for 2017 to conserve some £80m of cash.
The market reacted quickly, with the company's share price quickly dropping by more than 20 per cent. By the end of the day the stock had dropped 39 per cent from 192.1 pence to 117.1 pence.
While the Middle East with £325m of provisions, was not the sole cause of the company's problems – the company also has loss making projects in the UK and Canada – it was a significant contributing factor and with only one problem project identified it could be the largest single item that has been provisioned for.
The scale of the losses from the Middle East will yet again force international contractors to ask whether the risks involved with working in the Middle East are worth any future repercussions back at their corporate headquarters should projects under perform.
For some contractors the solution is to vote with their feet and leave the region. The UK's Balfour Beatty has completed the sale of its operations in the UAE to its local partner the Dutco Group and South Africa's Murray Roberts has said it plans to exit the region.
Concerned that they may not be treated fairly by clients, other international construction companies are adopting a cautious approach when it comes to choosing which projects to bid on.
Ultimately, what goes around comes around. Project clients no longer have the buying power that they once had when developing large complex schemes that require international expertise and even landmark schemes that in the past would have attracted a raft of international bidders, such as The Tower at Dubai Creek Harbour, have garnered only limited interest. As more international firms scale back their operations in the region this trend looks set to continue.
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HomeOther StoriesGaltier says Mbappe is ready for next challenge amid PSG return
Galtier says Mbappe is ready for next challenge amid PSG return
Galtier says Mbappe is ready for next challenge amid PSG return. Kylian Mbappe's early return from World Cup duties in 2022 has, in the words of Christophe Galtier, "sent a strong signal to everyone" at Paris Saint-Germain. The 24-year-old attacker made it possible for France to win another world championship in Qatar, as he became the first player to score a hat-trick in a championship game since Geoff Hurst as he tried to motivate Les Bleus against Argentina. Mbappe's efforts were ultimately in futile when Lionel Messi and company won the penalty shootout, but the superstar striker hasn't been moping about or licking his wounds because he's already started training again at PSG.
The return of a talismanic presence to the Parc des Princes has been welcomed, according to Galtier, on PSG TV: "When I see him, I'm overjoyed. The World Cup went well for Kylian. A powerful signal to everyone is likewise sent by this response. Even if he was the tournament's leading scorer [with eight goals], a player may have felt upset not to win the most prestigious trophy. In order to prepare for the impending deadlines, he was eager to get in touch with the group again as soon as possible. Seeing him makes us really joyful."
Fullback Achraf Hakimi of Morocco, Brazilian duo Neymar and Marquinhos, and others have re-joined PSG, but Messi, who is reportedly in line for a contract extension with the Ligue 1 champions, is still in Argentina for the time being as the Albiceleste celebrate their first World Cup victory since 1986. On December 28, PSG will visit Strasbourg in a return to competitive play after having Mbappe score 19 goals for them in 20 outings this season.
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Our research activities fall within 3 main areas, which all relate to the study of the kinetics and thermodynamics of protein conformational changes, namely membrane protein folding, protein-detergent interactions and protein fibrillation. These areas are linked by a keen interest in understanding the mechanistic and thermodynamic behaviour of proteins in different circumstances by quantifying the strength of internal side-chain interactions as well as contacts with solvent molecules, whether it be detergents, denaturants, stabilizing salts and osmolytes or lipids. Ultimately we hope this will lead to a greater manipulative ability vis-a-vis processes of both basic, pharmaceutical and industrial relevance. The general approach is to use available spectroscopic techniques (fluorescence, CD, stopped-flow, FTIR, NMR and dynamic and static light scattering) to generate data which can be analyzed in a quantitative manner to develop models and mechanisms for conformational changes at the molecular level.
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We produce more than 400 million tonnes of plastic in the world every year. Plastic has many good functions, but we have not yet solved the big problem: What do we do with all the plastic we finish using? On January 18 a new centre for plastic research, En'Zync, were inaugurated at iNANO.
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Nielsen, S. B. & Otzen, D. E. (2019). Quartz Crystal Microbalances as Tools for Probing Protein-Membrane Interactions. In J. H. Kleinschmidt (Ed.), Lipid-Protein Interactions: Methods and Protocols (Vol. 2003, pp. 31-52). Springer. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-9512-7_2
Franzmann, M., Otzen, D. & Wimmer, R. (2009). Quantitative use of paramagnetic relaxation enhancements for determining orientation and insertion depth of peptides in micelles. ChemBioChem, 10, 2339-2347.
Christensen, L. F. B., Nowak, J. S., Sønderby, T. V., Frank, S. A. & Otzen, D. E. (2020). Quantitating denaturation by formic acid: Imperfect repeats are essential to the stability of the functional amyloid protein FapC. The Journal of biological chemistry, 295(37), 13031–13046. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.RA120.013396
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African Union: Why granting Israel an observer status is another grave misstep
Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki (AFP)
Middle East Eye / August 11, 2021
The AU decision reflects its lengthy support for a two-state solution which has certainly failed the Palestinians and enabled the western-backed Israeli settler-colonial project.
On 22 July, the chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC) received credentials from the ambassador of the State of Israel to Ethiopia, Burundi, and Chad.
The meeting between Moussa Faki Mahamat and Aleli Admasu, held at the headquarters of the African Union (AU) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, formally sealed Israel's observer status at the AU. Israel had previously held observer status at the Organization of African Unity (OAU), but had failed to get it back after the OAU was disbanded in 2002 and replaced by the AU.
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid described the event as "a day of celebration for Israel-Africa relations". However, South Africa described the surprising move as "unjust" and "shocking". Namibia, meanwhile, said: "granting observer status to an occupying power is contrary to the principles and objectives of the Constitutive Act of the African Union." Fourteen countries have allegedly rejected Israel's observer status.
The AUC reportedly decided to grant Israel observer status without consulting all member states. Still, this decision should be seen within the context of the AU's lengthy support for a two-state solution to the Middle East conflict. Its stated position is clear: Palestinians deserve to have an independent state based on the 4 June 1967 borders.
Two state stalemate
For nearly 60 years, the AU has said a two-state solution is necessary for the peaceful co-existence of Israel and an independent Palestinian state. Nonetheless, over the years the peace process has repeatedly stalled and a Palestinian state has not materialized. Indeed, the "great" two-state solution has only served to repeatedly "other" Palestinians and enable the western-backed Israeli settler-colonial project.
Each time Israel has attacked Gaza and killed innocent women and children, for example, its western allies have pointed to Israel's "legitimate right to defend itself" and promptly mentioned the slippery two-state solution.
Each time Israel has imposed on Gaza restrictions that create widespread poverty and hardship, its western allies have alluded to the two-state solution and cited the need to "balance Israel's security concerns" with Palestinian needs.
And each time Israel has sanctioned new illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, that further jeopardize the establishment of a geographically contiguous Palestinian state, in contravention of international law, the EU and US have slapped Israel on the wrist and unashamedly deferred to their support for a two-state solution in generally useless statements.
'Both-sidesism'
Today some 600,000-750,000 Israelis live in at least 250 settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. So, the bitter reality of the two-state solution in August 2021 is that it has morphed into an endless conduit for colonial expansion amid western complicity.
Despite at least 279 Palestinians being killed in the Israeli war on Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem in May, for example, the US recently approved a $735m arms sale and a potential $3.4bn helicopters sale to Israel.
Such support is made possible by the "both-sidesism" pushed by western media and political actors to frame a dubious logic and morality to Israel's systemic discrimination, racism, and violence. But only Palestinians have had to suffer the indignity of tremendous land theft and deprivation under a longstanding occupation and the spectre of a stumbling two-state solution.
Indeed, only the Palestinians have been let down by their erstwhile comrades indulging the two-state solutions' "both-sidesism" for selfish ends. Rwanda, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Ghana, for instance, have embraced the rhetoric of the two-state solution to establish close ties with Israel.
To all intents and purposes, many African nations simply doubt the feasibility of the two-state solution and have no problem engaging with Israel on many levels. A two-state solution has certainly failed Palestinians, and AU member states cannot pretend otherwise.
Shameful inaction
The AU must abandon the policy and actively back the establishment of a single democratic state for Palestinians and Israelis. Working towards the establishment of a unitary state would compel the AU to implement a comprehensive review of Israel's apartheid policies.
It would also compel the AU to establish a concrete plan of action to help secure Palestinian land, social and economic rights at present, and in a truly democratic dispensation.
Human Rights Watch, a leading NGO, has described Israel as similar to apartheid South Africa. It certainly is, but Israel has not had to reckon with widespread international action against its many human rights violations, and the AU has been party to that shameful inaction.
It has not probed why Israel is routinely demolishing Palestinian schools, homes, and villages. Nor why Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah face imminent eviction from homes they have owned since 1956. Nor why thousands of young Palestinian boys languishing in Israeli military detention are experiencing physical and mental abuse.
It has not probed why Palestinians are subjected to humiliating treatment and execution-style deaths at security checkpoints. Why Israel is building more illegal settlements on occupied land. Why Gaza is a cauldron of human suffering. Or why 5,739 Palestinians lost their lives to needless Israeli violence between 2008 and 2021.
The progressive bloc
These are the matters the AU should be seized with, where Palestinian rights are concerned, but the moribund two-state solution has long normalized Israeli aggression and the multidimensional dehumanization of Palestinians.
The establishment of a single democratic state under which Palestinians and Israelis co-exist peacefully as equal beings cannot be beyond the imagination of the AU.
A democratic state that recognizes and atones for the many injustices Palestinians have endured for the last 73 years should be the just goal. It's time for the progressive bloc within the AU to champion a single democracy that would empower Palestinians and Israelis equally.
Tafi Mhaka is a Johannesburg-based commentator and writer with a keen interest in African affairs, with special focus on Zimbabwe and Southern Africa


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Classical yoga incorporates epistemology, metaphysics, ethical practices, systematic exercises and self-development techniques for body, mind and spirit.[144] Its epistemology (pramana) and metaphysics is similar to that of the Sāṅkhya school. The metaphysics of Classical Yoga, like Sāṅkhya, is mainly dualistic, positing that there are two distinct realities. These are prakriti (nature), which is the eternal and active unconscious source of the material world and is composed of three gunas, and the puruṣas (persons), the plural consciousnesses which are the intelligent principles of the world, and are multiple, inactive and eternal witnesses. Each person has a individual puruṣa, which is their true self, the witness and the enjoyer, and that which is liberated. This metaphysical system holds that puruṣas undergo cycles of reincarnation through its interaction and identification with prakirti. Liberation, the goal of this system, results from the isolation (kaivalya) of puruṣa from prakirti, and is achieved through a meditation which detaches oneself from the different forms (tattvas) of prakirti.[243] This is done by stilling one's thought waves (citta vritti) and resting in pure awareness of puruṣa.
^ For instance, Kamalashila (2003), p. 4, states that Buddhist meditation "includes any method of meditation that has Enlightenment as its ultimate aim." Likewise, Bodhi (1999) writes: "To arrive at the experiential realization of the truths it is necessary to take up the practice of meditation.... At the climax of such contemplation the mental eye … shifts its focus to the unconditioned state, Nibbana...." A similar although in some ways slightly broader definition is provided by Fischer-Schreiber et al. (1991), p. 142: "Meditation – general term for a multitude of religious practices, often quite different in method, but all having the same goal: to bring the consciousness of the practitioner to a state in which he can come to an experience of 'awakening,' 'liberation,' 'enlightenment.'" Kamalashila (2003) further allows that some Buddhist meditations are "of a more preparatory nature" (p. 4).
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One of the best known early expressions of Brahmanical Yoga thought is the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali , the original name of which may have been the Pātañjalayogaśāstra-sāṃkhya-pravacana (c. sometime between 325 - 425) which some scholars now believe included both the sutras and a commentary.[129] As the name suggests, the metaphysical basis for this text is the Indian philosophy termed Sāṃkhya. This atheistic school is mentioned in Kauṭilya's Arthashastra as one of the three categories of anviksikis (philosophies) along with Yoga and Cārvāka.[130][131] The two schools have some differences as well. Yoga accepted the conception of "personal god", while Samkhya developed as a rationalist, non-theistic/atheistic system of Hindu philosophy.[132][133][134] Sometimes Patanjali's system is referred to as Seshvara Samkhya in contradistinction to Kapila's Nirivara Samkhya.[135] The parallels between Yoga and Samkhya were so close that Max Müller says that "the two philosophies were in popular parlance distinguished from each other as Samkhya with and Samkhya without a Lord."[136]
According to Zimmer, Yoga philosophy is reckoned to be part of the non-Vedic system, which also includes the Samkhya school of Hindu philosophy, Jainism and Buddhism:[45] "[Jainism] does not derive from Brahman-Aryan sources, but reflects the cosmology and anthropology of a much older pre-Aryan upper class of northeastern India [Bihar] – being rooted in the same subsoil of archaic metaphysical speculation as Yoga, Sankhya, and Buddhism, the other non-Vedic Indian systems."[61][note 6]
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According to Pāṇini, the term yoga can be derived from either of two roots, yujir yoga (to yoke) or yuj samādhau ("to concentrate").[26] In the context of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, the root yuj samādhau (to concentrate) is considered by traditional commentators as the correct etymology.[27] In accordance with Pāṇini, Vyasa who wrote the first commentary on the Yoga Sutras,[28] states that yoga means samādhi (concentration).[29]


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Michael Arneth CanReg (* 9. Jänner 1771 in Leopoldschlag; † 24. März 1854 in St. Florian) war ein österreichischer römisch-katholischer Priester, Augustiner-Chorherr und Propst von Stift Sankt Florian.

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Arneth studierte an der Universität Wien Philosophie und Theologie und trat 1794 in das Noviziat des Stiftes St. Florian ein, wo er die Profess ablegte und die Priesterweihe empfing. 1801 erfolgte Arneths Ernennung zum ordentlichen Professor der Bibelwissenschaft am k. k. Lyceum in Linz. Nachdem er seine Berufung an die Universität Wien abgelehnt hatte, wurde er 1815 Direktor am Linzer Staatsgymnasium (heute: Akademisches Gymnasium). 1823 wählte der Konvent von Sankt Florian Arneth zum Propst. Kaiser Franz Joseph I. ernannte ihn im Hinblick auf seine Erfahrungen auf dem Bildungssektor zum Generaldirektor der oberösterreichischen Gymnasien. Von 1834 bis 1841 war Arneth Repräsentant bei den Oberösterreichischen Landständen. 1837 nahm er entgegen der musikalischen Gepflogenheiten den 13-jährigen Anton Bruckner als Sängerknaben auf, dessen Stimmbruch sich damals bereits abzeichnete.

Neben der akademischen und politischen Zielsetzung verfolgte Arneth auch eine wirtschaftliche Konsolidierung des Stiftes, wodurch die Restaurierung von Kirche und Stiftsgebäude, sowie die Erweiterung der Stiftsbibliothek ermöglicht wurden. Durch diese bauliche Maßnahme und einer zusätzlichen Vermehrung der kulturellen Sammlungsbestände hob Arneth das geistige Niveau seiner Ordensgemeinschaft. Ein weiteres akademisches Verdienst ist die Wiedererrichtung der Theologischen Hauslehranstalt von Sankt Florian. Arneth vertrat ein humanistisches Bildungsideal und stand teilweise in pädagogischer Opposition zum Lehrmodus der Jesuitenschule.

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860-15. Cypress pond in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, May 15, 2010
Trees in cypress pond in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, May 15, 2010
Bald cypress in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, May 15, 2010
Knees of bald cypress trees in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, May 15, 2010
Shore milkweed (Asclepias perennis) in a dry cypress pond in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, October 3, 2009
Shore milkweed (Asclepias perennis) near a cypress pond in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, July 18, 2014
Blooming shore milkweed (Asclepias perennis) near a cypress pond in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, July 18, 2014
Flowers of shore milkweed (Asclepias perennis) near a cypress pond in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, July 18, 2014
Flower buds of Shore milkweed (Asclepias perennis) near a cypress pond in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, July 18, 2014
Ditrysinia fruticosa (Sebastiania fruticosa) near a cypress pond in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, July 18, 2014
Cypress vine (Ipomoea quamoclit) in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, September 5, 2009
Ginger (Curcuma) in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, May 15, 2010
Hickory Bog boardwalk in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, May 15, 2010
Petunia in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, April 10, 2010
Hortensia (Hydrangea) in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, May 15, 2010
Group of photographers in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, May 15, 2010
Red leaves of caladium in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, May 15, 2010
Red daylily (Hemerocallis) in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, May 15, 2010
Red poppy in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, April 10, 2010
Portulaca (purslane) near a pond in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, October 3, 2009
Leaves of coleus in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, September 25, 2010
Blue iris in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, April 10, 2010
Pale tiger lily in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, May 15, 2010
Pink tiger lily in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, May 15, 2010
Photographers around a flowerbed in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, April 10, 2010
Yellow tiger lily in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, May 15, 2010
Groundsel (Senecio) in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, April 10, 2010
Orange daylilies (Hemerocallis) in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, May 15, 2010
Brown iris in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, April 10, 2010
Ginger (Curcuma) at rain in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, May 15, 2010
Multicolored iris in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, April 10, 2010
White camellia like flower in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, May 15, 2010
Water sprinkler in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, September 25, 2010
White water lily in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, May 15, 2010
Ruella (Ruellia) on a trail in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, May 15, 2010
Camellia flower in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, April 10, 2010
Rain(?) lily in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, September 25, 2010
Mimulus flower in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, April 10, 2010
Weeping bald cypress (Taxodium distichum var. distichum Cascade falls ) in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, July 18, 2014
Ginger (Curcuma cordata) in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, September 25, 2010
Water iris in Hickory Bog in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, April 10, 2010
Photographers taking pictures of a model in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, May 15, 2010
Pink azalea (rhododendron) in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, April 10, 2010
Rain lily (Zephyranthes) in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, September 25, 2010
Orange azalea (rhododendron) in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, April 10, 2010
Common Rue (Ruta graveolens) in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, April 10, 2010
Bear s breeches (Acanthus mollis) in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, May 15, 2010
Seeds of Common Rue (Ruta graveolens) in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, May 15, 2010
Houttuynia cordata water plant in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, May 15, 2010
Violet flowers of ginger(?) in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, September 25, 2010
Orange flower of coreopsis in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, September 25, 2010
Harlequin Flower (Sparaxis) in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, April 10, 2010
Yellow tiger lily (with flash) in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, May 15, 2010
Spider lily in Hickory Bog in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, April 10, 2010
Curcuma cordata ginger in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, September 25, 2010
Red buckeye (Aesculus pavia) in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, April 10, 2010
Cardboard palm (Zamia furfuracea) in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, May 15, 2010
Toad Lily (Tricyrtis hirta) near a pond in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, September 5, 2009
Cones of weeping bald cypress (Taxodium distichum var. distichum Cascade falls ) in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, July 18, 2014
Turk s Cap Lily (Lilium tenuifolium) in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, April 10, 2010
Blue water iris in Hickory Bog in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, April 10, 2010
Blue flowers of spiderwort (Tradescantia) in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, April 10, 2010
Petunia flower with water drops in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, April 10, 2010
Crimson clover with a katydid nymph in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, April 10, 2010
Purple water iris in Hickory Bog in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, April 10, 2010
Hyacinth orchid (Bletilla striata) in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, April 10, 2010
Pinecone ginger (Zingiber zerumbet) in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, September 25, 2010
Lizard s Tail (Saururus cernuus) colony in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, May 15, 2010
Water-primrose (Ludwigia) in a ditch in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, September 25, 2010
Flowering banana (Musa ornata) in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, September 25, 2010
Red spider lily (Lycoris radiata) in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, September 25, 2010
Blue flower of Aristea ecklonii in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, April 10, 2010
Peacock ginger (Kaempferia laotica) in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, September 25, 2010
White ginger (Costus spiralis) in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, September 25, 2010
Small yellow mullein (Verbascum) in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, September 25, 2010
Toad Lily (Tricyrtis hirta) near a small pond in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, October 3, 2009
Ginger Jewel of Thailand (Curcuma cordata) in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, September 25, 2010
Pinecone ginger (Zingiber zerumbet) with flowers in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, September 25, 2010
Luster-leaf holly (Ilex latifolia) in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, April 10, 2010
Tung oil tree (Aleurites fordii) with a flower in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, April 10, 2010
Purple Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia purpurea) in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, April 10, 2010
Flower of crimson clover (Trifolium incarnatum) in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, April 10, 2010
Close up of Wishbone flower (Torenia fournieri) in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, September 25, 2010
American nightshade (Solanum ptycanthum) on a trail in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, April 10, 2010
Neomarica gracilis (Walking Iris, Apostle Plant) near Lily Pond in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, May 2, 2009
Disk flowers of purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, September 25, 2010
Orange flower of Amoreuxia wrightii (Wright s yellowshow) in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, September 25, 2010
Showy white flowers of mock orange (Philadelphus) in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, April 10, 2010
Spot-sided coreid bug (Hypselonotus punctiventris) on purple coneflower in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, May 15, 2010
Violet wood sorrel blooming at fall (without leaves) in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, September 25, 2010
Round-rooted galangale (Peacock ginger, Kaempferia rotunda) at rain in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, May 15, 2010
Glassy-winged Sharpshooter bugs (Homalodisca vitripennis) on purple coneflower in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, May 15, 2010
Powdery thalia (Thalia dealbata) near a pond in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, October 3, 2009
Hemp shaped leaves of Japanese maple (Acer palmatum Viridis) in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, April 10, 2010
Edging lobelia (Lobelia erinus) in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, April 10, 2010
Red flowers of Freesia laxa (Lapeirousia laxa, Anomatheca cruenta) in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, April 10, 2010
Daylily in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, May 17, 2012
Elderberry in Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. Humble (Houston area), Texas, May 17, 2012


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March is Mobile World Congress month in Barcelona, and once again the circus rolled into town to put on the largest mobility event in the world. With well over 100,000 attendees and 9 football-field sized halls, MWC seems to get bigger and more intimidating every time. As always, the event attracted some of the biggest names in tech including the likes of Google, LG, Sony and Samsung, and as always the usual suspects were missing [Apple?]. This year's tech gathering presented an interesting range of the old and the new, with companies such as Nokia and Blackberry making a comeback at the show.
The MOBGEN team was lucky enough to have some prime real-estate at the Accenture Digital stand in Hall 2 for our showcase of a world first connected-car project. In collaboration with Shell and Jaguar Land Rover, we exhibited our in-car payments system, powered by the Shell Motorist app and an eye-catching white Range Rover. We were also pretty chuffed to be presented with a 2017 Global Mobile Award in the Best Use of Mobile for Retail, Brands & Commerce category, for the Shell app.
So what else was going on at the event? Actually it felt like the trends of last year were still mostly the same, but maybe with a little more focus. 5G is still effectively an idea, but a more tangible one. VR is everywhere but there is an even bigger focus on AR or MR. Connected cars were popular, but Carplay and Android Auto were not. IoT stands seemed to take up about half of all the real-estate within the expo halls, and the tech buzzwords were in abundance. Wearables were popular, but they seem to be more sensible now that we have actual sales trends to learn from. And graphene will definitely save the world.
One of the biggest hits was a huge slice of nostalgia: Released in 2000, the Nokia 3310 was one of the best-selling mobile phones of all time and quickly became an iconic gadget in the modern technological world. Nokia announced the rebooted version at the event, showcasing its near-original design and the classic Snake game we all know and love in a new and updated format. It feels good in the hand, has killer battery life, and we are sure it will sell like hot cakes as a starter or 'festival' phone.
One of the big mobile hypes was of course around 5G – the fifth generation of wireless technology – with expected speeds to be significantly faster than current home broadband. It goes without saying that this is something that is causing excitement in the mobile world, as it can unleash the potential of many other contemporary technologies such as streaming virtual reality. Concrete details are still not fully defined, but 5G feels closer than ever.
Our favourite part of the whole event is hidden in the last hall, where they keep the scientists in their lab coats: the 'Graphene Experience Zone'. Graphene is the world's first 2D material that is immensely tough, flexible and cheap to use. If it were possible, I imagine Elon Musk would coat himself with graphene and become even more like Tony Stark. The focus of the Graphene stand was on five key innovation areas: Datacom, Energy, Composites, Wearables and Health, and IoT and Sensors. Each area involved awesome specialised prototypes and demonstrations, and the PhD candidate behind each of the research topics was on hand to try to explain it to the rest of us. Learning about how graphene can be used to revolutionise energy storage, wearable technologies and electric sportscars got us truly excited to see where this material could take us in the future of technology.
VR/AR/MR headsets and drones were front and centre at the event. The hype surrounding these products in the technology industry was certainly clear, with new and already established devices around every corner. Of course the MOBGEN:Lab team is experimenting with these technologies on a daily basis, but there were still a few surprises that grabbed our attention, particularly in the new DJI pro-grade drones and the proliferation of cheap but capable robots. The post Google-glass game is also quite strong, with AR glasses clearly evolving to focus on industrial applications rather than mainstream appeal.
In the end, it is the people that attend that are the main reason to be at MWC. The handshakes and card exchanges, the networking, the awards and the parties are next-level, as we essentially have the collected global mobility expertise in one place at one time. Once you get away from the stands and the brands, the discussion is not about the technology but about the experience and the ability to deliver. There are still many strategy demonstrations and prototype services being shown, but the real appetite is for what is available now, or within the next 6 months. The speed of innovation is so great that it felt like only the actual, tangible products were able to raise their heads above the noise. Yet another reason to be extremely proud of the MOBGEN team who delivered one of the few real connected-car products at MWC 2017.
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Q: How Can I find the coordinates of a point, if I know its projection vector? in this equation for vector projections, using the dot product
$$ {{proj_\vec{a}\vec{b}} } = { \frac {\vec a \cdot \vec b}{\lVert\vec a \rVert^2} }  \vec a $$
if I know everything BUT vector $\vec b$ , is it possible to solve for it and find it? I am not sure if I can split the $\vec a \cdot \vec b$ dot product.
The idea here is that I have 4 points $ABCD$ in 3D space. I need to find a point P along line AB, if I know the projection of P on line CD.
thank you.

A: Typically this is not possible, unless you've got more information. Many vectors can have the same projection along a fixed vector; a simple picture should convince you.
In your particular case with the $4$ points in space, you do have some extra constraints. In essence, knowing the projection of a vector $u$ along a fixed direction $v$ specifies $u$ up to a line (in the sense of an affine subspace); again, the picture for this is pretty clear. You are looking for the intersection of this line with the segment $AB$, and there is only one such intersection so long as the points are in general position.

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"Tell me about Jenny."
These words filled the dark screen at the beginning of the amazingly crafted film, The Limey. The story follows Wilson (Terence Stamp) as he tries to discover and kill the people responsible for his daughter Jenny's death. Wilson's quest is to gain revenge. However, this movie is not just another shoot-em-up thriller. Instead, it is a complex drama which drags viewers into Wilson's mindset and forces his agitation and anticipation onto them.
Director Stephen Soderberg uses flash-forwards and flash-backs to drive Wilson's emotions into the viewers. Each scene gives the audience something to look forward to as they follow Wilson and his companion Eduardo Roel (Luis Guzmán) in their never ending search for the killer(s).
It becomes apparent that what is seen in these flashes are what will happen and also what Wilson wishes would happen. This insight into Wilson's world leaves a cold feeling in viewers as they see how determined he is in his mission.
The editing aids in speeding up the slower pace and keeps the scenes fresh as the dialogue begins to become repetitious. The dialogue between characters varies and the editing consequently distracts viewers, while at the same time it forces audiences to pay even closer attention so that minor details will not be missed.
One should pay close attention to the body movements and stances of many of the characters; there are many silent moments in the film where the way a character walks says a whole lot more about them than their lines ever do. For instance, Terry Valentine's (Peter Fonda) swagger and looseness of limbs, even though his rich and famous world is crashing down around him, speak volumes.
Though the acting in the film is excellent, it does not give any one actor a chance to stand out. This could also be caused by the fact that none of the characters are allowed to develop past a very superficial level.
The plot of The Limey is very fresh and has enough twists to force the audience to pay close attention to all of the characters involved.
Close attention was paid to every minute detail in the film, and what appeared to be errors in editing turn out to be pivotal points in the film The score of the film also plays with the audience's emotion, as each scene's mood is driven into the audience by the accompanying score.
For film viewers who enjoy the cinematography as much as acting, The Limey is a must see. Each shot provides beautiful scenery, from the cliffs of Big Sur to the Pacific Coast Highway.
The Limey is a treat for anyone who enjoys plot twists and movies that make you think. It opens
Oct. 29 at the Globe.
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Adobe MAX Europe – Day 4
Much less to say about today. First because it was a full-day lab session, second because the whole thing was just fantastic. The content, the pedagogy, the examples, the trainer,...
Much less to say about today. First because it was a full-day lab session, second because the whole thing was just fantastic. The content, the pedagogy, the examples, the trainer, everything was perfect. It allowed me to discover all the features specific to AIR runtime and API's and we didn't spend to much time on Flex details. AIR is definitely an interesting technology. The integration with the desktop offers all the features that I need most and I sincerely think about migrating You And The World administration to the desktop since it will remove so many barriers that we have right now like HTML rendering, client-side image cropping and big data synchronization.
Now that the event is over, it's time for global feedback:
The organization was just great: it's easy to understand why the entrance fee is so high, given the quality of the food, the number of computers for labs, the number of teacher's assistants and staff people, the Wii's, etc. One thing though: I really missed drinks in fridges where you don't have to wait in line for a glass of water.
The venue was just awesome, with enough room for everyone, plenty of electric plugs to reload our small iPhone batteries, Wii's everywhere, couches, toilets (not just one spot where you have to wait in a long line if you don't choose your time like Metropolis). Two negative aspects though: mere chairs hurt when you got used to theatre seats, and Fiera Congressi Milano is a little bit lost in the middle of nowhere: not a lot of restaurants nearby.
The wireless network was good enough most of the time, except inbetween sessions where I managed to get an IP address, but impossible to get any bandwidth. It was good enough for email checking and a few commits on Subversion though.
The content covered was great and gave me a sense of cohesion and innovation on the whole Adobe product line-up. And feedback forms for each session were definitely a good idea.
The hotel I stayed in was just awesome. I still don't understand why it's called a mini-hotel as the service was really great and the room was very cool. I missed some more French-speaking channels but I had some content on my laptop to compensate. And 8€ for 24 hours of Internet connection is not too expensive.
I didn't see much of Milan but the taxis you can't stop in the street outside of a taxi station, the plane that doesn't come and pick you up directly at the terminal, the old-school trams, gave me the impression of a not-so-modern city.
Overall, this first Adobe MAX Europe was really a wonderful experience for me and I'll really thank my manager for sending me there. Now, one day of roadmap design on You And The World, and next week, on to Devoxx. I just love technology!
By Sébastien, 14 years ago
Today was « learning day ». No « wow », no « aha », just « hmmm » and « slap! » (don't fall asleep, you idiot!). Originally I had planned a couple of sessions related to LiveCycle Data Services...
Today was « learning day ». No « wow », no « aha », just « hmmm » and « slap! » (don't fall asleep, you idiot!). Originally I had planned a couple of sessions related to LiveCycle Data Services but I've been so disappointed by the one of Tuesday that I decided to enjoy myself a little bit. So the first session was about Soundbooth CS4.
I've played piano and organ some years back, and I'm an amateur DJ on my spare time, so I tend to love everything related to sound and music. However, I kind of put all of that aside in the past few years so this session was really refreshing for me. And when I said that there were no « aha » moments today, it is not entirely true: you should see the speech transcription engine they added to Soundbooth CS4 and that integrates with many tools in the suite. It's really amazing. Now I need to see how it works with real-world samples with background sounds and strange French accents. But the demo was definitely interesting. So much so that I couldn't help thinking how much money could Adobe make if they sold this engine as a standalone service for podcast owners and such. Apart from that, the sound clean-up features are very interesting, especially with the spectral view. I don't know if it was already there in previous versions of Soundbooth, but it's really amazing what you can see in there that is just impossible to spot in the infamous waveform view. And if you think that Soundbooth is not useful if you don't do movie soundtracks or music mixing… well, think twice and give it a try.
The next session was the source of a lot of hesitation. Dave Mc Allister had left a comment on my post before MAX and it really motivated me to know more about the Open Source strategy of Adobe. On the other hand, on the same slot, there was a session about Flex 4 and its new syntax, which obviously I'm very interested in, all the more so as there seems to be a lot of new things, like prefixes instead of namespaces. Eventually, I realized that there would be tons of articles about the new features of Flex 4 closer to the release and then closer to what it will really be. On the opposite, Dave Mc Allister presentation was a panel discussion, something you can't find on the web by yourself. So I went for « Why Open Source, what makes the cut? ». Now, obviously MAX audience is still mainly composed of designers, because there were very attendees in this session, between 15 and 20 I think. But the discussion was very interesting and it was even easier to ask questions and get proper answers. With Dave were Ryan Stewart, platform evangelist, and Dave Story, who will soon be in charge of all the development tools (Flex, Flex Builder, etc.). The discussion reminded me of the comments of a few friends of mine when Adobe announced that they were going to open source the Flex framework: « Adobe… Open Source… that's just a marketing move! ». It could have been, but let me tell you that a year and a half later, it's easy to see that it was much more than that. They actually dive very deeply into the strategic and governance questions related to opening up some of your business. And their example is all the more so interesting as they are engaged in a balancing approach: their objective is not to open source everything they do, but just what makes sense. Hence Open Source proponents inside Adobe have to fight very hard to educate both business and operational people about the added value of Open Source, while reassuring them about the fact that it's not a silver bullet and that they will not do it with everything. A few people in the audience, including myself, took the opportunity to suggest some improvements to the Flash platform and Dave Story took notes. Maybe one day it will be possible to plug a Webkit module into the Flash player and to render proper HTML inside Flash. Time will tell.
I started the afternoon with a demonstration of the new features of Flex Builder 4. I think Heidi Williams and Tim Buntel were a little disappointed to see such a low enthusiasm in the audience. But from what I heard around leaving the room, a lot of people thought like myself: finally, we get the features that should have been there 2 years ago, nothing more. Data management features are certainly a plus though: you will be able to generate client-side data managers that automatically handle CRUD operations and deal with conflicts, whatever the server-side technology you're using. It will be interesting to see how useful it can be beyond the simple contact manager application.
My last presentation for the day was one that has been added to the planning at the last minute: Flex and PHP with Zend Builder. This could have been the most interesting presentation of the whole event for me in terms of direct interest for the project I'm working on, since I'm really fed up not to have a proper PHP debugging environment and I want to migrate from AMFPHP to Zend AMF. Unfortunately, the presenter was really a messy guy, and at some point I was just totally lost. His English was not very good and he was very hard to understand. So once I saw that he got debugging working in Zend Builder with Zend AMF, I just left the room.
Overall, it was a very interesting day. Oh and it's always funny to see where geeks are ready to stick their business cards for a few gadgets :oP
Tomorrow will be a full-day lab about AIR and I hope that the content will be less frustrating than yesterday.
By Sébastien, 14 years December 5, 2008 ago
Adobe MAX Europe: Day 2
Yesterday was more of a regular feeling of satisfaction and happiness to discover. Today there were more peeks in my humor, from low "boooo" moments to great "aha" times. But...
Yesterday was more of a regular feeling of satisfaction and happiness to discover. Today there were more peeks in my humor, from low "boooo" moments to great "aha" times. But overall, I'm starting to see the big picture of where Adobe is heading and it looks really cool. The last thing they miss to become my #1 favourite tech company is a Steve-Jobs-like charismatic presenter… although I gotta say this morning's keynote was pretty well assembled. But I'm anticipating here. Let's go back to the beginning of the day.
AIR bootcamp, without boots
…because you don't need boots to fly over a subject, do you? Some might say that this AIR bootcamp actually missed some AIR as well but… hey! I just did!
OK, I know that when you're a lab teacher, it is tempting to do everything you can to see this glow of surprise and astonishment in people's eyes, but come on! Those small Hello World hands-on projects to show off features like the Camera integration or WSDL-based service stub generation! I can't believe that someone or a company is willing to pay around 2k€ for sending a guy to cover an event such as MAX for that kind of noob content. I mean, I'm motivated by achievement, that's what makes me get up in the morning and I guess I'm not the only one in Milan right now. So I'm talking to Duane Nichols here: next time, why not a real project that focuses on AIR features and integrates them in a meaningful sample project?
Definitely my favourite moment of the day. It's hard to describe but Tim Buntel and Ben Forta played it Men-In-Black style to demonstrate some of the upcoming features in CS4, Flash Catalyst, Flex Builder Gumbo and Adobe Alchemy. I can't remember all of the details but there were definitely a lot of "wow" moments and the feeling of seemless integration that you can get from that is… warming! I can't wait to see the kind of applications we'll be able to build with CS4, FC and Gumbo. But wait, I don't need to wait, because I've got trial versions! Woohoo! Okay, FC and Gumbo are still early pre-alpha releases but still, I'm definitely going to play with them.
Low afternoon
After another great lunch (the waiting line is definitely worth it), my afternoon started with 2 rather disappointing labs. The first one was the second part of AIR bootcamp so I won't go into more details. The second one was about building Collaborative Applications with LiveCycle Data Services. This time, the problem was not about the number of samples, but the fact that we didn't even created any project. We spent almost 15 minutes copying files from place to place to get the configuration in place, and then we basically filled in the holes. Once again, no achievement whatsoever, and no global understanding of how this all works. But I can't say I'm surprised: I had the same frustration with the official BlazeDS tutorial, which is why I wrote my "full stack" article. By the way, I think one of the reasons why it's so hard to start a BlazeDS-based project from scratch is the amount of configuration to write. Maybe a couple of advanced editors in Flex Builder would help…
And last but not least…
The much anticipated and not disappointing at all… Sneak Peeks session. Okay, there were the MAX awards before, but when I saw one of the winner was presented as a Flash Lite application for the iPhone! Flash… iPhone… wait a second! f… t… STACK OVERFLOW, rebooting now!
I won't go into details into each of the technologies demonstrated, I'll just list them:
Application-level multicast, or what you could see as P2P multicasting (sorry, I didn't find any links about that one)
Nitro, a portable widget platform with a seemless integration across devices
Durango, a mashup builder for dummies
Meer Meer, a service to do cross-browser testing with Dreamweaver
Integration of LiveCycle DS with CS4 (sorry, no link either)
Server-side ActionScript, by far what I was the most interested in (Java, watch out!)
Content intelligence toolkit, a very interesting video and sound analysis technology
Infinite images (inifinite zoom): at first I thought it was just a port of the Silverlight infinite zoom that created so much buzz last year, but it was much more impressive than that
Dreamweaver support for web widgets
Next-generation image compositing, impressive stuff, possible future features for Photoshop
Now I'm just exhausted. A good night of sleep and tomorrow is already the last conference day. To be followed…
This first day was mostly as excited as I anticipated it. I discovered a lot of great stuff today and got to meet a couple of top-notch geeks as I...
This first day was mostly as excited as I anticipated it. I discovered a lot of great stuff today and got to meet a couple of top-notch geeks as I like them. Sometimes it gets frustrating to work every day with people who seem to run away as soon as you pronounce a word they don't know, instead of getting closer to you and say "what is it you just talked about? I want to know more about it!". That's part of why I like attending such conferences: in every guy – and in the case of MAX, in every lady – there is a small innocent and curious kid ready to marvel at everything (s)he sees, and willing to share with you everything (s)he knows. And that's really a stimulating experience.
But let's get back to the content covered today.
The day started with an excellent keynote. After the usual marketing stuff, we were blessed with a few very interesting demos showing how the Flash Platform as a whole covers what Adobe sees as the three most important evolutions in our industry: cloud computing, social computing and device portability. The two most interesting demos I'll remember of are HobNox and Cocomo. HobNox is a virtual synthesizer ala Reason but running within Flash Player 10 that can mix audio loops. Very impressive design. Cocomo is even more useful for what I'm working on: it's an Adobe framework and API that allows you to integrate social features into your Flex applications in no time. They also covered a few of the new features of Flash Player 10, like Pixel Bender and print-quality text, that were pretty impressive.
Next session was about the future of Thermo – now known as Flash Catalyst, so that there are 2 letters to fit in the logo scheme of Adobe products I guess – and Flex Builder. Flash Catalyst is at least as impressive as what I remember of the last Thermo demo I've seen. But as a guy I met later cleverly noticed "it's already hard to find good designers, it's going to be even harder if we ask them to design user interactions too". We'll see, but this tool definitely bridges a gap. As for Flex Builder 4, Heidi Williams demonstrated 10 new features that are really interesting… if you've never worked with anything else than Eclipse. I mean « generate getter/setter » and file templates were two of these features. I mean, come oooon! Start by asking yourself why those features were so hard to add to Flex Builder 2 in the first place. Ah, that's right, Flex Builder is built on top of Eclipse. And given that Flash Catalyst is built on Eclipse as well, I guess they're in it for good. At some point, I guess I'm just going to forget about the visual designer and get back to my beloved IntelliJ.
After some excellent pasta and cheese I attended a session by Matt Chotin about extending Flex components. It was mostly about the Flex component lifecycle but it was very interesting to put it in perspective with some Flex Gumbo preview. Flex 3 component architecture is called Halo, and its main issue is that it pretty much mixes up presentation and behaviour, even though you can apply some superficial styling with CSS. Flex 4 component model is called Spark, and it changes everything. Now UI components focus on behaviour and all the appearance of components is externalized, similar to what Swing does with Look And Feels, but in an easier-to-apprehend fashion. For example you have a Flex component called FxRange, which can look like a spinner, a scroll bar, a tracker, or anything you can imagine. That in combination with Flash Catalyst is going to ease the development of really neat applications.
Then I intended to go see a talk about Flex testing, but I'm definitely not keen on writing tests so when I received an email notification from our issue tracking system at You And The World, it was kind of a relief. It was a problem with the application getting stuck somewhere in an infinite loop or something that made Firefox hang on indefinitely. I tried to figure out what it was, but I didn't know where to put my breakpoint and how to debug it. But guess what was the topic of the next session on my planning: « debugging and profiling in Flex Builder 3 ». So I went there, learnt a few performance tips and tricks, and got the opportunity to ask Mike Jones how he would deal with my situation. It turned out that the profiler could help me. Well, it could have, but I found a workaround: I refactored my code to use cleaner constructs based on states instead of includeLayout tinkering, and boom! Problem solved. But still, Mike Jones' talk was very interesting.
Overall, a very interesting first day. I got to talk with a couple of guys about Coldfusion (which I don't really know, but you know, asking and sharing…). Tonight, I had a hard time finding a place to eat… and I didn't find one, so tomorrow I'm gonna have a great breakfast ;o)
That being said, I'm going to watch a few more episodes of Sarah Connor and get to sleep. Tomorrow is another geeky day…
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I guess many people are going to write or have already written blog posts with a similar title. But hey, this is a big event for me. I'm so happy...
I guess many people are going to write or have already written blog posts with a similar title. But hey, this is a big event for me. I'm so happy my company offered me this reward, really. I know it can seem hard to understand how one can be so excited about attending technical conferences all day. But discovering and learning new technologies is so central to why I love software development, and Adobe stuff has become so important in my "artistic" evolution lately, that I really can't wait.
Amongst others, I hope to learn more about Flex 4, Thermo now known as Catalyst, Flash 10 and its possibilities, Adobe AIR, but more importantly I have a few questions for Adobe guys, especially:
Open Source is not just about a license and a Subversion repository, it's also about community and listening to it. And when I see some of the highest voted bugs in JIRA deferred and deferred again, I would love to understand what is their policy regarding community feedback.
Portability is obviously a big argument in favor of Flex, but I still wonder why things like mouse wheel are not natively supported on the Mac. Fortunately there is a workaround but it's still a pain.
How about backward compatibility? A year back, I wanted to propose Flex as an implementation technique for the UI of the operational monitoring application at Thalys, but we argued with a colleague about the governance problem: contrary to Sun Microsystems with Java, Adobe has never clearly committed to maintain backward compatibility. Of course, let's not forget that some people are still migrating their JDK 1.4 to Java 5 because they had variables called "enum"… Joke aside, I was kind of disappointed to see that the application I'm working on right now worked with Flash 9 but has a bug with Flash 10 because of the changes they made with FileReference API. Hopefully, this will be fixed with Flex 4, but in the meantime we're still struggling.
Over all, it's the first technical conference I attend outside of Belgium and Javapolis (now Devoxx), and I hope that the organization will at least match the one of the BeJUG.
The 2 weeks to come are going to be legen… wait for it… DAAAAARRYYYYYY!


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Kelsea Ballerini Gets Into the Holiday Spirit With New Snaps
Kelsey Ballerini She seems to be sucking up every ounce of holiday cheer, at least according to her most recent social media post.
The country artist, 29, took to Instagram on Wednesday, Dec. 7, to show her followers what she's been up to lately, and it looks like she's kicking off the holidays with a bang — and some wild adventures.
In the various photos, Ballerini is first seen with a glass of wine while at a festive restaurant fully decorated for the holidays, with ornaments hanging from the ceiling and all. The next slide is a snippet of her performance in Alice 97.3's Alice in Winterland, where she plays some music while wearing a bright red two-piece suit.
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But the photos and videos seem to unravel as the slides go on, as another clip shows the singer wearing under-eye masks and pretending to hit the camera. Another slide shows a random photo of two illuminated inflatable decorations that appear to be sitting in the front seat of a car as if they are driving.
"This season," the country singer captioned her post.
Ballerini also shared a nerve-wracking clip from atop the Empire State Building as she and her friend stroll around the edge of the 104th floor. In the clip, the "Peter Pan" singer appears to laugh out of fear while admitting she's afraid of heights — that's one way to get over the fear!
Wednesday's post also included various gratuitous shots, including a close-up of a sweatshirt that read, "Make sure your friends are okay."
Another pic showed the bouquet Ballerini received Kristin Chenowethwho congratulated her on her recent Grammy Award nomination.
The Tennessee native is vying for Best Country Solo Performance at the 2023 Grammy Awards, which she found out on the same day she finalized her divorce from her ex-husband. Morgan Evans.
Ballerini previously posted a candid video from the nominated crying moment, which you can watch on her Instagram, along with more of our favorite unfeatured content from the country star.
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Blekko Partners With Stack Overflow To Improve Search Results
Blekko and Stack Overflow have announced a partnership that aims to use the latter's community of programmers to improve programming- and tech-related searches on Blekko. The agreement calls for Stack Overflow's community of programmers to "help improve and maintain programming-related slashtags," while Stack's CTO, Jeff Atwood, will be the editor of those slashtags. Stack Overflow's […]
Matt McGee on February 15, 2011 at 9:01 am
Blekko and Stack Overflow have announced a partnership that aims to use the latter's community of programmers to improve programming- and tech-related searches on Blekko.
The agreement calls for Stack Overflow's community of programmers to "help improve and maintain programming-related slashtags," while Stack's CTO, Jeff Atwood, will be the editor of those slashtags. Stack Overflow's logo will show up on search results that have been curated by Atwood and the editor team.
Some members of the Stack Overflow community have been active in discussions about search engine spam, particularly the recent debate over spam and search quality on Google. See Google May Let You Blacklist Domains To Fight Spam for a little more and a related link to discussion on Hacker News.
Late last year, Blekko announced a partnership with DuckDuckGo where those two small search engines agreed to share information and search results.
The idea of turning to a community of experts to help curate search results is an interesting and potentially successful tactic for Blekko. I've argued in face-to-face conversations with Bing and Google engineers that they should remove the low-quality, ad-heavy, and often inaccurate lyrics portals in favor of lyrics found on artist fan sites — lyrics that are often posted after hours of painstaking listening for detail and accuracy. No such luck on that so far for me and my U2 site, but there's always hope.
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Matt McGee joined Third Door Media as a writer/reporter/editor in September 2008. He served as Editor-In-Chief from January 2013 until his departure in July 2017. He can be found on Twitter at @MattMcGee.
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