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Brookings India consortium brings together researchers analysing National Family Health Survey IV
Dhruv Gupta Wednesday, May 2, 2018
Content from the Brookings Institution India Center is now archived. After seven years of an impactful partnership, as of September 11, 2020, Brookings India is now the Centre for Social and Economic Progress, an independent public policy institution based in India.
Dhruv Gupta
Research Assistant - Brookings India
Twitter dhruvg001
The National Family Health Survey 2015-16 conducted by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare provides information at an individual, household, district, state, and country level about various metrics related to health. The survey's 800,000+ household observations are appropriately weighted by the International Institute of Population Sciences to provide accurate statistics at each unit of analysis.
As the fourth iteration of the NFHS series, the survey builds provides state information on infant and child mortality, the practice of family planning, maternal and child health, reproductive health, and utilisation of health and family planning services by both expanding the range of variables that are recorded, and also increasing the size of the sample to make values representative at a district level. For the first time in history, India has information on district-level arthropometric measures, non-communicable diseases, HIV prevalence, health insurance prevalence, and many other metrics.
The consortium brings together scholars across many institutions, to produce high-quality papers and policy briefs in a timely manner to inform health policy in India.
Based on the NFHS-4 survey, Brookings India has created a consortium of scholars across many institutions, to produce high-quality papers and policy briefs in a timely manner to inform health policy in India. The Brookings India NFHS-4 Consortium aims to highlight public health research from different specialisations including economics, demography, nutrition, data analytics and machine learning and management. The common research agenda is to inform real time health policy making through empirical evidence based on the NFHS surveys.
The broad topics of research covered include infant, child, and adult mortality; adult and child nutrition; maternal and child health coverage; non-communicable diseases; as well as big data analytics from the NFHS-4.
Fateful Triangle
By Tanvi Madan
JFK's Forgotten Crisis
By Bruce Riedel
By Shivshankar Menon
On April 24, 2018, Brookings India, in partnership with NITI Aayog, the government's think-tank, conducted the first in a series of workshops under this consortium, where affiliated scholars presented their initial findings. Brookings India will organise a series of workshops and seminars by researchers in collaboration with government bodies including the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, NITI Aayog and selected state governments (and their health missions).
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Based on a "Call for papers" in March 2018, scholars were selected into the Brookings India NFHS-4 Consortium. Below is the list of selected scholars, the organisations they are affiliated with and their research topics.
Prevalence of Hypertension; Mudit Kapoor, Ambuj Roy; Indian Statistical Institute, All India Institute of Medical Sciences
Public Health Infrastructure Gap and Health Outcomes; Shamika Ravi, Dhruv Gupta; Brookings India
Machine Learning and Data Mining Techniques in Analysis of Public Health Data; Debarka Sengupta; Indian Institute of Information Technology
Early Life Exposure to Crop Burnings: Effects on Child Health; Prachi Singh; Indian Statistical Institute
Interpreting Child Malnutrition: Evidence from NFHS 4; SV Subramanian; Harvard University
Explaining Changes in Childhood Nutrition (Working Title); Sunaina Dhingra; Delhi University
Role of Private Sector on Cesarean C-Sections: Evidence from NFHS 4; Ambrish Dongre, Mitul Surana; Indian Institute of Management (Ahmedabad)
Socio-economic Inequalities in Food Consumption and Dietary Diversity among children in India: Evidence from NFHS-4; Sutapa Agrawal, William Joe, SV Subramanian; The India Nutrition Initiative, Delhi University, Harvard University
Institutional Births and Immunization Coverage: in India Next Steps for Universal Coverage; SV Subramanian, William Joe, Sunil Rajpal, Rakesh Kumar; Harvard University, Delhi University
What Poor Women Want for Healthcare?; Mudit Kapoor, Shamika Ravi, Ambuj Roy, A.K. Shiva Kumar, SV Subramanian; India Statistical Institute, Brookings India, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, UNICEF, Harvard University
Progress and inequalities in infant and young child feeding practices in India between 2006-2016; Purnima Menon, Phuong Hong Nguyen, Rasmi Avula, Lan Tran Mai; International Food Policy Research Institute, FHI360
Son "Meta" Preference and "Unwanted" Girls; Arvind Subramanian, Abhishek Anand, Sowmya Ganesh, Siddharth Hari, Navneeraj Sharma; Chief Economic Advisor (Government of India)
Economic gains and improvements in sanitation, women's status and health services explain most of the improvement in stunting in India over the past decade (2006-2016); Purnima Menon, Phuong Hong Nguyen, Derek Headey; International Food Policy Research Institute
Progress and challenges of maternal and child anemia in India 2006-2016: Insights from two rounds of National Family Health Surveys; Purnima Menon, Phuong Hong Nguyen, Samuel Scott, Rasmi Avula, Lan Mai Tran; International Food Policy Research Institute, FHI360
Childhood wasting in India manifests early in life and is mainly explained by maternal and household deprivation: Insights from the 2015-2016 National and Health Family Survey; Purnima Menon, Phuong Hong Nguyen, Derek Headey, Rasmi Avula, Melissa Young, Reynaldo Martorell, Lan Mai Train; International Food Policy Research Institute, Emory University, FHI360
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HomeNewsArchivesGovernor Signs WAPA Funding Bill Into Law
Governor Signs WAPA Funding Bill Into Law
Sept. 17, 2008 — A comprehensive funding bill passed by the Senate last month will "provide some improvement to" the V.I. Water and Power Authority's financial picture, but should not be seen as a cure-all for its energy issues, Gov. John deJongh Jr. said Wednesday as he signed the bill into law.
DeJongh submitted the funding bill to the Legislature about three months ago, but senators amended it last month, adding in more money to pay off the government's outstanding debt to WAPA. The original version of the bill earmarked about $13.7 million for WAPA: $8.7 million to cover a portion of the government's unpaid utility bills, and another $5 million to increase the budgets of various government departments and agencies to keep them up to date with their fiscal year 2008 electricity costs.
The amendment bill bumped WAPA's appropriation up to $17.4 million. That will take care of all of the government's debt — pegged at $14.8 million as of Sept. 2 — along with money owed to the authority for its street-lighting program, deJongh said Wednesday. While he signed the bill into law, the governor also cautioned that it does not "cure all of WAPA's ailments."
"I will continue to work with WAPA with the aim of bringing some relief to the pocketbooks of Virgin Islands' residents from the ever-increasing energy costs we all are enduring," deJongh wrote Wednesday in a letter to Senate President Usie R. Richards explaining his decision. "My administration, especially through the V.I. Energy Office, continues to develop measures and initiatives to broaden our energy-production options and implement demand management, all with the dual goals of reducing our reliance on fossil fuel and obtaining cost savings."
Overall, the bill is intended to fund the critical needs of various departments, agencies and organizations, and draws from appropriations approved by the Legislature as far back as 2001. In most cases, only a portion of funding was allotted, leaving the undistributed money available until expended. The authorization needed to use the remaining funds will be shifted from the previous years' appropriations to any new expenditures included in the bill — most of which were also approved by deJongh Wednesday.
The governor used his line-item veto on only two sections Wednesday, one providing a $499,000 contribution to the General Fund from the Health Revolving Fund and another increasing the percentage of property taxes given to WAPA to fund the territory's street-lighting program.
Money deposited into the Health Revolving Fund is, by law, used for specific expenses, such as beefing up the operating budget of the territory's two hospitals. A contribution into the General Fund is "not consistent with the purposes of the Health Revolving Fund," deJongh wrote.
The governor also signed into law a bill that provides about $1.8 million in federal Community Development Block Grant funding to various government departments and local organizations, along with related amendments that reduce:
— an appropriation to the Family Resource Center facility rehabilitation project by $10,000;
— an appropriation to the Enterprise Zone Commission's Paint, Scrape and Rejuvenate program by nearly $35,000; and
— an appropriation to the Agriculture Department to revamp the Bordeaux Farmer's Market by $20,000.
The amendments also added a $45,000 appropriation to Hearts in Service to fund plans for a transitional housing facility and $20,000 to the Missions Training and After School Program.
Other bills signed into law by deJongh Wednesday:
— appropriate $450,000 to the V.I. Police Department, V.I. Fire Services and Emergency Medical Services to repair and use the former Alexander I. Wilson Elementary School on St. Croix as a public-safety substation. While deJongh praised efforts to increase the presence of law enforcement on the big island, he cautioned that the appropriation falls short of the estimated $2.6 million needed to build out, equip and staff the facility;
— increase the monthly gross-receipts tax exemption for businesses pulling in less than $225,000 in annual gross income. The bill seeks to help put small businesses on more solid financial footing, but senators should be cautious in the future when seeking to reduce revenue streams pledged against government bonds without doing a thorough financial analysis, the governor wrote;
— authorize the government to trade six acres of land in Sion Hill for six acres in Estate Rattan to serve as a buffer between the nonprofit The Village/Partners in Recovery alcohol and drug rehabilitation center and a neighboring housing development;
— appropriate $476,006 to pay Central Air for long-past-due bills on air-conditioning repairs at numerous public schools, government agencies, divisions, authorities and governing boards;
— provide incentives for developers interested in revitalizing and cleaning up contaminated properties;
— rezone 13 acres of land in Estate Orange Grove on St. Croix from R-3 (residential-medium density) to B-2 (business-secondary neighborhood) to allow for the construction of an 800-dwelling planned community and town center;
— rezone a 0.9-acre parcel in Estate Mount Welcome on St. Croix from W-2 (waterfront industrial) to B-2. (See "Senate Hears Rezoning Requests for 2 Projects"); and
— honor and confer the V.I. Medal of Honor to Peter Holmberg for his outstanding contribution to the development of sailing as a sport in the community.
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Well-preserved 'time capsule' homes in Sydney's inner west are selling for record-breaking prices, as buyers opt to avoid the rigmarole of renovations.
16 Murray St, Croydon sold well above reserve for $3.05 million.
A five-bedroom federation home in Croydon sold at auction over the weekend for $3.05 million – the suburb's highest sale price on record, according to data from CoreLogic.
The house, at 16 Murray St, is elegantly appointed with its period features in pristine condition. It was sold by Sam and Joseph Georges of Georges Ellis & Co.
Mr Joseph Georges said properties like this always tend to do well, due to being "move-in ready".
"From the moment we listed it, we knew this property would fly out the door," he said.
More than 200 people inspected the home during the campaign, and 22 contracts were issued.
Mr Georges believes the strong interest was a result of the house being both in immaculate condition, and in a highly-sought after position in the Malvern Hill Estate conservation area.
"That whole pocket has tremendous street appeal, and there haven't been many properties traded there," he said.
Seven parties registered to bid at the auction, with four actively participating.
Mr Georges said it was an intense auction, but the bidding was steady.
Bids opened at $2.35 million and followed in increments of $50,000 before slowing to $25,000.
A local family, who came in late in the piece, were the winning bidders.
It previously traded in 2011 for $1.88 million.
Around the corner, 17A Malvern Ave sold for the first time in 25 years for $2.23 million.
The five-bedroom federation home is in original condition with all of its period features intact.


an indication of our future direction. This reflection expresses an aspect of that imagery. Watch for the church's emerging web presence.
I remember a news item run by one of the major networks many years ago on April Fools' Day suggesting that the government was considering switching to "metric time", which would mean a 20-hour day. Oblivious to the date on which the item was run, the station was inundated with calls wanting to know how to oppose this measure. It rivaled the response from a few years previous when Daylight Savings Time was introduced. It was a consideration which was outside people's frames of reference, and therefore its implications not understood.
I met a similar response years later when suggesting that we needed to look at the constitution of the church, giving consideration to the issue of membership. The first response in the meeting came from a respected elderly gentleman, who simply indicated that if we were going to do away with membership (which was not being suggested), how would decisions be made in the church? Another example of something outside of someone's frame of reference.
When we talk of an "Eighth Day Community" people look askance, wondering whether we have lost our collective marbles. It is an indication that we are suggesting something which is outside of the common realms of understanding, and in a sense, that is exactly what we are doing. In recognition that normal patterns of church and christian spirituality are not connecting with a people evidencing a deep spiritual desire, we affirm that we need to move "off the map" (or in our case, 'off the calendar'!) in order to forge something different and new. Being the eighth day suggests connection with the previous seven, but also something which moves forward… fresh and vital, growing out of and extending that which was birthed in the first seven days.
When Jesus suggested in his teaching that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven (Mat 5:20) he was indicating the need to move forward, beyond what had already been set as the standard.
To move into an "Eighth Day" is to step into a deeper relationship with God, with life, and with others, and into a deeper understanding of ourselves in the purposes of God. Just as we aim to mature and grow as people with the passing of years, so we need to grow into an 'eighth day' relationship with God, surpassing that which we have previously experienced.


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Soludo: Leaders Should Excel In Private Endeavours Before Venturing In Politics
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Anambra state Governor-Elect Charles Chukwuma Soludo has emphasized the need for Nigerian leaders to be renowned in their private endeavours before taking up political leadership, IgbereTV reports.
He took to his Facebook page to recount his experience in 2004, when he was first called to take up public leadership. He shared his throwback photo and wrote;
"When in 2004 I was called up to serve in the Government of President Obasanjo together with other young and visionary turks, what preoccupied our minds was how to better the lot of our Nation. To this, we gave our all and the book makers have been fair to us in their analysis.
However, in looking at this picture this evening, I recall the events and experiences that shaped us for the task of public service, during my days in the Brookings institution. It was President Obasanjo who captured it in the words that make great meaning; and to those who wish to learn, I believe there is a thing or two of value to take way.
He said to us;
"If you want to be successful in public service or political leadership, you must have a second address".
These words continue to resonate in my head, even though I think President Obasanjo spoke from the knowledge of a valuable past – – the period when our political founding fathers were first renowned in their private endeavours, sought knowledge across the length and breadth of the world, before presenting themselves for political leadership.
Today, we have a growing crop of young people who see politics as a means of livelihood. More saddening is the growing sense of entitlement where majority now seek to get something for doing absolutely nothing to enhance the system. There is a lot to be done. But, we must start from the reorientation of our minds.
CC. Soludo"


Experience the power of a quad-core processor by buying this smartphone from Kult. Featuring a 15.21-centimetre (5.99) HD curved display (with TruView Technology), this smartphone helps you watch your favourite high-definition movies and videos in crystal-clear picture quality.
Boasting a quad-core processor (with 3 GB of RAM), this smartphone from Kult defines top-notch smartphone performance. It comes with a powerful 4000-mAh battery, so you can enjoy watching high-definition videos and films on its 15.21-centimetre (5.99) HD curved display for a long time.
This handset boasts a 15.21-centimetre (5.99) HD curved display (2.5D). But, what makes it stand apart from ordinary smartphones, is the TruView Technology that makes for immersive viewing experience.
Featuring a 13-megapixel camera on its front and on its back, this smartphone lets you click stunning pictures as well as selfies. It also boasts a dual LED flash that helps you capture high-quality images even in poor light conditions.
It packs a quad-core processor, along with 3 GB of RAM, so you can run multiple apps without any lag. This phone also has an internal memory of 32 GB, so you can store your important files in it for future access.
The Kult Impulse smartphone comes with the Android 7.1 Nougat operating system. This gives you access to the cool features that Android has in store for you.
This smartphone also features a face recognition system that helps you unlock it in a jiffy using your face. This system also ensures that no one else can unlock it. Also, if you calibrate this phone's fingerprint sensor, then you can use it to do a host of things, such as capturing photos or unlocking the phone, among other things.
A 4000-mAh battery makes this smartphone a great means for you to do your work, listen to music, watch movies, and much more, for long hours.
It has 2 SIM slots (micro and nano), so you don't have to carry two different phones. A micro SD card slot, on the other hand, gives you the option to expand this smartphone's memory up to 64 GB. This smartphone is also Bluetooth-enabled and it supports Wi-Fi as well as VoLTE connectivity, so you can share files and browse the Internet easily.
con- only black colour ,it would have been better if more color options were available.
after giving a lot of thought i finally bought this mobile. seems to be a new brand but pricing was very attractive so i took the risk and i would love to state that its worth every penny. best part its made in India and can easily give stiff competition to any chinese brand.
camera and battery are tooo good.
Battery backup is very good, video clarity is also good with big screen.
The Box contains Phone, Charging Adapter, Data Cable, Sim Ejector tool, Product manual, A kult brand badge and Kult Brand Stickers. Overall inbox accessories were ok.
However, The phone is slow considering 3 GB RAM and Quad core processor with 1.5 GHz. The phone software update has a lot of issues and even their service centers can not resolve the problem.
Q:Does the phone have a dedicated memory card slot as I want to use the memory card with both SIMs?
Q:What about Camera?Redmi 6A or this phone has better camera . How is Selfie Camera.


These students will split $10,000 in prizes and will also be invited to join the Fall Half winners for a meeting with senior management at Fortress Investment Group this spring.
We have also seen some very impressive performance at the university level. For this part of our analysis we looked at average RAAs for two groups of students at each university: those who have been active at least every other week, and everyone else.
You might notice that RAAs seem to generally be higher for more active students than for less active ones. This is actually the case for 18 of the 20 universities with the most representatives in the Fortress Challenge – meaning that hundreds of you have been successfully generating alpha this year.


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Last night we bumped into David Holbrooke, mastermind behind Mountainfilm, the world-class film festival that explores adventure, exploration, the environment, and world issues each Memorial Day Weekend in Telluride, Colorado. He gave us the skinny on what to do this weekend in New York City: Check out the incredible films and adventurers who have arrived in Gotham for the very first Mountainfilm in New York.
Towers of Ennedi - The North Face climbing team—Renan, Alex, James, Jimmy—takes on the sandstone wonderland of Chad. We first covered this expedition in our Extreme Photo of the Week.
Learn more about Mountainfilm. See the New York schedule here.
The directors of Mountainfilm in Telluride—which is seriously one of our favorite weekends of the year, thanks to its appealing mix of stunning location, thoughtful films, and stimulating discussions—are launching a new event this weekend: Mountain Summit in Aspen. Think of it as Mountainfilm Lite.


The ProtEX-MAX™ PD8-6000 explosion-proof process meter offers all the functionality of the ProVu PD6000 as a fully FM, CSA, ATEX, and IECEx approved explosion-proof product. It accepts a process current (4-20 mA) or process voltage (0-5V, 1-5V, etc.) signal and displays it on a dual-line, 6-digit Sunbright® sunlight readable display. The meter includes a 24 VDC power supply to drive the transmitter and can be equipped with up to four internal relays and a 4-20 mA output. The PD8-6000 can be programmed and operated without opening the housing by using the built-in SafeTouch® through-glass buttons or the RS485 serial communication port with free Modbus® protocol.
Time Delay: 0 to 999.9 seconds, on & off relay time delays. Programmable and independent for each relay.Fail-Safe Operation: Programmable and independent for each relay.
Non-linear input signals (i.e. weirs & flumes, differential pressure, etc.) can be linearized with the ProtEX-MAX's simple to use built-in signal input conditioners, such as: square-root extractor, exponential linearizer, horizontal round tank linearizer, or the ProtEX-MAX's powerful general purpose 32-point linearizer.
For pump control applications where 2 or more similar pumps are used to control the level of a tank or a well, it is desirable to have the pumps operate alternately; this prevents excessive wear and overheating of one pump over the lack of use of the others. The ProtEX-MAX PD8-6000 can accommodate up to 8 pumps. In the example below, a pair of relays have been set up to alternate every time an on/off pump cycle is completed. Another pair of relays is used for low and high alarms.


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Geneva, 1979
German, English, French
Dr. Wolfgang Peter is recognized by clients and his peers as one of the most in-demand counsels and arbitrators in Europe and globally. Dr. Peter is particularly active in cases involving complex issues of valuations, including post-M&A disputes, joint ventures and projects stemming from the heavy industry. He has particular expertise in cases involving gas & oil contracts, including upstream and downstream projects, as well as price reviews under long-term gas supply agreements. In recent years, he has been involved in numerous arbitrations stemming from transactions in the Asia-Pacific region.
Dr. Peter regularly advises third-party funding companies in evaluating the merits of the Claimant(s)' cases, especially with regard to damage claims. An active speaker and contributor to the arbitration community at large, he is a member of the LCIA Board of Directors and of the ASA Board. Prior to his new venture, Dr. Peter founded and headed the arbitration group of Python & Peter, and acted as a CEO of two luxury watch-making companies, for 12 years.
Arbitration / Litigation
Distribution / Agency
Joint Ventures / Consortia
Investments & BITs
Automotive & Heavy Industry
Fashion & Luxury Goods
Wolfgang Peter is one of Europe's key names when it comes to arbitration matters. His expertise lies in acting as counsel and arbitrator in post-M&A, joint venture and contractual disputes.
WWL ARBITRATION 2020
Counsel in an ad hoc arbitration between a state-owned enterprise and a sovereign state, involving aspects of public international law, with an amount in dispute of USD several billion.
Counsel in a case involving two state-owned entities in a highly complex ad hoc arbitration stemming from oil production and delivery agreements, securing an award of more than a billion USD for our clients.
Counsel to a major energy conglomerate in its price adjustment disputes against another European major relating to long-term gas supply agreements subject to ICC Rules.
Counsel in an ad hoc arbitration stemming from the production sharing agreement for unconventional gas in the Asia-Pacific region.
Chairman of the Arbitral Tribunal in the Vivendi v. Elektrim arbitration, an important decision on the interrelation between arbitral proceedings and bankruptcy, confirmed by two instances of the English courts.
Co-counsel in an ICC arbitration concerning the break-up of Arthur Andersen, resulting in a seminal decision of the Swiss Supreme Court on the joinder of the arbitration agreements.
Founding Partner of Python & Peter, Geneva (1981-2015)
CEO of Breguet and Jaquet Droz (1987-2000)
Adviser to the Federal Minister of Justice and Police (1980-1982)
Secretary of the Federal Expert Commission on Swiss Company Law (1979-1980)
Doctorate in Law Degree, University of Frankfurt (1986)
Visiting Scholar, Harvard Law School (1982-1983)
Bachelor of Law Degree, University of Lausanne (1977)
Doctorate in Economics, University of Lausanne (1975)
Degree in Political Science, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva (1974)
Bachelor of Business Administration, University of Lausanne (1972)
Member of the Board of Directors of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA)
Member of the Board of Directors of the Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA)
International Bar Association
Geneva Arbitration Association
Geneva Association of Business Law
Material Adverse Change Clauses: Some Practical Thoughts
in Contemporary Issues in International Arbitration and Mediation – The Fordham Papers 2015, Edited by Arthur W. Rovine, 2017, p. 203-213
Party-Appointed Expert Witnesses v. Tribunal-Appointed Experts
Is there a Best Practice in International Arbitration?, in Festschrift für Gerhard Wegen zum 65. Geburtstag, 2015
Compensation and Damages
What is Different in Investment Arbitration?, in ASA Special Series No. 34, May 2010
Derailment and Delay Tactics: Some Possible Solutions
in Global Arbitration Review, 2008
Some Observations on the New Swiss Rules of International Arbitration
in ASA Special Series No. 22, May 2004
Witness Conferencing Revisited
in Arbitral Procedure at the Dawn of the New Millenium, Reports of the International Colloquium of CEPANI, October 15, 2004, Extrait, Bruylant
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ABOUT FURQAAN PROJECT
Furqaan Project is the crown jewel of the Al-Furqaan Foundation amongst various other projects of Al-Furqaan Foundation. We have new initiatives and a fresh perspective for this division along with a new identity. Furqaan Project was always at the center of our activities.
Now with new initiatives, Furqaan Project is trying to become the single source for all your needs of dawah resources. InshaAllah, over and above our popular English Translation, we are trying to provide the translation of the Quran in all major languages of the world. We are also trying to provide under one roof all necessary materials such as books, leaflets, brochures and electronic media to use for dawah purposes or to teach Islam to new Muslims.
Alhamdulillah, it is through the planning and hard work of the dedicated personnel in this division Al-Furqaan Foundation has been able to distribute around millions of copies of the translation in the United States, out of which thousands copies were distributed door to door.
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Objective / Mission
The mission of Furqaan Project is to deliver a FREE copy of the English Translation of the Message of the Quran to every household, every hospital room, every hotel room, and other group residential facilities such as retirement homes, college dormitories, etc. in the United States.
Organizational Scope
Islam being a practical religion recognizes that different people have different abilities and has provided avenues for those who may not be able to dedicate a lot of time to fulfill this obligation. " Let there arise out of you a band of people inviting to all that is good, enjoining what is right, and forbidding what is wrong; they are the ones to attain felicity (Quran 3:104)."
Al-Furqaan derives its inspiration from many ahadith and Qurananic ayats that reveal the importance of doing Dawah individually, collectively, and organizationally. It is indeed an obligation upon every Muslim. " Invite (all) to the Way of thy Lord with wisdom and beautiful preaching; and argue with them in ways that are best and most gracious: for thy Lord knoweth best, who have strayed from His Path, and who receive guidance (Quran 16:125)."
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This Organization provides a beautiful translation of the Quran for Muslims and Non-Muslims alike.
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The Answers to All Your Questions
Popular questions are answered below but if you would like to know anything specific please feel free to call us.
Why are you placing the Qur'an in hospital rooms?
When people are in a hospital, they are going through important transformations in life. It may be due to illness or some other reason; but at such a time of transformation people are open to very fundamental questions in life like death, God, truth, etc. The famous former singer Yusuf Islam, had a turning point when he was in the hospital. Again, it was being in the hospital and reading Qur'an that brought about this profound change. If your questions are still unanswered, please contact us.
Why are you placing the Qur'an in hotel rooms? Aren't these places unclean and used for unclean things, especially in America?
There are a few advantages in doing this. First, when a person is traveling, he/she is more open to new experiences. Second, we need to make a mindset that shows the Qur'an is a holy book alongside other holy books like the Bible. This increases the chances for people to read the Qur'an. Third, it is a free outlet from a legal perspective; therefore why not use the Qur'an?
Why are you distributing the translation of the Qur'an and not just some pamphlets to explain Islam to the people? If they are interested, then they can then get a copy of the Qur'an.
The sunnah of Dawah is to do dawah through the Qur'an. Yes, we can make pamphlets with Qur'anic themes, but when we are doing mass distribution, then the whole of the Qur'an covers all the topics needed for any individual as the Qur'an mentions: make clear on the issues people differ and the Messenger! Deliver what has been revealed to you from your Lord; and if you do it not, then you have not delivered His message, and Allah will protect you from the people; surely Allah will not guide the unbelieving people. We are strongly of the opinion that it is our duty as Muslims to communicate the Message of the Qur'an to non-Muslims. This, we believe, is achieved by delivering the Qur'an in the language that people are able to understand. Also, there is no book or pamphlet on the planet that can address the various intellectual appetites of the readers. The Qur'an is able to address and answer the questions of people across many walks of life, from politicians to teachers to scientists; to the rich person to the poor person; to the young and the old; and the common man. Everyone can find their questions answered and at the level of their intelligence. We believe that no pamphlet can serve this purpose. However, we will supply pamphlets that will address questions that arise once a person has read the Qur'an. Really it is a question of what you lead with pamphlets or the Qur'an. The Qur'an being the only book on the planet that has not changed, and has the impact of bringing people to Islam from the time it was revealed, has a better chance of bringing people to tauheed than anything else.
Some scholars say that it is not permissible to distribute even the translation to non-Muslims. They say it is better to give material on Islam rather than the translation.
The sunnah of Dawah is to do dawah through the Qur'an. Yes, we can make pamphlets with Qur'anic themes, but when we are doing mass distribution, then the whole of the Qur'an covers all the topics needed for any individual as the Qur'an mentions: make clear on the issues people differ and the Messenger! Deliver what has been revealed to you from your Lord; and if you do it not, then you have not delivered His message, and Allah will protect you from the people; surely Allah will not guide the unbelieving people. The Qur'an is very clear that the message has to be given in the language of the people of a place. The Qur'an says, and We never sent a prophet except in the language of its people. We learn from this ayat that we have to give the message of Qur'an in the language that will make sense to them. Dawah is not just giving people information, rather it is making sure it reaches the heart, which the Qur'an calls "Balagh." How do we reach the heart of the people other than in the language of the people. There are several popular people that have come to Islam by their personal readings of the Qur'an, such as Malcolm X, Jeffery Lang, Dr. Maurice Bucaille and Yusuf Islam just to name a few. As mentioned earlier, it is not possible to translate the Qur'an into another language. Rather you are only able to produce the meaning of what someone's interpretation of a particular verse is, which is different from translation. Furqaan Project is distributing therefore the Translation of the Message of The Qur'an.
Our scholars say that it is not permissible to publish the translation of the Qur'an without the Arabic appearing alongside it. You are only providing the translation of the Qur'an. How can you do this?
A minority group of scholars are of the opinion that the Qur'an translation cannot be published without the Arabic text. Their reasoning is based on the supposition that the Injil (Bible) and the Torah (Jewish Scriptures) were corrupted due to translations being made from translations without regard to the original text, so that over time the original message of the Bible and the Torah has changed beyond recognition. Our scholars disagree with this supposition and present the following arguments for the permissibility of publishing the Meaning of the Translation only.
First and foremost, the supposition that the bulk of the corruption contained in the Bible and Torah are due to translation and mis-translation etc. is incorrect. While a small degree may be attributed to mis-translation, the bulk of the corruption is due to the following reasons: Allah (SubhanaWaTaala) did not wish for these books to be preserved. The books were meant for a certain people for a certain time period. The corruption in the Bible appeared about 300 years after Jesus Christ, when the Council of Nicea (under the leadership of the Pagan Emperor Constantine) decided to use only the gospels we have today and physically destroyed all other manuscripts of other gospels. According to the book "What did Jesus Really Say," hundreds of gospels, some of them that probably contained the truth as Allah had revealed to prophet Jesus were systematically destroyed. The gospels we have today that were adopted are still preserved in their corrupted form in Greek, with nothing to do with translation errors. The primary reason we have so many corruptions in the Bible today is because of this and not because of translations.
Allah SWT has said in the Qur'an that He will preserve the Qur'an. Unlike the other revealed books, Allah SWT has taken it upon Himself to preserve the Qur'an. Therefore, any thoughts of somehow the Qur'an changing because of translations is absurd due to this main reason, the promise of Allah SWT. Today, millions of people all over the world in every culture and race have memorized the entire Qur'an, which is a testament to the promise of Allah SWT that He will preserve the Qur'an. Even if all the manuscripts of the Qur'an on the planet were to be destroyed and only the translations left, the Qur'an cannot be changed even an iota or be destroyed.
To further guarantee the safeguarding of the Qur'an, Allah SWT has made the reading of the Qur'an mandatory in our prayers. In Fajr, Maghrib, and Isha it is recited loudly and anyone (even a child) can openly correct the Imam leading prayers if mistakes are made in the recitation. No matter which language the Qur'an is translated into, all these texts of the translations always make it clear to the reader that the original Qur'an is in Arabic and in Arabic alone and has been preserved in the form it was originally revealed. Also, any translation is really the interpretation of the meaning of what the Qur'an is saying based on the translator's ability and understanding. Therefore, technically speaking, there is no direct translation of the Qur'an. To truly understand the Qur'an one must learn the Arabic language to fully comprehend it.
The non-Muslims to whom we are distributing these copies to, they cannot read the Arabic and it really serves no purpose. Including the Arabic for the purposes of our project may then end up violating other verses in the Qur'an that say "la yamassahu illal mutahharoon" ("none can touch its meanings but the pure people").
Based on these reasons, Furqaan Project has decided to publish primarily the English translation, with other translations coming later. We will however publish a small quantity of Arabic and English (or other language) for those non-Muslims who specifically request it, or if Muslims want to have their children read this simple English translation. Also, bear in mind, that Furqaan Project is not the first in making an English-only translation. This has been done for the last 250 years, particularly in the last 60 years.
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Whether they're backing alternative presidential candidates or pinning AIDS- awareness ribbons on their Oscar-night tuxedos, the people who work in Hollywood remain, to a large degree, card-carrying liberals. Most Americans, of course, no longer find it easy to make clear-cut ethical choices: The complex economic and racial realities of the '90s have blurred our definitions of liberal and conservative, freedom and responsibility. In movies, however, the moral lines continue to be neatly drawn. And more and more, that neatness is starting to look like a cop-out.
You can get a fair reading of the current, rather flaccid state of Hollywood liberalism in three new films, each of which wears its noble intentions on its sleeve. In City of Joy, Patrick Swayze is a frustrated American surgeon who volunteers his services at an impoverished clinic in Calcutta, becoming a kind of Preppie Teresa. In Thunderheart, a slick young FBI agent (Val Kilmer), asked to investigate a murder on an Indian reservation, uncovers a rat's nest of conspiracy and ends up getting in touch with his Indian roots (a process that involves desert mirages that look suspiciously like acid flashbacks from The Doors). Finally, The Power of One sets us down in South Africa during the early years of apartheid, where we witness the first stirrings of black activist fervor — as spearheaded by a white teenager so blond, handsome, and possessed of higher purpose he could practically be a poster child for the Hitler Youth.
City of Joy is easily the best of the three. It was directed by the British-born Roland Joffé (The Killing Fields, The Mission), who visualizes the packed-to-the-gills urban squalor of Calcutta much as he did the genocidal prison camps of Cambodia — as a mesmerizing canvas of apocalyptic Third World chaos. Like The Killing Fields, City of Joy has two protagonists: Max (Swayze), a cynical American expatriate who is drawn, á la Bogart, into taking compassionate action, and Hasari (Om Puri), an idealistic native who opens his own eyes to the horror of his country. Having lost his farm to money-lenders, Hasari brings his wife and children to Calcutta in hopes of landing a job. He does — as a rickshaw runner — but the city turns out to be a colorful inferno of hustlers and cutthroats.
The hokey, laborious Thunderheart would be little more than a leftover 1970s conspiracy thriller were it not for the novelty of its setting: a modern Indian reservation — which, as the movie reveals, is by now a fancy word for slum. Ray Levoi (Kilmer), because he's one-quarter Sioux, is assigned to a homicide that may be connected to factional violence set off by the "traditionalists," who advocate a radical return to ancient Indian ways. He gets to know the locals — they range from an Americanized school teacher (Sheila Tousey) to an old medicine man (Chief Ted Thin Elk) who only pretends not to speak English — and ends up rediscovering the Sioux in himself. What's silliest about this movie is that even as it's attempting to expose the ragtag poverty and injustice of modern Indian life, it reduces the essence of Native American culture to a patronizing melange of peace pipes, mysticism, and inscrutable tribal elders. The usually charismatic Kilmer gives a stolid performance in a blankly written role. The film's one redeeming feature is Graham Greene (from Dances With Wolves), who plays a wily tribal cop with impish humor, pursing his lips and dropping brute ironies like a Native American Joe Mantegna.


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Researchers Discover UEFI Bootkit Targeting Windows Computers Since 2012
Cybersecurity researchers on Tuesday revealed details of a previously undocumented UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) bootkit that has been put to use by threat actors to backdoor Windows systems as early as 2012 by modifying a legitimate Windows Boot Manager binary to achieve persistence, once again demonstrating how technology meant to secure the environment prior to loading the operating system is increasingly becoming a "tempting target."
Slovak cybersecurity firm ESET codenamed the new malware "ESPecter" for its ability to persist on the EFI System Partition (ESP), in addition to circumventing Microsoft Windows Driver Signature Enforcement to load its own unsigned driver that can be used to facilitate espionage activities such as document theft, keylogging, and screen monitoring by periodically capturing screenshots.
"ESPecter shows that threat actors are relying not only on UEFI firmware implants when it comes to pre-OS persistence and, despite the existing security mechanisms like UEFI Secure Boot, invest their time into creating malware that would be easily blocked by such mechanisms, if enabled and configured correctly," ESET researchers Martin Smolár and Anton Cherepanov said in a technical write-up published Tuesday.
The development marks the fourth time real-world cases of UEFI malware have been discovered so far, following LoJax, MosaicRegressor, and most recently FinFisher, the last of which was found leveraging the same method of compromise to persist on the ESP in the form of a patched Windows Boot Manager.
"By patching the Windows Boot Manager, attackers achieve execution in the early stages of the system boot process, before the operating system is fully loaded," the researchers said. "This allows ESPecter to bypass Windows Driver Signature Enforcement (DSE) in order to execute its own unsigned driver at system startup."
However, on systems that support Legacy BIOS Boot Mode, ESPecter gains persistence by altering the master boot record (MBR) code located in the first physical sector of the disk drive to interfere with the loading of the boot manager and load the malicious kernel driver, which is designed to load additional user-mode payloads and set up the keylogger, before erasing its own traces from the machine.
In the final phase, the driver is used to inject next-stage user-mode components into specific system processes to establish communications with a remote server, thereby enabling an attacker to commandeer the compromised machine and take over control, not to mention download and execute more malware or commands fetched from the server.
ESET did not attribute the bootkit to a particular nation-state or hacking group, but the use of Chinese debug messages in the user-mode client payload has raised the possibility that it could be the work of an unknown Chinese-speaking threat actor.
"Even though Secure Boot stands in the way of executing untrusted UEFI binaries from the ESP, over the last few years we have been witness to various UEFI firmware vulnerabilities affecting thousands of devices that allow disabling or bypassing Secure Boot," the researchers noted. "This shows that securing UEFI firmware is a challenging task and that the way various vendors apply security policies and use UEFI services is not always ideal."
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I dialogi di Messer Speron Sperone
Autore: SPERONI, Sperone (1500-1588)
Tipografo: heirs of Aldus Manutius
8vo (152x94 mm). [2], 176 leaves. Collation: A10 B-Y8. Printer's device on title page and last leaf verso. Errata, register and colophon on l. Y8r. Italic type. 18th-century stiff vellum, spine with morocco lettering piece (small portion on the lefthand side missing), sprinkled edges. On the front flyleaf manuscript note "Costò £ 18 di Modena". Small repairs to title and last leaf with no loss, slightly stained at the beginning and at the end of the volume, all in all a good copy.
First edition, dedicated by Daniele Barbaro to Ferdinando Sanseverino, Prince of Salerno, of most of Speroni's dialogues, including the famous Dialogo delle lingue, which was basically plagiarized by J. Du Bellay in his Deffence et illustration de la langue françoise (Paris, 1549) (cf. P. Villey, Sources italiens de la Deffense et illustration de la langue françoise de Joachim du Bellay, Paris, 1908; see also I. Navaratte, Strategies of Appropriation in Speroni and Du Bellay, in: "Comparative Literature", 2;2, Spring 1989, pp. 141-154).
From this first edition only the Dialogo della vita attiva e contemlativa and the second part of the Dialogo della rhetorica were basically omitted. The dialogues included therefore are: Dialogo d'amore; Della dignità delle donne; Del tempo di partorire delle donne; Della cura famigliare; Della usura; Dialogo della discordia; Dialogo delle lingue; Dialogo della rhetorica, libro primo; Dialogo delle laudi del Cathaio villa della S. Beatrice Pia degli Obici; Dialogo intitolato Panico et Bichi.
"From 1542 to 1546, editions of the Dialoghi appeared almost annually from the "casa de' figliuoli di Aldo" press of Venice. The 1544 edition also carries the date 1545, indicating a possible delay between the preparation and actual appearance of this edition. Also in 1546, the first French translation of Della cura famigliare and Della dignità delle donne appeared, accompanied by some precepts regarding marriage by Plutarch (Lyon, Jean de Tournes). The next Aldine edition was produced in 1550 and in 1551 Claude Gruget's translation of the Dialoghi was published in Paris by Estienne Groulleau. The next few Italian editions are from the years 1552 (Venice, Aldo), 1558 (Venice, Domenico Giglio), 1560 (Venice, Francesco Lorenzini da Torino), 1564 (Venice, Comin da Trino di Monferrato). These early editions are all based on the first edition of 1542, with no changes in content. All Italian editions contain the following works in the same order: the Dedicatoria di Daniele Barbaro; Dialogo d'amore; Della dignità delle donne; Del tempo di partorire delle donne; Della cura famigliare; Della usura; Dialogo della discordia; Dialogo delle lingue; Dialogo della rhetorica, libro primo; Dialogo delle laudi del Cathaio villa della S. Beatrice Pia degli Obici; Dialogo intitolato Panico et Bichi. The two French editions do not adhere to this scheme: the 1546 edition contains only two of Speroni's dialogues, while the 1551 edition contains all of the dialogues of the original edition, but not Daniele Barbaro's Dedicatoria. In its place there is one by Gruget, as well as a sonnet and an Ode by Marc Antoine de Muret on Speroni's dialogues. The posthumous publications begin with the 1596 expanded edition by Ingolfo de' Conti (Venice, Roberto Meietti) […] As was the case with many letterati of the period, Speroni's dialogues circulated among friends in manuscript form for a number of years before publication. They were often read aloud or performed in order to elicit commentary and to stimulate further discussion. This was certainly true among the members and associates of such academies as the Paduan Accademia degli Infiammati of which Speroni was leader (principe) from the winter of 1541 to the spring of 1542. This erudite association grew out of a desire to pursue learned discussions in a setting that differed from the strict formality of the Paduan Studio and the more highly stylized environment of the courts. It was intended to be a semi-formal setting where literary, philosophical and scientific topics would be discussed in the vernacular. Its brief existence, from approximately 1540 to 1543, marked a significant phase in the history of literary activity in the area. This was due, in part, to the broad membership of this academy which spread beyond the confines of the Venetian territory. It attracted statesmen, philosophers, and writers who had been regularly drawn to the area from other parts of Italy and Europe by the cultural and political allure of the Republic of Venice and the Studio of Padua since the early sixteenth century. Despite Speroni's reluctance to publish his dialogues […] Daniele Barbaro collected the manuscripts that were in circulation and, together with Marcantonio Moresini, published them in one volume in Venice in 1542 at the house of Antonio and Paolo Manuzio without the author's written consent. Despite his seeming indifference, Speroni did not hesitate to express reservations regarding the quality of this edition that subsequently went through numerous reprints. In Apologia I, he declares that the Manuzios 'li stamparono molte volte, e tutte in forma assai bassa; né mai da me li conobbero, né io da loro mai pur un solo non ebbi in dono di quei libretti' (Opere I, Rome, 1589, 295) […]
Barbaro's introduction to the first edition is significant for three reasons. In the first place, it gives proof of the high esteem in which Speroni and his opinions were held. Secondly, the introduction sheds light on the internal dynamics of the Accademia degli Infiammati which were characterized by a relatively uninhibited exchange of works and ideas among its members. It also reveals Barbaro's concern for Speroni's neglect of his manuscripts which had resulted in others' attempts to claim them as their own works. Although he is not mentioned by name in the Introduction, the implicit reference regarding plagiarism is to Alessandro Piccolomini, author of the Institutione […] These and other borrowings caused the publication of the Dialoghi to be carried out in haste. Speroni's edition received the copyright (privilegio) from the Venetian Consiglio dei Dieci a mere four days after the one granted for Piccolomini's publication, despite the fact that the Institutione was authorized for publication eighteen days before the Dialoghi. This seems due, in part at least, to an attempt to have Speroni's work in circulation as quickly as possible after Piccolomini's, with the intention of bringing to everyone's attention the Institutione's unauthorized indebtedness to the Dialoghi […] Also significant is the omission of the Dialogo della vita attiva e contemlativa, mentioned in the fede, from the first edition. This seems due to the fact that, since Giovan Francesca Valier (Valerio), one of the dialogue's chief interlocutors, had been implicated in a political conspiracy against the Republic of Venice in 1537, it would not have been appropriate to have him appear as the champion of the active life […] The third significant aspect of the introduction to the edition is the fact that it was written by Daniele Barbaro. Twenty years later, as Patriarch of Aquilea, Barbaro was consulted regarding the Index of Prohibited Books. On 30 January and 20 February 1562 he took part in the Council of Trent's discussion concerning the classification of all materials relevant to the restriction of book publication and to their potential placement on the Index. His observations showed that he was determined to mete out reasonable sentences. He insisted for example, that a work not be placed on the Index merely because it was published by a press that was considered 'heretical'. He also called for a clear distinction to be made between works that promoted heresy and those that encouraged lascivious conduct, and insisted that the Council not punish famous writers 'retroactively' by placing on the Index works from their youth, which might reflect more the intemperance of an immature mind than the reasoned reflections of a mature adult. In fact, the 1542 edition of the Dialoghi had been discussed in Index circles since at least 1574, the year of their mention in the Avviso alli librari, and consequently when Speroni began his Apologia. The Dialoghi were formaly placed on the Index in Parma in 1580, then again in Rome in 1590, with the comment that they should remain on the list until expurgated. They were also included in the Roman Index of 1593 […] Speroni's Dialoghi were widely read, referred to, and commented on by scholars and intellectuals in sixteenth-century Italy. The characters who populate his dialogues are, almost exclusively, those people with whom the author came into contact and exchanged ideas throughout his lifetime. They were eminent letterati, artists, scholars, philosophers, statesmen and prelates. Speroni was involved in correspondence with most of these men and not infrequently he appeared as either an interlocutor or cited authority in a number of dialogical works of the sixteenth century […]
The works that comprise Speroni's 'dialoghi d'amore' are Dialogo d'amore, Dialogo della dignità delle donne, Dialogo di Panico e Bichi, and Dialogo dellelaudi del Cataio. In addition to the theme of love, these works share the common feature of representing discussions which take place in locations controlled by female characters. The setting of the Dialogod'amore is the Venetian residence of the courtesan Tullia d'Aragona. In this work, the discussions on love are influenced by the setting in terms of the fundamental concepts of distance and absence. The other three dialogues take place at Beatrice Pio degli Obizi's villa of Cataio, just outside Padua. Of these, only the reported dialogue within Dialogo della dignità delle donne actually seems to take place at the Cataio villa. On the other hand, in DialogodiPanicoeBichi the interlocutors do not appear to cross the threshold of the house; they remain in an undetermined setting and refer to Cataio as a place that Panico wishes to avoid because the sight of Beavice Pio causes him much distress. Marcantonio Moresini and Porzia of Dialogo delle laudi del Cataio walk across the grounds of the villa, but never actually enter it. These dialogues were written by Speroni in his youth, between 1520 and 1528, when he was employed as professor of philosophy at the university of Padua […] Speroni's love dialogues figure prominently in the Apologia since it was primarily on the basis of the accusations of impiety levelled against certain passages in them that he was inspired to write his theoretical tract on the dialogue […] Although Tullia d'Aragona was already a well-known and celebrated 'literary' courtesan of the early Cinquecento, her reputation had received a heavy blow from that Roman episode. Her appearance in Speroni's dialogue is significant because his emphasis on the intellectual and artistic aspects of her personality helped to save her reputation […] In fact, in Speroni's dialogue it is Tullia who directs the discussions on love between herself and the other characters. Also significant is the setting of the dialogue. Although there is no explicit indication, the discussions appear to take place at Tullia's Venetian residence where, as she had done in Rome, she attracted a circle of artists and scholars to her literary salon. By setting the discussions on love between Tullia and [Bernardo] Tasso, both of whom are poets as well as lovers, in Tullia's Venetian salon, Speroni has chosen a location in which real love and its literary treatment come together and, inevitably, conflict […] As in the Dialogo d'amore, the treatment of the traditions of the love lyric and the trattato d'amore in Speroni's Dialogo della dignità delle donne is tinged with a subtle irony. Similarly, the same themes of departure, absence, and the search for an adequate medium of expression for the love experience are relevant. This dialogue opens in an undisclosed place where Michele Barozzi intrudes on Daniele Barbaro's lovesick daydreaming about Beatrice Pio degli Obizi […] The theme of concealing and revealing is also at the basis of the brief Dialogo di Panico e Bichi. In the undisclosed setting that Fournel declares is suggestive of a kind of antechamber at Cataio, the two interlocutors mentioned in the title discuss whether it is better to conceal or openly reveal one's amorous intentions to the beloved. Girolamo Panico, a minor poet who is also blind, is in love but incapable of expressing his feelings. Consequently, he requests the advice of his friend, Annibale Bichi. The initial exchange reveals the dilemma of the love-struck Panico and boldly underlines the ludic quality of amorous discourse. There is a reference to a game of backgammon between Panico and Beatrice Pio who, at this point, remains the unamed beloved […] In Dialogo delle laudi del Cataio, the struggle for expression between realistic and idealized love surpasses the confines set out in the previous love dialogues to include the interlocutors' physical surroundings. In this rather short dialogue, there are two speakers, Marcantonio Moresini and Porzia, one of Beatrice Pio's damigelle. Here, the actual grounds of the villa of Cataio are evoked and transformed into a veritable landscape of love by the Petrarchan imagery used by Moresini. In the opening scene, Moresini encourages Porzia to stay with him and allow Beatrice Pio, Luigi Alemanni and Benedetto Varchi to walk ahead of them […] In the DialogodellelaudidelCataio, Speroni created a marvelous living landscape as a portrait of Beatrice Pio that exists in a kind of symbiotic relationship with the loved object. The landscape surrounding Cataio lives and breathes like Beatrice Pio and, because it too is in love with her, it reflects the many aspects of her personality […] With Dialogo delle laudi del Cataio, Speroni added the final brushstroke to the landscape of love which all of his 'dialoghi d'amore' combine to form. In this particular dialogue, literary tradition and the physical setting are combined in order to compose a vision of love that will reveal the true nature of traditional amorous discourse […]
In Dialogo della famigliare and Dialogo del tempo di partorire delle dolle Speroni displays an acute awareness of the different rhetorical strategies employed in the distinct genres, especially regarding the ambiguity of spatio-temporal markers. In these compositions he forms an intriguing mixture that borrows from both the dialogue and the letter. These works are certainly epistolary in nature since, in the place of interlocutors who are engaged in a conversation, there is merely an addressee. At the same time, they are not to be confused with Speroni's lettere familiari because the linguistic register and intellectual discourse are higher than the ones he normally employed in his usual epistolary exchanges. The epistolary dialogues are more erudite re-elaborations of some of his domestic concerns composed in the literary style that, while more similar to the one he reserved for his dialogues, tends to be more readily accessible. The Dialogo della cura famigliare is addressed to his godchild Cornelia Cornaro, the daughter of his friend Giovanni, on the day of her wedding to Pier Moresini in 1533. We know that this dialogue was composed between 1533 and 1535 because, in his reference to it in Apologia II, Speroni declares, 'il qual dialogo già quaranta anni, se ben mi ricordo, scrissi in Vinegia' (Opere I, 314). This places the Dialogo della cura famigliare in approximately the same time period as the love dialogues which are vaguely echoed in the background. The epistolary nature of the Dialogo della cura famigliare means that its primary goal of providing instruction in the ways of running a household and ensuring harmony in the family is achieved by a means that would seem to deny any form of open discussion […] In the second epistolary dialogue, Dialogo del tempo del partorire delle donne, Speroni also points to the difficulties encountered when the search for truth is thwarted by ambiguity. Although the expressed aim of this work is the truth behind childbirth, the ramifications of his investigations expand to involve a natural phenomena. He qualifies his opening declaration that childbirth is a 'bella materia da ragionare' by stating that 'intorno al quale ogni mediocre intelletto può discorrer probabilmente … ma pochi sono o niuno, il quale con ragioni infallibili sia bastante di ritrovarne la verità' (Opere, 1-64). Childbirth is accepted by Speroni as an appropriate topic for discussion because, as a result of the conflict between scientific and philosophical tracts on the one hand and natural history on the other, the human gestation period is said to last anywhere from six to fourteen months. This confusion establishes the topic as fertile ground for a discussion of the means of understanding nature. The fundamental point to the discussion revolves around the issue of truth, or rather, the conflict between true and true-seeming […]
The dialogues on discord and usury, the only examples of paradoxical dialogues written by Speroni, are set in undetermined locales where the interactions between gods and men are characterized by doubt and ambiguity. Like Lucian, Speroni is, at times, intellectually eclectic. He also expresses a certain amount of skepticism regarding humanity and its constant attempts to delve deeply into truth that always remains out of reach. However, unlike the classical dialogist, Speroni's iconoclasm and subversive nature are not indicative of a wholesale disregard of any particular philosophical school. Speron's paradoxical dialogues are examples of literary experimentation […] Speroni's paradoxical dialogues appear to have been composed between the years 1537and 1540, although some clarifications are required concerning the dating. In the first place, the Dialogo dell'usura, in the complete form we know it today, was begun in 1537 but completed only in 1574. The version that was printed in the 1542 edition lacked the reply of Ruzzante (Angelo Beolco) who is mentioned as an interlocutor. In its original form then, the work seemed more like an oration than a dialogue […]
The historical identifiable interlocutors of Dialogo delle lingue are Pietro Bembo, Lazzaro Bonamico, Giovanni Lascaris, and Pietro Pomponazzi. There are also two unnamed characters, the Roman courtier and the Paduan student. The dialogue purports to recount an actual debate concerning the validity of vernacular Italian, its courtly and regional variants, and classical Latin and Greek […] The choice of Charles V's Bolognese coronation by Pope Clement VII in Bologna as the historical background to Dialogo delle lingue, Dialogo della retorica, and Dialogo della vita attiva e contemplativa is noteworthy […] In Dialogo delle lingue, Speroni presents the debate concerning the viability of classical Latin and Greek, Tuscan, and the vernacular of the courts by placing in direct opposition the viewpoints of the men who congregated at Bologna for the coronation. The characters who promote different linguistic ideals reflect the competing linguistic ideologies of the times. Lazzaro Bonamico, the professor of Latin and Greek at Padua, maintains the classical ideal that was the dominant ideology of the Quattrocento. Pietro Bembo insists on the dignity and elegance of Trecento Tuscan (by grafting onto it the rules of classical Latin). The Roman courtier insists on a practical language that reflects the composite reality of the Italian courts. The Paduan student of Pietro Pomponazzi approaches the issue philosophically, asserts the importance of substance over form, and hence firmly defends verba over res […]" (R. Buranello, From the locus menus to the locus ambiguus: Sperone Speroni and the Setting of Renaissance Dialogue, Dissertation thesis, University of Toronto, 1999, pp. 80-88, 101, 160-166, 178, 187, 190-191, 194, 200, 205-206, 213, 217-218, 249-250, 253-254).
"È ormai un dato bene accertato l'apporto che alcuni di questi intellettuali [Alessandro Piccolomini, Leone Orsini, Daniele Barbaro, Vincenzo Maggi, Bernardino Tomitano, Mariano e Celso Sozzini, e gli esuli fiorentini Ugolino Martelli e Benedetto Varchi] recarono alla formazione di un linguaggio filosofico e scientifico in 'volgare', attestato dai Dialoghi dello stesso Sperone che, per molti aspetti, rappresentano uno dei tentativi più interessanti di proporre con gli strumenti dell'ironia e lo schermo del 'basso parlare', argomenti ormai difficilmente discutibili senza il cauto uso delle risorse popolaresche e del lessico dei vari volgari. A queste risorse era ricorso, del resto, più volte proprio il Pomponazzi che alcuni degli 'Infiammati' avevano avuto come loro maestro di filosofia ed al quale lo Sperone, nel Dialogo delle lingue, attribuì le idee più nuove e radicali sulla natura delle lingue […] [Nel Dialogo delle lingue] si delinea una distinzione assai significativa tra il volgare 'poetico' e 'oratorio' e l'altro, concretamente e realmente parlato nelle sue varietà regionali e destinato a diventare il necessario 'strumento' del sapere, non condizionato dal 'modello' letterario bembesco e privo di qualsiasi adornamento e 'modulo' retorico. Per lo Speroni, questo 'volgare' che egli chiama 'lombardo', alludendo alle parlate settentrionali usate maggiormente nei più importanti centri universitari, possiede, infatti, tutte le 'facoltà che potranno permettergli di propagare le verità proprie della filosofia e della scienza, sempre identiche, immutabili e del tutto indifferenti alla mutevole molteplicità delle lingue. Se sembra riconoscere al volgare 'toscano' una funzione squisitamente 'letteraria', nell'ambito di una raffinata educazione retorica, è altrettanto fermo e deciso nel riconoscere la dignità degli altri linguaggi con i quali gli uomini comunicano quotidianamente tra di loro e che avranno, senza dubbio, la capacità di far conoscere la verità della filosofia e della scienza ad un uditorio assai più vasto di quello costituito dai pochi dotti che conoscono il latino e dai 'letterati' nutriti dalla lettura del Petrarca e del Boccaccio" (C. Vasoli, Sperone Speroni: la filosofia e la lingua: l'ombra del Pomponazzi e un programma di volgarizzamento del sapere, in: "Il volgare come lingua di cultura dal Trecento al Cinquecento, Atti del Convegno internazionale, Mantova, 18-20 ottobre 2001", Florence, 2003, pp. 31-342).
"Composto intorno alla prima metà degli anni '30, incompiuto, il Della Retorica è l'ottavo della editio princeps aldina dei Dialogi (1542), dove occupa le cc. 131v-160r, preceduto dal Delle lingue, che si legge alle cc. 105v-131r: assieme a quest'ultimo e al dialogo Della vita attiva e contemplativa escluso dalla raccolta, forse per volontà di Daniele Barbaro, forma un trittico che, come ha osservato Valerio Vianello, 'è scandito in tre movimenti successivi (la questione della lingua volgare, le modalità di pertinenza della letteratura, il ruolo del letterato nella società), perché lo Speroni è incline a scavare con giri concentrici intorno a un motivo per illustrare le sfumature del proprio pensiero'. Ad accumunare i tre dialoghi è l'ambientazione bolognese, al tempo in cui si preparava il Convegno tra Clemente VII e Carlo V, incoronato re d'Italia il 22 febbraio 1530 e, due giorni dopo, imperatore: quello della retorica, in particolare, collocandosi nel novembre del 1529, sembra precedere di un giorno la vicenda inscenata nel Della vita attiva e contemplativa, al quale lo apparenta anche la presenza dei personaggi che, direttamente o indirettamente, partecipano alla discussione: Giovan Francesco Valier (Valerio) e Marcantonio Soranzo, gentiluomini veneziani, e soprattutto Antonio Brocardo (1550 ca.-1531). Veneziano anch'egli, amico di Speroni (che lo evoca anche nel Dialogo d'amore) e allievo di Pietro Pomponazzi, maestro dello stesso Speroni, fu autore di un ridotto e raffinato canzoniere, che, nella sua varietà tematica e soprattutto metrica, ci restituisce l'immagine di un testimone eccentrico della poesia cinquecentesca […] Le affinità tra il Della retorica e il [dialogo erasmiano] Ciceronianus vanno al di là di casuali coincidenze: non solo il resoconto di Brocardo e quello erasmiano mostrano analogie sul piano del lessico e delle situazioni comunicative, ma i punti di distanza del primo dal secondo si comprendono appieno solo se li si intende come differenze, come consapevoli prese di distanza dal quadro descritto nel Ciceronianus, che riguarda appunto la scrittura umanistica in latino, in funzione di un suo riadattamento al contesto volgare. Né si può sottostimare il fatto, ovvio solo in apparenza, che i due testi sono accumunati, prima ancora che dalla forma dialogica, dal trattamento ironico della vicenda. Se a ciò si aggiunge che il Ciceronianus è presente, seppure in maniera più puntiforme (ma non perciò meno incisiva), in un insieme ampio di scritti speroniani […] non sembra sussistere ragione alcuna per voler disconoscere la fonte […]" (A. Cotugno, La scienza della parola: retorica e linguistica di Sperone Speroni, Bologna, 2018, pp. 38-47).
Born in Padua on April 12, 1500, Speroni studied in Padua and Venice, eventually graduating in philosophy at the University of Padua in 1518. As early as 1520 he was appointed lecturer in logic in Padua, having among his pupils Bernardo Navagero, who later became one of his closer friends. The lectures must have been appreciated as in 1523 the Senate gave him the extraordinary chair of philosophy. Speroni, however, preferred to interrupt his university career to follow the teachings of Pietro Pomponazzi in Bologna, remaining there until the philosopher's death in 1525. Returning to Padua, he resumed his teaching activities for another three years, alternating his academic commitments with frequent Venetian sojourns, during which he made the acquaintance of some of the leading figures in the literary life of the time, including Pietro Aretino, Bernardo Tasso, Antonio Brocardo, Pietro Bembo, and Bernardo Cappello. The death of his parents in 1528 forced Speroni to assume responsibility for the entire family, thereby ending his academic teaching, which was already becoming increasingly burdensome for him. The numerous family duties did not, however, prevent him from cultivating his interests and engaging in intense civic and oratorial activity. Elected a member of the city council in 1532, the following year he was deputy to the "Magistratura dei Sedici", a position he would hold alternately until 1548; he was also president, in 1542, of the "Fondaco delle pelle e del cuoio" located on the island of Giudecca, and served as "provveditore" in matters of convents and public health. In February 1530 he participated, together with Antonio Brocardo, Bernardo Navagero and Luigi Priuli, in the celebrations for the coronation of Charles V in Bologna, as a guest of the local Venetian ambassador Gaspare Contarini, who was also an old companion during the university years in Bologna. In 1540 the Accademia degli Infiammati was founded in Padua, of which he was the major animator as well as the last of its 'principi' (princes), succeeding Alessandro Piccolomini in October 1541. In the front of the Infiammati, Speroni gave also a public reading of his famous tragedy Canace, first published in Venice, without the author's consent, in 1546. The 1550s were marked by mourning, health problems and renewed judiciary troubles, but also by Speroni's first and much-desired trip to Rome. The stay was brief but decisive, as his love for this city would never fade. The opportunity to return to Rome presented itself again in the late 1560s, and this time the stay was longer and allowed him to get in touch with the local intellectuals and to join the Accademia delle Notti Vaticane, of which he was also a prince. In 1570 he sojourned in Pesaro, invited by his friend Guidubaldo to the wedding of the latter's son, Francesco Maria II Della Rovere, to Lucrezia d'Este, and in late 1573 he went to Rome again to celebrate the election as pontiff, under the name of Gregory XIII, of Ugo Boncompagni, a fellow member of the Noctes Vaticanae. In 1574 the Inquisition's first attacks on his Dialoghi began as a consequence of an anonymous complaint of contempt of public morality. Booksellers in Rome were prohibited to sell the work and Speroni defended the controversial points first verbally, then with a written Apologia that he sent to his friends Antonio Riccoboni in Padua and Alvise Mocenigo in Venice to have copies circulated. Recalled to Padua in 1578 to settle some affairs, among the last literary activities to which Speroni devoted himself in the last years of his life was the defense of Dante in the literary diatribes that had recently arisen around the poet's authority. Speroni died in Padua in June 1588 (cf. L. Piantoni, Speroni, Sperone, in: "Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani" vol. 93, 2018, s.v.).
Renouard, 125.7; Edit 16, CNCE53856; B. Lamanna, A Good Woman, a Good Wife: Strategies of Idealization in Sperone Speroni's 'Dialogo della Dignità delle Donne', in: "Idealizing Women in the Italian Renaissance", E. Brizio-M. Piana, eds., Toronto, 2022; M. Sgarbi, The Italian Mind: Vernacular Logic in Renaissance Italy (1540-1551), Leiden-Boston, 2014; R. Leushuis, Speaking of Love: the Love Dialogue in Italian and French Renaissance Literature, Leiden-Boston, 2017; T. Katinis, Latin and Vernacular Interplay: Lazzaro Bonamico as Author and Character of Sperone Speroni's 'Dialogo delle lingue', in: "Neo-Latin and the Vernaculars: Bilingual Interactions in the Early Modern Period", A. Winkler-F. Schaffenrath, eds., Leiden-Boston, 2019; W.A. Rebhorn, Renaissance Debates on Rhetoric, Ithaca, N.Y., 2000; T. Katinis, Sperone Speroni and the Debate over Sophistry in the Italian Renaissance, Leiden-Boston, 2018; R. Buranello, From the Locus Amoenus to the Locus Ambiguus, Sperone Speroni and the Setting of Renaissance Dialogue, Toronto, 1999; J.-L. Fournel, Les dialogues de Sperone Speroni: libertés de la parole et règles de l'écriture, with a preface by M. Pozzi, P. Borsa, ed., Milan, 2014; Sperone Speroni, Padua, 1989.


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I've found a seller on Aliexpress that has bootleg GB/GBC carts so I ordered few. Yes, they're not original, but it's more practical to carry one cart with ~100 games than 10 original carts with one game :).
And since I already have them I though why not make a list of games so other people can see what's on them.
I would have posted this few days earlier, but it turns out WordPress doesn't have tables in it's aresenal :P. Solution was to switch to HTML mode and paste the code manually, but I was lazy to type all that. So in the end I made small Java application in which you can create the table, or import csv file that tools like excel can save, and export it as HTML code. That took me about two days on and off. Yup, it's better to spend two days coding an app than to spend 1-2 hours in notepad typing HTML code for this table :P. If someone else think he could use tool like this let me know in comments and I'll post the link for download.
Anyways, here's the game list. I have one more cart to cover, and one more on the way from China.
P.S. I'm not an expert in different Asian alphabets, aka I have no clue, so information in language is my estimation. I hope nobody gets offended if I guessed wrong on some game.
Posted on May 4, 2016, in Retro computing and tagged Bootleg cart, GameBoy, GameBoy Color. Bookmark the permalink.	7 Comments.
thank you Solo761, very interesting article, could you please indicate if the menu ("games list") of the games when you insert the cartridge is in chinese or English like you posted ?
Also, if you could post the seller of this cartridge.
The "Name on cart" column is how each game is named on the cart. If that's what you mean. Names are in latin/english.
Did you confirm the war game as a metal slug bootleg? Ive been looking for metal slug gbc bootleg for forever. Can you link me to the seller?
I didn't spend much time trying. It really looks like some kind of hack or alpha version, as I mentioned, when you shoot horizontally there's a shooting sound, when you shoot up or down there's no sound. Also when you fire you have to let the bullet fly to the target. If you fire another shot before the first one hit it disappears.
the "puzzle boy ll" is actually "A-mazing Tater" in original 🙂 .


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Iran-Linked Hackers Again Target Universities
By Ionut Arghire on September 12, 2019
Iran-linked threat actor COBALT DICKENS has launched a new phishing campaign targeting universities around the world, similar to an operation launched in August 2018, Secureworks reveals.
Believed to be associated with the Iranian government, the group targeted websites and login pages for 76 universities in 14 countries last year, and the newly discovered campaign was similarly large.
In July and August 2019, the phishing operation launched by COBALT DICKENS targeted over 60 universities in Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Hong Kong, and Switzerland.
As part of the attack, the actor sent library-themed phishing emails containing links to spoofed login pages for resources associated with the targeted universities. Unlike previous campaigns, the messages in the new attacks used a spoofed URL instead of shortened links.
As soon as a recipient clicked on the link, they were taken to a web page similar to the spoofed library resource. After the victims enter their credentials, they are redirected to the next.php file and then to the legitimate website being spoofed, while the credentials are stored locally in the pass.txt file.
The hackers registered at least 20 new domains for the campaign, and used the Freenom domain provider for that.
The domains use valid SSL certificates, likely to make the spoofed pages appear authentic. Most certificates were issued by Let's Encrypt, but previous campaigns leveraged certificates issued by Comodo.
To spoof login pages, COBALT DICKENS uses publicly available tools that allow them to copy entire pages of targeted university resources. The attackers sometimes would use older copied versions of target websites, Secureworks' security researchers have discovered.
The metadata in other spoofed web pages suggests that the threat actors are of Iranian origin (an Iran-related timestamp was observed in a page copied on August 3).
To date, the threat actor has been observed targeting at least 380 universities in over 30 countries, with many of them hit multiple times. Despite public disclosure, takedown attempts and law enforcement activity, the actor hasn't changed operations.
"Some educational institutions have implemented multi-factor authentication (MFA) to specifically address this threat. While implementing additional security controls like MFA could seem burdensome in environments that value user flexibility and innovation, single-password accounts are insecure," Secureworks notes.
The security researchers also published a list of known domains associated with COBALT DICKENS operations.
Related: Iranian Hackers Target Universities in Large Attack Campaign: SecureWorks
Related: Iran-Linked Malware Shared by USCYBERCOM First Seen in December 2016: Kaspersky
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Kids tend to come with a lot of laundry, and until they're old enough to start helping do their own laundry, the best we can hope for is that they'll at least put their dirty clothes in a laundry hamper. If you're lucky, maybe they'll even help you carry it to the laundry room! With this easy-to-sew, washable laundry hamper for kids, you might just be able to contain the mess in a cute hamper that hangs easily from a door handle or inside of a closet.
Using a fun patterned fabric that will match perfectly in your kids' room, this laundry hamper is made with durable material, lined with solid colored canvas and secured with handles so that it's easy to haul dirty clothes off to the laundry room. You can even through the bag in too!
Step 1: Cut a large 46 x 25 inch rectangle from both the solid and patterned fabric. Also cut a 15-inch circle from each fabric. Iron fabric to remove wrinkles.
Note, if you don't have an item to use as a stencil for the circle, you can tie a 7.5-inch string to a pen and draw the circle like you would with a compass.
Step 2: Fold the short ends of the patterned fabric together, right sides facing together. Repeat with the canvas. Pin and sew a straight seam, creating tubes (see above).
Step 3: With the fabric still wrong side out, pin the circular piece of fabric to the bottom of the tube. It's easiest to maintain the shape when you pin very close together. Keep in mind the directionality of your pattern (if there is one) because the circle must be the bottom of the bag.
Sew around the circle with a 1/4 inch seam. Repeat with the solid fabric.
Step 4: Fold ONLY the solid piece right side out. Place the solid tube inside of the patterned one, lining up the seams. This way, the right sides of each piece are facing each other.
Step 5: Pin together around the edge, leaving a section about 3-4 inches long marked. Sew around the top of the bag, except for this section.
Step 6: Pull the bag right side out through the opening. You will need to turn both pieces to the right sides, then push the solid piece back inside of the patterned one.
Step 7: Line up the top edges now, and fold the unsewn section in, pinning in place. Sew a top stitch close to the edge all the way around. Then sew an additional seam about 1 inch down from the top.
This step is mostly decorative, but I find that it helped reduce some fabric bunching as well.
Step 8: From the remaining solid canvas fabric, cut two strips about 3 x 18 in. Fold along the long edges and sew. Then turn the tubes right side out and iron flat.
Optional: Fold in the bottoms and top stitch together.
Step 9: Determine the approximate middle. Measure about 3 inches from the top of the bag and pin one side of the handle in place. Measure about 2-3 inches over and pin the other. Repeat on the opposite side of the bag so that measurements are equal and handles match up.
Note, you'll need to choose where you want the seam to show. I positioned it so that it is on one side, leaving it rarely visible.
Step 10: Sew a square with an X in it to secure each handle in place (see above). This allows the bag to hold more weight.
Mine are certainly not the prettiest, but I wanted to use a contrasting thread so it was visible in photos. You can use a matching color if desired.
At this size, you can easily hang the hamper from a doorknob or stand it up in a closet if you've used a stiff enough fabric. Fold over the top, or pick it up by the handle to drag it away to the laundry room. Then, you can clean the dirty laundry and even the laundry hamper with it!


This article titled: "Nigerian's Army Pride Wounded," which can be found on this link: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29014513, lists the many ways the Nigerian army has been humiliated by Boko Haram. I think the article should have been titled differently, like, "Nigerian Army Shamed by Boko Haram. Nothing can justify the level of indiscipline that we have experienced recently from the ranks and files of the Military cadre, all of them with no exception, even their wives joined the milieu.
At least, news is now filtering out about the Nigerian Military battling Boko Haram, instead of the past news about them fleeing from the murderous gang. Now, we can pray for them, now we should pray for them, that God will give them complete victory. They are fighting a just war and we pray God sees them through, and that they should not relent until this battle is worn. The call by President Jonathan to pray for the Military instead of maligning them is now in order. If they are fighting valorously, we should pray for them with favor. They need to regain their lost glory, which is not just about the Military alone, but also about the whole country.
Nigeria, we need to regain our lost glory in the face of this crisis. I am one to give my support when support is merited, and to vent when those assigned to duty fail to do their job. Right now, President Jonathan should embolden himself a lot more and do what is needed to save Nigeria. Those in the high places causing this havoc should be flushed out.


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