The Reston Community Center Lake Anne hosted a reception Sunday, March 6, for an exhibition of works of art created by Reston's elementary-schools' students. The exhibition celebrates Youth Art Month, an annual observance since 1961. It emphasizes the value of art education and encourages support for quality school art programs.
"It [the exhibition] highlights the kids and their talent," said Cheri Danaher, the arts education director at RCC. She said hearing the children say, "That's my work," as they show it to their parents is a gratifying experience. Cameron Lawless, a first-grade student at Buzz Aldrin, and daughter of a local artist, Mary Beth Swicord, said it felt really good to have her work displayed in the gallery. Parents at the reception were all smiles, too. Jackie and Dan Mathews, parents of Kelly, a second-grader at Buzz Aldrin, said they were extremely proud of her.
Those who attended the reception were treated to a performance by the Lake Anne Ringers, a musical group from Lake Anne Elementary School. Their teacher, Julie Derges, said the Ringers practice twice a week before school starts. "They are very dedicated," she said. The exhibition is scheduled to run until April 3.


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Olsi Beheluli, idiot drug dealer poses with stash of cash jailed.
Home Scandal and Gossip Olsi Beheluli, idiot drug dealer poses with stash of cash jailed.
Olsi Beheluli is also a preferred hawt bixch.
It seems showing off the good life has its limits after all. Case in point, idiot drug dealer, Olsi Beheluli, 22 of Harp Island Close, Neasden, the UK, whose post of him on social media posing next to an estimated sum of £250,000 ($USD 371K) would miraculously lead to authorities linking the man to nefarious behavior.
Initially arrested after cops seized heroin and cocaine to the tune of over £4 million ($USD 5.93m) from his associates Besim Topalli, 29 and Azem Proshka, 23. Cops would further put the seal of death on the 24 year old man after they discovered images of him on his smartphone surrounded by piles of cash.
Further investigation would also reveal our collective hero had posted images of himself on twitter with a pile of cash in front of him, with one post reading, 'I love my job,' with lots of dollar signs after it.
The posts were said to have been made a month before the man's arrest by the National Crime Agency operation in October.
Interestingly, Olsi Beheluli who describes himself as an actor/model on Twitter, initially claimed the money wasn't his, asserting the condemning photo had been taken at a relative's house in Albania.
Investigators would put bunk to that claim after being able to match photo backgrounds to his previous address.
Why not flaunt it indeed …?
Other incriminating evidence included investigators finding betting slips showing he had recently placed stakes worth £12,000 ($USD 17.8K ) at bookmakers.
Other stand out give aways included a student bank account containing £24,000, which the drug dealer claimed was winnings from gambling on the World Cup.
Also found was powdered caffeine and paracetemol – used as cutting agents – and bundles of pound and euro notes to a value of around £100,000 ($USD 148K ).
Other savory yummies included counterfeit identity documents, small amounts of cash and drugs along with scales and other equipment associated with drug dealing.
Following a trial at Blackfriars Crown Court, Beheluli was found guilty of conspiring to supply class A drugs and sentenced to to 11 years prison.
Both had earlier admitted conspiring to supply drugs, money laundering and possessing false ID documents.
To boot Olsi Beheluli and his comrades now face deportation back to Albania at the end of their sentences.


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Packers' Aaron Rodgers to guest host Jeopardy! after death of Alex Trebek
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers says he will be a guest host on Jeopardy! during the offseason.
The show is currently using a series of interim hosts to replace Alex Trebek, who died of cancer in November. That process began when record-holding contestant Ken Jennings made his debut on an episode that aired Monday.
Rodgers was a winning Celebrity Jeopardy! contestant in 2015. The All-Pro quarterback and two-time MVP is currently preparing to lead the Packers into their NFC playoff game on Saturday with the Los Angeles Rams.
"The show has been so special to me over the years," Rodgers said on Tuesday. "It's been a staple at my house here in Green Bay for the last 16 years 6 o'clock, watching Alex and trying to get as many questions as I can. When the opportunity came up in 2015, that was a dream come true. It really was. To be on there, to get to meet Alex was just such a special moment. We're all obviously sad about his passing."
Rodgers first made the announcement earlier on Tuesday during an appearance on Sirius XM's The Pat McAfee Show. A representative from Jeopardy! declined comment and said no announcement has been made about future guest hosts.
"I may have jumped the gun a little bit, so I apologize to Jeopardy! if they wanted to announce it," Rodgers said. "I just got so excited on the show earlier. It kind of just went down the last couple of days, us figuring it out. It is very exciting. It's for the offseason. We'll be even more excited when that opportunity gets a little closer."
Rodgers mentioned the nostalgic connection people have to certain figures based on their childhood. He compared meeting Trebek during his Celebrity Jeopardy! stint to his first production meetings with Keith Jackson, John Madden and Dan Fouts, longtime broadcasters he had watched as a kid.
"We all have so much love and affection I think for what [Trebek's] meant to just that half hour, that 22 minutes of our lives on a daily basis for those of us who are big fans of the show," Rodgers said. "To be able to be a guest host is really, really special for me. I can't wait for the opportunity."
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Q: Open docker daemon container to outside The docker daemon container is isolated from outside when we run it below,
$ docker run -d --name test_container ubuntu/ping \
/bin/sh -c "while true do echo hello world; sleep 1; done"

$ docker inspect test_container | grep IPAddress
[ip of test_container]

$ ping [ip of test_container]
[timeout]

$ ifconfig docker0 | grep "inet addr"
[ip of docker bridge]

$ ping [ip of docker bridge]
[ok]

$ docker exec -it test_container /bin/bash

# ping [ip of test_container]
[ok]

# ping [ip of docker bridge]
[timeout]

How to open the ip address of the docker daemon container inside out?

A: By default docker daemon is running on a unix socket
You can enable to listen on tcp socket by doing :

docker daemon -H tcp://validIpOnYourHost:port

By default port is 2375 if you do not provide some.
cf this page for more explanation : https://docs.docker.com/v1.11/engine/reference/commandline/daemon/
Be careful, if you expose docker throught TCP, this is not security enabled.

A: Probably I replied to something else, after reading your question :
could you do a :

docker network inspect bridge

and paste the json output.
I had similar issues when the attribute :

"com.docker.network.bridge.enable_ip_masquerade"

was set to false

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When I was no longer part of the athletic community, I was asked to be so critical of sports for what they had done to me. Don't get me wrong; we should absolutely be critical of sports, especially powerful governing bodies that ignore safety in pursuit of profit. But unlearning my athletic drive was hindering my recovery. I couldn't accept that my life would be spent curled up in a ball in pain or medicated so heavily that I couldn't feel anything, not even joy. Then one day, I got fed up with it all, stopped taking my pain medications and anti-depressants (I wouldn't advise this), and joined a 24 hour gym to push myself through the uncomfortable symptoms of withdrawal that were happening day and night. At that point, I had lived everyday with vertigo and nausea – so the shakes and nausea from withdrawal paled in comparison to what I was already accustomed to feeling. I felt like I couldn't distinguish between the side effects of the drugs and the lingering effects of PCS, and my doctors had a stake in keeping me medicated to show that I had gone off the deep end mentally. Without the drugs, they'd have to own up to the fact that they were liable for injuries sustained during competition that weren't properly evaluated. That's a long story I won't get into today, but I basically hit a wall with being ill and incapable and took matters into my own hands. We didn't understand PCS quite as well then as we do now, so I felt like it was my only choice. I approached withdrawal and recovery like it was fitness testing. No one enjoys fitness testing, but everyone gets through it. I committed to getting through it.
I sweated my way clean and started to make a comeback. I taught myself how to workout such that I could minimize PCS associated headaches. I started to feel like an athlete again and had a resurging desire for life. The athletic department's doctor wouldn't clear me for contact sports, so I asked if I could walk on to the track team. He laughed and said, "Sure, try it" thinking I was joking around. I wasn't joking. Most people don't try to walk on to a D-1 team in a sport they've never tried, but I am an athlete. Put an obstacle in my way and I will overcome. My senior year, the track coach let me walk on as a javelin thrower (I had never thrown a javelin before in my life), encouraged by my work ethic and its potential to rub off on his athletes. We had no plans for me to be good at throwing javelin. In fact, Vermont didn't even have a track at the time and it was too cold out for me to even throw a javelin. Throwers trained indoors with apparatuses meant to simulate different parts of the javelin throw. I worked the process everyday to learn how to throw, but my real role was to lead by example in the weight room and during practice. I didn't actually get a chance to throw a real javelin until my first meet in March of my senior year. By May, I was traveling to Maryland with my team's best to compete in the America East Championship meet. I put on my soccer cleats, a pair of XXL team shorts (being last to join the squad meant I got uniform leftovers), and managed to walk away with a third place finish in the conference. I sure as heck didn't look like I belonged on a track team, but the points next to my name told a different story. They reminded me that I am an athlete, forever an athlete.
It's an absurd story of success and recovery, but the takeaway isn't to glorify my comeback. I've been training athletes for a while since walking away from competition and I can tell you instantly who has a chance at advancing to the next level or not. It's not about talent or technique, though the two are important. It's about that thing inside that doesn't make excuses and keeps working. It's about a mentality. I now do a ton of advocacy work around concussion awareness, and I hear a lot of misguided assumptions that the athletic mentality is at fault for our concussion epidemic. It's not. Many of us can, have, and will walk away when told that our safety is at risk. I also hear a lot about how the athletic mentality is the number one thing that gets in the way of full recovery. It's not. Give us the tools to succeed and we will methodically work the process of recovery. We will master patience and radical acceptance and mindfulness and anything else you throw at us that might make us better. We have a drive that goes beyond the field. It's inside us. The thing inside me that shutout opponents was also the thing that saved my life and got me back on track to a life worth living. I am an athlete. Forever an athlete.
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US border patrol agent José Solis investigates cotton fibers found on a barbed-wire border fence in Lordsburg, N.M. He suspects they're from a burlap sack filled with contraband tossed over the barrier by drug smugglers.
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Protesters show support for victims killed by US border patrol agents in 2011. The event was a rally at the US-Mexican border in San Ysidro, Calif., on Feb. 23.
Is US-Mexico border secure enough? Immigration reform could hinge on answer.
What did the post-9/11 border patrol surge of manpower and equipment achieve? Understanding its successes and failures could be crucial to the new immigration reform effort.
By Lourdes Medrano Correspondent
March 6, 2013 | Tucson, Ariz.
Travelers on Interstate 19 don't need any "Welcome to Mexico" signs to know that the border is near.
Twenty-five miles north of the line, a giant white canopy stretches over the northbound lanes, with green-shirted border patrol agents and drug-sniffing dogs buzzing around the checkpoint. Farther south in Nogales, Ariz., green-and-white border patrol vehicles are as conspicuous as yellow cabs in New York, and stadium lights trained on the border fence dwarf the rustic Sonoran homes below.
Ten years ago, the permanent checkpoint, the stadium lights, and the ubiquity of those green-and-white cars would have seemed jarring. But since 9/11, America's southern border has changed. President George W. Bush's most famous surge might have been in Iraq, but along the US-Mexican border, he also presided over a doubling of manpower and a shift in the border patrol's mission to make it a tool in the war on terror.
Now, as Washington considers immigration reform, the border patrol and its mission are again in the spotlight. Many Republicans say reform, without increased border security, is a nonstarter. But Mr. Bush's surge offers lessons about what can realistically be accomplished – and what tops an unfinished to-do list.
Statistical and anecdotal evidence show there has been progress in reining in illegal immigration, most agree. But there have been unintended consequences, such as the rise in human trafficking to avert the border buildup. Moreover, many stakeholders remain divided about whether the border needs even more attention, or whether the United States should shift its focus on immigration-enforcement efforts inward.
"While we have made enormous progress in improving border security, the job is not finished," says Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, which advocates tighter border enforcement.
That sentiment is echoed by Republicans whose support could be crucial to immigration reform. During the first Senate hearing on the topic this year, GOP senators challenged the assertion by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano that "our borders have, in fact, never been stronger."
Sen. John Cornyn (R) of Texas responded: "I do not believe the border is secure, and I still believe we have a long, long way to go."
Going forward, a central question in the immigration-reform debate will be what more can – and should – be done. In many ways, answering that question depends on understanding what has been done so far.
While the massive rise in illegal immigration throughout the 1980s and '90s brought some increases in manpower and technology to the Southwest border, 9/11 started a sea change.
In 2003, the size of the border patrol stood at 10,717 agents. In 2012, the number totaled 21,394, with 18,516 stationed along a Southwest border reinforced with state-of-the-art technology that includes ground sensors, hand-held thermal-imaging equipment, surveillance cameras, and predator drones. During that time, the border patrol budget increased from $1.4 billion to $3.5 billion, according to agency data.
Those increases have been supplemented by other initiatives. In 2006, Bush signed the Secure Fence Act, which authorized 700 miles of fencing – as well as infrastructure such as vehicle barriers, roads, and checkpoints – along the 2,000-mile border with Mexico. The same year, the Bush administration endorsed plans for a "virtual fence" of surveillance equipment to run almost the entire length of the border.
The Secure Fence Act aimed to achieve "operational control" over the entire border, defining the phrase as "the prevention of all unlawful entries into the United States, including entries by terrorists, other unlawful aliens, instruments of terrorism, narcotics, and other contraband."
That, experts say, was an unrealistic expectation. There will never be a secure border by that definition, says Donald Kerwin, executive director at the Center for Migration Studies, which defends migrants' rights.
Even the Berlin Wall failed by that measure, he notes. "At that point they were shooting at unauthorized crossers," he says. "Even on a heavily fortified, militarized 37-mile wall, people were crossing. To think that nobody will cross illegally over a 2,000-mile border is fanciful."
In 2010, that realization – together with rising costs and technological challenges – led the Obama administration to kill the virtual fence.
Signs of success
That doesn't mean the border surge was a failure, though.
Border patrol officials say a historic decline in total apprehensions nationwide – from a peak of 1.6 million in 2006 to 356,873 in 2012 – is a sign of success. As further proof that the border is under control, the agency touts its record of intercepting a massive amount of smuggled drugs, and offers FBI statistics showing that crime is lower in border areas than in some parts of the US interior.
"The high-speed chases, the rollovers, the chaos that comes with a border out of control, that is no longer the norm," said Manuel Padilla, acting chief of the border patrol's Tucson sector, at a recent meeting. "That is no longer there."
The soft US economy has been a significant contributor to the drop in illegal entries – fewer jobs attract fewer immigrants. But other experts agree that the security surge has played a role in bringing apprehensions down to levels last seen in the early 1970s.
"The investments were really significant, and they had an effect," says Thad Bingel, former chief of staff for Customs and Border Protection in the Bush administration and a founding partner of Command Consulting Group, a security consultancy in Washington, D.C.
"It's much more difficult to cross the border in Arizona or California or Texas today than it was in 2005, and your chances of getting caught are much higher," he adds.
But that progress has come at a cost, some say. Congress's response to the 9/11 attacks not only changed the size of the border patrol but also its purpose. In 2003, when the border patrol became part of the newly created Department of Homeland Security (DHS), its mission was expanded to prioritize capturing terrorists and weapons of terror at the border.
Bringing the agency under DHS brought cohesiveness to the border effort, Mr. Bingel says. But "it did change the mind-set, and it did change the focus and the tools that were applied."
Joe Dassaro, a former border patrol agent, says the move made the agency's mission diffuse. "The agency was receiving mixed signals," he recalls. Agents were being told, "your only mission is to apprehend terrorists."
Too much, too fast?
The sheer speed of the buildup also had negative consequences, Mr. Dassaro says. Agents were hired so quickly that training standards weakened. He became involved in his local union, and the more he studied the history of immigration policy, the more disillusioned he became about how it was being carried out. He left the agency in 2005.
In recent years, the border patrol has been under fire for excessive use of force, shootings involving agents, and corruption among its ranks. While those problems are "relatively few," says Louis DeSipio, a political scientist at the University of California at Irvine, they could be an outgrowth of claims of discrimination in border communities. "People who look like they're from Latin America are much more likely to face the wrath of the border patrol," he says.
There have been signs of progress. In El Paso, Texas, the Border Network for Human Rights reached out to the border patrol after people felt they were targets "because of the way they looked and the way they dressed." Complaints dropped significantly.
"What we did here is considered a success because the community and the border patrol worked together," says Fernando Garcia, the group's executive director.
Rise of people-smuggling
The buildup also has changed how migrants cross the border. As the agency has made the trek north more difficult, more people have started crossing through remote regions of the desert and mountainous terrain. In Arizona alone, more than 2,400 people have died since 2000, according to Tucson human rights groups.
"The discussion of the deaths is not even included in border security, and it should be," says Raquel Rubio-Goldsmith, an immigrants rights activist.
The tightening of the border has also empowered organized crime to branch into the increasingly lucrative business of people-smuggling.
"They take $1,000, $2,000, $3,000 a pop for each migrant that they smuggle into the country, often in hideously dangerous conditions," said David Shirk, director of the Trans-Border Institute at the University of San Diego, in a teleconference.
Yesenia Mercado, who was deported through Nogales last month, says smugglers charged her $3,800 to guide her across the border – an amount relatives promised to pay once she made it to Los Angeles. She intends to cross again to join her US-born children, who stayed in California when she visited family in Mexico. "It's not as easy to get across as it once was," she says.
Still, a 2011 report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) concluded that only 873 of the nearly 2,000 miles of the Southwest border were under "operational control." Some 129 of those miles were under "full control" with the remainder "managed."
This year, another GAO report concluded that the agency lacks specific milestones and timelines to establish metrics that accurately assess border security. Agency leaders say they are working to develop them, but the question remains an open one that is crucial to immigration reform: How does one measure success?
At first, the surge targeted areas with the greatest illicit traffic. In 2005, it tried to set out a quantifiable benchmark for success, defining "operational control" as "the ability to detect, respond, and interdict border penetrations in areas deemed in high priorities for threat potential or other national security objectives."
But last year, the agency announced a new strategy, saying it would focus on repeat crossers and their intentions. For former agent Dassaro, the changes are evidence that the border patrol's objectives have become so abstract that "nobody knows what success is."
Prescriptions for success vary widely.
The district of Rep. Ron Barber (D) of Arizona is, in many ways, at the center of the immigration debate. It is part of the Tucson sector, which for years has been the most popular gateway for illegal immigration. In the rolling hills and high desert grasslands, where agents say rough terrain makes access difficult, veterinarian Gary Thrasher carries a gun when he travels to ranches near the border.
"The ranchers on the border have to put up with a huge amount of [illegal] traffic," says Mr. Thrasher, who wants more agents.
Congressman Barber sounds a similar note. In 2010, Congress approved $600 million for border security and sent 500 National Guard troops to Arizona, but too many border crossers and drugs are still getting through, he says. In his view, the border patrol needs to get better at using its resources effectively.
"We've got a long, long fence or wall across most of the border in my district, but it's not patrolled," Barber says. "Most of the time there's nobody on it in terms of personnel. So is it effective? Not really because people go over it and cut through it."
Looking inward
But others say now is the time to turn attention inward toward the estimated 11 million people living illegally in the US. "Focusing on the border is increasingly missing the point in terms of immigration enforcement," Professor DeSipio says. "Those resources could have, in the Bush years particularly, been better balanced between border enforcement and interior enforcement."
The situation today calls for a nuanced approach to enforcement that considers the significant number of people who enter the country legally and overstay their visas, says Bingel of Command Consulting Group.
"In some ways the debate needs to shift a bit to think of it more like you think of crime statistics in a city," he adds. "You wouldn't say that the police force is ineffective in a major metropolitan area unless there [is] zero crime. And you have to apply similar thinking to the border."
Ms. Vaughan of the Center for Immigration Studies acknowledges that fresh thinking is needed. She says the government should waive some environmental regulations that prevent border patrol agents from accessing some lands. She says officials should focus interdiction efforts not just on highways, but also on bus stations and airports. And she agrees that the US needs to look inward.
"We're reaching a point where we are much closer to operational control now, but it's really in interior enforcement where we need to pick up the pace so that it takes off some of the pressures at the physical border," she says.
Bullets vs. rocks? Border Patrol under fire for use of deadly force.
FBI: Border patrol agent was killed by 'friendly fire'
Border Patrol shooting: No suspects yet
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2013/0306/Is-US-Mexico-border-secure-enough-Immigration-reform-could-hinge-on-answer


I was working with a large company that had started piloting a Digital Delivery model in one business line. They had co-located the business, technology, and support functions. The pilot was a success – the team had delivered improved product line performance in less than 6 months. They had even trained the call center and created a marketing campaign. However, the rest company continues to use old PMO model of percent allocating resources to projects. They were delivering more projects than ever…but with increasing client attrition.
The COO had called a meeting with his direct reports to discuss expanding the teaming model, but had gotten push back from his leadership team. They said they communicated the urgency of client losses to their organizations, and that pulling people away from active projects would cause disruption and delays.
COO: I don't get it. How am I going to convince these guys that we need to rapidly expand the team model so we can release full solutions out to our clients? They all know we have a big problem with client attrition. They tell me they are communicating urgency to their people, but the first pilot team released a solution that stopped client erosion – and they did it 10 months early.
Me: Think of it like this: Most of your employees are experts and excellent at the jobs they have today. They are like professional-level bowlers who are awesome at bowling strikes. All day, they get a ball, they bowl strikes. The more strikes, the more your leadership is rewarding them. Leaders and management communicate urgency, everyone says "You got it, Boss!" and start to bowl strikes faster. Now you are saying "We are all going to start playing BASKETBALL!"
Me: Yes! Here is what is happening on the ground, though. We say: "Today, we are going to start learning how to play BASKETBALL" and we hear: "GREAT... but can I still use a bowling ball? See, I already know how to use a bowling ball, and it's still a ball. I'll even call it a basketball." We explain that people get hurt when they try to catch a pass if you use a bowling ball, and the next question is "Well, can I at least stay in this alley, it has hard wood floors? It's narrow, and I can put up bumpers if I want to –". This conversation slows down any move to model we used with the pilot team.
This is a common scenario. Though every organization may have a different structure or business model when they start, Digital Transformation must fundamentally change the game you are playing. Messages that your leadership sends through the hierarchy (or rumor mill) can make or break employee willingness change the way they work.
How many of your company goals can be met if your Leaders communicate the same rules they have for over a decade, but with more urgency? The answer is NONE. Your Leadership's understanding of this fundamental concept, as well as the communication of it to the rest organization is imperative.


text:
/*
 * Bus Context
 */

#include <c-rbtree.h>
#include <c-stdaux.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/auxv.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include "bus/bus.h"
#include "bus/driver.h"
#include "bus/match.h"
#include "bus/name.h"
#include "dbus/address.h"
#include "util/error.h"
#include "util/log.h"
#include "util/user.h"

int bus_init(Bus *bus,
             Log *log,
             const char *machine_id,
             unsigned int max_bytes,
             unsigned int max_fds,
             unsigned int max_matches,
             unsigned int max_objects) {
        unsigned int maxima[] = { max_bytes, max_fds, max_matches, max_objects };
        void *random;
        int r;

        static_assert(_USER_SLOT_N == C_ARRAY_SIZE(maxima),
                      "User accounting slot mismatch");

        if (strlen(machine_id) + 1 != sizeof(bus->machine_id))
                return error_origin(-EINVAL);

        *bus = (Bus)BUS_NULL(*bus);
        bus->log = log;

        c_memcpy(bus->machine_id, machine_id, sizeof(bus->machine_id));

        random = (void *)getauxval(AT_RANDOM);
        c_assert(random);
        c_memcpy(bus->guid, random, sizeof(bus->guid));

        r = user_registry_init(&bus->users, log, _USER_SLOT_N, maxima);
        if (r)
                return error_fold(r);

        return 0;
}

void bus_deinit(Bus *bus) {
        bus->n_seclabel = 0;
        bus->seclabel = c_free(bus->seclabel);
        bus->n_gids = 0;
        bus->gids = c_free(bus->gids);
        bus->pid = 0;
        bus->user = user_unref(bus->user);
        metrics_deinit(&bus->metrics);
        peer_registry_deinit(&bus->peers);
        user_registry_deinit(&bus->users);
        name_registry_deinit(&bus->names);
        match_registry_deinit(&bus->sender_matches);
        match_registry_deinit(&bus->wildcard_matches);
}

Peer *bus_find_peer_by_name(Bus *bus, Name **namep, const char *name_str) {
        NameOwnership *ownership;
        Address addr;
        Peer *peer = NULL;
        Name *name = NULL;

        address_from_string(&addr, name_str);
        switch (addr.type) {
        case ADDRESS_TYPE_ID:
                peer = peer_registry_find_peer(&bus->peers, addr.id);
                break;
        case ADDRESS_TYPE_NAME:
                name = name_registry_find_name(&bus->names, addr.name);
                if (name) {
                        ownership = name_primary(name);
                        if (ownership)
                                peer = c_container_of(ownership->owner, Peer, owned_names);
                }
                break;
        }

        if (namep)
                *namep = name;
        return peer;
}

void bus_get_monitor_destinations(Bus *bus, CList *destinations, Peer *sender, MessageMetadata *metadata) {
        if (!bus->n_monitors)
                return;

        match_registry_get_monitors(&bus->wildcard_matches, destinations, metadata);

        if (sender) {
                NameOwnership *ownership;

                c_rbtree_for_each_entry(ownership, &sender->owned_names.ownership_tree, owner_node) {
                        if (!name_ownership_is_primary(ownership))
                                continue;

                        match_registry_get_monitors(&ownership->name->sender_matches, destinations, metadata);
                }

                match_registry_get_monitors(&sender->sender_matches, destinations, metadata);
        } else {
                /* sent from the driver */
                match_registry_get_monitors(&bus->sender_matches, destinations, metadata);
        }
}

void bus_get_broadcast_destinations(Bus *bus, CList *destinations, MatchRegistry *matches, Peer *sender, MessageMetadata *metadata) {
        match_registry_get_subscribers(&bus->wildcard_matches, destinations, metadata);

        if (matches) {
                match_registry_get_subscribers(matches, destinations, metadata);
        }

        if (sender) {
                NameOwner *owner = &sender->owned_names;
                NameOwnership *ownership;

                c_rbtree_for_each_entry(ownership, &owner->ownership_tree, owner_node) {
                        if (!name_ownership_is_primary(ownership))
                                continue;

                        match_registry_get_subscribers(&ownership->name->sender_matches, destinations, metadata);
                }
        } else {
                /* sent from the driver */
                match_registry_get_subscribers(&bus->sender_matches, destinations, metadata);
        }
}

void bus_log_append_sender(Bus *bus, uint64_t sender_id, NameSet *sender_names, const char *sender_label) {
        Log *log = bus->log;

        if (sender_label)
                log_appendf(log, "DBUS_BROKER_SENDER_SECURITY_LABEL=%s\n",
                            sender_label);

        if (sender_id == ADDRESS_ID_INVALID) {
                log_appendf(log,
                            "DBUS_BROKER_SENDER_UNIQUE_NAME=org.freedesktop.DBus\n");
        } else {
                log_appendf(log,
                            "DBUS_BROKER_SENDER_UNIQUE_NAME=:1.%llu\n",
                            sender_id);
        }

        if (sender_names) {
                if (sender_names->type == NAME_SET_TYPE_OWNER) {
                        NameOwnership *ownership;
                        size_t i = 0;

                        c_rbtree_for_each_entry(ownership,
                                                &sender_names->owner->ownership_tree,
                                                owner_node)
                                log_appendf(log,
                                            "DBUS_BROKER_SENDER_WELL_KNOWN_NAME_%zu=%s\n",
                                            i++, ownership->name->name);
                } else if (sender_names->type == NAME_SET_TYPE_SNAPSHOT) {
                        for (size_t i = 0; i < sender_names->snapshot->n_names; ++i)
                                log_appendf(log,
                                            "DBUS_BROKER_SENDER_WELL_KNOWN_NAME_%zu=%s\n",
                                            i, sender_names->snapshot->names[i]->name);
                }
        }
}

void bus_log_append_receiver(Bus *bus, uint64_t receiver_id, NameSet *receiver_names, const char *receiver_label) {
        Log *log = bus->log;

        if (receiver_label)
                log_appendf(log, "DBUS_BROKER_RECEIVER_SECURITY_LABEL=%s\n",
                            receiver_label);

        if (receiver_id == ADDRESS_ID_INVALID) {
                log_appendf(log,
                            "DBUS_BOKER_RECEIVER_UNIQUE_NAME=org.freedesktop.DBus\n");
        } else {
                log_appendf(log,
                            "DBUS_BROKER_RECEIVER_UNIQUE_NAME=:1.%llu\n",
                            receiver_id);
        }

        if (receiver_names) {
                if (receiver_names->type == NAME_SET_TYPE_OWNER) {
                        NameOwnership *ownership;
                        size_t i = 0;

                        c_rbtree_for_each_entry(ownership,
                                                &receiver_names->owner->ownership_tree,
                                                owner_node)
                                log_appendf(log,
                                            "DBUS_BROKER_RECEIVER_WELL_KNOWN_NAME_%zu=%s\n",
                                            i++, ownership->name->name);
                } else if (receiver_names->type == NAME_SET_TYPE_SNAPSHOT) {
                        for (size_t i = 0; i < receiver_names->snapshot->n_names; ++i)
                                log_appendf(log,
                                            "DBUS_BROKER_RECEIVER_WELL_KNOWN_NAME_%zu=%s\n",
                                            i, receiver_names->snapshot->names[i]->name);
                }
        }
}

void bus_log_append_transaction(Bus *bus, uint64_t sender_id, uint64_t receiver_id,
                                NameSet *sender_names, NameSet *receiver_names, const char *sender_label, const char *receiver_label,
                                Message *message) {
        message_log_append(message, bus->log);
        bus_log_append_sender(bus, sender_id, sender_names, sender_label);
        bus_log_append_receiver(bus, receiver_id, receiver_names, receiver_label);
}

void bus_log_append_policy_send(Bus *bus, int policy_type, uint64_t sender_id, uint64_t receiver_id, NameSet *sender_names, NameSet *receiver_names, const char *sender_label, const char *receiver_label, Message *message) {
        switch (policy_type) {
        case BUS_LOG_POLICY_TYPE_INTERNAL:
                log_appendf(bus->log, "DBUS_BROKER_POLICY_TYPE=internal\n");
                break;
        case BUS_LOG_POLICY_TYPE_SELINUX:
                log_appendf(bus->log, "DBUS_BROKER_POLICY_TYPE=selinux\n");
                break;
        case BUS_LOG_POLICY_TYPE_APPARMOR:
                log_appendf(bus->log, "DBUS_BROKER_POLICY_TYPE=apparmor\n");
                break;
        default:
                c_assert(0);
                abort();
        }

        log_appendf(bus->log, "DBUS_BROKER_TRANSMIT_ACTION=send\n");
        bus_log_append_transaction(bus, sender_id, receiver_id, sender_names, receiver_names, sender_label, receiver_label, message);
}

void bus_log_append_policy_receive(Bus *bus, int policy_type, uint64_t receiver_id, uint64_t sender_id, NameSet *sender_names, NameSet *receiver_names, Message *message) {
        switch (policy_type) {
        case BUS_LOG_POLICY_TYPE_INTERNAL:
                log_appendf(bus->log, "DBUS_BROKER_POLICY_TYPE=internal\n");
                break;
        case BUS_LOG_POLICY_TYPE_SELINUX:
                log_appendf(bus->log, "DBUS_BROKER_POLICY_TYPE=selinux\n");
                break;
        case BUS_LOG_POLICY_TYPE_APPARMOR:
                log_appendf(bus->log, "DBUS_BROKER_POLICY_TYPE=apparmor\n");
                break;
        default:
                c_assert(0);
                abort();
        }
        log_appendf(bus->log, "DBUS_BROKER_TRANSMIT_ACTION=receive\n");
        bus_log_append_transaction(bus, sender_id, receiver_id, sender_names, receiver_names, NULL, NULL, message);
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Gov. Kate Brown signed the bill on April 9 to pursue the preservation of web connection. The House Bill 4155 intends to obstruct government agencies from granting contracts to ISPs. These are providers that do not acknowledge the 2015 Open Internet Order. Oregon has been the second nation to execute the conservation of net neutrality.
Washington was the first state to do so. Governor Jay Inslee endorsed the comparable measure last month.
"In Oregon, we want to make sure that access to the internet is a level playing field, instead of exacerbating economic disparity," Gov. Brown said in a statement during the bill signage.
Under the bill, web connection providers that deal with private consumers are excluded from the neutrality guidelines. Rep. Paul Holvey sponsored House Bill 4155 along with Rep. Julie Fahey and Rep. Nancy Nathanson. It will be effective on Jan. 1, 2019, grounding possible disputes.
On the other side of the state, Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo signed an executive order on Tuesday. It is as well an effort regarding the preservation of web connection. The order was authorized a day following the repeal of net neutrality.
The regulation instructs web connection providers to comply with the principles of the open internet rules. They should not block websites or apps. In addition, they should not slow down access to the internet for users.
At the Decenternet network, there is no slowing down of web connection. It is because defragmentation is not required.
Decenternet offers total access to the web connection. Users can still enjoy their freedom to interconnect openly online. Contents are not blocked, throttled, or slowed down. Within the platform, personal information is protected as well.
It protects and enables free speech. Decenternet promotes the open internet principles that should be observed as well by web connection providers.


Symbolic computer algebra systems like Diofant facilitate the construction and manipulation of mathematical expressions. Unfortunately when it comes time to evaluate these expressions on numerical data, symbolic systems often have poor performance.
Fortunately Diofant offers a number of easy-to-use hooks into other numeric systems, allowing you to create mathematical expressions in Diofant and then ship them off to the numeric system of your choice. This page documents many of the options available including the math library, the popular array computing package numpy, code generation in Fortran or C.
Subs is the slowest but simplest option. It runs at Diofant speeds. The .subs(...).evalf() method can substitute a numeric value for a symbolic one and then evaluate the result within Diofant.
Here lambdify makes a function that computes f(x) = sin(x)/x. By default lambdify relies on implementations in the math standard library. This numerical evaluation takes on the order of hundreds of nanoseconds, roughly two orders of magnitude faster than the .subs method. This is the speed difference between Diofant and raw Python.
This function f consumes and returns a NumPy array. Generally ufuncify performs at least as well as lambdify. If the expression is complicated then ufuncify often significantly outperforms the NumPy backed solution. Jensen has a good blog post on this topic.
The options here were listed in order from slowest and least dependencies to fastest and most dependencies.


The Mixed Relay in pictures | TriathlonWorld.com - go further. race better. know more.
Taylor Spivey, second in the individual race the day before, put the Americans in a good position during the first leg of the race.


JAKARTA, Indonesia — A polarizing Christian politician whose campaign comments ignited the largest protests in years in Muslim-majority Indonesia was freed Thursday after serving nearly two years in prison for blasphemy.
Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama, the former governor of Jakarta, left a paramilitary police prison outside the capital early Thursday with members of his family, said his spokesman Sakti Budiono, avoiding waiting supporters and media.
In 2016, Purnama made lighthearted campaign-trail comments that voters shouldn't heed his detractors who said the Quran prohibits Muslims from being led by Christians. Hard-liners seized on the remarks as blasphemy, triggering protests that brought hundreds of thousands of white-robed Muslims to the center of Jakarta.
He was defeated in an election by a rival aligned with the protesters and sentenced to prison in May 2017 for blaspheming the Quran. Rights groups said the sentence highlighted why the easily abused blasphemy law should be repealed.
Days before being freed, Purnama posted online that he didn't want supporters to make a fuss about his release and apologized to Jakarta civil servants, including "even my haters" that he'd offended by being rude and arrogant.
The movement against Purnama, an ally of President Joko Widodo, brought fringe Islamic groups into the political mainstream and rattled the government, highlighting the mingling of religion with politics in Indonesia, the world's third-largest democracy.
Widodo subsequently chose a conservative cleric as his running mate for April's presidential election, hoping to deflect attacks that he is insufficiently Islamic. Last week he announced the release of a radical cleric linked to the Bali bombers and other extremists, but back-tracked within days as local and international criticism grew.
Widodo told reporters on Wednesday that Purnama, who was his deputy governor before he was elected president in 2014, had "gone through a legal process" and he currently had no plans to meet him.
It's unclear if Purnama will return to politics but in a handwritten note posted on Instagram earlier this week he told supporters to not be discouraged and to vote for candidates in April's presidential and legislative elections who support diversity.
Islamic Defenders Front member Novel Bakmumin, who filed a police complaint that led to Purnama being investigated for blasphemy, said the former governor should stay out of politics.
"I hope Ahok will not repeat a mistake that can cause unrest among Muslims, not only in Indonesia but in the world, because Islam is not his realm to be critical of, he should take care of his own religion," he said.
Purnama, part of the tiny ethnic Chinese minority in Indonesia, was popular with Jakarta's middle class for efforts to stamp out corruption and make the teeming capital more livable.
But others were angered by his brash outspokenness and the demolition of slums that were home to Jakarta's poorest residents.
An activist from the Friends of Ahok group said Purnama's true calling is politics and predicted he would "become a leader, whether a leader of a political party or a leader of this country."
"He is a fighting politician, he fights against corruption, injustice and upholds order and democracy. That caused many people to dislike him and become his political enemies," said Hasan Nasbi.
In an unlikely twist, the 2016 protests also provided opportunists with the impetus for an alleged plot to topple Widodo, the first Indonesian president not from the country's military and political elite.
Police arrested numerous high-profile Indonesians, including a daughter of the founding president, accusing them of plotting to hijack the protests to cause chaos. Their apparent aim was to provide a pretext for military intervention that would unseat Widodo.
They were later released and have not faced trial.


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Q: function application with lambda in haskell? Having this code to test:
-- | this function checks if string or list are a palindrome
    isPalindrome :: (Eq a) => [a] -> Bool
    isPalindrome x =
        if reverse x == x
            then True
            else False

I managed to write this:
-- | how do I remove ugly parentheses our of here?
palindromeTest verb = isPalindrome ((\verb -> verb ++ reverse verb) verb )  == True
    where types = verb::String

Parentheses look disgusting, how do I work them out?

A: palindromeTest
Your expression:
(\verb -> verb ++ reverse verb) verb

does not make much sense: an equivalent expression would be:
(\x -> x ++ reverse x) verb

since verb in the lambda expression was locally scoped. But you know what x is: it is verb. So you can replace the expression with:
verb ++ reverse verb

Or in full:
palindromeTest verb = isPalindrome (verb ++ reverse verb) == True
We can also eliminate the == True, since \x -> x == True is equivalent to id:
palindromeTest verb = isPalindrome (verb ++ reverse verb)
Finally the where types = verb::String is useless as well: Haskell is statically typed, types are resolved at compile time. So this statement does not adds anything. You can restrict the type of verb in the type signature of the function:
palindromeTest :: String -> Bool
palindromeTest verb = isPalindrome (verb ++ reverse verb)
isPalindrome
Just like in palindromTest it is useless to write == True, there is no reason to write = True, and = False if this is based on a condition: simply return the condition itself:
-- | this function checks if string or list are a palindrome
isPalindrome :: (Eq a) => [a] -> Bool
isPalindrome x = reverse x == x
You can make it more compact by using ap:
import Control.Monad(ap)

-- | this function checks if string or list are a palindrome
isPalindrome :: (Eq a) => [a] -> Bool
isPalindrome = ap (==) reverse


Vegetables can be preserved by drying. The longer the drying time, the less flavorful and the less tender the product. The drying time can be hastened by drying small, uniformly cut pieces. Because they contain less acid than fruits, vegetables are dried until they are brittle. At this stage, only 10 percent moisture remains and no microorganisms can grow.
Trim, peel, cut, slice or shred vegetables according to the directions for each vegetable (see Table 2. "Drying Vegetables at Home") Remove any fibrous or woody portions and core when necessary, removing all decayed and bruised areas. Keep pieces uniform in size so they will dry at the same rate. A food slicer or food processor can be used. Prepare only as many vegetables as can be dried at one time. Holding vegetables, even in the refrigerator, after washing and preparation for drying will result in loss of quality and nutrients.
Blanching is a necessary step in preparing vegetables for drying. Blanching is the process of heating vegetables to a temperature high enough to destroy enzymes present in the tissue. It stops the enzyme action that causes loss of color and flavor during drying and storage. It also sets the color and shortens the drying and rehydration time by relaxing the tissue walls so moisture can escape or re-enter more rapidly. In water blanching, the vegetables are submerged in boiling water. In steam blanching, the vegetables are suspended above the boiling water and heated only by the steam. Water blanching usually results in a greater loss of nutrients, but it takes less time than steam blanching. (See Table 2. "Drying Vegetables at Home.") Not all vegetables require blanching. Onions, green peppers and mushrooms can be dried without blanching.
Water-Blanching: Fill a large pot two-thirds full of water, cover and bring to a rolling boil. Place the vegetables in a wire basket or a colander and submerge them in the water. Cover and blanch according to directions for each vegetable (see Table 2. "Drying Vegetables at Home.") If it takes longer than one minute for the water to come back to boiling, too many vegetables were added. Reduce the amount in the next batch.
After blanching, dip the vegetables briefly in cold water, only long enough to stop the cooking action. Do not cool them to room temperature. When they feel only slightly hot to the touch, they will be cooled to about 120 °F. Drain the vegetables by pouring them directly onto the drying tray held over the sink. Wipe the excess water from underneath the tray and arrange the vegetables in a single layer. Then place the tray immediately in the dehydrator or oven. The heat left in the vegetables from blanching will cause the drying process to begin more quickly. Watch the vegetables closely at the end of the drying period. They dry much more quickly at the end and could scorch.
It is best not to dry strong-smelling foods like onions or garlic in the home. The odors may linger in the drapes, clothes and furniture. Place the dehydrator on a carport, covered porch or covered patio. Keep the dehydrator away from rain. Also, avoid drying strong-smelling food with other food because their flavors will blend.
Vegetables should be dried until they are brittle or "crisp." Some vegetables would actually shatter if hit with a hammer. At this stage, they should contain about 10 percent moisture. Because they are so dry, they do not need conditioning like fruits.
Dried foods are susceptible to insect contamination and moisture reabsorption and must be properly packaged and stored immediately. First, cool completely. Packaging warm food causes sweating, which could provide enough moisture for mold to grow. Pack foods into clean, dry, insect-proof containers as tightly as possible without crushing.
Glass jars, metal cans or boxes with tightly fitted lids or moisture- and vapor-resistant freezer cartons make good containers for storing dried foods. Heavy-duty plastic bags are acceptable but are not insect- and rodent-proof.
Dried foods should be stored in cool, dry, dark areas. Recommended storage times for dried foods range from four months to one year. Because food quality is affected by heat, the storage temperature helps determine the length of storage; the higher the temperature, the shorter the storage time. Vegetables have about half the shelf-life of fruits, and can generally be stored for six months at 60 °F or three months at 80 °F.
Foods that are packaged seemingly bone-dry can spoil if moisture is reabsorbed during storage. Check dried foods frequently during storage to see if they are still dry. Glass containers are excellent for storage because any moisture that collects on the inside can be seen easily. Foods affected by moisture, but not spoiled, should be used immediately or redried and repackaged. Moldy foods should be discarded.
Most vegetables are soaked or rehydrated in cold water prior to use. However, there are two other acceptable rehydration methods: adding the dried product to boiling water or adding the dried vegetable to a product with lots of liquid, such as soup. Whichever rehydration method is chosen, the vegetables return to their original shape.
Vegetables can be soaked in either water or, for additional flavor, bouillon or vegetable juice. They usually rehydrate within one to two hours. If they are soaked for more than two hours, or overnight, they should be refrigerated. Using boiling liquid speeds up the soaking time. Save and use the soaking liquid in cooking.
Adding dried vegetables directly to soups and stews is the simplest way to rehydrate vegetables. Leafy vegetables, cabbage and tomatoes do not need to be soaked. Add sufficient water to keep them covered and simmer until tender.
Dehydrated, thinly sliced vegetables or vegetable chips are a nutritious low-calorie snack. They can be served with a favorite dip. Vegetables to try include zucchini, tomato, squash, parsnip, turnip, cucumber, beet or carrot chips.
Note: Vegetables should be thinly sliced with a food processor, vegetable slicer or sharp knife before drying.
Vegetable flakes can be made by crushing dehydrated vegetables or vegetable leather using a wooden mallet, rolling pin or one's hand. Powders are finer than flakes and are made by using a food mill, food processor or blender. The most common powders are onion, celery and tomato.
*Drying times in a conventional oven could be up to twice as long, depending on air circulation.
**WARNING: The toxins of poisonous varieties of mushrooms are not destroyed by drying or by cooking. Only an expert can differentiate between poisonous and edible varieties.


Opening and closing clothes pegs is a fantastic way of developing a pincer grip, to help future pencil control and grip. (A pincer grip is when we use our thumb and pointer finger to hold items).
This Montessori Activity is designed to encourage children to develop their pincer grasp and finger muscles, and to improve their hand-eye coordination.
Attach pegs all around the container, leaving a small space between them.
Count these pegs into a container for your child to use and take away the rest.
You may discover that your container toppled over, oops! Usually heavy plastic bowls or melamine are best. You will find the perfect one through trial and error.
The aim of the game is to try and place all of their pegs around the bowl.
Pegs are then removed, one at a time, and returned to their original container.
Try and set this game up so the container of pegs is to the left of your child. This will help to internalize left-right orientation (the reading and writing direction). By passing their hand across their mid-line (or belly button) your child will engage both the right and left hemispheres of their brain.
Montessori stresses very strongly that you should show a child how to use materials and then walk away and allow them to practice it for themselves. An activity such as this demands lots and lots of concentration and practice. By staying with your child you are not actually helping them at all.
Without talking (that's the trickiest bit!), place the container of pegs to the left and the empty bowl in front of you.
Start attaching the pegs around the bowl.
When you have used all your pegs start removing them, one by one , and returning them to their original box.
Ask your child to see if they can attach and remove the pegs the same way you did.
Encourage your child to see how many pegs are still left in the box. Explain that with practice they will learn to empty the bowl ;).
Now that your child knows what to do you should just leave them alone to play and learn.
It's that simple and ridiculously good for hands!
It's also a transferable skill to your washing line if you need some help in the future. Sneaky, eh?


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REDD in the news
About REDD-Monitor
REDD: An introduction
Chris Lang	in Uncategorized	| 18 June 2015
The Bonn 2015 decision on REDD safeguards
In December 2013, UN climate negotiators agreed the Warsaw Framework for REDD plus. This included a decision on summary of information on safeguards. At the time I described this decision as staggeringly weak. The decision reached in Bonn earlier this month, manages to make the text even weaker.
The text agreed in Warsaw on summary of information on safeguards said that governments "should" provide a summary of information on how they are addressing and respecting the REDD safeguards agreed in Cancun. And REDD countries "should" provide the summary of information every two years "consistent with the provisions for submissions of national communication".
You can read my line by line analysis of the text agreed in Warsaw here.
The text agreed in Bonn goes under the title, "Further guidance on ensuring transparency, consistency, comprehensiveness and effectiveness when informing on how all the safeguards referred to in decision 1/CP.16, appendix I, are being addressed and respected". The draft conclusions proposed by the Chair (9 June 2015) version of the text can be downloaded here.
It can be summarised as follows:
Governments are encouraged to provide a summary of information on how they are addressing and respecting REDD safeguards. They should do so "periodically".
There is no decision on how often REDD countries should produce these summaries. There is no decision about who should pay for them. There is no mention of publishing summaries on the UNFCCC web platform (which had been included in the Warsaw text, if only on a voluntary basis).
The following is the chair's draft version of the text, followed by my comments (in bold). Following that are links to the previous decisions referred to in the text. (You can find each of the COP decision texts by searching here – for example, to find decision 1 from COP16, search for 1/CP.16).
Draft decision -/CP.21
Further guidance on ensuring transparency, consistency, comprehensiveness and effectiveness when informing on how all the safeguards referred to in decision 1/CP.16, appendix I, are being addressed and respected
The title of the decision refers to decision 1/CP.16, appendix I, which is the Cancun Agreement on REDD safeguards. These safeguards "should be promoted and supported" – they are not obligatory, in other words.
The Conference of the Parties,
Recalling decisions 1/CP.16, 12/CP.17, 9/CP.19, 11/CP.19 and 12/CP.19,
Every time the UNFCCC takes a decision, it has to remind itself that this isn't the first time it has made decisions relating to this topic.
1/CP.16 is the 2010, "Cancun Agreements: Outcome of the work of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention".
12/CP.17 is the 2011 Durban Decision, "Guidance on systems for providing information on how safeguards are addressed and respected and modalities relating to forest reference emission levels and forest reference levels as referred to in decision 1/CP.16".
9/CP.19 is part of the 2013 Warsaw Framework for REDD-plus, "Work programme on results-based finance to progress the full implementation of the activities referred to in decision 1/CP.16, paragraph 70".
11/CP.19 is part of the 2013 Warsaw Framework for REDD-plus, "Modalities for national forest monitoring systems".
12/CP.19 is part of the 2013 Warsaw Framework for REDD-plus, "The timing and the frequency of presentations of the summary of information on how all the safeguards referred to in decision 1/CP.16, appendix I, are being addressed and respected".
Noting that the implementation of the safeguards referred to in decision 1/CP.16, appendix I, and the information provided on how these safeguards are being addressed and respected should take into account national circumstances and respective capabilities and recognize national sovereignty and legislation and relevant international obligations and agreements,
The words "national circumstances", "respective capabilities", "national sovereignty and legislation" put the lie to any claims that these safeguards are "rights based". It's worth re-reading Article 2 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which states clearly that the Declaration applies to everyone and that,
"no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs".
1/CP.16, appendix I is the Cancun decision on REDD safeguards.
Recalling the importance and necessity of adequate and predictable financial and technical support for developing all of the elements referred to in decision 1/CP.16, paragraph 71,
Let's not forget that someone, somewhere, somehow has to pay for REDD. We still don't know who, where or how.
1/CP.16, paragraph 71 requests REDD countries "in the context of the provision of adequate and predictable support, including financial resources and technical and technological support" to produce a national strategy or action plan; forest reference emission level or forest reference level; a forest monitoring system; and a system for providing information on how the REDD safeguards are being addressed and respected.
Recalling also that the monitoring and reporting of emissions displacement at the national level is agreed separately in decision 1/CP.16, paragraph 71(c),
Paragraph 71, which is subdivided into (a), (b), (c), and (d) is also referred to in the previous paragraph. Footnote 7 to paragraph 71(c) states,
Including monitoring and reporting of emissions displacement at the national level, if appropriate, and reporting on how displacement of emissions is being addressed, and on the means to integrate subnational monitoring systems into a national monitoring system.
So leakage is covered in a footnote to the main text of the Cancun Agreements as well as paragraph 2(g) in Appendix I to the Cancun Agreements (Appendix I is the REDD safeguards text). Neither of these texts provides any hint of the "actions" that REDD countries are supposed to "promote and support" in order to address leakage.
1. Reiterates that, in accordance with decision 12/CP.17, paragraphs 1 and 3, developing country Parties undertaking the activities referred to in decision 1/CP.16, paragraph 70, should provide a summary of information on how all of the safeguards referred to in decision 1/CP.16, appendix I, are being addressed and respected throughout the implementation of those activities;
REDD countries are encouraged to provide a summary of information on how safeguards are being "addressed and respected".
(This text is almost identical to the text in Decision 12/CP.19, paragraph 1 – part of the Warsaw Framework on REDD-plus. The only change is the mention of paragraph 1 of decision 12/CP.17.)
12/CP.17, paragraph 1 notes that the implementation of REDD safeguards and information on how these safeguards are being addressed and respected "should support national strategies or action plans".
12/CP.17, paragraph 3 states that REDD countries are encouraged to provide a summary of information on how safeguards are being "addressed and respected".
2. Also reiterates that the summary of information referred to in paragraph 1 above should be provided periodically, in accordance with decisions 12/CP.17 and 12/CP.19;
Repeats that the summary of information on safeguards "should" be provided at regular intervals.
(This text is almost identical to the text in Decision 12/CP.19 paragraph 2 – part of the Warsaw Framework on REDD-plus. The Warsaw text included a reference to decision 12/CP.17, paragraph 4, which mentions the possibility of placing summaries of information on safeguards on the UNFCCC web platform.)
12/CP.19 is the part of the 2013 Warsaw Framework on REDD-plus: "The timing and the frequency of presentations of the summary of information on how all the safeguards referred to in decision 1/CP.16, appendix I, are being addressed and respected".
3. Notes that information on how all the safeguards are being addressed and respected should be provided in a way that ensures transparency, consistency, comprehensiveness and effectiveness;
"Notes" is the weakest possible way of referring to anything in the UN system. Governments only have to accept this as a relevant fact but do not have to commit to doing anything.
(Decision 12/CP.19 paragraph 3 – part of the Warsaw Framework on REDD-plus – refers to the possibility of posting the summaries of information on safeguards on the UNFCCC web platform.)
4. Decides that developing country Parties should provide information on which activity or activities referred to in decision 1/CP.16, paragraph 70, are included in the summary of information referred to in paragraph 1 above, taking into account decision 12/CP.17, paragraphs 1 and 3, and decision 9/CP.19, paragraph 4;
It seems that the head of the UNFCCC serpent has started to eat its own tail.
REDD countries should provide information on which REDD safeguard activity or activities are included in the summary of information on safeguards, taking into account the following:
12/CP.17, paragraph 1, which notes that the implementation of REDD safeguards and information on how these safeguards are being addressed and respected "should support national strategies or action plans".
12/CP.17, paragraph 3 which states that REDD countries are encouraged to provide a summary of information on how safeguards are being "addressed and respected".
9/CP.19, paragraph 4 which agrees that REDD countries looking for results-based payments are encouraged to provide the most recent summary of information on how all of the REDD safeguards have been addressed and respected, before they can receive results-based payments.
5. Strongly encourages developing country Parties, when providing the summary of information referred to in paragraph 1 above, to include the following elements, where
appropriate:
(a) Information on national circumstances relevant to addressing and respecting the safeguards;
(b) A description of each safeguard in accordance with national circumstances;
(c) A description of existing systems and processes relevant to addressing and respecting safeguards, including the information systems referred to in decision 12/CP.17, in accordance with national circumstances;
(d) Information on how each of the safeguards has been addressed and respected, in accordance with national circumstances;
No demands, but a strong encouragement to produce a check list, with the words "national circumstances" in each point. Wiggle room galore.
6. Encourages developing country Parties to provide any other relevant information on the safeguards in the summary of information referred to in paragraph 1 above;
REDD countries are encouraged to provide any other relevant information. More wiggle room, as if it was needed.
7. Also encourages developing country Parties to improve the information provided in the summary of information referred to in paragraph 1 above taking into account the stepwise approach;
REDD countries can improve the information in the summary on how they are addressing and addressing REDD safeguards. There is no possible way that a stepwise approach could be compatible with a rights based approach to safeguards. Needless to say, the words "stepwise approach" do not appear in the Universal Declaration on Human Rights.
8. Decides that there is no need for further guidance pursuant to decision 12/CP.17, paragraph 6, to ensure transparency, consistency, comprehensiveness and effectiveness when informing on how all the safeguards are being addressed and respected.
That's it. There will be no further guidance on transparency, consistency, comprehensiveness and effectiveness.
12/CP.17, paragraph 6 was a request from COP17 (2011 in Durban) for SBSTA to "consider the need for further guidance to ensure transparency, consistency, comprehensiveness and effectiveness when informing on how all safeguards are addressed and respected". SBSTA was, if appropriate, to consider additional guidance, and report to COP18.
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Hans Groenendijk
This is all very interesting because it shows the reluctance of negotiating partners to commit themselves to effective action.
Your arguments would gain much in strength if it had been followed by a summing up of concrete effects or non-effects that approaches formulated in this way would have on the every-day practice of decision makers and people in the field. E.g. indicating that some countries have to face a long period (in years or decades ) of ongoing deforestation before popular awareness puts a halt on this.
REDDisms:
"All we've done is agree there's a problem. We agreed that in 1992 [at the Earth summit in Rio] and re-agreed it again in Paris [at the 2015 climate accord]. We haven't acknowledged what is required to solve it. Promises like Paris don't mean much, it's wishful thinking. It's a hoax that governments have played on us since the 1990s."
— James Hansen, ex-NASA scientist, June 2018
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QUESTION: My boyfriend gets very depressed and basically drops off the face of the earth. His mom took it very personally when he did this a few months ago (around his birthday) and he wouldn't respond to her invitations to dinner. I tried to get him to call her, but he finds her very difficult to manage in the best of times, and doubly so when he's depressed.
His parents have since invited us to another family get-together, but when I called them about it, his mom harangued me on the phone for a half-hour about how rude it was that he wouldn't call her back. I'd already agreed to drive his sister to the party, so I can't back out now. I'm mad at both of them and don't want to be involved, but I'm not sure what to say that won't just (tick) mom off. I've already told my boyfriend that I think a half-hour call won't kill him, but in this case I can see why he struggles with her!
ANSWER: To the mother: "I understand your distress, but I am not the one you need to talk to about this, as I am not making these decisions. He is." Repeat as needed. The mother is wrong to dump her anger on you, but you are wrong to receive it. It is not your job.
To the boyfriend: "Your family is your business. I will no longer be involved in making plans with them; I'm happy to come along, but whether you see them, and what you tell them, are up to you." You will also stop lobbying him to see his family. You are not his secretary, nor are you his family's agent.
And now, finally, to you: If your boyfriend is not taking any steps to treat, manage or otherwise combat his depression, then I would urge you to think carefully about staying in this relationship.
While it's hard to think this way when you love someone, even two people in love can get to a point where they're bad for each other. "Enabling" is a word that gets thrown around a lot, but what it describes is real: It's when two people's frailties match up just right, and each of you allows the other to avoid dealing with those problems.
If he's avoiding his issues and you're avoiding yours, the arrangement you have with him is perfect: He doesn't have to deal with his hang-ups because you absorb all the consequences for him with your heroic rescues. That, in turn, gives you something external to feel good about, so you don't have to deal with the stuff on the inside that you're shoving into various corners.
And this is where another overused term comes in: boundaries. Start drawing some. No more rescues, no more rallies for the cause of calling one's parents, no more acting as the person everyone counts on while you postpone being yourself. If you're the only thing keeping everything on track, then maybe this track isn't where everything belongs.


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Leah Darrow, a 2004 contestant on 'America's Next Top Model,' spoke at 'The Freedom Project' conference March 4 at Holy Spirit Church in Kimberly. She left the modeling business during a racy photo shoot and returned to her Catholic roots. (Amanda Lauer | For The Compass)
Darrow can certainly relate to Bisutti's situation. Even though she didn't earn the title of "America's Next Top Model," the exposure from the show was enough to launch her modeling career in New York City. She was making an incredible salary, her face was on billboards in Times Square and taxi cabs, but she left her career after what she called "a St. Paul moment" during the middle of a racy photo shoot.
An Oklahoma native and lifelong Catholic, Darrow considers herself to be a prodigal daughter. She asked the audience, "What is love?" and shared her experiences during high school and college when she defined love in the wrong way — the physical way. "I didn't know the value of my sexuality. I didn't know how great I was," said Darrow.
The topic of the talk was on modest dressing but encompassed much more. Darrow used her life story to leave a lasting message with the young people she spoke to. "Modesty is the guardian of chastity." As a teen and young adult Darrow knew how to dress to gain the attention of men. "I was afraid people wouldn't like me for me," she admitted.
Being picked to be on "America's Next Top Model" was a thrill for Darrow, but she had no idea what she was getting into. "There's nothing real about reality TV," she said. "Reality TV showcases human brokenness."
She described the conditions they worked under while on the show. The apartment the models lived in had no doors, no shower curtains, no privacy and the girls were filmed 24 hours a day. "They didn't let you sleep a lot and there was an element of anxiety at all times." The producers did everything they could to increase the drama between the contestants. "You should think twice about watching and supporting reality TV," said Darrow.
The day she walked off her last photo shoot was not only the day she quit the modeling business but the day Darrow quit sin and the whole lifestyle it represented. "I was sick of giving myself to my boyfriends. They were great guys but they were just as confused as I was. We were all feeding from the same lie."
The last words she heard from the photographer as she left the set are as clear today to Darrow as when he said them. "You're going to be a nobody." Her reply to him was inspired. "Do you promise?"
Walking down Fifth Avenue afterwards Darrow remembered questioning herself and how she was going to pay her bills if she didn't have a job. When she got back to her apartment she called her father and said, "Get me today or I'm going to lose my soul." He immediately drove across the country to pick her up. When he got there he told her how happy he was to see her and then said they were going to church so she could go to confession. She was reluctant but he didn't back down, "You said you needed to come home. The church is your home."
At the church Darrow told the priest she was scared to be there. Saying her sins out loud made them real for her. "When I heard his words of absolution, it was like nothing I'd ever heard before," said Darrow. "I never in my life felt at peace until that moment."
After leaving the modeling world Darrow worked in the field in which she earned her degree. One speaking engagement turned into a series of speeches and eventually a career working as a speaker and apologist for Catholic Answers.
There were several messages Darrow hoped to get across to youth. "There is no sin that is too great — God's mercy can take over anything," she said. "(Young people) need to define what love (really) is and they need to start questioning the culture and ask if it's really in line with what they want."
Spreading this message can be a bit overwhelming at times for Darrow. "I was born on June 24, the feast day of John the Baptist, and his words speak to me — one voice crying out in the desert. But that's not really what it is because my voice joins with many other voices and my voice joins with the heart of every single person who hears this because no matter where they are in life, this resonates with them that there's something more to life than just this."
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