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using Remotion.Linq.Clauses.Expressions;

namespace Remotion.Linq.Clauses
{
	/// <summary>
	/// Aggregates all objects needed in the process of cloning a <see cref="QueryModel"/> and its clauses.
	/// </summary>
	public sealed class CloneContext
	{
		public CloneContext(QuerySourceMapping querySourceMapping)
		{
			QuerySourceMapping = querySourceMapping;
		}

		/// <summary>
		/// Gets the clause mapping used during the cloning process. This is used to adjust the <see cref="QuerySourceReferenceExpression"/> instances
		/// of clauses to point to clauses in the cloned <see cref="QueryModel"/>.
		/// </summary>
		public QuerySourceMapping QuerySourceMapping { get; private set; }
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Despite disagreements with Trump, Democrats should loudly applaud prison reform
By Jessica Jackson, Opinion Contributor — 02/05/19 03:10 PM EST
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During today's State of the Union address, President Trump Donald TrumpJudge rules Alaska governor unlawfully fired lawyer who criticized Trump Giuliani led fake electors plot: CNN Giuliani associate sentenced to a year in prison in campaign finance case MORE is expected to highlight a few areas where he believes Republicans and Democrats should work together.
As a proud Democrat and an elected official in one of the most progressive states in America, I can understand why some liberals may be wary of applauding anything this president says. There are no shortage of issues where Democrats should proudly and unequivocally stand firm against President Trump and the GOP's agenda. But on the few areas where some common ground is possible, we have a responsibility to work together.
That's why I believe there is at least one issue that should draw unanimous praise during tomorrow's speech from both the left and the right sides of the aisle - the president's commitment to criminal justice reform.
If you weren't paying attention, or like many of us had already shut down your laptop for the holidays, you probably missed it. Just hours before the federal government entered a partial shutdown on Dec. 21, President Trump signed into law the most substantial rewrite of our federal prison and sentencing laws in decades - the First Step Act.
While it's too early to call the First Step Act a total success, as most of the bill has not yet been implemented, there are strong early indications that the new law will dramatically improve the lives of thousands of people in prison and their family members while also beginning the long process of transforming the federal prison system. There have already been reverberating impacts on criminal justice policy-making as states like Florida, Arkansas, and others begin working on their own versions of "First Step Acts" to bring bipartisan momentum to their state capitals.
Matthew Charles was one of the first people released from prison as a result of the First Step Act's provisions retroactively applying a 2009 law shortening sentences for crack cocaine offenses. Tonight, he will be in attendance at the State of Union address as President Trump's special guest. Edward Douglas and Catherine Toney were also both recently released from this same provision, which shaved years off their prison sentences and returned them home to begin new lives. The efforts of hard-working federal defenders filing motions in the courts will bring new stories of second chances and better futures. As the other provisions that address prison rehabilitation and expand programming go into effect, we will see even more progress.
There is also cause for concern.
Parts of the bill have been delayed because of either the partial shutdown, the lack of a Senate-confirmed attorney general, or the absence of a permanently appointed Federal Bureau of Prisons director. One of the bill's first deadlines has passed and a misinterpretation of the law by the BOP threatens to significantly delay another important provision.
This past weekend, family members of loved ones detained in a federal detention facility in Brooklyn heard of harrowing conditions for incarcerated men and women as a power outage resulted in freezing temperatures and inadequate access to medical treatment. Power and heat have reportedly been restored to the facility but the Bureau of Prisons has not yet adequately explained why this happened nor have they put forward a plan to prevent similar scenarios from playing out in its facilities during extreme weather events.
In light of these developments, President Trump shouldn't just take a "victory lap" for what was accomplished last year. He should reiterate his commitment to criminal justice reform and set out what he will continue to do to make progress.
If he does that, Democrats and Republicans should applaud loudly.
There isn't much for the average American to celebrate as they observe what's happening in Washington, D.C. To make matters worse, the fast-approaching 2020 election cycle provides more incentive for politicians to lean into disagreements rather than collaborate. While elections may be a zero-sum game, in the handful of working days between them lawmakers in DC and around the country would best serve their constituents by working together to progress for real people rather than attack one another to score a few cheap political points.
Criminal justice reform has emerged as the one issue that continues to bring leaders in both parties together. Let's make sure we keep it that way.
Jessica Jackson is the national director and cofounder of #cut50, a bipartisan effort to reduce crime and incarceration in all 50 states. Jessica sits on The Committee for a Fair Judiciary, serves as an Advisory Board member of the American Constitution Society Bay Area Chapter, and represents Congressman Jared Huffman Jared William HuffmanIn their own words: Lawmakers, staffers remember Jan. 6 insurrection Overnight Energy & Environment — Manchin raises hopes on climate spending Energy & Environment — Advocates look for Plan B climate legislation MORE on the Democratic Central Committee of Marin. In November 2013, Jessica became the youngest ever elected official in Marin County, Calif. when she was elected to the Mill Valley City Council. Jessica became the Mayor of Mill Valley in November 2016 and currently serves as a member of the City Council.
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Q: Cortex-M0+ not responding to PendSV I'm running on a Raspberry Pi Pico (RP2040, Cortex-M0+ core, debugging via VSCode cortex-debug using JLink SWD), and I'm seeing strange behaviour regarding PendSV.
Immediately prior, the SVCall exception handler requested PendSV via the ICSR register.  But on exception return, rather than tail-chaining the PendSV, execution instead returns to the calling code and continues non-exception execution.
All the while the ICSR register shows the pending PendSV, even while thread code instructions are repeatedly stepped.  System handler priorities are all zero, IRQ priorities are lower.

According to the ARMv6-M reference manual, PendSV cannot be disabled.
So, what am I missing that would cause this behaviour?
Edited to add:
Perhaps it's a debugger interaction?  The JLink software (v4.95d) is still in Beta...
I see that the debugger can actually disable PendSV and Systick - C1.5.1 Debug Stepping: "Optionally, the debugger can set DHCSR.C_MASKINTS to 1 to prevent PendSV, SysTick, and external configurable interrupts from occurring. This is described as masking these interrupts. Table C1-7 on page C1-326 summarizes instruction stepping control."

A: It turns out that the problem is caused by single-stepping the instruction that writes to the PENDSVSET bit in the ICSR: the bit is set, and the VECTPENDING field shows 0xe, but the PendSV never fires.
Free-running over that instruction to a later breakpoint sees the PendSV fire correctly.
So it is indeed a debugger interaction.
Whether that's to do with interrupts being inhibited as @cooperised suggests isn't clear - the DHCSR's C_MASKINTS bit reads as zero throughout, but how that bit is manipulated during the actual step operation isn't visible at this level.
Which makes me wonder whether the way the JLink is performing the step induces unpredictable/indeterminate behaviour - e.g. as per the warning in the C_MASKINTS description.  Or perhaps this is simply what happens in an M0+ under these circumstances, and I've never single-stepped this instruction before.
In any case, the workaround is simply to not single-step the instruction that sets PENDSVSET.
Edited to add:
Finally, @cooperised was correct.
On taking more care to distinguish exactly between stepping (including stepping over function calls) and running (including running to the very next instruction), it's clear that stepping disables interrupts including PendSV.

A: The same thing happened to me but I found that the reason was that I was not closing the previous PensSV interrupt by returning through LR containing 0xFFFFFFF9.  Instead I was returning via the PC to a previous routine's return address.
Since I did not return via 0xFFFFFFF9 it was not properly closing the previous PendSV and did not recognize subsequent ones.

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OMG what a story. I would die if a one night stand showed up! LOL This sounds like a fun read, I had no idea that this author was Nyrae ( You DO learn something new everyday.) I think I will have to give this one a go. I am always looking for more adult books to add to my shelf. Great review, Siiri!
So happy you enjoyed Luck of the Draw! I thought it was so funny and sweet. You must read Lucky Break. I loved it even more.
:O Really? I certainly must then!!
I like being warm and giggly inside Siiri! Especially when it's cold and snowy outside like it is now. I know you've adored Nyrae Dawn's YA/NA books (I still need to read CHARADE - I KNOW! I'll get to it I promise), so I'm glad to know her adult books are equally fabulous. She's on my list of must reads!


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[Fantasy] Elfland, Poughkeepsie, Hogwarts and the Game of Houses
This post is not about roleplaying or interactive fiction, but about fantasy literature. I suspect that there will be more posts like that in the future, so my apologies if you do not care for the subject. The [Fantasy]-tag will help you recognise and avoid them.
I am currently reading Ursula K. Le Guin's From Elfland to Poughkeepsie, in which she discusses writing styles appropriate to fantasy. But more interesting than her comments on style (which, though true, are not especially insightful) is the framework of her discussion; the insight in fantasy that allows her to distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate styles.
Her metaphor is that of a big national park, which people should go to in order to experience something they normally do not (wilderness, nature), but which some people do go to "in a trailer with a motorbike on the back and a motorboat on top and a butane stove, five aluminium folding chairs, and a transistor radio on the inside. They arrive in a totally encapsulated reality." Some writers of fantasy, Le Guin goes on to argue, do the same: they toss in some faeries or dragons or magicians, but they never take their readers away to Elfland, never make them feel the essential strangeness and difference of that place. "[T]he point about Elfland is that you are not at home there. It's not Poughkeepsie. It's different."
Today, you might want to substitute 'Hogwarts' for 'Poughkeepsie', as John Pennington does in his - basically right if not always convincing - From Elfland to Hogwarts, or the Aesthetic Trouble with Harry Potter.
It seems to me that Le Guin is right: fantasy, as a kind of literature, must be distancing, must always be about something Else. Having flying brooms is not enough, not if you use them to play a kind of football. Such literature may be whimsical, but is not fantastic - and it has a much greater danger of being pure escapism. (As Harry Potter, from what I've read of it, undoubtedly is. Why it is so widely praised is beyond me.)
What I want to suggest is that Robert Jordan, writer of that interminable sequence The Wheel of Time, has fallen prey to the same thing in his later books. Jordan is of course merely a token representing many of his colleagues. I do not suggest that this is the main flaw of Jordan's books; their lack of pace, bad style and bad characterisation also come to mind - but it is perhaps the most interesting. It may explain why so many people I have spoken to have become disenchanted with the series as it ran on: the series itself became disenchanted, in a very literal way.
One of the first scenes of Jordan's first book, The Eye of the World, features Rand al'Thor, the protagonist, as his father's farm is being attacked by a group of monstrous creatures intent on killing him. This does not win Jorden a prize for originality, of course, but it does make his book proper fantasy. The world we are transported to is dangerous; these dangers are real and present; and people accept them as dangers they simply have to face, and have to cope with.
This primacy of danger is a typical trope of fantastic literature. It is alien to our common conception of the world we live in: if our house were to be attacked by anyone, we would expect the police to come to our aid, or at least attempt to punish the attackers afterwards. In our common conception of our world, danger has no primacy, but must submit to law and order, to rights, to insurances.
We all know (though we are not often aware of it) that danger will not really submit to our all-too-human systems of protection. This is the truth that is expressed by Jordan's scene; and fantasy is its proper form of expression, because it allows the writer to immediately dispense with a whole complex of real institutions that stand between us and the perception of this truth.
Suppose that Jordan had followed up the scene with others in which the royal "Red Mages" had come to investigate the killing; had gone on a quest to kill the monstrous beings and imprison the elf that led them; and had sentenced the elf to pay for all the reconstruction work in the village he had his minions attack - than, no matter the monsters and the mages and the elf, we would not have had a fantasy. We would have had a basically realistic novel dressed up in whimsical (if somewhat overused) invention. The fantastic would have detracted from, instead of added to, the message.
In the later books of the Wheel of Time cycle, Rand al'Thor has become the king of many lands and peoples. Most of the books are now concerned with his attempts to keep all these people together; to overcome their natural prejudices and fears; and with the many, many power struggles among the various groups. Jordan calls it 'The Game of Houses'.
All of this could have happened in Poughkeepsie as well as in Elfland.
But even that is not really true; it really could not have happened in Elfland. It is too comfortable, too well-known - we see it around us every day. It is just politics. As Jordan changes his focus towards political power games, the fantasy loses its aspect of being a fantasy. As the magic becomes a political tool and concern, it ceases to be magic. We find ourselves in Poughkeepsie, sitting on an aluminium folding chair and wondering why we went through the trouble of imagining such a vast, diverse and in the end curiously bland alternative reality.
(This, I suppose, is where George R. R. Martin comes onto the stage and says, with a sly smile: "Well, but if one is a realist in disguise, one should have the courage to be a realist in disguise!" And goes on to write a political 'fantasy' called A Song of Ice and Fire which invokes the illustrations not of Royo, but of Goya.)
Posted by Victor Gijsbers at Friday, October 20, 2006
Labels: fantasy
timfire 23 October 2006 at 21:35
This post is both very thought-provoking and timely for me, as the issue of real *fantasy* is something relevent to the design work I'm doing right now. It's a post I'll have to consider for a bit.
The thing I love about fantasy (and to a certain extent scfi) is the ability of fantasy to externalize and give symbolic form to internal struggles, emotions, and conflicts in a way that a literal reality can't. This is why I think fantasy is very often about physical danger or violence. It gives literal form to our internal fears, anxieties, and daily struggles.
I have to think about the strangeness or otherness of fantasy... If I were to phrase it in my own words, I would say that good fantasy often has a certain sense of "awe"... The idea that there are mysteries we don't understand and things greater than we are... I think "awe" usually has a sense of otherness about it... I think there's something about the awe-ful things in fantasy that tap into our nonrational emotions and subconscious. I think awe is something Amercan culture has largely lost, and that's why American writers have such difficulty with fantasy. I see alot more awe and wonderment coming from Japanese anime...
Anyway, I'm rambling. Good topic.
Ian 25 October 2006 at 15:20
This makes me want to run to my shelf and reread Walter Benjamin's "The Storyteller." He clearly isn't focusing on a fantasy genre (heck, it really didn't exist in its codified form when he was writing), but his lesson is the same: we need distance, we need the story to have an aura of mystery.
The story needs to *invite* our consideration, our interpretation, without handing us an interpretation pre-formed. Which makes me wonder if it is the emergence of fantasy as a genre that really stifled it.
It lost its freedom from 'reality' (this is a dream, this happens in a faraway place where things are different than here) to its own emerging genre rules.
This stacks with what Tim said--the U.S. is a little like a hall of mirrors in terms of culture. Our media tends to surround us with images of the 'U.S.' way of life, which makes it seem more and more 'natural' even as it becomes more and more exceptional. Which means we don't get a lot of invitations in popular culture--more permutations on a type.
Victor Gijsbers 26 October 2006 at 12:52
Tim: I absolutely agree with what you write. A useful illustration are the Lord of the Rings movies, I think. If I had to ifentify the overarching theme of the book, I would say that it's the mortality of all beauty, the necessity of everything good to pass away. That's why there has to be such a huge historical backdrop, giving us a sense of the abyss of time; and why the whole book is pervaded by a sense of melancholy.
This theme is wholly lost in its early 21st century Hollywood retelling. The overarching theme of the movie is the fight between good and evil, where evil is an Other, but not an Other to be in 'awe' of - exactly mirroring the spirit exemplified by the "a nation of Good fighting a war against Evil"-rhetoric of Bush.
Well, indeed! When I read Der Erzähler (presumably the original version of The Storyteller), I wanted to write about it; but I didn't have this blog yet, and I felt it wouldn;t be appreciated on The Forge.
Let's both reread the essay. :)
And yes, the emergence of fantasy as a genre was, in one sense, unfortunate: it made possible the heaps of derivate, bad, been-there-done-that fantasy that fill our bookstores.
On the other hand, it also created a stage for writers like John Crowley and M. John Harrison to emerge on. Who can tell which way the balance tips? :)
Dead Man Walking 22 July 2010 at 11:09
It is true that Robert Jordan(may his soul rest in peace) succeeded in creating an alternative reality, which is actually the entire point of fantasy and its popularity in mature, adult readers i.e escapism. However to call it bland and comparable to the reality would be an understatement way beyond what can be measured. Critics, when they read literature, are very constipated and bull-headed. Read from a layman's POV sir! You'll find it neither bland nor remotely near to a real world socio-political architecture.
[Fantasy] The Storyteller and Mrs. Brown
Classes vs. Archetypes
Elitism, and RPGs as Art
Walter Benjamin, "Der Erzähler" (The Storyteller)
[Fantasy] Elfland, Poughkeepsie, Hogwarts and the ...
Sexism in the Realms
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/*
* This is a part of the test for a workaround for MSVC 12 (VS2013) optimizer bug
* which causes incorrect SIMD code generation for operator==. See:
*
* https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/8509#comment:3
* https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedbackdetail/view/981648#tabs
*
* This file contains the main entry point.
*/
#include <cstdio>
#include "test_msvc_simd_bug981648.hpp"
extern void mp_grid_update_marker_parameters(headerProperty* header_prop, my_obj &current_marker);
static my_obj g_my_obj;
int main(void)
{
my_obj *p = &g_my_obj;
p->m_uuid = uuid();
uuid one, two;
one.data[0] = 0; two.data[0] = 1;
//*****************************************
// This != statement generates two movdqu statements or pcmpeqd with a memory operand which crashes
if (one != two) {
std::printf("The first != operator works okay if it reaches this printf.\n");
}
my_obj a;
a.m_uuid.data[0] = 1;
std::printf("There should be a another printf coming next.\n");
//*****************************************
// The != statement in this function generates a movups and a movdqu statement.
// It also crashes because the optimizer also creates a pcmpeqd for a non-aligned memory location.
mp_grid_update_marker_parameters(p, a);
return 0;
}


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War in Afghanistan: what solutions?
Pip Hinman
Abdul Hekmat, a Hazara refugee from Afghanistan, doesn't believe that the US-NATO invasion and occupation of his country amounts to a "good" war, and is troubled by the prospect of the Taliban seizing more power.
Hekmat fled Afghanistan eight years ago, before the US-led invasion. He told a meeting hosted by Stop the War Coalition Sydney on May 25 that the Taliban was "suffocating" and "repressive", and that it had increased its power since the 2001 invasion.
Hekmat, like most Afghans, is upset at the high numbers of civilian casualties. More than 2000 people were killed by US-NATO forces in 2008. He also pointed to the attacks in Farah province in early May, where around 140 people were killed in a US bombardment of villages.
"Hamid Karzai [the Western-backed president] did not take the opportunity to make lives better", Hekmat said. "He has promised a lot, but has not delivered."
Hekmat was particularly scathing of a new law that sanctions rape in marriage. "It treats women like sex objects. Women have to have sex with their husband four times a week. It also allows men to have multiple wives and it even sanctions sex with minors."
He said there had been some muted outcry about this from the US, among other countries, but he was upset that Canberra had said nothing at all. Because of the silence, Hekmat organised a 70-strong protest outside Parliament House and the Afghan High Commission on May 12.
Hekmat said Karzai was using this law to win support from ultra-conservative religious scholars for his re-election bid in August.
"There is no freedom of expression [in Afghanistan] when it comes to religious beliefs and anything questioning Islamic law", he said.
Although he acknowledged the Western invasion had actually helped strengthen the Taliban, he said he feared a troop withdrawal would leave the Taliban in control of the country.
"Afghans are increasingly ambivalent [about the occupation] because nothing has changed and people are tired of war. If the foreign troops could provide security, protection and construction assistance, people would want them to stay," he said.
[The Australian Education Union is touring Shazia from the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, in May and June.]


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STEVE ROBERTS: Fearing the Bern
By STEVEN ROBERTS
In 2016, Bernie Sanders waited until July -- long after the Democratic nomination had been decided -- to endorse Hillary Clinton. Radio host Howard Stern asked Clinton if Sanders could have backed her earlier.
"He could have," she replied. "He hurt me. There's no doubt about it. He hurt me." Clinton added: "I hope he doesn't do it again to whoever gets the nomination. Once is enough."
Many of Clinton's most grievous wounds were self-inflicted. No one made her use a private email server, or give high-dollar speeches to Wall Street, or ignore warnings in key Midwestern states, or call Trump supporters "a basket of deplorables." It was her campaign that was deplorable.
But her comments about Sanders are still correct. His behavior remains one of the principal reasons for her defeat. As Hillary wrote in her book "What Happened," Sanders' attacks "impugning my character ... caused lasting damage, making it harder to unify progressives in the general election and paving the way for Trump's 'Crooked Hillary' campaign."
Sanders is poised to play the role of spoiler again. His huge fundraising haul over the last three months guarantees his staying power, and he is starting to do to Joe Biden what he did to Hillary — emphasizing his rival's personal flaws and handing the Trump campaign a stockpile of ammunition.
In a recent Washington Post interview, Bernie echoed Trump's caustic condemnation of Biden as "Sleepy Joe" by saying, "It's just a lot of baggage Joe takes into a campaign, which isn't going to create energy and excitement."
Primary opponents have every right to criticize their rivals, but what makes Sanders so dangerous to the Democrats is his insufferable self-righteousness. We're pure, he tells his followers, and everyone else is corrupt. Like Trump, he warns that the system is "rigged" against them, so if they lose, they lose unfairly, and therefore have no obligation to support the winner.
Analysts studying the 2016 vote concluded that about 1 in 5 Sanders primary voters did not back Clinton in November. About 1 in 10 actually voted for Trump, while the rest supported third parties or stayed home. Professor Brian Schaffner of the University of Massachusetts calculates that in each of the three states that made Trump president — Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan — the number of Bernie backers who voted for Trump exceeded the president's margin of victory.
Sanders is threatening to repeat that perfidious performance this year. Former Ohio Governor Ted Strickland, a Biden backer, told the Post, "My big concern isn't that he'll beat Joe, but that this movement of his may decide to take a walk if Bernie isn't the nominee. It'd be deadly to the Democratic Party if he didn't do everything he could to support the nominee."
Sanders, of course, insists that he's not a spoiler — that by calling for a "revolution," he can actually beat Trump by energizing marginal voters, particularly young people. But that is a delusional myth. This is NOT a revolutionary country. The last successful insurrection happened almost 250 years ago, when we liberated ourselves from a tyrannical British monarch. Since then, the core of our political culture, and its enduring stability, has been rooted in reason, not revolution, and pragmatism, not passion.
Since the death of Franklin Roosevelt, Democrats have elected six presidents; not one came from the Sanders-Elizabeth Warren wing of the party. The orthodox liberals who did win the nomination all lost badly.
In the 2016 exit polls, only 26% of voters identified as liberals; 39% called themselves moderate and 35% conservative. It is totally inconceivable that this country would elect a self-proclaimed socialist who proposes vast increases in government spending totaling more than $50 trillion. Sure, Sanders could galvanize some left-wing voters, but he would alienate far more moderates: exactly the voters Democrats will desperately need in battleground states to deny Trump a second term.
For example, Mason-Dixon Polling reports that Biden beats Trump by 2 points in Florida, while Sanders loses by 5; in Virginia, Biden has a 4-point lead over the president, while Sanders trials him by 6. Harry Sloan, a Republican fundraiser, reinforced that finding in The New York Times: "I've spoken to many Republicans who don't intend to vote for Trump. They're looking for an alternative. They are pretty polarized against Warren and Sanders and that so-called progressive wing of the party."
Bernie Sanders cannot win the White House, but he can stop another Democrat from winning. That's why many party pragmatists don't feel the Bern — they fear the Bern.
Steven Roberts teaches politics and journalism at George Washington University. He can be contacted by email at stevecokie@gmail.com.
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Hit and Run Raids
Clifford Bloomfield's Wartime Recollections
First published in Jo Kirkham's 'Memories of Rye Series
Autumn and Winter 1942
During this time the towns and villages of South East England were subjected to attacks by German Focke Wolf 190 fighter bombers. They carried one 500Ib bomb as well as being armed with machine guns and 20mm cannon. They were referred to as Hit and Run Raiders. To help combat this menace, units of the RAF regiment were drafted to the town and surrounding countryside. They were equipped with their standard airfield defence systems – small armoured cars fitted with a pair of matching guns. Other guns were sited on high static positions. I remember it being said that one such site was at the rear of Durrant House in Market Street.
Rye's first attack occurred on a Wednesday morning at about 8am -it was September 15th 1942. Two aircraft roared over the town from the east dropping their bombs. One fell in the rear of the Mermaid Inn, but, probably due to the planes low altitude, the bomb did not get into a vertical position, but bounced, leaving its fins there and bursting in the air. The second bomb demolished two houses, including Mr Brown's butchers shop to the right of the bottom of the Green Steps, in the Strand. This also damaged Strand House and other surrounding properties – many losing windows and tiles. It is possible that these aircraft, coming over the coastline very low and flying at a speed of some 400 miles per hour, were intending to hit Strand Quay as civil engineering works had started in that area to enable landing craft to be moored, serviced and refuelled in preparation for the D Day landings. In those days this was referred to as the Second Front and some activities were diversionary, to fool the enemy away from similar measures going on in West Sussex, Hampshire, Dorset, etc.
Two Rye Fishermen Killed at Sea
On September 16th the Rye fishing boat Mizpah was fishing in Rye Bay when it was attacked by a Focke Wolf 190 fighter/bomber. It machine gunned and shelled the little boat killing two of her crew, Mr Hollands and Mr Longley. The skipper, Mr Charlie Locke, was wounded and subsequently he received the British Empire Medal.
Many fisherman were reluctant to go to sea for some time – but time is a good healer, and fishing soon continued unabated.
There were in the town, at this time, indigent protests being voiced, especially at Council Meetings. The fact was that the towns only refuse collecting vehicle had been used to collect the two bodies of the fisherman killed in the attack on the Mizpah, and subsequently, used to take them to the town Mortuary in the Ypres Tower. Questions were "who authorised the use of this vehicle for this purpose?"
Maybe unknown to councillors and townsfolk in general, it had been used on a number of occasions before to collect the bodies of seamen washed ashore, a number of soldiers killed in our own minefields on the coast and airman of both nationalities.
The vehicle's body was of welded steel construction with sliding shutters closing over it and with a hinged tail gate. It was thus leak proof and would be easily washed out, not only for this purpose, but as was frequently done for its normal refuse collection duties.
The feelings being expressed locally however were that it was an insult to the fisherman's families.
Regent Cinema Destroyed
On September 22nd after returning to the Catchment Board Offices at 16 Udimore Road, and parking my cycle at the rear, suddenly there was the roar of aircraft and instantly, explosions. I saw two F.W.190 fighter bombers flying low across the western side of the town, but, in fact, there must have been three. They left behind palls of rising black smoke. It looked, from where I was standing, as though at least one bomb had fallen on the eastern side of town, and instantly I though of home. Off I set on my cycle, along Ferry Road, through the railway goods yard and, arriving by the Electricity Showrooms, there before me, was a great pile of brick and concrete rubble across the road. The Regent Cinema had been destroyed and the Cinque Ports Hotel was also in a sorry state; smoke and cordite filled the air.
I did not wait, turned and headed back towards South Undercliff. On arriving at the Ship Inn, again I was confronted by building rubble. I left my cycle, for to my surprise, the woman surveyor that I worked with, Miss D V Harding, was actually taking charge of the situation, attending the injured and dying, instructing people just as the first C.D first aid parties were arriving. I have since discovered that my colleague had been a practising doctor in Australia. The casualties were not Rye people, but working parties sent to repair the previous weeks bomb damage. The bomb had fallen in almost the same location and the Strand House was now destroyed.
Church Square after the Raid
I eventually arrived home via the High Street, not knowing that a third bomb had devastated the Ypres Tower area. For many days after the raid, the road side gutters to the east of the town collected the drifting flock filling of the cinema seats. It is possible that the bomb was intended for the Railway Station – the Cinema was only 100 yards away.
One could also imagine the bombs in the area around the Ypres Tower were aimed at the Rother Iron Works and Bus Depot – again only 100 yards away.
Two Ladies Killed at Rye Harbour October 7th 1942.
Mrs E Clark of 11 Kings Avenue was making one of her regular visits to her aunt, a Mrs Smith of Tram Road, Rye Harbour, when, at 2.15pm, a F.W.190 dropped a single bomb on the house. It demolished it and killed both occupants. I recall this incident as her son John was a teenage friend of mine during these times. In fact he was working on the top of Landgate Tower as an electrician's mate, installing the new air raid siren. Hearing a distant explosion, he looked from his vantage point, to see smoke rising from the site at Rye Harbour village.
The Beaufighter Incident October 21 1942
It was on Wednesday afternoon that an aircraft was approaching Rye from the direction of Lydd. As it came clearly into view, the Rye guns opened fire on the approaching aircraft. The bursting anti aircraft shells seemed to have no effect as it continued to fly just south of the town. Approaching Winchelsea it must have taken a hit or two, for it banked and crashed into the ground near Winchelsea Station. I stood and watched this event, knowing that the aircraft was British. It was a Beaufighter, but was mistaken for a Junkers 88 bomber, as these aircraft were not dissimilar. The British plane had taken no incident that maybe the crew of two were badly injured or even dead after an action on the other side of the Channel. The aircraft did not release any "vary" lights – a colour combination for the code of the day would have been the practice.
Immediately after the action, I ran across the school field to the Bofors gun. Its crew were cock a hoop with joy at having shot down this J.U.88, but a field telephone call confirmed that they had, in fact, shot down a British aircraft. The crew of two were found in the wreckage. Squadron records of this aircraft state that a "Lt. Brown of AA Command was "lectured" today" and also state that, by a sad coincidence", a pilot new to this Squadron, Sgt. Wright, was shot down and killed on a sector reconnaissance today". (I believe this to be "shot down by friendly fire" Ed)
This aircraft, together with a Focke Wulf 190 German fighter bomber that had crashed at Castle Farm on 4.1.43, were collected by an RAF Maintenance Unit whose members were staying at our house.
Sunday December 6th 1942
Having just got up from my bed in a rear bedroom at about 8am, I heard aircraft coming. Quickly looking out of the window, I saw two aircraft pass over the roof. They were F.W.190s flying straight to the town centre. Machine gun and cannon fire filled the air, but no bombs were dropped. I watched them back away to the sea on the far side of the town. On this morning Mr W.Edwards was killed on the Ypres Tower steps leading from Fishmarket Road and Mr. Benny Gamble and Frank "Ikie" Wright, of Wright and Pankhurst, were injured. The anti aircraft guns around Rye were not successful, but Rye's day was to come.
At about 3:30pm in the afternoon, I was standing in a field on the south side of the Rother near Scots Float Sluice, holding a levelling staff for my colleague Mr L.G.Locke, who was bending over his dumpy level, when I heard aircraft approaching. They seemed to be low, but I could not see them. Then instantly looking towards the high, tree covered cliff of that part of Military Road, an aircraft appeared – a F.W.190. All within seconds, this was followed by four others in quick succession, one dropping a bomb. I remember seeing, in the next terrifying moments, the earth and smoke rise skywards from the cliff top. But now I was clutching at the grass on the ground, as machine gun cannon fired at us, as they passed over the same bullets landed literally beside us. They were flying so low that I can remember turning my head sideways and seeing the pilots head in one of the planes. The Sluice Keepers house near had been damaged, but no one had been injured. But the aircraft were now sweeping on towards Rye and above the noise of their engines, the cannon and machine guns could still be heard. In Rye Mrs C. Batchelor had just collected her children from the Primary School in Ferry Road. Near the railway crossing they were caught in the gunfire. Mrs Batchelor was hit by a bullet in the knee and it is believed the same bullet entered the stomach of little Shelia, then five years old, (Shelia is now Mrs Chillingworth).
The 40mm Bofors AA guns were in action, but due to the low roof-topping altitude to the aircraft, it was said that at least two shells passed into the buildings of the Rother Iron Works.
Recorded evidence shows that on this day, as these aircraft were crossing the coast at Winchelsea Beach, one was shot down by gunners of the 230th Coast Battery there. It crashed into the sea and the pilots body was washed ashore at Littlestone.
Over the following weekend, I walked the fields where we had been levelling, picking up the spent machine gun and cannon shell cartridge cases, so I know how close and lucky we had been.
After that experience I remember thinking what a coincidence that Les Locke and I had laid terrified in a field and escaped, when only three months before, his father had suffered a similar ordeal but with serious consequences.
The Wiltshire Regiment
Early 1943 The next troops to arrive were the Wiltshire Regiment. It was part of the 43rd Infantry Division and its sign depicted the Wessex Dragon. This division had the longest stay in Rye and later saw very bitter fighting in and around Caen in Normandy in 1944.
Teatime Bombs February 10th 1943
Late on a grey drizzly, winter afternoon, a Dornier twin engine German bomber flew in from the sea at Winchelsea Beach to Rye. Turning over the north west of the town, it dropped three bombs in a line; the first exploding in the kitchen garden of Rye Cottage, opposite 4 Tillingham Avenue; the second made a direct hit on the railway line at the end of present day Cyprus Place – my Grandparents lived in the terrace next to the line and their house was rendered uninhabitable; the third demolished a terrace of three houses at the Strand, know as Havelock Villas and an adjoining building that had served as the Custom House. A Mrs M.J. Barham (the sister of my Grandmother) was killed, a Mrs Dunk was seriously injured and her lodger, Mr E.J. Castle, a relief manager at the Westminster Bank in the High Street was killed. It is believed that he was outside the house, having just arrived for his tea time meal. Mrs G. Axell, at the other end of the terrace, was also killed.
The site is now occupied by the river frontage of Strand Court.
At the time of this occurrence, I was crossing Monkbretton Bridge on my way home to tea. I saw the aircraft in the darkening sky, flying towards Camber Castle. Rye's anti-aircraft guns were firing in its direction, but the glowing tracer shells were falling short of their target as it disappeared in the mist.
Our Second Air Raid Shelter Summer 1943
The production of war supplies was probably becoming more plentiful at this time and we were offered an indoor Morrison table shelter, which my parents accepted. It duly arrived as a load of prefabricated steel sections. We put this together ourselves – four heavy corner posts, angle posts top and bottom on the four sides and a sheet of 3/16 steel plate for the top.
Woven steel spring laths were clipped into the base (on which to place bedding), and weld mesh netting was fitted to three sides, although a forth could be used. This stood in our living room under the window, taking up much of the space, as it measured 6'6" long x 4' wide x 33" high. It was a very awkward, immovable piece of furniture to live with.
As a matter of interest, a corner post of one of these shelters exists to protect the corner of the Flushing House, Market Street, with the junction of Church Square, from high sided vehicles.
War Savings Appeals
The first was a national appeal by Lord Beaverbrook, Minister for Aircraft Production, called the "Spitfire Fund". Organised to replace the losses of the Battle of Britain, some people paid for a whole Spitfire, but in Rye it was a savings drive for a whole week. My cousin, sister and I decided we would do our little bit, we collected children's books and opened a children's library. Loaning them at 1d each on Saturday mornings over some months through the winter, we raised just over £7.
Over the years, an organising centre would be set up in an unoccupied shop, in aid of such appeals as War Weapons Week and Wings for Victory Week. During this latter appeal, Mrs M.H. Mackenchnie produced a painting of the then recently damaged Ypres Tower with Spitfires overhead. A slogan read "Rye's Reply" and it stood in the centre of the window of "Doodles", High Street. I produced the Spitfire made from scrap wood for Mrs Mackechnie to paint four of them into the scene – I still have it! Also on display were war souvenirs, shrapnel, pieces of crashed aircraft, and weapons.
It was this week also that local army units put on a display of artillery and vehicles on the Salts. We children were allowed to turn the crank handles to raise, lower the traverse Bofors AA Guns. The most popular were the Bren Gun carriers rides round the perimeter of the Salts, very flat, except for the rise and fall over the footpath, twice! The soldiers also set up, between the fishermans huts and the river, a live display of trench mortars, firing their projectiles. They were landing – and exploding – on the river salting at Northpoint Outfall – a distance of 1000 yards to the south east!
Bombing of Northern France Late 1943-Summer 1944
British Hawker Typhoon fighter bombers became daily visitors to Rye. Always coming from the west, they would fly down the River Rother and at Rye Harbour village they would line up within the two harbour training walls. Flying very low, when they reached Lime Kiln Cottage, they would release eight rockets at a time – aiming at a large barge like target just off the river mouth. This was a practice range to simulate the attacks these aircraft were making in Northern France on railways and shipping. The radio news bulletins would refer to these activities taking place daily. "Our aircraft today flew sorties over the Pas de Calis".
Also at this time the Allied air offensive was building up, for we realized that the air craft passing over Rye were preparing for the Second Front, but there was also a more sinister reason of which we were ignorant at that time, but we were to discover at a later date.
One would often witness the raids by the American heavy day bombers, four engined B17 Fortresses and B24 Liberators on their out going flights. They would be very high in the sky, surrounded by fighter escorts of P38 Lightnings and P47 Thunderbolts and sometimes P51 Mustangs, going to targets much further afield. There were occasions when these aircraft were seen returning.
A memorable afternoon, the B17 Fortresses were seen coming in from the sea fairly low as individual stragglers. Many were so shot to pieces that holes could be seen right through the wings and fuselages. They looked hardly able to fly. One pancaked into the then flooded Pett Level marshes, still covered by sea water, a relic of the anti invasion measures of 1940.
Another landed less than a mile away in the Pannel Marsh, between Winchelsea and Pett. This one blew up and burned. A third came down in a large field at Reading Street, just off the Appledore – Tenterden road. This machine was repaired and fitted with replacement engines. It then took off to return to its base. Generally these heavy bombers were of the 8th American Air Force.
There was a distinct period, when at about 8:30am. I was either crossing Monkbretton Bridge or about to leave the house for work, when the noise of approaching aircraft could be heard coming from the North. Then suddenly, coming into view over Point Hill, were formations of medium twin engined bombers, B25 Mitchells, B26 Marauders and B34 Venturas. Their markings could be plainly seen, generally these were of the 9th American Air Force, but one was a separate formation of Venturas belonging to the Free Royal Dutch Air Force.
It was customary for the Americans to test their machine guns over the English Channel. At 8am on June 7 1944, a formation of Marauders – American medium bomber – had left their base and were flying towards the coast. Inland, from Scots Float (Star Lock), Military Road, machine guns could be heard- they were a bit premature with their testing as it should have been over the sea! As the aircraft appeared, one of them was pouring out black smoke, it was on fire. It instantly dropped its bombs into a small field at the base of the Cliff and the River Rother by the Star Lock Pub and none of the bombs exploded. The aircraft carried on getting lower and lower until it crash landed in a field beyond Barn Farm, East Guildford. The crew extinguished the fire and all managed to escape. This aircraft had been shot down by one of the others in its own formation. A bomb disposal team arrived and had great difficulty in locating the bombs which had gone down some 3m.
Crash of the B24 Liberator 24 June 1944
On a very fine and quiet summer evening at about 7pm, I was in New Road, by the open ground which is now the school bus park. I heard an aircraft approaching from the direction of Camber. It sounded as though it was in trouble. It came into view high over the school building and beginning to turn, for a better view, I ran to my faithful flat roofed shed to see this four engined B24 Liberator bomber making a large orbit. It continued to do this, but the circles became small and receded back towards Camber. Then suddenly five Chutes appeared from the plane and instantly the plane cartwheeled out of the sky to crash in a field at Wall Farm, Jurys Gap. It hit the ground in a great ball of fire and black smoke.
Admiralty M.F.Vs C Morris and Co Rock Channel
The old Rock Channel Shipyard of G & T Smith was given a new lease of life, if only to be its last. A company by the name of C Morris received contracts to build a number of Motor Fishing Vessels. Although they looked like fishing vessels, I doubt that this was their purpose. Their displacement was in the order of 120 tons. Two were destined for the Far East and Pacific War. Two were completed before the end of hostilities and two remained unfinished on the slips for some time after.
At the launching of the first one in mid 1944, I pushed my Grandfather in a wheel chair from New Road. I was feeling quite excited to see this event, but Grandfathers conclusion was – "They're nothing like we used to build em! In fact one of these Rye vessels was recently known to be afloat and working as a fishing trawler named "Trewarventh" – PZ 196. Her owners are Stevenson and Sons, Newlyn, Penzance.
A Military Convoy with a Difference
During the late 1943 I think, although military vehicle convoys on the roads were taken for granted as a daily occurrence, there was a difference. For some three days without a break, convoys were all going in one direction – east through Rye from Udimore Road to New Road. Many were Canadian and this I do remember, for I was seeing Divisional signs and also countless American vehicles. It was staggering, endless, all day and all night long!
History now tells us that this was a hoax – this movement of Allied forces was to deceive the enemy spies, or their reconnaissance aircraft into believing that our build up of invasion forces was to be in the east – and not in the west around the Hampshire ports.
Early 1944 now 17 years old – The Manchesters Return
The Manchester Regiment returned to Rye and here I will record an event that I witnessed. Having spent the morning out at work and then returning back to Rother House (our office in Udimore Road), it became known that Field Marshall Montgonery was in town. Leaving the office on my cycle to go home for dinner, I learnt that Monty's military train was in the railway coal sidings at Rope Walk. I went to look and I found the train standing parallel to the Agricultural Hall (now the Arcade) All seemed very quiet there, just a few guards standing around, so I decided to continue home through Eagle Road. Rounding Deacons Corner into Bedford Place was a short military convoy. It slowly turned into New Road and then took a sharp left turn into the then gateway of the Cricket Salts. The Salts were covered by what seemed a thousand or more soldiers of the Manchester Regiment. Field Marshall Montgomery had arrived to review these men. I left my cycle and joined a few other civilians there already, and so's not to miss this, we stood in the background, but close enough to hear. By now Monty was standing up in a jeep, waving his arms and calling for men to gather round. "No formalities". He introduced himself and said in a speech words to the effect that each man from the top of his command to the lowest and youngest private were to know their role, each was to be a participant when the time came for the coming battle.
I remember the "three cheers for Monty" I quickly left for home and a late dinner!
Some time later, it must have been late May, I noticed that the Manchester's vehicle had suddenly been replaced by new ones. Soon after our town seemed deserted, that is by the military. The Royal Navy was still with us and also anti aircraft units.
Commandos Spring 1944
During this period there were times when Combined Operations Commandos were frequently in the town, although to my knowledge, not garrisoned here.
To be continued ……
Rye's Own August 2003
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Out of Sight, Out of Mind? A Review of Efforts to Counter Proliferation Finance
Emil Dall, Andrea Berger and Tom Keatinge
Whitehall Reports, 20 June 2016
Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Counter-Proliferation Finance, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy
Greater collaboration between the public and private sectors is needed to tackle the problem of proliferation finance. Enhanced information sharing and the development of specific expertise will greatly improve the effectiveness of programmes aimed at tackling this key global issue.
In 2012, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the international organisation responsible for co-ordinating government actions to counter financial crime, broadened its recommendations to include measures relating to countering the financing of WMD, their delivery vehicles, and related goods and activities. The move to include this subject alongside terrorist financing and money laundering was seen by many of those countries that are part of the FATF network (FATF jurisdictions) as a vital next step. National efforts to combat proliferation finance had until 2012 been highly uneven, and in many cases non-existent, despite UN Security Council resolutions which detailed related obligations. Most countries, although they had procedures in place to detect and prevent the flow of goods related to illicit WMD programmes, did not have similar procedures in place to stem the flow of funds used to facilitate this dangerous trade. Financial institutions (FIs) within FATF jurisdictions were therefore largely ignorant of the proliferation threat, unaware of the fact that they might be inadvertently involved and unclear as to what, if anything, they were expected to do to address the issue. Independent, international leadership was seen as necessary to create a standard for countering proliferation finance (CPF) that would hinder the ability of proliferators to access and exploit the formal financial sector.
Four years have now passed since the FATF incorporated recommendations on CPF into its international standards. Despite this development, extensive interviews with governments, regulators and FIs reveal that many of the shortcomings of the pre-2012 CPF landscape persist. Governmental interest in proliferation finance and related outreach to FIs remains highly uneven between national jurisdictions. The wide spectrum of approaches is reflected in the mixed messages currently passed down from governments and regulators to their FIs. Those institutions, for their part, still demonstrate poor understanding of the nature of proliferation as an activity distinct from general sanctions evasion by states such as Iran and North Korea. Confronted by mixed messages from governments regarding CPF expectations, this study similarly shows that FIs are struggling to devise their own internal approaches to mitigate relevant risks.
Erratum: A minor amendment to page 8 of this paper was made on 29 July 2016.
Emil Dall is a Research Analyst in the Proliferation and Nuclear Policy group at RUSI, where he works on countering proliferation finance and sanctions policy. Prior to joining RUSI, Emil worked as an Analyst for a London-based insurer and a researcher at the International Centre for Security Analysis. He holds an MA in International Peace and Security from the Department of War Studies at King's College London and a BA in Politics from the University of Cambridge.
Andrea Berger is the Deputy Director of RUSI's Proliferation and Nuclear Policy group and a Senior Research Fellow. She specialises in counter-proliferation and Korean Peninsula security, and co-directs RUSI's programme on sanctions. Andrea previously worked in non-proliferation research at the International Centre for Security Analysis and as a Trade Policy Analyst for Global Affairs Canada. She is the author of Target Markets: North Korea's Military Customers in the Sanctions Era (Taylor and Francis, 2015).
Tom Keatinge is the Director of RUSI's Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies. His research focuses on matters at the intersection of finance and security including sanctions, terrorist financing, human and wildlife trafficking, and the role that public–private partnerships play in tackling these issues. Prior to joining RUSI in 2014, he was an investment banker at JP Morgan for 20 years. He has a Masters in Intelligence and International Security from King's College London.
Emil Dall
Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Financial Crime & Security Studies
Emil Dall is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Financial Crime & Security Studies at RUSI, where his research focuses on sanctions... read more
Andrea Berger
Andrea Berger is a Senior Analyst in the Canadian Privy Council Office, which serves the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Prior to... read more
Tom Keatinge
Director, Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, RUSI
Tom Keatinge is the Director of the Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies at RUSI, where his research focuses on matters at... read more
Project Sandstone Report 5: Kaohsiung Cowboys: The Taiwanese Network Facilitating North Korea's Illicit Activities
Other Publications, 12 December 2019
James Byrne, Joe Byrne, Hamish Macdonald and Gary Somerville
This report provides a network analysis of North Korea's oil smuggling networks.
Tags: Project Sandstone, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, North Korea, Other Publications, Global Security Issues
Book Review: Getting Nuclear Weapons Right: Managing Danger and Avoiding Disaster
RUSI Journal, 29 November 2019
Michael Cohen reviews Getting Nuclear Weapons Right: Managing Danger and Avoiding Disaster, by Stephen J Cimbala.
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Securing the Integrity of the EU's Financial System is Overdue – Why is Progress so Slow?
Commentary, 26 November 2019
Like the proverbial frog in boiling water, the EU knows something is wrong; it just can't decide what to do.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, European Union, Organised Crime, Europe
The Impending Demise of the INF Treaty: Britain Has a Job on Its Hands
Commentary, 22 October 2018
President Donald Trump's announcement that the US will withdraw from a landmark nuclear treaty comes at a bad time for the UK. Still, if damage to British security is to be limited, deft diplomatic handling from London will be required.
Tags: Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, United States, US Defence Policy, Russia, Global Security Issues, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy
A Missing Page: Strengthening the Response to the Illegal Wildlife Trade
Tom Keatinge, Cathy Haenlein and Alexandria Reid
The continued failure to target the proceeds of the illegal wildlife trade is undermining the response to this transnational crime.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Organised Crime, Terrorism and Conflict, Organised Crime, Africa
Give Up the Dream of a Grand Bargain: Why a Trump Can't Strike a Deal with Iran
Commentary, 27 September 2018
Albert Wolf
The US administration pretends that its decision to withdraw from the nuclear deal with Iran is a radically new approach which may change the entire regional strategic equation, similar to the huge policy reversal towards China executed by President Nixon in the early 1970s. But the Trump White House will be disappointed; the comparisons with Nixon are misconceived.
Tags: Iran's Nuclear Programme, United States, Iran, Defence Policy, Global Security Issues, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy
The Indian Exception to Australia's Nuclear Trade
RUSI Newsbrief, 27 January 2012
Australia's decision to allow for uranium exports to India may signal a shift in India's status in multilateral export control arrangements
Tags: Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, UK Project on Nuclear Issues, RUSI Newsbrief, India, Global Security Issues, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, Pacific, Central and South Asia
Money Talks: The Surging Revolution in Counter-proliferation Strategy
Javier Serrat
Financial operational nodes are crucial to WMD acquisition networks; synchronised international efforts could cut off this crucial financial supply.
Tags: Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, RUSI Journal, Global Security Issues, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy
Anti-Corruption Workshops - The Role of Business in Tackling Corruption: Case studies from City of London and UK business abroad
Events, 17 February 2016
Ahead of the international Anti-Corruption Summit in London this May, the Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, RUSI and KPMG will hold four Anti-Corruption workshops.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, AML/CTF, UK
Anti-Corruption Workshops : The Legal and Policy Framework - Reflecting on the successes and failures of existing strategies
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Organised Crime, AML/CTF, UK
Anti-Corruption Workshops- The Nexus between Corruption and Security: Afghanistan as a case study
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Afghanistan, AML/CTF


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Calhanoglu: 'I tried to score from the corner'
Hakan Calhanoglu explains he aimed for the goal on purpose direct from the corner flag to surprise Roma goalkeeper Rui Patricio. 'Inter dominated the match.'
The midfielder swung the ball straight in at the near post from a corner, sending it through Rui Patricio's legs to open the scoring at the Stadio Olimpico.
When speaking to DAZN after the final whistle of the 3-0 result, the Turkey international was asked if he'd done that on purpose.
"Yes, I went for the goal," replied Calhanoglu. "I always try to go for the near post from the corner flag and this time it went well.
Serie A | Roma 0-3 Inter: Dzeko and co humiliate Mourinho
"I am glad at my assist for Edin Dzeko too. Inter dominated the match, we allowed Roma nothing at all, it was a great performance."
Was this the best Inter performance of the season under new coach Simone Inzaghi?
"We had other great ones too, against Juventus and Milan, regardless of the results being draws. We never stopped believing."
Calhanoglu was famous for being incredibly inconsistent at Milan, but seems to be transformed at Inter.
"I feel more confident now and in really good shape. I want to give my best for the team and the club, the rest comes as a consequence."
Rui Patricio won't be watching that one back… 😬
Hakan Calhanoglu scores directly from the corner after the Roma keeper has a nightmare 🙈 pic.twitter.com/zHGChc0yCR
Raul on Dec 4, 2021 21:07 at 9:07 pm
Sure you did.
Andy on Dec 4, 2021 22:08 at 10:08 pm
Lol, right. It was a typical can't clear the first man set piece from him
Dorx on Dec 5, 2021 07:42 at 7:42 am
Of course my son, u r the best in the world.
Hey don't forget your lunchbox
di on Dec 5, 2021 08:36 at 8:36 am
Yeah, of course you did…Hakan doing everything to promote himself highlighting his own assist as well. The man's ego is way too big compared to his actual abilities..


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Wali Babar's murder trail
Imdad Soomro
Following the delaying tactics of the organised criminal gang behind the murder of journalist Wali Khan Babar and the killing of six eye witnesses, one prosecutor and, the case has finally concluded, setting an example of being a case where the killers have been prosecuted and brought to justice.
Two main killers, still at large, have been awarded death sentence and four arrested are awarded life imprisonment.
Much has been written about the Wali Babar murder case in national and international media. But there are many unwritten and untold stories from the murder of the journalist in January 2011 to the conclusion of the first stage of the case on March 1, 2014.
Five eyewitnesses including Rajab Bangali, policeman Asif Rafiq, Naveed Tanoli brother of Inspector Shafiq Tanoli who arrested the accused and Haider Ali who identified the accused convicts before the court and one prosecutor Naimat Randhawa got murdered. Earlier, lawyers on behalf of the complainant Arshad Iqbal Cheema, Muhammad Khan Buriro and Mubashar Mirza had refused to proceed with the matter. All three lawyers fled abroad following death threats. Buriro and Mirza later returned to Pakistan after the passage of a year.
A policeman who investigated the murder case and arrested the absconding accused in Wali Babar case said those arrested are only foot soldiers or simple agents. "The mastermind and culprits who ordered these criminals to kill Babar are still safe and will remain so because of their influence."
"The criminal gang who ordered the killings is not only operating in the country; it is also operating from other Western countries as well as South Africa, Sri Lanka and UAE. Everyone in the law enforcing agencies is aware of this mafia but they are silent due to political compulsions," says another policeman on condition of anonymity.
The decision from the ATC in Wali Babar case is the first stage. The criminals behind this murder will challenge the decision in the high court and are capable of challenging the case in the apex court too.
The way Wali Babar was chased and killed, how the five eye witnesses and one prosecutor of the case were murdered one by one, and the support obtained by the arrested criminals proves it was not the act of any ordinary criminal gang but the work of a highly-organised mafia.
After the killings of five eye witnesses and one prosecutor of the case Naimat Randhawa, the Sindh Government on the pressure of journalist community requested the Sindh High Court to transfer the case from Karachi High Court to Anti-terrorism Court Khandkot.
The case was transferred on November 8, 2013 and the accused shifted to nearer District Jail Shikarpur on November 28, 2013 due to pressure of their supporters.
The case was defended by the defense counsel of the accused Suleman Mujahid Baloch MNA of MQM from NA 239 Karachi. Baloch used many delaying tactics, remained absent on three hearings in a row despite the case being in its final stage. But after getting warning from the court and the decision of Sindh Government to provide counsel to the accused on state expense, Baloch appeared and argued.
There are reports that the administration of District Jail Shikarpur is still providing illegal facilities to the accused-now-convicts of this high profile murder case due to their political backing.
A well-placed source in Sindh Jail Department revealed that the convicts, Faisal Mehmood alias Nafsiyati, Naveed alias Polka, Muhammad Ali Rizvi, Shakeel Malik and Shah Rukh alias Mani confined, had not only been enjoying the facilities reserved for A class prisoners but they had even visited the city in an official car of a jail officer twice during their confinement. The jail administration is said to be providing them good quality food and has appointed two prisoners to wait on them, it was learnt. These facilities are subject to court orders only and can be provided to highly literate persons, law graduates and members of parliament.
The journalist community protested on January 18 on the call of PFUJ in front of Shikarpur Jail against these acts.
Leaders, MNAs and MPAs of a particular party have been present and fully supporting every hearing of the case, extending full legal support to the murderer of Babar Wali.
The confidential joint interrogation reports (JITs) of six premier intelligence agencies of the country including ISI, IB, CID, Pakistan Rangers and police point towards the MQM workers' involvement in the murder of Wali Babar and also confirmed that Faisal Mehmood alias Nafsiyati, Shah Rukh alias Mani and Muhammad Ali Rizvi were workers of Muttahida Qaumi Movement.
According to the JIT reports, the orders to kill Babar were issued by some 'influential people' living in South Africa but with connections in Karachi.
The JIT report further said that accused revealed to the investigators that their group leader, Faisal alias Mota, had received orders from a man named Agha to kill Babar. Faisal Mota held several meetings with them at different places to finalise the modus operandi of the operation.
MQM spokesman Wasay Jalil said the party has nothing to do with any of the convicted killers. "Every Urdu-speaking person is not an MQM worker. Such allegations are not new to the party as some people continue to spread fabricated stories against the party," he said, adding these questions should arise only if the court convicts MQM.
Secretary General Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists PFUJ said, "The journalist community welcomes the court decision and our struggle for free media will continue." He said the journalist community will also pursue the other cases of journalists' murders in the line of duty.
There were two important turning points in the case which helped the prosecution to conclude the case -- the confessional statement of one accused Shahrukh alias Mani before the judicial magistrate Karachi regarding the killing of Wali Babar and involvement of another accused. The other was the identification of convicts before the court by an eyewitness Haider Ali who was later killed in November, 2012.
Some questions related to the case are still unanswered. Will the judgement announced by the anti-terrorism court after three years of the murder reveal the masterminds, the actual culprits behind the murder? Will the main killers be arrested and punished?
In a country like Pakistan, especially in Sindh province where proclaimed offenders become ministers and members of parliament, anyone can imagine the situation. The main question is: Why was Wali Babar picked on? Some quarters say that he wanted to interview the ex-wife of a political leader and some suggest he was murdered due to his ethnic background.
These questions remain unanswered. The decision from the ATC in Wali Babar case is the first stage. The criminals behind this murder will challenge the decision in the high court and are capable of challenging the case in the apex court too.
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Q: GaussianFilter misbehave at large smoothing radii? Context
Straight from the documentation of GaussianFilter, If one generates a time series and smooth it one gets

res = Table[GaussianFilter[ts, r], {r, {10, 50, 100}}];
 ListLinePlot[Join[{ts}, res],
 PlotLegends -> {"data", "r = 10", "r = 50", "r = 100"}]

(if you want to generate random data you could use
data = RandomFunction[WienerProcess[], {0, 1, 0.01}])
Problem
But if I extend the smoothing range from the example   (admittedly in a rather unrealistic regime but bear with me)
data // Table[
   ListLinePlot[
    GaussianFilter[#, 10^R, Method -> "Gaussian",
     Padding -> "Periodic"]], {R, 1, 4, 1/4}] &

So you can see something rather odd which is that at larger smoothing radii  the curve become less smooth (i.e it shows more local extrema)!
Question

Could you please confirm that this is a bug?

Workaround
FYI, a workaround is to use Fourier Filtering
fftIndgen[size_] := 2. Pi/ size ArrayPad[
   Range[0, Quotient[size, 2]],
    {0, Quotient[size, 2] - 1},
   "ReflectedNegation"];
FourierGaussianFilter[data_, R_] :=
      InverseFourier[Fourier[data]*Exp[-1/2 R^2
   fftIndgen[Length[data]]^2]] // Re // Chop

Then  with

I get
 data//Table[ListLinePlot[FourierGaussianFilter[#, 10^R]],
{R, 1, 4, 1/4}] &

So in terms of diagnostic, one can visually see that
  GaussianFilter produces a growing number of extrema as a function of smoothing past a given threshold,  whereas FourierGaussianFilter does not.
  IMHO the latter is behaving correctly in that regime, whereas the former does not. Note that this discrepancy  can be made quantitative e.g. for Gaussian random fields,  since there is a prediction for this number as a function of smoothing scale $R$ (i.e. it should scale like  $1/R$).

A: I think it's that the option Padding -> "Periodic" doesn't get the behavior you want.  Using Padding -> "Fixed" is probably what you want.
Here are the results using different scales for each radius:
SeedRandom[12345];
data = RandomFunction[WienerProcess[], {0, 1, 0.001}]
data // Table[ListLinePlot[GaussianFilter[#, 10^R, Method -> "Gaussian", Padding -> "Fixed"],
    PlotLabel -> "R = " <> ToString[10.^R]], {R, 1, 4, 1/4}] &

Now with same scales:


Minero Magazine was present at the art exhibit of Cassandra Adame Duarte, student at The University of Texas at El Paso and artist. She held an exhibit called "Life Lines," an immersive exhibition of jewelry and metalwork, audio and images on Wednesday April 10th at the Glass Gallery located on the third floor of the Fox Fine Arts building at UTEP.
"Life Lines is about what people experience when they walk into this five rooms that represent five stages in my life," Cassandra says.
Valeria Carrillo, Digital Media Production student at UTEP, also attended the exhibit. "It was very interesting, and I really like how it shows her dedication and how much job she puts in it," Valeria says.


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Stage notes on addiction
Fórsa member Lisa Walsh readies for tour of new play
by Niall Shanahan
Love In The Wild is a new play written by Lisa Walsh, and opens next month at the Axis theatre in Ballymun. Lisa is a member of Fórsa and qualified as a social worker as a mature student in 1999. She is currently working in child protection having previously worked as a medical social worker and an addiction worker.
We met last week to talk about her inspiration for the play, its development from page to stage, and her desire to challenge the stigma of addiction.
"The play is a one-man show about a man called Ger Duffy. He's from Ballymun on Dublin's north side. He's on a methadone programme and he's journeying through addiction and through big changes in his life.
"He has a strong connection to wildlife and nature, which helps explain how he sees the world, a way that's quite different to how most people see it.
"The play is about love, it's about judgment but hopefully it's also about redemption. He's not the stereotype of an addict, there are many layers to Ger and many layers to his story," Lisa explained.
Ger's experience was informed and inspired by Lisa's work in addiction services over the last 20 years. While taking part in a creative writing course five years ago, Lisa recalled a story she'd heard about one addict's experience of visiting Ballymun swimming pool 20 years previously.
"The swimming pool was a huge feature of life for anyone who grew up in Ballymun. Swimming and Chester slices - the cakes we had after we went swimming – were a big part of the Ballymun childhood.
"He went back as an adult for a swim but he left because he became very self-conscious of being - as he called himself - a 'junkie'. It stayed with me and came back to me when I started writing," she said.
The play has toured in a number of addiction centres in Dublin. Lisa said the response to those performances helped to inform the development of the play. "One man told me 'We've all had that walk of shame, where we were walked out of places, security man would come over and put his hand on your shoulder.' When he described that I knew we were on to something, because it's trying to give a voice to that experience."
Lisa said it made her think about Ballymun and the experience of stigma. "I grew up with a lot of stigma myself, my mam had addiction problems. When I started to write lots of things came back to me, like my experience of being a little girl with my mam, and the way people treated her, and later looking at the experience of people when I worked in addiction services. It's why I was drawn to social work in the first place."
Love in the Wild is performed by Anto Seery, directed by Peter Sheridan and produced by Sheila & Peter Sheridan.
The play opens in the Axis theatre in Ballymun on Thursday 8th March (International Women's Day) and will tour throughout March in a number of Dublin venues.
Watch the trailer here.
More information on dates, venues and booking here.
Love in the Wild is performed by Anto Seery
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Fred Records is een onafhankelijk Brits platenlabel, in 2002 opgericht door avantgarde gitarist en componist Fred Frith met het doel om eerder verschenen werk opnieuw uit te brengen, alsmede materiaal dat nog niet op plaat uit is gekomen.

Vanaf het midden van de jaren tachtig bracht Frith veel werk uit op het Zwitserse label Recommended Records. In 1997 ging dit label na de dood van de eigenaar bankroet en verkreeg Frith de rechten op zijn werk dat RecRec had uitgebracht. Met behulp van Chris Cutler richtte Frith nu zijn eigen label op, Fred Records, als sublabel van Recommended Records. Hierdoor kon hij zijn eigen platen geremasterd opnieuw uitbrengen, evenals werk uit zijn archief dat bij andere labels weinig kans zou hebben. Kunstenaar Tomas Kurth ontwerpt, met gebruikmaking van elementen van de originele hoezen, de cd-covers.

Uitgaven
Tot nog toe zijn de volgende platen verschenen:
 Gravity
 Accidental
 Guitar Solos
 Prints
 That House We Lived In (Keep the Dog)
 Step Across the Border
 Speechless
 Middle of the Moment
 Cheap at Half the Price
 Allies
 Learn to Talk/The Country of Blinds (Skeleton Crew)
 Killing Time (Massacre)
 Impur
 The Happy End Problem
 The Technology of Tears
 The Art of Memory II (met John Zorn)
 Impur II
 Nowhere, Sideshow, Thin Air

Externe link
 Website Fred Frith/Fred Records

Brits platenlabel

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One of the most beloved saints of modern times, Thérèse of Lisieux, believed, since childhood, that she would live a short life and would be gathered quickly into a loving union with God. Many have come to know and admire the little flower through the biography of her life, but until The Passion of Thérèse of Lisieux, the end of the saint's earthly journey has been obscured.
Ponder this Doctor of the Church's thoughts and hear the observations of those close to her as she succumbs to the ravages of pulmonary tuberculosis. Sense the atmosphere of the convent and feel the support of the community that loved the young noviate so dearly. This intimate encounter brings us close to the humble yet influential person who in confronting death faces destiny, the fulfillment of her most ardent prayers, and her true calling.
—Bishop Patrick V. Ahern, D.D.


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Q: Extracting data from array in Cosmos DB with format "$text":"value" I have data in Cosmos in the following format:
                        "Reference": [
                            {
                                "$text": "1024782114",
                                "@attr": {
                                    "Type": "ZCU",
                                    "Assignor": "Partner"
                                }
                            },
                            {
                                "$text": "1024782114",
                                "@attr": {
                                    "Type": "ShipmentId",
                                    "Assignor": "Consignor"
                                }
                            }]

And I can't figure out how to query for the value of the $text fields as a query that contains a dollar sign obviously is wrong syntax.
Must be some projection magic I'm missing out on...


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Palazzo Balzani è un edificio storico di Firenze, situato tra il Lungarno Vespucci e Borgo Ognissanti 3r-5r-7r.

Storia e descrizione
Le dimensioni dell'edificio sono contenute e forse si dovrebbe parlare di casa più che di palazzo, non fosse per la nobilitante presenza (sul fronte che guarda il borgo) di uno scudo con l'arme della famiglia Balzani (al castello turrito di due pezzi, le due torri sormontate da due gigli). Questa ne era proprietaria nella prima metà dell'Ottocento, quando la casa è segnalata nella Pianta Geometrica della città di Firenze di Federico Fantozzi con l'indicazione che "fu riedificata nell'anno 1834 su disegno di Paolo Veraci".

La successiva creazione del lungarno Nuovo (ora intitolato ad Amerigo Vespucci) comportò la necessità di tagliare e ridisegnare quello che era il fronte secondario dell'edificio a guardare il fiume, operando una riduzione che è da datarsi attorno agli anni 1855-1857, realizzata su progetto degli architetti Felice Francolini e Giuseppe Del Noce e ben documentata da una serie di disegni conservati presso l'Archivio Storico del Comune di Firenze.

Per quanto riguarda i fratelli Giuseppe e Giovanni Balzani è da annotare come questi fossero proprietari, negli anni venti dell'Ottocento, anche di uno stabile adibito a locanda ubicato pure nel Borgo Ognissanti al numero civico 8, noto come Aquila Nera: il fatto che nel libro dei soci del gabinetto Scientifico Letterario G.P. Vieusseux si trovi come recapito di vari iscritti l'indicazione "nova Casa Balzani", lascia supporre che anche questo stabile posto dall'altro lato della via fosse stato adibito dagli stessi a pensione. Ne consegue che qui avrebbero alloggiato (sempre da quanto risulta dai dati resi noti dal sito del Gabinetto Vieusseux), tra i molti, lo scozzese James Hamilton Browne (intimo di Lord Byron), il medico chirurgo scozzese Archibald Inglis, il letterato inglese Henry Crabb Robinson e il geografo berlinese Benjamin Georg Mendelsshon.

Bibliografia
 , p. 33;
 , p. 473..

Collegamenti esterni
Claudio Paolini, scheda nel Repertorio delle architetture civili di Firenze di Palazzo Spinelli (testi concessi in GFDL).

Balzani


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I got home at late lunch time and was really hungry so I threw this together.
Step 1: Select a deeper bowl and spoon the quinoa in the bottom. I like to take the back of a spoon and flatten it out.
Step 2: Add the tuna can of tuna on top of the quinoa. I fluff it with a fork a bit so the pieces are similar sized and cover the space better.
Step 3: Next sprinkle the shredded rutabaga over the tuna and then place the sliced radishes next into the bowl- in whatever pattern you choose. Add the Hardboiled egg.
Step 5: Finally, spoon the red pepper sauce on top and add the zoodles and ENJOY!