The same brown bear who killed a hiker in Alaska has attacked a volunteer who was looking for him, investigators believe.
Michael Soltis was found dead Wednesday in the Eagle River area near Anchorage, two days after he went missing. The unidentified searcher was mauled nearby.
"We believe the bear that attacked the volunteer was the one that attacked and killed the missing man," police spokesman M.J. Thim said.
Soltis' cousin Wendi Yohman was with the male volunteer when the bear attacked, and said he saved her life by getting between her and the bear.
"I've never been so scared in my life," Yohman told the Anchorage Daily News.
The 44-year-old Soltis' body was found near the end of a mountainous road filled with homes. Authorities believe the bear was protecting the body when it attacked the male searcher, who was hospitalized but is expected to survive. However, other possibilities are not being ruled out.
"A person could have tripped and fell or had a medical condition," Alaska Fish and Game spokesman Ken Marsh said. "Until a full investigation and medical examination is done, I don't know that we can say necessarily, for sure, 100%, the cause of death."
Soltis was last heard from Monday, according to the Anchorage Daily News. A concerned friend went to his Eagle River home the following day to check on him.
"I searched the house, searched the property, then realized there was chicken in the sink from the night before," pal Sean Rheault told the newspaper.
Soltis loved the outdoors, his loved ones said. He was engaged to be married and his fiancée, Elisabeth Claus, is pregnant.
"His life just got happy," sister Laura Soltis told the Anchorage Daily News. "They just got engaged, they're having a baby, she's going to move here in the fall, all this wonderful stuff."


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Digong the story-teller
'Digong is a consummate story-teller whose personal experience, not abstract book learning or moral codes, constitute the substance of his tales and the source of his erstwhile wisdom'
Rodrigo "Digong" Duterte's thanksgiving speech on June 4 in Davao was a marvel to behold, even on video. It was on semiotic overdrive. While recapitulating the usual themes of his campaign – the need to clean up the massive corruption in agencies such as Customs, Immigration, and BIR; the pledge to end the sale of illegal drugs by encouraging neighborhood vigilantes to arm and kill dealers, offering bounties for small and big time pushers alike; the need to bring back the death penalty, etc – the speech inevitably found its way towards the usual targets from "imperial Manila."
At around 29:00 of the video, the fun begins. He launches his usual tirades against the bishops, liberally peppered with the usual cuss words uttered so crisp and clear they shattered into a thousand pieces as they hit the air, showering everyone with verbal shrapnel. Then at around 31:00, he turns ominously to the subject of the media, and talks about the assassinated (and according to him, corrupt low-life animal) Jun Pala and the great delight he took in hearing about his death.
Shortly after this grisly tale, he recounts the personal hurt he felt about being asked by a reporter for his medical certificate. This request, which he probably took as casting doubt on his integrity, apparently cut such a deep wound. He considered it a grave personal insult to be questioned, as all candidates are, about their health and to be asked to produce medical proof. As he did with Mar during the campaign, he came back with a nasty retort, responding to the reporter with what he took to be a proportionally obscene remark: he asked him about his wife's vagina and whether it was smelly, whether she had vaginitis.
The vengeful – and sexist – ribaldry produced the desired result: everyone in the crowd laughed, the women covering their mouths in mock modesty. He piled it on with a homophobic bit, recounting how he had earlier challenged Mar, when the latter asked him for his medical certificate, to a display of manliness by comparing their penis sizes, so certain was he that Mar's "otin" would be too tiny – proof that he was "bayot" or gay. Just check out the size of his ass, he says. The speech only ended when his young daughter came up to him, as she usually does, to remind him it was time to wind it down.
This speech leaves no doubt: Digong is a consummate story-teller whose personal experience, not abstract book learning or moral codes, constitute the substance of his tales and the source of his erstwhile wisdom. This is what he shares with the crowd: not any sort of policy proposal or political vision, but the residues of an injured pride and a frayed ego. He nurses resentments the way a gardener fertilizes his crops, making sure they mature to impressive growth. Roiling in a surplus of narcissistic injuries, he is not a man to forgive nor forget, but one who can't wait to take revenge for every perceived slight. To question him is to disrespect him, and you will pay what he alone will determine to be the appropriate price.
In Digong, the Philippines has a president from below – not the lower reaches of the social hierarchy, but from lower anatomical regions – where everything private is public, where the personal is immediately political, and where sexuality and violence mix as easily as cream and coffee. If he tilts in an authoritarian direction, he does so without the taking cover behind a veneer of respectability (indeed, the usual burgis criticism that he is bastos just backfires). Rather, he revels in his shamelessness, at least towards those he already loathes for disrespecting him even as he is careful not to offend his big-time supporters, like the Marcoses.
At the end of the speech, he's forged a warm intimacy with his audience, drawing them into a vernacular circle of familiar jokes and shared hatreds. From "Daang Matuwid" to the 7th circle of hell. – Rappler.com
Vicente L. Rafael teaches history at the University of Washington in Seattle.


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from pyfbsdk import *
from pyfbsdk_additions import *
import math

gDevelopment = True

gSystem = FBSystem()
gPlayer = FBPlayerControl()

editStart = FBEditNumber()
buttonStart = FBButton()
editStop = FBEditNumber()
buttonStop = FBButton()

editH = FBEditNumber()
buttonAction = FBButton()

editCurrentSpeed = FBEditNumber()
buttonComputeSpeed = FBButton()
editGoalSpeed = FBEditNumber()
buttonComputeGoal = FBButton()

editScaleFactor = FBEditNumber()
buttonComputeScale = FBButton()

def PopulateTool(t):
    #populate regions here

    layout = FBVBoxLayout()

    x = FBAddRegionParam(5,FBAttachType.kFBAttachNone,"")
    y = FBAddRegionParam(0,FBAttachType.kFBAttachNone,"")
    w = FBAddRegionParam(-10,FBAttachType.kFBAttachWidth,"")
    h = FBAddRegionParam(0,FBAttachType.kFBAttachHeight,"")
    t.AddRegion("main","main", x, y, w, h)

    t.SetControl("main", layout)

    #
    b = FBLabel()
    b.Caption = "Action Time Range"
    layout.Add(b, 25)
    layout.Add(editStart, 25)
    layout.Add(buttonStart, 25)
    layout.Add(editStop, 25)
    layout.Add(buttonStop, 25)

    b = FBLabel()
    b.Caption = "Define Maximum Height and Compute"
    layout.Add(b, 25)
    layout.Add(editH, 25)
    layout.Add(buttonAction, 25)

    b = FBLabel()
    b.Caption = "Helpful physics information"
    layout.Add(b, 25)
    layout.Add(editCurrentSpeed, 25)
    layout.Add(buttonComputeSpeed, 25)
    layout.Add(editGoalSpeed, 25)
    layout.Add(buttonComputeGoal, 25)

    layout.Add(editScaleFactor, 25)
    layout.Add(buttonComputeScale, 25)

    #
    editStart.Value = 1908.0
    editStop.Value = 1948.0

    buttonStart.Caption = "Assign Start"
    buttonStart.OnClick.Add(ButtonStartEvent)

    buttonStop.Caption = "Assign Stop"
    buttonStop.OnClick.Add(ButtonStopEvent)

    editH.Value = 400.0

    buttonAction.Caption = "Do it!"
    buttonAction.OnClick.Add(OnButtonActionClick)

    buttonComputeSpeed.Caption = "Compute Current Speed"
    buttonComputeSpeed.OnClick.Add(OnButtonComputeSpeedClick)

    buttonComputeGoal.Caption = "Compute Goal Speed"
    buttonComputeGoal.OnClick.Add(OnButtonComputeGoalClick)

    buttonComputeScale.Caption = "Compute Scale Factor"
    buttonComputeScale.OnClick.Add(OnButtonComputeScaleClick)

def ButtonStartEvent(control, event):
    time = FBSystem().LocalTime
    frame = time.GetFrame()
    editStart.Value = frame

def ButtonStopEvent(control, event):
    time = FBSystem().LocalTime
    frame = time.GetFrame()
    editStop.Value = frame

def ButtonTimelineEvent(control, event):
    btime = FBPlayerControl().LoopStart
    etime = FBPlayerControl().LoopStop
    editStart.Value = btime.GetFrame()
    editStop.Value = etime.GetFrame()

def IsTimeInside(timespan, time):
    if (time > timespan.GetStart() and time < timespan.GetStop() ): return True
    return False
'''
def ProcessFCurve(curve, currTime, startTime, stopTime, blendTime):
    value = curve.Evaluate(currTime)
    count = len(curve.Keys)

    startTimeBlend = startTime - blendTime
    stopTimeBlend = stopTime + blendTime

    if curve: curve.KeyDeleteByTimeRange(startTimeBlend, stopTimeBlend, True)

    startNdx = curve.KeyAdd(startTime, value)
    stopNdx = curve.KeyAdd(stopTime, value)

    if startNdx >= 0:
        curve.Keys[startNdx].TangentMode = FBTangentMode.kFBTangentModeUser
        curve.Keys[startNdx].LeftDerivative = 0.0
        curve.Keys[startNdx].RightDerivative = 0.0

    if stopNdx >= 0:
        curve.Keys[stopNdx].TangentMode = FBTangentMode.kFBTangentModeUser
        curve.Keys[stopNdx].LeftDerivative = 0.0
        curve.Keys[stopNdx].RightDerivative = 0.0

def ProcessAnimationNode(animNode, currTime, startTime, stopTime, blendTime):
    for node in animNode.Nodes:
        if node.FCurve:
            ProcessFCurve(node.FCurve, currTime, startTime, stopTime, blendTime)

def ButtonActionEvent(control, event):
    currTime = FBSystem().LocalTime
    startTime = FBTime(0,0,0, int(editStart.Value) )
    stopTime = FBTime(0,0,0, int(editStop.Value) )
    blendTime = FBTime(0,0,0, int(editBlendTime.Value) )

    models = FBModelList()
    FBGetSelectedModels(models)

    mode = listAction.ItemIndex

    for model in models:
        if mode in [0,2,4]:
            animNode = model.Translation.GetAnimationNode()
            if animNode: ProcessAnimationNode(animNode, currTime, startTime, stopTime, blendTime)
        if mode in [1,2,4]:
            animNode = model.Rotation.GetAnimationNode()
            if animNode: ProcessAnimationNode(animNode, currTime, startTime, stopTime, blendTime)
        if mode in [3,4]:
            animNode = model.Scaling.GetAnimationNode()
            if animNode: ProcessAnimationNode(animNode, currTime, startTime, stopTime, blendTime)
'''

def MakeAGap(curve, startTime, stopTime):
    if curve:
        curve.KeyDeleteByTimeRange(startTime, stopTime, True)

        value = curve.Evaluate(startTime)
        ndx = curve.KeyAdd(startTime, value)
        if ndx >= 0:
            curve.Keys[ndx].TangentMode = FBTangentMode.kFBTangentModeUser
            curve.Keys[ndx].LeftDerivative = 0.0
            curve.Keys[ndx].RightDerivative = 0.0

        value = curve.Evaluate(stopTime)
        ndx = curve.KeyAdd(stopTime, value)
        if ndx >= 0:
            curve.Keys[ndx].TangentMode = FBTangentMode.kFBTangentModeUser
            curve.Keys[ndx].LeftDerivative = 0.0
            curve.Keys[ndx].RightDerivative = 0.0

def MakeAToss(curve, startTime, stopTime):

    if curve:
        curve.KeyDeleteByTimeRange(startTime, stopTime, True)

    currTime = FBTime(startTime)
    stepTime = FBTime(0,0,0, 1)

    startSecs = startTime.GetSecondDouble()
    stopSecs = stopTime.GetSecondDouble()

    g = 9.8
    u0 = (stopSecs - startSecs) * g * 6.0
    h0 = curve.Evaluate(startTime)

    hmax = editH.Value
    u0 = math.sqrt(hmax * 2.0 * g)

    tmax = u0 / g

    trange = (stopSecs - startSecs)

    tscale = 2.0 * tmax / trange
    print tmax
    print tscale

    while currTime <= stopTime:

        t = currTime.GetSecondDouble() - startSecs
        t = t * tscale
        h = u0 * t - g * t * t / 2.0
        curve.KeyAdd(currTime, h + h0)

        currTime = currTime + stepTime

def ProcessAnimationNode(animNode, startTime, stopTime):

    # gap for X and Z
    MakeAGap(animNode.Nodes[0].FCurve, startTime, stopTime)
    MakeAGap(animNode.Nodes[2].FCurve, startTime, stopTime)

    MakeAToss(animNode.Nodes[1].FCurve, startTime, stopTime)

def OnButtonActionClick(control, event):
    print "action"

    startTime = FBTime(0,0,0, int(editStart.Value) )
    stopTime = FBTime(0,0,0, int(editStop.Value) )

    models = FBModelList()
    FBGetSelectedModels(models)

    if len(models) > 0:
        ball = models[0]

        animNode = ball.Translation.GetAnimationNode()
        if animNode:
            ProcessAnimationNode(animNode, startTime, stopTime)

def OnButtonComputeSpeedClick(control, event):
    print "action"

    models = FBModelList()
    FBGetSelectedModels(models)

    if len(models) > 0:
        ball = models[0]

        v1 = FBVector3d()
        v2 = FBVector3d()

        gPlayer.Goto( FBTime(0,0,0, int(editStart.Value) ) )
        gSystem.Scene.Evaluate()
        ball.GetVector(v2)

        gPlayer.Goto( FBTime(0,0,0, int(editStart.Value)-1) )
        gSystem.Scene.Evaluate()
        ball.GetVector(v1)

        mag = FBLength( FBVector4d(v2[0]-v1[0], v2[1]-v1[1], v2[2]-v1[2], 0.0) )

        # v = s / t
        # with 30 fps, 1 frame in seconds = 1.0 / 30.0
        t = 1.0 / 30.0
        editCurrentSpeed.Value = mag / t

def OnButtonComputeGoalClick(control, event):
    print "action"

    if editStart.Value == editStop.Value:
        FBMessageBox( "Compute Ball Toss", "You have an empty time range!", "Ok")
        return

    startTime = FBTime(0,0,0, int(editStart.Value) )
    stopTime = FBTime(0,0,0, int(editStop.Value) )

    startSecs = startTime.GetSecondDouble()
    stopSecs = stopTime.GetSecondDouble()

    g = 9.8
    u0 = (stopSecs - startSecs) * g

    editGoalSpeed.Value = u0

def OnButtonComputeScaleClick(control, event):

    startTime = FBTime(0,0,0, int(editStart.Value) )
    stopTime = FBTime(0,0,0, int(editStop.Value) )

    startSecs = startTime.GetSecondDouble()
    stopSecs = stopTime.GetSecondDouble()

    g = 9.8
    u0 = (stopSecs - startSecs) * g * 6.0

    hmax = editH.Value
    u0 = math.sqrt(hmax * 2.0 * g)

    tmax = u0 / g

    trange = (stopSecs - startSecs)

    tscale = 2.0 * tmax / trange
    editScaleFactor.Value = tscale

def CreateTool():
    t = FBCreateUniqueTool("Ball Toss (Sergey <Neill3d> Solokhin 2017)")
    t.StartSizeX = 325
    t.StartSizeY = 480
    PopulateTool(t)
    if gDevelopment:
        ShowTool(t)
CreateTool()

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
Q: Email attachment name not decoding on outlook by java mail? I have sent mail by application through java mail api with attachment file using UTF-8 (Общи правила по безопасност на труда при транспортиране.pdf) to outlook mail .
But i received email with different email attachment name (=UTF-8B0J7QsdGJ0Lgg0LRgNCw0LLQuNCw....).
Its not reproducible on gmail smtp server .
I have tried with CP866 its working but it create problem for Japanese and chinese language attachment name.
public static MimeBodyPart createMimeBodyPart (File attachFile)
{
    FileDataSource attachDataSource = new FileDataSource(attachFile.getPath());
    MimeBodyPart mbp = new MimeBodyPart();
    mbp.setDataHandler(new DataHandler(attachDataSource));
    String filename = attachFile.getName();
    mbp.setHeader("Content-type", "application/pdf charset=utf-8");
    mbp.setFileName(MimeUtility.encodeText(filename, "UTF-8", "B"));
    mbp.setHeader("Content-transfer-encoding", "base64");
    return mbp;
}[![enter image description here][1]][1]

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Intergalactic/Cyber Cartel is Vick Shefi, born in 1980 in Afula in the north of Israel now living in Tel Aviv. Vick has been creating music since the age of 16 when he was part of a rock band for which he wrote all the material ,they released one CD when Vick was 17 years old. Vick was also part of the Tech Trance band Soulipse where he created more Technoish and dark sounds. Since 1998 Vick has been playing at Trance parties and creating electronic music, mainly Psychedelic Trance but also experimental music. The Intergalactic project is his main project these days.
He released one album as Cyber Cartel- Magic Vision (Agitato) and another as Intergalactic- Outer Galaxy (Bionics/True Trance).
He also released on his own and in collaborations the following tracks: Onyx & Sundance- Burn & Transform, Sesto Sento vs. Intergalactic- Smooth (Cosmopolite), Intergalactic- Ice Man (Karmachanics), Intergalactic- Rachel (Karmachanics), PerPlex vs. Intergalactic- Elevation (Pneumatic Angels), PerPlex vs. Intergalactic- Life Style (PerPlex- Off Beat), Interlipse- Cave Colors (Future Link), Intergalactic- New Generation. (Future Link).


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Far-right Britain First fosters ties with Zionist movement
AIM Editor 22/12/2017	Islamic Articles, Political Analysis 3,608 Views
An investigation by The Electronic Intifada has unveiled new links between far-right anti-Muslim group Britain First and the pro-Israel movement.
Photos and video obtained by The Electronic Intifada show that Britain First's leader in London Paul Besser picketed July's Palestine Expo alongside other anti-Palestinian protesters, including former Zionist Federation vice chair Jonathan Hoffman.
The cultural and political conference was organized by the Palestine solidarty group Friends of Al-Aqsa, which said the event attracted more than 15,000 people.
Besser, who is described by Britain First as its "intelligence officer," stood near the entrance to the Queen Elizabeth II conference hall taking photos of people entering.
Video of the picket shows Besser threatening to assault an attendee. Besser shouted to police, "There's going to be a breach of the peace here … I'm going to hit him in a minute."
In the video, one of the organizers of the picket says the Zionist Federation printed their leaflets and gave them Israeli flags. In a blog post, Hoffman thanked the group for their help. The Zionist Federation did not reply to a request for comment.
Attempted ban
Israel lobby groups had attempted to have Palestine Expo shut down by the government, on spurious "anti-terror" grounds.
Friends of Al-Aqsa chair Ismail Patel told The Electronic Intifada that it was only at the last minute, after his group had promised a court challenge of any government decision cancelling the event, that communities minister Sajid Javid backed down.
Patel said that it was of concern that a member of an extremist group had apparently been monitoring the event: "It worries us."
Former Zionist Federation leader Jonathan Hoffman (left) stands next to Britain First "intelligence officer" Paul Besser while he takes photos of people entering Palestine Expo.
Patel said his group took extra security measures due to the picket, and that three people were removed for threatening to cause a disruption.
No record of police employment
Besser works as a security guard, and runs a small business, London Security Patrol. On his social media he says he is a Security Industry Authority trainer – the government's regulator for private security guards.
A listing for his company also claims that Besser previously worked for London's Metropolitan Police.
"We would not employ anyone whose known activities may contradict the duty to promote race equality," a spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police told The Electronic Intifada, citing the ban on police officers joining the British National Party. The spokesperson said that the force's ban on the BNP covers Britain First, since it was founded as a BNP "splinter."
She said this vetting is also applied to external contractors and trainers, and that there was no known record of a former or current Metropolitan Police employee or contractor named Paul Besser.
A spokesperson for the Security Industry Authority said: "We are not responsible for registering trainers" but could revoke licenses to train security guards. The spokesperson said the body could not comment on whether Besser was currently SIA licensed.
Neither Britain First nor Paul Besser answered requests for comment. But the group's own videos and photos confirm Besser's involvement.
Britain First activist Paul Besser outside Palestine Expo, with known anti-Palestinian extremist Sharon Klaff.
"Bloodshed" and "civil war"
On its Facebook page, Britain First in 2015 described Besser as its "commanding officer for London." According to the Exposing Britain First blog, the group's leader describes Besser internally as its "intelligence officer."
Besser encourages volunteers to use an online "disguise" to gather "intelligence" from "behind enemy lines" and signs messages "OCS" – short for Onward Christian Soldiers.
Britain First is also a registered political party, whose aims include a ban on Islam. It was founded in 2011 by former British National Party activists.
In a BBC documentary in 2015, leader Paul Golding warned of "bloodshed" and "civil war" against Muslims.
One Labour lawmaker has called for Britain First to be banned, after fellow MP Jo Cox was murdered by neo-Nazi Thomas Mair last year.
Multiple witnesses said that Mair had shouted "Britain first" as he shot and stabbed Cox to death. But police described Mair as a loner and said there was no evidence he had been a member of any political groups. Britain First denied any involvement.
Although Britain First is thought to have only a small number of active members, and its performance at the ballot box has been dismal, its Facebook page now has 1.9 million "likes."
This gives it a large platform to spread its often factually questionable and stridently anti-Muslim message.
Britain First videos – some racking up millions of views – often revolve around violent anti-Muslim provocations, such as the group's "Christian patrols," "invasions" of mosques and Halal slaughterhouses.
Some of these antics have landed members in legal trouble. In December, Golding was ordered jailed for eight weeks after he violated a court order by leading an "invasion" of a Cardiff mosque.
In an angry YouTube video published soon after his release, Golding threatened a "day of reckoning" against politicians, journalists and the rest of the "corrupt left-wing establishment."
"Every lie, every act of treachery will be revisited on you tenfold," he said.
Over dramatic music, and photos of political figures including Prime Minister Theresa May, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and former London mayor Ken Livingstone, Golding promised "leftists" they would meet their "miserable end at the hands of the Britain First movement." He spoke of his "hatred for traitors," and promised an "unceasing war against the establishment."
The video evokes the words of Thomas Mair, who had used his first court appearance after his arrest to proclaim"death to traitors." Mair hated politicians like Cox who showed compassion for refugees.
When Sadiq Khan was elected London's first Muslim mayor the previous May, Britain First threatened the Labour politician with "direct action" and said it "considers all Muslim elected officials as 'occupiers' " and would "not stop until all Islamist occupiers are driven out of politics completely."
In November, deputy leader Jayda Fransen was fined $2,500 for religiously aggravated harassment of a Muslim woman.
Earlier this year the group led a training day which included Israeli army martial art Krav Maga and "knife defense" techniques.
Still from a recent Britain First "bodyguard unit" training video (pixelation in original).
Paul Besser himself is listed as an instructor at a knife "defense" program founded by a former army officer.
Britain First videos show that Besser was involved in at least two demonstrations against East London Mosque during London's mayoral election campaign. In one video, he can be seen filming counter-protesters who were protecting the mosque.
On both occasions, Besser and his fellow far-right activists were chased off by local people.
Still from a Britain First video of one of their anti-Muslim protests shows Besser filming local people who turned out to defend East London Mosque (pixelation added).
Britain First leaders have posted anti-Palestinian material to social media, apparently viewing Israel as an anti-Muslim bulwark.
A video posted online by the Israel Advocacy Movement shows Besser taking part in an attempt to prevent a Palestine solidarity demonstration from marching through London in June.
Britain First's website shows photos of Besser participating in a 2015 counter-protest against Palestine solidarity demonstrators.
The posting does not name Besser or his role, designating him only a "Britain First Jewish activist."
The group has cited Besser "who is himself Jewish" as a defence against rumours they had been involved in a planned anti-Jewish demonstration in North London, called for by neo-Nazi elements.
Britain First's leader in London Paul Besser with Jonathan Hoffman and other Zionist extremists.
This attempt to reach out to pro-Israel groups on narrowly anti-Muslim grounds is a similar strategy to other far-right groups in recent years.
Zionist-white supremacist alliance
Internationally, the alliance between Zionist and white supremacist groups has been growing. Steve Bannon, former senior adviser to US President Donald Trump, who is close to the "alt-right," is set to speak at the Zionist Organization of America's annual gala in November.
The English Defence League supposedly had a "Jewish division" at one stage. Its leader, Roberta Moore, left to found the tiny Jewish Defence League UK – named after the violent anti-Palestinian racist group founded in New York.
Moore was once photographed protesting with former vice chair of the Zionist Federation Jonathan Hoffman, at a counter-picket in support of an Israeli cosmetics shop in London some years ago.
Hoffman was also present alongside Besser at the picket against Palestine Expo. Hoffman declined to answer questions for this article. It is unclear whether he was aware of Besser's Britain First links at the time. Earlier, Hoffman had denied Besser's links to Britain First.
Hoffman regularly appears at Palestine-related events in London, where he makes a habit of heckling, shouting abuse and attempting to disrupt meetings.
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Rolando António Pereira Rocha Almeida (born 13 January 1993) aka Landinho, is a Portuguese footballer who plays for Amora as a midfielder.
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Football career
On 6 October 2013, Landinho made his professional debut with Portimonense in a 2013–14 Segunda Liga match against Santa Clara replacing Hugo Gomes (63rd minute).

References

External links

Stats and profile at LPFP

1993 births
Living people
People from Amarante, Portugal
Portuguese footballers
Association football midfielders
Liga Portugal 2 players
Segunda Divisão players
Portimonense S.C. players
AD Fafe players
F.C. Felgueiras 1932 players
GD Bragança players
F.C. Vizela players
Amora F.C. players
Sportspeople from Porto District

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Tours of Peru
Buying flights to Peru
Prices vary depending on many factors such as how far in advance you book when you want to travel and any special offers airlines may have. Typically July, August, and Christmas have the highest fares and, especially in these months, it pays to book ahead.
The vast majority of international flights to Peru are in and out of Peru's capital – Lima. There are also a small number of international flights from other parts of South America to and from Cuzco, such as to Bogota, Colombia, Santiago de Chile, and La Paz, Bolivia.
Flights from the United States to Peru
There are direct flights from the United States to Peru from a number of cities. From Miami, you can fly to Lima with Latam, American Airlines and Avianca. From Dallas, you can fly to Lima with American Airlines. From Fort Lauderdale, there are flights to Peru with budget airlines Spirit and Jetblue. From Houston, there are flights with United Airlines to Lima. Latam flies from Los Angeles to Peru. Delta flies from Atlanta to Lima. United and Latam fly from Newark and JFK respectively to Lima. Indirect options include Copa via Panama City and Avianca via Bogota.
Flights from Canada to Peru
Air Canada Rouge has direct flights from Toronto to Lima and from Montreal to Lima. There are also numerous options via the United States.
Flights from Europe to Peru
British Airways fly direct from London Gatwick to Lima during the high season (roughly April to October). Iberia, Latam and Air Europa fly from Madrid to Lima. From Paris and Amsterdam, there are flights to Lima with Air France and KLM. These airlines offer connections from other European countries via their hubs to Lima.
Flights from the Middle East to Lima
The best route from the Middle East to Peru by air is usually via Europe.
Flights from South Africa to Lima
The shortest journey time from Johannesburg to Lima is via Sao Paulo. Latam and South African Airlines fly to Sao Paulo, then from there, a number of airlines fly onwards to Lima.
Flights from Australia and New Zealand to Peru
Typically flying first to Santiago in Chile will be your best option – often this is with Latam. From there, you can continue your journey to Peru either to Lima or directly to Cuzco.
Flights from Asia to Peru
There is no short route from Asia to Peru! Your options include flying through the USA, Europe or Australia or New Zealand.
Domestic flights in Peru
As with international flights, most domestic flights in Peru are in and out of Lima. There are a few useful exceptions though with flights from Cuzco to Puerto Maldonado, a great way to combine Machu Picchu and the Amazon Rainforest. From Cuzco, there are also flights to Juliaca for Lake Titicaca and Arequipa for the White City itself and the Colca Canyon. Seasonally there are also flights from Cuzco to Iquitos, another Amazon option as well as Pisco for the Nazca Lines. The main domestic airlines are Latam and Avianca, plus some smaller airlines such as Peruvian Airlines, Star Peru, Sky Peru, and Viva Airlines Peru. Cheap is not always best when it comes to flights in Peru.
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Q: SQL Query for Events table I have an event table in Postgres, with this structure:
event
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id: serial, pk
item_id: text, fk
status: text, an enum such as CREATED, IN_PROGRESS, DONE...

This works as a log, so all entries are immutable, change is status will be another INSERT.
I want to efficiently extract all events which have status CREATED, but not DONE.

A: I assume that you want ITEMs that meet the conditions.  If so:
select item_id
from events
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For Embry-Riddle Aviation Law Professor Sarah Nilsson the future of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) is full of possibilities. As various industries turn to UAS to transport goods, provide humanitarian relief, improve agriculture and deliver emergency assistance, Nilsson is interested in helping others navigate and improve laws to regulate the uses of UAS. In addition to her own research, she is the co-author of a national aviation law textbook and her next book on drone law is due out in a few weeks.
As an expert in UAS, Nilsson frequently makes media and public speaking appearances. Recently Nilsson participated in a panel discussion at the Arizona Summit & Expo where she spoke about the effects of federal preemption on UAS in which federal law supersedes state law.
What laws currently govern the airspace and specifically UAS?
To answer that question, I'll give a brief history review: In 1958 when the Federal Aviation Act was put in place it gave the FAA jurisdiction over the safe and efficient use of the airspace over the U.S. and thus any aircraft in that airspace is subject to FAA rules also known as FARs or CFRs. UAS are considered by definition in the US Code as aircraft and thus they are governed by these rules. But the current state of affairs is not this simple because it was only this August that the FAA issued its part 107 rule governing the commercial use of UAS, but UAS have been around a lot longer. Most all states in the US have issued their own laws governing UAS but this is not a good idea for many reasons. First, it creates a patchwork of rules from state to state making it difficult for any one person to follow and adhere to them. Furthermore, certain parts of these laws are federally preempted by FAA rules and thus not good laws. Finally it is a matter of safety when you have such a mixture of regulations to follow because it is near impossible to comply with one and at the same time break another.
Why is it important for the FAA to govern UAS?
Because you need one standard across the nation for safety and efficiency.
In what ways can UAS be used to advance society and what are some of the safety risks?
Ways that UAS can be used to advance society include: search and rescue operations; precision agriculture; inspections of anything from powerlines to railroads to eliminate the hazard of helicopters doing the same thing; delivering food, water or medicine to third world countries where roads are nonexistent; emergency response such as wildfires. The ways in which UAS can be problematic include privacy intrusions, the possibility of the systems being hacked and potentially falling out of the sky and injuring people or property.
What are the biggest challenges facing the future of UAS?
I believe we have a long way to go to extend laws to beyond line of sight and then to allow for delivery of objects to places on the ground. Furthermore, there are already in existence one person unmanned taxicabs that potentially would be added to the mix.
What will the future of UAS governance look like?
The FAA already has a structure in place for registration of UAS - both for hobby use and commercial use. And the FAA has a process in place to get waivers for certain rules to enable more flexibility. I envision as time goes by this procedure will become more streamlined and efficient.
How are students able to use UAS for research?
The FAA put out a memo on May 4, 2016 addressing this issue - schools can use the hobby rules to allow students to fly UAS if the flying is incidental to their degree coursework. And under the commercial rules of Part 107 students can obtain their Remote Pilot Certificate from the FAA so they can eventually make money off of their drone flying aerial footage or other data obtained in the course of flying. On the Prescott campus we are currently doing all the above.
What excites you about the future of UAS?


One of the most interesting things about the rhetoric used by the BDS "movement" and similar Israel-disliking organizations is that the BDSers' life on the psychological extreme (discussed here) means that the rhetorical tactics they employ also tend towards the extreme.
When one is dealing with a "normal" political situation, even one as heated as our upcoming Presidential campaign, there are forces that keep discussion within general bounds of civility. Certainly candidates will drop innuendos about their opponent's inadequacy for the job, while surrogates get much more specific and accusatory. But the simple fact that a candidate feels the need to be perceived as even-tempered and fair (even if he or she counts on others to do the dirty work) implies an understanding that public discourse needs to follow certain civilized rules.
The public is also interested in variety, which means using the same tactic over and over again is likely to bring diminishing returns, especially if that tactic is perceived as controversial or extreme. And one of the rhetoric tactics that tends to wear out its welcome fast is Argumentation from Outrage.
Argumentation from Outrage is considered in informal fallacy, that is a fallacy not based on breaking any formal logical rules (such as All Dogs are Animals, All Cats are Animals, therefore all Dogs are Cats – a formal fallacy which is wrong even if you substitute letters, imaginary animals or nonsense words for Cats, Dogs and Animals). But with an informal fallacy, the actual content of the argument is relevant or, in the case of Argumentation from Outrage, how that content is presented.
Argumentation from Outrage is usually brought up in discussions of cable TV or radio political talk show hosts who seem to be able to break into a screaming fit at the slightest provocation. Just spend ten minutes watching Bill O'Reilly or Chris Matthews shrieking at a guest for doing nothing more than correcting their grammar and you understand the phenomenon.
In that context, Argumentation from Outrage is meant to short circuit reasonable debate by raising the temperature to such a degree that the only choices an opponent to the screamer has are to (1) capitulate; or (2) begin screaming back (usually a losing proposition for a talk show guest inexperienced at public howling who does not control the microphone or editing booth). And while such a tactic may play well to a talk show's fan base which gathers to watch their hero put wrong-minded guests in their place, most people who play in politics put the brakes on such tactics (especially when playing before a mixed audience of friends, foes and undecideds).
But as we have seen, people playing the BDS game have no such brakes for the simple reason that "the audience" for them are not real people, but simply props in a fantasy-laden drama going on in the boycotters own heads. Which is why if you point out the inconsistencies in their arguments, they'll fly into a rage. If you point out their hypocrisy of snoozing while Hamas missiles fly but rousing themselves into righteous fury when Israel shoots back, they'll fly into an even bigger rage. If you point out that their "movement" draws its strength from being aligned with the needs and goals of wealthy and powerful states, they will burst a blood vessel. In fact, doing or saying anything that challenges their self-perception as courageous and virtuous human-rights champions speaking truth to power means it's just a matter of seconds before someone's face is two inches from yours shrieking abuse and spewing saliva (either literally or virtually – although without the saliva when this dynamic plays out in online debate – as it inevitably does).
The point of Argumentation from Outrage is to raise the discomfort level so high that people will avoid further attacking (or even questioning) the person having the tantrum. Most normal people, after all, don't like being in situations where emotions are running red hot. And a boycotter losing an argument knows this, which is why they tend to explode so readily in hope of making it impossible for normal debate to continue.
This helps to explain why anti-Israel "dialog" tends to be so shrill. I have frequently teased certain writers (like those responsible for this Muzzlewatch site) of starting their writing in a snit and then working themselves into frenzy of accusation and fury. But if you think about it, starting an argument in a state of outrage is yet another way of avoiding a debate you know you cannot win.
The trouble (for the BDSers anyway) is this perpetual outrage is used to justify all kinds of behavior that – as mentioned previously – tends not to play well with a general audience which does NOT like to be patted down on the way to class by a bunch of Israel haters dressed up in Israeli soldier costumes during some campus protest, does NOT like to have their concerts or theatre performances interrupted by people shrieking slogans and waving banners, and does NOT trust people who seem to be shouting, even when the situation doesn't warrant it.
Not only are these tactics counter-productive in and of themselves, but they also tend to get old and tired rather quickly. Which may help explain why the boycotters seem to be having such a difficult time getting anyone to notice them these days, much less take them seriously.
I am a huge fan of the "fantasy politics" analysis. It explains a lot about radical Islam, as well as extremist anti-Israel antics.
You can find out more about his books and see more of his writing at http://www.lee-harris.org/. It's well worth reading every word he's written.


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CSIRO.au
Distributed Sensing Systems Group
New tool a dynamo in tracking infectious diseases
The aedes aegypti mosquito is one of the species known to transmit the dengue virus. © Shutterstock
Fever, tiredness, headaches, muscle pain and nausea. No, we're not describing the feelings you had when it was time to go back to work after the summer holidays. These are some of the symptoms of the Dengue virus.
Dengue is transmitted by the Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes. Currently only the Aedes aegypti is found in mainland Australia, mostly around Northern Queensland, while the Aedes albopictus, which prefers cooler climates, can be found as close as the Torres Strait — places where dengue outbreaks occur annually.
But between outbreaks, Australia is free of dengue fever. The local Aedes aegypti mozzies don't usually carry the virus but if people are infected overseas and return home to be bitten, the mozzies can spread the virus.
Keeping Australia safe from disease
Although Australia is relatively disease-free compared to other regions of the world, diseases are brought in through infected people who can be Australians returning home from holiday, tourists travelling to Australia, or fly-in fly-out workers travelling abroad. That's why it's more important than ever for us to be monitoring and predicting how viruses spread so that we can be better prepared.
So why do dengue outbreaks occur annually in the sunshine state? There could be a range of different reasons: more people travelling, wet weather that mozzies love to breed in or slow response times for treatment and quarantine.
With all of these different factors at play, we need to see the whole picture to be able to make predictions.
We've developed a new tool to do just that. The DiNeMo tool helps us understand how infectious diseases found overseas, like dengue, might spread in Australia.
The tool can be used to identify the source of dengue, or other infectious diseases, and identify when and where outbreaks may occur. This figure shows the spread of dengue cases by location across the three years with the largest outbreaks.
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DiNeMo draws on multiple data sources including reported dengue cases, tourist surveys, geo-tagged social media posts, and airline travel to determine the risk of diseases coming into the country, as well as where and when outbreaks may happen.
Understanding how infections spread once they reach Australia means we can predict when and where an outbreak is likely to occur – this means hospitals and biosecurity agencies can be as prepared as possible.
The tool also combines the different data sets in a smart way to understand the trends that underpin the spread of diseases. Using data networking, the tool could also help to make predictions based on these trends as to when we might see a spike in cases of infection.
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When it comes to biosecurity, time is always the enemy, so being able to direct resources to the right place, at the right time can help diagnose and treat infected people as quickly as possible.
Traditional methods of tracking infection routes often depend on time-consuming site investigations or interviews relating to travel routes of infected patients.
This approach allows us to look into the past and identify the sources of infection, and also predict the potential future spread of disease.
The tool is part of a broader Disease Networks and Mobility (DiNeMo) project aimed at developing a real-time alert and surveillance system for human infectious diseases.
The DiNeMo project combines our expertise in health and biosecurity with the digital know-how of our digital innovation arm, Data61 to help solve some of our greatest health challenges.
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The history of the Gibson Flying V
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Dave Davies knows a good thing when he sees it. And as he rummaged in an American music store in 1965, desperate to find a replacement for his Guild Starfire lost by an airline on The Kinks' tour route to the West Coast, he struck gold. Well, in fact, he struck korina.
Dave spotted an interesting brown case on a high shelf in the shop and asked to have a look. After some shifting and heaving, the dusty old case revealed its secret. Dave left the shop with a striking prize – one of the original Gibson Flying Vs that had lain neglected and unsold for several years in stores like this one.
The Flying V had first appeared seven years earlier, in 1958, at a time when Gibson was considered a safe, successful Midwest manufacturer. Managers at the firm were rattled by Fender's growing success, however, and in 1952 they'd reacted to the Californian threat with the Les Paul Model, something of a solidbody version of Gibson's traditional archtop style. Meanwhile, Fender launched its new Stratocaster, a gleaming wonder that seemed excitingly new. And it had a modern, space-agey kind of name, too.
The 1958 Flying V owned by Dave Davies was bought as a replacement for his Guild StarfireTo the drawing board
Gibson had little choice but to compete further. It was Seth Lover at Gibson, best known for the humbucking pickup, who drafted three new designs that might shift Gibson from an old-school approach to something more of-the-moment.
"That's a body style I designed for them when I was at Gibson," Seth told me later, pointing to a picture of a Flying V. "The idea behind that was to get some new shapes, and I designed this. I sketched out a number of shapes and styles that I thought would be different for guitars, rather than going back to older designs." Today, we know these as the Flying V, the Explorer, and the (unreleased) Moderne. Gibson called them collectively its Modernistic guitars.
When the Flying V returned in the late 1960s it was designed to be easier to manufacture. This 1969 model sports a rare Walnut finishSeth also provided the snappy model name for the first of the trio to go into production. Gibson boss Ted McCarty told me: "When Seth saw the first one, he laughed and said, well, that looks like a flying vee. So we named it the Flying V."
The company previewed the new model at the end of 1957 in its Gibson Gazette promo magazine, and the following March, the V appeared in a catalogue at $247.50 (about £1,700 in today's money). This was the same price as the Les Paul Model, and the two sat around the middle of Gibson's list of electrics. A Fender Stratocaster was pitched at $274.50 at the time, a Telecaster $199.50.
Dave Davies on Top Of The Pops with The Kinks in 1965 – note the unconventional way in which he played the V during those early TV performance. Image: David Redfern / Redferns / Getty Images"Gibson leads the way with this design of the future," the catalogue insisted. "The swept-back, modernistic lines of this really forward-looking instrument will be a real asset to the combo musician with a flair for showmanship." The design used dramatic straight lines in place of traditional curves, and the V's headstock was the body shape in miniature, a variant of Gibson's traditional three-tuners-a-side design.
The catalogue said the V was made from the "finest korina hardwood in natural limed finish." Korina was an American trade name for a West African hardwood, Terminalia superba, usually known as limba or afara. Korina is sometimes compared to mahogany, thanks to its average weight and its tonal characteristics for solidbody guitars, but it's a different species and family.
Gibson probably chose korina for its look and colour, which gave it almost a Fender blonde-like appearance – and it didn't need the extra work that mahogany would require to provide a similar effect. Gibson was already using pale korina for the Skylark lap steel, introduced in '57, so there was likely some stock at the factory, and it had also used the wood for the Consolette steel, a model dropped during '57.
This korina Flying V is owned by US guitar collector Gary Gand, who also owns the Dave Davies VWindow dressing
Just 81 Flying Vs were shipped during 1958, a year when Gibson's bestselling (and, inevitably, budget-price) electrics were the hollowbody ES-125 (1,528 shipped in '58) and the solidbody Les Paul Junior (2,408 shipped). In 1959, Gibson shipped just 17 Flying Vs, marking an almost total collapse of interest in the new guitars.
Gibson attempted to apply some positive spin to this failure by publicising the fact that some enterprising store owners found the Flying V useful in window displays designed to attract potential customers. One such was the Scalise Music Center of Richmond, California, which mounted an imaginative space-travel theme for its window just a few months after America's fourth Earth satellite soared into orbit.
Scalise's display featured fanciful depictions of a rocket ship and a satellite alongside a real Flying V. Gibson said in its Gazette magazine that the store's manager had never seen such crowds around his window and that the V was sold within two days.
Most stores, however, had little success with the 'difficult' new model. Production may have stopped in '59, but well into the new decade some Vs – like the one Dave Davies happened upon – hung around for quite a while in the murkier depths of some music shops.
Dave's new-old guitar soon got noticed, and Beat Instrumental caught the vibe. "So many people have been enquiring about the weird guitar that Dave Davies has been using," the magazine reported, "that [UK distributor] Selmer has contacted Gibson to find out about it. It's called the Flying Arrow and was made for a speciality act in America.
Joe Bonamassa's 1958 Flying V 'Amos' is thought to be one of only five to leave the factory with mismatched black pickguards and white poker chips. It also features on the silver screen in This Is Spinal Tap
"Gibson felt that it was too way-out to be a success, and it was only by luck that Dave happened to get his secondhand in the States. As yet, there is no possibility of it being put on the market."
That muddled info was given at the start of 1966. Soon, however, plans were under way at Gibson to launch a revised version of the Flying V, which became fully available by early '67. Since then, of course, many guitarists have discovered the agreeable qualities of this creation, now recognised as a wonderful classic. But it nearly didn't make it beyond a brief two-year existence that, from Gibson's point of view, seemed like a failure.
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The U.S. has one of the most powerful tools for preventing the import of goods made by forced labor: the Tariff Act. Yet, Section 307 of the Tariff Act is rarely enforced. In its new report released today – "Combatting Forced Labor and Enforcing Workers' Rights Using the Tariff Act" – the International Labor Rights Forum explains why and offers recommendations for improvement.
An estimated $150 billion in profits are generated each year off the backs of the men, women, and children who are forced to work and the U.S. has a legal instrument for stopping consumer complicity in these crimes. In 2015, the U.S. government reformed a ninety-year-old law, Section 307 of the U.S. Tariff Act, to extend the scope of its prohibition of forced labor-made goods coming into the United States.
"Through the Tariff Act the U.S. has the capacity to make an enormous impact in combatting forced labor, but the lack of clear evidence standards and transparency by Customs and Border Protection is diminishing its potential impact." said Esmeralda Lopez, Legal and Policy Director of the International Labor Rights Forum (ILRF) and author of the briefing paper.
ILRF has advocated for improvements to the Tariff Act and submitted allegations to protect victims of forced labor in Malaysia's palm oil industry, the cotton industry in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, among others.
The Tariff Act could be used to combat trafficking of the widely reported cases of men and boys in the seafood industry, or the system of forced labor camps in Xinjiang, China, which have produced apparel entering the United States.
"The U.S. has the power and responsibility to send a strong message that we will not be complicit in a forced labor economy," said Judy Gearhart, Executive Director of ILRF.
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