I hear a lot of complaining about the prices of beer, and only some of it is justified. It does feel like some places intentionally inflate their prices, I am amazed how many 4 packs of local IPA break the $20 mark. In fairness, a lot of popular breweries could pump up their prices even more. For example, how high would Tree House prices need to go before those lines started to dwindle? One beer style that typically demands a premium price is barrel aged beers. This makes sense, there is a substantial cost involved in acquiring the appropriate barrels and then storing the beer to age, and the best examples of these styles require significant expertise. I am usually hesitant to drop big money on unfamiliar barrel-aged bottles, unless I have heard rave reviews from trusted sources. There are a few exceptions, breweries that have earned my trust to the point that I'll try pretty much anything they release regardless of style and price. The number one example of this is Allagash Brewing, their barrel aged and special release beers are usually stellar and always worth the money. A great example is Interlude, released every late fall/early winter. Interlude is a blend on a beer fermented with traditional saison yeast, another fermented with Brettanomyces and a portion aged in red wine barrels. the ability to mix the proper amounts of each beer in a way that lets all of the flavors come together is an art, and few places do it like Allagash. Allagash Interlude 2017 is available in 750 mL bottles while they last.
Allagash Interlude 2017 pours deep red-gold with a small white head, The aroma is complex, fruit, funk and a bit if acidity. The flavor is even more complex, there is a lot going on in this beer. The fermentation adds notes of cherry, sour apple, pear and pepper along with a light tart bite. This is complemented by the flavors imparted by the barrel aging, hints of oak, plum, raspberry and red grape. The malts add a backbone of hay and cereal, and there is minimal hop character. Interlude 2017 has a medium body and drinks incredibly easy for a beer with 10.6% ABV. The finish is crisp and tart with a lingering fruity and funky flavor. This is a stellar beer, amazing flavor and drinkability, releases like this set Allagash apart. Worth every penny. Hoppy Boston score: 5.0/5.


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Dell Inc. Scales Up DVPM Pro Bono Outreach Using PMIEF Resource
Written by Michelle Armstrong
Topics PM Capable Nonprofits and NGOs
Dell Limerick DVPM Team with Doug Schmitt, third from left, president of Dell EMC Global Services and global executive sponsor of DVPM.
Dell Inc., a PMIEF corporate partner and a recipient of the 2014 PMI Community Advancement through Project Management Award for its Dell Volunteer Project Management (DVPM) program, continues to set the pace for pro bono outreach through the global scale up of this initiative.
Ideated and first implemented by the company's professionals in Limerick, Ireland in 2012 to deliver training in project management fundamentals to area charities/nonprofit organizations, DVPM now boasts worldwide reach thanks to Dell volunteers across the globe who have replicated it in their local communities. Dell bases its DVPM training on PMIEF's Project Management Skills for Life®, which showcases the global use of the foundation's no-cost educational resources to make a meaningful difference in people's lives.
DVPM engages Dell project managers— many of whom are PMI members—to help nonprofit professionals acquire and apply project management knowledge to their work to enhance their effectiveness and efficiency. Doing so better enables them to fulfill their organizational mission as they put their lessons learned into practice for projects like event planning, fundraising campaigns, and strategic planning. DVPM includes a seven-hour, classroom-based training at no charge and access to an accompanying mobile application that permits participants easy access to Project Management Skills for Life®. The application also features project management templates, blog posts about project management in the nonprofit sector, and information about upcoming DVPM events.
An initiative that exemplifies one of PMIEF's pillars of focus—project management capable nonprofits— DVPM now includes sites in Austin, Texas, USA: Bengaluru, India; Bratislava, Slovakia; Limerick, Dublin and Cork, Ireland; and Panama City, Panama. The program has reached more than 300 charities across the globe through over 50 training events attended by nearly 600 people. Moreover, DVPM has engaged more than 175 Dell project managers by creating an opportunity for them to leverage their expertise through volunteerism.
"DVPM is a fantastic opportunity for our team to share project management skills with voluntary organizations that, as a result, helps all of our communities thrive," said Doug Schmitt, president of Dell EMC Global Services and global executive sponsor of DVPM.
Michael DePrisco, PMIEF Chief Operating Officer and PMI vice president, global membership and chapters, agreed. "This unique partnership not only enables PMIEF to expand its global reach, but it also creates a unique model of how corporations can leverage the expertise of their professionals, PMIEF, and the PMI community to support charitable work worldwide."
Dell will soon launch DVPM in Casablanca, Morocco; Hyderabad and New Delhi, India; Montpellier, France; Penang, Malaysia; and São Paulo, Brazil. Thanks to Dell volunteers, Project Management Skills for Life® was also translated into Slovak even as they use PMIEF's Spanish version of it in Panama. This further supports PMIEF's efforts to ensure its resources are available in as many languages as possible. In addition, through the Dell Gives Back program, the company donates cash contributions to its professionals' charities of choice once they meet the required number of volunteer hours, another example of DVPM's global impact.

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A cash forecasting application done the right way is an excellent way for a bank to improve its cash management offering to corporate clients. Big banks in particular have noticed this already. In this blog entry I will list six reasons why every bank should offer a cash flow forecasting solution to its clients as a part of their cash management offering.
Should You Take a Cash Forecasting Solution from Your Bank?
More and more banks offer a cash forecasting solution to their clients. Cash forecasting is a key development initiative for companies but often they lack the required expertise and resources to fix things. Could a cash forecasting system offered by a bank work?


Sharon Healy-Yang, professor of English at Worcester State University, recently published her first novel, Bait and Switch, with Touchpoint Press: a noir mystery in the tradition of classic films from the 30s, 40s, and 50s that combines an intriguing mystery with wit, humor, and genuine heart. Bait and Switch follows Jessica Minton, a smart-talking stage actress in wartime New York, who finds herself suddenly entangled in a web of intrigue, Axis spies, double-agents, drama, and mustachioed men who are as handsome as they are untrustworthy, in a story that is at once funny, thrilling, and clearly written by someone with an extensive familiarity with the genre. The New Worcester Spy's Pat Driscoll interviews Dr. Yang about her writing habits, advice for budding authors, H.P. Lovecraft, and the importance of cats.
A: Well, fifty years, because the first thing I wrote was when I was eight years old, and I managed to misspell "girl"—I meant to say that a girl was being chased off a bus by a vampire and I kept spelling it "grill." Why a vampire would take a bus is another question, but my brother read it to my parents because he thought it was so good. So, you know, I've always been writing. And I got started because my brother used to write, and I wanted to be like my brother.
Q: Does he still write?
Q: Oh, cool! So you kind of eclipsed him?
A: I did, I went beyond him, yeah. He got the Master's, I got the PhD, you know how it goes, haha.
Q: Nice! Got 'em, haha. Have you written novels or short stories before this series?
A: Me and a friend of mine in junior high, we wrote this satire of Dark Shadows. It was almost like a big long soap opera. But I actually had written some novels that, y'know—they're juvenilia, they were romance novels, sort of Victorian Gothic, Gothic romance, very popular in the 70s. They weren't bodice-rippers or anything. Kind of like Victoria Holt, that kind of thing. Some of them were satires, too, but nothing I would ever try and publish. They were just for fun.
Q: Definitely, kind of like cutting your teeth?
A: Ah, well, for just plain relaxing reading, I love—well there's a lot of different people, it's hard to say. I just finished reading The Technologist by Matthew Pearl. There's another writer who's a wonderful combination of Nathaniel Hawthorne and H.P. Lovecraft named Scott Thomas, I think—I really like a lot of stuff that was written in the 1930s and 40s, you know, mysteries, sometimes ghost stories. I love Dorothy McArdle, who wrote The Uninvited, Theresa Charles, and a lot of people who nobody really remembers that well. I like the writing, there's a lot in there; it's a pleasure to read. It's like sinking your teeth into a good sandwich, you know what I mean?
Q: What attracted you to the genre of "Bait and Switch"?
A: I've always liked mysteries, horror (although this isn't horror), I like humor, I'm a big movie buff—I love movies from the 30s and 40s. I love how they have that noir look, I like the humor, I love the visuals, the literate way things are written, the way things unfurl, the way the characters are developed. And it's so compact! A lot of these stories are told in seventy minutes, an hour and forty minutes, tops. And it really just works.
Q: And it definitely comes through in the sample I read—like the bit about mugging a G.I. for a Hershey bar, like it's so spot-on for the tone of the genre. It has such a good conversational, ah, what's the word—repartee? It was super good.
A: Oh, you liked it? That makes me so happy! Get all your friends to read it. Read it, buy a copy, that'd be even better. We gotta keep my cat in catnip.
Q: I definitely will! Exactly, gotta keep 'em flush. Do you have a set writing regimen?
A: You know, I can't write during the school year, because A: I don't have time, and B: I just can't focus, because you really just have to immerse yourself in it. So I usually write in the summer. I'll just find a chunk of time, go out onto the porch and write for six hours, and usually my husband will say 'you haven't had lunch, come in and eat something.' And my hands will be hurting, because I handwrite. The first draft is always by hand, because it flows more freely. I try to do a certain number of hours a week, but it's really exhausting—I'm inspired by nature, I like to feel the breeze, I love the warmth. I love the fall. I haven't been able to set anything in the fall yet, but the fourth novel in the series—I've written three—the fourth one is set in the fall.
Q: What are the three books so far?
A: Bait and Switch, Letter From a Dead Man, and Always Play the Dark Horse. Bait and Switch is coming out first, obviously.
Q: Do you have any advice to writers starting out, who've yet to be published?
Q: Did you do a lot of research on the period? You can definitely feel it in the dialogue.
A: Oh yeah, definitely. A lot of people say that, I think I have an ear for it. Another thing I do is when I'm watching old movies I'll write things down. And you've probably heard me say stuff in class, you know, it's sort of part of my patois now.
Q: What genres would you list it under? Is it strictly Mystery/Noir? Is it a Political Thriller?
A: I would say it's sort of 'amateur detective,' definitely mystery. I don't know if it's a thriller. It's sort of how you define it—it's not violent, it's not like a Bruce Willis movie, but I think I keep you in suspense. I definitely think the noir part is in there. I guess I would call it 'historical,' too, it's very in-the-period. And there's a cat in it. You can't forget the cat.
Q: Definitely! That's an important part of it.
Q: You mention on your website the notion of 'Smart-Talking Gals.' Is that sort of a movement you're trying to go for?
A: I actually hadn't thought about it like that. It's just that, a lot of times when I read criticism about the genre, they always seem to dump women into categories; they're either femme fatales, or these innocents. And I think an important part of the genre is the Smart-Talking Gal. There's a person who writes on film, she has an article in the book I'm co-editing with Kathy Healy called Gothic Landscapes, where she writes about working women in film noir, and it's kind of close to what I'm talking about. I think there definitely needs to be more attention paid to the Smart-Talking Gal. I used to the word 'dame,' but 'gal' seems way more respectful, you know.
Q: Is there any genre that you'd like to do in the future?
A: Well, I've actually done — I've completed a Lovecraft pastiche, that sort of combines Lovecraft, noir, and a little romance, which sounds a little bizarre! So I completed it, it's called Redeeming Time, I have to tighten it up a bit. I'll see if a publisher wants to do something with it, or maybe self-publish it on Amazon or something. I grew up reading Lovecraft, I love that kind of stuff. In fact, there's this great website run by the H.P. Lovecraft historical society called Cthulhu Lives, and you can order CDs where they've done radio plays of some of his short stories.
Q: Oh, that's awesome! By the way, I probably should have asked this earlier, but: Are you originally from Massachusetts?
A: Yeah! I was born in Lowell, I grew up in Lowell. I lived in Lawrence for a year, and then I also lived in Worcester for a year when I went to Clark, and then I went to grad school in Storrs, Connecticut, and then I got this job about sixteen years ago, and I've been here ever since. And you should see my yard, it's a fake cemetery now.
Q: Lovecraft would definitely approve. Thank you so much for this!
A: Oh, no problem! Thanks for the publicity! Haha.


GARMSIR, Afghanistan -- More than a thousand Marines, backed by artillery and helicopter gunships, stormed into this Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan before dawn yesterday.
The operation, mounted by the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, opens a new American combat sweep across the region where the Taliban, ousted from power in 2001, have made a strong comeback.
As of last night, there were no reported Marine casualties. The assault was launched in stages from a base near Kandahar, where the Sept. 11 attacks were plotted.
Thundering in low over the desert in CH-53 and twin-bladed CH-46 helicopters, the battalion's Alpha and Bravo companies landed just before a half moon rose to flood the desert with light. Each of the U.S. troops carried 100 to 150 pounds of weapons, ammunition and other supplies.
Simultaneously, a convoy of Marines in light armored vehicles attacked Taliban fortifications in a former agricultural school that U.S. intelligence officers said was being used as a major Taliban command post. An intense firefight lasted most of the day, until the Marines pushed the insurgents back into one area where an airstrike finished them off, military commanders said.
By midmorning, Alpha and Bravo company Marines had seized several mud-walled compounds set amid lush poppy fields.
Outside one compound, Marines were just starting to push through a poppy field on a combat patrol when a rocket-propelled grenade whooshed past and exploded, accompanied by a rattle of small arms fire. Two young men were seen fleeing on a motorbike, but the Marines did not return fire because it was not clear they were the attackers.
Later, two insurgents fired on a pair of Marine scout helicopters. As cheering Marines watched, one of the Kiowa Warrior helicopters wheeled and killed the attackers with rockets.
Military officers said it was possible that the Taliban would simply melt away and return when the Marines are gone. But the Marines were prepared - and some eager - for the Taliban to come out in strength.
The operation is taking place in Afghanistan's rich poppy-growing region along the Helmand River, an area that produces more than 90 percent of the world's opium and is a major source of money for the Taliban. The roughly 8,000 British troops in this part of southern Afghanistan have been unable to extend their reach beyond these fields and south toward the Pakistan border some 75 miles south of Garmsir.
U.S. intelligence officers said the Taliban had seized this area and dug in to protect its smuggling routes for opium going south and for weapons, explosives and Islamist fighters coming north from Pakistan. Estimates of enemy numbers ranged from 150 to 300, with more Taliban reinforcements expected, U.S. officers said.
"They know we're coming - but it's at a time and place of our own choosing," said a Marine officer just before the operation.
Facing the Marines were a mixture of what intelligence officers described as hard-core foreign fighters, local Afghans hired to be soldiers and younger trainees at a Taliban training camp.
The intelligence officer said there is a "substantial" flow of non-Afghan fighters into Garmsir from Pakistan.
The Marines' operation originally was opposed by some British commanders and reportedly by the Helmand provincial governor. The British officers said local villagers were beginning to resist the Taliban's harsh rule, and they feared that fighting in Garmsir would cause the villagers to flee.
The British eventually agreed to the operation, but only after days of delay that underscored the awkward multinational military command and a lack of a clear consensus on strategy.
Brig. Mark Carleton-Smith, the commander of 16 Air Assault Brigade, the senior British commander in Afghanistan, told The Times of London in mid-April that the main effort in southern Afghanistan should be on reconstruction.
The 24th MEU commander, Col. Peter Petronzio, said his goals for the mission are to kill insurgents, establish security for reconstruction, and disrupt the flow of weapons and fighters from the Pakistan border through this region, where the radical Islamic Taliban have re-established control over the past year.
The Marines intend this week to clear Taliban fighters and improvised explosive devices from the strategic roads along the Helmand River and to seize the village called Madrassa, after the local school, where Taliban forces were reported to be occupying a series of defensive trenches and fortifications.
Underscoring the complex nature of a counterinsurgency war waged among the civilian population, Lt. Col. Anthony Henderson, the battalion commander, told his men that the Marines should be "no better friend, no worse enemy."
"First, do no harm," he said. But he left no doubt that the point of the operation was to kill enemy fighters.
Initially, at least, Marines intend to prevent reinforcements from reaching Taliban forces fighting the British in northern Helmand province, roughly 120 miles from here.
But despite the effort and long planning behind the Marines' operation, it was designed to be short with few lasting effects. Overall, the U.S. and allied command in Afghanistan is short of troops and in most cases cannot establish a security presence in areas they have cleared of insurgents.
British forces based just north of here will establish positions in Madrassa but do not have enough men to extend their reach south into areas cleared by the Marines, British officers said.
There are few Afghan police and Afghan army units to move into areas cleared of insurgents, and scant reconstruction teams available to establish government services, intelligence officers said.
"The effect you'll be having will be great but short term, because we can't backfill you," a British officer told the Marines before the operation.
For Marines steeped in the lessons of counterinsurgency warfare, the limitations of this operation are frustrating. Some officers have privately compared it to bloody but inconclusive operations during the Vietnam War, when troops were often directed to seize ground and then abandon it to the enemy.
"There's a huge potential we could cede [back to insurgents] a lot of what we've done," Petronzio said.
He and his troops are scheduled to return to Camp Lejeune, N.C., this fall after a seven-month deployment.
In an interview before the operation, he expressed his frustration that the effort would have little long-term effect.
"As heavy as we are, we're going to go in there and there will be a couple of days of fighting and [the insurgents] will throw down their guns and melt away," he said. "And when we're gone, they'll come back.
"The biggest advantage the insurgents have against us is time. He's not going anywhere. Everybody else moves in and out," Petronzio said.


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AWS Single Sign-On: A Step-by-Step Guide to Integration with Azure Active Directory
September 9, 2022 by Gifford
1. Introduction Single Sign-On2. How does it work? Guide to Integration of AWS SSO and Azure AD Takeaway5. CloudThat 6. FAQs1. How do you introduce single sign-on?
Single Sign-On (SSO), is an authentication and authorization method that allows users to log in to multiple apps with a single set (username, password).
SSO saves time and effort for end-users. SSO eliminates the need for end-users to sign in and log out of multiple applications, both on-premises and cloud. SSO simplifies password management in a company. It increases productivity and security by reducing the risk of losing, weakening, or forgetting passwords.
SSO is a way to establish trust between a service provider (or identity provider) and a service provider. This trust relationship is established by exchanging a certificate with the identity provider. This certificate can be used to verify the identity information provided by the identity provider to a service provider. It also ensures that the information is authentic. This data is saved by SSO in the form tokens that identify the user's information such as an email ID or username.
Organizations prefer to have one identity across all their apps and Cloud-based platforms. Azure Active Directory (AD), which Office 365 is widely used in businesses, would be a popular authentication method. It is often connected to other services, so it could serve as an authentication hub.
This blog will integrate AWS SSO with Azure Active Directory to authenticate users. These integrations allow administrators to manage users and groups from one central source.
3. Step-by-Step Guide to Integration of AWS SSO and Azure AD
Let's put the following architecture to work
Allow AWS SSO:
Log in to AWS Console using your AWS master account. Next, navigate to the AWS Single Sign On console.
To verify that they are in the correct area, check the upper right corner on the AWS Management console.
The welcome screen will appear below if you are accessing Single Sign-On in this region for the first time. Select "Enable AWS SO"
Once your SSO has been enabled, click on "Change Identity Source." Navigate towards Identity source and choose action. Select "Change identity Source."
AWS SSO defaults to using the default identity source. To integrate with Azure AD, we will change it to "External Identity Provider". Now download the metadata from step 2.
2. Configuring Azure AD as IdP
Log in to Azure and navigate to Azure Active Directory. Select "Enterprise Applications", then create a new app. The search bar will bring up AWS SSO. Next, select AWS SO as shown below.
After choosing AWS SSO, click on Create. Navigate to the application you just created, and click on "Set up single Sign-On" as shown below.
Select SAML on next page, and upload the metadata data that you downloaded from AWS SSO.
Once the upload is complete, click "Save" to close the Basic SAML Configuration pane. A prompt will appear asking you to test single sign-on using AWS Single Sign On. You can choose to click "No, we'll test later." Download the Azure Federation Metadata XML.
After downloading the metadata file, go back to AWS console and upload it as shown below. Click on Next.
Next, acknowledge and modify the identity source as shown.
This is the basic configuration. Let's now implement the SCIM protocol to automatically provision users and groups from Azure AD. Automatic provisioning creates users in your Active Directory and adds them to the application.
3. Automatic provisioning for Users and Groups
Select "settings" in the left panel of AWS SO. Navigate to
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Q: Can't put buttons on second window using Tkinter I don't know why is the window created with nothing when I've put 3 buttons to appear. This is the function where it happens:
def Click():
if input_fieldContra.get() == contraseña:
 vent_iniciada = Tk()
 root.withdraw()
 vent_iniciada.geometry("250x200")
 vent_iniciada.mainloop()
 nuevoB = Button(vent_iniciada, text="Nuevo", command=NuevoBot)
 abrirB = Button(vent_iniciada, text="Abrir", command=AbrirBot)
 guardarB = Button(vent_iniciada, text="Guardar", command=GuardarBot)

 nuevoB.grid(vent_iniciada, row=0, column=0)
 abrirB.grid(vent_iniciada, row=2, column=0)
 guardarB.grid(vent_iniciada, row=3, column=0)

A: Firstly, .grid() doesn't take on the parent window. When using grid you should define the parent window inside the widget when widget is created.
.grid() options must be -column, -columnspan, -in, -ipadx, sticky etc.
Secondly, if you move vent_iniciada.mainloop() to the bottom of the code, it should work. What happens is that the code is executing:
vent_iniciada = TK()
root.withdraw
vent_iniciada.geometry("250x200")
and this is where you should put your button so the code reads them into the window.
Finally, after gridding the widgets, you tell the program to mainloop everything
vent_iniciada.mainloop()

A: You have to move :
vent_iniciada.mainloop()

to the last line of the function

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A Bill of Divorcement – film del 1922 diretto da Denison Clift
 Febbre di vivere (A Bill of Divorcement) – film del 1932 diretto da George Cukor
 A Bill of Divorcement – film del 1940 diretto da John Farrow

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Mohammed Khadda (Algerian, 1930-1991), Composition, Oil on canvas, 110 x 85 cm
Abdelkader Guermaz (Algerian, 1919-1996), Composition, 1965, Oil on canvas, 54 x 45 cm
Mahjoub Ben Bella (Algerian, 1946 – 2020), Signes, 2014, Oil on canvas, 120 x 60 cm
Abdallah Benanteur (Algerian, 1931 – 2017), Du côté de chez A, 1976, Oil on canvas, 130 x 162 cm
M'hamed Issiakhem (Algerian, 1928-1985), Maternité dans un paysage, Oil on canvas, 81 x 100 cm
Baya Mahieddine (Algerian, 1931–1998). Jeune musicienne, 1975, Gouache on paper, 92 x 73 cm
Rachid Koraichi (Algerian, b. 1947), Bronze 1, 2012, Bronze black and gold patina, H. 77 x 44 x 26,5 cm
Algerian Modernism
15.11.2021 | 25.02.2022
Elmarsa Gallery is pleased to stage a group exhibition of Algerian painters considered as pioneers in the advent of Modernism. Inspired by both the struggle for freedom and the discourse of identity that dominated the spirit of the Arab world throughout the twentieth century, the majority of Algerian artists who came into their own during the 1950s and 1960s initiated a modern art movement. An exhibition that aims at highlighting the emergence of the postcolonial art production in Algeria as the countries of the Maghreb fought for independence after World War II, thus challenging the dominant European cultural model. Following the first-generation of Algerian artists who were self-taught since they were excluded from art education and the Société des Beaux-arts founded in Algiers in 1851, the "generation from the 1930s" including Abdelkader Guermaz (1919-1996), M'hamed Issiakhem (1928-1985), Mohammed Khadda (1930-1991), Baya Mahieddine (1931-1998) and Abdallah Benanteur (1931- 2017) have paved their way to abstraction and modern painting. The various artistic generations rejected references to the academic style as well as to the Orientalists' stereotypes in favor of their distinct North African-Berber origins and Arab-Islamic heritage. This presentation attempts to retrace the art practices in Algeria that embody the quest for a plural Algerian identity influenced by its geopolitical identity and singular culture. Artists contested the figurative and narrative vision, felt as foreign to Maghrebi sensibility, and their work reflected the emergence of several tendencies toward naive art and expressionism, non-figuration and the use of traditional signs and symbols. The pioneers of Algerian modernism had a strong influence on contemporary artists' emergence and practice over four generations of artists, among them Mahjoub Ben Bella (1946-2020) and Rachid Koraichi (b. 1947) whose works presented in the exhibition provide details of the specificities connected to that country.
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Caap: airport operations 'already back to normal' | Inquirer News
Caap: airport operations 'already back to normal'
By: Angel D. Yabut - @inquirerdotnet
Philippine Daily Inquirer / 05:20 AM January 04, 2023
The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (Caap) on Tuesday said airport operations in the country are "already back to normal."
"All [equipment are] working and our skies are covered by our radar and communication [systems]," Capt. Edgardo Diaz, Caap deputy director general, said in a press briefing.
He said backup or redundancy machines are being checked to prevent a repeat of the Jan. 1 shutdown of Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Naia).
In an interview with CNN Philippines, Bryan Co, senior assistant general manager of the Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA), said passenger flow on Monday was "very manageable."
"We operated around 755 flights and had around 133,000 passengers that went through [all four] Naia terminals. This is the same number of average flights that MIAA operated in the past 30 days," he said.
"We're projecting [that by Jan. 4], we should be able to mount our full regular schedule already," said Co.
"It's not necessarily that all 414 [canceled flights] will be remounted or there will be additional 414 flights. The other passengers were redistributed to other flights," he said. INQ
New Year revelry 'generally peaceful'; 2 injured
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Excellent selective focus on the bee and the circle of anthers, gorgeous colors. I'm undecided about the out-of-focus flower center - perhaps it should be more out-of-focus?
About the flower head, It was about 1.5 inches long above the petals. Yes, I wondered about blurring the head at the center. I will repost if I am able to blur it.
I love the colors and the way the bee's match the stamens'. I really like the placement of the bee in the frame. I do find the central part rather distracting.
Great focus on the bee, clean background, nice colors. Maybe try this concept (perspective) on another flat flower and bee, and use a smaller F to avoid out of focus flower center? Just a thought, not sure it will work.
I tried several ways to reduce the prominence of oof center. nothing seems to work. It is interesting to see that the oof areas in the periphery are are less bothersome to the eye than when it is at the center. My initial thought on this image was that the petals and anthers take the eye around the periphery to the bee and then around the petals - a circular composition. I have to agree with others that when the oof area is in the center, it is rather distracting. Next time, Thanks for all the comments. A good learning experience, anyway.


User interface with gesture recognition.
d) temporary button release when the button is deactivated and re-activated within a predetermined time causes another warning to the user.
Feature (a) of outputting warning messages to a user instead of internal messages between different components was deemed to be technical, solving the technical problem of how to provide feedback to the user about internal states or identified conditions of the device, but notoriously known.
However, features (b) of supervising a range of sampling periods and (d) providing temporary de-activation of a button were deemed to be technical features that provided an inventive step over the cited art. This set aside an earlier decision of the examining division.
The examining division had argued that although the actual implementation of the specific validation criteria involved a technically skilled person, the definition of the expected operation (e.g. what motions and durations of the input are expected) was rather business-based, according to the intended purpose of the device and to design choices. This argument was not accepted by the Board who concluded that, whatever the reason for the definition of a gesture might be, the underlying ranges, rolls and angles are of a technical nature.


Buoyant life-like rubber corn, soft enough to use on the hook, or hair rig if desired. Use in conjunction with real corn, to produce a neutrally buoyant or popped up bait.
1 grain + 1 real grain of corn on a size 10 specimen type hook, to achieve a "popped up" bait.
1 grain + 2 real grains of corn on a size 8 to produce a bait of neutral buoyancy. Note: Individual grains may vary in buoyancy.
When used directly on the hook, nick lightly and position the grain on the back of the hook, leaving the point fully exposed. When used on a hair rig, use a baiting needle and sandwich 1 or 2 grains between grains of real corn.
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UK Threaten Assange As Sweden Withdraw Accusations
In-Depth Analyses
By Andrew Kreig, J.D., M.S.L., attorney and journalist.
Member of the Editorial Board, and Associate Editor of The Indicter Magazine.
British authorities threatened WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with arrest on a bond-jumping charge last week after their Swedish counterparts gave up trying to investigate Assange on what appears to have been a dubious series of sex claims that have been pending against him for nearly seven years since his 2010 speaking trip to Stockholm.
The British effort, if pursued aggressively with threatened punishment beyond the norm, would further compound a travesty of justice that has already disgraced the Swedish and British legal systems.
The Swedes have wasted vast amounts of taxpayer money for the probe, as have the British in the latter's around-the-clock surveillance of Assange for years cost millions of pounds. The evidence suggest that both nations have undertaken such extraordinary actions to thwart WikiLeaks and not to investigate claims arising out of consensual sex with two Swedish women who invited Assange to sleep with them separately before complaints arose.
Assange is shown in a graphic by the European human rights magazine The Indicter. Designated by a United Nations body 15 months ago as the victim of unlawful detention stemming from a political prosecution, Assange has lived since 2012 in Ecuador's London embassy.
Ecuador granted Assange political asylum from Sweden's demand, affirmed by Britain's courts, for Assange's extradition to face renewed questioning. Sweden has never charged the WikiLeaks founder with an offense but has instead insisted until recently that he must return to Sweden for questions about sexual activities, even though the initial prosecutor questioning him found no basis for charging him before her supervisors dismissed her from the case.
Assange has argued that Western intelligence, court and media operatives had orchestrated the entire sex smear as a pretext to arrange his extradition to the United States so he could be prosecuted on more serious charges arising from secret proceedings against WikiLeaks.
The transparency organization's disclosures have embarrassed and infuriated top officials of several Western nations, most recently because of WikiLeaks disclosures that seriously embarrassed Democrats in the 2016 election campaign.
Right from the start in 2010, independent observers described the Swedish probe as highly irregular in ways that tainted authorities, their witnesses, and the merit of their claims.
Shameful Swedish Tactics
Last December, our update Assange Rape Defense Underscores Shameful Swedish, U.S. Tactics drew on the previous six years of reporting by varied U.S. and international media that portrayed Sweden's proceedings as an attempted frame-up heavily tainted with extra-legal dimensions, including intelligence-connected personnel.
In that column and in our own investigative reports published by U.S. and Swedish media beginning in late 2010, we have emphasized that our defense of Assange centered on due process regarding the sex claims against him, and not legality or wisdom of the WikiLeaks' wholesale release of sensitive documents. Those wider issues are ostensibly beyond the scope of the Swedish and British legal proceedings.
At the forefront of debunking the Swedish sex claims in recent years has been The Indicter, a European-based human rights publication founded by Dr. Marcello Ferrada de Noli, a retired Swedish medical school professor shown in a portrait. This editor serves on its board.
In January, The Indicter published New Analysis of Swedish Police Report Confirms Julian Assange's Version in Sweden's case by Celia Farber, an author and investigative reporter.
She concluded that the crucial allegations against Assange, "as have appeared in the Swedish and international media," were constructed by the police "and were not what the complainants really said or wished to achieve."
Farber, unlike most writers intimidated either by political correctness, powerful government sources or both, dared explore the specifics of the sex claim allegations, as summarized immediately below.
Swedish Complainant Reported As Angry With Investigators
Most mainstream Western publications, including those in Sweden, have been protected the identities and claims of the two female complainants so much that readers cannot follow the allegations, much less assess their weight.
Thus the Washington Post report on May 19, Sweden drops Assange rape allegation, but Britain says WikiLeaks founder still faces arrest by reporter Karla Adam, described attorney Elisabeth Massi Fritz (shown in her Twitter photo) as saying Sweden's decision to drop the case constituted "a scandal." The report described the attorney as representing one of the complainants but failed to identify the client or either of the complainants.
By contrast, Farber's work involves close analysis of the facts and builds such previous inquiries as that of best-selling feminist author Naomi Wolf (shown in a file photo below). Wolf from the outset in 2010 questioned why the identities of the complainants were being kept confidential, especially given the many usual features of the case. Wolf's views are summarized in her columns:
"Never in twenty-three years of reporting on and supporting victims of sexual assault around the world," she wrote in J'Accuse: Sweden, Britain, and Interpol Insult Rape Victims Worldwide, published by the Huffington Post in 2010, "have I ever heard of a case of a man sought by two nations, and held in solitary confinement without bail in advance of being questioned — for any alleged rape, even the most brutal or easily proven."
She continued: "In terms of a case involving the kinds of ambiguities and complexities of the alleged victims' complaints — sex that began consensually, that allegedly became non-consensual when dispute arose around a condom — please find me, anywhere in the world, another man in prison today without bail on charges of anything comparable."
Wolf called for naming the complainants as the appropriate journalistic and feminist way to treat such a case, as noted in her Julian Assange's sex-crime accusers deserve to be named.
Wolf withstood push-back by other feminists who were outraged that she did not automatically endorse the female complainants and prosecution. In the spirit of a more universal commitment to justice, Wolf then published in New York City's "News from Underground" a harsh assessment of the entire investigation, Eight BIG PROBLEMS with the "case" against Assange, which she subtitled "Something Rotten in the State of Sweden."
The complainants were Anna Ardin and Sofia Wilén, shown below. The former worked for a group that organized the ill-fated speaking event for Assange in August 2010, which occurred just as several prominent authorities in the West were calling for Assange's silencing by any means possible, including (as former White House advisor Karl Rove said on Fox News) by execution.
Wilén was an attendee at the conference who sought out Assange's company. She, like Ardin, invited Assange to her home, had sex, participated in his company and then complained about his behavior to authorities.
Wilen's story is particularly mysterious to researchers because it appears that she has totally disappeared from public view, beginning right after her allegations in 2010. In early 2014, the Swedish alternative publication Rixstep Industry Watch published, Where in the world is Sofia Wilén? The column's headline continued: Who knows where she's come from or where she's gone to now?
It's been over three years since anyone's heard from or seen Sofia Wilén, the individual behind the embassy stalemate for Julian Assange. Sofia turned up on several occasions for interrogations with the police, always assisted by her attorney Claes Borgström, but it's not known if she turned up in person or was merely interrogated by telephone as many of the other witnesses. Sofia recently changed attorneys, expressing dissatisfaction with Claes Borgström.
Furthermore, if Sweden had filed any charges they would not have been adjudicated in public or by a jury. These kinds of evidence and procedural matters are almost never reported by mainstream news accounts, which usually simplify the issues into what amounts to a smear: that Assange was accused of rape and other sexual misconduct by unidentified young women.
As reported by the Washington Post:
Last week, The Swedish Prosecution Authority said in a statement that Sweden's director of public prosecution, Marianne Ny, "today decided to discontinue the investigation" into a rape claim against Assange." The Post further reported that Assange has disputed the rape allegation and also argued that he risked being extradited by Sweden to the United States and tried for espionage.
Per Samuelson, Assange's attorney, said in an emailed statement that Assange had "proved his innocence." The case was closed, he wrote, "because an innocent man proved he was not guilty!"
But Swedish officials said the decision only drops the case and is not a ruling on Assange's guilt or innocence. The attorney for Assange's accuser said it was a "scandal" that the case was not tried in court. In explaining why Sweden was dropping the investigation, Ny (shown in an official photo) told a news conference in Stockholm that "all possibilities to advance the investigation have now been exhausted" and that the legal proceedings could continue only if Assange were present in Sweden.
Ny's words appear to represent more obfuscation by either a zealot or a puppet, as indicated by the history of her nation's oppressive tactics.
Her office's authoritarian procedures and goals contradict Sweden's conventional public image as a bastion of human rights and rule of law but not necessarily that of a nation that bends its legal procedures, as in the past, to the needs of its power structure and their international allies, most especially the United States.
As an example of those patterns, Swedish media were jolted last year by the revelation that Martin Fredriksson (shown in a file photo), a prominent leftist "journalist" who opposed WikiLeaks and Assange, was an operative of Sweden's intelligence service.
The Indicter published details: Paid agent of Swedish security services implicated in second disinformation campaign against Assange, which began "In the first part of this series, The Indicter exposed that a former paid agent of Sweden's Security Police had intervened with Amnesty Sweden (the Swedish section of Amnesty International), directly dictating its negative stance towards Julian Assange."
Now Britain reportedly wants to prosecute Assange for seeking political asylum instead of reporting for extradition. In an honest system, that charge could be reasonably resolved, including with mutual agreement for jail time. In a dishonest system, it would be reasonable for a defendant to conclude that the system cannot be trusted to adjudicate a bond-jumping claim even in the face of United Nations determination of illegal detention and all the rest of these abuses.
Related News Coverage (Reverse chronology order by publication date)
Sweden Drops Claims Against WikiLeaks Founder; UK Charges Bail-Jumping
Washington Post, Sweden drops Assange rape allegation, but Britain says WikiLeaks founder still faces arrest, Karla Adam, May 19, 2017. Swedish prosecutors on Friday dropped their investigation into a rape allegation against Julian Assange, closing a nearly seven-year legal saga that led the WikiLeaks founder to seek sanctuary at the Ecuadoran Embassy in London. But British police said that Assange still faces arrest for jumping bail if he walks out of diplomatic protection, which he claims is needed to keep him from being extradited to the United States to face charges of disclosing confidential military and diplomatic documents.
The Swedish Prosecution Authority said in a statement that Sweden's director of public prosecution, Marianne Ny, "today decided to discontinue the investigation" into a rape claim against Assange. Assange has disputed the rape allegation. He also argued that he risked being extradited by Sweden to the United States and tried for espionage.
He took refuge in the embassy in 2012. Assange's lawyer, Per Samuelson, said in an emailed statement that Assange had "proved his innocence." The case was closed, he wrote, "because an innocent man proved he was not guilty!"
But Swedish officials said the decision only drops the case and is not a ruling on Assange's guilt or innocence. The attorney for Assange's accuser said it was a "scandal" that the case was not tried in court. In explaining why Sweden was dropping the investigation, Ny told a news conference in Stockholm that "all possibilities to advance the investigation have now been exhausted" and that the legal proceedings could continue only if
The Indicter, New Analysis of Swedish Police Report Confirms Julian Assange's Version in Sweden's case, Celia Farber, Jan. 3, 2017. Author and investigative reporter Celia Farber concludes that the police reports confirm Julian Assange's testimony, as given to the prosecutor in her questioning conducted at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. It has also been established that the crucial allegations against Mr Julian Assange, as have appeared in the Swedish and international media were constructed by the police and were not what the complainants really said or wished to achieve.
It has been discovered that it was the police, or the prosecutor's office, which unlawfully and/or unethically leaked the "allegations" to the evening paper Expressen, which is clearly known for its declared NATO sympathies. Regrettably, but also predictably, this was an opportunity for Western mainstream media to create a scandal around the founder of WikiLeaks. Likewise, it was an occasion used by the MSM to insidiously attack the organization that had partly exposed the corruption of the governments they represent, and partly surpassed them in journalistic efficacy and objectivity.
But it was more than purely vendetta-time; it was a well-articulated campaign which started that day in August 2010 when – according to the Snowden documents– the US government asked the countries participating in the military occupation of Afghanistan under US command to prosecute Julian Assange. Sweden obeyed; others cooperated.
Nevertheless, the Afghan Logs and the Iraq Logs exposed by WikiLeaks remained published. The WikiLeaks founder did not surrender. The Assange case, already politically in its origins, turned into a spiral of increasing geopolitical dimensions.
Our position has always been that the above-described political aspect has always been present in the 'Assange case' and we could hardly be – in principle – interested in furthering a discussion on details pertaining the intimacy of Mr Assange or of other people around the constructed 'legal case.'
Daily Mail, Ex-British ambassador who is now a WikiLeaks operative claims Russia did NOT provide Clinton emails; they were handed over to him at a D.C. park by an intermediary for 'disgusted' Democratic whistleblowers, Alana Goodman, Dec. 14, 2016. A Wikileaks envoy today claims he personally received Clinton campaign emails in Washington D.C. after they were leaked by 'disgusted' whisteblowers – and not hacked by Russia. Craig Murray, former British ambassador to Uzbekistan and a close associate of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, told Dailymail.com that he flew to Washington, D.C. for a clandestine hand-off with one of the email sources in September. [See Mr. Murray Goes to Washington,]
'Neither of [the leaks] came from the Russians,' said Murray (shown in a file photo) in an interview with Dailymail.com on Tuesday. 'The source had legal access to the information. The documents came from inside leaks, not hacks.'
His account contradicts directly the version of how thousands of Democratic emails were published before the election being advanced by U.S. intelligence.
Murray is a controversial figure who was removed from his post as a British ambassador amid allegations of misconduct. He was cleared of those but left the diplomatic service in acrimony. His links to Wikileaks are well known and while his account is likely to be seen as both unprovable and possibly biased, it is also the first intervention by Wikileaks since reports surfaced last week that the CIA believed Russia hacked the Clinton emails to help hand the election to Donald Trump.
Murray's claims about the origins of the Clinton campaign emails comes as U.S. intelligence officials are increasingly confident that Russian hackers infiltrated both the Democratic National Committee and the email account of top Clinton aide John Podesta. In Podesta's case, his account appeared to have been compromised through a basic 'phishing' scheme, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.
U.S. intelligence officials have reportedly told members of Congress during classified briefings that they believe Russians passed the documents on to Wikileaks as part of an influence operation to swing the election in favor of Donald Trump.
Assange were present in Sweden.
Justice Integrity Project, Assange Rape Defense Underscores Shameful Swedish, U.S. Tactics, Andrew Kreig, Dec. 12, 2016. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange last week refuted the dubious rape prosecution Sweden began against him in August 2010. Assange's written response on Dec. 7, with his first detailed defense, underscores the disgraceful procedures used by Sweden, the United States, and the United Kingdom, with the complicity of most mainstream media outlets because of their pattern of omitting evidence in biased news accounts.
With the zeal and arrogance of a police state, Sweden has repeatedly violated due process under a veneer of legal and human rights rhetoric. Sweden's use of sexual misconduct claims to capture Assange stems from coordinated reprisal by the three nations for his WikiLeaks publication in 2010 that included some 250,000 classified U.S. diplomatic cables and "The Afghan Diaries," a trove of 80,000 documents.
These materials exposed diplomatic hypocrisy (including regarding Sweden's ostensible "neutrality") suspected war crimes, and cover-up by Sweden and NATO members.
The Hill, WikiLeaks claims Obama hacking probe is investigating WikiLeaks, Katie Bo Williams, Dec. 9, 2016. Anti-secrecy platform WikiLeaks on Friday claimed President Obama's probe into Russian interference in the U.S. election was an investigation into WikiLeaks itself. "CNN: Obama orders report into WikiLeaks timed for release just prior to Trump presidency," the group tweeted, linking to a CNN report about the hacking review that does not mention WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks throughout the election published troves of hacked documents believed to have been stolen by Russia. It has vociferously denied any links to Moscow.
New York Times, WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Denies Rape in Detailed Account of Encounter, Dan Bilefsky, Dec. 7, 2016. Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, offered his most detailed and public account on Wednesday of events that led to a rape accusation against him in Sweden, saying he was innocent and had engaged in "consensual and enjoyable sex" with the accuser.
Last month, questions prepared by Swedish prosecutors were posed to Mr. Assange at the Ecuadorean Embassy, where he has been living since 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden over the rape accusation. The questions were asked by an Ecuadorean prosecutor under an agreement made by the two countries in August.
But in a move that is likely to irk Swedish prosecutors, whom Mr. Assange has denounced for forcing him to remain confined in the embassy for the past six years, the WikiLeaks founder on Wednesday released the answers he gave during the interview. In the 19-page statement, which reads alternately like a legal defense brief and an emotional airing of personal grievances, he writes that he is "entirely innocent" and had engaged in "consensual and enjoyable" sex with the woman who accused him of rape.
WikiLeaks has courted controversy by publishing confidential and damaging information from the United States and other countries. During the American presidential election, WikiLeaks came under renewed scrutiny for distributing hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee, and Mr. Assange acknowledged that he was timing their release to do maximum harm to the White House prospects of Hillary Clinton.
Mr. Assange, 45, an Australian, has refused to go to Sweden to face the rape accusation for fear, he says, of being extradited to the United States and being jailed for life, even though the Swedish authorities have sought to allay such concerns. No formal charges have been filed against him.
Guardian, Julian Assange defies Swedish prosecutors by releasing rape statement, David Crouch, Dec. 7, 2016. WikiLeaks founder publishes answers he gave during questioning in Ecuador's London embassy over rape allegationJulian Assange has thumbed his nose at Swedish investigators, who he says have robbed him of his freedom for six years, by releasing the answers he gave to them under questioning in Ecuador's London embassy last month.
The decision to issue the statement, which contains for the first time a detailed account by the WikiLeaks founder of his encounter with a woman in August 2010 who made rape allegations against him, marks a fresh twist in a case in which Assange claims an early leak of information from the Swedish police has shaped opinion.
The Indicter, Controversy over WikiLeaks Podesta Emails Opens a Debate for Future Journalism, Nozomi Hayase, Nov. 3, 2016. In its 10th years of existence, WikiLeaks has been at the center of controversy. Ever since its global debut with the 2010 Apache helicopter gun-sight video depicting the killing of civilians in Baghdad, the whistleblowing site has consistently exposed the naked power of empire for the world to see. As a result, the organization has been subject to relentless retaliation. With banking blockades, a secret grand jury and constant character assassination of its founder Julian Assange, who remains arbitrarily detained in the Ecuadorian embassy, the U.S. government's efforts to divert public attention from evidence of its own crimes have quickly escalated into a war on the First Amendment.
WikiLeaks' publications influenced the outcome of a Kenyan election and played a role in instigating the Icelandic revolution. Now, by means of email leaks, they began informing U.S. voters of the real working of Corporate America's tradition of lesser-evil politics.
After the DNC email leaks that led to the resignation of top DNC officials, WikiLeaks has intensified its activity. Since October 7, they began publishing emails from the private account of Hillary Clinton's campaign chair John Podesta. The archive contained transcripts of Clinton's paid Goldman Sachs speeches that show her two faces and total disconnect from the middle class. It also revealed her private remarks dismissing climate activists. As usual, the leaks have been condemned by the status quo and Clinton loyalists. This time, a narrative that 'Vladimir Putin was meddling in the election' was used to discredit their publication, with the mainstream media creating an echo chamber of McCarthy-era style hysteria.
CraigMurray.org, Mr. Murray Goes to Washington, Craig Murray, Sept. 15, 2016. After a 16,000 person petition to the State Department and letter writing and lobbying including by Jeremy Corbyn, Roger Waters and Daniel Ellsberg, I have been granted a 10-year US visa. I will be going to Washington in a week to have the great honor to chair the presentation of the Sam Adams Award to John Kiriakou – the CIA agent who blew the whistle on waterboarding, and was jailed for it as part of the disgraceful Obama/Clinton War on Whistleblowers. I shall also be speaking at the World Beyond War conference at American University on the subject of peaceful conflict resolution.
The Indicter, Paid agent of Swedish security services implicated in second disinformation campaign against Assange, Marcello Ferrada de Noli (shown in a file photo), March 13, 2016. In the first part of this series, The Indicter exposed that a former paid agent of Sweden's Security Police had intervened with Amnesty Sweden (the Swedish section of Amnesty International), directly dictating its negative stance towards Julian Assange.
In this article, I analyze whether Swedish government security agents, or 'former agents,' have been further involved in a disinformation campaign against the founder of WikiLeaks and its whistleblower publishing. An important source here is the activity of Researchgruppen (aka Research Group), the journalist-collective organization led by Martin Fredriksson, a former paid agent of the Swedish Security Police – or, as it's better known by its Swedish acronym, SÄPO.
Researchgruppen is an organization founded by Martin Fredriksson (shown in a portrait via Wikimedia) and others in 2010 (while he was still a paid agent of SÄPO) that claims to target extreme right-wing or right-conservative parties, organizations that, however, all share a staunch opposition to the incorporation of Sweden into NATO. Researchgruppen has also received support and assignments from Expressen, one of the main Swedish evening newspapers, well-known for leading an earlier campaign against WikiLeaks and Assange.
The "My Special Interests" programs are podcasts in which the ex-SÄPO agent and guests – occasionally including other collaborators working as SÄPO agents, besides Fredriksson – share opinions on topics built around the political and geopolitical stances of Researchgruppen. Many of these stances are, in fact, very similar to the views held by prominent Swedish politicians who have been exposed by WikiLeaks as having provided information to U.S. intelligence services, such as in the case of former Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt.
A prominent characteristic of the podcasts is their harsh criticism of Julian Assange, combined with a fierce anti-Russian bias – particularly targeting Russia's president Vladimir Putin. The podcasts – so far 22 programs have been produced – are each about one hour long.
The Indicter, Former paid agent of Swedish Security Police dictated Amnesty Sweden's stance against Assange, Marcello Ferrada de Noli, (Chairman of Swedish Doctors for Human Rights), March 6, 2016. Svenska Dagbladet (SVD), one of Sweden's leading newspapers, has now revealed that a well-known journalist and 'left activist' – who, among other things, exerted considerable influence with Amnesty International Sweden – was a paid agent of Sweden's Security Police (SÄPO).
Svenska Dagbladet (SVD) (Swedish daily newspaper), When the real Salander sold out to Sapo, Sam Sundberg, March 2, 2016. (Translated by Google, with JIP editorial revisions). One of the more nationally famous left activists, Martin Fredriksson, released this day a bomb in social media. In a groovy Twitter, he reveals that he was for many years a paid Sapo informant during a time when he has been active in the Antifascist Action and Research Group.
Fredriksson (shown in a file photo) is best known as co-founder in the journalist community of the Research Group, which conducted an extensive digging job of the right-wing's digital activities. In cooperation with the Expressen and Aftonbladet newspapers, he revealed the anonymous authors of racist sites Exposed, Free Times and Avpixlat and hateful writers on the web forum Flashback.
For a collaboration with Expressen, Fredriksson, along with five colleagues in the Research Group, has been awarded the guldspaden, one of Sweden's greatest prizes for investigative journalism. He has also worked as a researcher for Robert Aschberg TV show "Insider."
The Indicter, New Analysis of Swedish Police Report Confirms Julian Assange's Version in Sweden's case, Celia Farber, Jan. 3, 2017. Author and investigative reporter Celia Farber concludes that the police reports confirm Julian Assange's testimony, as given to the prosecutor in her questioning conducted at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. It has also been established that the crucial allegations against Mr Julian Assange, as have appeared in the Swedish and international media, were constructed by the police and were not what the complainants really said or wished to achieve.
2013 Background
Sydney Morning Herald, Assange prosecutor quits while accuser sacks lawyer, Philip Dorling, March 28, 2013. The top Swedish prosecutor pursuing sexual assault allegations against Julian Assange has abruptly left the case and one of Mr Assange's accusers has sacked her lawyer.
The Swedish Prosecution Authority wants to extradite Mr Assange to have him questioned in Stockholm in relation to sexual assault allegations by two women. Fairfax Media has obtained Swedish court documents that reveal high-profile Swedish prosecutor Marianne Ny has unexpectedly left the handling Mr Assange's case, effective from Wednesday, and has been replaced by a more junior prosecutor, Ingrid Isgren. The reasons for the change have not yet been disclosed.
One of Mr Assange's two accusers, political activist Anna Ardin, also applied to the Swedish courts on February 28 to replace her controversial lawyer Claes Borgstrom. Ms Ardin complained that she found Mr Borgstrom spent much more time talking to the media than to her, referred her inquiries to his secretary or assistant, and that she had lost faith in him as her legal representative.
As well as pursuing the prosecution of Mr Assange, Mr Borgstrom has been heavily criticised for his handling of another high-profile case involving an alleged mass murderer, with one prominent Swedish commentator describing him as doing "the worst defence counsel job in modern Swedish history."
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Atttorney Andrew Kreig, J.D., M.S.L., is a Washington, DC-based author, investigative reporter, attorney, and non-profit executive who founded the Justice Integrity Project (www.justice-integrity.org) to expose threats to democracy and human rights. Active in researching political prosecutions, torture, illegal surveillance, and media bias, his most recent book is Presidential Puppetry: Obama, Romney and their Masters (www.presidentialpuppetry.com). Andrew Kreig began his career as a reporter with the Hartford Courant, America's oldest (1764) newspaper still in publication, and obtained law degrees from Yale and the University of Chicago. He has since written and spoken widely for mainstream and alternative audiences. These include appearances on more than a hundred commercial broadcast stations, lectures on five continents, and human rights reports for the Huffington Post and The Professors' Blog.
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Category: Feb. 27, 2015
Newscast 1
Joe Sykes - February 27, 2015 February 27, 2015 - 2015 Broadcasts, News, Feb. 27, 2015, Newscasts
Weighing The Long Term Effects Of A Military Intervention
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President Obama is asking Congress to give him the power to take military action in the Middle East. He is seeking approval to fight the self-proclaimed Islamic State, or ISIS. But it seems like Congress doesn't want to grant these war powers to the President. Gregoire Molle explores what are the long-term worries of a decision that needs to be taken soon.
New York City Football Club Kicks Off Inaugural Season
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Two years ago, Manchester City Football Club and the New York Yankees acquired a Major League expansion team for 10 million dollars. The New York City Football Club is expected to start its inaugural season in nine days.
Black Girls Face Disproportionate Punishment in NYC Schools
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Black girls in New York City public schools are being suspended at 10 times the rate of white girls according to a report released this month. This has been blamed on a set of education policies known as zero tolerance discipline. Joe Sykes visited one school where they do things a little differently
Beer Hot Chocolate? Wait, What?
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Every February, City Bakery hosts its Hot Chocolate Festival and every day brings a new flavor. While beer and chocolate might not seem like natural allies, Maury Rubin, the man responsible for this concoction, thinks otherwise.
Update on Marijuana Laws Around the Country
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Newscast II
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Reassuring Immigrants After the Halt of DACA
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The debate over funding the agency reflects a greater fight over President Barack Obama's immigration policies. A federal judge in Texas halted the launch of a program last week that would have prevented 4 million people from being deported. Adélie Pontay reports that without the program, advocates and immigrant communities are scrambling on what to do next.
The City Wants to Fix Your Elevator
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the Housing and Buildings committee discussed establishing an emergency repair program that would allow the city to step in and fix the elevator when the landlord doesn't. That's good news for the residents of 545 W 146th St. The building is number five on the city's "Top Elevator Offenders" list. It has 17 violations.
Slush Waves Wash Over Nantucket
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Not all slushies come in styrofoam cups. Off the coast of Massachusetts yesterday, Nantucket islanders saw giant waves frozen over with slush. Sarah Oktay is an oceanographer at the University of Massachusetts Field Station on the island. She tells Cassandra Basler why this happens when record cold combines with a very specific set of conditions.
Talk of Diplomatic Normalization Between U.S. and Cuba
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United States and Cuban officials talk to normalize diplomatic relations. Cubans in New York are hopeful removing Cuba from U.S. terrorist list are key to reestablishing a relationship.
Farewell to Leonard Nimoy
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Commentary — Eat Worms or Get Beaten Up: A High School Dilemma
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The authority figures I was supposed to respect were acting like high school-ers themselves. I felt like a kid on the playground being told to eat a worm or get beaten up. I was terrified. But there was no way I could give up my classmates.
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Seamless integration in the Ascom DECT alarm system
The companies, Ascom and innovaphone, have been working closely for many years and have a very productive technological partnership. At the Weinsberg clinic, Ascom had an installed DECT emergency system that was certainly to remain part of and be integrated into the new system infrastructure, in order to protect investments already made. In the first step, the innovaphone PBX on an IP6000 was switched between the existing Hicom 300 PBX and the Ascom DECT system. In addition, the existing analogue devices were converted to IP or analogue converters so that the actual installation work would only take up one working day, with finishing work in the following week.
A further system change for wireless telephony including an emergency call system was also pending. Whilst the "old" system was based on a two-wire connection (Ascom DECT) and it was necessary only to replace the central component with an IP DECT gateway (the installed 2-wire base stations could be kept) – keyword "smooth migration"; an Ascom IP DECT base station was installed in a new building complex in Weinsberg which could be directly connected over Ethernet. The advantages in the latter case are obvious: no separate wiring was necessary in the new building as the entire emergency call system is realised using the Ethernet that was necessary anyway. Mathias Kropf is the responsible manager at Ascom for the entire project, he comments: "Roaming and handover between the old system and the new system work perfectly. There are no limitations in extending the installation in the future. This means maximum protection for investments already carried out."
The existing Siemens PBX including the DECT system and all patient telephones was also replaced in Wiesloch by an innovaphone PBX running on the IP6000 and an Ascom IP DECT system. The entire site was newly illuminated and coverage was provided by 360 Ascom base stations. This guarantees that a base station is available absolutely anywhere within the clinic – an essential precondition due to the high security requirements within the hospital treatment order.
A unified homogeneous system without any media breaks
The individual clinics within the alliance have their own administration units but closely collaborate with each other. In order to enable the most efficient and cost efficient communication infrastructure within the alliance, the systems were linked to each other using WAN routes. According to Mathias Kropf, it was of utmost importance for those responsible that, "a modern scalable technology should be introduced which could be managed remotely and which had access to existing data pools – in one particular case the Active Directory."
With the "Microsoft Active Directory Replication", the innovaphone PBX provides a feature that simply replicates the user from the Microsoft Active Directory to the PBX. The user information in the Active Directory, such as first name, last name, telephone number etc., can be automatically adopted and deleted by the innovaphone PBX. The administrator only maintains the user information in one place which saves a significant amount of time. Thanks to the integration of the Active Directory, telephony is incorporated in the clinic alliance's IT strategy. At the end of the day, introducing the innovaphone PBX enabled ONE integrated system to be used which incorporates both the innovaphone PBX and a maximum IP DECT integration including a full emergency call system and UC applications.
Simple maintenance and cost reduction with a centralised PBX
The introduction of the innovaphone PBX means that the IT departments are now responsible for telephony in these clinics. All three clinics agree that this has drastically reduced the amount of time needed for maintenance and trainings. Unlike previous models with their very high maintenance costs – traditional PBXs by renowned manufacturers –, the new system requires just a short training session in order for the in-house IT team to take care of any occurring maintenance. Voice quality is in no way inferior to that of traditional telephony. The value-added functionalities such as e.g. access to the Active Directory is very much appreciated by employees. Defective telephone receiver wires were the only cause of agitation at the beginning, but this was soon solved by quickly replacing the wires.
Ascom is very pleased with its choice of cooperation partner, according to Mathias Kropf: "innovaphone is a less well-known manufacturer and there was some scepticism at the beginning. The successful implementation of the project in the clinic alliance has impressively shown that innovaphone not only scores well in combination with Ascom in the DECT sector, but that innovaphone has a fully mature and extremely powerful PBX, that is very much on a par with the big manufacturers in the industry also for fixed line telephony. Even more: precisely because it is a medium-sized company, innovaphone can react quickly and flexibly to customer requirements and is thus superior to a lot of the big providers."
Concerning future plans, there are some ideas to integrate other buildings such as external day clinics into the communication infrastructure. "The projects that have already been realised in Heilbronn, Schwäbisch Hall and Schwäbisch Gmünd have shown how uncomplicated it is to integrate new sites with the innovaphone PBX," comments Matthias Kropf.
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When I was growing up, I loved an early reality TV show on Sunday nights called "Those Amazing Animals." Remember it? It was a spin-off of "That's Incredible!" and featured the extraordinary lives of animals. The show's hosts were Burgess Meredith, Priscilla Presley, and some other guy whose name I've forgotten. It didn't last long, maybe a year or so on ABC before being canceled, but it made a lasting impression on me.
Even if you're not into cars, you've got to be impressed with Tim Wallace's dramatic cover photo this month. It's always a fun if difficult task trying to pick a cover image for Shutterbug because there are so many good photos to choose from. In Wallace's case, we created several different cover mock-ups using his distinctive car photos and while they all looked great, the image we picked with the mountains in the background and the hard-charging Shelby Mustang GT tearing it up below, just spoke to what this issue is all about.
Drone photography is here to stay, whether the government likes it or not. That's one of the messages from Lorin Robinson's excellent round-table discussion piece "Those Daring Photographers and Their Flying Machines" on page 90 of this issue. In the story, Robinson interviews three experienced imaging drone pilots in what is part "state of the drone industry" and part call to arms.
What does the future hold? It's a question that's been pondered by philosophers, scientists, and dreamers through the ages. But accurately predicting the future is no easy task and, in fact, it's been a fool's errand for many. Take, for instance, the photo industry. It may be hard to believe, but just a little over a decade ago, there were still some major manufacturers banking on film to lead them through the years of digital disruption.
If you want to find a way to a photographer's heart, it's through their lenses. Yes, as much as photography might appear to be a camera-obsessed culture, it's the optics that matter most. Visit our website, Shutterbug.com, and you'll see this clearly. We cover a range of timely photography news on the site, everything from product announcements to photo book reviews and features on gallery shows, but whenever a new lens is unveiled or we do a review of some quality glass from Canon, Nikon, Tamron, Sigma, or other companies, our readers flock to it.
"Location is everything," the old real estate maxim goes, and I think I've landed in a pretty good spot. If you're a longtime Shutterbug reader, you just might be saying to yourself now: "Who the heck is this guy and what's he doing here?" The short answer, in case you missed last month's Editor's Notes, is that George Schaub stepped down as Shutterbug's editor and I've taken over for him. I've known George for most of the time I've worked in the photography magazine industry, which is going on 16 years, and he's always been someone I've admired.
This is my last issue as editor of Shutterbug. It has been my pleasure to work on this and other photo magazines in the Shutterbug realm for the past 14 years, and it has been for me the most fun and amazing job one could imagine. I have witnessed, and hopefully reported on faithfully and accurately, the amazing changes we all have seen in photography, as well as worked with a great group of wonderful folks at the magazine itself. In our jobs, we are only as good as the friends, colleagues, and teams we work with, and it has been my great fortune to have been associated with hard-working and dedicated people who I have always considered as friends. They helped me greatly through the fun times, and the hard times, of this job and my life.


Feel the sunshine in this in-depth interview with Tess and Tom, the duo behind Hawaiian food and hospitality company, Hanai Family Table.
Shaun Seihachi Inouye, Programming Associate at The Cinematheque, is slated to speak at the next PechaKucha (October 18th).
Check out his latest exhibition of drawings, "Crowland", on the walls of Luppolo Brewing in Strathcona this weekend.
An insightful and introspective long form interview with one of Vancouver's most prolific and talented photographers.
With their in-your-face colours and bizarre scenarios, the bold art of this local illustrator and music demanded our attention.
Durrell's debut doc is screening at The Cinematheque from July 5 - 11th. Don't miss this fascinating entry into Canada's film canon!
...where we discuss dreamworlds, misplaced nostalgia, Wandering Albatrosses and a (possible future) career as a whale tattoo artist.
Meet the woman behind the local line-up of personified jams and find out about her seasonal, personal and fictional inspirations.
She's mastered the food pun so be sure to have a couple in your arsenal when you see her at East Van's upcoming Got Craft festival.


More friends are getting married. Surely I'm too young to be feeling like Bridget Jones?
Becca's sister got engaged last night. We've known for months that he was going to propose, but we didn't know when! It's not like we could call her and ask, is it? He popped the question last night. She said yes, of course.
I really can't even imagine marriage at the moment. That far into the future is just a blur to me.
But I'm so excited for Anna and Sam. They better not have the wedding in the next 5months - I'm not missing seeing my bestfriend in a bridesmaid's dress!
I can't imagine getting married either...considering I'll be 22 soon I could realistically get married sometime in the next few years, but I just couldn't imagine it! Marriage is for grown ups, I definitely won't consider myself a grown up for a good while yet!
I want to get married, but I want to look as though I'm a grown up in my dress. This is not likely to happen anytime soon.


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Legal Spotlight: How We Won an Award This Year
October 25, 2016 By // by Art Fulmer, Jr.
"Superb" rating from Avvo
What is Avvo and its Attorney Rating System?
What the award means for Fulmer Law, PA
We are proud to announce that we have been recognized with an award from a prominent legal rating and review site. The Clients' Choice Award was presented to Art Fulmer, Jr., by Avvo on August 23, 2016, for receiving consistently positive client reviews.
What's so special about this distinction is that it is based on objective standards and relates directly to the quality of work we have delivered when representing our clients. Avvo describes ratings of 6-6.9 as Good, 7-7.9 as Very Good, 8-8.9 as Excellent, and 9+ as Superb. Art has achieved a Superb score of 9.2.
Avvo is intended as a comprehensive rating service for lawyers. As such, the site creates profiles on attorneys, with extensive background information, such as major cases, awards, educational background, and other aspects of their story. After verifying their identity, lawyers can update and expand these profiles as they see fit.
Why is Avvo an important gauge of attorney quality? The platform is fundamentally unbiased, serving to make the field of law more transparent. Director Conrad Saam told The Balance that the rankings can be thought of as a "resume scoring application" on a level playing field, with the same standards applied to all attorneys. He added, "We are not served at all by having inaccurate… information in any profile."
Avvo explains the basic parameters of the ratings on its website:
Objectivity – Each attorney's score is determined using the same mathematical formula. Favoritism is excluded from the system.
Perspectival breadth – Thousands of people, the bulk of whom were legal clients and hundreds of whom were attorneys, contributed to the specific model used for the rankings.
Straightforwardness – The rating is simple and to the point, boiling down an attorney's credibility and skill to a single number on a scale of 1 to 10.
According to the stipulations listed by Avvo, this award followed a thorough review of the law record of Art Fulmer, Jr. However, it's important to note that the designation is firmly rooted in the satisfaction of clients, as told in their own words. After all, in granting us the award, Avvo stated specifically that the honor was based on client reviews.
That's not surprising to us, as indicated by the sample success stories told by our clients on Avvo and on our site. "Watching Mr. Fulmer during our mediation was so cool," says one client review on Avvo. "You could tell that everyone there respected him, and he successfully settled my case for more than I ever thought I could get."
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An update to my post from February 4, 2009. The following are photographs of the "Ovoid" Rougier lamp that I was unable to find a good picture of. Many thanks to Jeff H., who sent these three pictures to me.
Below, two photographs of a larger mushroom shaped Rougier tube lamp. Image source, eBay. From chicagogoody.


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Top 10 Websites - 2010
Our annual list of the 10 best planning, design, and development websites represents some of the top online resources for those interested in planning, design, and development.
We've listed the websites alphabetically, with host organization listed in italics if different from the website name. This list is based on nominations by Planetizen readers and staff, and judged against a common set of criteria, including content, design, and usability.
Blueprint America
www.pbs.org/wnet/blueprintamerica/
With Netflix streaming movies and shows migrating to Hulu, time in front of the TV set is becoming increasingly scarce. Meanwhile, PBS and NPR have become more relevant than ever, cranking out high-quality documentaries that are timely and topical, and yes, often online. Blueprint America is a PBS series on dedicated to that least sexy of topics, infrastructure. The "Beyond the Motor City" episode goes deeper than most reporting into Detroit's woes, and is supplemented on the website by additional interviews and slideshows. e2 is a sexier PBS series, but with episodes tackling high speed rail, gas taxes, and the stimulus package, Blueprint America is a more realistic look at the nuts and bolts issues facing the U.S.
www.data.gov/
The locked doors of the government are now open. This site contains three separate catalogs of data and data-based tools for government information: the raw data catalog, which includes a variety of data streams and file formats, the online tool catalog of compiled searches and resources, and the geodata catalog of geography-based data streams. Data.gov is part of the federal government's Open Government Directive, this website is a clearinghouse for federal public information. It's also a major part of the government's effort to become more accessible and transparent. As the potential of open data and open government evolve, this site is likely to play a major role in the way government information is shared.
www.good.is
Like its name implies, GOOD is a magazine focused on the good things in life. Not luxuries so much, but more along the lines of good ideas. It's a quarterly print magazine that has developed into a vibrant online publication. The magazine was founded in 2006, but over the course of the last year it has taken on a strong city focus in its editorial work. With innovative and well-designed infographics, and a raft of columns and articles on design, neighborhoods and cities, GOOD is developing into an accessible and lay-person friendly discussion of the best ideas in citymaking and community improvement. Good indeed.
The Infrastructurist
www.infrastructurist.com/
The Infrastructurist is possibly the most comprehensive and focused resource for infrastructure-related news in the United States. But the story doesn't stop at the border. This well-informed and mainly objective website covers the range of infrastructure issues being faced all over the globe -- from high speed rail to highway sprawl to renewable energy. As global cities lean away from the private automobile and towards public transit systems, The Infrastructurist's editorial purview is wonkiness that's right on time.
The "Ists"
www.gothamist.com/
www.laist.com/
http://dcist.com/
During the internet boom, a lot of companies were seeking to create the go-to source for local and "hyper-local" news. After all, with newspapers dying and taking far too long to get a real web presence, there was a real void for local coverage. A number of challengers stood up, but the "Ist" network pulled it off with style. And, amazingly, they've kept up the promise of internet news with timely coverage of local government issues, including the goings-on at the planning department and city hall. LAist, for one, has done a great job of reporting the ongoing fiascos at the planning department over the plague of digital billboards. Granted, among the city reportage are band listings, random Flickr photos, and rumors, but the Ists regularly bring breaking local news that leave local newspapers in the dust.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
www.lincolninst.edu/
The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy is an international research organization that focuses on issues of land use, regulation and taxation. They also happen to have a highly useful website that is thick with resources and tools, including a database with everything you'd ever need to know about the property tax; a collection of 'visual tools' to communicate planning concepts; and a collection of 700 case studies of colleges and universities and how they integrate into urban neighborhoods. While not the sexiest of websites in terms of design, there's a wealth of interesting research for land use professionals.
places.designobserver.com/
Places is the new online home of Places Journal, the interdisciplinary journal of contemporary architecture, landscape and urbanism. Published since 1983, Places has played a vibrant and active role in the urban discourse, and its new online form broadens that conversation. Featuring commentaries, academic essays, and archives dating back to issue one, Places offers a valuable new home for thoughtful discussion and analysis of urbanism and place.
seeclickfix.com/citizens
Harnessing the power of the crowd, SeeClickFix is an easy-to-use web interface that allows citizens to identify and report problems in their communities -- and track their progress (or lack thereof). With search capabilities, mapping tools and problem trackers, concerned citizens can keep tabs on the civic problems in their communities and make sure their local officials do, too. SeeClickFix is one of the most promising tools to enhance public participation in government.
www.thetransportpolitic.com/
There are a lot of blogs and sites out there covering transit and transportation issues, but Yonah Freemark has created a newspage that is a cut above the fray. The front page features detailed reportage on the world's transit systems, with insightful commentary. But deeper in, the site is an encyclopedia of existing, under construction and planned transit systems. Freemark is an independent researcher based in France who somehow manages to seem like he is everyplace at once.
Walkshed
www.walkshed.org/
Walkshed is the brainchild of software developer Aaron Ogle. it takes the Walkscore concept and puts the controls in your hands. For example, if you hate to cook and groceries and farmer's markets mean nothing to you but restaurants and coffee shops are essential, then you can weight those factors more heavily. Walkshed generates a heatmap over your area to show you the areas of your city that cater most to your particular needs. So far Ogle has only covered New York and Philadelphia, but the model looks highly promising and is easy to use.
www.fastcompany.com/
Fast Company has evolved over the years from a internet-boom, business culture magazine into a force to be reckoned with. It's difficult to pin down their beat- their category headers include "ethonomics" (uh, what?), design and leadership. But whatever they're covering, Fast Company reads like a less Red Bull-fueled version of Wired, and that's a good thing. And now with the advent of a new expert blog specifically geared towards cities written by Greg Lindsay, the website is richer than ever.
www.newgeography.com/
It was inevitable that certain voices that reject the current belief system of urban planning- people like Wendell Cox, Joel Kotkin, and Michael Lind- would band together. What wasn't inevitable is that their collaboration would be readable, fair, and dare we say, balanced. With a bent towards the libertarian, Kotkin and crew cover urban issues, housing, politics and the suburbs with a hefty dose of demographics and GIS maps.
spacing.ca/
Canadian planning -- for those south of the border -- is often equated with Vancouver. But there's a whole lot more going on up in the Great White North. The magazine Spacing is the authority on Canadian urbanism and public space. Its two online homes Spacing Toronto and Spacing Montreal track the urban development and public sphere of those two Canadian cities, offering a detailed look at Canada-specific politics, land use issues, green development and urbanism that opens the Canadian conversation beyond B.C.
Urbanophile
www.urbanophile.com/
Smartly-written and approachable, the Urbanophile is a trove of urban solutions. Written by Aaron Renn, the site focuses on urban improvement strategies, with a mainly Midwest bent. With a global recession and continued problems in the former industrial areas of the United States, the fresh ideas and innovative suggestions outlined almost daily in the Urbanophile offer a cogent and achievable sense of hope for the urban areas of the world.
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