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Knowing all about Ecocriticism
The two terms that combine and give this term its name are 'ecology' and 'criticism'. Ecology refers to the science that studies about the interactions between the flora and the fauna in our environment.
The science studies how these entities share a symbiotic relationship with each other as well as with the environment around them, in a particular ecosystem. On the other hand, the term criticism refers to an act of analyzing, interpreting, and concluding about a particular piece of work.
In the literary world, criticism holds importance because it helps one analyze a particular piece of creation in the fullest of sense. Criticism involves evaluating a particular piece of work based on set standards as well as rules. Along with the piece of work, the writers too are evaluated to give a detailed description of that piece of creation. This criticism is brought out either through some essays or some research paper writings by the authors.
Ecocriticism which is also known as environmental criticism or green studies, refers to the criticism done while comparing the subject of criticism to the environment and drawing parallels between the two, thereby exploring the relations between literature and environment, keeping in mind the damage caused to the environment due to the human activities.
This field of study is a complex one and requires immense knowledge on both subjects in order to draw proper comparisons. It thus may be a case that students new to the field may require assignment help usa while working on the topic.
Evidence of the nature being reflected in the works of literature has been found since the ancient works of literature. They were prominent in the accounts of the Garden of Eden in the Hebrew Bible, as well as in the pastoral form originated by the Greek poet Theocritus and later by the Roman poet Virgil.
They represented the rural life in its idealized form, untouched by urban experience and complexity, wherein peace, simplicity, and harmony survived. The long blank-verse poem The Seasons by James Thompson has evidence of the nostalgic view of a return to the unspoiled nature in order to attain peace.
This form of writing was known as nature writing and was widely practiced. An immense focus on nature was laid during the Romantic era of English Literature. Poets like William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, P. B. Shelley took to hand exposing the bests of nature.
Their works aimed to bring to the readers the peaceful aspects of nature and they aimed at informing their audience about major life lessons in the process. For example, Shelley's Ode to the West Wind gives this beautiful lesson that if Winter has come, can Spring be far behind. In this manner,
they played with the elements of nature, with those aspects that were already known to the people yet never seen in the manner these poets made them see it.
When the nineteenth century approached, it saw major developments in the form of the industrial revolution and urbanization. By the mid-nineteenth century, writers like Henry David Thoreau and others in America and England came up with their essays and another piece of writings and started drawing the attention of the people towards the threats humanity posed to the nature and environment. Following this America saw the start of the environment movement in order to protect the wilderness from more impact by humans.
It was in this atmosphere that ecocriticism developed in the 1990s. it formed its own organizations known as the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment and Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. And it soon became widely recognized and worked upon a branch in the field of literary studies.
These organizations came up with various articles, journals, research paper writings, literary periodicals, and in fact programs in college courses and a series of conferences, concerning the literature of the environment in all the continents.
These pieces of ecocritical writings aim at educating the audience and making him aware of the social condition he is living in so that any action can be initiated by one which can be followed by all. Mostly students recommend essay writing services because they are able to provide better writing solutions with all the minimal guidance that is required.
The views of the eco critics take into consideration both the structural and post-colonial views and modes of analysis. A prominent example of the field of ecocriticism is ecofeminism. This movement got impetus through the writings of Annette Kolodny.
The movement came as an analysis of the role attributed to women, by the male authors, in the fantasies of the natural environment as well as the study of the female conceptions of the environment in a time when nature writings by female authors were severely neglected.
In her work, The Lay of the Land: Metaphor as Experience and History in American Life and Letters written in 1975, Annette stresses the male-authored literature wherein land is gendered predominantly as female and the accordant tendency of a person going to the nature for peace and solace as well as gratification.
Thereafter Kolodny proposes a parallel between the dominance and subjugation of women as well as the exploitation of nature. She says that both these entities are the life-carrying forces on Earth, yet both are exploited to the point that leads to their complete destruction, a man not realizing that their end would result at the end of humanity from the earth.
Other such critics have pointed out that the American form of wilderness romance reflects the male imaginings of escape to an unspoiled natural environment, free from women and an effete, woman-dominated civilization, wherein the protagonist undergoes a test of his character.
Then in certain regions, like India, there is a growing interest in the animistic religion wherein nature is considered even above human beings. In the U. S. eco critics are concerned with exposing this practice to the world.
Therefore, within no time ecocriticism has gained popularity equal to any other form of criticism and is important to expose the impacts of human activities on the outer world.
The point stated above, on ecocriticism, is sufficient enough to offer assignment help to students working upon the topic.


Antique Up and Over Butter Churn in excellent condition and with brass fittings.
From our own collection. Marked Lister 8 gallons. Complete with spy hole and all fittings.
Note detaches from the base for easy transportation.
Would look great in a hallway, barn conversion etc.
The barrel detaches from the frame for transportation.


Come meet students who have participated in UK programs abroad or connect with students who are going to the UK in Summer/Fall 2019!
FREE FOOD, TRIVIA & FUN!
This event will be in Dodge 119 from 5:30-8 PM on Tuesday, April 2nd.


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Die Law-Inseln sind eine Gruppe kleiner Inseln vor der Küste des ostantarktischen Kemplands. Sie liegen vor dem östlichen Ende der Law Promontory auf der Westseite der Einfahrt zur Stefansson Bay.

Norwegische Kartographen kartierten sie anhand von Luftaufnahmen der Lars-Christensen-Expedition 1936/37. Eine vom deutsch-australischen Geologen Peter Wolfgang Israel Crohn (1925–2015) geleitete Mannschaft der Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions besuchte sie 1956. Das Antarctic Names Committee of Australia benannte sie nach ihrer Nähe zur Law Promontory. Deren Namensgeber ist der australische Polarforscher Phillip Law (1912–2010).

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One guest tomorrow night at the State of the Union will be Ted Nugent. Nugent will be a guest of Texas Representative Steve Stockman. This is a fitting pair as they both have been vocal on their dislike for President Obama. Representative Steve Stockman wanted to impeach the president over gun control last month. Ted Nugent has referred to the president as vile, evil and even an America hater. He also referred to the whole Obama administration as criminal.
Nugent also famously said "We need to ride into that battlefield and chop their heads off in November." He has made other comments about possibly ending up dead or in jail if Obama was re-elected. These two together should make for a good show as Representative Stockman has been encouraging the press to line up interviews with Nugent after the speech.


Well, that was a hell of a thing.
For a while there, "The Grove" felt like one of the weaker episodes of this half-season. It seemed uncertain how far to push the notion of something being seriously wrong with Lizzie – though there were early hints that she had problems pre-dating the apocalypse, like Mika telling her sister to look at the flowers and count to 3 "like you're supposed to" – versus sticking with the idea that she remained somehow confused after all this time and all the carnage.
Though the Lizzie story wasn't always the most gracefully told one this season, in part because of the limitations of the young actresses involved, this was gripping stuff because the burden wasn't on the girls anymore, but on Melissa McBride and Chad L. Coleman. Not only are they two of the stronger actors remaining in the ensemble – and if you have any doubt of this, please go watch the last 15 minutes of the episode again – but the lingering tension over Carol's murder of Karen and David added extra power to what was already a fraught situation.
The lazy way to go with that development would be for Tyreese to have become fully trusting of Carol – maybe even to have fallen for her, as the only adult woman in his life at the moment – and then feel betrayed as the truth comes out. Instead, the one situation winds up paralleling the other – just as Carol again has to bury a daughter figure who didn't have a mean bone in her body – as Tyreese comes to realize there are scenarios in this post-apocalyptic world where human beings have to make terrible decisions about individuals for the sake of the greater good. In the days gone bye, Lizzie is institutionalized, but all of society's institutions have gone kaput, and there's nothing to be done. Keep Lizzie around, and Judith and other people are constantly in danger. Abandon her, and she either dies anyway (and becomes a walker who could endanger others) or falls in with another group who couldn't possibly imagine a cute little blonde girl being the danger that Lizzie turned out to be. So Carol kills her, "Of Mice and Men"-style, and tells Tyreese the truth about Karen and David at a moment at which he can actually understand why she might have done such a seemingly monstrous thing for the good of the group.
It was a climactic sequence so raw and wrenching that even the usually exuberant Chris Hardwick appeared shaken up when we got the obligatory teaser for "The Talking Dead" at the episode's end.
Some of these season 4.1 character pieces haven't quite worked, but this one slowly worked itself up into something great and horrible. Definitely the highlight of this stretch of episodes so far – if you can call an episode that involves the murder of two sisters a highlight – and a reminder of the power of simplicity on this show, particularly when the actors involved are as good as McBride and Coleman.
1. No talking about the previews for the next episode.
2. No talking about anything else you know about upcoming episodes from other sources – and, yes, that includes anything Gimple and Kirkman have said in interviews.
3. No talking about anything that's happened in the comic that hasn't happened in the TV show yet. (Or anything that's been revealed, like character backstory and motivation.) As with "Game of Thrones," the goal is to treat "The Walking Dead" TV show as exactly that, and not as an excuse for endless comparisons with the comics. If you want to talk about the comics, feel free to start up a discussion thread on our message boards.
NOTE: Like tonight, AMC isn't making this season's remaining episodes available in advance, so reviews will get done when they get done. This one wound up coming out pretty quickly, but I can't guarantee that pace for the next two Sundays.
But in the meantime, what did everybody else think?


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Louis-Gabriel Guillemain: Flute Quartets, Op. 12
Robert Farley studied Baroque trumpet at the Royal College of Music, where he won several prizes including the Ernest Hall Memorial Prize. He currently holds the position of Principal Trumpet with The Orchestra of the Sixteen, Orpheus Britannicus, The Hanover Band, Concerto Copenhagen, and the Carmel Bach Festival California. He is also a regular Guest Principal with Stuttgart Baroque Orchestra and Oregon Bach Festival. With these ensembles he has appeared as Principal Trumpet on numerous critically acclaimed recordings, including J.S. Bach's Mass in B Minor and Orchestral Suites and Handel's Messiah and Coronation Anthems. He has also played as a soloist and as Guest Principal with The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Academy of Ancient Music, The English Concert and the Canadian ensemble, Tafelmusik. Robert's solo work includes recordings of Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, Vivaldi's Concerto for Two Trumpets, Mozart's 'Queen of the Night' aria from The Magic Flute, Handel arias with Emma Kirkby and Bach's Cantata, BWV 51.
Robert is Professor of Baroque Trumpet at both The Royal Academy of Music and Trinity Laban in London, and has given masterclasses at many of the world's leading conservatories. He has also published a number of books, including Natural Trumpet Studies by Brass Wind Publications. Robert plays on a Baroque trumpet made for him by Matthew Parker, based on an instrument by Johann Leonhard Ehe II from Nürnberg, circa 1700.

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David Bowie 1973-04-08 Tokyo ,Shinjuku Koseinenkin Kaikan – Live In Japan (Disc 1) – SQ 8
1973-04-08 Tokyo ,Shinjuku Koseinenkin Kaikan – Live In Japan (Disc 1) – SQ 8
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"Musically he is the most exciting thing to have happened since the fragmentation of the Beatles, and theatrically he is perhaps the most interesting performer ever in the pop music genre." – Japan Times Review
The Live In Japan box set comprises seven of the concerts in Japan in April 1973. it's a premium item, in beautiful packaging, like a set of seven Japanese singles from the era. In some cases, however, the quality of the recording doesn't quite match the quality of the presentation.
Disc 1 is from Shinjuka Kosei Nenkin Kaikan in Tokyo on 8th April 1973 – already variously around as Miscellaneous Of Cats, First Landed Japan and so on (q.v.). This has beautiful sound from the band, but there's a bit of a whistly rattle on the vocals that gets worse and more intrusive as the concert progresses. Towards the end, the sound deteriorates significantly (hence the declining quality rating above). Probably the best of the recordings generally available, but still flawed.


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LinkedIn Stands Up a Private Cloud to Speed Development
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Apr 6th, 2016 12:04pm by TC Currie
Hoping to reduce development and hardware costs, as well as set up a pipeline to speed development of new features, LinkedIn launched its own private cloud, called LPS (LinkedIn Platform as a Service).
"LPS presents an entire data center as a single resource pool to application developers. It allows them to deploy their own applications in minutes, with zero tickets," wrote said Steven Ihde, director of engineering at LinkedIn, in a blog post announcing the initiative. "This allows developers to focus on building, not wasting their time finding machine resources or waiting to deploy."
"We're excited to be taking automation to the next level," Ihde said in a follow-up interview. "We are now automating the whole process of managing applications."
Ihde noted LinkedIn already had good automation for low-level processes like updating software builds. Just two months ago, the company announced the automation of a rapid release pipeline. But more complex operations like setting up new apps required a ticket-based system with people making manual interventions.
"LPS presents an entire data center as a single resource pool to application developers," wrote Ihde in his blog post announcing the launch. "By the time all of the systems that make up LPS are complete, our entire hosting environment will exist as a single holistic system where our internal users can bring a new service online with only API calls, not multiple JIRA tickets."
That certainly is next-level.
LinkedIn has almost a thousand services and hundreds of thousands of service instances that make the website run. LPS replaces many manual or semi-automated processes allocating resources, deciding what to run where and making the most efficient use of the hardware.
"We've been exploring ways to get more resources out of a smaller hardware footprint while increasing productivity by making our software stack more application-oriented," wrote Ihde. "LPS has also reduced the hardware footprint for some workloads by 50 percent or more. In short, this new internal platform will allow our engineers to be more productive, flexible, and innovative while saving the company money."
Engineers set forth the criteria for what heir new ideal hosting environment would need to do in practical terms:
Enable service owners and engineers to manage the lifecycle of their services.
Relentlessly optimize our infrastructure for maximum performance while maintaining robustness and adaptability.
Automatically compensate for human error and unexpected events by bringing more applications or resources online to maintain high availability.
No "hacks" or extra technical debt incurred to achieve the above points.
LPS is a custom cloud solution. Engineers started by pulling existing LinkedIn services including Nuage, inGraphs, and AutoAlerts to "provide the functionality for automatically provisioning data stores, providing operational and performance metrics, and monitoring applications to ensure that new application instances are spun up when they are needed."
Even though LPS is custom, open source solutions are leveraged when possible. After reviewing several possible options including Docker and LXC, the company decided on runC, which has the best fit to the custom apps already in use by LinkedIn.
LPS is multi-faceted, but there are four pieces that LinkedIn detailed in the launch: Rain, RACE, Orca and Maestro.
Rain "combines containerization resource limitation with host allocation in order to safely run a job on a host. Rain figures out where to run it and how to run it, " Ihde said.
On his blog, he went into more detail, calling Rain "LinkedIn's answer for resource allocation and containerization, which uses Linux cgroups and namespaces directly, and also takes advantage of libcontainer via runC."
"It is designed not only to provide a resource guarantee and security isolation for applications but also to integrate seamlessly with our existing infrastructure," Ihde wrote. "Before deploying Rain, it sometimes took more than two days to deploy a service. After Rain, that time was reduced to 10 minutes, a time savings of 95 percent."
RACE (Resource Allocation and Control Engine) is a "suite management system," Ihde said. RACE takes RAIN to the next level: A process may need a large number of instances, and RACE can automatically manage instances – adding or subtracting as necessary, making sure the right number of instances are running at any given time. It also redirects traffic in response to failures or demand surges.
The name Orca is a play on the term orchestration, and the app is focused on orchestrating one-off jobs. "One capability that engineers have often asked for is the ability to spin up a large number of hosts for short run experiments and other jobs," Ihde wrote.
In using Rain and RACE, engineers realized LPS already had automated pieces for creating jobs, resource allocation, running jobs, and recording results, but these systems were not tied together.
Orca allows the to take advantage of temporarily available resources to run experiments and other short-term projects and is expected to conduct testing and to replace current provisioning short run jobs.
Currently, Orca runs 2,000 jobs per day, and Ihde estimates that number will increase to 50,000 jobs by year end.
Maestro is the "conductor" of the LPS symphony, providing a "global view of the LPS system, enabling
Maestro to "manage every aspect of an application's configuration on our platform," Ihde wrote.
Maestro is "bringing together a bunch of resources for a long-term process, for example, allocate a database, or register a new service; it connect all pieces together. Intended as a 'one stop shop,' Maestro maintains a persistent store of settings and configurations for a platform-enabled application."
The persistent store "provide the data, the plan, and the execution model for deploying applications to LPS. The blueprint defines the aspirational state for an application and Maestro 'conducts' by taking the necessary actions to make reality in the data center match the aspiration … By building control plane APIs for every one of these systems, we can automate the process of responding to events like sudden spikes in demand or network interruption."
Not everything will be moved to LPS. For example, there are no plans to move the company's Oracle databases. But Ihde wrote that eventually most of the in-house applications and "associated infrastructure services currently used like Kafka and Pinot will eventually all find a home on this new platform."
Open Source?
Ihde has plans to review parts of LPS that could be released to the open source community. There's no timetable for this yet, but he expects they will be lower-level pieces, starting with Rain or pieces of Rain.
"The lower down on the stack, the fewer dependencies, so the more useful the process are to other people," he explained. RACE, Orca and Maestro all use Rain to run jobs, so it makes the most sense to start with Rain. Additionally, he suggested the company might do "stuff around creating Rain in Python, built some things in Python around Docker and runc, which are examples of what might be useful to the open source community."
What is exciting to the team at LinkedIn is they have just begun to explore the possibilities of LPS.
One interesting potential is using Nuage; LPS could bring cooperation to on-line and off-line worlds. The automation provided through LPS could mean sharing hardware resources between data process jobs and on-line serving jobs. LPS could re-allocate resources during slower traffic surges from on-line service to development or data process jobs. The impact for savings could be tremendous.
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As part of a comprehensive cybersecurity push, the U.S. government will focus on improving its network defense capabilities and on revamping acquisition rules to protect against malicious code installed during the manufacturing process of electronic devices.
The National Cybersecurity Initiative, announced by President George Bush in January, will replace the government's outdated network perimeter defense system, officials from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other agencies said at a Monday cybersecurity conference hosted by the Information Technology Association of America.
Officials from DHS, the White House and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) used the conference to unveil new details about the cybersecurity initiative, which involves multiple government agencies. Cyberattacks have grown more sophisticated and more targeted in the past year, said Melissa Hathaway, senior advisor for cybersecurity at DNI.
"We are faced with a dangerous combination of known and unknown vulnerabilties, strong adversary capabilities and very weak situational awareness at this time," Hathaway added. "We see this as a growing economic and national security crisis that cannot wait any longer to be addressed."
Government officials are increasingly concerned about hidden vulnerabilties and Trojan horses in commercial technology products, said Paul Schneider, deputy secretary at DHS. The U.S. government needs to better protect its supply chain, particularly when a growing number of tech products are produced overseas, he said.
"Make no mistake about it, this is a real concern," Schneider said.
The U.S. government will work with private vendors to address those supply-chain concerns, he said. DHS is looking at implementing stricter acquisition rules for tech products, Jamison added.
There have been recent examples of credit-card point-of-sale machines stealing credit card numbers and passwords, Hathaway noted. "We need to be more and more concerned about backdoors in the supply chain," she said.
Another major concern is the U.S. government's perimeter defense, officials said. The current perimeter defense scanner, nicknamed Einstein, was launched in 2004 and is a largely passive monitoring system, Schneider said.
"Simply put, [Einstein] is a flow management system that lets us know after we've been attacked," added Neill Sciarrone, special assistant on cybersecurity in the White House.
In addition, Einstein protected a small percentage of the access points to the federal government's networks, added Robert Jamison, undersecretary for national protection and programs at DHS. His agency is currently testing a new version of Einstein that would protect all of the government's networks, he said.
The U.S. government at one point had about 4,500 Internet gateways, and it's working toward reducing the number to less than 100, Jamison said.
The new version of Einstein will include offensive capabilities to anticipate where attacks will come from and shut down attackers, Sciarrone said. "Detection is not enough," she said. "We need to move forward to prevention."
The long-term cybersecurity initiative will focus on several other issues, including better sharing of information about cyberattacks and sharing government defense capabilities with private companies, officials said. The government also will work on recruiting more cybersecurity experts to work for U.S. agencies and educating Internet users about vulnerabilties, they said.


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Educators increasingly turn to crowdfunding to supplement cost of classroom supplies
By Newser Editors and Wire Services
Posted Sep 4, 2016 10:35 AM CDT
Kindergarten teacher Shannon Raftery prepares her classroom for the upcoming school year in Philadelphia, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016. Raftery raised funds through crowdfunding to supplement the money she took out of each paycheck to pay for classroom supplies. (Matt Rourke)
(Newser) – Paper? Pencils? Laptops? Robots? Teachers are increasingly relying on crowdfunding efforts to stock their classrooms with both the mundane and sometimes big-ticket items, reports the AP. Contributions to education campaigns have climbed on GoFundMe and DonorsChoose, from just more than $31.2 million in 2010 to nearly $140 million in 2015. Both sites are on pace to eclipse that in 2016. GoFundMe has collected $58 million in just the last 12 months, and DonorsChoose saw more than 50,000 campaigns live for the first time this back-to-school season. In her first year as an elementary school teacher, Shannon Raftery raised $340 through crowdfunding to supplement the money she took out of each paycheck to pay for classroom supplies. Now in Philadelphia, she's looking to raise $500 for her new kindergarten classroom at Roosevelt Elementary School.
She has a supportive principal, but says there is just not enough money in the notoriously cash-strapped Philadelphia district to equip her classroom. In her case, reality is a $200 budget allocated to cover 25 students in a school where at least 40% of students live in poverty. She has spent that even before the start of classes. "I'd rather spend my own money than have my kids go without something," she said. But even as Raftery pulls $100 to $150 from each paycheck, she knows it won't be enough. She has bought cleaning supplies, bulletin board paper, and peach and sky blue paint for her stark white walls. "I don't want a cold environment to ruin a kid's first impression of school," Raftery said. Donors can scroll through all education campaigns listed on the sites, resulting in millions of dollars' worth of supplies and equipment infused into both high-poverty schools and more affluent districts. "There still is that group of teachers that has amazing ideas even in the most well-funded districts, like the sixth-grade teacher wanting and currently campaigning for an underwater robot to restore fisheries," said Chris Pearsall, DonorsChoose spokesman. (Read more public schools stories.)
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Cryptocurrency and blockchain technology has come a long way since the launch of Bitcoin in 2009. What was once considered a niche and speculative investment has now become a mainstream topic of interest for investors, businesses, and governments around the world. As technology continues to evolve, new and innovative uses for crypto are being discovered and developed. In this article, we will explore some of the most innovative things happening with crypto today.
One of the most exciting areas of innovation in crypto is the emergence of decentralized finance (DeFi). DeFi is a new financial system built on blockchain technology that allows for the creation of decentralized, trustless financial applications. This means that users can access financial services without the need for intermediaries such as banks, and they can do so in a completely transparent and secure way.
DeFi applications, such as lending and borrowing platforms, prediction markets, and decentralized exchanges, allow users to access financial services that were previously only available to those with access to traditional financial institutions. Additionally, these applications can often be accessed by anyone with an internet connection, regardless of their location or credit history.
One example of a DeFi application is Uniswap, a decentralized exchange that allows users to trade cryptocurrencies directly with each other without the need for a centralized intermediary. This allows for faster, cheaper, and more secure trading, and has led to the creation of a vibrant and growing ecosystem of DeFi applications.
Another example of a DeFi application is Aave, a decentralized lending platform that allows users to borrow and lend cryptocurrencies in a trustless, transparent, and secure way. Aave has been growing rapidly, and it is now one of the largest DeFi platforms by total value locked.
Another innovative use for crypto is the creation of stablecoins. A stablecoin is a type of cryptocurrency that is pegged to the value of a fiat currency or other asset. This means that the value of a stablecoin is stable, unlike other cryptocurrencies that can be highly volatile.
Stablecoins have been developed as a solution to the volatility problem of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other cryptocurrencies. They are designed to provide a more stable and reliable store of value, which can make them more useful for transactions and other applications.
One example of a stablecoin is Tether, which is pegged to the value of the US dollar. Tether is used as a form of digital currency for many transactions, and it is also used as a way to move funds between different crypto exchanges.
Another example is DAI, a stablecoin that is pegged to the value of the US dollar, but it is built on the Ethereum blockchain and it is completely decentralized. This allows for a more transparent, secure, and trustless way to store value.
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One of the most important aspects of crypto is the ability to transact privately and securely. Privacy coins are a new type of cryptocurrency that provides greater privacy and anonymity for users.
One of the most popular privacy coins is Monero, which is designed to provide users with a high degree of anonymity and privacy. Monero uses advanced cryptography to conceal the identity of its users, and it also provides a way to hide the amount of money being sent in a transaction.
Another example of a privacy coin is Zcash, which offers a choice between transparent and private transactions, it uses advanced cryptography to provide users with a high degree of anonymity and privacy.
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
Another area of innovation in crypto is the emergence of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). NFTs are digital assets that are unique and cannot be replicated or replaced. This allows for the creation of digital collectibles, artwork, and other unique digital assets that can be bought, sold, and traded on the blockchain.
In addition, crypto is also being used to create new forms of digital identities, such as Self-sovereign Identity (SSI). SSI allows users to control and manage their personal information and data, and it offers a more secure and private way of verifying identity online.
Finally, cryptocurrency and blockchain technology is also being used to create new forms of crowdfunding, such as Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) and Security Token Offerings (STOs). These new forms of fundraising allow startups and other companies to raise capital from a global pool of investors, without the need for traditional venture capital or angel investors.
Cryptocurrency and blockchain technology continues to evolve and change, and new and innovative uses for crypto are being discovered and developed all the time. From decentralized finance to stablecoins, to privacy coins, crypto is being used in ways that were once thought impossible.
Cryptocurrency and blockchain technology is driving innovation in many different areas, from finance to privacy to digital identity. As the technology continues to evolve, we can expect to see even more innovative uses for crypto in the future.
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Terrorist plots by Iraqi intelligence aimed at U.S. facilities in two nations, including one on the Arabian Peninsula, have been uncovered recently, the State Department said Friday.
Suspects alleged to have been in the "sleeper cells" were arrested this month in both countries and weapons, including explosives, were confiscated before the attacks could be carried out, U.S. officials said. The arrests led to alerts about potential Iraqi assaults against U.S. interests in at least eight other countries.
The Bush administration refused to identify the Arabian Peninsula nation targeted in the initial plots. But late Friday, the State Department issued a new warning to U.S. citizens in Yemen that the security threat there due to terrorism is now high and urged any Americans considering travel to the country to defer plans.
As a result of "credible reports that terrorists have planned attacks against U.S. interests in Yemen," the State Department also authorized the voluntary departure of all nonemergency personnel at the U.S. Embassy in Sana, the capital.
The department "anticipates that threats against Americans in Yemen will continue given the increased tensions and security concerns resulting from the current situation in the region," the warning said.
Yemen, the poorest country on the Arabian Peninsula and one of its most populous, has been a haven in the past for Al Qaeda and Iraqi operatives.
The additional alerts about possible Iraqi operations involve countries in the Middle East, South Asia and Southeast Asia, U.S. officials said.
"There are other locations we're concerned about. We're looking more closely, we're taking action and we're collecting additional information to add to the hopper," said a well-placed U.S. official who requested anonymity. "We're on them. We're after them."
In Pakistan, the U.S. Embassy warned Americans on Friday to watch out for possible attacks, including from individuals on the streets, in retaliation for the invasion of Iraq.
"The U.S. Embassy has received evidence of a potential threat to American citizens and other Westerners in Pakistan from terrorists posing as street vendors or beggars on busy streets," the embassy warned U.S. citizens through its alert system. "Americans are urged to avoid congested areas where these individuals could approach their vehicles."
This week, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo ordered the deportation of two Iraqi Embassy employees in response to a U.S. request. Last month, the Philippines expelled a senior Iraqi envoy for suspected ties to Islamic extremists.
In the run-up to the U.S.-led invasion, the State Department had appealed to about 60 nations to expel diplomats and intelligence agents based in Iraq's missions abroad. Several nations refused to honor the request. The discoveries disclosed Friday have led the Bush administration to intensify efforts to win support from foreign governments for expulsions.
"Officers in the Iraqi intelligence service remain a threat because of their history of support for terrorism," said State Department spokesman Richard Boucher. "The United States will continue to monitor this situation and work with our partners and allies to ensure the safety of American citizens and facilities overseas."
So far, 17 countries have responded to the U.S. request by expelling Iraqi intelligence operatives. In comparison, 19 nations deported Iraqi agents before or during the 1991 Persian Gulf War, the State Department said Friday.
"We're very encouraged. The business of conducting effective law enforcement is elusive, and targets like Iraqi intelligence require cooperation at various levels. And much of the international community is now helping in keeping track of these guys," the well-placed official said.
In recent weeks, the U.S. government has pulled nonessential staff from several Middle East embassies and increased diplomatic security.
Shortly after the war began last week, Cofer Black, the State Department's ambassador at large for counter-terrorism, said the U.S. was worried about attacks by sleeper cells operating at the behest of or in sympathy with Iraq.
"We're concerned that Iraqi intelligence officers are assuming top authority in Iraqi diplomatic missions overseas and may be instructed to take actions against the U.S. or coalition interests," Black told lawmakers at a congressional hearing Wednesday.
"We have been urging other countries to expel Iraqi diplomats in order to minimize this threat -- attacks from groups of individuals who have no ties with Iraq or Al Qaeda, but feel strongly enough against the U.S. or the West, [who] believe this is a good time to strike," Black said.
During the 1991 conflict, Black noted, there were about 200 such incidents. Most were minor, but there were "several major exceptions, conducted primarily by groups or individuals with no known connections with Iraq," he added.
Iraqi intelligence has not been publicly linked with a terrorist attack since an alleged assassination attempt in 1993 on President George H.W. Bush, the current president's father, during a visit to Kuwait after he left office.
Administration officials say quiet U.S. counter-terrorism efforts in the intervening years have kept close track of Iraqi intelligence agents.
"Historically we've met with success in this area, and the United States and its allies have been devoting significant resources to keep track of their resources and personnel," the well-placed official said.
Times staff writer Josh Meyer contributed to this report.


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Our History: The original FCC license for KJBA was granted to the Assembly of God Church in Bethel in 1983. After going "dark" (off-air) due to lack of staff, the Evangelical Covenant Church of Alaska purchased their license, changed the call sign to KYKD, built the current studio building in 1987, and broadcast independently for several years. In the spring of 1995, the Covenant Church contract with VFCM which began re-broadcasting KIAM at 3 KW of power. In October 1996, Voice For Christ Ministries purchased KYKD from the Covenant Church and raised the power to 7.9 KW. After the installation of a new transmitter in July of 2006, KYKD has been broadcasting at 12 KW, making it the most powerful FM radio station on the mainland of western Alaska. In the summer of 2013 the arrival of high-speed internet service to the village of Hooper Bay, about 150 miles west of Bethel, made it possible to use that service to send the KYKD programming to the existing VFCM translator station in that village. The next year, in the spring of 2014, a new translator station was constructed at Aniak, and a few months later at Kalskag, two villages located upstream of Bethel on the Kusokwim River. Those stations are likewise fed from Bethel via internet. Also during the summer of 2014 the KIAM translator station at Quinhagak, about 75 miles south of Bethel, was converted to rebroadcast KYKD. Unlike the other three KYKD translators, the Quinhagak station is fed via the over-the-air signal from Bethel using some sophisticated filtering and amplification equipment. In September of 2014 KYKD began streaming its programming over the public internet, making it possible for internet listeners worldwide to hear the station. It is the intention of the KYKD staff that via any or all of these means the Gospel of Jesus Christ, through the power of the Holy Spirit, would transform lives, bring glory to God, and advance His kingdom.
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