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BSP revises current account, BOP forecasts as global economy rebounds
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MANILA – The Philippine central bank on Friday released revised projections for the current account and balance of payments this year and for 2022, reflecting it said the global economy's recovery as well as lingering pandemic-related risks.
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) now expects the country's current account this year to post a deficit of $4 billion, or 1% of gross domestic product, revising its projection from a surplus equivalent to 0.9% of GDP.
For next year, it projected a current account deficit of $9.9 billion, or 2.3% of GDP, wider than its previous deficit forecast equivalent to 0.3% of GDP.
The balance of payments (BOP) is now projected to yield a narrower surplus of $1.6 billion, or 0.4% of GDP, this year, compared with a previous estimate of 1.1%.
The BOP surplus in 2022 is expected to be even narrower at $700 million, or 0.2% of GDP, from a previous forecast equivalent to 0.4% of GDP.
"The latest BOP assessment for 2021 factors in pockets of optimism amid encouraging economic outturns in recent months on the one hand, and the continued high uncertainty from pandemic-related challenges on the other hand," the BSP said in a statement.
But overall, it said the latest set of projections took into account a global economic recovery that is broadly on track and indications that the spread of the highly transmissible COVID-19 Delta variant has been contained domestically.
The BSP, however, trimmed its year-end projections for gross international reserves to $111 billion and $112 billion next year, from $114 billion and $115 billion, respectively, to factor in some foreign loan repayments.
Cash remittances by Filipinos overseas, a key pillar of the consumption-driven domestic economy, were expected to grow 6% this year and 4% next year, reflecting rising demand for Filipino workers. — Reuters
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Q: Display virtual card with dynamic content I have a website which has a page to display member card inside the page. I also has card design (image.png) with blank content and just background color and logo inside that card design. In this case I want to add the member name and some qrcode above that card design. I get member name from database and I get the qrcode with <img> tag. Anyone knows how to do that and create a whole card with name and qrcode ?

A: You can do it by using the PHP GD library.
Below two links will help you to set Text on image and QR code.
To set Text on Image use  link
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13267846/how-to-add-text-to-an-image-with-php-gd-library
After that, you need to merge two images to bind the QR code on the image.
merge two images

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Jonathan Hewat won the event and the Traveller Series in an event which ended with a bizarre Redress situation. Read full report for details.
43 boats arrived for the final Topper Traveller. Well done hardworking Area rep Jo Wicken for generating such enthusiasm so late in the season.
Unfortunately, the morning weather, though sunny, was testing in both its lightness and variable direction.
Race 1 – Bad news for Topper Sailboats. You don't need a new boat to win. Good news for oldies. You don't need to be just a few years past weaning to excel. Clive Jackson from Papercourt, age unknown, but probably the writer's side of thirty, and sailing Topper 16516 (30,000 Toppers have been made since this one!)) overtook Jonathan Hewat (the series leader) on the final run to take first place. Oldies rejoice.
Race 2 – A big shift left as the gun went meant those at the pin end were laughing and the committee boat starters were cursing the race officer. Hewat got it right and led from start to finish, with Stephanie Wicken a close second. Jackson did well to salvage a 5th from a poor start.
At lunch, Hewat had a 3 point lead over Jackson and Wicken.
Race 3. Prayers answered. A steady, if light, south westerly had established itself. The lunch had contained too many calories leading to an over-enthusiastic line charge and general recall. Energy was better managed for the I-flagged second start. Juliet Beck led all the way round lap 1, with Hewat nibbling at her transom, as they started Lap 2. As these two match-raced up the second beat, Jackson caught them in clear air. By the finish, Hewat had hunted down Beck for first, Jackson took second and a weary Beck took third.
Race 4. Beck, resolve undiminished, was a life jacket thickness over at the pin and was called back. Hewat had an easy win and held off Will Street from Pevensay Bay.
This gave Hewat the event and he sailed home.
Race 5. This race had one of the strangest racing incidents the writer has come across and is a lesson to all race officers and sailors. The first lap went beautifully, with Julia Beck leading. As the committee boat crew were writing down Lap 1 positions, a committee crew member did so by resting his recording sheet on a board with a large '1/2' on the back. This was facing the sailors. Boats 1 & 2 ignored it. However boats 3,4,5,6,7,8,9, all took this to mean ½ a lap remaining and returned to the finish after completing the first beat. On receiving no 'gun', they retraced their paths, to rejoin near the back, making their displeasure known to the committee boat as they eventually finished. Having established what had happened, the Race Officer's (writer's) first instinct was to Abandon, second instinct was to award points based on first lap positions, which seemed to him the fairest option for everyone. However, Abandoning would have been unfair to the leading boats, and the Sailing Instructions / RRS did not allow the second option. So the results were posted as recorded and the inevitable redress against the Race Committee was lodged with about a dozen boats signing the form.
The Protest Committee dismissed the redress and the results stood. This was tough on boats who were misled, but the writer agrees was the correct outcome.
The lessons for the Race Officer are clear. Keep an eagle eye on less experienced assistants and do not allow anything to take place on the Committee boat that might cause confusion. Secondly, do not consider trying to manufacture what might appear to be a fair resolution if the S.I.s do not allow it.
The lessons for the sailors are clear. Read the S.I.s,, stick to them and do not be led astray by extraneous signs, however tempting they might be.
Julia Beck rightfully kept her first place, with Clive Jackson second.
Congratulations to Clive Jackson for giving a lesson to all the Squaddies (except one), to Julia Beck for being single-mindedly competitive in every race, and to Jonathan Hewat who deservedly won the event and the Traveller Series. He looks to have a successful sailing career ahead of him.


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Has Pippa Middleton Said Yes To The Dress?
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Erica Witte
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It's been more than five years, and the world is still fawning over Kate Middleton's wedding dress. Her modestly cut, fit-for-a-princess ball gown inspired countless copies for brides who couldn't spring for a custom Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen design. (The iconic dress even spawned a lawsuit, five years after the big occasion.) Even though the Duchess of Cambridge's lace-adorned look is pretty timeless, next year will bring some new royal wedding-dress inspo. Luckily, the Duchess' younger sister, Pippa, is prepping to walk the aisle, and we just got our first clue as to what (and who) she'll be wearing. Earlier this month, Giles Deacon was spotted arriving at the bride-to-be's London home. The British fashion designer was armed with several garment bags, which might've been filled with some dress options for the big day. The duo was joined by Middleton's mother, Carole, which makes for a pretty convincing argument that this was no casual shopping pit stop. And based on our highly scientific Say Yes to the Dress knowledge, given Pippa's July wedding date, this is, theoretically, prime wedding-dress-shopping time. Alas, we probably won't catch a glimpse of the actual gown until her big day. But based on what we know about Deacon, it's bound to be a jaw-dropping moment. He's dressed stars like Kate Hudson and Cate Blanchett for the red carpet, and we got a peek at his wedding aesthetic thanks to the look he created for lingerie model Abbey Clancy. We're predicting a modest neckline, perhaps à la Kerry Washington's Django Unchained premiere look, plus the sort of intricate detailing we saw on Dianna Agron's Golden Globes gown. One thing's for sure: If we've learned anything about Pippa, it's that her dress will be required to accentuate her well-chronicled assets. Besides, since she's not technically a royal, Pippa doesn't really have to follow the traditional modesty protocol. Now all we can do is wait, alongside fiancé James Matthews (and the rest of the world), to see if Deacon will end up being one of 2017's most in-demand (and, inevitably, copied) wedding-dress designers.
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Q: Jackson list deserialization. nested Lists I'm working on creating an API that has nested lists. Jackson seems like a great tool to create objects, but I can't quite figure out how to nest a list, and I'm wondering if its possible.
My object looks like this.
public class Order {
    public String name;
    public List<Item> items;
}

I'm hoping there is a way to map it to json that looks something like:
{
    name : "A name"
    items : {
        elements : [{
            price : 30
        }]
    }
}

We want to be able to do this so we can add properties to lists.

A: In general it is best to map JSON structure exactly to Java. In your case you could use something like:
public class Order {
  public String name;
  public ItemList items;
}

public class ItemList {
  public List<Item> elements;

  // and any properties you might want...
}

alternatively, you could probably also use (relatively) new @JsonFormat annotation:
public class Order {
  public String name;
  public ItemList items;
}

// annotation can be used on propery or class
@JsonFormat(shape=Shape.OBJECT) // instead of Shape.ARRAY
public class ItemList extends ArrayList<Item>
{
   public Iterator<Item> getElements() { return this.iterator(); }

   public String getSomeAttribute() { ... }
}

where you are forcing List or Collection to be serialized as if it was POJO, instead of normal special handling. There may be some side-effects, since introspection is used to find possible accessors, but the general approach should work

A: You can write custom deserializer for List<Item> items. See below example:
class ItemsJsonDeserializer extends JsonDeserializer<List<Item>> {

    @Override
    public List<Item> deserialize(JsonParser jp, DeserializationContext ctxt) throws IOException, JsonProcessingException {
        InnerItems innerItems = jp.readValueAs(InnerItems.class);

        return innerItems.elements;
    }

    private static class InnerItems {
        public List<Item> elements;
    }
}

Now, you have to inform Jackson to use it for your property. You can do this in this way:
public class Order {
  public String name;
  @JsonDeserialize(using = ItemsJsonDeserializer.class)
  public List<Item> items;
}

A: Your JSON translates to: "the object named items is of a type that has a property named elements which is a list of some sort".
So your Item class just needs an elements property:
class Item {
    List<Something> getElements();
}

Note that your Java code doesn't map to your JSON. Your Java classes would map to something like:
{
    "name" : "foo",
    "items" : [
        { /* encoded version of Item */ }
    ]
}

A: For scala, one can try:
class ItemsJsonDeserializer extends JsonDeserializer[List[Item]] {
  val mapper = new ObjectMapper() with ScalaObjectMapper
  mapper.registerModule(DefaultScalaModule)

  override def deserialize(jp: JsonParser, dc: DeserializationContext): List[Item] = {
    val oc = jp.getCodec

    val nodes = oc.readTree[ObjectNode](jp).get("elements").asScala.toList
    val res = nodes.map { node =>
      mapper.readValue[Item](node.toString)
    }

    res
  }
}

case class Item(price: Int)
case class Order {
    name: String,
    @JsonDeserialize(using = classOf[ItemsJsonDeserializer])
    items: List<Item>
}


Accra, Nov 4, GNA- Members of Parliament on Thursday voted unanimously to approve seven million euros loan agreement between Ghana and the Nordic Development Fund (NDF) to finance the Land Administration Project (LAP).
The loan is to be repaid by Ghana government within thirty years with 10 years grace period.
It is an interest-free facility with a 72 per cent grant element. The project seeks to harmonise land policy and regulatory framework for sustainable land administration.
It also seeks to make institutional reforms for comprehensive capacity building and establish an efficient, fair and transparent system of land administration among others.
The House had earlier approved a Ghana government guarantee for a buyer credit agreement of 5.9 million euros for the purchase of two tugboats by the Ghana Ports and Harbour Authority (GHAPOHA).
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The "Victory Gate" of the city was built in 1962 out of U.S.-purchased cement that was intended for a new airport.
There aren't that many tourist attractions in Vientiane it has a great elephant sculpture, it is was worth the entry fee.
Great monument on a busy roundabout.
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The Talos Principle: Road to Gehenna Review – Let's take that from the top
By Eduardo Reboucas July 30, 2015
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The Talos Principle is quite simply one of the story driven puzzle games you can play. It spins a cool yarn in the midst of some of the most challenging puzzles this side of Portal. Yeah, comparing it to Portal is easy enough, given how much of the game isn't its gameplay, but actually how much of the incredibly well written story you can find on your own.
The main portion of Talos had you figuring out continually harder puzzles in order to get more and more Tetris like pieces — which I've come to discover are named Tetriminos — in order to use them to unlock new tools to use later on. But most importantly, they gave you access to a certain section of the game often referred to as forbidden by the booming voice of Elohim, the dude who was apparently behind everything that went on.
Road to Gehenna assumes you've been through all of that and have mastered all of the ins and outs of everything The Talos Principle threw at you. It doesn't pull any punches. From the moment you boot it up, you'll be dealt with some of the most difficult stages Croteam has managed to come up with and more.
This time, the puzzles help you free prisoners that like you, are trapped within the confines of Gehenna, an apparent haven gone awry for the escapees that were experiment subjects in The Talos Principle. These puzzles make incredible use of all the tools you picked up in the original game, expanding their properties and forcing you to go way out of the box in figuring them out.
Road to Gehenna goes through a much different route than what The Talos Principle did with its story. Practically all of what you'll squeeze out of the game in terms of a backdrop will come via computer terminals found at the end of each of puzzle that you finish. On paper, this sounds like a cheap way of delivering a satisfying story, but in reality, it's anything but. It works brilliantly. You're basically thrust into an early 1990s message board with a continually updating community comprised of other robots that are completely oblivious to what's really going on in the world of Gehenna, or so it seems at the start.
And while you'll eventually find out your potential to practically shape and influence the fate of your metallic companions, you'll also have to put in some work in this faux online scenario within Road to Gehenna. While not particularly complex, your interactions with the other Gehenna inhabitants eventually net you more access to the deeper recesses of their community, which in turn, help flesh out the story of the DLC. It also gives a little more insight in regards to the original's setup, from which 'Gehenna starts out from.
I'm sure the ancient Egyptians would've loved to have lasers to protect their temples.
What I'm basically skating around and trying my best not to spoil is how much this DLC helps build upon what was already fantastic, the lore of The Talos Principle. While not particularly easy to comprehend from the outset, especially for someone not exactly versed in the many aspects of philosophy and the historical figures it touched upon, the original content sparked my curiosity in expanding those fields of knowledge, which for a game, is ridiculously impressive. Road to Gehenna takes a different approach by emulating and teasing human interactions by having them be completely taken apart and rebuilt by humanity's own creations in a world that from the outset seems bereft of our presence.
It goes without saying that Road to Gehenna is a must for anyone who's been through The Talos Principle. It works brilliantly as a sequel, both as a continuation to the original's story and as a natural expansion to its puzzles. And for as much of a doofus as you're bound to feel like when you get stuck in one, nothing beats the sense of satisfaction that comes after figuring them all out and reaching the next juicy story tidbit.
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5,5-dimethylhydantoin
relative self-ignition temperature (solids)
Testing was conducted between 03 November 2009 and 17 November 2009.
other: Study conducted in compliance with agreed protocols, with no or minor deviations from standard test guidelines and/or minor methodological deficiencies, which do not affect the quality of the relevant results.
EU Method A.16 (Relative Self-Ignition Temperature for Solids)
Date of inspection: 15-09-2009 Date of Signature:26-11-2009
Sponsor's identification: DMH
Description: white crystalline solid
Batch number: N5439431
Date received: 24 February 2006
Storage conditions: room temperature in the dark
Relative self-ignition temperature:
at atm. press. of 0.0 other:The test material has been determined not to have a relative self-ignition temperature below its melting temperature.
Please see attached Result graph.
Observations after the test
The cube was empty. White needle crystals where observed around the door seal and the internal surface of the door.
The test material has been determined not to have a relative self-ignition temperature below its melting temperature.
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Document:JFK - What We Know Now
A review of the JFK assassination evidence 47 years on, including comments on the Zapruder film
article by Jim Fetzer dated 2010-11-22
Subjects: JFK Assassination, Zapruder film
Source: Op Ed News (Link)
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JFK:What We Know Now
With the advent of the 47th observance of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, it may be appropriate to share important findings regarding what we know now about his death that we have not known in the past. Most Americans are not in the position to take on the task that serious research requires. As a former Marine Corps officer and professor of philosophy who taught logic, critical thinking, and scientific reasoning for 35 years, it was my privilege to organize a research group consisting of the best qualified individuals to ever study the case in 1992. Since then, we have published three books reporting what we have discovered--Assassination Science (1998) [1], Murder in Dealey Plaza (2000) [2], and The Great Zapruder Film Hoax (2003) [3] - I have chaired or co-chaired four national meetings on this subject and produced a documentary about it. From these books and other sources I will cite, many available on the net, you can verify what I am saying about our findings.
This research group - whose efforts continue to this day - has included three M.D.s, including one who attended the mortally wounded president and then, two days later, his alleged assassin, a world authority on the human brain who was also an expert on wound ballistics, and another who is an expert on radiation oncology and has studied the autopsy X-rays in the National Archives; three Ph.D.s, including one with a specialization in the physics of light and is the leading expert on the Zapruder film, another who is also the M.D. who is an expert on the X-rays and is the leading expert on the medical evidence, and the third a philosopher of science who has published 29 books. Others include an expert on the JFK photos and films, who testified before the House Select Committee on Assassinations when it re-investigated the case in 1977-78, and another expert on the production/post-production of films and the technology available to alter them in November 1963.
If we use the phrase "beyond a reasonable doubt" to characterize arguments based upon logic and evidence for which there is no reasonable alternative explanation, then what we have published in these books and recent articles demonstrates beyond reasonable doubt:
that JFK was hit at least four times (once in the back from behind; once in the throat from in front; and twice in the head, once from behind and once from in front);
that the wound to his throat was caused by a shot that penetrated the limousine windshield, which was subsequently destroyed and replaced by a substitute windshield;
that the shot to the back was well below the collar, entered only about as far as the second knuckle on your little finger, and evinced no point of exit from the body;
that no bullet transited the President's neck without hitting any bony structures and exited at the level of his tie, a trajectory that in fact turns out to be anatomically impossible;
that, as a consequence, no bullet passed through the President and hit the Governor, who was hit by at least one and perhaps as many as two or even three separate shots;
that, including the shot that missed and injured James Tague, an absolute minimum of six shots had to have been fired during the assassination, where the total was more likely eight, nine, or even ten;
that at least 59 witnesses reported that the limousine slowed dramatically or came to a complete halt after bullets began to be fired, which supports the conclusion that it slowed dramatically as it came to a complete halt;
that the first shot to the head was fired from behind and entered in the vicinity of the external occipital protuberance at the back of the head;
that the second shot to the head was fired from in front and entered in the vicinity of the right temple;
that this second shot was fired with a frangible or "exploding" bullet that transmitted shockwaves through the brain;
that the impact of this bullet combined with the weakening of the skull by the first shot to the head caused 1/3 to 1/2 of his brains to be blown out in Dealey Plaza at the time;
that the massive blow-out to the back of the head was concealed by imposing a "patch" to the right lateral cranial X-ray (of the skull taken from the right side);
that the brain had to be reconstituted since, once the defect to the skull had been "patched", there was no place for that brain matter to have gone;
that the brain shown in diagrams and photographs in the National Archives cannot be the brain of John Fitzgerald Kennedy;
that two brain examinations were conducted, the first of which was with the President's brain, the second with a substitute;
that the autopsy report was prepared without the benefit of the autopsy photographs, which were removed by the Secret Service;
that the photographs were subsequently altered and altered in various ways to conceal evidence of the cause of death;
that the Zapruder film of the assassination was in the hands of the National Photographic Interpretation Center (NPIC) run by the CIA already the weekend of the assassination;
that the extant "Zapruder film" has been massively edited to remove evidence of the actual cause of death, including the limousine having been brought to a halt in order to insure that the target would be killed.
A very accessible overview of these findings was presented at a national conference held at the University of North Dakota and published as Chapter 30, "Dealey Plaza Revisited: What Happened to JFK?" The studies by David W. Mantik, M.D., Ph.D., [4] on the autopsy X-rays have been supplemented by his presentation, "The JFK Skull X-rays: Evidence for Forgery" at a national conference in Dallas in 2009 [5]. A visual tutorial introduction to the evidence that the Zapruder film has been recreated by John P. Costella, Ph.D., "The JFK Assassination Film Hoax" [6], explains how we know that the film is a fabrication, a finding that has been reinforced by the publication by Douglas Horne, senior analyst for military affairs for the Assassination Records Review Board, of Inside the ARRB (2009), whose key arguments about the film are summarized in an article for those who may not have time for all five volumes! Many related articles are also archived at Assassination Science [7] and Assassination Research [8].
Most of these findings were published in Murder in Dealey Plaza (2000) [2], which benefited from the release of the first of some 60,000 documents and records that were meant to be withheld from the public by the Warren Commission for 75 years. Those whose work is brought together in this volume include the leading authority on the Secret Service (Vincent Palamara); the most knowledgeable student of the Presidential limousine (Douglas Weldon, J.D.); a leading expert on the medical evidence at Parkland and at Bethesda (Gary Aguilar, M.D.); the single most highly qualified person to ever study this case (David W. Mantik, M.D., Ph.D.); the Senior Analyst for Military Records for the ARRB (Douglas Horne); a legendary photo-analyst who advised the HSCA during its reinvestigation (Jack White); a world-famous philosopher who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950 (Bertrand Russell); a prize-winning director and playwright, who has produced a brilliant chronology (Ira David Wood III); and a philosopher of science who had then published more than 20 books and 100 articles (James H. Fetzer, Ph.D.).
Given the extraordinary character of these findings, it would be appropriate to provide reasons beyond the research itself that was published there to reassure the public that it should be taken seriously. Fortunately, this book was reviewed by George Costello for The Federal Lawyer (May 2001), pp. 52-56. [9] This journal (formerly: The Federal Bar News and Journa) is a publication for attorneys who work for the federal government, who practice before federal agencies, or who appear before federal courts. The reviewer was honored with an award of recognition for this review of Murder in Dealey Plaza , which suggests his professional colleagues appreciated the contribution he made, which, in part, he summarized as follows:
What does all of this mean? Any one of the findings summarized above would be troubling by itself. Together, these findings form a critical mass of evidence indicating that President Kennedy's autopsy was falsified, and help establish a compelling case that people within the federal government covered up evidence of frontal shots — and hence of multiple gunmen and conspiracy in the assassination of President Kennedy. Because it pulls this evidence together in one place, Murder in Dealey Plaza is one of the most important books to date on the Kennedy assassination.
The new evidence turns the tables. No longer can defenders of the lone assassin theory hide behind the autopsy evidence and claim that it trumps all the other evidence. The weight of this other evidence now trumps the autopsy report. Lone assassin theorists must address and explain the new evidence if they wish to regain credibility. It is time for people of integrity who were involved in the official investigations - especially the professionals - to take a good-faith look at the new evidence and confront the likelihood that their conclusions were based on falsified data . Murder in Dealey Plaza may not be the last word on the medical evidence, but it should be the starting point for a fresh look — not only at the medical evidence, but also at the assassination and its implications.
Those implications, I might add, are substantial in their impact upon alternative theories of the assassination. The mafia, for example, would not have been able to extend its reach into Bethesda Naval Hospital to alter X-rays under the control of medical officers of the US Navy, agents of the Secret Service, and the president's personal physician. Neither pro nor anti-Castro Cuban could have substituted another brain for that of JFK. Even if the KGB had an ability to alter films comparable to that of the CIA and Hollywood, it could not have obtained the original of the Zapruder. These findings thus indicate that at least some of those involved had to have been among the nation's highest officials, a result that receives further support from James Douglass, JFK and the Unspeakable (2008) [10] and Phillip Nelson, LBJ: Mastermind of JFK's Assassination (2010) [11]. It is long past time that the American people are entitled to know the truth about the death of our 35th president.
↑ ISBN 0812693663 Assassination Science (1998)
↑ a b ISBN 0812694228 Murder in Dealey Plaza (2000)
↑ ISBN 081269547X The Great Zapruder Film Hoax (2003)
↑ John F. Kennedy History, Memory, Legacy: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry Edited by John Delane Williams Robert G. Waite and Gregory S. Gordon
↑ he JFK Skull X-rays: Evidence for Forgery
↑ JFK assassination film hoax - A simple introduction
↑ Assassination Science web site
↑ Assassination Research web site
↑ The Federal Lawyer. Review of "Assassination Science PP52-56 May 2001
↑ ISBN 1570757550 JFK and the Unspeakable - James Douglas (2008)
↑ ISBN 1453503013 LBJ: Mastermind of JFK's Assassination. Phillip Nelson (2010)
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PAINESVILLE TOWNSHIP OH – Monday, June 20, 2016, NorthEast Ohio Community Alternative Program (NEOCAP) held an Open House/Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for the NorthEast Ohio Community Alternative Program Female Facility. NEOCAP is a regional community-based minimum security correctional facility that targets offenders' criminogenic areas; such as substance dependence, high-risk thinking, problem solving and anger control.
NEOCAP's Female Facility, formerly the vacant Lake County Minimum Security Facility, located at 1955 Blasé Nemeth Road – Painesville Township OH was repurposed to serve 60 female offenders, which will meet the growing needs of the NEOCAP region. June 21, 2016 at 11:00 a.m., thirty (30) females were relocated, with no incidents, from the 411 Pine Avenue SE - Warren OH facility to the Female Facility in Painesville Township.
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What the Latest "Hot News" Ruling Means for Financial Web Sites – And Maybe Your Blog
The hot news doctrine, created a century ago to prevent telegraphy from spoiling the prospects of East Coast newspapers, is having a resurgence in the digital era. It's just been used to squash publications by financial news aggregator Web sites.
By Kit Eaton 3 minute Read
There's a fascinating piece explaining this news over at MediaShift–centering on the federal district ruling from May 18th, Barclays Capital Inc. versus TheFlyOnTheWall.com, that forbids the financial news aggregator Web site from broadcasting daily stock recommendations made by the financial firms analysts. It's one of the first and biggest tests of the "hot news" doctrine in the Internet era, and there's a possibility it may help define how news aggregators operate in the future.
What exactly is "hot news"? It's pretty much what you think, though there's a very precise legal meaning to this phrase. The term stems from a 1918 ruling by the Supreme Court to protect the specific intellectual property in news created by the Associated Press from a form of high tech thievery by the International News Service. The suit centered on a trend enabled by the telegraph: News that was sourced, researched, and published by the AP in East Coast newspapers was being appropriated by West Coast publications who scanned the news, re-wrote it to defend against copyright violation allegations, and then telegraphed it to the West coast to be quickly sold there, sometimes before AP's own publications made the journey. The judge in the case ruled that the "peculiar value" of news is that it be shared out quickly while still "fresh," and that it was in the public's interest that the AP's business of investigating and covering news items continue unthreatened by this new business model. The "hot news" notion conferred specific value on the actual news items themselves, in the early moments of their existence–above any copyright implications–and forbade the re-writing practice.
Nowadays the Net has changed how news is shared, and its influence has altered the TV and paper-based news publishing industries. The most vocal opposition to the new trends is from media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, who's famously bad-mouthed Google as a news content thief. Google is endangering his newspaper business with its history of traditional journalistic writing practices by aggregating the news items in one place so the consumer is less inclined to pay for the original source publication's efforts, or so he argues. But the financial firms ruling is the first big test of how "hot news" can apply in the Net era when the consumer (in whose interest the hot news doctrine is supposed to act) is increasingly used to an instantly available news stream.
The judge in this case determined that the early morning reports of financial firms like Barclays or Morgan Stanley have an intrinsic hot news value of their own. The publications go to their biggest and most fiscally rewarding clients as advice on whether to buy, sell, or hold specific stock in the upcoming day's city trading. They are based on up-to-the-moment research and expertise, and can represent significant (not "casual," as the judge noted) value to both the source firm and its clients. The value in the reports is very timely, and by disseminating them to the greater public over the Web the news aggregator site TheFlyOnTheWall was actively devaluing them, by diluting their potency as other stock market players could choose to act on the information. As such, it's very much a parallel to the original "hot news" items the AP was seeking to protect.
Judge Cote ruled that the reports could not be shared by the FlyOnTheWall for an hour after their publication–protecting them for their most potent minutes. But Cote was also sensitive to the fact that the Internet has changed the game, and the injunction will expire if, upon revisiting the matter in a year, the court finds that the financial firms haven't pursued other news aggregators for the same practice. We'll have to see what greater implications the case may have for the Internet news industry as a whole … has the game just changed?
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Reanimation: Who knew walking was so hard?
Who knew walking was so hard?
It is now week 10, which means we only have 3 more weeks before this term ends.
I am posting my work for Week 8 and 9 now, partly because I got lazy and partly because week 8 & 9 were both dedicated to animating a basic (vanilla walk). The first video shows the blocking of the animation, which means we only put in the most important poses but have yet to work on the walk on the in-between frames. The second video shows the final walk after everything is complete. These walk cycles are really challenging.
We also had two pose assignments: week 8 was strength and week 9 was concern.
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Author Notes: My husband lived in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn when we started dating, and when I would get into town late on Friday evenings after a long, often harrowing bus ride from Boston, I was usually both starving and in need of a drink. Sometimes we stayed in Manhattan, dining in Chinatown or somewhere close to where the bus dropped me off before grabbing a cab to his apartment, but more often than not we'd get right on the F train, drop my things at his place, and head over to the Park Slope Ale House.
Back then the sidewalks rolled up rather early in that neighborhood, but the Ale House was always there for us. It had reliably good food, a charming staff, and a great selection of beers on tap, but one of our favorite things about the pub was the onion rings. A good onion ring is a rare thing, in my experience – too often they're thick and overly breaded, or they're sodden with grease and just plain unpleasant to eat. These were different, thin, light and crisp, and we could put away an entire basket at embarrassing speed.
It occurred to me one day that it would be fairly easy to reproduce a version of those onion rings – there was no batter to contend with, and since the rings were cut thin, they'd cook quickly without soaking up too much oil. To ensure that they'd stay extra crisp, I wanted to leach out some of the excess moisture from the onions, and that was where the Sriracha marinade came in. It worked brilliantly, imparting a little bit of heat to the rings, and leaving them as light, crispy and flavorful as I'd hoped they'd be.
Peel the onion and slice it into thin rings. Separate the rings and place them in a large bowl, sprinkle on 1 tablespoon of Kosher salt and add the chile sauce. Toss until the onion rings are well coated, and set them aside for 20-30 minutes, until they are soft and have released much of their liquid.
Pour oil into a pot to a depth of 1.5 to 2 inches, and heat to 375 degrees F. Place the flour, the remaining teaspoon of Kosher salt, the pepper, and the chile powder if using, in a bowl or zip-top bag. Take a handful of onions from the Sriracha marinade, gently squeezing out the moisture with your hands, and add them to the flour. Toss to coat, shake off the excess flour, and carefully lower the onions into the hot oil using a spider or slotted spoon. Fry the onions in batches until they are crisp and golden. Remove the onion rings and place them on a paper towel-lined plate to drain, sprinkling a bit of flaky salt on top of each batch as you remove them.
Wow! LND, these were awesome. Made them for dinner tonight. Fantastic recipe. I'm not that successful when it comes to frying stuff, but decided to whip out the ol' candy thermometer to check the oil temp - made a world of difference. Thanks for the recipe.
To me, this looks like an excellent use for Wondra - have you tried it in this application?
Well, if it doesn't need the Wondra for a good result, I suppose there's no need to use it. Save a couple pennies.
Oh boy do those look fantastic. What a great recipe.
Hooray for skinny onion rings! And, sriracha! My new fav chili sauce. Love this recipe. Thank you, LND!


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Activation of the Amhotep 2018-2019 project between the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Benha University and the Institut Ennis, France
Date:- 04-07-2018
In the light of Benha University strategy to activate the policy of international openness and within the framework of the international cooperation project between the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Benha University and the Institute of Anisis, France, co-funded by the Academy of Scientific Research and Cambes France. A workshop was held at the French Institute where a brief overview of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and its research and laboratory capabilities was presented through a lecture by the Dean of the Faculty, Prof. Mohamed Mohamed Ghanem, in addition to another lecture delivered by the main research of the project. Which reviewed the work team and the work plan of the project and what has been achieved from the Egyptian side. Dr. Karim Boumedienne, the project's main researcher and representative of the French side, gave a lecture explaining the achievements of the project plan and the presentation of the future plan which begins with holding a workshop in October 2018 in Egypt. The workshop was attended by Dr. Richard Terry, Director of the Institute and Dr. Oded Rous, Director of the National Reference Laboratory for the Protection of Unconscious Species in France, and discussed the preparation of a scientific agreement for the mutual practical exchange between the two sides in the field of training and exchange of faculty members and joint scientific publishing.
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Become a Big Brother and Mentor a Wyoming Child!
Would you like to become a positive role model for someone? Adult mentors are needed to help in supporting kids in Wyoming.
The Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Wyoming is in need of Big Brothers! Becoming a Big Brother to a Wyoming youth is all about friendship. You can change what it means for a kid to grow up in the cowboy state and helping them by being a positive influence in their life.
Best of all, it's just you - being you.
Persons interested can register online at volunteerwyoming.org and after completing the screening process you will be matched with a child based on similar interests and personalities.
As a Big Brother or Big Sister you could hang out at their school during the lunch hour, or recess, before or after school. It's an opportunity for you to share your skills and interests with a child in need in our community.
Big Brothers Big Sisters is the oldest, largest and most effective youth mentoring organization in the United States. They have been the leader in one-to-one services for more than a century, developing positive relationships that have a direct and lasting impact on the lives of young people. Our Vision is that all children achieve success in life. Our Mission is to provide children facing adversity with strong and enduring, professionally supported 1-to-1 relationships that change their lives for the better, forever.


Meet the lovely Ms. Morgan Poole; she is the stunning wife of NBA player Eric Bledsoe. Her soon-to-be husband is a point guard for the Milwaukee Bucks. He also played for the Los Angeles Clippers and college basketball for the Kentucky Wildcats at the University of Kentucky prior to his NBA Draft selection by the Oklahoma City Thunder in 2010.
Bledsoe was born on December 9, 1989, in Birmingham, Alabama, where he attended at Parker High school before attending at the University of Kentucky.
The 6'1 son of Maureen Reddick also received scholarships offers from Florida, Mississippi, Memphis, Cincinnati, and Alabama. He didn't graduate, though. Instead, he declared to the draft.
The Oklahoma City Thunder selected him in the first round with the 18th overall [pick in the 2010 NBA Draft.
He never played in Oklahoma, because they traded him to the Clippers; who then traded him along Caron Butler on July 10, 2013, to the Phoenix Suns.
The Suns subsequently traded him to the Milwaukee Bucks on November 7, 2017.
No doubt you are dying to learn about Mrs. Bledsoe, so without any further ado check her out.
Morgan Poole started dating Eric while they were in high school.
Morgan and Eric are the proud parents of two beautiful and incredible children; son Ethan, and daughter Ariana.
Initially, no wedding date was revealed. Eric popped the question on August 15, 2016. He proudly posted the good news on Instagram.
Morgan and Eric tied the knot early in 2017, in Birmingham, Alabama.


Conway Christian School recognizes the importance of gathering together as co-laborers for Christ. During our chapel services, we are blessed to hear from local church and community leaders and experience music worship led by our student praise team. Chapel is a time for our students to collectively focus on Christ's love and salvation.
March 22nd – No Chapel – Spring Break!!!
C hapel for our 7th through 12th grade focuses on giving students a variety of worship and discipling experiences. During the chapel times, students have the opportunity to hear from leaders from our local churches and participate in music worship led by our student praise team. Our students also participate in a mentoring program led by our Upper School faculty.


Abstract: East Africa is facing the worst food crisis of the 21st Century. Across Ethiopia, Somalia, and Kenya, 12 million people are in dire need of food, clean water, and basic sanitation. Loss of life on a massive scale is a very real risk, and the crisis is set to worsen over the coming months, particularly for pastoralist communities.
Abstract: East Africa is facing the worst food crisis of the 21st Century. Across Ethiopia, Somalia, and Kenya, over 12 million people are in dire need of food, clean water, basic sanitation and shelter. Suffering and death are already happening on a massive scale, and the situation will worsen over the coming months.
Abstract: This paper illustrates one example of how Oxfam GB Southern Africa Region supports the efforts of women's-rights organisations to popularise and lobby for the ratification, domestication, and implementation of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People's Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (the Africa Women's Protocol) in Zambia.


Incumbents are facing a difficult conundrum as the market (slowly) shifts from copper to fiber. Short-term financial considerations (and shareholder pressure) push them towards not investing in FTTP, but a combination of political and competitive pressure in areas where the business model is achievable (albeit somewhat longer term than telecom industry norms) forces them to initiate some kind of response in these areas. BT, unlike other incumbents, has chosen a deployment model that is mostly FTTC (as an examination of their list of Super Fast Fibre Access Exchange Area Roll-out plans will highlight). I have doubts about the viability of their choice (and about some of the technical implementation choices too) but that's not the purpose of this post.
BT has a response in dense urban areas, whether you consider it sufficient or not to meet demand and face competition. That leaves 60% of the population uncatered for, and there is still a significant threat there: non-dense communities (which more often than not aren't deep rural either) may still want superfast broadband but with no chance of getting it from BT in the foreseeable future. As a consequence, they examine various options of national and/or European funding, consider their own business cases for infrastructure deployment and initiate projects when these things align. These rural projects will gradually chip away at BTs infrastructure monopoly, a threat that has been well identified. BT is lobbying against these projects, as highlighted in an intervention earlier this year by their head of wholesale (see BT Warns Against Market of Smallerer Rural Fiber Optic Broadband ISPs).
I think, as a citizen, it's legitimate to feel outraged at an incumbent saying "I won't invest but I don't want anyone else to invest". Much as I respect Sally Davis, the chaos she predicts isn't that serious or likely, and has been addressed in some countries like Sweden (see project Cesar). This is about monopoly protection first and foremost and it should be seen as such by policy makers and people who care about regional development.
Lest I be seen as a BT-basher, this is in no way unique to Britain. In virtually every country you see the same incumbent behaviour (from Telefonica's recent attempts to force the Viladecans deployment to stop to France Telecom's elaborate preemption of a large portion of territory which they will not connect for at least 4 years, probably more). I will address that in another blog posting soon.
So anyway, someone has heard Sally Davis' plea, but it's probably not the response she hoped for when she made those statements earlier this year. Yesterday, Fujitsu, Virgin Media and Talk Talk announced a co-invested deployment in a rural FTTH infrastructure that will ultimately cover 5 million homes (20% of UK homes). The press release of the announcement raises many questions (about the capital structure of the operation, the wholesale model, the dependency on duct and poles pricing models, the areas targeted, etc.) but one thing is clear: if this goes forward, BT can write off 20% of their copper infrastructure.
For the UK government, assuming they don't have an excessive willingness to protect their incumbent (unlike say the French government), this is a boon: with limited public funding, they will be able to prove that something is being done about connecting some of the have-nots. Who wouldn't want that ?
Now let's not be too naïve about this announcement: at this stage it's just an announcement, and furthermore an announcement with caveats on the wholesale access pricing to ducts and poles. Furthermore, the alliance of Fujitsu, Talk Talk and Virgin Media (with Cisco equipment powering it all) will face many of the issues that large scale FTTP deployments have faced elsewhere: what do you sell that's differentiating enough to make customers switch (usually easier in rural areas), what's your go-to-market model to maximise take-up, how do you collaborate with multiple local governments who want the infrastructure, but not exactly where and how you would like it deployed, etc.
Still, this is a very interesting initiative and potentially a first in Europe that could give others ideas. As Herman Wagter wrote in his Diffraction Analysis report Should City Cats Be the First to Play with the Fiber Yarn? there's a lot of sense in targeting smaller communities. I don't know if Fujitsu intends to or has the financial capacity to replicate this elsewhere in Europe, but it's certainly worth following!


Negotiations over an agreement for some American forces to remain in Afghanistan after 2014 have been stalled for some time but an unannounced visit to Kabul by Secretary of State John Kerry seems to have yielded some progress — and a draft agreement.
The outcome of Tajikistan's November presidential election is easy to predict. Emomalii Rahmon will be reelected in a landslide. However, the ballot will also list Oynihol Bobonazarova, a secular lawyer and human rights activist recently tapped by the opposition, including Central Asia's single legal Islamist party, to run against the first and only president of the former Soviet republic.
Bobonazarova is at first glance an odd choice for the United Reformist Force, an opposition coalition comprised of Islamists, social democrats and several nongovernmental groups.
The Islamists boycotted the 2006 election and failed to put up a candidate for a 2011 by-election for a vacated parliament seat, saying in conjunction with the boycotting social democrats that until election laws were changed, government officials will always be able to manipulate the outcome in advance. Although the Islamists did not encourage their members to boycott the 2011 election, it is clear the opposition forces in Tajikistan are dejected about their chances of electoral victory in any settling.
The upcoming presidential election marks a potential breaking point for perennial president Rahmon. Elected in 1994 and again in 1999. A 1999 referendum extended the presidential term from five to seven years, and a 2003 package of constitutional amendments included a provision permitting a second consecutive term. Although the limit of two terms exists on paper, supporters of Rahmon argue that the limit only applies to elections following the 2003 adoption of the amendments. Rahmon is set to run again this November.
The message might resonate outside Tajikistan but it is more likely that it will be lost in the global din. Despite the flurry of excitement around Bobonazarova's nomination, and everything it represents — moderation, cooperation — the state controls the media and Rahmon is the only candidate with widespread name recognition. Although the political elites of Tajikistan will steer the election results anyway, the argument is ready made that Bobonazarova is a nobody, unknown beyond the human rights and NGO communities.
But Bobonazarova will run. Government tactics of pinning opposition candidates with trumped up criminal charges will not easily fly against a female human rights lawyer with a clean record (except for a conviction for being a member of an opposition party in the early years of independence). Akbar Turajonzoda, a religious figure in Tajikistan and former Islamist party leader, doubts that the government will move to charge Bobonazarova with anything, even if campaign staff report obstacles being put up to impede Bobonazarova's run.
Other candidates have not been so lucky. In May, Zayd Saidov, a businessman and opposition leader, was arrested on charges of fraud and polygamy. The relatively unknown opposition leader Umarali Kuvatov was conveniently arrested last December in Dubai at the behest of the Tajik government, also on charges of fraud.
The Islamists, if they are able to reap any benefits from their support of Bobonazarova, will have to wait for many years for a real chance at electoral success. Either Rahmon dies or he serves two more full terms. At 61, it is plausible that Rahmon lives out two more terms and then faces the hurdle of amending the Constitution again. For the Islamists, building up evidence of broad appeal, political moderation and a willingness to cooperate with secular institutions will prove useful when a real opportunity at power emerges.
The breakdown in both the bilateral security agreement talks between the Afghan government and the United States and the peace talks with the Taliban were far from unexpected. The issues of sovereignty and power remain central to both Afghan and Taliban concerns. While the primarily American concern is the war, and its ending, the main Afghan and Taliban worry looks toward the peace.
Nominally, it started on Wednesday with the raising of a Taliban flag — black lettering on a white banner — and the revealing of a name plate reading "Political Office of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan" in Doha, Qatar. Though the opening of a physical Taliban office was heralded by many as a progressive step toward reconciliation, it was also at the heart of the breakdown.
The opening and use of a Taliban office provides the perception of political legitimacy, and therefore legitimate competition, which the unsteady administration of President Hamid Karzai can ill afford.
In addition, continued American steering of the peace process illustrated time and again the lack of confidence in the staying power of the Afghan republic.
The Afghan government would rather the United States remain concerned with fringe issues, such as prisoner exchanges, and out of the broader negotiations. Although President Barack Obama has said that only Afghans can decided whether the peace and reconciliation process can start, the Americans repeatedly involved themselves in the process, highlighting a lack of confidence in the Afghan republic.
The underlying current and unstated narrative is that both the Taliban and the United States expect to be around as 2014 closes and Western troops depart by the thousands whereas President Karzai will no longer be in office. Afghan elections scheduled for the first week of April 2014 will be the true test of whether a stable peace can be achieved.
The Taliban continue to operate as if the main barrier to their political control of Afghanistan is the United States. However untrue this assumption may be, it drives the group to sideline the government in Kabul, at least in public. Until the Taliban can be convinced that the Afghan government will endure beyond the end of Karzai's presidency, they will continue to function as a competing authority rather than a piece of the Afghan political quilt.
It is as important for there to be a legitimate transfer of presidential power in 2014 as it is for President Karzai to establish the individual sovereignty of the government of Afghanistan now. His comments against the United States are not for an American audience. He remains concerned primarily with the stability of his own regime and perhaps the lasting stability of Afghanistan.
Representatives of four Afghan groups met near Chantilly, France this week. While the meeting, organized by the Foundation for Strategic Research, is nowhere close to a negotiation, the gathering at least presented an opportunity for the various sides to talk.
Members of the Afghan High Peace Council, the Northern Alliance, Hezbi Islami and the Taliban came to France for the talks.
As the year draws to a close the situation in Afghanistan remains bleak. 2012 was not only plagued by stalled negotiations but by an increase in "green on blue" violence — the killing of NATO soldiers by Afghan security forces — and vague, if any, improvements in security throughout the country. Although the Western alliance doesn't plan to leave the country before 2014, withdrawals are already underway.
The French government had no direct involvement in the meeting in Chantilly but officials were present. The meeting came at an auspicious time, a week after the French withdrew the last of their combat forces from Afghanistan and the British announced that they will be withdrawing nearly 4,000 soldiers next year, reducing Britain's presence down to just over 5,000 troops by the end of 2013.
The meeting in Chantilly was not expected to result in any breakthrough toward a peace agreement. As it took place behind closed doors, we might not even learn soon whether anything was accomplished.
A Taliban spokesman said there would only be speeches, no political commitments and no negotiations. This, of course, could mean plenty of talking and no listening. On the other hand, gathering these disparate individuals together and allowing them a safe place to speak their positions is a step in the right direction.
Afghan president Hamid Karzai, in a declared attempt to fight corruption, has dismissed five provincial governors from their posts. Among those dismissed is Gulab Mangal of Helmand Province, a particular favorite of international forces. Mangal's dismissal does not come as a surprise and makes a certain degree of sense in domestic political terms.
Karzai has tried numerous times to push Mangal out of office but always pulled back at the objections of the American and British forces stationed in Helmand, the largest of Afghanistan's 34 provinces. That he has finally ousted Mangal indicates that Karzai is looking beyond the opinions of Western allies and 2014, when NATO is set to withdraw, with an eye for his own job security.
In place of Mangal, under whose watch Helmand became the deadliest posting for NATO forces, Karzai is installing General Naeem Baloch, a little known member of the Afghan intelligence service and a man more closely allied with Karzai's inner circle.
While viewed favorably by international forces, Mangal's term as governor was controversial due to the rising tide of violence in Helmand. One of his predecessors, Sher Mohammad Akhundzada, was removed from office in 2005 amid solid rumors of links to drug trafficking and under international pressure.
Violence in the south markedly rose after Akhundzada left the governorship, from one coalition death in 2005 to 62 in 2007, rising to a peak of 290 in 2010. Observers placed a degree of blame on Akhundzada, saying that he encouraged the province's destabilization in an attempt to sabotage his successor.
Mangal, for his part, could do little to stymie the rising violence. His courting of international forces did not win him many friends and met with little concrete security success. Karzai's dismissal of Mangal would appear to make sense. He is too close to the international forces busy planning their exit from Afghanistan while Karzai is contemplating Afghanistan's future post 2014.
The president's domestic political calculations put him at odds with Western objectives in the country. In an idyllic Afghanistan, poppies would not be the main cash crop and elections would decide authority. But the reality of governance in Afghanistan differs significantly from this vision. Which is not to say that the ideal is wrong but that demanding perfection is naive.
It seems Karzai has answered the question. His recent shuffling of governors is an attempt to gain greater control. If Afghan history is any lesson, this reflects Karzai's own naive hopes of maintaining power.
Correction: An earlier version of this story stated that Sher Mohammad Akhundzada had been removed from the Helmand governorship in 2008 when, in fact, he left office in 2005.
Kyrgyzstan is once again in political crisis. The product of a stagnating economy, accusations of corruption and the failure of the government to rapidly deliver promised prosperity, the latest iteration of the Central Asian republic's political turmoil highlights both weaknesses that are inherent to parliamentary democracy and the latent potential of Kyrgyz civil society.
Often hailed as a democratic success in a region that is ruled by autocrats, Kyrgyzstan's political instability inhibits economic and societal progress.
Twice since independence has Kyrgyzstan removed its president from power. Askar Akayev, elected as the Soviet Union crumbled in 1991, was pushed out of office in 2005's largely nonviolent Tulip Revolution. Riots and demonstrations two years ago forced Akayev's successor, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, to flee the country. A referendum subsequently approved the switch from a presidential to a parliamentary system under a new constitution.
Kyrgyzstan's parliamentary democracy was erected to prevent the concentration of power in a single person or party, doing away with presidential immunity and allowing only a parliamentary majority to select the prime minister. In the event that no single party has a majority in Kyrgyzstan's unicameral legislature, the president selects a party to initiate coalition talks.
Last December saw Kyrgyzstan's first successful transfer of power, from the interim president, Roza Otunbayeva, to the newly-elected Almazbek Atambayev, former leader of the Social Democratic Party. Omurbek Babanov, a prominent businessman and one of the country's richest citizens, became premier.
At the time, many analysts were hopeful. The new parliament and cabinet were stuffed with experienced professionals. But there was also reason to be skeptical. Many members of the government had served in previous administrations. The system had changed but many of the players remained the same.
President Atambayev's Social Democratic Party has been charged with forming a new coalition. It is likely to pull in Ata-Meken and Ar-Namys but leave out Babanov's Respublika.
The only party left out of the previous government, the right-wing Ata-Zhurt, has held a plurality of the seats in parliament since 2010 and enjoys wide support among Kyrgyz nationalists, particularly in the south. It was the only political party to call for Bakiyey's reinstatement after the riots of 2010. Whether it will be invited into the new ruling coalition is uncertain. The remaining three parties don't need it to find a majority.
Kyrgyz political analyst Mars Sariyev notes that "Babanov is a businessman. He has carried his aggressive business style into politics. It's beneficial for him to move into opposition and maintain forward momentum." But momentum will be difficult for Kyrgyzstan to achieve if its political leadership remains susceptible to corruption, partisanship and an inability to compromise.
The country's present political crisis contains many of the themes of previous rounds of unrest. The recitation of political grievances is close to rote. Every ousted leader has been accused of the same crimes by their opponents and successors — corruption, cronyism and a failure to deliver on promised economic improvements.
Kyrgyzstan has a multitude of issues to juggle, from a struggling economy build almost entirely on gold and remittances to great power pressure from Russia and the United States — both of which maintain military bases in the country — from a history of ethnic tension and periodic violence between Kyrgyz and Uzbeks to a national habit of rejecting governments that don't deliver on pipedream promises.
It can be reasonably hoped that the practice of even imperfect democracy in Kyrgyzstan will instill the attributes needed for successful government in the future. Though built to encourage compromise, parliamentary systems can make room for endless political stagnation — see Belgium's 541 day epic journey to form a coalition. But the parliamentary system also allows for political parties to break up an unsatisfactory government without resorting to public protests, which have been the method of ousting every Kyrgyz president to date.
While neither of the country's two revolutions were exceedingly violent or protracted, that is no guarantee that the next one won't be, especially given rising tensions between the country's minority Uzbek population and the ethnic Kyrgyz.
Peaceful change of power means that there is hope for Kyrgyz democracy but the country's politicians have to move beyond petty squabbling to the difficult business of tackling corruption, ethnic tension and economic woes, sooner rather than later.


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En teoría de la probabilidad, y en teoría de la información, la información mutua o transinformación o ganancia de información de dos variables aleatorias es una cantidad que mide la dependencia estadística entre ambas variables. Más precisamente, mide la información o reducción de la incertidumbre (entropía) de una variable aleatoria, , debido al conocimiento del valor de otra variable aleatoria .

No se limita a variables en números reales ni a relaciones lineales, por lo que la información mutua es más general que el coeficiente de correlación de Pearson. La información mutua también puede entenderse como el valor esperado (la media) de la información mutua puntual, o como la diferencia de la distribución conjunta () y el producto de las distribuciones marginales ().

Esta cantidad fue definida y analizada por Claude Shannon en su trabajo seminal, "A Mathematical Theory of Communication", aunque él no la llamó "información mutua". El término fue acuñado más tarde por Robert Fano.

Definición
Consideremos dos variables aleatorias X e Y con posibles valores xi, i=1,2,...,n, yj, j=1,2,...,m respectivamente. Podemos usar la notación  y

Podemos definir la información mutua  entre  y  como:

La unidad del concepto está determinado por la base del logaritmo usado. Se suelen usar logaritmos base dos, por tanto, la unidad de medida más común es el bit.

De la propia definición podemos concluir que  ya que:

Información mutua media
La información mutua media mide la información mutua media que se produce entre los distintos valores de dos variables aleatorias. Para ello proporcionamos un peso a los valores de  sobre la base de la probabilidad de ocurrencia. Por tanto, la información mutua media de dos variables aleatorias discretas X e Y puede definirse como:

En el caso continuo, reemplazamos la suma con una integral doble definida:

Como en el caso de , la unidad del concepto está determinado por la base del logaritmo usado Se suele usar el logaritmo con base dos y por tanto la unidad más común es el bit.

Concepto intuitivo
Intuitivamente, la información mutua media mide la información que X e Y comparten: mide en cuánto el conocimiento de una variable reduce nuestra incertidumbre sobre la otra. Por ejemplo, si X e Y son independientes, entonces conocer X no da información sobre Y y viceversa, por lo que su información mutua es cero. En el otro extremo, si X e Y son idénticas entonces toda información proporcionada por X es compartida por Y: saber X determina el valor de Y y viceversa. Por ello, la información mutua media es igual a la información contenida en Y (o X) por sí sola, también llamada la entropía de Y (o X: claramente si X e Y son idénticas tienen idéntica entropía).

La información mutua media cuantifica la dependencia entre la distribución conjunta de X e Y y la que tendrían si X e Y fuesen independientes.
La información mutua media es una medida de dependencia en el siguiente sentido: I(X; Y) = 0 si y sólo si X e Y son variables aleatorias independientes. Esto es fácil de ver en una dirección: si X e Y son independientes, entonces p(x,y) = p(x) p(y), y por tanto:

Propiedades
La información mutua media cumple las siguientes propiedades:
 min(H(X),H(Y)) ≥ I(X;Y) ≥ 0 cumpliéndose la igualdad a 0 cuando X e Y son independientes.
 I(X;Y) = I(Y;X).

Relación con entropía

El valor de la información mutua media se puede obtener a partir del concepto de entropía. usando las definiciones matemáticas de las [entropía (información)|entropías]] H(X), H(X,Y) y H(X|Y)

obtenemos

De lo anterior y de la propiedad de las entropías

obtenemos

Por tanto,

lo que indica que la entropía es un tipo especial de información mutua media

Véase también

 Divergencia de Kullback-Leibler
 Prueba χ² de Pearson

Referencias

Teoría de la información
Entropía de la información