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Islamic State posts execution of US journalist to deter Obama from further involvement in Iraq war
Aug 20, 2014 @ 15:25 65246 Views Barack Obama, Iraq war, ISIS, Kurdish Region of Iraq-KRG, Peshmerga, US air strikes
Iraqi Islamic State terrorists released a video online Tuesday night, Aug. 19, purportedly showing the beheading of American photo-journalist James Wright Foley, 40, abducted in Syria 22 months ago, after threatening to punish the US and Britain for air strikes in Iraq.
Also visible was another kidnapped US journalist, Stevent Sotloff, who had been missing from northern Syria since July 2013. Under the caption "A Message to America," it was indicated that Sotlof was being held hostage to the next United States actions in Iraq. It is not clear where the videotaped atrocity had been filmed whether in Syria or Iraq.
It was posted as Iraqi and Kurdish forces awaited tensely for Barack Obama to decide whether to expand US involvement to other sectors of the war against IS, after American and British air strikes tipped the balance of the battle for the Mosul dam. The tape aimed at deterring any foreign intervention in the Iraqi-Kurdish struggle to contain the Islamist advance.
Obama held back from making a public statement about the beheading until the video could be formally authenticated. "If genuine, we are appalled by the brutal murder of an innocent American journalist and we express our deepest condolences to his family and friends," White House National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said in a statement.
The audio revealed a voiceover in a pure British accent. This was noted in London and prompted UK Prime Minister David Cameron to cut short his vacation and return to Downing Street Wednesday, to take charge of discussions on the British connection with US efforts in support of the forces fighting IS in Iraq.
At least 500 British Muslims have joined IS – possibly twice that number have joined Islamist forces in Syria and Iraq.
As for the situation in Iraq, it is still not clear if Kurdish Peshmerga troops backed by US air strikes have finally wrested the strategic Mosul dam from Islamist control. After its recovery was reported and confirmed Monday by President Obama, who said in Washington: "Iraqi and Kurdish forces, backed by American air strikes, had captured a strategically important dam near Mosul," witnesses on the spot attested to debkafile's military sources that renewed fighting had erupted.
It appeared that IS had raised reinforcements from Mosul, just 15 km away to take the strategic dam, the largest in Iraq, back, because they own a strong interest in holding onto it. Blowing it up would inundate large parts of the country and cause tens of thousands of deaths. And so the threat itself is a powerful psychological lever. On the other hand, IS would think twice about carrying it out, because most of the victims would be Sunni Iraqis, whose support and sympathy the group courts.
Control of the dam also provides the town of Mosul, which the Islamic State captured two months ago, with a good defense line as well as a jumping-off position against the Kurdish capital of Irbil, headquarters of the Peshmerga and some 1,000 US servicemen deployed there.
debkafile's military and intelligence sources report that the Al Qaeda Iraqi wing has been sighted gearing up for a counter-offensive against the Peshmerga and Iraqi army. Their commander, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, has taken some of Saddam Hussein's most professional and experienced army officers as advisers.
It is almost impossible for US and British spy satellites and aerial surveillance to predict where the Islamists will strike next after the shocking video. They already control vast areas of northern western, central and eastern Iraq, roughly the size of Britain and Ireland combined, with a front line 1.600 km long.
They have proved they are able to flit across long distances at speed, mingling with indigenous populations, which are friendly enough to keep the Sunni jihadis supplied with intelligence, food, fuel and medical care.
The Islamic State therefore enjoys a substantial strategic advantage on the ground, to offset its relatively small numbers (estimated at 35,000) – even when pitted against the far larger Iraqi army and Kurdish Peshmerga supported by US and British air strikes.
The Peshmerga has mustered some 200,000 fighting men, drawing on its Turkish PKK brethren and Syrian Kurdish militias, as well as Kurdish volunteers from other countries, intent on saving the only Kurdish semiautonomous republic, the KRG, from being overrun by Islamic terrorists.
But Kurdish troops are starved of weapons and ordnance; they have no air force or even helicopters for air cover, and lack armor and self-propelled artillery.
The Islamists in contrast are heavily armed with the latest American tanks and self-propelled artillery taken booty from the 30,000 Iraqi soldiers who fled from their advance.
Tuesday, Iraqi forces launched and halted an offensive to recapture Tikrit, home town of executed dictator Saddam Hussein, in the face of fierce resistance from Islamic State fighters. This was the seventh Iraqi military bid to recapture the predominantly Sunni town of Tikrit, which fell to IS in late June, and which commands the highways linking Baghdad to the north and the east.
This attempt had special significance, because it was the first Iraqi military operation since Haidar Al-Abadi took over as prime minister of Iraq last week from fellow-Shiite Nouri al-Maliki. The new man was heavily backed by the Obama administration in the belief that he would have better luck than his predecessor in persuading Sunni leaders to support a major campaign to halt the Islamic State.
But the operation was doomed from the start by the composition of the assault units. They consisted of poorly trained Iraqi Shiite militiamen, accompanied by Iranian Revolutionary Guards officers, under the command of Al Qods Brigades chief Gen. Qassam Soleimani.
Sending a Shiite force commanded by Iranian officers to recapture a Sunni town like Tikrit was scarcely likely to appeal to the town-dwellers, draw the Sunni factions fighting with IS over to the national Iraqi army, or indeed make them fans of the new prime minister.


See the 1990 sci-fi classic resurrected in the latest trailer for the reboot, which stars Ellen Page.
Another day, another cult sci-fi classic gets given a seemingly unnecessary remake or sequel.
Unbelievably, it's been 27 years since the the original, so Hollywood can probably be forgiven for resuscitating Flatliners back from the dead.
Watch the second official trailer for the 2017 film, which stars Ellen Page, Diego Luna, Nina Dobrev, Kiersey Clemons, and James Norton.
Similar to the original, the movie sees medical students inducing near-death in order to experience the afterlife.
However, their reckless experimentation forces the brainy bunch to face the tragedies of their past, which inevitably means stuff gets pretty creepy pretty quickly.
It's not all shiny and new though, as the Niels Arden Oplev- directed film, which is set for release on 29 September, will see original leading man Kiefer Sutherland return for a cameo.


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uniQure to Participate in Multiple Upcoming Industry Conferences in November
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LEXINGTON, Mass. and AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands, Nov. 04, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- uniQure N.V. (NASDAQ: QURE), a leading gene therapy company advancing transformative therapies for patients with severe medical needs, today announced that members of uniQure's management team including Matt Kapusta, chief executive officer, Ricardo Dolmetsch, Ph.D., president of research & development, and Maria Cantor, chief communications officer, with Chiara Russo, associate director of investor relations and communications, will participate in the following upcoming conferences in November:
Credit Suisse 29th Annual Virtual Healthcare Conference, November 9 - 12, 2020
— A fireside chat including Matt Kapusta and Dr. Dolmetsch with research analyst Martin Auster will take place on Monday, November 9, 2020 from 4:15 – 4:55 p.m. ET. The live webcast of the fireside chat can be accessed through the link displayed in the Investor section of the uniQure website. The webcast replay will be available for at least 72 hours following the live event.
— Members of uniQure's management team also will participate in virtual one-on-one investor meetings throughout the day.
Barclay's Gene Editing & Gene Therapy Summit, November 16, 2020
— A fireside chat with Matt Kapusta and research analyst Gena Wang will take place on Monday, November 16, 2020 from 2:30 – 2:55 p.m. ET. The live webcast of the fireside chat can be accessed through the link displayed in the Investor section of the uniQure website. The webcast replay will be available for at least 72 hours following the live event.
Stifel 2020 Virtual Healthcare Conference,November 16 - 18, 2020
— A fireside chat with Dr. Dolmetsch and research analyst Paul Matteis will take place on Tuesday, November 17, 2020 from 8:00 – 8:30 a.m. ET. The live webcast of the fireside chat can be accessed through the link displayed in the Investor section of the uniQure website. The webcast replay will be available for at least 72 hours following the live event.
— Members of uniQure's management team will participate in virtual one-on-one investor meetings throughout the day.
About uniQure
uniQure is delivering on the promise of gene therapy – single treatments with potentially curative results. We are leveraging our modular and validated technology platform to rapidly advance a pipeline of proprietary gene therapies to treat patients with hemophilia B, Huntington's disease, Fabry disease, spinocerebellar ataxia Type 3 and other diseases. www.uniQure.com
uniQure Contacts:
FOR INVESTORS: FOR MEDIA:
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Direct: 339-970-7536 Direct: 617-306-9137 Direct: 339-970-7558
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The best way to secure the valuables inside your home is to ensure that your home security system is always set. If you don't have a security system, however, or you're just eager to ensure that none of your valuables are taken in the event that someone breaks into your home despite the use of the system, it's important to ensure that these items are hidden in a smart location. Many homeowners keep their jewelry and cash in the master bedroom, which means that a thief can quickly gather plenty of valuable items by quickly visiting this room. You can feel more confident ensuring that your valuables are elsewhere in your home, including in these suggested spots.
While some people place valuables in a safe that is hidden within a bookshelf, you don't necessarily need a safe to use this type of furniture to hide your valuables. Provided that the shelves are deep enough, you can cleverly hide valuables behind some books. Pull out the books on a given shelf, stash the valuables behind and then replace the books. It's unlikely that the average burglar looking for a quick score will begin removing books to find valuables.
Burglars aren't likely to make your pantry one of their first stops, which means that keeping some key valuables in this location is ideal. While you can always place items in a box and set it behind a bunch of canned goods, you can step up your clandestine game by buying an empty container that looks like a commercial product (such as a can of cleaner or a can of tomatoes). These mini safes are available online and have screw tops that provide access to the inside. From the outside, though, they look exactly like normal pantry items.
The bottom or back of your freezer is typically a safe location for storing your valuables. Provided they're not sensitive to the temperature, placing these items in a zip-top plastic bag and then wrapping the bag in aluminum foil to make it look like leftovers can be an effective way to keep it safe in the event that a burglar makes an entry into your home.
If you have a large selection of household supplies, such as paint cans that live on a shelf in the garage, this location can be ideal for hiding valuables. When you've used up a large paint can, clean out the inside and let it air dry. Once it's completely dry, you can load it with your valuables and place it in a designated spot on the shelf—it's probably not the first place a thief will look.
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Analysts and data scientists are consumers of enterprise data. The use BI tools like Tableau, Qlik, and Power BI, as well as data science languages like Python and R, enable these teams to analyze data in powerful ways. All of these tools work best when the data has been collected from the different sources, prepared for analysis, and is stored in a high-performance database for access.
Data Prep tools have emerged to help companies perform the work of sourcing and preparing their data for analysis. Companies use these tools as an integral part of their data pipelines. In this article we compare Data Prep tools to Dremio, the Data-as-a-Service Platform, which integrates several critical functional areas, including Data Prep.
Data Prep, also known as Data Wrangling, is a new class of software products designed to help companies improve the quality of their data for analytics. The idea of improving data quality isn't new. What is new with Data Prep is allowing users to make decisions about how to improve data based on the data itself rather than relying on metadata.
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Data is created or captured in systems such as RDBMS, file systems, 3rd party apps, Hadoop, and NoSQL.
Converting data from the way it is represented in its source to a different structure, including converting data types, extracting values from fields, combining multiple fields together, and filtering records based on Boolean, range, text search, regular expression, and other conditions.
Calculating new values based on explicit or implicit values in the data sources, such as standard deviation, k-means, or IRR.
Summarizing data using measures such as MIN, MAX, AVG, COUNT based on one or more dimensions of the data.
Load the data into its final destination, usually an RDBMS, data warehouse, or Hadoop.
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Video Meet Pappy Van Poodle, The Nintendo Character Nobody Knew Existed
Pay-to-meet
Do you have any memories of the free-to-play 3DS eShop title, Rusty's Real Deal Baseball? It was launched exclusively in North America in 2014 and was one of the earliest games Nintendo released prior to its mobile selection, to include paid downloadable content. The baseball mini-game compilation starred a down and out in-game shop...
Thu 16th May 2019
Pappy Van Poodle
News Will Nintendo Add More Game Styles To Super Mario Maker 2?
It looks like there's a real chance
If you managed to catch the Super Mario Maker 2 Direct earlier on, you likely saw the segment where the new game style based on Super Mario 3D World was revealed. If you pause around the 9-minute mark of the video, you'll notice there's a vacant space next to the new theme on display. Noticeably, the title in...
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News It's Official, The New Game Style In Super Mario Maker 2 Is Based On 3D World
Cat Mario, clear pipes and more...
When early images and advertisements for Super Mario Maker 2 began surfacing online, it became clear a new game theme had been added. Nintendo's latest presentation for the upcoming release has now confirmed it's based on the Wii U release, Super Mario 3D World. If you already spotted Cat Mario and clear pipes in...
News Get Inspired By The New Story Mode In Super Mario Maker 2
Rebuild the castle
Nintendo just released a truckload of new information about Super Mario Maker 2 in its latest Direct presentation. One of the highlights of the 15-minute clip was the news the game would receive its very own story mode. In this mode, you take control of Mario and your task is to rebuild Princess Peach's castle. To do this, you'll...
News Build And Play Together In Super Mario Maker 2's Multiplayer Modes
Online and local support
If it wasn't already a dead giveaway when we started seeing Luigi in the promotional materials, a co-op construction mode has now been officially confirmed for Super Mario Maker 2. During the latest Direct presentation, Nintendo revealed how you'll be able to pass a Joy-Con to a friend in the sequel and get them to help out...
News Nintendo Switch Online Users Can Now Buy Two Games For $99
Thanks to Nintendo's new voucher deal
This evening Nintendo has revealed a new special offer for Nintendo Switch Online subscribers in its Super Mario Maker 2 Direct presentation. Using the offer, subscribers to the company's online service can buy two eShop game vouchers for £84.00 / €99.00 / $99.00 and redeem them for a pair of games - these...
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Lookin' sharp
Another week, another Super Smash Bros. Ultimate spirit event. This next one is titled "Suit Up!" and is all about well-dressed spirits. As usual, it will start on Friday and run for a total of three days. Here's the description from Nintendo's Twitter account: The three-day spirit event "Suit Up!" starts on 17/05! Spirits wearing...
Random Mario Gets A Safer Sleep In His Original 3D Outing On Nintendo 64
If you've ever taken a break from Super Mario 64 or Super Mario Odyssey and left either game running, there's a good chance you've returned to find Mario sleeping on the job. In Odyssey, Mario could get some shuteye wherever he liked. He was such a solid sleeper, in fact, he didn't even need a proper ledge to nod off. It turns out his...
News Discord App For Switch Would 'Need Nintendo's Blessing'
But with enough public support it 'could be a thing'
The makers of voice and text chat app Discord were vocal with their enthusiasm for bringing the service to Nintendo Switch back in 2017. It seems that they're still keen to help out players who are perhaps less than happy with the Kyoto company's official solution to voice chat on the console...
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News Fight For Time Travel Or Teleportation In Next Weekend's Splatoon 2 Splatfest
Choose your superpower
Alongside the Tetris 99 competition next weekend (giving you a chance to unlock an exclusive Tetris Game Boy theme), Splatoon 2 will be holding another Splatfest in both North America and Europe. The big question this time around is would you prefer to be able to time travel or
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Random Frozen Rayman Spotted In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Tip of the ice
Nintendo and Ubisoft might have grown increasingly friendly during the Switch generation, but unfortunately, it's still not enough for Masahiro Sakurai and his team working on Super Smash Bros. Ultimate to include the French publisher's iconic mascot Rayman in the base version on the game. Still, with four DLC character slots...
News 3DS Sales Might Be Lower, But The Demand Is Still Stable
More handheld series also expected on Switch
Although there was no mention of future games support for the 3DS at Nintendo's financial briefing last month, a recently translated Q&A has revealed the system is still performing, sales-wise. Despite a scaled-back sales plan for the 3DS this fiscal year, Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa...
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"We've been friends for a long time"
In the same interview with VGC, Platinum Games' studio head, Atushi Inaba, spoke about the positive relations the company had maintained with Nintendo over the years and how respect and trust played a major part in the relationship. "Nintendo is a company that respects creators. From that perspective, it is a...
Thu 9th May 2019
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News Smash Up The City As A Giant Monster In This Free Nintendo Labo VR Minigame
Download it from the Switch news channel
Remember the free 'Alien Bopping' game added to the Labo Toy-Con 04: VR Kit at the end of April? Well, Nintendo has now released another mini-game. This time it's about smashing up a city as a gigantic green Godzilla-like creature. The only difference is this monster shoots red balls (imagine them as lasers)...
Talking Point Detective Pikachu & Let's Go Are The Keys To A New Pokémon Audience
Evolving the monster and raising its EVs for the next generation
A couple of weekends ago we took our customary Saturday afternoon stroll through the local park. It was a bright sunlit day, with detritus from blooming trees floating in the gentle spring breeze while groups of people, young and old, wandered the park together, heads down, their eyes...
News Nintendo Hints At Further Switch Online Exclusives Following Tetris 99
"We need to continue offering elements like this"
In a newly translated Q&A with investors from the end of March, Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa has highlighted the success of Tetris 99 as a factor for increased Nintendo Switch Online subscriptions and hinted at further exclusives to help drive interest in the service. Responding to...
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"Delivering unique entertainment... will continue to be our top priority"
As rumours and whispers of new consoles from all the big companies abound (as they always do at this point in a console generation), and with Google preparing its entrance into the gaming space with its cloud-based Stadia tech, questions are starting to be asked of Nintendo's...
News Cadence Of Hyrule Listing Appears On The European Switch eShop
Is a release close by?
The highly-anticipated Nindie release, Cadence of Hyrule: Crypt of the NecroDancer, appears to be arriving at some point between now and the end of this month on the Nintendo Switch. After showing up in a Nintendo newsletter promoting the games coming to the Switch later this month, a listing for the rhythm action-adventure...
News Nintendo Adds Three More Games To The Switch Online NES Library Next Week
Surprise, surprise
Following on from last week's website reveal, Nintendo has now officially confirmed Donkey Kong Jr., Clu Clu Land and VS. Excitebike will arrive on the Switch Online NES service on 15th May. Thanks to the official PR, we now have a bit more information about each of these classic games:
Random Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Player Takes On Overworld Boss With Cucco Army
Absolutely cucco
One of the fantastic things about The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is how you can experiment with enemies and challenges. We've seen players use rocks to fly across the land of Hyrule and others beat the game in many weird and wonderful ways. This latest display, though, is something else. A Japanese player uploaded a video...
Tue 7th May 2019
Random Game Boy Classic Super Mario Land Gets A Fan-Made DX Update
A splash of colour, plus a facelift!
Everyone found ways to celebrate the Game Boy's 30th anniversary (we certainly contributed our share) but toruzz's effort certainly went above and beyond. Nintendo never gave us an updated 'DX' edition of their first Mario outing on the Game Boy, but if it did, it might just look a bit like this. Sarasaland...
Mon 6th May 2019
News Super Nintendo Emulator Brings HD To Mode 7 Retro Classics
Beyond super, beyond 4:3!
There's no shortage of options when it comes to playing SNES games on a PC, but programmer Byuu's extensive work on bsnes throughout the years has ensured that it remains by far the most cycle accurate Super Nintendo emulator ever developed. While not as user friendly or CPU-light as other offerings, it remains an...
News Forgotten Interview With Miyamoto Sheds Light On A Classic Zelda Production
A forgotten interview dating back to 1992 has been spotted on archive.org. It's from issue 25 of the publication Electric Brain and features the one and only Shigeru Miyamoto talking about the development of The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past along with the first two Zelda entries on NES. Throughout the interview, Miyamoto...
News Nintendo Newsletter Suggests Cadence Of Hyrule Will Be Released This Month
If you had to pick one of the most surprising Nintendo Switch announcements so far this year, a standout would likely be Cadence of Hyrule: Crypt of the NecroDancer. The game was originally revealed during the March Nindie Direct showcase and is being developed by Brace Yourself Games and published by Spike Chunsoft. Regarding a...
News Nintendo's Upcoming Switch Online NES Titles Include Donkey Kong Jr., VS. Excitebike And Clu Clu Land
A surprise reveal
Nintendo's American website has seemingly revealed the next batch of games coming to the Switch Online NES service later this month. These "upcoming titles" include Donkey Kong Jr., VS. Excitebike and Clu Clu Land. More information about each of these games is expected to be shared when Nintendo makes an official announcement. For...
Sat 4th May 2019


>> > refactor to Zope.
>> > Is this even possible?
>> with Zope thanks to all the third-party products.
>> What does you perl code/crap do? What type of site is it?
> Thanks for the responses everyone.
> development that zope permits.
> in about three years.
> sure I would get from Zope.
> Which way should I go?
so what do you want Zope (or anything else) to accomplish for you?


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Q: JAXB: get tags from different levels of inheritance How could I have with JAXB get all those 4 <f> tags from such an XML:
<f id='1' value='a'>
<f id='2' value='b'>

           <f id='3' value='c'>

    <f id='4' value='b'>

Is this possible at all with JAXB without creating classes for Tags for all types of inheritance? Or should I use different library for XML processing?

A: Solved with JSoup, getting necessary tags and manually putting it into necessary parents:
    Document parsedDoc = Jsoup.parse(xml, "", Parser.xmlParser());
    Elements fields = parsedDoc.getElementsByTag("f");
    for (Element fieldElement : fields) {
        Elements parents = fieldElement.parents();
        for (Element parent : parents) {
            if (parent.nodeName().equals("document")) {
                String id = parent.attr("id");
                // find necessary parent and add to it
                break;
            }

        }
    }

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The Legislative Director will lead our Congressional advocacy to achieve a more peaceful, just, ethical and effective U.S. policy in the Middle East. She or he will join our team of lobbyists who develop and lead strategies to advance our legislative priorities in Congress and with the administration.
We're looking for someone who shares our Quaker community's fierce commitment to a world free of war and the threat of war and is passionate about defending human rights and the rule of law both domestically and internationally. The Legislative Director must also have a clear-eyed understanding of what is possible with Congress and the administration, a demonstrated ability to focus and achieve legislative success and an ability to work collegially with a large, faith-based advocacy community around the country.
FCNL's lobbyists build extensive connections with congressional offices and conduct focused legislative campaigns on the following current priorities: peacebuilding, human rights, nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation, curtailing endless war, cutting Pentagon spending, criminal justice reform, immigration reform, gun control, solutions to climate change, economic justice and Native American issues. FCNL and Friends approach each of these priorities by identifying, exposing and working to eliminate institutional racism, sexism, and militarism in order to promote genuine equality of opportunity and communities in which everyone can safely live, learn, work, worship and love.
FCNL's dedicated grassroots network brings constituent perspectives into congressional offices—both in Washington at two major lobbying events each year, and in local district offices. FCNL informs and educates its network through newsletters and collateral materials and activates its grassroots network through a robust website, email, and social media outreach.
FCNL's national network includes people from many different faiths and backgrounds who are activists and donors. The organization is dedicated to growing the network with a particular emphasis on building effective relationships as a path to policy change. In the past three years, FCNL increased the number of in-person visits from its constituents to legislators by 50 percent. Headquartered on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, FCNL is governed by a General Committee of 190 Quakers from across the country and employs a staff of about 50, including 20 registered lobbyists.
The Legislative Director for Middle East Policy is the lead FCNL lobbyist for specific, achievable steps that Congress can take to end U.S. military support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen, prevent a U.S. war with Iran, remove U.S. forces from Iraq and Syria, promote a peaceful resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, protect human rights throughout the Middle East, and promote inclusive, diplomatic solutions to help stabilize the region.
The Legislative Director for Middle East Policy will spend the bulk of his or her time on Capitol Hill, working with members of Congress and their staff members on strategies to achieve a more peaceful, ethical and effective U.S. approach toward the Middle East. The director will also help to mobilize FCNL's constituents around the country to advocate on these issues in their districts.
The Legislative Director for Middle East Policy is a vital member of FCNL's legislative team, reporting to the Legislative Director for Foreign Policy. She or he will also work closely with the Strategic Advocacy team to develop focused campaigns in the states of senators and districts of representatives who are key decision-makers on war powers and human rights priorities.
Lobby Congress and the Executive Branch: The Legislative Director for Middle East Policy builds relationships with key legislative and executive branch officials in order to advance FCNL's Middle East policy priorities.
Develop a focused change strategy: In consultation with other designated staff, the Legislative Director for Middle East Policy will be responsible for developing and implementing change strategies. She or he must also articulate this change strategy in a manner that is transparent and accessible to our staff, governors and fundraisers, and arrange for periodic assessments and evaluations.
Coordinate with other FCNL lobbyists: The Legislative Director for Middle East Policy will meet regular with other FCNL staff lobbyists to coordinate on lobby visits, intersecting programs (particularly relating to militarism and human rights) and communications with the Hill and the administration.
Work with our colleague organizations: FCNL is a leading voice in several important coalitions working on Yemen, Iran, and Israel-Palestine. The Legislative Director will continue to engage specific coalitions that are relevant to FCNL's change strategies.
Expand expertise: The Legislative Director for Middle East Policy is FCNL's staff expert on U.S. policy toward Israel-Palestine, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and the rest of the Middle East region. He or she will further develop expertise on these and other issues assigned by the Legislative Director for Foreign Policy. This includes monitoring legislative and policy developments; preparing and distributing fact sheets, background papers, editorials, newsletter articles, and other educational materials for general distribution; briefing FCNL and congressional staff; and overseeing maintenance of web pages on assigned legislative issues.
Correspond with Congress: She or he will draft letters to and for members of Congress, sign-on letters for relevant coalitions, legislative action messages to grassroots, and sample email texts and phone scripts for use by local advocates.
Represent FCNL positions in the media: He or she will serve as FCNL spokesperson for issues related to U.S. policy toward the Middle East in interviews with journalists and other media influencers; research and draft op-ed columns, letters to the editor, and reports; and work in coordination with other designated staff to have the same published, distributed, or posted as appropriate.
Help to advance Friends policy and practice: She or he will work with other FCNL staff and committee members and other Quaker organizations to address the challenges to the Friends Peace Testimony presented by wars, oppression and discrimination in the Middle East.
Cooperate with Development Team: He or she will work with the FCNL grant writer to seek grants or other institutional support for FCNL's legislative program activities on issues relevant to this position. For projects that are supported by foundation grants, she or he will fulfill the terms of grant agreements in a timely and professional manner. He or she will also assist the FCNL Development Team to incorporate updates and analysis relating to his or her work into direct mail and other fundraising appeals.
Manage Young Fellows: She or he will be assigned a program assistant and will be responsible for ensuring the assistant has appropriate and meaningful work, opportunities for professional growth, and constructive oversight and direction.
Five or more years' legislative experience, either as a congressional staff member or as a legislative advocate on Capitol Hill, and a solid familiarity with congressional process.
Deep knowledge of Middle East politics and policies, especially regarding Israel-Palestine and Iran.
Strong, bipartisan Congressional contacts, particularly focused on armed services, foreign relations, government oversight, intelligence and/or appropriations committees.
High motivation and demonstrated ability to design and lead effective change-strategies.
Excellent research, analytical, writing, editing, public speaking and media skills.
Flexibility and organization to manage numerous tasks and deadlines and adjust to rapid and unpredictable change.
Collegial and consultative approach to preventing and solving problems. Readiness to take initiative and responsibility.
Familiarity with Quaker values and practices.
Commitment to involving, promoting and respecting participants from a variety of backgrounds and perspectives.
Work Week: This is a full-time exempt position, based on a 37.5-hour work week, with some travel. Because of the focus on Congress, we expect this individual to work out of our Washington, DC office. Some compensatory time will balance evening and weekend work and travel.
Benefits: Health insurance; disability insurance; life insurance; paid holidays; vacation; sick leave; maternity/paternity leave; retirement plan.
FosterThomas will be supporting FCNL in recruiting for this position and will be involved throughout the interview process. Send cover letter and resume to Lia Brace, lb@fosterthomas.com (only electronic submissions will be accepted).


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Q: Kubernetes: Is it possible to mount volumes to a container running as a CronJob? I'm attempting to create a Kubernetes CronJob to run an application every minute.
A prerequisite is that I need to get my application code onto the container that runs within the CronJob. I figure that the best way to do so is to use a persistent volume, a pvclaim, and then defining the volume and mounting it to the container. I've done this successfully with containers running within a Pod, but it appears to be impossible within a CronJob? Here's my attempted configuration:
apiVersion: batch/v2alpha1
kind: CronJob
metadata:
  name: update_db
spec:
  volumes:
  - name: application-code
    persistentVolumeClaim:
      claimName: application-code-pv-claim
  schedule: "*/1 * * * *"
  jobTemplate:
    spec:
      template:
        spec:
          containers:
          - name: update-fingerprints
            image: python:3.6.2-slim
            command: ["/bin/bash"]
            args: ["-c", "python /client/test.py"]
          restartPolicy: OnFailure

The corresponding error:

error: error validating "cron-applications.yaml": error validating
  data: found invalid field volumes for v2alpha1.CronJobSpec; if you
  choose to ignore these errors, turn validation off with
  --validate=false

I can't find any resources that show that this is possible. So, if not possible, how does one solve the problem of getting application code into a running CronJob?

A: A CronJob uses a PodTemplate as everything else based on Pods and can use Volumes. You placed your Volume specification directly in the CronJobSpec instead of the PodSpec, use it like this:
apiVersion: batch/v1beta1
kind: CronJob
metadata:
  name: update-db
spec:
  schedule: "*/1 * * * *"
  jobTemplate:
    spec:
      template:
        spec:
          containers:
          - name: update-fingerprints
            image: python:3.6.2-slim
            command: ["/bin/bash"]
            args: ["-c", "python /client/test.py"]
            volumeMounts:
            - name: application-code
              mountPath: /where/ever
          restartPolicy: OnFailure
          volumes:
          - name: application-code
            persistentVolumeClaim:
              claimName: application-code-pv-claim

A: For the other question in there: "how does one solve the problem of getting application code into a running CronJob?"
You build your own image that contains the code. This is how it is normally done.
FROM python:3.6.2-slim
ADD test.py /client/test.py

CMD ['python','-c','/client/test.py']

Build and push to the docker registry.
docker build -t myorg/updatefingerprints
docker push myorg/updatefingerprints

Use this image in the descriptor.
apiVersion: batch/v2alpha1
kind: CronJob
metadata:
  name: update_db
spec:
  volumes:
  - name: application-code
    persistentVolumeClaim:
      claimName: application-code-pv-claim
  schedule: "*/1 * * * *"
  jobTemplate:
    spec:
      template:
        spec:
          containers:
          - name: update-fingerprints
            image: myorg/update-fingerprints
            imagePullPolicy: Always
          restartPolicy: OnFailure

This requires thinking quite differently about configuration management and version control.

A: now there is ephemeral. available since 1.21
https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/ephemeral-volumes/#generic-ephemeral-volumes
kind: Pod
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
  name: my-app
spec:
  containers:
    - name: my-frontend
      image: busybox:1.28
      volumeMounts:
      - mountPath: "/scratch"
        name: scratch-volume
      command: [ "sleep", "1000000" ]
  volumes:
    - name: scratch-volume
      ephemeral:
        volumeClaimTemplate:
          spec:
            accessModes: [ "ReadWriteOnce" ]
            resources:
              requests:
                storage: 1Gi


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Q: Give a user permissions to start, stop or restart shiny-server I need to give permission to a user to start, stop and restart Rstudio's shiny-server.
Right now, I have been managing the service upon this user's request with sudo service restart shiny-server, but now I want the user to manage this.
My first approach to this problem is to edit the /etc/sudoers. But I realized I have no idea what the full path of shiny-server is, so I have no idea what to put in the /etc/sudoers file. I would have hoped to find it in /etc/init.d/, but that isn't the case.
Does anyone have experience with this or a work-around?
I'm currently running Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS (Xenial Xerus) on this server.
The version of R is 3.4.1 and it was compiled from source.

A: You probably don't need the filepath for shiny-server.
You should be able to give the user the required permissions by adding the following line to your /etc/sudoers file:
username ALL=(root) service restart shiny-server, service stop shiny-server, service start shiny-server

After adding that line, the other user should be able to run sudo service restart shiny-server (as well as start/stop. If you're intent on finding the init script locations, the normal locations to look are:
/etc/init
/etc/init.d
/etc/init/rc-sysinit.conf
/etc/default

(found via this question)


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SAN FRANCISCO – JANUARY 16: Cans of Coca-Cola are seen on the shelf at Tower Market on January 16, 2004 in San Francisco, California. Coca-Cola is under investigation by US regulators into allegations raised by a former employee that he inflated his income. (Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images)
PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. (WMBB) – This is refreshing news.
The St. Joe Company has announced the sale of 5.8 acres of land at the company's Cedar Grove Commerce Park in Panama City, Fla., For a new Coca-Cola sales and distribution facility. The Coca-Cola Bottling Company intends to build a facility that includes a distribution center, warehouse, fleet maintenance center and administrative offices, executives at St. Joe wrote in a press release.
The project comes from Coca-Cola UNITED, a Birmingham, Alabama-based company, the second-largest private bottler of Coca-Cola in North America and the third-largest bottler of Coca-Cola products in the United States with more than 60 sites across the Southeast.
"When Panama City became part of the Coca-Cola UNITED family in 2017, we made a commitment to employ, serve, refresh and invest in the Emerald Coast region," said Bo Taylor, vice president of central region of Coca-Cola UNITED. "In the aftermath of Hurricane Michael, which caused severe damage to our existing facility, we quickly assessed the possibilities to have a positive long-term impact for our associates, our consumers and this community."
Plans call for the distribution center to measure approximately 24,000 square feet and include 18 loading docks with a workforce of approximately 80 employees.
"We are very pleased to welcome Coca-Cola UNITED to Cedar Grove Commerce Park," said Dan Velazquez, senior vice president of commercial real estate at St. Joe's. "This well-located business park has generated a lot of interest over the past few years and we are delighted to see such a large operator coming to this location."
In 2020, St. Joe completed construction of two light industrial buildings at Cedar Grove Commerce Park, providing nearly 20,000 square feet of rental space. Currently, these buildings are 90% leased.
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An investigation has just begun on the sexual abuse of teenagers which so far has led to complaints in the academies of Independiente and River Plate. The prosecutor of the case is convinced that more abused and more abusers will appear. "I have a room full of videos, CDs, pen drives, which we have not yet been able to analyze. Let's see what we have there. There is still much to discover", she finally said to El País.
The prosecutor in the case, María Soledad Garibaldi, is still shocked at how cheap it was for pedophiles to abuse a child. "They gave them 200 pesos [8 euros], some underpants, a SUBE card [the transport ticket], and they agreed. They are poor children, far from their homes, without their parents, very vulnerable", told the DA to EL PAÍS.
Garibaldi carries out an investigation that has already sent five pedophiles to jail and shocks Argentina, because it unveils a network of abuse to minors since 14 years in football, in a country where this sport is the only way out of the poverty of thousands of children who leave their villages and go to residences of the big clubs with the hope of succeeding. And it was there where the pedophiles sought them, always the poorest. There are seven minors who have denounced abuses in the Independiente club. But now there has also been another complaint of abuse in River Plate, which has presented a doctor who worked there between 2004 and 2011. The scandal is growing and little by little more teens seem to be encouraged to report the violations.
Soccer dominates almost everything in Argentina. That is why the impact of such news is much greater in a country where the ball is a religion and all the children dream of playing in the bottom of their club. Thousands of parents live these terrified hours with the idea that their children, who live in these boarding houses of the clubs or spend a good part of the week there, have suffered similar abuses. But prosecutor Garibaldi explains that pedophiles only abused the especially unprotected children. "During the investigation we have seen that pedophiles did not get access to the boys who had a higher purchasing power or some representative. Those guys immediately blocked WhatsApp or social networks to pedophiles. But the others, the poorest, did accept. They offered them a little money, paid them a trip to the interior to see their parents, new booties. These are boys who have no way of getting all that. They were summoned in some department that they had reserved for this and they abused them. They paid between 200 and 800 pesos, depending on what they did, "says the prosecutor.
Among the detainees, there is a referee, Martín Bustos, a famous actor representative, Leonardo Cohen Arazi, a player representative, Alejandro Carlos Dal Cin, and a tournament organizer for children, Juan Manuel Díaz Vallone. The scandal is shocking in every way possible.


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The three biggest console video game markets of Europe, America and Japan each have their own characteristics, but Japan undoubtedly has less in common than the other two. Here are some thoughts on what's different.
1. Wait and See
Japanese people in general are weary of new things and are less likely to take a chance on something new. Whereas western players don't mind to be first so they can tell their friends about a product, you'll find Japanese consumers don't want to take that chance and are much happier to wait until they hear more about it. This makes launching any new products in Japan more difficult than Europe/America. For games, one of the key ways to persuade Japanese players to take that plunge is to release a playable demo. Even though the conversion rate of converting demo players into consumers is normally pretty terrible, time and time again we see a definite increase in game purchases after a demo is released. This is counter to Europe and American markets where demos often don't have much of an effect. One of the reasons for this could be that there are…
2. No Online Japanese Game Reviews
There are hundreds of gaming sites that review video games across Americas and Europe, ranging from major sites to small hobby sites and bloggers and youtuber reviews. It seems everyone wants to tell you what they think. In Japan however, there is only Famitsu and Dengeki PlayStation, two printed magazines. Incredibly, there's nothing online. There are some sites that will write an opinion about a game, but they won't review it. This means consumers don't have any way to check the review of a game online, apart from consumer opinions on Amazon Japan. Not a big help for digital games.
3. Popular Genres
Sports, action and shooting games might be the backbone of the European and American markets, but they don't enjoy the same popularity in Japan. Yes there are some in the Japanese eShop charts, but these are the exceptions to the rule (see point 5 later). RPG, Action RPG and Fantasy are all much more popular with Japanese players.
4. Beautiful is best
How the game looks, especially the character design is paramount. Japanese consumers are brought up on good looking, pretty, sexy, model-like characters from anime and manga and are often turned off by the designs from overseas. Compare the lead characters of God of War and Devil My Cry to see what I mean.
5. Hit or Miss
Japan is largely a homogenous society and people have less diverse backgrounds than Europe or America, creating a more defined market. Products that hit will really hit and can remain in the charts for years, whereas products that miss will fall by the side selling almost nothing. There's much less middle ground in Japan than there is in Europe/America.
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Hang posters and flyers in offices, lobbies, and key locations.
Promote Handshake to school/college staff & faculty via email, newsletter, or committees.
Add a URL redirect from the old BuckyNet/myECS login pages to your new info about Handshake.
Submit requests for Handshake chair/tablecloth (as needed).
Include Handshake in school/college or career center welcome emails.
Highlight on your website and social media channels.
Share during student orientation or group advising sessions.
Include in your career center staff signature line, and as a footer in all career event promotional emails.
The Handshake Communications Team coordinating campus-wide marketing will send an all-student email on or around September 11.
Send an email to your students about the benefits and uses of Handshake & connecting to your career center.
Promote Handshake at your career center open house.
Ask faculty to include a slide about Handshake at the beginning of their presentations.
Create fun incentives or giveaways to encourage account activation.
Send a follow-up target email to students who have not activated their account.
Send a follow-up targeted email to students who have activated their account but need to complete their profile.
Incorporate into all career center events – for example, include a slide at the end of each event.
Highlight student success stories related to Handshake on your website, social media channels, student blogs, etc.
The Handshake Communications Team coordinating campus-wide marketing will a mass email to all students who have not activated their accounts or completed their profiles in early October.


It is my goal to go abroad, but now it is only domestic travel.
It is my goal to go abroad, but now it is only domestic travel. Since I was in the Tokyo metropolitan area once a while, after a while, I'm pretty busy going around the metropolitan area, but its big purpose is going to see high-rise buildings. You can really heal your heart when you are looking at a tall building. I think that each person's favorite world, but I think many people say that I love the country's greenery scenery, but for me this kind of scenery is very lonesome. After all, it is a person who feels as ""being alive"" when in a place where it is crowded with people in a big city. My favorite place to visit the metropolitan area is Yokohama Minatomirai. For the landmark tower boasting the highest height in Japan, I am a big fan as I went for a walk every week. When walking in the high-rise building group of Yokohama Port and Minato Mirai, it seems that it melts into sophisticated landscapes to himself and feels good. Although it is not a skyscraper visit, it is also attractive that Yamashita Park also hosts international events like every weekend in spring and autumn. My favorite event in India is ""Diwali India"" which will be held every autumn. I will return the topic to the high-rise building tour, but I admired that it was beautiful is the Cocoon Tower in Shinjuku. I was surprised at a really modern and beautiful building. Looking at the skyscrapers in Tokyo with overwhelming height, I can forget often what I was worrying about. Once I was afraid of traveling I can not do it, I can not do it for my bags and this too, just stuffed up and stuffing more than I needed, I was traveling solidly. As I repeated the number of times, I got a gut feeling that I can travel with Flari with a small bag. I am planning to visit the domestic travel to visit the metropolitan area this summer and to chase international events.
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When you have a new decorating project, there are so many aspects to consider, and near the top of the priorities is wallpaper. This part of the project can be postponed until you have other elements done because the primary purpose of the wallpaper should be to enhance the environment. It is rare that anyone wants the wallpaper to be the focus of an entire area, which means you want something that adds to the ambiance.
Each of these is likely to eliminate options that would not interest you. You can also further narrow the search to keep it within your budget – simply sort based on the price per roll.
Besides the look, there are a number of other aspects to consider, many of these are reflected in the price of the wallpaper. Things like additional visual aspects (such as glitter and glass beads), textures, and environmentally friendly materials will cost a bit more, but can create a much more appealing environment. If you are working on a project for a facility or public space, you may need to do some research into specifications and classifications. We have blogs to explain some of these aspects, as well as trained staff to help you understand the specifications and classifications, so if you have questions about wallpaper do not hesitate to call us.
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This is a Q&A post with Jen Mellor.
What/who has been your biggest inspiration in life?
My Grandma. She has always been there for me. Even if disappointed in something I do, she has said it nicely and never made a big deal of it. My Grandma had 7 children and was a fabulous mum to them all. She is a wonderful Grandma and always tells me to do what I want to do and loves me unconditionally.
Realising that I can be who I want to be and that I am my own person. I had been in abusive relationships. But realising that I had got out of them and could be in control of my own future and that my son made me proud that I did that, made me feel I could do anything I put my mind to.
Yes I believe everything that happens is either to teach us a lesson or make us realise we are stronger than we realised. I think good and bad things happen because that's life and if they didn't we wouldn't be who we are it's the way our life is meant to be. There is a reason for it all even if we don't know it yet!
What's a quote that you like to live by?
Happiness isn't an absence of problems. It is the ability to deal with them. And if dealing with them is a brick at a time or a grain of sand at a time, if you are dealing with them you are succeeding. Happiness is accepting and loving the life you have.
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Public health experts report August 22 in the journal Cell that surveillance of international travelers for infectious disease can help reconstruct unreported or undetected outbreaks of Zika and other viruses.
By sequencing virus genomes from infected travelers, analyzing travel patterns and mosquito modeling, the researchers unearthed a spike in Zika cases from travelers returning from Cuba during the summer of 2017 that was not captured by local reports, says study co-author Nathan D. Grubaugh, an epidemiologist at the Yale School of Public Health.
Three years ago, a well-publicized Zika epidemic in Brazil was tied to microcephaly and other congenital abnormalities.
Zika is also associated with neurologic disorders, including Guillain-Barré syndrome. However, disparities in data make it unclear whether the virus – transmitted by the mosquito Aedes aegypti – is still a threat in the Americas.
"As the larger Zika epidemic in the Americas appeared to be waning towards the end of 2016, we became interested in understanding whether the epidemic was truly gone or whether 'hidden' transmissions could still be occurring," says study co-author Scott F. Michael, a biologist at Florida Gulf Coast University.
Accurately pinpointing cases of Zika can be challenging: its symptoms mimic those of other diseases; and regions with inadequate health care systems often lack reliable, inexpensive diagnostic tools.
Early and rapid pathogen detection is critical in preventing outbreaks from spinning into large-scale epidemics, says co-author Kristian Andersen, an infectious disease researcher at Scripps Research.
A combination of travel surveillance and clinical virus genomic sequencing of infected travelers provides a framework for detecting hidden outbreaks, such as an unreported Zika outbreak in Cuba during 2017. Credit: Grubaugh, Saraf, and Gangavarapu, et al.
Based on travel incidence rates reported by other countries, in 2017, Cuba would have experienced 1,000 to 20,000 Zika cases, Andersen says.
However, only 187 cases were reported in 2016 and none in 2017.
Between June 2017 and October 2018, more than 98 percent of the travel-associated cases reported in Florida and Europe came from Cuba. The timing of this outbreak was a mystery: conditions in Cuba could have supported a large Zika outbreak in 2016. Why did Cuba's cases jump in 2017?
The main resource for reporting Zika cases is the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO), which relies on local case reporting from member countries.
To check the accuracy of PAHO results, the researchers sequenced Zika virus genomes from infected travelers in Florida and detected the unreported spike in cases in 2017.
The researchers determined that the delay was likely caused by a successful mosquito eradication campaign that had taken place in Cuba in 2016.
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The rich history of the Adelaide Thunderbirds is celebrated on the 2019 playing dress, with all 87 players who have taken the court for the club recognised with their names and cap numbers printed on the back.
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Adelaide Thunderbirds General Manager Melody Cooper said, "It is important to recognise the contribution of past players to our club's legacy and pay tribute to them by having all of their names on the 2019 dress."
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A helicopter carrying an injured climber lifts off from Everest Base Camp. At the height of the spring climbing season, there are often three or four daily flights from the mountain. (Peter McBride)
Adventure Climbing
Giving Everest the Bird
The arrival of high-altitude helicopters on Mount Everest and other Nepalese peaks has transformed search-and-rescue and saved lives. But the choppers have also added to the chaos at the top of the world—and introduced a deadly new brand of danger.
Nick Heil
EARLY ON NOVEMBER 7, 2010, Sabin Basnyat, 34, one of Nepal's most skilled helicopter pilots, lifted off in a Eurocopter AS350 B3 from the small airport in Lukla. Two climbers were stranded high on the north ridge of Ama Dablam, a 22,494-foot peak about 12 miles southeast of Mount Everest, and Basnyat had been dispatched to rescue them.
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It was a good morning to fly—light winds, clear skies—and Basnyat and his mountain paramedic, Purna Awale, both employees of Kathmandu-based Fishtail Air, one of Nepal's largest private helicopter companies, rose toward the sawtooth skyline. The professional climbers, a German named David Gottler and his Japanese teammate, Kazuya Hiraide, had been attempting a new route on the mountain's steep north face, intending to cross the summit and make a quick descent of the more traditional, and easier, southwest ridge. But upon reaching the north ridge, at 19,000 feet, they discovered that it was studded with giant mushroom-shaped formations of snow and ice, blocking their progress. The climbers had brought minimal gear, and retreating back down the north face was impossible. Recently, Gottler had heard of Himalayan climbers being rescued by helicopters at extraordinary heights, and because cell phones now worked quite well throughout the Khumbu, the region surrounding Everest, he was able to call his expedition outfitter and arrange an airlift for the next morning.
By 9 A.M., Basnyat was guiding the B3 steadily toward the two men in their frozen bird's nest. Because the air at 19,000 feet is so thin, requiring deft piloting skills to maneuver a helicopter, Basnyat inched in slowly, the landing runners nearly touching the snow. At this altitude, he and Awale could carry only one passenger; the climbers had done schnick-schnack-schnuck, or rock-paper-scissors, and Gottler had won. Once Awale helped him aboard, the B3 swooped down to the nearby village of Chukhung, deposited the German, and then took off again to retrieve his partner.
Gottler could see the ridge from where he'd been dropped, and he filmed as the helicopter returned to fetch Hiraide. Basnyat approached as he had before, from the east, arcing slowly up toward the ridge until he was only a few feet from where Hiraide waited. The B3 was just above the climber's head when Hiraide heard a loud report and was suddenly showered with snow and ice.
Basnyat had clipped the ridge with the chopper's main rotor. In a flash, the blade disintegrated. Miraculously, Hiraide was unscathed, but he watched in horror as the machine shuddered and rocked to one side before plunging down the mountain. The chassis ricocheted off the massive rock wall several times, then came to rest nearly 5,000 feet below. By the time a second rescue team reached the scene later that day, they found Basnyat and Awale dead. Hiraide spent another night on the ridge, and Fishtail rescued him the next morning with another B3.
THE TRAGEDY STUNNED the Himalayan climbing community. Ever since the infamous 1996 Everest disaster, which left eight climbers dead in a single day, mountaineering accidents had prompted tough questions about risk and responsibility on the world's highest peaks. This time, however, the reaction was intensified by the fact that the deaths were caused by the very machine that is supposed to be saving lives. By most accounts, efforts to improve safety in the Himalayas, and on Everest in particular, have improved measurably over the past 15 years. On Everest, where several hundred climbers go for the summit each year, fixed lines are stitched nearly the length of the route; a seasonal emergency clinic has been established at Base Camp; training and equipment for Sherpas, Nepal's indigenous mountain workforce, have improved dramatically; and commercial operators, climbers, and guides now communicate—and cooperate—better than ever.
With the growing use of B3 helicopters—light, powerful aircraft designed to operate at up to 23,000 feet—both search-and-rescue and commercialization in the region are taking another large, if lurching, step forward. B3s have been a fixture for decades in other mountain destinations, especially the Alps, where they have saved hundreds of lives. But in Nepal, B3s had until recently seen limited use, including a 2005 stunt flight in which a French pilot landed a stripped-down model on Everest's summit. Over the past several years, Fishtail Air, in partnership with venerable Swiss helicopter company Air Zermatt, has deployed a small fleet of the machines to complete hundreds of successful evacuations in the country, including the 2010 rescue of a three-person Spanish team from 23,000 feet on Annapurna, the highest heli rescue in history, and the plucking of injured American climber Cleo Weidlich from 20,997 feet on Kanchenjunga last May.
But as the incident on Ama Dablam illustrates, the helicopters have also introduced a frightening new dimension of risk. Extreme altitude plus the unpredictable and sometimes violent weather of the Himalayas exacerbates even the smallest pilot errors. Nepal has a grim civil-aviation history: at least five helicopters have wrecked in the mountains since 1997 (none were B3s), and a 2009 report details 43 fixed-wing and helicopter accidents since 1990, resulting in 338 deaths. One recent analysis, by a group called Initiative for Aviation Safety, in Nepal, places a good deal of blame on the country's airline companies, which have displayed "rampant disregard for rules and regulations."
At Everest Base Camp, two helipads sit within a few hundred feet of expedition campsites, and the frequent landings can make climbers uneasy. "The danger isn't so much the propeller downwash," says veteran Everest guide Dave Hahn. "It's that, if there's a crash, we're all living in fabric structures inside the kill zone."
Others worry that the presence of the B3s alters expedition decision making and encourages climbers to push beyond their limits. Though Gottler is adamant that the ability to call in a helicopter didn't affect his and Hiraide's decisions on Ama Dablam, the expanding safety net is inherently changing mountaineering in the Himalayas. "The old-school thing was, you were self-sufficient," says alpinist Conrad Anker, 49, who has summited Everest twice. "If an accident did happen, you would have the wherewithal to extract yourself and your teammates."
There's evidence that helicopters in Nepal are increasingly being deployed in questionable circumstances. Because the aircraft are so expensive—a B3 runs $2 million, not including pilot training and maintenance—Fishtail and the three other helicopter companies in the country have to contract as many flights as possible to make a profit. This carries some distinct benefits for the region, such as government-subsidized sorties to ferry building materials for schools and hospitals and airlifting sick Nepalis from remote villages. Meanwhile, to attract private business, the helicopter companies offer kickbacks to outfitters that call in flights—as much as 10 percent on services that can run $2,500 an hour. The result is that climbing and trekking agencies are highly motivated to encourage any client with a headache or a hangnail to catch a lift out of the mountains, provided they're sufficiently insured or flush enough to pay out of pocket. One Everest veteran complained to me about the 2011 evacuation of a climber above the Khumbu Icefall even though he could still walk.
At the peak of the spring season, there are now often three or four daily flights from Everest Base Camp. (At 17,600 feet, it's within reach of many chopper models.) Flightseeing is also a growing business in the region. Reports have even surfaced of climbers completing their acclimatization outings, then helicoptering to Kathmandu to recuperate in comfortable hotels before flying back to Base Camp to begin their summit attempt.
"These kinds of things are definitely happening," concedes Eric Simonson, co-owner of International Mountain Guides, a longtime Everest outfitter. "But they're rare. And if helicopters on Everest mean I don't have to put 10 or 12 people in the icefall to carry someone down, that's a huge benefit."
Russell Brice, owner of Himalayan Experience, one of the largest outfitters on the mountain, echoes that sentiment. The B3s "can get in and out quickly, and they are proving to be reliable," says Brice, whose Sherpas and guides have participated in a number of rescue efforts in recent years. "They're going to be more and more prevalent."
With helicopters becoming a fixture in the Himalayas, the question becomes: What will this mean for climbing and trekking among the greatest mountains on earth?
"It's good that helicopters are here," says Luanne Freer, a physician from Bozeman, Montana, who founded and runs Everest ER, an independent medical clinic at Base Camp. "But right now it's a free-for-all."
MOUNTAIN RESCUES in the Himalayas have always been ad hoc affairs. Despite improvements in technology and communication, there is still no 911 in Nepal, no professional search-and-rescue team, no government agency standing by to help. Climbers and trekkers rely on outfitters, teammates, and the kindness of strangers when trouble strikes. Until recently, helicopters were a last resort, used most famously in the 1996 evacuation of Beck Weathers and Makalu Gau from a then record 19,800 feet on Everest.
It was a climber in similarly desperate circumstances who would change things. In 2005, the storied Slovenian alpinist Tomaz Humar found himself pinned down by an avalanche at 19,680 feet on the Rupal Face, a daunting slab of rock and ice on Pakistan's 26,660-foot Nanga Parbat. By then, Humar was a national hero, and his predicament became an international incident, eventually prompting the Slovenian embassy to contact Air Zermatt, which had been conducting rescue and transport missions in the Alps since 1968. The company was running a heli-skiing operation in the Himalayas and dispatched its best high-altitude pilot, Gerold Biner, to Nanga Parbat. But by the time he arrived, the Pakistani military had already plucked Humar off the wall, using a French chopper called a Lama. The mission nearly killed everyone involved: Humar was still anchored to the rock when the Lama attempted to fly away.
Four years later, in November 2009, Humar was climbing solo on 23,711-foot Langtang Lirung, in Nepal, when he fell and broke his leg. Again the embassy contacted Air Zermatt, but before the Swiss could respond, Humar died. The incident spurred Air Zermatt to invite the owners and pilots from Fishtail Air, whose three B3s were then the only ones owned by a Nepalese company, to Switzerland to teach them short-haul (sometimes called long-line) rescues—an operation that involves delivering a rescuer to a site via a cable attached to the bottom of the aircraft. The following summer, in 2010, Biner and several Air Zermatt pilots traveled to Nepal to conduct training missions in the Himalayas. The first few months of the project, paid for by Zermatt, went well; the Nepalis were quick learners, though they had yet to conduct a short-haul rescue at altitude on their own. Then came the disaster on Ama Dablam.
"This mission came at the wrong moment," says Biner. "Sabin and Purna had lined out the short haul, but we asked them not to use it because they didn't have the proper communication equipment yet. So they tried to carry out the rescue the conventional way, by doing a partial hover very close to the cliff."
The accident nearly brought an abrupt halt to high-altitude heli training in Nepal. Fishtail had lost its top pilot, a skilled paramedic, and a very expensive aircraft. "We thought it was the end of the project," says Biner. Instead, Fishtail stuck with the program soon after welcoming back the services of a volunteer who'd left in the wake of the tragedy: Simone Moro, a celebrated Italian alpinist and certified mountain pilot who'd recently made the first winter ascent of Pakistan's 26,360-foot Gasherbrum II. "The Nepali pilots are good, but I have more experience in the mountains," says Moro, who has flown 1,000 hours in the past two and a half years. "I'm not scared by the vertical perspective."
Air Zermatt also returned to Nepal last spring, this time to initiate a training program, open to any qualified Nepali pilots, that—if the company can find sponsors—will last until 2016.
EVEN A STUD ITALIAN piloting the best helicopter can't save everyone—especially in the Himalayas. When conditions don't allow for airlifts, you need ground forces. Thus, for the past few years, Luanne Freer, from Everest ER, and David Weber, a U.S. National Park Service climbing ranger on Denali, have been collaborating to create a team of trained Sherpa rangers on Everest.
"Helis are great, but they aren't a silver bullet," says Weber. "You need people on the ground to stabilize patients and get them to a landing zone when conditions aren't ideal."
Weber believes a model like the one used on Denali—a stand-by helicopter supported by rangers rotating between high camps—is more realistic on Everest than, say, the European system, in which extremely skilled pilots regularly pluck injured climbers, skiers, and hikers from Alpine peaks. Since 2009, Weber has been bringing Sherpas to Alaska in the summer to teach them the Denali approach. This year he has four Sherpas with technical rescue skills ready to go on Everest. That's a big caveat where Everest is concerned. Most outfitters are reluctant to pay for backup, given that guides and Sherpas have pulled off plenty of heroic rescues over the years. "It's a good idea," says Brice about the Everest rangers. "But it's pie in the sky. We've done a pretty good job managing rescues on our own."
Still, as Weber points out, the current we've-got-each-other's-backs approach places paying clients at risk. It can also add large costs to expedition teams in the form of bottled oxygen and manpower (Sherpas who help often expect to be paid), and some scenarios demand expertise that many guides don't have. Freer says she's still haunted by a few unsuccessful rescue attempts, particularly one from 2005, when a Sherpa named Karma came down with appendicitis while at Camp IV. By the time he'd descended to Camp II, he couldn't walk.
Volunteers "improvised a stretcher and started down," she wrote in an e-mail. "It took days to get him through the icefall. It was agonizing how slowly they went. They were within sight of Base Camp when we got the final call on the radio: no pulse, no respiration. A 23-year-old Sherpa with his life in front of him—dead from appendicitis because they couldn't get him down to us in time." Of the 19 deaths on Everest's south side since the clinic opened, Freer believes that at least a quarter of them could have been prevented, especially if a ground team had been available when a helicopter evacuation wasn't feasible.
"We need trained professionals here, and we need a system that supports them," says Freer, who faced considerable skepticism when she started Everest ER in 2003. Today, Western climbers are asked to contribute a $75 fee to support the clinic, which has become a hub of activity on the mountain. "I've always seen it as a collaborative effort, with involvement from the outfitters, the climbers, and the Nepalese government."
WHILE THAT KIND of cohesion may be years off, the aerial invasion is well under way. With 25 helicopters now operating in Nepal, the thwapping of rotors is becoming one of the landscape's most familiar characteristics. As the three companies that vie with Fishtail for lucrative rescue flights procure their own B3s, the stage will be set for a high-stakes competition to dominate the market, increasing the chances of another deadly accident.
Fortunately, several smart proposals to control the skies are up for discussion, including shifting all nonemergency helicopter flights downvalley from Everest Base Camp, to a dedicated heliport in Gorek Shep or Lobuche. Another notion gathering support is to require flightseeing pilots to maintain minimum altitudes, as they do in U.S. national parks, to control noise.
Meanwhile, the modernization of mountain rescue in the country is marching forward. Weber says he has private funding in place to debut the Sherpa rangers this season, though it's unclear how they'll coordinate with helicopter evacuations. Gerold Biner has been urging Nepal's Ministry of Aviation to establish clear protocols for high-altitude rescue missions, including a checklist that would assess risk factors and, ideally, prevent tragedies like the one on Ama Dablam.
When I asked David Gottler, the German climber who was rescued in 2010, how he felt in light of the accident, he said that he still believes helicopters are a good thing for the region. Still, it comes at a cost, including more accidents until a better management system can be sorted out. The Everest region is flying into the future, but as veterans of the diverse international community who arrive there each spring will tell you, it's still a frontier where self-regulation governs the land. Turbulence should be expected.
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For the past few years, minimalism has reigned on the runways. But as more designers are embracing color, pattern, and embellishment, fashion is moving in a more fun, vibrant direction.
Local fashion fans got a taste of what's to come during designer Jummy Thomas's recent fashion presentation for spring/summer 2017, held at the W Minneapolis hotel in downtown Minneapolis. The event served to launch Thomas's Saint Ola label with a runway show and pop-up shop, where show goers could shop pieces from the designer's earlier collections. The Nigeria native, Minneapolis-based designer presented a collection that combined elements of her heritage, such as colorful African-inspired prints, with modern elements, such as sporty mesh fabric, asymmetrical hems, and architectural silhouettes. Thomas smartly offered her own, unique take on current trends, as in an off-the-shoulder, white mesh dress with flounced sleeves and a teal vest-and-pant combination that offered an updated take on the classic tuxedo. But my favorite piece from the collection—a pair of bell bottom pants rendered in teal mesh—was worn by the designer herself as she took her turn on the runway.
The production of the show was polished and professional. Following the runway portion of the event, models were arranged on pedestals, offering attendees the chance to glimpse Thomas's impeccable construction up close.
While many local designers tend to show collections that are available on a custom-order basis only, Thomas says that she is manufacturing the collection in full size runs. Some of the pieces will be ready for purchase beginning April 25, with more items for order and preorder being added to her site throughout the month of April. Visit saintola.com to check for new arrivals and pre-order items.
From the professional production to the well-made, stylish, unique pieces on the runway, Saint Ola's Jummy Thomas is certainly one to watch.


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