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The Messaging App Fueling Syria's Insurgency
Are you a Syrian rebel in need of U.S.-manufactured assault rifles, or even a tank? You can buy it on Telegram.
By Adam Rawnsley, Eric Woods, Christiaan Triebert
In rebel-held Syria, access to the weapons you need to wage an insurgency are just a tap away thanks to an encrypted messaging app. The Islamic State may be in retreat, but other militants in Syria have been trading thousands of weapons in publicly accessible black markets hosted on Telegram, including dozens of U.S. military assault rifles and parts for the same kind of anti-tank missile systems distributed by the CIA to anti-Bashar al-Assad rebels. Foreign Policy conducted an exclusive investigation to determine the scale of these arms markets, and where the weapons that ended up on them originated.
The markets have hosted over 5,000 users and catered to buyers and sellers primarily based in the northwest Syrian province of Idlib, according to information posted by users. The province is home to a diverse array of rebel groups, including factions that used to receive advanced weaponry from the CIA, but the al Qaeda-affiliated Hayat Tahrir al-Sham represents far and away the strongest force there after ousting its rivals from power.
Some of the U.S.-made weapons available on these markets likely first entered Syria as part of an ill-fated Pentagon program to train and equip fighters in northern Syria to take on the Islamic State. The Barack Obama administration ended the effort in October 2015, after U.S.-trained commanders were kidnapped and shaken down for arms by al Qaeda soon after crossing from Turkey into Syria — but the American guns from the program continue to live on in illicit arms markets. The American arms, however, are just a small part of thousands of weapons being traded by Syrian militants on the online black markets hosted on the Telegram messaging app.
Provided with a list of serial numbers and accompanying photographs of Defense Department arms for sale in the markets, a spokesperson for Operation Inherent Resolve said that the coalition believes the weapons "may have been part of the now-terminated Syria Train and Equip program that supported Vetted Syrian Opposition forces."
This photo: Foreign Policy was able to identify serial numbers for at least 28 different American weapons in Telegram markets. A spokesperson for the U.S.-led anti-Islamic State operation said the coalition believes the arms "may have been part of the now-terminated Syria Train and Equip program" that provided weapons to Syrian rebel forces. Top photo: Syrian rebels in Telegram arms markets appear to have access to a wealth of U.S.-made firearms, including a range of M16 assault rifle variants, M4A1 carbines, and an M249 Squad Automatic Weapon. (Foreign Policy screenshots)
The apparent diversion from the Syria Train and Equip Program represents another in a series of black marks for the much maligned 2015 effort. At the time the $500 million initiative was closed down, it had trained fewer than 150 fighters and failed to mount an effective opposition to the Islamic State.
The spread of weapons from the program into the black market is just one example of how the United States has struggled to ensure the security of arms transfers in support of America's war against terrorist groups. In the chaos following the fall of Mosul in 2014, the Islamic State captured huge stockpiles of American-made firearms, armored Humvees, and tanks from fleeing Iraqi troops. In the rush to buttress Iraq against the terrorist group's advance, the U.S. Defense Department lost track of over $1 billion worth of arms sent to Iraq and Kuwait. Iranian-backed Shiite militias and other militant groups also got their hands on some of the billions of dollars' worth of arms Washington sent to partner forces in Iraq and Syria to help them fight the Islamic State.
The CIA's program to arm and train anti-Assad rebels with TOW anti-tank missiles and other small arms has also suffered from diversion, after corrupt Jordanian intelligence officials skimmed arms from the program to sell on the black market.
The U.S.-led coalition's partnership with the Syrian Democratic Forces, a Kurdish-led army that recently liberated the Islamic State's de facto capital of Raqqa, has so far fared better than previous efforts to train rebel groups in Syria. However, the potential for arms diversion from the SDF is a sensitive diplomatic issue: Turkey, which considers the SDF's Kurdish fighters to be terrorists, worries that U.S. weapons meant to fight the Islamic State might eventually be turned on its own soldiers. In response to Turkish concerns, an Operation Inherent Resolve spokesman pledged that "Every single one of these weapons that will be provided to our partner forces will be accounted for and pointed at ISIS."
The markets also offer a window on the scale and scope of weaponry and equipment now available to Syrian militants. The Telegram channels have offered everything from Cold War-vintage surface-to-air missiles to anti-tank weapons, armored vehicles, suicide belts, assault rifles from Russia and Serbia, drones, and Iranian thermal scopes, among other items.
Foreign Policy could not independently verify that sellers in the markets actually possessed the individual items advertised for sale. But the scale of the markets — encompassing thousands of users and posts with mostly unique imagery of weapons dating back at least two years — suggests that the channels facilitate at least some arms trafficking. Weapons often take circuitous routes from manufacturer to end user, passing through different owners through loss, theft, or sales. While FP was able to determine the make and model of some of the weapons offered in the channels, it could not trace every step in the items' path into Syria.
Left: An SA-7b 9P54M man-portable air-defense system (MANPADS) launch tube likely dating back to the early 1970s, one of a number of MANPADS identified in the hands of militants throughout the Syrian civil war. Right: Two suicide belts advertised for sale with prices of $150 and $50. (Foreign Policy screenshots)
Craigslist for militias
The markets, based in a handful of Telegram channels with a few thousand members, allow anyone with a link to the market to post pictures of weapons for sale or contact sellers. They resemble chatrooms, with sellers posting photographs of weapons often taken inside homes with a description of the item, a suggested price, or the location where a buyer can meet to pick up the weapons. Buyers can either post a public request for the weapons they'd like to buy or direct-message a seller to agree on a price and location to meet up and complete the sale.
The Telegram arms markets in Syria function as a kind of social media Craigslist, with little apparent central administration. With much of the markets' trade taking place in rebel enclaves, the absence of a government regulating the arms trade has given buyers and sellers little cause for anonymity, with members often posting their cellphone numbers and locations openly.
A review of locations mentioned in the markets indicates that much of the markets' user base is located in Idlib province, where the al Qaeda-affiliated Hayat Tahrir al-Sham has recently consolidated its hold on power. The provincial capital of Idlib City and the city of Jisr al-Shughur are among the most frequently cited locations.
In that sense, the Telegram arms markets operate in a similar fashion to other social media arms markets that have sprung up in recent years, including Facebook markets for weapons in Iraq and Libya. Facebook has officially banned arms sales on its platform, but such markets still persist in conflict zones such as Iraq.
FP was able to identify 28 different firearms — 17 M16 assault rifle variants, nine M4A1 carbines, one modified M16A2 type carbine and one M249 Squad Automatic Weapon light machine gun — for sale with visible U.S. Defense Department markings and serial numbers. Prices for the weapons listed by sellers ranged from $900 up to $3,500. The markets also hosted advertisements for a number of other firearms bearing Defense Department markings but with no visible or only partially visible serial numbers, suggesting that more U.S.-issued weaponry may be available.
In addition to U.S. military firearms, the arms markets also included AK-103 and AK-104 assault rifles (left and right, respectively) made by Russia's Kalashnikov Concern. FP reached out to both Kalashnikov Concern and the Russian Ministry of Defense in an attempt to trace their path to Syria, but Kalashnikov declined to offer answers and the Russian Ministry of Defense did not respond. (Foreign Policy screenshots)
But it isn't only American weapons for sale. These channels ran advertisements for a range of assault rifles from around the world, including Russian AK-103 and AK-104 assault rifles made by Russia's Kalashnikov Concern. FP documented seven AK-103 and four AK-104 assault rifles with visible serial numbers and shared them with both Kalashnikov Concern and the Russian Defense Ministry. In a statement, Kalashnikov Concern declined to provide information about the weapons or to whom they were sold, writing that it "doesn't render legal and/or expert services to outside parties and individual persons" outside of legal proceedings. Russia's Ministry of Defense did not respond to FP's questions about how these weapons could have ended up in these arms markets.
Sellers advertised M70 AK-pattern assault rifles from Serbia's Zastava Arms. FP reached out to Zastava to learn more about the weapons advertised in Syria's online markets, but the company referred all questions to Serbia's Ministry of Defense. Serbia's Defense Ministry told FP that its Directorate for Procurement and Sales "has never sold automatic rifles M70 of the requested register marks." Additionally, the Telegram markets featured an M02 Coyote 12.7mm heavy machine gun. Reporters from the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project have previously documented the diversion of Coyote machine guns from Zastava through Saudi Arabia and into the hands of Syrian rebels.
Telegram arms markets advertised ingredients for making improvised explosive devices, including detonation cord, explosive fill from cluster bomb submunitions, and ammonium nitrate fertilizer. (Foreign Policy screenshots)
Explosives are among the most concerning items for sale in the markets, raising the possibility the homemade bombs and explosive materials could fuel terror attacks outside of Syria, with merchants offering suicide belts for as little as $50.
John Ismay, a former U.S. Navy explosive ordnance disposal officer, reviewed images of explosive devices and components for sale in the markets for FP. The items "show a sophisticated understanding of [improvised explosive device] construction, with features designed for maximum reliability and destructive effect," he said.
The markets excel in helping would-be bomb-makers purchase often hard-to-locate supplies. "The hardest part of building any IED in my mind is getting blasting caps and getting [detonation] cord," said Ismay. Buyers in the Telegram markets appear to have plentiful opportunities to overcome that hurdle: Electric blasting caps were among the most frequently marketed explosive components, with vendors periodically posting imagery of caps available for a few dollars apiece.
Market sellers have made efficient use of unexploded cluster munitions dropped by government or Russian warplanes on rebel areas of Syria. In multiple postings, sellers offered cast explosive taken from what appear to be dud submunitions from Russian cluster bombs, selling the explosive fill and allowing buyers to repurpose it into their own homemade IEDs.
For those with bomb-making skills, the markets advertise a range of different explosive precursors. Among the items on offer are staples of IED construction, including bags of ammonium nitrate fertilizer labeled as made by Mert Global, a Turkish company. The arms-tracing group Conflict Armament Research documented Mert fertilizer products in IEDs made by the Islamic State in Tikrit and Ramadi, Iraq. FP made multiple attempts to reach Mert for comment in both Turkish and English but did not receive a reply.
Drums of nitrocellulose, a flammable chemical with a number of legitimate uses in industrial processes but that also can be used to make explosives for IEDs, were common in the markets as well. FP documented images of nitrocellulose drums for sale labeled as the products of Dow Deutschland, Synthesia, and Nitro Chemical Industry Ltd.
Jörg Hartmann, a spokesman for Dow Deutschland, confirmed that the drum featured in the market came from a batch "produced by Dow in July 2016, and shipped from one of our sites in Germany to longstanding and trusted customers in Turkey." He declined to specifically identify those customers, writing instead that they included "some end users in the ink and coatings industry as well as some distributors who re-sell the product." Dow ceased all sales of industrial nitrocellulose to Syria in 2011 following international sanctions on the country.
"The hardest part of building any IED in my mind is getting blasting caps and getting [detonation] cord," former U.S. Navy explosive ordnance disposal expert John Ismay told FP. Militants in Syria's Telegram arms markets appeared to have access to plenty of it. (Foreign Policy screenshots)
Hartmann said the company is not planning to curtail sales of nitrocellulose to any of its customers in Turkey, writing that the company "do[es] not believe that Dow stopping supplies to the Turkish market would have any impact on the alleged issue" because of the chemical's widespread availability from other producers. Dow Deutschland said that it is "raising awareness among its contacts in the nitrocellulose market" and has "brought the findings [about the advertisement] to the attention of the Worldwide Nitrocellulose Producers Association."
Hartmann added that "it is not unknown for empty drums to be recycled for secondary use." FP could not independently verify that the Dow nitrocellulose drum listed for sale on Telegram actually contained nitrocellulose, as advertised.
Drums labeled as the products of Synthesia and Nitro Chemical Industry Ltd. also appeared in the arms markets; FP reached out to both companies, but neither has responded.
Other chemicals for sale held the potential to increase the explosive power of homemade bombs. One seller advertised a drum of aluminum flakes, which can be used as an oxidizer to boost the power of explosive charges and make an enhanced blast explosive. The drum in the advertisement is labeled as the product of Belgium-based AVL Metal Powders, which sells metal powders for use in paints, plastics, and other decorative products, with Elso Kimya, the main distributor for AVL Metal Powders in Turkey, listed as the intended recipient.
Elso Kimya's chief operating officer, Ralf Elhadef, confirmed that his company purchases all of its metal powders from AVL. But in emails to FP, both Elhadef and AVL commercial director Pierre Van Lerberghe wrote that they could not authenticate the advertised drum as an AVL product because the image of the drum's label does not show AVL's unique factory seal — created to help customers distinguish AVL's products from counterfeits made by Chinese companies — and its batch number is scratched out.
"All of [Elso Kimya's] inventory is accounted for and all of our merchandise sales are invoiced and taxed according to Turkish Trade Laws," Elhadef wrote.
Sellers advertised vehicles for sale, from small drones to armored vehicles like a T-55 tank and a BMP infantry fighting vehicle. (Foreign Policy screenshots)
Commercial drones have risen to prominence as tools of war in the Syrian conflict. They are used to film battles for use in militant propaganda videos, are sent on reconnaissance missions, and occasionally serve as small bombers, dropping grenade-sized explosives. The Telegram markets have kept pace with their popularity, selling commercial quadcopters like the popular Phantom 3 drone made by the China-based DJI.
With regard to heavier equipment, sellers have offered a more limited supply of Warsaw Pact armored vehicles. Sellers posted a rusty T-55 tank, common among both Assad regime and rebel forces, for $150,000, and a BMP infantry fighting vehicle for $38,000. Buyers can help maintain the vehicles by picking from a variety of spare parts occasionally posted in the markets.
Militants in Syria have used man-portable air-defense systems (MANPADS) — shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles — throughout the Syrian war, targeting low-flying Assad regime aircraft. Should they fall into the hands of a terrorist organization, they would represent a particularly potent weapon: Arms-control experts have long been concerned that MANPADS could be used to attack airliners and other civilian aircraft at low altitudes and during take-off and landing. In countries like Iraq and Libya, where MANPADS were plentiful after the fall of Saddam Hussein's and Muammar al-Qaddafi's regimes, the United States has attempted to reduce the risk with buyback programs.
In Syria, scholars have identified at least eight types of MANPADS present in the hands of rebel groups since the war began in 2011. But despite their availability, thus far there have been no known attempts to use MANPADS against civilian aircraft in Syria or its immediate neighbors.
Matt Schroeder, an expert on MANPADS at Small Arms Survey, reviewed imagery of three separate MANPADS advertisements and was able to identify equipment from systems whose presence in Syria among militants has been previously documented. Included in the advertisements were an SA-7a gripstock, an SA-7b launch tube dating to the early 1970s, and an SA-24 missile tube — although it's unclear whether the missile is capable of being fired from a MANPADS gripstock or configured only for use with vehicle-mounted systems.
Gripstock for an SA-7a MANPADS. The SA-7 is among the first generation of MANPADS, many of which are likely now unreliable due to poor maintenance and storage. FP also identified more recent MANPADS equipment, including an SA-24 missile tube. (Foreign Policy screenshots)
The SA-7 equipment belongs to systems from the very first generation of MANPADS, weapons that are now severely dated and may no longer be reliable. The SA-24 system, however, is among Russia's more recent and capable MANPADS, which if paired with the proper gripstock and battery-coolant unit would be able to engage targets from longer ranges with greater accuracy.
Syria is also home to one of the world's largest concentration of anti-tank missiles. Rebels have used American TOW as well as Russian and Warsaw Pact anti-tank missiles to chew through the Assad regime's heavily mechanized forces, posting dozens of videos of missile strikes on social media.
The prevalence of these weapons in the conflict is reflected in their availability on the Telegram arms markets. Sellers posted pictures of equipment that apparently belong to TOW anti-tank missile systems, including a daysight tracker and battery assembly. The CIA began supplying anti-Assad rebels with TOW missiles during a program that began under the Obama administration and that the Donald Trump administration decided to end in July. The material available for sale on Telegram could be useful to militants looking to replace worn-out, cracked, or corroded equipment, allowing them to continue launching any TOW missiles leftover from the CIA program. TOW systems are manufactured by the U.S. defense contractor Raytheon and sold to a number of U.S. allies, but FP could not determine whether the TOW equipment offered for sale in the markets came directly from U.S. stockpiles or from one of those allied countries.
Advertisements for anti-tank equipment reviewed by Damien Spleeters of Conflict Armament Research, which documents and traces weapons in conflicts around the world, also show sellers hawking both missiles and firing units for Russian Metis anti-tank missiles and M79 Osa anti-tank rocket launchers.
Antiquities trafficking
The wars in Iraq and Syria have ravaged the region's cultural heritage, as militant groups like the Islamic State loot antiquities and traffic them on black markets. "There is frequently overlap in the smuggling and sale of weapons and antiquities," said Michael Danti, a Near Eastern archaeologist at Colgate University who tracks antiquities trafficking with ASOR Cultural Heritage Initiatives. The two illicit trades, he said, tend to share similar routes, shipments, and dealers.
Along with weapons, at least one user offered up an ancient coin from the reign of a successor to Alexander the Great, who ruled during the late 4th century B.C. and into the early 3rd century B.C. Experts who study antiquities trafficking from Syria and Iraq say it's not uncommon to see arms and antiquities trafficked alongside each other in the region. (Foreign Policy screenshot)
Syria's Telegram arms markets are no exception to this pattern, with one seller posting images of an ancient coin dating from a period around the end of the 4th century and beginning of the 3rd century B.C. Experts consulted by FP from ASOR Cultural Heritage Initiatives, a Boston-based organization that works to protect cultural heritage, identified the piece as a silver tetradrachm minted in western Turkey during the reign of Lysimachus, a king who succeeded Alexander the Great. It has a likely market value of around $850.
Will Telegram do anything?
Telegram is far from the only online service that has played host to the illicit weapons trade — but it has proven an especially popular platform for militants in the Middle East, leading some countries to block access or propose restrictions on the app's usage. Barring Islamic State content has been a particular challenge for the company, as members of the terrorist group and fans alike have flocked to Telegram as their app of choice for communicating and sharing Islamic State media.
The Syrian arms markets hosted on Telegram were publicly accessible, but the availability of private-chat services on the app have raised concerns among counterterrorism officials who fear that the growing popularity of encrypted messaging apps like Telegram, WhatsApp, and Signal could allow jihadists to communicate and plan without fear of being monitored.
In the course of reporting for this article, the largest of the arms markets, @souq4, disappeared from Telegram without explanation, but a number of others remained open until FP approached Telegram with questions about their policies toward these channels. Telegram spokesman Markus Ra wrote on Nov. 5 that the channels had been shut down that morning, and that the company's abuse team usually shuts down offending channels within a few hours of their being reported.
"Telegram [has] a zero tolerance policy for promoting violence," he wrote.
But as Facebook's experience with users running arms markets in Libya and Iraq illustrates, the problem is not just limited to one platform. As long as the parties to conflicts have a need for weapons and access to the internet, buyers and sellers are likely to meet online and on the social media platforms where people congregate. And while Syria's Telegram markets have since closed, they might not be gone for very long.
Additional reporting by Jelena Ćosić.
Adam Rawnsley is a Philadelphia-based reporter covering technology and national security. He co-authors FP's Situation Report newsletter and has written for The Daily Beast, Wired, and War Is Boring.
Eric Woods is a contributor at the investigative journalism outlet Bellingcat and a researcher focusing on non-state actors and weapons proliferation. Follow him on Twitter: @AnotherWarBlog
Christiaan Triebert is a journalist focused on conflict, security and development.	(@trbrtc)


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Jammu: Aiming to improve quality healthcare delivery by encouraging use of technologies, the Jammu and Kashmir government has launched the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) in the Union Territory.
The pilot project of the mission will be launched at the Sher-e-Kashmir Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS), Soura and subsequently it will be launched in all hospitals across UT.
This was informed in the meeting chaired by Additional Chief Secretary, Health and Medical Education (H&ME) Department, Sh. Vivek Bhardwaj. The meeting was also attended by Mission Director, National Health Mission, J&K, Principals of Medical Colleges, Directors, Chief Medical Officers (CMOs) and Block Medical Officers (BMOs).
Speaking on this occasion, SVivek Bhardwaj, Additional Chief Secretary, Health and Medical Education (H&ME) Department said, "Health and wellness is a top priority of the government. The administration is making all possible efforts to provide better facilities to people across all sections of society in Jammu & Kashmir. Success of CoWIN and Arogya Setu has highlighted the potential of technology in improving equitable access to healthcare services for a broader segment of population. I am sure the implementation of Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission will pave the way for a seamless quality healthcare access for the people of UT across India."
He further urged all concerned officials to install Health/Hospital Management Information System (HMIS), also known as Hospital Information System (HIS) to expedite the implementation of ABDM in Jammu and Kashmir.
Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) is a program started by Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in order to enable national portability of health services in the country. Under the ABDM, the citizens will be able to create their ABHA (Ayushman Bharat Health Account) numbers, to which their digital health records can be linked. This will enable creation of longitudinal health records for individuals across various healthcare providers and improve clinical decision making by healthcare providers.
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The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956 film)
1956 film by Alfred Hitchcock
Screenplay by
John Michael Hayes
D. B. Wyndham-Lewis
Brenda de Banzie
Bernard Miles
Christopher Olsen
Daniel Gélin
Reggie Nalder
George Tomasini
Filwite Productions Inc.
Spinel Entertainment
Paramount Pictures[N 1]
May 16, 1956 (1956-05-16) (New York)[3]
$11.3 million[4]
The Man Who Knew Too Much is a 1956 American suspense thriller film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, starring James Stewart and Doris Day. The film is Hitchcock's second film using this title, following his own 1934 film of the same name but featuring a significantly different plot and script.
In the book-length interview Hitchcock/Truffaut (1967), in response to fellow filmmaker François Truffaut's assertion that aspects of the remake were by far superior, Hitchcock replied, "Let's say the first version is the work of a talented amateur and the second was made by a professional."[5][6]
The film won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)", sung by Doris Day. It premiered at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival on April 29.[7]
Plot[edit]
An American family – Dr. Benjamin "Ben" McKenna, his wife, popular singer Josephine "Jo" Conway McKenna, and their son Henry "Hank" McKenna – are vacationing in French Morocco. Traveling from Casablanca to Marrakesh, they meet Frenchman Louis Bernard. He seems friendly, but Jo is suspicious of his many questions and evasive answers.
Bernard offers to take the McKennas to dinner, but cancels when a suspicious-looking man knocks at the McKennas' hotel-room door. At a restaurant, the McKennas meet friendly English couple Lucy and Edward Drayton. The McKennas are surprised to see Bernard arrive and sit elsewhere, apparently ignoring them.
The next day, visiting a Moroccan market with the Draytons, the McKennas see a man chased by police. After being stabbed in the back, the man approaches Ben, who discovers he is Bernard in disguise. The dying Bernard whispers that a foreign statesman will be assassinated in London and that Ben must tell the authorities about "Ambrose Chappell". Lucy returns Hank to the hotel while Ben, Jo and Edward go to a police station for questioning about Bernard's death. An officer explains that Bernard was a French Intelligence agent.
Ben receives a phone call at the police station; Hank was kidnapped but will not be harmed if the McKennas say nothing to the police about Bernard's warning. Knowing Hank was left in Lucy's care, Ben dispatches Edward to locate him. When Ben and Jo return to the hotel, they discover Edward checked out. Ben realizes the Draytons are the couple Bernard was looking for and are involved in Hank's abduction. When he learns the Draytons are from London, he decides he and Jo should go there and try to find them through Ambrose Chappell.
In London, Scotland Yard's Inspector Buchanan tells Jo and Ben that Bernard was in Morocco to uncover an assassination plot; they should contact him if they hear from the kidnappers. Leaving friends in their hotel suite, the McKennas search for a person named Ambrose Chappell. Jo realizes that "Ambrose Chapel" is a place, and the McKennas arrive at the chapel to find Edward leading a service. Jo leaves the chapel to call the police. After Edward sends his parishioners home, Ben confronts him and is knocked out and locked inside. Jo arrives with police, but they cannot enter without a warrant.
Jo learns that Buchanan has gone to a concert at Royal Albert Hall, and asks the police to take her there. Once the police and Jo leave, the Draytons take Hank to a foreign embassy. In the Royal Albert Hall lobby, Jo sees the man who came to her door in Morocco. When he threatens to harm Hank if she interferes, she realizes he is the assassin sent to kill the foreign prime minister.
Ben escapes the chapel through its bell tower and reaches the Royal Albert Hall, where Jo points out the assassin. Ben searches the balcony boxes for the killer, who is waiting for a cymbal crash to mask his gunshot. Just before the cymbals crash, Jo screams and the assassin misses his mark, only wounding his target. Ben struggles with the would-be killer, who falls to his death.
Concluding that Hank is likely to be at the embassy, but that it is sovereign and exempt from an investigation, the McKennas secure an invitation from the grateful prime minister. The ambassador organized the plot to kill the prime minister, and blames the failed attempt on the Draytons. Knowing that Hank can testify against them, he orders the Draytons to kill the boy.
The prime minister asks Jo to sing. She loudly performs "Que Sera, Sera", so that Hank will hear her. Lucy, who is guarding Hank while Edward prepares to murder him, is distressed at the prospect of killing a child, so she encourages the boy to whistle along with the song. Ben finds Hank. Edward tries escaping with them at gunpoint, but when Ben hits him, he falls down the stairs to his death.
The McKennas return to their hotel suite. Ben explains to their now-sleeping friends, "I'm sorry we were gone so long, but we had to go over and pick up Hank."
James Stewart as Dr. Benjamin "Ben" McKenna
Doris Day as Josephine "Jo" Conway McKenna
Bernard Miles as Edward Drayton
Brenda de Banzie as Lucy Drayton
Christopher Olsen as Henry "Hank" McKenna
Ralph Truman as Inspector Buchanan
Daniel Gélin as Louis Bernard
Mogens Wieth as Ambassador
Alan Mowbray as Val Parnell
Hillary Brooke as Jan Peterson
Reggie Nalder as Rien
Richard Wattis as Assistant Manager
Noel Willman as Woburn
Alix Talton as Helen Parnell
Yves Brainville as Police Inspector in Marrakech
Carolyn Jones as Cindy Fontaine
John Barrard as Taxidermist (uncredited)[8]
Alfred Hitchcock's cameo is a signature occurrence in most of his films. In The Man Who Knew Too Much he can be seen 25:42 into the film, in the lower left corner, watching acrobats in the Moroccan market, with his back to the camera, wearing a light gray suit, and putting his hands into his pockets, just before the spy is killed. Bernard Herrmann, who wrote the film score, cameos as the conductor at Royal Albert Hall, the only time Herrmann appeared on-camera in a film.[9]
Alfred Hitchcock first considered an American remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much in 1941, but only brought back the idea in 1956 to make a film that would fulfill a contractual demand from Paramount Pictures. The studio agreed it was a picture that could be well-adapted to the new decade. The Royal Albert Hall sequence drew some inspiration from H.M. Bateman's comic "The One-Note Man", which followed the daily life of a musician who plays only one note in a symphony, similar to the cymbal player in the film.[10]
Writing[edit]
Screenwriter John Michael Hayes was hired on the condition that he would not watch the early version nor read its script, with all the plot details coming from a briefing with Hitchcock.[11]: 167 Only the opening scenes of the script were ready when filming began, and Hayes had to send the subsequent script pages by airmail as he finished them.[11]: 187–191
Hitchcock's frequent composer Bernard Herrmann wrote the "background" film score; however, the performance of Arthur Benjamin's Storm Clouds Cantata, conducted by Herrmann, is used as source music for the climax of the film. Herrmann was given the option of composing a new cantata to be performed during the film's climax. However, he found Arthur Benjamin's cantata Storm Clouds from the original 1934 film to be so well suited to the film that he declined, although he did expand the orchestration, and inserted several repeats to make the sequence longer. Herrmann can be seen conducting the London Symphony Orchestra with mezzo-soprano Barbara Howitt and chorus during the Royal Albert Hall scenes. The sequence in the Royal Albert Hall runs for 12 minutes without any dialogue from the beginning of Storm Clouds Cantata until the climax when Doris Day's character screams.[12]
Doris Day's character in the film is a well-known, now retired, professional singer, and at two points in the film she sings the Livingston and Evans song "Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)", a performance which won the 1956 Academy Award for Best Original Song. Day's recording of the song reached number two on the US pop charts.[13] and number one in the UK.[14]
Reception[edit]
Reviews for the film were generally positive, although some critics expressed a preference for the 1934 original. Bosley Crowther of The New York Times wrote, "James Stewart tops his job in 'Rear Window' as the man who knows too much, and Doris Day is surprisingly effective as the mother who is frantic about her child ... Even in mammoth VistaVision, the old Hitchcock thriller-stuff has punch."[15] Variety wrote that while Hitchcock draws "the footage out a bit long at 119 minutes, he still keeps suspense working at all times and gets strong performances from the two stars and other cast members."[16] Harrison's Reports called the film a "highly exciting and entertaining suspense thriller" that "grips the audience from start to finish."[17] Richard L. Coe of The Washington Post also liked the film, calling it "a dandy of its popular kind" if "a wee bit too leisurely."[18] John McCarten of The New Yorker wrote in a negative review that while the remake was "unquestionably bigger and shinier than the original, it doesn't move along with anything like the agility of its predecessor. There can be no doubt, of course, that Mr. Hitchcock at one time was a master of celluloid suspense, but increasingly of late he has been turning out movies that are too overweight to indulge in the tricks of his salad days."[19] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Although a quite entertaining thriller, with some characteristically shrewd and caustic Hitchcock touches, it is likely to disappoint devotees of the first film. It lacks the earlier pace and excitement; the peculiarly English charm of the original has been exchanged for a vague VistaVision and Technicolor cosmopolitanism; the dentist episode and the siege climax are unhappily missing."[20] C. A. Lejeune of The Observer wrote that the plot had "a tendency to meander" with "jokes that may have looked more humorous in typescript," concluding that the film was "strong" as long as it stuck to the main plot, "But the first 'Man Who Knew Too Much' was stronger in every way."[21]
The film was a commercial success. Filmed on a budget of $1.2 million, it grossed $11,333,333 at the domestic box office,[4] earning $4.1 million in US theatrical rentals.[22]
On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval score of 87% based on 39 reviews, with an average rating of 7.80/10. The site's consensus reads, "Remaking his own 1934 film, Hitchcock imbues The Man Who Knew Too Much with picturesque locales and international intrigue, and is helped by a brilliantly befuddled performance from James Stewart."[23]
In 2004, American Film Institute included the song "Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)" as No. 48 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs.[24]
Home media[edit]
The Man Who Knew Too Much was kept out of re-release by Hitchcock until 1983 when it was acquired by Universal Pictures.[25][26] The film has been released on home video by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment in VHS, Betamax, Laserdisc, DVD and Blu-ray[27] formats. The 2000 DVD has a documentary on the making of the film, including interviews with Hitchcock's daughter Patricia Hitchcock and members of the production crew.
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^ After the film's release, Paramount transferred the distribution rights to Hitchcock's estate, where they were acquired by Universal Pictures in 1983.[1][2]
^ McGilligan, Patrick (2003). Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light. Wiley. p. 653.
^ Rossen, Jake (February 5, 2016). "When Hitchcock Banned Audiences From Seeing His Movies". Mental Floss. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
^ "The Man Who Knew Too Much - Details". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Retrieved June 26, 2018.
^ a b Box Office Information for The Man Who Knew Too Much. The Numbers. Retrieved August 16, 2013.
^ Coe, Jonathan. "The Man Who Knew Too Much". Sight and Sound. BFI. Archived from the original on August 3, 2012. Retrieved April 13, 2012.
^ Truffaut, Francois (October 2, 1985). Hitchcock: A Definitive Study of Alfred Hitchcock. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9780671604295.
^ "Festival de Cannes: The Man Who Knew Too Much". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved February 4, 2009.
^ Acting Cast List for The Man Who Knew Too Much - The New York Times
^ Ben Mankiewicz. The Man Who Knew Too Much (Television). Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved April 15, 2021.
^ Hitchcock/Truffaut, p. 92
^ a b DeRosa, Steven. Writing with Hitchcock. The Collaboration of Alfred Hitchcock and John Michael Hayes. Faber and Faber, 2001.
^ "Benjamin, A: The Storm Clouds Cantata from The Man Who Knew Too Much". prestoclassical.co.uk.
^ Whitburn (1987), p. 87
^ "everyHit.com – UK Top 40 Hit Database". everyHit.com. June 1956. Retrieved August 25, 2008.
^ Crowther, Bosley (May 17, 1956). "Screen: At the Old Stand". The New York Times: 37.
^ "The Man Who Knew Too Much". Variety: 6. May 2, 1956.
^ "'The Man Who Knew Too Much' with James Stewart and Doris Day". Harrison's Reports: 70. May 5, 1956.
^ Coe, Richard L. (May 24, 1956). "Hitchcock Has Another Hit". The Washington Post. p. 26.
^ McCarten, John (May 26, 1956). "The Current Cinema". The New Yorker. p. 119.
^ "The Man Who Knew Too Much". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 23 (269): 73. June 1956.
^ Lejeune, C.A. (June 24, 1956). "Practised Hands". The Observer. p. 9.
^ "The Top Box-Office Hits of 1956", Variety. January 2, 1957.
^ "The Man Who Knew Too Much". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved May 3, 2022.
^ "AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs" (PDF). American Film Institute. 2004. Retrieved August 26, 2016.
^ "The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) - Notes - TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies.
^ Wells, Jeffrey (May 9, 1993). "The Plot to Restore 'Vertigo'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
^ Kenneth Brown. "The Man Who Knew Too Much Blu-ray". Blu-ray.com.
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Q: C++ Windows Program Detecting Program Exit | No GUI or console In my C++ Windows Program without a console or GUI I wan't to detect if the task is being cancelled/stopped.
How can I achieve this?
Thanks.

A: How does your "task" run and how is it stopped? If it's just killed/terminated from the outside, then you can't detect it inside that process.
If your program exits in a regular fashion (no kill, no quick exit), you can register a "cleanup" function with atexit(), which will be run during exit().
EDIT: Or since it's C++, you could use a global variable with a custom type and run your code inside the destructor, which is basically the same as atexit().

A: atexit() would be the C-portable way to do it.
If you want to use a Windows specific way to do it, see this: Win32 API analog of sending/catching SIGTERM

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Neostigmine Methylsulfate Injection BP 2.5mg in 1ml
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neostigmine methylsulfate
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Each ml contains 2.5mg of Neostigmine Methylsulfate.
1 ampoule with 1 ml contains 2.5 mg Neostigmine Methylsulfate.
Excipients with known effect
This medicinal product contains approximately 3.54 mg sodium per ml. This should be taken into consideration by patients on a controlled sodium diet.
For a full list of excipients, see section 6.1.
Sterile Injection
Myasthenia Gravis, antagonist to non-depolarizing neuromuscular blockade, Paralytic Ileus, Post-operative Urinary Retention; Paroxysmal Supraventricular Tachycardia.
Routes of Administration
Neostigmine Methylsulfate may be administered by IV, IM or SC injection.
Neostigmine Methylsulfate should be given very slowly by the IV route. A syringe of Atropine Sulfate should always be available to counteract severe cholinergic reactions should they occur.
1 – 2.5mg by IM or SC injection at intervals throughout the day, when maximum strength is needed. The usual duration of action of a dose is two to four hours. The total daily dose is usually 5 – 20mg by injection but higher doses may be needed by some patients.
Neonatal Myasthenia Gravis may be treated with 0.1mg Neostigmine intramuscularly initially. Thereafter, the dose must be titrated individually. But is usually 0.05 – 0.25mg IM or 0.03mg/kg IM, every two – four hours. Because of the self-limiting nature of the disease in neonates, the daily dosage should be reduced until the drug can be withdrawn.
Older Children: (Under 12 years of age)
May be given 0.2 – 0.5mg by injection as required. Dosage requirements should be adjusted according to the response of the patient.
Antagonist to Non-depolarizing Neuromuscular Blockade
Reversal of Neuromuscular blockade with Neostigmine should not be attempted unless there is spontaneous recovery from paralysis.
A single dose of Neostigmine 0.05 – 0.07 mg/kg body-weight and Atropine 0.02 – 0.03 mg/kg body weight, by slow IV injection over one minute is usually adequate for complete reversal of Non-depolarizing Muscle Relaxants within 5 – 15 minutes. The maximum recommended dose of Neostigmine in adults is 5mg and in children 2.5mg.
Atropine and Neostigmine may be given simultaneously, but in patients with Bradycardia, the pulse rate should be increased to 80 per minute with Atropine before administering Neostigmine.
Other Indications
Adults: 0.5 – 2.5mg Neostigmine Methylsulfate by SC or IM injection.
Children: 0.125 – 1mg by injection. Doses may be varied according to the individual needs of the patient.
Elderly: There are no specific dosage recommendations for Neostigmine Methylsulfate in the elderly.
Use of neostigmine is contraindicated in patients with hypersensitivity to neostigmine or to any of the excipients in this injection.
Neostigmine should not be administered to patients with mechanical obstruction of gastrointestinal or urinary tracts, peritonitis or doubtful bowel viability.
Neostigmine should not be used in conjunction with depolarising muscle relaxants such as suxamethonium as neuromuscular blockade may be potentiated.
Neostigmine should be used with extreme caution in patients with asthma as the parasympathomimetic action of neostigmine may cause bronchoconstriction.
Bradycardia, with the potential for progression to asystole, may occur in patients receiving neostigmine by intravenous injection unless atropine is given simultaneously. Extreme caution should be employed when treating patients with pre-existing bradycardia, cardiac arrhythmia or recent coronary occlusion.
Patients who are hyperreactive to neostigmine experience a severe cholinergic reaction to the drug. Atropine sulfate should always be available as an antagonist for the muscarinic effects of neostigmine.
Neostigmine should be used with caution in patients with epilepsy, vagotonia, hyperthyroidism, peptic ulceration or parkinsonism.
Administration of anticholinesterase agents to patients with intestinal anastomoses may produce rupture of the anastomosis or leakage of intestinal contents.
Although there are no specific dosage requirements in the elderly, these patients may be more susceptible to dysrhythmias than younger patients.
Inhaled anaesthetics
Neostigmine Methylsulfate should not be given during cyclopropane or halothane anaesthesia; although it may be used after withdrawal of these agents.
Neostigmine effectively antagonises the effect of Non-depolarizing muscle relaxants (e.g. Tubocurarine, Gallamine or Pancuronium) and this interaction is used to therapeutic advantage to reverse muscle relaxation after surgery. Neostigmine does not antagonise, and it may in fact prolong, the phase I block of depolarizing muscle relaxants such as Succinylcholine.
Atropine antagonises the muscarinic effects of Neostigmine, the interaction is utilised to counteract the muscarinic symptoms of the Neostigmine toxicity.
Anticholinesterase agents are sometimes effective in reversing Neuromuscular Block induced by Aminoglycoside Antibiotics. However, Aminoglycoside Antibiotics and other drugs that interfere with Neuromuscular transmission should be used cautiously, if at all, in patients with Myasthenia Gravis and the dose of Neostigmine may have to be adjusted accordingly.
The use of Neostigmine Methylsulfate during pregnancy or lactation has not been established. Although the possible hazards to mother and child must be weighed against the potential benefits in every case. Experience with Myasthenia Gravis has revealed no untoward effect of the drug on the course of pregnancy. As the severity of Myasthenia Gravis often fluctuates considerably, particular care is required to avoid cholinergic crisis due to overdosage of Neostigmine.
Only negligible amounts of Neostigmine Methylsulfate are excreted in breast milk. Nevertheless, attention should be paid to possible effects on the breast-feeding infant.
Adverse effects of Neostigmine are chiefly those of exaggerated response to parasympathetic stimulation.
System Organ Class
Hypersensitivity, angioedema, anaphylactic reaction.
Cholinergic syndrome, especially at high doses. In patients with myasthenia gravis, cholinergic crisis may be difficult to distinguish from myasthenia crisis (see section 4.9).
Miosis, lacrimation increased
Bradycardia, decreased cardiac conduction, in severe cases possibly leading to heart block or cardiac arrest
Respiratory, thoracic or mediastinal disorders
Increased bronchial secretion, bronchospasm
Nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, abdominal cramps, salivary hypersecretion.
Increased intestinal motility may result in involuntary defecation.
Musculoskeletal, connective tissue and bone disorders
Reporting of suspected adverse reactions
Reporting suspected adverse reactions after authorisation of the medicinal product is important. It allows continued monitoring of the benefit/risk balance of the medicinal product. Healthcare professionals are asked to report any suspected adverse reactions via the Yellow Card Scheme at: www.mhra.gov.uk/yellowcard or search for MHRA Yellow Card in the Google Play or Apple App Store.
Neostigmine Methylsulfate overdosage may include Cholinergic Crisis, which is characterised by nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, excessive salivation and sweating, increased bronchial secretions, miosis, bradycardia or tachycardia, cardiospasm, bronchospasm, incoordination, muscle cramps, fasciculation and paralysis. Extremely high doses may produce CNS symptoms of agitation, fear or restlessness. Death may result from cardiac arrest or respiratory paralysis and pulmonary oedema. In patients with Myasthenia Gravis, in whom overdosage is most likely to occur, fasciculation and adverse parasympathomimetic effects may be mild or absent making cholinergic crisis difficult to distinguish from Myasthenia crisis.
Maintenance of adequate respiration is of primary importance. Tracheostomy, Bronchial aspiration and postural drainage may be required; Respiration can be assisted mechanically or with oxygen, if necessary.
Neostigmine Methylsulfate should be discontinued immediately and 1 – 4mg of Atropine Sulfate administered IV. Additional doses of Atropine may be given every 5 – 30 minutes as needed to control muscarinic symptoms. Atropine overdosage should be avoided as tenacious secretions and bronchial plugs may result.
Neostigmine inhibits cholinesterase activity and prolongs and intensifies the muscarinic and nicotinic effects of acetylcholine. The anticholinesterase actions of Neostigmine are reversible. It is used mainly for its action on skeletal muscle and less frequently to increase the activity of smooth muscle. Neostigmine is used in the treatment of Myasthenia Gravis.
Neostigmine is a quaternary ammonium compound and is poorly absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract. Following parenteral administration as the methylsulfate, neostigmine is metabolised partly by hydrolysis of the ester linkage and is excreted in the urine both as unchanged drug and as metabolites. The half-life of neostigmine is only one to two hours.
No further information other than that which is included in the Summary of Product Characteristics.
Water for Injections
Neostigmine may be diluted with Water for Injections. Stability of the injection cannot be guaranteed once it has been diluted.
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Protect from light and store at less than 25°C.
1ml glass ampoules hermetically sealed under flame at the gauging point. The ampoules are packed in cartons to contain 10 ampoules.
Use as directed by a physician.
If only part used discard the remaining solution.
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We are very excited to have Linda Bauer from Bauer Family Farms teaching spinning, both drop spindle and at the wheel here at the farm. She is a masterful spinnner and works hard at her craft. Spinning daily has helped her develop techniques to produce exquisite yarns. She has used some of our hand-dyed rovings and created incredible yarn that exceeds the beauty of the roving!!
July 24th. More details are available in the Events section of our website.
If you have wanted to try spinning, we hope to see you in July.
Our special activity for yesterday was dyeing yarns. Thank you to all who came for the demonstration, especially the young members of the group that chose the colors for the project. We think that the yarns came out great and so do the young boy alpacas!!
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Surprise: Ants have teeth. Here's how they keep them sharp.
Biology and materials science, in alliance, have discovered how zinc atoms harden an ant's tooth.
By Rahul Rao | Published Sep 9, 2021 1:00 PM
Ant jaws are coated with a special material different from regular hard tissues like nails or bones. Egor Kamelev/Pexels
The tooth of an ant is a powerful tool. Even though ant chompers are less than the width of a human hair, they're capable of some incredible feats of cutting. Now, scientists have found a reason: a thin coat of heavy metal atoms.
By applying techniques and technology from materials science to a piece of biology, researchers were literally able to deconstruct an ant's tooth. In doing so, they found zinc atoms that harden and sharpen the tooth, like diamond dust on a blade. The researchers published their work in the journal Scientific Reports on Thursday.
"As we reveal these nanoscale structures, I'm pretty sure we will uncover things that we didn't know before about the natural world," says Arun Devaraj, a materials scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Washington, and one of the authors of the paper.
Devaraj's work focuses specifically on metals. The man-made variety, which humans can tinker with and fine-tune themselves, are engineered to the very edge of their lives. But Devaraj has long been interested in their natural, biological counterparts: materials that have developed impressive properties through slow eons of evolution.
"I've been interested in figuring out how nature kind of engineers these things," says Devaraj.
That, he says, is why he began collaborating with Robert Schofield, a biophysicist at the University of Oregon and the paper's lead author. Schofield has long studied invertebrates' "tools," like ant teeth, for example, but also things like spider fangs, scorpion claws, and worm jaws. Having measured those tools' properties, Schofield knew well that they're capable of far greater strength than their tiny sizes would suggest. He wanted to learn more about why.
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Since at least the 1980s, scientists have known that such tools contain two sorts of materials. The first consists of elements like calcium and iron, the kind you might find in your teeth or bones. But the second kind contains more surprising elements like zinc and manganese. The part those heavy metals play isn't quite as well understood, even though they're just as common.
Take an ant's tooth, tapering off into a tip less than the size of a dust particle. Something that hadn't been studied was the arrangement of atoms out on the tip. That's where Devaraj's expertise entered the picture. "In materials science, it's pretty routine for us to look at how atomic structure dictates properties," he says.
So Schofield's group extracted teeth from an ant colony at the University of Oregon and sent them six hours away to PNNL. There, Devaraj and his colleagues—including doctoral intern Xiaoyue Wang—extracted an even tinier sample, just a few atoms across.
With that sample, Devaraj and his colleague applied a technique called atom probe tomography. They placed the sample inside a vacuum chamber, then quite literally began evaporating the sample, one atom at a time. By watching how the atoms flew off, they could determine what the atoms were and where on the sample they came from.
It's a technique originally meant for analyzing human-made materials. But by using it on this ant's tooth, the researchers were able to determine which atoms sit where on the tooth's tip.
[Related: Why can some people smell ants? Here's the answer to TikTok's latest mystery.]
They found zinc atoms evenly distributed across the tooth, serving to harden the tooth's surface and sharpen its point. The zinc atoms allow the ant, when it bites, to exact a great deal more damage upon its quarry than it would first seem, while requiring less force and not dulling its tool.
"Human engineers might also learn from this biological trick," said Schofield in a statement. "The hardness of ant teeth, for example, increases from about the hardness of plastic to the hardness of aluminum when the zinc is added. While there are much harder engineering materials, they are often more brittle."
As we learn more about how materials like these work in invertebrates like ants, we might be able to find out how to make better materials in real life. That's part of why, for Devaraj, Schofield, and their colleagues, this paper is just the beginning. They're planning years' worth of further research into this field, and not just in invertebrates: they suspect they might find similar sharpening materials in the teeth of everything from crocodiles to dinosaurs.
"There may be other materials that we haven't discovered yet," Devaraj says.
Rahul Rao
Rahul is a freelance science journalist, graduate of NYU's SHERP, and Doctor Who fan. Contact the author here.
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Goodreads: Twenty-seven-year-old Logan Wade has built a life for herself in New York City, far from her unhappy childhood in Oklahoma. But when she gets the call that her famous cousin needs a new assistant, it's an offer she can't refuse. Logan hasn't seen Kelsey since they were separated as kids; in the meantime, Kelsey Wade has become one of Fortune Magazine's most powerful celebrities and carrion for the paparazzi. But the joy at their reunion is overshadowed by the toxic dynamic between Kelsey and her controlling parents. As Kelsey grasps desperately at a "real" life, Logan risks everything to try and give her cousin the one thing she has never known—happiness. As Kelsey unravels in the most horribly public way Logan finds that she will ultimately have to choose between saving her cousin and saving herself.
Kritters Thoughts: An interesting take on the behind the scenes of a singer who is becoming quite famous and how her world completely unravels. I would say it is almost a semi biography of the Britney Spears crazy years. But just like the main character who goes a little nutso, this book was a little nutso.
The part of the book that I found the most entertaining was reading about what all goes into touring and shows. I enjoy the backstage view of life, but this positive didn't outweigh the parts of the book that I found to be flat.
Maybe my expectations were too high because I love the other books that this writing team has put out, but I just didn't find this one to be the book that I couldn't put down.
This sounds like it might be a good summer read for me!


StartupNight: First International Edition in Dubai!
I was happy to join STEP Conference for their 7th Edition at Dubai Internet City and proudly present the first international edition of StartupNight in Dubai (SUN-Dubai) bringing to close a one-week program offered by Dubai SME.
Brought all the way from Berlin to Dubai thanks to Dubai SME's CEO Abdul Baset Al Janahi, StartupNight is supported by some of the largest companies in Germany including Telekom, Eon, Volkswagen, and Commerzbank and serves as a platform for ecosystem cooperation and collaboration between startups and large corporates.
30 applicants with startups in the sectors of transportation and mobility, aerospace, energy efficiency, medical & health, ICT, and education were handpicked to participate in the event by both Start Alliance Berlin and Dubai SME.
After a powerful keynote speech by Abdul Baset Al Janahi, and introduction by Cem Erguen-Mueller, CEO of StartupNight, the startups took to the stage for their unique and inspiring pitches.
Each startup was given 3 minutes to pitch, and after a round of judging, the top 3 winners walked away with cash prizes of 7,500$, 12,000$, and $20,000.
SUN-Dubai was a very interesting event that I enjoyed presenting and I look forward to witnessing more local startups pitching their exciting ideas in future events.


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Furious councillors have branded school chiefs "a disgrace" after claims they failed to show up to a single committee meeting in two years.
Redcar and Cleveland has some of the worst performing secondary schools in the country despite having primary schools which see more than 95% of students in 'good' or 'outstanding' schools.
Over the past two years, the council's Children and Families Scrutiny and Improvement Committee has sent several invitations to the Regional Schools Commissioner, Janet Renou, to discuss the borough's education problems.
Yet despite accepting a number of invitations, the committee says Ms Renou has never actually attended a meeting, often sending apologies for her absence.
On Tuesday, the committee was expecting the attendance of Ms Renou's deputy to discuss the council's plans to improve pupils' transition from primary to secondary education, only for a familiar sequence of events to unfold.
"We did expect the deputy regional school commissioner, Katherine Cowell, to attend today," said committee chair, Cllr Steve Kay.
"We prophesied that we would be let down at the last minute - this must be about the 100th time it's happened."
In a letter to the committee, Ms Cowell said she would back the council's plans for a Pupil Transition Programme and would encourage academies to engage with it.
"Our intention is that through Opportunity North East we will be able to rigorously test the impact of several approaches and will be able to learn more about what works so that more children will continue to achieve well at secondary school," she said.
It was a response that angered Cllr Ian Jeffrey who had chaired the task and finish group that identified the particular problems with pupils moving from primary to secondary school in Redcar and Cleveland.
"I just think this is patronising in the extreme and hardly addressing the issues from the point of view of this local authority," he said.
"It's been a period of two years that we have been inviting the regional schools commissioner to this scrutiny and more particularly recently when we established the task and finish group.
"She talks about 'so more children will continue to achieve well at secondary school'.
"Doesn't she understand that's precisely why we set up the task and finish group? They are not continuing to achieve at secondary school.
He concluded: "I think it's a disgrace and I think we as a committee should be saying so.
"We feel badly let down by this approach. I will move that if necessary."
Cllr Karen King described Ms Cowell's letter as being composed of "hollow words".
Council leader, Sue Jeffrey, said she felt the regional school commissioners had been "disrespectful" to the committee.
And Cllr Kay said: "What gets me is that she keeps promising to come and then goes back on that promise.
"It would be more honest to just say 'you're not important enough for me and I'm not coming' which is probably what she really thinks."
The committee voted unanimously to write to the office of the regional school commissioner to make members' feelings known.


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Thomas Hood (1799-1845) (* Poultry, Londres, 23 de Maio de 1799 † Devonshire Lodge, Finchley Road (Londres), 3 de Maio de 1845), foi poeta, novelista, ensaísta, comediógrafo, editor, literato e gravador britânico. Sua constituição fraca e saúde debilitada foi vencida pela veia poética e pelas obras humorísticas, foi editor e colaborador de inúmeros periódicos.

Primeiros anos
Thomas Hood (1799-1845) era o segundo filho do livreiro escocês Thomas Hood († 1811), a mãe do poeta, Elizabeth Sands, era irmã do gravador Robert Sands, com quem Thomas trabalhou durante algum tempo.  Quando o pai dele morreu em 1811, eles se mudaram para "Islington", onde Thomas Hood teve um professor que, apreciador de seus talentos, fazia-o sentir "que seria impossível alguém não tomar gosto pelo aprendizado, quando ele se mostrava tão interessado em ensinar"

Foi admitido numa firma de contabilidade de um amigo da família, porém, problemas de saúde o obrigaram a ir morar com alguns familiares em Dundee, na Escócia. Ali teve uma vida saudável, e se tornou um leitor incansável, logo contribuindo com os periódicos e revistas provincianas, escrevendo artigos poéticos e humorísticos.

Vida e Obras
Quando retornou para Londres, em 1818, dedicou-se a gravuras, o que lhe permitiu a ilustração de suas próprias criações humorísticas.  Em 1821, John Scott (1783-1821), editor da "London Magazine", foi morto num duelo, e o periódico passou às mãos de uns amigos de Hood, que o convidaram para ser diretor. Foi neste cargo que conheceu os literatos de sua época: Charles Lamb, Henry Cary (1772-1844), Thomas de Quincey,  Allan Cunningham, Bryan Procter, Sargento Talfourd, Hartley Coleridge (1796-1849), William Hazlitt, e o poeta campesino John Clare (1793-1864), além de outros que publicavam a revista.  Este contato lhe permitiu desenvolver suas capacidades literárias.

Em 5 de Maio de 1825 casou com Jane Reynolds Hood, a irmã de John Hamilton Reynolds (1794–1852), com quem havia publicado a obra Odes e Discursos para um grande povo.

Ele ficou conhecido também por suas obras humorísticas, porém, o público rejeitava esse tipo de leitura quase por completo.

Em março de 1835 fez uma viagem para a Holanda, porém, foi surpreendido por um terrível temporal, e os efeitos repercutiram dolorosamente sobre sua fraca constituição. Estabeleceu-se sucessivamente em Coblentz (1835-1837) e Ostend (1837-1840), onde continuava escrevendo sua obra The Comic Annual, "Hood's Own" (1838) e "Up the Rhine", iniciada em 1836 e publicada em 1839. Muitas de suas correspondências desse período foram preservadas nos "Memoriais" e publicadas posteriormente pelos seus filhos, a sua alegria e o seu bom humor continuavam extraordinários, para um paciente praticamente desgastado por ataques contínuos de uma enfermidade contumaz.

Em 1840 ele volta para a Inglaterra, vivendo sucessivamente em "Camberwell" e "St. John's Wood", onde começou a escrever para o "New Monthly Magazine", do qual se tornou editor por ocasião do falecimento de Theodor Hook em 1841.  Pouco antes do Natal de 1844 ele ficou completamente doente, e dessa data em diante até a sua morte jamais deixou sua cama.  A gentileza do Sr. Robert Peel suavizou-lhe os últimos dias com a concessão de uma pensão de cem libras.  Morreu no dia 3 de Maio de 1845, em Devonshire Lodge, Finchley Road, sendo sepultado no cemitério Kensal Green, onde em 1854, um monumento público foi erigido em sua homenagem, e enfeitado com baixos relevos de sua obra 'Sonhos de Eugene Aram" e "A Ponte dos Suspiros", onde foi inscrito: "Ele cantou a canção da camisa."  Seus filhos Tom e Frances também se tornaram celebridades.

 Obras principais
 A Butcher ("Um Açougueiro", poema)Odes e Discursos para um grande povo (1825)Whims and Oddities (Caprichos e Excentricidades, duas series, 1826 e 1827)Os Pedidos das Fadas de Verão, Hero e Leandro, Lico, o Centauro e outros Poemas (1827), sua única coleção de versos sériosO sonho de Eugene Aram, o homicida (1831)Tylney Hall, uma novela (3 vols., 1834)The Comic Annual (1830–1842)Hood's Own, ou, Laughter from Year to Year (1838 e 1861)Up the Rhine (1840)Hood's Magazine and Comic Miscellany (61 edições pulicadas de janeiro de 1844 a junho de 1848)Contos Nacionais (2 vols., 1837), uma coletânea de novelas curtasWhimsicalities (Excentricidades, 1844), com ilustrações de John Leech (1817-1864); e muitas contribuições para os periódicos de sua época.
 A Canção da Camisa (poema, 1843)
 A Ponte dos Suspiros'' (1844) - esta obra foi traduzida para o francês por Charles Baudelaire em 1865.

Família
De seu casamento com Jane Reynolds ele teve dois filhos: Frances e Tom.

Links Externos
 Biografia em inglês
 Dictionary of National Biography
 Oxford Reference
 1902 Encyclopedia

 Victorian Britain (Routledge Revivals): An Encyclopedia Sally Mitchell
 The Broadview Anthology of Literature of the Revolutionary Period 1770-1832 - D.L. Macdonald e Anne McWhir

Referências

Poetas da Inglaterra
Editores do Reino Unido
Ensaístas da Inglaterra
Sepultados no Cemitério de Kensal Green
Naturais de Londres


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Weston youngsters hold afternoon tea for charity close to their heart.
Polly and Elisa at their afternoon tea.
Two Weston youngsters organised an afternoon tea for charity and raised more than £450 as a result.
Elisa Main, aged nine, and Polly Jarvis, aged 10, decided they wanted to raise money for Breast Cancer Care, as both their families have been affected by the disease.
The two girls approached Weston businesses for help and received donations for the event, which was held in Severn Road.
Jane Murch, who is Elisa's mum, told the Mercury she was extremely proud of them both for working so well together for a good cause.
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Russian Hackers Have Stolen US Secrets
Uploaded on 2020-12-18 in TECHNOLOGY--Hackers, NEWS-News Analysis, GOVERNMENT-National, FREE TO VIEW
Some of The United States most deeply held secrets may have been stolen by Russian government hackers in a heavy multi-pronged attack which began with a breach at the Solar Winds IT vendor and swiftly extended to leading cyber security firm FireEye, who found that the software tools they use to protect major customers in the US government and major corporations had been weaponised and used to attack their customers.
The US Cyber Infrastructure Security Agency (CIA) issued an emergency warning as events unfolded rapidly early this week. In the absence of any detailed information from official sources there is considerable debate about what might have been taken.
Could the hackers have obtained nuclear secrets or COVID-19 vaccine data or even Blueprints for next-generation weapons systems?
It will take a long time to get the answers about what exactly has been taken and how this happened. The hackers are sophisticated and area able to hide their tracks and so some of the crime might not be exposed. Cyber security experts say that the attack displays the tactics and techniques of Russia's SVR foreign intelligence agency and a number of US government departments. including the Treasury and Commerce departments, were known to have been hacked via a commercial software update distributed to thousands of companies and government agencies worldwide.
A Pentagon statement suggested it also used the software, saying that it had "issued guidance and directives to protect" its networks. It would not say, for "operational security reasons", whether any of its systems may have been hacked.
Hackers infiltrated US government agencies by infiltrating a malicious code on commercial network management software from SolarWinds, a leading network software and IT services company in March. This campaign was discovered by the cyber security company FireEye when it found it had been hacked which it immediately disclosed when it alerted the FBI and other federal agencies on December 8th.
A noted cyber security expert Thomas Rid, Professor in the Department of War Studies at King's College London said the campaign's can be compared to Russia's three-year 1990s, Moonlight Maze hacking of US government targets, including NASA and the Pentagon.
The US government has not said which agencies were hacked and no private-sector victims have made themselves know to date, although defence contractors and telecommunications companies have been popular targets with state-backed cyber spies. Like intelligence agents, nation-state hackers generally focus on the latest on weapons technologies and missile defense systems vital to national security.
It is understood that the hackers carefully exfiltrated data, often encrypting it so it wasn't clear what was being taken, and expertly covering their tracks.
President Trump's national security adviser, Robert O'Brien convened a top-level interagency meeting later this week and the White House has said a coordinating team had been created to respond, including the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. At a briefing for congressional staff the DHS did not say how many agencies were hacked and the Trump administration has released very little information.
Critics have long complained that the Trump administration has failed to address cybersecurity threats, including a wave of ransomware attacks that have hobbled state and local governments and hospitals. "It's been a frustrating time, the last four years. I mean, nothing has happened seriously at all in cybersecurity," said Brandon Valeriano, an expert adviser to the Cyber Solarium Commission, which was created by Congress to fortify the nation's cyber defenses.
A senior FireEye executive Charles Carmakal said that the company was aware of "dozens of incredibly high-value targets" infiltrated by the hackers and was helping "a number of organisations respond to their intrusions." He did not name any, saying only that he expected many more to learn that they have been compromised.
Carmakal also said that the hackers would have activated remote-access back doors only on targets sure to have prized data. It is manual, demanding work and moving networks around risks detection.
The SolarWinds campaign highlights the lack of mandatory minimum-security rules for commercial software used on federal computer networks. Zoom video conferencing software is another example. It was approved for use on federal computer networks last year, yet security experts found it was being exploitable by hackers, after federal workers sent home by the pandemic began using it.
It also the need for a National Cyber Director at the White House, a position subject to Senate confirmation. Congress approved such a position in a recently passed defense bill.
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Review. Generations
10-10-2018 | Dance, Review
I originally wanted to describe Generations as a dance performance without music, but that isn't entirely true. The one-hour contemporary piece, choreographed by Israeli artists Stav Marin and Neta Weiner and executed by the Fine5 Dance Theatre company, is set to a soundtrack of voices, whispers, and guttural sounds from the dancers, and occasionally a few notes of live accordion music. The sound reverberates under the high ceilings of the ornate theatre, with fine line drawings of a forest and simple chandeliers setting an elegant scene over the dancers' heads.
Casual Clothes in an Elegant Atmosphere
As the audience files into the room, a cast of seven dancers in athletic apparel (e.g. track pants, shorts, tank tops) are pacing the floor and mumbling to themselves. Their circling steps eventually bring them together in moments of silence, where they pause in groups as if posing for a family portrait. The last of these poses finishes with the dancers perched on the lone prop onstage, a sofa in the rear corner of the room.
According to the Artists…
Generations deal with the weight of memory as it is transferred through generation within the structure of families. It examines the ability to remember and forget and raises the question of whether we have a choice in doing so.
The dancers of Fine5 represent a range of ages. The program explains that "some performers started their dance career around the time when Estonia got its independence in 1991 and some of these dancers graduated dance-studies this year." Questions of age and relationships are explored through an interesting blend of contemporary dance, everyday movement, and elements of self-defense and combat training. One particularly powerful section seemed to represent a struggle with Alzheimer's, as one of the dancers repeatedly screamed out what (or who?) they were looking for while fighting off any member that came to his assistance.
The Language of Movement
One of the interesting elements of a verbally-driven dance performance is influence of language. In the scene above, for example, I knew that that dancer was repeating a single word, but I couldn't decipher whether it was a woman's name (Eva? Emma?) or a single word that would have significance to a fluent audience. This distance, however, didn't detract from my enjoyment of the piece but instead left me open to interpret the performance through more of the body language than the words themselves. One of the reasons I enjoy attending dance performances when I travel is the reminder of how much can be communicated without a single word.
Dance and Distraction
That stark difference in that experience came anytime the dancers did incorporate English lyrics. During one section, they chanted the chorus of Eminem's 2002 song "Cleanin' Out My Closet": I'm sorry mama. I never meant to hurt you. I never meant to make you cry. Later, the music turned more towards my parents' generation by repeating the famous Beatles refrain of We all live in a yellow submarine, a yellow submarine, a yellow submarine.
When I did understand the words that were spoken, I was shaken out of watching the movement. I spent about half the time that they repeated "I'm sorry mama…" trying to place which song the lyrics came from (my first instinct was Kanye West). In this respect, I almost felt lucky to be oblivious to some of the conversations or monologues relayed by the performers, even if it meant I missed out on slivers of meaning. Some of the most powerful sounds of Generations came from low moans echoed off the floor by one dancer while the others undulated to the rhythms.
The Big Finish
Ballets like Swan Lake are famous for a grand finale of never ending pirouettes performed by a spinning soloist. Generations puts an athletic twist on that concept, with a determined dancer seemingly obligated to repeat an endless number of back walkovers (I lost count after 35) until she is finally released by the support of another partner. The final poses of represent a fitting array of familial relationships, with a one couple intimately embracing, a trio sprawled comfortably across each other on the floor, and one stone-faced couple sitting tensely on the sofa, neither touching or interacting with each other. Generations and families come in all different shapes and sizes and this performance captures that essence brilliantly.
http://kultuur.info/event/dance-production-generations/


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So was Werner last year when his client decided that they would generally discontinue working with contractors.
Three and a half years into a contract that was supposed to last only six months, it was not a huge surprise.
Werner has been a Project/Program Management Consultant and Contractor for 20 years, most of it being self-employed at his own company TPIMC, LLC (TechPro | Interim Management & Consulting).
He has worked in more than a dozen European countries as well as in the US and with partners spanning across 13.5h timezones; mostly in the Telecoms/IT industry, but also in Retail and Healthcare. Sometimes projects were small but he also led projects with 35+ team members and budgets of $10+ million.
Holding an MBA, a PMP Certification and with a CSM under his belt, he ventured out to look for a new role – as he'd done multiple times before; because that's what you do when you're self-employed.
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Marc Girardelli (Lustenau (Oostenrijk), 18 juli 1963) is een voormalige alpineskiër die voor het Groothertogdom Luxemburg skiede. Hij is een van de meest succesvolle en complete skiërs uit de geschiedenis van sport. Net als wielrenner Kim Kirchen is Girardelli zesvoudig Luxemburgs Sportman van het Jaar.

Carrière
Hij skiede eerst voor het regionale team van Vorarlberg in Oostenrijk, maar al in 1976 vroeg hij een Luxemburgse licentie aan als gevolg van meningsverschillen met de Oostenrijkse skibond, die niet wilde dat Girardelli gecoacht werd door zijn vader. Van dan af vormde hij in zijn eentje het Luxemburgse alpine skiteam, met zijn vader als coach. In 1980 debuteerde hij in de Wereldbeker, en in 1982 behaalde hij zijn eerste overwinning in een wereldbekerwedstrijd. Aanvankelijk was hij vooral een specialist van de slalom en reuzenslalom, maar hij verbeterde zich gestadig in de snelle wedstrijden en werd zo in het seizoen 1988-1989 de eerste man die in één enkel seizoen heeft gewonnen in alle vijf disciplines (slalom, reuzenslalom, super-G, afdaling en combinatie). Hij won in totaal 43 wereldbekerwedstrijden en wist vijf keer de eindwinst in de algemene wereldbeker te behalen: in 1985, 1986, 1989, 1991 en 1993.
Bij Olympische Winterspelen kon hij evenwel geen overwinningen behalen, wel twee zilveren medailles op de Olympische Winterspelen 1992 van Albertville.
Hij werd ook viermaal wereldkampioen alpineskiën (driemaal op de combinatie en eenmaal op de slalom).

Hij had tijdens zijn carrière veelvuldig af te rekenen met blessures, waardoor onder meer zijn seizoenen 1988 en 1990 grotendeels verloren gingen. De laatste jaren van zijn carrière was hij bijna constant in behandeling en na het Wereldkampioenschap Alpineskiën 1996 in Sierra Nevada (Spanje) besloot hij zijn carrière te beëindigen.

Voornaamste prestaties

Olympische Spelen

Wereldkampioenschappen Alpineskiën
Wereldkampioenschappen Alpineskiën 1985 in Bormio (Italië):
zilver op de slalom
brons op de reuzenslalom
Wereldkampioenschappen Alpineskiën 1987 in Crans-Montana (Zwitserland):
goud op de combinatie
zilver op de reuzenslalom
zilver op de super-G
Wereldkampioenschappen Alpineskiën 1989 in Vail (Verenigde Staten):
goud op de combinatie
brons op de slalom
Wereldkampioenschappen Alpineskiën 1991 in Saalbach-Hinterglemm (Oostenrijk):
goud op de slalom
Wereldkampioenschappen Alpineskiën 1993 in Morioka (Japan):
zilver op de slalom
brons op de combinatie
Wereldkampioenschappen Alpineskiën 1996 in Sierra Nevada (Spanje):
goud op de combinatie

Wereldbeker Alpineskiën
Winnaar de algemene wereldbeker in 1985, 1986, 1989, 1991 en 1993
Winnaar van de wereldbeker afdaling in 1989 en 1994
Winnaar van de wereldbeker reuzenslalom in 1985
Winnaar van de wereldbeker slalom in 1984, 1985 en 1991
43 overwinningen in wereldbekerwedstrijden (16 slaloms, 7 reuzenslaloms, 9 super-G, 3 afdalingen, 8 combinaties):

(bron: FIS-ski.com)

Externe link
officiële site (Engels en Duits)

Luxemburgs alpineskiër
Luxemburgs olympisch deelnemer