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How climate change caused the world's first empire to collapse
by Vasile Ersek, The Conversation
King Naram-Sin of Akkad, grandson of Sargon, leading his army to victory. Credit: Rama / Louvre, CC BY-SA
Gol-e-Zard Cave lies in the shadow of Mount Damavand, which at more than 5,000 metres dominates the landscape of northern Iran. In this cave, stalagmites and stalactites are growing slowly over millennia and preserve in them clues about past climate events. Changes in stalagmite chemistry from this cave have now linked the collapse of the Akkadian Empire to climate changes more than 4,000 years ago.
Akkadia was the world's first empire. It was established in Mesopotamia around 4,300 years ago after its ruler, Sargon of Akkad, united a series of independent city states. Akkadian influence spanned along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers from what is now southern Iraq, through to Syria and Turkey. The north-south extent of the empire meant that it covered regions with different climates, ranging from fertile lands in the north which were highly dependent on rainfall (one of Asia's "bread baskets"), to the irrigation-fed alluvial plains to the south.
It appears that the empire became increasingly dependent on the productivity of the northern lands and used the grains sourced from this region to feed the army and redistribute the food supplies to key supporters. Then, about a century after its formation, the Akkadian Empire suddenly collapsed, followed by mass migration and conflicts. The anguish of the era is perfectly captured in the ancient Curse of Akkad text, which describes a period of turmoil with water and food shortages: "… the large arable tracts yielded no grain, the inundated fields yielded no fish, the irrigated orchards yielded no syrup or wine, the thick clouds did not rain."
Drought and dust
The reason for this collapse is still debated by historians, archaeologists and scientists. One of the most prominent views, championed by Yale archaeologist Harvey Weiss (who built on earlier ideas by Ellsworth Huntington), is that it was caused by an abrupt onset of drought conditions which severely affected the productive northern regions of the empire.
Weiss and his colleagues discovered evidence in northern Syria that this once prosperous region was suddenly abandoned around 4,200 years ago, as indicated by a lack of pottery and other archaeological remains. Instead, the rich soils of earlier periods were replaced by large amounts of wind-blown dust and sand, suggesting the onset of drought conditions. Subsequently, marine cores from the Gulf of Oman and the Red Sea which linked the input of dust into the sea to distant sources in Mesopotamia, provided further evidence of a regional drought at the time.
The Akkad empire during the reign of Narâm-Sîn (2254-2218 BC). Mount Damavand is labelled in blue. Credit: Zunkir / Semhir / wiki, CC BY-SA
Many other researchers viewed Weiss's interpretation with scepticism, however. Some argued, for example, that the archaeological and marine evidence was not accurate enough to demonstrate a robust correlation between drought and societal change in Mesopotamia.
A new detailed climate record
Now, stalagmite data from Iran sheds new light on the controversy. In a study published in the journal PNAS, led by Oxford palaeoclimatologist Stacy Carolin, colleagues and I provide a very well dated and high resolution record of dust activity between 5,200 and 3,700 years ago. And cave dust from Iran can tell us a surprising amount about climate history elsewhere.
Gol-e-Zard Cave might be several hundred miles to the east of the former Akkadian Empire, but it is directly downwind. As a result, around 90% of the region's dust originates in the deserts of Syria and Iraq.
That desert dust has a higher concentration of magnesium than the local limestone which forms most of Gol-e-Zard's stalagmites (the ones which grow upwards from the cave floor). Therefore, the amount of magnesium in the Gol-e-Zard stalagmites can be used as an indicator of dustiness at the surface, with higher magnesium concentrations indicating dustier periods, and by extension drier conditions.
The stalagmites have the additional advantage that they can be dated very precisely using uranium-thorium chronology. Combining these methods, our new study provides a detailed history of dustiness in the area, and identifies two major drought periods which started 4,510 and 4,260 years ago, and lasted 110 and 290 years respectively. The latter event occurs precisely at the time of the Akkadian Empire's collapse and provides a strong argument that climate change was at least in part responsible.
The collapse was followed by mass migration from north to south which was met with resistance by the local populations. A 180km wall – the "Repeller of the Amorites" – was even built between the Tigris and Euphrates in an effort to control immigration, not unlike some strategies proposed today. The stories of abrupt climate change in the Middle East therefore echo over millennia to the present day.
Study of past Mideast climate links drought and empire
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And now climate change will assist Republican Treason in the collapse of America.
v4v, I'm not sure that the supporting quislings for the trunpsterfire crime family should be called republicans.
More accurately, they are a revival of the dixiecrats & copperheads. That since the 1960's have metastasized throughout the GOP. (Grouchy Old Pederasts)


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«Bitches Get Everything» — п'ята книга української письменниці Ірени Карпи, видана у 2006 році харківським «Клубом сімейного дозвілля».

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Відверта історія розкутого життя молодої кінорежисерки Тріші Торнберг, яка знімає провокативне кіно. У вільний час Тріша розважається в колі друзів, і розваги їхні з погляду пересічного громадянина досить нестандартні, навіть скандальні, її черговий фільм забороняє цензура, однак відбуваються підпільні покази, і картина Тріші здобуває премію престижного Венеційського кінофестивалю. Під час вручення кінопремії на неї чинить замах маніяк. Із жахом Тріша розуміє, що це — один з її колишніх коханців…

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The Advantages & Disadvantages of IPOs
by Nancy Wagner
An IPO allows investors to buy and sell shares of a company.
The buzz in the finance world gets loud when a well-known private company decides to go public and sells and issues stock. All the commotion is because the company offering its first initial public offerings, known as an IPO. For some companies, the attention is part of the attraction of doing an IPO -- to get investors excited about what they offer so the stock gets bought up like candy. Before a company decides to pursue an IPO, however, it must carefully weigh the advantages and disadvantages of opening up the company to the public.
Most companies do an IPO because they need to raise capital. Others do it because the new money helps them buy out other businesses that are part of their growth plans. Sometimes the funds go toward research and development. Some companies use the money to pay off existing debt. The stage is set after an IPO since the company usually finds it easier to raise cash in the future by using its equity. According to Ivo Welch, professor of finance at UCLA, about a third of all IPO issuers return to the market within five years to raise more capital.
Investors in a company find an IPO an advantageous situation since they can cash out their shares and get their investment back. The founder of a company may also sell all or some of his stock, a great benefit to him that's not always perceived that way by the public. The public may see the owner's willingness to sell some of his own shares as a sign that he's jumping ship. This, in turn, may cause the public to panic and sell off tons of shares, causing the stock price to deeply drop and the public to lose faith in the company.
Once shareholders enter the picture, the company founder may lose some of his independence in running the company. He may lose control of the company altogether, getting fired by a new board. Anti-takeover measures such as staggering the appointments of new members of the board help counteract these problems and are part of a wise IPO strategy. Otherwise, a swift change in leadership does not bode well for outside investors who see the struggle and begin to lose faith in the company, and therefore, its stock.
An IPO takes a tremendous amount of time and money to prepare. This can be a disadvantage to a company with limited funds. Before it sees a dime of the IPO money, the company must hire underwriters, audit companies and attorneys to advise it during the offering process. Many firms hire public relations firms to help them deal with the media. Much of this work is done to arrive at an asking price for the shares. The public views the cost of shares in different ways; lower priced stock may suggest the company is weak while higher priced stocks may cause some investors to shy away completely.
IPO – The Initial Public Offerings (IPO) Resource Page
Inc.: IPOs, How Soon and How Much?
Nancy Wagner is a marketing strategist and speaker who started writing in 1998. She writes business plans for startups and established companies and teaches marketing and promotional tactics at local workshops. Wagner's business and marketing articles have appeared in "Home Business Journal," "Nation's Business," "Emerging Business" and "The Mortgage Press," among others. She holds a B.S. from Eastern Illinois University.
Four Phases of a Bull Market
What Does a Reverse Merger Mean for My Stocks?
What Happens to Stock Prices After Acquisition?
What Happens to Delisted Shares?
Penny Stock Dangers
What Happens to the Value of the Issued Stock When Common Stock Is Redeemed & Canceled?
What Happens to Stock Price When a Public Company Goes Private?
Rights of Stockholders & Bond Holders
What Is the Purpose of an IPO?
What Happens After a Private Equity Buyout?
How Does an IPO Affect Stock Value?
How Public Stocks Work
Definition of Dividend Boosts
Disadvantages of Blue Chip Shares
How Do I Decide If a Stock Is Worth Buying?
What Happens if You Sell a Dividend-Paying Stock After Receiving a Dividend?

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Intralipid is a synthetic mixture which consists of 10% soybean oil, 1.2% egg yolk phospholipids, 2.25% glycerin and water. It is administered through an IV drip on the arm. The purpose of intralipid infusion is to lower the activity of natural killer cells, and therefore, reduce the likelihood of an implantation failure caused by the presence of natural killer cells. More commonly, this drug is given to patients who exhibit symptoms of essential fatty-acid deficiency.
What Does Intralipid Infusion Typically Provide?
The EFAs that intralipid infusion provides are Omega-3 and Omega-6 fatty-acids (linoleic and alpha-linolenic acids respectively). Omega-3 fatty acids are necessary for brain development from pregnancy onward until the child is two-years-old. Infusion of intralipid infusion is well-targeted at suppressing natural killer cell activity or NKa.
In certain people, the white blood cells have a hard time determining the difference between an embryo and an intruder. This causes the body to reject the implanted egg and flush it from the system.
Couples with repeated IVF failures or recurrent miscarriages will be referred to a lab to test for presence of natural killer cells. This will be done via a blood test and depending on your test result, your suitability for intralipid infusion therapy will be assessed. If you have tested positive for high level of natural killer cells, then we will make the necessary arrangements so that your intralipid infusion can be scheduled during your treatment.
Natural killer cells are a type of white blood cells that help contain viral infections. Presence of a high number of natural killer cells can signal to your body to treat an implanting embryo as an invading cell or a foreign object and therefore attack it. This suggests that you may have an overactive immune system which may need to be suppressed. Recently, intralipid infusion shows to be extremely effective in the subduing of NK (natural killer) cells or white blood cells.
Intralipid is normally administered both prior and during the attempt at conceiving a child. The drug is often given once or twice prior to the pregnancy and is prolonged by one dosage per month after the initial conception attempt. Throughout the period prior-to and during conception, tests are performed by a physician that will determine or alter the administration of intralipid.
Intralipid is given via an intravenous infusion control pump. The limits are usually 2.5 grams per kilogram of the person's weight, meaning that an average female would intake 177 grams of 20 percent of an intralipid admixture compound.
Headache, dizziness, flushing, drowsiness, nausea, vomiting or sweating may occur.
While research is still continuing on the topic of intralipid infusions and the positive effects it can have on IVF treatments, women who have endured repeated failed IVF treatments are given a bit of fresh hope with the new combination of IVF and intralipid infusion and the possibility for increasing IVF success rates.


Megan Battaglia is 26 years old and a recent Masters of Sustainability graduate from the University of Sydney, with a background in Human Geography and Sociology. Megan has experience and research interests in sustainable development and environmental education as a pathway to strengthen community wellbeing and empowerment. Her current interests and specialisation is in urban agriculture, inclusive climate change adaptation and natural resource management.
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I have sat with that question for a whole week now, "how can you care for the environment and not believe in God?". If a person doesn't believe in any spiritual being why care? I am sure that there are many reasons that atheists care about the environment but the environment shows so many signs of the wonder of God it is hard for that not to rub off on a person. But it also highlights that our beliefs system should determine our actions or else people will judge our belief system by our actions.
Before he was a federal politician I heard a talk by Peter Garrett, the front man of the Aussie rock band Midnight Oil. When asked which can first his care for the environment or his love of God, he replied that it was his belief in God that compelled him to care for the environment. For this environmentalist his faith lead him to care for the environment, it seem natural to him that one lead to the other.
For any person with the mark of faith on their life, it should be obvious from their actions what their belief system is. Whether you care for the environment or not, do your actions match your beliefs? Or like the atheist environmentalist do your actions seem confusing to others when they find out you are a Christian?
Sometimes we fall short in acting out what we believe, but if we never reflect on this then others will always judge our belief system by our actions.
I care about a lot of things and I do not believe in god – at least, I do not believe in a god Christians portrays.
Not believing in god doesn't make one care less about the environment. Of course atheists are going to care. They live on this planet and therefore would want to make sure everything is done to protect it.
The "motto" of our playgroup is 'faith in action'. People do not want to hear about God from a person who is not caring or does not listen. If they feel loved by you first, then they will begin to understand God's love and be open to learning about him. How often do we critise people for saying one thing but doing another? It is so much harder to live your faith than to think it.
Of course non-Christians can feel passionate about the environment, child abuse or any other type of moral dilema. God gave every person the power to choose their path and beliefs. But with knowledge of God, his love and wonderful creations, we can accomplish great things. Eph 1:19 "and how great is his power at work in us who believe".


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José Galindo (Universidad de Málaga, Spain)
Release Date: May, 2008|Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 899
ISBN13: 9781599048536|ISBN10: 1599048531|EISBN13: 9781599048543|DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-853-6
The Handbook of Research on Fuzzy Information Processing in Databases provides comprehensive coverage and definitions of the most important issues, concepts, trends, and technologies in fuzzy topics applied to databases, discussing current investigation into uncertainty and imprecision management by means of fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic in the field of databases and data mining.
Through 34 authoritative contributions by over 75 of the world's leading experts, the Handbook of Research on Fuzzy Information Processing in Databases offers researchers, students, and organizations a complete, practical, guide to fuzzy information processing in databases.
Aggregation operations
Application of fuzzy databases
Bipolar queries in fuzzy information processing
Case Based Reasoning (CBR)
Dynamic causal mining
Extension Principle
Flexible database querying
Fuzzy comparators
Fuzzy Data Mining
Fuzzy datatypes
Fuzzy dependencies
Fuzzy implications
Fuzzy information processing in databases
Fuzzy knowledge management
Fuzzy languages
Fuzzy libraries for processing fuzzy information
Fuzzy modeling tools
Fuzzy object-oriented databases
Fuzzy object-relational databases
Fuzzy quantifiers
Fuzzy queries
Fuzzy relational databases
Fuzzy technologies for databases
Fuzzy time
Hierarchical fuzzy sets
Implementation of fuzzy databases
Linguistic labels
Machine learning approach to data cleaning in databases
Membership functions
Query expansion by taxonomy
Relational database querying
Representation theorem
Shipwreck scatter analysis
Spatial uncertainty management
This book offers both a breadth and depth of coverage that cannot be found elsewhere. It is an essential resource for students, educators, researchers, and practitioners in the field.
– Olga Pons, Universidad de Granada, Spain
If you are interested about the state of the art and trends on fuzzy database models, fuzzy data handling and applications of fuzzy information processing this book is for you.
– Juan M. Medina-Rodriguez, University of Granada, Spain
This book will be of use to graduate students, researchers, and professionals in many fields.
– Book News Inc. (September 2008)
In order to write this preface, I began to read one of the most inspiring books I have ever read. I read many of the underlined sentences (I always underline good books). Suddenly, the muses visited me and they said me that it would be easier if I quoted some interesting text. One of the most prestigious Italian philosophers, Ludovico Geymonat (1908-1991) said:
"The first step of the human reason is satisfied, in all investigation, showing the existing difficulties in it, not hiding them, even if they are very serious. Only who knows them, not who ignores them, can feel the impulse to search for the indispensable means to dominate them; and this search is the decisive spring for the scientific progress".
I think that, today, most of research papers are focused in only few possible solutions to a very small and very concrete subject, and even with a very local point of view. Is this useful? I think so, of course. However, it is possible that many researchers are more interested to increase the number of publications than the quality of these works, or if these works can be extended with a wider point of view, studying previous works and showing the most important "existing difficulties". In this book, the referees and I have spared no effort to reduce these troubles but, I am not sure if we have achieved it. Indeed, in science and research (at least) it is important not to be really sure of anything. The skepticism is important for the scientific progress, and thus it was taught from Pirrón of Elis (365-275 b.C.) to René Descartes (1596-1650), including the doctor Sextus Empiricus (2nd-3rd centuries b.C.) or Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592). Thus, with this humility that must characterize every research, we present this book and we hope that it contributes in a bit to the "scientific progress" and therefore to a better world.
In the context of this handbook, Vila and Delgado defend in the Foreword that the treatment of the imprecise and uncertain information in databases is a very interesting research line. Imprecision has been studied in order to elaborate systems, databases and consequently applications which support this kind of information. Most works which studied the imprecision in information have used possibility, similarity and fuzzy techniques. In this Foreword, the reader can find an interesting overview of each chapter of this volume.
Basically, a fuzzy database is a database with fuzzy characteristics, particularly fuzzy attributes. These may be defined as attributes of a item, row or object in a database, which allow to store fuzzy information (imprecise or uncertain data). There are many forms of adding flexibility in fuzzy databases. The simplest technique is to add a fuzzy membership degree to each record, i.e. an attribute in the range [0,1]. However, there are other kinds of databases allowing fuzzy values to be stored in fuzzy attributes using fuzzy sets (including fuzzy spatial datatypes), possibility distributions or fuzzy degrees associated to some attributes and with different meanings (membership degree, importance degree, fulfillment degree...). Sometimes, the expression "fuzzy databases" is used for classical databases with fuzzy queries or with other fuzzy aspects, such as constraints. The first chapter wants to give a wide historical point of view summarizing the main fuzzy database models, but this scientific field has a very promising future.
The research on fuzzy databases have been developed for about twenty years and concentrated mainly on the following six research lines:
Fuzzy querying in classical databases,
Fuzzy queries on fuzzy databases,
Extending classical data models in order to achieve fuzzy databases (fuzzy relational databases, fuzzy object-oriented databases...),
Fuzzy conceptual modeling tools,
Fuzzy data mining techniques, and
Applications of these advances in real databases.
All of these different issues have been studied in different chapters of this volume, except the fourth item, because, in general there is a few interest in fuzzy conceptual issues and, besides, this subject has been studied in some other works in a very exhaustive manner (see related references on Chapter 1).
The querying with imprecision, contrary to classical querying, allows the users to use fuzzy linguistic labels (also named linguistic terms) and express their preferences to better qualify the data that they wish to get. An example of flexible query, also named in this context fuzzy query, would be "list of the young employees, working in department with big budget". This query contains the fuzzy linguistic labels "young" and "big budget". These labels are words, in natural language, that express or identify a fuzzy set (fixed or context dependent). Summarizing, fuzzy queries are useful to reflect the preferences of the end-user and to rank the solutions.
With regards to fuzzy queries in classical databases, it is very useful because currently there are many classical databases. The second research line includes the first one, but we prefer to separate them, because this second line finds new problems that must be studied, and because it must be framed in a concrete fuzzy database model (third research line). These two first lines are summarized by Zadrozny et al. on their chapter. On the other hand, all the second part (Chapters 4 to 13) studies some concrete problems about the fuzzy querying world (bipolar queries, fuzzy languages, quantified queries…).
About the third item, extending classical data models in order to achieve fuzzy databases, this handbook also includes interesting chapters. They study useful topics, such as how a database administrator may achieve a fuzzy relational database, a new fuzzy relational model with a fuzzy query language with the possibility to specify priorities for fuzzy statements, a good approach of a fuzzy object-relational database model, fuzzy spatial datatypes, and even more.
About the fuzzy Data Mining issues, this handbook includes a complete review chapter by Feil and Abonyi, studying the main fuzzy Data Mining methods. Probably, this is the most promising area, because today there are many databases and these ones may give us many information if we use the proper tools. Perhaps the more interesting and useful tools are the fuzzy clustering and the fuzzy dependencies and both of them are, also, studied in different other chapters of this handbook.
The last research line, applications, is also studied in some chapters. These chapters mix different theoretical issues, like Data Mining, to real context, with different goals. Many chapters end with some example or application about the topic of such a chapter, however, we want to highlight that the third part of this handbook includes some chapters with very interesting applications.
Synthesizing, this handbook includes a very good selection of works by leaders in this field. Each chapter includes a good introduction, shows some of the new advances and the future lines in its corresponding topic, and gives some key term definitions. We can assure that fuzzy databases field will be studied and developed in the next years with the main target of improve current databases. It is easy to see that scientific and technological development, including information science, can assist humankind in making the world a better place to live. Therefore, why is not it achieved in the whole planet?, why is this world so unjust?, why can we not enhance our lives without destroying other forms of life, plants, animals... and our own fellowman? Perhaps, it is useful to reflect on one dissertation by Geymonat when he studies the antiquity, after Aristotle of Estagira (384-322 b.C.). He studies Archimedes of Syracuse (287-212 b.C.) and Herón of Alexandria (about 1st century a.C.), and their fusion between science and technology. Then he wondered why the ancient world did not develop a mechanic civilization. He said that, probably, the reason was in the social structure of the Latin Greek world, which did not feel the necessity of inventing new machines because they had cheap and efficient machines, the slaves. The Latin writer Marcus Terentius Varro (116-27 b.C.) confirms that slavery was then seen like true machine.
The French economist Bertrand De Jouvenel (1903-1987) would say that our modern machines work because we have made "the big mutation", from soil forces (animals, water, wind...) to subsoil forces (coal, petroleum...). In this way, the invention by the Scotch engineer James Watt (1736-1819), patented in 1769, "provokes a huge difference between leader countries and other civilizations that in the 18th century it had never crossed somebody mind to consider like inferior ones".
These dissertations invite us to think that perhaps it is impossible to reach a very comfortable society without using slavery or the subsoil forces, two options with a lot of big problems. It is sad but our world is now using both options, specially the rich countries. The modern slavery is located in far and poor countries (many adults and children works in very bad conditions making sport shoes, football balls, ephemeral toys... or even working in the dangerous gold or diamond mining, tobacco plantations, etc.). On July 4, 2007, newspapers wrote that in Brazil more than one thousand slaves were freed on a sugar cane plantation, where they were being forced to work 14-hour days in horrendous conditions cutting cane for ethanol production. Human rights groups and labour organizations believe that between 25,000 and 80,000 people could be working in conditions akin to slavery only in Brazil (on deforestation and on sugar cane, coffee, and cotton plantations). Most of these products (wood…) go to rich countries. The same newspapers published that Brazil, one of the world's largest producers of the alternative fuel and the number one exporter of ethanol made from sugar cane, plans to double production of the biofuel over the next five years, and more than the 50% will go to the "ecological" Europe. Biofuels may be with difficulty an interesting alternative to subsoil forces, specially in a hungry planet. They may be a renewable energy source (using the appropriate manure, not being transported a long distance, etc.). I am not sure whether Brazilian biofuel is a good environmental option for Europe, but it is not an ethical option if we do not know whether it uses forced labour or abusive work conditions, which are illegal in Europe, or even whether it uses ecological agriculture techniques or not.
Where is the solution? The solution is in our hands, in you and me, in all the citizens of the world. All of we must demand ethic politics and refuse such a very comfortable and consumer society. Possibly, it is a pleasure to drive a car or to eat meat everyday, or to have many shoes, jackets, rings, necklaces... but unfortunately it is not sustainable. I do not know if we will be able to achieve the famous "Sustainable Development" or at least if it is possible, but in any case we must use every endeavor to reach it, although in any case, we must think whether the "development" is more or less important than the "sustainability", because many times we will have to choose between these two concepts.
Unfortunately, I have not global solutions but I need to believe that solutions exist. Now, I can think in some local proposals like planting trees (in order to preserve soil, water and biodiversity), neither to eat meat everyday nor to buy unnecessary or "fussy" objects (because they need big quantities of energy) and to live with open eyes and mind, looking for situations where we can help to achieve a better World. Our life is not neutral. We contribute to change this World, to worse or to better. Our activity and knowledge have an influence on our little Planet.
Following with Geymonat, he wrote that knowledge is not only the result of the personal ingenuity, but that "it sinks its own roots in the whole collection of the diverse human activities", and that there are two kind of scientific and philosophic researches. One of them consists of well connected systems (such as those by Aristotle or Euclid). The other one consists of connected fragments. None of them is better than the other, because the best one is that, "which provokes the highest interest to continue researching and the highest trust in the investigation powerful". Like other philosophers, such as the Spanish Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955), Geymonat said that, preserving the past and looking for the new are complementary aspects, and both of them are indispensable at the same level.
This book brings together some connected fragments and they are a well connected system in the particular area of fuzzy databases. I think that it will provoke at least some interest to continue researching and some trust in the investigation powerful. Maybe, the next generation of DBMS (DataBase Management Systems) will include many fuzzy characteristics and users will enjoy with fuzzy interfaces, fuzzy queries, fuzzy dependencies, fuzzy Data Mining... even without knowing anything about t-norms, fuzzy measures, FSQL or a man called Zadeh. In this sense, I think, and I hope, that this book will be at least a bit useful.
This book was a big effort for me, but it was also a big effort for authors, referees and the necessary contribution by the publisher. Each chapter has been reviewed by, between three and five referees, looking for errors and improvements, proposing interesting approaches, references, etc. I will be very satisfied if somebody finds more errors or improvements because it means that this handbook provokes at least some "interest to continue researching". All of we must undertake in a continuous process of apprenticeship, research, meditation and thinking over everything. If we refuse to do that, then the television, the mass media and the politicians will be very happy because they will do that for us.
José Galindo, Ph.D., is professor of computer science in the school of engineering at the University of Málaga, Spain. Dr. Galindo is the author of several books and papers on computer science, databases, information systems and fuzzy logic. He is a member of IDBIS research group and RITOS-2 ibero-american research net. Dr. Galindo received his Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Granada, Spain.
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He doesn't seem concerned about their upcoming streaming platforms.
One reason for concern, at least among consumers, is that studios launching their own streaming services means that fewer movies and TV series will be available on any one platform; alarmists might even envision a scenario in which cord-cutters are meant to subscribe to so many different sites that it all begins to feel like having cable again.
Disney has yet to announce a release date for Disney+, which will include the new "Star Wars" series "The Mandalorian," but Apple is widely expected to offer a preview of its service at an event being held next Monday, March 25. Five original series are said to have already wrapped production.


The Partiologist: Virtual Baby Geek Shower for Jennifer from NoYoMoCo!
Virtual Baby Geek Shower for Jennifer from NoYoMoCo!
Jennifer, the creator of Not Your Moma's Cookies. If you're like me you love her creative style, silly sense of humor and most of all her genuine sweet self. Have you had the chance to visit her blog? If not, you are in for a treat, literally, it's full of amazing treats and you know how I love treats!
In hopes to make the birth of Seraphina Noelle even more special, the creative minds of Hani of Haniela's and Mike of Semi Sweet Designs together, are hosting a Virtual "Geek" Baby Shower. Here's where I almost embarrassed myself (like that has never happened) I first read their e-mail about the Virtual Shower as a "Greek" Baby Shower. I thought okay? and got ready to make toga cookies, columns, frat houses etc...luckily for me I went back and reread the e-mail - oh??? "GEEK" Baby Shower. Now I get it. But what is one to make for this unique theme?
After Goo Gooing Baby Geek, I had a blast creating more cookies!
Sarah may call herself a bit of a geek, I think she is pretty chic and I know Seraphina will be too!
Now it's time for you to check out all the other Baby Geek Cookies made especially for Seraphina Noelle - they are so much fun!
Check out the blogs for detailed information on their FABULOUS Geek Baby Cookies!
Holy Geek Babies Batman! Your cookies are SO CUTE!!! I love the "Geek Chic" cookies! Perfect for a cute little baby geek!
Thanks so much Lisa - I really had a hard time getting a good photo - I needed YOU!
Love this set! "There's a nap for that". Brilliant!
Aww thanks Melissa - they were a fun set to do!
These are are so creative, Kim! They're all fantastic, but I especially love the quilt and the "...nap for that"!
Totally hilarious, yet adorable at the same time.
You are just too clever, Kim! The whole is so hilarious and so well done (as usual!). Love the unique, textured background you used for each one! Thanks so much for being a part of this virtual baby shower with us!
You are the clever one! Thanks for all your work in making this virtual shower happen!
Geek chic!! I love these so much, Kim :) Thank you for your amazing, sweet cookies for my new little girl!
It was my pleasure! I loved being a part of the virtual Baby Shower to help celebrate the birth of Seraphina!
Kim, darling, only you can make GEEK look CHIC. I love the different backgrounds and you even added ruffles to make it more girlie. Super adorable and THANK YOU for being part of this shower.
Thank YOU for getting this all put together - it was such fun!
What a fun idea! I LOVE the "Nap for that"! So cute! Love all of them.
That Nap made me laugh too!
I love these Kim! They're each doable and the color palette is great! It would've been pretty hilarious if you did toga cookies though, lol :) Awesome work!
Toga cookies would have been so funny, embarrassing but funny! Thanks!
These are hilarious and very pretty too!


While waiting on my window tracks. I made a sail panel mold and then made the part.
Pretty happy how it came out.
Bonded the metal door frame to the inner door. Got a new set of tracks as the one from the pick n pull was rusted.
Starting over with a working window track..... for Way less coin!!
Modified the track, and used the original holder for the glass that came with the car.
So I spent a lot of time making brackets and installing the track system that is sold by Jose from Spain, I think his user name is lambocars or something like that.
Made the upper frame for the door.
Test fitted the OEM inner sweeper and side channels.
Thanks Don, gotta love the dust !!
"NEW" inner doors have a warped bottom.
I see fiber glassing in my future.
My gal had a business trip to LA and was able to tag along and stop by and see Murci-Me's G28.
The REDO will have power windows, so the next phase will be getting the window tracks and motor in.


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Religion & Liberty: Volume 27, Number 3
Are you brave enough to tell a joke?
Tickling Giants (2017) tells how an Egyptian comedian found a way to fight against and call out abusive leaders using creative nonviolence.
This new documentary directed and produced by Sara Taksler follows Dr. Bassem Youssef, the "Jon Stewart of Egypt," a heart surgeon turned late-night comedian who takes on Egyptian authority. It opens on Tahrir Square in Cairo, where protests have broken out against military control of the government. Youssef and a camera crew walk around talking to the fedup masses. Gunshots constantly go off, some in the distance and some close by.
It's January 2011, and Hosni Mubarak is still in power. Despite him having ruled Egypt for nearly 30 years without competition, the people are suddenly taking to the streets to demand his removal. This kind of demonstration is practically unheard of in Egyptian culture. The media, who largely support whoever rules Egypt, calls the protestors "insurgents." This is where Youssef, in a voiceover, explains the two realities that exist in Egypt: the reality on the streets and the "reality" on TV.
The protestors' work pays off. Mubarak steps down in February 2011. Youssef is thrilled for the new direction of his nation, calling it a "New Egypt." His optimism is short-lived.
The documentary then focuses on Youssef himself and what led him to become Egypt's Jon Stewart. Despite success as a heart surgeon, Youssef and a friend began making videos and sharing them online. They used humor to point out the many, many flaws with their government and the media, a model based on Jon Stewart's The Daily Show. They hoped it would be moderately successful; the first video got 35,000 views on the first day and continued to climb in popularity. This was the first time Egyptians were laughing at or making fun of their leaders. "Hold authority accountable," Youssef explains of the show. "No matter who's in charge." Eventually the videos took off and Yousseff established a real show on TV called Al Bernameg (in English, The Show). Al Bernameg was run entirely by amateurs. It was created by recent grads, architects and lawyers, and, of course, it starred a heart surgeon. One of the writers explains why this type of commentary was so important: "The funniest joke ever is the one told at a funeral."
Meanwhile, the first true election was held in Egypt and the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi was elected president of Egypt.
Despite 40 percent of the population watching The Show, Youssef didn't enjoy universal popularity. A warrant was issued for his arrest and he willingly turned himself in. There was immediate outcry, forcing the authorities to release him. Youssef describes the incident as "what happens when you go after a joker."
Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood tried to force Islamic conservatism on the nation, much to the ire of Egyptian General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who ousted Morsi in a military coup. The Show continued to attack leaders, gaining and losing diehard fans depending on who was on the receiving end of Youssef's satire. He described it in 2013 when he accepted anInternational Press Freedom Award from the Committee to Protect Journalists:
For some reason, a joke would piss off a lot of people although the same people were laughing at the same joke before, but it only hurts when the joke is on you. So the same people who defended our freedom a few months ago as I was taken for questioning on accounts of blasphemy, insulting the president and threatening national security are now quite indifferent when I am faced with charges like disturbing the peace, grand treason and, of course, the gift that keeps on giving: threatening national security.
Men and women working on The Show suddenly had family members getting arrested with no official charges. Protests and violence continued. "It's like 9/11 every day," Youssef says. Meanwhile, the network that had been so supportive of this revolutionary show no longer wanted to challenge authority. Executives from the network told Youssef that they had to quit mocking the government if they wanted to stay on the air. So The Show found a new network. During a broadcast on the new channel, people had trouble watching it. The signal for the show was lost, yet commercials were broadcast without a problem. Sisi's people jammed it.
The importance of the work of The Show was soon overshadowed by how dangerous doing that work had become. Its old network sued Youssef for breach of contract, but he lost the case and that became the highest fine ever given. In 2014, he canceled The Show. Between the growing negative sentiment and fearing for his wife and daughter, Youssef made the decision to leave Egypt. Once he was out, the realization set in that he may never go back. He missed his father's funeral because his brother warned it was too dangerous to return.
The documentary ends with footage of cars and motorcycles driving backward through Cairo. After all the hope from the first democratic election in Egypt, Youssef voices his disgust with the nation he once had so much hope for.
At 113 minutes long, Tickling Giants is not too long of a documentary and shares a very unique perspective on the Arab Spring. Bassem Youssef and The Show demonstrate not only the power of humor in bringing down dangerous regimes but also the need for free speech. The film isn't rated, but it features strong language, violence and some disturbing imagery. The language alone would certainly warrant an R rating.
Anti-Revolutionaries for the 21st Century
Faithfulness Is the Future of the Church
What I Saw at the National Conservatism Conference
An Awkward Alliance: Neo-Integralism and National Conservatism
Thinking in an Age of Ideology
The Principle of Subsidiarity
How Christianity Created Capitalism
Human Capital and Poverty
Multinational Corporations in the Third World: Predators or Allies in Economic Development?
How socialism causes atheism
Power Corrupts


Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old mother and daughter quotes, mother and daughter sayings, and mother and daughter proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.
The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [ ] the stronger the daughter.
Mothers, look after your daughters, keep them near you, keep their confidence - that they may be true and faithful.
Because mothers and daughters can affirm and enjoy their commonalities more readily, they are more likely to see how they might ad vance their individual interests in tandem, without one having to be sacrificed for the other.
Unlike the mother-son relationship, a daughter's relationship with her mother is something akin to bungee diving. She can stake he r claim in the outside world in what looks like total autonomy--in some cases, even divorce her mother in a fiery exit from the family--but there is an invisible emotional cord that snaps her back. For always there is the memory of mother, whose judgments are so completely absorbed into the daughter's identity that she may wonder where Mom leaves off and she begins.


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The Annotated Edition, ' The Lighter Side Of My Official Life' ( Malcolm)
Coming in 2021...
THE ANNOTATED THE LIGHTER SIDE OF MY OFFICIAL LIFE
Edited with an Introduction and Notes
by John Malcolm
"I am almost tempted to disclose the identity of the murderer… But no public benefit would result from such a course, and the traditions of my old department would suffer."
The bold claims by Sir Robert Anderson, Assistant Commissioner (Crime) of Scotland Yard's CID from 1888-1901, have long divided opinion amongst students of the Jack the Ripper murders. Did Anderson really know the name of the most famous serial killer of all time?
His 1910 memoir, The Lighter Side of My Official Life, certainly ruffled feathers on its release, and the truth of Anderson's comments is difficult to assess, as indeed is the character of the man himself.
This faithful facsimile of this scarce book features extensive notes by Anderson authority John Malcolm, along with a detailed Introduction examining the Assistant Commissioner's personality, his professional career and his extensive religious writings, and an Appendix which discusses the truth behind Anderson's claim that the Ripper was a Polish Jew, seemingly supported by the handwritten notes made by Anderson's colleague Chief Inspector Donald Swanson in his own personal copy of The Lighter Side of My Official Life.
Michael Banks
Innocent Bystander
John's last book was excellent so I look forward to getting this one.
Michael🔎
" When you eliminate the impossible whatever remains no matter how improbable......is probably a little bit boring "
Any idea when this book is coming? I want it. I want it now!
John Malcolm
Still some time away...The bar was set very high with Mango's The Annotated I Caught Crippen, so I really need to get it right. I'm confident in my guides and it'll be done when they say "done".
Scott Nelson
Schoolyard Bully
Commentary on the "O.U. Duck" section (towards the end) would be beneficial. I think it contains the key to his thinking on the case.
Duly noted Scott!
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Is there any update on this one John?
Hi Michael, sorry for such a late reply.
We still have some way to go. I had hoped it would have been in the can by now, but since it has become a joint venture, it is evolving on more levels than had been considered previously. When it's done, it should show Anderson in a new (and not always particularly positive) light. There's much more than anecdotal puffing to Anderson's reminiscences - and a lot of the subject matter is quite a bit darker than the title implies.
No problem John.
I'm now even more intrigued than I already was. I'm certainly looking forward to the release. All the best with it.
Lemonjelly
If this book is half as good as John Malcolms last book, then it will be well worth purchasing, and people should be queueing round the block to acquire a copy:
https://www.jtrforums.com/forum/lem-...-november-2018
I've started coming to the realisation that these things come in their own time, and publishers have a different standard of time to us mere mortals (that applies across the board of formats/industries too - recall what it is like waiting for a new album from a favoured music artist for example).
The reward will come - similar to waiting for the updated A-Z, or like waiting for Adams Swanson masterpiece. Authors/researchers will look to add relevant info in up to the last minute, so any delay is likely as a result of helpful/beneficial new research coming to the fore. And research being done in the midst of a global pandemic no doubt also has implications.
I know I too am as eager to see the fruition of this body of work! I know it will be to a very high standard in it's qualities.
I remember years ago waiting for the publication of the 'new' Richard Whittington-Egan book. There seemed to be delay after delay that seemed to go on forever but it arrived eventually as will John's book and the A-Z. It's good knowing that there are 2 new books coming out and we don't have to think "I hope this one isn't crap" for either of them.
I wonder if Paul will review the A-Z?
Simon Wood
Author, Researcher
I do hope John Malcolm has not overlooked the various porkie pies the Blessed Sir Robert Anderson told in his 1910 biography.


A divorce court was within bounds in concluding that a wife who shared an apartment with a friend might not be committing adultery with him, Virginia's Court of Appeals says in Kidd v. Kidd. The husband said the wife had admitted the adultery, but she denied that and the trial court apparently did not believe him. The wife claimed she lived with the friend primarily so he could care for her during her cancer treatments, which the husband refused to do. The other man's wife claimed they were committing adultery, but it was not clear that she was an authoritative witness.
The law permits the circuit court to find that a spouse has failed to meed the higher burden of proof as to the basis for the divorce, but to consider adulterout behavior as proved insofar as it related to the equitable distribution determination.
Under this standard, though, the Court upholds the 50-50 division of property, because while it was proper to take the adultery into account, that adultery was from before the couple reconciled and the husband "condoned" the adultery, and the only sign of an affair that was after the condonation, but before the final separation, was the husband's testimony.
The Court also upheld an alimony award because the wife made $34,000 and the husband made $78,000, and the wife had some medical conditions and had trouble paying her bills. The friend and the wife's father continued to support her financially, but rather than hurting her case, that was cited as evidence of her need.


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VINCENT HATES EVERYTHING: Iron Maiden – Senjutsu
Vincent Parkkonen
[Disclaimer: while most of us here at Tuonela Magazine have good taste in music, Vincent tends to hate everything that the rest of us enjoy, to a comedic degree. Thus, we occasionally let him run rampant with his alternative opinions.]
I'm a lifelong, hardcore IRON MAIDEN fan. I've gone to incredible lengths to see them live as many times as possible over the last nearly 20 years and I own over thirty MAIDEN shirts. Regardless of my thoughts on the first single, "The Writing on the Wall," I still preordered the lavish 120€ collector's box and the 71€ limited silver and black LP. So for me, there is no easy way to say this: "Senjutsu" may well go down as the worst IRON MAIDEN album, in my eyes.
This album is not devoid of any merit. I don't think… or at least I'm trying not to gripe over minor details like a poor scorned fanboy. The title track is promising! It has a certain originality to it and an intriguing atmosphere. The intro builds up mysteriously, priming the listener, and Nicko McBrain's drums are really uplifting. Couple that with Bruce Dickinson's aggressive vocals on the verses, throw in an epic chorus, and Bob's your uncle! "Stratego," "The Writing on the Wall," and "Days of Future Past" are also songs with genuine potential. "Stratego," for example, is clearly going for a "Brave New World" vibe with its guitars. It also has the best hook on the album, as well as one of the most hummable choruses they've done on the last few records.
If it wasn't for that damned production! This is the fifth IRON MAIDEN studio album produced by Kevin "Caveman" Shirley and if you ask me, they've all gone downhill as production goes. I've become convinced that Shirley is more of an engineer than a producer, since Steve Harris looks to be listed as a co-producer (yet again). What does that leave us with? An impossibly muddy sound quality. The low-end is clearly cranked up to a level where the notoriously deaf bastard, Harris, can hear it, so it's a sludgy mess to the rest of us. You can barely even make out the vocals half the time.
Then we add in a layer of what Harris seems to think are "epic" keyboards, but he plays the same kind of simple matte sound as on "The Book of Souls," except they don't just punctuate the choruses here – now they're all over the place. The sound of them is so shrill and overpowering, rendering parts of the album almost unlistenable. Note that they also mostly appear on non-Harris written songs. Perhaps this is an ego thing?
The band brags that they wrote and rehearsed the songs at the studio and recorded them while they were still fresh in their minds, as if that were a positive factor. Unfortunately, that seems to be the cause of most of the problems on "Senjutsu." There are guitars that are supposed to be playing the same melody as the vocals, but are consistently out of time with one another, while at times the vocals seems to not have worked out what the melodies are. There are points when the lyrics change the melody out of nowhere, as if they couldn't fit all the syllables in and just left it that way. In "The Writing on the Wall," the first verse ends in a long line, "the land of hope and glory building graveyards for the brave," where Dickinson has to take a breath in the middle. Could you not have made that a separate take? Or could you not have done the same melody as on the next verse? There is an overt sloppiness to almost every aspect of the record, as the lyrics all feel life first drafts due to repetitions of words, such as "sin" and "ground," that don't seem to be necessary.
The Harris-penned epics are the death-nail on the whole endeavor. "Death of the Celts" is as dull as it is creatively bankrupt. At its best, it's reheated leftovers from "The Clansman" and at worst, its entirely forgettable. "The Parchment" seems the most promising Harris epic at first: the opening riff has a good, heavy swing to it. Then you begin to realize how close it is to "Book of Souls." Furthermore, I've read through the lyrics three times now and I still can't make heads or tails of it. It seems to start off using a whole lot of fancy terms and clever looking wordings but quickly devolves into gibberish. On top of that, the song does nothing and goes nowhere. The final and most egregious offender is "Hell on Earth": yet another lifeless rehash of "X Factor" riffs. Then you notice you're two verses into the song and you have no idea what the melody from the main verse is. Top this off with the cringiest line masquerading as an epic chorus: "love in anger, life in danger." This is the kind of stuff that would make METALLICA blush, and they wrote "Nothing Else Matters."
Apologists will cry "it's prog, actually," as if that was a catch-all defense that just inherently makes it better… but is it, though? At 9-12 minutes each, these "epics" aren't even that long, per se, but boy do they feel like it. They mostly just have a main riff and a few solos and time changes that seem to just pad up the runtime. A good prog anthem like "Close to the Edge" by YES will run through lots of sections and moods. This is just one mood: I just want to do "Where the Wind Wind Blows" again. It's as if Harris has forgotten all his old material and thinks he's presenting it to us for the first time. Like almost any band that's been around for a while, MAIDEN have always repeated themselves, but to have practically four songs stuck on the same idea on the same album… it's too much to swallow.
The saving grace of this album is the number of good choruses, excellent riffs, and a generally good atmosphere. In a lot of ways it reminds me of "X Factor," which also has a handful of good songs, but is mired in dull, uninteresting, and self-important schlock.
As of the time of writing, I've listened to the first half of "Senjutsu" an estimated thirty times. As bad as the production is, it's still MAIDEN. It's been 6 years since the last record, after all. I'm living in a desert and MAIDEN is my water, so even if that water is recycled through a stillsuit (like the Fremen do in Frank Herbert's Dune), I can't afford to waste one precious drop. I'm giving this 5/10, because half of it is good while the other… not so much. It's difficult to enjoy the best parts because the half-assed production taints every nook and cranny of the sound. It's like they did the fun part of making an album, which is coming up with cool riffs and sounds, but then they skipped the hard part, which is putting in the work to make it a coherent, disciplined product. This is a band that needs to take a step back and re-evaluate what they think a producer's role is. I still feel like these are the demos for the album and they sent them out by mistake. Hey, is that why the LP was 71€? Because they'll send us the finished product later? I'll be at my mailbox waiting. I bet it's gonna be awesome when it comes…
Written by Vincent Parkkonen
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In this session, Shaykh Amin presents an introduction to Sūrat al-Qaṣaṣ. Where the preceding Sūrah, Al-Naml, deals with the affairs of Sulaimān (AS), a Nabī (AS) who was privileged with dominion over man, beast and jinn, Sūrat al-Qaṣaṣ deals with the challenges of Mūsā (AS). Mūsā (AS) is the underprivileged Nabī who struggles with leading his tribes, a difficult and irreverent people, out of the clutches of Firʿawn (Pharaoh). The Shaykh reiterates the wisdom behind our lack of understanding of the 'ḥurūf al-muqaṭṭaʿāt', the broken letters that begin certain chapters, of which al-Qaṣaṣ is one. Submission to the will of the Divine lies in the paradox of the eloquent Arab who is able to comprehend compound words constructed with letters, yet is confounded by the meanings of the letters themselves when they are placed in Divine order. This is a 'muʿjizah' of Allah ﷻ.
The session begins with a discussion of the word 'waḥy' (revelation) and it's specific usage for the primordial instinct of a mother to nurse her child. 'waḥy' (revelation) may come to certain individuals, but the reception of 'waḥy' does not make the recipient a Nabī. The distinction is that a Nabī (AS) is required to reveal the 'waḥy' received, while a non-Nabī is required to conceal it. The wisdom behind the inspiration that the mother of Mūsā (AS) received lies in the fact that ordinarily there would be no motivation to suckle a child that is destined to be slain by the police of the Fir'awn. But the mother of Mūsā (AS) was inspired to nurse him. And the rest of her actions that are borne by the 'waḥy' she received defy all logic and rationale. 'Waḥy' is above all logic and rationale. It comes from a realm where the seemingly contradictory come together in perfect harmony. This verse embodies a universal parenting philosophy with the mother of Mūsā (AS) serving as a role model.
The upbringing of Mūsā (AS) is comparable to that of Yūsūf (AS), except that Mūsā (AS) was raised a prince under the very eye of the emperor himself. Consequently, he was privy to the lives of the Egyptian aristocracy and the inner workings of the government machine. He was also well-equipped with the knowledge, skills and sophistication befitting a prince. Three women are included in the reach of the word, 'Muḥṣinīn', in this verse: the mother and sister of Mūsā (AS), and the queen who raised him. Their reward lay in Mūsā (AS) becoming the wise, knowledgeable young man that he came to be, prepared to play the role that he was destined for. Shaykh Amin calls out the relevance of this verse to our lives as parents watching over and raising children in our times. Our motives must also be to raise children who do good. We must not pollute our motives with petty and self-serving intentions that for that would only deprive us, as children have a mind of their own. The following verses cover Mūsā's (AS) act that resulted in the death of a man, his expression of tawbah to Allah ﷻ, and the events that led to his flight from Egypt. Shaykh Amin reminds us that Mūsā (AS) follows the sunnah of Ādam (AS) in seeing fault within himself and in the influences of Shayṭān. This is the way of the pious. Whereas Yūsūf (AS) was sent to prison (a confined space), Mūsā (AS) was sent into exile. This is a part of Mūsā's (AS) reflections on 'tawḥīd' (monotheism). Prophets (AS) will always choose a place that facilitates their free worship of Allah ﷻ be it within the walls of a prison or the vast openness of the wilderness.
Shaykh Amin paints a mental state of Mūsā's (AS) mental state soon after his flight from Egypt. It is not possible for a Nabī (AS) to be pessimistic, and Mūsā (AS) puts his trust in Allah ﷻ, acknowledging his own strengths and abilities even as he makes his way towards Madyan. His conversation with the two young ladies by the well stems from genuine concern, not from idle curiosity. Mūsā (AS) reflects the 'adab' characteristic of a Nabī (AS) in that after he assists people, he turns aside from them and seeks help from Allah ﷻ instead. Prophets (AS) also separate Allah's ﷻ 'faḍl' (grace) from their actions. They do not ascribe any good to themselves, rather they attribute all good to Allah ﷻ alone.
After fulfilling his appointed term, Mūsā (AS) travels with his ahl (his wife) towards Egypt when he perceives a fire in the distance. Shaykh Amin dwells on the reference to the "right side" and Mūsā's (AS) etiquette in his approach to the fire, among other things.Part of the symbolism in throwing down his staff lay in discarding any object or idea that Mūsā (AS) deemed a source of protection for himself. There is no other protector when in the presence of Allah ﷻ. The reaction of Mūsā (AS) at the sight of the serpent is in line with the 'adab' (appropriate etiquette) of being human. When a danger is perceived, then precautions must be taken, which is evident from Mūsā's (AS) immediate attempt to flee from the reach of the serpent. A dub made without due preparation is futile. But when the command is explicit, the Nabī (AS) obeys without fear or reservation, as manifested in Mūsā's (AS) behavior when Allah (S) commands him to grab hold of the serpent, as described in a different ayah.
The signs of Mūsā (AS) are 'muʿjizāt' (miracles) that truly disarm his opponents as they reflect the very nature of the message he bore for Fir'awn.
The Prophet ﷺ said, "The best form of 'jihād' is to speak the truth in the face of a tyrant".
Allah's 'Raḥmah' (Mercy) is ubiquitous, but it takes a discerning eye to recognize instances of it.
The story of Mūsā (AS) as a backdrop to the mission of Muhammad ﷺ.
Prophets (AS) are highly intellectual human beings and their intelligence was further enhanced by prophethood.
Shaykh Amin discusses several practical ramifications of these verses applicable in our times of free speech and expression.
The passion of the believer is to honor the prophet ﷺ, follow his example, and hold true to the believer's code of conduct. The greatest insult one can levy against the prophet ﷺ is to deny he is the last Messenger ﷺ.
Allah's 'Raḥmah' (Mercy) overrides the angelic assessment of mankind's ineligibility for mercy.
Human prerogatives are very limited while Allah's prerogatives are supreme.
True worship is independent of what the worshipped does, therein lies 'tawḥīd' (monotheism) whereby the sources of good and bad are one and the same. Fluctuating in our love for Allah ﷻ subject to our times of ease and difficulty is a sign of shirk, i.e. perceiving separation in the source of all things.
Allah ﷻ is the Lord and Guardian of all who are subordinate to Him ﷻ as well as those who are insubordinate to Him ﷻ. In this lecture: Divine mercy in the alternation of day and night; using sensory perception to exercise 'shukr' (gratefulness) as the basis for loving Allah ﷻ; the result of 'shukr' and the result of arrogance; the wealth bestowed on Qārūn and his arrogance on account of it; the implicit command to speak out against social vices; the authority of prophets over their people; nobility in speech as the way of Allah ﷻ and the way he recommended to his prophets (AS). If you have authority, then make sure you don't let your authority bring you disgrace.
Our wealth does not make us, rather we make our wealth. If we are good, then our wealth will be good. If we are consumed by our pursuits, then we will be drowned in them (much as Qārūn was swallowed up). We must strive to be free men and women, worshiping Allah ﷻ free from the weight of our worldly pursuits.
If you seek supremacy on earth, Allah ﷻ will deprive you of any authority in Jannah.
The moral of the The Story is 'Lahū al-Ḥukmu'- that all authority belongs to Allah ﷻ.


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Q: Connect proxy aborted while pushing to GitLab I am facing trouble pushing to GitLab repository, it worked for me yesterday, but now it is not working anymore I tried these commands in batch git:
git config --global https.proxy https://usernameofgitlab:passofgitlab@192.142.193.29:80

git user.email ""
git user.pass ""
git user.name ""
git push -u origin --all

and the output is:
fatal: unable to access 'https://................': Proxy CONNECT aborted

anyone could help me with this error it is a bit strange that it no longer working and yesterday it has worked.
I changed the proxy program still receive an error
fatal: unable to access 'https://gitlab.com/........': Received HTTP code 500 from proxy after CONNECT

A: When you use an HTTP-based proxy to make a connection to an HTTPS site, you must use the non-standard CONNECT verb to create the tunnel, since TLS traffic can't be placed in a normal HTTP connection.  The first message is telling you that your proxy aborted that CONNECT command and as a result you cannot connect to the server.
The second message indicates that the proxy returned a 500 status code.  All 5xx status codes indicate a server error, and in this case the proxy is telling you it encountered an internal server error and was unable to service your request.  Since this is a problem in your proxy, you should contact your network administrator to inquire why the proxy is broken, and how to configure it correctly so you can use it once it's fixed.
Note also that user.pass does not exist and user.name and user.email have no effect on authentication.

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March has been an exciting month here at Healthbox CIC, we have been very busy in all parts of the community, running sessions, meeting partners and generally having a great time!
Our Falls Prevention classes have been running successfully, with Jack and Simon our Falls Prevention Exercise Instructors improving the mobility of groups of the elderly in a variety of Extra Care Housing Homes in and around the Cheshire West and Chester area! To see what goes on during these sessions, watch the video below!
Seóna, one of our Public Health Nutritionists ran a great Weaning Wonderful Taster session with two mothers and their little ones at One to One Midwives Ellesmere Port. The session ran perfectly, including a personal introduction into weaning your baby as well as a cookery demo and tasting opportunity. Seóna blended some apricots and banana's to make a delicious sweet puree that could be blended to any consistency to meet the age of the baby. This was thoroughly enjoyed by the children, as you can see in the image below!
Stay tuned for more updates about what we get up to every month!


Did the Competition Bring the Pixel Down to its Level?
That quote (attributed to Mark Twain) was running through my mind as I sat through the launch of the Pixel 2 a few days ago. For, when the dust had finally settled, it almost seemed as if Google had gone from being this mystical master of magical software and ubiquitous search to just another smartphone manufacturer. The Pixel launch was pretty much par for the course for any high-end smartphone launch, with the accent being more on design and hardware rather than the experience actually. Yes, there were some special features discussed, but at the end of the day, the new Pixels were really all about design and innards. Oh and groans about their prices.
Which is a far cry from the early days of Google's Android flagships, when the stress was on the software – the pure, stock Android experience, with assured updates. No, none of those phones were pipsqueaks in terms of hardware, but rare indeed was the person who purchased a Nexus device for the hardware. There were always – always, always – devices with comparable and even better hardware and design around. Nay, the Nexus stood for something more – it was the benchmark Android experience for many. No bloatware, a generally unobtrusive but compact design (the Nexus 4 was an exception with its glitter-y back) and a buttery smooth Android experience for at least two years were the pillars of the Nexus experience.
The Pixel has now been a rather contrary beast (or beauty, if you like those backs) in both its editions. No, no one expected cutting edge design – the Nexus 5 which was perhaps the most popular Google device of them all was a relatively plain customer with a plastic body and slightly boxy sides. But right through the presentation, there was a section of the audience that kept waiting for that special "something" – heck, even last year there had been that Google Assistant moment. Not this time. Instead, the audience was walked through a lot of…well, technology.It was impressive, but there was nothing that one could call magical. Hell, the new Pixels were not even the first to come with Android O out of the box (Sony stole that particular thunder).
Of course, being distinct in this smartphone-crazy modern world is tough. Stock Android might have been a big deal half a decade ago, but ever since Motorola made its return, it is no longer a Nexus/Pixel preserve. In fact, at the time of writing, one could get stock Android on devices from Nokia, Motorola, Lenovo, BlackBerry and even Xiaomi.The irony, however, is that the Pixels did not also exactly scorch the turf in the hardware or design departments – there was nothing in there that really hit home in a big way. Yes, there was a lot of talk about the new camera, but truth be told, we are reaching a stage where, in normal lighting conditions, many phones with much lower price tags hold their own with a degree of comfort.
Cue that quote from Mark Twain. It was almost as if all the competing brands had forced Google to abandon the "Google experience" high horse, and get down and start fighting in the spec sheet mud. There is no harm in doing that indeed, but the peril that confronts Google here is that it is going up against folks who are used to this sort of warfare. Apple in the Jobs era (albeit less so today) doggedly avoided getting into spec wars. No, contrary to what many might believe, the reason was not because of the Cupertino giant's focus on experience (although that too is a factor), but something much more simple: in the rapidly changing world of technology, specs can be copied and improved. Even today, Apple does not bother talking about the RAM or the size of the batteries in the iPhone – they are figures that can be bettered and battered.
And that is the biggest headache that will confront the new Pixels, just as it did their predecessor – eccentric design apart, what on earth do they have that is very different from the competition? DxO scores are great for slides but you can ask HTC as to the impact they have on consumers, especially when you have a super aggressive competition hyping up its own cameras. Regrettably the same can be said for regular Android updates – in spite of the increased popularity and availability of Stock Android, not too many consumers seem affected by delayed updates. And even in the spec space, we have already seen our share of "OnePlus 5 has more RAM, dual cameras and a UI similar to stock Android at a much lower price," and "Samsung S8 and Galaxy Note are cheaper" comments.
We are not daring to presume that we know better than the Search giant, but perhaps it is time that Google actually thought in terms of what it is trying to say with the Pixel: that Android works well with great hardware? Thanks to LG, Samsung, Sony, and HTC, we already know that. That you need to pay a premium for a premium experience? Well, thanks to OnePlus, Moto and Xiaomi, we know that is not really true. Is that android at its best on great hardware? We have two words in answer: Moto G. And well, while the Nexus 4, 5 and 5X did prove that you could get the pure Android experience with good hardware at a remarkably affordable price, we think that the "value for money" ship has long since sailed from the Googleplex (actually, the first sign that things were changing in that regard was the Nexus 6).
And one of the headaches of not fighting on price is that everything – every single thing – that you offer gets analyzed even more heavily. Small wonder that our editor Raju PP refers to a relatively low price as a "Suraksha kawach" (protective armor). No matter what accusation you level at a product that has a lower than expected price, its supporters can point at the price tag and get away with it. The Nexus 5 for instance, had an exceptionally bad loudspeaker, but complaints about it were muted because the entire package did not cost as much. The new Pixels do not have that luxury, thanks ironically to a rather luxurious price. Which means they will be fighting not on a unique experience but instead on those Android flagship favorites – design and specs. Against rivals who are used to being there.
Welcome to the spec wrestling arena, Google.


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Серге́й Аре́фьевич Щепи́хин (01 октября 1880 — 18 марта 1948) — уральский казак, участник Русско-японской, Первой мировой и Гражданской войны на стороне Белого Движения, Генерального штаба генерал-майор. Участник Великого Сибирского Ледяного похода.

Биография
Родился 1 октября 1880 года в семье уральского казачьего офицера, в поселке (форпост) Январцевский, Кирсановской станицы 1-го (Уральского) военного отдела Уральского казачьего войска. Старший брат — Пётр Арефьевич Щепихин (1879—1920), войсковой старшина, командир Уральского казачьего артиллерийского дивизиона, кавалер двух орденов.

Окончил Оренбургский Неплюевский кадетский корпус, а затем в 1890 году окончил по 1-му разряду Николаевское кавалерийское училище. Учился Щепихин в училище хорошо (средний балл 11,28 из 12 возможных) и получил премию генерал-адъютанта В. А. Долгорукова (256,5 рублей). По окончании училища в чине хорунжего получил назначение во 2-й Уральский казачий полк, расквартированный в Самарканде. В мае 1901 года командирован в Ташкент для изучения телеграфного, гелиографного и подрывного дела, а в 1903 году поступил в Николаевскую Академию Генерального штаба.

Участие в русско-японской войне
В конце мая 1904 года отчислился из Николаевской академии, а в июне 1904 года отчислился из полка в войска. Служил в 4-м Уральском казачьем полку. Приказом от 1 июля 1904 года был произведён в чин сотника (за выслугу лет). Участвовал в набегах на Инкоу, на Фукумынь, в сражениях при Сандепу и под Мукденом, в разведках к реке Ляохэ. В 1905 году за боевые отличия был произведён в чин подъесаула. Также за боевые отличия был награжден орденом Святой Анны 4-й степени и орден Святого Станислава 3-й степени с мечами и бантом.

Служба между войнами
В 1908 году, в чине есаула окончил Николаевскую Академию Генерального штаба. Цензовое командование сотней отбывал в 1-м Уральском казачьем полку (г.Киев) с 01.11.1908 по 12.11.1910. Затем проходил службу в должности обер-офицера для поручений при штабе Омского военного округа (11.05.1911-15.01.1914).

С. А. Щепихин внёс заметный вклад в военно-географическое изучение Синьцзяна, Алтая и Западной Монголии. Летом 1912 года совершил рекогносцировочную поездку в Тарбагатайский округ Синьцзянской провинции, с целью сбора сведений о китайских вооружённых силах в приграничной с Россией полосе, о военно-политической обстановке в Синьцзяне, в связи с событиями Синьхайской революции 1911 г., о положении национальных меньшинств в Синьцзянском округе — казахов, монголов, Сибо,уйгуров и др., а также для описания маршрутов и путей, ведущих из русского Семиречья в Западный Китай. По итогам поездки Щепихин составил секретный отчет, в котором сообщил данные о китайских укреплениях (в том числе их обмеры).

Служба в период Первой мировой войны
С 15 января по 06 декабря 1914 год- обер-офицер при штабе Киевского военного округа. С декабря 1914 года в чине подполковника в должности старшего адъютанта отдела генерал-квартирмейстера штаба 3-й армии. В августе 1916 года произведён в чин полковника. Командовал 2-м Уральским казачьим полком.

Участие в Гражданской войне
17 февраля 1918 года войсковым съездом начальником штаба всех вооружённых сил Уральского казачьего войска и Уральской области был избран полковник Щепихин С. А., а 19 февраля новым командующим вооружёнными силами Уральского казачьего войска и Уральской области был избран полковник М. Ф. Мартынов.
Щепихин С. А., был в должности начальника штаба Уральской армии, начальника войскового штаба Уральского казачьего войска с 17 февраля до начала июня 1918 года. В начале июня 1918 года произошло решающее столкновение части депутатов Войскового Съезда, Войскового Правительства и командования Уральской Армии. Съезд и Правительство решительно воспротивились предлагавшемуся Мартыновым М. Ф. и Щепихиным С. А., переходу в наступление против красных частей, ссылаясь, в какой-то степени обоснованно, на отсутствие необходимого вооружения и неготовность казачьих частей. В свою очередь, Войсковое правительство, а по его предложению и Съезд, в очередной раз ультимативно потребовали неукоснительного подчинения себе военного командования в оперативных вопросах, а начальника штаба Щепихина С. А., обвинили в утаивании от депутатов секретной информации и потребовали его удаления с должности. Тогда командующий войсками полковник Мартынов М. Ф., защищая единственно возможные в понимании кадрового офицера принципы организации единоначалия в военном командовании и персонально своего начальника штаба, выдвинул Съезду встречный жёсткий ультиматум — либо всё остаётся, как прежде, в том числе и Щепихин в своей должности, либо они уходят с постов вместе. Съезд несколько дней просил Мартынова, очень популярного среди уральского казачества, остаться, но тот был непреклонен. В результате полковники Мартынов и Щепихин вместе ушли со своих постов, а Съезд избрал командующим Уральской Армией генерал-майора Акутина В. И., а начальником штаба — полковника С. П. Кириллова.

Полковник Щепихин вскоре уехал за пределы Войска и поступил на службу в Народную армию Самарского КОМУЧа начальником полевого штаба Поволжского фронта (с 15.08.1918), затем с октября по декабрь 1918 года — начальник штаба Самарской группы войск. 24 декабря 1918 года произведён в чин генерал-майора. С января 1919 года назначен начальником штаба Западной армии войск адмирала А. В. Колчака. Под его непосредственным руководством была разработана наступательная операция Западной армии на г. Уфу и далее на р. Волгу. Приказом Верховного правителя и Верховного главнокомандующего от 14.01.1919 ему была объявлена благодарность. С 16.06.1919 года начальник снабжения Южной (впоследствии Оренбургской) армии. 07.10.1919 года зачислен в распоряжение генерал-квартирмейстера штаба главнокомандующего армиями Восточного фронта. Участник Великого Сибирского Ледяного похода. С 12.11.1919 года — начальник штаба 2-й армии. С 27.01.1920 года — начальник штаба Главнокомандующего Восточного фронта, затем начальник штаба войск Российской восточной окраины.

Награждён знаком отличия военного ордена «За Великий Сибирский поход» 1-й степени (удостоверение № 4) Приказ командующего войсками Российской восточной окраины Генерального штаба генерал-майора Войцеховского С. Н. № 213 от 27.04.1920 года . Знаком ордена 2-й степени также была награждена его супруга — Щепихина Александра (удостоверение № 13).

В мае 1920 года генерал Щепихин С. А. оставил свой пост и выехал из Читы в Китай.

Эмиграция
После непродолжительного пребывания в Китае, Щепихин С. А. отправился в Константинополь, куда прибыл в день эвакуации армии генерала П. Н. Врангеля из Крыма. В качестве эмигранта проживал в Турции, впоследствии — в Чехословакии, где занимался литературным трудом. Автор воспоминаний о Гражданской войне. В апреле 1933 года часть своих рукописей передал в США, в архив Гуверовского института войны, революции и мира при Стэнфордском университете.

Умер в Праге, похоронен на Ольшанском кладбище.

Награды
 Орден Святой Анны 4-й степени
 Орден Святого Станислава 3-й степени с мечами и бантом
 Орден Святой Анны 3-й степени с мечами и бантом
 Орден Святого Станислава 2-й степени с мечами
 Орден Святой Анны 2-й степени
 мечи к Ордену Святой Анны 2-й степени
 Орден Святого Владимира 4-й степени с мечами и бантом
 Орден Святого Владимира 3-й степени
 знак отличия Военного ордена «За Великий Сибирский поход» 1-й степени (№ 4; 1920).

Сочинения
 Отчет о поездке в Тарбагатайский округ Западного Китая летом 1912 г. — Омск, 1913;
 Омский военный округ. Военно-географическое и статистическое описание. — Омск, 1913;
 Тридцать два месяца в штабе 3-й русской армии. На фронте мировой войны (1914—1917) (б/д., машинопись);
 Штаб 3-й армии в Великую войну (Галицийский период) (1928, рукопись);
 Уральское казачье войско в борьбе с коммунизмом (рукопись);
 Южная армия Восточного фронта адмирала Колчака. Июль-октябрь 1919 г. (б/д., рукопись);
 Конец Белого движения в Сибири (б/д., рукопись);
 Каппелевцы в Чите в 1920 г., или Японская интервенция (1928, машинопись);
 Сибирь при Колчаке (1930, рукопись);
 Под стягом Учредительного собрания // Гражданская война на Волге в 1918 г. — Прага, 1930. — Вып. 1.

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 Знак отличия военного ордена «За Великий Сибирский поход». Документы.
 Список похороненных на русских православных участках Ольшанских кладбищ в Праге. Буква «Щ»
 «ИЗВЕСТИЯ ОГИК МУЗЕЯ» № 11, Басханов М. К. «Русские военные востоковеды»

Полковники (Российская империя)
Генерал-майоры России (Белое движение)
Выпускники Оренбургского кадетского корпуса
Участники Русско-японской войны (Россия)
Казаки в Первой мировой войне
Персоналии:Народная армия КОМУЧа
Каппелевцы
Участники Великого Сибирского Ледяного похода
Русские эмигранты первой волны в Чехословакии
Похороненные на Ольшанском кладбище
Выпускники Оренбургского казачьего училища
Члены Западно-Сибирского отдела Императорского русского географического общества


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Ngāi Tahu inshore commercial fishers believe they are being unfairly targeted for the deaths of iconic wildlife species in coastal waters they have fished sustainably for generations. They blame broad-brush campaigns by environmental lobby groups.
Grassroots to Governance
After nearly a year in the job, Matapura reflects on a remarkable turnaround in the financial position of the iwi since he first became involved in hapū politics more than 40 years ago.
Rob Tipa artfully weaves together mātauranga (knowledge) from an array of sources in Treasures of Tāne. He displays a true knack for research, with references from early settler records, Pākehā anthropologists' observations of Māori life, and the scant (and therefore all the more precious) pieces of oral history some Ngāi Tahu whānau preserved through the past century.
Road to Redemption
"Nā te pō – ko te ao" – From darkness comes light. This ancient creation whakataukī holds a special significance for Rue-Jade Morgan (Kāi Tahu – Kāti Wheke), a young man who rediscovered his love of Te Ao Māori while serving a prison sentence for a serious crime and credits that awakening for saving his life.
Trapped in a violent gang culture that was hostile on all fronts, Jade says he was lucky to survive a horrific childhood.
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When Donna Matahaere-Atariki (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Ruanui, Ngā Rauru, Te Ātiawa) was growing up in rural Southland, she was told she had "ideas above her station in life".
Donna says that professional assessment was absolutely right. Rather than taking offence at a cultural slap in the face, she has used it as motivation to carve a career path as a powerhouse for social change.
Whānau business "a way of life"
The Connor family has a long historical connection with the Sounds, dating back to Captain James Cook's use of Ship Cove as a safe anchorage for his ships in the 1770s.
The battle for the birds of Motupōhue
Removing introduced pests and predators from "The Bluff" – an iconic landmark overlooking Te Ara a Kewa (Foveaux Strait) – is the result of a concerted community effort by 25 volunteers from the Bluff Hill (Motupōhue) Environment Trust. The Trust's work was publicly recognised in November when it won the Environmental Action in the Community Award at the 2017 Southland Community Environment Awards, hosted by Environment Southland.
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Mānia is a densely-tufted, hardy, grass-like sedge that historical records suggest was mainly used for bedding and waist belts by Ngāi Tahu. Botanical references describe it as a very distinctive ornamental grass with colours ranging from shiny to dark green to yellow/green, red/green, bronze, and various shades of brown or golden brown, depending on the source.
Te Whaka a Te Wera
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Pātōtara – The perfect sweet treat
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Pātōtara, a prickly low-growing shrub, is one of the few. Its juicy yellow/orange berries that ripen in summer and early autumn were once a popular sweet treat for Māori and Pākehā children, in the days before they could buy confectionery from the corner dairy.


The Instinctive Drowning Response—so named by Francesco A. Pia, Ph.D., is what people do to avoid actual or perceived suffocation in the water.
And it does not look like most people expect.
It is the No. 2 cause of accidental death in children, ages 15 and under (just behind vehicle accidents)—of the approximately 750 children who will drown next year, about 375 of them will do so within 25 yards of a parent or other adult.
In some of those drownings, the adult will actually watch the child do it, having no idea it is happening.
•	"Except in rare circumstances, drowning people are physiologically unable to call out for help. The respiratory system was designed for breathing. Speech is the secondary or overlaid function. Breathing must be fulfilled before speech occurs.
•	Drowning people's mouths alternately sink below and reappear above the surface of the water. The mouths of drowning people are not above the surface of the water long enough for them to exhale, inhale, and call out for help. When the drowning people's mouths are above the surface, they exhale and inhale quickly as their mouths start to sink below the surface of the water.
•	Drowning people cannot wave for help. Nature instinctively forces them to extend their arms laterally and press down on the water's surface. Pressing down on the surface of the water permits drowning people to leverage their bodies so they can lift their mouths out of the water to breathe.
•	Throughout the Instinctive Drowning Response, drowning people cannot voluntarily control their arm movements. Physiologically, drowning people who are struggling on the surface of the water cannot stop drowning and perform voluntary movements such as waving for help, moving toward a rescuer, or reaching out for a piece of rescue equipment.
Ask them, "Are you all right?" If they can answer at all—they probably are.