This 5-day instructor led course provides students with the knowledge and skill to use and navigate the Warehouse management and Transportation management modules in Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations. The course is designed to build upon itself and provide a case study for implementation of the Warehouse and Transportation management modules.
This course is elgibile for 35 CPE credits in the Computer Software and Applications field of study.
Students will learn the required setup, maintenance, daily transaction and out of the box reports related to the warehouse and transportation management modules.
This two-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to recognize the entire life cycle of a sales transaction from the lead tracking and quotation to the way that the final customer invoice is procced. In this we will be exploring the Sales and Marketing and Accounts Receivable modules within Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations. This is not a cost accounting or financial perspective of this process flow. This course is eligible for 14 CPE credits in the Computer Software and Applications field of study.
This course is intended for business roles that need to understand the sales life cycle in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations.
This two-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to recognize the entire life cycle of a procurement transaction from the way it is ordered to the way that the final invoice is processed. We will be exploring the Procurement and Accounts Payable modules within Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations. This is not a cost accounting or financial perspective of this process flow. This course is eligible for 14 CPE credits in the Computer Software and Applications field of study.
This course is intended for business roles that need to understand the procurement life cycle in Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations.
This two-day instructor-led course provides students with an introduction to the Accounts Payable features in Microsoft Dynamics® 365 for Finance and Operations. The purpose of this course is to give new users in Accounts Payable roles an overview of the benefits of the application, the functionality available, and the skills required to complete day to day tasks in an Accounts Payable setting. Students will have the opportunity to use the application to perform typical end-user tasks. This course is eligible for 14 CPE credits in the Computer Software and Applications field of study.
The intended audience is Accounts Payable and Finance users who are implementing or using Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations. This includes but is not limited to the following roles.
Attendees will understand the information relevant to users in the Accounts Payable module in Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations.
This two-day instructor-led course provides students with an introduction to the Accounts Receivable features Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations®. The purpose of this course is to give new users in Accounts Receivable roles an overview of the benefits of the application, the functionality available, and the skills required to complete day to day tasks in an Accounts Receivable setting. Students will have the opportunity to use the application to perform typical end-user tasks. This course is eligible for 14 CPE credits in the Computer Software and Applications field of study.
The intended audience is Accounts Receivable and Finance users who are implementing or using Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations. This includes but is not limited to the following roles.
Attendees will understand the information relevant to users in the Accounts Receivable module in Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations.


Very stylish and comfortable. I'm going to buy a second pair.
It's a very comfortable hiker boot would purchase again!
Day one I did a city hike. 10 miles.
First day I got them I did a city hike through Brussels's and felt like walking on clouds the whole time. I have worn them mostly on day trips and love them. Very excited to take them up the mountains. Grand zero are my fav shoes.
This is the first nice looking boot I've found that is extremely comfortable and looks appealing. Similar to their shoes, these are great for walking around or standing on your feet for a long period of time.
great shoes, I wear them everyday and we recieved 16+ inched of snow a few weeks ago. They have no salt or water stains from that. And they look to be holding up very good. I'm not too hard on my shoes but I can say the leather is resistant as stated in the description.
True size - color is great with orange accent. Feet kept warm even on very cold days with thin wool socks. Couldn't fit the thick wool cole haan socks in them with true size though. Extremely comfortable - walked in a downtown for two hours and went on 2 hr hike in Colorado with no blisters and felt like tennis shoes!
The boot is nice and lightweight. As I've only had it for a few weeks, I cant attest to the longevity, but with all of my other Cole Haan products I have no doubt this will last the test of time.
Also, as always, I get compliments on the style of boot from the company.
One negative thing. I do have a wide foot, and always order WIDE from this brand (which is slim pickings). The wideness of this shoe seems to not be quite as wide as others like my chukka or wingtips from Cole Haan.
Water resistant & looks stylish!
I just bought two pair of these. One delivered today. Can I get the discount without returning and reordering?
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In 1980, hip-hop found a charismatic orator who could comfortably represent the genre underneath its ever-expanding spotlight. Kurtis Blow, a young Harlem kid who studied communication in college was the perfect fit—handsome, squeaky-clean, and ready to represent the new-yet-growing landscape of rap. "The Breaks" was an early smash single that helped not only launch Blow's career, but also positioned rap as something that couldbe popularized beyond the fleeting trend it was originally perceived as.
"The Breaks" was the first Gold certified rap song and peaked at No. 87 on the Billboard Hot 100. VH1 subsequently ranked it as No. 10 on their list of Top Hip-Hop Songs and to this day, the single has sold half a million copies, a huge feat in the history of 12-inch singles.
His self-titled debut album, Kurtis Blow, released on Mercury Records, has been reissued on standard and limited edition Gold vinyl available now in the Urban Legends store.
Stream Kurtis Blow's self-titled debut album here.


SteelSeries recently released Rival 700, the world's first gaming mouse equipped with a fully customizable onboard OLED display, real-time tactile alerts, and interchangeable components. This mouse adapts to personal preferences and provides in-game alerts to enhance performance and increase gaming immersion.
Powered by SteelSeries Engine, gamers can now personalize the OLED display to track game stats, change profiles, see their CPI settings, as well as set custom logos and animations. The Rival 700's OLED display provides vital information on-the-fly, allowing gamers to gain an edge without having to navigate cumbersome options and menus.
The Rival 700 gaming mouse is no longer an input device, but a tool to dominate opponents. Gamers can now customize and feel in-game events and alerts through subtle pulses, aiding them with decision-making during crucial times. The Rival 700 can notify gamers when cooldowns are up, ammo is low, or even if health is peril without affecting precision or accuracy.
The SteelSeries Rival 700 implements a modular design that supports a plethora of customization options. It comes with a state-of-the-art optical sensor with up to 16,000 CPI, but allows gamers to easily swap their preferred or the latest sensors without having to purchase a brand new mouse. The Rival also features interchangeable faceplates available in different designs and surfaces, and Prism RGB illumination with millions of color options and lightning effects.
The Rival 700 comes with two cable options, a 3ft rubber cable for notebook gaming and a 6ft braided nylon cable for desktop warriors.
SteelSeries Rival 700 gaming mouse started shipping May 24, 2016 for $99.99.


Funded by the Tej Kohli Foundation, the focus of TKCI is on prevention and controlling corneal blindness.
Through a global network of resources, and a regional network of cornea institutes, Tej Kohli Cornea Institute is able to offer prevention and treatment strategies, which have a global impact on preventable and curable blindness in the world.
Today, LVPEI is a World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for prevention of blindness and a pioneer in developing eye health models for underserved areas of the developing world.
LVPEI was established in 1987 with the aim of bringing world-class eye care to the Indian population. Since then, several milestones have been achieved, in each of the areas of engagement, from patient care to training to basic and applied eye research.
From the beginning, a significant proportion of services have been allocated to those who could not otherwise afford eye care. LVPEI is administered by two not-for-profit trusts, the Hyderabad Eye Institute and the Hyderabad Eye Research Foundation, both governed by independent boards comprising people from all walks of life. While the Hyderabad Eye Institute focuses on the clinical aspects, all research programmes are carried out under the aegis of the Hyderabad Eye Research Foundation. The effort has been to work with communities at all levels in partnership with local bodies, while at the same time networking with national and global organizations to bring resources to places where they are most needed.
The core values that drive all activities are Excellence, Equity and Efficiency.
The activities of the Institute over the past 29 years have been organized along the following lines: Patient care, education and training, eye research, eye banking, innovation, rehabilitation and vision enhancement and community eye health and rural outreach.
Tej Kohli Foundation is an autonomous, non-profit organization that does not accept donations. Areas of work include treating and preventing corneal blindness, extending educational opportunities, offering midday meals for malnourished children, vocational training for the physically disabled, improving the health of rural communities and empowering women.
The Tej Kohli Foundation is funding the Tej Kohli Cornea Institute (TKCI) where advances in ophthalmology and treatment are being undertaken to control corneal blindness. The Tej Kohli Foundation currently operates in Costa Rica, India and Africa, whilst constantly exploring new countries where they can have the most impact on society at large. The Foundation is supported through the success of Kohli Ventures and the skills and intellectual capital provided by its senior management team. .
Tej Kohli's background in electrical engineering, which he studied at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, has informed and driven his career as a tech entrepreneur. Through the development of early e-commerce platforms, he built a detailed understanding of how technology interacts with human needs. It is this, and his keen eye for detail, that has enabled him to identify key technological innovations to invest in for the future.
affecting more than 161 million people worldwide in 2002 (World Health Organization).
avoidable, ie., can be prevented, treated or managed.
LVPEI currently has 177 Vision Centres that provide primary care in the districts and villages of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Odisha and Karnataka.
These are linked to Secondary Eye Care Centres (18), which are in turn linked to LVPEI Tertiary Centres in Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada and Bhubaneswar.
We have reached out to Myanmar, Liberia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Mexico, Nairobi and Oman in international Partnerships.
Call Netra an eye care helpline with toll free number 1800 200 2211 is an initiative by LVPEI's Tej Kohli Cornea Institute. This helpline aims at creating awareness about various eye diseases in the general public, across the states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. The helpline enables the caller to receive the first level of medical advice, available treatment options and details about the nearest eye care providers in their vicinity. This facility was initially available in Nellore and Prakasam districts in Andhra Pradesh but it is now extended to the other districts of AP and Telangana, and will eventually be expanded across the country. Trained eye care providers segregate the callers depending upon their eye condition as critical and non-critical. Critical patients are immediately referred to the nearest eye care providers, and noncritical patients, based on their type of ailment, are given information about various hospitals in the vicinity and are provided with awareness messages to help prevent eye disease.


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Today, I feature author Tracy Kiely and her newest release, Killer Cocktail.
Walking the red carpet at the Academy Awards with a bow-tied Bullmastiff draws Nic and Nigel Martini plenty of attention from the press. But that's nothing compared to the attention they receive at the A-list after party, when Hollywood royalty learn that Nic and Nigel have discovered behind-the-scenes footage from A Winter's Night, an acclaimed film known for backstage love triangles and the tragic death of its original star, Melanie Summers.
"Killer Cocktail " sounds like a fun read. Looking forward to reading.


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The CDE's Immediate Timeline and Priorities
The Center for Digital Engagement is currently in soft launch with full launch expected in late 2014 to early 2015. The idea for the CDE started with The Search Marketing Workshop. In its fourth year, The Workshop has doubled attendance since its inception and is attracting high profile speakers from the world of digital marketing and communications. In 2014, The Workshop will be fortunate to have both Mary Henige, Director of Social Media and Digital Communications for General Motors and Chad Wiebesick, Director of Social Media and Interactive Marketing for the Pure Michigan Campaign as keynote speaks.
In many ways, the goal of the CDE is simply to provide more continuous outreach of the type the EMU community does each year with The Search Marketing Workshop. Our intent is that the CDE's year round presence allow for more and deeper collaboration with business and community partners.
To this end, we are prioritizing the following activities to take place upon full launch:
The recruitment of an executive in residence. Our first executive in residence will act as a point of contact with "movers and the shakers" in the digital marketing community, act as a mentor to students, and a resource to faculty in their teaching and research. The executive in residence appointment is for 1 to 2 semesters, and we have a number of potential executives to fill the role. Our goal ultimately is to create a community of current and former executives in residence who can act as a continuing resource for us.
The launch of a marquee speaker series open to the business community. The goal of the speaker series is to bring both our external and internal communities up to date on emerging issues in digital engagement. We expect to draw on notable people in Michigan and across the country.
The potential launch of a student run clinic to help local businesses enhance their online marketing efforts and business strategies. Upon full launch of the center, we expect to actively explore the forms this clinic might take with the potential of a pilot project in Summer 2015.
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Soft Launch of The Center for Digital Engagement
We're soft launching The Center for Digital Engagement this weekend. As it says in our title, the center addresses the evolving nature of digital engagement in collaboration with business and community partners. The center is based on years of experience developing applied university curricula about the increasingly digital nature of engagement in our society. The center is initially focusing on all aspects of digital marketing as well as the larger issues of digital measurement and designing for multiple delivery platforms. We expect to vary and expand our topics as the digital transformation of our society continues.
We will have more to say about The Center at its official unveiling at this year's Search Marketing Workshop on Friday, November 7 at the EMU Student Center.
For now, the center's launch steering committee consists of:
Bud Gibson, Chair
Sheila Sasser
Russ Merz
Matt Sauber
We look forward to engaging with you.

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/**
 * @file mTecs_blocks.h
 *
 * Custom blocks for the mTecs
 *
 * @author Thomas Gubler <thomasgubler@gmail.com>
 */

#pragma once

#include <controllib/blocks.hpp>
#include <systemlib/err.h>

namespace fwPosctrl
{

using namespace control;

/* An block which can be used to limit the output */
class BlockOutputLimiter: public SuperBlock
{
public:
// methods
	BlockOutputLimiter(SuperBlock *parent, const char *name, bool fAngularLimit = false) :
		SuperBlock(parent, name),
		_isAngularLimit(fAngularLimit),
		_min(this, "MIN"),
		_max(this, "MAX")
	{};
	virtual ~BlockOutputLimiter() {};
	/*
	 * Imposes the limits given by _min and _max on value
	 *
	 * @param value is changed to be on the interval _min to _max
	 * @param difference if the value is changed this corresponds to the change of value * (-1)
	* otherwise unchanged
	 * @return: true if the limit is applied, false otherwise
	 */
	bool limit(float &value, float &difference)
	{
		float minimum = getIsAngularLimit() ? getMin() * M_DEG_TO_RAD_F : getMin();
		float maximum = getIsAngularLimit() ? getMax() * M_DEG_TO_RAD_F : getMax();

		if (value < minimum) {
			difference = value - minimum;
			value = minimum;
			return true;

		} else if (value > maximum) {
			difference = value - maximum;
			value = maximum;
			return true;
		}

		return false;
	}
//accessor:
	bool getIsAngularLimit() {return _isAngularLimit ;}
	float getMin() { return _min.get(); }
	float getMax() { return _max.get(); }
	void setMin(float value) { _min.set(value); }
	void setMax(float value) { _max.set(value); }
protected:
//attributes
	bool _isAngularLimit;
	control::BlockParamFloat _min;
	control::BlockParamFloat _max;
};

/* A combination of feed forward, P and I gain using the output limiter*/
class BlockFFPILimited: public SuperBlock
{
public:
// methods
	BlockFFPILimited(SuperBlock *parent, const char *name, bool isAngularLimit = false) :
		SuperBlock(parent, name),
		_outputLimiter(this, "", isAngularLimit),
		_integral(this, "I"),
		_kFF(this, "FF"),
		_kP(this, "P"),
		_kI(this, "I"),
		_offset(this, "OFF")
	{};
	virtual ~BlockFFPILimited() {};
	float update(float inputValue, float inputError) { return calcLimitedOutput(inputValue, inputError, _outputLimiter); }
// accessors
	BlockIntegral &getIntegral() { return _integral; }
	float getKFF() { return _kFF.get(); }
	float getKP() { return _kP.get(); }
	float getKI() { return _kI.get(); }
	float getOffset() { return _offset.get(); }
	BlockOutputLimiter &getOutputLimiter() { return _outputLimiter; };
protected:
	BlockOutputLimiter _outputLimiter;

	float calcUnlimitedOutput(float inputValue, float inputError) {return getOffset() + getKFF() * inputValue + getKP() * inputError + getKI() * getIntegral().update(inputError);}
	float calcLimitedOutput(float inputValue, float inputError, BlockOutputLimiter &outputLimiter)
	{
		float difference = 0.0f;
		float integralYPrevious = _integral.getY();
		float output = calcUnlimitedOutput(inputValue, inputError);

		if (outputLimiter.limit(output, difference) &&
		    (((difference < 0) && (getKI() * getIntegral().getY() < 0)) ||
		     ((difference > 0) && (getKI() * getIntegral().getY() > 0)))) {
			getIntegral().setY(integralYPrevious);
		}

		return output;
	}
private:
	BlockIntegral _integral;
	BlockParamFloat _kFF;
	BlockParamFloat _kP;
	BlockParamFloat _kI;
	BlockParamFloat _offset;
};

/* A combination of feed forward, P and I gain using the output limiter with the option to provide a special output limiter (for example for takeoff)*/
class BlockFFPILimitedCustom: public BlockFFPILimited
{
public:
// methods
	BlockFFPILimitedCustom(SuperBlock *parent, const char *name, bool isAngularLimit = false) :
		BlockFFPILimited(parent, name, isAngularLimit)
	{};
	virtual ~BlockFFPILimitedCustom() {};
	float update(float inputValue, float inputError, BlockOutputLimiter *outputLimiter = NULL)
	{
		return calcLimitedOutput(inputValue, inputError, outputLimiter == NULL ? _outputLimiter : *outputLimiter);
	}
};

/* A combination of P gain and output limiter */
class BlockPLimited: public SuperBlock
{
public:
// methods
	BlockPLimited(SuperBlock *parent, const char *name, bool isAngularLimit = false) :
		SuperBlock(parent, name),
		_kP(this, "P"),
		_outputLimiter(this, "", isAngularLimit)
	{};
	virtual ~BlockPLimited() {};
	float update(float input)
	{
		float difference = 0.0f;
		float output = getKP() * input;
		getOutputLimiter().limit(output, difference);
		return output;
	}
// accessors
	BlockOutputLimiter &getOutputLimiter() { return _outputLimiter; };
	float getKP() { return _kP.get(); }
private:
	control::BlockParamFloat _kP;
	BlockOutputLimiter _outputLimiter;
};

/* A combination of P, D gains and output limiter */
class BlockPDLimited: public SuperBlock
{
public:
// methods
	BlockPDLimited(SuperBlock *parent, const char *name, bool isAngularLimit = false) :
		SuperBlock(parent, name),
		_kP(this, "P"),
		_kD(this, "D"),
		_derivative(this, "D"),
		_outputLimiter(this, "", isAngularLimit)
	{};
	virtual ~BlockPDLimited() {};
	float update(float input)
	{
		float difference = 0.0f;
		float output = getKP() * input + (getDerivative().getDt() > 0.0f ? getKD() * getDerivative().update(input) : 0.0f);
		getOutputLimiter().limit(output, difference);

		return output;
	}
// accessors
	float getKP() { return _kP.get(); }
	float getKD() { return _kD.get(); }
	BlockDerivative &getDerivative() { return _derivative; }
	BlockOutputLimiter &getOutputLimiter() { return _outputLimiter; };
private:
	control::BlockParamFloat _kP;
	control::BlockParamFloat _kD;
	BlockDerivative _derivative;
	BlockOutputLimiter _outputLimiter;
};

}

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This week saw CSF's Prof. Helen Storey return from her fourth trip to the Za'atari refugee camp in Jordan. Helen started working with those living at camp in 2016 after she was gifted a UNHCR decommissioned refugee tent. From the tent Helen created the 'Dress For Our Time', a project which uses the power of fashion to communicate and act upon some of the world's most complex issues, notably climate change and the mass displacement of people.
"These are the experiences that make you question the purpose of your life." Helen's words after her first trip to Za'atari.
Since then action has happened.
Helen's first meeting with the Za'atari's camp manager back in 2016 was enlightening – nothing you previously imagined is how things actually are. He speaks of how the refugees have taught them the conditions for dignified living and how the camp is built, day, by day, by the refugees themselves, echoing Helen's experiences and journey. Working alongside the refugees, projects continue to evolve.
This last trip saw Helen and the team deliver the LOVECOATS project, a project which came out of a conversation with the Tiger Girls last year. The self named TIGER Girls, stands for 'These inspiring girls enjoy reading' – and began as an initiative by The Open Learning Exchange, based in Cambridge, MA in the USA, as a pilot for innovative refugee education and has been growing ever since.
This group of 1,200 young women and teens are a beacon of light for a larger group of 10,000 young women, in a place where only 20% will complete high school education. Early marriage, increased domestic chores and low paid work, keep many of them from aspiring to an education, or imagining what it may bring them.
The first day of the project was a workshop where the girls explored their wishes for others – poems were written with textile pens on small pieces of left over tent material and the team engaged the girls in exercises which connected them to their own creativity and the possibility for newly articulated insights in their own hearts and minds.
On day two, the girls cut out the basic coat shape pattern and delved into the small mountain of recycled, clean, second hand clothes from Oxfam; picking colours they felt represented them, patterns, fabrics and shapes that they were drawn to and selected other donated materials such as ribbons, braids, sequins, beads, fringes and embroidered accessories to decorate their coats. At the end of the workshop a small fashion show was organized for the girls to show their creations.
Helen's aim is to educate and reach out to all the Tiger girls in the camp. The idea is that this first set of 25 girls who participated in the design workshop will go on to act as tutors and mentors to future participants. They will share and pass on their technical knowledge to the other girls, until every girl who needs a coat in camp has one.
"Now I know I am important because I got to make my own coat and I walked on the catwalk. I feel confident".
Helen commented, "we really did go on a huge creative journey with the Tiger Girls, their trust in the project and us brought us very close, standing in that tiny crack of light, between back and front stage, I saw every single one of them step onto the edge of that catwalk, proud, surprised and brave – each in their own way saying " this is me now".
For more details on the project please follow #D4OT on social media.


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PART 2: Artist Mariam Ghani, Daughter of Afghan Pres, Addresses Ferguson, Borders and Afghan Women
Web ExclusiveAugust 12, 2015
Mariam Ghani
Afghan-American artist based in Brooklyn. Her father is Afghan President Ashraf Ghani. On Tuesday, they took part in a public dialogue here at the Creative Time Summit in Venice.
One of the people featured Tuesday at the Creative Time Summit in Venice, Italy, during the Venice Biennale was the acclaimed artist Mariam Ghani, daughter of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani.
In part two of our interview with Mariam Ghani, she describes her work in St. Louis, Missouri, during "Ferguson October" protests that erupted after Michael Brown was killed. The result was her short film, "The City & The City," which looks at how the city is so divided it becomes two separate countries. She also discusses her work on the issue of borders, the experience of Afghan women, and her upcoming documentary about Afghanistan in the 1980s.
Watch part one of this interview, in which Ghani describes her decade of work on a number of art projects looking at how the United States responded to the Sept. 11 attacks. Along with the artist Chitra Ganesh, she created an "Index of the Disappeared" — a physical archive documenting post-9/11 detentions, deportations and renditions. Ghani and Ganesh also created "The Guantanamo Effect" — an interactive digital archive defining, illustrating and linking key terms and events in the so-called global war on terror.
StoryAug 12, 2015Artist Mariam Ghani, Daughter of Afghan Pres., Takes on US Abuse from Gitmo to Bagram to US Prisons
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman. We're on the road in Venice, Italy. We're here at the Venice Biennale, which is the biennial art exhibition, the foremost and oldest art exhibition in the world. It's 120 years old.
This year, Creative Time, a New York-based arts and activism organization, has held a summit here at the Arsenale in Venice, and many people have spoken, among them Mariam Ghani. She is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York. She had a fascinating discussion with her father. He wasn't actually here in person; she spoke to him by Skype on the stage. The concern was it would change the whole nature of the Creative Time Summit because of the security precautions that would be involved. Why? Well, Mariam Ghani's father is the Afghan president. He's the president of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani. They took part in a public dialogue, and have done that for interesting art installations in the past.
We spoke about Mariam Ghani's work chronicling brutality in U.S. prisons, whether in the United States or at Guantánamo or Abu Ghraib or in Bagram. We also talked about the "Index of the Disappeared" of what's happened to people since 9/11. Now we're going to look closer to home, to Ferguson, Missouri.
Mariam Ghani, talk about your work in St. Louis and the surrounding area.
MARIAM GHANI: Right. So, it all came about through a kind of coincidence. I had been planning to make a project in St. Louis for a number of years. I had a commission from the Saint Louis Art Museum, and I was teaching at Washington University for this past year. And I happened to arrive a month after the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, which, as you know, is a suburb of St. Louis. And I was there in St. Louis shooting this film for my show at the Saint Louis Art Museum in the month that came to be known as Ferguson October, during which activists were performing actions every single day of the month.
So it was this really extraordinary time in the city, full of incredible moments and really incredible performance, you know, by this activist movement, to the point where I actually felt a bit intimidated about making art in the middle of all of this, that I thought was so extraordinary in producing really such incredible and indelible images, among them the mirrored coffin that was being carried through the city for much of this month by actually a group of artists who had made it.
AMY GOODMAN: And explain the concept of a mirrored coffin.
MARIAM GHANI: Yeah, I spoke to some of them about it, and they said the idea of the mirrored coffin was to reflect back at the society that had produced the death of Michael Brown and all the young black men like him, their complicity in the structures that had produced and enabled that death to happen.
AMY GOODMAN: Also, you could see it as everyone who looks at the coffin, they see themselves.
MARIAM GHANI: They see themselves, yeah. That is the other thing that happens.
AMY GOODMAN: They see themselves, perhaps, in the coffin.
MARIAM GHANI: Yeah, yeah. So, I had come in with the idea to make a film about the way that spacial politics and racial politics overlap in St. Louis. I had been there before, you see. I knew a little something about it. And I also grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, which, as we've learned from the death of Freddie Gray, among others, is not very different from St. Louis in many of its most essential details, right? And essential structures. So, St. Louis presented many familiar problems to me, and especially its spacial politics were very familiar to me.
And then I came in in the middle of this moment of emergency, right? And I thought, "How can I make something in the middle of this emergency that will be of the moment but also able to exist beyond it?" And the answer I arrived at was to make this film, The City & The City, which is actually a loose adaptation of the 2009 novel by China Miéville, the British sci-fi author. He's an anarchist sci-fi author whose politics are very radical, and then he kind of slips them into these mass-market books in a really remarkable way. So, the premise of the book and also of my loose adaptation of it is that there's a city that becomes so divided, it actually becomes two separate countries. Yeah.
AMY GOODMAN: Two separate countries.
MARIAM GHANI: Two separate countries.
AMY GOODMAN: One city.
MARIAM GHANI: Yeah, one city. So economically, politically and spiritually divided, it becomes two separate countries. And they have an official border, which is policed by this rather spooky force called Breach. But the way the separation is really carried out on a day-to-day basis is that the citizens of these two city-states learn from birth to unsee everything and everyone that belongs to the other city. So they look away from it so reflexively, it's like it's not even there, actually disappears from view. And this is this kind of marvelously flexible metaphor for the way that so many cities actually function.
AMY GOODMAN: I want to turn to a clip of The City & The City.
MARIAM GHANI: Mm-hmm, yeah.
AMY GOODMAN: Again, filmed in St. Louis. It begins with a murder. It's narrated by the dead man.
MARIAM GHANI: Yeah.
AMY GOODMAN: This is a clip.
DEAD MAN: [narrated by Derek Laney] Do you know anything about my city? Like most cities, it believes itself to be its own country, with its own laws and borders and customs. But unlike perhaps your city, it has made that belief into reality. Like many cities that appear to be one city or one country, it's actually two. Some cities are divided by a river or a train track. Some cities are zoned green and red, with concrete barricades marking the difference. Some cities have borders that constantly shift, following the whims of capital. Some cities, like my city, are crosshatched—some places totally ours, and others belonging wholly to them; places where spurs of one city jut unexpectedly into the other; places where the cities are so densely interwoven that you can step from one to the other by crossing a single square of pavement; and the dissensi, the spaces claimed by both—or neither—cities, which exist in a kind of limbo between them.
AMY GOODMAN: The limbo between them. That's a clip from The City & The City, that's directed by Mariam Ghani, our guest today, filmed in St. Louis. And it's finished.
MARIAM GHANI: It is finished, yes. It was premiered at the Saint Louis Art Museum in April, and the show just came down in the middle of July. And I collaborated, actually, with a number of people from the movement in St. Louis to make the film. The narrator of the film, who is that dead man, as you mentioned, who is murdered at the very beginning of the film and is only ever seen as a series of shattered mirrors in the film itself—the narrator is Derek Laney, who's one of the people who made the mirrored coffin for the protests and was also one of the people who did the action at the St. Louis Symphony, where they interrupted the symphony and sang a requiem for Michael Brown. Yeah, so when I asked around the activist community for someone with a good voice, everyone said, "Go to Derek. He's got a great voice." And they were right. He does.
AMY GOODMAN: We're talking to Mariam Ghani. You talk about this border between the two cities—
MARIAM GHANI: Yes.
AMY GOODMAN: The City & The City. I'd like to go to your border project.
AMY GOODMAN: Explain what that is.
MARIAM GHANI: Borders have been a kind of obsession of mine for a long time. I think that's because I grew up in between a number of different cultures. My mother is actually Lebanese, and my father of course is Afghan. And I grew up largely in the United States, although not entirely. And so, part of my experience of the diaspora was actually this process of constantly traveling in between different places and also different states of being, different states of belonging, right? This process of always being partly one thing, partly another, belonging a bit to one place, a bit to another. And, in fact, it's actually this zone that is the border, the borderlands.
AMY GOODMAN: How is it to be the first daughter and, your mother, the first lady of Afghanistan?
MARIAM GHANI: Yeah. I mean, I think my mother has taken on the role of first lady with unbelievable grace and really made an astonishingly good fist of it, as they say. She's really become kind of an icon for Afghan women. And I think—
AMY GOODMAN: She was exiled from Afghanistan?
MARIAM GHANI: Yes. So, along with my father, in the late '70s, they had come to the United States for graduate school, and then the communist coup d'état happened, and they couldn't return. And so, they were—they were in exile in the United States for that reason. But, of course, she was also exiled from her own country for a number of years because of the Lebanese civil war, so she had a kind of dual exile in that way.
I think, for me, being the first daughter has been a very complicated role to take on and try to understand how I can use it to be somehow an example of one kind of Afghan womanhood. There are many different kinds, right? And I don't think one is necessarily better than the other, but I do think it's possible for young Afghan women to see in me or in my mother, who has taken a very different path through life, new examples of ways to be Afghan women. And that, I think, is the best way that I can possibly use this role right now.
AMY GOODMAN: You also did a collaboration with your father—
AMY GOODMAN: —called Afghanistan: A Lexicon.
AMY GOODMAN: Explain what that was.
MARIAM GHANI: Mm-hmm. Afghanistan: A Lexicon is a book that we did for dOCUMENTA (13) in 2011.
AMY GOODMAN: Explain dOCUMENTA.
MARIAM GHANI: dOCUMENTA (13) is the large, periodic exhibition that happens every five years in Kassel, Germany. And the last dOCUMENTA, which was the 13th edition, actually happened with a satellite exhibition in Kabul, Afghanistan, as well. So it had different stages. One was in Banff, Canada, one in Kabul and one in Alexandria, in Egypt, in addition to the main exhibition in Kassel, in Germany.
And dOCUMENTA is a bit unique among the big periodic exhibitions, like the Biennale di Venezia, because it actually came out of the immediate postwar moment in Germany. And the first seven editions of dOCUMENTA were all held in a building called the Fridericianum, which had actually been bombed during World War II, and it was held in this ruined building. The building wasn't actually reconstructed until dOCUMENTA (7). So, it really insisted for a long time, this exhibition, on its roots in the postwar moment, and it was in many ways conceived as a reaction to the Nazi program against what they called degenerate art, which included much contemporary art being produced in the '30s and '40s. So it was a kind of recuperation of contemporary art as a political statement, dOCUMENTA, so it holds a very special place in the program of periodic exhibitions as a more political statement and also as a statement of what is the position of contemporary art today.
So, the book we did was part of a series of a hundred notebooks that were done in the lead-up to dOCUMENTA (13), and it's a nonlinear history of 20th century Afghanistan through definitions of 77 terms. It is a history of 20th century Afghanistan, but it doesn't present it through saying, "This happened, then this happened, and then this happened, and then this happened." Instead, we give definitions of 77 terms, some of which are really specific Afghan terms, like jirga, which is the specific Afghan form of tribal council, or bi-tarafi, which is a specific Afghan form of nonalignment, which really means playing both sides against the middle, and is exemplified by Daoud's famous saying: "I like to light my American cigarettes with a Russian match." Yeah. And others are more general terms, like "loss" or "exile," and they're defined for the Afghan context, and sometimes very specifically for a particular historical moment in the Afghan context. And they're defined in pairing with images, many of which are archival images I found through Afghan films, the National Film Archive and their library of stills, which were used in the government almanacs, these annual government yearbooks that were issued from the '20s until the early '90s.
AMY GOODMAN: Speaking of films, talk about your latest project that you're involved with now.
MARIAM GHANI: Right, yeah, I am in the planning stages right now, the research and development stages, of a feature film project that's about five unfinished feature films from the communist period in Afghanistan. So they stretch from 1978 to 1992 and really cover the entire arc of that period. The film is really about the gap between the stories that were being told on screen during this period, which, you know, are probably the only place where you can find this ideal Afghan communist republic that never existed anywhere except in these films, and the history that was happening just outside the frame, which is much more messy, much more complicated and, in many cases, much more bloody.
And, you know, the films really run the gamut from a re-enactment of the communist coup d'état, with the actual army and all of the party leaders performing what they did on the day of the coup, which is a film that's become so important as the only semi-document of the coup—there's no actual document—that even its own director refers to it as a documentary now, to a film from the middle of the period which is a cops-and-robbers story, that is actually a coded story about the massive surveillance state that had developed in Afghanistan by the mid-'80s, at which point KHAD, the state security agency, actually employed 20,000 people, which is astonishing in a nation that small. They were mentored by the Stasi, so you can imagine what that was like. And then the last one is actually a—there's a story about reconciliation from '91, and then, from '92, there's a film that was financed by Massoud, one of the most famous mujahideen leaders, which I haven't been able to see yet, but if it follows the pattern of the other film that Massoud financed, it will feature real mujahideen, real tanks and real weapons, because often the line between document and fiction in Afghan film is very blurry indeed.
AMY GOODMAN: Do you think you'll be moving back to Afghanistan anytime soon?
MARIAM GHANI: I spend quite a lot of time there already. I go every four months or so. I spend a chunk of time each time. And, you know, as the film project progresses, I'll be spending more time, certainly. I don't have plans to move there permanently, because I think the life of an artist these days is too peripatetic to ever promise to live anywhere permanently. You can have a home base, and New York is mine. But I don't think you can ever say, "I live here," and have it be true.
AMY GOODMAN: We've been speaking with Mariam Ghani, a Brooklyn-based artist. She is Afghan and American. She is based in New York but travels frequently to Afghanistan, where her family is, her father the president of Afghanistan, who she collaborates with in some of her art projects, Ashraf Ghani. That does it for our show. I'm Amy Goodman. Thanks so much for joining us.
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Long before the terms Native American or Indian were considered, the tribes were spread all over the Americas. Before any white man set foot on this territory, it was settled by the forefathers of bands we now call Sioux, or Cherokee, or Iroquois.
For centuries, the American Indian grew its traditions and heritage without interference. And that history is captivating.
From Mayan and Incan ruins, from the mounds left in the central and southern parts of what is currently the U.S. we have learned much. It's a narrative of beautiful craft work and deep spirituality. Archaeologists have unearthed remarkably elaborate structures and public works.
While there was unavoidable tribal conflict, that was just a slight blemish in the narrative of our ancestors. They were at peace with this beautiful continent and deeply connected to nature.
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When European leaders sent the first ships in this direction, the goal was to explore new resources – however the quality of environment and the bounty of everything from wood to wildlife soon changed their tune. As those leaders learned from their explorers, the drive to colonize spread like wildfire.
The English, French and Spanish rushed to carve up the "New World" by shipping over poorly prepared colonists as fast as they could. At the outset, they skirmished with the surprised Indians of America's eastern seaboard. But that ultimately gave way to trade, because the Europeans who landed here learned their survival was doubtful without Indian help.
Thus followed years of relative peace as the settlers got themselves established on American soil. But the pressure to push inland followed soon after. Kings and queens from thousands of miles away were anxious to find additional resources, and some colonists came for independence and opportunity.
They wanted more space. And so began the process of forcing the American Indian out of the way.
It took the form of cash payments, barter, and notoriously, treaties that were nearly uniformly neglected once the Indians were pushed away from the territory in question.
The U.S. government's policies towards Native Americans in the second half of the nineteenth century were motivated by the desire to expand westward into regions inhabited by these Native American tribes. By the 1850s nearly all Native American tribes, approximately 360,000 in number, were living to the west of the Mississippi River. These American Indians, some from the Northwestern and Southeastern territories, were confined to Indian Territory situated in present day Oklahoma, while the Kiowa and Comanche Native American tribes shared the area of the Southern Plains.
The Sioux, Crows and Blackfeet dominated the Northern Plains. These Native American groups encountered adversity as the steady stream of European immigrants into northeastern American cities pushed a stream of immigrants into the western lands already occupied by these various groups of Indians.
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The early nineteenth century in the United States was marked by its steady expansion to the Mississippi River. However, due to the Gadsden purchase, that lead to U.S. control of the borderlands of southern New Mexico and Arizona along with the authority over Oregon country, Texas and California; America's expansion did not end there. Between 1830 and 1860 the United States practically doubled the amount of acreage within its control.
These territorial gains coincided with the arrival of hordes of European and Asian immigrants who wanted to join the surge of American settlers heading west. This, combined with the discovery of gold in 1849, presented captivating possibilities for those willing to make the extended trip westward. Consequently, with the military's protection and the U.S. government's assistance, many settlers began building their homesteads in the Great Plains and other areas of the Native American group-inhabited West.
Native American Policy can be defined as the regulations and procedures made and adapted in the United States to define the relationship between Native American tribes and the federal government. When the United States first became an independent nation, it implemented the European policies towards these native peoples, but over the course of two centuries the U.S. tailored its very own widely varying policies regarding the evolving perspectives and necessities of Native American oversight.
In 1824, in order to execute the U.S. government's Native American policies, Congress formed a new bureau within the War Department called the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which worked directly with the U.S. Army to enforce their policies. At times the federal government recognized the Indians as self-governing, distinct political communities with varying cultural identities; however, at other times the government attempted to compel the Native American tribes to give up their cultural identity, give up their land and assimilate into the American culture.
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With the steady flow of settlers in to Indian controlled land, Eastern newspapers circulated sensationalized stories of cruel native tribes committing massive massacres of hundreds of white travelers. Although some settlers lost their lives to American Indian attacks, this was in no way the norm; in fact, Native American tribes routinely helped settlers cross over the Plains. Not only did the American Indians offer wild game and other supplies to travelers, but they served as guides and messengers between wagon trains as well. Despite the good natures of the American Indians, settlers still anticipated the risk of an attack.
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To calm these concerns, in 1851 the U.S. government placed a conference with several local Indian tribes and established the Treaty of Fort Laramie. Within this treaty, each Native American tribe consented to a bounded territory, allowed the government to construct roads and forts in this territory and pledged never to attack settlers; in return the federal government agreed to honor the boundaries of each tribe's territory and make total annual payments to the Indians. The Native American tribes responded quietly to the treaty; in fact the Cheyenne, Sioux, Crow, Arapaho, Assinibione, Mandan, Gros Ventre and Arikara tribes, who signed the treaty, even agreed to end the hostilities between their tribes to be able to accept the conditions of the treaty.
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This peaceful accord between the U.S. government and the Native American tribes didn't hold very long. After hearing tales of fertile acreage and tremendous mineral wealth in the West, the government soon broke their assurances established in the Treat of Fort Laramie by allowing thousands of non-Indians to flood into the region. With so many newcomers moving west, the federal government established a policy of restricting Native Americans to reservations, limited areas of acreage within a group's territory "" reserved exclusively for Indian use, to be able to give more property for the non-Indian settlers.
In a series of new treaties the U.S. government compelled Native Americans to surrender their land and migrate to reservations in exchange for protection from attacks by white settlers. In addition, the Indians were offered a yearly stipend that would include money in addition to food, livestock, household goods and agricultural equipment. These reservations were created in an effort to pave the way for increased U.S. expansion and involvement in the West, as well as to keep the Native Americans isolated from the whites in order to reduce the chance for conflict.
History of the Plains Indians
These agreements had many challenges. Most significantly many of the native peoples did not entirely grasp the document that they were finalizing or the conditions within it; moreover, the treaties did not consider the cultural norms of the Native Americans. In addition to this, the government departments responsible for applying these policies were weighed down with awful management and corruption. In fact many treaty conditions were never executed.
The U.S. government almost never fulfilled their side of the accords even when the Native Americans relocated quietly to their reservations. Unethical bureau agents often sold the supplies that were intended for the Indians on reservations to non-Indians. Moreover, as settlers needed more territory in the West, the federal government constantly reduced the size of Indian reservations. By this time, most of the Native American people were unhappy with the treaties and angered by settlers' constant hunger for land.
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Angered by the government's dishonorable and unjust policies, some Native American tribes, including bands of Cheyennes, Arapahos, Comanches and Sioux, battled back. As they fought to defend their territories and their tribes' survival, more than one thousand skirmishes and battles broke out in the West between 1861 and 1891. In an effort to force Native Americans onto the reservations and to end the violence, the U.S. government responded to these skirmishes with significant military campaigns. Obviously the U.S. government's Indian policies were in need of a change.
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Native American policy shifted dramatically following the Civil War. Reformers believed that the scheme of pushing Native Americans into reservations was far too severe while industrialists, who were worried about their land and resources, viewed assimilation, the cultural absorption of the American Indians into "white America" to be the lone permanent means of ensuring Native American survival. In 1871 the government enacted a critical law proclaiming that the United States would not deal with Native American tribes as autonomous nations.
This legislation signaled a significant change in the government's working relationship with the native peoples – Congress now deemed the Native Americans, not as nations outside of its jurisdiction, but as wards of the government. By making Native Americans wards of the "" government, Congress believed that it was easier to make the policy of assimilation a broadly recognised part of the cultural mainstream of America.
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Many U.S. government officials considered assimilation as the most effective answer to what they deemed "the Indian problem," and the sole long-term means of guaranteeing U.S. interests in the West and the survival of the American Indians. In order to accomplish this, the government pressed Native Americans to relocate out of their established dwellings, move into wooden dwellings and turn into farmers.
The federal government handed down laws that required Native Americans to reject their usual appearance and way of living. Some laws banned customary religious practices while others required Indian men to cut their long hair. Agents on more than two-thirds of American Indian reservations founded courts to impose federal polices that often prohibited traditional ethnic and religious practices.
To accelerate the assimilation operation, the government started Indian facilities that tried to quickly and vigorously Americanize Indian youth. As per the director of the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania, the schools were created to "kill the Indian and save the man." To be able to achieve this objective, the schools forced enrollees to speak only English, wear proper American clothing and to replace their Indian names with more "American" ones. These new policies helped bring Native Americans closer to the end of their traditional tribal identity and the start of their daily life as citizens under the absolute control of the U.S. administration.
Native American Treaties with the United States
In 1887, Congress handed down the General Allotment Act, the most important component of the U.S. government's assimilation platform, which was intended to "civilize" American Indians by educating them to be farmers. In order to make this happen, Congress planned to create non-public ownership of Indian property by dividing reservations, which were collectively held, and allowing each family their own stretch of land.
In addition to this, by forcing the Native Americans onto small plots, western developers and settlers could purchase the remaining acreage. The General Allotment Act, better known as the Dawes Act, required that the Indian lands be surveyed and each family be awarded an allotment of between 80 and 160 acres, while unmarried adults received between 40 to 80 acres; the residual acreage was to be sold. Congress expected that the Dawes Act would split up Indian tribes and inspire individual enterprise, while lowering the cost of Indian supervision and providing prime property to be purchased by white settlers.
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The Dawes Act proved to be disastrous for the American Indians; over the next decades they lived under regulations that outlawed their traditional way of living but failed to provide the vital resources to support their businesses and households. Splitting the reservations into smaller parcels of land brought about the significant reduction of Indian-owned land. Within thirty years, the people had lost over two-thirds of the acreage that they had controlled before the Dawes Act was passed in 1887; the majority of the remaining land was sold to white settlers.
Usually, Native Americans were cheated out of their allotments or were required to sell off their property in order pay bills and provide for their own families. Consequently, the Indians were not "Americanized" and were often not able to become self-supporting farmers or ranchers, like the creators of the policy had desired. Further, it developed animosity among Indians for the U.S. government, as the allotment operation sometimes destroyed land that was the spiritual and societal hub of their lives.
Between 1850 and 1900, life for Native Americans changed tremendously. Through U.S. government regulations, American Indians were forced from their places of residence as their native lands were parceled out. The Plains, which they had previously roamed without limits, were now inhabited with white settlers.
The Upshot of the Indian Wars
Over all these years the Indians had been cheated out of their land, food and lifestyle, as the federal government's Indian plans coerced them inside reservations and attempted to "Americanize" them. Many American Indian bands didn't survive relocation, cultural destruction and military loss; by 1890 the Native American population was decreased to fewer than 250,000 persons. As a result of generations of discriminatory and dodgy policies instituted by the United States government between 1850 and 1900, life for the American Indians was altered permanently.
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Thousands gathered to protest Donald Trump on Saturday, marking the fourth day of political demonstrations across the country.
Jacob Moss, Los Angeles based photographer, took to the streets as well — both to oppose the president-elect and document the demonstrations in his hometown. We spoke with Jacob about his experience, his thoughts on law enforcement, his Jewish heritage, Trump's hateful rhetoric, and more.
"Before the 2016 elections, I had never actively participated in a protest," the 25-year-old told Canvass.
See the rest of Jacob's moving images below.
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With temperatures hovering around -25 degrees Celsius last week, getting out into the mountains was a bit more challenging, but the extra effort always pays off in one form or another.
While pine martens are relatively common in coniferous forests in western Canada, they aren't often seen since they're primarily arboreal and when they do come down to the ground, they rarely stay in one spot for long. These weasels are out all year-long, but are generally not as active in winter. They hunt pretty much anything they can sink their teeth into including ground squirrels, snowshoe hare, fish and birds.
This little guy was out bounding through the deep snow looking for breakfast. He stopped a few times to watch and listen for any prey, which gave me just enough time to get a few photographs of him before he disappeared back into the forest.


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Namal blocked from boarding flight to the US from Russia
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Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa's son Namal Rajapaksa says he was blocked from flying to the US from Russia.
Rajapaksa, who was in Russia to observe the just concluded Russian Presidential elections, tweeted saying that he had been informed by Emirates Airlines in Moscow that he will not be able to travel to the US.
He says he was told that the airline had been informed by US officials not to allow him to board the flight to the US.
"Valid reason yet to be received. US has the Sovereign right of course. Sure it has nothing to do with my name,being part of #lka opposition or my travel from #Russia," Rajapaksa tweeted.
Russia and the Rajapaksa family are known to be very close. Namal Rajapaksa had told the Russian media that the he had observed that the Russian elections were free and fair.
Following the Russian elections the Russian Ambassador in Colombo made a courtesy call on Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa. (Colombo Gazette)


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Q: Avoid sql injection in yii2 How to filter query parameters before inserting them into table to prevent sql injection?
Have such code:
$QueryParams = Yii::$app->request->getQueryParams();
$model = new Accounts();
$model->attributes = $QueryParams;
$connection->createCommand()->insert('accounts', $model->attributes)->execute();

Is this safe approach?

A: The approach is safe, but there is a better one:
$model = new Accounts();

if ($model->load(Yii::$app->request->get()) && $model->save()) {
    // 'when the model is saved' logic here
}

// other code

This basically does, what the posted code does, but includes model validation, is shorter, and is easier to understand.

A: The approach is safe. But, if the Accounts class is an ActiveRecord class (extends it), then you can simplify your code:
$model->load(Yii::$app->request->get());
$model->save();

It's equivalent to:
$connection->createCommand()->insert('accounts', $model->attributes)->execute();

Which is less intuitive, and may even have compatibility problems if you are using a different kind of database.
Also, sometimes you need raw queries. In this case it's preferred to use prepared statements:
$result = $connection
    ->createCommand('SELECT id FROM accounts WHERE name=:name')
    ->bindValues([':name' => $name])
    ->queryColumn();

There is a good Yii2 security best practices guide on GitHub.

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A 38-year-old Rochester man faces several felony charges after allegedly breaking into an Austin home and threatening former tenants.
Scott Christopher Malo was charged Friday with two counts of burglary and one count of making terrorisitc threats, as well as two lesser assault charges.
In custody on $50,000 bail, or $10,000 with conditions, Malo is scheduled for arraignment July 15.
According to a criminal complaint, Malo entered a property in the 600 block of Seventh Avenue Northwest uninvited on Thursday afternoon. There he allegedly confronted two women, who the complaint describes as former tenants of his.
The complaint states that Malo was trying to get money and keys back from the women. When one of them started filming the incident, he allegedly grabbed her arm and tried to get her to stop filming. He also allegedly yelled racial slurs during the incident and made threats to the two.
Malo did retrieve a pair of keys and then left the residence, the complaint states. After police spoke with the female tenants, as well as a current landlord, they arranged a meeting with Malo at 104 First Street Southwest. There, he told police that the two women had previously "trashed" his rental property and that they owed him money.
Malo admitted that he went to their residence in the 600 block of Seventh Avenue Northwest and got a "little hot-headed." He also admitted to grabbing at the women when they began to use the camera, saying that they had no right to film him.
Malo added that he got into an argument with a current landlord, and he also said he used racially derogatory and possibly threatening language. However, Malo said he felt he had the right to enter the residence after knocking and getting no answer.
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Sylvia Anne Rosina Tremblay, President
Sylvia was born in De Hague, Holland and moved to Montreal, Canada with her family where French and English became her second and third languages. She has a Bachelor degree in Education and a Master's degree in Leadership Training, from Royal Roads University, in Victoria, BC Canada. She has spent the last 30 years in Senior Management in the social service sector. Her last position, before retiring from full time work, was CEO of Boys and Girls Club of South Coast, BC, a Club with 12 different club locations in the Greater Vancouver area of BC, Canada, over 300 staff and an annual budget of approximately $13M Cdn. She currently works part-time as a consultant for CARF International, preparing and surveying US and Canadian social service organizations, including Boys and Girls Clubs, who are looking to be accredited.Sylvia and her husband are now permanent residents of Mexico and live in Cabo San Lucas, BCS. She is the current President of the Board of Directors of Club de Ninos y Ninas, Baja California Sur.
Mauricio Balderrama, Secretary
Mauricio is the managing director of the Cabo Surf Hotel which is part of the Balderrama Hotel Collection, a regional chain with properties in the Copper Canyon of Mexico. He is an industrial engineer and studied at the Tecnologico de Monterrey. He later received an MBA from the University of Arizona. Mauricio has served as a corporate finance consultant in Mexico City and as CFO for a commercial real estate developer group in Monterrey, Mexico. Mauricio has a passion for community improvement and has been actively involved in Grupo Madrugadores de Los Cabos, Observatorio Ciudadano de Los Cabos, Consejo Ciudadano para la Seguridad Pública de Baja California Sur and CANIRAC. Each of these organizations address local community issues including reducing crime and violence and evaluating government policy. Mauricio is a proud father and husband and has dedicated much of his life to making Mexico a better place for its youth.
Philip is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS), a pre-eminent worldwide organization of real estate professionals (established in London, England in 1868) and a member of the Real Estate Institute of British Columbia (RIBC). He has more than 40 years of experience in multi-family and commercial real estate development and investments throughout Canada, the USA and the United Kingdom. He has held a real estate license in B.C. since 1976 and at one point in his career worked as a senior real estate appraiser for Revenue Canada in Toronto. In 2012, Philip was an Ernst & Young "Entrepreneur of the Year" finalist. Philip makes community involvement a priority. He has served as a board member for Leukemia Research Canada and as a trustee for the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame. Philip and his wife, Joyce, live in the Vancouver area but spend part of the winter at their home in Los Cabos, Mexico.
Raúl Godin Arroyo, Vice-President
Raul was born in Mexico City and, after marrying a woman from San José del Cabo, they moved with their 3 children to Los Cabos, 15 years ago. He is an Industrial Engineer from Universidad Iberoamericana and then got a Diploma degree in Finance at ITAM in Mexico City. He worked in several manufacturing companies until he moved to Los Cabos and became an entrepreneur in the construction supply chain industry as well as the food and drink supply to hotels and restaurants. During his professional career he has always been an active member of the gremial organization of the industry and has always been supportive of associations, such as Educa Mexico and World Vision. Since he moved to Los Cabos along with all his family, they became active participants in Casa Hogar Cabo San Lucas with the Padrinos del Corazon program; helping, entertaining and taking care of kids for more than 5 years. He then joined Boys and Girls Club of Mexico as a board member and started the Club in Los Cabos to then evolve into Boys and Girls Club of Baja California Sur. He believes that kids are the most needed group to support and guide, which is his motivation to serve the club.
Patricia is the President and Owner of Creative Consumer Research. She began her career with CCR in 1985, as Director of Field Service Operations in Houston. In 2002, Patricia transferred to CCR's Full Service Division and is responsible for business development involving the design and management of qualitative and quantitative research for clients. Her clients are companies in industries such as healthcare, public utilities, residential construction, consumer products, and mass transportation. Prior to joining Creative Consumer Research, Patricia was with Levi-Strauss. Patricia is also the proud Founder of the Green Scholarship Program. Created in 2006, Programa De Becas Green is a recognized Mexican AC and a division of the Charity Development of Los Cabos, a US recognized 501(c)(3) charity. The Green Scholarship Program provides full academic scholarships to students with economic needs.
Wim Selders, Advisor
Born in the Netherlands, Wim spent his youth and early adulthood in Europe. He served his mandatory military service in the Navy's Intelligence Department. His studies centered on mathematics, computer science, accountancy and economics along with four languages, graduating with the US equivalence of an MBA.
His career began as an accountant with clients in The Netherlands and Germany. After he had joined international companies, and traveled in Europe for business, he was eventually recruited to the United States for his international experience.
In the US, his career migrated from Finance to Manufacturing, then to Marketing and Sales, eventually to general management and finally as CEO for a small semiconductor laser company.
In the early 1990s he was asked to become a National Trustee for the Boys & Girls Clubs of America. He learned firsthand how amazingly the BGCs programs transform the lives of kids for the better.
In the late 1990s he visited a charity in the outskirts of Tijuana. He was appalled by the lack of opportunities for disadvantaged children to overcome the looming poverty in their life. Soon he learned that nothing effective like the BGCs existed in Mexico. He vowed to try and change that.
When he retired from business in 1999, he began the effort of bringing the concept of Boys & Girls Clubs to Mexico, beginning in Tijuana. After recruiting some friends in the US to help, they began an effort to try and convince high caliber business leaders in Mexico to take upon them this Hercules task of which they believed would, down the road, benefit Mexico significantly, and even its neighbors. They encountered a fair amount of resistance from the US and Mexico. It took quite a number years until business and government in Mexico came together, and the building of the first club could begin. Lacking a national support organization, it was important for the first club to be far more than just a club; it had to be a model club from which others could be copied, both the building lay-out, as well as the organization. The first club in Tijuana opened in 2008, an enormous accomplishment thanks to the amazing Tijuana Board of Directors. He remained involved with advice until after a national organization was established and was up and running. In 2020 he resigned from the Mexican national board.
He is still a national Trustee of the BGCA, recently named 'Life Time Trustee'.


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By Aaron GentzlerPosted January 8, 2019
"Trump Bonus"
In response to yesterday's forecast about 2019, a reader sees a real downside:
"If Trump goes to jail I look for a lot of civil unrest…could get nasty. I think that could be really bad for our economy."
And a reader questions…
"Why are companies touting the 'Trump bonus' that is supposedly giving people thousands of dollars every month?
"If you don't have money to buy stock, then you cannot participate. I believe that is all Trump is doing; to me it's a false claim."
Your Rundown for Tuesday, January 8, 2018:
Thousands Every Month?
Doing a cursory search of the term "Trump bonus", we find companies across the country are passing on some corporate tax savings to their employees.
Roughly 1 million American workers are receiving up to $3,000 extra annual income from their employers; not only that, some 40 companies are also increasing 401k matches and/or hourly wages.
These companies include:
U.S. Bankcorp
A couple things. The reader above claims "thousands of dollars every month". Nope. But some workers are getting extra annual income.
Second, you don't have to participate in a 401k to benefit. Even some hourly employees are benefiting from what's being touted as the "Trump bonus".
Long story short, the tax-cut "Trump bonus" effect is only available to employees of those 40 or so companies. Good work…if you can get it.
Market Rundown for Tues. January 8, 2018
S&P 500 futures are up 135 points to 2,366.
Oil is up 79 cents to $49.31 per barrel.
Gold's price is down $4.30 to $1,285.60.
Bitcoin is up $10.52 to $4,023.72.
Have a good day. We'll talk tomorrow.
For the Rundown,
Aaron Gentzler
TOPICS | Bitcoin, Gold, Oil, S&P 500
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Earnings reporting season is the next big hurdle for investors to watch, and the stock market's direction is riding on the results. With this in mind, analysts data has some bad and good news for companies in the weeks ahead. Today, I'll show you exactly how companies can outperform these estimates.
TOPICS | earnings report, S&P 500, sales, value
Aaron Gentzler is the publisher of Seven Figure Publishing. He is also the editor of The Rundown and has been with Agora Financial / Seven Figure Publishing since 2005. He's been covering technology and markets for over a decade.
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GM announced belt-tightening measures today and the automaker's stock rallies.
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While most of the commodity sector is getting beaten down right now, there's one commodity that's been on an uptrend since early 2013. And you're in luck... It's on a two-week dip in price right now, that could turn around any minute. Today, Greg Guenthner explains why this could signal a solid buying opportunity. Read on...
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Condolence: One of my very favorite memories was that day trip to Arlington all those years ago. Just one of a thousand days of a life, but that one has stuck with me because I got to talk to Mike all day. Rest in peace.
Our heartfelt condolences to Mrs D, Gretch, Heather, and family.
Condolence: Patty, Gretchen and Heather. my deepest sympathy for your loss. your family is in my thoughts and prayers during this difficult time.
Condolence: So sorry for your loss. Please know we are praying for all in your family!
Condolence: All I can say is that I enjoyed talking with your Dad. He was real, he listened, and when he spoke, I listened. There is no doubt that those traits exist in all of you. All our love.
Condolence: Gretchen, Heather, and Patty D... i am so sorry for your loss. Boy oh boy do i have great memories of Mike. He was one of a kind and they really dont make em like that anymore. He will certainly be missed but he and his memory will live on through his 3 ladies.
May God be with you during these challenging times.


"Meet Jesus in the Mass"
Communion, or Eucharist, is first and formost Christ drawing near to us in the grace of the Sacrament. At the Eucharist, we remember the great love of God and Jesus' saving grace; His life, death and resurrection, which brings us new life. We give thanks for the grace of the sacrament and the promise of full unity with God.
Does your child need to recieve their First Eucharist?
Children typically recieve their First Eucharist in the 2nd grade. Preparation for First Holy Communion is a 2-year process. Parish school children receieve formation during the school day. Public school and home-schooled children receieve formation in Religious Education classes. If your child needs to receive this sacrament (even if they are older than 2nd grade), please contact the Christian Formation office HERE.
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Bulgarian President nominates two Constitutional Court judges
September 15, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff judiciary, Rossen Plevneliev
Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev has nominated former prime minister Filip Dimitrov and constitutional law professor Mariana Karagyozova-Finkova to take seats on the Constitutional Court when four seats are vacated later this year.
Both nominees had extensive legal experience and were proven experts in the field of constitutional law, the presidency said in a statement on September 15.
Bulgaria's Constitutional Court has 12 judges, appointed for nine-year terms by the President, although only four are hand-picked by the head of state. Parliament and the judges from the country's two high courts – the Supreme Court of Cassation and the Supreme Administrative Court – elect four judges each, with the President only confirming their appointment by decree.
Plevneliev, however, caused a constitutional conundrum in 2012, when he refused to attend the ceremony to swear in new Constitutional Court judges before a controversial appointee, accused of corruption and conflict of interest, could take her oath. She later stepped down and another judge was elected by Parliament.
The line-up of the court changes every three years, when four sitting judges are replaced. This year, the number includes two presidential appointees and one apiece from the high courts and Parliament. The National Assembly is currently taking nominations for the vacancy it has to fill, with the deadline expiring on September 18.
Dimitrov was Bulgaria's first centre-right prime minister after the fall of communism, but served only one year in 1991/92, losing a vote of confidence after in-fighting in his ruling coalition. He later served as Bulgaria's ambassador to the UN and US, as member of European Parliament and was head of EU's diplomatic mission to Georgia in 2010/14. He has a degree in law from Sofia University.
Karagyozova-Finkova was the head of Sofia University's constitutional law department in 2003/13 and became a full professor in 2009.
(Photos of Karagyozova-Finkova and Dimitrov provided by president.bg)
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After too many cookies with our milkshake and coffee one morning my youngest and I were eager to get out into the beautiful Melbourne sunshine and run, climb and slide off some of that sugar fueled energy. That's how we came across and developed a deep adoration for Halley Park in Bentleigh. Although situated on busy Jasper Road, the actual playground area is nestled back closer to the suburban streets making you forget about the traffic and the everyday chaos that's taking place right in front of you.
Lots of colour to spark interest and excitement.
This is a great local playground with heaps to do and an area big enough and welcoming enough to make it useable and enjoyable even on the busiest of days and on weekends. And you can beat it gets busy, particularly by locals and neighbours who stream here to enjoy all the available opportunities for outdoor fun and recreation. Shade sails that will remind you of a circus big top create a beautiful retreat on hot and sunny days which is a pleasing bonus.
The first thing you notice, other than your child taking off at record speed is the brightness of the playground, so colorful and inviting and with so much to do there's sure to be something to suit all park experts aswell as kids of all ages and developmental stages.There are slides that twist and poles that turn and frogs to leap over. There's a few educational installations placed strategically about such as a noughts and crosses board, bead frame and a store window for a bit of role play. Children love to chase and race each other over and under the bridges that join the landings and slide off to make a quick getaway from each other, and from their parents too.
Climb, run, swing and fly.
Older kids will be fascinated by and tempted to climb the massive monkey bar teepee and be king of Bentleigh castle. It's a high structure and as a parent it can be daunting to watch your kids scurry up particularly when a couple of pocket rockets are vying for prime position high on top. However if it helps your nerves at all, there's pine mulch underneath.
The monkey bar Teepee is not for the faint hearted.
Surrounding the play area is a circular track which is perfect for bikes, roller blades, scooters or just some lazy pram pushing. Great place for practicing on training wheels or maybe a chance to try without. There's a basketball hoop too so bring a ball. Infact make the most of the lush green surroundings by bringing a picnic, frisbee, kite or just run around aimlessly without a care and nowhere particularly to go.
Shade sails that are as colourful as a circus big top.
The park is also separated into an on-leash and off-leash area for doggy visitors.There are signs to point you in the right direction. I'm very envious of anyone whose dog can either read the signs or better yet sticks to their side of the park. But great to know that kids can play with or without their furry friends nearby. However the park is not fenced off at any point and although its layout does provide for a good visual of all the area, I strongly suggest you keep vigilant.
Finally if you still have some energy or kilojoules to burn head to the exercise stations and get started on a circuit. These small fitness activities are popping up at the occasional park in Bayside and I have seen kids have a great time on them. I'm not sure if they're actually performing the moves as described but they are swinging off the chin up bar, sliding down the sit up bench and hopping over the step up steps, which actually sounds a lot more fun than the regular way. We tend to spend more time in this part than any other of the park having to complete three circuits before we can leave, including the warm down and stretch too of course.
The exercise stations are good for you and fun too.
If you arrive early enough there is a beautiful undercover rotunda with built in tables and chairs located right by the barbeques and bins. These are often snatched up by larger groups or parties. However if you would like to hire one for your own purposes then the expectation by Glen Eira council is that you will ring them and do it that way. I'm not sure if there's a cost involved or how they police it, but jump on the website and make a call. I believe the waiting list may be as long as a month in advance so it would pay to be organized.
A rotunda is available for hire.
Spring is definitely here Melbourne and now is the time to ready ourselves with sun on our skin and glare in our eyes and this is a lovely place to do just that. Bring your family and friends and see how easy it is to spend a whole day at Halley Park. Your wallet wont even feel lighter as you head home. Having said that the ice cream truck does make regular visits here and up the road are a lot of lovely shops and cafes, even a milk bar. So if you need to restock your supplies at any time or the cries of "I'm hungry" start ringing out of mouths of those who just ate lunch you don't have far to go.
I always used to call that monkey bar teepee the spiderweb tower. I think they are an essential part of any playground.
Are there public toilets at the park?


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A Monaco, les têtes sont lourdes mais on pense déjà à la saison prochaine
Monaco narrowly missed second place in Ligue 1 by conceding a draw at Lens on Saturday evening and will have to go through play-offs to try to play in the group stage of the Champions League. A blow for the players.
Heads were still heavy this Sunday in Monaco. For 30 minutes and until the 96th of its match in Lens on Saturday evening, ASM was directly qualified for the Champions League. But with a draw conceded at the last minute, the Monegasque club will finally have to pass two preliminary rounds before hoping to enter the group stage of the most beautiful of European competitions. Last year, Shakhtar ended their dream after a cruel scenario. Scorer against his side in the return match, Ruben Aguilar still claimed a few weeks ago to have "left part of (him) there". However, the time is not to prepare for this meeting but to rest.
Arrived around 4 a.m. this Sunday in the Principality, Philippe Clement's men met this Sunday noon for an end-of-season meeting, before everyone went on vacation. The latter was short-lived. The players were still saddened not to have managed to clinch second place, but the coach and sporting director Paul Mitchell wanted to congratulate them for this end to the season and these nine wins in a row in the final sprint, as had been done in the locker room of Bollaert President Dmitry Rybolovlev on Saturday evening. The two men then wished the players a good rest, after having communicated their pre-season program to them. The return to La Turbie is scheduled for June 18, the players should then complete an internship in Faro, Portugal.
The contours of the workforce
If he has already announced his departure from the Rock recognizing having experienced "one of the most difficult moments of (his) career" in Monaco, Cesc Fabregas will no longer be there at the start. Also free, Djibril Sidibé, barred by Ruben Aguilar or Vanderson on the right side of the Monegasque defense, has little chance of finding his way back to La Turbie for the recovery.
This is also the case of Aurélien Tchouaméni who allows himself a few days of reflection before deciding between Real Madrid and Liverpool, despite the instance, still recently, of Paris-Saint-Germain. Very criticized when he arrived but in marked improvement at the end of the season like his last performance in Lens, Alexander Nübel should honor his second year on loan. Sofiane Diop, meanwhile, although little used by Philippe Clement, would tend to stay and fight to earn his place. Trained in Monaco, Benoît Badiashile will certainly be coveted this summer but the club lover feels good in the Principality and does not plan to leave as the holidays approach.
Finally, concerning the striker Wissam Ben Yedder, his desires elsewhere could be hampered by his salary conditions. Few clubs would be ready to match his current salary (around 650,000 euros per month) when the recent dad will turn 32 next August. On the arrivals side, Paul Mitchell did not wait until the end of the season to activate a few leads and would have targeted, as recently mentioned by the Team, three positions in particular: a defensive midfielder, a winger and a striker.
What about the future of Oleg Petrov and Paul Mitchell?
His projection and his speaking out in the media during the season suggest that Paul Mitchell, in great demand in England, will still be there next season, but that is not certain. The same goes for Oleg Petrov. He was down at the end of the championship and many sources announce him leaving. He could as well stay at the club but in a different role from that of vice-president which he occupies until then. Installed in the authorities to represent AS Monaco, in the League as in the ECA, the Russian should reveal himself a little more soon concerning his future. Philippe Clement has won the trust of his president and his locker room, which he has always pushed to believe in "something big" even in the most difficult times.


The most magical dessert we've ever had! Get them while they last.
We took our churros and made them magical! They are baked to perfection, and dusted with cherry, sour apple, and blue raspberry sugar. A true fantasy!
Known for his style and sass, Ronnie is Chuck E.'s most fabulous friend. Hailing from another dimension, Ronnie is all about making everyday situations more magical. Anywhere Ronnie goes he is sure to shine.


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random thoughts about songs – Phil Collins
Posted: December 26, 2011 in Music, review
In the song "Something Happened On The Way To Heaven" by Phil Collins, there's a line that says:
"I don't know; I don't have all the answers."
I heard the song not too long ago, and I've thought of that line several times recently when I've been tempted to fret over something that's out of my control. I find just thinking of those words freeing; I feel like the singer is saying he's not holding himself to that impossible standard of understanding everything that's going on in his life. At the same time, the way Phil sings that line – in my mind anyway – it sounds optimistic, as if he's responding to someone who's trying to bring him down (you know, like those fretting voices in your head) by admitting his shortcoming, but not being held back by it.
Great job, Phil!
favorite A-Team scenes
Posted: December 22, 2011 in favorite-scenes, quotes, Television
Two of my favorite A-Team quotes/scenes from the episode Bounty:
1) Murdock is abducted at gunpoint from the hospital. As the kidnappers are driving away, Murdock rambles on – in typical Murdock fashion – but his nonsensical chatter makes one of the kidnappers furious. He finally snaps at Murdock, "Are you crazy?!" Murdock replies, quite logically, "Of COURSE I'm crazy. You got me out of the Psychiatric Ward at the VA hospital, stupid!" 😀
2) The others are racing against the clock to find Murdock, and Hannibal wants Face to scam some info they need in less than five minutes. Face agrees, but he says that he'll need BA's help. BA scoffs that he's "no good at running scams." Face replies that he'll do all the work; "All you do is enter on cue and say what I tell you… It's just like being an actor."
At this Face looks at Hannibal, who turns to look back at Face. Their wordless exchange is a clever instance of how, while the show doesn't break the fourth wall, they sure are pushing on it! (Plus, the scene makes me wonder whether they're making a dig at someone on the cast or crew…)