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Dr. Samuel Murumba has taught at Brooklyn Law School since 1992 after teaching at Monash University Law School in Melbourne, Australia for many years. He teaches, writes, and serves on professional and policy bodies in the fields of intellectual property and human rights. He is affiliated with the Dennis J. Block Center for the Study of International Business Law and is an Edward V. Sparer Public Interest Law Fellowship Committee Member.
A member of the American Law Institute since 1995, and an adviser on the ALI Project on Intellectual Property: Principles Governing Jurisdiction, Choice of Law, and Judgments in Transnational Disputes, Professor Murumba has also served as the Intellectual Property Section Editor of the Australian Business Law Review, and as a member of the Law Council of Australia's Intellectual Property Committee. In November 2011, he was elected to ALAI-USA (Association Littéraire et Artistique Internationale).
Professor Murumba has been actively involved in the mission of several organizations committed to human rights. In 2009 the Human Rights Watch Board of Directors honored him by electing him Emeritus Director, after serving as a member of the Board of Directors for twelve years. He serves on the Board's Policy Committee and the Advisory Committees of the HRW Women's Rights Division and the Africa Division. He has also served as a member of the New York City Bar's Committee on Human Rights and he is an Advocate of the High Court of Uganda.
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Posted on March 8, 2013 March 8, 2013 by Ruby Carat
Marvin Hawkins in The Believers: "I will defend them at every turn"
137 Films' The Believers played a packed house at the Cinequest International Film Festival last Friday night in San Jose, California. It was Cold Fusion Now's third viewing.
Eli Elliott attended the film's premier in the Chicago Film Festival and his video review is here. I caught screenings at the Studio City Film Festival in Los Angeles and the Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, California.
The film attempts to "show the way science is done in America", using one of the most pathological sagas in science history. Directors Monica Long-Ross and Clayton Brown had a tough task using as example the content of cold fusion, also called low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR), lattice-assisted nuclear reactions (LANR), and quantum fusion.
The movie portrays the consequences of Drs. Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons' announcement of their discovery of fusion-sized energy from a table-top electrolytic cell. Initial excitement lasted a matter of weeks. When elite American scientists failed to reproduce the effect, accusations of delusion, and even fraud, circulated widely.
The new, clean energy claim that defied conventional theory dropped into the TV/satellite environment, bypassing the mainstream print hierarchy, and the warring domains retrieved Greek tragedy, which the filmmakers realize with a sad, pessimistic tone throughout the movie.
21rst century sacrifice
In the ancient Mediterranean, tragedy brought the villages together through the social ritual of theater. The tragedy of cold fusion was set in the global theater just as digital technology brought the world together with fax machines and 24-7 instant news coverage.
Greek tragedies were traditionally performed in late-March and early-April, with the original ancient spectacles only lasting three days, while the tragedy of cold fusion continues nearly a quarter-of-a-century later.
Origins of Greek tragedy are uncertain. However the word τραγῳδία meant "song for the sacrificed goat".
In the case of cold fusion, two men who dared challenge the scientific doctrine of their time were sacrificed for the status quo of political and financial favor.
Death threats were made, children taunted, and normally decent scientists threw tantrums, acting like bullies. Careers were destroyed. Anyone able to reproduce the experiments was shunned from mainstream science. Stanley Pons opted out of the field long ago, giving up his citizenship to the U.S. when he left the country, and Martin Fleischmann, who continued to pursue research throughout the rest of his career, has now crossed-over. (Read the Infinite Energy obituary here.)
The movie tells the story of this sacrifice through the recollections of those that lived it, from both sides of the amphitheater.
Characters in a Marathon battle
Edmund Storms provides an articulate Chorus. A former Los Alamos National Lab nuclear chemist who measured tritium from his early Fleischmann-Pons experiments, proving a nuclear origin of the reaction, Storms describes a chronology of events with a reasoned, matter-of-factness.
He has seen the reaction take place time and time again since 1989, and put experimental skills to documenting the anomalous effects. Now with a new description of the nuclear active environment (NAE), Storms focuses on science, not drama.
The narrative is grounded with his chronicle.
But Robert Park, the former Director of Public Information for the American Physical Society (APS), draws himself as the villain.
At the APS meeting on May 1, 1989, a program was choreographed by physicists with competing interests, as noted in the film by science historian Thomas Gieryn. That session ended in an absurd vote on whether or not cold fusion was dead – by show of hands. The vote was led by Steven Jones then of Brigham Young University, who was working on another form of unusual muon catalyzed fusion already dubbed 'cold fusion'. That meeting defined the status of research for the next 24 years: untouchable.
In the film, Robert Park refers to scientists who pursue this research as "a cult of believers", from which the movie's title derives. But Park really speaks about himself.
He believes that nuclear reactions only happen in high-energy plasmas, like the Sun. Park points to the lack of radiation and neutrons from cold fusion experiments (which normally occur in hot fusion reactions) revealing his allegiance to the standard model of nuclear reaction created a century ago.
Robert Park refuses to look at any contrary research data because of his belief.
Empirical facts show otherwise.
A cold fusion energy cell is small, using as fuel the hydrogen from water.
Excess heat experiments have been confirmed again and again by first-class labs around the world, and anomalous effects now include low-energy nuclear transmutations (LENT).
Even as researchers try to form a theory to model this elusive reaction, there are an increasing number of commercially-minded participants entering the field.
But The Believers does not portray this success. The documentary is tightly focused on the back-and-forth battle between the reality of empirical data and the dogma of conventional theory.
When Robert Park criticizes Fleischmann and Pons saying "this was not their field", and claims that Martin Fleischmann's career was based "on one experiment and not much else", Michael McKubre rightly describes Fleischmann's unique skills and achievements that put him at the top of his field in the world.
But not every punch was countered.
Irving Dardik, portrayed madly amidst piles of paper and books, has his Superwave concept in "quotations" during lower-third text, making it appear speculative, without mentioning it was Dardik's "Superwaves" that brought Energetics Technologies cells to 25x excess energy return, attracting the interest of Michael McKubre and the lab at SRI International.
While making a disclaimer referencing Dardik's earlier medical practice legal problems, the film fails to make clear that he successfully helped Fleischmann regain his health to the point where he was able to travel to Rome and accept the Minoru Toyoda Gold Medal Award from the International Society of Condensed Matter Nuclear Science (ISCMNS)for his achievements.
In the film, one of the strongest validations of Fleischmann and Pons' accomplishment comes from Marvin Hawkins, the then-graduate student who ran the lab of Stanley Pons at the University of Utah during all the hoopla. His determined endorsement for the scientists he worked with, intellectually and emotionally, was rational, and powerful.
"What we did was correct…" he states.
"I will defend them at every turn."
James Martinez of Cold Fusion Radio is perhaps the most enthusiastic voice in the movie. He opens the first scenes (and the trailer) conveying an urgency for change: "Cold fusion is the key to liberating the human race." Filmed while speaking with Edmund Storms live on the radio, you can download that interview here.
High-school student Eric Golab provides the only real hope for the future, as an honest inquiry from youth furnishes what's sorely missing from mainstream science.
The filmmakers repeatedly make the point they aren't "trying to show whether cold fusion is real or not". The content of the film is not the science of cold fusion. A viewer who knows nothing of cold fusion before viewing the film, will most likely know little about cold fusion afterwards, save there was a lot of ruckus.
Through archival film and the words of original participants going at it cabeza-y-cabeza, we re-live the painful drama of a major discovery suppressed, and its discoverers crushed.
The abysmal emotional bottom of the film overwhelms any logical argument on whether or not the phenomenon is real.
Indecision didn't turn out well for ancient tragedians. However, it was a conscious choice to give pseudo-skeptic and former-Information Officer Robert Park as much weight as long-time laboratory scientists Edmund Storms and Michael McKubre. In some way, this choice validates Park's negligent ignorance, of which he is apparently proud. The filmmakers decline to say why they respect his position on the matter.
There is no one book, or movie, that can communicate the simultaneous eruption of interest, excitement, fear, and loathing in 1989; it is difficult to capture this story in its fullest (though Eugene Mallove's Fire From Ice comes closest).
But Greek tragedies were often in threes, with a final fourth act of comedy, and The Believers begs for a sequel, or two, or … While this first installment will solicit sympathy for the actors in the drama, further episodes are needed to illuminate.
Here's an audio recording of the directors answering questions from the audience after the San Jose screening.
Cold fusion now and then
The screening at Studio City Film Festival in Los Angeles, California, was in an actor's studio and performance space. The intimate setting featured small tables and chairs for the patrons.
I introduced myself to the Festival organizers as a representative from one of the pro-cold fusion groups in the film, and that I was a colleague of James Martinez. I gave them t-shirts with Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons' stencil-style images, and they let me put some t-shirts, calendars, and stickers on my table, which drew a few excellent conversation, though sadly only a handful of folks showed up for the movie.
Unfortunately, I was unable to represent Cold Fusion Now in San Jose.
After the show, dragging a giant green recycle Co-op "We're stronger together" bag stuffed with goodies, I felt orphaned like the little match girl.
Most of the audience left right after the film, while I stayed to record the Q&A with the directors. By the time I got out of the theater, only a small crowd remained in the small second-floor lobby area.
I went around, "Hi, would you like a free Cold Fusion Now sticker?"
"No" was the answer I got more often than not.
I did get a chance to say hi to new pals Bob Ellefson and his wife Yvonne who both attended the show in support of this science. They were pretty much the only cold fusion-friendly faces in the leftover crowd that I saw.
Oracle at Delphi
Save us Goddess of the Machine
In the earliest form of Greek tragedy, the protagonist is often miraculously rescued at the end by deus ex machina, or 'god by machine', referring to the sudden appearance of a god or goddess swooping down on-stage in a crane-like contraption to save the day.
The Believers concludes with a finale of woe.
Park's last arrows include a shallow disclosure that he doesn't care whether or not the deluded believers continue their research. "It may not be good science, but it's science."
Then, in a kind of opposite-deus ex machina, MIT theorist Peter Hagelstein, who had barely shown up in the movie thus far, is in full-screen close-up, offering a dark vision of defeat, where future historians pick through the early rubble of failure only to see that some good had been done.
It is true that without the support of mainstream science, whose financial and intellectual resources have been entirely absent in this field for twenty-four years, only a lucky breakthrough seems able to shake the torpor. People do not yet realize the extent to which we've been robbed of a peaceful, clean-energy lifestyle.
"Tragedy, then, is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude; in language embellished with each kind of artistic ornament, the several kinds being found in separate parts of the play; in the form of action, not of narrative; with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its katharsis of such emotions. . ."
Aristotle Poetics 350BC translated by S. H. Butcher
The Believers is Act 1, displaying fully the pity and fear generated by a profound discovery.
This story won't be complete until catharsis, and Act 2, in which a multitude of Heroes realize their Nature, and save a world of species from sacrifice.
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3 Replies to "Marvin Hawkins in The Believers: "I will defend them at every turn""
Arthur Robey says:
Ruby Carot quit your day job. You are Hired. That was exceptional read, if a bit harrowing.
What a tragedy. We came this close to surviving.
Greg Goble says:
"The Believers" Thanks for your coverage… I almost made it to San Jose…
As I advocate cold fusion I correspond with others who are so happy with LENR science that you can almost imagine them wagging their tail… one of these is Doktor Bob. He advocates cold fusion and wants to gift to the the cold fusion community.
"Present to Jet Energy"
http://www.drboblog.com/present-to-jet-energy/
Doktor Bob is one zany cold fusion science dog who chops up this bit of prose.
Doing Cold Fusion
This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will
Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain
And a hundred percent reason to remember the name!
"Whether you are doing cold fusion or just protecting your science turf it is very important to have a high level of self confidence.", says Bob. He does both and has it.
"Overview of Theoretical and Experimental Progress
in Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR)", Francesco CELANI
National Institute of Nuclear Physics, Frascati National Laboratories.
Vice-President of International Society for Condensed Matter Nuclear Science
CERN Colloquium, Geneva, March 22nd, 2012
http://indico.cern.ch/getFile.py/access?resId=3&materialId=slides&confId=177379
DrBob says:
Dear Mr Goble
Thank you for the "guest spot"
I always though that Water(Hydrogen) would be the energy of the future however I never expected to see that in my lifetime.
When I heard about Cold Fusion and after getting some confirmations from… "lets say interesting sources" I decided to look further into it.
I was frustrated to learn that similar claims of the Fleischmann / Pons was already made 100 years ago in Sweden with Production of H4 when doing Electrolytic Experiments With Palladium.
I believe that if/when Cold Fusion develops into a viable commercial solution it will start not only a technological revolution but also a social revolution of proportions the world have never seen before.
I am at a point where I just want to know the truth, whatever it turns out to be!
I listen to "Remember The Name" every day to remind myself that Positive Thinking is the strongest tool I have to add value. Positive thinking can change the world, possible also our understanding of the laws of physics.
Peace Out, Love / Dr Bob
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Can Bangladesh overcome the odds?
Anisur Rahman
The fate of Bangladesh in the ongoing SAFF Championship was no longer in their hands after losing 2-0 to Maldives in their third and penultimate match of the group stage, but it all changed on Sunday night after India beat Nepal 1-0 to keep their and Bangladesh's hope of qualifying to the final.
Bangladesh and India find themselves in a must-win situation against Nepal and hosts Maldives, respectively, in their fourth and final match of the group stage to feature in the final on October 16 at Maldives National Stadium in Male. On the other hand, a draw is good enough for both Nepal and Maldives.
For Bangladesh, a do-or-die scenario is nothing new as they had found themselves in such a situation in eight out of the previous 12 editions of the tournament.
In those eight occasions, Bangladesh had succumbed to pressure five times, including the last edition of the tournament in Dhaka; while one of the three instances of success included their debut appearance in 1995 in which Bangladesh had beaten Nepal 2-0 to advance to the semifinals.
During the fourth edition of the tournament in Goa in 1999, the men in red and green thrashed Pakistan 4-0 to emerge as group champions on goal difference in a three-team group.
The last time Bangladesh had crossed such a hurdle was in the 8th SAFF Championship in Dhaka in 2009, where they managed to beat Sri Lanka 2-1 to secure a spot in the semifinals.
Prior 2009, Bangladesh had failed twice in attempting to turn around such a tight corner, needing outright victories in both cases. First, during 1997 in Nepal, where Bangladesh surrendered 0-3 against India, followed by a 0-1 defeat against hosts Sri Lanka during the tournament's 7th edition in 2008.
Post-2009, however, Bangladesh have been miserable in the last four editions of the tournaments in which they were knocked out three times -- during 2011, 2013 and 2018 in India, Nepal and Dhaka, respectively -- in the face of pressure-cooker, must-win situations.
In the ninth edition in Delhi, the men in red and green went all out against Maldives in the last group match to play the semifinals but were eliminated instead, having suffered a horrible 1-3 loss to the Islanders.
In the very next edition held in Kathmandu, Bangladesh again found themselves needing no less than a win but despite taking a lead against Pakistan, they eventually lost 1-2.
The latest setback happened in Dhaka in 2018, where the hosts had a great start in the game's 12th edition with a back-to-back win over Bhutan and Pakistan, and needed just a draw against Nepal to play the final after a long wait of five tournaments. However, Nepal had other ideas and handed a convincing 2-0 defeat to Bangladesh, who were eliminated again, but on the virtue of goal difference this time around.
Now, it remains to be seen whether the men in red and green can overcome the challenge of Nepal to play the final of the regional football extravaganza after 16 long years.
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10/10/2018 - Fairfield County Five to Present at Global Innovation Summit - Effort Seeks to Highlight Investment Opportunities in Fairfield County
Fairfield First Selectman Mike Tetreau will appear as a panelist at the upcoming 26th Annual CAST-USA (Chinese Association for Science & Technology, USA) Annual Convention and Global Innovation Summit to be held October 12-14, 2018 in New Haven, Connecticut.
First Selectman Tetreau will be delivering remarks concerning investment opportunities in Fairfield County and the Fairfield County Five, a regional economic development partnership involving the localities of Fairfield, Greenwich, Stamford, Norwalk, and Westport.
First Selectman Tetreau's presentation will highlight the State's and region's attractiveness for business investment, especially vis-a-vis New York City, in terms of cost, quality of life and talent. Addressing the theme of the convention, First Selectman Tetreau will emphasize the State's leadership position when it comes to talent and innovation, ranking third for percentage of employees with advanced degrees, and having a 33% higher concentration of high-tech workers than the national average. This abundance of talent and the region's proximity—with access to one-third of the nation's employment and gross domestic product—is one reason why the area is home to more than a dozen Fortune 500 companies.
First Selectman Tetreau will also discuss the Fairfield County Five initiative which was launched last year. Comprised of the chief elected officials and economic development leaders of the five member communities, the group has sponsored to date several events in New York City which tout Fairfield County as a premier business location. Most recently, the group held a business outreach and networking event last month at the Historic Hippodrome Building that was focused on NYC-based tech start-ups.
"Our goals are to attract new investment and to encourage companies to locate to, and to expand their operations in, Fairfield County," commented Fairfield Director of Economic Development Mark Barnhart. "We've got a great story to tell, and, with this new collaborative initiative, we can reach an even broader audience with our message," he added.
Fairfield First Selectman Mike Tetreau echoed these comments noting, "We sometimes take for granted all of the things that make our region such a great place to live, work and grow a business: great schools, a highly educated, talented and productive workforce, vibrant downtowns and an enviable quality of life. On top of that, we have much lower business costs than New York City—or, for that matter, the rest of the Tri-State Area—without compromising on that sense of connectedness."
The Fairfield County Five is planning additional events as well as site familiarization tours to business prospects in the coming months.
The Chinese Association for Science & Technology, USA is a non-profit organization whose mission is to build relationships and exchange programs between China and the United States, to promote traditional Chinese culture and to provide networking opportunities between scholars and professionals. Founded in 1992 in New York City, the organization has more than a ten-thousand members, the majority of whom are Chinese-American professionals holding advanced degrees in science and technology, education, business, law, medicine, art and other fields of endeavor. CAST-USA has grown into one of the most influential Chinese American professional organizations with sixteen regional chapters and 12 liaison offices in China.
For additional information, please contact Fairfield Director of Economic Development Mark Barnhart.at (203) 256-3120 or mbarnhart@fairfieldct.org.
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Last year, the team had a season that left them wanting more. Although they fought hard and were able to come up with a handful of great wins, the team fell short of making the playoffs. However, this season the team is turning a new leaf and playing strong in order to show their opponents and fans alike that they are built differently.
The Texans opened up their season with two strong wins. The first win was a 1-0 victory over Azle. The victory saw a goal from Mike Garcia on an assist from Brayden Bailey. Their second victory was a 2-0 victory over Fort Worth Boswell in which freshman Grayson Bowler one goals as well as tallied an assist while Alex Ekstrand scored a goal of his own for the Texans. Although the team fought hard in their third game of the season against Corsicana in a tournament, the Texans fell 0-1.
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How do you feel about vengeance?
Re: How do you feel about vengeance?
So if I understand you correctly, you feel there is no role for vengeance in the modern world, also justice equals vengeance, so is there a role for justice in the modern world?
Correct. Justice had always been synonymous with vengeance. There is a societal notion that vengeance equates to some form of atonement. People pleading for justice typically desire some equal form of retribution as if it restors some kind of moral equilibrium. As long as that is the accepted view of justice I will not support it. I support more productive and rational measures.
Uummm, no. The two are not universally accepted as synonymous. That may be your opinion, but you are overstating your influence. In current usage, vengeance is typically considered to refer to actions outside the area of the formal justice system.
In addition, a major goal of the justice system is to isolate troublemakers from society to protect society. Any thoughts on that goal?
I feel people are entitled to a certain sense of vengeance, that they have a right to seek revenge for wrongs that have been done to them. However, individuals must only be entitled to this, and not whole groups, otherwise it would create an unstable situation. Furthermore, an individual's right to revenge must be regulated by the law, and not by individuals.
In other words, the modern penal code (at least in western countries) is premised on two principles, that of punishing the individual for the crime they have committed, and of safeguarding the rest of society from them. But I believe that the penal code must be updated to reflect the desire for revenge on the part of the individual(s) who has/have been victimized by the perpertrator, since harm was done to them. The act of punishing the aggressor for the crime doesn't go far enough, because it involves the state acting to punish the individual, rather than including the opinion(s) of the victim(s).
So what should have been done (in addition to what actually happened) to Bernie Madoff?
Those who were scammed by him then have a right to directly determine, and not just the state who represents them.
Ah so... I get it. True vengeance. OK. So what role does the State (the Justice system) have in you alternate world?
Do the rabble determine sentence only, or also guilt and innocence?
The natural evidence of ignorance and a corrupt heart.
How do you dissuade people from vengeance?
Why would I even try?
Every moment of existence finds us manifesting who and what we are, at this moment! No one can, or should, be talked out of being who and what they are.
Unless who and what they are is someone capable of being talked out of being who and what they are.
Nothing is that is not a feature of the overall Perfection of the Universe, Here! Now!
One moment might actually find me attempting to 'talk them out of' such a foolish act.
Another moment might find me slipping them a knife.
All depends on who and what I Am at that moment.
How can we convince people not to make policy choices based on vengeance?
You cannot. Vengeance is of the ego, and unless someone transcends the ego into Enlightenment/unconditional Love, the fruits of life in Hell continue to display such goodies as hatred and vengeance and ignorance!
One can "be the change that you want to see", become Enlightened/unconditionally Loving, and people will come to you asking about that 'Light'!!
The need to convince someone is all ego!
To be honest, I treat vengeance as any other thing in life; I don't care much about it. I do indeed feel that vengeance is desired at times, for faults committed against me and not compensated, but in those cases I tend to question myself: Is the vengeance worth it? Clearly sometimes wrongs can be made accidentally and without intention to harm, but harm the recipient of the wrong so deeply that one feels that revenge would be justified. In other cases, petty things are done on purposes, full of a desire to harm and to impair, but cause little damage because of unsuccessful strategies. And for many times has a person done someone harm for his own benefit, but without intending to actually produce so much distress. Must we punish for the intentions or the consequences? Should the guilty party's past behavior affect ours? Must we act in prevision of the future, or as retaliation for the past? And if the act of vengeance occurs, to what degree shall it be applied? Too many questions, with far too many possible answers, all varying alongside the circumstances and desired outcomes. Even if you limit the definition of revenge to "an act of retaliation motivated by a desire for emotional self-satisfaction", it must be noted that a desire to "get back" at another often comes with other emotional reasons, many times linked to actual material goals and preoccupations. You cannot simply trace a line between a desire for vengeance and a wish to actually produce certain results on reality, and expect things to stay where they are without crossing the dividing. Sometimes the line fluctuates and curves, and at other times it fades and shortens, becoming nothing but slim shadow, and sometimes disappearing entirely, as both borders meld and pour into each other, becoming where emotional reasons are fused with materialistic ones, and vice-versa, often obstructing each other or even smoothing the path. Say that a man hurts another on purpose, and you are the victim. Would you hurt the other if such behavior would have a price? How about if your emotions were mixed, and anger was mixed with sadness? What if you were convinced that showing the depth of your hurt would fix things, and proving that your anger was fearsome indeed would contribute towards this goal? And if certain material subjects in life troubled you, and venting your emotions on people would help? I'm sure you can imagine multiple scenarios in which really the difference between vengeance for vengeance's sake and vengeance for purely utilitarian reasons is not that distinct. You would have to first explain to me how hurting someone to show just how much pain it causes and thus be emotionally soothed is not useful. Emotions are very very important, and as long as the consequences of freeing them from a cage of logic and reasoning are not too great the act of revenge is good and useful, in that it brings happiness. And since happiness, really, is the ultimate goal of life, and both motivates and justifies everything, as long as it does not diminish the total happiness of all involved parties, revenge is, in a way, motivated by utility.
I think vengeance is all around us. Our punitive system is a good example I think. Restorative justice is just to good for some people. But what one wishes on another will reflect back some way. To get out of a vicious cycle, if nothing else, would be to desire to do no harm.
Yes I believe you're right that most wouldn't. That's the beauty of having different perspectives. This isn't some thing I made up.
"Vengeance is mine saith the Lord". No human being can do it without bad karma. Only the impersonal justice/karma system of Nature/God carries it out properly.
"(1) Retribution is done for a wrong, while revenge may be done for an injury or harm or slight and need not be for a wrong.
(2) Retribution sets an internal limit to the amount of punishment, according to the seriousness of the wrong, whereas revenge internally need set no limit to what is inflicted. Revenge by its nature need set no limits, although the revenger may limit what he inflicts for external reasons.
(3) Revenge is personal: "this is because of what you did to my ___" (self, father, group, and so on). Whereas the agent of retribution need have no special or personal tie to the victim of the wrong for which he exacts retribution.
(4) Revenge involves a particular emotional tone, pleasure in the suffering of another, while retribution either need involve no emotional tone, or involves another one, namely, pleasure at justice being done. Therefore, the thirster after revenge often will want to experience (see, be present at) the situation in which the revengee is suffering, whereas with retribution there is no special point in witnessing its infliction.
(5) There need be no generality in revenge. Not only is the revenger not committed to revenging any similar act done to anyone; he is not committed to avenging all done to himself. Whether he seeks vengeance, or thinks it appropriate to do so, will depend upon how he feels at the time about the act of injury. Whereas the imposer of retribution, inflicting deserved punishment for a wrong, is committed to (the existence of some) general principles (prima facie) mandating punishment in other similar circumstances. Furthermore, if possible these general standards will be made known and clear in the process of retribution; even those who act in retribution against the guilty agents of a torturing dictatorship, keeping their identities secret, will make the principles known.
In drawing these contrasts between retribution and revenge, I do not deny that there can be mixed cases, or that people can be moved by mixed motives, partially a desire for retribution, partially a desire for revenge, or that a stated desire can mask another one that is operative."


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hould Leonard Fournette sit out next season? Some football analysts suggest exactly that, since he'd still be ineligible for the NFL draft. Would you sit out? Would you consider it a selfish act or taking care of his future?


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John Howard's despicable legacy
Former Australian Prim Minister John Howard
by Chloe Rafferty
2001 was a watershed in Australian politics—the year that the Liberal federal government, led by John Howard, enacted the "Pacific solution" of offshore imprisonment of refugees and asylum seekers, thumbed its nose at the Aboriginal stolen generations, joined the US-led "war on terror" and participated in the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, which became Australia's longest war. It was a year that was decisive in shifting Australian political culture to the right and creating a meaner, nastier society and a more violent and repressive state.
With the release of government cabinet papers twenty years later—mandated for 1 January every year—you might expect some searing indictments of the Howard government from political commentators and journalists surveying its legacy. You would be disappointed.
The Guardian pre-empted the release of the 2001 cabinet papers with an interview with Howard, in which the former prime minister claimed that his refugee policies "saved lives". A piece in the Conversation bemoaned the end of the "far more nuanced view on climate change" that the Liberals apparently held in the halcyon Howard days, despite Howard refusing to sign on to the criminally low-ball emission targets of the Kyoto Protocol.
The ABC's James Glenday was quick to note the cultural sensitivity Howard's cabinet demonstrated in their eagerness to ensure no member of the community felt vulnerable after 9/11 due to their "ethnic or cultural heritage". This is Olympic medal gaslighting from journalists keen to rehabilitate a racist, union busting war hawk. It's all the more galling given the enduring negative influence of the Howard years on contemporary politics.
Only a few months ago, we watched the final wretched moments of the two-decade occupation of Afghanistan. None of the journalists interviewing Howard asked any tough questions about a war now accepted as an embarrassing failure by even its most sycophantic champions. Nor were there questions about the allegations, detailed in the 2020 Brereton report, of war crimes committed by Australian troops—including the murder of civilians, cover-ups of massacres and the defiling of corpses.
In the political environment after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States, Howard enacted some of the most draconian national security laws in the Western world. A suite of anti-terror laws, including the Anti-Terrorism Act, undermined civil liberties here more than President George W. Bush's notorious Patriot Act did in the United States, granting greater powers for surveillance, warrantless searches and detention without charge.
"No other nation can match the volume of Australia's counter-terrorism laws. Their sheer scope is staggering", academics Rebecca Ananian-Welsh and Keiran Hardy wrote in a Conversation piece last year. "Many ... are unprecedented in Australian law, outstripping even our historical wartime powers." George Williams, writing in the Melbourne University Law Review in 2011, estimated that Howard's government passed a new anti-terrorism statute every 6.7 weeks on average.
The corporate press, in its deferential treatment of Howard "the statesman", barely raises a squeak of criticism about this new Orwellian age that Howard ushered in.
Nor is there much commentary about the intensely Islamophobic atmosphere that his government stoked from 2001. Howard should be remembered for the racist violence of Cronulla in 2005, when thugs descended on the beaches to attack Lebanese and anyone of Arab appearance. The prime minister, confronted with a race riot, refused to acknowledge that racism played any role in people of colour being hunted down and bashed in broad daylight by mobs of white men.
Howard should be remembered for the refugee families locked up in their thousands in remote prisons such as Woomera, Baxter and Port Headland and in the offshore gulags of Nauru and Christmas and Manus islands. His government plumbed new depths when it came to the brutal treatment of asylum seekers. Two incidents mark John Howard as a man ahead of the curve for cruelty: the Tampa and "children overboard" affairs. Both of have been left out of the cabinet paper release.
In August 2001, a Norwegian freighter, the MV Tampa, rescued more than 400 refugees from a distressed fishing boat trying to reach Christmas Island in the northern Indian Ocean. When the government's threats to prosecute the ship's captain failed to prevent it entering Australian waters, Howard sent the military to intercept the Tampa to prevent the refugees from exercising their right to seek safety.
Australian soldiers boarded the ship and, after a standoff, forced refugees at gunpoint onto a Navy vessel that took them to a prison camp 7,000km away on the Pacific island nation of Nauru. Howard's government then rushed through legislation to retroactively make his actions legal. In a creative piece of legal manoeuvring and with the Labor Party's support, Howard changed the law to remove certain parts of Australian territory from the country's migration zone. This kind of legal magic became the norm under both Labor and Liberal governments, reaching its zenith when Labor Prime Minister Gillard excised the Australian mainland from the migration zone in 2013.
The day after Howard announced that a federal election was to be held, the Navy intercepted another fishing boat, known as the SIEV-4 (Suspected Illegal Entry Vessel 4), which was carrying more than 200 refugees to Christmas Island. In an act of political bastardry, government ministers falsely accused the rescued asylum seekers of blackmailing the government by threatening to drown their own children if they were not taken to Australia. Photos were released, and splashed across the media, purporting to show that children had been "thrown overboard". The reality was that the fishing vessel was in distress and sinking fast—the refugees had needed to be rescued.
The Tampa affair and the "children overboard" lies fuelled an election campaign infused with racism. Howard infamously declared during the campaign: "We will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they come".
Former British Prime Minister and war criminal Tony Blair just received a knighthood, and George W. Bush—who along with Blair and Howard is responsible for the decimation of Iraq—has been rehabilitated. So I suppose no-one should be surprised that the Australian media would prefer to celebrate Howard as a great Australian statesman.
But the rest of us shouldn't be so quick to forget Howard's true legacy.
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Torrijos ist eine Stadt und eine zentralspanische Gemeinde (municipio) mit  Einwohnern (Stand ) in der spanischen Provinz Toledo der Autonomen Region Kastilien-La Mancha; sie ist der Hauptort der gleichnamigen Comarca.

Lage und Klima
Die Stadt Torrijos liegt in einer fruchtbaren Talsenke gut 30 km nordwestlich von Toledo bzw. ca. 80 km südwestlich von Madrid in einer Höhe von ca. . Die Stadt ist über die A-40 (Autovía de Castilla-La Mancha) und die Eisenbahnstrecke Madrid–Cáceres gut an den Großraum Madrid angebunden. Das Klima im Winter ist rau, im Sommer dagegen trocken und warm; der spärliche Regen (ca. 380 mm/Jahr) fällt überwiegend in den Wintermonaten.

Bevölkerungsentwicklung

Seit der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts hat die Kleinstadt einen stetigen Bevölkerungszuwachs zu verzeichnen; seit Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts profitiert die Stadt von den vergleichsweise günstigen Immobilienpreisen auf dem Lande und der guten Verkehrsanbindung zum Großraum Madrid.

Wirtschaft
Das Umland von Torrijos war und ist im Wesentlichen landwirtschaftlich geprägt, wobei der Weinbau und Olivenbaumplantagen wichtige Rollen spielen; die Kleinstadt selbst diente als handwerkliches und merkantiles Zentrum für die umliegenden Dörfer. Inzwischen haben sich auch kleinere Betriebe des Baugewerbes, der Möbelherstellung und der Eisenverarbeitung angesiedelt.

Geschichte

Obwohl so gut wie keine prähistorischen, keltischen, römischen, westgotischen und maurischen Funde gemacht wurden, ist die Anwesenheit von Siedlern und Soldaten in der Region wahrscheinlich. Im Jahr 1085 wurde sie von Alfons VI. zurückerobert (reconquista), jedoch kurz darauf von den berberischen Almoraviden erneut bedroht. Erst unter Alfons VII. (reg. 1126–1157) wurde die Region La Mancha um das Jahr 1130 endgültig christlich. Im 12. und 13. Jahrhundert wird der Ort unter den Namen Torrilium, Torrilios oder Torrillos mehrfach urkundlich erwähnt; nach der siegreichen Schlacht von Las Navas de Tolosa (1212) schenkte ihn König Alfons VIII. dem Erzbischof von Toledo. Der Ort nahm einen großen Aufschwung, nachdem im Jahr 1482 Gutierre de Cárdenas, ein treuer Anhänger und Ratgeber Isabellas von Kastilien die Grundherrschaft (señorio) von der Krone erwarb. Er ließ in den Folgejahren einen prachtvollen Palast (palacio) erbauen, wohingegen seine Frau Doña Teresa Enríquez nach seinem Tod (1503) den Bau der Kollegiatkirche in Auftrag gab, in welcher die Eheleute beigesetzt sind; außerdem stiftete sie ein Hospital. In der Stadt lebte eine große jüdische Gemeinschaft, die jedoch im Jahr 1609 vertrieben wurde, was einen enormen demografischen und wirtschaftlichen Einbruch zur Folge hatte.

Sehenswürdigkeiten
 Die in den Jahren 1509 bis 1518 erbaute Kollegiatkirche (Colegiata del Santísimo Sacramento) ist ein bedeutender Bau aus der Zeit des Übergangs von der Gotik zur Renaissance; er wird von einigen Forschern dem Architekten Antón Egas zugeschrieben, der um 1500 an mehreren der bedeutendsten Bauwerke seiner Zeit beteiligt war. Während die seitlichen Strebepfeiler am Außenbau noch stark der Gotik verpflichtet sind, zeigen Portal und Glockenturm (campanario) insgesamt eher Renaissancecharakter. Im dreischiffigen Inneren der Kirche überwiegt auf den ersten Blick die Gotik (Bündelpfeiler, Sterngewölbe), doch sowohl im Aufbau, als auch in den Tafelbildern der drei Altarretabel (retablos) aus den 1560er Jahren dominiert der Renaissancecharakter. Im Binnenchor (coro) befindet sich das Doppelgrabmal mit den Liegefiguren des Stifterpaars.
 Der Palacio de Don Pedro de Castilla wurde in den Jahren nach 1355 von Peter I. von Kastilien für seine Geliebte und Zweitfrau María de Padilla (1334–1361), eine der berühmtesten Frauengestalten der spanischen Geschichte, erbaut. Don Gutiérrez de Cárdenas ließ ihn Ende des 15. Jahrhunderts umbauen; seine Frau stiftete ihn dem kurz zuvor gegründeten Orden der Konzeptionistinnen. Seit dem Jahr 2001 dient er als Rathaus (ayuntamiento) der Stadt.
 Der eine Grundfläche von über 8000 m² einnehmende Palacio de Altamira wurde Ende des 15. Jahrhunderts von Don Gutierre de Cárdenas und seiner Gemahlin Doña Teresa Enríquez erbaut und glanzvoll ausgestattet. Zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts wurde er verkauft und abgerissen; lediglich einige Artesonado-Decken bzw. -kuppeln sind erhalten und über mehrere Museen etc. verteilt.
 Die Capilla del Cristo de la Sangre wurde von Doña Teresa Enríquez zu Beginn des 16. Jahrhunderts als Annexbau zu dem von ihr gestifteten Hospital erbaut; letzteres ist nahezu zerstört.

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German National Team and International Soccer
Bayern Munich's Benjamin Pavard said he "would die" for France manager Didier Deschamps
Pavard is forever grateful to Deschamps for giving him his chance with Le Blues.
By TomAdams71 Sep 20, 2022, 1:30pm CEST
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Despite sustaining a slight knock forcing him to be subbed off in Bayern Munich's 2-0 win over Barcelona in the Champions League, Benjamin Pavard has been called up to France's national squad for their upcoming UEFA Nations League matches against Austria and Denmark. Dayot Upaemcano has also been recalled to the national team while both Lucas Hernandez and Kingsley Coman miss out this time around due to their respective injury problems. Hopefully for Bayern, Pavard comes back from France duty with a clean bill of health as well as Upamecano.
Pavard got his first France callup back in the late fall of 2017, when he was still playing for VfB Stuttgart. At the time, he was a stalwart in the Swabians' backline and Didier Deschamps, along with his coaching staff, took notice. When Pavard first found out about said callup for Le Bleus, he said it was one of the best days of his life and even admitted being reduced to tears (Bundesliga). Fast forward to less than a year from his first callup, and he was winning a World Cup in Russia, having scored one of the most memorable goals of the tournament with his volleyed effort in the win over Argentina.
Both Pavard and Upamecano arrive at Clairefontaine on Monday ahead of France's pair of matches, and in a television interview on Telefoot, Pavard spoke about how grateful he is for Deschamps giving him the proper chance with the senior international squad. It's something he never expected would happen when he was still with Stuttgart. "He's an important person for me. He came to watch me in Stuttgart when nobody was watching me. I owe him a lot. I would die for him on the pitch," Pavard enthusiastically stressed (@iMiaSanMia).
During France's group stage match against Germany last summer at the European Championships, Pavard quite literally put his body on the line for Deschamps and the rest of the team. He was down with a head injury after a nasty collision with Robin Gosens in the box and him being allowed to continue by the physios and officials was a topic of increased scrutiny. There had been tighter concussion protocols implemented ahead of the tournament along with all of the coronavirus guidelines and procedures, and there was a heightened edginess to players' well being given what had happened to Denmark's Christian Eriksen earlier on in the tournament having collapsed from cardiac arrest.
In that sense, Pavard has already put his money where his mouth is and has undoubtedly expressed his utmost commitment to Deschamps and France.
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University of Florida students protest, say Republican Sen. Ben Sasse poses 'threat' as president
College students organized a protest in response to their university's nomination of a sole finalist for president of the school. The University of Florida announced on October 6 that Senator Ben Sasse, R-Neb, was unanimously nominated to be the only contender to serve as the 13th president of the public institution.
Sasse, who has served the state of Nebraska since 2015, is expected to resign his Senate seat in December and start his new job at the university in February, should the nomination go through.
SASSE EXPECTED TO RESIGN SENATE SEAT, LIKELY TO BE NEXT UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA PRESIDENT
He was on campus on October 10 for multiple public forums with students, faculty, and staff. Sasse spoke at Emerson Alumni Hall at 2:30 PM during a Q&A session for students. Students were given the opportunity to submit questions before the event.
Several student organizations gathered outside the building to protest the nomination, including the UF Young Democratic Socialists of America, UF Graduate Assistants United,UF Communists and UF College Democrats.
Students expressed their concerns with Fox News Digital.
'Ben Sasse is on the record anti-gay marriage, anti-transgender people and anti-abortion. He poses a threat to all students that may be queer or non-men,' one student said. 'I'm worried that it might be even harder for students to get an abortion.'
Another student said 'his views are very right-wing, really far right,' adding that he is 'not a high character individual.'
'I think that he lacks the experience to lead a university as big and prestigious as the University of Florida,' one student said.
Other students said his stances on climate change and the overturning of Roe v. Wade concerned them, as well as his ability to 'unite' the university population.
The protest started outside, but students gradually made their way inside the building and stood outside the room where Sasse was speaking. Their chants of 'Ben Sasse has got to go' could be heard from inside the room.
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Students said their school spirit would decrease if Sasse were to become president of the university.
One student told Fox News Digital, 'If this goes through, I'm not going to be proud to be a Gator. And I'm worried that this might affect our rankings.'
Another student said she has been 'embarrassed to be a Florida Gator' because 'it's been clear for a while now that Governor DeSantis and the Florida legislature want to destroy public education.'
After Sasse finished speaking and exited the space, students swarmed the empty room and stood up on the stage continuing their chants. Leaders of the event said they wanted to 'make his life miserable.' At one point, a student called him a 'homophobic piece of sh**.'
Students argued the campus dynamic would change if Sasse were to become president.
'I worry very much about the most marginalized on campus and whether or not they'll feel like UF is still a safe space for them.'
Another student echoed the same concerns.
'I feel that a lot of marginalized groups on campus will feel less safe and less secure,' she said.
However, one student admitted he was 'able to be won over' saying he was at the event 'to see what he has to say.'
Shortly after the event, UF Graduate Assistants United tweeted a video of what appears to be Sasse leaving the building via a police car.
The organization tweeted, 'This is what a coward looks like. This will be your life every day if you accept a position here.'
Fox News reached out to Sasse's office for comment, but has not heard back yet.
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"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther... And one fine morning-- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
Lindsay Priester
What Does PR Look Like Post-Pandemic?
By Lindsay Priester, President, Green Light Communications
Slowly, but surely, the United States is starting to return to some form of normalcy after a year of fear, heartbreak, monotony, masks, Uber Eats, pivots and so much more. While we're all anxious to leave this pandemic behind us, some things will be forever changed for almost everyone, both in business and in our personal lives.
Working in public relations (and especially owning a PR business) during a pandemic was a huge learning experience. I started Green Light on Feb. 1, 2019. When we celebrated our first anniversary a year later, I was so excited and hopeful. Business owners of any kind know that first year is all about survival. It's about getting clients, figuring out taxes, managing stress... all of the things. So on Feb. 1, 2020 I breathed a sigh of relief for a successful first year and looked forward to beginning the second year in a place of calm from the experience gained over the last year.
Andddd then a pandemic hit.
While certain parts of PR are relatively easy to do without face-to-face interaction, a huge component of PR is engaging with people (whether clients, media or colleagues) in REAL LIFE. Here are a few thoughts on what PR looks like on the other side of COVID-19.
Virtual events are here to stay. Events are huge part of PR, whether that's holding a press conference, hosting a grand opening or putting together a product launch or gala. When these in-person events were no longer an option, PR agencies/brands had to pivot and pivot quickly. Virtual events soon became the norm and while I think we all could use a break from them (Zoom fatigue is real!), they aren't going anywhere. Over the last year, we've figured out how to host virtual events successfully. We've worked out the kinks, we've developed ways to make them engaging and interactive AND (here's the big one), we've found that they were often better attended than their in-person counterparts. Whether it's a wine tasting from the comfort of your own couch or just the ability to turn off the camera, virtual events take the pressure off.
BUT in-person networking will be more popular than ever. While many client events may stay virtual, networking with fellow PR pros will return to in-person quickly. I work for myself, so while I especially value time with my peers to talk shop, every person I've spoken to in the industry has missed the day-to-day interaction with their co-workers and PR pals. PR is constantly listed as one of the most stressful careers and having a crew to vent to who actually get it is priceless. There will be many glasses of wine shared among publicists in the next few months.
Reporters and publicists will have stronger relationships than ever. When the pandemic first began, it was the ONLY thing being covered in the news (and rightfully so). Our clients' sale or product launch or achievement just wasn't important in comparison, so publicists had to take a step back and find other ways to keep business going. Every PR pro I know understood this and respected journalists and their need to focus on the pandemic by not pitching unrelated news. Once it was clear the pandemic wasn't going anywhere any time soon, there became some white space for other stories to be shared. Journalists reached out to me and let me know they were looking for stories and appreciated the distance that was given to them initially. There was a mutual feeling of respect for both of our jobs and that will only continue.
Social media will continue to be king and it will be interactive. It's obvious that social media was huge before the pandemic, but as people had more time on their hands and in-person interaction wasn't an option, it THRIVED during the last year. The big difference going forward is that most social media and digital content will take an interactive format. No longer will brands just throw up a post, boost it and hope for engagement. The pandemic showed the value of relationships and how important connecting with a brand/company/person is. This is why Clubhouse and Instagram Lives both took off over the last year. Those and other interactive forms of social media will lead the way now and in the future.
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Depending on the task and target definition, the business development offers various tools and methods. It is a continuous process of the economic development of an organization.
In practice, different methods lend themselves, depending on the business area and degree of organization. For designing products and reflections on customer benefits, the conjoint analysis can be useful, through a market segmentation, you can offer your target group an additional benefit, without exposing yourself to a ruinous price competition. Whether quantitative or qualitative competitive analysis - create more transparency for business decisions.
Once you know your competitor just as well as your customers, you have an informational advantage you must now only make use of. A portfolio or product lifecycle analysis allows you to be on time to take care of new stars in your product portfolio.
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Altered human oligodendrocyte heterogeneity in multiple sclerosis
Journal: Nature
Affiliations: 5
Authors: 10
Research Highlight
Some myelin-making cells missing in multiple sclerosis
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The brains of people with multiple sclerosis have different kinds of oligodendrocyte cells than people without the disease, even in brain regions not thought affected by the chronic inflammatory disorder.
The study — one of the first to use single-cell RNA sequencing to interrogate a neurological disease — could help explain how multiple sclerosis progresses and how to improve treatment strategies.
Oligodendrocytes help wrap nerve fibres in the protective myelin sheath that is lost in multiple sclerosis.
Starting with single oligodendrocytes from the white matter of healthy brains, a research team that included scientists from Roche identified many subpopulations of these myelin-making cells. In brains from multiple sclerosis-affected patients, however, certain subpopulations were missing or altered, both within disease lesions and in normal-appearing tissue.
The findings could help explain why the restoration of damaged myelin is impaired in multiple sclerosis.
Nature 566, 543–547 (2019). doi: 10.1038/s41586-019-0903-2
Division of Molecular Neurobiology, KI, Sweden
Roche Pharma Research and Early Development (Roche pRED), Switzerland
MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine (CRM), The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (UK)
MS Society Edinburgh Centre for MS Research, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (UK)
Ming Wai Lau Center for Regenerative Medicine, KI, Sweden
The factors of immunity
F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG
All queued up for metabolite regulation
University College Cork (UCC)
Managing a molecular break-up


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President of Portugal tours expanding campus of Aga Khan Academy in Maputo
While in Mozambique, His Excellency President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa toured the evolving campus of the Aga Khan Academy and spoke with Academy students.
Celebration in Bahrain for Aga Khan Award Laureate "Revitalisation of Muharraq"
The Revitalisation of Muharraq, a series of restoration and reuse projects that highlight the World Heritage site's pearling history, was celebrated today at a ceremony held at the Pearling Path Visitors Centre in Muharraq.
Mara Serena Safari Lodge launches its solar power plant
Serena Hotels in partnership with Mettle Solar OFGEN have transformed a third property, Mara Serena Safari Lodge in Kenya, into a fully solar powered property. The inauguration of the Mara Serena solar power plant demonstrates Serena Hotels commitment to be the 'Full Scale Solar Pioneers' in the East African hospitality sector.
Cancer Project to benefit 1.7 million Tanzanians
To combat the rise in cancers and enhance comprehensive cancer care in Tanzania, the Government of Tanzania, the Aga Khan Health Services (AKHS), and the French Development Agency (AFD) today signed a grant agreement and memoranda of understanding related to an innovative Public Private Partnership project of 38 billion shillings (approximately €13.3 million).
"Africa's strength has always been her peoples"
The Kusi Ideas Festival is a two-day, annual conference launched by the Nation Media Group as part of its 60th anniversary celebrations this year, to begin building a "Pan-African ideas transaction market" to capitalise on the opportunities and innovations available to Africa.
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His Highness the Aga Khan hosts Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at the Aga Khan Centre
Aga Khan highlights architecture's potential to inspire dialogue
Winners of the 2019 Aga Khan Award for Architecture announced
Aga Khan Museum opens "Seeing Through Babel" exhibition in London
President Higgins of Ireland receives the Aga Khan
UK Government welcomes His Highness the Aga Khan on the occasion of his Diamond Jubilee
Prime Minister May and His Highness the Aga Khan underscore the importance of partnership between the UK and the Ismaili Imamat
Aga Khan Centre inaugurated in King's Cross, London
The Aga Khan Agency for Habitat partners with the Centre for Emergency Situations and Disaster Risk Reduction in Kazakhstan
Aga Khan Music Initiative premieres Qyrq Qyz (Forty Girls), pioneering multimedia production based on Central Asian epic tale
Aga Khan meets Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov
UCA's partnership with Higher School of Economics


A wild evening of poetry slam-like competition. Local and emerging poets face off performing original work to be evaluated by a panel of judges.
Friday September 29th, 2017 at 8:30 pm to 10:00 pm. Kent Theatre, 24 Coburg St.


add the append= line when booting when the node contacts the PXE server.
the Jan/Feb 2003 issue of Linux Magazine by Forrest Hoffman.
user intervention and processes my ks file and my %post configuration.
for regular user accounts.  I works fine on the root account.


Set in 1954, newlywed Isabel Carey arrives in a Yorkshire town with her husband Philip. As a GP he spends much of his time working, while Isabel tries hard to adjust to the realities of married life. Life is not easy: she feels out-of-place and constantly judged by the people around her, so she spends much of her time alone.
One cold winter night, Isabel finds an old RAF greatcoat in the back of a cupboard that she uses to help keep warm. Once wrapped in the coat she is beset by dreams. Soon after Isabel is startled to hear a knock at her window by a young Air Force pilot, named Alec. His haunting presence both disturbs and excites Isabel. Her initial alarm soon fades, and they begin a delicious affair. As she learns more about Alec (and herself in the process) she seems to be uncovering a past secret that has lain dormant for many years.
I didn't hate this book but I didn't love it either. I think that is partly due to all the reviews and hype around it "A terrifyingly atmospheric ghost story by the Orange-prize-winning Helen Dunmore", "A perfect ghost story", "The most elegant flesh-creeper since The Woman in Black" was what I had heard/read about this book. For me it just didn't really live up to the hype.
• The novel was full of melancholy and there were very few areas of light to be found in the pages. I understand that the job of a novel in this genre is to make it dark and brooding but there is very little contrast.
• There was no wow factor. I kept waiting for something unpredictable, some kind of plot twist, something I'd overlooked to come back to light, but it never arrived. That very thing that keeps you reading just never happened so it left me feeling a little deflated and unrewarded as I had ploughed my way through the book to the end.
• Isabel the main character is really uninteresting. It felt like she spent most of her time wallowing in self-pity, then we are supposed to turn a blind eye as she willingly starts an affair with a stranger whilst her (kind, sweet, hard-working) husband is out at work.
I didn't give this a 1 star, so here is what I liked about the book.
• I like the concept of this book. Not only the storyline of the RAF and how the next generation grew up in the shadow of the war. There was a definite interest there for me and I am disappointed that I did not enjoy it more.
• The location and setting of the Yorkshire villages and lanes are very easy to visualise (possibly more so as I lived in Yorkshire for a number of years). I think the author captured this very well.
• I actually enjoyed how the dual-timelines met. In some novels that have multiple timelines, the protagonist often has to fall asleep or read diaries etc to discover the events of the past. However, the overlap in these two stories is handled very smoothly.
Overall, not great but not bad either. I don't know, maybe I missed something? Others seem to love this book but it just didn't live up to what I was hoping for from the description.
Premise: Keisha Ceylon is a fraudulent psychic who passes herself off as possessing real powers in order to extort money from vulnerable families with missing family members, in return fpr psychic predictions regarding their disappearance. When Keisha spots Wendell Garfield on tv pleading for information regarding his wife's disappearance she decides to pay him a visit. However, the man might not be quite as innocent as he looked on camera.
I am a Linwood Barclay fan. His books are all quite similar and if you have read one of the books, the others are quite predictable. That said I do enjoy his style of writing, easy to read, quick-paced and not overly gory. This book is part of the "quick reads" collection, which I have begun looking through lately. The idea of this collection is exactly as it says on the tin (or should that be cover), a shorter than normal book by world leading authors. One of the things I quite like about these books are that they force the authors to cut out a lot of the waffle that sometimes goes on in books. This keeps the stories quite fast paced with a lot happening in less time. This shorter novel suits Linwood Barclay's writing style.
The only downside to this book (and I realise it is a personal taste thing) but this is one of the reasons I haven't given it 5 stars, is that in this book there are actually no likeable characters. Keisha who seems to be the main character/hero of the book, you are told from the outset is a fraud and is there to pray on vulnerable people. The grieving husband is covering something so already you like and distrust him, even the vanished wife is a constant nag and in some ways, you think the family are better without her.
I did enjoy this book. As I said, it was predictable especially if you are familiar with Barclay's previous work but it was still a good read.


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Client Service January 4, 2021
Advisers Giving Back: Winfred Boyce Jr.
Winfred Boyce Jr. doesn't consider himself a history buff or an aviation fanatic, but his interest in working with the Tuskegee Airmen's Atlanta Chapter runs deep and reflects his commitment to giving back.
By John Manganaro
Art by Dani Pendergast
Following a career as an adviser at Merrill Lynch, Winfred Boyce Jr. moved over to Compass Financial Partners in March, taking on the role of associate director of financial wellness.
Boyce says he loves the new gig and its focus on education and holistic wellness—and the fact that he gets to interface with a diverse and dynamic set of retirement plan investors on a daily basis. So far, the role has been more or less completely remote, as a result of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, and Boyce says he looks forward to the time when in-person meetings are possible again. In the meantime, he has just passed the Certified Financial Planner (CFP) exam and says he looks forward to applying his new skills in remote wellness sessions.
One thing Boyce has carried forward from his time at Merrill Lynch is his service to the Atlanta Chapter of the Tuskegee Airmen, which started back in 2012 after he was invited by a fellow adviser to attend a meeting.
"I was blown away by that first meeting and I immediately wanted to join up," Boyce recalls, noting that he is not necessarily a history buff or an aviation fanatic. "The impact they have on kids in the Atlanta community is absolutely incredible."
As Boyce explains, the Tuskegee Airmen organization, through its many chapters across the U.S., is dedicated to education and community service conducted according to the spirit and traditions of the Tuskegee Airmen, who are remembered and celebrated as the first African American military aviators and who fought in World War II. As detailed on its website, the organization's overarching goal is to assist students in developing positive attitudes, character and leadership skills.
"Our youth programs are centered on aviation careers and education," Boyce says. "The programs are designed to inspire young people to improve their academic performance, character development and citizenship. We base our curriculum on the STEAM model, which covers science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics."
Boyce is no longer the youngest member of the Atlanta Chapter, but he was at one point.
"When I first started serving the group, there were actually a few members of the original Tuskegee Airmen still attending," Boyce explains. "At that time, I was the youngest member of the organization, and over time they began to rely on me a lot to do a lot of the heavy lifting of running the organization."
Then, as now, the work involved helping to plan and execute both classroom-based and experiential education sessions related to the field of aviation. These are typically organized into weeklong seminar programs for groups of 12 to 15 kids at a time, and Boyce emphasizes that it is not just about making kids consider becoming a pilot.
"We help to show them all of the many career opportunities involved in aviation, beyond being a pilot," Boyce says. "There are opportunities to become a mechanic, for example, or an air traffic controller, or to work on the administration side. In fact, we have a number of students who have gone on from our programs to find employment in the aviation field, and none of them are pilots."
Boyce credits Delta Air Lines for being "an incredible and indispensable partner" to the Atlanta Chapter of the Tuskegee Airmen. The company not only provides classroom space, staff expertise and financial resources to the education program, it also makes possible the "dream fights" that cap off the weeklong education seminars.
"Delta makes it possible for us to bring the kids on a real flight, back and forth, from Atlanta to the nation's capital in Washington, D.C.," Boyce explains. "This firsthand exposure to the field of aviation is so important for our students. Many of them might never have been on an airplane before, in fact. These are not kids who are coming in from highly privileged backgrounds."
In this sense, Boyce says, he sees a lot of himself in some of the kids who participate.
"Frankly, when I was growing up, the big opportunities I learned about were becoming an athlete, doctor or lawyer," he says. "I certainly didn't learn about the aviation field, and in fact I didn't learn about the possibility of being a financial planner until after I graduated from college. In a way, the exposure and mentorship involved in these kinds of programs is the most important part."
Stepping back, Boyce encourages his retirement industry peers to find their own passion project and to give back.
"I will add that volunteering and giving back are a great way to meet new and interesting people," Boyce says. "Especially if an adviser is new to an area. Getting involved is an opportunity to broaden your network and meet people with common interests. It's an opportunity to show your character and to put your best foot forward. Go for it!"
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Gina Zeck is a great 'Super-Supporter' who has taken her devotion for Like A Storm to a whole different level by administrating and maintaining Like A Storm's Fan Community Page on Facebook. Check her BEHIND THE SCENES story out!
Talk to any member of any band out there – they know that talent alone is not enough to raise them up to the great heights they desire against the thousands and thousands of groups flooding the market. Fans, as they are aware, are the backbone support and key element that no band can exist without and, as a result, many bands have developed a real and loyal affinity with their audiences.
Take the members of Like A Storm, for example – Chris Brooks, Kent Brooks, Matt Brooks and Zach Wood. They have the talent, the music to back them up, their look down pat, and a device called a didgeridoo that have drawn in avid supporters throughout the world.
While the band relies on and is represented by the official business camp of publicists, Web masters, marketing professionals and the like, there are still many roles out there that supporters take upon themselves to fill. These are the "Super-Supporters;" those who take the passion that they have for the band and, in turn, work it into one powerful promotional tool.
Please give me your musical background. Have you always been a big supporter of music in general?
When did you first notice Like A Storm (LAS)? What drew you to the band?
I first discovered LAS in September 2012. They were opening for Creed in Atlantic City, NJ. There were many LAS fans that traveled to see them and had given me the heads up to "pay attention to this band." I stood back and watched. They showed immediate talent, but the song "Just Save Me," sucked me in. I always laugh when I think about catching Matt's guitar pick that night. I could tell the girl next to me really wanted it, so I gave it to her and said "Here you go. I don't even know who this guy is!" I think what drew me to the band and keeps me a fan is simple. They are good people. Everything else follows after. They work hard, which shines through in their music. Their talent is evident in that each song is unique and you connect with the lyrics. That's critical for any artist. And honestly, I am so proud of their journey that I will always want to be there to watch them continue to grow and succeed.
When and why did you decide to do an unofficial band community page? How much time do you devote to it? Is it harder than when you first began, especially since you work full-time in a totally different industry?
How do you attract and maintain followers?
Activity is key. You need to post often and things of interest. Over the past two-and-a-half years of running the page, you begin to recognize your audience and what format they like pictures in, etc. You don't want the page to sit dormant too long as people will lose interest or just simply forget about it. It's the same concept as productive advertising.
How do you keep the page relevant to followers during the band's "down" time?
During the bands "down" time, I use photos that several generous photographers have given me permission to use. Several photographers will "dropbox" me and I keep organized folders of photos I haven't used yet, to try to always have fresh material. I also do "fan give-a-ways" with signed photos or fun items, to keep interest on the page and keep the fans actively involved with one another.
Did you ever think of pursuing a career in Public Relations?
Honestly, I never thought of pursuing a career in PR. However, recently I have really enjoyed promoting several products in different industries. When I believe in something, I want to help make it most successful! I think when you are passionate about something, believe in it and put your mind to it; you are a great asset to the business you support.
What does the band think about your page? Do the members interact with it and you?
Like A Storm has always been appreciative of any fan that supports them in any way. They are kind in signing things for the fan page give-a-ways, and participating in updating the fan page cover photo. I believe they appreciate the fan interaction, the promotional/informative posts as well as photos and ideas the fans have. The band has always been supportive of my fan page and I believe respect is key. They respect my fan page and I'll always respect them.
What are the benefits/detriments of doing a band page?
The best benefit of doing the page is that I enjoy helping spread the word about LAS. Every new member is another new fan and the guys deserve nothing but immense success! Another very special thing, is that I have met so many amazing people all over the world. It's amazing when you fly seven hours and one of your best friends is on the other side. I have made the most wonderful friendships through this band and fan page. People with loving and good hearts that I'll never forget.
Do you plan on doing pages for other bands?
What would have to happen to make you give up doing the page?
I'll always do whatever I can to help promote, support and share their talents. If my family needed me I would direct my time to them, of course, but I'd hope to pick up where I left off.
What are some of the goals you have for the page?
Goals…. That's easy… More exposure for the band! Spread the 'Storm, tell your friends about the band, bring them to a show, add them to the page and repeat. We should all have one goal – To love and support our guys in LAS!
Gina is a true rock star!
SHE IS MY SISTER..ROCK ON LITTLE SIS!!!
THE MAN SPEAKS THE TRUTH!!


The amount of advertising getting tagged onto posts in subscribed feeds is getting to be a joke. Getting to the point where the footprint of adverts is bigger than the post itself.
And then this pops up from SFGate.
Do you mean there wasn't an article at all ? Just the adsense block ?


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Fox News cancels Donald Trump impeachment adverts
'Due to the strong negative reaction to their ad by our viewers, we could not in good conscience take their money,' says Fox News co-president
Maya Oppenheim
Tuesday 07 November 2017 11:09
Fox News bans advert calling for Trump's impeachment due to negative viewer reaction
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Fox News has said it will not air any more adverts that call for President Donald Trump's impeachment due to its viewers' angry response.
The US channel said it would be pulling the plug on the ads which urge TV viewers to sign a petition that has already been signed by 1.5 million people calling for President Trump's impeachment.
The $10 million "Need to Impeach" ad campaign, which is funded by Democratic mega-donor Tom Steyer, was launched in late October and has already incurred the wrath of President Trump.
"Wacky and totally unhinged Tom Steyer, who has been fighting me and my Make America Great Again agenda from beginning, never wins elections!" the world leader wrote on Twitter on 27 October.
He launched into the tirade shortly after the ad which is titled "Join Us" aired on Fox & Friends – a show the president frequently watches.
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"Due to the strong negative reaction to their ad by our viewers, we could not in good conscience take their money," said Jack Abernethy, co-president of Fox News.
Mr Steyer, a billionaire hedge fund operator based in California, said Fox News informed him on 31 Oct that it was refusing to air the advert. He said the decision "shows no respect for democracy."
The ad takes aim at President Trump for bringing the US "to the brink of nuclear war" with North Korea and for potentially "obstructing justice" by sacking former FBI Director James Comey in May as he conducted a federal probe into potential links between the Trump campaign and Russian operatives.
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Mr Steyer's legal team drew attention to the fact the ad was pulled just after President Trump lashed out about it and said Mr Steyer thinks Fox bowed to pressure from the White House to drop it.
"It is no coincidence that the Cancellation of the Advertisement, in the second week of its run, came on the heels of a tweet from President Trump criticising the spot and Mr Steyer personally," Brad Deutsch, his lawyer, said in a letter to Fox.
Fox News, who President Trump has granted 19 interviews to since entering the White House, has been criticised for its overly favourable coverage of the US president.
Congressional Democratic leaders have chosen not to join Mr Steyer's plea for President Trump to be impeached. When pressed about Mr Steyer's ad and whether Democrats would prioritise impeachment proceedings if they were to gain a majority in Congress in next year's midterm elections on Sunday, Nancy Pelosi, Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, said: "It's not someplace that I think we should go."
Ms Pelosi sought to tone down the notion Democrats will attempt to impeach President Trump if they regain control of the House but did indicate Democrats would permit the various investigations of the billionaire property magnate to run their course.
She said: "I believe that whatever we do, we have responsibility first and foremost to unify the nation. Second of all, you can't go down any path without the facts and the law. If that's there, perhaps it will come out in these investigations."
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