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Delta to open first quarantine-free route between USA and Europe
By Lawrence Butcher on	 November 26, 2020 Airport, Passenger Experience, Security
Delta Air Lines, the Aeroporti di Roma and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International have partnered on a transatlantic Covid-19 testing program, which they say will enable quarantine-free entry into Italy, in accordance with a decree expected to be issued soon by the government of Italy.
"Carefully designed Covid-19 testing protocols are the best path for resuming international travel safely and without quarantine until vaccinations are widely in place," said Steve Sear, Delta president – international and executive vice president – global sales. "Safety is our core promise – it's at the center of this pioneering testing effort and it's the foundation of our standards for cleanliness and hygiene to help customers feel confident when they fly Delta."
Delta says it has engaged advisors from Mayo Clinic, a specialist in serious and complex healthcare, to review and assess the customer-testing protocols needed for Delta to execute its flight program.
"Based on the modeling we have conducted, when testing protocols are combined with multiple layers of protection, including mask requirements, proper social distancing and environmental cleaning, we can predict that the risk of Covid-19 infection – on a flight that is 60% full – should be nearly one in a million," said Henry Ting, MD, MBA, chief value officer, Mayo Clinic.
Delta notes it has also worked closely with the Georgia Department of Public Health to develop a blueprint for governments to reopen important international travel markets. "The State of Georgia and the Italian government have demonstrated leadership in testing protocols and practices that can safely reopen international travel without quarantine requirements," Sear added.
Starting in mid-December, Delta's trial will test customers on flights from Atlanta to Rome. The tests will be exempt from quarantine on arrival in Italy for all US citizens permitted to travel to Italy for essential reasons, such as for work, health and education, as well as all European Union and Italian citizens.
To fly on Delta's Covid-tested flights between Atlanta and Rome, passengers will need to test negative no less than four times, first from a PCR test taken 72 hours before flying, then from three rapid tests, at Atlanta and on arrival and departure from Rome.


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Driverless Robotaxi Fleet Paralyzed For Hours In San Francisco
by William Willis.
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First Details On Paralyzed Robotaxi Fleet
What Happens When A Driverless Car Gets Pulled Over By The Police?
An Anonymous Reddit User On Driverless Robotaxi Fleet
Cruise Robotaxis Blocked Traffic For Hours
For How Long Is The Driverless Robotaxi Fleet Paralyzed?
What Are The Fines For Blocking The Street Sweeper?
The Main Reason Behind The Paralyzed Cars?
A fleet of driverless robot taxis had its first system failure.
At least a dozen autonomous Chevrolet Bolts from GM Cruise Automation were seen in San Francisco for a few hours, blocking the junction at Gough Street and Fulton Street.
The automobiles are all parked on the road without a driver, as shown in the images. Between the hours of 10 p.m. and 5 a.m, Cruise is permitted to run autonomous robotaxi in the city and collect fares.
In this case, it appears that there was a flaw that affected every car. Employees of Cruise had to manually move the automobiles from the junction and the street to the depot.
Although the precise causes are unknown, the Internet has already advanced several amusing hypotheses.
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Some people asked, "Where is John Connor when we need him?" as the cars "unionized," "emigrated," and gathered together to "take control over humanity."
Driverless Robotaxi Fleet Stuck In The Middle Of The Road In San Francisco
More information is becoming available in the wake of a Cruise system malfunction that resulted in a few dozen robot taxis blocking a San Francisco crossroads for at least two hours before being removed by manual or remote driving by Cruise staff.
First, in a news statement, Cruise stated the following fairly ambiguous details:
"We had an issue earlier this week that caused some of our vehicles to cluster together," a Cruise spokesperson said. "While it was resolved and no passengers were impacted, we apologize to anyone who was inconvenienced."
However, it becomes evident from subsequent accounts that this is not the first time it has occurred and that the cars' behavior was not at all unexpected.
Three to four cruise vehicles were in such an immobilized state in recordings and photographs from an event that happened approximately a week ago, according to a Twitter user:
"Three autonomous Cruise vehicles are stalled at and partially blocking the corner of Geary and Mason, adding to the evening's technological anomalies."
Traveling at night without turning on its headlights, a driverless Cruise car is shown getting pulled over by San Francisco police in an Instagram video that was first shared on April 1.
A policeman approaches the vehicle's driver's side and discovers... no driver.
The cruise restarts past a crossing and then stops once again in front of a restaurant on Clement Street in the city's Richmond District while the perplexed officer makes his way back to his car.
When the police cruiser arrives, the policemen exit and thoroughly examine the vacant car before one of them calls Cruise, presumably.
"There's nobody there." One of the officers is heard stating, "This is nuts."
Cruise said: As planned, our AV stopped at the closest safe area for the traffic stop after yielding to the police car.
The firm stated that "We work extensively with the SFPD on how to interface with our vehicles, including a dedicated phone line for them to call in circumstances like these." An officer contacted Cruise employees and no penalty was issued.
He earlier expressed his worries when a Reddit member identified himself as working with Cruise.
He said that when the commercial robotaxi license was granted in May, at the time the vehicle was taken over, he had previously expressed them to the California Public Utility Commission (CPUC):
To sum up the message, it describes the "Vehicle Retrieval Events" (VRE) that may cause dozens of vehicles to block public roads until they are physically retrieved, as happened on June 28, June 20, and numerous times before that.
It also explains why I believe these events will happen frequently for the foreseeable future, including when the driverless fleet's operating hours are extended to include morning and evening rush hours.
A more worrying possibility is that huge numbers of automobiles might obstruct emergency vehicles like ambulances and fire engines, in addition to the obvious issues with stopping traffic.
He then provides a few explanations for why this may happen:
Even determining the cause of these fleet-wide vehicle retrieval events sometimes takes several hours. One car may experience this situation due to a hardware or software issue.
When a large number of cars reach the VRE condition, it is usually because one of the several cloud services they utilize is unavailable or overburdened.
There have also been instances where both the primary and backup services have failed, making it impossible to contact or access the vehicles' data.
This directly contravenes the terms of the DMV permit that allows Cruise to operate on public California roads, and I highly doubt Cruise has informed the DMV of this.
Although there is no easy quick fix because these cloud services are extremely complex emergent systems that interact with one another, it is anticipated that over time they will become more dependable.
When dealing with this kind of intricate technology, you often have two options: either proceed agonizingly slowly or "go fast and ruin stuff."
Cruise autonomous self-driving vehicle pulled over by San Francisco police
Late on Tuesday night in San Francisco, more than a half-dozen Cruise robotaxis stopped working and parked in a roadway, impeding traffic for a few hours until staff members arrived and physically relocated the autonomous cars.
Less than a week had passed since Cruise began operating the city's first completely autonomous robotaxi service.
The first hours of operation for Cruise's cars are from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. on predetermined roadways and without a human safety operator in the driver's seat.
In San Francisco, a vehicle would be fined around $76 for blocking a street sweeper.
TechCrunch contacted the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority (SFMTA) to learn more about how it manages such circumstances with autonomous cars and if Cruise would be fined for blocking the crossing, but the SFMTA did not respond.
The problem throws into question Cruise's operating procedure for these kinds of accidents as well as the policies that towns need to develop around autonomous cars when they breach the law.
The cruise began operating the city's first completely autonomous robotaxi service. The first hours of operation for Cruise's cars are between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.
Fines for blocking the street sweeper are around $76 per car in San Francisco.
The exact reasons are not known, but the Internet has already put forward some humorous speculations. The vehicles would have "unionized", they would "emigrate."
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WIRE Buzz: Elias Koteas joins SYFY's Cipher; Brian Helgeland directing Netflix's Button Man; more
March 14, 2019, 4:54 PM ET
By James Comtois
Photo: NBC
Today's tidbits include casting news for an upcoming SYFY series, the end of a lawsuit that threatened Fear the Walking Dead, and a Netflix genre flick has landed a director.
First up, Elias Koteas (The Killing) has been cast as series regular for the upcoming Cipher pilot for SYFY.
Cipher follows a 13-year-old gamer who has top secret military technology implanted into his brain, putting him at the center of a war for AI. Koteas will play Hal Berek, a Texas rancher with a strong opinion about how the heroes should face the challenges ahead of them. Koteas joins a cast that includes Gabriel Bateman and Kyla-Drew Simmons.
Allison Miller (Strange Angel) is writing and executive producing alongside Danny McBride, David Gordon Green, Jody Hill, and Brandon James. Peter Hoar, director of The Umbrella Academy's first episode, will helm the pilot.
Up next, Variety is reporting that L.A. Confidential writer and 42 director Brian Helgeland has been selected direct Button Man for Netflix.
The film, based on the graphic novel by John Wagner and Arthur Ranson, tells the story of ex-military contractor Harry Exton who gets paid to fight to the death in modern-day gladiatorial contests for the amusement of the ultra-rich.
A start date on production has not been set. Helgeland is currently casting the film's lead.
And finally, the copyright suit filed against the makers of Fear the Walking Dead has finally been put to rest. Per a report from Deadline, both sides have finally struck a deal. Terms of the settlement are confidential.
The suit filed by plaintiff Melvin William Smith accused AMC's Fear the Walking Dead of ripping off his comic book Dead Ahead. AMC tried to dismiss the suit on the grounds that there weren't enough substantial similarities between Smith's comic and Fear the Walking Dead once they discounted generic elements from the zombie genre. However, U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh denied AMC's motion to dismiss, arguing that AMC Defendants' argument was "unpersuasive."
But if you think the folks at AMC can now breathe a shigh of relief, guess again. They still have The Walking Dead's former showrunner Frank Darabont and CAA's profit participation lawsuit against AMC heading to trial in 2020. Plus, executive producers Robert Kirkman and Gale Anne Hurd and among several EPs are also suing AMC for millions of dollars they say they are owed. They're coming to get you, AMC!
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Terms and conditions update on Whatsapp – now the company explains what's behind it
After the GTC update, everyone wants to get away from WhatsApp – now the group explains what's behind it
Whatsapp speaks out about the changes to the terms and conditions (symbol image)
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The download numbers of alternative messengers have shot up since an update of Whatsapp's terms of use. The group is surprised. And now explained why almost nothing actually changes.
For many it seems to have been the drop that broke the barrel: After news of a change in Whatsapp's terms of use made the rounds, millions of people around the world downloaded one or more of the alternatives. Signal dominated the download charts, the second-placed Telegram gained 25 million new users in a very short time. No wonder that all alarm bells are ringing on Whatsapp.
The Facebook daughter was now even forced to shake off smooth with a blog post. In summary, it has a single message: Everything is a gigantic misunderstanding. With the update, only the storage of Whatsapp user data in companies has been formulated more clearly when they are contacted by Whatsapp users via the messenger. In practice, the change is unlikely to affect very few. But by then the child had already fallen into the well.
Surge of resistance
Because in the social networks various other versions had spread in no time. "We recently updated our privacy policy and received a lot of well-considered questions," the Post tries to describe the many rumors nicely, and then quickly come to a clarification. "We want to make it clear that the policy update will have absolutely no impact on your privacy with regard to your messages to friends or family." Whatsapp cannot eavesdrop on private messages and calls either. And the merging of the data with Facebook was not, as many claim, heralded with the change.
Whatsapp's head of politics, Niamgh Sweeny, had the same thing in a long twitter thread already made clear. "There is no change in WhatsApp's practice of sharing data." The data of the European users would still not be used for the display of advertisements or the improvement of Facebook.
In the rest of the world, by the way, it wasn't just introduced – it was years ago. For a short time in 2016 it was possible to object to the data being taken over by the parent company. Anyone who didn't do this at the time or who signed up afterwards has already shared their data with Facebook for years outside the EU.
For Facebook, the rumors are likely to be more than annoying. The group is regularly confronted with allegations of excessive hunger for data, often rightly so. In this case, however, the suspicion – in fact probably unfounded – was enough to drive the customers to the competition in droves. No wonder that besides Sweeny, several other managers tried to justify themselves on Twitter.
Change can be useful
There are enough reasons to switch messengers anyway. Although WhatsApp has no direct access to the chats due to the end-to-end encryption, the messenger can still collect a lot of personal information about its users. The so-called metadata is almost more valuable than the chats themselves, reveals data protection expert Katharina Nocun dem stern already last year. So you can learn a lot about the networks between people from the timing, frequency and duration of conversations between people. A voice message at three at night suggests a different relationship than an occasional group call during office hours. You can find out more details and what data Whatsapp collects here.
As an alternative, privacy advocates and NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden usually recommend the Signal app. Messenger, now co-financed by Whatsapp founder Brian Action, works very similarly to its competitor, but has great advantages in terms of data protection. Because the source code of the app is disclosed, you can also understand that it is not secretly collecting user data. You can find out what you need to know about the app here.
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Torsion Balance – 1785
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb didn't invent the torsion balance, but he was the first to discover it could be used to measure electrical charge – the first device capable of such a feat.
In early investigations of electricity, scientists had few tools to aid them. By the 1780s, devices to generate, store and detect static electricity had been built, but there was no easy way to gauge amounts of static electrical charges. A French engineer with an interest in electricity and magnetism, Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, developed one of the earliest instruments capable of this feat: the torsion balance.
Coulomb's torsion balance consists of several small parts, pictured at right. Within a glass case, which prevents breezes or other environmental factors from affecting results, a needle hangs from a thread, typically of silk. A narrow glass tube extends through the top of the glass case. At the top of the tube is a metal sphere, from which the needle hangs by the thread. A small metal sphere is at one end of the needle, which can swing freely due to its suspended state. Protruding through the top of the glass case is also a metal rod with metal spheres at both ends (one inside the case, one outside).
To use the torsion balance, Coulomb would hold an object near the metal sphere at the upper end of the metal rod. Any charge held by the object being studied would transfer to the metal sphere, then travel along the rod to the sphere at the other end. There the charge could affect the needle suspended in the case, which in its resting state touched the rod's lower sphere. So any charge in that sphere passed to the needle's sphere. Once the rod's sphere and the needle's sphere both became similarly charged, they repelled one another. The repulsion caused the needle to move and the thread holding it to twist. The twisting action is called torsion, hence the name of the instrument. To determine how much torsion occurred, Coulomb consulted a small scale marked in degrees near the upper end of the narrow glass tube. A second scale encircling the glass case itself allowed him to determine how far the needle moved. As Coulomb realized, the greater the charge, the greater the torsion and displacement he observed.
An earlier scientist, John Michell, had used a similar instrument to study gravity, but the device did not gain much fame until after Coulomb reinvented it and put it to a different use. Coulomb carried out detailed studies of electrostatic forces with the torsion balance that allowed him to offer the world proof of the inverse square law that today bears his name. According to Coulomb's law, the electric force between objects is inversely proportional to the distance between the objects. A similar inverse square law exists for gravity, but gravitation is influenced by the masses of objects rather than their charges.
After Coulomb published the results of his investigations and a description of the torsion balance, scientists around the globe wanted the tool. In fact, the torsion balance became one of the most popular scientific instruments to grace laboratories in the late 18th century and throughout the following century.
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From The Report: Saudi Arabia 2015
Education continues to be a major focus for Saudi Arabia, with an estimated $399.75bn spent on education between 2005 and 2015. This trend is set to continue, as the creation of a knowledge economy forms the third objective of the Kingdom's 10th Development Plan. Private instruction continues to gain in popularity – the number of pupils at private schools grew by about 9% a year between 2008 and 2011 and currently makes up around 14% of the K-12 sector. Under the Kingdom's Colleges of Excellence programme, meanwhile, international training providers run a range of vocational courses and build their own curricula to be taught at purpose-built facilities supplied free of charge by the Saudi government. Regionally, the e-learning market in the broader Middle East is set to expand by 8.2% annually as governments invest to support the segment.
This chapter contains interviews with Azzam Al Dakhil, Minister of Education; Ali Al Ghafis, Governor, Technical and Vocational Training Corporation (TVTC); Abdullah Al Mosa, CEO, Saudi Electronic University (SEU); and Badran Al Omar, Rector, King Saud University.
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Late arrival and early departure from a class are recorded as absence from a class for the subject concerned.
All candidates will be required to put in a minimum of 70 % attendance in each subject and 75% in aggregate during the academic session. Students failing to secure this shall be detained from appearing in the Annual Examination to be conducted by the National Council. The Principal is empowered to condone up to 10% of absence on medical grounds. A medical certificate issued by a registered medical practitioner should accompany such request.
In case off illness, absence of the student is permissible only after prior intimation with written explanation to the Principal. A doctor's certificate should be submitted within a week.
The medium of instruction or teaching in the Institute is English.
The Institute is affiliated to the National Council for Hotel Management & Catering Technology, New Delhi, for the contents of the syllabi and conduct of examinations, and rules of the Council shall be applicable.
The National Council holds annual examinations for B.Sc. programme, Diploma in Food and Beverage Service and Craftsmanship Course in Food Production at the end of the academic session in April.
The students of the B.Sc. Hospitality & Hotel Administration are required to undergo and complete 20 weeks of Industrial Training in the hotel industry during the Second Year of the programme.
Students of the Diploma in Food and Beverage Service and the Craftsmanship Course in Food Production are required to undergo and complete a 6 months- period of Industrial Training in the hotel industry after their annual examinations in order to receive their diploma/certificate.
It will be the responsibility of the student to arrange his/her Industrial training. However,The Placement Cell assists them in this.
The Institute has a Placement Cell that helps place students in jobs in hotels and arranges campus interviews for this purpose. Leading hospitality establishments visit the Institute for picking up suitable prospective employees for their esteemed organisations.


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"On Henrik Ibsen," London Review of Books 29:3 (February 2007).
"In Memoriam Harold Pinter," N+1 (January 2009).
The term "metatheatre" now so casually bandied about, and sometimes with little acknowledgement of its origins, was first coined by Lionel Abel in 1963. In Metatheatre: A New View of Dramatic Form, he argued that increased self-consciousness on the part of the playwright and his creations along with the dissipation of "implacable values" inspired by a humanistic view in the early modern period made it impossible for Shakespeare and Calderón (and all subsequent Occidental authors) to write tragedies. But rather than bemoan plays like Hamlet and Life is a Dream as failed tragedies, Abel grouped them into the new-minted form of metatheatre. As more than simple manifestations of the play-within-a-play device, these plays are "theatre pieces about life seen as already theatricalized" (vi). Tragedy and Metatheatre aims "to reconnect metatheatre to its originator and thus to use Abel's work as a point of departure for rethinking the term metatheatre as a powerful tool for understanding the history of theatre" (1). To that end, twelve of the essays appearing in the original book have been reproduced here, rounded out by four more reprints from other sources and two new works. Neither of the two new contributions, "What is Tragedy?" and "The Novelization of Drama," directly addresses the issue of metatheatre, and so in terms of the intended reconnection or rethinking, this collection is akin to a time traveler arrived from the past. Through the reissue of this historical artifact, Abel's conception of metatheatre is restored to our collective attention with an invitation to assess its continuing impact.
It behooves me, therefore, to briefly consider Abel's legacy in light of current scholarship, reflecting back across the intervening four decades. Pavis's entry on metatheatre in his Dictionary of the Theatre rightly acknowledges Abel as the originator of the term, but dismisses the rest of his treatise as simply an extension of the theatrum mundi metaphor (210). Having extensively surveyed the literature of metatheatrical theory and criticism for my dissertation, I am inclined to agree with this assessment. For example, in the essay "Hamlet Q.E.D." Abel aptly shows that Hamlet, Claudius, and Polonius use dramatic techniques with varying degrees of success to direct others in implicit plays-within. However, the conclusions drawn from this observation ultimately stall around the idea that Hamlet's world is a stage and therefore is not a tragedy. Abel's persistent focus on the generic contrast of tragedy with metatheatre as historically sequential and mutually exclusive limits the potential influence of the book in two ways. First, it circumscribes definition and analysis of this self-reflexive phenomenon within the proposed generic contrast to classical tragedy, thereby limiting consideration of other aspects. Second, this oppositional relationship will not hold water since it quickly becomes apparent, as Martin Puchner points out in the introduction, that the shift from tragedy to metatheatre that Abel describes happens much earlier than he imagined. In fact, "it is almost impossible for theatre not to become metatheatre. For how could any theatre not know, somehow, and show that it knows, somehow, what it means to be theatre" (13). And so even the earliest definitive tragedies inevitably express some metatheatrical elements. In the end, the rhetorical structure of pairing of metatheatre with tragedy, although perhaps useful in stimulating Abel's original meditations, does not hold a significant place in the genealogy of metatheatrical criticism.


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From the June 2003 issue of World Press Review (VOL. 50, No. 6)
In Support of President Bush
We, the Traitors
Adam Michnik, Gazeta Wyborcza (liberal), Warsaw, Poland, March 28, 2003
Adam Michnik in 1981, the year Michnik was imprisoned for the second time for his outspoken opposition to the communist regime in Poland (Photo: AFP).
A German journalist published an article in the paper Die Tageszeitung in which he claimed that Vaclav Havel, Adam Michnik, and George Konrad, Europe's long-standing moral authorities, had suddenly become undiscriminating admirers of America.
I read that article with a twinge of nostalgia. Here we were, together again. Our three names were grouped together for the first time by Timothy Garton Ash in his widely acclaimed essay nearly two decades ago. If I recall correctly, Havel and I were doing jail time then, and Konrad's books were banned from print in Hungary. Even though we did not meet very often, we maintained a common ground in our reflections on the worlds of values and of politics. We were united by a dream of freedom, a dream of a world infused with tolerance, hope, respect for human dignity, and a refusal of conformist silence in the face of evil.
We were also united by the specific wisdom of people familiar with "history unleashed," the experience of the acute loneliness of people subject to the pressures of totalitarian despotism and doomed to the world's indifference. Every Hungarian citizen had retained the image of Budapest burning in November 1956, every citizen of Czechoslovakia was haunted by the sight of Soviet tanks on the streets of Prague in 1968, every Pole was to keep in the back of his mind the memory of Warsaw in the fall of 1944, murdered by Hitler and deserted by its allies.
We were not fanatics of primitive anticommunism. We saw communism as a historical phenomenon and communists as people capable of becoming democrats. Later, too, after 1989, we—Konrad, Havel, and I—did not like the fundamentalism of anticommunist radicals, especially those who remained quiet throughout the years of the dictatorship and were now eager to string up the communists. I am bringing all of this up to explain who these three traitors of the new generation are, those accused of blind, conformist pro-Americanism by the German journalist.
I do not know whether Havel and Konrad agree, but I will present my own perspective.
I aim to avoid double standards in thinking about the world. I thus aim to use the same criteria in assessing the arrogance of all great powers, not just the Bush administration.
I remember my nation's experience with totalitarian dictatorship. This is why I was able to draw the right conclusions from Sept. 11, 2001. Just as the murder of Giacomo Matteotti [leader of Italy's United Socialist Party] revealed the nature of Italian fascism and Mussolini's regime; just as the great Moscow trials showed the world the essence of the Stalinist system; just as "Kristallnacht" exposed the hidden truth of Hitler's Nazism, watching the collapsing World Trade Center towers made me realize that the world was facing a new totalitarian challenge. Violence, fanaticism, and lies were challenging democratic values.
This is not the place to analyze the ideology that, while disfiguring the religion of Islam, creates a crusade against the democratic world. Saddam Hussein takes part in this just as Hitler and Stalin did before him. He asserts that in the holy war with the "godless West" all methods are permitted. Waiting for this sort of regime to obtain weapons of mass destruction would be plain recklessness.
This logic is accused of leading to the idealization of the United States, of not leaving room for critical reflection on American policies. In answer to this, I guarantee that I have not forgotten about the U.S. intervention in Vietnam or the American support of despotic, anticommunist regimes in Latin America—the perpetual argument of the intellectuals of the Western European left. However, I also have not forgotten that the American defeat in Vietnam resulted in the North's armed conquest of the South and a wave of terrible repression. I also realize that while condemning the dictatorships of [Rafael] Trujillo or [Augusto] Pinochet, I should remember the dictatorship of Fidel Castro. Brutal power is equally repugnant whether executed under a red banner or a black one. The belief that there was no rightist or leftist torture, no progressive or reactionary torture, was a fundamental principle we lived by. It led us to reject the hypocrisy of the Western left, which proclaimed that even bad communism was better than good capitalism because it was the former and not the latter that led to a bright future.
What, then, is our betrayal? Today we reject the notion of equality between a regime that belongs to the democratic world—even if it is conservative and disagreeable—and a totalitarian dictatorship, whether its colors are black, red, or green. This is why we will never again say that Chamberlain is no better than Hitler, Roosevelt no better than Stalin, and Nixon no better than Mao Zedong, even if we do condemn Roosevelt for Yalta, Chamberlain for Munich, and Nixon for Watergate.
We do not like Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon because of his brutality and his primitive demagogy, but we would not equate him with the Hamas leaders who openly call for barbarian suicide attacks. George W. Bush may not be our hero, but he is the one we will support in the war with Bin Laden, Al-Qaeda, and Saddam Hussein.
Many of us participated in the anti-American protests of 1968, which is why we were horrified and guilt-stricken at the image of so many Vietnamese escaping the regime after the communist victory in tiny boats, risking their own lives and those of their families. We also remember the Manichaeism of the supporters of the Viet Cong who burned the American flag but later failed to denounce the regime. We want to avoid this. Today we are not burning the Iraqi flag; we just do not understand those protesting under Saddam Hussein's portraits.
The hatred felt toward America becomes absurd when it ceases to be a critical stance that is normal within democratic discourse and takes up the defense of brutal, totalitarian dictatorships. The so-called peace movements of the Cold War burned effigies of American presidents and genuflected before Stalin's portraits. We will not repeat such a masquerade today.
In other words, we understand the complexity of the world and we understand the complicated relationship between desire and possibility. We understand the drama of the war in Chechnya; that is why we do not call Putin "the next Stalin." For the same reasons, we are not enthusiastic about America's relations with the dictatorial regime in Saudi Arabia, though we believe that the democratization of Iraq can have a positive influence on the other nations of the Middle East.
Do we like the internal politics of the Bush administration, its projects to spy on citizens, or the rightist rhetoric of the Christian fundamentalists of the Republican Party? No, we do not, though we do believe that the American democracy, the wiser for the lessons of McCarthyism and Watergate, will be capable of protecting itself from the self-poisoning of the "open society."
The German journalist accuses us of not being concerned about the Bush policies that lead to the suppression of humanitarian principles in international relations. Certainly we are unsettled, but we believe that what leads to the destruction of humanitarian principles is rather the tolerance of totalitarian regimes and the cowardly silence about the crimes of the dictatorships in Iraq, North Korea, Libya, and Cuba. We perceive real moral values in the people who take to the streets of the democratic world to protest against the war. These mass protests arouse the public's criticism of the elites in power. Every war presents an excellent opportunity to stifle criticism and gag the critics. The climate of war promotes the violation of democratic procedures and the militarization of public life. It creates the belief that there is only one patriotic way of thinking while all other views amount to betrayal.
Still, we are all the wiser for our history. We remember Munich in 1938, which paved the way for Hitler while enjoying the enthusiastic approval of the war's opponents. We remember Yalta, whose original goal was to prevent war but which led Stalin into our countries. After all, the reasoning of the proponents of the 1938 Munich agreement seemed sound. People wanted peace, not war. They were happy when Chamberlain read the declaration he signed with Hitler and said: "For the second time in our history, a British prime minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honor. I believe it is peace for our time." It was Sept. 30, 1938. A year later World War II broke out.
This is why we are at odds with today's pacifists: We will not peacefully pave the way for those who committed the crimes of Sept. 11 and their allies.
Finally, have we also lost the fear that democratic systems can become totalitarian, as suggested by the German journalist? We have often gone against the grain of public opinion and, before the German publication did, we were accused of betraying our countries. We have spoken about xenophobia and intolerance, about corruption, about the spirit of revenge, about a market devoid of humanity, about the taking over of nations by interest groups or even by mafias. I do not think that Havel's, Konrad's, or my own speeches suggest that we have stopped criticizing what is happening in our democratic countries or that we have failed to perceive the temptations and threats of totalitarian regimes.
Today, however, the primary threat is terrorism by Islamist fundamentalists. War has been declared against the democratic world. It is this world, whose sins and mistakes we know all too well, that we want to defend.
These are the reasons behind our absolute war on the terrorist, corrupt, intolerant regime of the despot from Baghdad. One cannot perceive totalitarian threats in George W. Bush's policies and at the same time defend Saddam Hussein. There are limits to absurdity, which should not be exceeded recklessly.
Adam Michnik is a prominent Polish essayist, former dissident, and editor of Gazeta Wyborcza. This article was reprinted in El País in Madrid, Profil in Vienna, Libération in Paris, and Tages-Anzeiger in Zurich.
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This shoot was a collaboration of many talented vendors. The florist used a photo of a tattoo to create her pieces. The venue is a new wedding venue and is very rural. You can see from the photos that elements that were used to tie into the colorful palate of tattoos! The invitation was actually a thin piece of wood-like material!
The organizer of the shoot wanted a Rockabilly meets Midsummer dream feel. I think we accomplished this. The couple was married about a year before the shoot. The dress is from Bygones (listed below) however, bits of tulle from the bride's mother's prom dress are sewn into the inside to create the crinoline effect.
As a photographer, I looked for inspiration around the venue. One of the photos I love is in the main house where I combined their wall decoration (which was a crate and barbwire) with the invitation and a rockabilly cupcake- I think this is great summary of the whole shoot! I also wanted to achieve an overview effect of the venue and a general feel of the day. Attached is a photo of me in the "bucket" taking one of the shoots of the day.


In his small-scale project Le sec et l'humide, Guy Cassiers takes a closer look at the theme he explored in his impressive production De welwillenden (2016) after Jonathan Littell's novel, The Kindly Ones.
While writing his lengthy novel, Littell also completed an essay entitled Le sec et l'humide in which he dissects the language and imagery he encountered in Fascist writings by the Belgian Léon Degrelle. In contrast to the creative, constructive, orderly, neat and dry approach of the Germans and all the pro-Germans, Degrelle paints horrifying pictures of the lax, slovenly, disorderly, tacky, muddy, smoky and humid Russian world into which the German adversaries are in danger of being dragged. Two voices are heard in the essay: firstly, that of Degrelle himself in the extensive quotes from his book La campagne de Russie and, secondly, that of an (objective?) commentator.
IRCAM - Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique – in France offered Guy Cassiers the opportunity to experiment with sound and voice. By means of historical sound recordings from the archives, Guy Cassiers has the 'objective' historian tell the story of Léon Degrelle on a campaign in Russia and of his escape to Spain, but gradually the piding line between the narrator and his subject blurs: by subtly manipulating sound and voice, Cassiers interweaves past and present and Degrelle himself becomes the narrator. An intriguing and alarming transformation (courtesy of Johan Leysen's deep voice). Here, too, the view formulated in De welwillenden is never far off: "You can never say: I will not kill. That is impossible: at most you can say: I hope I won't kill."
Le sec et l'humide is part of The littell Project co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
The activity report of The Littell Project gives a general overview of the project, its results and benefits and gives more detailed information about all activities and communicative actions, undertaken for the project.
On March 16 th 2017 the Opéra National de Paris will present the première of Trompe-la-mort, a new opera after Balzac set to music by Luca Francesconi and directed by Guy Cassiers. The same week the Centre Pompidou in Paris is showing Le sec et l'humide, in which Cassiers continues his exploration of the theme of his impressive production De welwillenden (The Kindly Ones, 2016), after Jonathan Littell's novel The Kindly Ones about the extermination of the Jews by the Nazis.
"We can all become camp butchers"
The websites Testofcivilisation.eu and Invisible-Cities.eu – both initiated and produced by Toneelhuis with support of the European Community – have been granted a continued existence: the first was officially transferred to Kazerne Dossin on 23 February 2015, while Invisible-Cities.eu is moving to AP University College Antwerp. As a result, the two sites will remain available for those seeking contemporary background information and testimonies about exclusion, then and now.
Le sec et l'humide is een voorstudie die Guy Cassiers onderneemt in het kader van zijn enscenering in 2016 van De welwillenden, naar de gelijknamige roman van Jonathan Littell. Begin juli werd het toonmoment van Le sec et l'humide rond Belgische collaborateur Leon Degrelle zo goed onthaald dat het dit najaar reeds naar het Spaanse Girona reist (Festival Temporada Alta).


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These Polluting Companies Are Sponsoring ALEC In San Diego
These corporations are footing the bill for ALEC's latest round of parties and secret meetings in San DIego, California.
By cgibson
-- By Nick Surgey of The Center for Media and Democracy and Connor Gibson of Greenpeace
At the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) 2015 annual meeting in San Diego, California, dirty energy companies and their supporters--including ExxonMobil, Chevron, and Duke Energy--continue to dominate the funding of activities, according to a list of conference sponsors obtained jointly by the Center for Media and Democracy and Greenpeace.
At the top of the agenda, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker spoke to ALEC delegates over breakfast on Thursday. Walker is now campaigning on a promise to destroy the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) if elected President in 2016, a plan which was earlier debated by ALEC at its December 2014 conference and is in line with ALEC's long-term legislative agenda.
At ALEC conferences and meetings, rhetoric against the EPA--and in particular the Obama administration's proposed Clean Power Plan to reduce carbon pollution--is frequently extreme.
ALEC sessions have repeatedly featured overt denial of climate change science. During recent ALEC conferences, legislators have been called upon to engage in "guerrilla warfare" against the EPA and at another session instructed to bring about a "political tsunami" to block pollution controls.
After Google chairman Eric Schmidt accused ALEC of "literally lying" about climate change on NPR in September 2014, a fleet of companies ditched ALEC, from oil giants like BP and Occidental Petroleum to software and tech firms like Facebook, Yelp, Yahoo, AOL, eBay, and SAP--the company which chaired ALEC's corporate board.
Opposing Action on Climate Change
On the agenda during the San Diego closed-door meeting of the ALEC Energy, Environment and Agriculture task force are numerous new attempts to undermine efforts to tackle climate change.
The proposed ALEC model "Environmental Impact Litigation Act," based on a law passed in North Dakota in 2015, would allow coal, oil, and gas companies to pay into a fund for the state to sue against a number of key federal environmental laws, including the Clean Air Act. This law, if passed, could be used to allow coal companies to fund state lawsuits against the Clean Power Plan.
Of the 54 identified corporate sponsors, twenty-two are energy related firms, their front groups, or firms representing energy interests. Most notable among the sponsors is ExxonMobil, which just last week told the Guardian that it isn't sponsoring climate change denial groups, including ALEC specifically. ExxonMobil is among the top sponsors of ALEC's 2015 annual meeting, and Exxon's Cynthia Bergman remains on ALEC's corporate board.
Below are financial underwriters of ALEC's meeting, taking place at one of the largest resorts on the West Coast, along with the rates from another document obtained by CMD, ranging from $5,000 to $100,000.
The corporations and amounts listed here are just part of the funding picture for ALEC
These amounts do not include other money corporations pay ALEC in membership fees, or additional fees to participate on ALEC task forces, for which lobbyists receive a seat and a vote alongside legislators in setting the ALEC agenda. It also does not include money spent by corporate lobbyists at special parties for lawmakers or state delegations at some of the most expensive restaurants in San Diego, nor money spent by some of the corporations to fund the trips for state lawmakers to San Diego for what ALEC has dubbed "scholarships."
ALEC's 2015 Annual Meeting Sponsors
Dirty energy interests & front groups in bold
*Asterisks indicate membership on ALEC's corporate board of directors
President's Level - $100,000
Reynolds American Inc (RAI--tobacco company)
Chair's Level - $50,000
American Electric Power (AEP)
AT&T*
Balanced Energy for Texas
American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE)
Cigar Association of America
An Inquiry into The Nature and Causes of the Wealth of States* (new book by Travis Brown & ALEC board member Stephen Moore, ALEC advisor Art Laffer, and Missouri political financier Rex Sinquefield)
DentaQuest
Luminant (subsidiary of Energy Future Holdings)*
PhRMA*
State Policy Network (SPN)
Citizens for Self-Governance
Vice Chair's Level - $20,000
Altria (Phillip Morris tobacco parent company)*
American Bail Coalition*
Diageo*
Encore Capital Group (subsidiary of Energy Future Holdings)*
ExxonMobil*
Guarantee Trust Life (GTL)*
Collaborative for Student Success
Texas Automobile Dealers Association (TADA)
UPS*
Director's Level - $10,000
Breitling Energy
CenterPoint Energy
Crown Packaging
K12*
Oncor (subsidiary of Energy Future Holdings)*
Ryan (tax services company)
Time Warner Cable
Trustee's Level - $5,000
Association of Bermuda Insurers & Reinsurers (ABIR)
Capelo Law Firm
The Graydon Group LLC
Bright House Media Strategies
Renovate America
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals
Tenaska Capital Management
Texas Alliance of Energy Producers
Texas Cable Association
Texas Medical Association
Texas Association of Builders
Texas Business Roundtable
Texas Oil and Gas Association (TXOGA)
Texans for Lawsuit Reform
The Schlueter Group
Texas Strategy Group
Texas Star Alliance Energy Solutions
For the full page of corporate logos sponsoring the ALEC conference see here.
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Lindsey Graham 'Smells A Rat'
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'Only The Best Lawyers': Trump Hires Starr, Dershowitz, And Ray For Impeachment Trial
Two Clinton impeachment prosecutors and Alan Dershowitz? Alrighty then.
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Friday News Dump: Don't Worry, It's Only Betty White's Birthday -- And Other News
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Conservative Hack Asks McSally The Same Question About Impeachment Witnesses
She refuses to answer.


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Home Fitness Fitness campaign launched in state, schools could win $ 100,000 in gym
Fitness campaign launched in state, schools could win $ 100,000 in gym
GREENVILLE, NC (WITN) – The state of North Carolina was selected as one of four states to participate in the Don't Quit Fitness campaign sponsored by the National Foundation for Governors' Fitness Councils (NFGFC).
Three elementary or middle schools could win a fitness center worth $ 100,000. Schools need to be nominated, and you can do that online for your school to win.
NFGFC Chairman Jake Steinfeld said, "Child obesity is a serious problem that can follow a child into adulthood. I have declared war on this preventable disease and it is inspiring to see elected leaders like Governor Roy Cooper jump aboard immediately to join the battle and welcome us to the great state of North Carolina. Every governor we've worked with recognizes that obesity is not a Democratic or Republican problem, it is a problem for children, and everyone has vowed to do whatever they can to help. "
Don't Quit Fitness Centers are located in 36 states and Washington, DC. Four more states are joining this year, including North Carolina, Mississippi, New Hampshire and Maine.
The organizers say the response from each state has been great and the kids are excited about exercising and being physically active. According to statistics from the fitness program, student academic performance and self-esteem have skyrocketed as a result of the program.
Steinfeld said schools in North Carolina now have the opportunity to make similar changes to impact the children well into their future.
The program plans to reach all 50 states in the coming years.
"Each fitness center is funded through public-private partnerships with companies like The Coca-Cola Company, Anthem Foundation, Wheels Up and Nike, and does not rely on taxpayers' money or government funding," said a press release.
Governor Roy Cooper put pressure on the program, saying, "Getting kids involved in physical activity early in life will continue to pay off in the future."
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Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome (BWS) is an overgrowth disorder which manifests in many different ways, including hemihypertrophy (one side of the body is larger than the other). This leads to an asymmetric appearance.
Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome affects 1 in 15,000 live births. The cause of Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome is due to a complicated genetic syndrome involving chromosome 11. Patients with Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome have a predisposition for Wilm's tumor and must screen for it regularly.
These children or adults usually present complaining that one side of the body (arm and leg) appears longer than the other side. Many come with the diagnosis of hemi-hypertrophy but are diagnosed by us as having BWS instead. The chief complaint is regarding equalization of limb length discrepancy.
With both adults and children, an x-ray is taken at the initial visit to compare the leg lengths. The difference in lengths can be significant in an adult and quite small in a child but can also vary widely. With children, we do a prediction of the difference that will exist once the child reaches skeletal maturity, when the long bones have stopped growing; in girls this is within 2 years after beginning menstruation; in boys it is close to 15-16 years of age. Skeletal growth is predictable in a growing child. Skeletal growth is rapid within the first three years; in fact, if a discrepancy is present, a child will obtain half of their (predicted) limb length discrepancy at age three, and the remaining amount between age three and skeletal maturity. Treatment for BWS focuses on correcting the limb length discrepancy.


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The consultant or assistant will come to collect you from the waiting area.
You may have referred yourself or have been referred by your PCP/Physiotherapist. The consultant will discuss your relevant problem and inquire about your medical history. A thorough examination will then follow.
The consultant may request further investigations to assist in a diagnosis; X-rays, MRI scans, Ultrasound scans and blood tests can be ordered and reviewed within a week. Scans need to be booked and therefore cannot be guaranteed to happen on the same day.
If you have had previous scans or X-rays related to your condition, please bring these along to all your consultations. Please also bring any copies of letters or records from your PCP or other specialists.
If a follow up consultation or further investigations are required the consultant will indicate this. Follow up appointments can be arranged at reception or by calling 949.527-1826.
The consultant will write to your PCP and any other referring professionals, who will be continuing your care. The letter will summarize your consultation and the planned investigations. A copy is also available to you for your records.
At the follow up consultation the consultant will discuss with you the results of your investigations. He will recommend the most appropriate treatment for your condition. This is a good opportunity to ask any relevant questions regarding your condition and ongoing care.
If a procedure or a surgery is needed, the consultant will explain the details of the procedure to you and what to expect afterwards. The discussion will detail the purposes of the procedure or surgery and the potential problems or complications that could be encountered.
What happens if I need a procedure or operation?
If a procedure or surgery is needed we will arrange this for you. If authorization is needed by your insurance company, we will submit a request which often takes 1-2 weeks to process.
A preadmission medical review will be arranged to ensure that you are fit enough for the planned surgery.
Once admitted and settled in your room, a nurse will confirm your identity and place a wristband on you. Some baseline observations (pulse, blood pressure etc) will be recorded and the nurse will be able to answer any questions you have about your ambulatory surgical stay.
Your consultant will visit you before your operation and will ask you to sign a consent form for the procedure. He will also mark the surgical area as part of the standard safety check procedure.
Depending on the procedure and your need for anesthesia, the anesthesiologist will need time with you before your operation to inform you about your anesthesia and to check your health. Surgery can be undertaken under local, regional or general anesthesia. You should discuss this with your surgeon and anesthesiologist.
and braces. This will help you to avoid any excess fees.
It depends on what procedure you have had performed. To be able to drive you should be able to walk "normally" and comfortably.
As a rough guide it would be reasonable to return to driving 3-7 days after smaller procedures, such as knee arthroscopy and at least 6 weeks after lumbar surgery.
There are no set rules on when it is safe to fly following surgery.
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Most airlines will not allow you to fly if you have a full cast in place - due to potential problems with swelling and excess pressure that may arise.
It is advisable to consult your airline directly if you have any concerns.
What about Fees & Payment?
An estimate of consultation fees and costs of other investigations or surgery are available on request. The figures quoted are always guide prices and are based on the information provided by the patient.
Please be aware that you will be liable for any costs incurred that are not covered by your insurance company. Please check the fine print of you Private insurance contract for "excess payments" on your policy.
We are required by law to collect all co-payments and deductibles on the day of your appointment.
I am self paying – when will I have to pay?
Fees for outpatient consultations may be paid at the time of your consultation (by credit card, debit card, or cash). If you have not paid at the time of the consultation you will receive an invoice from us. This may be paid by credit card over the phone.
If you have a PPO policy with a higher deductible, we will take a copy of your credit or debit card details to cover any potential costs incurred by the surgery center. These details are not passed on to your consultant or his team and cannot be used to settle any payments due to them – consultation fees will need to be paid separately.
Can I refer myself to the clinic?
You may refer yourself to a clinic – although it is preferable to have a letter from your PCP or other healthcare professional detailing your problem and any other significant past medical history.
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Byrne and Mala Gaonkar create "The Institute Presents: Neurosociety".
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