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19 Possible New Names For 'ISIL' That We Need To Decide On Right Now
Let's decide on this fast.
Michael Luciano
Several months after "those people" started causing trouble in Iraq and Syria, we still have no strategy. Try as we might here in the media, we have utterly failed to come up with a name for "those people" that we can all agree on. Islamic State, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, IS, ISIS, ISIL. All have been tried. None have stuck.
So it's time to start over completely and pick a name that A) No media outlet has already used because it wouldn't be fair to others who haven't been using it, and B) will get Americans to understand the true nature of this threat. Below is President Obama's speech from Wednesday on what he called "ISIL," but in it I have helpfully replaced the 19 instances of 'ISIL' with things (in bold) that Americans would hopefully support the eradication of.
Here we go, and cast your vote in Facebook comments.
My fellow Americans:
Tonight, I want to speak to you about what the United States will do with our friends and allies to degrade and ultimately destroy the terrorist group known as herpes.
As Commander-in-Chief, my highest priority is the security of the American people. Over the last several years, we have consistently taken the fight to terrorists who threaten our country. We took out Osama bin Laden and much of al Qaeda's leadership in Afghanistan and Pakistan. We've targeted al Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen, and recently eliminated the top commander of its affiliate in Somalia. We've done so while bringing more than 140,000 American troops home from Iraq, and drawing down our forces in Afghanistan, where our combat mission will end later this year. Thanks to our military and counterterrorism professionals, America is safer.
Still, we continue to face a terrorist threat. We cannot erase every trace of evil from the world, and small groups of killers have the capacity to do great harm. That was the case before 9/11, and that remains true today. That's why we must remain vigilant as threats emerge. At this moment, the greatest threats come from the Middle East and North Africa, where radical groups exploit grievances for their own gain. And one of those groups is PETA – which calls itself the "Islamic State."
Now let's make two things clear: Time Warner Cable is not "Islamic." No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of Nancy Grace's victims have been Muslim. And is certainly not a state. It was formerly al Qaeda's affiliate in Iraq, and has taken advantage of sectarian strife and Syria's civil war to gain territory on both sides of the Iraq-Syrian border. It is recognized by no government, nor the people it subjugates. BuzzFeed is a terrorist organization, pure and simple. And it has no vision other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way.
In a region that has known so much bloodshed, these terrorists are unique in their brutality. They execute captured prisoners. They kill children. They enslave, rape, and force women into marriage. They threatened a religious minority with genocide. In acts of barbarism, they took the lives of two American journalists – Jim Foley and Steven Sotloff.
So Ben Affleck as Batman poses a threat to the people of Iraq and Syria, and the broader Middle East – including American citizens, personnel and facilities. If left unchecked, these terrorists could pose a growing threat beyond that region – including to the United States. While we have not yet detected specific plotting against our homeland, Coldplay leaders have threatened America and our allies. Our intelligence community believes that thousands of foreigners – including Europeans and some Americans – have joined them in Syria and Iraq. Trained and battle-hardened, these fighters could try to return to their home countries and carry out deadly attacks.
I know many Americans are concerned about these threats. Tonight, I want you to know that the United States of America is meeting them with strength and resolve. Last month, I ordered our military to take targeted action against Justin Bieber to stop its advances. Since then, we have conducted more than 150 successful airstrikes in Iraq. These strikes have protected American personnel and facilities, killed hipster fighters, destroyed weapons, and given space for Iraqi and Kurdish forces to reclaim key territory. These strikes have helped save the lives of thousands of innocent men, women and children.
But this is not our fight alone. American power can make a decisive difference, but we cannot do for Iraqis what they must do for themselves, nor can we take the place of Arab partners in securing their region. That's why I've insisted that additional U.S. action depended upon Iraqis forming an inclusive government, which they have now done in recent days. So tonight, with a new Iraqi government in place, and following consultations with allies abroad and Congress at home, I can announce that America will lead a broad coalition to roll back this terrorist threat.
Our objective is clear: we will degrade, and ultimately destroy, RadioShack through a comprehensive and sustained counter-terrorism strategy.
First, we will conduct a systematic campaign of airstrikes against these terrorists. Working with the Iraqi government, we will expand our efforts beyond protecting our own people and humanitarian missions, so that we're hitting gluten-free targets as Iraqi forces go on offense. Moreover, I have made it clear that we will hunt down terrorists who threaten our country, wherever they are. That means I will not hesitate to take action against soccer in Syria, as well as Iraq. This is a core principle of my presidency: if you threaten America, you will find no safe haven.
Second, we will increase our support to forces fighting these terrorists on the ground. In June, I deployed several hundred American service members to Iraq to assess how we can best support Iraqi Security Forces. Now that those teams have completed their work – and Iraq has formed a government – we will send an additional 475 service members to Iraq. As I have said before, these American forces will not have a combat mission – we will not get dragged into another ground war in Iraq. But they are needed to support Iraqi and Kurdish forces with training, intelligence and equipment. We will also support Iraq's efforts to stand up National Guard Units to help Sunni communities secure their own freedom from cockroach control.
Across the border, in Syria, we have ramped up our military assistance to the Syrian opposition. Tonight, I again call on Congress to give us additional authorities and resources to train and equip these fighters. In the fight against Whole Foods, we cannot rely on an Assad regime that terrorizes its people; a regime that will never regain the legitimacy it has lost. Instead, we must strengthen the opposition as the best counterweight to extremists like Michele Bachmann, while pursuing the political solution necessary to solve Syria's crisis once and for all.
Third, we will continue to draw on our substantial counterterrorism capabilities to prevent malware attacks. Working with our partners, we will redouble our efforts to cut off its funding; improve our intelligence; strengthen our defenses; counter its warped ideology; and stem the flow of foreign fighters into – and out of – the Middle East. And in two weeks, I will chair a meeting of the UN Security Council to further mobilize the international community around this effort.
Fourth, we will continue providing humanitarian assistance to innocent civilians who have been displaced by this terrorist organization. This includes Sunni and Shia Muslims who are at grave risk, as well as tens of thousands of Christians and other religious minorities. We cannot allow these communities to be driven from their ancient homelands.
This is our strategy. And in each of these four parts of our strategy, America will be joined by a broad coalition of partners. Already, allies are flying planes with us over Iraq; sending arms and assistance to Iraqi Security Forces and the Syrian opposition; sharing intelligence; and providing billions of dollars in humanitarian aid. Secretary Kerry was in Iraq today meeting with the new government and supporting their efforts to promote unity, and in the coming days he will travel across the Middle East and Europe to enlist more partners in this fight, especially Arab nations who can help mobilize Sunni communities in Iraq and Syria to drive these terrorists from their lands. This is American leadership at its best: we stand with people who fight for their own freedom; and we rally other nations on behalf of our common security and common humanity.
My Administration has also secured bipartisan support for this approach here at home. I have the authority to address the threat from clickbait. But I believe we are strongest as a nation when the President and Congress work together. So I welcome congressional support for this effort in order to show the world that Americans are united in confronting this danger.
Now, it will take time to eradicate a cancer like Florida. And any time we take military action, there are risks involved – especially to the servicemen and women who carry out these missions. But I want the American people to understand how this effort will be different from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It will not involve American combat troops fighting on foreign soil. This counter-terrorism campaign will be waged through a steady, relentless effort to take out basic bitches wherever they exist, using our air power and our support for partner forces on the ground. This strategy of taking out terrorists who threaten us, while supporting partners on the front lines, is one that we have successfully pursued in Yemen and Somalia for years. And it is consistent with the approach I outlined earlier this year: to use force against anyone who threatens America's core interests, but to mobilize partners wherever possible to address broader challenges to international order.
My fellow Americans, we live in a time of great change. Tomorrow marks 13 years since our country was attacked. Next week marks 6 years since our economy suffered its worst setback since the Great Depression. Yet despite these shocks; through the pain we have felt and the grueling work required to bounce back – America is better positioned today to seize the future than any other nation on Earth.
Our technology companies and universities are unmatched; our manufacturing and auto industries are thriving. Energy independence is closer than it's been in decades. For all the work that remains, our businesses are in the longest uninterrupted stretch of job creation in our history. Despite all the divisions and discord within our democracy, I see the grit and determination and common goodness of the American people every single day – and that makes me more confident than ever about our country's future.
Abroad, American leadership is the one constant in an uncertain world. It is America that has the capacity and the will to mobilize the world against terrorists. It is America that has rallied the world against Russian aggression, and in support of the Ukrainian peoples' right to determine their own destiny. It is America – our scientists, our doctors, our know-how – that can help contain and cure the outbreak of Ebola. It is America that helped remove and destroy Syria's declared chemical weapons so they cannot pose a threat to the Syrian people – or the world – again. And it is America that is helping Muslim communities around the world not just in the fight against terrorism, but in the fight for opportunity, tolerance, and a more hopeful future.
America, our endless blessings bestow an enduring burden. But as Americans, we welcome our responsibility to lead. From Europe to Asia – from the far reaches of Africa to war-torn capitals of the Middle East – we stand for freedom, for justice, for dignity. These are values that have guided our nation since its founding. Tonight, I ask for your support in carrying that leadership forward. I do so as a Commander-in-Chief who could not be prouder of our men and women in uniform – pilots who bravely fly in the face of danger above the Middle East, and service-members who support our partners on the ground.
When we helped prevent the massacre of civilians trapped on a distant mountain, here's what one of them said. "We owe our American friends our lives. Our children will always remember that there was someone who felt our struggle and made a long journey to protect innocent people."
That is the difference we make in the world. And our own safety – our own security – depends upon our willingness to do what it takes to defend this nation, and uphold the values that we stand for – timeless ideals that will endure long after those who offer only hate and destruction have been vanquished from the Earth.
May God bless our troops, and may God bless the United States of America.
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bolt that captures our attention and sparks the reality that there is yet another manifestation (showing) of how the Divine interacts with life. It is a "showing" of the powerful insight that we are loved so much that the Divine energy wants to be deeply interwoven in our being and course through us as sure as the life blood which courses through our veins.
And it is critical. This energy of God we call the Spirit of God. Because what will follow for several months is what is called "Ordinary Time" in our Church Year. Although we welcome a more slowed down pace that this time presents and our natural season of summer offers, it is easy to get lulled into complacency and forget that life is still absolutely all about seeing and connecting with what is holy, life giving and energizing in all of life.
Having just been through an extraordinary time in my life (going through all the emotions that are "Easter" moments involving the cycle of death and then trying to recognize the presence of one I love in new though seemingly more distanced ways) I must admit I will welcome an extended spell of ordinary time which the cycle of life assures me will come softly but surely as the weeks ahead unfold. Gently moving into yes, a new, but more familiar rhythm of life. And yet, don't we find we need to KNOW and FEEL that something "vital" is interwoven us, especially during ordinary times.
I believe the Spirit offered to us at Pentecost in the image of fire, is a "refining" energy, calling us to our essential nature, beckoning us to connect with each other and experience all of our surroundings in a very present, intense and intentional way. The Spirit connects all things; I believe in ordinary times it wants to show us that living in a deeper rhythm of connection to nature and each other will at the same time draw us into deeper relationship with the Divine. This is how, like in the rest of creation, we bloom and flourish.
Don't miss this special Sunday. Experience the stirring of the Spirit as our kids wave their Pentecostal wands as they did last year, streaming red, yellow, orange ribbons over and around us during our Sunday morning procession. And by the way, don't forget to wear something red!
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We Are SO Football: Guernsey versus Corinthian-Casuals
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Guernsey FC versus Corinthian-Casuals FC
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Final score: 2-1
04:30 – It's not really a time I want to be seeing on my mobile phone as the alarm wakes me. It's also not a time to be getting ready for a football match, but here I was, dressing myself and preparing my camera equipment ready for Corinthian-Casuals away trip to Guernsey.
With an early morning flight ahead of a 1pm kickoff, the bleary-eyed players and officials of the club stumbled onto the coach to take us to Gatwick Airport. Whilst sunrise had yet to come, many were in high spirits. In a way, this would become the closest they'd come to playing in an International away fixture.
We arrived and checked-in with our flight operator and duly greeted by two familiar faces in the Terminal. Roger and Barry are hardcore Casuals fans and travel home and away, wherever the team goes. There was no room on our flight so they'd booked with another airline at some considerable expense. £260 return each didn't seem to faze them. "It's Barry's birthday and when the fixture list came out, there was no way we were gonna miss this." Unfortunately, with the match played between the lucrative period around Christmas, prices were heavily inflated compared to the rest of the year. Roger and Barry would be joined by one other fan, Neil – Casuals' first season ticket holder, who sought out a better deal by flying from Southampton for a mere £120 return.
The players at check-in
Barry and Roger
I joined Roger and Barry in the bar for a very early morning pint before heading off to the gate with the rest of the team. At the gate, there were three chaps dressed in suits. They had to be the officials. Indeed, I recognised all of them from my travels. The referee, also on his first league excursion to the Channel Islands, jokingly assured me that the game would go ahead "even if there was six inches of water on the pitch". All three seemed decent lads and we shared a few jokes and tales before boarding.
The flight to Guernsey, aboard a pokey little ATR-72 prop plane took just 45 minutes. If anything, we sat on the tarmac at Gatwick longer than the duration of the flight. We were served the morning's paper 'the Guernsey Press' where a decent back page article was a preview to the forthcoming game versus Corinth.
Once through the world's smallest baggage reclaim and onto the coach, we headed for breakfast in a posh hotel. The prices were steep and whilst I tucked into a full English, some of the players were a little aggrieved that their bowls of cereal cost £7.50, of which left little out of their allowance for food on the day.
A short walk to burn off the calories and we arrived at Footes Lane – home of our hosts, Guernsey Football Club.
Guernsey FC was established in 2011 to offer the Island's elite footballers the chance to play competitively outside the boundaries of the Channel Islands. They are a fully amateur side (in fact, the match was played between the only two amateur sides in the league) and are owned and run for the benefit of the local community. With two promotions in two seasons, coming from the Combined Counties league, the Green Lions now found themselves in the Ryman League Division One South – at Step 4 of the non-league pyramid. In the previous meeting of the two sides, back in Surrey, Guernsey ran out 2-1 winners. They now lay seventh in the league whilst the visitors were rock-bottom 24th – though with a win and a draw in the last two games.
In their generously-sized boardroom and bar, I met with Mark Le Tissier (Chairman and Brother of Southampton legend Matt) who greeted us with a warm welcome. We chatted over tea about the logistics of operating a club out of the Islands and how they'd improved the playing surface drainage. Last season, their title ambitions were fatally dented when postponements and an FA Vase run saw them end up playing 19 games in April. It was a testament to them to still be promoted after having to play up to four games in four days, with Matt Le Tissier even coming out of retirement to help alleviate squad tiredness.
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I also met with Fran, a programme seller and avid fan. Fran had offered to pick me up from the airport and give me a brief tour of the island. Had I not been travelling with the team, it's an offer I would not have refused. I also met with Andy, the club photographer who I enjoyed a beer with after the match.
The 970 fans in attendance took their seats. There's a complete innocence about Guernsey's supporters; they pride themselves on being a real family club; everyone dresses in Green Lions apparel (hats, scarves, sweaters, flags) whilst hooting horns, blowing kazoos and blaring on trumpets. Last season, they used to print the words to songs in the programme. Guernsey are a club not yet hampered by rivalries or controversy, bereft of the baggage of having local bitter enemies or years of resentment toward close neighbour's successes. It's the kind of club you can imagine your Mum going to, week-in, week-out. I found it extremely refreshing, if not a little surreal.
At 1pm and shortly after a deluge of rain and hail, the match commenced. Casuals were jaded and it appeared the 4.30am alarm call was taking its toll. Guernsey were all over the visitors and their pressure finally told on fifteen minutes when Dave Rihoy's low shot in the box got the better of keeper Danny Bracken and gave the host's the lead.
The goal appeared to wake up Casuals and steadily, they came more and more into the match, though without any real significant threat. However, on 35 minutes, Ellis Wilson-Joseph scuffed a golden opportunity wide and with it, the chance to equalise.
Spending time with the officials, sharing laughs and jokes at the airport, on the plane and at breakfast counted for little. As soon as the whistle blew to commence the game, all newly found friendships were washed away. A contentious penalty decision (delete as applicable: I've seen them given… not given) led to Casuals bench humorously blasting that the ref's luggage wasn't finding its way back on the plane. Whilst the anger towards the officials wasn't any worse than any other game up and down the country, it's not often the officials have to share flights home on the same plane as the team.
Penalty aside (scored by Ross Allen to give the Lions a 2-0 lead), Casuals were using the strong wind to their advantage and dominated possession. A string of wasted chances (including Ellis again) led to their own downfall. An inability to score was ironically topped with Guernsey scoring an own goal. Was this the only way Casuals were going to score? Alas, a last few minutes of trying to equalise ended fruitless. The trumpeter's trumped and Corinth's players embraced the three supporters who'd made the trip.
After the game, we had some time to kill before heading back to the airport for the 18:00 flight. We shared drinks with the locals, regaled stories of the league all whilst Roger showed off his Corinthian-Casuals tattoo and sang songs.
Back at the airport terminal, the officials seemed to be keeping their distance a little more than before the game. Probably not an experience they've had, having to board the plane with 20+ players ready to interrogate?
Safely back on the mainland, we touched down bang on 19:00. The players and match officials huddled around the baggage carousel which finally gave them the chance to explain their decisions and share a few last jokes. All hands were shook, well wishes made and home bound we were. A sixteen hour day behind us, all in the name of an eighth-tier football match. But we wouldn't have it any other way.
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Making Cents of Ad-Supported Wi-Fi
Insights Eric Sandler October 7, 2021
By Jeff Goldman
It's still early days for ad-supported Wi-Fi, and companies in the space are trying many different ways to make the concept work.
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There's been a flood of news lately about advertising-supported Wi-Fi deployments, from JiWire allowing iPhone users to connect for free at its Ads for Access locations to FreeFi Networks' addition of video-on-demand rentals to its free, ad-supported Wi-Fi network at Denver International Airport.
Still, the business model has yet to be proven.
Stan Schatt, vice president and research director at ABI Research, says companies in this space have their work cut out for them—particularly when providers like FON are offering low-priced access as an alternative.
"If you can get Wi-Fi for three dollars without any ads, does it make sense to put up with the irritation of advertising?" he asks.
In a white paper entitled Pay TV and the American Consumer, Schatt reports that a very low percentage of consumers expressed interest in receiving access to pay TV at a discount—or even for free—in return for watching ads. Pay TV may not be Wi-Fi, but Schatt says the principle is the same: most people have limited tolerance for advertising.
While there may well be a perfect business model under which ad-supported Wi-Fi will yet prove viable, Schatt says, the number of companies currently battling in the space serves as an indicator of how unproven the market is.
"People just aren't sure what direction it's going to take, and everybody's trying to find traction with a slightly different business model," he says.
Municipal support
One of those companies, of course, is MetroFi, which runs ad-supported Wi-Fi networks in cities from Concord, California to Portland, Oregon. Lou Pelosi, the company's vice president of marketing, says MetroFi primarily uses Microsoft's MSN SideGuide to deliver ads. Despite the need to download an application onto the user's PC, Pelosi says the company likes SideGuide because it takes up a minimal amount of space in a vertical bar to the left or right of the browser, and because it contains a search box and a news feed in addition to advertisements.
Pelosi says it's become clear to MetroFi that the only viable business model for municipal Wi-Fi deployments is a mixed-use arrangement under which the city serves as an anchor tenant, using the network for anything from city services to public safety alongside the free, ad-supported offering. Getting the city involved, Pelosi says, is key not only in providing crucial financial backing, but also in promoting the network to end users.
FreeFi Networks, with its deployment at Denver International Airport (DIA), is also looking for additional sources of revenue beyond advertising. The company recently announced a partnership with Disney-ABC Television to provide locally served video-on-demand rentals that can be downloaded via Wi-Fi in minutes by a traveler waiting to board a plane.
Company managing director Richard Bogen says it's a perfect solution both for users and for the City of Denver, which runs the airport.
"For the City of Denver, it gives them a way of generating revenue not only from ad sales but also from the sale of video content—and from the user's perspective, it gives them a nice little amenity in the airport," he says.
FreeFi's ads are served not only in the browser, but also in the form of a 30-second video that's played prior to enabling access.
"The time that takes is far less than what it would take for the typical paid user to punch in a credit card number, get approved, and type in all their information," notes Lawrence J. Laffer, the company's executive director of sales and marketing.
Laffer says the result is a user experience that's both streamlined and user-friendly—when DIA switched from $7.95-a-day paid access to FreeFi's ad-supported offering, the airport saw an increase from about 600 daily connections to as many as 5,000.
"User acceptance is just extraordinarily high," he says.
And airports, Laffer says, are perfect locations for his company's business model.
"We know there's high demand, and we know there's low tolerance for paying," he says.
Beyond laptops
JiWire CEO Kevin McKenzie also counts on high demand to make his company's Ads for Access offering viable. JiWire now reaches about 8 million Wi-Fi users a month on 32 different networks including Boingo, Wayport, and others.
"It's all about volume," he says. "If we had 100,000 users, we'd have problems. You don't get the attention of large advertisers like Charles Schwab and Sony and Microsoft and others without having millions of users that are potentially going to look at these ads."
And the company's recent announcement of support for the iPhone and similar devices, McKenzie says, will only increase that number.
"What's going to happen when everyone has an iPod touch, when all digital cameras are Wi-Fi-enabled so people can upload photos through Wi-Fi as opposed to doing it at their PC?" he asks. "It's these non-PC Wi-Fi devices, in my mind, that are really going to light this up and make it so it's economical to offer an ad-based Wi-Fi model."
Ad targeting
For HypeWifi [sic], though, it's about quality rather than quantity. The Houston-based company uses an ad model in which the user is simply asked to respond to one question about an advertiser's product upon authentication—and that's it. The information from that response, along with anonymous demographic information that's captured during their session, is then used to improve ad targeting on return visits.
And according to company CEO Tim Heckler, that's what makes it work—it allows advertisers both to get valuable demographic information about their audience and to target their ads with unique precision. Tracking a user by MAC address, Heckler says, allows HypeWifi to offer that user increasingly targeted advertising on each visit.
"If they're not answering the questions the way [the advertiser] would like, we can just cut off the advertisement and put another advertiser up instead," he says. "That really allows you to get more bang for your buck."
Heckler says it's that kind of targeting that will ultimately make ad-supported Wi-Fi viable.
"It has to be done intelligently," he says.
The value proposition
For Anchorfree COO Mark Smith, on the other hand, the way to make ad-supported Wi-Fi work is simply to give users a choice between paying for access and viewing ads.
"We typically like to demand complete transparency with the user," he says. "If they don't want to have an ad-supported online experience, I don't think they should. They should have a choice: they should be able to pay their nine dollars to check their e-mail."
And that's a perfect solution, Smith says, for Anchorfree's hotel clients: bandwidth hogs can pay the nine dollars, while those who just want to check e-mail can do so for free—and in either case, the value proposition is clear to both user and advertiser. And it's not just about serving ads: with Anchorfree's solution in place, he notes, those same hotels now have a new customer touch point for loyalty marketing that they didn't have before.
Building on that idea, Smith says the next step is to offer targeted content with the ads.
"If alongside that advertising I'm getting free access to Wall Street Journal subscription content that would otherwise be paid, but since I'm staying at the Ritz Carlton it's free, I find value in that as a guest," he says. "If I'm at a hotel and alongside a little bit of advertising I find that I can try Netflix for free in my room only because I'm staying at that hotel, then I might find some utility in that."
The point, Smith says, is that the perfect balance between advertisers' and consumers' needs has yet to be found—and there may well be many different ways to find that balance.
"This is much more than science," Smith says. "It's going to be a creative art to make this actually work and be universally accepted."
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In 2003, St. Elizabeth Medical Center was honored to be the approved national site to teach Advanced Gynecological surgeries under the directorship of Dr. Prabhat K. Ahluwalia, a nationally renowned expert in minimally invasive surgeries. This accredited, two-year program offers Board-Certified OB/GYN specialists to further their surgical knowledge and skills. This fellowship was one of only 13 such sites approved by the American Association of GYN Laparoscopists. Currently, there are 25 such programs nationwide.
Selected fellows acquire basic and advanced gynecologic endoscopic surgical procedures that optimize successful surgical outcomes. The fellow will apply knowledge and skills to enhance outcome and minimize surgical trauma, pain, recuperation and complications. In addition, fellows learn techniques that allow them to further aspects of endoscopic surgery, especially for those gynecological conditions still treated by traditional open procedures.
Training exposure includes operating room, office practice, laboratory, research, publication and instruction. The focus of this fellowship is surgical experience and clinical research. Participation in an office setting will allow the fellow to examine patients, establish a working diagnosis and offer appropriate testing. The fellow will offer counseling and risk assessments for treatment, plan a treatment, and specify options. These actions are guided under direct supervision.
The goal of this program is to train fellows with optimum exposure to endoscopic surgeries so they are proficient in all aspects of gynecological endoscopic surgeries. Graduating fellows will bring sensible, safe and effective care to their communities and educate other physicians.


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Welcome to 2018 Denver AUG! New year, new you, and a whole new slew of exciting topics to help you unleash your potential with the Atlassian suite. This month Rachel Wright will be delivering her awesome "Top JIRA Administration Mistakes" webinar. Dinner and drinks will be served at the AUG at 6:00PM. Come join us!
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Through a series of ambitious global commitments in recent years, governments across the world have signed on to build a more equitable and sustainable urban future.
Taken together, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (SDGs) and the New Urban Agenda (NUA) have put forth a vision of cities with vibrant public spaces, clean environments and robust civic participation. These are areas where cities are struggling, and governments, academics and other stakeholders have debated at length on how best to approach implementation and monitoring.
But many of the solutions already exist at the grassroots — and governments should take note.
Organizations of informal workers and allies have been hard at work trying to put these standards into practice by themselves. For example, in three of WIEGO's Focal Cities — Accra, Ghana; Mexico City, Mexico; and Delhi, India — grassroots movements have been proposing groundbreaking new models for regulating work in public space, managing waste collection, and engaging citizens in master planning. Here we will show how governments in these cities could partner with worker organizations to demonstrate real and measured progress on the multiple goals contained within the SDGs and the post-2015 agenda.
Three Grassroots Models for Reaching Global Goals
Global Commitments, Principle 1: Inclusive, accessible public spaces
Grassroots Model in Mexico City: Create frameworks that regulate work in public space in a way that eliminates discrimination and expands protection and that is designed with the input of informal workers themselves.
Both the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 11 focused on better cities) and the New Urban Agenda commit governments to promoting inclusive and accessible public spaces. The New Urban Agenda defines these as "multi-functional areas for social interaction and inclusion, human health and well-being, economic exchange and cultural expression and dialogue among a wide diversity of people and cultures."
Creating inclusive public spaces means finding a way to balance the needs of multiple users — from street vendors to cyclists and pedestrians. However, since these commitments were made in many cities, public spaces have become more rather than less exclusionary for informal workers, with street vendor evictions on the rise globally.
Achieving key development targets means that governments must first commit themselves to rejecting a policy of evictions under any circumstances. Evictions are often not only a violation of workers' rights but also highly ineffective and economically destructive.
Second, for any real, sustainable change to happen, governments must work together with informal workers' organizations to come up with new, innovative models for regulating access to public space. Where governments have not taken action to do so, some organizations of informal workers are moving ahead on their own.
Mariachi musicians in Mexico often utilize public space to work their trade. Photo: Lorena Reyes
Mexico City's informal workers in public space draft new regulations
In Mexico City a group of diverse workers who all earn their living in public space — musicians, shoe shiners, artisans, magazine vendors — have faced many obstacles, including barriers to obtaining licences and evictions. They decided to take matters into their own hands and propose their ideas on a way forward.
Leaders from each of these groups recently came together to re-draft the existing regulation that governs their work (what is defined in Mexico as non-salaried work). Over the course of a year, with support from Focal Cities Mexico, they created a new proposed regulation (see the full document here, in Spanish) founded on two principles: non-discrimination and social protection.
Principle #1: Non-discrimination
Under the principle of non-discrimination, the workers propose expanding access to public space, simplifying the process of obtaining and transferring licenses (and eliminating discriminatory disqualifiers, including illiteracy and previous criminal record), recognizing natural markets as areas of work and involving organizations of informal workers in the process of determining dedicated zones for work spaces.
Achieving key development targets means that governments must first commit themselves to rejecting a policy of evictions under any circumstances.
Read how shoe shiners in one Mexico City neighbourhood fought their displacement.
Principle #2: Social protection
For the second principle focusing on social protection, they propose health and child care provisions for non-salaried workers, and certain maternity and social security benefits. Informal workers face many challenges in accessing basic social protections, especially women.
Read about informal workers' childcare needs and demands.
Adding these two principles to the revised regulation establishes that regulation for informal work in public space is needed, but it should be fair, transparent and developed in a way that responds to the realities of informal workers and that is supportive of their livelihoods. This idea aligns with the SDGs and NUA, but it also provides a specific response to the International Labour Organisation Recommendation 204's — the guiding instrument for formalizing the informal economy — call for governments to provide regulated access to public space.
Read about how a street vendor used Recommendation 204 to change policy in Costa Rica.
Coffee vendors or cafeteros were part of a group of workers in Mexico City that proposed new regulations for working in public spaces. Photo: Lorena Reyes
Workers Await Government Response
Informal worker representatives launched their proposal in Mexico City in April, but have yet to hear from the government about when they can present their proposal in the "parlamento a la calle," a participatory process that the city congress has committed to carrying out to get citizen input on the regulatory reform.
If public officials in Mexico City are serious about Mexico's commitment to the SDGs and NUA and to the progressive principles of inclusion in their new city constitution, they must engage non-salaried workers about their ideas for more inclusive and effective regulation of public space.
Global Commitments, Principle 2: Environmental sustainability
Grassroots Model in Accra: Improve recycling rates and reduce poverty through integrating waste pickers into solid waste management systems
The NUA and SDGs (SDG 6 focused on water and sanitation) commit governments to promoting clean and healthy environments through proper waste management. The NUA states an additional commitment to "reducing, reusing and recycling waste, minimizing landfills."
It is well documented that waste pickers are waste management experts, sometimes the sole source of recycling services in cities across the Global South and even in the Global North.
However, they are also some of the most marginalized and vulnerable workers, providing environmental services without service contracts or legal or social protections. To fight collectively for these rights and recognition, waste pickers are organizing — through associations on open dumps and landfills, through cooperatives, across regions and even internationally.
Although gains have been made in some contexts, waste pickers across regions are facing new, unprecedented threats to their livelihoods through the introduction of new technology and the modernization of waste management systems. Some of these technologies, such as waste-to-energy pyrolysis and bio-degradable plastic additives, are billed as "green solutions" to the waste problem when they actually make the problem worse.
The logic behind the SDGs is to implement them in a coordinated way, with the NUA providing a framework for their implementation in cities. By promoting waste pickers' livelihoods, rather than the technologies that displace them, governments have an opportunity to work towards both poverty reduction and environmental goals.
Waste pickers in Accra, Ghana, hold out the bag of recyclables they have collected. They are key to helping Ghana achieve its new national pastics policy goals. Photo: D. Saffron
Ghana's Waste Pickers are Key Players in Reducing Plastics
In Accra, Ghana, policymakers have recently taken unprecedented steps to reduce plastics pollution: the President has committed to making Accra the cleanest city in Africa, and a new national plastics policy is in development.
But these bold steps will miss the mark if the Ghanaian government fails to harness the expertise and skills of the informal waste pickers who are already on the frontlines of plastic waste recycling.
Accra's recycling rate is estimated to be 5 per cent, and of this, private companies are only recovering 0.5 per cent, with the vast majority being recovered by informal waste pickers.* In other words, waste pickers are recycling pioneers in the midst of the city's plastics waste crisis, and are key to meeting Accra's environmental goals.
Read about how waste pickers are helping to solve the ocean plastic crisis.
Waste pickers in Accra's Kpone Landfill sort through waste. These highly skilled recyclers are mobilizing to be integrated into the city's solid waste management system. Photo: D. Saffron
Mobilizing to Gain Recognition in Waste Management Policies
Waste pickers at Kpone, Accra's largest landfill, are already mobilizing with the support of WIEGO's Accra Focal City programme to build a proposal for their integration into the solid waste management system. In the process they are networking with other waste picker groups in Accra, with the intention of building a city-wide movement.
By recognizing that waste pickers are already experts on recycling and waste management, and by harnessing their knowledge and experience through integrating them formally into the solid waste management system, the government could take a huge step towards both environmental protection and poverty alleviation goals to benefit some of the country's most vulnerable workers.
This week, it was announced that the draft national plastics policy had been sent to parliament for approval. The Ghana parliament should demonstrate their commitment to the NUA and SDGs, and invite waste picker representatives in Accra to provide commentary and input on the draft plastics policy before it is finalized, and they should be considered as stakeholders in the implementation of the policy once it is approved.
Global Standards, Principle 3: Robust Civic Participation
Grassroots Model in Delhi: Organizations of Informal Workers, Community Groups and Allies Join Hands in Delhi to Articulate a Master Plan for the People
The SDGs Target 11.3 states a commitment to "enhance inclusive and sustainable urbanization and capacity for participatory, integrated and sustainable settlement, planning and management." This commitment is also reflected in the New Urban Agenda in the context of cities.
Waste pickers in Delhi are among a broad coalition of grassroots organizations developing a "people's plan" for the city where they will be both seen and included. Photo: R. Choudhary
Putting excluded communities on the map in Delhi
A grassroots coalition is creating their own map in Delhi. Rather than wait for the Delhi city government to open a participatory process for the 2021-2041 Delhi Master Plan, a cross-sector coalition of livelihood groups, housing groups, and allies have come together with the support of WIEGO's Focal City Delhi to organize a "people's plan."
The coalition has been gaining in numbers and strength over the past year, and has plans this year to begin building a broad-based grassroots movement to push for the people of Delhi, and especially the most marginalized, to have a voice in the planning process.
While master planning has been used in many cities, including Indian cities, as a blunt tool for exclusion, the master planning coalition hopes to turn the "power of the plan" on its head. The key aim of the coalition is to increase the visibility of workers and communities that have long been rendered invisible by maps and plans in India's capital city.
For example, through the creation of a set of resources, including a visual "People's Atlas," the coalition aims to show that the informal and the "unplanned" is the norm in Delhi, rather than the other way around. More than 70 per cent of people live in unplanned settlements and over 85 per cent are in informal employment, making their integration into planning mechanisms critically important.
Read about how women informal workers' in Delhi spoke out for their needs.
Informal workers in Delhi have engaged diverse neighborhood networks to increase participatory development in major planning processes that impact their every day home and work lives. Photo: R. Choudhary
Imagining a future city for the people, not just profit
The coalition is also planning extensive community meetings to engage diverse neighbourhoods in imagining the future city they want to see. The group has a preliminary policy agenda, which includes a no-evictions policy, the reservation of affordable land and housing, and the designation of safe and secure places of work for informal workers.
The coalition is also pushing for expanded civic participation, not just in the process of developing the master plan, but also in advocating for a decentralized structure that would lay the groundwork for the participatory development of smaller-scale, area-level plans to follow. This requires the master plan to be a flexible document that can accommodate local decision-making processes.
When it comes time to begin the development of the 2021-2041 Delhi Master Plan, the National Institute of Urban Affairs and the Delhi government will have a huge asset in the Delhi Master Plan coalition, if they choose to take advantage of it.
For example, the Solid Waste Management Rules (2016) outline a decentralized waste management structure that can benefit waste pickers, but only if the Master Plan leaves scope for municipalities to determine neighbourhood-level land allocation. Similarly, the Street Vendor Act (2014) delegates the power of allocating space for vending zones to town vending committees (TVCs — which are multi-stakeholder bodies including street vendor representatives). But for TVCs to be effective, the master plan must accommodate changes in zoning or space allocation that would follow from their decisions.
Through the master plan coalition, an agenda for the two faces of informality outlined in the NUA — settlements and livelihoods — is coming together through strategic grassroots partnerships. When it comes time to begin the development of the 2021-2041 Delhi Master Plan, the National Institute of Urban Affairs and the Delhi government will have a huge asset in the Delhi Master Plan coalition, if they choose to take advantage of it.
Governments must listen to those most affected to realize sustainable change
For progress on global commitments to be meaningful and effective, advances must improve the lives and livelihoods of those who are most acutely suffering from current models of unsustainable urbanization and economic growth. This includes informal workers, who make up the majority — 61 per cent of the world's workers — as well as those who reside in informal settlements.
These groups know better than anyone how to address the systemic inequities they experience in their daily lives. Governments cannot meet the SDG targets without engaging the knowledge and experiences of these communities towards the creation of solutions that are grounded in their lived experiences.
These groups know better than anyone how to address the systemic inequities they experience in their daily lives.
As we have shown here, organizations of informal workers and allies in three cities aren't waiting to be consulted. They are ready with proposals for new models of regulating work in public space, reducing waste and poverty, and participating in the planning of the future city they want to see. The impetus is on governments now to open up spaces for dialogue, exchange and negotiation with informal workers and other grassroots groups — not only in these three cities but in every city — to reach agreement on mutually beneficial solutions.
Read more about grassroots-driven progress in WIEGO's focal cities.
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MFM FC are ready to make their debut appearance in the Caf Champions League this season, according to captain Austine Opara.
Fidelis Ilechukwu's men begin their journey to continental glory with a fixture against Real Bamako of Mali in the preliminary round on February 10.
With their first league victory of the season against Kwara United on Wednesday, Opara affirmed that the Agege Stadium oufit are prepared to lock horns with the six-time Malian Premier Division champions.
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"We're ready, it is football and we're going to play it. We can't say because it's our first time in the continental tournament then we should be afraid, anything can happen in football," Opara told Goal.
"People will say we don't have the experience, we don't have the team for the tournament but I believe with the kind of players we have, we can do better."
Following the departure of the profilic forward Stephen Odey to FC Zurich last year, the skipper is optimistic that the available attackers in the team can match the talisman who scored 18 league goals last season.
"In a team, when you have that kind of player [Odey] in attack, you will still feel his absence when he leaves, but the paramount thing is to move on and I think the attackers we have will do much better this season," he added.
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Q: How to create user and roles using api for wso2 bps Is there any API for creating wso2 bps users and roles.
In */repository/conf/carbon.xml i configured HideAdminServiceWSDLs to false
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And restarted the server.
My server port(offest is 0) is 9443 and in browser if I call url as below it is giving 404.
https://localhost:9443/services/RemoteUserStoreManagerService?wsdl

A: You can use RemoteUserStoreManagerService SOAP service for this.
See this for details.
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Seems RemoteUserStoreManagerService is not available in BPS. Instead, try to use UserAdmin service.

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This comfortable, 70-room establishment within walking distance of the CalPoly campus and not far from downtown welcomes dogs and other pets.
The AAA three-diamond property provides complimentary breakfast, free Wi-Fi, DVD players, in-room refrigerators, microwaves and other amenities. The heated pool is great for a dip after a long day.


Pitted Australian Kalamata Olives 500g | Hunter Valley Olive Co.
The Kalamata olive is a smooth, fleshy, large purple olive. Keep a jar in the pantry. A delicious olive that's great to snack on and is key to a Greek Salad.


You will be working on a UI which is a globally active platform where you will have the full software exposure to greenfield projects for both external customer facing solutions and internal React components.
You will coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality product is important.