12/04/2014, 06:12 pm
Apple on Thursday pushed out a new beta build of its upcoming OS X 10.10.2 Yosemite maintenance update, asking developers to focus on changes made to Wi-Fi assets.
11/24/2014, 09:11 pm
Apple on Monday released a pair of commercials starring iPhone 6 spokesmen Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake, one covering iOS and OS X Continuity features and another highlighting the handsets' gaming capabilities.
11/20/2014, 06:11 pm
Following Apple's release of OS X 10.10.1 Yosemite on Monday, Dropbox is sending emails to users confirming that the latest Mac maintenance update solves a rare crashing problem seen with apps integrated with Finder.
11/20/2014, 05:11 pm
Three days after releasing the OS X 10.10.1 Yosemite maintenance update, Apple on Thursday seeded the first beta for its next OS X 10.10.2 update to developers.
11/17/2014, 01:11 pm
Apple's OS X Yosemite Mac operating system received a significant update on Monday designed to address nagging Wi-Fi connectivity issues that have plagued some users since its launch in October, along with a range of other bug fixes.
11/13/2014, 02:11 pm
Samsung this week announced its answer to Apple's Continuity: a new cross-device sharing feature called "Flow," intended to allow users to move activities and content between Samsung smartphones, tablets, wearable devices, PCs, and more.
11/10/2014, 07:11 pm
Apple on Monday pushed out the second OS X 10.10.1 Yosemite beta seed to developers for testing with focus areas unchanged from the first version that went out last week.
11/09/2014, 11:11 am
Apple's newly released OS X Yosemite allows third-party apps to include interactive Notification Center widgets, and AppleInsider offers a look at some of the best and most useful widgets you can install on your Mac right now.
11/06/2014, 03:11 pm
A developer has discovered that Apple appears to be crawling HTML websites with its own automated bot, but the exact purpose of the mysterious homegrown software remains unknown.
11/04/2014, 01:11 pm
Speaking at the Øredev Developer Conference in Malmö, Sweeden, Emil Kvarnhammar of security firm TrueSec demonstrated a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting OS X 10.8.5 through the newest 10.10 Yosemite.
11/03/2014, 06:11 pm
Apple on Monday issued the first OS X 10.10.1 Yosemite beta to developers, with the first maintenance update seed coming more than two weeks after the latest Mac operating system saw release in mid-October.
10/31/2014, 08:10 am
Apple's new Mac operating system, OS X Yosemite, appears to have bugs related to Wi-Fi connections, with users reporting slow transfer speeds and dropped signals after upgrading.
10/24/2014, 07:10 pm
According to recently published statistics, Apple's latest OS X Yosemite release is seeing slightly better take up rates than last year's OS X Mavericks launch, with current North American distribution pegged at 12.8 percent as of Wednesday.
10/24/2014, 10:10 am
One of the biggest changes in OS X Yosemite is Apple's Spotlight search, which has gained a completely new, front-and-center look, and also adds the ability to search well beyond your Mac.
10/23/2014, 11:10 am
Bluetooth bugs seem to be a recurring problem with Apple's latest software updates, as users running OS X Yosemite say that the new Mac operating system has created connectivity problems with the Magic Mouse, Magic Trackpad, Apple wireless keyboard, and third-party wireless accessories.
Get your Mac online anywhere easily with OS X Yosemite's new Instant Hotspot iPhone tethering feature
10/22/2014, 08:10 am
One of the new Continuity features between iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite is Instant Hotspot, giving users the ability to automatically connect to the Internet through their iPhone's cellular data connection without the need to touch their phone.
10/20/2014, 10:10 pm
In response to a Monday report alleging Apple has started to automatically collect user search and location data through Spotlight Suggestions, the company has issued a statement clarifying the extent to which customer information is gathered and how it is used.
10/20/2014, 08:10 pm
With today's release of iOS 8.1, Apple finally activated SMS text forwarding from iPhone to OS X Yosemite, allowing users to send, read and reply to messages directly from their Mac.
Apple releases iOS 8.1 with Apple Pay support for iPhone 6 & 6 Plus, SMS relay, iCloud Photo Library
10/20/2014, 01:10 pm
Right on schedule, Apple on Monday released iOS 8.1, bringing the new Apple Pay e-wallet functionality to iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus users. In addition, the update includes the new beta iCloud Photo Library, SMS relay and Instant Hotspot when paired with a Mac or iPad, and the return of the Camera Roll in the Photos app.
10/17/2014, 12:10 pm
New software is exciting, but it's not nearly as fun if something goes wrong during the installation, necessitating a downgrade or -- worse -- starting from scratch and being forced to recover your data. AppleInsider took a look at some of the options for backing up your Mac before installing OS X Yosemite.


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53% of Pakistanis have heard/read about April Fool’s Day, POLLApril 18, 2013
Islamabad: According to a Gilani Research Foundation Survey carried out by Gallup Pakistan, 53% of Pakistanis have heard/read about April Fool’s Day.
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Mecanoo’s wooden station is on track
The Dutch architects’ Veluwe National Park train station employs a suitably sylvan building material
Come 2021, visitors to The Netherlands’ Veluwe National Park, about an hour east of Amsterdam, will be able to alight at a train station built from an entirely appropriate medium.
Dutch firm Mecanoo – best known in the UK for its 2013 Birmingham Library – has released designs with triangular timber roof elements and a wooden clock tower for the Ede Wageningen Train Station.
“A striking wooden roof makes the station a unique and vibrant place, a well-integrated and characteristic destination,” says the firm.
The modern-rustic scheme by Mecanoo replaces an existing low-rise and unremarkable building. Theirs was inspired by the landscape of the nearby national park. “The open station roof covers the platforms like a canopy of leaves, providing shelter whilst letting diffused daylight enter freely,” the practice adds.
The station is run by the country’s rail operator, ProRail, which has been busy rolling out a raft of major new stations by big-name architects, mostly to replace hastily built structures that were rather thrown up after WWII’s bomb damage. They include UNStudio’s sculptural rethinking of Arnhem station, and Mecanoo’s station for Delft, the city the firm was founded in 32 years ago. Like these two, which completed last year, Mecanoo’s replacement for Ede Wageningen aims to better deal with increasing passenger numbers.
The roof of wooden triangles “cascade” over myriad amenities such as parking space for 6000 bicycles, shops and other station facilities, “ending as the overhang of the main entrance and connecting all quadrants of the hub in a uniform manner”, says Mecanoo.
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The federal government fined a New Jersey nursing home $600,000 after nearly a dozen children died and others fell ill following a virus outbreak in the fall.
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This weeks CAS challenge is the chalkboard technique. I have seen many different samples out there and many of them are although fun and beautiful, may not be so CAS. I wanted to use this technique to make a CAS card. I might add, that I had limited supplies to use. I went on vacation before I found out what this challenge was, and took what I thought would cover most any challenge. I was able to pull off a card, but had I been home with ALL my stuff the card may have been different....but then again I may have not had such fun thinking through how to use what I had. And I did have fun with this challenge!
I stamped the sentiment and added the stars, then drew a "border" with my TH picket fence pen. I had brought one 6 x 6 paper pad, so cut out the chalkboard image,used a cup to draw a circle from my chosen piece of DP,(no die cuts with me), and added a strip of a coordinating piece from the pack as well. When I did the chalkboard piece, I decided I liked it with no embossing...looked more like a chalkboard...I even smeared it a bit!
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Some inmates contract HIV together a an outcome of prison rape; because that them, the aftermath of the attack may it is in deadly. Various other inmates are eliminated or seriously injured throughout the violent physical strikes that sometimes accompany rape. However all inmates who room raped suffer mental harm.
Although invisible, the psychological effects of jail rape space serious and also enduring: castle raise vital questions regarding the fail of jail authorities to take reliable measures to avoid such abuse. The physics brutality of rape is deplorable. Nonetheless, the physical affect of such abuse is regularly less devastating, and far less permanent, than its psychological impact. Indeed, numerous instances that non-consensual sex happen through coercion, hazards or deception: they may not leaving physical marks, yet deep and also permanent mental injury.
Physical Effects and the threat of HIV Transmission The physical impacts of a sexual attack obviously differ according to its circumstances: whether, because that example, the incident affiliated a violent attack, whether there was anal penetration, and also whether a lubricant was used. As described in chapter V, a forcible rape the occurs as part of a bigger physical assault may be incredibly violent. Detainees with whom person Rights clock is in contact have endured rape-related injuries ranging from damaged bones to shed teeth come concussions to bloody gashes requiring dozens of stitches. A few, like previous Texas inmate Randy Payne, were killed throughout sexual assaults.
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The medical records of several various other prisoners with whom human Rights clock has been in contact portray a similar picture of physical savagery. And, in itself, forced anal penetration may reason intense pain, abrasions, soreness, bleeding, even, in some cases, tearing the the anus or infection of the HIV virus.
The danger of HIV TransmissionTransmission of HIV, the virus which reasons AIDS, is a significant threat to victim of jail rape. In 1994, one Illinois inmate, M. B., declared that he contracted HIV native being consistently raped at the Menard Correctional Center. He experiment HIV-negative after ~ being sent out to Menard in may 1993, but was HIV-positive as soon as tested again the following April. M. B. Filed suit against the Illinois department of Correction, prompting Rep. Cal Skinner, Jr., one Illinois state representative, to introduce legislation to defend prisoners versus rape.(303) together Representative Skinner warned, victims of prison rape challenge the opportunity of one "unadjudicated death sentence," subverting the will of the criminal justice system.
Several other prisoners v whom human Rights clock is in call state that they have contracted HIV through required sexual intercourse in prison. K.S., a sinner in Arkansas, was repeatedly raped in between January and December 1991 by more than twenty various inmates, one of whom, the believes, sent the HIV virus to him. K.S. Had actually tested negative for HIV ~ above entry come the jail system, yet in September 1991 he tested positive. Throughout the relevant time period, K.S. Made plenty of requests for assistance to prison officials, relenten the sex-related abuse and asking for protection.
K.S. Carried suit in commonwealth court against the jail officials that failed to protect him.(304) at trial, the warden testified that it to be the prisoners" own responsibility come fight off sexual abuse--that prisoners had actually to allow the others "understand the
The danger of HIV infection is an especially acute given the high prevalence of the virus among prisoners. In 1997, an estimated 35,000 to 47,000 prisoners were infected v HIV and another 8,900 had AIDS.(308) AIDS is right now the 2nd leading cause of death among prison inmates.(309) between 1991 and 1995 around one in three inmate deaths to be attributable to AID-related causes, compared to one in ten deaths external the prison setting. Exacerbating the peril of HIV infection is the lack of preventative measures, with little attempt made to education prisoners around HIV/AIDS and couple of risk reduction devices available (such as condoms, clean needles, and also bleach).(310)
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Victims of jail rape generally report nightmares, deep depression, shame, ns of self-esteem, self-hatred, and also considering or attempting suicide. Few of them additionally describe a significant increase in anger and also a propensity toward violence.
Shame and also the "Loss the Manhood" The dead I skilled can"t it is in described.--A sinner in Illinois.(312)
Victims of rape are most likely to blame us for your predicament, causing intense feel of shame. As defined previously, instances of undesirable sexual call in prison run the gamut indigenous violent gang rapes to subtle creates of emotional coercion. Also where excessive violence is used, the victim regularly worries, deep down, that he did not placed up sufficient resistance. Indeed, there is part sense, under the unwritten code of inmate beliefs, the a real male "would die before giving up his anal virginity."(313) by the really fact of surviving the experience, therefore, a sinner may issue he deserved it: the he has, in ~ the really least, been proven to it is in "a punk, "pussy," or coward by not staying clear of it."(314) return this view is no universally held--many detainees recognize the it is the perpetrator alone who bears obligation for their victimization--it is still widespread among inmates.
Obviously, victims of cases of coerced sex the did not involve overt violence room even more likely to feeling complicit in their very own abuse. Many of them report thinking obsessively about how they might have avoided the situation, what they go wrong. They speak of profound feelings that shame and embarrassment over how they might have "allowed" the abuse to happen to them. In a letter to human being Rights Watch, a Colorado inmate who fear allowed his cellmate come maneuver him into unwanted sex-related contact, admitted, "If the truth be known, it shames me to even talk the this."(315) His feelings space typical.
In what is possibly an unconscious effort to shield us from obligation for jail abuses, correctional authorities seem to encourage together attitudes, commonly "blaming the victim" themselves. Uneven a sinner is visibly hurt from a sexual assault, guards frequently intimate the the sex was consensual: that the sinner actually invite it. Raped inmates commonly say that they are treated scornfully by safety who perform not bother to hide the fact that castle despise detainees who room so "weak" regarding be victimized. "Stand up because that yourself and be a man," is a common refrain. Happy prisoners, particularly those v stereotypically feminine features or mannerisms, report the guards are specifically likely to ignore their cases of sex-related abuse. Part guards, in fact, show up not to also recognize the gay inmates can refuse other inmates" sex-related advances, city hall homosexuality together a kind of open invitation to sex. As one prisoner, who is not actually gay, remembered: "I had an officer phone call me that "faggots favor to suck dick, so why was ns complaining.""(316)
The tendency to misread victimization together proof of homosexuality appears to be usual to guards and also prisoners alike. In enhancement to feel of fear, depression, and also self-hatred, many prisoners have actually expressed a an ext specific anxiety around the ns of gender identity, fearing the their "manhood" has actually been damaged or eroded. As one sexually abused sinner confessed: "I feeling that perhaps some women might look in ~ me as much less than a man. My pride feels beaten to a pulp."(317)
M.R., a Texas inmate that was nearly killed by his rapist, explained this reaction, which he witnessed as unavoidable: "Men are supposed to be solid enough to save themselves from gift raped. So once it does happen it leaves united state feeling together though our manhood has been stripped indigenous us and also that we space now less than what we as soon as were."(318)
That which is "less 보다 a man" because that these prisoners is, to be specific, a homosexual man, albeit a homosexual identified according to the idiosyncratic rules that govern in the prison context. As defined previously, the meaningful distinction in prison is not between men who interact in sex v men, and also those who engage in sex with women; rather it is in between what are understood the "active" and "passive" participants in sex. Homophobia is rampant in prisons, but rather than targeting all guys who have sexual call with other men, the is focused versus those that play the "woman"s role" in sex: specifically, men who are anally penetrated, who carry out fellatio on other prisoners, or who masturbate them.
Once a prisoner has actually been compelled into together a role, he may quickly be trapped in it. The reality of submitting come rape--even violent, forcible rape--redefines him together "a punk, sissy, queer." various other inmates will check out him together such, withholding from him the respect early out a "man." having actually fallen to the bottom of the inmate hierarchy, he will certainly be treated as though he normally belongs there.
The id that rape damages one"s innermost me is strong among inmates. Indeed, because that the perpetrators that rape, this id provides a compelling reason to go the act: rape shows up to it is in the many powerful method to injure and degrade that victims. Yet what comes of the victims" conviction the they have been basically damaged? human Rights Watch"s research says that at the very least some minority of detainees who endure sex-related abuse will revolve violence on us or others.
Depression, Anxiety and also DespairI go v nightmares of being raped and sexually assaulted. Ns can"t prevent thinking about it. I feel anyone is looking in ~ me in a sex-related way. --A prisoner in Texas(319)
Psychiatrists have established "rape trauma syndrome"--a different of post-traumatic anxiety disorder (PTSD) characterized by depression, serious anxiety, and also despair--as gift a common result of rape.(320) In your correspondence and conversations with human being Rights Watch, victim of prison rape frequently alluded to this symptoms, stating lock felt depressed, paranoid, unhappy, fatigued, and also worried. Feelings of worthlessness and self-hatred were often expressed. Exacerbating the mental stress of your situation, many victims of jail rape feel the they remain breakable to continuing abuse, also believing us trapped in a battle to survive. The fear of ending up being infected through the AIDS virus also preoccupies victims. "Catching Aids and Hiv is a significant concern for everyone," one Arkansas inmate emphasized. "There is no cure."(321)
Rape trauma syndrome was an initial diagnosed exterior of the jail setting, feather at women victims, and most research on it has continued to emphasis on non-incarcerated women. Specialists have identified three step in the aftermath of rape, corresponding to the short-, intermediate- and long-term impact. While no all rape survivors exhibit these symptoms in the order described, the typology offers a beneficial general outline. The temporary reaction to rape is characterized by a selection of traumatic symptoms, consisting of nightmares and other creates of sleep disturbance, intense fear, worry, suspicion, significant depression, and also impairment in social functioning. In the second stage, victims regularly experience depression and also self-hatred, and also social and sexual dysfunction. The long-term impacts of rape, which might surface a year or more after the assault, frequently involve terrible or self-destructive behavior; typical symptoms space anger, hypervigilance to danger, sex-related dysfunction and also a lessened capacity to reap life.(322)According come one study, only 10 percent the rape victims perform not show any type of disruption of their habits following the assault. Part 55 percent of victims display moderately influenced behavior, when the resides of one more 35 percent space severely impaired.
Suicide suicide attempts are a no uncommon an answer to rape, specifically among prisoners who feel unprotected and vulnerable to continuing abuse. Nineteen inmates who corresponded with human being Rights Watch, including eight interviewed in person, reported that they attempted self-destruction as a result of rape in prison, and many an ext reported considering suicide.(323) Indeed, part inmates make the efforts to death themselves an ext than once. The following account is typical:
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Another sinner told human being Rights Watch:
I did ripe years from March 1983 come November 1991. In that 9 years i was raped numerous times. . . . Ns came ago to prison in 1993. In 1994 ns was raped again. Ns attempted suicide. . . . The doctors here in the prison say "quote" significant depression many neurotic symptoms, marked by too much fear, unrelenting worry and debilitating anxiety. Antisocial suicidal ideation, self-degradation, paranoia and also hopelessness are characteristic, "unquote."(325)
The situation of Rodney Hulin, Jr., a seventeen-year-old Texas prisoner, is i m so sad illustrative of the problem. Hulin was repetitively raped over a two-month duration by enlarge inmates. In January 1996, simply after he wrote to his father saying he was tired of jail life and also tired of living, the attempted self-destruction by hanging self in his cell. Return the attempt to be discovered before Hulin was dead, he to be left in a coma and also died four months later.
In general, suicide prices in prisons and also jails room well above those in the outside community. Suicide ranks 3rd as a cause of death in prison (after natural causes and AIDS), while that is the leading reason of death in jails.(326) from 1984 to 1993, the rate of prison self-destruction was an ext than 50 percent higher than the nationwide average external of prison.(327) Notably, "victimization" and also "conflicts in ~ the
These figures are much much more striking as soon as one considers the practical challenge of committing suicide in prison. Unequal in the external world, whereby an individual can quickly isolate self from other human being for hours or days in ~ a time, in jail a human is rarely out that earshot the others, or even out of your sight. Indeed, in today"s prisons, countless inmates space double-celled or live in crowded dormitories, unlikely locations for a suicide attempt to happen unnoticed. Back drugs are dispensed in prison, lock are much more closely regulation than exterior of the jail setting. Many prison self-destruction attempts, also those in which the inmate is determined to death himself, are likely to it is in unsuccessful. Person Rights Watch to be unable to attain comparative statistics on check suicides, yet would doubt that, in comparing prison numbers v numbers outside of prison, the rates are even an ext disproportionate 보다 those involving accomplished suicides.
Anger and the cycle of Violence n 1991 ns was raped by the Arizona "Aryan Brotherhood" a prison gang. I didnt tell the guards, i was scared & alone. The security knew about it, due to the fact that they called me they room going to relocate me, & therefore they did, but to a worst prison. Where I obtained into the with much more "ABs"....I am a 26 year old White Boy that don"t have anybody, but a many anger!....Back come a little an ext about my Rape. The guys didnt get recorded in the Act somebody told the guards and also they asked me if ns was alright. Then moved me....I wanted to go ago to the yard and also kill them that did it!(329)
In the results of rape, prisoners regularly harbor intense feelings the anger--anger directed very first at the perpetrators the abuse, but also at prison authorities who failed to react as necessary to protect them, and also even at culture as a whole. Part prisoners have confessed to acquisition violent revenge on their abusers, motivated both through anger and also by a desire come escape more abuse. The best and sometimes the only method to protect against the repetition of sexual abuse, many prisoners assert, is come strike back violently. Just put, come prove the one is not a victim, one have to take ~ above the characteristics of a perpetrator. Because violence, in the prison setting, is nearly a synonym because that strength and virility, a readiness to use violence confirms one"s "manhood."
A Texas inmate defined the dynamic in the adhering to way:
It"s fixed where if you"re raped, the only method you
Summing increase the case in a phrase, he emphasized: "People start to treat you right as soon as you become deadly."
Beyond encouraging violent actions from that victims, prison rape also evokes violence native those detainees with no direct exposure to it. Countless inmates, consisting of those who are relatively non-violent through nature, will to violence together a safety shield versus rape, to prove the they are not to be bullied. Research studies have discovered that even the vague, indeterminate possibility of rape is a an effective impetus for jail violence.(331)
In a letter to human Rights Watch, one prisoner also cited are afraid of rape together being amongst the causes of rape itself, sketching an oddly circular picture of the phenomenon. The said: "One reason
Numerous prisoners have described to human being Rights clock the aggressive postures that they have adopted as a safeguard versus rape. By reacting violent to the slightest show of disrespect, inmates think that they deserve to avoid the slippery slope that leads to rape. A fast resort to violence is, in your view, crucial to prove that they are ready and equipped to protect themselves.
In the prison context, even the many trivial incident have the right to be viewed as a an essential test of one inmate"s "manhood." Violence might ensue at the little provocation. The complying with incident--in which, together this inmate put it, he had actually to prove to everyone the he to be "not going to be anyone"s punk"--is typical:
one night 4 weeks right into my prison continue to be i was tested by a very big north amerikkkan prisoner. That attempted come lay a bully game down on me by taking my seat in the lounge room. Which brought about me resorting earlier to mine street warfare assault which was my only an option to collection a solid instance that ns am not to be played with. The end result was that being put in the hospital, broke jaw/nose, one me having a damaged wrist one a battery case.(333)
Besides reacting violent to various other inmates" perceived aggressiveness, prisoners in are afraid of being raped typically resort come preemptive violence in order to escape come a lock-up unit where they will certainly be protected from attack. Desperate for a deliver to more secure surroundings, together inmates intentionally act out violently prior to corrections staff. Together one described:
I was sexually struck by 4 inmates (black). I went to staff. I was transport to another unit. Ns refused to go to my housing assignment because of I was being put earlier into a life threatening condition. For this reason I began to threaten the an initial black inmate I came into contact with. Ns was placed in prehearing detention. That"s September 15, 1995. I started possessing a weapon and threatening black color inmates. That was the only way staff would keep me locked up in a solitary cell.(334)
Interestingly, also though violent behavior in prison constitutes a disciplinary infraction and can, in significant cases, result in criminal prosecution and an ext prison time, correction officials typically urge inmates to rental violence to safeguard themselves indigenous attack. Past studies have discovered that prison staff counsel detainees to respond come the threat of sexual attack by fighting the aggressor.(335) Inmates have often reported to human being Rights Watch that guards warn them, "no one is going to babysit you"--letting them recognize that they need to "act choose a man," that is, to react violently come aggressive sex-related overtures.
Another contributing variable to violence may be the acute shame that victims frequently experience. Indeed, psychiatrist and prison expert James Gilligan, explicate a concept of violence, says that shame is the major underlying cause of the problem.(336) moved by shame, men murder, rape, and also punish others. In describing prisons as abundant territory for the shame-violence relationship, Gilligan"s observations are consistent with prisoners" reports of your experiences. As one vermont inmate told human being Rights Watch, "When I come out that prison, ns remember thinking that others knew I had been raped just by looking at me. My behavior adjusted to such cold heartedness that ns resented anyone who found reason to smile, to laugh, and also to it is in happy."(337) This man later on committed rape after relax from jail in what he claimed was a kind of revenge ~ above the world. K.J., one more inmate v whom human being Rights watch is in contact, similarly believes the it was the trauma of gift raped if in jail--unrelieved by any type of psychological counseling--that led the to later on commit rape himself. "I was simply locked in shame," he said, explaining the bottom spiral that culminated in his rape of 2 women. "It seemed choose rape to be written almost everywhere my face."(338)
The anger, shame and also violence sparked by jail rape--though it might originate in the correctional setting--is i can not qualify to continue to be locked in jail upon the inmate"s release. Together one prisoner emphasized, mirroring upon correctional officials" failure to protect against several rapes in his institution:
The brutal killing of James Byrd, Jr., in Jasper, Texas, spurred renewed consideration of the impact on culture of incarcerating so countless of its citizens in locations of violent sex-related abuse. Byrd, a disabled african American, was killed by 3 white men, two of whom had been exit from Texas jail the ahead year. When in prison, the 2 men obtained a deep hatred of blacks. They joined a white prison gang and covered themselves with racist tattoos. Reflecting on the sexual violence and racial conflicts that plague prisons in Texas, some commentators regarded the two guys -- and also the horrific crime they committed -- as the inventions of the jail system. In an write-up subtitled "Did the Texas penal mechanism kill James Byrd?" writer Michael Berryhill listed that the 2 men"s racism "seemed intimately tied to their sex-related fears," and that castle "seemed obsessed through asserting their masculinity and repudiating homosexuality."(340) he concluded that the hatred shown in the Jasper killing to be the predictable result of problems in the state"s prisons.
Prison reformers have a clean stake in asserting that prison abuses have a deleterious affect on the people outside the prisons, the logic being that also if the general public cares no a whit because that the experiencing of inmate victims everyone agrees ~ above the desirability of preventing abuses versus victims the end in society. Unsurprisingly, numerous reformers have asserted that protecting against sexual abuse against prisoners is imperative for pragmatic and also humanitarian reasons. According to this view, rape not only injures the victim"s dignity and sense the self, it threatens to perpetuate a bike of sexual violence.
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You take it a male who"s been raped in prison and he is walking to it is in filled through a remarkable amount the rage....Now ultimately he is going to gain out. Most world do. And also all the studies display that today"s victim is tomorrow"s predator. So by refusing to attend to this in an intelligent way, you are genuinely sentencing society to an epidemic that future rapes.(341)
The claim that jail rape begets further crimes is not universally accepted. Daniel Lockwood, a criminologist who has written extensively on the topic of prison sex-related violence, problems the notion that victim of abuse, embittered by the experience, vent your hostility top top the public once released indigenous prison.(342) He states there is "little reliable data" to support such claims, deriding the idea as a "damaging myth."
Evidently, no longitudinal studies have been carried out to specifically record the subsequent criminal background of victims of jail rape, and further empirical study would be of value. Nonetheless, that is clear that the effects of victimization space profound, and that, left come fester, the mental injury the rape leads part inmates come inflict violence top top themselves and others.
Inadequate Treatment In neglect of the supreme Court"s 1978 ruling that prisoners have the right to adequate medical care for your "serious" medical needs, numerous prisoners obtain inadequate health and wellness care, particularly mental health care. While many prison rape survivors in call with human being Rights clock say the they were listed medical therapy for any kind of physical injuries received during the assault, only a minority stated that they received the essential psychological counseling. Yet, by all accounts, rape trauma syndrome is a serious and potentially terrible psychological disorder, demanding careful and also sympathetic treatment. Indeed, one appellate court has affirmed the a prison"s fail to make adequate mental counseling accessible to rape victims violates the U.S. Constitution"s barred on cruel and unusual punishment.(343)

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Self-managed super funds (SMSFs) are being used as a vehicle to remove money from superannuation before preservation age, when it’s legally allowed to be released, according to the ATO.
This has always been a concern for the ATO, but new on its radar in 2019 is a growing numbers of investors who are in their 30s - and far off retiring - rolling their money out of a managed superannuation fund into an SMSF to get early access.
Those SMSFs often don’t lodge a return, so as not to alert the ATO to their transactions.
“Through our risk assessment processes, we have flagged this as an area where illegal early release could occur,” ATO assistant commissioner for the SMSF segment Dana Fleming told Nest Egg’s sister publication, SMSF Adviser.
The ATO has seen a steady increase in the population of SMSFs using this strategy over about a five-year time frame.
As reported yesterday, penalties can include, in extreme cases, funds being wound up and a 45 per cent tax impost being applied.
Other penalties include administrative penalties, which have a cost attached, or being disqualified from running a fund.

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The Australian Red Cross Blood Service will set up a mobile blood donor centre at Bordertown Football Club on March 25-26.
It takes about one hour to donate blood and has the potential to change someone's life.
People can underestimate how versatile blood is, as one donation can be made into 22 different medical treatments.
There are plenty of different reasons why people rely on blood donations, with some needing it to get them through a serious event like cancer or a difficult pregnancy.
Other patients have medical conditions which mean they need blood products regularly to stay alive or be healthy.
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Most people can donate blood, if someone is between the ages of 18-70, weigh 50kg or more and be considered fit and healthy.
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Smartphone manufacturer HTC is currently preparing its 2017 device lineup and prolific leakster, @LlabTooFeR, has tweeted three device code names due early in the year. His tweet mentioned the the HTC Alpine, HTC E66 and the HTC Ocean Note, but did not provide any additional detail. Given what we have already seen about HTC's potential model range for early 2017, it is easy to summarize what these three models are likely to be. The HTC Ocean Note is reckoned to be the HTC U Ultra, and this device is set to be unveiled on January 12. The HTC U Note is set to have a large, 6.0-inch display, a USB Type-C port and no 3.5mm headphone socket. The HTC Alpine is believed to be the HTC One X10, a new mid-range device built around a 5.5-inch display and powered by the mid-range, power efficient, octa-core MediaTek Helio P10 chipset clocked at 1.9 GHz. And the last device, the HTC E66, is reckoned to be the early 2011 flagship model, the HTC 11. Given HTC have traditionally used a Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset, the HTC 11 is believed to be being built around the recently-announced Snapdragon 835 chipset and will feature a QHD, or 1,440 by 2,560 resolution, display panel of 5.5-inch in size.
For 2016, HTC's flagship device, the HTC 10, was the company's best ever smartphone. Despite this, the company still struggled in the industry, even given the disappointing sales of the LG G5 and Samsung's troubles later in the year with the Samsung Galaxy Note 7's exploding battery problem. The HTC 10 was at the time of launch relatively expensive and as a company, HTC have a smaller marketing budget compared with the big players in the industry such as Apple and Samsung. HTC manufacture a comprehensive range of mid-range Desire models, built around various chipsets and with different screen and camera sizes. The new HTC U Ultra could be a stab at tackling the hole in the Android "phablet" market left when Samsung removed the Galaxy Note 7 from sale, or perhaps as a response to the rumours that Samsung has reworked the Galaxy S8 family to offer a normal model and a Galaxy S8 Plus variant, with a screen approaching 6.0-inches. Nevertheless, although HTC's branded devices have struggled against the competition, Google selected HTC to manufacture the Pixel family of devices and this experience should have been a positive for the business.


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A Rundown of ATM Fraud Threats
According to the last survey conducted by the European ATM Security team, card skimming is still the most prevalent crime in 27 European countries. Action has been taken, and 61% of European countries have reported a decrease in card skimming because of the implementation of Europay (EMV technology that’s embedded in ATMs requiring two-factor authentication) drastically reducing the risk of stolen credentials.)
At the same time however, we have noted an increase in cash trapping attacks. This is where cash dispensing slots are targeted by fraudsters who replace these ATM’s components with fake devices.


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6 small sausages from 190g pack Cooks’ Ingredients Chorizo, or 120g chorizo
2 cloves garlic, crushed
1 onion, thinly sliced
2 tsp Bart Sweet Smoked Paprika
400g essential Waitrose Chickpeas, drained and rinsed
100ml dry sherry
3 x 300g pack Red Choice Tomatoes, roughly chopped
½ x 230g jar Fragata Pimiento Piquillo Peppers, drained, rinsed and sliced
Sprig of rosemary
115g pack Waitrose Spinach
2 packs Waitrose 2 Skinless & Boneless Cod Fillets
Flat leaf parsley, to garnish
1. Cut the chorizo into small dice and add to a sauté or deep frying pan. Fry for 2-3 minutes until the chorizo is cooked and its lovely red oil is released. Add the garlic and onions and fry gently for a further 4-5 minutes, or until softened.
2. Add the paprika and cook for 30 seconds before stirring in the chickpeas and the sherry. Return to the heat and bring it to the boil. Then add the chopped tomatoes, sliced peppers and the sprig of rosemary. Cover and reduce the heat, and allow to simmer for 4-5 minutes until the tomatoes are softened. Remove the lid and simmer for a further 2-3 minutes so that the sauce thickens.
3. Stir in the spinach and then place the fish on top of the stew. Cover and leave to cook for 5 minutes, or until the cod is cooked and opaque throughout. Garnish with the chopped parsley and serve.
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See the other side to Naples, the side known only by the locals, and rarely understood by tourists, with this unique tour that exposes the city for what it truly is.
Your tour guide, otherwise known as the mysterious ‘Wanderer’, will lead you on a journey to uncover hidden truths, forgotten histories and unknown characters that have played central parts in the story of Naples.
We begin the tour at Piazza del Plebiscito, one of the largest squares in Italy and crowned at one end by the magnificent, imposing dome of San Francesco di Paola. We’ll then head up to San Martino Castle by funicolare, a journey that offers fantastic views of Naples as you rise from the chaos of the city streets.
Then, at the incredible peak of Castel Sant’Elmo, take the opportunity to admire the sprawl of the city in all its complex greatness, as your guide, Il Vagabondo, begins his fascinating narration, disclosing the secrets and legends of this star-shaped fort.
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Eventually, you’ll arrive at Alberto Squillace’s bottega. Alberto is the 5th generation of a family of leather glove designers, and his workshop has been situated in Quartiere Stella, one of the oldest districts in Naples, all that time.
The process he uses to design the gloves has remained the same over 5 generations, and uses 25 separate steps to meticulously hand-craft each one. After a conversation with Alberto, we head to Piazza del Gesù, the sit of one of the most beautiful churches in the city, Chiesa del Gesù Nuovo.
Here, you’ll stop in at a traditional local gem, a Neapolitan basso, to try some classic dishes that have been the staple of the Neapolitan people for years. As you eat and drink, street performers will provide entertainment to give you some insight into some more classic Naples culture.
After much eating, drinking and dancing, our tarantella group will lead us to the Spanish neighbourhood to show you the real face of this district. Then, finally, the day finished, we bid you farewell in Via Toledo or, time permitting, on the picturesque promenade.


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There's no ignoring it now; the doomsday talk of a Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike is more than just idle chitchat. On Thursday night, members of the WGA Negotiating Committee announced their unanimous decision to strike, as discussions between the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) and the WGA have crumbled without any resolution.
At the heart of the negotiations, of course, is money. With "new media"--that is, online distribution of television and films on services like iTunes and digitally streaming content over the Web--looking more and more like the way entertainment will be consumed in the future, writers want their share.
The main request from the WGA is that the AMPTP extend the current formula for profit-sharing of DVD sales to new media. The AMPTP isn't quite ready to do that yet; it first wants to see where the whole new media thing goes, and determine what kind of money can be made off of ad-sponsored streaming or download sales.
"We want to make a deal. We think doing so is in your best interests, in your members' best interests, in the best interests of our companies and in the best interests of the industry," AMPTP president Nick Counter said in a statement on October 31 directed at the WGA. "But, as I said, no further movement is possible to close the gap between us so long as your DVD proposal remains on the table."
While a strike is yet to be 100 percent officially declared, the negotiating committee's recommendation to strike all but guarantees it. Insiders say the likely start date would be next Monday, November 5, according to Variety. Contracts between the WGA and AMPTP expired October 31 at midnight.
[UPDATE] The strike has been confirmed, and will begin on Monday barring the two sides reaching an agreement.
Unless agreements are reached soon, this could be the first of many dominoes to fall. The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and Directors Guild of America (DGA) could potentially follow suit when their contracts expire next year. SAG has been openly vocal about its support of the WGA.
"In the event of a strike by the Writers Guild of America it is important to remember that the Screen Actors Guild's support of the Writers Guild is steadfast and will remain so," said a bulletin to SAG members on the organization's Web site. "We encourage you, on your own time, to walk any picket line that has been set up by the Writers Guild to show your support of their effort."
The last major writers' strike occurred in 1988 and lasted for 22 weeks.
For more on the writers strike, check out TV.com's Strike Source, featuring up-to-date statuses on shows, the latest information, and more.


House Democrats aren’t giving up on their desire to allow students who arrived in this country illegally as children to receive state aid for college.
Deep in the weeds of the operating budget passed by House Democrats last week is $100,000 to set up a system enabling them to apply for a state need grant.
Those funds, as described on page 223 of the agency detail document, are going to the Washington Student Achievement Council “to develop an alternative financial aid application to allow students without a nine digit federal identification number to apply for financial aid.”
No mention of the money and purpose appear in the actual 453-page budget bill.
In the regular session, the House passed a bill for the so-called Dream Act and included $100,000 in its budget to pay for it. But the Republican-controlled Senate rejected the bill and the budget.


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text: Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Reddit Share on Pinterest Share on Linkedin Share on Tumblr The exceptionally thoughtful Shadowlands is not just a romantic drama but a story of abiding love. That is what resonates most deeply in screenwriter William Nicholson’s adaptation of his own 1989 play (which, curiously, was itself a stage production of what Nicholson had previously written for a television movie in 1985), a biographical account of the romance between British author C.S. Lewis and American poet Joy Gresham. That is a crucial underselling of what the movie really was underneath the surface of such a description, however. Thanks to Nicholson and director Richard Attenborough, this wasn’t as it might appear to be: stuffy, detached, medicinal in the extreme. Looking at its outward façade, one might anticipate such feelings being aroused from it. Much of Attenborough’s direction involves wide angles of 18th-century architecture and of people driving or riding in the cars of the mid-1950s and of stately old men reading, both to themselves and aloud, from classical literature and poetry. This does, after all, partly follow Lewis – at this point, famed for his Chronicles of Narnia series and an academic teaching at Magdalen College, a constituent campus of the University of Oxford – and one of his legendary reading groups, which in real life partly involved another author famed for his world out of fantastical literature (though not, regrettably, included in this movie). Lewis, called “Jack” by his loved ones, is played in the film by Anthony Hopkins, in perhaps the only bit of casting that could have remotely made sense for this figure. As the film begins, Jack’s concerns are almost exclusively academic. He teaches a group of students – one of whom, Whistler (James Frain), is the source of a lot of grief and stubbornness – and performs lectures on the many seeming contradictions of a loving creator. An early one we see is something of an omen for what is to come: If a supposedly loving creator allows suffering into our lives, is that really loving? Jack’s argument, which he believes to be supported by scriptures, is tested by the rest of the movie. Upon an unusual request by letter, Jack meets Joy Gresham, the American poet (more commonly known by the surname “Davidman”) played by Debra Winger. She has arrived under the pretense of wanting her son Douglas (Joseph Mazzello) to meet the author of his favorite books. One can tell immediately – by how Joy challenges Jack’s preconception of her intelligence right from the start – that Joy has ulterior motives. It seems she has been drawn to a man she feels she knows quite well, simply based on his writings. Indeed, she very well may. As played by Winger and written by Nicholson, Joy is almost preternaturally observant of the human condition and not at all shy about vocalizing those observations. The dialogues between Jack and Joy are utterly thrilling, especially for those who enjoy the slightly elevated talk of intelligent people within the context of a play-like structure. Those talks go on and on, never tiresome or circular, always examining and going deeper to reveal truths and relay wisdom. They are both lapsed atheists – Jack was brought up in a faithless household, Joy joined the American Communist Party when given the choice between that and fascism. They have both witnessed and suffered pain. For Jack, it was the death of mother at a tender age. For Joy, it’s her current marriage to an abusive alcoholic (the unspoken William Lindsay Gresham, of Nightmare Alley). With the knowledge that she has escaped her husband, a kind of barrier between them dissolves, and a mutual respect develops. Nevertheless, in order to face her demons, Joy and Douglas return to America. Jack, meanwhile, returns to what he now sees as drudgery – his speeches, his students, his reading group. He begins to miss Joy, who left before his least favorite time of year, much to the bemusement of his brother Warnie (Edward Hardwicke) and the chagrin of his disbelieving group fellows (who are played by the likes of Julian Fellowes, John Wood and Michael Denison). When she returns, after suing her husband for divorce, his ecstasy quickly turns to a solution to keep her close: The two should marry. The performances from Hopkins and Winger are utterly revelatory, even for these two fine actors. By playing the rich, often demanding dialogue with complete naturalism, they disappear entirely into these characters. Hopkins keeps everything about his performance so particular and reserved that the moments, late in the film, where he must lose his nerve are all the more devastating. That is because, ultimately, Joy discovers she has a form of cancer (later discovered to be metastatic carcinoma involving the bones) that has nearly eaten away her left femur. It isn’t exactly a spoiler to reveal that, yes, she succumbs to the illness, as we know that about Gresham’s real fate. Winger is stunning as a woman whose pragmatism carries over into her imminent death. A key scene, shared between the two in a spot dear to Jack, has Joy setting the stage for her absence (the way she turns a saying of Jack’s, involving the role pain plays in happiness, on its ear is both wise and devastating), and later, Jack admits that his theory about God’s use of suffering might be both faulty and reckless. That’s what Shadowlands, one of the great films about questioning faith (as well as one of the finest biographical portraits in the movies, whatever degree of fictionalization or embellishment it might have), is all about: not offering empty hagiography of a well-known author but challenging his world view.

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Easton Christensen (his stage name is Easton Shane) is a 14-year-old singer, songwriter, guitarist, Latter-day Saint youth, who has a million dreams of succeeding in the music business. A member of the world-renowned One Voice Children’s Choir and Nik Day Studios, Easton Shane is working hard to make a name for himself in the entertainment world with his original songs such as “This Uniform’s for You” which was released on his YouTube channel on 3 November 2017 and featured in the 17th Annual LDS Film Festival.
Easton recently appeared on stage at MusicCon held in Salt Lake City, Utah, with his friend Jordan Pinkston (his stage name is Jordan James), and he also performs with his band, BEKM. He and the band recently collaborated with the One Voice Children’s Choir for their amazing cover for the song “This Is Me” from the blockbuster film The Greatest Showman.
His latest music video release, a cover for the song “A Million Dreams” (written by Pasek and Paul), also from the phenomenal film The Greatest Showman, is sensational. Featuring Emily Faith Paxman on vocals and his band BEKM, Easton brings his dream of creating and playing music to life. Commenting on the video, he said, “This song, “A Million Dreams,” hit me the first time I heard it. Ever since I was 4 years old, I have wanted nothing more than to create and play music. There is no end destination when it comes to music, it is always evolving and changing, and it continues to be my lifelong passion and dream. Can’t thank my band BEKM enough for joining me on this song and my musical journey.”
The video is also a bit nostalgic as clips are shown throughout taking the viewer back to the early days when Easton was beginning to follow his passion for creating and performing music.
Easton Shane is a ninth-grade student this year. He began playing the guitar at the young age of four. Now, a decade later, he adds to his credit being named the 2016 and 2017 National Downbeat Soloist Award winner for the Blues/Pop/Rock Junior High Division for his guitar playing abilities. In August 2016, at just 13 years of age, he signed as the Youngest Endorsed artist in the nation with Heritage Guitars, Inc out of Kalamazoo, Michigan, for which he is excited to carry on such a rich legacy.


It has been nearly 2 and half years since we last visited the Sinterit facility in Krakow and everything has changed. Not just for the dramatic effects of COVID and the war just beyond the border with Ukraine, but also and especially for how the Polish company has been able to navigate these events and come out on top on the other side, with two brand new printers, the Lisa X and NILS, ready to open up new SLS markets.
From the business side of things, the past two years have also seen the launch of the first very dangerous competitor in the affordable SLS market: the Fuse 1 from affordable SLA market leader Formlabs. However, the well-financed US giant has had a harder time than expected in developing and launching its SLS system, a technology that presents many more challenges than photopolymerization as well as more opportunities. Sinterit decided it was going to put up a very serious fight.
In just over two years Sinterit moved to this larger new facility, developed two new and significantly more advanced SLS 3D printers (Lisa X and NILS), and put together a team ready to expand globally, including in the key US market. We were the first media to visit the new facility and what follows is a preview of our upcoming full reportage.
The move to the new Sinterit facility, located just outside Krakow, was finalized at the beginning of the COVID epidemic. It wasn’t an easy period, especially as demand for machines began to decrease. But the company decided to use this time as an opportunity to grow, focus on R&D of the new machines, study the most effective assembly line and train all its (now over 100) employees. The results of those efforts are tangible and Sinterit is now ready to open a new phase of growth.
The size of the assembly facility is now the same as that of companies that have been on the market for longer and just as well organized. During our visit we were able to see every detail, from the receiving and shipping areas to every station, Kanban boards, daily meeting spaces, machine calibration, testing, R&D and laser calibration rooms. If you think that Sinterit started from just an idea not even a decade ago, this is truly impressive and it has been great to follow their every progress.
After seeing how the machines are made we got to play with a brand new Lisa X. First we took a look at Sinterit’s internally developed slicing software and its over 50 parameters (which you can choose to just ignore and print with a single button using Sinterit’s own materials). Printing into a powder bed means you don’t have to think about supports, which means you don’t have to worry about part orientation to minimize supports and ensure adhesion. There still are some aspects you will have to consider in terms of part orientation, mainly so that the laser can do its job more easily. We’ll tell you all about those.
And here it is. “Our” Lisa X and its highly automated PHS (Powder Handling Station). The whole Lisa X printing experience was very easy (even smoother than our test with the Lisa Pro in 2019) and a lot of fun. We will tell you about every step of the printing process and workflow, for the Lisa X. We also got the take a much closer look at NILS, Sinterit’s first industrial system, which promises a very high level of automation (for process and material handling) at an unprecedented price point.
After running a print on the Lisa X, during the continuation of our visit to the new Sinterit facility, we also got to speak with the company’s CEO and CMO about their ambitious strategy to continue to grow in Europe and expand the US branch. Sinterit is convinced that no one can compete, today, with the quality and price combination of its value proposition. Based on our knowledge of the state of the SLS market, we are inclined to agree. We’ll give you all the information you’ll need to make your own assessment.


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BEIJING - Chinese customs have stepped up a crackdown on goods that infringe on intellectual property rights (IPR) in the first five months of 2021, customs data showed.
The customs authorities seized nearly 31 million items of suspected goods during the period, amid a nationwide IPR-protection campaign launched at the beginning of 2021, according to the General Administration of Customs (GAC).
The GAC has also formed a customs network against illegal activities of transshipment of infringing goods, shoring up barriers for infringing goods at ports.
Besides crackdown on malpractices, customs nationwide have improved services for IPR protection. A total of 5,629 applications for IPR protection were approved in the January-May period, the GAC said.


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Lambertville: 'Winter Light' on display at Gallery 13 North
Swiss-born Marcel Juillerat joins a roster of artists represented by Gallery 13 North.
READ: Artists of the New Hope School feted in Lambertville
During his 40 years as a painter, Juillerat has already participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the region. His next solo exhibition called “Winter Light” will be a collection centered around winter landscapes of New Jersey, specifically Jacobs Creek, Washington Crossing, as well as Baldpate Mountain area.
The exhibition, on view from Sunday, Jan. 15, to Wednesday, March 15, includes several medium to large-scale works capturing the winter feeling of this region in different media, such as oil, acrylic and watercolor.
“I am thrilled to represent Marcel Juillerat, one of the finest landscape artist of his generation. Gallery 13 North is presenting a solo exhibition with over 15 of his current works. If you are looking for something enchanting and whimsical, 'Winter Light' will take the viewers on an enchanting walk through the countryside in winter,” said Majell Yerenburg, gallery director at Gallery 13 North, in a news release.
Juillerat emerged in the early 1960’s after earning his degree from La Chaux-de-Fonds School in Switzerland. Moving to United States in 1969, he worked for Tiffany & Co. as a designer before joining Lenox China where he designed the White House dinnerware for former first lady Nancy Reagan.
One of Juillerat’s paintings, “Washington Crossing Bridge in the Winter” was displayed in the Winter Wonders Exhibition at Monmouth Museum.
Gallery 13 North is at 13 North Union St. Visit www.Gallery13North.com. Follow them at www.facebook.com/gallery13north.


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With ArcView we have the tools to make and distribute maps and analyze geographical information. The process of distributing these capabilities to faculty, staff, and students is just beginning, and what follows below is a narrative of a part of that process. I'm putting it together to record my own progress (and as such it will evolve as my own skills do), and to provide some basic instructions for coping with a very complex and powerful technology.
On 9 November I downloaded many megabytes of zipped data from the 1990 census of China (located at http://sedac.ciesin.org/china/ and described in detail at http://citas.csde.washington.edu/data/chinaA/datasets.htm). I had previously downloaded outline maps of China's provinces and counties from CESIN. The whole dataset can be thought of as a matrix consisting of data for more than 2000 counties and more than 400 variables. ArcView allows us to turn these data into pictures (well, maps), and encourages us to ask questions of the data: why is this or that variable distributed in this manner? how does one variable interact with another?
ArcView is relatively easy to learn the basics of, so that maps can be displayed and printed out (or put on the Web) without too much hair-tearing, but there are some conventions and tricks that have to learned. The more advanced features of ArcView are a greater challenge...
Data can be found bobbing around in the Web --CIESIN is one example of a pretty comprehensive source, but there are others. We have a lot of US data on CD-ROM as well, and it's entirely possible to build maps and datasets from scratch, or append data to existing datasets.
It's often necessary to manipulate data before mapping them, and spreadsheet programs are the tool of choice for this purpose. Excel is the one I generally use, usually to produce data files in .dbf format, which can then be read by ArcView. Here's a step-by-step description of the process of (1) preparing a new variable by manipulating two census variables (in this case, dividing number of immigrants 1985-1990 by total population to yield a percentage of immigrants) and (2) JOINing the resulting information with ArcView counties data to produce a map, and then (3) using PhotoShop to create a .jpg image for display on the Web. It took me a while to stumble through this process the first time, which is why I'm writing it out in such excruciating detail. Manuals are most helpful when you already have a clue, but are pretty impenetrable if you're just beginning.
(1) Using Excel to create the new variableHere's an example of the result (not very elegantly done):Open the .dbf file containing data for total population and total immigrants (and also including the ID number for each county). Make a new column, entering a formula into the first data cell to divide total immigrants (in column AA, say) by total population (in column D).2. Using ArcView=AA2/D2Click on the cell containing the numerical value, and then click and drag the box in the lower right corner of that cell all the way to the bottom of that column. This will perform the same calculation on all cells in the table.
(divide the value in cell AA2 by the value in cell D2)
Hit ENTER to see the result of the calculation
Use <CTRL>Click to select two columns from this table: the new variable (the calculated percentages) and the county ID number. Choose COPY from the Edit menu to place these columns into the Clipboard.
Then open a new spreadsheet (<CTRL><N> will do it) and PASTE the two columns (<CTRL><V> will do it). Select the column containing the percentages, and click on FORMAT in the menu bar. Select Cells..., and choose Number (instead of the default General) as the format for the contents of those cells. Then Save the new spreadsheet as DBF IV (.dbf), and not as an Excel workbook.Now you're going to JOIN the new .dbf file to an existing file which shares a common feature (the county ID number) with an ArcView table, so the ORDER of things matters a lot. Here's the procedure:3. Grabbing the displayed image and converting to .jpg for web displayStart ArcView. From the Project menu, choose Add Table... and locate the .dbf file to be attached, double-click its icon, and click on the column to be used as an index (the county ID number).
Click on the Project window ("Untitled"), then on the New button, then on the "Add theme" (+) button. Choose the desired theme (in this case it's Counties) and feature (e.g., the polygon option --the outines of the counties).Double-click on the the colored rectangle to change its symbol, choose the outline instead of a solid color.Click on the "Open theme table" button, locate the index field and select that column. You'll notice that the JOIN button will light. Click the JOIN button and the .dbf file will be added and indexed. Close the Attributes table.
Open the Legend editor (double-click on the rectangle in View 1), change Legend type to Graduated color. Then use Classification field to choose the variable for display (the % immigrants, in this example). This will display the values by the default clasification method ['natural breaks'], but you can use the Classify... button to change the method and/or the number of classes displayed.
Use the Apply button to display the result.The Print Screen key will move the screen image to the Clipboard. Open PhotoShop and use PASTE to put the image onto a new page; use the frame tool to select the part of the screen image you wish to save, COPY the selected image to the clipboard, open a new PhotoShop image and PASTE the contents of the clipboard into it.
Then, from the Layer menu, choose Flatten image. Then save the result as a .jpg, which can then be linked on a web page with the <IMG SRC=...> tag.
I've used the ESRI Digital Chart of the World (which we have on CD-ROM) to create a couple of maps of the Yangtze Gorges area (Yi-Chang being the city near the site of the new dam). The resulting .jpg images are pretty enormous (300K+), but not without charm. The first shows watercourses, and the second adds land over 3000 feet.
The DCW is hard to find one's way around in, but this guide from Penn State is about as good an introduction as I've been able to find.