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A gripping courtroom drama, 500 Years documents the first trial in the history of the Americas to prosecute the genocide of an indigenous people.
“There is joy in dreaming about a new country, a country where we indigenous people, with our culture, our language, our spirituality, our worldview, can exist as part of this country.” - Daniel Pascual, Peasant Leader
500 YEARS is the story of Mayan resistance in Guatemala -- to threaten the powerful and empower the dispossessed, from the first trial in the history of the Americas to prosecute the genocide of indigenous people in 2013 to a citizen’s uprising that threatens to topple a corrupt government.
The film exposes a world of brutality, entrenched racism and impunity, that challenges the historical narrative of Guatemala. Driven by universal themes of justice, power and corruption, the film provides a platform for the majority indigenous Mayan population, who now stand poised to reimagine their society.
500 Years will be showing on June 11 as part of The Resistance Saga. The Resistance Saga is a cinematic project designed to galvanize audiences to fight back when society is faced with authoritarianism and demagogues, and celebrate the role that the arts can play in creating, strengthening, and communicating narratives of nonviolent resistance. In so many ways, indigenous peoples throughout the Americas have set the example of long-term courageous and strategic resistance against daunting odds, with a powerful example being the saga of the Mayan people as depicted in director Pamela Yates’ films When the Mountains Tremble, Granito: How to Nail a Dictator and the latest installment, 500 Years: Life in Resistance. The event is a day-long immersive gathering that includes the screening of all three films, with two 15-minute intermissions, followed by a discussion on long-term movement building with the Mayan women protagonists, and a reception and concert by Mayan singer/songwriter Sara Curruchich singing her inspiring songs of resistance.
All three films of the Guatemalan trilogy have premiered at the Sundance Film Festival during the past 35 years. When the Mountains Tremble (1984) introduced indigenous rights leader Rigoberta Menchú as the storyteller in her role to expose repression during Guatemala’s brutal armed conflict. Winner of the Special Jury Award at Sundance, the film was seen worldwide and translated into 10 languages. It helped put Menchú on the world stage and 10 years later she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Yates’ sequel, Granito: How to Nail a Dictator (2011) is a a political thriller about the building of a genocide case against Guatemala General Efraín Ríos Montt. The case included outtakes from When the Mountains Tremble as forensic evidence in the prosecution of Montt. The third film, 500 Years: Life in Resistance, picks up where Granito leaves off, providing inside access to the first trial in the history of the Americas to prosecute the genocide of indigenous people. Driven by universal themes of justice, power, and corruption, the film provides a platform for the majority indigenous Mayan population, which is now poised to reimagine their society.
The Resistance Saga will take place at the Walter Reade Theater, Film Society of Lincoln Center on Sunday June 11 beginning at 1:30pm. There will be 15 minute intermissions after the first and second films, and a discussion after the third film, followed by a reception and concert for ticketholders in the Furman Gallery, Film Society of Lincoln Center. A special ticket package is available for The Resistance Saga trilogy at Film Society of Lincoln Center. Purchase tickets to all three films and the reception for $20.


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"The Swan King" is the biography of one of the most enigmatic figures of the 19th century, described by Verlaine as 'the only true king of his century'. A man of wildly eccentric temperament and touched by a rare, imaginative genius, Ludwig II of Bavaria is remembered both for his patronage of Richard Wagner and for the fabulous palaces which he created as part of a dream-world to escape the responsibilities of state. In realization of his fantasies, he created a ferment of creativity among artists and craftsmen, while his neglect of Bavaria's political interests made powerful enemies among those critical of his self-indulgence and excesses. At the age of 40, declared insane in a plot to depose him, Ludwig died in mysterious circumstances.
Christopher McIntosh was born in England in 1943 and grew up in Edinburgh. He studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford University and German at London University. Later, he returned to Oxford to take a doctorate in History. As a writer, he has specialized in the history of ideas, central European history and the Western esoteric tradition. In addition The Swan King, he has written two books on the Rosicrucians, a biography of the French occultist Elphias Levi and his most recent work, Gardens of the Gods, is to be published by I.B.Tauris in 2003.
Preface The Northern Apollo Reborn The Captive Years From Cage to Throne The Coming of the Friend The Second Lola A Triumph, an Idyll and a Parting Germany in Turmoil Sophie Lilla...and Others Wagnerian Strains A Crucial Decade 1866-1876 Fantasies in Stone Dreams of El Dorado Ludwig II and the Theatre Forbidden Longings Farewell to Wagner The Twilight Years The Trap Closes Prophecies Fulfilled Epilogue: The Cult of the Swan King
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Chelsea have been underestimated under Maurizio Sarri, says Willian following Europa League triumph
Willian believes that Chelsea were underestimated by their Premier League rivals this season and has said the club has answered their critics after “a lot of ups and downs”.
Eden Hazard scored two goals and made another as Chelsea thrashed Arsenal 4-1 in the Europa League final in Azerbaijan on Wednesday night.
Chelsea's commanding victory saw them end a difficult season on a high. Manager Maurizio Sarri has been repeatedly criticised and the club were placed outside the top four for long periods this season, only to eventually finish third before their European triumph.
“I think so, I think so,” Willian replied when asked whether he felt Chelsea had been underestimated under Sarri. “A lot of people thought Chelsea had no chance to win anything this season because we do not play well, or something like that. But at the end we have won this important trophy.
“I think that there were a lot of ups and downs [this season]. And at the end we took third position in the Premier League, we went to the Carabao Cup final and now we have won the Europa League final so, if you think about that, you can say it was good.
“Now we have to enjoy the holidays and prepare for next season.”
Willian, who came off the bench to replace goalscorer Pedro midway through the second-half, has also backed Chelsea to continue playing well even if they lose Hazard this summer.
Hazard was sensational in the final, but afterwards declared “I think it's a goodbye,” with Sarri later commenting: “I know he wants to leave and I have to respect his decision.”
Willian added: “Of course it is difficult to lose players like him. But if he goes, Chelsea will do everything to buy or I think here we have players with quality who can continue the job without him.
“Of course he is a special player, a fantastic player, but Chelsea always is like this. The job will continue.

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Wis. -- Concordia University Wisconsin women's hockey head
coach Jim Ingman has added a new hat to his collection, as he
will now lead the women's golf program. Ingman will have full
responsibility for the women's golf team, following the retirement
of Jeff Loose.
"We are excited about having Jim serve as our women's golf coach," said Athletic Director Dr. Rob Barnhill. "Coach Ingman has been succesful in the recruitment of talented females to the CUW campus, and has contact within the local golf community that will serve our student-athletes well."
April 23, 2012 McIntyre is individual champ at Benedictine Invite
April 14, 2012 McIntyre gears up for Nationals
November 4, 2011 Ingman named Women’s Golf head coach
October 26, 2011 Concordia’s Loose retires
October 14, 2011 I’m just an avid golfer
October 13, 2011 Falcon ‘N Focus: women's golfer Muriel McIntyre
October 4, 2011 McIntyre wins NAC Women’s Golf Player of the Year honors
September 26, 2011 McIntyre is Medalist at Marian Invite
September 26, 2011 McIntyre wins NAC Player of the Week Award- again!
September 21, 2011 Concordia golfers best Lakeland in dual
September 19, 2011 McIntyre beats ’em all at BU Invite
September 15, 2011 Falcon golfers defeat WLC in dual
September 11, 2011 McIntyre in mid-season form
September 2, 2011 McIntyre 11th individually at Robert Morris Fall Classic
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August 26, 2011 Coaches think CUW women’s golf will ”3-peat” !
August 18, 2011 McIntyre will lead Falcon linksters…one more time!

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ROBO Global Robotics & Automation ETF (ROBO) Celebrates 4 Years on Nasdaq with $1.5 Billion under Management
The First #Robotics Fund Marches Into Fifth Year, $ROBO
The all new ATC-HZ7810 Family of Cameras: Powerful and Compact-available through Aegis Electronic Group, Inc.
RobotShop.com, the world's leading robot store for all your robotic needs, announces today that it has partnered with Solar Pool Technologies as the exclusive distributor of the revolutionary robotic solar-powered pool cleaner, the Solar-Breeze NX for Canada and Europe.
Applied Robotics, Inc. New Bag Gripper, "The Bag Boss," is Born in the USA and Engineered to Rock Your World!
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TraceParts releases key figures about the use of castors, wheels and handling trolleys in CAD projects
The latest annual activity report from TraceParts provides an insight into the profile of designers using castor, wheel and handling trolley parts
Following successful editions in 2015 and 2016, CWIEME Istanbul returns this November for a valuable three days of networking, seminars and workshops. Visitors are set to attend from across Turkey, the Middle East, North Africa, Europe and CIS countries to discover new products and suppliers, and keep up to date with industry trends.
DESTACO Introduces New Deepdish Series Vacuum Cups Designed to Significantly Improve Grip Performance on Highly Contoured or Oily Panels
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The ElectroCraft CompletePower™ PMDC drive products are ideal fit for those motion control applications that require a simple solution but must not compromise on performance.
Visitors and exhibitors praised the show as an excellent platform for connecting manufacturers with potential and existing customers. Seminars and workshops highlighted relevant topics to the industry, such as the expansion of HEVs and EVs.
Ninebot Inc. Raises $100 Million USD in C-Round Financing for Mobile Robotics and Intelligent Short-Distance Transportation Products
Ninebot Inc., a leading company in the short-distance electric transportation industry, announced today that it has raised the equivalent of $100 million USD in C-round financing from SDIC Fund Management Company Ltd. and the China Mobile Fund.
Güdel is pleased to introduce ArcTrack, a preconfigured robot track motion module for arc welding applications that delivers the highest flexibility and reduces lead time by 40 percent.
Global leader in robotic welding and robotic systems integration, Genesis Systems Group will showcase new robotic capabilities for metrology, laser processing, multi-process robotic welding systems, pre-engineered solutions and virtual connectivity at FABTECH 2017, Hall B, in Booth B27031 and robotic welding accessories in Booth B31094.
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It’s been an eventful week in the movie world to say the least. It all started with one of the most calamitous errors in awards history at the Oscars on Sunday night – here’s a round up of all the major news in the movie business this week:
The 2017 Academy Awards…and THAT Mix-up
Where else to start than in Hollywood, Sunday night. The Oscars. One of the most prestigious awards ceremonies in the world. Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway are standing on stage, ready to announce the winner of Best Picture – only to read out the WRONG winner.
It wasn’t the only error to be made however. Whilst reflecting on the movie heads who we have lost in the last year, producer Jan Chapman (who is very much alive and well) was left mortified when her picture accompanied costume designer, Janet Patterson, who died in October last year. Oops
After all the calamity of the night, Moonlight eventually took home the prize for Best Picture ahead of the favourite La La Land. Click here to find out all other winners on the night.
Before the Oscars ceremony on Sunday night, the movie world was left devastated by the news that Aliens and Apollo 13 actor, Bill Paxton, passed away at the age of 61.
Paxton also starred in Near Dark, True Lies, Titanic and alongside Helen Hunt in 1996’s Twister. More recently he featured in 2 Guns, Edge of Tomorrow and Nightcrawler.
Logan and the End of Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine
The release of Logan on Wednesday was greeted with a positive response, and it needed to be as Jackman bids farewell to the scratchy mutant.
Patrick Stewart also confirmed that Logan would be his final X-Men movie as Charles Xavier, ending an era for the franchise.
Movie News in Short
Vera Farmiga has joined the cast for the follow-up of 2014’s ‘Godzilla’. The untitled sequel also features Millie Bobby Brown and Kyle Chandler and is set to arrive in March 2019.
Following the financial success of ‘Trolls’, DreamWorks Animation have already announced plans for a sequel with April 2020 looking like a realistic release date.
Nicholas Hoult has joined Emma Stone in period drama, ‘The Favourite’, directed by The Lobster’s Yorgos Lanthimos. Olivia Colman and Rachel Weisz will also feature.
Cara Delevingne and Jaden Smith are set to star together in romantic drama, ‘Life In A Year’. Expect a similar product to ‘A Fault In Our Stars’ (and not just because Delevingne’s in it).
The Transformers spin-off, ‘Bumblebee’ has a director. Travis Knight, responsible for animation ‘Kubo and the Two Strings’ will be in charge of this one.
Three huge trailers dropped this week including the latest looks at ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2’, ‘POTC: Salazar’s Revenge’ and ‘Alien: Covenant’. Click on the Latest Trailers tab to take a look.

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Early rumors are swirling of a new revival of the Frank Wildhorn mediocre hit Jekyll and Hyde’s return to Broadway. The musical which had a history of throwing in random “stars” into the mix after opening would need a severe makeover to gain success. Perhaps the 2006 concept album of the musical with a rock score will be included. I would go even further and modernize it, set it in New York, and have it star Adam Pascal as the title character with Kate Shindle and Mara Davi as Lucy and Emma respectively. And perhaps go even FURTHER and have John Gallagher Jr. as Utterson. Wild? I know. But leave it to Wildhorn to come up with wild ideas!


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The past few days have brought stories to the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times, based on research by a group called the Moment of Truth Project (I'll refer to them as MOTP). It's hard to tell who these people are; the MOTP seems to be an effort of the Committee For A Responsible Budget, and I tried calling a spokesperson, but got someone else's voice mail. But they list some big hitters as members, such as former senator Alan Simpson.
Maintaining purchasing power in spending programs and indexing various parts of the tax code is an important policy goal. However, policymakers should ensure that the most accurate measure of inflation is being used. To correct the problem of over-indexation, many have proposed switching to the chained CPI to provide a more accurate measure of inflation for indexed provisions in the federal budget...
In addition to improving technical accuracy, switching to chained CPI would have the secondary benefit of reduce the deficit - by about $300 billion over the next decade alone.
Addressing our fiscal challenges will require many tough choices and policy changes - but switching to the chained CPI represents neither. Such a change offers policymakers the rare opportunity to achieve significant savings spread across the entire budget by making a technical improvement to existing policies. As such, across-the-board adoption of the chained CPI should be at the top of the list for any deficit reduction plan or down payment.What this means is that benefits can be cut by monkeying with which of the many measures of inflation are applied to the COLA, and not ever coming out and saying that they are making cuts. Specifically there is talk of applying something called chained CPI, rather than the current headline CPI-U.
Consumer price inflation is a really complicated idea in a diverse economy like the U.S., and I imagine the "right" way to measure it changes over time, and in fact the methods are tinkered with all the time. But this sounds like politicians pulling a fast one in order to avoid facing the populace. (In my initial version of this post I had posited that this sort of change could be transmitted through to the accretion on the Treasury Inflation Protected Securities, but thanks to a helpful call from Mike Pond of Barclays Capital, one of the top analysts of the U.S. bond market, I know that is not right -- the prospectus on TIPS calls for paying the conventional CPI-U inflation rate, and shifting away from that would be akin to a default. So don't worry about your TIPS, at least not on this point.)
There is a group of government critics, or conspiracy theorists, or somewhere in between, called Shadow Government Statistics, who make a business out of reporting on this question. (Their tag line: "Have you ever wondered why the CPI, GDP and employment numbers run counter to your personal and business experiences? The problem lies in biased and often-manipulated government reporting.")
I haven't seen any proposals so far that directly tie the spending cuts under consideration now with low-balling inflation, but I'll let you know when I do.

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Malls occupancy falls in Q2 on slowdown
With the current slowdown in the retail sector, the average vacancy in malls across the country has increased to 19 percent in the second quarter of 2009.
New Delhi: With the current slowdown in the
retail sector, the average vacancy in malls across the country
has increased to 19 per cent in the second quarter of 2009,
against the first quarter of the year, according to global
consultant Cushman & Wakefield.
"The average vacancy across malls in major Indian cities
has increased from 10 per cent in the first quarter to 19 per
cent in the second quarter of this year due to slowdown in
uptake of mall space and churn amongst the existing clients,"
Cushman & Wakefield said in its latest report.
While Ahmedabad recorded the highest vacancy of around
39.4 percent, the national capital region had a vacancy of
around 26 per cent in the second quarter of 2009.
The study attributed the increased vacancy to retailers
quitting space in established malls, and a surge in the supply
of space but a relatively slower absorption.
Mumbai recorded a vacancy of nine percent in the quarter
under review, while Chennai witnessed mall vacancy of only one
per cent due to lack of new mall supply and restrained churn.
The study also said that while mall supply marginally
increased by three percent from the previous quarter to 1.14
million sq ft, by the end of 2009 it is expected to reduce by
50 per cent to 8.55 million sq.ft as against the estimates at
the beginning of the year.

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When it comes to government, the only sure thing is that more is never better.
We are the land of the free after all, and constant piling on of regulations and reforms has been infringing on our way of life for darn near 250 years. Remember, the whole reason we got out of that mess with Britain was the unkempt of unstoppable encroachment of the government into our lives.
It is with this outlook that we must keep an eye on the size of scope of our federal agencies, and not be afraid to question just what it is that they are doing with our hard-earned tax dollars.
That being said; why on Earth does the IRS need 5,000,000 rounds of ammunition?
The Internal Revenue Service had in its weapons inventory 4,487 guns and 5,062,006 rounds of ammunition as of late 2017, according to a report published this month by the Government Accountability Office.Trending:
Included in this arsenal, according to the GAO, were 15 “fully automatic firearms” and 56,000 rounds of ammunition for those fully automatic firearms.
The same report–“Federal Law Enforcement: Purchases and Inventory Controls of Firearms, Ammuntion, and Tactical Equipment“–says that the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services had 194 fully automatic firearms and 386,952 rounds of ammunition for those fully automatic firearms.Advertisement - story continues below
“The term ‘fully automatic’ used in this report,” says a footnote in the report, “encompasses a range of firearms classified as machine guns, including submachine guns, three round burst guns, and guns with a selector switch that can enable continuous fire.”
What’s most alarming is that these two benign government agencies have weapons deemed too powerful for the average citizen at their disposal, making a clear case for the infringement of the Second Amendment.
After all, if we can’t defend ourselves from the IRS, how free are we, really?


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We fabricated a mechanical stage driven by a piezoelectric actuator and built in a microdisplacement sensor, which is used to decrease the effect of hysteresis and creep in the piezoelectric actuator. The displacement sensor consists of a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL), eight two-dimensional monolithically integrated photodiodes (PDs), a frame, and a cover glass. The size of the sensor chip is 3.0 mm by 3.0 mm with a thickness of 0.7 mm. The maximum variation in the position of the mechanical stage caused by hysteresis is 7.5 μm without control when the movement range of the mechanical stage is 84.4 μm. By controlling the applied voltage using our microdisplacement sensor, we reduce the effect of the hysteresis, and the variation in position decreased to 1.9 μm.
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We’re witnessing, in the mainstream press, a propaganda campaign against Iran similar to that preceding the invasion of Iraq. We’re seeing again the arguments then used to shape western opinion for a war on Baghdad. However, there is a big difference between the articles currently condemning Iran and those that stigmatized Saddam Hussein’s Iraq before the invasion: there is practically no talking about a possible war. The process of making Iran satanic is running smoothly but even the most belligerent neo-cons frown now before explicitly speaking of an armed conflict.
Negotiations between the European troika (UK, France and Germany) and the Islamic Republic of Iran in relation to the Iranian nuclear issue seem to have definitely broken. The European requirements, denounced by IAEA President and Nobel Peace Laureate Mohammed El Baradei, go beyond the Non-Proliferation Treaty. Before reopening the uranium enrichment centre in Natanz on January 11, Iran accused European negotiators of having sided with Washington and Tel Aviv.
This Iranian decision led the media to redouble their attacks on Teheran.
We are witnessing, in the mainstream press, a propaganda campaign against Iran similar to that preceding the invasion of Iraq. We’re also seeing the arguments then used to shape western opinion for a war with Baghdad. As evidence, the fact is wielded that the Islamic Republic intends to acquire nuclear weapons despite the prohibition made by the Supreme Leader of the Revolution, Ali Jameini, on getting equipped with them. Iran has been accused of supporting terror and trying to obtain mass destruction weapons. The threat of a nuclear terror against the “West” is often mentioned or implied. Since it is seemingly obvious that even when Iran had the nuke, it would be unable to use it without taking the risk of extermination, it also becomes crucial to insist on the irrational, fanatic, and therefore suicidal nature of Iranian leaders. Furthermore, while from the technical point of view it is impossible for Iran to have atomic weapons before a 10-year period and in the event it was Iran’s intention to have them, the media insist on the imminent danger and the urgency of a reaction. Finally, like in Iraq, those international bodies, whose oratory differs from that of the “western” powers, are discredited or their statements distorted. Those who advocate negotiating are accused of mercantilism or “Munich-style” pusillanimity
Nothing new is provided by such arguments, which the readers of Forums & Analyses know pretty well. However, there is a huge difference between the articles currently condemning Iran and those that stigmatized Saddam Hussein’s Iraq before the invasion: there is practically no talking about a possible war. The process of making Iran satanic is running smoothly, but even the most belligerent neo-cons frown before explicitly speaking of an armed conflict. The common consent of making Iran satanic is widely spread, not to say unanimous, but there is no consensus as to the solution the Iranian “issue” must be given.
In France, the conservative daily Le Figaro – property of airplane builder Dassault – has been intensively working for some weeks now to psychologically influence its readers against the Islamic Republic. It first presented the restart of the Iranian program for uranium enrichment as a “non-return point”, to later venture that even Russia – linked to the Iranian nuclear program - condemned the policy of the Islamic Republic. This editorial line went ahead with the publication of two forums signed by Atlantist representatives of UMP - the governing party in France – who compared Mahmud Ahmadinejad to Adolph Hitler.
With this purpose, Parisian representative and president of NATO Parliamentary Assembly, Pierre Lellouche, drafted a text signed by 13 representatives of the presidential majority, namely: Alfred Almont, Richard Dell’Agnola, Bernard Depierre, Claude Goasguen, Arlette Grosskost, Jean-Yves Hugon, Jean-Marc Lefranc, Lionnel Luca, Richard Mallié, Pierre Micaux, Marc Reymann, Jean-Marc Roubaud and Philippe Vitel. In their opinion, there is an ideological and tactical affiliation between the Fuehrer (Hitler) and Iran’s President. This is a traditional argument when trying to make the opponent satanic. The comparison to Adolph Hitler was used against Saddam Hussein during the first Gulf war and in war against Iraq, as well as against Milosevic during the war in Kosovo… just to mention the most famous cases in the last 15 years. But Mahmud Ahmadinejad brought up the use of this so blatant and trite propaganda axis, and opened the door to his enemies through his statements of denial and by placing the Holocaust in the middle of a topic having no bearing on it. By repeating the classical arguments of the threat posed by the acquisition of mass destruction weapons by terrorists, the signatories of the text say that Iran could give one to Hezbollah (which according to EU is not a terrorist organization) to attack western cities (when Hezbollah actually makes no actions out of Lebanon). The representatives request the subject to be taken to the UN Security Council (without precisely asking for a particular action). But they have already begun to prepare the public opinion for a lack of consensus and for an action out of the UN. As we can see, this forum is first of all aimed at raising fears in the reader, and completely ignores the credibility or accuracy of the facts.
Another UMP representative in Paris, Bernard Debré, has written a very similar text to the above. The National Assembly President’s brother uses and abuses extreme words to call the Iranian regime: “bloody”, “hateful”, “dangerous” and also compares it to Hitler’s regime. However, contrary to his parliament colleagues, Debré does propose an action against Iran: an international economic embargo. This proposal had already been formulated by Republican Senator Bill Frist and we had already asked ourselves then what logic was behind the proposal. Just like the head of the republican majority in the senate, Mr. Debré cannot ignore the unlikelihood of achieving an international consensus in favour of an embargo against Iran. Russia, China and India acknowledge the legality of Iran’s nuclear program. So, an economic embargo without the participation of these three countries would only have a limited impact. Also, if we take into account the rise in oil prices we’ll realize that an economic conflict with Iran would probably be more harmful to “western” economies than to the Islamic Republic itself. Under such conditions, what is the aim of that proposal?
Making Iran’s regime satanic also includes denouncing its religious zealotry. The followers of this argument resort to the rhetoric of the Iranian theocracy in order not to present a regime based on religious precepts, conservative in terms of custom and progressive in the social field, but a millenarian dictatorship in the hands of mad people.
This opinion has been widely spread by neo-con propagandist Kenneth Timmermans in a forum supported by Project Syndicate. As a starting point the analysis involved, without quoting it, an article by Scott Peterson published by the Christian Science Monitor which describes the religious zeal of President Mahmud Ahmadinejad and his attachment to the figure of Mahdi – a mythical Imam of the Shiite Islam.
In the New York Sun and the Jerusalem Post, Daniel Pipes – an Islamophobic theoretician and manager of the U.S. Institute of Peace – repeats, word for word, the arguments already developed by Kenneth Timmermans. Pipes takes for granted the fact that Iran’s President and the whole leading class of that country think that the end of time is close. How to negotiate then with an individual who thinks himself by God’s side while the Final Judgement is near? Without paying any attention to consistency, Pipes based himself on this image to also compare Mahmud Ahmadinejad to Hitler.
The association of Islamism with Nazism has no solid ideological element as a basis, it frequently occurs in the Western mainstream press. Such assimilation allows presenting Islamism as the “third totalitarianism” after Nazism and Stalinism, and in opposition, praising the merits and justifying the actions of the “domain of freedom” led by the US.
The association of Islamism and Nazism is strengthened by the repeated use of neologisms such as “Islamo-fascism” (a common term in the texts of US hawks coordinator Franck Gaffney) or “fascislamism” (a most recent neologism often observed in the reports by French media “philosopher” Henri Lévy).
Naturally, for all those propagating such formulas, the foundation of the union between Fascism and Islamism is anti-Semitism.
This opinion is not only disseminated in Europe and the US. Colombian editorialist and former Deputy Justice Minister Rafael Nieto Loaiza attacks Iran in the Colombian daily El Tiempo by adding more to the common consent. In Loaiza’s opinion, Iran wants to get the nuke and is, due to its anti-Semitism, a threat to Israel. Unfortunately, the case is unlikely to be taken to the UN Security Council because of Iran’s excellent relations with China and Russia (no reference is made to the fact that Iran has not breached the international law). Loaiza further relates any connections in this editorial. So, the fact that Iran could threaten Israel poses a menace to “the Jews” altogether. Iran is also an anti-Semitic country “though not an Arabian country”, which would suggest that anti-Semitism is first of all a characteristic of the Arab world. In short, Loaiza registers his attacks on Iran in the logic of the clash of civilizations – a theory that needed no nuclear food to demand the overthrow of Iran’s regime. A supporter of a Colombian government that has terrible relations with its Venezuelan neighbour, Loaiza takes this opportunity to repeat the accusations of anti-Semitism against Hugo Chávez and notes the alleged friendly bonds between Mahmud Ahmadinejad and the President of the Bolivarian Republic.
However, the media experts’ consensus, in their denunciation of Iran’s regime, does not allow for the achievement of unity as to the actions that must be taken. Additionally, most analysts refuse to give their opinions regarding a solution.
The conservative editorialist of the leftist British daily The Guardian, Timothy Garton Ash, also limits himself to list a whole set of solutions against Iran that will not work out: it will be impossible to get China and Russia involved; it will be difficult to attack Iran because of the means it owns due to the oil profit rise and its weight on Iraq; an attack on Iran will remove the pro-western feeling in the country, and supporting a revolution could probably cause a bloodbath. In short, no solution is attractive. Garton Ash confines himself to launching a call in favour of a western unity in relation to the subject and that every action be well thought before implementation. That is, he suggests nothing but he repeats the traditional accusations against Iran and the madness of his president.
In his editorial in the Weekly Standard – a neo-con reference weekly, which is in turn published by the Australian daily The Australian – the editor-in-chief William Kristol showed, against his will, the ambiguities and hesitation of Washington’s top circles. This way, he rejects the options that favour negotiating without a military threat or leaving to Israel the task of attacking, standing up though for the other solutions. Kristol confirms its belief in firm diplomacy, IAEA’s activities, the setting up of coalitions to impose sanctions, the “Iranian democrats” who want a change of regime, the development of intelligence abilities against Iran and the possibility of a military action. The fact that most of the options he defends exclude one another does not seem to upset him. Basically, Kristol is also hitting the ball and stints on summing up all possibilities without daring to go for one.
More determined, the Daily Telegraph expert on security subjects, John Keegan, chooses the economic blockade. In the Daily Telegraph, the Gulf News and The Age, Keegan joins the chorus of criticisms against Iran. Just like the rest of the experts cited by the mass media, Keegan says that Teheran tries to get the nuke, threatens both Israel and the region, and supports terror. And he goes even further by saying that Iran is linked to Al Qaeda and could have had something to do with the London bombings. Do not overlook the absurdity of this last statement. What interest could Iran have had in perpetrating an attack in London when Iran was already being threatened by the US, but it still kept negotiations with the UK? Also, if Teheran was taking advantage of negotiations to gain time and develop its nuclear arsenal, as often asserted by Mr. Keegan’s closest analysts, what interest would Iran have had to attack London which would have threatened to shorten the negotiations? But nothing seems to be enough to tarnish the image of the enemy.
Just like Bill Frist and Bernard Debré, Mr. Keegan also suggests an economic blockade. He thinks that the US is in no conditions to wage a war and that one could consider Israel’s attacks though the economic isolation of Iran is preferable, at least during the first stage. Keegan does not conceal the need of thinking of another option, without defining which, in case this strategy fails.
The spokesman for the Peoples’ Mujaidines, Ali M. Safavi, also requests a total blockade of Iran’s economy in the Washington Times. However, he thinks that though necessary, this action is not enough. He consequently advocates the support from the US to his organization in order to overthrow Iran’s regime. With this, Mr. Safavi links, as neo-cons do, Iran’s nuclear subject to the regime established in Teheran and forgets that Iran’s will to come to master the nuclear energy is not something that dates back to the 1979 revolution, but to the shah regime, and which is based on the needs of Iran’s economy. A new regime, as much as the current one, would need nuclear plants to ensure Iran’s economic development.
Pan-Arabism supporter British analyst, Patrick Seale, expresses his incredulity in the Gulf News in the face of this media campaign. He recalls that, until otherwise proved, Iran’s nuclear program is legal and controlled so far by IAEA inspectors. Seale shows concern before the increasingly threatening statements made by the West and Iran. This analyst asks the US and Iran, probably without believing himself in it, to settle the controversy that has brought them face to face since 1979 and to undertake negotiations favouring the total denuclearization of the Middle East – the only possible way to avoid a confrontation
Mr. Seale’s statements are one of the few which differ in the mainstream press. As we have already said, the time has not come yet to request a military operation against Iran. This is why there has virtually not been a large scale mobilization in western countries so as to denounce a sneaky progression to a war. During the preparations for the invasion of Iraq, the neo-cons openly expressed their intentions, which brought forth the people’s reactions and a large opposition movement. This is completely different now. The process of making Iran satanic and dehumanized has taken a natural course resulting in no reactions among the pacifists.


In the past couple of weeks, cloud computing has really taken off, with both service providers, server makers, and switching vendors all making big announcements on service deployments and new gear designed for cloud operating environments.
Specifically, both Juniper and Cisco made significant announcements in their vision of a next generation data centre environment that can support the performance requirements of cloud computing services.
In this first article of a two part series on the two companies’ strategy and visions for cloud-based computing infrastructure , Green Telecom talks to Lam Chee Keong, regional enterprise solutions manager at Juniper Networks, about the thinking behind its Stratos Project and why there’s a need for a single fabric.
Green Telecom: So what is Juniper’s next generation data centre vision?
Lam Chee Keong: I think you have heard a lot about cloud computing and it is also common knowledge that cloud computing means different things to different people. One of the things that I think we can all more or less agreed on is basically that cloud computing is the ability to deliver services through the cloud. It is actually leveraging off on the public Internet infrastructure.
The whole idea of cloud computing is to be able to move to a point where computing can be treated like a utility, or what we called utility computing. With utility computing, you come to a point in time, like electricity. With Electricity, it is like utility for all of us. We go to anywhere, the office, home, or in any public place, there is a power point and I can plug my appliance or device into the power point and I turn it on and straight away I get power.
So cloud computing is moving in such a direction, to achieve a point where computing becomes a utility. Now cloud computing isn’t really new right, in a sense, you are delivering applications across the public infrastructure is not really new – it has been around for a while. With the new technologies, like Software as a Service, and novel concepts like this, I think is taking cloud computing to a whole new level. For enterprises, or end consumer or customer of cloud computing services, there certainly is a compelling reason with tangible benefits which are drivers for this.
So I think the two key reasons for this is first the issue of costs, especially in terms of applications – not only in acquiring the license and contracts, but I think with enterprises typically, when you acquire software applications, they typically overprovision or under-provision, this effectively hamper business agility, business objectives. If you overprovision, you basically waste costs. If you underprovision, you might not be quick enough to get additional licenses to meet business objectives.
The second driver is in the area of opex and management. With this utility as a computing concept, I don’t have to worry about, or invest in, headcount to manage the applications, to worry about upgrading, installing it, maintaining it, and basically all these, I can move, transfer, this kind of task, as well as risk, to the cloud provider, the service provider of the cloud. These are the key drivers for cloud computing.
And it is not just SaaS, but it basically comprises the applications, it can be storage services, security services, all kinds of services can be hosted in a cloud and made available to the public. So I think the other reason cloud computing has gained another level – one reason as I mentioned earlier was the way we are use applications and software, like SaaS, the second reason is the Internet infrastructure becoming more available with high performance networking capability. Today, broadband to the home, Internet access all the way to the home, is talking 8 Mbps, 10 Mbps of bandwidth, compared to years ago when you are talking about dial up. I think this is also fueling cloud computing considerations as well.
With cloud computing, on one end, you have users, on the other end, you have data centres, where applications are stored and located. So there is three main parts; the user and the devices, the infrastructure in between, which is usually the Internet, and on the other, there public or private data centres that hosts the applications or the services.
The user end, as I mentioned, you have high speed access to offices and homes, so it is kind of like a given now, high speed access. In the middle, the public infrastructure is also offers high performance networks, so that part has caught up as well.
Now the problem is the data centre at the other end. The problem with data centre today is that they are still based on legacy architecture, and there has not been much innovation as far as the network in the data centre is concerned. Of course, you may say, that is not true because there are new products and stuff for the data centers. Well sure, everybody is announcing new switches and routers in the data centre, but the problem is that data centre architecture is still based on a traditional, campus like – what we called a three tier concept of switches. So you might have very fast switches in the data centre, but the architecture needs to change to meet cloud computing environments.
For computing as a utility and cloud computing to really be transparent and ubiquitous to the user, I think the user experience is really important. If it’s going to take a long time to download an application, then the user experience is not good and the pick up rate will not be good.
So the data centre architecture is due for an overhaul. We have spoken to consultants, large public cloud providers, private cloud providers, and even our partners, systems integrators like IBM, who have built a lot of data centres, who understand the kind of requirements that goes into a data centre – that was how this Stratos Project on data centre fabric was actually born.
So how is it different from what is available today?
So the idea is that the data centre fabric that we are talking about with the Stratos Project and working on, brings a whole new meaning to the idea of the single, flat architecture for data centre. As I was talking about before, a lot of data centre today are still built based on the idea of a three tier, an edge layer for aggregation and a core switch layer kind of concept. In the past, without cloud computing, this was alright. But today, with the kind of data that is going across, especially if you are talking about converged data, you are talking about fibrechannel, infiniband, Ethernet, and lossless ability and all kinds of requirements, certainly having multiple tiers is a going to be a bottleneck and introducing lots of latency for this kind of application and data type.
So for Juniper, we think we have an opportunity to look at it and start from scratch, let’s take a fresh, blank piece of paper and let’s think about what is the most efficient and simplest way to implement the data centre network. So the idea is well: the ideal network infrastructure would be one single switch, where I interconnect everything. Today, a lot of infrastructures is not use to connect users to the servers, but interconnecting switches and other devices. So the simplest data centre infrastructure would be a single switch where you can plug in servers, users, storage and security devices, appliances. This would be simple, efficient and you don’t have to worry about multiple tiers.
The problem with a single switch, of course, is physically there are a lot of limitations, especially with the number of ports, you can’t scale. In cloud computing, we are staging, not just thousands, but tens of thousands of ports, you can have a switch with tens of thousands of ports. So scalability is a major issue with a single switch. You also have a single point of failure, so you have to make sure the switch is reliable.
So the idea is to have the concept of a single switch, so a logical single switch, but we actually expand it to a fabric. So all the intelligence is actually out in the edge, so you get the top of rack, or end-of-row box, and in between is actually interconnected like a fabric, in a way many-to-many type of interconnection. So with that, the whole fabric behaves like a single switch, and is managed like a single switch and it is a single tier. It is highly efficient and will be able to accept most converged data, like Ethernet, or fibrechannel, or even infiniband will work across it transparently. So that is essentially what our architecture would look like.
Is this applicable to existing installations? Obviously, if you are building a new data centre, then you and adopt some of this technology and implement it, but does this apply to existing facilities?
So there are a couple of things to think about. One of the reasons why we are announcing this Stratos Project so early because we expect this to be a multi-year project before we are able to release anything. The reason why we are announcing it is data centres have a long cycle. It takes a long time to plan, especially when we are talking about very fundamental things like the network architecture. So this allows our customers to plan ahead incorporate this when they need it. Secondly, we are not expecting this data centre fabric to appeal to everybody. So it won’t make sense in a campus environment. It won’t make sense in a small data centre environment.
However, when it comes to large data centres, we will appeal to them. The idea is that it will co-exist and it will work with the existing infrastructure without ripping everything out. In fact, it will augment and complement, for example, our existing EX line of switches perfectly.
So it is kind of like JUNOS network operating systems, so you can link up all the switches into a virtual fabric kind of thing?
So when do you expect some of the technologies from the Stratos Project to be released?
So the Stratos Project is something that is designed from the ground up using our expertise, experience, silicon design and testing, so we are expecting this to be a multi-year, at least a couple of years, effort. We are not expecting any revenue from the project this year.
In terms of the technologies that are being developed, like the 30 patents already submitted in the US, and how these will be commercialized, is there a roadmap?
Right now, I can’t comment on that right now unfortunately. I think as time goes on, we will continue to keep the public inform of what is happening.
In Part 2, Green Telecom looks at Cisco’s new Unified Computing concept.


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This summary article situates the articles in this collection within the historical unfolding of the commodification and neoliberalisation of higher education. From the 1970s to the present, the article suggests that commodification and neoliberalisation are two social forces that in many nations are difficult to disentangle. It is important to see these forces as analytically distinct as they set up contradictions whilst transforming higher education in many nations in the world. While commodification begins the process of turning university programmes and degrees into commodities that a consuming public buys, neoliberalism puts pressure on universities to document that people are getting value for the money they spend. Neoliberalism also questions how we measure the quality of a product. Together these forces create an increasingly contradictory space where faculty work becomes very conflicted. The article then goes on to situate each of the articles in this contradictory university space. Finally the article discusses some ways faculty can move beyond resistance and collusion and find ways to reclaim higher education.
The university intellectual as globalised neoliberal consumer self
This article focuses on the ways that modern American universities are engaged in the process of articulating new producing and consuming subjects. It argues that the image of the engaged ‘media celebrity’ intellectual, as presented in the TED Talk model, has become a cultural ideal that reconciles a deeper contradiction in the academy. Through a complex process, university faculty and students are assimilated into the globalised lifestyle and the identity of cosmopolitans by participating in a social space that is at once an upscale shopping mall and at the same time a high tech corporate research park. This global elite is forged first out of individuals who make it through the university and then secondly out of those university students who successfully excel under the twin pressures of elite production and consumption. Most student, faculty and universities fall short of this ideal. But by watching TED talks they can aspire to this fantasy ideal through the image of the media celebrity intellectual.

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Maybe you’ve seen them while driving through the neighborhood: yards decorated with colorful flowers made from paper plates and paper hearts. Known as “flower bombs,” they’re often sent from loved ones to a friend or family’s house and “planted” under the guise of surprise.
The paper flowers and hearts come in different sizes, colors, shapes and patterns—but all are handmade by volunteers. And all of their proceeds are donated to the Ronald McDonald House in Baltimore, which provides a home away from home to families with seriously ill or injured children.
Kim Meagher, a longtime Ronald McDonald House volunteer, got the idea for the Quarantine Flower Bombing Project after the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the state.
“I teach a women’s art class at my church, and a lot of young moms attend,” Meagher says. “When quarantine hit and school was canceled, everyone was kind of in a panic, so I started posting online crafts to do with your kids daily. I came across the paper plate flowers and thought it would be an awesome thing to do as a ding dong ditch-type of activity—where you decorate someone’s yard, but they don’t know it’s you.”
The government shutdowns also prevented volunteers from being at the Ronald McDonald House in Jonestown, where 10 families are currently quarantined. That meant volunteers could no longer help provide meals to the children and families there. Meagher had a hunch that people would pay for the flower bombs, especially if they knew they would be supporting a good cause.
“On a whim I talked to the women in my art class and they all said, ‘We’re in,’” Meagher says. “I thought, ‘I’ll throw it up on Facebook and see what happens.’ It went nuts.”
Since beginning on April 28, Meagher says the flower bombing project has raised more than $8,000 to continue providing meals for the families at the Ronald McDonald House.
About 40 families are helping create and “plant” the paper plate flowers and hearts. Meagher says they’ve delivered “everywhere” in Baltimore, and can also ship anywhere for an extra cost. All deliveries include a note on one of the flowers letting the recipient know that a donation will be made in their honor to the Ronald McDonald House.
The flower bombs have been popular as a way to celebrate birthdays, graduations and anniversaries, but they’ve also become a tool to reach out to loved ones whom the stay-at-home orders might have separated.
“Everyone’s tired of being at home, and suddenly there’s this flower bouquet in their yard, and it just really makes them smile,” Meagher says. “And we’re now finding that people who receive them are sending them, which has been cool to see.”
The process of making the flowers proves to be just as fulfilling. Nine-year-old twins Ady and Callie are two of the many “flower ninjas” in charge of creating and planting the flower bombs. Their mom, Molly Seaborn, says the girls have enjoyed flower bombing teachers and friends, as well as creating how-to videos on the project’s Facebook page.
“My favorite part is getting to paint [the flowers] because you can paint them by hand all these different ways,” Ady says. Adds Callie, “We’re not supposed to get caught [when we plant them], but I like being caught, because then we get to have a conversation that’s not online and just say hi and that we miss you.”
If interested in sending a flower bomb, visit the project’s Facebook page
for pricing, payment and delivery details. To join the project and help create flowers, contact Meagher and other organizers via the Facebook page.
“What’s been great is to see whole families making the flowers together, like a grandmother with her daughter and grandson,” Meagher says. “It’s a great activity. Anyone can do it.”

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By Damon Mitchell • 22 September 2020 • 12:27
Safety: Face masks were previously handed out at transport stations.
THE Sub-delegation of the Government in Malaga will distribute 532,000 masks this week to the town halls of the Malaga province and social entities.
With this new distribution, the third since April, the Government of Spain has already distributed more than one and a half million masks in Malaga, specifically 1,521,000.
Municipalities with more than 20,000 inhabitants in Malaga will receive 363,500 masks, while another 60,500 will be delivered to the Provincial Council for distribution to municipalities with less than 20,000 inhabitants. In addition, the Red Cross, Cáritas and the Spanish Committee of Representatives of People with Disabilities (Cermi) will receive a total of 108,000 masks (36,000 each).
The Malaga towns with more than 20,000 inhabitants to which the markers will be distributed are Alhaurín de la Torre (10,500), Alhaurín el Grande (6,500), Antequera (10,500), Benalmádena (17,500), Cártama (6,500), Coín (5,500), Estepona (17,500), Fuengirola (20,500), Málaga (146,500), Marbella (36,500), Mijas (21,000), Nerja (5,500), Rincón de la Victoria (12,000), Ronda (8,500), Torremolinos (17,500) and Vélez-Málaga (21,000).
The sub-delegate of the Government in Malaga, Teófilo Ruiz, has indicated that the distribution of 532,000 masks this week is “a new action of collaboration and support to local entities and social organisations so that residents, especially those with fewer resources, can maintain the measures of safety and wear adequate protection ”.
“The use of the mask is mandatory,” he stressed, “so I appeal to the responsibility of all residents to comply with the established safety standards and carry adequate protection.”
Ruiz Municio has highlighted the effort made by the Government of Spain, which with this action will have delivered more than 1.5 million masks in the province of Malaga. Thus, this distribution of 532,000 masks this week is added to the two previous ones carried out in April and May in which this material was distributed in the transport areas of the province – metro and bus stops, both urban and metropolitan, as well as in stations of railway, bus stations and airport.
They were also delivered to the municipalities of the province and to various groups and associations such as the Press Association, taxi driver associations, social groups, food markets, bar associations, the Taxi or Justice sector.
In Spain, the Government will distribute from this Monday a total of 15 million masks with the aim of supporting local entities and the neediest families, coinciding with the opening of the school year.
Specifically, the government delegations and sub-delegations will distribute 12,000,000 masks to the municipalities. The rest, 3,000,000, will be delivered to the Red Cross, Caritas and the Spanish Committee of Representatives of People with Disabilities, which in turn, will make them reach the neediest groups.
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Arab Street and Kampong Glam
Arab Street and the Kampong Glam area form one of Singapore’s three major cultural enclaves – the other two being exciting Chinatown and colourful Little India. The name "Kampong Glam" comes from two Malay words: kampong, meaning "little village" and "glam," the name of a type of tree that grew in abundance in this part of early Singapore. Nowadays, the area still has that special kampong feeling but with modern touches such as the famous graffiti walls.
Arab Street and Haji Lane are lined with fabric shops and fashion-forward boutiques. You’ll also find delightful cafés, where you can sit down to enjoy a true Arab coffee and a Shish’a – a traditional oriental tobacco pipe. Check out the densely-stocked basketry and handicraft shops, hip gelaterias and bistros, jazzclubs and savour the sights and sounds of this exotic and intriguing neighbourhood.
In the early days of the city, this area was set aside primarily for Sultan Hussein and his family and household, and for Malay and Arab peoples who where mainly merchants and traders. These people set up different kampongs, and built shop houses to expand their commercial activities.
Kampong Glam is also known as Singapore’s Muslim Quarter, due to its history, and to the presence of the graceful Sultan Mosque – one of the area’s landmarks, and a regular meeting place for the city’s many Muslim residents.
By day, the area is characteristically quiet. Tourists stroll the streets and avenues, explore fabric and craft shops, and admire the mosque’s classic beauty. When evening comes, though, the neighbourhood blossoms into a vibrant, hip meeting place, especially popular with the younger crowd. You’ll see them relaxing and chatting in street-side terraces, gossiping over drinks and Chi’cha, listening to music and just having a great time.
A few of the neighbourhood’s features you should be sure to see:
The Yellow Mansion, also known as Bendahara House, is a former Malay place, now situated within the Malay Heritage Centre. Erected in 1860, the building once belonged to the grandson of Sultan Hussein. Today, the city’s government maintains it, having transformed it into a fine Malay restaurant and a popular venue for traditional Malay weddings. In honour of its heritage, the building is painted a rich yellow – the traditional royal colour.
Malay Heritage Centre
Located at Kampong Glam’s Sultan Gate, the Malay Heritage Centre once was known as the Sultan Palace and home to the royal Malay family. Covering area of approximately 8,000 square metres, the cultural centre celebrates the history of the Malay culture, as well as organizing traditional events. The Singapore government recently renovated the entire building and the new museum opened on 1st September 2012, featering 6 galleries with over 337 artifacts showcasing the rich Malay culture. Certainly well worth a visit if you happen to be nearby.
Majid Sultan (Sultan Mosque)
Situated on Muscat Street, at the very centre of Kampong Glam, the Sultan Mosque is the most important mosque in Singapore, and a national monument. Its golden domes and wide prayer halls are highlights, and popular photo subjects for visitors. The mosque was built by Swan and Maclaren Architects – one of the oldest architectural firms in Singapore. The firm is famous for its prominent projects during British colonial days, including the Goodwood Park Hotel.


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Cable Car in Haifa
Take the Cable Car to reach Stella Maris.
We liked the ride in funny orange balls of the Haifa cable car. On the hill itself that you reach with the cable car is the Stella Maris monastery - especially on the way back in the "globe" you have a wonderful view of the beach and the Mediterranean Sea.
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The true story of how the FBI cracked the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone – BGR
Apple and the FBI have been engaged in an enormous battle over encryption within the early a part of 2016, following the December 2015 mass capturing in San Bernardino. A husband and spouse shot and killed greater than a dozen folks, after which they died within the ensuing battle with the police. They left behind an iPhone 5C working iOS 9, the most recent working system accessible for iPhone and iPad on the time. The federal government wished to realize entry to the cellphone to see if it might decide any hyperlinks between the 2 shooters and the Islamic State, however they may not break the encryption. The FBI tried to have a courtroom power Apple to create a backdoor in iOS that might permit them to retrieve no matter information sat behind the display’s password. Apple fiercely opposed that order, explaining that it doesn’t have a backdoor into iOS, and creating one can be an enormous safety threat for all iPhone customers.
Within the months that adopted, the FBI admitted to discovering an answer to hack the iPhone 5C’s encryption and backed away from the case. Apple gained the argument over encryption again then, however governments worldwide have been making an attempt to push backdoor laws ever since. The FBI later confirmed it paid $900,000 for the exploit that allowed it to get into the iPhone, however didn’t disclose how the exploit labored. The FBI didn’t discover any useful info on the iPhone 5C belonging to the shooters after unlocking it. Consultants within the discipline believed Israeli agency Cellebrite got here up with the hack, however that was by no means confirmed. It appeared we’d by no means study the reality, however a brand new report may lastly reveal the true story of how the FBI broke the iPhone’s encryption.
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An investigation from The Washington Publish says that white-hat safety analysis firm Azimuth was chargeable for creating a sequence of iOS vulnerabilities that might be used to bypass the lock display of an iPhone.
The report reminds us that iOS 9 deployed a safety characteristic that might block makes an attempt to brute-force a password. That’s a process that entails guessing the four-digit PIN of an iPhone utilizing a program that tries each doable mixture. This might be achieved in about 25 minutes earlier than iOS 9.
The FBI solely had 10 tries with the iPhone 5C they wished to hack earlier than the software program would erase the machine’s contents. That’s the place Azimuth got here into play:
Two Azimuth hackers teamed as much as break into the San Bernardino iPhone, based on the folks aware of the matter, who like others quoted on this article, spoke on the situation of anonymity to debate delicate issues. Founder Mark Dowd, 41, is an Australian coder who runs marathons and who, one colleague mentioned, ‘can just about have a look at a pc and break into it.’ Certainly one of his researchers was David Wang, who first set arms on a keyboard at age 8, dropped out of Yale, and by 27 had gained a prestigious Pwnie Award — an Oscar for hackers — for ‘jailbreaking’ or eradicating the software program restrictions of an iPhone.
Dowd had discovered a bug in open-source code from Mozilla even earlier than the San Bernardino occasions. Apple relied on Mozilla’s software program to permit equipment to be plugged into the iPhone’s Lightning port.
Wang used the Mozilla bug to create an exploit that allowed entry to the cellphone. A special bug was then used for “higher maneuverability.” A closing exploit gave them full management over the cellphone’s processor. A bit of brute power software program was then used to strive all doable password combos, bypassing the safety characteristic that might erase the machine’s storage after 10 failed makes an attempt. The exploit was named Condor.
The researchers examined the device on a dozen iPhone 5C gadgets, together with telephones that have been purchased on eBay. They then confirmed Condor to the FBI, and company consultants examined Condor on different gadgets to make sure it will work. Each take a look at was profitable, and that’s how Condor netted Azimuth a $900,000 payout.
The report notes that FBI officers have been relieved however upset that they may not advance the encryption backdoor battle. Individually, Apple is likely to be sad with safety consultants constructing instruments that might be used to interrupt into its gadgets. However the Publish explains Azimuth’s success helped Apple, as the corporate by no means needed to face a courtroom order to construct a backdoor into that specific iPhone 5C, which might have set a harmful precedent.
Mozilla by no means knew a safety bug in its software program was used to advance the iPhone 5C hack. The corporate patched the issue a couple of month after the FBI unlocked the iPhone 5C, rendering the flaw ineffective. With out that bug, the entire chain of exploits wouldn’t have labored.
Apple by no means knew who was chargeable for the hack both, however got here shut whereas suing a special safety analysis agency that allowed safety researchers to create digital iPhones on desktops. Wang co-founded that agency, Corellium, in 2017. The complete report is value a learn, because it gives extra background particulars on the San Bernardino occasions, in addition to the Apple vs. Corellium authorized battles which might be unrelated to the 2016 iPhone 5C hack.
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KONG Cat Scamper
4.68 / 5 based on 19 Reviews
Kong Active Scamper Cat Toy is a great toy with a little bit of everything to keep your cat going on a daily basis. It has a tethered mouse with catnip. It also has a scratcher so you pet doesn't have to use your furniture as a scratching post. Kong Active Scamper Cat Toy is very intriguing to promote healthy exercise. see more...
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It lasted fairly long and kept my cat interested for a while so I can't complain. It's definitely worth the price.
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My cat absolutely loved this! Reasonably priced for how long it lasts, she barely left it alone! She’s a long haired mongrel and doesn’t usually bother with anything like this, so it says something to see her to into something, will definitely get her more.
Love love love this. My cat needs to have a scratching item in order to leave the furniture alone and this keeps him very busy so he doesn't ruin anything else. Not too pricey for the quality
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Crowsnest Pass ( Tour Southern AB Winter)
The Frank Slide Interpretive Centre describes what life was like before, during, and after the disaster, and shares amazing tales of heroism and survival through modern, hands-on exhibits.
Pass Powderkeg has been operating since 1938 and has been building the ski culture in the Crowsnest Pass. We try to keep it affordable, so people will want to come try, Marty says about the community non-profit hill.
Tucked into the Crowsnest Pass and backing onto backyards in the town of Blairmore, Pass Powderkeg (PPK) quietly goes about its business. The micro-resort has been the same since 1938; untouched, unspoiled and underestimated by so many skiers.


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8x05 Season 8, Episode 5
First Aired: Mar. 10, 2013 on Ten
Summary: Harry loses his cool with three swimmers that he's forced to rescue just seconds after warning them not to swim in a dangerous area. However, calling them "imbeciles" and "idiots" puts him in hot water.
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Moving forward, I’ll be testing more accessories like I do smartphones.
You can find a collection of videos where I test the speakers on phones for example, using the same audio and video clips, so you can see and hear the differences between different phones. Bluetooth speakers are becoming very popular, and now I’ll be building that same audio test into my reviews. Starting with a speaker which really helped to popularize wireless audio, the OG Jawbone Jambox.
Coming soon, reviews on the HMDX Jam and Nokia Play360
Shop for the Jambox on Amazon.
An oldie, but a goodie.
Let’s take a look back at one of the best USB microphones currently on the market. The Yeti Pro is still chugging along as a great solution for those wanting to improve their home recording or podcasting capabilities.
Time to go hands on with this multi-pattern wunder-mic!
If you like to record audio, music, podcasts on the cheap, chances are you’ve heard of Audacity. This program actually stands as one of my favorites, and has a feature set which rivals many paid audio editors. Plus if once you learn how to use it, it doesn’t matter what computer you use it on. Mac, PC, Linux it’s all the same. You can even run it from a USB flash drive.
Well Audacity has received a nice little update. Focusing mostly on stability and bug fixes, there are a couple neat little new features included in 2.0.4. First a new reverb plug in will help you add all the echo you might want. Also, for Windows users, you can now record your computer’s playback by choosing the WASAPI host.
Grab the newest version from SourceForge, and check out the Audacity Wiki for the full list of fixes and improvements.
It’s like listening to the future.
Bone conduction is a fascinating tech which is starting to work its way into the consumer space. The ability to interact with audio without blocking or covering your natural sense of hearing is like having a super power. Plus this tech should encourage safer behavior from people who use headphones while jogging or (cringe) operating a motor vehicle.
Plus they’re even cheaper on Amazon than when I originally shot this video: http://goo.gl/6PgjVU
Now the science of this is just a touch above my pay grade, but this is apparently a proof of concept for the use of ionic conductors to carry electrical charge instead of electrons. These ionic conductors can be soft, stretchy, and completely transparent, things most electronics aren’t good at doing. This breakthrough could open all kinds of doors for “soft” electronics, and as the human body uses ions to transfer information (think signals from nerves to the brain and heart), we could be looking at the beginnings of better bio-engineering. A new generation of artificial organs and limbs could be on the horizon.
As it stands now, we have one really interesting commercial application on display in the attached video. Speaker systems which are completely transparent. Might not be a ton of practical application for such a design, but I’m sure there are folks out there who would prefer their audio set up blended in with the more modern aspects of their home’s interior decor.
I guess we might see a new industry arise featuring “Consumer Ionics” instead of electronics?
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Partners at the Schreiber Dynamix plant in Baramati, India, have installed a water recycling system to help the facility to become more self-sufficient as the availability of water in the region becomes a challenge.
The Ujani dam, located about 25 kilometers (15.5 miles) from the industrial area, is the source of the plant’s raw water supply. Often, the water level in the dam dips below zero, requiring officials to tap into the dam’s storage capacity to meet residential, agricultural and industrial needs in the region.
The plant, which processes quality milk for various brands in India and UHT (ultra-heat treatment) juice products, requires about 3,000 cubic meters (792,516 gallons) of water daily to operate. However, during the summer season, the plant has a water shortfall of about 800 cubic meters (211,338 gallons) every day.
Increasing demand - along with frequent breakdowns in the dam's pipeline and water distribution system due to aging infrastructure - means the Schreiber Dynamix plant often must purchase water through tankers, a costly solution to the water shortfall problem. To mitigate cost and reduce potential safety risks to partners from the movement of tankers within the plant's premises, Schreiber Dynamix recently installed state-of-the art technology to treat and recycle water at the plant.
"Schreiber Dynamix identified opportunities to treat water coming out from existing evaporators, clean in place (CIP) flushing, water treatment plant (WTP) backwash and milk condensate (COW) water to generate purified water," said Jitendra Jadhav, International Project Manager. "Through this water recycling project, we will be generating up to 40 percent of the water we need to operate during peak time for milk processing."
The water treatment system uses a membrane bioreactor - a highly advanced and innovative technology applied in the field of biological treatment - and reverse osmosis to recycle water. Treated water will be used for the plant’s CIP rinsing cycle and cooling tower top-up, among other uses.
“By recycling water at the plant, we're able to substantially reduce our purchase of water through tankers, lowering our wastewater treatment costs and eliminating traffic concerns at our factory premises while also protecting our environment," Jitendra said. "We're excited to be a part of an innovative project that helps offset the water supply shortfall in India."


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Branch Sections and Chiefs
Genetics and Biochemistry Section
Rafael Daniel Camerini-Otero, M.D., Ph.D., Section Chief
The Genetics and Biochemistry Section studies the biochemistry, molecular, and cell biology of meiotic (homologous) recombination in mice and humans. Our focus is on understanding the biology of genetic recombination and to devise new strategies to manipulate complex genomes in vitro and, in the future, in vivo. Specific projects include biophysical and structural studies of proteins, protein domains and DNA-protein complexes involved, gene rearrangements in eukaryotes and, most recently, mouse and human meiosis and evolutionary genomics. Current interests include the study of Spo11, the protein responsible for the hundreds of developmentally programmed breaks in meiosis, what determines where these breaks are made and where crossovers are located, how homologous chromosomes find each other and how meiosis has shaped the sex chromosomes.
Richard L. Proia, Ph.D., Section Chief
The Genetic Disease Research Section studies sphingolipids, lipid molecules that form cell membranes and transmit signals to cells. Inherited defects in their metabolic and signaling pathways cause neurodegenerative diseases, and other disorders affecting diverse physiological systems. Our work is aimed at understanding how these lipids function normally and during diseases, and how we can manipulate their pathways for new therapeutic approaches.
Genome Dynamics Section
Peggy Hsieh, Ph.D., Section Chief
The Genome Dynamics Section focuses on a highly conserved DNA repair pathway, DNA mismatch repair. Mismatch repair targets base pair mismatches that arise through DNA replication errors, homologous recombination, and DNA damage. Inactivation of mismatch repair results in a large increase in the rate of spontaneous mutation and is associated with both sporadic and hereditary cancers. The Hsieh group utilizes biochemical, structural, and cell biological approaches to study mechanistic questions concerning mismatch excision repair and the cellular response to DNA damage.
Protein Biogenesis Section
Harris D. Bernstein, Ph.D., Section Chief
The Protein Biogenesis Section studies protein secretion in both pathogenic and non-pathogenic bacteria. We are continuing to pursue a long-term interest in understanding the mechanism of secretion by the autotransporter (“type V”) pathway, which is widely used by pathogenic Gram-negative bacteria to secrete virulence factors. We have also recently begun to study protein secretion in the Bacteroides, a genus of commensal bacteria that constitute a major component of the human gut microbiome.

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The cabs are back on the rank ready to transport the players to the tee. DJ Snake is poised on the decks, and if your pocket is deep enough, the Birdie Shack at the 15th hole will accommodate those looking to party while the putts drop.
Those are all familiar LIV Golf features. New for this year at Centurion Golf Club is the sense of indignation among exiled European superstars at a turn of events which has made acceptable a trade that was considered dirty and immoral when the series launched as a rebel event a year ago.
Frustration and anger is targeted not at fellow competitors like Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods, who threw brickbats at the LIV defectors, but administrators at the major tours who, following the proposed merger of the PGA Tour and DP World Tour with LIV’s Saudi backers, are seen as hypocritical and duplicitous.
Details about how any new arrangement might look are sketchy, pending the scrutiny of the authorities in the United States concerned about the involvement of a foreign state in big brand American sport.
Three players with significant European tour history warned that any alignment should involve the removal of the architects of the new deal, namely PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan and DP World Tour chief executive Keith Pelley.
Lee Westwood, Ian Poulter and Henrik Stenson, all members of the Majesticks, one of 12 teams that make up the LIV Golf League, the latter removed as Ryder Cup captain for his switch to LIV, believe in the light of events that they were wrongly excluded from the DP World Tour and the leaders who banned them were less than frank about the facts underpinning their own strategic alliance in response to the LIV threat.
“LIV is very different and people find change difficult to come to terms with don’t they?” said Westwood. “The problem with golf before LIV was the season’s too long, there’s too many 72-hole tournaments and the reason it’s got like that is because it’s become such a money-making machine for so many people.
“LIV comes along and it’s a direct threat to their [PGA Tour] business so they had to think of some way of combatting that and it’s the way they went about it, how they came up with their tactics that we’re all kind of shocked about now having seen what’s transpired since.”
Asked if there was a stench of hypocrisy about the major tour volte-face, Poulter said: “There’s definitely a look of it. There’s a lot of people now looking like hypocrites.
“You’ve seen what people have said in the press and now they’re backtracking. He [Monahan] has even admitted himself he’s going to look hypocritical. We don’t even have to say it any more.”
Westwood added: “We knew it at the time about sponsors on the PGA Tour. He sat in front of the RBC [Royal Bank of Canada] sign when they did the deal for Aramco to go public [on the New York stock exchange] and make all that money from Saudi Arabia and the next minute he’s mentioning 9/11 families and stuff like that. It’s really uncomfortable to watch now.
“We asked the difficult questions in AGM’s and players meetings [about DP World Tour finances] last September and got fended off with an answer that we were going through a legal case so it wasn’t possible to answer those questions but now we know why it wasn’t possible to answer those questions because it’s all there in documentation.”
The documentation relates to information revealed through discovery in the anti-trust court case in the United States, now withdrawn, between LIV Golf and the PGA Tour, in which the parlous state of the former European Tour finances post-Covid was established by the PGA Tour’s own audit. This casts doubt over a deal that might have been done with the Saudis rather than an alliance with the PGA Tour.
Some players thought the Saudi option served their interests better, but the European Tour hierarchy claimed a deal was never formally offered. The Saudis subsequently went solo with their LIV offering before negotiating the proposed deal that will effectively see them bank roll both tours.
As a result, deep resentment towards Pelley and Monahan, currently away from his desk for unspecified medical reasons, was revealed by the European Tour stalwarts, who were forced to resign from the DP World Tour and as a result the Ryder Cup, against their wishes.
All three expressed a desire to be involved in the Ryder Cup, which in the case of Poulter defined his career, in some capacity. But for that to happen they want accountability.
“It would definitely help. I’m not going to say what those changes have to be, but I think we would add value to a tournament if we were to play. Shall we say there needs to be changes,” Poulter said.


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About a month before little Rilyn was born, I spent the weekend with Anne with the goal of helping her finish up the nursery. Once we had everything in it’s place, she looked at the white walls and said, “Mom, we can’t spend a dime making this room look warm and welcoming. And we can’t paint either. What can we do?” Ah…let the creativity begin!
The first thing I thought of was something large and fabric…a blanket! I asked her if she had a blanket or quilt that could be hung on the wall. After some brainstorming we both remembered that she had her own baby quilt that her Aunt Jackie had cross-stitched 25 years ago when she was born. We dug out the blanket and laid it out on the floor. Perfect!
Then Anne thought of some collage picture frames that she had, but wasn’t using. She pulled out the frames and arranged them on the floor with the blanket. It was coming together, but still needed something else. I pulled out a hand knit sweater and bootie set that had also been a baby gift when Anne was born.
Anne filled in a few pictures she had of her pregnant belly and the rest of the 3×5 openings she filled with scrapbooking paper. We hung it all on the wall and were amazed at how it warmed up the room.
On one other wall, we used four different pieces of scrapbooking paper and arranged them in a simple line with an alternating pattern. That was it! Not a dime was spent and Rilyn has a beautiful room!
(If you’d like more ideas, I have an article over on the Guidepost blog today called “Decorating on a Shoe String Budget.” You can find it here.)
What about you? What creative ideas do you have for decorating with less?
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