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General Motors-United Auto Workers Landmark Contracts
General Motors-United Auto Workers Landmark Contracts
United States 1948, 1950
The collective bargaining agreements between General Motors (GM) and the United Automobile Workers union (UAW) in 1948 and 1950 established the framework that characterized U.S. labor relations through the 1980s. Although the UAW had previously tried to gain a voice in production and investment decisions in its negotiations with GM, the 1948 and 1950 agreements limited its collective bargaining demands to wage and benefits issues in contract talks. The resulting arrangement, labeled the "Treaty of Detroit" by Fortune magazine in 1950, linked wage hikes to the rate of inflation through cost-of-living adjustments and increases in productivity and established a pension plan and health insurance plan for workers. Although this collective bargaining achievement created a stable atmosphere of industrial relations from the early 1950s onward, it fell apart in the corporate restructuring and antiunion efforts of the federal government in the 1980s.
- 1928: At the first Academy Awards ceremony, best picture is the silent Wings.
- 1933: Newly inaugurated U.S. president Franklin D. Roose velt launches the first phase of his New Deal to put de pression-era America back to work.
- 1938: The U.S. Fair Labor Standards Act establishes a minimum wage.
- 1943: At the Casablanca Conference in January, Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt agree on the demand of unconditional surrender for the Axis powers.
- 1948: Israel becomes a nation and is immediately attacked by a coalition of Arab countries. Despite being outnumbered, Israel will win the war in the following year.
- 1948: Stalin places a blockade on areas of Berlin controlled by the United States, Great Britain, and France. The Allies respond with an airlift of supplies, which, like the blockade itself, lasts into late 1949.
- 1949: North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is established.
- 1949: People's Republic of China under the leadership of Mao Zedong is established.
- 1950: North Korean troops pour into South Korea, starting the Korean War. Initially the communists make impressive gains, but in September the U.S. Marines land at Inchon and liberate Seoul. China responds by sending in its troops.
- 1950: Senator Joseph McCarthy launches his campaign to root out communist infiltrators.
- 1955: African and Asian nations meet at the Bandung Conference in Indonesia, inaugurating the "non-aligned" movement of Third World countries.
- 1960: An American U-2 spy plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers is shot down over Soviet skies brings an end to a short period of warming relations between the two superpowers. By the end of the year, Khrushchev makes a scene at the United Nations, banging his shoe on a desk. As for Powers, he will be freed in a 1962 prisoner exchange.
Event and Its Context
The International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America—commonly known as the United Auto Workers (UAW)—was the leading industrial union in North America from the time of its founding in 1935. The fastest-growing union in the 1930s and 1940s, the UAW had about a quarter million active members in 1940, about a third of whom worked for General Motors, the Ford Motor Company, or the Chrysler Corporation. The UAW reached an early peak of 1.5 million members during World War II.
The UAW's initial success depended on its ability to use the collective bargaining framework established by such New Deal measures as the Wagner Act, Fair Labor Standards Act, and the National Labor Relations Board (NRLB). While labor union membership expanded greatly during World War II, however, the UAW's leadership juggled the competing demands of a restive rank-and-file and its no-strike pledge that it had offered the federal government during the war. Power struggles within the union between its political left and right wings also characterized the UAW's wartime experience. Although both wings generally followed a liberal social agenda and advocated greater government oversight of the economy, the right wing had taken an anticommunist stance that angered the left wing. The right-wing caucus under Walter P. Reuther finally gained control of the UAW when he was elected to office in 1946. Reuther soon purged the UAW of any official who refused to disavow his or her communist ties—a step mandated by the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947—and he remained international president of the UAW until his death in a plane accident in 1970.
Reuther faced a number of challenges when he assumed the leadership of the UAW. Although its membership had declined from its wartime high as the nation's industries reconverted to the production of consumer goods, the UAW included approximately 900,000 members in the immediate postwar era. With the mountain of shop-floor grievances and fears of unemployment, concerns over inflation added to the tense atmosphere between the UAW and its collective bargaining counterparts.
Labor Relations in the Auto Industry
The UAW's most important round of postwar negotiations came with the largest of the Big Three auto makers, General Motors (GM), headed by President Charles E. Wilson and Chairman of the Board Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. President of General Motors from 1923 to 1937 and chairman of the board from 1937 to 1946, Sloan had been responsible for rationalizing the administration and production schedule of the company in the 1920s. GM had been chaotically managed under its founder, William C. Durant, who incorporated the company in 1908. After Durant's final ouster in 1920, Sloan implemented unyielding financial and administrative controls that led the company to produce a then-record corporate profit of $235 million in 1927. Like that of its competitors, GM's sales plummeted during the initial years of the Great Depression. Yet it managed to increase its overall market share to become the nation's largest auto maker after 1930, a position it still held at the start of the twenty-first century.
One legacy of Durant that survived his ouster was his vision of GM fostering an age of mass consumerism through installment buying and credit programs for car buyers. With a range of cars from the economic Chevrolet to the luxurious Cadillac and annual style changes to keep consumers eager for new cars, GM's approach set the standard for mass marketing of consumer items. Having survived a fall in sales between 1929 and 1933, the company took a tough stance in the face of a labor force that was being courted by the fledgling UAW. The union finally organized GM, but only after a bitter series of sit-down strikes during 1936 and 1937. Although World War II brought a truce in labor relations, many expected a new wave of strikes to rock the automobile industry as they had after World War I. The largest and most profitable of the Big Three auto makers, GM wanted to move aggressively to reconvert its factories from military to consumer production in 1945. One major obstacle to GMs postwar expansion plans, then, was the uncertainty of its labor contracts with the UAW.
Mass Production, Mass Consumption
Just as GM had reshaped American society along mass consumption lines, so too did the UAW have ambitious plans for remaking the country after the war. Chief among the union's desires was to achieve greater economic security for its members through collective bargaining. Although the most obvious goal under this agenda was to gain higher wages for workers, a slew of other proposals joined its collective bargaining priorities in the 1940s. As indicated by a May 1947 survey (later included in Ely Chinoy's landmark 1955 book, Auto Workers and the American Dream) that was published by Fortune, despite the postwar economic expansion in America, one-fourth of workers were worried about keeping their jobs, and an overwhelming two-thirds believed it unlikely that they would ever earn enough money to be able to retire at the age of 65. Workers were also worried about inflation eroding their earning power, especially after President Harry Truman allowed the Office of Price Administration to be dismantled in 1946 after heavy corporate lobbying. In contrast to the state activism of the New Deal years, the administration now appeared to be stepping aside from active management of the economy, despite public support for such measures. The union's leaders believed that by setting an economic benchmark through its contracts, they had found the best way to gain higher wages and improved benefits for their members and, by extension, for other workers who would benefit from the improved standards that union contracts introduced to the economy at large.
In the first collective bargaining negotiations after World War II, Reuther suffered a serious setback to his reputation during a failed strike effort against GM that lasted from November 1945 to March 1946. Aware of the public's support of price controls to stem inflationary pressures, Reuther coupled the UAW's demand for a 30 percent wage increase during contract talks with a pledge by GM not to increase the final cost of its automobiles. Objecting to what they viewed as an unnecessary and counterproductive intrusion by the union into managerial prerogatives, GM's officials rejected Reuther's program outright. The ensuring 113-day strike made Reuther a nationally known labor leader, but it did little to achieve the UAW's goals. In the end the union settled for a wage increase and some minor changes in the final contract.
Hoping to avoid the prolonged wrangling of the 1946 talks, GM introduced a new factor into the March 1948 collective bargaining negotiations. Eager to stabilize its work force to ensure a steady and profitable stream of vehicles leaving its factories, GM President Charles E. Wilson offered to link future wage adjustments to the national Consumer Price Index, determined by the federal government's Bureau of Labor Statistics. The idea came to be popularly known as a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA). Wilson also put forth the idea of linking general boosts in wage rates to increases in worker productivity, a concept he labeled an "annual improvement factor." The UAW countered with demands for a pension program and a guaranteed 40-hour workweek in addition to wage hikes. After two months of negotiations, the resulting two-year contract generally followed what GM had initially offered, with the annual improvement factor pegged at 2 percent annually and a COLA to be adjusted quarterly. Although the union's leaders were disappointed over their failure to expand the contract beyond wage and benefits issues, the COLA agreement was the first that an industrial union ever achieved in a collective bargaining agreement.
The Treaty of Detroit
The 1948 contract proved to be a model for the 1950 collective bargaining sessions. The May 1950 agreement between the UAW and GM, publicized as the "Treaty of Detroit" by Fortune magazine, essentially drew the lines of collective bargaining for the next generation. In exchange for improved wages and benefits—including cost-of-living adjustments, pensions beginning at $125 per month, and health care provisions paid in half by GM—the company retained all managerial prerogatives, including production and investment decisions. Over five years, the contract guaranteed a 20 percent rise in wages for GM members covered by UAW contracts. The arrangement allowed the company to enjoy a measure of stability in its work force; with a five-year contract in place, GM could implement long-range plans without the fear of labor disruptions. In exchange, auto workers expanded their wage and benefits packages in succeeding years. Reuther's goal of taking the UAW into managerial affairs would not be realized during his lifetime, but the agreement did signify that GM had accepted unionization as a permanent condition of its labor force.
Additional wage and benefit gains—not only at GM but among all auto companies and other heavy industrial manufacturers—followed in succeeding years. The collective bargaining agreement with Ford in 1955 introduced supplemental unemployment benefits (SUB). When combined with government unemployment compensation, the SUB provision allowed laid-off workers to collect up to 65 percent of their regular take-home pay. Contract talks with Chrysler in 1964 produced the first early retirement provisions, another advance in the wages and benefits enjoyed by UAW members. From 1950 onward, then, collective bargaining achieved the security and stability that would have seemed impossible during the tumult of the 1930s. Together with gradual increases in regular wages and COLA, SUB, health insurance, and pension contributions from employers, the standard of living for UAW members approximately doubled during Reuther's tenure in office through 1970. Following the pattern established by UAW contracts, other labor unions also successfully bargained for COLA provisions, pensions, and health care plans; by the time of Reuther's death, more than half of all collective bargaining agreements in the United States contained a COLA agreement and more than one-third provided for pensions.
The UAW and Labor Liberalism
Throughout his career, Reuther maintained that the Treaty of Detroit and its succeeding agreements demonstrated the pragmatism necessary for the survival of the labor movement. If the union had not delivered higher wages and improved benefits to its membership, it would have been far less able to engage in any of the other broad-based public policy projects that Reuther and other labor leaders championed. The list of contributions that Reuther and the UAW made to American liberalism from the 1940s onward is indeed impressive. In addition to being a major funding source for various civil rights groups, the UAW was also a major supporter of the historic 1963 March on Washington, a pivotal moment in the modern civil rights movement. The UAW's leadership also had a major voice in President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty and Great Society programs of the late 1960s, helped to enact student loan programs and Medicaid and Medicare, and consistently lobbied to raise the minimum wage. To Reuther's supporters, these accomplishments proved that the UAW retained its commitment to a broad-based social and economic agenda that went far beyond the collective bargaining table.
Critics of Reuther's career have claimed that the UAW's collective bargaining agreements in 1948 and 1950 set the stage for generations of union complacency. Although the UAW expanded contract talks to include COLAs, pensions, health insurance, SUB, early retirement provisions, and other benefits for its members, it failed to restructure the American economy in any fundamental way. Reuther's attempt to secure wage hikes while forcing GM to hold the line on its auto prices in 1946 marked the last time the UAW demanded a significant say in the management of its bargaining partners. From that failed attempt onward, the UAW would confine itself to negotiating over wages and benefits in contract talks. Because it did not restructure the political or economic landscapes of America through the Treaty of Detroit, the union remained vulnerable to the changes that eventually voided the agreement and brought back another period of uncertainty for its members during the 1970s and 1980s.
Indeed, all of these gains were possible because the American automobile industry, like most other sectors of the economy, shared in almost uninterrupted growth from the postwar era through the oil crisis of 1973 and 1974. Faced with little foreign competition, increasingly affluent consumers, and a stable labor force, American auto makers enjoyed a golden age of expansion and profitability. Concentrating on annual style revisions for larger, more profitable models instead of technological innovation or the introduction of smaller, more fuel-efficient cars, the industry was caught off guard by the abrupt change in consumer demands in the 1970s.
Dismantling the Treaty of Detroit
The economic restructuring of America's industrial landscape after the oil price shocks of 1973-1974 and the deep recession and "stagflation" after 1978 significantly curtailed the pattern established by the Treaty of Detroit. A sharp reduction in employment by the Big Three followed the declining sales of domestic autos in the late 1970s. UAW membership dropped from 1.5 million in 1979 to 1 million in 1983 and then to about 750,000 in 1992. Although competition from German and Japanese auto makers was often cited as the primary reason for the drop in the sales of American-made automobiles, the Big Three had contributed to their own dilemma by ignoring consumer demands for quality and fuel efficiency in their products. Under pressure to cut their operating costs, automobile manufacturers entered into contract discussions with the UAW in the 1980s determined to curtail the collective bargaining arrangement that had guided the industry for two generations.
Concession bargaining took various forms in the late 1970s and 1980s. One example drew the union into a closer working relationship with management in 1979 when the UAW's participation in the government bailout of the Chrysler Corporation helped to bring the auto maker back from bankruptcy. Given the economic changes that transformed the American economy in the 1980s, however, the UAW joined many other unions in concession bargaining in the hopes of saving the jobs of its members. Typically, the UAW was forced to limit or concede its demands for increases in SUB, COLA, and wage increases.
The union also confronted a hostile environment under the administration of President Ronald Reagan from 1980 to 1988. Eager to implement his vision of a free-market economy unencumbered by labor unions, Reagan set about dismantling the labor relations framework that had been in place since the New Deal. The president used his power to end a strike by the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization by breaking up the union in 1981, a clear indication of his administration's approach to labor relations. Reagan also appointed a slate of officials with antiunion perspectives to government posts, including the NLRB. With the federal government subsequently issuing a series of antilabor decisions through the NLRB, labor leaders also spoke of a breakdown of the labor relations bureaucracy that had been in place since the 1950s. Although the Treaty of Detroit survived in terms of the benefits maintained by auto workers, it was no longer the model for industrial labor relations in the United States.
Key Players
Chinoy, Ely (1921-1975): A professor in sociology at Smith College, Chinoy authored Automobile Workers and the American Dream in 1955. The book detailed the rising consumer aspirations of the increasingly affluent working class in America and is considered one of the most important sociological studies of its era.
Reagan, Ronald W. (1911-): President of the United States from 1980 to 1988, Reagan lived up to his reputation as a free-market advocate who wanted to curtail federal regulation of the economy. In addition to firing the members of the federal air traffic controllers over their refusal to end a strike in 1981, Reagan staffed the National Labor Relations Board with officials who shared his free-market antiunion beliefs. Union membership declined during Reagan's two terms in office, and the pattern of labor relations established under the Treaty of Detroit was curtailed.
Reuther, Walter Philip (1907-1970): Reuther was president of the UAW from 1946 until his death in 1970. In addition to making the UAW into one of the largest and most powerful labor unions in the United States, Reuther helped to define a cooperative model of labor relations between his union and its collective bargaining partners beginning with the Treaty of Detroit in 1950. Reuther was also a major figure in the modern civil rights movement and other liberal social causes.
Sloan, Alfred Pritchard, Jr. (1875-1966): President of General Motors from 1923 to 1937 and chairman of the board from 1937 to 1946, Sloan was responsible for rationalizing the administration and production schedule of the company.
Wilson, Charles Erwin (1890-1961): President of General Motors from 1941 to 1952, Wilson was trained as an engineer and after a legendary career in the automobile industry served as secretary of defense from 1953 to 1957.
See also: Fair Labor Standards Act; Ford-UAW Contract; Ford-UAW SUB Agreement; GM Recognizes UAW; PATCO Strike; Wagner Act.
Boyle, Kevin. The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1995.
Carew, Anthony. Walter Reuther. Manchester, England:Manchester University Press, 1993.
Chinoy, Ely. Automobile Workers and the American Dream.1955. Reprint, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992.
Freeland, Robert. The Struggle for Control of the Modern Corporation: Organizational Change at General Motors, 1924-1970. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Goode, Bill. Infighting in the UAW: The 1946 Election and the Ascendancy of Walter Reuther. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994.
Harris, Howell J. The Right to Manage: Industrial Relations Policies of American Business in the 1940s. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1982.
Keller, Maryann. Rude Awakening: The Rise, Fall, and Struggle for Recovery of General Motors. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1989.
Lichtenstein, Nelson. The Most Dangerous Man in America: Walter Reuther and the Fate of American Labor. New York: Basic Books, 1995.
Sloan, Alfred P. My Years with General Motors. Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1963.
Zieger, Robert. The CIO, 1935-1955. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995.
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In this lecture, we will provide a summary of recent studies from investigators in the Safar Center for Resuscitation Research at the UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. Translational investigations at the Safar Center are focused on pediatric neurocritical care and resuscitation research targeting new therapy and biomarker development for both cardiac arrest and traumatic brain injury.
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In this lecture a summary of recent studies from investigators in the Safar Center for Resuscitation Research at the UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh will be provided. Translational investigations at the Safar Center are focused on pediatric neurocritical care and resuscitation research targeting new therapy and biomarker development for both cardiac arrest and traumatic brain injury. Research spanning bench and bedside will be presented across the continuum of care from the field through the ICU and rehabilitation. Key topics of investigation include novel approaches targeting cerebral edema, oxidative stress, and mitochondrial failure, strategies to develop phenotype-based therapies for both traumatic brain injury and cardiac arrest, the development of serum biomarkers for diagnostic, prognostic, and theranostic applications in neurocritical care, and novel investigations that are being developed to enhance the neuroprotective potential of therapeutic hypothermia through an enhanced understanding of its molecular underpinnings.
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Clearly, the digital landscape is still a dangerous place for organizations in both the public and private sectors, especially those with sensitive information to protect. While the pressing nature of cybersecurity means businesses have more tools at their disposal than ever to defend their IT infrastructure, too few organizations do enough to protect one of the most critical aspects of modern cybersecurity—passwords.
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2019 Logan County
Farm Outlook Magazine
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[November 06, 2019]
change is in the news and in the minds of people these days
as the barrage of Climate News and scientific climate models
has come at an increased pace, and has in recent months
induced climate panic and even desperation in some people.
The current
climate change model predicts an increase of extreme weather across
the globe, rising sea levels, dwindling food sources, erratic earth
heating and cooling, the disappearance of animal species, and in a
short time even the eradication of human civilization itself.
Most scientists across the world say that they believe the extreme
climate predictions and their models and the data support the
approaching climate apocalypse.
Other climate scientists and skeptics say that the conclusions are
all wrong and the data is distorted to support these beliefs and
that these extreme views are unwarranted. These pleas for calm
sensibility are being largely ignored, and the majority of people
now believe that a climate disaster is imminent.
Since farming is completely
dependent on weather, and recent weather prevented timely planting
and in many areas totally prevented planting, a look at the climate
of Logan County is warranted to attempt to predict if this is a
trend, and determine if other weather changes will continue to
interrupt Logan County agriculture. For this purpose, an informed
source right here in the county was contacted at the Lincoln's
National Weather Service Station, Senior Meteorologist Ed Shimon.
While most apocalyptic climate
scenarios are presented as future anecdotal disaster stories, Shimon
said that climate studies are actually the careful collection of
weather variables and data that has already gone past. Climate is
about the past. Weather is about right now. And forecasting is about
the future.
In climate studies, things like daily normal temperature, normal
rainfall, normal wind speeds and directions are gathered. Included
is information about the biggest weather causer, the sun. Charting
the energy being put out by the sun and conditions of solar storms
forms the backdrop for future weather expectations.
Shimon said that the sun has been taking a holiday for about the
last eleven years, with a minimum of solar storms. Solar storms put
out more radiation and that results in warming trends here on the
earth. Other sources say that since we have had little solar storm
activity, the weather data says that the total warming of the planet
over the last eight years is only .04 degrees, likely the result of
growing urban paved areas instead of other causes.
All this weather data has been
collected for only about the last 200 years, a short time in the
long history of our planet. It is charted in 30 year segments.
Extreme weather data is also gathered and charted, and the purpose
of all of this is to have comparison data of what has happened in
the past. And on this data meteorologists can form the framework for
future weather forecasts and predictions. Shimon said that the
expectation of future weather is predicted by the weather trends we
have had in the past.
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A look over the climate data
from the last thirty years shows that we have had much the same
weather as we have currently.
The average rainfall over that period has been 33.5 inches per year.
There have been some years when we have had less and some years,
like this one, when we have had significantly more.
The cycle of dry late summer months has been with us for the last
thirty years, with some years approaching or experiencing drought
Average temperature during the growing season has also been similar
month for month.
Wind speeds and directions have also been similar.
Along with the normal data is also extreme weather data, like the
winter storm of 1978 in which we got unseasonal (and unbelievable)
snowfall and cold, and the cold this last January when the
temperature in Congerville, IL reached a near record -36 degrees.
Meteorologist Ed Shimon said that periodic extreme weather episodes
are expected.
When asked if the extreme apocalyptic future climate predictions had
any validity, Shimon remarked that "the earth is pretty resilient
and can take a lot of abuse." What we have had in weather is likely
to be what we will have in weather, with some seasonal variances.
And when asked, Shimon said the data didn't predict any real
climatic change, seasonal shifts, or apocalyptic climate emergencies
currently, or on the horizon for Logan County.
What we have had in the past is likely to be what we will have in
the future.
And that's real climate science!
Read all the articles in our
Fall Farm Outlook Magazine
Introduction - The year
that almost wasn't
Pictorial - The year that
almost wasn't
Climate expectations for
Logan County
Growing Hemp:
Profitable but challenging
The impact of Trump Bucks,
Donny Dollars
Putting obstacles in the
way of pests
Is horticulture a viable
option for small farms in Logan County
Local farmer gets a piece
of the pie - pumpkin pie
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A gale of resistance was sweeping Northern Kurdistan. In Sur, Cizir, Gever, Hezex, and Nisêbîn… A shocked Turkish state would be brought to its knees. Street by street, house by house the youth of Northern Kurdistan would protect their honour against the invading enemy. Ingraining their names into history, an exhausted people would be revived with the idea of autonomy, of a life worth living. Thus, the resistance would begin.
Written by Martyr Zeryan Deniz Amed, a commander of the resistance, the translated Şırnex diaries will become a window to the reality of the heroes on the ground.
"Bury the martyrs in your heart, not in the ground," the Peoples' Leader Abdullah Öcalan.
We have moved into March. No more spring season. The weather has warmed up, it is precisely the guerrilla period. Even amongst the peoples, it is creating trust in everyone. Now there are the mountains behind us. The resistance in the city is not alone. Even the enemy is moving in fear of it. We still cannot break the passive stance of Şırnak. We are aware. But we fail to take concrete steps.
The enemy's preparations have increased. They have food and medicine stocks and aim to use many places as outposts. They're positioning snipers in particular. It seems that if it starts in Şırnak, it will be violent. We're ready for that. Now we are in Cumhuriyet. New friends came, we discussed and organized.
Havin ran away, this forced our hand. Injured friends finally left the city. But the condition of Delil was not good. The bruises on his feet multiplied, and he was coughing blood. I don't know if he will make it to his destination because his condition is not good.
In Bahceli, the enemy wounded three people by assassination and all three are civilians.
In the last process, we could not take strong actions. Both the wounded and the holding on to Ismet made us struggle. We have overcome this situation, the time has already passed. All agendas should be left behind and the main agenda will be actions. Or history won't forgive us.
I'm going to be more active about it.
With love…
For the past few days, bullet sounds are more intense. Psychological war is in full swing. There are people immigrating and young people dropping arms. As the war gets closer, things become clearer. In the words of the leadership, "those who do not understand the spirit of the process are thrown into the wastebasket of history."
The enemy's military pile-up has begun. Information received about planned attacks sounds concrete. This time they are genuine. An intense war is waiting for us, for me. If the war starts, organizational problems are overcome and the agenda becomes the war. We don't determine this, but attacks do.
While war clarifies the individual, it can be a cover for some. That's what's going on.
We re-evaluated the situation, reproduced with partial edits. We deployed. We're reviewing all the preparations. I will meet the first attacks in the Dicle neighbourhood.
We had discussions with Kamuran. We criticized, he greeted it maturely. We are now able to conduct more common work. In this process, even the support of a comrade in the city can give great power to a person. Conversely, it leads to demoralization. There is always a need for correct words and behaviour.
A small randomness can be devastating. One must always share morale with those around. Because the drug of the revolution processes is morale. The rest is betrayal. I will always live with joy, enthusiasm and laughs.
The military curfew started. Today, announcements were made in a row. The whole city was left to us. Not a single civilian. Everyone is gone. The Şırnak society was defeated in spirit, dead in spirit. We will destroy this with resistance. I do not take the departure of the people to heart, what disgusts me is those who give so much importance to material goods that they have taken everything with them. Some even took their doors away. For how many days has the enemy been trying to kidnap their children?
This Kurdish reality, which only thinks of its own child, is already in the grave.
I'm very comfortable. I got a little bad when I parted with the friends. But in a powerful state, we will all fulfil our companionship duties, and all of us will fulfil the responsibility of history.
In such difficult times, the revolutionaries become known. In strong times, everyone is strong. Militancy is evident in difficult times. There were a few accidents a few days ago. Bahoz was injured at first. His condition was heavy, we sent him away. The other day the young Bahtiyar was so. He is still under treatment. In these conditions, the wounded will be the main force.
The commandership has changed. Şiyar came. Azime's note came at last. I couldn't write a reply, it bothers me.
Now I've moved to the Dicle. A lot of young people have run away. This is the war of the guerrilla. We have a few young people with us, but the guerilla's courage is still different. Now the war begins.
Martyr Zeryan Deniz Amed
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"If you bear yourselves valiantly you will obtain victory, honour and riches. If not, you will be ruthlessly butchered, or else led ignominiously captive into the hands of pitiless enemies."
-William the Conqueror, before the battle of Hastings, 1066
Bear Yourselves Valiantly is the fourth rule set to feature the Look, Sarge, No Charts!TM rule system. BYV features dynamic mechanics that allow the players to fight the battle, not the rules. In these rules "realism" is gained through simple mechanics that stress the players' decision making. BYV provides period feel without pages of onerous charts or cumbersome rules.
... And best of all, there are NO CHART CARDS to detract from the fun, clutter the aesthetics of your table, or slow down the game.
Whether you are new to the Look, Sarge, No Charts!TM rule system or a fan, whether you are an aficionado of the period or a newcomer, when you play BYV, you will be challenged and excited.
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Features the Look, Sarge, No Charts Double Random TM activation mechanism to impose friction and drama in a seamless way.
Clever use of special six-sided dice to resolve rolls to close, rolls to stand, and melee in a way that facilitates play while adding the right touch of unpredictability.
Players command battle groups composed of multiple war bands. Typically a player will control 10 to 20 stands.
Good for head-to-head as well as multi-player gaming.
Equally suitable for historical, scenario-based games and fantasy games.
Includes a point system to make it easier to generate armies. This is not designed for tournament play, per se, but the point system does help game masters with scenario design.
Supported by the Look, Sarge, No Charts Yahoo group.
Designed with 10mm figures in mind for that massed battle aesthetic, but easily used for other scales of figures as well.
Exciting cover art by Emmanuel Vallerio.
Visit the Magister Militum Web page to see their new, exciting line of fantasy figures to accompany these rules!
Comment from one of the authors (Buck): We hope you enjoy the rules as much as we enjoyed developing them. I have always wanted to enjoy ancient gaming, but I never have. First, I don't enjoy the the tournament mindset of evenly-pointed armies facing each other across a pool table. Second, the conventional wisdom is that ancient armies had little ability to maneuver once they were deployed. If that is true, then the game is really Yahtzi, and I'm known in many states for my poor die rolling. Some ancient rules allow modern-like maneuver. Others restrict you to moving straight ahead after the initial deployment. We have tried to strike a balance between these two camps. Enjoy!
Here are some pictures from our first few play tests of these rules, which we held on 25 August 2012.
In the first play tests, we hadn't decided on the values for all the stats or finalized the labels. That's why you don't see labels on the bases, yet. In these pictures, giants and humans are advancing toward dwarves.
This is a long shot of the entire battle. We were pretty happy with the overall look of the game. We developed a point system. This was not meant for tournament play as much as to help GM's get a rough, first-order approximation when designing scenarios.
Here you can see a big fight between a "brigade" of eagles and a "brigade" of skeleton lancers and chariots.
The high elf cavalry advances toward the bridge to fall on the rear of the forces of evil. This is a view from behind the evil lines. Note the Eureka Miniatures tree trolls at the right of the picture. These are really nice models.
Some Pictures of Early Play Tests of the Rules
Chris Palmer ran this "debut" of Bear Yourselves Valiantly: Look, Sarge, No Charts: Fantasy, Ancients, and Mediaeval at Cold Wars 2013 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The scenario involved the forces of evil (skeletons, goblins, wargs, trolls, and other baddies) attempting to invade the elvish kingdom. Figures were a mix of repurposed Games Workshop Warmaster figures, Pendraken, and others. The players really enjoyed the rules and the game!
Also at Cold Wars 2013, James "Tank" Nickle ran a historical game using Bear Yourselves Valiantly. The game featured Romans vs. Carthaginians. All figures were Old Glory 10mm figures. The game was a narrow Carthaginian victory. Many of the players wanted to know when the rules would be available. Unfortunately, the rules won't be available for at least a year.
Also at Historicon 2013, James "Tank" Nickle ran two historical game using Bear Yourselves Valiantly. The game featured Romans vs. Carthaginians. All figures were Old Glory 10mm figures. Tank even came up with a great way to handle rampage elephants.
You can download a PDF of Bear Yourselves Valiantly from WargameVault: http://www.wargamevault.com/product/180569/Bear-Yourselves-Valiantly-Look-Sarge-No-Charts-Fantasy-Ancient-and-Mediaeval


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At the adults-only Emeraude Beach Attitude, beachfront lounging, Mauritian eats and top-drawer spa treatments are all in a day's work.
Slip through the belt of trees, cross a small local road, and you'll find the 10-kilometre stretch of talc-white sand that is Belle Mare beach. The hotel's backed by farmland growing local produce, so you can be sure the veg from the restaurant is as fresh as it comes.
This place has a beach hut feel to it – thatched-roofed bungalows are dotted through gardens flecked with frangipani and hibiscus flowers. Inside, rooms are decked out in a colour wheel of blues, with artwork by local artist Evan Sohun hung on the walls.
While you're away, you can speak to us anytime - we're available 24/7 via the TUI App, phone, SMS and email. The easy-to-use TUI App is also packed with info and tips. It sends you important updates, like your airport transfer times, too.
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Buffet breakfast, lunch and dinner. A la carte dining at lunch and dinner at Kot Nou. And snacks and dinner from the Taba-J eatery, If you're going on an excursion the hotel will make you up a picnic basket to keep you going, please notify staff during your stay and this can be arranged for you. Selected local-brand alcohol, soft drinks, tea and coffee. Snacks at set times.
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Kot Nou is open four days a week and offers both local and international cuisine.
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Les Alizés serves a range of local and international cuisine, buffet style. At lunch and dinner you can choose between the buffet or à la carte style dining.
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EU support for Health Research: from FP6 to FP7 Beatrice Lucaroni Unit F4 DG Research - European Commission Ferrara – 25 Ottobre 2006 EU Health Research Perspectives for the 7th Framework Programme The details of the FP7 priorities and modalities are still in negotiation and subject to change. In particular the EC's proposal for the Joint Technology Initiative for Innovative Medicines will be subjected to the approval of the European Council. Role of EC in research European Commission programmes bring down barriers • between countries: – multinational consortia in Europe (EU-25 + associated countries) – researchers from almost any country in the world can participate; and promotes coordination of national funding programmes (ERA) • between different types of organizations: universities, research centres, SMEs, large companies, etc. • between disciplines: focus on translational research and encourages mobility: Marie Curie fellowships for researchers and for host institutes, including ingoing & outgoing grants. EC Research Framework Programme 6 (2003-2006) • €2.4 billion in research grants for 604 projects in 4 years • Average success rate for projects: 25.4% • Total number of participants: 7,426 Project type number av. EU contribution Integrated Projects 119 € 10.0m 21 40 € 9.3m 30 322 € 2.2m 8 Coordination Actions 25 € 1.1m 19 Specific Support Actions 98 € 0.4m 6 Networks of Excellence STREPs partners Special call for SME projects in Health research (2006) • 355 proposals received: 86 projects funded • € 200 million granted: 43% going to SMEs • Average budget requested per SME: € 342,000 • ~270 SMEs involved (41% of participants) • 40/86 projects (46%) coordinated by SMEs Observations: • SMEs taking leading role in projects • projects aligned with SME's strategy • SME gaining experience in EC funding schemes FP7: main elements Budget to be increased: €50.5 billion over 7 years + 40% European Research Council ( Ideas ) Collaborative research ( Cooperation ) continuity in themes & instruments. funding levels to be raised in some cases, eg SMEs: 50% 75% Joint Technology Initiatives Infrastructures, SMEs, regions & potential ( Research Capacities ) Human potential and science careers ( People ) Reminder: The European Commission currently manages about 5% of total public spending in R&D in the European Union. The EU currently invests about 1.9% of GDP in research FP7 budget (EUR billion, 2004 constant prices) Euratom 4,193 JRC 1,617 Cooperation 39,134 Capacities 6,594 People 6,279 Ideas 10,447 Cooperation: Collaborative research in FP7 Thematic Priorities 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. + Health Food, agriculture and biotechnology Information and communication technologies Nanosciences, nanotechnologies, materials and new production technologies Energy Environment (including climate change) Transport (including aeronautics) Socio-economic sciences and the humanities Security and space Euratom: fusion energy research, nuclear fission and radiation protection Collaborative research for Health in FP7 Main policy drivers: Improving health of European citizens Increasing competitiveness of European health-related industries and businesses Addressing global health issues, including emerging epidemics Collaborative research for Health in FP7 Budget: €6 billion over 7 years (2007-2013) Activities in 3 main areas • Biotechnology, generic tools and technologies for human health • Translating research for human health • Optimising the delivery of healthcare Collaborative research for Health in FP7 1: Biotechnology, generic tools and technologies High-throughput research enhancing data generation, standardisation, acquisition & analysis Detection, diagnosis and monitoring with emphasis on non-invasive or minimally invasive approaches Innovative therapeutic approaches and interventions gene and cell therapy, regenerative medicine, transplantation, immunotherapy and vaccines, implants & prosthetics Predicting suitability, safety and efficacy of therapies develop and validate parameters, tools, methods and standards (mainly through IMI) and alternatives to animal testing Collaborative research for Health in FP7 2: Translating research for human health Integrating biological data and processes: large-scale data gathering, systems biology Research on the brain and related diseases, human development and ageing Translational research in major infectious diseases: to confront major threats to public health antimicrobial drug resistance, HIV/AIDS, malaria and TB, emerging epidemics, neglected infectious diseases Translational research in other major diseases: cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesity, rare diseases, and other chronic diseases Collaborative research for Health in FP7 3: Optimising the delivery of health care Enhanced health promotion and disease prevention (providing evidence of best public health measures – life styles, interventions, special focus on mental health, etc.) Translating clinical research into clinical practice (patient safety, better use of medicines, benchmarking, pharmacovigilance, etc.) Quality, solidarity and sustainability of health systems (organisational and financial aspects, health systems, etc.) Collaborative research for Health in FP7 Two other issues will be addressed across all activities: Child health The health of the ageing population For more information see Specific programme: http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/spe_programmes.htm Collaborative research for Health in FP7 Special encouragement and measures for: SMEs Participation of SMEs and larger companies in all areas Special topics for SMEs International Cooperation Participation possible in all areas Special International Cooperation Actions (SICA) Translational sciences Dialog among basic and clinical scientists Clinical research Forward Translation: -Use bioinformatics, functional genomics into clinical practice - 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Currently consulting Member and Associated States (PC) • First calls for proposals: Dec. 2006 (tbc) first deadline end-March '07 (tbc) second deadline end-June '07 (tbc) [ not all areas will be open at in each call ] Information on FP7 • EU research: http://europa.eu.int/comm/research • Seventh Framework Programme: http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/future/index_en.cfm • Information on research programmes and projects: http://www.cordis.lu • RTD info magazine: http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/rtdinfo • Innovative Medicines Initiative http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/imi.html • Information requests: [email protected] [email protected]


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Autonomous Cyber Deception pp 209-235 | Cite as
Malware Deception with Automatic Analysis and Generation of HoneyResource
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Malware often contains many system-resource-sensitive condition checks to avoid any duplicate infection, make sure to obtain required resources, or try to infect only targeted computers, etc. If we are able to extract the system resource constraints from malware binary code, and manipulate the environment state as HoneyResource, we would then be able to deceive malware for defense purpose, e.g., immunize a computer from infections, or trick malware into believing something. Towards this end, this chapter introduces our preliminary systematic study and a prototype system, AutoVac, for automatically extracting the system resource constraints from malware code and generating HoneyResource (e.g., malware vaccines) based on the system resource conditions.
KeywordsMalware analysis Malware immunization Malware deception
An early version of this chapter appeared in ICDCS'13 [31] . This research is partially supported by NSF (Grant No. CNS-0954096), AFOSR (Grant No. FA9550- 13-1-0077), and DARPA (Grant No. 12011593). All opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of NSF, AFOSR, or DARPA.
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