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1. Per Iniziare
- 1.1 Il Controllo di Versione
- 1.2 Una Breve Storia di Git
- 1.3 Cos'é Git?
- 1.4 La riga di comando
- 1.5 Installing Git
- 1.6 First-Time Git Setup
- 1.7 Chiedere aiuto
- 1.8 Sommario
2. Git Basics
- 2.1 Getting a Git Repository
- 2.2 Recording Changes to the Repository
- 2.3 Viewing the Commit History
- 2.4 Undoing Things
- 2.5 Working with Remotes
- 2.6 Tagging
- 2.7 Git Aliases
- 2.8 Sommario
3. Git Branching
- 3.1 Branches in a Nutshell
- 3.2 Basic Branching and Merging
- 3.3 Branch Management
- 3.4 Branching Workflows
- 3.5 Remote Branches
- 3.6 Rebasing
- 3.7 Summary
4. Git on the Server
- 4.1 The Protocols
- 4.2 Getting Git on a Server
- 4.3 Generating Your SSH Public Key
- 4.4 Setting Up the Server
- 4.5 Git Daemon
- 4.6 Smart HTTP
- 4.7 GitWeb
- 4.8 GitLab
- 4.9 Third Party Hosted Options
- 4.10 Summary
5. Distributed Git
- 5.1 Distributed Workflows
- 5.2 Contributing to a Project
- 5.3 Maintaining a Project
- 5.4 Summary
6. GitHub
7. Git Tools
- 7.1 Revision Selection
- 7.2 Interactive Staging
- 7.3 Stashing and Cleaning
- 7.4 Signing Your Work
- 7.5 Searching
- 7.6 Rewriting History
- 7.7 Reset Demystified
- 7.8 Advanced Merging
- 7.9 Rerere
- 7.10 Debugging with Git
- 7.11 Submodules
- 7.12 Bundling
- 7.13 Replace
- 7.14 Credential Storage
- 7.15 Summary
8. Customizing Git
- 8.1 Git Configuration
- 8.2 Git Attributes
- 8.3 Git Hooks
- 8.4 An Example Git-Enforced Policy
- 8.5 Summary
9. Git and Other Systems
- 9.1 Git as a Client
- 9.2 Migrating to Git
- 9.3 Summary
10. Git Internals
- 10.1 Plumbing and Porcelain
- 10.2 Git Objects
- 10.3 Git References
- 10.4 Packfiles
- 10.5 The Refspec
- 10.6 Transfer Protocols
- 10.7 Maintenance and Data Recovery
- 10.8 Environment Variables
- 10.9 Summary
A1. Appendice A: Git in altri contesti
- A1.1 Graphical Interfaces
- A1.2 Git in Visual Studio
- A1.3 Git in Eclipse
- A1.4 Git in Bash
- A1.5 Git in Zsh
- A1.6 Git in Powershell
- A1.7 Riassunto
A2. Appendice B: Embedding Git in your Applications
- A2.1 Command-line Git
- A2.2 Libgit2
- A2.3 JGit
A3. Appendice C: Git Commands
- A3.1 Setup and Config
- A3.2 Getting and Creating Projects
- A3.3 Basic Snapshotting
- A3.4 Branching and Merging
- A3.5 Sharing and Updating Projects
- A3.6 Inspection and Comparison
- A3.7 Debugging
- A3.8 Patching
- A3.9 Email
- A3.10 External Systems
- A3.11 Administration
- A3.12 Plumbing Commands
5.1 Distributed Git - Distributed Workflows
Now that you have a remote Git repository set up as a point for all the developers to share their code, and you're familiar with basic Git commands in a local workflow, you'll look at how to utilize some of the distributed workflows that Git affords you.
In this chapter, you'll see how to work with Git in a distributed environment as a contributor and an integrator. That is, you'll learn how to contribute code successfully to a project and make it as easy on you and the project maintainer as possible, and also how to maintain a project successfully with a number of developers contributing.
Distributed Workflows
Unlike Centralized Version Control Systems (CVCSs), the distributed nature of Git allows you to be far more flexible in how developers collaborate on projects. In centralized systems, every developer is a node working more or less equally on a central hub. In Git, however, every developer is potentially both a node and a hub – that is, every developer can both contribute code to other repositories and maintain a public repository on which others can base their work and which they can contribute to. This opens a vast range of workflow possibilities for your project and/or your team, so we'll cover a few common paradigms that take advantage of this flexibility. We'll go over the strengths and possible weaknesses of each design; you can choose a single one to use, or you can mix and match features from each.
Centralized Workflow
In centralized systems, there is generally a single collaboration model–the centralized workflow. One central hub, or repository, can accept code, and everyone synchronizes their work to it. A number of developers are nodes – consumers of that hub – and synchronize to that one place.
This means that if two developers clone from the hub and both make changes, the first developer to push their changes back up can do so with no problems. The second developer must merge in the first one's work before pushing changes up, so as not to overwrite the first developer's changes. This concept is as true in Git as it is in Subversion (or any CVCS), and this model works perfectly well in Git.
If you are already comfortable with a centralized workflow in your company or team, you can easily continue using that workflow with Git. Simply set up a single repository, and give everyone on your team push access; Git won't let users overwrite each other. Say John and Jessica both start working at the same time. John finishes his change and pushes it to the server. Then Jessica tries to push her changes, but the server rejects them. She is told that she's trying to push non-fast-forward changes and that she won't be able to do so until she fetches and merges. This workflow is attractive to a lot of people because it's a paradigm that many are familiar and comfortable with.
This is also not limited to small teams. With Git's branching model, it's possible for hundreds of developers to successfully work on a single project through dozens of branches simultaneously.
Integration-Manager Workflow
Because Git allows you to have multiple remote repositories, it's possible to have a workflow where each developer has write access to their own public repository and read access to everyone else's. This scenario often includes a canonical repository that represents the "official" project. To contribute to that project, you create your own public clone of the project and push your changes to it. Then, you can send a request to the maintainer of the main project to pull in your changes. The maintainer can then add your repository as a remote, test your changes locally, merge them into their branch, and push back to their repository. The process works as follows (see Integration-manager workflow.):
The project maintainer pushes to their public repository.
A contributor clones that repository and makes changes.
The contributor pushes to their own public copy.
The contributor sends the maintainer an e-mail asking them to pull changes.
The maintainer adds the contributor's repo as a remote and merges locally.
The maintainer pushes merged changes to the main repository.
This is a very common workflow with hub-based tools like GitHub or GitLab, where it's easy to fork a project and push your changes into your fork for everyone to see. One of the main advantages of this approach is that you can continue to work, and the maintainer of the main repository can pull in your changes at any time. Contributors don't have to wait for the project to incorporate their changes – each party can work at their own pace.
Dictator and Lieutenants Workflow
This is a variant of a multiple-repository workflow. It's generally used by huge projects with hundreds of collaborators; one famous example is the Linux kernel. Various integration managers are in charge of certain parts of the repository; they're called lieutenants. All the lieutenants have one integration manager known as the benevolent dictator. The benevolent dictator's repository serves as the reference repository from which all the collaborators need to pull. The process works like this (see Benevolent dictator workflow.):
Regular developers work on their topic branch and rebase their work on top of
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The dictator merges the lieutenants'
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to the reference repository so the other developers can rebase on it.
This kind of workflow isn't common, but can be useful in very big projects, or in highly hierarchical environments. It allows the project leader (the dictator) to delegate much of the work and collect large subsets of code at multiple points before integrating them.
Workflows Summary
These are some commonly used workflows that are possible with a distributed system like Git, but you can see that many variations are possible to suit your particular real-world workflow. Now that you can (hopefully) determine which workflow combination may work for you, we'll cover some more specific examples of how to accomplish the main roles that make up the different flows. In the next section, you'll learn about a few common patterns for contributing to a project.


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How Many Really?
New from BERG and the BBC: How Many Really?. Background here.
You can probably guess what it does from the URL — it compares the numbers of people who experienced an event with a number you can relate to: the size of your social network.
Examples: How many of your Twitter friends would have been eligible to vote in Classical Athens? How many of your Facebook friends would have sunk with the Titanic? How many of your friends would have returned from WWI?

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Blocked by a Supreme Court decision from using GPS tracking devices without a warrant, federal investigators and other law enforcement agencies are turning to a new, more powerful and more threatening technology in their bid to spy more freely on those they suspect of drug crimes. That's leading civil libertarians, electronic privacy advocates, and even some federal judges to raise the alarm about a new surveillance technology whose use has yet to be taken up definitively by the federal courts.
StingRay cell phone spying device (US Patent photo)
The new surveillance technology is the StingRay (also marketed as Triggerfish, IMSI Catcher, Cell-site Simulator or Digital Analyzer), a sophisticated, portable spy device able to track cell phone signals inside vehicles, homes and insulated buildings. StingRay trackers act as fake cell towers, allowing police investigators to pinpoint location of a targeted wireless mobile by sucking up phone data such as text messages, emails and cell-site information.
When a suspect makes a phone call, the StingRay tricks the cell into sending its signal back to the police, thus preventing the signal from traveling back to the suspect's wireless carrier. But not only does StingRay track the targeted cell phone, it also extracts data off potentially thousands of other cell phone users in the area.
Although manufactured by a Germany and Britain-based firm, the StingRay devices are sold in the US by the Harris Corporation, an international telecommunications equipment company. It gets between $60,000 and $175,000 for each Stingray it sells to US law enforcement agencies.
[While the US courts are only beginning to grapple with StingRay, the high tech cat-and-mouse game between cops and criminals continues afoot. Foreign hackers reportedly sell an underground IMSI tracker to counter the Stingray to anyone who asks for $1000. And in December 2011, noted German security expert Karsten Nohl released "Catcher Catcher," powerful software that monitors a network's traffic to seek out the StingRay in use.]
Originally intended for terrorism investigations, the feds and local law enforcement agencies are now using the James Bond-type surveillance to track cell phones in drug war cases across the nation without a warrant. Federal officials say that is fine – responding to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by the Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF) and the First Amendment Coalition, the Justice Department argued that no warrant was needed to use StingRay technology.
"If a device is not capturing the contents of a particular dialogue call, the device does not require a warrant, but only a court order under the Pen Register Statute showing the material obtained is relevant to an ongoing investigation," the department wrote.
The FBI claims that it is adhering to lawful standards in using StingRay. "The bureau advises field officers to work closely with the US Attorney's Office in their districts to comply with legal requirements," FBI spokesman Chris Allen told the Washington Post last week, but the agency has refused to fully disclose whether or not its agents obtain probable cause warrants to track phones using the controversial device.
And the federal government's response to the EFF's FOIA about Stingray wasn't exactly responsive. While the FOIA request generated over 20,000 records related to StingRay, the Justice Department released only a pair of court orders and a handful of heavily redacted documents that didn't explain when and how the technology was used.
The LA Weekly reported in January that the StingRay "intended to fight terrorism was used in far more routine Los Angeles Police criminal investigations," apparently without the courts' knowledge that it probes the lives of non-suspects living in the same neighborhood with a suspect.
Critics say the technology wrongfully invades technology and that its uncontrolled use by law enforcement raised constitutional questions. "It is the biggest threat to cell phone privacy you don't know about," EFF said in a statement.
ACLU privacy researcher Christopher Soghoian told a Yale Law School Location Tracking and Biometrics Conference panel last month that "the government uses the device either when a target is routinely and quickly changing phones to thwart a wiretap or when police don't have sufficient cause for a warrant."
"The government is hiding information about new surveillance technology not only from the public, but even from the courts," ACLU staff attorney Linda Lye wrote in a legal brief in the first pending federal StingRay case (see below). "By keeping courts in the dark about new technologies, the government is essentially seeking to write its own search warrants, and that's not how the Constitution works."
Lye further expressed concern over the StingRay's ability to interfere with cell phone signals in violation of Federal Communication Act. "We haven't seen documents suggesting the LAPD or any other agency have sought or obtained FCC authorization," she wrote.
Advocates also raised alarms over another troubling issue: Using the StingRay allows investigators to bypass the routine process of obtaining fee-based location data from cell service providers like Sprint, AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile and Comcast. Unlike buying location data fro service providers, using StingRay leaves no paper trail for defense attorneys.
Crack defense attorney Stephen Leckar who scored a victory in a landmark Supreme Court decision over the feds' warrantless use of a GPS tracker in US v. Jones, a cocaine trafficking case where the government tracked Jones' vehicle for weeks without a warrant, also has concerns.
"Anytime the government refuses to disclose the ambit of its investigatory device, one has to wonder, what's really happening," he told the Chronicle. "If without a warrant the feds use this sophisticated device for entry into people's homes, accessing private information, they may run afoul of a concurring opinion by Justice Alito, who ruled in US v Jones whether people would view unwarranted monitoring of their home or property as Constitutionally repugnant."
Leckar cited Supreme Court precedent in Katz v. US (privacy) and US v. Kyllo (thermal imaging), where the Supreme Court prohibited searches conducted by police from outside the home to obtain information behind closed doors. Similar legal thinking marked February's Supreme Court decision in a case where it prohibited the warrantless use of drug dogs to sniff a residence, Florida v. Jardines.
The EFF FOIA lawsuit shed light on how the US government sold StingRay devices to state and local law enforcement agencies for use specifically in drug cases. The Los Angeles and Fort Worth police departments have publicly acknowledged buying the devices, and records show that they are using them for drug investigations.
"Out of 155 cell phone investigations conducted by LAPD between June and September 2012, none of these cases involved terrorism, but primarily involved drugs and other felonies," said Peter Scheer, director of the First Amendment Center.
The StingRay technology is so new and so powerful that it not only raises Fourth Amendment concerns, it also raises questions about whether police and federal agents are withholding information about it from judges to win approval to monitor suspects without meeting the probable cause standard required by the Fourth. At least one federal judge thinks they are. Magistrate Judge Brian Owsley of the Southern District of Texas in Corpus Christi told the Yale conference federal prosecutors are using clever techniques to fool judges into allowing use of StingRay. They will draft surveillance requests to appear as Pen Register applications, which don't need to meet the probable cause standards.
"After receiving a second StingRay request," Owsley told the panel, "I emailed every magistrate judge in the country telling them about the device. And hardly anyone understood them."
In a earlier decision related to a Cell-site Simulator, Judge Owsley denied a DEA request to obtain data information to identify where the cell phone belonging to a drug trafficker was located. DEA wanted to use the suspect's E911 emergency tracking system that is operated by the wireless carrier. E911 trackers reads signals sent to satellites from a cell phone's GPS chip or by triangulation of radio transmitted signal. Owsley told the panel that federal agents and US attorneys often apply for a court order to show that any information obtained with a StingRay falls under the Stored Communication Act and the Pen Register statute.
DEA later petitioned Judge Owsley to issue an order allowing the agent to track a known drug dealer with the StingRay. DEA emphasized to Owsley how urgently they needed approval because the dealer had repeatedly changed cell phones while they spied on him. Owsley flatly denied the request, indicating the StingRay was not covered under federal statute and that DEA and prosecutors had failed to disclose what they expected to obtain through the use of the stored data inside the drug dealer's phone, protected by the Fourth Amendment.
"There was no affidavit attached to demonstrate probable cause as required by law under rule 41 of federal criminal procedures," Owsley pointed out. The swiping of data off wireless phones is "cell tower dumps on steroids," Owsley concluded.
But judges in other districts have ruled favorably for the government. A federal magistrate judge in Houston approved DEA request for cell tower data without probable cause. More recently, New York Southern District Federal Magistrate Judge Gabriel Gorenstein approved warrantless cell-site data.
"The government did not install the tracking device – and the cell user chose to carry the phone that permitted transmission of its information to a carrier," Gorenstein held in that opinion. "Therefore no warrant is needed."
In a related case, US District Court Judge Liam O'Grady of the Northern District of Virginia ruled that the government could obtain data from Twitter accounts of three Wikileakers without a warrant. Because they had turned over their IP addresses when they opened their Twitter accounts, they had no expectation of privacy, he ruled.
"Petitioners knew or should have known that their IP information was subject to examination by Twitter, so they had a lessened expectation of privacy in that information, particularly in light of their apparent consent to the Twitter terms of service and privacy policy," Judge O'Grady wrote.
A federal judge in Arizona is now set to render a decision in the nation's first StingRay case. After a hearing last week, the court in US v. Rigmaiden is expected to issue a ruling that could set privacy limits on how law enforcement uses the new technology. Just as the issue of GPS tracking technology eventually ended up before the Supreme Court, this latest iteration of the ongoing balancing act between enabling law enforcement to do its job and protecting the privacy and Fourth Amendment rights of citizens could well be headed there, too.
Republished with permission from: Global Research


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Psalm 84 Verses 1-4 How lovely are Your dwelling places, O LORD of hosts! My soul longed and even yearned for the courts of the LORD; My heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God. The bird also has found a house, And the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, Even Your altars, O LORD of hosts, My King and my God. How blessed are those who dwell in Your house! They are ever praising You. Selah. Question: Do you long for the courts of God - the place where He is worshipped? The psalmist remembered the place of worship - i.e. here the temple. He LONGED and YEARNED for God. His heart and flesh sang for joy to the living God! He considered those who were there blessed as they were ever praising God there! Does this describe us as we consider worship - as we consider gathering with God's people each Sunday. Yes, I know this referred to the Temple and to worship there - but is not worship with the saints the nearest equivalent to it? Do we LONG and YEARN for those times? Do we consider those who are singing and praising God to be so very blessed? I don't know about you as you read this - but I was rebuked and realized that this did not - and even now does not describe how I approach worship with the saints. But by God's grace - and some serious repentance it WILL NOT be how I approach this coming Sunday with all of you as we meet to seek God. Verses 5-7 How blessed is the man whose strength is in You, In whose heart are the highways to Zion! Passing through the valley of Baca they make it a spring; The early rain also covers it with blessings. They go from strength to strength, Every one of them appears before God in Zion. Question: How do you walk out of and back into the place of worship? The psalmist speaks of how we walk out of the worship of God - and how we walk through the world as a result of it. What the psalmist is saying here is that as we walk through worship - God makes our hearts strong so He can walk through us into our world as we depart. There are "highways to Zion" in the true worshipper's heart. The worship of God in the temple led to a heart where there was a highway to God. Zion refers to Jerusalem - the place where they went to corporately worship God - and seek Him - and know Him - and even be made right with Him when they sinned. Here is how practical this gets. The worshipper of God passes through life - here it is called the "valley of Baca." The word "Baca" means weeping or troublesome place. What is said about it is that the one who worships God - and in whose heart a highway to Zion is laid as a result - they take the valley of trouble and weeping and turn it into a spring where the water wells up and bubbles out of the earth. Does your worship lead you to walk through your week with a highway to God in your heart. Does it lead to a highway where you can see God take even your most troublesome moments - your weeping moments - and turn them to a spring of water? Does your worship lead you to go from "strength to strength" as you walk in the world? The picture here is that of God strengthening you for the week ahead - that you may face difficulty and sorrow - even trials and troubles - but you go from event to event in God's strengthening. That highway to Zion is there so that you can run to the Lord and receive His strength to handle these things. Is this true of you? The end of this section is that as they go from strength to strength - they eventually appear before God in Zion again. This is a picture of that HIGHWAY again - we are learning to live a life that turns to God! And - even as we walk it - we are led again and again to return to seek God afresh and anew. Is this true of us? When I looked at this - again I was reminded to repent and return to Him. That IS what I want - a worship so focused that I turn to Him for strength to strength as I walk through this world - and that I return to Zion again to worship Him all over again - because He is so good and so faithful. Verses 8-12 O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer; Give ear, O God of Jacob! Selah. Behold our shield, O God, And look upon the face of Your anointed. For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand outside. I would rather stand at the threshold of the house of my God Than dwell in the tents of wickedness. For the LORD God is a sun and shield; The LORD gives grace and glory; No good thing does He withhold from those who walk uprightly. O LORD of hosts, How blessed is the man who trusts in You! Question: Do we consider a single day with God better than a thousand anywhere else? The psalmist prays and desires God's answer. He desires to see God's face (know His favor). He states that a single day in the courts of God in worship and seeking and hearing Him - is better than a 1000 spent anywhere else. If the place of worship and seeking God with His people is a 1000 times better than anywhere else in the world - how do you think we would think about worship? The psalmist also considers God as the sun which shines on him - the shield which protects him - He recounts God giving him grace and glory. He contemplates the good that God has given him. His eventual thought is that God does not withhold any good thing from the ones who walk with Him uprightly. His finishing statement is that the man who trusts God - is indeed blessed. Do I walk away from worship corporately with the saints - and think - HANDS DOWN THIS IS A THOUSAND TIMES BETTER THAN ANYTHING ELSE! I had to face this psalm with a good bit of red-faced embarrassment. But it was not something that happened that was bad - it was wonderful! I was reminded of how it should be - and what it can be if I come and approach worship with the saints before God as an amazing - wonderful - amazing thing. My hope is that with the repentance this psalm has offered me from God - I will respond - and that my view of the worship of God with His people in the church will be greatly elevated. It is my hope I will see it as a thousand times better than anything else imaginable. |
Pastor John LawrencePsalms for Life . . . God moved on several people to write the Psalms. This is a book of songs and poems written by people who were seeking to be devoted to God as they walked though their lives. This is a collection of songs and poems that express the true, wonderful, and often raw emotions that we have as we journey through life with God. I hope you will be blessed and encouraged as you read. But more than that I hope that these expositions and writings will help you to seek Him in the midst of the life you live in this world. It will be at times comforting and encouraging, while at others it will be challenging and awkward. Regardless of where you find yourself on this spectrum as you read, it will be a reminder that God invites us into His presence to truly walk with Him, know Him, and at times, pour out emotions of joy, sorrow, frustration, anger, and everything else you can imagine. He not only invites you to do this - He delights in it too! Hope you enjoy your journey! Archives
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How 'Westworld' Outsmarted Itself In Its Disappointing Second Season
The following post contains SPOILERS for both seasons of Westworld. But if you pass through them you will reach the Valley Beyond.
Everything in Westworld moves in circles. The second season of the show began with a conversation between two of its robotic hosts, Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) and Bernard (Jeffrey Wright). It concluded with the rest of that conversation.
The opening scene ended with a confused Bernard asking "Is this now?" Ten episodes later, we finally got an answer, when the finale wound down as Dolores said "Yes, Bernard. This is now. We're at the beginning. We're exactly where you decided we should be."
It was a structural gambit designed to provoke chills in the viewer at the sheer chutzpah of creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy's organizational cleverness. They led us through a maze of twists and turns as their futuristic theme park collapsed following the death of its founder (Anthony Hopkins) in the Season 1 finale. The dual interactions between between Dolores and Bernard echoed a similar series of conversations between them throughout Westworld's first season, which were eventually revealed to be a test of a host's ability to pass as a living being.
Who is actually being tested is sometimes unclear, and even changes depending on the scene. But beginning and ending with one of these interrogations ultimately made the entire second season of Westworld feel like a kind of test itself — an arduous, unfulfilling test to see how long will people stick with a show they occasionally enjoy and rarely understand.
Let's circle back to Season 1 again. Its entire story was built on another bold structural gambit: All of its events secretly transpire in two separate timelines decades apart, and two seemingly disparate characters — an innocent tourist named William (Jimmi Simpson) and a brutal cynic called the Man in Black (Ed Harris) — are actually the same person at different times in their life. That secret took advantage of the fact that in a theme park like Westworld, populated largely by cyborgs who never age, time has very little meaning. And it was just a really fun twist.
But Westworld's fans quickly caught on to Nolan and Joy's game. Theorists on Reddit spotted the clues peppered throughout the early episodes and correctly predicted William and the Man in Black were one and the same weeks before the show revealed it. If you were following along with the online conversation around the show, the finale was a little anticlimactic.
Ironically, given Westworld's love of cycles and repetitions, the show's second season seemed to be designed to prevent a Reddit spoiler recurrence. This time, the plot was so scrambled, with stakes so unclear, even the characters themselves seemed a little lost (particularly Bernard, who wound up bouncing between two different trips through the park with two different sets of companions, equally befuddled in both instances).
Westworld Season 1 ended with Ford's suicide by host, which unshackled his creations and prevented his bosses at the Delos Corporation from getting their hands on his technology. Westworld has consistently drawn connections between Ford and his staff of writers hatching plot lines for the hosts and newcomers in the park to the act of creating a show like Westworld. As a result, it's hard not to read Season 2 as not just Ford's revenge, but Nolan and Joy's as well. This time, no one would figure out the secrets.
Even after Ford's death, the characters of Westworld continued talking about stories, up to and including the very last line of Season 2. ("We are are the authors of our stories now," Dolores says in voiceover.) And yet the deeper the series went into its web of conspiracies, timelines, and tricks, the further its drifted from the narratives that made its first season compelling. Withholding Bernard's season-long motivations for that second journey through the park made for a shocking revelation; it also made the audience's surrogate a man (or robot) who literally had no idea where he was going or why. If you enjoy watching a television series that requires you immediately read a Wikipedia page or explainer blogs as soon as it's over, then Westworld Season 2 was the show for you. If you wanted a coherent journey about people with identifiable goals, well ... have you tried The Handmaid's Tale?
Just look at where things are left at the end of the Season 2 finale: Dolores and Bernard back in the real world (or is it a simulation?) preparing to do battle on opposite sides of a war between humanity and artificial reality. But both of those characters have already killed and resurrected each other, so life and death really don't mean much in this impending war. Plus, on the "humanity" side of things there are almost no characters left besides the Man in Black (who in the season's post-credits scene has been turned into a host too) and Luke Hemsworth, who insinuates he may be a host in his final conversation with Tessa Thompson's Charlotte Hale. Oh and she used to be human, and now she's a host as well. At this point, who are we supposed to be rooting for? Why do we even care who wins?
Immediately after Bernard and Dolores' "Is this now?" conversation in the Season 2 premiere, Bernard winds up washed ashore on a desolate beach that looks a lot like the spot where Charlton Heston finds the ruins of the State of Liberty at the end of the original Planet of the Apes. The deeper Nolan and Joy focused on the nature of the hosts and the tensions between the park's two "races," the less that visual homage seemed like a coincidence and the more this Westworld reboot morphed into a secret Planet of the Apes reboot instead. Apes is certainly a timely and relevant film, particularly when filtered through the lens of computers and artificial intelligence. But why remake Westworld if you're not really interested in the Westworld park?
Granted, Westworld Season 2 mirrored the progression of the original Westworld movie by Michael Crichton, where an idyllic theme park populated by robots breaks down and jeopardizes the lives of its guests. But Nolan and Joy had only scratched the surface of their Westworld before they blew it all up; they left years worth of material unexplored in fast-forwarding to the chaos and anarchy of Westworld's collapse (including the various other parks that we briefly glimpsed this season, like Shogun World). And in Season 2 they barely addressed their outstanding mysteries (like why Ford killed himself, or even what year the show takes place) before barreling ahead with a whole new batch of questions they might never answer.
You have to respect the intricacy of Westworld's puzzles, and even at its worst it remains one of the best-looking shows on television. If the goal this year was to outsmart the fans, the series largely succeeded. Unfortunately, Westworld also outsmarted itself, ditching its richest themes and jettisoning all kinds of story and character potential in favor of navel-gazing gamesmanship. It wants viewers to feel like William, searching for answers in an endlessly shifting maze. But mostly it left me feeling like Bernard; disoriented and looking for a way out.
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Live remote productions, aka "At-Home" or REMI (remote-integration model) productions, are growing in popularity because they save money and enable more live productions to be created using the same staffing. Based on Wheatstone's WheatNet-IP network, where super-smart BLADE-3 interfaces can deploy dozens of audio services, as well as provide multiple control and automation capabilities, this system offers new ways to manage and automate audio for live remote productions.
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AES67 connectivity with other devices (including AES67 time stamping to allow the video provider to sync audio and video if desired)
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Media Transport...To demonstrate all this and more, Wheatstone collaborated with Artel Video Systems, provider of innovative IP- and fiber-based media transport solutions, to create a WAN between two Cisco switches. The WAN uses Artel's InfinityLink IL6000 broadcast media transport chassis equipped with an ILC205 9 Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch with VLAN and the ILC103A 3G/HD/SD-SDI, ASI Transmitter/Receiver. "Artel continues to demonstrate the applicability of its product line," says Rafael Fonseca, Vice President and Director of Product Management at Artel Video Systems. "In this case, the versatility and application 'reach' of the InfinityLink platform in support of solutions addressing workflow costs and efficiencies are demonstrated."
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For the example pictured, Wheatstone provides several M4-IP USB boxes, each capable of 4 mic inputs, with the ability to provide professional grade audio processing on the spot. These M4-IPs are used to handle talent/announcer mics, ambient parabolic field mics, handheld interview mics, wireless mic systems for referees on the field (and any other wireless systems needed), AND they create the mix-minuses that facilitate zero-latency IFB.
To retrieve audio coming from the cameras themselves, Wheatstone provides HD/SDI BLADEs to handle the SDI audio directly, dembedding it and sending it home as discrete audio.
All of this interfaces to a managed ethernet switch and is then linked via 10gig leased fiber or lower bandwith ethernet, optionally using media transport gear, to the home studio. Back at-home, the flow is through the switch to your standard studio configuration...
Wheatstone uses a MADI BLADE to interface with the IFB intercom system and get it into the pipeline, where it's managed by BLADES as outlined above. Local audio is interfaced using M4-IP BLADES for mics and IFB. Program mixing is done through any of our IP audio consoles, including our Series 2 and 4, D8-EX, Dimension Three (Touch), Strata 32, and our Arcus, via an IP MIX ENGINE for final audio production.
Handling remotes in this manner presents a number of advantages:
Far less wear and tear on expensive studio gear
Far lower travel expenses for production people on site
A predictable mixing environment that can handle all remotes from a single location
The possibility of installing permanent remote gear in stadiums and not having to haul/set-up for every game/show - either leased or sold - meaning a recurring cost savings when compared to repeated setup and tear-down
Less equipment to transport – just your content gathering gear and crew (cameras, mics, interfaces, etc)
Lower transportation costs
This is happening now, today. More and more games are being covered using at-home technology around the country and around the world. Wheatstone's WheatNet-IP is perfectly positioned for this transition. AND it can save you a LOT of money over using full broadcast trucks for your remotes. It's an exciting time in broadcast!
Scott Fybush Interviews Phil Owens About At-Home/REMI Production
Getting into the nitty gritty of how At-Home/REMI production works, Scott Fybush and Phil Owens outline how streamlined the operation can be if you have the right stuff.
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If you need to talk to a live person at Goldman Sachs to get assistance, dial 770-663-6160 and listen to the initial welcome message before getting connected. This is the best Goldman Sachs phone number to jump the line to be answered first.
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1 He entered and was passing through Jericho. 2 There was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector, and he was rich. 3 He was trying to see who Jesus was, and couldn't because of the crowd, because he was short. 4 He ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was going to pass that way. 5 When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and saw him, and said to him, "Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house." 6 He hurried, came down, and received him joyfully. 7 When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, "He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner."
8 Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, "Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much."
9 Jesus said to him, "Today, salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham. 10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost."
11 As they heard these things, he went on and told a parable, because he was near Jerusalem, and they supposed that God's Kingdom would be revealed immediately. 12 He said therefore, "A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and to return. 13 He called ten servants of his and gave them ten mina coins, † 10 minas was more than 3 years' wages for an agricultural laborer. and told them, 'Conduct business until I come.' 14 But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, 'We don't want this man to reign over us.'
15 "When he had come back again, having received the kingdom, he commanded these servants, to whom he had given the money, to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by conducting business. 16 The first came before him, saying, 'Lord, your mina has made ten more minas.'
17 "He said to him, 'Well done, you good servant! Because you were found faithful with very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.'
18 "The second came, saying, 'Your mina, Lord, has made five minas.'
19 "So he said to him, 'And you are to be over five cities.'
20 Another came, saying, 'Lord, behold, your mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief, 21 for I feared you, because you are an exacting man. You take up that which you didn't lay down, and reap that which you didn't sow.'
22 "He said to him, 'Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn't lay down and reaping that which I didn't sow. 23 Then why didn't you deposit my money in the bank, and at my coming, I might have earned interest on it?' 24 He said to those who stood by, 'Take the mina away from him and give it to him who has the ten minas.'
25 "They said to him, 'Lord, he has ten minas!' 26 'For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given; but from him who doesn't have, even that which he has will be taken away from him. 27 But bring those enemies of mine who didn't want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me.' " 28 Having said these things, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.
29 When he came near to Bethsphage‡ TR, NU read "Bethpage" instead of "Bethsphage" and Bethany, at the mountain that is called Olivet, he sent two of his disciples, 30 saying, "Go your way into the village on the other side, in which, as you enter, you will find a colt tied, which no man has ever sat upon. Untie it and bring it. 31 If anyone asks you, 'Why are you untying it?' say to him: 'The Lord needs it.' "
32 Those who were sent went away and found things just as he had told them. 33 As they were untying the colt, its owners said to them, "Why are you untying the colt?" 34 They said, "The Lord needs it." 35 Then they brought it to Jesus. They threw their cloaks on the colt and sat Jesus on them. 36 As he went, they spread their cloaks on the road.
37 As he was now getting near, at the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works which they had seen, 38 saying, "Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! * Psalms 118:26 Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest!"
39 Some of the Pharisees from the multitude said to him, "Teacher, rebuke your disciples!"
40 He answered them, "I tell you that if these were silent, the stones would cry out."
41 When he came near, he saw the city and wept over it, 42 saying, "If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes. 43 For the days will come on you when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on every side, 44 and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn't know the time of your visitation."
45 He entered into the temple and began to drive out those who bought and sold in it, 46 saying to them, "It is written, 'My house is a house of prayer,' * Isaiah 56:7 but you have made it a 'den of robbers'!" * Jeremiah 7:11
47 He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests, the scribes, and the leading men among the people sought to destroy him. 48 They couldn't find what they might do, for all the people hung on to every word that he said.


text: Power Line Safety Card Is Handy Reference June 2014—The National Commission for the Certification of Crane Operators (NCCCO) is making available Power Line Safety cards to help operators understand and apply federal OSHA's new guidelines for operating cranes around power lines. The cards, issued in conjunction with the Florida Crane Safety Alliance, also provide references for best practices based on both consensus standard ANSI B30.5 and OSHA 29 CFR 1926 Subpart CC. "Studies show that electrocution from contact with power lines account for a large percentage, if not the majority, of crane-related fatalities," said NCCCO Executive Director, Graham Brent. "While OSHA's new crane rule provides comprehensive requirements for operating cranes near power lines, applying the new rules can be challenging. NCCCO is distributing these power line safety cards as a handy reference for operators, lift directors, and others responsible for job site safety." One side of the cards covers numerous items to check before starting to lift, including knowing the load, crane configuration and set up, boom configuration, radius of load, proper rigging, environmental concerns, external obstacles to consider, communication with riggers, and qualified lifting personnel. To better implement best practices, these items are cross-referenced by role, indicating which apply to lift directors, crane operators, riggers, signal persons, oilers/trainees, and management/supervision. A flowchart on the reverse of the card helps users navigate the rules for working around power lines detailed in 29 CFR 1926.1408. The flowchart starts with "Identify Work Zone" and works through an extensive decision tree to determine exactly what precautions are necessary according to the OSHA requirements. Table A from the OSHA rule, "Minimum Clearance Distances," is also included for easy reference. NCCCO piloted the cards at CONEXPO's Lift Safety Zone in March. Due to the popularity of the power line safety demonstrations and the importance of the information on the cards, NCCCO is distributing the reference cards to interested parties for a nominal charge to cover the costs of printing and mailing.


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The Elite heart rate uses last generation wireless ANT+ and Bluetooth® Smart to synchronize your heart rate to the Elite My E-Training App and to all the compatible apps without the need of an adapter for your smartphone/tablet.
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Thursday, December 18, 2014
Melissa Foster - #Giveaway
Huge Giveaway from NYT & USA TODAY Bestselling Author, Melissa Foster
To help celebrate the release of her newest Romance, bestselling author, Melissa Foster, has created a fun Street Team for readers of her books and lovers of the Romance genre. As part of this launch, she will be giving away lots of prizes—and I mean lots. From chocolate gift baskets to autographed books to super swag, she will be giving away more than 20 prizes, and as many as 520!
If the Street Team reaches 500 members by Monday, December 22, every single member will score an Advance Review Copy of her upcoming novel, Seaside Secrets. That means that you can enjoy the newly released Seaside Sunsets and then immediately read the next installment in the series. Pretty cool, huh?
Not in the mood to join the team? Not a problem! You can still enter the Rafflecopter contest for your chance to win a $100 Amazon gift card and autographed book.
Now that I know you're excited, read on to learn more about Melissa's Street Team and her newest release, Seaside Sunsets.
About Melissa's Street Team
Do you LOVE Melissa Foster's hunky heroes and smart, sexy heroines? Want to tell others about her books and help spread the word while gaining exclusive peeks at upcoming releases? Join Melissa's Street Team, and become one of her most trusted fans!
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About Melissa's Newest Release
For the first time since developing the second largest search engine in the world, billionaire Jamie Reed is taking the summer off. He plans to work from the Cape and spend time with his elderly grandmother--and falling in love is not in his plans.
From the moment Jamie and Jessica meet, the attraction is white-hot. Once-overly-focused Jamie can think of little else than sensual, smart, and alluring Jessica, and Jessica discovers a side of herself she never knew existed. But when Jamie's business encounters trouble and his attorney and best friend intervenes, he proves that the blond beauty is too distracting for Jamie. To make matters worse, it appears that Jessica might not be who she says she is, turning Jamie's life--and his heart--upside down. In a world where personal information is always one click away, Jamie must decide if he should trust his heart or watch the woman he loves walk away
Recommended for readers aged 18+
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The proposal to arrange International Muslim Women Summit was first put forward to in a discussion during UNAOC Global Forum held in Bali - Indonesia as the date of August in 2014, was also presented to the Board Members during the World Islamic Forum held in Istanbul. Afterwards, this proposal was agreed upon as an accepted sense during the World Islamic Forum organized in Islamabad.
The Summit whose main theme signaled "Muslim Women – Silk as Soft, Strong as Iron" will strongly emphasized that Muslim Women are gentle individuals with high level of modesty while are still upholding the Fundamentals of Islam. In actual fact that, Muslim Women has incomparable inner and outer beauty. The Summit is attempt to organized a platform with the intention to gather Muslim Women in order to share their ideas and experiences. It will have also predict to create huge synergy and wide networks among the woman based NGOs around the World. Eventually, The Summit has significant importance to strengthening the role of women competencies especially the Muslim Women in Malaysia as a role model.
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Working for R.M.I.
The Company
R.M.I. Global Logistic Services is a family business with a no-nonsense attitude and a casual work environment. The company started in 1997 with four employees and has in recent years undergone a growth to 60 employees. We want to further expand the coming years.
Personal touch and respect for each other is still an important value in our company.
Working at R.M.I. means a lot of responsibility and creativity. Personal development within the field is stimulated. The HR department is looking in consultation for the right training.
New R.M.I. colleagues are first offered an introduction. For a week they get to know all departments of the company to have a good impression on what's goes on at the office.
Each department is headed by an manager who will guide the new colleagues through the new work job as well as IT systems. There the new employee receives a brief introduction about (tank) containers. This introduction is experienced as very pleasant.
After the introduction follows a training period of three months. This period ends with a review what has gone well and has not gone well. This is then followed by a yearly evaluation.
Demand for interns is regular at R.M.I. Global Logistic Services. We are especially looking for third-and fourth-year students Port Logistics (HBO and MBO), but also for IT students. A number of our employees started as a trainee and stayed with at our company.
We are an recognized and approved learning company for Port Logistics, Planning and ICT. For the internships we maintain close contact with the Shipping and Transport College (STC) Rotterdam.
HBO-students are welcome to inquire. For an internship
Please contact HR.


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Sustainable Livestock Production is Possible
UK - New research advocates use of pastures with shrubs and trees as it is more sustainable, improving animal welfare and increasing biodiversity.Consumers are increasingly demanding higher standards for how their meat is sourced, with animal welfare and the impact on the environment factoring in many purchases. Unfortunately, many widely-used livestock production methods are currently unsustainable. However, new research from the University of Cambridge has identified what may be the future of sustainable livestock production: silvopastoral systems which include shrubs and trees with edible leaves or fruits as well as herbage.
Professor Donald Broom, from the University of Cambridge, who led the research said: "Consumers are now demanding more sustainable and ethically sourced food, including production without negative impacts on animal welfare, the environment and the livelihood of poor producers. Silvopastoral systems address all of these concerns with the added benefit of increased production in the long term."
* "It is clear that silvopastoral systems increase biodiversity, improve animal welfare and provide good working conditions while enabling a profitable farming business." |
Professor Donald Broom, University of Cambridge
Current cattle production mostly occurs on cleared pastures with only herbaceous plants, such as grasses, grown as food for the cows. The effects on the local environment include the removal of trees and shrubs as well as the increased use of herbicides, all of which result in a dramatic decrease in biodiversity. Additionally, there is also contamination of soil and waterways by agricultural chemicals as well as carbon costs because of vehicles and artificial fertiliser necessary to maintain the pasture.
The researchers advocate that using a diverse group of edible plants such as that in a silvopastural landscape promotes healthy soil with better water retention (and less runoff), encourages predators of harmful animals, minimizes greenhouse gas emissions, improves job satisfaction for farm workers, reduces injury and stress in animals, improves welfare and encourages biodiversity using native shrubs and trees.
Additionally, shrubs and trees with edible leaves and shoots, along with pasture plants, produce more food for animals per unit area of land than pasture plants alone. Trees and shrubs have the added benefit of providing shade from hot sun and shelter from rain. It also reduces stress by enabling the animals to hide from perceived danger.
"The planting as forage plants of both shrubs and trees whose leaves and small branches can be consumed by farmed animals can transform the prospects of obtaining sustainable animal production," said Professor Broom. "Such planting of 'fodder trees' has already been successful in several countries, including the plant Chamaecytisus palmensis which is now widely used for cattle feed in Australia."
Another success has been in Colombia where a mixed planting of the shrub Leucaena with a common pasture grass resulted in a 27 per cent increase in dry matter for food and 64 per cent increase of protein production.
When ruminants, such as cows, goats and sheep, are consuming the plants from a silvopastoral system, researchers have seen an increase in growth and milk production. Milk production in the tropical silvopastoral system mentioned above was 4.13 kg per cow when compared with 3.5 kg per day on pasture-only systems. As the numbers of animals per hectare was much greater, production of good quality milk per hectare was four to five times greater on the silvopastoral system.
One of the additional benefits of using the silvopastoral system is that it increases biodiversity. Biodiversity is declining across the globe, and the main culprit is farming – 33 per cent of the total land surface of the world is used for livestock production. If farmers were to switch to sustainable livestock production methods, such as the silvopastoral system, the result would be much greater biodiversity with no increase in land use.
Professor Broom added: "It is clear that silvopastoral systems increase biodiversity, improve animal welfare and provide good working conditions while enabling a profitable farming business. The next step is to get farmers to adopt this proven, sustainable model."
The paper 'Sustainable, efficient livestock production with high biodiversity and good welfare for animals' was published today, 25 September, in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
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Global Research
International Action Center
Iraq Solidarity Association in Stockholm
Kuala Lumpur Foundation to Criminalise War
Perdana Global Peace Organisation
Women Solidarity for an Independent & Unified Iraq
Chris Floyd Empire Burlesque
The Common Ills
Foreign Policy In Focus
by Sarah Morrison on 14-10-2012
New study links increase with military action by Western forces
Inas Hamed, one of the local children with a birth defect
It played unwilling host to one of the bloodiest battles of the Iraq war. Fallujah's homes and businesses were left shattered; hundreds of Iraqi civilians were killed. Its residents changed the name of their "City of Mosques" to "the polluted city" after the United States launched two massive military campaigns eight years ago. Now, one month before the World Health Organisation reveals its view on the legacy of the two battles for the town, a new study reports a "staggering rise" in birth defects among Iraqi children conceived in the aftermath of the war.
High rates of miscarriage, toxic levels of lead and mercury contamination and spiralling numbers of birth defects ranging from congenital heart defects to brain dysfunctions and malformed limbs have been recorded. Even more disturbingly, they appear to be occurring at an increasing rate in children born in Fallujah, about 40 miles west of Baghdad.
There is "compelling evidence" to link the increased numbers of defects and miscarriages to military assaults, says Mozhgan Savabieasfahani, one of the lead authors of the report and an environmental toxicologist at the University of Michigan's School of Public Health. Similar defects have been found among children born in Basra after British troops invaded, according to the new research.
US marines first bombarded Fallujah in April 2024 after four employees from the American security company Blackwater were killed, their bodies burned and dragged through the street, with two of the corpses left hanging from a bridge. Seven months later, the marines stormed the city for a second time, using some of the heaviest US air strikes deployed in Iraq. American forces later admitted that they had used white phosphorus shells, although they never admitted to using depleted uranium, which has been linked to high rates of cancer and birth defects.
The new findings, published in the Environmental Contamination and Toxicology bulletin, will bolster claims that US and Nato munitions used in the conflict led to a widespread health crisis in Iraq. They are the latest in a series of studies that have suggested a link between bombardment and a rise in birth defects. Their preliminary findings, in 2024, prompted a World Health Organisation inquiry into the prevalence of birth defects in the area. The WHO's report, out next month, is widely expected to show an increase in birth defects after the conflict. It has looked at nine "high-risk" areas in Iraq, including Fallujah and Basra. Where high prevalence is found, the WHO is expected to call for additional studies to pinpoint precise causes.
The latest study found that in Fallujah, more than half of all babies surveyed were born with a birth defect between 2024 and 2024. Before the siege, this figure was more like one in 10. Prior to the turn of the millennium, fewer than 2 per cent of babies were born with a defect. More than 45 per cent of all pregnancies surveyed ended in miscarriage in the two years after 2024, up from only 10 per cent before the bombing. Between 2024 and 2024, one in six of all pregnancies ended in miscarriage.
The new research, which looked at the health histories of 56 families in Fallujah, also examined births in Basra, in southern Iraq, attacked by British forces in 2024. Researchers found more than 20 babies out of 1,000 were born with defects in Al Basrah Maternity Hospital in 2024, a number that is 17 times higher than recorded a decade previously. In the past seven years, the number of malformed babies born increased by more than 60 per cent; 37 out of every 1,000 are now born with defects.
The report's authors link the rising number of babies born with birth defects in the two cities to increased exposure to metals released by bombs and bullets used over the past two decades. Scientists who studied hair samples of the population in Fallujah found that levels of lead were five times higher in the hair of children with birth defects than in other children; mercury levels were six times higher. Children with defects in Basra had three times more lead in their teeth than children living in non-impacted areas.
Dr Savabieasfahani said that for the first time, there is a "footprint of metal in the population" and that there is "compelling evidence linking the staggering increases in Iraqi birth defects to neuro-toxic metal contamination following the repeated bombardments of Iraqi cities". She called the "epidemic" a "public health crisis".
"In utero exposure to pollutants can drastically change the outcome of an otherwise normal pregnancy. The metal levels we see in the Fallujah children with birth defects clearly indicates that metals were involved in manifestation of birth defects in these children," she said. "The massive and repeated bombardment of these cities is clearly implicated here. I have no knowledge of any alternative source of metal contamination in these areas." She added that the data was likely to be an "underestimate", as many parents who give birth to children with defects hide them from public view.
Professor Alastair Hay, a professor of environmental toxicology at Leeds University, said the figures presented in the study were "absolutely extraordinary". He added: "People here would be worried if there was a five or 10 per cent increase [in birth defects]. If there's a fivefold increase in Fallujah, no one could possibly ignore that; it's crying out for an explanation as to what's the cause. A rapid increase in exposure to lead and mercury seems reasonable if lots of ammunition is going off. I would have also thought a major factor would be the extreme stress people are under in that period; we know this can cause major physiological changes."
A US Defense Department spokesperson said: "We are not aware of any official reports indicating an increase in birth defects in Al Basrah or Fallujah that may be related to exposure to the metals contained in munitions used by the US or coalition partners. We always take very seriously public health concerns about any population now living in a combat theatre. Unexploded ordnance, including improvised explosive devises, are a recognised hazard."
A UK government spokesperson said there was no "reliable scientific or medical evidence to confirm a link between conventional ammunition and birth defects in Basra", adding: "All ammunition used by UK armed forces falls within international humanitarian law and is consistent with the Geneva Convention."
Dr Savabieasfahani said she plans to analyse the children's samples for the presence of depleted uranium once funds have been raised. She added: "We need extensive environmental sampling, of food, water and air to find out where this is coming from. Then we can clean it up. Now we are seeing 50 per cent of children being born with malformations; in a few years it could be everyone."
Metal hazards
Throughout pregnancy, lead can pass from a woman's bones to her child; the levels of lead in maternal and foetal blood are almost identical. Children and particularly the unborn are more susceptible to lead than adults. At high levels of exposure, lead attacks the brain and central nervous system, causing comas, convulsions and even death, according to the WHO. Children who survive acute lead poisoning are typically left with mental defects and behavioural problems.
Exposure to metallic, inorganic or organic mercury can permanently damage the brain, kidneys and developing foetus. Mercury can enter the air, water and soil. Its harmful effects can be passed from mother to the unborn child, leading to brain damage, mental defects, blindness, seizures, muteness and lack of co-ordination.
Depleted uranium
A toxic heavy metal, depleted uranium is what is left over after natural uranium has been enriched, either for use in weapons or for reactor fuel. While the US and UK acknowledge that the dust can be dangerous if inhaled, the jury is still out when it comes to long-term damage to people and their children. Scientists have suggested that its molecules can travel to the sperm and eggs, increasing the probability of cancer and damage to genes.
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The music was composed by Peter Howell at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. It was, in accordance with normal practice at the time, mixed in mono, so is presented here within a subtle mono-compatible stereo image. The sound effects for the story were by Dick Mills, but Peter was anxious to include the Death Zone atmosphere as part of the score so – with Dick still working on a previous project for a while – created that effect himself. The story would later be edited into the standard 4 x 25m episode format for syndication, for which Peter provided some additional "cliff hanger" cues.
In 1995, producer Paul Vanezis was contracted by BBC Video to produce a "Special Edition" of the story, extended beyond the original length (as determined by the transmission slot) and featuring updated visual effects. It was also decided to mix it in Dolby Surround (later updated to full 5.1 surround for DVD) so Peter Howell was called in to rework the music. Both versions of the score are presented complete on this release.
1. Doctor Who – Opening Theme (The Five Doctors)
2. New Console
3. The Eye of Orion
4. Cosmic Angst
5. Melting Icebergs
6. Great Balls of Fire
7. My Other Selves
8. No Coordinates
9. Bus Stop
10. No Where, No Time
11. Dalek Alley and The Death Zone
12. Hand in the Wall
13. Who Are You?
14. The Dark Tower / My Best Enemy
15. The Game of Rassilon
16. Cybermen I
17. Below
18. Cybermen II
19. The Castellan Accused / Cybermen III
20. Raston Robot
21. Not the Mind Probe
22. Where There's a Wind, There's a Way
23. Cybermen vs Raston Robot
24. Above and Between
25. As Easy as Pi
26. Phantoms
27. The Tomb of Rassilon
28. Killing You Once was Never Enough
29. Oh, Borusa
30. Mindlock
31. Immortality
32. Doctor Who Closing Theme – The Five Doctors Edit – Delia Derbyshire, Peter Howell & The BBC Radiophonic Workshop
33. Death Zone Atmosphere
34. End of Episode 1 (Sarah Falls)
35. End of Episode 2 (Cybermen III variation)
36. End of Episode 3 (Nothing to Fear)
37. The Five Doctors Special Edition: Prologue (Premix)
38. Doctor Who – Opening Theme (The Five Doctors Special Edition)
39. The Five Doctors Special Edition: Prologue
40. The Eye of Orion / Cosmic Angst (Special Edition)
41. Melting Icebergs (Special Edition)
42. Great Balls of Fire (Special Edition)
43. My Other Selves (Special Edition)
44. Nothing Can Go Wrong (Special Edition)
45. Bus Stop (Special Edition)
46. No Where, No Time (Special Edition)
47. Enter Borusa (Special Edition)
48. Enter The Master (Special Edition)
49. Dalek Alley and The Death Zone (Special Edition)
50. Hand in the Wall (Special Edition)
51. Recall Signal (Special Edition)
52. Who Are You? / Tell Me All About It (Special Edition)
53. Thunderbolts (Special Edition)
54. The Dark Tower (Special Edition)
55. My Best Enemy (Special Edition)
56. The Game of Rassilon (Special Edition)
57. Cybermen I (Special Edition)
58. Below (Special Edition
59. Cybermen II (Special Edition)
60. The Castellan Accused / Cybermen III (Special Edition)
61. Raston Robot (Special Edition)
62. Not the Mind Probe (Special Edition)
63. Where There's a Wind, There's a Way (Special Edition)
64. Cybermen vs Raston Robot (Special Edition)
65. Above and Between (Special Edition)
66. The Fortress of the Time Lords (Special Edition)
67. As Easy as Pi (Special Edition)
68. I Hope You've Got Your Sums Right / Phantoms (Special Edition)
69. The Tomb of Rassilon (Special Edition)
70. Killing You Once was Never Enough (Special Edition)
71. Oh, Borusa (Special Edition)
72. Mindlock (Special Edition)
73. Immortality (Special Edition)
74. Doctor Who Closing Theme – The Five Doctors Edit (Special Edition) – Delia Derbyshire, Peter Howell & The BBC Radiophonic Workshop
75. The Eye of Orion Atmosphere – Dick Mills & The BBC Radiophonic Workshop
76. Time Scoop – Dick Mills & The BBC Radiophonic Workshop
77. Transmat operates – Dick Mills & The BBC Radiophonic Workshop
78. Rassilon background – Dick Mills & The BBC Radiophonic Workshop
79. Borusa ring sequence – Dick Mills & The BBC Radiophonic Workshop
80. The Five Doctors Titles Zap


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First I would like to draw your attention to the fact that we will officially publish the OSGi Enterprise Specification during EclipseCon. The OSGi Alliance will host a BOF on Monday night. One of the co-chairs of the OSGi Enterprise Expert Group, Tim Diekmann, will give a presentation during this BOF of what is in this specification and why it is ground breaking.
We have three tutorials. The first tutorial is from the people that wrote the OSGi and Equinox: Creating Highly Modular Java Systems book. You will get a feel for Toast telematics! See Working with OSGi: The stuff you need to know.
The next tutorial is from Kirk Knoernschild and Neil Bartlett, both very experienced developers and excellent writers and presenters. This tutorial was actually chosen in the EclipseCon Program Commitee top 5. The subject is a very hot topic at the moment: modularity. We all learned the lessons about coupling and cohesion. However, applying those lessons in large developments is still hard. This tutorial will give you theoretical as well as practical insight in modularity and using OSGi to achieve it. See Modular Architecture from Top to Bottom.
The last tutorial is from Karl Pauls and Marcel Offermans. They are the lead developers of the Apache ACE project and have been developing with OSGi forever. Their subject is absolutely core for OSGi although not always that visible. OSGi is not a "Hello World" technology, such examples only work well when the scope is small. The scope of OSGi is, however, large scale technology. Size does matter for OSGi. A consequence of the scale is that systems have a large number of bundles. This number becomes so large that handling these bundles requires automation because it is just too much to do by hand. Karl and Marcel will teach how to manage installations that reach these problems. See Become a Certified Bundle Manager today.
The first long talk is a must for anyone using OSGi. One of the most exciting pieces of work inside the OSGi is the nested framework RFC. Nested frameworks bring back the initial philosophy of OSGi: the bundles are your application. Enterprise servers based on OSGi starting to deploy many applications inside a single framework. In such a constellation, your peer bundles and peer services might no longer be yours. Nested frameworks returns to this model, an application will be installed in a child framework, also called composite bundles. The lead developers of Eclipse Equinox as well as Apache Felix will present the proposed architecture and discuss merits, pitfalls, and problems that still need to be solved. So do not miss Composite Bundles - Isolating Applications in a Collaborative OSGi World.
OSGi is like a sharp knife. When used well, it is extremely useful, when used wrongly it hurts. Chris Aniszczyk, Jeff McAffer, Martin Lippert, and Paul Vanderlei have been working with OSGi for the better part of the noughties and therefore have lots of experiences and the bruises and cuts to prove it. Between them they cover almost any computing aspect that can be used in conjunction with OSGi. Jeff was the driver behind Eclipse's adoption of OSGi, Chris is the lead developer of PDE, Martin has worked on Aspect Oriented Programming in Eclipse including the weaving issues and is an aficionado of OSGi as well, and Paul brings the experience from the embedded world. A must for anybody that wants to adopt OSGi. See OSGi Best and Worst Practices.
OSGi is at the foundation of RCP, obviously. However, you can use RCP and not see much of OSGi. David Orme has been contracting for J.P. Morgan where they created an internal platform based on RCP. In the last few years they re-architected this platform to take more advantage of OSGi. This is a very good experience report for anybody that has to develop software to be used inside large organizations. See OneBench Reloaded - Pushing the (OSGI) Modularity Story in an Enterprise-wide Rich Client Stack.
Looking at the size of this blog, I do not think I should loose more readers going through each of the 25 mins talks, even though I think they're more than worth it. I therefore list them here as bullets:
- Apache Aries: Enterprise OSGi in Action - A report from a new open source project that will bring us lots of enterprise components for OSGi. Graham Charters from IBM will present.
- My Unmanned System is Eclipse Powered - Next time you see an unmanned vehicle, OSGi might be behind the wheel. Talk about cool OSGi apps! Tankut Koray will show you the role OSGi plays in their architecture.
- Next Generation OSGi Shells - Traditionally shells run inside the OSGi framework, however, this shell works as launching tool, interacting with a Paremus' Nimble to find the necessary bundles. Robert Dunne will tell you about these shells and show you how easy it is to deploy applications consisting of many bundles.
- OSamI Tools for OSGi Application Developers - OSamI is a very large cross-european project to develop common technology for ambient intelligence, all based on OSGi. Naci Dai and Murat Yener from eteration A.S. will tell you more.
- Managing OBR Repositories with Nexus - Maven is moving to OSGi and there is more and more collaboration. Sonatype has adopted OBR in their Nexus repository, allowing it to play with the advanced resolvers that appearing in the market. Jason van Zyl, the man behind Maven, will tell you about their strategy.
- Using JPA in OSGi - Mike Keith and Timothy Ward are the lead authors of the OSGi JPA adaption, a part of the OSGi Enterprise Specification. See how you can simplify using persistence in OSGi bundles.
- OSGi Enterprise for Java EE Developers - How do you go from Java EE to OSGi? Many patterns that are necessary in Java EE do not work well in a very modular environment. Timothy DeBoer will show you how to use Eclipse tools to ease the transition.
- OSGi & Java EE in GlassFish - When Glassfish adopted OSGi a few years ago I was very excited to see how Java EE and OSGi can co-exist, each providing their strengths. Since then, the Glassfish team has more and more adopted OSGi, they even hired Richard Hall, the lead Apache Felix developer. Sahoo and Jerome Donchez are the lead architects and will report to you about the new cool features.
- Realistic Remote Management of OSGi-based Residential Boxes - OSGi was made to be managed remotely. However, managing thousands of devices running OSGi somewhere out there remains a complex area. Dimiar Valtchev from ProSyst has a very long experience with this problem and will elucidate you on the issues and solutions.
- Overcoming sticker shock: addressing the unexpected costs of moving to OSGi in the enterprise - Eric Johnson from TIBCO will explain you what you can expect when you move from a Java EE environment to OSGi, the rules and patterns that work are quite different. This will be an experience report but will also focus on how the community can work to ease this migration.
- Making Dependency Injection work for you - Joep Rottinghuis and Parag Raval from eBay tell you how to use Spring DM to use Dependency Injection in bundles.
- Logging in OSGi Enterprise Application - As a non-enterprise programmer I am always in awe when I see the avalanche of logging information coming out of enterprise programs. However, it seems important and OSGi puts some unique challenges in the way of traditional loggers because they often require global visibility and of course the OSGi Log Service. Ekkehard Gentz provides an overview and a demo of OSGi logging.
- ScalaModules: OSGi the Easy Way with a Scala DSL - The last months I've tried to use Scala because it has features I know from my Smalltalk days and daily miss when using Java. Though any new programing language is painfull to learn (what takes you seconds in Java initially takes you minutes in Scala because you have to figure out how), Scala really looks very interesting. Roman Roelofsen and Neil Bartlett will report to you about Scala Modules, a way to bring modularity to the Scala Language.
I am looking forward to see you again in this 4th OSGi DevCon, lets hope it will be the best ever!
Peter Kriens