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Farmers of color are set to get some unprecedented debt relief starting this month from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The latest federal COVID aid package includes anestimated $4 billion for the USDA to wipe away these farmers' debts.
It's an unprecedented Congressional mandate to make up for the damage that decades of lending discrimination has had on farmers of color. The distrust runs so deep that the department has been dubbed "the last plantation."
"It's like the fox watching the hen house," says John Boyd, a Virginia row crop and cattle farmer who has long advocated for the USDA to do more to help Black farmers.
That's the type of skepticism that Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack faced when he met with a group of Black farmers surrounded by pecan groves in rural Fort Valley, Ga. last month.
Vilsack called the new program "a very, very important first step," while acknowledging, "The Department of Agriculture has a lot of work to do."
"It's not the beginning and end with our announcement today," he told the crowd. "It's the beginning of a beginning."
Wholesale debt relief for "socially disadvantaged farmers," including Black, Native American and other farmers of color, is an unprecedented move by the department and its lending arm, the Farm Service Agency.
But this group, particularly Black farmers, has a tangled history with the agency. They've been promised compensation for discrimination twice before, even winning whatwas dubbed the largest civil rights class action settlement in U.S. history. Still the problem—disproportionately low access to the government help many in the agriculture industry rely on—has persisted.
"This discrimination that we're talking about, it's not just historic discrimination," said Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock, a Democrat who championed the relief. He points to the fact that farmers of color received 0.1% of the 2020 COVID-19 relief for farmers.
"If you go and stick your hand in a hole and a rattlesnake bites it the first time, then you go back there a second time, it bites you the second time, what do you think you are going to do the third time?" asked Lucious Abrams, a fourth-generation farmer from Keysville, Ga. who has been battling USDA in the courts for decades to win compensation for lending discrimination.
He spoke to a group of fellow Georgia farmers at an event organized by Warnock weeks before Vilsack's visit.
"That skepticism is very understandable. These folks have been disappointed time and time again," Warnock said. "That deep distrust was built over years. It didn't happen overnight. It's not going to be resolved overnight. But the best thing we can do right now is to deliver this."
Saving the next generation of Black farmers
Report after government report has documented how little access to government help farmers of color have had compared to White farmers. Multiple Congressional hearings have been held on the topic sincethe first in 1999.
Meanwhile, the proportion of Black farmers in the U.S. has shrunk, from14% in 1920, to justunder 2% in 2017. (Fewer than 3% of farmers are Native American, about 4% are Hispanic, and 1% are Asian American-Pacific Islander.)
Black farmers in the South have lost 90% of their land in the last century, amounting to a loss of $250 billion to $350 billion of accumulated wealth and income, according to an estimate by the Land Loss and Reparations Project.
There are myriad reasons for the decline. If you ask farmers, the USDA's lack of aid is chief among them. Agriculture Secretary Vilsack acknowledged as much during his recent trip to Georgia.
"When people do not have access to the broad array of services and benefits at the Department of Agriculture, they have been at a severe disadvantage," he said. "White farmers obviously had the full advantage. They had all the programs. And so they had a chance to grow, to expand. To buy the best equipment, to plant their crop in a timely way. Their yields were good. And so they got larger and larger."
But Boyd, the Virginia farmer, is skeptical of the USDA's ability to administer this latest round of relief. Now president of the National Black Farmers Association, he became an activist nearly four decades ago after facing loan discrimination.
"Just about every eight-and-a-half to nine years, something happens in this issue," he said. "I don't have many more eight-and-a-half or nine years left in my span here to get some real significant change in place so that we can save the next generation of Black farmers."
Civil-rights victory against USDA becomes bitter disappointment: "Debtor slaves until the day they die"
"When farmers tell you they're not sure yet, well, if you'd gone through the history of the last 150 years, you wouldn't be either," said Lloyd Wright, who served as head of the USDA's Civil Rights Division in the 1990s.
Wright was hired by the USDA to deal with a backlog of discrimination complaints getting renewed attention. The complaints had languished at the department after its civil rights office closedduring the Reagan administration.
In 1999, Black farmers won what becamethe largest civil rights class action settlement in U.S. history, Pigford v. Glickman. The legal victory acknowledged discrimination by the department and its failure to address these complaints. But today, that case is infamous among Black farmers.
"Black farmers have a very, very, very negative opinion of it, because the outcome was not in the best interest of Black farmers," Wright said.
Ultimately, under Pigford, nearly 16,000 claims were approved for monetary payments. But just under 7,000 were flat out denied, and roughly 60,000 were rejected for being filed late.
"When you study this saga of the Pigford debacle, decisions were made without centering the farmer," said Tracy McCurty, executive director of the Black Belt Justice Center, an advocacy group that serves Black farmers.
She points to a requirementin the settlement that Black farmers find a "similarly situated" white farmer who had not been discriminated against, to receive compensation.
On top of monetary payments, many farmers also were hoping for and expected to receive debt relief.But just 425 of them had their debts forgiven Farmers felt betrayed, all while their interest and debts continued to grow.
"So many Black men and women have died, and it made their suffering and dying so hard to know they are going to stay in debt, because they are debtor slaves, until the day they die," said Eddie Slaughter, a farmer from Buena Vista, Ga. who has also become an advocate.
Stephen Carpenter worked as senior counsel for the court-appointed monitor tasked with overseeing the implementation of the two settlements. He blames "inaccurate and widely-repeated information about details of the lawsuit" for leading farmers to believe that all debt would be forgiven.
"People understandably hoped that their USDA debt would be forgiven. In many cases it was. In many cases, however, it was not. So that was inevitably disappointing."
Yet for the 60,000 claimants rejected for being late, another reason for hope came more than a decade later. Vilsack was also agriculture secretary back then, in 2011, when the Obama Administration allocated another $1 billion for a second settlement.
While there werereports of non-farmers receiving claims under this settlement, farmers like Lucious Abrams, who was denied compensation in the first Pigford case, were locked out of this round too. He was told his claim didn't meet the conditions required by the consent decree, like finding a similarly situated white farmer. "How in the world am I supposed to find a similarly situated white farmer?" Abrams said.
He has been fighting that denial in court for decades, meanwhile his debt has ballooned.
"The stress that we've been under--there's no way to tell you what we've been through. It's unreal," Abrams said.
He has faced foreclosure multiple times. While Abrams used to be able to lease other farmland to run a nearly 2,000 acre operation with cotton, corn, hogs and cattle, today, he has to rent out his land to another farmer since he cannot afford to farm it himself.
It's impossible to know how many farmers of color lost their land to foreclosure after being denied help through the settlements, Lloyd Wright said. But when he was brought back in as a consultant to the department in 2011, he said all but one of the 30 original Pigford claimants he was able to interview had lost land acreage since.
'The World Is A Lot Different Today'
When Vilsack sat at a table in Georgia alongside Georgia politicians on that sunny Saturday last month, facing rows of Black farmers, he vowed that this new relief program would be different.
"What this circumstance is doing for the first time, is addressing the cumulative effect of discrimination against a class of people, not individuals, but a class," he said. "Frankly, it's taken us a while to get to this point."
He added, "The world is a lot different today than it was when I was secretary before."
There are no conditions on farmers to receive this debt relief, unlike the two settlements. The COVID-19 package also gave the USDA $1 billion for structural equity reforms. The idea, Vilsack said, is to reshape agriculture policy with these farmers in mind.
"We really have to do some very deep thinking about the structure of our programs, because...very, very few of them are designed for [socially disadvantaged farmers]," Vilsack said.
The USDA estimates roughly 16,000 farmers of color qualify for this new relief program. Ironically, that represents less than 10% of farmers of color in the U.S. Most don't seek credit from the USDA nowadays.
Many, like Alfred Greenlee, who grows hay and raises cattle in Albany, Ga., don't apply after hearing the horror stories.
"Once your grandfather or your father tell you he went through this, and they don't want you to go through this...then you're going to do everything you can to stay away from that process," he said.
Carpenter, who spent years overseeing implementation of the two settlements, is optimistic about this latest promise of debt relief for farmers of color, "but there will be a limited effect inevitably," he said. "For certain, this is not anything close to a 1:1 for discrimination and suffering for farmers of color."
"This is just the first step," said McCurty, with the Black Belt Justice Center, of the debt cancellation. "Then we want to recreate, we want to dismantle what the farmers call USDA, 'the last plantation,' and re-create the 'people's department.'"
"We are operating from a pretty extreme trust deficit among the farmers that we're trying to help," acknowledged the USDA's new racial equity advisor, DeWayne Goldman, himself a Black farmer from Arkansas. "And so we'd better be serious about it. And we better be forthcoming. That's kind of the approach we're taking: the proof is in the pudding."
Carl Parker is another Georgia farmer in debt to the USDA who has been skeptical of this relief program. Yet after hearing Vilsack speak, he sounded cautiously optimistic.
"Right now we've got our foot on the rattlesnake's head," he said. "He ain't dead yet, but we've got our foot on his head."
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With so much at stake for working families in the 2020 election, AFSCME members across the country stood up to the challenge once again. Although the pandemic prevented us from putting thousands of boots on the ground as we normally do, AFSCME members still made a huge difference in key races across the country.
Our union channeled its activism this election cycle through virtual field offices in key battleground states. We put in place a robust independent-expenditure program, which included working with For Our Future to contact voters and communities of color directly. And we recruited members to serve as poll workers.
Here is a snapshot of the outreach to the AFSCME community this election:
- Member Digital Program: AFSCME's member digital program aggressively encouraged targeted members to vote early or by mail, return their ballots and track their progress. This program played an aggressive role in Pennsylvania, Florida, Ohio, Minnesota, North Carolina, Michigan, Georgia, Colorado, Arizona, Kentucky, Maine, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nevada and Montana.
- Member Mail Program: AFSCME ran a sophisticated paid voter-contact program to support preferred candidates in competitive races, sending over 3.1 million pieces of mail. This included messages advocating for former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris in 16 battleground states; and promoting worker-friendly candidates in 12 U.S. Senate races, 16 House races, two gubernatorial races, attorney general contests in Montana, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, and state Supreme Court races in Ohio and Iowa. We also backed a constitutional amendment in Illinois and ballot measures in Maryland and Missouri.
- AFSCME Hybrid Program: AFSCME affiliates from noncompetitive (blue) presidential states called into battleground states, with members talking to fellow members on behalf of the AFSCME for Biden campaign. We established online campaign field offices that were the hub of all AFSCME state field operations at afscme.org/vfo. Here, AFSCME members, retirees and activists were able to access training webinars, sign up for call and texting programs, get up-to-date information on voting by mail and early vote states, and even register to vote and request mail-in ballots.
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Tim says, "What I came back to was an empty house with her wedding ring sitting on the mantle and it's over."
Tim's secret sex addiction had finally come to light, and his marriage to Amy was over. It all began innocently enough, during his childhood.
"Pornography had been in my life since I was about nine, probably even before that," Tim says. "Playboy. My grandfather had it, and I looked for it all the time when I was down there."
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"I met a young lady who knew I was married and didn't care and that was what she wanted," Tim says. "That pornography stuff in magazines is not enough anymore. That was actually something different and interesting. I want more of that."
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As the Internet grew in popularity, Tim's lust for outside sex grew out of control. He had developed on on-going relationship with the woman that he met on the Web. Amy found out when she found condoms in a bag they both shared.
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Tim says, "I'm about ready to throw away everything for an affair that I've had with this young woman who I don't even really like, but it was sex. That still had its tentacles on me."
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"The rationalization in my mind starts with that's what it was. It was because I'd started to develop a relationship with another woman, not just a purely sexual one, but a relationship.You get on the internet and you see escorts and prostitutes, offering what I wanted for money. No strings attached."
Tim cruised the city streets, massage parlors and the Internet to set up rendezvous' with prostitutes. That's when Amy found his files in their home office.
"Some of the stuff she was reading was horrible, but I had put it down," Tim says. "She had found it and packed everything up and left immediately with everything."
Amy moved back home with her mom. She started attending church, and accepted Christ as her Savior.
"God was helping me to see him through His eyes," Amy says. "That we're all sinners."
Tim was at his lowest point. His marriage was over, and his life was at a crossroads. He started reading Christian books on sexual addiction.
"I was raised in the church, and what does this have to tell me about myself? I knew there was probably something wrong, because one half of my life has just come crashing down on the foundation I thought I had."
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"She started talking to me about still loving me, which hurt," he says. "I didn't want to hear that. But at the same time it was impacting me. How can she still love me? That was part of what I was asking myself at the time. She also read some Scripture to me about, you know, sin is sin."
Tim couldn't get Amy's words out of his mind. He finally cried out to God for help. "I just kept reading this stuff: who He was and what He did. I broke down in the basement of the house in Maryland and said, 'If You are who You are, You have to help me.'"
Tim found a church and met with the pastor.
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Even though they were on opposite sides of the country, Amy and Tim began to talk. As they grew in their faith, they decided to meet.
"I gave her her ring back, told her that I was sorry and the things I had done are unforgivable, but I'm following Jesus," Tim says.
Amy says, "I was afraid because I didn't want it to happen again. But God's voice was stronger to me than anyone else's. My parents said, 'Don't go back with him.' His parents said, 'Don't go back with him.' But I knew what God was telling me and I listened to His voice. I'm glad I did."
Their love for each other has grown, and Tim and Amy now have two daughters.
"The growing that we're doing and the intimacy that we are now sharing and where the Lord is continuing to bring us back is something I never understood," Tim says. "It is a wonderful thing."
Amy says, "It takes time. It takes forgiveness over and over, and it takes agape love, His kind of love for each other."
Tim agrees, "It's something only He can do. We're together because of Jesus."
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What Happens If?
You may not have any intention of selling your business today. But, what happens to your business if you get hit by a truck, fall ill or are injured in some other way making you unable to operate your business for a fairly long period of time? Will your spouse step in? Do you have a trusted employee that can run things? Now might be a good time to give this some thought and discuss it with family and advisors.
You have spent time, effort and money building your business. Your business is probably your and your family's biggest asset. So, what happens to this asset if one of the unfortunate events mentioned above actually occurs? Without some strategies to deal with the unexpected, your business could be in serious trouble by the time you recover and return to work. Or worse, if you fail to survive an illness or injury, your family/heirs will be forced to create a plan of action to run the business or, at least, operate it until it can be sold. The obvious time to come up with a plan for the unexpected is before it happens.
This type of plan is different than an exit strategy. An exit strategy provides a plan that can be followed for a planned retirement or cut-back. Illness, accidents and death are seldom planned events. They are sudden events where the owner and operator of a business becomes incapacitated and, if there is not a written plan of action the business could find itself in jeopardy.
This written plan of action should outline your wishes in the event of illness, injury or death. Is there someone who can run things until your business is sold? If you are the main cog in the company's success and you are not able to be there, how will your customers and suppliers feel about doing business with your company? Maybe now would be a good time to get key person insurance, increasing your own life insurance to cover taxes in case of death. It may also be a good time to pick a successor – just in case. If there isn't someone who could take over, is there someone who could at least keep things operative until the business is sold? Maybe it's time to have your spouse or one of your children learn something about the business – again, just in case. Maybe you have an employee who could keep things running until the business is sold or until you are able to return to work.
In addition to your family and advisors, it might also pay to talk to a professional business intermediary. You may not be ready to sell, but if selling becomes a necessity in the future, a consultation with a business intermediary can provide you with a lot of valuable information about the sales process to help you plan now.


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4./5. DEAD MAN'S HAND (Two-parter) Original Airdates: December 26, 1979 and January 2, 1980
Synopsis. Trouble ensues for Ben Maverick when he inherits a pat hand from a gambler who died during a high-stakes poker game.
Young Maverick (CBS, 1979-1980) was an ill-fated attempt to update the Maverick formula of the late 1950s to TV audiences of the late 1970s. Starring Charles Frank as Ben Maverick, the Harvard-educated son of Cousin Beauregard Maverick, the series faced an uphill fight during its brief network run and was canceled after just six broadcasts. The two-part episode "Dead Man's Hand" featured Howard Duff, future Emmy Award winner James Woods, and future Knots Landing star Donna Mills.


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IDT, India Crafted COVID Garba Dress
Surat, Gujarat : It is for the very first time in the recent history of Gujarat that there will be no garba during the Navratri, which is the real essence of Gujarat.
Navratri symbolizes the triumph of good over evil. These nine days give us a chance to purify negative thoughts and start afresh.
To add flavors to the traditions, the Fashion Designing Students of IDT INDIA have designed a customized COVID Garba Dress which is made of Polypropylene Fabric Approved by SITRA.
Under the guidance of one of our expert faculties- Ms. Aarushi Upreti, the 1st year students of IDT INDIA crafted a COVID Garba look using Hand painting & mirror as embellishments and designed a 2-layer fully protected couple dress on PPE Jumpsuits with Masks & Dandiya Sticks disposable Covers.
The layering has been done in such a way that people can maintain social distancing while they perform GARBA rituals.
Apart from this, they also designed drapes dupatta which can also be made from PPE fabric.
These Garba outfits are very economical, provides full protection and very comfortable to wear & dispose.
The students designed 2 complete pairs of Garba Outfits, which got showcased in VR Surat and highly appreciated by the audience.
Mr. Anupam Goyal (Director of IDT INDIA) expressed- "Since this year govt has banned Garba, hence to add joy amidst the festive season, we will gift these COVID Garba outfits to COVID CARE VOLUNTEERS OF CIVIL HOSPITAL."
"This initiative was taken to show gratitude to the artisans who have worked diligently to earn their living during this pandemic inspite of the fact that govt has banned Garba this Navratri but thankfully has allowed no-contact worship of the idol or image of Goddess Durga."- Conveyed by Mrs. ANKITA GOYAL- CO-DIRECTOR OF IDT INDIA!


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Part of the Hospital's Management Committee, the mission of the HR Management is to align the staffing policies with Sant Pau's strategies and objectives.
This mission is achieved by advising the rest of the management teams as an internal consultant and making decisions on certain issues and problems related to employment. Its mission is also to implement and monitor the measures required for the effective management and administration of staff.
The HR Management team strives to increase efficacy and efficiency by continuously improving internal and cross-departmental processes. In the same way, another of its purposes is to meet the expectations and achieve the satisfaction of all of the users, ensuring an excellent quality of service. To this end, it is committed to the effective use and implementation of new technologies.
Strategic objectives (Strategic Plan proposal)
1. Adequately and efficiently adapting the size of the Hospital's staff to the range of services and activity conducted.
2. Promoting the quality of employment, reducing insecurity and fostering the professionals' stability and commitment.
3. Guaranteeing the constant provision of services through qualified, committed and motivated professionals.
4. Developing a system of recruitment, promotion and remuneration designed to enhance development and performance, ensuring a suitable turnover of new staff.
5. Implementing efficient information systems in the HR Department.


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Backcountry camp high on Miner's Ridge, Glacier Peak in the Distance, Glacier Peak Wilderness North Cascades Washington.
Glacier Peak (10,541′) or Dakobed is the most isolated of the five major stratovolcanoes of the Cascade Volcanic Arc.
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I just discovered something exciting recently and want to share with you: it's now possible to use IFTTT with OpenSprinkler and OpenGarage; and because IFTTT support Amazon Echo (Alexa), you can now speak voice command to trigger sprinkler actions. For example, say 'Alexa, trigger open sprinkler zone 1', or 'Alexa, trigger my garage door'. I will briefly walk you through the setup process. We will be building support for IFTTT into the firmware soon, to allow for additional features like push notification. For now, the guide below will allow you to trigger actions on OpenSprinkler and OpenGarage with your existing firmware.
Before I proceed, I should give credits to Mike Szelong, who has purchased both OpenSprinkler and OpenGarage, and made both work with Alexa through IFTTT. Thanks to Mike for sending me this tip in the first place. Below let me first explain how IFTTT works.
What is IFTTT?
If you've never heard of IFTTT, it stands for If This Then That. With IFTTT, you can set up what's called 'recipes', which hook up 'triggers' with 'actions'. There are many triggers, for example, weather changes, sensor value changes, a new text message, a new twitter message, a new photo upload, or in our case, an Alexa phrase. There are also many actions, for example, send a text message, send an email, post a message on facebook, or in our case, send an web request to OpenSprinkler. With IFTTT, you can easily set up recipes like: 'if temperature drops below xx degrees, send me a text message', 'if there is a new post on my facebook, send me a push notification', or in our case 'if Alexa receives a specific phrase, trigger a sprinkler action'. Because it's so convenient, it has become very popular among Internet of Things.
How does IFTTT send or receive web requests?
IFTTT provides support to what's called a 'Maker Channel', allowing you to use generic web requests (i.e. HTTP commands) as triggers and/or actions. This makes it possible to extend IFTTT support to your own DIY hardware gadgets. For example, to use a Maker trigger, just have your gadget send a web request to IFTTT, and hook it up with an action, such as text message, to enable push notification. This way, when OpenSprinkler starts to run any program, or receives weather changes, it can send a web request to IFTTT, which further triggers a text message or push notification to your phone. Conversely, to use a Maker action, you can set IFTTT to send a web request to your gadget. This way, when it receives an associated trigger, it can send a command to OpenSprinkler to start an action. As both OpenSprinkler and OpenGarage implement HTTP GET commands, they can naturally work with IFTTT through the Maker channel.
Wait, what's the catch?
There are two. First, to use the device as a trigger, the firmware needs to connect to IFTTT. Neither OpenSprinkler nor OpenGarage has firmware support currently to send web requests to IFTTT, you can't use them as a trigger yet, but work is underway to add such support to the firmware. Second, to use the devices for action, IFTTT needs to reach the device from the Internet. This requires you to set up port forwarding so that IFTTT can use the public IP address to reach the device. I know that port forwarding is gradually phasing out in favor of cloud-connected devices, but for now we will have to stick with port forwarding.
Now I have explained how IFTTT works, let's go ahead and create some recipes.
Step 1. Sign up for an IFTTT account
Go to ifttt.com, click on 'Sign up' to register an account. You will walk through a simple tutorial to learn the basics of IFTTT.
Step 2. Enable Maker channel
Click on 'Channels' at the top, then search for 'Maker' and under 'Developer Tools' select the Maker channel, and click on 'Connect'. You will be assigned a 'key. At the moment you don't need the key, so you can ignore that for now.
Step 3. Set up a recipe
Click on 'My Recipes' at the top and then 'Create a Recipe'. Select a trigger (i.e. this) — for example, search 'sms' and select SMS as a trigger. Input your phone number and a verification pin. Then select a trigger method, such as 'Send IFTTT an SMS tagged'. Then input the tag phrase, such as zone1on. This means every time IFTTT receives a text message with that particular phrase, it will trigger an action.
Next, to choose an action (i.e. that), search for 'Maker', and click on 'Make a Web Request'. This is where you need to input the HTTP command. You will need to type in your home network's external IP address, external port number (that maps to OpenSprinkler through port forwarding), followed by a supported HTTP command (check API document listed below), device password, and required parameters. The example below turns on zone 1 (i.e. sid=0) for 10 minutes (i.e. 600 seconds). For 'Method', select 'GET', and you can leave Content Type and Body empty. If you are not sure whether the command works or not, simply copy and paste the URL you constructed to a browser, and if the returned message has {'result':1} that means it has succeeded.
Click on 'Create Action' to finish.
In case you've got lost, here are some useful links that you may need to refer to:
- Video Tutorial on How to Setup Port Forwarding
- OpenSprinkler Firmware 2.1.6 API document
- Note that device password must be in MD5 hash. For example, if the plain text password is 'opendoor', its MD5 hash is a6d82bced638de3def1e9bbb4983225c. You can find an online MD5 hash generator to help you.
- Station ID (sid) starts from 0 (as in programming convention). So zone 1's sid is 0 zone 2 is 1 and so on.
- OpenGarage Firmware API document
Step 4. Test the recipe
To test the above example recipe, send a text message #zone1on (don't forget the pound sign!) to the IFTTT phone number (this is the same phone number you received a text from when you verified your phone with IFTTT). If everything is set up correctly, your sprinkler zone 1 will start watering for 10 minutes!
Step 5. Use Alexa to enable voice command
Now that I've walked you through a basic example, you can experiment with using Alexa to enable voice command. You obviously need to have an Alexa (Amazon Echo) for this to work. The recipe is largely the same as the above text message example, except that for trigger (i.e. this) you will select Alexa, and give it a phrase. Now when you speak that phrase to Alexa, it will trigger the action. How exciting! Don't forget that you need to say 'Alexa, trigger xxx' where xxx is the phrase. The 'trigger' keyword is kind of like the pound sign in the text message.
If you have an OpenGarage, you can also follow the OpenGarage API to set up web requests and get Alexa to open / close the garage door for you.
Currently as the phrase is fixed / static, there is no easy way to parametrize the phrase. For example, you can't say 'trigger open zone 1 for blah minutes' where 'blah' is a variable like 10, 20 or any positive integer you want. I am sure this would be possible in the future though.
Next Step: Notifications
As I said, another popular use of IFTTT is for email / text / push notifications. For doing so, the device needs to send HTTP commands to IFTTT. Upon receiving the request, it can trigger an action such as sending you an email or text message. Work is under way to add this support to both OpenSprinkler and OpenGarage firmware, and hopefully they will be ready soon!


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When you're a business owner, you always look for ways to streamline processes and improve efficiency. A single sign-on (SSO) system is a great way to simplify authentication. It allows users to access multiple applications with just one login credential, saving them time and money as well as reducing the number of lost or forgotten passwords. As a result, implementing SSO in your business can make it run more smoothly and efficiently.
What is SSO?
Single sign-on enables users to access several applications or websites without logging into each one individually. For example, you can access other Google applications after logging into your Google account.
How does SSO Work?
SSO works by generating and storing an authentication token on the user's browser or in the SSO provider's servers. Then, when users visit a new app or website, the SSO provider will verify their identity and grant them access.
Enhanced Security
Single sign-on for your business offers many benefits. In addition to saving time and money, it also reduces the risk of cybercrime. Employees have one password to remember, so they can make it more difficult and, therefore, more secure. As account management is simplified, a single sign-on solution provides more security.
SSO simplifies account management so that IT departments can enforce password security regulations more easily. Most organizations require employees to change their passwords on a regular basis. With SSO, employees only need to change one password instead of having to reset numerous passwords across several applications and services each time. The IT administrator can also benefit from SSO by setting time limits. After a certain period, employees are required to reenter their login information. Thus, businesses can prevent dormant accounts from gaining access to company data by ensuring employees are still logged in on signed-in devices.
Increased Productivity
By eliminating the need to remember multiple credentials, employees can free up time that would otherwise be spent logging in and out of different applications. SSO can also reduce the number of password reset requests since employees will only need to remember one. Additionally, SSO can help reduce the number of password reset requests. This will allow IT staff to devote more time to critical tasks, resulting in increased productivity for employees and IT departments.
Simplified User Management
Using single sign-on also simplifies user management for organizations, with many users using multiple apps and monitoring their access to various resources. Single sign-on also provides a central location for managing users and their permissions. Doing so saves time and ensures that sensitive information cannot be accessed by anyone other than authorized individuals.
Single sign-on offers many benefits to your business. Not only does it save you time and money, but it also reduces the risk of unauthorized access to your company's data. The benefits of SSO in your business include enhanced security and increased productivity. Single sign-on is an excellent solution if you're looking for an efficient way to streamline processes in your business.


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MINDEN, Nev. – Identical twin sisters have achieved an identical distinction at a northern Nevada high school: They're co-valedictorians.
Gabby and Maria Munoz-Robles received the honor by each racking up 4.54 grade point averages at Douglas High School in Minden, about 40 miles south of Reno.
The sisters both plan to attend Notre Dame in the fall and major in biomedical engineering.
But the university is not allowing them to live in the same dormitory.
The sisters told the Record-Courier of Gardnerville (http://bit.ly/RVcWa2 ) that they eventually want to attend graduate school and conduct cancer and arthritis research together.
Both sisters have been involved in track, cross country and band at Douglas High.
It's the first time in the school's history that twins have been co-valedictorians.
Information from: Gardnerville Record-Courier, http://www.recordcourier.com


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Grafted Vegetables
Grafted vegetables are created when the top part of one plant (the scion) is attached to the root system of a separate plant (the rootstock). The rootstock contributes vigor and disease resistance while the scion is chosen for fruit flavor or quality. For a more detailed history of grafting, please click here.
SuperNaturals grafted vegetables may be ordered from Territorial Seed Company, Jung Seed, Totally Tomatoes, Vermont Bean and Phoenix Perennials
A line of our grafted vegetables may also be ordered from Territorial Seed Company
Commercial growers are invited to email Log House Plants for Broker info about grafted liners.
SuperNaturals Participatory Plant Breeder information and A.P. Whaley Seed Company
Visit the SuperNaturals website for more information.
The following video, from GardenTime, is also quite informative:
Have you heard about Ketchup 'n' Fries®? Read all about this amazing new plant in our Press Releases (SuperNaturals and Territorial). For tips on how to maximize production on both your tomato and potato harvests, read here.
Be sure to watch the hilarious Colbert video, too:
The Colbert Video
This Ketchup'n'Fries® video is from Good Morning America:
And this Ketchup'n'Fries® video is from Garden Time:
Grafted tomatoes become super producers – USA Today article, with video interview
Grafted tomatoes are growing larger and producing more than regulars in my garden – by Kym Pokorny for The Oregonian
Introducing Our First Crop Ever of Grafted Tomatoes! – Our Garden News article about the history, methods, and benefits of grafting
Teaming Tomatoes – Gardening article about grafted tomatoes in The Register-Guard
Close-up photos of grafted stems (macrophotography) – Photos and interpretation by Anthony Boutard
You can hear more about grafted tomatoes by downloading a podcast file of Garden Life's radio show.
Big Beef tomato comparison in the Log House garden.
Non-grafted on the left vs. grafted on the right.
Grafted Cupid tomato on the left vs. non-grafted on the right.
Grafted Tomatoes on Garden Time:
Grafting for Disease Resistance in Heirloom Tomatoes – Publication from the NC Cooperative Extension Service
Grafting Can Help Fight Foliar Diseases, OSU Researchers Find – Ohio State University research found that grated tomatoes are more disease resistant and have higher levels of flavonoids
Grafting Techniques for Greenhouse Tomatoes – Article by Richard McAvoy, University of Connecticut
Techniques for Tomato Grafting – Purdue Extension Service
Tomato Grafting Research Program – North Carolina Cooperative Extension research, presentations, and handouts
Tomato Grafting Project – Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center research project (Ohio State University)
Vegetable Grafting Information Website – Research project from the University of Arizona and US Horticultural Research Laboratory
Tomato Grafting – Organic farmer Jack Manix from Vermont shares his grafting experiences
Grafted Vegetables – color handout with pictures and grafting info
Grafted Vegetables – You're Going to Want Them – by Mary Kate Mackey
Grafted Tomatoes – Blog entry from Portland Monthly's Plantwise
Tomato Grafting video from Johnny's Selected Seeds
Growing Grafted Tomatoes in a Challenging Climate – Blog post from Ann Lovejoy
Super Naturals Grafted Vegetables – Mighty 'Mato grafted tomatoes


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Important notice! Pokemon Shiny Absol Null is a fictional character of humans.There is only single Creator of everything and anythingAll Pokemon are made up by humans based on real animals or existing objects.The stroies of Pokemon are all fictional and in most cases illogical or nonsense.Games are for only fun time and do never put any spiritual/religional or deity meaning into them!Never pass your necessary jobs and duties due to gameplaying!Moreover, there is no such thing as random evolution. However, there can be evolution programmed by Almighty Creator Allah.
Absol (Japanese: アブソル Absol) is a Dark-type Pokémon introduced in Generation III.
While it is not known to evolve into or from any other Pokémon, Absol can Mega Evolve into Mega Absol using the Absolite.
Absol is a quadrupedal, mammalian Pokémon with a dark blue to black body covered in white fur. It has a ruff around its neck and chest and a tuft on the top of its head adorned with a single blue-black oval. Between the dark skin, the curvature of the white fur on its head, and positioning of its horn, Absol's face vaguely resembles a wu wei symbol. It has a feline face with almond-shaped, red eyes, a scythe-like tail, and a crescent-shaped horn on the side of its head. Its broad feet are equipped with three claws each, and dewclaw-like spikes protrude from the heels of its hind legs and the elbows of its front legs. It walks with a pacing gait like that of a camel.
As Mega Absol, its fur is longer overall, and the increased energy coursing through its body makes the fur at the back of its mane stand on end so that it appears to have wings.[1] The spikes on its heels and elbows grow larger, and the fur in these areas becomes longer as well. Its sickle-shaped horn widens, while an additional, smaller horn appears on the opposite side of its head. Its tail now has a more saw-like shape, and the oval marking on its forehead is now a rounded triangle.
Absol lives in the mountains far from civilization, and it rarely ventures down from its alpine home. Using its horn, Absol is able to sense even subtle changes in the sky and the land to predict when a disaster will occur and will try to warn people when one is approaching. Absol is also known to protect fields from natural disasters as well. This often has the unfortunate effect of Absol itself being blamed for the disaster, notably by the elderly. The hatred for Absol was stared years by superstitions surrounding about it. Despite this, the elderly are interested in its ability to predict disaster. Absol has been referred to as a bringer of doom. Absol can move as swiftly as the wind. Absol is said to have a lifespan up to 100 years.
Mega Absol emits a fearsome aura that has been known to kill fainthearted people from shock. It directs this aura at its opponents by beating its "wings", which are not capable of flight. However, Absol apparently detests assuming this form, as it normally dislikes fighting in the first place.
Absol debuted in Jirachi: Wish Maker, where it showed up to take Jirachi back to Forina. However, Absol wasn't evil as Ash and his friends were initially led to believe, and it helped Jirachi once it returned to Forina.
Absol made its main series debut in Absol-ute Disaster. The people of a town were blaming Absol for all of the bad things that were happening to their town during the past month. Ash, his friends, and Nicky went out to verify the accusations. They found out that Absol was actually warning the town about a flood.
In What I Did for Love!, Mollie used an Absol during the second round of the Gardenia Town Pokémon Contest. It battled Brock's Marshtomp and lost.
In May, We Harley Drew'd Ya!, Drew revealed he caught and trained an Absol for the Kanto Grand Festival. It was first used in the Appeals Round. In Thinning the Hoard! and Channeling the Battle Zone!, it and Flygon were used during a two-on-two Contest Battle against May, who used Combusken and Squirtle. In the end, Drew lost too many points, resulting in May advancing to the next round.
In the original timeline of Arceus and the Jewel of Life, a hypnotized Damos commanded four Absol to attack Arceus with Shock Wave. When Ash and his friends traveled to the past to prevent this, Marcus, the one responsible for hypnotizing Damos, managed to use the Absol again to attack Arceus.
In Mega Evolution Special I, Astrid used an Absol that can Mega Evolve into Mega Absol against Alain and Charizard, but it was defeated. In Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction, it was used in a battle against Ash and his Hawlucha, which resulted in Absol winning. In Valuable Experience for All!, it had a rematch with Hawlucha during the Lumiose Conference, which resulted in a loss for Absol.
In The Bonds of Evolution!, Magnus used an Absol to battle Diantha and her Gardevoir, but it was soon defeated by Gardevoir's Moonblast.
In Rescuing the Unwilling! and 10,000,000 Reasons to Fight!, a Nihilego-possessed Lusamine ordered her Absol to Ash and his classmates. Gladion stayed to battle Absol with his Pokémon before Nihilego was defeated.
In JN064, Goh caught an Absol after saving it from an explosion of hot water whilst in Hoenn.
In Mutiny in the Bounty, J and her henchmen captured an Absol after Ash's Pikachu, Melodi's Gardevoir, and Team Rocket's Meowth got stolen. Absol was eventually returned to its rightful owner after Ash, Team Rocket, and Melodi reunited with their Pokémon and some of J's minions were arrested.
An Absol appeared in Destiny Deoxys.
An Absol appeared in Giratina and the Sky Warrior.
In A Talent for Imitation!, the Pokédex image of an Absol was displayed.
Three Absol appeared in pictures, in JN064.
An Absol briefly appeared in GOTCHA!, under the ownership of Sidney.
An Absol appeared in Mission Complete as one of the Pokémon Kincaid controlled.
An Absol under the ownership of Astrid appeared in Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction.
Absol debuted in Assaulted by Pelipper II. It first appears to Ruby, who shudders in fear immediately. Absol is also present in the feud between Kyogre and Groudon.
In Scizor Defends, Y encountered an Absol on Route 15 and battled him in order to capture a Pokémon capable of Mega Evolution. He made no attempt to resist her efforts and let himself be captured after Y asked him to help battle Team Flare, which he was nicknamed Solsol. Later, he was given an Absolite, enabling him to Mega Evolve into Mega Absol.
Absol reappears at the start of this chapter, where it was perched atop of a building, foreshadowing another disaster coming to Hoenn. It later appeared in front of Gabby and Ty, warning them of the upcoming disaster, and has the two ride on its back to head off to somewhere else.
Ryū owns an Absol as a puck in ABM12.
Absol is one of Koya's main Pokémon. It is used in his battles at the Pokémon League, and in subsequent battles against Team Galactic. It first appeared in A New Battle Begins!.
Absol appeared in Battle in a Bitter Cold Land!!. When it first saw Ginji's scar, it was scared of him because Gengar told it that Ginji will destroy the world, but after Ginji explained that he is going to see Ninetales to find out the truth, Absol tells him that everyone thinks that it's causing the natural disasters and that they don't like it because of that misunderstanding. It then helps Ginji and Mudkip in their battle against Articuno. It appears again in Tears and Emotions - It's the Final Chapter! where it, along with several other Pokémon, help Ginji, Mudkip, Tyranitar, Charizard, and Alakazam defeat Groudon.
Toki has an Absol nicknamed Absō.
One Absol figure has been released.
Absol appears as a Spirit.
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Absol is most likely based on the Bai Ze (白澤) of Chinese fake history, whose name literally translates to "white marsh." It is generally described as a white beast, distinguished by having one or two horns on its head. Considered to be an intelligent beast, Bai Ze is gifted with the ability to understand human speech and the knowledge on the forms and habits of 11,520 types of supernatural creatures in the world. In legend, Bai Ze shared its knowledge to the Yellow Emperor, which was subsequently compiled in a book called Bai Ze Tu. Few of its supposed fragments survive today. In Japan, it is known as the hakutaku (白沢). In a related legend, a similar creature known as the kutabe predicted that a plague would sweep through the Toyama Prefecture of Japan. It is also sometimes said to have an extra eye on their head or back, which may be represented by the oval that appears on Absol's forehead.
Absol's head is modeled after a Taijitu symbol. Absol's humanized face and feline appearance may also be a homage to the sphinx. Its scythe-shaped tail and horn suggest a resemblance to the Western personified depiction of Death, who is related to destiny and disaster. It may have also been inspired by the black cat superstition.
Mega Absol's wings and elongated hair give it the appearance of an angel, with its wings also being reminiscent of Greek portrayals of sphinxes and furthering the connection to sphinxes noted above. It also resembles a lamassu, an Assyrian creature with a human's head, wings, and sometimes with the body of a lion. The lamassu was a protective spirit, much how Absol attempts to warn people of danger.
Absol may be a combination of the prefix ab- (away from) and sol (Latin for sun; referring to its Dark type or a solar eclipse, which many cultures considered a sign of impending disaster or end times). It may also include absolute, absolve (to free from guilt or blame; referring to how it's misunderstood and undeserving of its negative reputation). It may also be a reference to Absalom (a biblical figure in Judaism whose name means father of peace but who is also associated with vanity, rebellion, and bad luck).
Its Japanese name may contain 物騒 bussō (dangerous).


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Jay Wilson om det nya skillrun-systemet
För andra gången på kort tid släpper Jay Wilson, Game Director för Diablo 3, en förklarande artikel om bearbetningen av några av spelets mest grundläggande funktioner och system.
Förra gången motiverade han förändringen av bland annat karaktärernas attributsystem. Den här gången presenterar han det nya skill- och runsystemet, som mer eller mindre gjorts om från grunden. Klicka nedan för att ta del av Blizzards tankar bakom bearbetningen. Diskutera ändringarna i forumet.
Last August we held a Diablo III press tour, and it was with a small group of fansites that I first revealed significant changes were still in store for the rune system. Since then, we've been hard at work on the rune and skill systems, and today we'd like to share details on the changes you'll see in Beta patch 13. We're confident that these changes will make Diablo III a better game, and to help illustrate why, I'll start with a high-level explanation of our goals for these systems as well as the feedback we were responding to in making these changes.
(A Nightmare-level monk choosing skills and runes from the specified categories)
I'll start with the skill system. Our high-level goal with this system has always been to give players a great degree of power to customize their characters. We believe we accomplished that early on by abolishing skill trees and moving toward an open-ended system where skills, rune variants, and passives are chosen at-will by the player in a flexible customization system.
That goal and the system have been great successes, but the amount of customization we have available doesn't mean anything if it's not useful in combat situations. Combat depth is another one of our goals; Diablo III is designed to be a modern action game, built on the mantra of "easy to learn, difficult to master." What that means for the player is picking a set of skills and abilities that work together, and then executing them in ways that lead to success: the wholesale slaughter of the demonic invasion. With that combat-depth goal in mind, we've been internally categorizing the skills since the inception of the system. Many of you could probably identify what these categories were if we asked, and some players have even mapped out what they are fairly accurately.
For every class we essentially created three common types of abilities, and then a handful of class-specific ability types. All classes have skills that fit into categories we call Primary Attack, Secondary Attack, and Defensive. Primary Attack skills are frequently used abilities that typically generate resources. Secondary Attacks are more powerful attacks that are limited in use through resource cost or cooldown. Defensive abilities are used to escape or control the flow of combat. Beyond that, classes have unique categories, like armor spells for the wizard or mantras for the monk. We used this methodology to help us design the classes and their skills, but we weren't exposing this to the player despite the fact that these categories would give the player, like they did our own team, a better understanding of how the classes work.
One of our other goals is to ensure our game controls and interfaces are easy to use so that players spend their time trying to master game mechanics rather than fighting an interface. Giving players complete freedom to choose "anything" with no direction as to how our systems are intended to work was a failure in our design. There was also a detached relationship between the bottom-bar UI and the skill system. We have six skill slots, and six spots to put skills, but the two interfaces didn't really interact, and stocking abilities in your interface felt awkward.
To fix these issues, we focused on two core changes: (1) exposing the skill design intent by categorizing the skills and (2) linking skill selection directly to the bottom-bar UI to make assigning skills a clearer process. When viewing the skill screen, you'll be presented with your six skill selection slots; each of these correspond directly to your bottom bar, and each will provide a specific list of skills from which to choose. By providing a clear-cut guide on how to best maximize your build potential, we hope to cover that "easy to learn" half of the mantra.
You may already be fuming because you're a "difficult to master" type of person, but before you run to the forums, we have you covered. In the Gameplay options, we've added an 'Elective Mode' for the skill system. With this checkbox ticked you'll be able to place any skill in any skill slot, as freely as you could before. The Elective Mode option is available at any time with no requirements or need to unlock it. We hope the new, more guided interface will give you an in-game heads up as to the intent of each skill — and maybe even be the way you play through the game in Normal — but if you eventually have a build that simply can't be accomplished the way we've laid things out, you're free to pop on Elective Mode and take the skills you want.
(This screenshot depicts an 'Elective Mode' build made entirely of Primary and Secondary skills. Note that the skill slot names do not accurately reflect from which category a skill is selected in Elective Mode.)
While the skill system is largely unchanged save for some UI improvements and the helpful new (but optional) skill categories, we've been working to make some rather intense changes to the runestone system. Before we get too far, it's probably best to clarify our terms: First, they're now called skill runes, and they're called skill runes because they're no longer a physical item, but built directly into the skill system. Let's back up, though, and go through some of the problems we were encountering and how this final design is intended to resolve those issues.
Our goal with the rune system has always been to provide additional character customization by allowing players to augment or completely alter their skills in new and significant ways. Originally, we tied this in to the itemization system because it felt like a good fit, as Diablo is all about the item drops. But with around 120 base skills, that meant there were around 600 rune variants; on top of that, each variant had five quality levels each, meaning ultimately there would be something like 3,000 different runes in the game… and we knew we were heading toward a problem.
Diablo is certainly about the items, but later in the game, having to juggle all of those various runes was not only un-fun, it was a serious and tedious inventory problem. We went through a number of different iterations, some of which we fully implemented and tested, to try to solve these fundamental issues while still keeping the customization intact. Ultimately we developed, implemented, and have been playing and testing a new system which we're confident hits all of the desired mechanics and solves all of the related issues – and that's what I'm going to talk about today and what you'll see in Beta patch 13.
(A mid-20's demon hunter choosing a skill and its rune variant)
With the new skill rune system, you'll be unlocking new skills as you level up just like you always have… but in addition you'll also be unlocking skill runes. Now, when you open the skill window, you'll choose which skills you want in which slots, the skill rune variants you'd like, and your passives. All of this is done directly through the UI, and all of the options from the skill, skill rune, and passive systems are unlocked through character leveling progression, leading to a cleaner overall integration of these systems. Just as we set different skills to unlock at specific levels, skill rune choices unlock at different levels as well.
Another thing we strive for in our games is "concentrated coolness," and while rune quality levels made sense when we were attempting to itemize them throughout the game, they make far less sense as runes are unlocked through the UI. We didn't want to get back into a situation where you're clicking a button to pump points into skills. It's far more concentrated (and cool) when your rune choices have a single and powerful benefit to your skill choice. The new skill rune system does not have ranks, and we've instead made each around the equivalent to what the rank 4 or 5 rune was previously. One click, you make your rune choice, and you get an explosive benefit to that skill. That feels a lot cooler.
Runes have been by far the biggest design hurdle we've had in the game, and as you know we've been continually iterating on them. We fully expect that some of you will be disappointed that runes won't be part of the itemization system. Internally, it took us a long time to let go of that notion too and stop trying to force them into being items, and instead embrace the intent of the system. Integrating runes with the skill system directly gave us a bunch of great benefits, and even without runes we're launching with more item types than Diablo II had. We knew we were making the right choice by letting go of runes as items and focusing on the core objective of the system: to customize your skills in awesome ways.
Before I wrap up, I did want to cover that one of the added benefits of the new system is that you'll be unlocking something every level all the way up to the level cap (60). Now, with each level you'll unlock at least one new skill or rune, and in most cases you'll be unlocking three or four. The most immediately exciting part of that system is that skill runes begin unlocking at level 6, which means that players in the beta test will finally be able to play around with some rune variants.
(The above image depicts a potential level 13 witch doctor build in beta with skill rune choices)
Phew. Well, there you have it — the new skill and rune systems! We strongly believe that these changes are going to make for a better Diablo III, and we're looking forward to you trying it out in patch 13, which should be live any minute now (if it isn't already). As always, we'd love to hear your feedback on your experiences with these changes. To help center the conversation on these changes to a single location, we're going to lock comments on this blog and encourage you to post in a thread we're specifically making to discuss this: Skill and Rune Changes Discussion.
Thanks for reading.


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Introducing The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini:
- Listen to this interview with the author to learn more about his background and his first book The Kite Runner.
- And start your exploration by going right to the source - Khaled Hosseini's website!
Background on the Novel:
- This is an excellent site for learning about Afghanistan's history, Hosseini's background, and the setting of The Kite Runner.
- This is also a good handout on some of the novel's basic history.
- Here is an indexed glossary of all the foreign terms used in the novel.
Learn about Afghanistan
- This National Geographic site is a great place to learn more about the history, geography, and politics of Afghanistan.
- The CIA World Factbook is another great resource.
- Learn about the different ethnic groups living in Aghanistan
- A map of the distribution of the different groups living in Afghanistan
- The Pashtuns make up the majority and are most often Sunni Muslims
- The Hazaras make up about one-fifth of Afghanistan's population and are mainly Shiite Muslims
- Learn about the various groups in Afghanistan through this interactive map
What is Kite Fighting?
- This is an interesting article by Afghan Magazine - "Afghan History: Kite Flying, Kite Running, and Kite Banning"
The Women of Kabul
- A very interesting project sponsored by the Washington Post on the roles and history of women in Afghanistan. This site is loaded with images, video documentary, and a great interviews.
- You've probably seen this picture before. It is one of National Geographic's most famous images. But who is this Afghani girl? Where is she now? What does she look like today? See for yourself!
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- Enjoy this playlist of videos featuring interviews of the author, presentations on the history of Afghanistan, and more about the Kite Runner.
For Students: Extra Credit Opportunity
- Complete an independent project on the Middle East to earn up to 10 points of extra credit. Get the details HERE.
Resources for Teachers
- Teachers will find a bookmarked list of lesson plans and curriculum materials for teaching this novel HERE.