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Hi everyone, Vivian here with this week's sketch. I'm normally drawn to very linear designs, but decided to switch things up a bit with some overlapping elements and one larger element.
My interpretation of the sketch is pretty literal, and allowed me to showcase one of the pages from the Rocket Age rocket-shaped mini album. I'm not generally a mini album maker, but I do love using mini album pages on my layouts as design elements, journaling blocks, or photo mats.
Jaime Warren interpreted the sketch a little more loosely, with gorgeous results! Check out how she used a cluster of butterflies as the large element. I also love her layered border with bits of patterned papers peeking out.
We'd love to see your interpretation of this sketch! What will you do with that larger element? If you give it a go, please share your work by posting to our Flickr album.
Have a wonderful day!

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The peaceful purity of this all white casket spray is a touching, inspiring way to honor the departed. Large in scale, the lush arrangement is ideal for a full couch or closed casket service, featuring elegant white blooms such as calla lilies, dendrobium orchids and hydrangea.White roses, orchids, large calla lilies and perfect stems of hydrangea.
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Atlantic City Police Officer Charged with Theft and Misconduct
A 12-year veteran of the Atlantic City Police Department has been charged with official misconduct and theft. 38-year-old Officer Michael l. Jones of Atlantic City faces charges related to his alleged failure to comply with the terms of the live-in police officers program.
The program allows officers to lease public housing for substantially discounted rent in exchange for active community policing efforts. Instead, Jones is accused of not living in the Stanley Holmes Village unit and leasing it out for 74 months pocketing between $39,200 and $51,000.
Jones turned himself in tuesday to the Atlantic County Prosecutors office and was processed and released on his own recognizance with conditions.
He faces 5 to 10 years with a mandatory period of parole ineligibility for the second degree official misconduct count alone.


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We get a little bit more into why Zack Snyder's movies fail — and why they also don't fail enough to be fun or interesting. We talk about Uwe Boll's recent crowdfunding meltdown, Steve Ditko's Objectivist superhero, Mr. A, and why you should be able to hear criticism of your favorite things like a grown-up.
We talk about the possible consequences of Disney's purchases of Marvel and Lucasfilm, and wonder how truly terrifying it would be to have to repossess the American Nazi Party's "Hate Bus."
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netsnmp_mib_api (3) - Linux Manuals
add_mibdir, netsnmp_init_mib, shutdown_mib, netsnmp_read_module, read_mib, read_all_mibs, add_module_replacement, snmp_set_mib_errors, snmp_set_mib_warnings, snmp_set_save_descriptions, read_objid, snmp_parse_oid, get_module_node, print_mib, print_objid, fprint_objid, snprint_objid, print_description, fprint_description, snprint_description - netsnmp_mib_api functionsSYNOPSIS
#include <net-snmp/mib_api.h>Initialisation and Shutdown
int add_mibdir(const char *dirname);
void netsnmp_init_mib(void);
void shutdown_mib(void);
Reading and Parsing MIBs
struct tree *netsnmp_read_module(const char *name);struct tree *read_mib(const char *filename);
struct tree *read_all_mibs(void);
int add_module_replacement(const char *old_module,
const char *new_module,
const char *tag, int len);
void snmp_set_mib_warnings(int level);
void snmp_set_mib_errors(int level);
void snmp_set_save_descriptions(int save);
Searching the MIB Tree
int read_objid(const char *input,
oid *objid, size_t *objidlen);
oid *snmp_parse_oid(const char *input,
oid *objid, size_t *objidlen);
int get_module_node(const char *name, const char *module,
oid *objid, size_t *objidlen);
void print_mib(FILE *fp);
void print_objid(const oid *objid, size_t objidlen);
void fprint_objid(FILE *fp,
const oid *objid, size_t objidlen);
int snprint_objid(char *buf, size_t len,
const oid *objid, size_t objidlen);
void print_description(const oid *objid, size_t objidlen, int width);
void fprint_description(FILE *fp,
const oid *objid, size_t objidlen, int width);
int snprint_description(char *buf, size_t len,
const oid *objid, size_t objidlen, int width);
The functions dealing with MIB modules fall into four groups - those dealing with initialisation and shutdown, with reading in and parsing MIB files, with searching the MIB tree, and output routines.Initialisation and Shutdown
add_mibdir is used to add the specified directory to the path of locations which are searched for files containing MIB modules. Note that this does not actually load the MIB modules located in that directory, but is simply an initialisation step to make them available to netsnmp_read_module. This function returns a count of files found in the directory, or a -1 if there is an error. It should be called before invoking netsnmp_init_mib.
configures the MIB directory search path (using
), sets up the internal MIB framework,
and then loads the appropriate MIB modules (using
netsnmp_read_module and read_mib).
See the ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES section for details.
It should be called before any other
routine that manipulates or accesses the MIB tree
(but after any additional
shutdown_mib will clear the information that was gathered by netsnmp_read_module, add_mibdir and add_module_replacement. It is strongly recommended that one does not invoke shutdown_mib while there are SNMP sessions being actively managed.
Reading and Parsing MIBs
netsnmp_read_module takes the name of a MIB module (which need not be the same as the name of the file that contains the module), locates this within the configured list of MIB directories, and loads the definitions from the module into the active MIB tree. It also loads any MIB modules listed in the IMPORTS clause of this module.
read_mib is similar, but takes the name of the file containing the MIB module. Note that this file need not be located within the MIB directory search list (although any modules listed in the IMPORTS clause do).
read_all_mibs will read in all the MIB modules found on the MIB directory search list.
In general the parser is silent about what strangenesses it sees in the MIB files. To get warnings reported, call snmp_set_mib_warnings with a level of 1 (or 2 for even more warnings).
add_module_replacement can be used to allow new MIB modules to obsolete older ones, without needing to amend the IMPORTS clauses of other modules. It takes the names of the old and new modules, together with an indication of which portions of the old module are affected.
tag len load the new module when: NULL 0 always (the old module is a strict subset of
the new) name 0 for the given tag only name non-0 for any identifier with this prefix
Searching the MIB Tree
read_objid takes a string containing a textual version of an object identifier (in either numeric or descriptor form), and transforms this into the corresponding list of sub-identifiers. This is returned in the output parameter, with the number of sub-identifiers returned via out_len. When called, out_len must hold the maximum length of the output array. If multiple object identifiers are being processed, then this length should be reset before each call. This function returns a value of 1 if it succeeds in parsing the string and 0 otherwise.
snmp_parse_oid is similar, but returns a pointer to the parsed OID buffer (or NULL).
takes a descriptor and the name of a module, and returns the corresponding
oid list, in the same way as
If the module name is specified as "ANY", then this routine will
assume that the descriptor given is unique within the tree, and will
return the matching entry. If this assumption is invalid, then the
behaviour as to which variable is returned is implementation
print_mib will print out a representation of the currently active MIB tree to the specified FILE pointer.print_objid will take an object identifier (as returned by read_objid, snmp_parse_oid or get_module_node), and prints the textual form of this OID to the standard output.
fprint_objid does the same, but prints to the FILE pointer specified by the initial parameter.
snprint_objid prints the same information into the buffer pointed to by buf which is of length len. It returns the number of characters printed, or -1 if the buffer was not large enough. In the latter case, buf will typically contain a truncated version of the information (but this behaviour is not guaranteed).
print_description, fprint_description, and snprint_description take a similar object identifier and print out a version of the MIB definition for that object, together with the full OID. The width argument controls how the OID is layed out.
By default the parser does not save descriptions since they may be huge. In order to be able to print them, it is necessary to invoke snmp_set_save_descriptions(1)before calling init_mib (or similar).
The main use of environmental variables with respect to these API calls is to configure which MIB modules should be loaded, and where they are located.
A colon separated list of directories to search for MIB modules.
Default: /usr/share/snmp/mibs
Used by init_mib, netsnmp_read_module, read_all_mibs and (implicitly) by read_mib. - MIBS
A colon separated list of MIB modules to load.
The default list of modules will depend on how the Net-SNMP software was originally compiled, but is typically: IP-MIB:IF-MIB:TCP-MIB:UDP-MIB:SNMPv2-MIB:RFC1213-MIB: UCD-SNMP-MIB:HOST-RESOURCES-MIB - If the value of the MIBS environmental variable starts with a '+' character, then these MIB modules will be added to the default list. Otherwise these modules (plus any that they IMPORT from) will be loaded instead of the default list.
- If the MIBS environmental variable has the value ALL then read_all_mibs will be called to load the full collection of all available MIB modules.
- Used by init_mib only.
A colon separated list of files to load.
Default: (none)
Used by init_mib only.


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Jerome Taylor
Buddhism may be touted in the West as an inherently peaceful philosophy, but a surge in violent rhetoric from small but increasingly influential groups of hardline monks in parts of Asia is upending the religion's tolerant image.
Buddhist mobs in Sri Lanka last week led anti-Muslim riots that left at least three dead and more than 200 Muslim-owned establishments in ruins, just the latest bout of communal violence there stoked by Buddhist nationalists.
In Myanmar, ultra-nationalist monks led by firebrand preacher Wirathu have poured vitriol on the country's small Muslim population, cheering a military crackdown forcing nearly 700,000 Rohingya into Bangladesh.
And in neighbouring Thailand, a prominent monk found himself in hot water for calling on followers to burn down mosques.
What has prompted this surge in aggressive rhetoric from followers of a faith that is so often equated, rightly or wrongly, with non-violence?
For many in the West, schooled in Buddhism via the beatniks, Hollywood, meditation classes, tropical holidays and inspirational Dalai Lama quotes, the visceral response of these monks can be a shock.
But Michael Jerryson, an expert on religion at Youngstown State University who has just completed a book exploring Buddhism and violence, says throughout history some Buddhists – like any faith – have used religion to justify violence.
"There's a common mindset, whether it's Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand . . . that Buddhism is somehow under threat," he said, describing the latest incarnation of violent Buddhist rhetoric.
"Each area has its own history, its own causes and instigators, but these instigators are also interlinked."
Invasive Islam
In many recent cases around Asia, this aggression has been targeted toward Muslims.
After the Taliban's destruction of the Bamiyan Buddha statues in Afghanistan and the "war on terror" rhetoric, Jerryson says, warped historical grievances have "collided with recent Islamophobia".
Despite centuries of largely peaceful co-existence and trading, Buddhist fundamentalist groups portray Islam as invasive, toppling ancient Buddhist empires in Malaysia and Indonesia and now threatening the same for modern Buddhist nations through jihad or high birth rates.
Myanmar's Wirathu has built a following railing against Muslims in incendiary sermons both in person and on Facebook – which closed down his page in January.
While Muslims make up less than 4 percent of Myanmar's population, Wirathu paints a millenarian portrait of an Islamic plot to eradicate Buddhism.
His Ma Ba Tha group was instrumental in pushing laws to restrict interfaith marriages and changing religion.
In Sri Lanka, Buddhist militancy has gone mainstream, with clergy seen clashing with riot police and leading anti-government protests.
During the brutal 26-year civil war, the ire of ultra-nationalists among the mainly Buddhist Sinhalese majority was focused on the island's Tamil Hindus.
But after the Tamil Tigers were beaten in 2009, hardliners turned on Muslims, who make up some 10 percent of the population.
Monk Galagodaatte Gnanasara, the movement's most prominent leader, is on bail facing hate speech charges and insulting the Quran.
"The Quran should be banned in the country," he said recently. "If you don't, we will go from house to house and campaign till it is banned."
His movement BBS – Buddhist Force – hosted Wirathu and his followers in September 2014.
In Thailand, anti-Muslim hardliners have had less success.
Thai columnist Sanitsuda Ekachai says years of corruption scandals have undermined faith in the clergy.
"Subsequently, local monks' ethnic prejudices carry far less weight with the public and state authorities than their counterparts in Myanmar and Sri Lanka," she said.
But there have been flashes of tension such as in the country's Malay Muslim-majority south, where a brutal insurgency has killed more than 6,500 civilians in the last decade.
Most of the dead are Muslim civilians, but Buddhist monks have also been targeted by militants, fuelling animosity towards Islam.
Maha Apichat, a young and influential ex-monk, used Facebook to call on followers to burn down a mosque for every monk. He was later defrocked.
'Kill communists'
Experts say Buddhist clergy can trigger violence without directly participating.
"With a couple of very rare exceptions Buddhist monastic groups don't carry out the violence themselves," explains Iselin Frydenlund, from the Norwegian School of Theology, who has written extensively about what she dubs "Buddhist protectionist" movements in Myanmar and Sri Lanka.
"But what they will do is provide the justification for the use of violence carried out by others, be they vigilante groups, civilians, police or soldiers."
It is not just global Islamophobia fuelling these groups, she adds – colonial history, globalisation and the advance of secularism play their part.
"People feel they are losing their traditions."
Puangthong Pawakapan, a politics expert at Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University, points to an earlier threat to monks from the recent past – communism.
During the height of the Cold War in the 1970s, one of Thailand's most prominent right-wing monks – Kittiwuttho – famously told followers it was "no sin to kill communists".
Jerryson says he fears the recent religious communalism could spread to vulnerable minorities, such as Buddhists in Bangladesh's Chittagong Hill Tracts.
"By labelling Muslims as adversaries to Buddhism, which historically has not been true, it solidifies the perception that the relationship is adversarial," he warns.
"The damage is being done, there is a breakdown of trust, a building of fears."


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The calendar display scrolls automatically through time when you move out of the visible portion. You can also scroll it manually. Imagine that the calendar window contains a long strip of paper with the months on it. Scrolling the calendar means moving the strip horizontally, so that new months become visible in the window.
Scroll calendar one month forward (calendar-scroll-left
Scroll calendar one month backward (calendar-scroll-right
Scroll forward by three months (calendar-scroll-left-three-months
Scroll backward by three months (calendar-scroll-right-three-months
The most basic calendar scroll commands scroll by one month at a time. This means that there are two months of overlap between the display before the command and the display after. > scrolls the calendar contents one month forward in time. < scrolls the contents one month backwards in time.
The commands C-v and M-v scroll the calendar by an entire screenful—three months—in analogy with the usual meaning of these commands. C-v makes later dates visible and M-v makes earlier dates visible. These commands take a numeric argument as a repeat count; in particular, since C-u multiplies the next command by four, typing C-u C-v scrolls the calendar forward by a year and typing C-u M-v scrolls the calendar backward by a year.
The function keys PageDown (or next) and PageUp (or prior) are equivalent to C-v and M-v, just as they are in other modes.


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Of the thousands of fishing sites on the internet I come to FAOL a lot, when I have the time I check the board three or more times a day just to keep in touch. I am a member of two or three other fishing sites but rarely post and only log into the boards once or twice a week to check for P.M.?s. I come here to get away from the world, if I want to be sworn at, yelled at or talk politics I can go to work, or read any number or other ?fishing? boards.
When I log in here I know that FAOL is going to be Rated G or PG13 at the most and know that the content is safe for my kids or friends kids. I know that when I come here I will find good people with ideas about fly fishing or related topics. While there are a lot of topics we don?t agree on in this earth we can all come here and talk fishing, and agree that fishing is something worth our time. It doesn?t mater what country we are from, what political party we are with or what religion we do or don?t belong to, this site is pure clean fishing and I really appreciate that.
My thanks go out to those who make FAOL what it is, the Management and the moderators and the other members. Thank you for giving me a small place in this world that is as free as possible from the day to day garbage of this world.


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American Clean Skies Foundation
Learn more from the Center for Media and Democracy's research on climate change. |
This article is part of the Coal Issues portal on SourceWatch, a project of Global Energy Monitor and the Center for Media and Democracy. See here for help on adding material to CoalSwarm. |
The American Clean Skies Foundation -- a Washington D.C. based 501(c)3 non-profit group -- states on its website that it "was formed in 2007 to provide all the facts on clean energy -- particularly natural gas and other clean fuels such as wind and solar -- and about the need for greater energy efficiency."[1] The organization was founded by Aubrey K. McClendon, the billionaire CEO of Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake Energy Corp., one of the country's top sellers of natural gas.[2]
In December 2007, the Foundation reported $2,836,504 in assets and $3,166,303 in income, according to Internal Revenue Service reports. [3]
Clean Skies TV Network
In April 2008, the Foundation launched CleanSkies.tv, later renamed the Clean Skies TV Network. The online video channel "has applied for press credentials that would place its reporters and crew inside the U.S. Capitol," according to Dow Jones. The CleanSkies.tv program "Clean Skies Sunday," which is anchored by former CBS Morning News host Susan McGinnis, is also broadcast by the WJLA-7, the ABC affiliate in Washington DC. One show featured Chesapeake CEO Aubrey McClendon discussing a Clean Skies Foundation report that concluded "natural gas supplies are vast enough to meet current demand for more than 100 years, a key talking point by the natural gas industry in its congressional lobbying efforts." [4] [5]
CleanSkies.tv initially had "peer-group partners," which "advise it on select programming," including Honda USA, Natural Gas Vehicles for America and natural-gas provider Clean Energy Fuels. [6]
In late 2008, Chesapeake plans to launch another online video channel, Shale.tv, named after the Barnett Shale natural gas formation in North Texas. [7]
Branded News
CleanSkies.tv was initially "operated by Branded News, the Oklahoma company that also runs the National Rifle Association's online television site." The CleanSkies.tv news division "is part of the CleanSkies.tv network, but says its activities are shielded from the foundation's influence by an oversight committee chaired by former Associated Press Chairman Burl Osborne," according to a 2008 article. [4]
As of 2009, the Clean Skies Network website stated, "The Board of Directors of the [American Clean Skies] Foundation believes that one of the best ways they can accomplish their mission is to fully support our News Division in its efforts to inform the public about all forms of energy, objectively and free from bias. Clean Skies News operates with full editorial independence in its' [sic] reporting, guaranteed." [8]
In July 2010, ACSF launched the "Shale Country" website, to promote their mission of promoting natural gas as a clean fuel.
The video aspect of this project is being managed by Harriet Gordon Getzels.
In 2008, the CleanSkies.tv program "Energy Matters" was hosted by former oil lobbyist Denise Bode and was also broadcast on Oklahoma's News Radio 1000, KTOK. [4]
In addition to McGinnis, former journalists working for CleanSkies.tv in 2008 included Kelley Rickenbaker, formerly of CBS and CNN; Jim Allen; and Anna Davalos, formerly of the Associated Press Online Video Network. [9]
- Aubrey McClendon, Chairman & Founder
Former personnel
- Denise A. Bode, CEO. "Bode served for seven years as president of the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) in Washington, D.C., a national trade organization representing America's natural gas and oil producers." [10]
Contact details
American Clean Skies Foundation
750 1st St N.E. Suite 1100
Washington D.C. 20002
Phone: 202-682-6294
Fax: 202-682-3050
Website: http://www.cleanskies.org/
Mission Statement as Propaganda
The American Clean Skies Foundation was formed to educate the American public about clean energy- particularly natural gas and other clean fuels such as wind and solar- and about the need for greater energy efficiency, and for any other exclusively religious, charitable, scientific, literary and educational purpose included within the meaning of section 501(c) (3) of the Internal revenue Code of 1986 or the corresponding section of any future tax code (the "Code")
Derrick Jensen and others have pointed out that an element of successful propaganda is if the creators of the message can slide their premises by the audience, without their noticing. So when a Nazi sympathizer asks the question, "What are we going to do about the Jewish problem?", if you answer, he has won, because he has gotten you to accept the premise that a) there is a Jewish problem, and b) something should be done about it. It looks like a question, but it is actually propaganda.
Similarly, we normally don't think about a mission statement as being propaganda, but notice well this part:
The American Clean Skies Foundation was formed to educate the American public about clean energy- particularly natural gas and other clean fuels....
OK, clean fuels. That's all good. But why mention natural gas here at all? Why not just say "we want to educate about clean fuels" and let the science show what that is? How did they decide a priori that natural gas was "clean energy"? Is this a natural fact which no one disputes? Or is there controversy and doubt about this claim? (A: There is controversy around this claim!) Do the creators of this so-called charitable foundation have financial connections to the gas industry? (Yes, they do!)
- GuideStar Entry (may need free registration to view this page)
Note that the NTEE classification is "Environmental Quality Protection, Beautification / (Research Institutes and/or Public Policy Analysis)"
Articles and resources
Related SourceWatch articles
- ↑ "Your Gift Will Have a Lasting Impact", American Clean Skies Foundation website, accessed May 2008.
- ↑ Dina Cappiello, "Natural Gas: Aubrey McClendon's energy 'education' campaign" ClimateWire, April 24, 2008.
- ↑ "American Clean Skies Foundation," GuideStar.org, accessed September 2008.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Siobhan Hughes, "CleanSkies.TV Enjoys Backing of Top Natural Gas Executive," Dow Jones (sub req'd), August 8, 2008.
- ↑ Press release, "American Clean Skies Foundation Chairman Aubrey McClendon to Announce Launch Date for New CLEANSKIES.TV Network, Multi-Million Dollar Advocacy Campaign on Clean Energy and Natural Gas,& Findings from New National Polls on Clean Energy," American Clean Skies Foundation / Rational PR via PR Newswire, February 22, 2008.
- ↑ Mariah Blake, "Cloudy Skies," Columbia Journalism Review, January / February 2009.
- ↑ Bill Dawson, "Natural Gas Firm Going Online With 'Shale.tv' Programming," Yale Forum on Climate Change & the Media, September 4, 2008.
- ↑ "About Clean Skies," Clean Skies TV Network website, accessed July 2009.
- ↑ Press release, "American Clean Skies Foundation Chairman Aubrey McClendon to Announce Launch Date for New CLEANSKIES.TV Network, Multi-Million Dollar Advocacy Campaign on Clean Energy and Natural Gas & Findings from New National Polls on Clean Energy," American Clean Skies Foundation, February 22, 2008.
- ↑ American Clean Skies Foundation, American Clean Skies Foundation website, accessed June 2008
External resources
- "American Clean Skies Foundation relationship map," Muckety.com, accessed July 2009.


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IVC WILL DO THE BEST TO ATTEND THE 15TH ISUZU GLOBAL TECHNICAL SKILLS CONTEST (I-1 Grand Prix 2020)
"Strong – Talent – Never Give Up"– this is the message of the contestants representing Isuzu Vietnam to participate in the 15th I-1 Grand Prix. The contest is expected to be held on November 25 ~ 27, 2020.
I-1 Grand Prix (I-1 GP) 2020 – Trucks segment is the global Isuzu Technician Skills Competition held by Isuzu Japan annually. This is a professional competition that brings together the elite technicians with high skills from ISUZU globally to compete in the automotive repair field.
Unlike previous years, the form of this competition will change into online contest. This requires candidates to have fully knowledge and skills to conjecture the situation accurately.
Winning the trophy of this competition is always a dream and the testimony to the effort of Isuzu technicians. In 2019, Isuzu Vietnam proudly overcame 21 countries and be the Champion for this prestigious contest.
This year, with "the belief of victory", Isuzu Vietnam has well prepared for our technicians, ensuring full provide of theoretical knowledge and ability to handle situation smoothly.
In addition, the leaders of Isuzu Vietnam always give special attention and encouragement to the contestants.
In the difficult context of Covid-19 epidemic, the organizers of Isuzu Japan decided to change the contest into the online form. This aim to maintain the programs to improve quality of skills & create opportunities for technicians to interact and deal with more situations; especially the application of online systems in training & ability to promptly handle specialized jobs in accordance with current circumstances.
Assessing the unique score of the contest, Mr. Naohiko Yanagawa – (Senior Leader of Isuzu Japan) stated that: "This year's online competition will be extremely difficult and challenging, because the questions will revolve around issues of "Diagnosing vehicles through online software". This requires candidates to understand and use knowledge accurately, instead of relying on experience and practical observations.
Once again, hopefully all contestants this year will pass the rounds excellently.
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The longstanding proposal for a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the region of the Middle East includes a UN General Assembly proposal that, pending and during the establishment of such a zone, states in the resion declare solemnly that they will refrain, on a reciprocal basis, from producing, acquiring or in any other way possessing nuclear weapons and nuclear explosive devices and from permitting the stationing of nuclear weapons on their territory by any third party, to agree to place all their nuclear facilities under International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards and to declare their support for the establishment of the zone and to deposit such declarations with the Security Council for consideration.Status
The 1991 Madrid Peace Conference established a multinational mechanism to work on making the Middle East a nuclear weapon-free zone. The activities of the multilateral working group on Arms Control and Regional Security in promoting mutual confidence and security in the Middle East include establishment of a NWFZ. This mechanism, however, stalled in 1995 as a result of the Israeli position.Documents
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What can you learn about persuasion from hostage negotiation?
Chris Voss and I first met four years ago when he was teaching international business negotiations at Harvard University.
Chris was the FBI's lead international kidnapping negotiator for years and he currently teaches business negotiation in the MBA program at Georgetown University 's McDonough School of Business. He's also CEO of the Black Swan Group.
The full interview was over 30 minutes long so for brevity's sake I'm only going to post highlights here.
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What Hostage Negotiators Know That Most Negotiators Get Wrong
In terms of basics, what do you think people can learn from hostage negotiating that they don't learn in your typical negotiating class?
…business negotiations try to pretend that emotions don't exist. What's your best alternative to a negotiated agreement, or 'BATNA.' That's to try to be completely unemotional and rational, which is a fiction about negotiation. Human beings are incapable of being rational, regardless. There's a lot of scientific evidence now that demonstrates that without emotions you actually can't make a decision, because you make your decisions based on what you care about.
So hostage negotiators come at negotiation from a very different perspective. They believe that everything is about negotiation, and that you have to understand how to control and influence and impact negotiations from the very beginning. So instead of pretending emotions don't exist in negotiations, hostage negotiators have actually designed an approach that takes emotions fully into account and uses them to influence situations, which is the reality of the way all negotiations go…
What's The Biggest Myth People Believe About Negotiating?
The great myth out there, and I know why Roger Fisher came up with the idea of BATNA, but the great myth out there is either that you have to have a BATNA, or that you even need to think about your BATNA. The real effect of that is that if you don't have a BATNA that you like, or you don't have a BATNA at all, then you've just taken yourself hostage and put yourself at the mercy of the person you're dealing with.
I think that's a great mistake that everybody makes. They're worried about their BATNA, and they spend a lot of time calculating their BATNA, when they should be spending time figuring out how to influence the other side. And how to figure out how to listen to them effectively to find out what will influence them…
What's The Best Technique for Influencing Someone?
The idea is to really listen to what the other side is saying and feed it back to them. It's kind of a discovery process for both sides. First of all, you're trying to discover what's important to them, and secondly, you're trying to help them hear what they're saying to find out if what they are saying makes sense to them.
Someone may have a stated goal in a negotiation, but what they're trying to negotiate for isn't going to get them that. You can say, "What are we trying to accomplish here?" Then, "How is what you are asking for going to get you that?" If you make them explain it to you, a lot of times both you and them are going to discover whether or not it makes any sense. So you can become a real sounding board in the negotiations to try and figure out whether the solutions match the problems.
Is Compromise A Good Thing Or The Very Worst Thing?
…A lot of corporate positions are the result of compromise. You've got a representative of a corporation who's representing a compromised point. Their goal may be a compromise that might not necessarily line up with what they are trying to accomplish. The real problem with compromise is everybody talks about compromise as a good thing, that in good relationships you've got to compromise. Compromise has come to be known as this great concept. In relationships and politics and everything. Compromise is a good thing.
It's really one of the worst things in disguise. I was trying to describe this to a woman who is a neighbor of mine just a couple of weeks ago about how much I hate compromise. She said so what you're telling me is like if a husband wants his wife to get breast implants, and she doesn't want to, a compromise would be that she gets one… So you're negotiating with a company, they have a compromised position, that's what they want. So you've got to ask them open-ended questions to get them to see. You've got to use basic hostage negotiation skills to get them to hear it and sound it out, so that they begin to see that what they want might possibly be ridiculous…
The Two Biggest Mistakes You're Making In Negotiations
I would put it in a tie with, they neglect to pay attention to emotional factors, and they really neglect to listen. I compare a lot of negotiations to dealing with a schizophrenic, because a schizophrenic's always got a voice in his head talking to him which makes it very hard for him to listen to you.
Now most people in business negotiations, they approach the negotiation, and they've got firmly in their mind all of the arguments that support their position. So when they're not talking, they're thinking about their arguments, and when they are talking, they're making their arguments. They view negotiation as a battle of arguments.
If while you're making your argument, the only time the other side is silent is because they're thinking about their own argument, they've got a voice in their head that's talking to them. They're not listening to you. When they're making their argument to you, you're thinking about your argument, that's the voice in your head that's talking to you. So it's very much like dealing with a schizophrenic.
If your first objective in the negotiation, instead of making your argument, is to hear the other side out, that's the only way you can quiet the voice in the other guy's mind. But most people don't do that. They don't walk into a negotiation wanting to hear what the other side has to say. They walk into a negotiation wanting to make an argument. They don't pay attention to emotions and they don't listen.
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When I recently wrote a post about the Joomla 1.6 ACL use case presentation written by Amy Stephen, I had a slight problem. When using JCE I couldn't insert the video using the JCE Media Manager.
I had to get the post out, so I did a work-around and published the post. A few days ago I got an email from Bryan Z., telling me he had the same problem. So I decided to find out how to solve it. An entry into the JCE forums - and a few hours later it was solved :)
The problem
The problem I had was that the video code was stripped from the HTML when I switched back to the editor. No matter what I tried, the Vimeo embed code was removed when I left the HTML view. Vimeo videos are Flash movies, so I tried using the JCE Media Manager. However, although I managed to paste in the URL and setting the parameters, the resulting code was not working. Actually, the media manager was inserting a IMG tag with the URL in a TITLE tag. Very strange, and not something I would expect from JCE, one of the finest Joomla extensions around. Extremely annoying - there had to be a solution!
The solution is so simple!
It turns out that you need to alter a setting in the Groups configuration to make this work. The setting is found far down on the Layout tab of the JCE Group (edit) page.
You need to make sure that the checkbox for ''Media Support' is checked. When I checked this box, the JCE Media Manager worked as expected and I was able to insert the video without any problems at all.
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Listen: Hi-Heel Sneakers / Tommy Tucker TommyTuckerHighHeeled.mp3
It was very early on that I'd learned to depend on certain labels for a consistant style or quality. Many collectors focus on their entire runs, and Chess/Checker is easily one such company. Basically, I was never disappointed by their 60′s output. Must have been an early radio station handout that turned me on to Tommy Tucker, although this did reach #11 in '64. His Jimmy Reed style was an instant magnet, and I'm happy to this day that I plonked down $5 for his one and only Checker album at the time.
Don Covay also comes to mind, he wrote 'Long Tall Shorty', Tommy Tucker's followup to 'High Heeled Sneakers'. Covered by The Kinks and The Graham Bond Organization, it was apparently a common staple in the London clubs for a bit. Not a hit at the time, it's deservedly risen to an equal 'classic' position for Tommy Tucker through the years.


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CableFree has pioneered high speed 10 Gigabit Millimeter Wave (MMW) technology to connect sites where fibre optics are unavailable, too slow to provision, too expensive or at risk of damage. In busy cities, fibre optics is usually installed in ducts underground which are prone to disruption when digging or building works take place.
This client had already installed fibre optics for major CCTV backbones around the city. However, 3rd party building works disrupted the ducts severing the fibres, causing major outage in the network and loss of CCTV coverage – putting citizens at risk.
CableFree 10Gbps Millimeter Wave links offer an ideal alternative to fragile fibre optics: the radio units are installed on sites owned by the customer, bringing the full network under user control and management. The units are typically mounted on building rooftops well away from street-level disruption, which are easy to access, secure and defend. MMW wireless links can be installed in hours, not weeks, and at a tiny fraction of the cost of trenches and ducts for fibre optics.
Reliable operating distances of 5-8km depending on climatic region are ideal for city-scale networks. A full range of planning tools allows users to predict performance prior to purchase or installation. The E-band (70-80GHz) frequencies are available in many countries with "light license" and are uncongested, with narrow "pencil beams" allowing dense re-use of the spectrum with no interference between links or users. The narrow beams make such link are inherently secure, with proprietary signals and encoding.
For long links, the Adaptive Coding and Modulation feature enables the MMW link to dynamically adjust modulation in high rainfall conditions to ensure link uptime, capacity and range are maximised. For shorter links and long links in low rainfall regions, the links retain 10Gbps at all times.
10Gbps MMW links are a movable asset: if the network requirements change, or different sites require connecting, the links can be moved to the new sites immediately, retaining all the investment in infrastructure. For Special Events and Disaster Recovery, temporary links can be deployed using generator or alternative "off grid" (Solar + Battery) power if no AC power is available on sites. The units can be mounted on tripods or stationary vehicles as required for rapid deployment.
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text: The History of Parasport Parasport or disability sport is played by people with physical and intellectual disabilities and has existed for more than 100 years. Parasport is generally divided into three broad disability groups: deaf people, people with physical disabilities and people with intellectual disabilities. Each group has its own history, organisation and approach and each group has made significant contributions to what is considered modern-day parasport.In the 19th Century, research into parasport proved sporting activity was very important for the re-education and rehabilitation of people with a disability although it was not until 1924 that the first deaf sport - the 'Paris Silent Games' - took place. The Games were organised by the International Committee of Sports for the Deaf (CISS) and eventually evolved into the modern Deaflympics which is today governed by the CISS.The Paralympic movement truly began as recently as the 1940s, shortly after the end of World War II. With a large number of injured soldiers and civilians disabled during combat, parasport offered a fantastic method of treatment and rehabilitation.The man behind the Paralympic movement was a German neurologist named Ludwig Guttmann, a leading pre-World War II neurologist. A huge believer in sport as a method of rehabilitation for the disabled, Guttmann establish the Stoke Mandeville Games on July 28th 1948 to coincide with the starting date of the Opening Ceremony of the 1948 Olympic Games in London. In so doing Guttmann brought about the first parasport competition for wheelchair athletes.In 1952, Dutch ex-servicemen joined the movement and founded the International Stoke Mandeville Games Committee (ISMGF). The Stoke Mandeville Games were the precursor to the Paralympic Games which first officially took place in Rome in 1960.At the Rome 1960 Paralympics, the competitive programme included eight parasport events considered beneficial and suitable for athletes with spinal cord injuries. These were Snooker, Fencing (foil or sabre), Javelin and Precision Javelin, Shot Put, Indian Club Throwing (throwing a baton), Men's Basketball and Swimming (Freestyle, Breaststroke and Backstroke). Other non-competitive parasport events at the Games were: Table Tennis (singles and doubles), Archery, Dart Archery and the Pentathlon (Archery, Swimming, Javelin, Shot Put and Club Throwing).The sixties also saw the introduction of parasport for people with intellectual disabilities through the Special Olympics movement. This grew out of a series of summer camps organized by Eunice Kennedy Shriver, beginning in 1962. In 1968 the first international Special Olympics were held, in Chicago. Today, Special Olympics provide training and competition in a variety of sports for persons with intellectual disabilities.By 1986, the International Sports Federation for Persons with Intellectual Disability (INAS-FID) was formed to support elite competition for athletes with intellectual disabilities. This was established in contrast to the more participative 'sport for all' approach of Special Olympics.Athletes with intellectual disabilities were included in the Paralympic Games. However in 2000 INAS-FID athletes were banned from Paralympic competition after a cheating scandal at the 2000 Summer Paralympics, where a number of athletes participating in intellectual disability events were revealed to not actually be disabled. After years of campaigning from various groups involved in parasport, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) decided to reinstated intellectual disability athletes into the Paralympic Games on 21st November 2009.The IPC are the organisation responsible for running the Paralympic movement and parasport around the World. Founded on 22 September 1989 in Düsseldorf, Germany under the Presidency of Canadian Robert D. Steadward, the IPC has established itself as a unique umbrella organisation. Where other international parasport organisations for athletes with a disability are either limited to one disability group or to one specific parasport, the IPC represents several parasports and disabilities.There are now 23 parasports forming part of the Paralympic movement heading into the London 2012 Paralympic Games. However there are hundreds of other parasports (competitive or otherwise) that disabled people participate in as parasport increases in popularity around the world. Timeline


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Is it a Netbook or a Notebook
Correct me if i'm wrong but I thought the term netbook described a particular form factor (under 12" with no optical drive).
I did not think it described the processor, in which case I would lobby that we start calling "netbooks": crippled-ass-Intel-Atom-processor-books
It's not like it's running an ARM processor or something - which are being called Smartbooks if I recall - but it just seems pedantic for a netbook to be a netbook *unless* it exceeds some minimum (and arbitrary?) threshhold of horsepower in which case it magically becomes a notebook.
What if some madman threw an i7 into one of these - would it then transorm into a desktop?


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The Hanen Centre has developed a variety of programs for parents and educators to help them assume a primary role in promoting the social, language and literacy skills of young children.
Hanen's research-based, group-oriented programs teach participants practical strategies for encouraging children's learning naturally in the context of everyday activities.
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A Client Advisor contributes actively to the store sales and key indicators achievement. Providing a unique, memorable, sophisticated, and everlasting experience to all external and internal clients. Also supporting the management team and colleagues, while consistently upholding our Maison values, image, and standards.
Saint Laurent is committed to building a diverse workforce. We believe diversity in all its forms – gender, age, nationality, culture, religious beliefs and sexual orientation – enriches the workplace. It opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to adapt to a changing world. As an Equal Opportunity Employer we welcome and consider applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of their background.


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Kenny Chesney Helps Stranded Teens Reunite With Mom After Hurricane Irma
Kenny Chesney is doing his part to help the Virgin Islands after Hurricane Irma devastated the area earlier this month. CNN reports that the country star helped two brothers reunite with their mother after their childhood home in St. John was destroyed.
Jah-Haile Bruce and Jahbioseh Bruce told a terrifying tale of survival when Irma ripped through their island home. The brothers recount laying on the floor of their shower, fearing for their lives.
"Five minutes later the roof just ripped off our head," Jah-Haile says in an interview with CNN.
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His brother, Jahbioseh, continues the harrowing tale. "That's the moment where I was terrified, because I felt like Irma was a spirit. I felt like I saw the hand grab the roof, squeeze it and throw it off into the wind. It was crazy," he adds.
The two brothers lost everything and were later taken to St. Croix by a private boat sent to pick up evacuees and to deliver supplies. Noting that there's nothing to go back to on St. John, they planned to take a flight to Philadelphia where their mother lives. However, there were no commercial fights available off the island. That's when Chesney stepped in.
At first, the boys learned that an anonymous donor allowed for the use of his private jet to fly the boys to the U.S. At the end of their interview, they found out it was Chesney, who had been using his plane to send water, dog food and supplies to the Islands.
"I don't even know what to say [other] than thank you," Jah-Haile says.
In addition to founding the Love for Love City Foundation to benefit those displaced by the storm, Chesney is working on new music and merchandise that will directly benefit hurricane victims.
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Now you should know a few things about Scott's cooking... 1. Alcohol is almost always an ingredient! It cooks down and really provides a rich flavor, but you could easily substitute the red wine in this recipe for chicken broth. 2. He will almost always use these two cooking tools: his cast iron skillet or his BBQ. 3. Garlic, garlic and more garlic! 4. He also makes a huge mess of the kitchen, but that's another story! ;-)
Thank you for taking care of the cooking, babe!
6-8 Chicken thighs, with skin
black pepper and pinch sea salt
2 T olive oil
Sauce ingredients:
1 T olive oil
4-5 cloves garlic, crushed & minced
1/2 sweet yellow onion, sliced
1 can (15oz) diced tomatoes
3/4 C red wine (or chicken broth)
1/4 C water
1 T Italian seasoning
1 T Oregano
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a cast iron (or heavy, oven-safe) skillet, heat the olive oil. Season chicken thighs with salt and pepper. Brown thighs in olive oil. In a separate skillet prepare the sauce. Saute garlic and onions in olive oil. Add the diced tomatoes, red wine, herb seasonings. Cook over medium heat until it thickens and reduces. Add water. Pour over chicken thighs and place entire cast iron skillet in the oven. Cook for 30 minutes, uncovered. Serve with your choice of sides, and enjoy!


text: 121 Help, Lord; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men. 2 They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double [1] heart do they speak. 3 The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud [2] things: 4 Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us? 5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth [3] at him. 6 The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. 7 Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever. 8 The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men [4] are exalted.


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Fresh from their ambitious multi-city Facing the Mortgage Crisis project, KETC/Channel 9 in St. Louis has launched a new community-based news project on another hot topic: immigration.
Homeland aims to "apply public media sensibilities, expertise and capacity to address a complicated and polarizing issue," said Amy Shaw, KETC's vice president of education and community engagement. The project includes a website that will feature original content created by community members and KETC staff, a series of facilitated community meetings in the St. Louis area and across Missouri, and a four-hour nationally broadcast television series. This combination, said Shaw, is designed to "push the boundaries of what public media can do."
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The Homeland initiative is the embodiment of what public media can do well -- we generate awareness around the important and complex issues that need to be addressed in our communities, and then we create impact by mobilizing people to address these issues. In the process of talking to people throughout our region, we want to show, analyze and present what we learn. We're not going to tell people what we think about immigration or what is right or wrong, good or bad. We intend to help people embrace and understand the complexity of important issues to help communities address them in a more authentic, rational way.
NineAcademy Trains Community Members
Shaw said the project is "rooted in needs of the community," and it is clear that KETC takes community engagement seriously. Homeland is teaming up with KETC's NineAcademy, a free community media program that trains locals in shooting, editing, and storytelling. The best productions will be featured on the Homeland site and on KETC.
Although NineAcademy has already trained community members ranging from middle schoolers to senior citizens, KETC is intent on "meeting people where they are." Aware that some community members lack internet access, KETC staff has made sure that phone, face-to-face and snail-mailed correspondence is valued as much as online interaction. For example, KETC is experimenting with the idea of "conversations in a box" -- mobile storytelling kits, including inexpensive digital video recorders, that are mailed to community members. When they have finished recording their stories, they send the kits back to KETC for redistribution.
So far, according to Shaw, promotion for the project has been minimal, as the project website is still developing.
Five Sections of Site
At present, the site includes five sections that demonstrate the participatory and collaborative nature of Public Media 2.0, in varying degrees.
360 Degree Perspectives is a blog that explores multiple perspectives on immigration issues, based on KETC's meetings with community members from all spots on the political spectrum, including Tea Party members, far-left groups, and the very wide swath of Americans who don't currently identify with a particular political point of view.
Fact vs. Myth takes a nuanced look at some of the common information and misinformation surrounding the immigration debate. Check out this Fact vs. Myth video created by a NineAcademy graduate DeAnna Tipton:
Your Voice is a discussion forum for community members. Right now, the conversation is heavily populated by KETC staff, but Shaw is confident that the balance will shift over time to allow for more user-directed conversation.
Homeland Series is a behind-the-scene look at the making of the four-hour series that will air in 2011. The broadcast element of this project is, as Shaw explained, "a piece of puzzle," not the be-all end-all culmination of the project. In fact, no pieces related to the project have aired yet, although there has been much activity both online and face-to-face. Community meetings have shaped the entire direction of the project, including the decision to create the four-hour broadcast piece.
Finally, From the Beacon showcases related work from KETC's newspaper partner, the St. Louis Beacon. The Beacon was a partner in the Facing the Mortgage Crisis project as well, providing cross-platform news coverage to the benefit of both organizations.
Although the project is developing smoothly, Shaw said that, "We were a bit naive in considering how challenging it would be to take on one of the most difficult and challenging issues of our time." As polarizing as this issue may be, the tone on Homeland remains congenial with only minimal moderation, indicating perhaps that people are tired of the sensationalized, black-and-white coverage of the issue that is often provided by traditional media.
In addition to the polarizing nature of the subject matter, KETC is also dealing with the fact that the station has not traditionally been a news organization. Now, as they experiment with community-based public affairs coverage, the team must constantly evaluate what works and what doesn't or, as Shaw put it, "go through a daily recalibration." The lessons that KETC's staff learn through this project could very well inform a powerful community engagement model for other stations around the country.
In the coming months, the Homeland team will continue to tweak the design and engagement aspects of the project in order to make the site more community-oriented. KETC is also working on some major internal shifting, and a rebranding effort to highlight the station's overall push toward public engagement. In the future, KETC will be taking on more than one in-depth community engagement project at a time. The subject matter for these future projects will come from -- where else? -- the community.
Katie Donnelly is Associate Research Director at the Center for Social Media at American University where she blogs about the future of public media. With a background in media literacy education, Katie previously worked as a Research Associate at Temple University's Media Education Lab in Philadelphia. When she's not researching media, Katie spends her time working in the environmental field and blogging about food.
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The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) is the lead society in the National Engineers Week program that celebrates the contributions engineers make to society and encourages engineering as a career path among young students by promoting pre-college literacy in math and science. National Engineers Week is being celebrated Feb. 20-26. For information about the program, visit www.EWeek.org.
ASHRAE has twice served as lead organization in National Engineers Week. In 2003, ASHRAE launched the New Faces of Engineering program as part of the annual celebration.
The New Faces program promotes the accomplishments of young engineers across various disciplines by highlighting their engineering contributions and resulting impacts on public welfare. The program targets engineers ages 30 and younger. Engineering associations, societies, and government groups nominate candidates, who are selected for recognition in USA Today each year.
This year's New Face of Engineering is Tracey Jumper, general manger/commissioning-project manager at Cornerstone Group Commissioning Ltd. in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Jumper is leading the way in demonstrating that building commissioning can be a best strategy for reducing energy use and costs while increasing comfort and healing in health-care buildings. She engineered a process that translates industry commissioning guidelines into effective quality-control tools for end-users. The process is suited to how people and systems operate in environments in which system efficiency and environment quality are patient-critical over the life of the building.
Several events will take place in conjunction with National Engineers Week, including Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day on Feb. 24 and the Future City Competition.
Additionally, ASHRAE has announced New Faces of Engineering, College Edition. The program will promote the accomplishments of fourth- and fifth-year engineering students by highlighting academic successes and student contributions to the industry and sponsoring society. The New Face from each society will be announced no later than May 15.


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About The Python Software Foundation
The mission of the Python Software Foundation is to promote, protect, and advance the Python programming language, and to support and facilitate the growth of a diverse and international community of Python programmers.
The following is the official mission statement of the PSF
The Python Software Foundation (PSF) is a non-profit membership organization devoted to advancing open source technology related to the Python programming language. It qualifies under the US Internal Revenue Code as a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) scientific and educational public charity, and conducts its business according to the rules for such organizations.
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- Python language itself, its standard libraries and documentation, installers, source code, educational materials, and assorted tools and applications.
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June 12th: Women Veterans Day
June 12, 1948. A day that changed the course of history with the passing of the Women's Armed Services Integration Act. This act would allow for women to serve in an official capacity in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force.
While it took until 1948 for women in service to be recognized by law, women have been making invaluable contributions during war times through much of American history. From sewing uniforms, to providing medical services, to forming all-female units to help fight the war, women were integral members of the military as early as the Revolution and continued to serve in the Civil War and the World Wars. Today, they are legally and rightfully permitted to serve in the Armed Forces and continue to be a vitally important component.
Despite women being the fastest growing group of veterans, with approximately two million residing in the United States today, they experience a disproportionate amount of challenges compared to their male counterparts both during their time in service and upon returning to civilian life. At present, they continue to face a higher risk of harassment and sexual violence during service, homelessness following their duty, difficulty finding employment, and social bias upon reintegration to society. The Armed Forces have always been and remain a male biased organization and the struggles for women because of this bias continue to negatively impact our female veterans. The Center for Women Veterans (CWV) was established in 1994 to address
some of these disparities between women and men in service. The CWV continues to be a leading organization whose mission it is to ensure that female veterans are treated with respect and equality. While there are scattered efforts across the nation and within communities to address the needs of female veterans, we are far from a point at which we should be satisfied. Women's Veterans Day was first recognized just four years ago on June 12, 2018. This day was established to highlight female veterans and the struggles they face in hopes of addressing them with lasting solutions. We, as a society informed of the struggles these brave women face, must continue to raise awareness on their behalf.
To the women that have served this country and to those that continue to serve, we see you and we thank you.
For more information regarding the resources available to you as a female veteran, you can visit the National Veterans Foundation's website for a categorized list of resources depending on your specific needs. https://nvf.org/women-veteran-resources/
VAntage Point – https://blogs.va.gov/VAntage/89813/origin-women-veterans-day/
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs – https://www.va.gov/womenvet/resources/index.asp
VAWnet – https://vawnet.org/sc/challenges-specific-female-veterans National Veterans Foundation – https://nvf.org/women-veteran-resources/


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Just a few years ago, Georgia Power generated nearly three-fourths of its electricity with coal. Last year, for the first time, natural gas edged out coal, and just this week the company announced plans to close 10 coal-fired power generators within the next few years.
"We do recognize this is a historic event for our company. We've never announced this many closings at one time," says Mark Williams, a company spokesperson.
If all goes as planned, within a few years only a third of the company's power plants will run on coal. The company has already built three new natural gas plants. It's expanding a nuclear plant and going bigger into solar and wind, Williams says.
The dramatic and swift shift away from coal at Georgia Power is part of a nationwide trend: After decades in which coal was king of electricity generation, natural gas is making a bid for the title. And it's scoring big, unexpected wins in places like Georgia, where coal was especially dominant.
"We're seeing that across the board, regardless of the size of the companies," says Quin Shea, vice president for environment at the Edison Electric Institute, the industry's trade group.
The development already has shrunk the electricity industry's environmental footprint and reduced prices on wholesale power.
In board rooms across the country, electric companies are deciding that many coal plants, especially small, older ones, just don't make economic sense any more. One factor is the expectation that low prices for natural gas will continue because of the shale gas boom across the country.
Another is that new federal rules require coal plants to clean up the mercury and other toxic chemicals in their exhausts. Installing those pollution controls makes no sense when gas is so cheap.
The shift has come faster than many electricity companies expected. Every year, utilities tell the government which plants they plan to close over the coming decade. Over the course of one year, their estimates of how much coal generation they would retire nearly tripled.
"A year ago those plans only included retirements of about 10- or 11,000 megawatts; now it's approaching 30,000 megawatts," said Alan Beamon, director of the federal Energy Information Agency's office of electricity, coal, nuclear, and renewables analysis.
Shea, from the Edison Electric Institute, thinks even more coal generation will actually close over the next five years. He says whether the trend continues after 2018 depends on several factors:
Shea predicts coal will not be the only loser in what he calls electric companies' "dash to gas."
"We're not seeing any new coal built," he says. "But we're also are not seeing much occurring in the nuclear sphere. And importantly, the price of gas right now is starting to freeze out the demand for renewables."
Still, natural gas is cleaner than coal, so the shift from coal already has decreased overall greenhouse gas emissions from electricity generation.
Michael Brune, the executive director of the Sierra Club, predicts this good news will get even better as more coal plants close in the coming years.
"So what that means is that those reductions will actually steepen over the next couple years," he says. And he says it's fascinating to see this happening in the absence of a climate bill. Congress tried but failed to pass legislation to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
But Brune cautions that we can't rely on natural gas to stabilize the climate and stop the catastrophic effects of global warming that we got a taste of last year.
"We're not even close to the pace of reductions that we need to see," he says. "If we really want to stop the droughts, wildfires and superstorms, we're going to have to accelerate the pace that we move off of all fossil fuels."
It's not just environmentalists who say this. Climate scientists agree.
Brune says that means the country has to figure out a way to make the shift to natural gas a temporary one.
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Jim (James) Neufeld was last seen leaving his Penticton home on Jan. 21, 2009.
Nearly 12 years later, U.S. officials in Washington State have now identified human remains found on the coast of San Juan County as belonging to Neufeld.
Neufeld was believed to be travelling in his green 1997 Plymouth Voyager passenger van, which was located under the Alexandria Bridge near the Fraser River on Feb. 3, 2009, by Hope RCMP. His vehicle was examined by RCMP forensic specialists at the time.
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On May 23, 2009, the remains of a deceased man were pulled from the waters of the Salish Sea off of Parker Reef, about one-half mile north of Orcas Island in San Juan County.
The remains were taken in for anthropological and forensic studies but went unidentified, despite efforts by U.S. officials to trace a number on a metal plate to hospitals, pull a DNA profile from the deceased, and develop and sketch what he might have looked like.
However, a renewed attempt to establish a DNA profile in September 2020 proved to be successful. In partnership with the BC Coroners Service Special Identifications Unit and the Snohomish County medical examiner's office in Washington, the remains were positively identified as belonging to Neufeld.
"At first I was confident we would find his identity and family right away," said San Juan country coroner Randall Gaylord. But when the case went cold coroners grew frustrated.
Jane Jorgensen of the Snohomish County medical examiner's office was able to provide the fresh look that was ultimately successful
B.C. RCMP Southeast District Supt. Ray Carfantan said this case may bring hope to other families who have a missing loved one.
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Conservative Media Baselessly Attack UN Disabilities Treaty
Written by Hannah Groch-Begley
In anticipation of a Senate vote on a United Nations treaty that seeks to promote equal rights for people with disabilities, conservative media have revived the debunked myth that the treaty threatens U.S. sovereignty.
The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities sets global standards for the treatment of people with disabilities, asking signatories to "ensure and promote the full realization of all human rights and fundamental freedoms for all persons with disabilities without discrimination of any kind on the basis of disability." More than 120 nations have ratified the treaty, and though the United States signed it in 2009 and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has approved it, the Senate has been unable to obtain the required number of votes to push it through. A Senate vote is scheduled to take place today.
Conservative media claim that signing the treaty would require the United States to alter its laws to meet these standards. Writing at National Review Online, the National Review Institute's Betsy Woodruff claimed that the treaty "could potentially undermine American sovereignty" and said it would be "self-abasing" for the U.S. "to comply with the treaty." Similarly, at the Daily Caller, Walter Olson of the Cato Institute equated signing the treaty with "sign[ing] away our national sovereignty on questions of how best to accommodate the disabled."
However, these claims are baseless, as U.S. law already meets the standards the treaty requests. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) "prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in employment, State and local government, public accommodations, commercial facilities, transportation, and telecommunications." If a law, policy, or program is found to be discriminatory, the government has the power, through the Department of Justice, to enforce the ADA on both a private and public level. Thus signing the treaty would merely reaffirm the U.S. commitment to equal rights.
Both the Washington Post and The New York Times threw cold water on this fearmongering. The Post noted that the treaty "would not require the United States to change its laws." The Times further reported:
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved [the treaty] last July in a bipartisan vote, 13-6, while also passing a resolution to clarify, in case anybody was worried, that the United States would surrender none of its sovereign authority by joining the convention. The treaty would have no power to alter or overrule United States law, and any recommendations that emerge from it would not be binding on state or federal governments or in any state or federal court.
The baseless argument that the treaty threatens U.S. sovereignty is not new. In September, The Washington Times published an editorial warning that the "United States could soon find itself taking orders from international bureaucrats on how to treat people with disabilities."


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Modern society tells us to do well in school, work as hard as we can, and eventually teach our kids to do the same. It's an endless cycle that doesn't exactly leave much room for creativity. This short film is encouraging people to look at things differently, and is striking a cord.
Alike, a Pixar-like affair by Madrid-based animators Daniel Martínez Lara and Rafa Cano Méndez, is a 7-minute lesson on what happens to your life when creativity is drowned out by the daily grind. It's also about parenthood, and the importance of letting kids to forge their own journeys. The critically-acclaimed short was made entirely with Blender, an open-source 3D rendering program, and is dedicated "to our families, for helping us not to lose our colour."
As Canadian journalist Graydon Carter once said, "it's a rare moment when we take a break from the tribulations of the daily rat race to reflect on assumptions and values that we casually accept as gospel." Take one of these moments for yourself, and give Alike a go.
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Many couples have found that running a business together provides more time together and with their family, for better or for worse.
Starting a business has become "very popular for family-oriented individuals," according to Lori Kiser-Block, the president of FranChoice, a franchise consulting firm.
In fact, about 25 percent of all businesses are family-owned, according to the Census Bureau's latest survey of business owners, with more and more budding entrepreneurs choosing to ditch the corporate grind to be closer to their loved ones.
"We always worked really well together," said Michele Evanger. She and her husband, Jim, met in college and got their entrepreneurial start as undergraduates at the University of Wisconsin when they teamed up to sell pots and pans door-to-door. "That's when we first identified that we could work well together," they say.
The Evangers, now both 40, decided to take another crack at it when they co-founded an interior design firm called Designs of the Interior (DOTI) in 1998.
But starting their own firm proved more difficult than they imagined. Michele admits that it took about six months for the husband-and-wife team to get acclimated to their new business relationship.
"The challenge was that Michele was good at so many things that were unique to this industry and I was good at business in general," Jim said.
Over time, the duo learned to draw boundaries and distinctions between their individual responsibilities.
"The first thing I would say is design your own job description, really know what you are going to do on a daily basis so you don't step all over each other," the Evangers say.
It took even longer, they say, to learn that it's OK to be accountable to each other and manage each other.
"If you are a couple in business together, the one thing you can't do is leave it at the office," Jim says. "There's no getting around that, if you aren't comfortable with that, don't go into business together."
Now the Evangers, who have been married more than 10 years, say that their different attitudes toward the business complement each other. They have since franchised their DOTI stores, and 21 out of the 30 locations are owned by couples.
Greg and Janae Nezerka also quit their day jobs to open a house-painting services franchise called CertaPro Painters in Kansas City about a year ago.
They wanted a business they could run together and one of their kids could help with as well but quickly found out that their joint venture was going to be harder than they had anticipated.
Even after 19 years of marriage, the Nezerkas agree that learning how to work together was the hardest part.
"We pretty much started doing everything together and it seemed like we were getting nothing done," they say.
After several months, the couple learned to define their roles within the business and divide up tasks between them. Greg is president of the company and handles production and sales, while Janae fulfills the roles of vice president, head of marketing and office assistant on a day-to-day basis.
The Nezerkas say establishing a division of labor quickly was paramount, but flexibility was also key. Often, they have to be willing to adapt their roles to fit different situations at work.
Now Greg says working together has brought his family closer, and they've even added their son, D. J., and daughter, Jenni, to the payroll.
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You have probably noticed that across the Web, two different things are happening right now:
- More and more sites are asking you to pay a fee to subscribe to all or part of the Web site.
- Advertising is becoming more and more "in your face." There are now pop-up ads, ads that play music and sound tracks, ads that swim across the screen, and so on.
The second trend is true of nearly all commercial Web sites. There are many new forms of Web advertising, and they are more and more obvious. Many Web users have questions about all of these new ad types. For example:
- Why do Web sites have so many ads now?
- Why do Web sites allow pop-up ads that open new windows? (Many people hate closing them all.)
- Why do Web sites allow these floating ads that cover the content so I cannot read it?
- How can I make all these ads go away?
In this article, we will look at all the different forms of Web advertising in use today, as well as the economics that are driving them, so that you can have a much better understanding of how Web advertising works. Whether you are a casual surfer or someone running your own Web site, you will find this article to be a real eye-opener.