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Angola : Police Beat, Set Dogs on Peaceful Protesters
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The Angolan government should urgently and impartially investigate police use of force to disperse a peaceful protest in the capital, Luanda, Human Rights Watch said today. The police beat activists with batons and injured at least four protesters using police dogs.
"The Angolan authorities are responding to peaceful protests with batons and police dogs," said Daniel Bekele, senior Africa advocacy director at Human Rights Watch. "The government needs to investigate the police crackdown on protesters and hold those responsible to account."
On February 24, 2017, about 15 people gathered at 2 p.m. in the First of May Square (Largo Primeiro de Maio) to call for the resignation of the territorial administration minister, Bornito de Sousa. He is second on the list of candidates for the ruling Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) and would become vice president if the MPLA wins the parliamentary elections scheduled for August. Because he is in charge of the voter registration process for the elections, the protesters fear he could manipulate the election.
Witnesses to the protests, as well as several participants, told Human Rights Watch by phone that the protesters were peaceful, and carried no banners or weapons. They were walking toward the square when the police set upon them and started beating them with batons.
Video recorded by a resident in a nearby building shows the police hitting the protesters with batons and using police dogs to disperse the group. The video reveals no aggressive actions by the demonstrators.
A protest organizer, Luaty Beirao, said he saw about a dozen police officers when he arrived and another group of officers soon emerged with a Rottweiler and two German shepherd dogs on leashes. "We argued with them for a few minutes, before one of the commanders started chasing people away and beating people who had come to watch the situation," Beirao said.
The police then set the dogs on the protesters. "The Rottweiler bit my left arm, while one of the German shepherds bit the right side of my waist," Beirao said. "The wound to the waist was not as big as the one to my left arm."
Beirao provided two photos that are consistent with his account. One photo from the protest shows him with a bloody left arm. The other, taken after the protest, shows him with deep bruising on the back, side, and buttocks, which he said was from baton strikes.
Another activist, Samussuku Chiconda, said police officers beat him with batons and then dragged him into a police van. A photo he provided showed a deep gash on his forehead, which he said required stitches.
"I went to ask the officers why they were stopping us from getting to the square," Chiconda said. "They threw me to the ground and started kicking me and beating me. I tried to run away, but they chased me and dragged me into the van. I think they wanted to take me to the police station but a police commander told them to release me."
The police also used force to break up another peaceful protest against de Sousa in Angola's western Benguela Province on February 24. Two activists in Benguela said that the police briefly detained at least two members of the Revolutionary Movement, an anti-government group, then released the protesters without charges.
Neither the Luanda nor Benguela protests were authorized by the local governments. Three activists who spoke with Human Rights Watch said that they sought permission from the authorities in Luanda, but received no reply. A document from the Benguela provincial government seen by Human Rights Watch contended that the protest could not take place because it was scheduled during the work day and near a school. Such an overbroad basis for denying a protest violates the right to peaceful assembly under international human rights law, Human Rights Watch said.
Among the people injured during the Luanda protest were three members of the group known as "15+2" – a book club inspired by Gene Sharp's book From Dictatorship to Democracy – whose members were jailed in June 2015 after discussing peaceful protest and democracy at a meeting. A court in Luanda had convicted them in March 2016 for plotting a rebellion against the government and sentenced them to up to eight years in prison. The Supreme Court ordered the group's conditional release in June, pending a final decision on their appeal. In September, all 17 people were released from prison following parliament's approval of an amnesty law.
Article 47 of Angola's Constitution allows citizens to protest without pre-authorization, provided they inform authorities in advance. But the Angolan government has consistently blocked and dispersed peaceful anti-government protests using unnecessary or excessive force and arbitrary arrests.
"Fair elections require respect for freedom of association, expression, and peaceful assembly," Bekele said. "The police assault on these peaceful protesters sends a chilling message to others who want to criticize the government and is a red flag for the fairness of this year's elections."
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VICTOR, N.Y., April 26, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Constellation Brands, Inc. (NYSE: STZ and STZ.B), a leading beverage alcohol company, today announced it has appointed Robert Hanson as the company's new Executive Vice President and President, Wine & Spirits. Hanson previously served as a member of Constellation's Board of Directors from February 27, 2013 to April 24, 2019. Constellation's Board accepted Hanson's resignation from the Board prior to his acceptance of this new role with the company. Hanson will officially assume this new role on June 3, 2019.
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The following is a tutorial on how to make a fabric bird cage.
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1. Cut two circles out of your base fabric. You want your circles to be about 1/4" bigger then the base. It does not have to be exact, it just has to be a little bit bigger then the base.
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3. Pin the edges down and wait for it to dry. There will be some ripples on the side, don't panic the trim will cover it.
4. Repeat on the other side of your base. Wait for it to dry before making the trim.
5. To make the trim measure the thickness of your base and add a 1/2" to your measurement. My base measured 1" thick so I added 1/2" making the total measurement 1 1/2". Now measure the circumference of your base and add 1". The two measurements are the measurements for your trim.
6. Make a 1/4" fold along one of the short ends of your trim(wrong sides together) and iron the fold. Next, make a 1/4" fold along the long sides of your trim. Iron. I recommend sewing along the folds to give it a clean finished look. I forgot to do this with my sample =)
7. Mod Podge the sides of the base and glue your trim to the base. Be sure to overlap the trim when the ends come together. You want the folded side on top of the raw edge side. Put another coat of Mod Podge on top of the trim. Let it dry.
8. Cut 2 wires 24" long.
9. Make a casing for the wires by cutting 2 strips of fabric 32" long and 1 3/4" wide. Fold both ends of the strip in a 1/2 ". Iron. Now fold both of the long sides of the strip in a 1/4". Iron. Sew the short ends (see 1st pic below). Fold the entire strip in half length wise and sew along the length of the fabric. Do not sew the ends closed. You want a casing for the wires with an opening at each end.
10. Carefully slide the wire through the casing. Repeat with the other casing and wire. You will find the casing is longer then the wire. This is how the gathered look is achieved.
11. Using a safety pin, poke a hole into the trim (on your base). You want it to be centered. I usually place one of the holes where the seam is, so that the wire (next step) secures and covers the seam. Move the safety pin around so that the hole will be big enough for the wire. Make another hole opposite of the first hole. For the next two holes, you want to place them mid-way between the first and second hole. If the base where a clock you would want a hole at 12:00, 3:00, 6:00, and 9:00.
12. Poke the wire through the hole in the Styrofoam. You want the wire to go into the Styrofoam about 2" deep. Now take the other end of the wire and insert it into the hole opposite the first hole. Repeat this process with the 2nd wire.
Your cage should look like this:
13. Now we will work on the wires that go around the cage (horizontal wires). Cut two 22" wires or measure the circumference you want for the horizontal cage wires and add 2".
14. Make your fabric strips as you did for the vertical cage wires. However, leave one end of the fabric raw (do not fold and iron). When you sew the casings be sure to stop 1" short of the finished end.
15. Carefully slide the wire through the casing. Join the ends of the wire by twisting them together.
16. Place the raw edge of the casing in the finished edge of the casing. Sew the casings together.
17. Place the circular cage wires (horizontal wires) around your bird cage. Position them and secure in place by sewing on a button where the wires meet.
Now decorate your cage. To make the fabric wire scrolls, simply make a casing for the wire and close both ends. Wrap the fabric wire around the intersection of the fabric wires (top of cage) to secure it in position. Now for the fun part, scroll the extra fabric.
If you want to make a bigger cage you just have to use a bigger base and add another fabric wire.
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A federal mandate from the Biden administration now requires everyone traveling within the U.S. to wear a mask. In some ways, that's nothing new. Since last spring, airlines individually ruled that passengers have to mask up. And many local governments did the same for buses and subways.
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JOHN COSTA: Unfortunately, it wasn't a federal guideline in the beginning. And I believe, if it was, we would've saved a lot of lives. I've lost, as of today, 126 of my members.
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COSTA: My members did not sign up to die on these jobs. This wasn't part of the agreement.
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A new study by David Holtzman of Cure Alzheimer's Fund's Research Consortium published by the journal "Science Translational Medicine" brings sharp new focus on the direct relationship between the accumulation of Abeta in the brain and notorious sleep problems associated with Alzheimer's disease. This NIH-funded study (also supported by Ellison Medical Foundation) was made possible by early pilot studies initiated by the Cure Alzheimer's Fund — another great example of leveraging innovative research ideas into substantially funded, high impact projects.
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In this talk from a recent Socialist Appeal day school, Alan Woods (editor of In Defence of Marxism) explores Trotsky's theory of the permanent revolution and how it has been vindicated throughout history - both in the positive sense, by the Russian Revolution, and in the negative, by the Chinese Revolution of 1925-27.
In April 1917, Lenin returned to Russia and politically re-armed the Bolshevik Party with the slogan "all power to the soviets".
In doing so, Lenin was affirming Leon Trotsky's theory of the permanent revolution: the analysis that the capitalist class in the colonial countries, arriving late onto the scene of history in an epoch of imperialism, had long ceased to play any progressive role and could not carry out the tasks of the bourgeois democratic revolution and national liberation.
The conclusion: that socialists and revolutionaries in Russia could not give any support to the liberal Provisional Government, but must call for the working class to take power through its own democratic organs, the soviets.


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Jitendra Singh carries 24 years of experience in Management & Governance of Information Systems and Technology. Currently, he acts as the CIO and Head of Business Excellence for Nagarjuna Fertilizers & Chemicals, where he heads up the Business Excellence and IT Division.
Jitendra Singh is the CIO and Head of Business Excellence for Nagarjuna Fertilizers & Chemicals, one of the most respected fertilizer companies in India, and a leader in innovation and strategic business moves.
Singh heads up the Business Excellence and IT Division with responsibilities including the provision of Strategic and operational roadmaps to the departments reporting to him (Verticals reporting to me are Business Excellence, IT Infrastructure, SAP, Applications and ISMS). Along with the accountability of managing the IT division, he is also responsible for the process analysis and fine-tuning in line with the Six Sigma methodology (as the Head of Business Excellence).
Currently, he is leading the Organizational Transformation Project called "Parivartan 2.0" as Project Head. The project addresses three important aspects of BPR, i.e. People, Process and Technology. He is also leading critical Ecommerce initiatives for Nagarjuna and associated companies (both Plant Nutrition as well others business).
Singh carries 24 years of experience in Management & Governance of Information Systems and Technology including IT Strategy, Roadmap, Team Building, Budgeting and Compliance (Regulatory, Software & Hardware), Analytics in Manufacturing Industry covering Automotive, Retail, Power, Chemical, & Pharmaceutical. He is a techno-functional leader with experience in conceptualizing and delivering solutions across divisions on web, ecommerce and other platforms.


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What does deep house, the work of Stockhausen, a self-programmed snake and a frozen Lily Cole have in common? No, it's not the contents of a lost episode of Skins. Nor is it the XX's Christmas list. It is, rather, just a few of the details that make up Clean Bandit, a new four-piece that in their playfulness and willingness to trample over musical boundaries offer a refreshing new direction for dance music in 2013.
Forget your rock revivalists or your retrofitted soul crooners, Clean Bandit could not have emerged at any time other than now. Comprised of brothers Jack and Luke Patterson alongside the classically-trained pair of Grace Chatto and Neil Amin-Smith, the group formed in 2008. One night , in the dingy confines of a Cambridge nightclub, classic music met bass music, and it never looked back.
"It was at the band's own club night called National Rail Disco. We set it up because we thought there was a real lack of new interesting music at the time. The first ever one was basically set up so we could perform. But as it carried on it became more of a straightforward club night we DJ'd or played live most weeks alongside other DJs and electronic acts we loved."
The students, not normally thought to be a particularly clubby kind of crowd, were into it. "They loved it, it was really successful and always completely packed", says Jack. "People didn't expect the students to be into it, but they were. They all had a real appetite for the music. One of the coolest things was the night we had James Blake down. Three quarters of the way through his set he just played a Destiny's Child acapella on its own. Even though there was no beat,. people just went completely off. That was amazing."
National Rail Disco provided Clean Bandit with a blueprint for everything that was to follow. First, there was a willingness to take risks. Second a desire to blend beats and strings. Third, it was done in a DIY fashion, using whatever resources were to hand.
But first they decided to move to Moscow. Grace to learn the language and play cello. Jack followed her, and ended up enrolling in Russia's famous film school, The Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. "I didn't have much to do in Moscow and someone mentioned a film course that was open to international students so I thought I'd give it a try. It was a five year course," Jack recalls. "I didn't do the whole thing, but the whole of the first year you only do black and white still images. In the second year you do moving images but still only in black and white. It was all in Russian too, and to begin with none of the students spoke a word of it."
It was at the Gerasimov that Jack's ideas of blending music recordings with filmmaking began to take shape. "I was making music on a laptop a lot while I was there", he says. "It was still a hobby though. I had long days at film school and then would come home and have a go messing around making music. I wrote Mozart's House while I was out there. I was listening to a lot of house music there, there was a little boutique outside our flat that would blast out house for 24 hours. Maybe that seeped in."
Now, in 2013, Clean Bandit are still mixing things up. Currently residing in London, this electroquartet are applying their principles to a whole new range of possibilities. Listen to single 'A&E' and you'll hear classical, bucolic strings intertwining with UK funky bass and a melody of modern electronic pop. It's a new sophisticated sound, but one that's distinctive of our capital. The soulful vocals, meanwhile, are sung by guests Kandaka Moore and Nikki Marshall, found by chance in the group's new home of Kilburn. "They were part of local community singing and dancing group next door to our studio", says Jack. "We thought they would be perfect for this track." And so they are, sharing the enthusiasm of the track and, also, the versatility of the group. Moore also volunteered as a dancer for the video, which necessitated her being part of a stop-motion animation. "She was completely unfazed by being painted gold over the course of two hours", notes Jack.
That was far from being the most complicated part of the production, by the way. The video for A&E also required the creation of a golden snake. A serpent that, as in a real life game of Snake, slithered across central London. It was a challenge, one that Jack – typically – took it upon himself to rise to. So how do you make a snake? "We made it on the computer", he says. "I taught myself to use Cinema 4D. I studied architecture at uni, so I had kind of got into 3d graphics, modeling and animation. Luke learned how to do the fluid dynamics, because the snake had to go through water at the beginning."
Clean Bandit have also been getting a taste of a different experience closer to home whilst on tour this spring with teenage chart conquerors Disclosure. "The tour was really fun", says Jack. "It was great to see how that world worked and to be in these really cool clubs up and down the country was brilliant. There were screaming fans. We had people who knew the words to our songs, which was quite amazing to see. It was unexpected."
The stakes were raised even higher for new single 'Dust Clears'. This concept video, also directed by Jack, was half-filmed on the frozen lakes of northern Sweden in winter. "In this video all the band work in a factory, but the lead singer is an older guy who's got this fantasy of being an ice skater", says Jack, with a smile. "We filmed the skating in Sweden and that was great, we used some special techniques. Two of us were towed along on a sled with two different lenses, two cameras filming our dear friend Nick as he skated past. Nick is our friend's dad and while we were thinking about making the video we heard that when he was 17 he was a Scottish figure skating champion. When you see the video, you'll see why we found this quite amazing."
Quite clearly kids of the internet generation, Clean Bandit aren't precious about where they find inspiration or how they deploy it (the aforementioned Lily Cole volunteered to stand in a freezing cold swimming pool for the video to UK Shanty, in return for Jack giving her a tutorial on her new video camera). Neither are they devoted to one type of creativity. They make music, they make video, they perform live.
"We try to think of each piece as being a music video rather than a song", says Jack. "Videos for songs is the output. That's how we'd like it to be digested. Now we're doing more and more music, we're having to make stuff without the videos, but hopefully we'll be able to catch up."


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Along with Eclipse Orion, Cloud9 and others, Codenvy is one example of the new breed of IDEs that attempt to transform the way developers create software by offering a front-end interface running in any major browser and a back-end running on a server or in the cloud, doing all the heavy lifting – compilation, code analysis, building, staging, deploying, etc.
Codenvy can be used to develop online in a number of languages - Java, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, PHP, Python, Ruby, XML – but work is underway to add support for more and to provide the community the necessary tools to add more languages as desired. The same goes for frameworks, Codenvy currently supporting Spring, Node.js, JSP, Rails, GWT and Django. Support for Android development was announced at Google I/O 2013.
The applications can be deployed from within the IDE to several PaaS: Amazon (Elastic Beanstack), CloudBees, Cloud Foundry, GAE, Heroku, OpenShift, AppFog, and Tier 3.
When it comes to code repositories, Codenvy initially supported GitHub and Bitbucket, the later providing Git and Mercurial repos, but has recently added support for Assembla, Beanstalk, Codebase, Deveo, GitEnterprise, Gitorious, PikaCode, ProjectLocker, and Unfuddle. It uses Jenkins, Hudson, or CloudBees for continuous integration.
Codenvy includes support for pair programming having incorporated real-time multi-cursor collaboration capability. The code editor has syntax highlighting, code completion and refactoring.
We have interviewed Tyler Jewell, CEO of Codenvy, in order to find out more details about the technologies powering this IDE.
InfoQ: What is Codenvy built with? What are the technologies behind it, server and client side?
We use over 100 open source libraries to create the various elements that run Codenvy today.
InfoQ: Where do you run Codenvy? On your own servers? In a cloud? Which one?
TJ: We run different environments for development (acceptance test), staging (full environmental test), pre-production (finalized releases to allow for marketing, support, and docs to engage), and production. We operate production at AWS. Pre-production runs on top of Eucalyptus within our own datacenter that is located in Europe. We run our staging environment at AWS to allow for devops configuration, testing a variety of cloud APIs not accessible internally, and to execute large scale tests. Our development acceptance server environments are all single server packaging of Codenvy that can operate in 1-2 VMs depending upon the configuration. We use our development environments (we run up to 6 simultaneously) to drive acceptance criteria from PM and users on individual features. Acceptance servers house individual features during a sprint and operate within our own datacenter. After a sprint completes, staging and pre-production are updated through automated Puppet procedures.
InfoQ: Do you plan on supporting other languages? Which ones?
TJ: As far as I am concerned, you can never have too many languages supported. There are really two vectors to pursue here: entirely new languages that require specialized build and runtimes to execute, and languages that can run in VMs like those that can operate within a JVM. We believe that there are too many environments for our team to support entirely ourselves, so we are moving to get the community involved. We have been working on finalizing the SDK we use internally to publish to the public for use to create their own extensions and plug-ins. It'll be similar to how the Eclipse plug-in architecture works, only a bit broader. Inside of Codenvy is a full build subsystem and a runner environment operating Cloud Foundry. So, a developer who wanted to add a new language, such as C, to the system would need to add the usual IDE parts (file, syntax, debugger, refactoring, macros), but would also need to give Codenvy instructions on how to execute the build system (make) and the runtime.
Our first priority is to ship this SDK, which will be this year, and then our second priority will be to organize the community around ownership of varying frameworks and languages. We have outside interest from people wanting to help with C, C++, Objective C, Go, Scala, Play, and so on.
InfoQ: How about framework/PaaS/CI support?
TJ: We (attempt) try and add in something new with each sprint. We operate in two week sprints, so this list is always changing. We became popular early on because we had a broad set of integrations, and do not see us slowing down in this regard. The latest list is broadcast here and here. We are proud about the level of depth that we provide for GitHub, Bitbucket, AWS, Google App Engine, Heroku, Cloud Foundry, OpenShift, CloudBees, Tier 3 and AppFog. We also just completed a certification of 10 or so git providers, so we'll be updating all of our specifications and how-tos on how to work with various vendors.
As for CI support, today we enable post-commit hooks, and the ability to make Web service calls to CI providers directly.
InfoQ: What does the SDK provide? I understand a developer could add support for his own language or platform with it. And when are you releasing the SDK?
TJ: The SDK provides an API for writing layered extensions; an API that separates the UI, data (files), and event model into separate concerns; API documentation; a set of example plug-ins such as what we have created for Java; and a specialized SDK cloud that will allow developers to upload plug-ins for testing. Plug-ins themselves will be authored in Java and GWT. GWT takes 11 minutes to compile unless it operates in dev-mode. We are going to port GWT to have a dev mode for Codenvy, but initially to simplify the creation process we'll have developers upload their plug-ins into a Codenvy partner cloud where we will compile, package, and integrate into our runtimes.
The initial release of this SDK cloud will happen this summer. We have signed up quite a few ISV partners that are waiting for it, so it's our top priority internally.
After our initial ship, we will then create a WAR file packaging of Codenvy. Developers will be able to run a single server version of Codenvy in Tomcat along with being able to build and deploy plug-ins locally. This version is a bit tricky as it will have everything but our runner support. Since we use Cloud Foundry to execute our runners, there is no simple way to package in a runner into the single server format. We'll allow developers to map their "cloud runners" executing in Tomcat to processes on their localhost system. So executing "Run" in your browser running on localhost, will trigger a process command that you specify also running on the same machine.
InfoQ: Does Codenvy work offline? If not, what are your plans about it?
TJ: We do not operate offline. We believe that this topic is a red herring in some ways. It's the #4 or #5 requested feature we get on UserVoice, but when we ask developers why they need it, their answers vary widely. On one end of the spectrum there are those that are worried about plane travel, where they are completely offline. Others have just general concerns about partial connectivity and wonder what would happen. In many cases not having this capability isn't seen as a deal breaker, but it does seem like a topic that is a very natural one to inquire about.
Part of providing offline support is determine what is offline. We could easily provide a file editor, but there wouldn't be any support for git commands, build, debug, run or deploy. So, at the most basic level, it seems to make sense to allow developers to have a read-only mode initially when they are offline. This is fairly easy to provide in the future. And then beyond that, there would be varying levels of offline capability depending upon how much technology you either can, or are willing to allow installed on the client side. If it's entirely a browser-based system we can synchronize the git repository and offer editing functions. If we are allowed to install software onto the desktop, then we could create a completely synchronized build and runner locally as well.
We are still evaluating what we want to do here, and want to talk to our community more about it.
InfoQ: Could you provide details on Codenvy's integration with JRebel, Rally Dev, and Tasktop?
TJ: We provide JRebel to appropriate Java projects. We set up a single, permanent runner and then activate JRebel between the builder and runner clusters.
We will be talking more about what we are doing for Rally and TaskTop towards the end of this year.
InfoQ: Currently only the Community edition is available. When are you planning to open the other pricing plans already announced?
TJ: Actually, we do have some of our Premium services available for sale now! Today, we offer an Early Adopter Program that offers a 66% discount off of the Personal tier. This price will steadily increase as the year unfolds and we become more confident and complete with the premium features that we are shipping in each release.
InfoQ: What's included in the Enterprise edition?
TJ: Codenvy Enterprise is a cloud that can be installed behind the firewall to manage large populations of developers. The customers that have adopted this so far are those with regulatory, compliance, security, or offshore management needs. We ship all of the features that are available in our public cloud, but also add in some special capabilities: a) LDAP & identity integration, b) Clustering, load balancing, and HA policy control, and c) Analytics & reporting to measure acquisition, engagement, and virality of developers, workspaces, and projects. Today, customers provide their own hardware and can run on Tier3, AWS, Eucalyptus, or OpenStack.
Interestingly, a lot of the early adopters of Codenvy Enterprise do not see it as a displacement for Eclipse. Rather, it's an auxiliary system. In many cases, we'll displace slow running VDI or TS environments for offshore developers. In other cases, we are becoming the training ground for new hires, interns, or partners where it's more important to spend time coding in a limited window vs. taking the time to teach people how to configure a development environment. In auxiliary use cases, developers can still promote themselves off of the cloud, but they take individual responsibility for managing their desktop and IT takes responsibility for managing Codenvy.
InfoQ: What plans do you have for the future?
TJ: We are fortunate to have about 30 engineers on our development team. They are phenomenal systems engineers and have a history of building large, complex systems. I think much of this thinking is what drives their efforts, so a lot of the projects that are being developed are designed to help automate complex workflows for developers. Our efforts are broken into various categories:
1) Supporting Developers. More languages, frameworks, cloud integrations, and other cloud services. I'd like to have 250 technologies integrated into Codenvy by the end of the year. Also, we have publicly committed to adding Android and iOS development through partnerships with Trigger.IO and Google.
2) Supporting ISVs. We are going to deliver in Q3 a variety of ISV packages that allow them to customize templates, promote sample applications, and onboard/measure/track developer activity. We eventually want to allow every ISV to have a customized, on-demand IDE that is configured online. This, in many ways, is combined with their SDK efforts.
3) Supporting Enterprises. We are pursuing more POCs and installations in large enterprises. We have done a few big ones now - but want to do another 25 or so before we declare Codenvy Enterprise GA. If there are any organizations interested in running their own development cloud, we would love to hear from them.
About the Interviewee
Tyler Jewell is CEO of Codenvy and a venture partner with Toba Capital where he focuses on middleware and application development investments. He sits on the board of WSO2, Exo Platform and Codenvy along with making investments in Cloudant, ZeroTurnaround, InfoQ, and AppHarbor.


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Brad and Sandy Smith acquired the assets of the Tell City Pretzel Company on July 2nd, 2009. TC Pretzels is the privately held company established by the Smith's to carry on the production of the Famous Hand Twisted Pretzels. Although the company is under new ownership, the baking techniques and secret recipe remains unchanged. For more information, please contact us using the details below.
Even pretzels have a historical background....legend has it that pretzels originated during medieval times in southern Europe, and were baked in monasteries and given to children as a reward for learning and reciting prayers.
Famous Tell City Pretzels originated over 100 years ago, in 1858, when Casper Gloor, master baker from Switzerland, settled in Tell City, Indiana as a member of the Swiss Colonization Society. Gloor soon became known for the fine pretzel he baked from a secret recipe that he brought from Switzerland.
Gloor never revealed his secret formula to anyone, but after his death in 1912, it passed to Alex Kessler who worked for Gloor for 17 years, becoming a master baker himself.
In turn, the secret recipe passed to Alex Kessler's two sons upon his death and on to future owners over time. Except for a short period when production ceased, the famous Tell City Pretzels have been hand twisted and baked in the old fashioned manner…in strict accordance with the centuries-old formula that was responsible for the fine quality and taste that established their wide spread acceptance.
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Since 1996, TechnoServe has engaged over 1,200 Fellows on three to twelve-month projects throughout Africa, India, and Latin America and the Caribbean.
The TechnoServe Fellows Program, formerly known as the Volunteer Consultant Program, is a highly competitive fellowship where business professionals have the unique opportunity to contribute their skills to help change the lives of those living in poverty. They experience the field of international development firsthand while building new skills and challenging themselves in a cross-cultural and entrepreneurial environment.
TechnoServe Fellows form a global alumni community representing top-tier consulting, industry, and nonprofit organizations and graduate schools.
Almost 10 years ago, Clinton joined TechnoServe's Volunteer Consultant Program (Now the TechnoServe Fellows Program) in Uganda. His previous experience includes working at the Clinton Global Initiative and a China-focused social venture capital firm in Hong Kong.
Intrigued by the idea of combining business, investment and philanthropy, I embarked on a journey to explore social entrepreneurship and impact investing after a two-year stint in the banking industry. At a China-focused social venture capital firm, I got a taste of utilizing impact investments as tools for inclusive socioeconomic development. Later at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), I saw firsthand the potential of public-private partnerships to alleviate some of the world's most pressing social issues, particularly within the agriculture and health care sectors. At CGI, I focused on building strategies to support businesses in reorienting their core business practices for sustainability. I was able to observe a "solution revolution" in action – a global and progressive rethinking of the ideology that businesses should serve only to maximize shareholder profit. Through CGI, I saw that some of the world's most powerful businesses are realizing tangible benefits that come with investing for social impact.
In January 2014, I joined TechnoServe as a Volunteer Consultant to lead an initiative to map the food sector in Uganda as part of the Solutions for African Food Enterprises (SAFE) program. In partnership with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), TechnoServe is working with Partners in Food Solutions (PFS), a consortium of General Mills, Cargill, Royal DSM and Bühler, to transfer technical and business expertise to African food processors. Employee volunteers from the partner companies work with TechnoServe staff on the ground to share knowledge and technology with small businesses for a long-term solution to hunger and food insecurity. TechnoServe and PFS are currently working in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia to expand the availability of safe, nutritious, affordable processed food. This will also create new markets for many smallholder farmers. The partners are looking at potential expansion into Uganda, where the alliance looks to strengthen food processors and the local institutions to support them to provide solutions for systemic and chronic food insecurity.
Over the course of three months, a TechnoServe food technologist, Dr. Dorothy Nakimbugwe, and I consulted with close to 100 stakeholders along the food processing value chain – including grain millers, oilseed processors, dairy manufacturers, industry associations, international aid agencies, government entities, foundations and capacity builders – to understand business challenges in the food processing sector on both the demand and supply side. We learned that many challenges persist in the food-processing sector in Uganda, including limited working capital, analytical capacity and operating expertise.
How do you increase the affordability and accessibility of nutritious and fortified foods in Uganda? An obvious solution would be to increase production of fortified foods. But convincing Ugandan consumers to change their buying and eating habits would require extensive education, marketing and generational cultural adaptation. In one supermarket visit, we found two packets of maize flour – one fortified, the other not, produced by the same company, placed next to each other, with both selling at 15,000 Ugandan shillings. This phenomenon is not uncommon in Uganda and points to the fact that food processors lack economic incentives to sell these products in the market. Another complication is that most processors are technologically incapable of conducting food fortification, which would require additional equipment and know-how. Market demand is simply not strong enough to encourage processors to fortify their products.
Failures in the market deter farmers from adopting best practices for harvesting and handling, which in turn floods the market with low-quality crops for raw materials. The inefficiencies along the value chains coupled with poor infrastructure and limited regulations drive up costs and hold down crop prices and farmer incomes. To fill these gaps, PFS and TechnoServe, with USAID support, aim to catalyze transformational change at the food-processing level.
There are few places where it is possible to see so dramatically the positive impact that business can make on society.
As a consultant, I analyzed household expenditure and food consumption trends, food production and cross-border trade data, food security profiles, and agriculture business models to map out constraints and opportunities for the food-processing industry. With such information at hand, I proposed three public-private intervention models that have the potential to catalyze industry-wide impact. One model recognizes the ongoing efforts to support food production and proposes SAFE capacity building for small and growing businesses (SGBs) to link with technical expertise and to provide information on quality control practices that will help develop a reliable market. The second model proposes SAFE to complement existing efforts of the Uganda National Bureau of Standards by building the capacity of food processing SGBs to meet regulatory, food safety and certification requirements. This model reinforces the previous intervention model by ensuring the sustainability of small and medium sized food processors. The final model proposes SAFE to build the capacity of existing analytical labs at public institutions, including Makerere University, the country's leading higher education institution, to address the limited analytical services that were raised as a priority issue by all interviewed stakeholders.
Uganda remains one of the poorest countries in the world. There are few places where it is possible to see so dramatically the positive impact that business can make on society. I have learned that with a mega-problem like food insecurity, citizens, businesses and governments need to collectively draw on their resources and capabilities, and ask the question, "How can we help create long-term change?" I believe SAFE has the potential to kickstart a process of development around building a more food-secure world.


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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) – Christian Hackenberg threw two touchdown passes in his first college game and the freshman led Penn State to 23-17 victory against Syracuse on Saturday.
Hackenberg went 22 for 31 for 278 yards with two interceptions and became the second freshman to start a Penn State opener at quarterback since 1910.
The 18-year-old blue chip recruit hit Eugene Lewis with a deep pass down the middle and the receiver reached into the end zone for a 54-yard score that made it 23-10 with 11:39 left in the fourth quarter. Hackenberg also hooked up with Allen Robinson on a 51-yard touchdown in the third quarter.
Robinson, Penn State's leading receiver last season, unexpectedly did not play in the first half, but finished with seven catches for 133 yards.
Oklahoma transfer Drew Allen got the start at quarterback for new Syracuse coach Scott Shafer, and finished 16 for 37 for 189 yards.
Hackenberg was far from perfect, holding the ball too long a few times. His costliest mistake came in Penn State territory in the fourth quarter when he threw an interception to defensive lineman Robert Welsh, who returned the ball to the 1. On the next play, Jerome Smith plunged into the end zone to make it 23-17 with 6:58 left in the fourth.
Syracuse's last shot ended when Allen went deep down the sideline, but was picked off by Trevor Williams at the Penn State 25 with 1:53 left and not timeouts left for the Orange.
Neither team revealed its starting quarterback until the offenses took the field, and in both cases the fans' choice prevailed.
Penn State coach Bill O'Brien went with the highly touted Hackenberg over junior college transfer Tyler Ferguson for all but one series. Shafer chose Allen over sophomore Terrell Hunt.
Robinson was unexpectedly on the bench for the first half and there was no official word why. When he finally got on the field, Hackenberg kept him busy. He caught the freshman's first two passes of the second half, including the long touchdown that made it 13-3 Penn State.
Sam Ficken, who struggled at the beginning of last season for Penn State, kicked three field goals, including a career-best 46-yarder early in the fourth quarter that made it 16-10.
Stephen Obeng-Agyapong's interception in Syracuse territory led to Ficken's long field goal. The senior defensive back from the nearby Bronx also had a strip and fumble recovery in the first half that led to Ficken's first field goal.
Allen responded after Penn State's first touchdown with a perfectly thrown deep ball to Jeremiah Kobena that went for 55 yards. On the next play, Smith bounced outside and ran for a 10-yard score to make it 13-10. The crowd of 61,202 at MetLife Stadium, a fairly even mix of Penn State and Syracuse fans for what was officially an Orange home game, finally had a reason to make some noise after a sleepy first half.
Preseason camp news for both teams was dominated by the same topic: Who would start at quarterback?
Both coaches played it coy and ultimately decided to reveal the starter during Game 1.
For Penn State, the competition was between a couple of newcomers to major college football.
Hackenburg's arrival to Happy Valley was considered one of the biggest victories of O'Brien's short tenure at Penn State. He committed before Penn State was slammed by NCAA sanctions due to the Jerry Sandusky scandal. Nittany Lions fans worried Hackenberg might bail, but he stuck it out and the future is now from the freshman.
The competition at Syracuse was between Allen and sophomore Terrell Hunt. Hunt got a head start in the spring, but Allen picked up things fast enough in August to win the job.
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Editor's Note: The use of pornography and prostitution is specifically identified as a tool of gentile subversion in the now ancient 'Protocols of Zion'
Jewish Professor of American History at Aberdeen University in UK, Prof. Nathan Abrams boasts that Jews were the driving force of the modern pornographic industry and that their motivation is in part to destroy Gentile morals.
Jewish Professor Says Porn Industry is a Weapon used by Jews Against Gentiles
The following is an excerpt from one of the new additions to my book, Jewish Supremacism. It offers more powerful evidence that reveals the Jewish extremist war against Gentiles, a struggle that we Gentiles are not even allowed to know about, much less resist. The new edition of Jewish Supremacism will be available for purchase in about three weeks at www.davidduke.com
From the new 2007 Edition of Jewish Supremacism by David Duke
After learning about the inordinate Jewish involvement in organized crime, historical slavery and modern white slavery, it did not surprise me when I began to learn of their domination of pornography. Just as Jewish scholars faithfully recorded the Jewish domination of the African slave trade so they have also documented their prominent role in pornography.
In a respected and scholarly magazine of Jewish intellectuals, (The Jewish Quarterly, winter 2004) Jewish professor Nathan Abrams in an article titled, "Triple Exthnics," proudly documents the leading role of Gentile-hating Jews in pornography.
A story little told is that of Jews in Hollywood's seedier cousin, the adult film industry. Perhaps we'd prefer that the 'triple exthnics' didn't exist, but there's no getting away from the fact that secular Jews played (and still continue to play) a disproportionate role throughout the adult film industry in America. Jewish involvement in pornography has a long history in the United States, as Jews have helped transform a fringe subculture into what has become a primary constituent of Americana. These are the 'true blue' Jews. Jewish activity in the porn industry divides into two (sometimes overlapping) groups: pornographers and performers. Though Jews make up only two per cent of the American population, they have been prominent in pornography. … In the postwar era, America's most notorious pornographer was Reuben Sturman, the 'Walt Disney of Porn'. According to the US Department of Justice, throughout the 1970s Sturman controlled most of the pornography circulating in the country. … It was said that Sturman did not simply control the adult-entertainment industry; he was the industry. … Many are entirely secular, Jews in name only. Sturman, however, identified as a Jew – he was a generous donator to Jewish charities. …
- Abrams shows how the corruption and debasement of Gentiles and Christian morality is a primary part of their motivation for intentionally infecting the Gentile community with pornography.
Is there a deeper reason, beyond the mere financial, as to why Jews in particular have become involved in porn? … Al Goldstein, the publisher of Screw, said
- "The only reason that Jews are in pornography is that we think that Christ sucks. Catholicism sucks. We don't believe in authoritarianism."
Pornography thus becomes a way of defiling Christian culture and, as it penetrates to the very heart of the American mainstream (and is no doubt consumed by those very same WASPs), its subversive character becomes more charged. … Extending the subversive thesis, Jewish involvement in the X-rated industry can be seen as a proverbial two fingers to the entire WASP establishment in America. …
Opposition to Jewish extremist subversion of Gentile, Christian or Muslim morality is frequently defined as anti-Semitic "hatred" in the Jewish dominated media. Abrams writing in a Jewish journal for a presumably Jewish audience writes matter-of-factly about the "atavistic hatred" against us by Jewish pornographers and their motivation to "weaken the dominant culture in America by moral subversion."
Jewish involvement in porn, by this argument, is the result of an atavistic hatred of Christian authority: they are trying to weaken the dominant culture in America by moral subversion. Astyr remembers having "to run or fight for it in grammar school because I was a Jew. It could very well be that part of my porn career is an 'up yours' to these people." …
Obviously, there are no articles in the mainstream media exposing Jewish "atavistic hatred" against Gentiles by the promoters of pornographic depravity. Abrams even goes on to talk about the roots of this revolutionary Jewish attack on European values.
Jews were also at the vanguard of the sexual revolution of the 1960s. Wilhelm Reich, Herbert Marcuse and Paul Goodman replaced Marx, Trotsky and Lenin as required revolutionary reading. … Pacheco was one Jewish porn star who read Reich's intellectual marriage of Freud and Marx. … In light of the relatively tolerant Jewish view of sex, why are we ashamed of the Jewish role in the porn industry? We might not like it, but the Jewish role in this field has been significant and it is about time it was written about seriously.
Notice that all those mentioned: Reich, Marcuse, Goodman, Marx, Trotsky, Lenin and Freud are Jews. From Freud to Goodman, all represent a Jewish revolution against traditional European values and morality.
When sick Jewish pornographers are part of the brutality of Jewish organized crime, the results can obviously be horrifically tragic for our people. In 2000, a Jewish "Russian" organized crime ring was uncovered that specialized in kidnapping Russian children, some as young as two years old, from parks and orphanages and then subjecting them to rape, torture and murder, all on video tape. These tapes were sold to thousands of Jewish and Gentile perverts all over the world. When police in Italy were frustrated by lack of action by the authorities they released some of the video footage to an Italian network which then showed some of the graphic images hoping to cause public outrage. Instead of outrage against the Jewish murderers the TV producers suffered outrage for showing the disturbing images.
In spite of the horror and obvious newsworthiness of this international Jewish child porn/murder operation, it received little coverage in the media in the United States. When Seth Bekenstein, the ring's American distributor was arrested, there was little publicity, and in spite of being a part of one of the most horrific criminal activities imaginable, he was sentenced to only 18 months on guilty plea.
Porn is no longer 1950s pictures of voluptuous nude women on a deserted beach. It has become permeated with sadism, masochism, scatology, even sexual molestation, rape and murder of young children. I am no prude. I love the beauty of the human body. But, I do think that this kind of sick criminal activity, in which there is so much exploitation, so much degradation, so much catering to the depths of human depravity, should be fought with constitutional law.
Ironically, with Jewish influence over media, societal mores, and government today, it is legal, even chic to make and sell the sickest pornography showing the sick defilement of women. But, if you have unacceptable political opinions about Jewish supremacism, you may find yourself a political and social pariah, or at worst in prison. We live in a Jewish supremacist world where often the sickest porn is legal while political incorrect opinions will land you in prison.