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Want a job at one of the hottest IT workplaces of the century? Well, Google is still employing. Even after declaring a massive worldwide growth in employees during the past financial year, the company is advertising vacancies in its engineering, sales, and operations teams.
In fact, according to Lars Rasmussen, Head Engineer of Google Australia, the company has been finding it difficult to find enough people for the positions it is trying to fill.
"I think Google worldwide would like to grow faster than we are - it's [manpower] probably our scarcest resource," he said. "Even though we're growing at quite a phenomenal pace, we're always short of engineers and we always want to find more."
But it's not simply another case of the nationwide skills shortage that has recently come to the attention of employers and institutions in Australia. Google maintains a high hiring bar, Rasmussen said, and there is generally a shortage of people with experience, academic background, and enough intelligence to reach the required standard.
Rather than search for one particular skill set, Rasmussen explained, all Google asks of potential employees is that they be "smart".
"We don't look for people with particular skills; we don't look for people with C++ experience or Java experience," he said. "We look for people that have excelled. And just by the nature of that, there is a shortage of people like that."
Notorious for its time and intellectual demands, Google's recruitment process is based largely on a series of interviews with a series of different interviewers. Through a range of interview topics from programming questions to general logic puzzles to personality checks, Rasmussen expects to be able to size up how skilled and intelligent a person is.
"The interview process is... 'intense' is a word I often here from people that get interviewed," he said.
Rasmussen said that while interviewers try to avoid "trick questions", they do aim to ask "unusual" questions that are not geared towards any particular skills or experiences in an effort to measure how well a candidate does on something they haven't worked on before.
It may take anything from four to a dozen interviews before Google hopefuls get a shot at working at the search engine monolith, but for those after a challenge, even the recruitment process can be an experience to remember.
Adam Schuck was recruited by Google Australia soon after graduating from the University of New South Wales with honours and a University medal in Computer Science in 2006.
"The recruitment process was like nothing I had ever done before," he said. "For my first round, I was interviewed by Operating Systems legend Rob Pike, and two of the Google Maps inventors, Lars Rasmussen and Stephen Ma. They asked me stimulating technical questions, and I can't remember having ever walked out of an interview so excited."
Schuck is now a software engineer at the Sydney Googleplex, working on Google Maps, which is estimated to have about 55 million users around the world.
"Google Maps is a really exciting product, and there are a lot of interesting problems which need solving in order to figure out what users want and how to give that to them in a fraction of a second," he said. "It is very satisfying to have written code which is being used by millions of people around the world every day."
Besides having worked amongst the colour and the cheer of the Sydney Googleplex, Schuck has also worked, played and enjoyed catered lunches at Google's offices in New York and Sillicon Valley.
"It is great to be part of a community of like-minded people all around the world," he said. "I am constantly impressed by the intelligence and enthusiasm of my colleagues. Everyone at the company seems to really enjoy what they do, and people sincerely believe that they can make a difference. It is extremely motivating to show up each day to the office knowing that your work will be seen by millions of people."
It may seem like the Wonderland of workplaces, but gaining admission to Google is far from child's play. According to Rasmussen, there is no way of grooming oneself into a position at Google, so the only way to get a job is to submit a resume and hope for the best.
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An Evening of Mediumship with International Medium June Field was due to take place on Thursday, April 3, but the performance will no longer go ahead.
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Pi Sima Alpha is the national honor society for college students that stimulates scholarships, and intelligent interest in political science and government in the United States. Rhodes′s chapter—TAU DELTA—of Pi Sigma Alpha attains this goal by hosting various on-campus events and speakers. The national Pi Sigma Alpha organization, more broadly, sponsors programs and events of value to the profession and teaching of political science.
Pi Sigma Alpha is a member of the Association of College Honor Societies (ACHS) and is designated as a "Specialized, Upper-Division" society. Because Pi Sigma Alpha is a member of the ACHS, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management allows its members to apply for federal government positions listed at a higher entry-level grade than non-member candidates. Members may apply for the Pi Sigma Alpha/ Howard Penniman Scholarships for Graduate Study in Political Science, scholarships for Washington Semester programs, and for Best Paper Awards. All ACHS honor society student members are also entitled to automatic tuition reductions for Washigton internship programs run by the Washington Internship Institute, the Fund for American Students, and the Washington Center.
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On April 10, 2014, eight students were inducted into TAU DELTA, Rhodes chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, during a dinner held at Local Gastropub in Overton Square. The evening featured guest speaker, Dr. Erin O′Brien from the University of Massachusetts-Boston. Dr. O′Brien talked about her article entitled "Jim Crow 2.0? Why States Consider and Adopt Restrictive Voter Access Policies" published in the December 2013 issue of Perspectives on Politics.
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Most IT Project Failures Are NOT Due To Technical Problems
One of the points I stress through the entire sixteen weeks of my MBA IT classes is that most IT project failures – and by some estimates over 60% of all significant IT/IS installations are "challenged"– is that the majority of the problems encountered are people problems, not technical problems. Despite the increasing technical sophistication of MBA students in general, this fact is still surprising to many. In the vast majority of cases of full or partial information system failure, the hardware and software work exactly as specified, and the failure can be traced back to one or more common management misunderstandings, which lead to failures in change management for the systems project.
Arguably the most common misunderstanding is the underestimation of the complexity – in organizational terms – of non-trivial information systems implementations. All non-trivial IS implementations change business processes. This is another point I stress and on reflection it is easy to see that it can be no other way. Even the most sophisticated software is fixed in terms of the information it requires to function. Gathering this information at the level of detail and in the sequence required is a process, sometimes a very fundamental one, and often a process that is new to the organization if not actually counter to existing processes. When management underestimates the amount of change required by the system implementation they do not adequately prepare operations personnel. The result is resistance to the new system and in some cases passive aggression toward the system that is tantamount to sabotage.
Some systems never even survive to full installation due to underestimation of the complexity and corresponding effort of implementation. A very common problem results from expecting operations personnel to handle data/information transfer to the new system while continuing to perform the full range of duties of their current job. In a surprising number of instances management does not even offer overtime or other extra compensation. What is unsurprising is the inevitable resentment and confusion among operations personnel that frequently causes installations to drag far behind schedule, negatively effects normal business functions and can result in significant employee turnover. Another factor that frequently accompanies underestimation of the IS project is inadequate training in the new system. Occasionally the need for both training and backfill (backfill is the hiring of temporary employees to assist in the installation of a new system) is recognized by management but is not pursued due to cost considerations. This has been shown in many unequivocal studies to be false economy. The cost of training, backfill and other implementation support, such as consulting, should be acknowledged by management and factored into the overall cost/benefit calculation for the system.
The mindset that results in underestimation of IS complexity is sometimes termed 'an appliance mentality,' that is, the system is regarded as a refrigerator or washing machine might be. You plug it in and it works, right? Alas, no, however studies have shown that this attitude increases as the management hierarchy is ascended. C-level executives, without whose support no project can be expected to succeed, exhibit surprising ignorance of technology, even today.
Another entire set of problems, even more intractable than system complexity underestimation problems, arise as a result of non-technical management giving or surrendering control of information systems projects entirely to technical personnel. If control is relinquished to solely technical personnel early in the project, the problem is frequently a technically correct system that solves the wrong problem. One technique for correcting this set of issues is dual managers, one from IS/IT and another from the business side of the house. While common in Europe, this management style has yet to gain widespread acceptance in the US.
Invariably in my classes many hands go up when I ask who has seen a 'challenged IT installation' at their workplace. The resulting discussion is a valued part of the learning process for most MBA's. Anyone care to comment on experiences you've had with regard to 'challenged' systems? (Names can be changed to protect the innocent 😉
William L. Kuechler, Jr., Ph.D.
William Kuechler is professor of information systems and chair of the information systems discipline at the University of Nevada, Reno. He holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Drexel University, and a Ph.D. in computer information systems from Georgia State University.
Best Practices For Software Application Packages
The phrase 'best practices' as applied to software applications is relatively new. In the twenty years I was associated with the software industry, first as a programmer, then as an analyst and eventually as consultant and product manager, I never used or heard the phrase. There were good reasons for this, but before I can explain them, I need to establish some background.
If you thought about the title of this post, you might well ask yourself, "What do you mean – practices? What does that have to do with software? You mean – written the best way? Or – the most bells and whistles?
What the phrase 'best practices' alludes to in relation to a software package is something that I stress in my MBA classes because it surprises many people – the fact that 'practices' – business processes the dictate what your company's employees will do and when they'll do it – are 'baked into' any non-trivial piece of software. When you buy a software application – let's say your company has decided it could benefit from a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) package – then you are locked into the processes, the practices that are built into the software. If you use the package, then you WILL feed it the information it needs, in the format it requires it and in the sequence it wants it. This is so whether or not you work that way now, whether or not you currently have the required information available and whether or not the process fits your company's culture.
Well, you say, software can be modified, right? Right – for a price. The first price you pay when you modify COTS (common off the shelf) software is that you defeat the reason you bought the package in the first place – it was written, debugged and ready to use. The second price is Yankee dollars, lots and lot of them. It is widely known that the cost of consulting and modification for most ERP (enterprise resource planning) installations is greater than the multi-million dollar cost of the software itself.
Thus, it is critical to the success of a software package installation to thoroughly investigate the practices built into the application before you buy; and this brings us back to the notion of 'best practices.' Almost no software is developed, even by very large software companies such as Oracle or SAP, without a client. The client supplies the specifications for the application – the screens it should show, the information it needs, the reports it should produce and so on. Of necessity, the software mirrors the processes needed to satisfy the requirements. Because the early clients of a newly developed software application are typically large, successful organizations, the marketing arms of large software companies began, about fifteen years ago, to promote these 'baked in' processes as 'the best practices of the best corporations.' Applications developers are thus able to develop the software once and sell it multiple times – a very profitable undertaking. To understand the marketing coup that this was, it is necessary to understand the many circumstances under which 'best practices' are actually a detriment.
What is wrong with doing my inventory the way Mercedes Benz does it, you may ask. Or, why shouldn't I want to handle my accounts receivable the way Nestle does? First, issues can arise due to disparities of size between your organization and Mercedes. Organizational size breeds process complexity, complexity that leads to high cost and long learning curves for software to support it and likely to a multitude of reports and functions that smaller companies will never use. Even more importantly, standard processes make it impossible to achieve sustainable strategic advantage from your software enabled process. A highly advanced, non-standard logistics process is what gives Wal-Mart a strategic advantage over competitors and the ability to grow market share and sustain growth. A very non-standard computer supported order fulfillment process is exactly what has enabled Amazon to become a major player in multiple retail marketplaces. As you may have already surmised, the software that supports Amazon and Wal-Mart, at least in the critical areas mentioned, is (and has to be) as non-standard as the processes themselves.
The key to determining whether the 'best practices' of a software application package are really the best for you lies in understanding what aspects of your business model are core competencies, activities that distinguish your business from others in the same marketplace. A close second in importance is performing a process audit during the purchase cycle of any large software package in order to determine just how different the embedded 'best practice' is from your current processes. The need to make large adjustments to existing processes in order to accommodate a new software application is one of the most widely acknowledged sources of installation failure.
William L. Kuechler, Jr., Ph.D.
William Kuechler is professor of information systems and chair of the information systems discipline at the University of Nevada, Reno. He holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Drexel University, and a Ph.D. in computer information systems from Georgia State University.
His academic career follows a successful industry career in information systems development and consulting. His work experience brings insight to his teaching of both IS management and technical material and brings a wealth of practical background to his research. Kuechler's two primary research themes are the cognitive bases of IS use, development and education, and design science research in IS. He is on the editorial advisory board for the Journal of Information Systems Education and is an associate editor for the Journal of Information


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Ratan Tata steps down as director of Bombay Dyeing
Bombay Dyeing & ManufacturingCompany today said Tata group chairman emeritus Ratan N Tata has resigned from its board, after an over 33-year long association with the textile major.business Updated: Feb 08, 2013 18:39 IST
Bombay Dyeing & ManufacturingCompany on Friday said Tata group chairman emeritus Ratan N Tata has resigned from its board, after an over 33-year long association with the textile major.
"Ratan N Tata has stepped down as a director of the company. Mr Tata had a long association of over 33 years as a director with the company," Bombay Dyeing & Manufacturing Company said in a filing to the BSE.
In December last year, Tata had retired as the chairman of the over $100 billion Tata group after a 50-year run at one of country's oldest business empires.
The 75-year old business leader, who was appointed the chairman emeritus of the group, had passed on the baton to 44-year-old Cyrus Mistry.
Ratan Tata, who helmed the group for 21 years after being chosen successor by his uncle, the iconic JRD Tata, in 1991, is credited with transforming the group through bold decisions including large global acquisitions, even as some of its peers struggled to stay relevant post economic liberalisation.
Bombay Dyeing & Manufacturing Company, on Thursday, reported a net loss of Rs. 26.86 crore for the third quarter ended December 31, 2012. It had posted a net loss of Rs. 52.11 crore for the same period of previous fiscal.
Net sales of the company stood at Rs. 471.07 crore for the third quarter compared to Rs. 421.40 crore for the same period of 2011-12 fiscal.
Shares of Bombay Dyeing & Manufacturing Company on Friday closed trading 2.98% down at Rs. 102.40 apiece on BSE.


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Show heart rate data on swim activities
Currently the swim data from the HRM-Swim doesn't display. It would be good to get it on there for suffer score etc.
Currently the swim data from the HRM-Swim doesn't display. It would be good to get it on there for suffer score etc.
Yeahhh... nearly 2 yrs & not even a reply from Strava. Wow! And this is their support system channel. Just amazing guys! Thats the way to communicate to your customers.
Come on Strava!
I bought my Garmin HRM-Swim and tried it out today only to learn that the HR data doesn't go anywhere. May we get an ETA on adding this?
I'm using Garmin swim HRM and no heart rate is shown on Strava! 👎🏻 I probably will cancel my premium membership until Strava fixes this issue!
+1 request please
so disappointing that the heart rate data don't sync across from my Garmin to strava missing out on the fitness & freshness info and traning zones, please hurry this up Strava
According to DC Rainmaker the reason behind this is that on Garmin's side, the HR data is captured in a separate file. This is a result of the HR Swim and HR Tri not transmitting the data to the watch real time, but rather saving the data in a separate file which is combined with the rest of the workout data through Garmin Connect. Strava could still implement a fix to read this file, but they seem more concerned about the social media aspects of the website and have instead spent a lot of their resources on getting a "smart" feed like facebook or instagram, which is a feature nobody wants.
Any update on this?
To get this issue recognised, please click on the orange up-arrow on the main post: https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/208858037-Show-heart-rate-data-on-swim-activities
Just had a looksie at lap swim activity from my Fenix 5. The native format is .fit and I haven't had a chance to take the data in there apart.
However a TCX export from Garmin Connect does include HR data (this doesn't debunk DCR's assertion as this file is derived from activity data). If you manually import this to Strava as a "run" you get to see a spike trace and HR.
This is a rubbish workaround. TBF Garmin Connect's swim analysis is better than Strava's.
I see nice HR data in Garmin Connect.
In Strava on my phone, I see a flat line - it's a HR, but it's just one number.
So I think that Strava's response that the data is on the mobile app is inaccurate.
Surely the data is pulled the same way as for a bike ride, from the same data store, so just include the same code to show the HR and let's all move on!
Just got the new Forerunner 935 with a hrm swim and the HR data neither shows in the app nor on the website. Come on Strava - feature at least the basics showing the data that's already there!
Gets my vote need swim hr asap
Please make sure to support Garmin swim data too! No súffer score or statistics today. Again.
One more strava premium customer who bought a Garmin swim HR and then realised that this won't show up in Strava. Loss in my mind to Strava'a part. They are now forcing me to use Garmin connect as the go to App.
+1 for all the good it will do...
Extremely dissapointed. Bought the HRM-Tri for one reason only, to be able to include my swim training in the fitness chart. Now I realize that the hr-data is not sent over to Strava. What a bummer! Please include Hr-data from Garmin as soon as possible.
Please add support for this!
Has anyone found a workaround to apply the HR to the training session separately?
Hoping that heart rate data can be uploaded into Strava. I have Garmin 920xt and the heart rate data doesn't get uploaded (haven't tried open swim mode). The strange part is that I made a random strength workout profile and heart rate data from that gets uploaded. The freshness and fitness function is also useless for folks who have swim as the swim heart rate data is not used in that function. Strava - this really can't be that hard to fix that people have been begging since 2015 and nothing has changed.
This is really RIDICULOUS that strava does not import heart rate data for swimming. This needs to get fixed asap or I have to ask refund for my premium membership.
As a triathlete around a quarter of my workouts are swim related. The Fitness and Freshness and suffer scores are worth very little when they miss that much of my workouts. I look forward to when this support is added.
As a triathlete I am seriously looking into TrainingPeaks at the moment. Definitely the better analysis package, the only thing I'd be missing from Strava are the live segments.
It's a bit of a missing link here - if the data is in Garmin, why can't it just be brought across as-is? I use a HRM-Tri which shows heart rate fine on Garmin Connect but nothing on Strava.
I don't think Strava uploads swim HR from my Garmin 935. This is ridiculous~
Christian: You won't miss the segments. Strava is a social network. And a good one. TP is the far superior training tool. I'm just now starting to really understand how to fully use and apply the data it anylizes.
Come on Strava! You already way behind on Run Power (Stryd)! This is SO EASY
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Social Media or just "Media"?
It caught the attention of many folks around the web. Mine as well. And from a PR agency perspective – let alone a corporate perspective – it is more critical than most of us likely imagine.
For the past three months, I've been consumed by my new role – that being to help guide H&K's digital corporate and public affairs offering across both the US and Canada - commuting 3 days a week to Washington, DC – and learning a lot through exposure to new colleagues and new clients. At the same time, I've noticed that some of the same challenges exist that I faced in my Canadian-only role, challenges encapsulated by Adam Tinworth of One Man and His Blog in his October 7 post: "On the web, social media is just media". In it, he expounds on a recent Tweet where he stated:
Officially bored of the phrase "social media" now. I'm just going to call it "media" and everything else can be "anti-social media".
An off-the-cuff comment in under 140 characters perhaps. But when viewed through the lens of our industry, the importance of it cannot be understated. The past few years have been tumultuous as consultants and corporations, governments and media attempted to navigate this minefield of new behaviours, expectations and technologies. "Hype" and the myriad missteps along the way could – for the most part – be forgiven.
However, if communications agencies are to survive and thrive in the years ahead, the thinking that social media is something different from what we have traditionally done must be leeched – from corner offices to cubes. We must start thinking of it in the context of "media"… mainstream, social or otherwise. It must be holistic, it must be integrated, and it must be informed. If we don't, it will remain sidelined, a novelty, the last slide within a deck, the last page within a proposal or RFP, bereft of substance, misinformed by hype, and the realm of junior consultants. As a consequence, our own relevance will likely, and all too soon, be seen as equally "optional" and throw-away.
The "hype" and novelty is over. It is a call-to-action that must now be heeded.


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Satellite reveals activity at NKorea launch site
Published: 30th March 2012 10:46 AM | Last Updated: 16th May 2012 09:50 PM | A+A A-
WASHINGTON: New satellite imagery appears to show preparations beginning for a long-range rocket launch in North Korea despite international objections.
The image from a privately operated satellite was taken Wednesday at the Tongchang-ri site where North Korea says it plans to launch the rocket between April 12 and 16.
An analysis conducted for the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies says the image shows trucks and fuel tanks outside two large buildings that would be used to store propellant for the rocket. It also shows work under way at a gantry tower next to a mobile launch pad, with a crane being used to load equipment. The rocket itself is not yet visible.
"The image shows not only that the launch is going ahead but the preparations seem to be on schedule for the planned launch dates," said Joel Wit, visiting fellow at the institute and editor of its website on North Korea, "38 North."
North Korea says the launch is to fire an observation satellite into orbit and mark the centennial of the birth of the nation's founder, Kim il Sung. The U.S. says it is a cover to test long-range missile technology and violates U.N. Security Council resolutions.
President Barack Obama has appealed to the North Korean leadership to abandon the rocket plan but was promptly rebuffed by the North.
If the launch does go ahead, it will terminate a Feb. 29 accord between the longtime adversaries, under which the North agreed to nuclear concessions and a moratorium on long-range missile and nuclear tests in exchange for food aid.
The U.S. says the plans to provide the food to the impoverished communist nation are already on hold.
On Sunday, South Korean defense officials said the main body of the three-stage rocket was transported to a building in Tongchang-ri, which lies on North Korea's northwestern coast, about 35 miles (56 kilometers) from the northern border with China.
The institute's analysis suggests that the separate stages of the rocket will be moved from this building and assembled at the launch site which lies about 1,000 yards (meters) away. It predicted the first stage of the rocket will probably be moved to the launch pad in the next couple of days.
The image appears to show various other activities at the site, including a crew cutting brush away from the launch pad, to prevent it catching fire when the Unha-3 rocket takes off and burning its way to the adjacent buildings used to store the propellant.
Analysts describe Tongchang-ri as a more sophisticated launch site than used for previous North Korean rocket launches, allowing a southward flight path that would avoid sending it over other countries.
However, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asia-Pacific Security Affairs, Peter Lavoy, said Wednesday the U.S. lacks confidence about the rocket's stability and that debris from it could cause casualties. He said the rocket is probably intended to land somewhere close to the Philippines or maybe Indonesia, but South Korea and the Japanese island of Okinawa could also be affected.
Philippine President Benigno Aquino III, a close U.S. ally, said Thursday he is gravely concerned that debris may fall on Philippine territory. He called the planned launch a "needless provocation" and urged North Korea to abandon it.
Crucially, for Washington, the latest test could demonstrate if North Korea is closer to perfecting a multi-stage rocket that could hit the United States.
North Korea also conducted long-range rocket tests in 1998, 2006 and 2009, but with limited success. North Korea has also conducted two nuclear tests. It is not believed to have mastered how to fit a nuclear weapon onto a missile.
The announcement of the latest launch came just two weeks after the Feb. 29 U.S.-North Korean agreement, which had buoyed hopes for improved relations between the wartime enemies under its new and untested leader, Kim Jong Un. He came to power after his father Kim Jong Il who died of a heart attack in December, taking Pyongyang's secretive, hereditary regime into a third generation.


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What's the Story Behind This UB Photo?
Category: Alumni
We stumbled upon an archive of old, unlabeled UB photos that prompted us to do a little sleuthing, and we need your help. Do you know the people pictured in this image? Do you know when or why this photo was taken?
Fill us in: Contact the Office of Alumni Relations by email or at 410.837.6131.
And the Story Behind the Last Photo Is …
The photo featured in our last issue prompted a few alumni to email us with clues that helped us solve the mystery. We thank them for weighing in, and we look forward to hearing from more alumni about the photo included in this issue.
From Michael Qualls, M.S. '77:
Well, the only person I really recognize is Major Tom Middleton, front and center of the photo. I know that I have changed since then, but I believe that the stocky guy (the second person behind Middleton in [that] row) may be me. I have lost some weight over the years but do still have the mustache and glasses. I could not find the binder that has my notes from my classes then, but I believe that the professor was Dr. Lombardo—an excellent instructor, as I remember.
This was taken in one of the classrooms we used on Fort Meade. The classes were for the Master of Science degree in Criminal Justice. The time [is] 1975/76. I completed the requirements for graduation in the summer of '76 and was on my way overseas to Germany at the time the graduation was held Dec. 22, 1976.
From Joseph S. Jenkins Jr., M.S. '78:
I am the person in the far right in the back. The picture was taken at Fort Meade, Md., circa 1976. It was a criminal justice class.
From Kathryn J. (Harrington) McCloud, M.S. '77:
The picture on p. 22 is of students [in] UBalt's criminal justice master's program, taught (at that time) at Fort Meade, Md. The picture would have been taken in 1976 or 1977; the handsome guy in the center of the picture is Major Thomas Clinton Middleton Jr.
Did our old photo mystery get you in a nostalgic mood? Take a virtual walk down memory lane by visiting Langsdale Library's recently expanded online archives. And the next time you're at Langsdale, make sure to check out new services and tools like iPad kiosks, the Langsdale on the Go! mobile site and more.


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Organizational Talent Rankings via Baseball America
2013 (29) | 2012 (30) | 2011 (27) | 2010 (23) | 2009 (16)
2012 Affiliate Records
MLB: [63-99] AL Central
AAA: [65-78] International League — Charlotte
AA: [77-63] Southern League — Birmingham
A+: [71-69] Carolina League — Winston-Salem
A: [61-76] South Atlantic League — Kannapolis
Arizona Fall League Players — Glendale Desert Dogs
Chris Bassitt (RHP); Charlie Leesman (LHP); Stephen McCray (RHP); Kevin Vance (RHP); Micah Johnson (2B); Marcus Semien (SS); Brandon Jacobs (OF); Jared Mitchell (OF)
Graduated Prospects
Avisail Garcia (OF); Josh Phegley (C); Jordan Danks (OF); Andre Rienzo (RHP)
The Run Down
Back in July I went on a brief rant, imploring White Sox brass to change their ways and improve their flaccid trajectory. It went like this: "There are several questionable farm systems in baseball, but the Chicago White Sox are certainly one that stands out. For years now, the Sox have maintained a firm MLB-first approach to player personnel. They're a principled franchise that would rather allocate its baseball operations budget toward free agent signings and MLB extensions than toward draft spending. And when they do stumble upon a real-deal prospect, they usually like to trade him for a veteran dude, someone to help that playoff push. It's a model that occasionally works — they won a World Series by it in 2005 — but it's not one that's built to sustain success. And now, in 2013, the White Sox are awful. They're in total rebuild mode — everything is for sale. This is finally their opportunity to change direction, to try to build a system that cultivates and utilizes impact talent. They've already dealt Matt Thornton to Boston for Brandon Jacobs, an upside outfielder with a skill set that might be very useful in the fantasy game. Don't stop there, Chicago. Tear it all down."
Well, they couldn't quite tear it all down — there were no Adam Dunn buyers in the market — but they were able to make some key moves and splash some youth into an organization that desperately needed it. Most notably, Avisail Garcia was an outstanding acquisition. He's ineligible for this list, but he'd be an easy #1 were he still hanging onto his prospect status. Don't get me wrong here, this system is still lacking, but it's no longer the weakest in the game, and its overall direction has improved greatly.Please, blog, may I have some more?


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2 charged with reckless homicide in heroin death
Victim left without aid for more than 9 hours
PORTAGE, Wis. — Two men face reckless homicide charges in Columbia County after a 17-year-old died of a heroin overdose.
A criminal complaint says the teen, Jacob Adler, and 18-year-old Lars Atkinson, of Lodi went to Madison July 12 to buy drugs. They gave 22-year-old Milton Moore, of Fitchburg, $75 for a-half gram of heroin. After injecting themselves with heroin, Atkinson and Adler returned to Lodi.
The complaint says Atkinson told police he put Adler, who was asleep, on a couch and tried to wake him up. The complaint also says he then dragged him to an upstairs bedroom. When he awoke the next morning, Atkinson again tried to wake Adler, then dragged him to the patio.
Prosecutors say Atkinson brushed off an offer for help from two city workers. The State Journal says those workers called emergency responders.


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It's Week 3 of the REUNITED Giveaway Extravaganza, which means there's only 2 more weeks to go until REUNITED hits the shelves! Yippee!
Last week's winner — Samantha C. – walked away with two pre-release copies of REUNITED – one for her and one for Alisha, her BFF.
And I had so much fun giving away those books that I'm doing it again! But this time, with a twist. To enter, just write the name of your favorite library in the comments section of this post— it can be your town library, or the one at your school — and you could win two copies of REUNITED – one for you, and one to donate to your library of choice! (Contest runs through Tuesday June 5, 2012 at 7:00amEST. Open to U.S. residents only.)
Of course, I'm making the librarians at my local library buy a copy. 😉 Thank you Mary and Carol!!!


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Broadcasting Live Events: What You Need To Know – Understanding The Basics
When it comes to deciding on how to broadcast (typically refereed to as "webcasting") your live event on the Internet there are many variables that exist. Many times, outsourcing your event to a service provider that specializes in these services can make the process much easier. Whether you choose to do the production using your own in-house resources, outsource to a service provider or a combination of both, there are some basics you need to know. Understanding the components of a live event will help you make sure the event goes smoothly and will give you an idea of what you should pay for these services.
Utilizing streaming media technology is a great way to take advantage of a global means of communication at a fraction of the cost of traditional broadcast mediums. When making the decision to use the Internet to broadcast your message, there are many decisions you need to make. Unless your corporation has the resources in-house to make the broadcast happen, most companies need to outsource the live event to a service provider to handle the webcast and the components that go with it.
Understanding The Basics
Before contacting service providers to get help with your broadcast, there are some basics you need to be aware of. Understanding what is involved in a live event from a technical perspective is important, as the technical resources chosen will be the biggest factor in the event cost and complexity. Typically a live event is broken down into five main components consisting of the following:
- Audio and/or video capture
- Signal acquisition
- Content encoding
- Delivery or distribution
- Website interface integration
Audio and/or Video Capture
The first piece of any live event is audio and video content. Some events consist of just an audio component, such as a quarterly investors relations call, while others consist of video as well as audio. The first step in any live event is being able to record and film the content, otherwise known as "capture". Many times, this factor can be one of the highest costs depending on the complexity of the capture needs.
Signal Acquisition
Once the audio/video content is captured, the signal needs to be transmitted to the location where it will be encoded. This process is typically done a few different ways depending on the event. The signal can be sent to a satellite in the sky (typically refereed to as "uplinking") where it is then pulled down (otherwise known as "dowlinking") at the service provider's offices for encoding. Another way to capture the signal can be via a phone bridge, say if the live event content consists of just a conference call. The signal can also be sent via connectivity at the event location if the content is being encoded on-site from the venue.
Content Encoding
After the signal has been acquired via satellite, phone bridge or another method it needs to be encoded for distribution over the Internet. Encoding the content consists of taking the audio/video signal and transforming it into a streaming media file format ready for distribution on the Internet. These formats are what are being referred to when you hear the terms Windows Media, Real Media and QuickTime. Encoding is done by using an "encoder", a hardware based device with capture cards and software that allows the signal to be digitized into one of the above mentioned file formats.
Delivery or Distribution
Now that the content has been captured, acquired and encoded, it is ready for delivery, which also can be referred to as "distribution". Once the signal is encoded, it is sent to servers sitting on a delivery network that transmit the content to viewers via the Internet. For most service providers, the distribution of your content on the Internet is the largest cost associated with a live event. Understanding the components that effect the costs for these services will allow you to make sure you do not pay for delivery bandwidth you don't end up using.
Website Interface Integration
Another technical piece that can typically be involved in broadcasts is website integration or interactivity. Live broadcasts on the Internet have the ability to include interactive functions such as chat, polling and power point slides. Additionally, you can have the service provider build you a micro website to host the event from as well as additional options such as setting up a registration interface which allows you to collect user data. Many options are available when it comes to interactivity and the complexity and amount of options chosen will effect the final cost for technical services.
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Determining Your Business Needs
Now that you know what is involved in the broadcast, you need to decide on the technical needs of your webcast. Depending on your needs and the type of broadcast taking place, webcasting your live event can require very little resources or have a lot of complexity. The scope and scale of the five components will determine the cost and resources needed to pull off a successful webcast. But before you answer the technical questions, you should ask yourself some business questions to get the most out of your broadcast.
- Does the event need to be live?
- Who is your target audience?
- How do you plan on measuring your return on investment?
Does Your Event Need To Be Live?
While broadcasting your content live has its advantages, it is also more expensive than simply recording it and archiving it for later use. Many times, the nature of the content warrants it to be live, such as breaking news, a corporate announcement or an investors relations call. However, if the content is not of a time sensitive nature you may want to reconsider allocating the resources and budget of broadcasting it live and seek other options from the service provider.
Who Is Your Target Audience?
Understanding who your target audience is, your end users, is crucial in having a successful webcast. You can have a flawlessly produced broadcast from a technical standpoint but it can fail if it does not delivered the message you wanted to convey and if there are no end users watching it. When preparing to webcast your content figure out whom your ideal end user is. Knowing the time, physical location and way they will be able to access the broadcast is essential. This will also be a huge question when we talk about factors that effect the cost of the webcast.
How Do You Plan On Measuring Your Return On Investment?
Whether you spend $1,000 on a webcast or $10,000, no investment is worth the money if you are not prepared to judge how successful it was. Having a defined set of parameters that will allow you to see your ROI is essential. A large portion of the ROI is usually based on the metrics delivered after the webcast by the service provider. These reports (also known as "reporting") vary in detail based on the distribution service provider chosen but will typically tell you how many people watched your broadcast and the average length they viewed. You should also judge the metrics based on the quality of the message you delivered. Was it clear, concise and delivered in the format and way you wanted? Also, if you made your viewers pre-register before the event, by filling in their contact information, you have the ability to send them a follow-up questionnaire asking for feedback. This is another great way to measure the effectiveness of your webcast.
Understanding these variables is the first step in broadcasting a successful live webcast on the Internet. Next week, in part two, we will discuss the factors that will determine the technical scale of your webcast and the cost of outsourcing as well as estimates of what you should pay for these services. Additionally, we will review some vendors in the service provider space who can help manage the pieces for you.
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Iron Disorders Institute (IDI), in partnership with its affiliate Health-e-Iron LLC, are now offering direct-to-consumer lab tests. Test vouchers can be purchased online in 45 participating states and the District of Columbia. Tests will be authorized by a physician affiliated with our lab partner. After receiving the voucher, patients can go to a conveniently located patient service center in their community and provide a blood sample drawn by a licensed phlebotomist. The sample will be analyzed by a CLIA approved laboratory. Test results will be delivered securely and directly to only the patient/customer, the ordering physician and IDI. IDI will inform any patients whose test results indicate an iron imbalance such as iron overload or iron deficiency according to the IDI iron reference ranges established by its medical advisers.When either of Health-e-Iron's proprietary panels called Ironology™ Iron Panel are ordered, you test results will include a measurement of your body's antioxidant defenses. This is a very important measure because even moderately elevated iron can trigger oxidative stress. It's very important to know the strength of your body's natural defense system.
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Serum iron: is a test that measures the iron level in your blood.
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- December 8, 2012 6:00 AM
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Questions on Internet Radio to Podcast Article
Great article in LJ, September 2005 ["Internet
Radio to Podcast with Shell Tools" by Phil Salkie]!
There is a slight problem: in your final bash script you sleep for 2.1
hours and leave for the script to then figure out what the process id
number of mplayer is. More than two hours seems to be quite an extended period
of time on which any process may be forked onto the background, and
then that subsequent process would be the one killed.
Why don't you capture the PID of mplayer onto a local variable and
then kill that PID stored on that variable?
Juan C. Müller
Error in Kernel Korner
There is an error in the code samples for the Kernel Korner article
["Sleeping in the Kernel" by Kedar Sovani] in
the September 2005 issue: wait_event() and wait_event_interruptible() should
not be passed the address of my_event, but my_event itself. That is
because they are macros, and their implementations will wind up using
the address-of operator (&) to take the address of the parameter they
are passed.
Bob Bell
On Patents
In Don Marti's editorial reply to Darin Riedlinger's letter "Multimedia Lock-in?" he states, "You can create your own media in patent-free formats you can use on any OS."
I seriously doubt this. If, for example, OGG would become very popular such that MP3 players (of the hardware version) would start to come out without MP3 support, with the intent of not paying the royalties for the MP3 patents, then those holding the patents on MP3 would be quick to find a patent that also applies to OGG.
Currently, patents are granted on way too obvious things. "Audio compression by omitting nuances that the human ear cannot detect" is a description I heard of a patent that Fraunhofer supposedly holds. On an authoritative-looking Web site I found titles as short as: "method for coding an audio signal", which with a bit of fantasy can really apply to, say, OGG.
Thus, a statement that implies that media formats like OGG are patent-unencumbered cannot be made. The only thing that you can say is that nobody has stepped forward to claim that he or she owns a patent on something in a format like OGG.
The intent of patents has always been to protect:
The small inventor who invents something that nobody would have invented, but is somewhat obvious after the fact (for example, a chain with differently sized gears to drive the rear wheel of a bicycle). An inventor like this may need some time to set up a factory and earn a fair compensation for his "brilliance".
The big companies who spend big bucks to develop something interesting. These need a "grace period" to earn back their investment.
The whole patent application process has become too expensive for the first type of inventors. And the big corporations are claiming that they actually do have millions of "inventions" that warrant the second type of protection. But way too many "the time is right" type of things are being patented.
I'm convinced that any serious application, open source or not, will violate several patents. If some smaller company happens to have patented something later seen in say Microsoft Word, then they might get up the nerve to step up to Microsoft and ask for royalties. In return, Microsoft will research whatever the smaller company is making and try to find a patent infringement on something they hold. Most likely it will turn into a "we won't pay for the use of your patent in return for the use of ours."
Big companies have an arsenal of patents they can use for this type of stuff. Remember when IBM first was approached by SCO? Within a month, IBM had found a bunch of patents of theirs that SCO was violating. Only if the other party becomes "annoying" do the big patent monsters come out of hiding and start to throw threats around.
Becoming "annoying" can be done in several ways: cutting into royalty
payments on another patent (MP3/OGG), asking for royalty payments for
some obscure patent (small company/Microsoft example) or filing a big
lawsuit (SCO/IBM).
Roger Wolff
ALSA Problem
In the article "A User's Guide to ALSA" in the August 2005 issue, Dave
mentioned having a desktop system with a SoundBlaster Live! Value sound
This caught my attention because I have the same kind of sound card in my
system. I have been unable to use ALSA, however, because I have digital
and have been unable to determine how to tell ALSA to switch my card to
output. I am able to switch to digital output under OSS using a utility
from the
emu10k1 package available at sourceforge.net/projects/emu10k1. The
command line that I use is emu-config -d with the
-d meaning "switch
to digital". I would like to begin using ALSA, however, because it
appears that
development on the emu10k1 package has been discontinued, and the days
for OSS
appear to be numbered. Perhaps Mr Phillips or one of your readers
might have an
answer to my dilemma.
Mark Iszler
Dave Phillips replies: the SBLive is certainly a complicated beast. Alas, I don't have digital speakers, so I can't provide a direct answer to your question. However, I suggest checking your mixer for channels named IEC958-whatever. These are the SBLive digital (S/PDIF) channel controls as they appear in alsamixer and in qamix.
Be sure your digital speakers are connected to the digital output of the card. (Sorry, just trying to be complete.)
I'm a little unclear as to whether you're actually using ALSA yet. Also, let me know what kernel version and ALSA release you're using; this makes a difference.
More on Linux Hardware Support
Robert Love's article "Project Utopia" [October 2005] is a great overview of the direction in which Linux hardware support is moving.
We have developed some programmable network hardware for the PCI bus, and
are in the process of developing Linux drivers for it.
We would love to see more articles on HAL, udev and ssyfs, explaining how
they fit together, examples of how to use them and so forth.
Greg Watson
And More Requests
I would love to see more articles about installing and tuning a Linux Debian distro on a PPC box. I dual-boot into OS X 10.3.9 and Ubuntu on a G3 iBook and have yet to find anyone on-line who knows how to get ALSA drivers working on it.
I love the Linux platform and realize the imminent move to the Intel
hardware might make some of this moot, but there are people out there
right now with PPC machines who want to do sound and video using free
Linux tools.
So, how about an article or column dedicated to getting ALSA drivers
working on a PPC?
Keep up the great work—love LJ!
Kim Cascone
Getting Organized
I appreciated the article in the October 2005 Linux Journal by Sacha Chua ["Taming the TODO"]. Emacs has been on my list a long time, but I still haven't started using it; I just got started with vi and didn't want to learn something new. Maybe I'll give Emacs a try now.
I also appreciated your acknowledgement of the index card method. I use that a lot, especially when at a customer site without my laptop or guaranteed Internet access.
Another solution you didn't mention is the wiki. Although not as formal or
organized as an issue-tracking system, it does revision control on your
and makes them publicly accessible via a Web browser. I use wiki for
personal TODO list as well as communal TODO lists for several projects.
Open the Name Linux
One indication that Linux(R) will have reached mainstream would be if there were so many companies supporting Linux listed in the Yellow Pages that the phone company has to create a separate Linux category. However, this ideal seems distant, because attractive Linux company names are being declined by the Linux Mark Institute (LMI).
One recent example of an unacceptable name was discussed on our local Linux mailing list. An entrepreneur learned from LMI that "Linux of Sacramento" was unacceptable—a name likely to generate many phone calls.
An LMI representative said that they are assigned the responsibility to protect the health of the Linux mark by keeping it from being diluted. When I asked the representative for an explanation of how a mark could become unhealthy by dilution, his explanation was too obtuse for me to understand. However, I could understand that a Linux name license would be approved if the name did not imply an exclusive source of Linux in an area. But how would an exclusive source of Linux make the name unhealthy?
I pressed the representative for a case study of a trademark becoming unhealthy by dilution—Kleenex(R) or Xerox(R)? No, they may become generic—another issue entirely.
Linux will become mainstream when the Linux mark saturates
the public. Efforts to prevent saturation is counterproductive;
instead, decision-makers should consider further opening up
the Linux name.
Tim Riley
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Great magazine by the way.
Regarding the article "The Ultimate Linux Lunchbox" by Ron
Minnich in the November 2005 issue of LJ: the first
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The Astros Miss Out On Reid Brignac
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Since the Astros traded Jed Lowrie about a week ago, the Houston Astros have been looking at acquiring another shortstop. Reid Brignac, Rays shortstop, was on the Astros radar.
The Colorado Rockies acquired Infielder Reid Brignac from the Tampa Bay Rays on Thursday in exchange for a player to be named later and cash considerations. Brignac bounced around between Triple-A and the Rays last season. He hit .095 in 16 games for the Tampa Bay Rays last season. The 27-year-old Brignac was a Second-Round Pick by the Rays in the Amateur Draft of 2004.
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Since the Astros traded Jed Lowrie, Houston's starting Shortstop, there is a bit of a hole at Short. Marwin Gonzalez, Tyler Greene, and Jake Elmore are left to compete for the starting job.
Many Astros fans, including myself, thought the Astros might go after another Shortstop. So far, nothing. There were rumors flying around that the Astros might be in Brignac. They were, but it was nothing serious as we can see by Brignac being traded to the Rockies. With Brignac being traded for a PTBNL and cash considerations it seems that the Astros could have gotten Brignac. The Astros have the 4th best farm system, a PTBNL and cash would not have been a problem to lose for Brignac, who would have more than likely been the starting Shortstop in Houston.
Looking at his splits for his Career, Brignac hit for a .240 in his Lifetime Average at Tropicana Field, where he hit .214 on the road. He has very little power (38 XBH in 671 AB) – and does not possess Stolen Base speed with only 8 swipes in 14 attempts. The man from Louisiana also does not walk very much (29 BB), suggesting lack of plate discipline as he has Struckout 139 times in those same At-Bats. However you have to treat these numbers with some understanding. He never has had consistent playing time for a full season – so obviously that will affect ones timing at the plate.
His numbers have projected higher when he has played Second Base (.260 Avg in 53 Starts, contrast to his Shortstop Average of .217 in 184 Games.) We all know if Tulowitzki is healthy, he will never see the field in that position. Also Josh Rutledge (.274/.306/775) is an offensive understudy of Tulowitzki at Short. The Second Base Depth Chart is a little easier to crack with DJ LeMahieu and Jonathan Herrera potentially ahead of him for Colorado. Guys that are not setting the world on fire, but still maybe ahead of Brignac offensively.
Having said all of this, the guy has still played Shortstop at the Major League Level for more than 162 Games, which is more than the Astros other Shortstops actively on their depth chart. This poses my question: Does Jeff Luhnow, the guy who traded a hobbled Shortstop and Fernando Rodriguez for 2 prospects AND Chris Carter, have something up his sleeve to get another Shortstop?
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February 13, 2009
Contact:Robert Schwarzwalder,
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WASHINGTON, DC - The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) yesterday sent the following letter to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton concerning her upcoming trip to China, calling on her to take a strong public position against violations of the rights of thought, conscience and religion.
The letter urges Secretary Clinton to take a variety of actions, including meeting with Chinese human rights lawyers, publically urging the Chinese government to account for Tibetan Buddhists who are missing, calling for an end to the repression of Chinese Muslims, attending a worship service in an "unregistered" church, and pressing the Chinese to work with the U.S. to bring peace to Sudan.
The text of the letter follows:
Dear Secretary Clinton:
As you embark on your first diplomatic mission to China, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom urges you to speak as eloquently about religious freedom and related human rights in China as you did about the human rights of women at the 1995 Beijing World Conference on Women. Many religious adherents and human rights defenders in China are subject to severe and ongoing repression. In addition to your meetings with Chinese officials, we encourage you to meet individuals who have experienced human rights abuses, including, among others, lawyers and members of unsanctioned religious groups. Given that these individuals are peacefully seeking rights and freedoms guaranteed by Chinese law and international human rights standards, the U.S. should be speaking out forcefully about protecting their freedoms.
As you know, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom is a bipartisan, independent federal agency with nine Commissioners drawn from the private sector; three appointed by the President, three by the House of Representatives and three by the Senate. The Commission encourages you to raise some of the following issues during your discussions:
The Release of Human Rights Defenders: Urge that lawyer Gao Zhisheng be released immediately, as well as all other human rights defenders currently detained. In addition, seek assurances from the Chinese government that human rights defenders will be allowed to freely defend vulnerable groups in accordance with Chinese law and China's Constitution, and international human rights standards. The Commission also urges you to meet with Chinese lawyers while you are in China, many whom have suffered arrests, beatings, disappearances, and the loss of legal licenses.
Expanding Religious Freedom in Tibet: Given that the status of religious freedom in Tibet may be worse now than at any time in the Commission's ten year existence, the Commission recommends that you urge the Chinese Government to end restrictions on Tibetan religious practice. We recommend that you urge the Chinese to take immediate measures to account for all monks and nuns taken into custody, killed or otherwise harmed during protests in 2008 and in 2009; abolish laws requiring government approval of Tibetan religious leaders; publicly state that public devotion to the Dalai Lama including the display and veneration of his picture is legal; release all detained monks and nuns; and permit a visit by independent and impartial experts to Geoden Choekyi Nyima, the Dalai Lama's chosen Panchen Lama.
Lift Restrictions on the Religious Activity of Protestants and Catholics and Stop their Arrests and Detentions: The Commission recommends that you urge the Chinese government to end the harassment and detention of "unregistered" Christian leaders, including the reported detention of 637 Protestants in 2008 and the continued detention and disappearance of a reported 40 Catholic bishops and priests. We urge you to consider attending a worship service at an "unregistered" Protestant or Catholic congregation in Beijing.
Stop the Repression of Peaceful Uyghur Muslim Religious Activities and End the Detentions of Religious Leaders: The Commission urges that you raise with the Chinese government the need to end the systematic repression of Uyghur Muslim religious activity, including longstanding campaigns to curb "illegal" scripture reading, political indoctrination of clergy, restricting observation of Ramadan and participation in the Hajj pilgrimage, denying minors the right to practice religion, and the arrest and detention of religious leaders.
Protect North Korean Asylum Seekers: It is important to highlight China's international obligations requiring the protection of asylum seekers, including allowing the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees to operate freely outside Beijing. Accordingly, the Commission urges China to stop the forced repatriation of North Korean asylum seekers and end the issuance of fines and the forced closings of Chinese-Korean Churches that assist North Korean refugees.
Become a Partner for Peace in Sudan: As the Sudanese government's major oil partner and arms supplier, urge the Chinese government to use its considerable leverage to end genocide and protect religious freedom in Sudan, including through implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA).
The U.S. bilateral relationship with China is of course very important. We urge you in your discussions to send the clear message that religious freedom is an essential part of America's strategic foreign policy endeavors.
Your longtime commitment to human rights throughout the world is well-known. We hope you will convey that commitment in China through some of the actions outlined above. We appreciate your attention to the Commission's concerns.
Sincerely yours,
Felice D. Gaer


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