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- 1 What files do I need to run an Athena build?
- 2 My build complains it can't find java.lang.Object. Seriously, WTF?
- 3 My build fails with a failure in getDependenciesHelper.xml and a Java returned: 13
- 4 What are buildExtra.xml and testExtra.xml for?
- 5 My build fails in the packageTestFramework step. Why?
- 6 ${org.eclipse.test} not found? PackageTestFramework step fails w/ Java exit code 13?
- 7 Do I still need a test.xml in each of my test plugins?
- 8 How do I build source features / plugins?
- 9 What information do I need to provide to get a new job added to Hudson?
- 10 How do I create Team Project Sets as part of the build?
- 11 When I check out org.eclipse.releng.basebuilder, it doesn't compile.
What files do I need to run an Athena build?
In some folder, traditionally called org.eclipse.myproject/releng or org.eclipse.myproject.releng (but really, it can be anything), you need these files:
maps/*.map -- what to build (where to get sources) : can be CVS, SVN, or HTTP (eg., Orbit jars)
build.properties -- how to build
testing.properties -- what tests to run
build.xml -- boilerplate script for running the build in Eclipse, via commandline, or in Hudson
I also recommend having a .launch file which produces a log of your in-Eclipse build attempts so that when that log scrolls off the Console view, you can see what happened in the file.
And, if you want to make it easier for others to get your source, you can include psfs/*.psf files. Better, use
build.steps=map2psf in your
build.properties to generate .psfs from your map files.
My build complains it can't find java.lang.Object. Seriously, WTF?
First, make sure EVERY plugin you're building has a
Bundle-RequiredExecutionEnvironment defined. If not, PDE will thing you're trying to build Java 1.2 or 1.3 code, and your Java 5 annotations will fail to compile.
Next, in your .releng project's
build.properties file, make sure you've set
JAVA_HOME to a valid path, as well as setting a valid path for every
Bundle-RequiredExecutionEnvironment ("BREE") defined in your plugins' MANIFEST.MF files. If all your code is set to BREE 1.4, you only need a JAVA14_HOME; if you have a mix, include all that you use, such as JAVA50_HOME or JAVA60_HOME.
Here are the default values for these server.properties:
JAVA60_HOME=/opt/public/common/ibm-java-jdk-ppc-60 JAVA50_64_HOME=/opt/public/common/ibm-java2-ppc64-50 JAVA50_HOME=/opt/public/common/ibm-java2-ppc-50 JAVA14_HOME=/opt/public/common/ibm-java2-142 JAVA_HOME=${JAVA50_HOME}
JavaSE-1.6=${JAVA60_HOME}/jre/lib/rt.jar:${JAVA60_HOME}/jre/lib/annotation.jar:${JAVA60_HOME}/jre/lib/beans.jar:${JAVA60_HOME}/jre/lib/ibmorbapi.jar:${JAVA60_HOME}/jre/lib/java.util.jar:${JAVA60_HOME}/jre/lib/jlm.jar:${JAVA60_HOME}/jre/lib/logging.jar:${JAVA60_HOME}/jre/lib/resources.jar:${JAVA60_HOME}/jre/lib/rt.jar:${JAVA60_HOME}/jre/lib/security.jar:${JAVA60_HOME}/jre/lib/sql.jar:${JAVA60_HOME}/jre/lib/vm.jar:${JAVA60_HOME}/jre/lib/xmldsigfw.jar:${JAVA60_HOME}/jre/lib/xml.jar:${JAVA60_HOME}/jre/lib/jsse.jar:${JAVA60_HOME}/lib/dt.jar:${JAVA60_HOME}/../Classes/dt.jar:${JAVA60_HOME}/../Classes/classes.jar:${JAVA60_HOME}/../Classes/jsse.jar J2SE-1.5=${JAVA50_HOME}/jre/lib/rt.jar:${JAVA50_HOME}/jre/lib/vm.jar:${JAVA50_HOME}/jre/lib/core.jar:${JAVA50_HOME}/jre/lib/xml.jar:${JAVA50_HOME}/jre/lib/graphics.jar:${JAVA50_HOME}/jre/lib/server.jar:${JAVA50_HOME}/jre/lib/ibmorbapi.jar:${JAVA50_HOME}/jre/lib/security.jar:${JAVA50_HOME}/jre/lib/classes.jar:${JAVA50_HOME}/jre/lib/jsse.jar:${JAVA50_HOME}/../Classes/dt.jar:${JAVA50_HOME}/../Classes/classes.jar:${JAVA50_HOME}/../Classes/jsse.jar J2SE-1.4=${JAVA14_HOME}/lib/rt.jar:${JAVA14_HOME}/jre/lib/rt.jar:${JAVA14_HOME}/jre/lib/core.jar:${JAVA14_HOME}/jre/lib/xml.jar:${JAVA14_HOME}/jre/lib/graphics.jar:${JAVA14_HOME}/jre/lib/server.jar:${JAVA14_HOME}/jre/lib/ibmorbapi.jar:${JAVA14_HOME}/jre/lib/security.jar:${JAVA14_HOME}/jre/lib/classes.jar:${JAVA14_HOME}/jre/lib/jsse.jar:${JAVA14_HOME}/../Classes/dt.jar:${JAVA14_HOME}/../Classes/classes.jar:${JAVA14_HOME}/../Classes/jsse.jar
See also the PDE/Build documentation on controlling the classpath and source/target levels.
Finally, note that if you're running on a 64-bit OS with a 64-bit Eclipse, you need a 64-bit JVM.
My build fails with a failure in getDependenciesHelper.xml and a Java returned: 13
One of the most likely causes for this is a dependency that was impartially downloaded. You should clear our your tmp downloads directory and try again.
What are buildExtra.xml and testExtra.xml for?
These are optional.
If you have custom runtime requirements which cannot be configured using dependencyURLs or repositoryURLs in your build.properties, you can define additional fetching/unpacking steps here, for building or testing respectively.
If you have custom packaging steps (ie., you ship more than the default set of zips) you can also add packaging steps here.
My build fails in the packageTestFramework step. Why?
See answer for ${org.eclipse.test} not found.
${org.eclipse.test} not found? PackageTestFramework step fails w/ Java exit code 13?
1. Include "org.eclipse.test" and "org.eclipse.ant.optional.junit" plugins in your all-in-one tests feature (or to each test feature). This controls what plugins PDE will build.
<plugin id="org.eclipse.test" download-size="0" install-size="0" version="0.0.0"/> <plugin id="org.eclipse.ant.optional.junit" download-size="0" install-size="0" version="0.0.0" fragment="true"/>
2. Add these plugins to your map file (or create a new map file). This controls where PDE will find the Eclipse Test Framework (ETF) sources.
email@example.com=v20080313,:pserver:email@example.com:/cvsroot/eclipse, email@example.com=v20070202,:pserver:firstname.lastname@example.com:/cvsroot/eclipse,
Do I still need a test.xml in each of my test plugins?
No. In fact, having one there may cause some of your tests to fail. Omit this file and one will be generated for you from this template.
How do I build source features / plugins?
Three touchpoints are required:
1. In your .releng project's build.properties, set:
2. In your runtime feature, define templates for features/plugins to be generated:
sourceTemplateFeature/ sourceTemplatePlugin/
3. In your SDK or "all-in-one" feature, define how to generate the feature / plugin:
See also PDE Build > Generating Source Features and Plug-ins.
What information do I need to provide to get a new job added to Hudson?
To get added to Hudson, see Build In Hudson.
How do I create Team Project Sets as part of the build?
Add the
map2psf target to your build.properties file. This will create a
psf directory in your releng project, that contains the PSFs.
When I check out org.eclipse.releng.basebuilder, it doesn't compile.
See Common Build Infrastructure/Getting Started/FAQ/Basebuilder.

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This show balances newer signed material with unsigned and attempts to be as varied as possible. The music out there at the moment is a broad church and this should be reflected in the programming of the show.
Social Distortion – they have been around since 1978 and since then have been through any number of line-up changes. Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes is their 8th album. Essentially it's American "punk" i.e. a raw garage version of traditional rock and roll.
What?Noise – Tim Harris, Julia Adamson and Chris Nagle developed a fresh dance oriented sound in the late 80s/early 90s. The "Nuance" EP released recently delivers previously unreleased material. Reviewed elsewhere on this blog.
The Happy Soul – as reviewed elsewhere on this blog – the lyrical acoustic bluesy sounds of this artist are well worth a listen.
Sey Hollo – hails from northern Sweden and is the solo-project of Sebastian Larsson. The music is post-rock played on "rusty guitars and organs". The new EP is out now.
Fire Suave – a mix of alternative country, acoustic and indie rock, from the 2008 album "Sand Fastened"
Apparently We Fly – an unsigned "post hardcore" band from Derbyshire.
Robin James – born in London, December 1980, with Romany Gypsy and Argentinean roots. His fragile, yet powerful, voice, and carefully crafted lyrics, evoke early Nick Drake.
Psycho Charger – a NYC trio with drum machine offering up an interesting mix of styles, a blend of the Cramps and Reverend Horton Heat. From their most recent album "Mark of the Psycho".
Spencer Cloud and the Range Brothers – a new single from one of my favourite bands of last year.
GlassHeads – unsigned band from Wigan with a new tune
Andy Hay – unsigned singer songwriter who I played on last weeks show
Seven Deadly Sins – scottish band who are well worth checking out – nice sound!
Glass Ankle – excellent Manchester band with a keen sense of melody.
Trevor Sensitive and the Locals – from the new album "Sensitive" the ever reliable and utterly groovy Birmingham style icons.
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Completely Upgraded: The 2018 Toyota Camry
Completely Upgraded: 2018 Toyota Camry
The Camry has always been known for being safe, dependable, and reliable but now the Camry has gone through a total design evolution to add excitement to the new design. Toyota's best selling car for the past 15 years the Camry is about to get better with sporty performance and style. The goal of the design of the new 2018 Camry? A vehicle that creates harmony with an athletic image to raise the expectations of the sedan market. A low center of gravity, with a personal yet practical cabin and sporty image both inside and out makes the new 2018 Camry look like a car of the future. With the 2018 Toyota Camry Toyota maintained all the integrity of the Camry with major upgrades to allow it to continue to dominate the market.
"The all-new 2018 Camry is, without a doubt, the most captivating mid-size sedan we've ever produced," said Bob Carter, Toyota senior vice president of automotive operations. "It delivers on everything Camry owners have come to expect from America's best-selling car, and adds to it, jaw-dropping design, more advanced technology, cutting-edge safety systems, and stirring performance that raises it to an unparalleled level of excitement."
The design of the 2018 Toyota Camry isn't the only part getting an upgrade. The interior is built to be more comfortable and more driver centric with a new cabin layout and upgraded technology. In 2018 all Camrys will come standard with Toyota Safety Sense P which includes Pre-Collision System with Pedestrian Detection (PCS w/PD), Full-Speed Range Dynamic Radar Cruise Control (DRCC), Lane Departure Alert with Steering Assist (LDA w/SA); and Automatic High Beams (AHB). 2018 Camry owners will be the first to experience the new Toyota Entune™ 3.0 multimedia system. The new Entune 3.0 will offer navigation, available Wi-Fi for up to 5 devices, and available Remote Connect that allows you to start, stop, lock and unlock your vehicle remotely. Making the new 2018 Camry as savvy as it sporty.
Learn more about the 2018 Camry here. At Rick Hendrick Toyota of Fayetteville we cannot wait for the 2018 Toyota Camry to be released and will keep updating our website as new information becomes available.
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The Rolex Sea-Dweller 4000 is a high-performance diving watch that even meets professional standards. Its ceramic bezel, automatic helium escape valve, and in-house caliber set this watch from the Swiss luxury watch manufacturer apart.
The Rolex Sea-Dweller 4000 is one of the Swiss luxury watch manufacturer's top-performing diving watches. Its 40-mm stainless steel case is water resistant to 1,200 m, which translates to 4,000 ft, hence the watch's name. This watch has the reference number 116600 and was first introduced in 2014. It is the successor of the Sea-Dweller ref. 16600, which had been replaced six years before by the Sea-Dweller Deepsea. The Deepsea is water resistant to 3,900 m (390 bar, 12,795 ft). However, at 44 mm, it is not suited to every wrist, which is why Rolex decided to bring back the Sea-Dweller 4000 as an alternative professional model.
The Sea-Dweller 4000 is a professional tool for every diver: It features the especially secure Triplock crown, a helium escape valve for saturation diving , and a unidirectional bezel with a black ceramic inlay. Its large, applied indices and hands are coated with the luminous material Chromalight and glow bright blue in the dark, which contrasts nicely with the black dial. The chronometer-certified caliber 3135 ticks away inside the case and deviates a maximum of +/- 2 seconds per day. It also provides the watch with its date display at 3 o'clock. Unlike its smaller relative, the Rolex Submariner, the Sea-Dweller 4000 has no cyclops lens.
The Sea-Dweller 4000 has been absent from the Rolex catalog since 2017. It was replaced by the Sea-Dweller with the reference number 126600. This watch sets itself apart with its larger 43-mm case, red "Sea-Dweller" inscription on the dial, and cyclops lens over the date display.
|Price (approx.)
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|Sea-Dweller 4000, Ref. 116600
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|Submariner, Ref. 16610
|300 m (30 bar, 984 ft)
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The Sea-Dweller 4000 has experienced a massive increase in value since its replacement with a new model in 2017. Prices for watches with the reference number 116600 have risen rapidly, meaning you can expect to have to pay around 13,200 USD for never-worn models. Pre-owned models are slightly less expensive. Depending on the watch's condition, prices begin around 11,100 USD for watches with visible signs of wear and 11,800 USD for those in very good condition.
The Sea-Dweller 4000's 40-mm case and three-piece link metal bracelet are made of 904L stainless steel. Rolex considers this type of steel to be particularly tough and noncorrosive . The case is made out of a single piece of steel and screwed together with the case back. Sapphire glass covers the Sea-Dweller 4000's dial. In order to prevent water from leaking in through the crown, Rolex equipped the watch with a so-called Triplock crown system. The crown's winding stem is a potential weak point in every water-resistant watch, as it's an additional opening in the case. Rolex uses four rubber o-ring gaskets to prevent water and dirt from finding their way into the case. The crown remains screwed to the case in its normal position; it's only unscrewed to set or wind the watch.
A special feature of the Sea-Dweller is its helium escape valve. This type of valve is only found on diving watches meant for professional use, such as the Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean. The valve prevents damage due to excess pressure after long periods of time spent underwater. In diving chambers, where people can stay for days or even weeks, divers breathe a special mix of oxygen and helium. The pioneering phase of long deepsea diving watches began in the 1960s. Back then, helium molecules would find their way into the watch because they're so small. This would cause excess pressure inside the watch as the divers were resurfacing, resulting in the watch's glass popping out. Rolex combated this problem by inventing the escape valve. While it functions manually on some watches, on the Sea-Dweller 4000, it functions automatically .
A toothed, unidirectional, rotating bezel with 60 minute graduations is an indispensable part of a true diving watch. The graduations help the diver tell how much time they've been underwater. To set the bezel correctly, you turn the zero marker to the same position as the minute hand at the beginning of your dive. Accidentally extending the dive time can be dangerous, as the diver could run out of air. Therefore, most of these bezels can only be turned counterclockwise, as is the case with the Sea-Dweller 4000. Its bezel is made of a very scratch resistant ceramic, which Rolex calls "Cerachrom". This is quite important, as this piece of the watch is constantly exposed. Rolex chose to finish the numerals and lines on the bezel with an exquisite material, platinum.
The luminous material Chromalight covers the hands, indices, and bezel zero marker, making it possible to read the watch in the dark. Unlike Superluminova, which glows green, Chromalight glows a unique blue. Furthermore, according to Rolex, Chromalight has an especially long lifetime. During the day, it appears white and creates a contrast against the black dial.
The in-house caliber 3135 powers the Sea-Dweller 4000. The natural movement of your arm winds it automatically and it has a power reserve of 48 hours. The caliber's frequency is 4 Hz, which is equal to 28,800 alternations per hour. Among experts, it has a reputation for being robust and precise. The Official Swiss Chronometer Testing Institute (COSC) certified the watch as incredibly precise. Rolex also uses this movement in the Sea-Dweller Deepsea as well as the Submariner.
A diving watch's band should be easy to adjust, as it needs to be large enough to fit over a wetsuit. Therefore, the Sea-Dweller features both Glidelock and Fliplock technology. The Glidelock clasp extends the bracelet to 20 mm in 2 mm increments, and the Fliplock extension links allow the bracelet to be adjusted by a further 26 mm. The Sea-Dweller 4000 and the Submariner are the same size and have largely similar designs. One difference is the cyclops lens over the date display at 3 o'clock on the Submariner. This convex bulge in the sapphire glass is not found on the Sea-Dweller 4000.


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An opportunity for those in college to age 30. Led by Amanda Harvey and Bart Hanna, this group will meet on Sunday mornings at Stella Nova in Norman from 9:30am - 10:30am. This gathering will be a discussion about where pop culture, movies, television shows, and faith intersect.
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Storms fuel business boom
The recent storms and power outages have homeowners thinking twice about how their homes are being run, and businesses are seeing the clientele.
Beautiful, stately trees surround homes around the Midtown and Rockbrook neighborhoods. For the homeowners, they are a selling point, but they can also be a pain at times.
"They're beautiful trees and we love it here, but the trees are older and they're messy, and any storm there is a big mess to clean up, and we lose power a lot," said Ken Barajenbruch.
Barajenbruch said it's the power outages that really bother him.
"Five years ago, we had a real bad windstorm and we lost power for two days. Two days and two nights of food spoiling in the refrigerator, no heat, no light, no cooling. I don't like it," he said.
He considered buying a portable generator, but after hearing what his sister and other people who live on the East Coast had to endure after Hurricane Sandy hit, he changed his mind.
"Of course with no power, the gas station shut down and there were long lines with people carrying 5-gallon cans to get gas to run their portable generators. And of course they couldn't get gas, so their portable generator sat there useless," he said.
A friend recommended a standby generator, which is a unit installed outside the house that is connected to the electrical system and runs off of natural gas or propane.
Barajenbruch was sold on the idea and hired Advanced Electrical Systems to install one.
Tobias Sommer with Advanced Electrical Systems said the company saw a surge in interest in generators after the hurricane. Sommer believes people really took the idea of generators seriously when the Dec. 19 snowstorm cut off power in parts of town for four days.
"You don't have to worry about finding the generator, making sure it has gas, making sure it will start since you haven't started it since the last storm, which could be three years," Sommer said.
All those concerns have generated a business boom for the installed models. Sommer told KETV NewsWatch 7 his crews have installed three times the number of units in 2013 compared to last year.
A model that will power the necessities -- like the water heater, lights on one floor, the refrigerator and stove -- starts at $4,000. It can run up to $8,000 to keep the whole house powered, Sommer said.
For families dealing with medical conditions or those who have home-based businesses, Sommer said, they can't afford to lose electricity.
"A lot of people say, 'Oh, I can make it,' but after a day, your cellphone isn't charged. It's very, very disruptive to life," he said.
Barajenbruch doesn't have to deal with power problems anymore. Three weeks ago, when a storm turned off his neighbors' lights, his stayed on.
"I wasn't even aware of what happened. I got up in the morning about 6:30 a.m., went into the kitchen and heard the generator running," Barajenbruch said.
Experts said it costs about $3 per hour, in terms of natural gas, to run the entire house.
The unit does require maintenance every two years, but it is worth it to Barajenbruch.
"It gives me a lot of peace of mind. That's one less thing I have to worry about," he said.


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Bigamist, The (1953)
Edmund O'Brien, Joan Fontaine and Ida Lupino star in this drama. Ida Lupino directs. You'd have to be good to be a woman in 1953 and direct a film. Ida was the best. This film has been almost ignored by the viewers and it's one of the best ones here.


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The following is the text of a flier distributed on March 1st during the celebrations surrounding the potential evictions of the St. Louis squats. Following the text is a Spanish translation: So we're getting evicted… To anyone who has ever dreamt of a world beyond the boundaries imposed upon the one we currently inhabit, to … Continue reading
from anarchistnews.org Apparently the evictions in St. Louis touched a nerve in Pittsburgh as several actions were reported to pghanarchy.tumblr.com: NEW SQUAT OPENED Hearing of the eviction notices in St. Louis, some anarchists decided to act in solidarity by opening a new squat in Pittsburgh. Somewhere in the hills we entered the house we have … Continue reading
From anarchistnews.org As you may already know, some of the squats in St. Louis received sad news earlier this month: eviction notices. In case you've never had the chance to meet them in person, the houses are part of a six-and-a-half year old squatter community. Some of them are quite small and others quite large. … Continue reading
While Occupy St. Louis hibernated for the winter, foreclosed homeowners and occupiers were invited to a meeting to discuss home defense. One of the homeowners, Annie Quain, successfully stalled her eviction long enough for the property to be put back in her hands. This is story of that process… ANNIE'S STORY Annie could be anyone … Continue reading
On Thursday, September 6, in the latest move to displace the homeless, the city of St. Louis closed off the sidewalks of the 1400 block of Locust St. in front of Larry Rice's New Life Evangelistic Center. The following was first published at CASINO*TOWN*POETS in reaction to the city's latest move and to the attitudes of … Continue reading
The following article was written by anarchist political prisoner Sean Swain in response to an article in Rolling Stone "Why Occupy Needs to Start Making Demands." To write to Sean, see his address below. A recent article in Rolling Stone presented a picture of Occupy divided over the issue of "demands." According to the … Continue reading
As yet another college semester begins, one less rapist will be returning to St. Louis University – but only for one semester. At a Take Back the Night event on SLU campus this past Spring, 30 or more people marched through SLU's campus carrying banners which read "Touch me and I'll fucking Kill you" and … Continue reading
The following is a letter to the editor published in the Summer 2012 edition of The RoundTable, a publication of the St. Louis Catholic Worker Community. Dear Roundtable, I appreciated the latest issue about the occupation movement. It seems to me that the Roundtable offers a practice of concrete analysis of current social movements and … Continue reading
New management practices (the forcing unreasonable codes of conduct to eliminate positions, lower wages, increased surveillance of workers, workload increases, decreasing incentives, and general intimidation and abuse) at the Whole Foods on Brentwood Blvd. have finally pushed workers there to begin to vent openly. Workers have created a blog/forum and began airing their grievances. In response, both local and Midwest regional management have taken up residency in … Continue reading
Long gone are the days when our bars were raided by the police on a daily basis, when trannies carried bricks in their purses to swing at the cops, and pumps were both a fashion statement and a weapon. We have lost the sexual liberation we once found at truck stops and bath houses. Gone … Continue reading
The following text was published recently in the latest issue (volume 12) of "Soliloquies From Strange Dislocales" – a zine of poetry and prose of mad-pride, surrealist rebellion, and rebellious surrealism. The entire issue can be downloaded here: sols.pdf Here are documents which concerns St. Louis Icarus Project itself and something crafted for a film … Continue reading
This morning 2 agents from the local FBI office visited a member of the St. Louis radical community. They first went to this individuals parents home where they were given this persons home address. The individual was approached at home and taken to the local office and asked a few questions. They were asked 'if … Continue reading
SCOTT PERRY, MURDERED BY THE STATE One year ago yesterday, guards at the St. Louis Justice Center held Scott Perry against his will, refused him medical treatment and let him bleed to death. Scott is one of six people known by name to have died in custody in St. Louis in the past few years … Continue reading
"The ugliness of buildings excites vandalism" -Raoul Vaneigem "Society gets the kind of vandalism it deserves" -Banksy "The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress" -Frederick Douglass (from a wheat-pasted poster in Toronto) Take a walk through the heart of any American city and you will see two things: … Continue reading
On the evening of May 24th, 30 to 40 people converge to voice their anger against the brutal repression of Anti-NATO protesters by the Chicago Police Department. Protesters from around the world met in Chicago the weekend of May 19, to confront the NATO summit. During this three demonstrators were arrested for an alleged terrorism … Continue reading
Between a rock and a hard place, thoughts on Larry Rice's new homeless camp and the following eviction. Larry Rice is not your friend. The police are not your friends. The city government is not your friend. The media is not your friend. May 16th, 5:00pm, the City gets word that a group of neighbors … Continue reading
Prisoners are people who occupy prisons and nothing more, arriving here by virtue of a government process. We are constantly indoctrinated to believe that prisoners are people who have committed crimes, who deserve what they get (whatever that is), who are qualitatively different from law-abiding citizens. This is much the same message that the German … Continue reading
This park brochure was distributed during the April 3rd anti-police brutality vigil at Compton Hill Reservoir Park: Full Text: Welcome to Compton Hill Reservoir Park "The park is gorgeous. The best time to come is shortly after 10 in the evening. The colors are simply spectacular. One night I remember these well-groomed men in a lovely … Continue reading
Written and published by Smooth Spaces in January of 2012: [A text I wrote to thinking through the rhetoric of Occupy and the effects it has on the class analysis within the movement. Written with help and support from a group I'm involved with, Wild Rose Collective, where the text was originally published.] It would seem … Continue reading
From Rififi: This evening (Tuesday, April 10th), the Fine Arts Auditorium on Indiana University's campus was seized by around fifty of us- students, graduates, employees, and others fed up with the implementation of austerity, both here in Bloomington and internationally. We've opened the space not only for the purpose of having ground from which to … Continue reading
Another account of Occupy the Midwest. This time from Written Word, Spoken Word (written on March 20): The Noose Is Up! "What we call real estate—the solid ground to build a house on—is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests." —The House of the Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne By now everyone … Continue reading
It would appear that in response to Thursday night's eviction and police violence, Compton Hill Reservoir Park has been covered in graffiti. The home of Eddie Roth, who headed the eviction Thursday night as well as last Fall, was also vandalized with paint. Roth says it is the second time his home has been attacked … Continue reading
"Hey, would you help me unfurl this banner?" So I found myself holding a corner of a massive banner, the size of a billboard that read "Police State." The moment that my friend asked me this question I knew that the attempt to hold the park had failed. What occurred thirty minutes prior – a … Continue reading
Last night close to 150 people from the occupy movement – ourselves, our friends, and comrades – took over Compton Hill Reservoir Park. Met with overwhelming police force intent on evicting the camp, protesters marched into the streets. Where they were met with batons, pepper spray and fists… at least 15 were arrested and three … Continue reading
From the Autonomy Alliance: The members of Autonomy Alliance recommend and applaud diversity in tactics as long as those involved are well informed in their decisions. Though successfully staging actions requires tactical diversity, we recognize that disagreements will inevitably arise among the various groups in our social movements. We affirm and encourage the right to air grievances within these … Continue reading
In 2007, in a published interview I observed that if Ohio prisoners simply laid on their bunks for 30 days, the system would collapse. I wasn't talking about just the prison system, but Ohio's entire economy. I came to that conclusion because I recognized that 50,000 prisoners work for pennies per day making the food, … Continue reading
Just as the horizon was turning pink and the city was awakening to the hustle and bustle of capitalism's business-as-usual, a banner appeared in the most unlikely of places – hanging from the rooftop of the city's Old Municipal Court Building downtown. The building, which on November 17th hosted an occupation and joyous dance party, … Continue reading
In response to police activity in Oakland on January 28, and a request from the Oakland Commune, people around the country have taken action against the police. A Wells Fargo was attacked in Seattle and another in Santa Barbara, a Landlord's office in Modesto, the Police Bureau's office and probation office in Portland were also … Continue reading
A report from the Oakland solidarity march Sunday night in St. Louis, and another piece about folks in Minneapolis attempting to occupy a building. January 29, 2012 In response to the events in Oakland, 50 or so people with Occupy St Louis and others met at the formerly occupied Keiner plaza for a march. For … Continue reading
This New Year's Eve marked the spreading of solidarity noise demonstrations outside of jails, prisons and other places of confinement. In North America there seems to have been over a dozen cities and even more the world over. Participating cities/countries included, Bloomington (IN), Oklahoma City, Chicago, Minneapolis, Oakland, Baltimore, New York City, Atlanta, Pensacola, Pittsburgh, … Continue reading
From You Should Probably Know. "On the night of December 6, while concerned friends and neighbors met to discuss ways to help a local homeownwer save her house, the pictured individuals came to try and stop us. They are two undercover police officers from the St. Louis Police Department. They came half-way through the meeting … Continue reading
At the core of the Occupy movement are a handful of deeply radical principles. These are important factors in understanding why the movement has been both contagious and powerful. Currently Occupy St. Louis is a bureaucratic nightmare, but in October it was so beautiful. Engaging these principles is paramount to rediscovering our power, whether that … Continue reading
November 17th holds as a special day internationally. It's not just a day against austerity or just a day organized by the new #occupy movement. November 17th is also the date (in 1973) when the dictatorship in Greece was overthrown. And still in Greece, it's pretty much a holiday. It remains unclear as to how this … Continue reading


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The prevailing image the majority of us have of trench warfare is circa World War I and involves mud-spattered troops carrying rifles and storming over the top of their trench toward an enemy trench yards away. While this is an accurate image of trench warfare at its peak, that particular military tactic did not spring fully formed directly from the dirt from which the trenches were dug. Soldiers have used some form of trench warfare for centuries and continued to use it in limited measure after World War I.
The concept of digging a hole or trench for battlefield protection is not a new one; castle defenses during the Middle Ages regularly employed moats, which are simply circular trenches filled with water. Roman legions would entrench themselves at night in temporary trenches while on the move. Trench and bunker systems were employed more regularly in the mid 19th century during the American Civil War, the Boer War, and others in response to the development of superior rifle and artillery technology. The Boers were especially known for their trenches and individual holes that allowed them to kill many more casualties than they took.
While World War I was not the first time soldiers employed trench warfare, it was the first time it had been used on such a grand scale. Trench warfare itself developed as a response to improving artillery technology, and its wide scale implementation led to several technological and tactical developments. World War I was the first war in which air support was employed, although airplanes served a largely informational role rather than a combative one. Tanks were developed by armies desperate to break the stalemate inevitably caused by the futility of trench warfare. In the end, tanks brought the protected mobility necessary to break the stalemate, but not before trench warfare had come to symbolize the futility and grinding senselessness of war.
The increase in mobility during the decades leading up to World War II led to a decrease in trench warfare, although soldiers still dug trenches for defensive purposes. Many of those in charge of World War II remembered the pestilential and relatively ineffective nature of the trenches and used them only to fortify larger military or natural positions rather than to engage in a grinding battle of attrition. After World War II, trench warfare was used in limited measure in Korea, Vietnam, and the Iran/Iraq Civil War. Modern examples of trench warfare exist primarily in areas under siege wherein trenches are used for transport of weapons and goods as well as general defense.
The rise of mobility led to the fall of the trench, and most modern warfare centers around easy troop and artillery movement. Trench warfare, as brutal and inefficient as it was, led to the rise of surveillance and mobility technology that ushered in a new age of warfare. Modern warfare owes much to those dirty, sodden trenches since they helped establish the use of airplanes and tanks in combat that assisted armies with movement.
This article was provided by Pro-Tec Equipment, offering trench shoring products.


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Seared Squid and Pepper Salad
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Celebrate National Pie Week and create your own FABULOUS FISH PIE... Choose your own selection of fish, spices, herbs and topping... 375g fish fillets: coley, hake, pollack, tilapia, salmon, smoked haddock or boneless kippers Add some shellfish: cooked cold water prawns…
A great way of using the whole prawn to make a simple but tasty lunch dish or an accompaniment to fillets of fish. Featured at The Bexhill Festival of the Sea 2016.
Gravadlax (meaning 'buried salmon' from the traditional method of curing the fish in the ground) is a Scandinavian speciality, but there are many flavours that work well as a marinade. This has a Pacific rim twist.


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Today in History
Today is Monday, May 20, the 140th day of 2013. There are 225 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On May 20, 1927, Charles Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, N.Y., aboard the Spirit of St. Louis on his historic solo flight to France.
On this date:
In 1712, the original version of Alexander Pope's satirical mock-heroic poem "The Rape of the Lock" was published anonymously in Lintot's Miscellany.
In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, which was intended to encourage settlements west of the Mississippi River by making federal land available for farming.
In 1932, Amelia Earhart took off from Newfoundland to become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. (Because of weather and equipment problems, Earhart set down in Northern Ireland instead of her intended destination, France.)
In 1939, regular trans-Atlantic mail service began as a Pan American Airways plane, the Yankee Clipper, took off from Port Washington, N.Y., bound for Marseille, France.
In 1942, during World War II, the Office of Civilian Defense was established.
In 1959, nearly 5,000 Japanese-Americans had their U.S. citizenship restored after renouncing it during World War II.
In 1969, U.S. and South Vietnamese forces captured Ap Bia Mountain, referred to as "Hamburger Hill" by the Americans, following one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War.
In 1970, some 100,000 people demonstrated in New York's Wall Street district in support of U.S. policy in Vietnam and Cambodia.
In 1988, Laurie Dann, 30, walked into a Winnetka, Ill., elementary school classroom, where she shot to death 8-year-old Nicholas Corwin and wounded several other children. After wounding a young man at his home, Dann took her own life.
In 1993, an estimated 93 million people tuned in for the final first-run episode of the sitcom "Cheers" on NBC.
Ten years ago: The Bush administration, concerned that a wave of attacks overseas could spread to the United States, raised the terrorism alert level to orange. The United States banned all beef imports from Canada after a lone case of mad cow disease was discovered in the heart of Canada's cattle country.
Five years ago: Sen. Edward Kennedy was diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor; some experts gave the Massachusetts Democrat less than a year to live. (Kennedy died in August 2009.) Hillary Rodham Clinton defeated Barack Obama in the Kentucky Democratic primary, while Obama won in Oregon. President Jimmy Carter's White House chief of staff, Hamilton Jordan (JUR'-dun), died in Atlanta at age 63. Olympic gold medal figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi and her professional dance partner, Mark Ballas, won ABC's "Dancing with the Stars."
One year ago: A two-day NATO summit hosted by President Barack Obama opened in Chicago; the allies declared the end of the long and unpopular Afghanistan war was in sight even as they struggled to hold their fighting force together in the face of dwindling patience and shaky unity. Thousands of protesters marched through downtown Chicago, airing grievances about war, climate change and a wide range of other complaints. Abdel Baset al-Megrahi (AHB'-dehl BAH'-seht AH'-lee ahl-meh-GRAH'-hee), 60, the only man convicted in connection with the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988, died in Tripoli, Libya. Robin Gibb, 62, who along with his brothers Maurice and Barry, defined the disco era as part of the Bee Gees, died in London.
Today's Birthdays: Actor-author James McEachin is 83. Actor Anthony Zerbe is 77. Actor David Proval is 71. Singer Joe Cocker is 69.
Singer-actress Cher is 67. Actor-comedian Dave Thomas is 64. Rock musician Warren Cann is 61. Former New York Gov. David Paterson is 59. Actor Dean Butler is 57. TV-radio personality Ron Reagan is 55. Rock musician Jane Wiedlin (The Go-Go's) is 55. Actor Bronson Pinchot is 54. Singer Susan Cowsill is 54. Actor John Billingsley is 53. Actor Tony Goldwyn is 53. Singer Nick Heyward is 52. TV personality Ted Allen is 48. Actress Mindy Cohn is 47. Rock musician Tom Gorman (Belly) is 47. Actress Gina Ravera is 47. Actor Timothy Olyphant is 45. Rapper Busta Rhymes is 41. Actress Daya Vaidya is 40. Rock musician Ryan Martinie is 38. Actor Matt Czuchry is 36. Actress Angela Goethals is 36. Actress-singer Naturi Naughton is 29.
Thought for Today: "Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality." -- Theodor W. Adorno, German philosopher (1903-1969).


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OEM prices for slim Combo and 4x slim-type DVD burners fall
With more vendors set to begin producing 8x slim-type DVD burners, OEM prices for 4x slim-type DVD burners and combo drives have fallen.
Prices for slim-type are at US$60-70 and for slim-type Combo drives at US$45-50, as makers clear out their inventories, according to Taiwan makers of optical disc drives.
OEM quotes for 8x slim-type DVD burners stand at US$70-80.
Currently, Matsushita Electric (Panasonic), Sony, Pioneer, TEAC, Hitachi-LG Data Storage (HLDS) and Quanta Storage are producing 8x slim-type DVD burners in volume. However, other makers, including BenQ and Lite-On IT, are beginning to produce in volume this quarter.
With competition for 8x slim-type DVD burners set to increase, the makers have begun clearing out their inventories of 4x slim-type DVD burners, resulting in lower OEM prices. OEM prices for slim-type Combo drives have also been cut and are expected to fall another 10% by the end of the year, the makers pointed out.
Slim-type Combo drives are still the mainstream burner used in notebook PCs, the makers added.
From DigiTimes


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|Article Index
|UNRIC Library Newsletter - April 2011
|New information material
|New titles
|All Pages
New Websites within the UN System
A/66/50 - Preliminary list of items to be included in the provisional agenda of the sixty-sixth regular session of the General Assembly
English, French & Spanish: http://www.un.org/Docs/journal/asp/ws.asp?m=A/66/50
Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (9 – 13 May 2011, Istanbul, Turkey)
English: http://www.un.org/wcm/content/site/ldc/home
French: http://www.un.org/wcm/content/site/ldc/lang/fr/home
Spanish: http://www.un.org/es/conf/ldc/
The purpose of the conference is to assess the results of the 10-year action plan for the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) adopted at the Third United Nations Conference on LDCs in Brussels, Belgium, in 2001; and to adopt new measures and strategies for the sustainable development of the LDCs into the next decade.
Compact for Inclusive Growth and Prosperity: Report of the United Nations Secretary-General's Eminent Persons Group on the Least Developed Countries
(Blue Ribbon Report on Least Developed Countries (UNLDC-IV / UN-OHRLLS)
English: http://www.un.org/wcm/webdav/site/ldc/shared/EPG_Report_ENGLISH_w_v2.pdf
French: http://www.un.org/wcm/webdav/site/ldc/shared/EPG_Report_FRENCH_w_v2.pdf
The Eminent Persons Group report released ahead of the global conference on the least developed countries in May 2011 says that these countries can break out of a decades-long poverty trap, depending on determined national action and international support. The report also shows upward progress in category after category of economic and human well-being indicators by developed and dynamic developing countries, while LDC trends are close to flat-lining.
2011 General Assembly High-level Meeting on AIDS (New York, 8-10 June 2011)
http://www.unaids.org/en/aboutunaids/unitednationsdeclarationsandgoals/2011highlevelmeetingonaids/ (interim website)
Thirty years into the AIDS epidemic, and 10 years since the landmark UN General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS, the world will come together to review progress and chart the future course of the global AIDS response at the 2011 UN General Assembly High Level Meeting on AIDS from 8–10 June 2011 in New York. Member States are expected to adopt a new Declaration that will reaffirm current commitments and commit to actions to guide and sustain the global AIDS response.
Uniting for universal access: towards zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths (A/65/797)
English, French & Spanish: http://www.un.org/Docs/journal/asp/ws.asp?m=A/65/797
Thirty years into the AIDS epidemic, investments in the AIDS response are yielding results, according to a new report released on 31 March 2011 by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. The report highlights that the global rate of new HIV infections is declining, treatment access is expanding and the world has made significant strides in reducing HIV transmission from mother to child.
Report of the Secretary-General's Panel of Expert on Accountability in Sri Lanka (31 March 2011)
The panel of experts set up to advise Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on accountability issues with respect to the final stages of the conflict in Sri Lanka has found credible reports of war crimes committed by both the Government and Tamil rebels and calls for genuine investigations into the allegations, according to a report made public on 25 April 2011 by the United Nations.
UN and Sustainability – new website
English: http://www.un.org/en/sustainability/
French: http://www.un.org/fr/sustainability/
In 2007, on World Environment Day (5 June), Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, with the above words, made public his ambition to make the United Nations more efficient in its operations. In October 2007, at the meeting of the UN System Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB), the Executive Heads of UN agencies, funds and programmes committed to move their respective organizations towards climate neutrality, and developed the UN Climate Neutral Strategy.
New Disarmament Website
The new structure allows users to find information faster and provides the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) with an interactive platform for promoting messages and engaging key stakeholders. New feature: SPOTLIGHT (latest news) and slideshow.
25th Anniversary of the Chernobyl Disaster (26 April 2011)
English: http://www.un.org/en/events/chernobyl/25anniversary/
French: http://www.un.org/fr/events/chernobyl/25anniversary/
Spanish: http://www.un.org/es/events/chernobyl/25anniversary/
An explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 spread a radioactive cloud over large parts of the Soviet Union, now Belarus, Ukraine and the Russian Federation. On 26 April 2011, the General Assembly will hold a special commemorative meeting in observance of the 25th Anniversary of the Chernobyl Disaster.
See also "News Focus: Chernobyl - 25 years after": http://www.un.org/apps/news/infocusRel.asp?infocusID=116&Body=Chernobyl&Body1=
The European Union's Role in Promoting and Implementing the Responsibility to Protect in Africa: Turning Political Commitments into Effective Action (UNU-CRIS, BRIGG Paper 2011/1)
At the 2005 World Summit, an important normative shift occurred in the definition of sovereignty as the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) gained prominence. This paper, issued by the United Nations University - Comparative regional integration studies, investigates how the European Union (EU) has promoted the R2P principle at the EU and the international level and to what extent the EU has channelled its support for R2P into concrete action in Africa. The paper shows that while the EU has remained an active supporter of R2P at the international level, this enthusiasm has not been transmitted into its own policies or championed by any EU Member State. The EU has at its disposal a wide range of crisis management tools, yet is still far from applying them through coherent action, let alone under the R2P umbrella. Africa has great potential in developing its own peace and security framework, but this remains a long-term project. In this regard, EU support remains essential through political dialogue, sustainable financing and concrete projects to strengthen the African Peace and Security Architecture.
Palestinian State-Building: A Decisive Period (Ad Hoc Liaison Committee Meeting, Brussels, 13 April 2011)
This new report - prepared by the office of the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO)- highlights progress made by the Palestinian Authority in building institutions necessary for a functioning State, while stressing the need for Israel to roll back "measures of occupation" and for an urgent resumption of negotiations between the two sides.
United Nations Peacekeeping Operations – Fact Sheet: 28 February 2011 (DPI/1634/Rev.118, March 2011)
English: http://www.un.org/en/peacekeeping/documents/bnote010101.pdf
French: http://www.un.org/fr/peacekeeping/documents/bnotepkf.pdf
United Nations Political and Peacebuilding Missions – Fact Sheet: 28 February 2011 (DPI/2166/Rev.93, March 2011)
English: http://www.un.org/en/peacekeeping/documents//ppbm.pdf
French: http://www.un.org/french/peace/peace/pdf/ppbmf.pdf
The Assistance Programme - The Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents (UNECE)
This publication was created in recognition that some countries required help to fully implement the Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents. In particular, the Programme has been developed to help the countries of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia and South-Eastern Europe. It details the history of the Programme, preventing and responding to industrial accidents, and evaluates it effectiveness.
e-Atlas of Global Development (World Bank)
The e-Atlas of Global Development is a free, online, interactive tool, which maps and graphs more than 175 indicators from the World Bank's development database. Its launch coincides with the release of a new print edition of the Atlas of Global Development a concise and up-to-date reference for journalists, teachers, students, and anyone interested in better understanding today's critical development issues.
Germany: A Job-centred approach (ILO)
Despite a dramatic decline in output as a result of the global financial and economic crisis, Germany's labour market held up well compared with other countries. Although the economy shrank by 4.7 per cent in 2009, more than in most other countries, employment fell by only 0.2 per cent, whereas the average for the industrialised countries was five times worse than in Germany. This was the conclusion reached by the first comprehensive assessment of Germany's policy to tackle the crisis, issued by the ILO. This country review is part of a series title: 'Studies on Growth with Equity' prepared by the International Institute for Labour Studies.
Global Monitoring Report 2011: Improving the Odds of Achieving the MDGs (World Bank / IMF)
Two-thirds of developing countries are on track or close to meeting key targets for tackling extreme poverty and hunger. This year's Global Monitoring Report delves into country performance and reveals a diverse, and often hopeful, picture. For example, among developing countries that are falling short on the Millennium Development Goals, half are close to becoming on-track. With improved policies and faster growth, these countries can still achieve the targets in 2015 or soon after.
Global Virtual Knowledge Centre to End Violence Against Women and Girls
This Centre - supported by UN Women - has been updated with a fresh design and navigation, and new content, including a learning module on working with the health sector and translations of its legislation module. It offers over 700 practical tools in over 50 languages to assist programmers, policy-makers and advocates working to end violence against women worldwide.
Growth, Employment and Decent Work in the Least Developed Countries (ILO)
Prepared for the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries to be held in Istanbul from 9-13 May, 2011, the study examines the relationship between GDP growth, employment and decent work in the LDCs within a longer term perspective but focusing on the last decade. It addresses a number of key issues in growth and development across the three main regions of Africa, Asia and the Island countries, also highlighting challenges and opportunities for structural changes, job creation and poverty eradication.
Kosovo Human Development Report 2010: Social Inclusion (UNDP)
This UNDP report highlights two particular factors for policy change that also concern Kosovo's international partners: lack of social cohesion and a failure of self-reliance. The report identifies social groups feeling the bite of exclusion more deeply than others. These groups risk becoming Kosovo's invisible population unless they are moved quickly up the policy prioritization ladder and made the primary focus of Kosovo's development agenda.
Moving Towards a Climate Neutral UN (UN Sustainability Report)
Report, summary & press release: http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=664&ArticleID=8687&l=en&t=long
The United Nations has released details of its greenhouse gas emissions for 52 institutions, covering 200,000 employees, in a new report published as part of ongoing efforts to reduce the organisation's carbon footprint. The report, co-ordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), calculates the UN's total greenhouse gas emissions for 2009 at 1.7 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalent, or 8.3 tonnes per capita.
World Development Report 2011 (World Bank)
Report in English, Overview, Report Synopsis and Facts & Figures also available in French, Spanish and Portuguese.
More than 1.5 billion people live in countries affected by violent conflict. The World Development Report 201 examines the changing nature of violence in the 21st century, and underlines the negative impact of repeated cycles of violence on a country or region's development prospects. Preventing violence and building peaceful states that respond to the aspirations of their citizens requires strong leadership and concerted national and international efforts. The Report is based on new research, case studies and extensive consultations with leaders and development practitioners throughout the world.
Evaluating Human Rights Training Activities: A Handbook for Human Rights Educators (Professional Training Series No. 18)
The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) joined efforts with Equitas – International Centre for Human Rights Education to develop this handbook, which aims to support the rigorous, systematic and continuous evaluation of human rights training activities for adult learners in a variety of settings. The Handbook builds on existing research and practice in educational evaluation; it equips human rights educators with basic knowledge in evaluation and with step-by-step guidance, including examples of tools and techniques adaptable to different contexts.
Asylum Levels and Trends in Industrialized Countries 2010 (UNHCR)
This new report, released by The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), gives a statistical overview of asylum applications lodged in Europe and selected non-European countries and notes a dramatic fall in the number of asylum-seekers in the industrialized world over the last 10 years.
Disaster Relief 2.0 Report: The Future of Information Sharing in Humanitarian Emergencies (OHCA)
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), United Nations Foundation and Vodafone Foundation released at the Dubai International Humanitarian Aid & Development Conference a landmark publication examining how technology is reshaping the information landscape in which aid groups respond to sudden onset emergencies. The report analyzes how the humanitarian community and the emerging volunteer and technical communities worked together in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, and recommends ways to improve coordination between them in future emergencies.
New OCHA Portal
The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has launched a new portal. If you have any comments or feedback you can mail them at [email protected]
New ReliefWeb Site
Using the latest web technology, the site has been designed to make it easier for you to get to the humanitarian content that you need, or to have it delivered to you by email or RSS.
To Stay and Deliver: Good practice for humanitarians in complex security environments (OCHA)
The study captures the best practices that have enabled aid organisations to work in high-risk areas, maintain operations, and provide protection and life-saving assistance to people in need. Over the past decade, violent attacks against humanitarian workers tripled, reaching over 100 deaths per year.
The Brussels based United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe - UNRIC provides information on UN activities to the countries of the region. It also provides liaison with institutions of the European Union in the field of information. Its outreach activities extend to all segments of society and joint campaigns, projects and events are organized with partners including the EU, governments, the media, NGOs, schools and local authorities.
United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe (UNRIC Brussels)
Residence Palace, Rue de la Loi/Wetstraat 155, Block C2,7th and 8th floor, Brussels 1040, Belgium
Tel.: +32 2 788 8484 / Fax: 32 2 788 8485


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Italian designer Luca Nichetto has created a new pendant light for Foscarini, which will be launched during next week's Salone del Mobile in Milan. The decidedly linear piece takes a formal cue from the traditional 'troag', a canoe-shaped wooden bowl used in Lapland, which the designer encountered on a visit to the region.
Available in varying lengths, the lamp is fabricated from a single piece of wood. Light is diffused both downwards and upwards, the latter thanks to a slit that runs long the top of the shade. Given its linearity, 'Troag' is particularly suited for illuminating long tables or large open spaces.


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Box 4
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Alliance for Voluntarism - , 1976 - 1980
File — Box: 4, Folder: 1-2
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists of the records of the following individuals involved in AVAS/ARNOVA: Delwyn A. Dyer, Thomasina Borkman, Kirsten Gronbjerg, Stephen Wernet, Ram Cnaan, Jon Van Til, and David Mason. These personal records, collected with varying intensity over an extended period of time, were combined to create one institutional archives for ARNOVA. There are five series: Board Records, Administrative Records, Section Records, Annual Conference Records, and...


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The U.S. Coast Guard said fake distress calls led to a low-speed sailboat chase and the arrest of the boat's owner in California.
Coast Guard spokesman Officer Mark Leahey said a patrol vessel heard the false distress calls near Sausalito at 4 p.m. Sunday and recognized the voice as John McCormick, who was known to the officers for previous hoax SOS calls, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Monday.
The officers found McCormick's 45-foot sailboat, the Fortune, moored off Sausalito, but McCormick told them he would not allow them to board his vessel and started to sail away, Leahey said.
Leahey said three Coast Guard boats pursued the Fortune and he finally stopped about 2 1/2 miles off Ocean Beach.
"Because of the volatility of the situation, we came out armed," Leahey said. "When we came up alongside him, he told us to put the guns away."
Leahey said a "minor altercation" took place when officers boarded the boat and McCormick allegedly assaulted an officer prior to his arrest.
McCormick, whose age was not reported, was arrested on suspicion of making false distress calls and assaulting a federal law enforcement officer.
"The entire thing is very peculiar," Leahey said.


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More about Youth Voices on this episode of TTT.
Meet teachers new to the site and teachers who have been using it for almost 10 years.
If you've been waiting for a good time to join the fun on TTT and with Youth Voices, this is your show! We'd love to introduce you to some new and old friends. Paul Allison, Eric Hoefler, Jim Nordlinger, Chris Sloan, Jack Zangerle, Jeremy Hyler, Monika Hardy
On this episode of TTT, learn more about student-centered, teacher-developed social networks and online publishing with our colleagues Cliff Manning and Lucy Neale from DigitalMe and makewaves and Matt Hardy, co-founder of Kidblog.
On this episode of TTT we get a preview of the 2012 K12 Online Conference with three organizers and three presenters.
Paul Allison, Monika Hardy, and Chris Sloan
host K12 Online Conference organizers Peggy George, Kim Caise and Susan van Gelder,
and K12 Online Conference presenters Karen Fasimpaur, Gail Desler, and Valerie Burton
Click Read more to see the chat that was happening during this live webcast.
On this episode of TTT teachersteachingteachers.org/feed/podcast, find out what Digital Storyteller/Maker/String Arts Master/3rd Spacer, Fred Mindlin is up to with Metal Sculptor, Ed Martinez at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History.
Last week, Ed Martinez started a 5-week series of workshops with students to create another in a group of mobiles he's been working on representing the forage species of the local marine environment in Santa Cruz, California. Fred MIndlin is facilitating student sharing of reflection and analysis about the process and its meaning. Read more about this project at http://forage.storyreach.com/, and see more about Ed's work at http://junkartscramble.com/
This is a relaxed, reflective, and insightful conversation, thanks in large part to the comments and questions from 8th-grader, Kelsey Shelhart.
Please join our dialogue by adding your comments on this Vialogue:
On this episode of TTT http://www.teachersteachingteachers.org/feed/podcast/ , we talk about a new endeavor at Youth Voices http://youthvoices.net/play where students are invited "to become a social media power user through commenting on other players' posts, responding to literary and informational texts, doing long-term research projects, composing, revising, and publishing with text and media, and becoming a self-directed learner."
We're looking for teachers of English, history and social studies, arts and media, and science to come play with the Common Core Standards on Youth Voices.
Our guests on this episode are:
Click Read More to see the many details of this new game, available at Youth Voices http://youthvoices.net/play


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Farmers Market
August 3, 2019 @ 8:00 am - 1:00 pm
An event every week that begins at 8:00 am on Saturday, repeating until August 31, 2019
An event every week that begins at 2:00 am on Wednesday, repeating until August 28, 2019
The Kearney Area Farmers market will begin opening on Saturdays and Wednesdays starting May 25th! Saturdays they will be open 8am-1pm. Wednesdays they will be open from 2:00-6:00!
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Apple Stores Make Tidy Profits, but They Don't Need To
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As the news hits that -- yet again -- Apple retail stores produce far more sales per square foot than any other retailer, including Tiffany's, the piece I most often see missing is the most important: Apple's retail sales success is a side effect, not the goal. When Apple fired the recently-hired John Browett as senior vice president of retail sales, CEO Tim Cook proved he's willing to do what it takes to make sure that everyone knows exactly what's most important at Apple -- and it's not profitability.
Actually, it's not the customer, either.
Is it Apple then? No, I don't think so. Steve Jobs certainly wanted Apple to succeed, but of everything I've seen out of Apple over the years, something else is held aloft far above us all: The product.
The iPhone, iPad, iPod, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, Apple TV. All of these things are about themselves, first and foremost.
In a retail environment, Apple's stores have a lot of glass so you can peer inside and see the pretty products. Better yet, you can walk inside and touch them, use them, learn about them. The displays are like pedestals upon which a bounty is offered to the gods. The stone tiles beneath your feet that lead to the products were mined and shipped from special places. There is no glass that bars you from touching the real thing. There is no fake plastic shell with a photo illustration of the screen. The iPads are not models, they are functioning units.
Nothing can get in the way of the product.
It makes sense for a company that designs the insides of its products for beauty in addition to functionality. Manage Against Profitability? The Horror! After Ron Johnson left to recreate J.C. Penney, a.k.a. JCP, Browett was tapped to lead Apple's retail juggernaut. Browett's biggest sin, aside from possibly not fitting into Apple's culture, was that he was managing Apple Retail Stores to return greater profitability. What's better than beating Tiffany's at square-foot-sales? Making more money. To do it, he was reportedly cutting back on staff and limiting overtime. He was making Apple Retail Stores lean, mean, and profitable.
There's a bit more craziness to this picture, though. It's not necessarily all Browett's fault. According to a report on ifoAppleStore.com -- which focuses entirely on Apple's retail stores -- while Steve Jobs was sick, Tim Cook and CFO Peter Oppenheimer began pushing Johnson to make the retail stores more profitable. After all, Cook was Apple's operational genius and Oppenheimer was, and is, the numbers man.
However, something happened, clearly, when Browett was given the walking papers. The dark side is that maybe he just wasn't as good as Cook when it comes to operations, but I'm hoping that Cook had an epiphany and realized that the Apple retail store experience is not about profitability, that it's not about being lean and mean, and that it's not about ushering customers in and out. It's about showcasing the product, and when the customer service falters, the customer can't revel in the products.
All the profit that has come from the Apple Retail Store -- the reasons why Apple has doubled the per-square-foot of Tiffany's -- has to do with what Jony Ive has created. The product.
If you're an Apple fan, ask yourself this: How often, as you're out and about, maybe traveling to a new city, do you walk past an Apple Retail Store without going in?
I go into them all the time, even searching them out with my beleaguered Maps app on my iPhone 5, just to see all the Apple products that I don't already own -- even if nothing new has been announced.
I do not go in to talk to Geniuses. I do not look for a greeter in a special shirt to make me feel important. It's not about the service. The service is what enables the product experience. I'm pretty sure that quite a few Apple fans enter these places just to look -- again -- at the 27-inch iMacs, to pick up the MacBook Air and wonder if the next time they buy a MacBook if it will be the time to ditch the MacBook Pro and go light with a MacBook Air. Or, hmm, maybe pair an iPad with a 27-inch iMac.
How many times have you walked into an Apple retail store to touch and feel a product, to consider it, and it was only later, maybe weeks, that you actually bought something -- online? So where did that sale come from: the retail environment or the online channel? A 360-degree video of an iPad is cool and all, but Retina displays? Better seen in person.
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In fact, I believe that the customer experience is often less about the exact operational rules than it is about the feeling and mood of each and every store, which is in a large part based on the feelings and mood of each employee in that store, right down to their posture, facial expressions, bounce of step, and tone of voice. In a toxic environment, all that oozes into the air and it blurs your customer vision and experience with the product.
I hope that Apple's next senior vice president of the retail channel understands all this -- and that Cook feels it in his bones, too. If the next retail leader doesn't get it, our Apple retail stores will begin to resemble the jungle ruins of some ancient and forgotten temple -- despite all the shiny products propped up before us.


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Rajarengan "Rengan" Rajaratnam was charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday for his role in the massive insider trading scheme spearheaded by his older brother Raj Rajaratnam and the hedge fund advisory firm Galleon Management.
The SEC alleges that from 2006 to 2008, Rengan Rajaratnam repeatedly received inside information from his brother and reaped more than $3 million in illicit gains for himself and hedge funds that he managed at Galleon and Sedna Capital Management, a hedge fund advisory firm that he co-founded.
In addition to illegally trading on inside tips, the younger Rajaratnam was "an active participant in his brother's scheme to cultivate highly placed sources and extract confidential information for an unfair advantage over other traders," the SEC said.
George Canellos, acting director of the SEC's Division of Enforcement, said in a statement that "Our complaint against Rengan Rajaratnam tells a sad tale of a man who followed his brother down an illegal path of greed to its inevitable conclusion."
Sanjay Wadhwa, senior associate director of the SEC's New York Regional Office, added, "Rengan Rajaratnam profited handsomely from his brother's insider trading activities, and he may have believed he wouldn't have to pay a price for his involvement. But now he is learning the true cost of his participation in the most expansive insider trading scheme ever perpetrated."
In a parallel action, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York today announced criminal charges against the younger Rajaratnam.
According to the SEC's complaint filed in federal court in Manhattan, Rajaratnam repeatedly received valuable insider tips from his brother that he used for illegal trading in the securities of Polycom, Hilton Hotels, Clearwire Corp., Akamai Technologies and AMD. For example, in July 2007, the SEC says, he "made substantial profits trading Hilton stock in his personal account based on a timely insider trading tip from Raj Rajaratnam that Hilton was about to be taken private. Rengan Rajaratnam quickly loaded up on Hilton stock, and the price of Hilton shares jumped more than 25% after the news became public." Rengan Rajaratnam cashed in his recently acquired position for an illicit profit of more than $675,000.
According to the SEC's complaint, after Raj Rajaratnam tipped him about an upcoming transaction involving Clearwire Corp. in March 2008, Rengan Rajaratnam complained to his brother that certain nonpublic information they had used to begin accumulating a position in Clearwire stock was about to be reported by the media before they could establish a larger position. "Rengan Rajaratnam nevertheless profited by more than $100,000 in his personal brokerage account and more than $230,000 for Galleon hedge funds based on trades in Clearwire securities," the SEC says.
The SEC charges Rengan Rajaratnam with violations of Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5. The complaint seeks a final judgment permanently enjoining Rajaratnam from future violations of these provisions, ordering him to disgorge his ill-gotten gains plus prejudgment interest, and ordering him to pay financial penalties.
The regulator's investigation is continuing.
The SEC says it has now charged 33 defendants in its Galleon-related enforcement actions, which have exposed widespread and repeated insider trading at numerous hedge funds and by other traders, investment professionals and corporate insiders throughout the country.
The insider trading occurred in the securities of more than 15 companies for illicit gains totaling more than $96 million.


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This six-week seminar will examine the influence of two men-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and Louis Dembitz Brandeis-on American constitutional development from 1902 to 1939. Although the phrase "Holmes and Brandeis dissenting" led many people to believe that they shared a common jurisprudential philosophy, the differences between them are as important as the areas in which they agreed. We will look at the biographies of the two men, the classical legal thought that dominated the Court throughout most of this period, the important cases in which they wrote-mainly in dissent-and the influence of those opinions on subsequent cases.The instructors are Melvin I. Urofsky and John Fabian Witt. Urofsky "is a professor of law and public policy at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is the longtime editor of the Journal of Supreme Court History and has written widely on American constitutional development. His most recent books are the prize-winning Louis D. Brandeis: A Life (2009) and with the late Kermit Hall, New York Times v. Sullivan: Civil Rights, Libel Law, and the Free Press (2011). Witt is the Allen H. Duffy Class of 1960 Professor of Law at Yale Law School, a member of the Yale History Department, and the author of three books and numerous articles on the history of American law, including (most recently) Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History (2012)."
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On this episode of Smack Talk from Smark Out Moment, the panel reviews WWE's 2013 Tables, Ladders and Chairs pay-per-view and gives a rundown of the results as well as the current events that went down this week in professional wrestling and the Ask Him trivia question. All this and more from www.smarkoutmoment.com
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On this episode, we give our predictions and thoughts on the upcoming WWE Tables, Ladders & Chairs 2013 pay-per-view event matches including John Cena vs Randy Orton, CM Punk vs The Shield, Daniel Bryan vs The Wyatt Family and more. We also break down the weekly current events going on in the world of professional wrestling and ask you the trivia question of the week, all coming to you from www.smarkoutmoment.com
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Two men and a woman have been jailed for a total of 25 years after two students were tied up in their home and forced to hand over credit card details at gunpoint in what police have described as an "extremely traumatic experience".
Masked intruders Martin Gaffoor, 36, and Lee Whormsley, 37, burst into the house in Walkley, Sheffield, as the students slept, bound them with shoelaces, gagged them with socks and rifled through rooms for valuables, South Yorkshire Police said.
Gaffoor pointed a gun at the 20-year-olds and Whormsley carried a stun gun, South Yorkshire Police said after the pair from Shiregreen in Sheffield were jailed for 11 years and nine years respectively at the city's crown court.
Toni Slinn, 30, from Shiregreen, who accompanied the two men, was sentenced to five years in prison for her role in the robbery in November last year.
A South Yorkshire Police spokesman said: "Shortly before 8am, one of the students was woken by two men, Gaffoor and Whormsley, entering his room. They asked questions about the student's other housemates and whether he had a car.
"The men took his debit card and demanded his PIN. Gaffoor instructed Whormsley to tie up the student using electrical cable. All three made their way upstairs to the second student's bedroom.
"Gaffoor pointed the gun at the student and directed Whormsley to search the bedroom for his debit card. Again, they demanded the PIN. Whormsley was then instructed to tie up the second student, which he did using shoelaces."
After freeing themselves when the intruders left, the students called police and discovered a number of items had been stolen and money had been withdrawn from their bank accounts.
A police investigation identified Gaffoor and Whormsley, and then further identified Slinn, who used the bank cards to withdraw money while the students were tied up in their house. All three pleaded guilty to two counts of robbery and were sentenced at Sheffield Crown Court.
Gaffoor and Whormsley also pleaded guilty to two counts of false imprisonment, and two counts of possessing a firearm. Detective Constable Chris Lewis, who led the investigation, said: "The victims suffered an extremely traumatic experience at the hands of Gaffoor and Whormsley, while Slinn waited and took possession of stolen property."


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The jacket liner went back to Gerbing. They said they are now using a round wire instead of the flat lamp-cord and agreed to replace all the wires on my jacket.
While all this was going on, I realized that one of the channels of my dual controller was putting out 100% even when off. I wonder if the shorted glove wire didn't somehow harm it. They said they're going to fix it too, but it was a pain, because it's permanently mounted on the bike and was damaged in its removal. We'll see if they come through.
I bought a Gerbings jacket and temp controller a couple of years ago with the newer micro wire wiring system. About 3 weeks after purchase, I was using it on a two hour ride on a fairly cold day
that required a lot of heat to keep warm. I noticed that the jacket was getting extremely hot and didn't cool off when I turned the controller down. When I pulled to a stop to check things out, I discovered that I could not disconnect the controller connection from where it plugged into the jacket. It had gotten so hot that the plug had melted into the jacket connection. Fortunately,no burn to me.
This was completely repaired by Gerbings under warranty, and I have not had any problems since.
Talking to Mike at Warm n Safe, although he manufactures and sells liners with the microwire technology, he recommends staying with the older standard wire technology...
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Have had and used Gerbing for years. Never had a problem. Always works great.
This is the type of gear and expense I would not be buying over the internet or the phone. Go and they them on. Only way to really see and feel how they are going to fit you. And because used somewhat as a layer even more reason to try on.
W&S gets my vote. I have the remote controller. Warm&Safe will also take in a trade. I had a Widder vest that they took in as a trade. Great liner and the service was good also.
You can interchange any brand of heated gear as long as connectors work. Most new stuff is coax, older stuff can be SAE.
Remember that Gerbings sourced from China for years and got into trouble with poor quality and inability to manage the logistics trail. Moved to NC and got bought, refinanced a couple years ago. New stuff should be OK. The old China inventory should be flushed through the system by now (its sizing was bizarre- labelled by metric methods but not even accurate to those). However, they were still not able to supply well- they had insufficient inventory at the start of this years primary sales season according to some dealers who couldn't get what they wanted. But that should correct itself by the 2014 selling season for their gear.
I've got an old Gordon Gerbings jackets that works fine but I've mothballed my old Gerbings controller and replaced it with the WarmNSafe remote- which now uses AAA batts instead of the 2032 batt of the original. I also have the WarmNSafe jacket which I prefer- it has a nifty pocket for holding the remote controller receiver module and better cord handling than my older Gerbings. Don't own a microwire but it should work well.
Any of the gear for which WarmNSafe is the OEM should also be good stuff..
Jackets are always better than vests- the heated sleeves help keep your hands warm by avoiding heat loss in your arms
Get a dual controller to allow gloves to be set independently- otherwise you'll not like the balance between gloves and jacket on a single. Only gets to low 20s here and at those temps there is no need for heated pants or soles assuming you have decent insulated riding pants (mine are RevIt).
I've used a Tourmaster Synergy jacket liner for a couple of years and been very happy with it. The controller is a bit crude and tends to fall off your leg, but the heat at position 1 is warm, at 2 is hot and at 3 your blood starts boiling! It plugs straight into my R1200RT's socket with not problems, and it was cheap. The connector wire started to rip out of the jcket after I'd tried to walk away while plugged in once too often, but a couple of stitches fixed it. I don't know about their pants but I'd cerrtainly recommend the jacket.


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9 Sweet Ways to Use Leftover Bread
If you're like me, you've found yourself in a vicious cycle of buying big beautiful boules and baguettes, only to eat half then sadly throw the stale leftovers away. A few summers ago, I challenged myself to go the whole season without ever throwing away good bread, and I started to make everything from bread thickened soups like pappa al pomodoro to jars of homemade breadcrumbs.
In the sweets department, there is an obvious choice for using up stale bread: bread pudding. I happen to love this warm, custardy dessert, so it's a nice coincidence that it's best when made with stale bread. (It allows the cubes to soak up the liquid without turning to mush.) Another good option? A fruit-based panzanella that can easily be adapted to whatever's in season.
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On September 16th, RockShox pros Ryan Howard and Red Bull Rampage winner Kurt Sorge played a best of three game of B.I.K.E. up in
Kamloops, B.C. RockShox put up $5,000 for the winner, as long as the game was played over Facebook on the RockShox wall so everyone could watch and participate.
What they didn't tell you was in addition to the low-res webcams they shot the live game with — RockShox also hauled a full film crew and a mini-helicopter up to the 'Loops to catch the action in full cinematic quality. (You didn't really think they'd let Howard and Sorge throw down and only take a few camera phones, did you?)
And now RockShox has released the full game, along with extended footage, the Vegas segment of the loser's henna chest tattoo, and they threw out a little teaser for what they have planned next year.
See it all in HD at https://www.facebook.com/rockshox or on Vimeo at https:/vimeo.com/51370416. (Song credit: "The Drastic" by Whygee w/Brikabrak. Produced by Yallzee.)
May the Worst Speller Win.
Here are a few stills from the film, starring Howard (Trek) and Sorge (Giant), judge Graham Agassiz (Kona), and "Mulligan" stand-ins Justin Wyper (Blk Mrkt), Sam Dueck (Norco), and Adam Hauck (Blk Mrkt).


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