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Unsafe Abortion on the Thailand-Burma Border: A Perfect Storm
After decades of conflict and human rights abuses, reproductive healthcare in eastern Burma is among the worst in the world.
Also see Anna Clark's article about the lack of contraception access in Eastern Burma.
After decades of conflict and human rights abuses, reproductive health care in eastern Burma is among the worst in the world. Millions of women still inside Burma as well as those who have fled to neighboring Thailand face a perfect storm of devastating health consequences from lack of access to family planning and safe, legal abortion.
In Burma, abortion is only legal to save the life of a pregnant woman. And although abortion is legal in Thailand in some circumstances, women from Burma living in Thailand as refugees or migrants are generally unable to access safe abortion care. As a result, unsafe abortion is a major contributor to maternal mortality and morbidity on both sides of the Thailand-Burma border.
Reproductive health efforts have been undertaken by non-governmental organizations and community-based organizations in this region for decades. However, these efforts are often fragmented and lack coordination. In addition, few organizations address the issue of unsafe abortion beyond advocating for more family planning. In 2010-2011, a team of researchers from Ibis Reproductive Health and the Global Health Access Program conducted a comprehensive health assessment in order to understand abortion practices, harm to women, and ways to reduce the impact of unsafe abortion in this longstanding conflict setting.
Last week we formally released the report, Separated by borders, united in need. Our findings show a severe lack of access to family planning and considerable harm from unsafe abortion. Lack of health education and information contribute to high rates of unintended pregnancy, particularly among adolescents. Women have difficulty accessing family planning services and organizations report lack of contraceptive supplies. There is widespread misinformation among health workers about the legal status of abortion and referrals for legal and safe services within Thailand are rare. A lack of trained providers and restrictions on travel also prevent women from accessing safe, legal treatment.
As the world directs its attention to Burma and the possibilities for political change, it is important that we not forget women and women's health. The sixty-year civil conflict in Burma has had a significant impact on reproductive health. As Burma embarks on its journey toward political reform, donor funds are likely to flood into the country. We must remember to target some of those resources to women's health so that women can fully participate in political and economic opportunities to come.

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Editor's Note:
Abba Solomon and Norman Solomon's article "Blind Alley of J Street and Liberal American Zionism", responded to below by Milton Masur, has generated lots of controversy among Tikkun readers. Some of it has taken the form of denunciations of Tikkun for publishing the article at all. Milton Masur takes a more balanced approach in his criticisms. However, relying on Gershon Gorenberg's history of the conflict has its problems. For example, Dr. Masur gives only passing mention of the systematic attempts by right wing Zionist groups to terrorize and massacre Palestinian civilians. In particular, the assault and mass murder at Deir Yassin was aimed at Palestinians who had conveyed their desire to live in peace with the Jewish population of Palestine–thereby conveying to Palestinian civilians that they would not be safe in the emerging Jewish state. The official leadership of the Zionist movement denounced these acts, but did little to prevent them or punish the leadership of these terrorist groups, Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir, both of whom became prime ministers of the State of Israel rather than brought to trial for conspiracy to commit murder. While there was no official plan to expel the Palestinian people as a whole, Israeli historian Benny Morris demonstrated that the forced march of tens of thousands of Palestinians from their homes by what was to become the Israeli Defense Forces was an outcome of a strong feeling by Ben Gurion and others that eventually the Land of Israel would have to be rid of most if not all Palestinians, though it was important to them to not say so publicly at the time (hence the evidence for this claim lies in their journals and private conversations). Still, much of what Masur writes below deserves serious consideration in tempering one's assessment of the way Israel came into existence in 1947-49. Moreover, this particular historical fact does not necessarily yield a reason to delegitimate Israel in 2014. The massacre and displacement of Palestinians in 1947-49 looks rather tiny in comparison with the much greater displacements and massacres committed during and after the second world war, and in the creation of the current states of India, Pakistan and China, yet it is only Israel that faces a sustained assault on its legitimacy as a nation state 7 decades later. This imbalance gives credence to the Zionists who claim that the movements in opposition to Israel are motivated by anti-Semitism. And that is one reason among many why Tikkun does not support any movement that seeks to delegitimate the right of the Jewish people of Palestine to have security for the State of Israel, even as we remain strong critics of Israel's treatment of the Palestinian people and are doing all we can to oppose the Occupation of the West Bank and the blockade of Gaza.
–Rabbi Michael Lerner, Editor, Tikkun
The article in the May 22 issue of Tikkun, criticizing some aspects of J street policy and its founder, Jeremy Ben-Ami, has some flaws, according to the book The Unmaking of Israel by Gershom Gorenberg. The Solomons state "…Population transfer of Arabs was part of the planning of Zionist leadership, and it was implemented…" Gorenberg disputes that; he says that the status of the Arab population of Israel is riddled with contradictions. The UN partition plan split the land but the different ethnic population groups lived among each other on both sides of the land split. Gorenberg indicates that Arab historians say that the Israelis adopted an expulsion policy to get rid of Palestinians, but he says that was not the Israeli intent. It is true that the Israelis expected to absorb 500,000 Jewish persons displaced by WWII, and in that sense the Palestinians paid for Europe's crimes by being displaced. However, considering the rejection of post WWII displaced homeless Jews by much of the world, the creation of a Jewish homeland was legitimate despite opposition by the Arab world which considers it a calamity. In another book (Pillar of Fire by Yigal Lossin), Chaim Weitzman, a key founder of Israel, considered this displacement as "the lesser of two evils."
The Israeli founding fathers were afraid that the Jews would be in the minority; they therefore wanted those Arabs who were within Israeli lines to choose Palestinian citizenship. The Zionist leaders did eventually consider "transfer"– the forced uprooting of families to create ethnically homogeneous states, as was proposed by the Peel commission dividing Palestine in 1937. This had occurred to large numbers of Greeks, Turks, and Armenians before WWII, and Turks, Slovaks, Hungarians, and Germans et al, after WWII. The process is referred to as "ethnic cleansing" nowadays but was previously accepted by Britain, Russia and the United States, et al, as a pragmatic necessity.
However, there is no evidence that the Jewish leadership planned to expel the Arabs from the start and there is contrary evidence that the expectation was for the Arab population to stay put. The Situation Committee was created by Jews in administrative positions in 1947, in anticipation of the impending end of the British mandate, in order to draw up a "blueprint" to run the country. Ben Gurion chaired the committee and other senior politicians were on the committee and its subcommittees. The final report of the Situation Committee included many details on the inclusion of existing Arab schools, Arab health clinics, and Arab administrators within the state of Israel.
Gorenberg documents that consideration of population transfer versus integration of Palestinians occurred eventually in relation to "events on the ground." The Situation Committee completed its report in April of 1948, but fighting between Arabs and Jews in Palestine had already broken out and escalated after the 1947 partition plan was approved. "…It was a war of communities, not of states."
Arab residents fled their homes and Arab militias blockaded the road to Jerusalem. The Haganah went on the offensive to control the partition-assigned land and to open the Jerusalem road. Some Arabs fled in panic (especially after right wing Jewish fighters perpetrated massacres) and some were expelled, and a subsequent Israeli cabinet decision was to keep the refugees from returning and to solve the refugee problem as part of a formal peace agreement. This was partly to avoid a "fifth column" and partly compensation for Jewish land losses as well as claiming the spoils of war.
Arab forces also expelled or massacred Jews, for example, the Jewish quarter of Jerusalem was emptied by the Transjordan Arab League, and Arab fighters massacred 150 members of kibbutz Kfar Etzion after they surrendered. Isolated Jewish communities were also abandoned, but since the Arabs were losing, the expulsions and abandonments of Jews were fewer than those of the Arabs. At the signing of the armistice in 1949, 150,000 Palestinian Arabs, one fifth of the pre-war number, remained in Israel. They were considered Palestinian citizens of Israel, but not Israelis, until 1952, when the Knesset gave them citizenship and also defined Palestinian Arabs who had left as non-citizens. The same legislation granted citizenship to any Jew who emigrated to Israel.
The Arab citizens of Israel were treated as a suspect population, living under military rule on the basis of previous "draconian" British military laws dealing with the pre-state Jewish revolt. The Israeli military government was the de facto government for the Israeli Arabs, supervising travel and work permits and political activity. Arab citizens could vote, but were treated unequally. That dynamic improved some when the military government over Arab Israeli citizens was abolished in 1966, but it did not end expropriation of Arab land or official discrimination.
The Solomons further state that "…without the uprooting of the Palestinians, a Jewish state would not have arisen here." That is true since the partition of Palestine by the UN in 1947 produced mixed Jewish and Palestinian populations on either side of the proposed partition lines, and it was natural that a displacement of ethnic groups to their own borders would ensue, whether voluntary or forced. But the accusation of "ethnic cleansing"allegedly perpetrated by the 1948 Israeli government doesn't really apply here, as described by Gorenberg, especially in view of the substantial number of Palestinians who remained within Israel's borders. Although Gorenberg acknowledges that the Israeli Arab population has not had full citizenship rights, this is far less than "ethnic cleansing."
The Solomons accuse Ben-Ami of evading answers to questions: "…Asked whether relations with non-Jewish Palestinians would be better now if Jewish leaders who favored creation of a non-ethnically-based state had prevailed, Ben-Ami did not respond directly. Instead, he affirmed support for a two-state solution and commented: 'History has sadly and repeatedly proven the necessity of a nation-state for the Jewish people. J Street today is focused on building support in the American Jewish community for the creation of a nation-state for the Palestinian people alongside Israel — precisely because it is so necessary if Israel is to continue to be the national home of the Jewish people."
Who knows whether in 1947 a non-ethnically based combined state was even feasible, (rather unlikely) let alone whether it would have produced better relations between Palestinians and Jews? There was plenty of armed conflict between these groups prior to 1947, and even though some Arabs might have welcomed the Jews, Europeans and Jews were not trusted after WWI, when British and French promises of Arab independence in return for supporting the allies were not kept. Ben-Ami's comments about the historical need for a Jewish state are not evasive, and can certainly be defended.
Democracy is a relative term and there are flaws in Israel's democracy. State and synagogue are entangled. Gorenberg indicates that orthodox Jewish religion is not the purported guardian of pure Judaism of the mythological past. Like all other Jewish sub-groups, orthodoxy is a product of the modern enlightenment that changed access to Christian society via education, economic shifts, migration, population explosion and modern day anti-Semitism. Religion was turned from an assumption into a question, and new ideologies, such as secular Zionism, saw the Jews as a nationality with religious Judaism per se, obsolete.
Orthodoxy held onto traditional belief and practice, and one form advocated integration into secular society even while maintaining those traditions. Ultra orthodoxy, however, foreswore integration into surrounding society, relying on observing Jewish law as a bulwark against the Enlightenment and depending on its Jewish religious hierarchy to make decisions in religion, politics and personal life. Gorenberg indicates that such reliance on religious hierarchy and exclusion of change was "…a radical innovation masquerading as conservatism."
The acceptance in 1948 of the orthodox political parties into government was a compromise by Ben Gurion's government, necessary to form political coalitions, and also to avoid deepening the secular-religious split that would have occurred if state and religion were separated. According to Gorenberg, no one imagined that such support for the ultra- orthodox could undermine the power of the state itself although that has occurred subsequently. The orthodox penetration of government control has been strengthened by the accession to power of the secular right wing parties; both see the occupation and incorporation of territories conquered in the 1967 war as a national goal.
The Solomons recognize that J Street has been a "counterweight" to AIPAC's support of militant Jewish nationalism, but accuse it of not going far enough in its criticism of Israel. In particular, they accuse J Street of implicitly supporting the policy of the "State as complete master" of its immediate subjects as well as world-wide Jewry, pressuring Jews to "accept Zionism and a Jewish state as integral to Judaism" using "narratives of historic Jewish vulnerability and horrific realities of the Holocaust (as) all-purpose justifications."They accuse "… J Street leadership of withhold(ing) from the range of prospective solutions the alternative of truly ending the legally and militarily enforced Jewish leverage over Palestinians, replete with the advantages of dominance." This situation certainly would not apply to the Palestinians in the occupied lands if they have their own state as J Street urges. However, some "subjugation" of Palestinian rights still does occur within Israel proper.
The Solomons indicate that "…J Street is striving to support Israel differently than AIPAC: by fostering the more peaceful, humane streams of Zionism…It was a clarifying moment on April 30 when the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations rejected an application for membership from J Street. For several years, the J Street leadership has worked hard to create a palatable alternative to hard-line versions of what it means to be pro-Israel. But this spring, J Street's leaders could not get the seal of approval they craved from the organized American Jewish establishment, which apparently sees little need for Zionism to acquire a more humane face."
The Solomons criticize J Street's attitude towards the berating of Israel via boycott, divestment and sanctions. They equate the BDS delegitimization as a means of countering the Israeli subjugation of the Palestinians and feel that J street is remiss by not accepting delegitimization. They accuse J Street of avoiding any real pressure to isolate Israel so that J Street can maintain its access to the Israeli establishment.Ben-Ami has warned of "the 'one state nightmare' — a minority of Jewish Israelis in a state with a majority of non-Jewish residents…" a stance similar to Ben Gurion's resistance to militarily taking the West Bank in 1949 when the opportunity arose. The Solomons say that for J Street, "an embrace of perpetual Jewish dominance is imperative …".
The Solomons indicate "While evocations of the "special relationship" between the United States and Israel may sound uplifting, J Street ultimately lets the Israeli government off the hook by declaring that relationship sacrosanct, no matter what. The organization insists that political candidates funded by J Street PAC "must demonstrate that they support a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, active U.S. leadership to help end the conflict, the special relationship between the U.S. and Israel, continued aid to the Palestinian Authority and opposition to the Boycott/Divestment/Sanction movement." Furthermore, although the Solomons recognize that J strait urged restraint in dealing with the Israeli invasion of Gaza in 2012, they feel that J Street didn't urge enough restraint; likewise when the United States considered missile strikes on Syria because of its use of chemical weapons, J Street "remained officially silent on the issue." It isn't clear what the Solomons thought of the United States threats to use missiles.
The Solomons state that "…the Jewish establishment has always represented those Jews choosing to affiliate with institutionalized Judaism. More and more, this leaves out large numbers who don't believe that blood-and-soil Jewish nationalism should crowd out their Jewish and universalist values. As the Pew survey shows, American Jews are less sympathetic than American Jewish organizations to enforcing Jewish political nationalism with armed force."
While I sympathize with some of the points made by the Solomons, I think that Gorenberg's book, The Unmaking of Israel, successfully refutes many of them as described above. It is unrealistic to think that Jews and Palestinians, after so much blood spillage and hatred are likely to respect each-other's rights in a state which gives major political power to both sides; it would produce another Lebanon. It would be better, as Amos Oz puts it, to go through a painful but necessary divorce. While those Palestinians who are Israeli citizens within its borders do not yet have full democratic rights, there has been progress in attaining them, and that should go further forward in the future. The very large issue of undue political control by the ultra-orthodox who mix religion and state, coupled with the ultra nationalists who insist on "the whole" of Israel including the West Bank and Gaza, is a difficult one to resolve. That control by "militant Jewish nationalism," as the Solomons aptly term it may require the threat of draconian measures to initiate movement in the Israeli political arena. The first Intifada forced Itzhak Rabin to support the Oslo accords and unfortunately, a powerful display of antagonism against militant Jewish nationalism may be necessary to further change the political situation.
In hopes of clarifying some issues,
Milton Masur MD
(To read the Solomons' response to this critique, click here.)
Healing Israel/Palestine
Critique of the Solomons' 'Blind Alley of J Street'
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869: Server Attention Span
The comic shows - in human language - part of the conversations that a browser and web server do in order to get the right page. The protocol they use is called HTTP.
This comic makes fun of the issue that many web-servers that see a mobile browser will automatically suggest to load the mobile version of the website, but then serve the front page of the mobile site, not the page the user had requested. In quite a few sites, there is no 1-to-1 correspondence of pages between the regular and the mobile site, so this problem is difficult to solve and very annoying.
A second issue with HTTP is identified in the last panel. HTTP is a stateless protocol. After serving the web page, the connection is severed. Any new request for a page will have to start afresh - which is where the server starts with again: "Hi! I'm a server!" Of course, browsers do not have egos nor do they hold grudges [citation needed] but it can be annoying for users. This design issue can also slow down the browsing experience.
The title text is a joke that all the other servers in the rack think the web server is being childish. /var/log/syslog is where Linux (used by the vast majority of servers) and other POSIX systems store their system log messages. The 'trying to start conversation' comment is probably a joke on ARP discovery packets that are sent out to the network to see who is who. All servers send out ARP packets to see what other machines are on the network, but some machines send them out every 5 minutes, which can be extremely annoying for someone monitoring network traffic logs.
The coffee comment is another jab at web servers. Some websites use Java, or other JVM based languages (Apache Groovy, Scala, etc.) as the back end of the website, as opposed to using PHP or ASP. Of course, java is another word for coffee, so a web server running on coffee is likely to be well-caffeinated, and well-caffeinated people tend to bounce off the walls with enthusiasm.
- [Single server in a server rack.]
- Server: Hi! I'm a server! Who are you?
- [Mobile device with a web browser.]
- Browser: I'm a browser. I'd like to see this article.
- Server: Oh boy! I can help! Let me get it for— ...Whoa! You're a smartphone browser?
- Browser: Yeah.
- Server: Cooool! Hey, I've got this new mobile version of my site! Check it out! Isn't it pretty?
- Browser: Sure, but this is just your mobile site's main page. Where's the article I wanted?
- Server: What article?
- Browser: The one I—
- Server: Who are you?
- Browser: I—
- Server: Hi! I'm a server!
add a comment! ⋅ add a topic (use sparingly)! ⋅ refresh comments!
Note that REAL HTTP/1.0 conversation is started by browser: First browser say everything, then server responds and close the connection. HTTP/1.1 conversation allows the browser to make another query in the same connection, but that's only to avoid the work on reopening connection, server is supposed to interpret this new query in same way as if it would be new connection. -- Hkmaly (talk) 09:15, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
Yes, proper HTTP implementations are stateless. 18.104.22.168 19:55, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
It seems that the server is vertical at the start, but horizontal in the following panels. 22.214.171.124 22:28, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
- No, the server is horizontal, in the middle of a vertical rack. 184.108.40.206 19:00, 1 April 2015 (UTC)


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newt wrote:There's a big box next to my desk here with a Mr. Jim Green's name on it, waiting for Mr. Brown..... hmmmmm what could be in this here box.... hmmmm... it's pretty big too
dets wrote:I wonder if Jim's engine will rival Javad's???
The first motorgeek shootout, i can see it now.....
Good luck Jim! Looking forward to a good read
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Calypso by Joep Wanders (1956-)
Joep Wanders studied classical guitar at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam with Wim Pfister, graduating in 1981. He attended master-classes given by Hubert Kappel, Roberto Aussel and others. Taken from the book "The Unlimited Guitar"
20TH Century. Time Signature: 4/4. Key Signature: G. 2 Pages. 24 Measures. From the book "the Unlimited Guitar".


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It seems like just yesterday that Robert Pattinson and Kristin Stewart were two insanely famous young people carrying on a not-so-secret affair. Now it looks like the Twilight costars might, in fact, be husband and wife, sort of. If you find yourself hyperventilating at the thought that He of the Sparkly Skin is permanently off the market, relax—they're only married in the eyes of God, not in the eyes of the law. So it's not totally for keeps.
You see when they filmed the wedding in the forthcoming The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1, they used an actual priest, and, well, oops! Here's what RPattz has to say on the matter:
"The wedding scene's funny because we used a real priest. So technically we are already married because he did all the things you would do in a normal ceremony. So we don't have a civil union in law, but I guess in the church we are actually married."
Haha, that is funny...but we shouldn't be too hard on anyone because it seems like an easy enough mistake to make. I mean, who among us hasn't had a real priest preside over the wedding of our movie character to our onscreen lover who is also our real-life partner and not thought about the possible consequences? Happens all the time! [Us Weekly]
There was some drama at Nicki Minaj's house today. It all centered around a fight she was having with her household staff. Apparently some time ago one of her maids picked a photo of Minaj out of the trash and asked her to autograph it, which upset the singer enough that she fired the woman. Okay, this is where it gets confusing, because either the fired maid or another maid which Minaj mistook for the fired maid (you know maids, they all look alike!) came back to the house today. Nicki flipped out and demanded that the woman leave. Then her boyfriend got involved and "began pushing the maid with his body." Eventually the cops showed up and everyone managed to calm down enough to avoid being arrested. [TMZ]
Take note Justin Timberlake fans: you're about to go into withdrawal. The singer/actor/object of general affection has told Esquire that he's planning to take a hiatus from performing in all his various capacities. What will he do with himself, you wonder? "I think you can work and work and work and never really live. The plan is to have no plan. I'll probably travel, but I'd rather be spontaneous. I feel like I've earned at least a little bit of time to do that..." You have, indeed, but Justin? JUSTIN? Where are you?! Come back to ussssss! [Daily Express]
Late night funnyman Conan O'Brien is taping in New York this week to celebrate the one year anniversary of his show on TBS, and rumor has it that during one episode he'll officiate a gay wedding on air. Sounds like it will make for good TV, but it's no joke: one of the grooms is a longtime Conan staff member. Awww! [Vulture]
- Not to be outdone by his costar Robert Pattinson's fake wedded bliss, Taylor Lautner was spotted out on the town having dinner with Glee's Dianna Agron—and two "agent types." Hmm, sounds like the beginning of a beautiful made-for-tabloids love story. [People]
- We now have further proof that Melissa McCarthy would be an awesome mom to have. The hilarious actress says she has a plan for dealing with her kids if they become unruly as teenagers: "I will embarrass my kids to their core. I will threaten to show up in hot pants and a tube top. Their dad will drive me. And he'll let me and my friend Lisa get pretty drunk in the backseat and we will come into that party and just rip it up." Sure, her kids will be mortified, but their friends will probably love it. [Entertainment Weekly]
- Is Paul McCartney converting to Judaism for his new bride, Nancy Shevell? The National Enquirer sure thinks he is. They say the former Beatle, who was raised Roman Catholic but wasn't ever devout, is studying for a conversion to his wife's faith sometime next year. [National Enquirer]
- You have yet another opportunity to enjoy all that American culture has to offer during tonight's final World Series game when American Idol alum Chris Daughtry sings our beautiful national anthem. [AP]
- Steve Martin announced that he's going to write a book based on his Twitter posts. How forward thinking, or how old-fashioned? It's hard to tell these days. Either way, all the profits will go to charity, so that's nice. [Yahoo!]
- In other gay weddings news, comedian Mario Cantone, best known for his role on Sex and the City, has married his partner of 20 years, Jerry Dixon. [Us Weekly]
- Kelly Rowland is very sick with some sort of throat virus and has had to pull out of her planned appearance on this weekend's X Factor. : ( [ONTD]
- Marie Osmond is also under the weather. She ended up at a Las Vegas hospital after suffering from bronchitis, but it seems like she's going to be just fine. [CBS News]
- Carey Mulligan may be a movie star, but that doesn't mean she likes exposing herself in public. Here's what she had to say regarding the perils of singing versus doing nudity in her new movie Shame: "It's scarier to sing than to do nudity. Singing is like really exposing yourself. I was playing sort of a singer, so I was pretending to have a talent I don't necessarily believe I have. So singing was quite scary." Agreed, though I must say nudity also sounds very terrifying no matter how naturally "talented" one's body might be at it. [E! Online]
- Actress Lucy Davis, who starred in the UK version of The Office, has filed for divorce from her husband, The Mentalist's Owain Yeoman. The couple has been separated for three years, so this isn't much of shock. [E! Online]
- Sad news: one stuntman was killed and another was severely injured during an explosion on the set of The Expendables 2. The film, which stars Sly Stallone, Bruce Willis, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, was filming in Bulgaria when the accident occurred. [Yahoo!]
- In the celebrity good deed of the day, Barry Manilow has donated $300,000 worth of musical instruments to students in Joplin, Missouri, which you may remember was devasted by a tornado back in May. [Reuters]


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The tally of digital certificates stolen from a Dutch company in July has exploded to more than 500, including ones for intelligence services like the CIA, the U.K.'s MI6 and Israel's Mossad, a Mozilla developer said Sunday.
The confirmed count of fraudulently-issued SSL (secure socket layer) certificates now stands at 531, said Gervase Markham, a Mozilla developer who is part of the team that has been working to modify Firefox to blocks all sites signed with the purloined certificates.
Among the affected domains, said Markham, are those for the CIA, MI6, Mossad, Microsoft, Yahoo, Skype, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft's Windows Update service.
"Now that someone (presumably from Iran) has obtained a legit HTTPS cert for CIA.gov, I wonder if the US gov will pay attention to this mess," Christopher Soghoian, a Washington D.C.-based researcher noted for his work on online privacy, said in a tweet Saturday.
Soghoian was referring to assumptions by many experts that Iranian hackers, perhaps supported by that country's government, were behind the attack. Google has pointed fingers at Iran, saying that attacks using an ill-gotten certificate for google.com had targeted Iranian users .
All the certificates were issued by DigiNotar, a Dutch issuing firm that last week admitted its network had been hacked in July .
The company claimed that it had revoked all the fraudulent certificates, but then realized it had overlooked one that could be used to impersonate any Google service, including Gmail. DigiNotar went public only after users reported their findings to Google.
Criminals or governments could use the stolen certificates to conduct "man-in-the-middle" attacks, tricking users into thinking they were at a legitimate site when in fact their communications were being secretly intercepted.
Google and Mozilla said this weekend that they would permanently block all the digital certificates issued by DigiNotar, including those used by the Dutch government.
Their decisions come less than a week after Google, Mozilla and Microsoft all revoked more than 200 SSL (secure socket layer) certificates for use in their browsers, but left untouched hundreds more, many of which were used by the Dutch government to secure its websites.
"Based on the findings and decision of the Dutch government, as well as conversations with other browser makers, we have decided to reject all of the Certificate Authorities operated by DigiNotar," Heather Adkins, an information security manager for Google, said in a Saturday blog post .
Johnathan Nightingale, director of Firefox engineering, echoed that late on Friday .
"All DigiNotar certificates will be untrusted by Mozilla products," said Nightingale, who also said that the Dutch government had reversed its position of last week -- when it had asked browser makers to exempt its DigiNotar certificates.
"The Dutch government has since audited DigiNotar's performance and rescinded this assessment," Nightingale said. "This is not a temporary suspension, it is a complete removal from our trusted root program."
On Saturday, Piet Hein Donner, the Netherlands's Minister of the Interior, said the government could not guarantee the security of its websites because of the DigiNotar hack, and told citizens not to log into its sites until new certificates had been obtained from other sources.
The DigiNotar breach is being audited by Fox-IT, which told the Dutch government that it was likely certificates for its sites had been fraudulently acquired by hackers.
Several security researchers said the move by browser makers puts an end to DigiNotar's certificate business.
"Effectively a death sentence for DigiNotar," said Jeremiah Grossman, CTO of WhiteHat Security, in a Friday tweet .
Mozilla was scathing in its criticism of DigiNotar.
Nightingale ticked off the missteps that led Mozilla to permanently block all sites signed with the company's certificates, including DigiNotar's failure to notify browser vendors in July and its inability to tell how many certificates had been illegally obtained. "[And] the attack is not theoretical," Nightingale added. "We have received multiple reports of these certificates being used in the wild."
Markham went into greater detail on the hack and its ramifications. "It has now emerged that DigiNotar had not noticed the full extent of the compromise," said Markham in a Saturday post to his personal blog . "The attackers had managed to hide the traces of the misissuance -- perhaps by corrupting log files."
Because the Google certificate that prompted DigiNotar to acknowledge the intrusion was obtained before most of the others, Markham speculated that there had actually been two separate attacks, perhaps by different groups.
"It is at least possible (but entirely speculative) that an initial competent attacker has had access to [DigiNotar's] systems for an unknown amount of time, and a second attacker gained access more recently and their less-subtle, bull-in-a-china shop approach in issuing the [hundreds of] certificates triggered the alarms," he said.
Last week, Helsinki-based antivirus company F-Secure said it had found signs that DigiNotar's network had been compromised as early as May 2009 .
Mozilla will update Firefox 6 and Firefox 3.6 on Tuesday to permanently block all DigiNotar-issued certificates, including those used by the Dutch government.
On Saturday Google updated Chrome to do the same.
Gregg Keizer covers Microsoft, security issues, Apple, Web browsers and general technology breaking news for Computerworld. Follow Gregg on Twitter at @gkeizer , on Google+ or subscribe to Gregg's RSS feed . His e-mail address is firstname.lastname@example.com .
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Wasteland by Lindsay Leggett
(Flight #2)
Published December 7th 2013
Genres: Science Fiction, Young Adult
Blitz organized by: Xpresso Book Tours
Wasteland, the next book in the FLIGHT trilogy, takes place a few months after the ending of book one.
Trapped in a cell and experimented on, Piper Madden's only hope is remembering Asher. Then, Elder Corp President Rupert Elder gives her new orders: to be a leader in a war against the Harpies. Without a choice, Piper must obey Rupert's commands or suffer from paralyzing and painful Nanomachines. But the war is just beginning, and Asher has gone missing. The resistance is slowly building, and the upcoming war will be larger and bloodier than anything seen since the Devastation that ruined the earth. Throughout all of this, Piper remembers the time before she ran to Ichton, when David was alive and her hope in Elder Corp was still strong.
About the Author
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Dust slides past my feet on the wind as we trudge through the wasteland. Both Essa and I are completely suited in anti-rad gear, and every step seems like we're travelling on an alien planet.
Surrounding the main entrance to Central and the guard tower is nothing but dead earth; pale and wispy, patterned with the petrified remains of what were once majestic trees.
Off in the distance there is a hint of green; the Fresh-Air Compounds Elder Corp is building for the rich; areas enclosed with filtering glass so that only pure air can exist within. They look like massive snow globes, though I doubt I'll ever see the inside of one.
Beside me, Essa huffs impatiently.
"Why didn't we ask for a buggy or something? This wind is unreal," she complains.
"And how are we supposed to remain hidden while driving a cart around?" I counter. Sweat is already building inside my suit. The hot sun glares at us, defying us for coming above ground.
Our plans are haphazard at best. We couldn't let anyone know where we were going or why, and our search is going to be worse than trying to find a needle in a haystack; we have an entire world to explore.
But we trudge along, and soon enough Central Tower is no longer in sight; we are alone in the wild.
"Have you been up here before?" I ask. I motion for Essa to stop, to take a break beneath the shade of a masssive rock. She shakes her head.
"No, I've only done VR Mods. I'm sure you've been up here like a hundred times," she remarks. I burst out laughing despite myself.
"You think they let just anybody up here? It costs the Corp a fortune." Seeing her hurt expression, I add, "I've only been up here once or twice, and never as far as we are now. The tower has too many defense features. Even the most feral of Harpies know they don't stand a chance."
The shade is glorious after the scorching walk, and the sun is finally starting to set. I'd forgotten how blistering the real sun is; underground the temperature is always perfect.
"Look at that," Essa murmurs. I follow her gaze to the horizon. The sky is illuminated in pinks and reds and dusky purples. The colors explode and melt together; a tapestry of the death of the sun. It's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
"I guess we really can't replicate everything," I reply in a whisper.
We move onward, silent from nature's embrace. My mind tumbles through thoughts and images: Tor, David, the Harpy I'd let live. Shards of guilt shoot through my stomach, but there is no such thing as going back to the past; I know that, at least.
Night is just starting to darken the sky when I hear it; the slightest of noises. I raise a hand to halt Essa in her place, and motion for her to keep quiet. I close my eyes to let the sounds travel to my ear.
There is the crackle of fire; something I've only heard once or twice in real life; the crunch of sand as feet dance through them; the whoosh of twirling fabric; the giggling of a small child, then the hushing back to near-silence.
I gesture in the direction of the sounds with my eyes, and Essa follows my lead. Ahead of us there is a rocky crag, and my senses tell me that the beings are beneath, half-hidden in the shelter of the rock.
Our suits make only the slightest of noise as we creep forward to the apex of the rocks. Just as the crackling of the fire becomes loud enough, we drop to the ground, crawling across sharp rocks and slimy algae.
My heart beats like crazy as we reach the tip of the rock. The scene is probably fifty feet below us, but my mind races as if it's mere inches away.
A Harpy family.
They surround the fire, their wings hanging gracefully above them. The children are both girls, who wear twirling skirts as they dance about the fire. The father is garbed in a shaggy shirt and slacks, while the mother remains seated on the ground, skirt spread around her as she skins some meat that I hope to hell isn't Human.
What the hell are they doing living so close to Central? And why is there just one family? All of our studies have shown Harpies to travel in large groups, with a hierarchy of alpha and beta males and females. This family is entirely different. They don't look vicious; they look...happy.
For a moment it's like I'm watching a vid-screen; a documentary about the idyllic life of nomad aliens on another planet.
But then Essa's foot slips - only an inch - but I now the sound is enough to break the silence.
Immediately the mother Harpy snarls, and her face contorts to a wicked, ugly glower as her gaze searches for us.
"Let's move, " I whisper.
My body takes over; no room for thought or speculation. We leap from the crag, gravel and rock spilling beneath us. Essa pulls out her pistols and as soon as she lands, aims for the father Harpy's head.
Her first shot misses, but her second is dead on, burrowing into the forehead of the Harpy. His angry scowl remains as his body withers and crumbles into dust. The bullet cap clinks as it lands on a slab of granite.
On my end, I face the mother. Immediately it's clear that she's the leader of the family. She lunges for me, her gray wings shaking and her sharp teeth bared.
I dodge her attack, grabbing a dagger from my boot and lashing out at her, but I miss. She cackles as she glides just shy of my blade, and her wings lift her into the air.
A quick glance sideways confirms that one of the children is dead, and Essa is combating the other, chasing her across the dusty ground.
I sheath my dagger and pull out my crossbow from my back holster. I've only got one chance at this before she leaves her child behind and flies off into the night
I steady my footing and nock a bolt. She darts back and forth, almost in a figure-eight fashion.
How am I going to do this?
But then her child cries out in fear, and for just a moment, the mother Harpy lets her guard down, eyes searching for her baby.
I take my chance and release the bolt. It sinks in just to the left of her heart. She wails once she realizes what has happened, and tries to pull the bolt out from her chest.
She's too late, though. The poison from the bolt has already activated in her blood stream. Her cry is cut off as her body disintegrates, showering ash over us from the sky. I exhale in relief, then Essa's voice sounds.
"Piper," she says. I look over to her. The remaining Harpy child is in front of her, eyes wide with fear at the sight of her family's deaths. She does not run or growl or attempt an attack. She cries. Tears run down her cheeks. Essa eyes me, showing me she's completely unsure of what to do.
We both just stare at the child. I've never seen any Harpy - child or otherwise - cry before. Something like pity moves in my chest, but I know I'm not allowed to feel that.
But there is something I can do.
I walk toward her slowly, ready to strike even though all she does is stare at me with tear-filled eyes.
"Where are the others?" I ask simply. She whimpers, but Essa holds up a readied pistol. She's old enough to know what that means.
"We left," she replies. Her voice is light and soft, like cotton candy at a carnival.
"Why?" I continue.
"Mama and Papa don't - didn't - like them. We're different from them."
"Where are the others?" I repeat forcefully. She sobs, sniffles, then points east.
"That way. That's where the others live. There are lots of them. Please let me go," she says. She's given us all of the infomration we need.
An encampment is set of east of the Harpy capital. I look at Essa, who returns my gaze pleadingly. She can't do it. I can tell that much.
I sigh deeply, then rush up to the girl, snapping her neck. I know she'll only be unconscious for seconds, so I whip out my dagger and slit her throat. She fades away in my arms, her dust carried away by the wind.
After that, there is only silence beyond the crackling fire. I answer before Essa has a chance to ask.
"She didn't feel anything. She was unconscious." Still, Essa shivers, holding herself.
"I couldn't do it. I'm sorry, it was just the look in her eyes," she murmurs. I stand up and place a comforting hand on her shoulder.
"It's never easy to kill a child. Even a Harpling," I confide. She nods as we gather ourselves for the night, but her gaze remains far off into the night sky.
"We'll sleep here tonight. You take first watch. You never know if there were others," I say.
I leave Essa to her thoughts as I lie down beside the fire. Secretly, those young eyes are still staring at me, still pleading for me to let her live.
I fall asleep with her delicate voice just bouncing around through my mind.
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Mr. Hastings of Florida. Madam Speaker, I rise today to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Katyn--a word that has come to symbolize the brutal murder of over 20,000 Polish military officers and other intellectual elite by Stalin's secret police in the spring of 1940 and the subsequent lies told about this horrific crime. These men, and one woman, were taken as prisoners by the Soviets in their undeclared war against Poland that began a mere 17 days after the Nazis invaded Poland and started World War II.
The tragic crash this past Saturday that took the lives of so many of Poland's most senior leaders has focused worldwide attention on the Katyn massacre, which has come to symbolize Stalin's brutal repression of the Poles and others. People of goodwill everywhere extend the hand of sympathy and friendship to the Polish people who once again have suffered a great national tragedy, ironically in the very place where one of the last century's most sordid deeds was carried out.
It is my hope that the victims--from President Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria to prominent leaders of the armed forces, the parliament, other institutions, and relatives of those shot in 1940--will not have died in vain, that this horrible crash will somehow give strength to those in Poland who must go on and continue to lead their great nation, a nation that has been a stalwart ally of the United States and a beacon of freedom and prosperity in Eastern Europe.
I also hope that these sad events may in some way help bring Russia and Poland a new and stronger relationship based on a shared history and suffering and characterized by mutual respect and trust. Further, I would like to express my admiration for the manner in which Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin handled this disaster, flying immediately to Smolensk, the site of the crash and taking personal responsibility for the investigation. Mr. Putin acted decisively, but more than that he reinforced the positive signals he and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk had given at their joint ceremony in Katyn last Wednesday. No Russian Prime Minister--in fact no Russian of Mr. Putin's stature and standing--had ever been to Katyn. Mr. Tusk graciously expressed his appreciation to Mr. Putin by quoting the great Russian writer, Alexander Solzhenitsyn: "But let us not forget that violence does not live alone and is not capable of living alone: it is necessarily interwoven with falsehood. Between them lies the most intimate, the deepest of natural bonds. Violence finds its only refuge in falsehood, falsehood its only support in violence. Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle."
I hope that Mr. Putin will also embrace these words in practical ways, most importantly by assisting the Poles in finding still missing information about those who were executed on Stalin's orders in 1940.


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Literary Landmark
The Literary Landmarks Association was founded in 1986 by former Friends of Libraries U.S.A. president Frederick G. Ruffner to encourage the dedication of historic literary sites. The first dedication was at Slip F18 in Bahia Mar, Florida, the anchorage of the Busted Flush, the houseboat home of novelist John D. MacDonald's protagonist Travis McGee. Since that time, more than 100 Literary Landmarks™ have been dedicated across the country. A list of these Literary Landmarks™ is available on ALTAFF's Web site, www.ala.org/altaff.
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Emily J. Pointer Public Library
A plaque was placed on the south lawn of the library during the Stark Young tribute, which included a performance of "A Visit from Stark Young" by the North Mississippi Storytellers Guild. Karen Wilson, executive director of the Son Edna Foundation in Charleston, gave the keynote about literacy in small-town rural Mississippi. Igor Bosin read selections from Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard."
In order to provide tools for what library branch manager Alice Pierotti described as "our community doing what we can to create the next Stark Young," Como Elementary School and the library partnered to hold a series of writing and illustration workshops for first-grade students, who signed their resulting books at the dedication ceremony.
Como, Miss.-born Stark Young was a drama critic, novelist, playwright and poet. An accomplished artist and educator, often called the greatest drama critic in the history of American theatre, his creative ability found expression in fiction, translation and autobiography. "So Red the Rose," his best known work, was adapted to film in 1935.
Emily J. Pointer Public Library is a branch of the five-county, 13-branch First Regional Library. "I'm extremely pleased the Como community can come together to get this tribute accomplished," said First Regional Library Director Catherine Nathan. "The cultural and community leaders in Como are taking a new direction and moving creatively in the 21st century, and I'm thrilled the library can be a part of the next chapter in Como's history."


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OpenBSD/pegasos used to run on the Pegasos I and Pegasos II systems.
The OpenBSD/pegasos port was discontinued after the 3.5 release.
The OpenBSD/pegasos port was started early 2003 when Genesi contacted Dale Rahn to port OpenBSD to their newly released motherboard. After several months of hiatus, with the release of the Pegasos II pending, Dale Rahn was hired by Genesi to revive the port.
Pegasos II support was added early 2004.
The bulk of the work on the pegasos port was performed by Dale Rahn, this work was terminated at the end of February 2004 due to lack of payment on the part of Genesi. They claimed to have used up all of the company funding and were over 3 months behind in payment, 'We will get a big contract/sale any day'. At that point it was no longer possible for the developer to live without payment, so he stopped active work on pegasos and searched for other employment.
A few weeks later a second batch of Pegasos II boards were due to be shipped, with a new version of firmware. After some convincing, a version of the new firmware was finally acquired. This new firmware would not boot OpenBSD.
bPlan, who builds the boards and writes the Open Firmware, was contacted. While they responded to the initial inquiry, they never resolved the booting issue. In fact, all further emails to Genesi and bPlan over the next few weeks were ignored.
At that point the hardware was released, with no additional information, it was presumed that the new Pegasos II boards would not boot OpenBSD.
Finally, due to the inability to work with bPlan/Genesi and the fact they owed the developer over 3 months pay, it was announced that pegasos support would be dropped. The code was not removed until later because it was too close to OpenBSD 3.5 release and would disrupt that process.
Pegasos support has been dropped and the code has been removed from the OpenBSD source tree.
Both Pegasos I and Pegasos II boards were supported. However, the Pegasos II gigabit networking interface was not supported, documentation was never made available.
The boards could be used with either VGA (AGP or PCI) graphics console, or with a serial console. The latter can be selected whether a VGA card is present or missing, with firmware settings.


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- (1) Historic Signatures Autograph- (1) Museum Age Memorabilia Card- (24) Mini Parallels- (2) Headlines- (2) Batter-Up- (1) Newark Evening World Supplement- (1) Ferguson Bakery Pennant Box Topper or Movie Poster Box Topper
2012 Golden Age mixes the best of baseball's past with great athletes from other sports and personalities from other professions.
Autographs and memorabilia pieces from some of the legendary personalities of the past 100-plus years!
HEADLINES cards offer a snapshot of major events in history!
Box toppers include mini pennants fashioned after the 1916 Ferguson Bakery pennants, or 5x7 movie poster reprints from the Golden Age of cinema (including a very limited number with memorabilia from the actors or actresses)!
Look for Batter-Up cards similar in design to the 1934-1936 originals. Mini parallels with card-back variations!
Museum Age: The sinking of the Titanic remains one of the great tragedies of modern times. Several items from the Titanic were recovered floating at the site, by rescue ships dispatched to the area in search of survivors, including thesepieces of pine wreckwood believed to be from the deck.
Black Sox Bats: The legend exists that Joe Jackson once played without shoes, thus earning the nickname "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, but he never was without one of his potent bats, some of which earnedthe name "Black Betsy."
Historic Signatures: Lots of signatures from personalities covering all fields of the Golden Age of America, including baseball and other sports, entertainment and the political arena.
Triple Crown Winners: One card, three autographs from the three living Triple Crown jockeys.
Historic Buybacks: Find an historic baseball card from the 1930s or 1940s in each case of 2012 Golden Age - including Goudey Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig!
Historic Signatures
Historic Cuts
Mini Common Parallels
24 Packs Per Box, 6 Cards Per Pack
2022-23 Topps Finest Bundesliga Soccer Hobby Box
2023 Leaf Exotic Football Hobby Box
2022 Leaf Trinity Baseball Hobby Box
2022-23 Panini Mosaic Basketball Fast Break Box
2022-23 Topps UEFA Club Competitions Finest Soccer Hobby Box


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Italian police explore Al Qaeda links in cyanide plot
Four cases focus on the recent arrests of North Africans and others allegedly tied to Islamic militant cells.
During a raid on a small Roman apartment frequented by alleged Arabic terrorists arrested at dawn last Friday, police found videos of decapitations and suicide bombings, plus political propaganda for a holy war.
But what set off alarm bells was an Arizona address on a folder of Arabic documents. "We are working with our American colleagues to see if there is a link between this Phoenix address and pilots of the September suicide attack in New York," says Col. Gianfranco Cavallo, a leading police investigator, in an interview. He says Italian and FBI detectives are also exploring the possibility that Lofti Raissi, the Algerian accused of training the Sept. 11 suicide pilots, stayed at the Phoenix address.
Investigators also believe the men arrested Friday may have been part of a network of cells operating throughout Italy and Europe with links to the GIA (Armed Islamic Group) and the GSPC (Salafist Group for Call and Combat), and ultimately with Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network.
Salafism, a philosophy shared by bin Laden, is a pan-Islamic movement advocating a return to the purity of the roots of Islam, as Mohammed and his companions practiced it. The GSPC is an offshoot of the GIA, the most radical antigovernment force in Algeria, which has been waging war on the government for several years. Where the GIA puts priority on overthrowing the Algerian government, the GSPC believes "that if jihad is not international, it has no meaning," says Claude Moniquet, an expert on fundamentalist Islamic groups.
The GSPC is believed to have received funding from bin Laden, and to have sent members to his Afghan training camps. The group was banned in March 2001 in Britain, where police say it raises money from racketeering, smuggling in Algeria, and money laundering. The organization was on President Bush's list of 27 organizations whose assets were frozen after Sept. 11.
Italian authorities are looking for any links between the group arrested last Friday - which included a Pakistani (suspected as the ringleader), a Tunisian, an Algerian and three Iraqis - and a group of nine Moroccans arrested earlier this month after the discovery of a perforation in a tunnel near the US Embassy. So far, the only links between the two groups are cyanide and a mosque whose address was found in the Moroccans' apartment. The mosque was attended by the other group.
In conversations bugged in mosques and apartments and published in the press (which police confirm as authentic), the group led by the Pakistani allegedly discussed the need to find cyanide and also talked about having a pistol, obtaining other arms, killing a policeman, and even the need to eliminate US President George Bush.
The group's alleged leader, Ahamad Naseer, arrested at the Fiumicino airport in Rome on charges of "subversive association and violation of arms" as he returned from Saudi Arabia, is the director of a small makeshift mosque near Rome's main train station.
Chihab Goumri - an Algerian accused of being the "messenger" of the cell and in "direct contact with elements of Islamic fundamentalism," according to published judicial documents - argued that he frequented the mosque to have assistance for a physical handicap resulting from the loss of his left leg in an accident in the early 1990s. In an interrogation Monday, the three Iraqis arrested with Nasser said they were Kurdish refugees who slipped into Italy illegally.
Meanwhile, the investigation into the case of the nine Moroccans continues. Five of them were found with slightly under 10 pounds of potassium-ferrocyanide, a cyanide compound used in agriculture, and maps of the water main located in underground utility tunnels around the American embassy in Rome.
Press leaks and the discovery of the hole in a tunnel containing a water main led to a wave of panic and speculation that the terrorists were trying to contaminate the water supply of central-northern Rome. Though US State Department officials downplayed the risk to the embassy, Cavallo says that the Moroccans had the capacity to create poisonous substances. Along with the cyanide compound, police found a gunpowder substance that could have created the heat needed to release the cyanide gas, he says.
"But what is even more damning are the maps of the tunnels around the embassy," he says. "What were they plotting to do? Police have said the men may have been "small fish" laying ground-work for a more sophisticated operation.
The number of people in custody in Italian jails on charges related to international terrorism continues to grow, with around 30 arrested since Sept. 11. This month four men, including Tunisian Essi Sami Ben Khemais, one the alleged leaders of Al Qaeda in Europe, were convicted of selling false documents, recruiting Islamic militants for Al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan, organizing illegal immigration into Italy and associating with criminal intent to obtain and transport arms, explosives, and chemicals - the first such terrorists with ties to bin Laden to be convicted since September 11.
Arrested last April, Mr. Khemais is believed by police to have spent time in Afghanistan - though his lawyer denies it - and to have conspired with cells in different European countries to obtain weapons to terrorize civilians. In one wiretapped conversation, he reportedly discussed putting poison gasses in cans of tomatoes and talked of wanting to get permission from the "sheikh" to move forward with the "attack". "Khemais had contacts all over Europe, but especially with Germany, France, England, and Spain," says Inspector Massimo Mazza, head of the Milan office of Italy's antiterrorist police (DIGOS).
In late November, another group of North Africans in Milan was arrested. Mr. Mazza says that they were "in telephone contact with people high up in Al Qaeda and in particular with people running training camps in Afghanistan." Defense lawyers maintain this was a group of young, poor, frustrated immigrants who were "simply blowing off steam" during their taped conversation, and point out that no arms or tangible evidence was found, apart from documents.
Mazza says the only "advanced stage" plan for an attack by Milan cells was on the cathedral of Strasbourg, which was foiled by police. Khemais and another Tunisian were each sentenced to five years, while two other defendants each received four years.
Peter Ford in Paris contributed to this report.


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The Portal 2 Music Video Contest
June 15, 2011 - The Portal 2 Team
Sharp-eared music fans will have already found the haunting track "Exile Vilify" by The National in Portal 2. Clearly Rat Man is a big fan of of the song, based on some of the art decorating the walls of his dens. But as any museum fan can tell you, there's nothing a fancypants painting can say that a YouTube video can't say a hundred times better.
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Unleashing DB2 10 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows
An IBM Redbooks publication
Published 31 August 2012, updated 19 December 2012
IBM Form #: SG24-8032-00
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Authors: Danny Arnold, Steve Diniro, Vivian Lee, Stan Musker, Jo-Ann Woods
This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides a broad understanding of the key features in IBM DB2® 10 and how to use these features to get more value from business applications. It includes information about the following features:
- Time Travel Query, which you use to store and retrieve time-based data by using capability built into DB2 10, without needing to build your own solution
- Adaptive compression, an enhanced compression technology that adapts to changing data patterns, yielding extremely high compression ratios
- Multi-temperature storage, which you may use to optimize storage costs by identifying and managing data based on its "temperature" or access requirements
- Row and column access control, which offers security access enforcement on your data, at the row or column level, or both
- Availability enhancements, which provide different DB2 availability features for different enterprise needs; high availability disaster recovery (HADR) multiple-standby databases provide availability and data recovery in one technology, and the IBM DB2 pureScale® Feature provides continuous availability and scalability that is transparent to applications
- Oracle compatibility, which allows many applications written for Oracle to run on DB2, virtually unchanged
- Ingest utility, a feature-rich data movement utility that allows queries to run concurrently with minimal impact on data availability
This book is for database administrators and application developers who are considering DB2 10 for a new installation, an upgrade from a previous version of DB2, or a migration from a vendor product. It explains key features and illustrates concepts with real-world examples to provide a clear idea of how powerful these features are.
Together, these features provide functionality that lower operational costs, ease development, and provide greater reliability.
Table of contents
Chapter 1. Introduction to DB2 10
Chapter 2. Time Travel Query
Chapter 3. Adaptive compression
Chapter 4. Multi-temperature storage
Chapter 5. Row and column access control
Chapter 6. Availability enhancements
Chapter 7. Oracle compatibility
Chapter 8. Ingest utility
Appendix A. Ingest utility script
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Formation of organic thin-film transistors through room-temperature printing
Japanese researchers have established a process for forming organic thin-film transistors (TFTs), conducting the entire printing process at room temperature under ambient atmospheric conditions.
Printed electronics, the field in which electronic devices are produced by printing functional materials in ink form without the need for large and expensive manufacturing equipment, has been drawing attention in recent years as a new technology for low-cost, large-area fabrication of semiconductor devices. By using plastic and other flexible substrates, the technology is expected to open paths for the mass production of devices by roll-to-roll processing or for new applications such as wearable devices. However, conventional printed electronics require many high-temperature processes ranging from 100 to 200°C. Because plastic substrates such as PET film generally have low heat resistance, there have been calls for the development of a low-temperature printing process that involves no high-temperature processes and that is applicable to a wide range of materials. However, such a process has not been realized to date.
In this research, the team established "room-temperature-printed electronics" by which electronics devices can be manufactured by conducting all of the printing processes at room temperature under ambient atmospheric conditions, without raising the temperature by even 1°C. Conventional printed electronics have mainly required high-temperature processes in order to sinter metal nanoparticle ink to be used as electrodes. Since conventional metal nanoparticles have used insulating materials as ligands for dispersing the nanoparticles in the ink, the nanoparticles have needed to be sintered in order to obtain a conductive metal film.
In this research, the team succeeded in forming a metal film without post-coating sintering, by using conductive aromatic molecules as ligands of metal nanoparticles. The thin film obtained has achieved a resistivity of 9 × 10-6 Ω cm. In addition, by forming microscopic hydrophilic/hydrophobic patterns on the surface, the team patterned ambient conductive metal nanoparticles and organic semiconductors by a room-temperature process, and made organic thin-film transistors by forming all of the source and drain electrodes, organic semiconductors and gate electrodes by room-temperature printing. Organic TFTs formed on a plastic substrate and a paper substrate respectively indicated an average mobility of 7.9 and 2.5 cm2V-1 s-1. This value far exceeds the average mobility of amorphous silicon TFTs at 0.5 cm2 V-1s-1 and almost matches the mobility of mass-produced IGZO TFTs (up to 10 cm2 V-1 s-1).
When manufacturing displays, etc. by printed electronics, circuits need to be printed on flexible substrates at a positional accuracy greater than several microns. Flexible plastic and paper substrates, which are weak against heat, became deformed or distorted under the conventional processing temperatures, leading to compromised accuracy. By conducting all of the manufacturing processes at room temperature, it will be possible to completely control the heat deformation of substrates and to print micro circuits at high accuracy. Furthermore, the production processes at room temperature under ambient atmospheric conditions would, in principle, enable the production of electronic devices on the surface of materials that are extremely weak against environmental changes, such as biomaterials. This achievement is expected to lead to applications in diverse fields including health care and bioelectronics.
These research results will be published in the journal Advanced Functional Materials, in the near future.
Journal information: Advanced Functional Materials
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If your computer has been locked and you are seeing a notification from the police, asking you to pay a fine via Ukash, MoneyPak or PaySafeCard, then you are reading this article to understand if it's real and how to get rid of it.
The newest form of attack used by cyber criminals, is a piece of malware called Trojan Reveton, which will display a bogus notification that pretends to be from your local police department, and states that your computer has been blocked due to it being involved with the distribution of pornographic material, SPAM and copyrighted content.
This new form of malware will lock you out of your computer and applications, so whenever you'll try to log on into your Windows operating system or Safe Mode with Networking, it will display instead a lock screen asking you to pay a non-existing fine in the form of a Ukash or PaySafeCard code.
Furthermore, to make its alert seem more authentic, this virus also has the ability to access your installed webcam so that the bogus Ukash notification shows what is happening in the room.
If your computer is infected with Ukash virus,then you'll see a notification from your local police department, below you can see just a few examples on how this alerts might look:
Under no circumstance should you send any money to this cyber criminals,as this could lead to identity theft,and if you have, you should request a refund from Ukash stating that you are the victim of a scam and computer virus.
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Ukash Police Ransom – Virus Removal Guide
This page is a comprehensive guide, which will remove the Ukash infection from your your computer. Please perform all the steps in the correct order. If you have any questions or doubt at any point STOP and ask for our assistance.
The Ukash will start automatically when you login to your computer and display its screenlocker so that you are unable to access your computer, therefore we will need to remove this infection by using any of the below methods:
OPTION 1: Remove Ukash lock screen virus with System Restore
OPTION 2: Remove Ukash virus with with HitmanPro Kickstart
OPTION 3: Remove Ukash virus with Kaspersky Rescue Disk
OPTION 1: Remove Ukash lock screen virus with System Restore
System Restore helps you restore your computer's system files to an earlier point in time. It's a way to undo system changes to your computer without affecting your personal files, such as e‑mail, documents, or photos.
Because the Ukash virus will not allow you to start the computer in Windows regular mode, we will need to start System Restore from the Safe Mode with Command Prompt mode.
STEP 1: Restore Windows to a previous state using System Restore
- Reboot your computer into Safe Mode with Command Prompt. To do this, turn your computer off and then back on and immediately when you see anything on the screen, start tapping the F8 key on your keyboard.
If you are using Windows 8, the trick is to hold the Shift button and gently tap the F8 key repeatedly, this will sometimes boot you into the new advanced "recovery mode", where you can choose to see advanced repair options. On the next screen, you will need to click on the Troubleshoot option, then select Advanced Options and select Windows Startup Settings. Click on the Restart button, and you should now be able to see the Advanced Boot Options screen.
- Using the arrow keys on your keyboard, select Safe Mode with Command Prompt and press Enter on your keyboard.
- At the command prompt, type rstrui.exe, and then press ENTER.
Alternatively, if you are using Windows Vista, 7 and 8, you can type: C:\windows\system32\rstrui.exe , and press Enter. And if you are a Windows XP user, type C:\windows\system32\restore\rstrui.exe, then press Enter.
- System Restore should start, and you will display also a list of restore points. Try using a restore point created just before the date and time the Ukash lock screen virus has infected your computer.
- When System Restore has completed its task, start your computer in Windows regular mode, and perform a scan with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and HitmanPro, as seen in the next step.
STEP 2: Remove Ukash malicious files with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Free
Even after using System Restore,
- You can download Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Free from the below link, then double-click on the icon named mbam-setup.exe to install this program.
MALWAREBYTES ANTI-MALWARE DOWNLOAD LINK(This link will open a download page in a new window from where you can download Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Free)
- When the installation begins, keep following the prompts in order to continue with the setup process, then at the last screen click on the Finish button.
- On the Scanner tab, select Perform quick scan, and then click on the Scan button to start searching for the Ukash malicious files.
- Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware will now start scanning your computer for Ukash virus as shown below.
- When the Malwarebytes Anti-Malware scan has finished, click on the Show Results button.
- You will now be presented with a screen showing you the computer infections that Malwarebytes Anti-Malware has detected. Make sure that everything is Checked (ticked), then click on the Remove Selected button.
STEP 3: Double-check for the Ukash virus with HitmanPro
- You can download HitmanPro from the below link:
HITMANPRO DOWNLOAD LINK (This link will open a web page from where you can download HitmanPro)
- Double-click on the file named HitmanPro.exe (for 32-bit versions of Windows) or HitmanPro_x64.exe (for 64-bit versions of Windows). When the program starts you will be presented with the start screen as shown below.
Click on the Next button, to install HitmanPro on your computer.
- HitmanPro will now begin to scan your computer for Ukash malicious files.
- When it has finished it will display a list of all the malware that the program found as shown in the image below. Click on the Next button, to remove Ukash virus.
- Click on the Activate free license button to begin the free 30 days trial, and remove all the malicious files from your computer.
OPTION 2: Remove Ukash virus with with HitmanPro Kickstart
If you cannot start your computer into Safe Mode with Command Prompt mode, we can use the HitmanPro Kickstart program to bypass Ukash lock screen.
As the Ukash ransomware infection locks you out of your computer, you will need to create a bootable USB drive that contains the HitmanPro Kickstart program.
We will then boot your computer using this bootable USB drive and use it to clean the infection so that you are able to access Windows normally again.
You will also need a USB drive, which will have all of its data erased and will then be formatted. Therefore, only use a USB drive that does not contain any important data.
- Using a "clean" (non-infected) computer, please download HitmanPro Kickstart from the below link.
HITMANPRO DOWNLOAD LINK (This link will open a download page in a new web page from where you can download HitmanPro Kickstart)
- Once HitmanPro has been downloaded, please insert the USB flash drive that you would like to erase and use for the installation of HitmanPro Kickstart. Then double-click on the file named HitmanPro.exe (for 32-bit versions of Windows) or HitmanPro_x64.exe (for 64-bit versions of Windows).
To create a bootable HitmanPro USB drive, please follow the instructions from this video:
- Now, remove the HitmanPro Kickstart USB drive and insert it into the Ukash infected computer.
- Once you have inserted the HitmanPro Kickstart USB drive, turn off the infected computer and then turn it on. As soon as you power it on, look for text on the screen that tells you how to access the boot menu.
The keys that are commonly associated with enabling the boot menu are F10, F11 or F12.
- Once you determine the proper key (usually the F11 key) that you need to press to access the Boot Menu, restart your computer again and start immediately tapping that key. Next, please perform a scan with HitmanPro Kickstart as shown in the video below.
- HitmanPro will now reboot your computer and Windows should start normally. Then please Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and HitmanPro, and scan your computer for any left over infections.
OPTION 3: Remove Ukash virus with Kaspersky Rescue Disk
If any of the above methods did not clean your infected computer, we can use a Kaspersky Rescue Disk Bootable to clean the Windows registry and to perform a system scan to remove the Ukash virus.
To create a bootable Kaspersky Rescue Disk, we will need the following items:
- A clean (non-infected) computer with Internet access
- A blank DVD or CD
- A computer with a DVD or CD burner
STEP 1: Download and create a bootable Kaspersky Rescue Disk CD
- You can download Kaspersky Rescue Disk utility from link below:
KASPERSKY RESCUE DISK DOWNLOAD LINK (This link will automatically download Kaspersky Rescue Disk (kav_rescue_10.iso) on your computer.)
- To create the bootable rescue disk, we will need to use the ImgBurn program. You can download ImgBurn from the below link, then install this program.
IMGBURN DOWNLOAD LINK (This link will open a new page from where you can download the ImgBurn program)
- Insert your blank DVD or CD in your burner, then start ImgBurn and click on the Write image file to disc button.
- Under Source click on the Browse for file button, then navigate to the location where you previously saved the Kaspersky Rescue Disk utility (kav_rescue_10.iso), then click on the Write button.
That's it, ImgBurn will now begin writing your bootable Kaspersky Rescue Disk.
STEP 2: Start your computer using the Kaspersky Rescue Disk
- Once you've got the Kasperky Rescue Disk in hand, insert it into the infected computer, and turn off and then turn it on again.
- As soon as you power it on, you will see a screen that tells you to press any key to enter the menu, so please tap any key to boot your machine from the Kaspersky Rescue Disk.
- In the next screen, you will need to chose a language, then you click on Kaspersky Rescue Disk. Graphic Mode and press ENTER, to start the Kaspersky Rescue Disk.
STEP 3: Scan your system with Kaspersky Rescue Disk
- Within a few short seconds you should see the full working environment, with the Kaspersky Rescue Disk screen front and center as shown below.
- Switch tabs over to the My Update Center, and then click the Start update button to load the latest anti-virus definitions. Please be patience while this process its completed.
- Switch back over to the Objects Scan tab, select the drives you want to scan, and then click the Start Objects Scan button.
- When Kaspersky Antivirus will detect the Ukash virus, you'll be prompted to select an action. When this happens, please select Quarantine or Delete to remove this infection from your computer.
- When the antivirus scan has completed, you can restart back into Windows regular mode, by clicking on the Kaspersky Start button (lower left corner), and selecting Restart.
Once your computer will start in Windows regular more, download Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and HitmanPro, and scan your computer for any left over infections.
Your computer should now be free of the Ukash infection. If your current anti-virus solution let this infection through, you may want to consider purchasing the PRO version of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware to protect against these types of threats in the future.
If you are still experiencing problems while trying to remove Ukash virus from your machine, please start a new thread in our Malware Removal Assistance forum.


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This video was designed to help people frustrated with their rate of grappling progress. If you have ever felt that your workouts could be more productive, but didn't know how to do it, then Grappling Drills is part of the solution.
Grappling movements can be complex and difficult. Grappling requires you to use every part of your body, but often your limbs are actually doing different things: your foot might be stepping, one hand pushing, the other hand pulling, your body twisting, all at the same time. This can make even fundamental techniques like escapes, submissions, and guard passes tricky to learn. Mastery of complex movements requires repetition. The exercises in Grappling Drills make it easy get the repetition you need. Use this DVD and before you know it you will have executed hundreds of repetitions of the most critical and important grappling techniques.
Grappling Drills Contains 83 Drills in 5 Sections:
1.) Lateral Hip Movement - how many times have you heard the phrase "move your hips" in BJJ? Side-to-side hip movement is critical for guard work and escaping bad positions. These are the best drills to develop exactly that type of movement.
2.) Bridging and Sprawling - forwards and backwards hip movement is just as important as lateral hip movement, but is often overlooked. Turbo-charge your escapes, submissions and throws by making your bridging and sprawling powerful and instinctive.
3.) Guard Development - the guard is the most complicated position in all of grappling. The drills in this section can make instinctive movements that advanced guard players do instinctively.
4.) Submission Development - submissions are the most exciting aspect of Brazilian Jiu-jitsu, Submission Grappling and Mixed Martial Arts, but they require repetition just like all other techniques. Here are methods to make repetition fun and easy.
5.) Other Drills - this section includes drills to improve guard passing, scrambling, mobility on the mats and more.
Applicable to both Gi and No-gi Grapplers!
All the exercises on the DVD can be performed with and without the gi. Two of the 83 exercises on the DVD are a little easier to do with a partner who is wearing a gi, BUT even these can still be done by no-gi players.
Solo and partner drills: sometimes you have a training partner, sometimes you don't. Now you can continue to improve under both conditions.
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This DVD was filmed mostly under studio conditions, but additional footage from grappling classes has been included to show how these drills can be incorporated into:
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Investment executive Mitch Julis, a member of Princeton's class of 1977, has made a substantial gift to create the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance at the University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Research and teaching at the center will focus on using in-depth knowledge of financial markets to improve the design and implementation of public policies.
"This timely gift will enable Princeton to leverage its great strengths in finance, economics and public policy," President Shirley M. Tilghman said. "The new center will provide our students and faculty, as well as the larger scholarly community, with much-needed tools to analyze and improve our nation's financial and public policies in the wake of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. I am enormously grateful to Mitch for his generosity and leadership."
The gift provides the foundation for a series of investments the University plans to make in the emerging field of public policy and finance, including providing support for research, graduate fellowships, course development, distinguished visitors, undergraduate internships and public outreach.
"The potential benefit of study and scholarship in policy and finance at the Wilson School is highlighted by the most recent upheaval in our financial markets," said Christina Paxson, dean of the Wilson School. "While the precise source of the 2008 market collapse will be debated for some time, it seems clear that a failure of public policy bears a large share of the blame. With this backdrop, we are poised to teach students to be better stewards of a system that so profoundly affects the daily lives of all Americans, and indeed all citizens of the globe."
Julis is a co-founder of Canyon Capital Advisors, a Los Angeles-based asset management firm. He earned an A.B. from the Wilson School and an MBA and J.D. from Harvard University, and has served on the advisory council of Princeton's Department of Economics. In addition to the gift to establish the center, the Julis family also created the Julis Foundation Preceptorship at Princeton in 2007. The center is named in honor of his father and mother, Maurice Julis and Thelma Rabinowitz Julis, and their families.
"Both my parents were educators in the New York school system during the fiscal crisis in the 1970s, and I am reminded of those tumultuous times when assessing the post-Lehman Brothers world," Julis said. "Boom-bust cycles and their adverse social consequences are going to continue to occur unless public policymakers develop a better understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of our financial system and can formulate appropriate solutions. I am very fortunate that Princeton, and in particular Professor Uwe Reinhardt (a professor of economics and public affairs at the Wilson School), gave me an education that provided a solid foundation for my career in finance and investing. Therefore, my family is privileged to be able to help Princeton strengthen its ability to educate the next generation of public policymakers in this critical area that so affects our nation's future."
The Julis-Rabinowitz Center, which will begin operations in the 2011-12 academic year, will create new opportunities for research collaborations among students and faculty in the Wilson School and other departments and programs that focus on topics as diverse as economics, finance, law, politics, history and ethics. An important aspect of the gift is that it will forge a new partnership between the Wilson School and the University's Bendheim Center for Finance, supporting joint teaching and research programs, including the development of courses that will enrich the University's undergraduate certificate in finance and master in finance programs at the Bendheim Center.
"With this gift, Princeton is ideally positioned to expand on its leading research on financial crises," said Yacine Aït-Sahalia, director of the Bendheim Center. "The opportunity for our students to be exposed to different points of view and to participate in interdisciplinary research at the nexus between finance and public policy will be of enormous benefit to them and more broadly to the financial system."
The work of the center will be supported by an external advisory group, currently in formation, of which Julis will be a part.
Reinhardt, Princeton's James Madison Professor of Political Economy, noted, "Mitchell Julis understands the value of teaching policy students about the ins and outs of the financial world -- he appreciates that financial literacy is essential to make good policy in today's world."
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Investment executive Mitch Julis, a member of Princeton's class of 1977, has made a substantial gift to create the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance at the University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Research and teaching at the center will focus on using in-depth knowledge of financial markets to improve the design and implementation of public policies.


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5.2: Wegener and the Continental Drift Hypothesis
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What is continental drift?
Wegener put together a tremendous amount of evidence that the continents had been joined. He advanced a great idea. But other scientists didn't accept it.
Wegener's Continental Drift Hypothesis
Wegener put his idea and his evidence together in his book, The Origin of Continents and Oceans. The book was first published in 1915. He included evidence that the continents had been joined. New editions of the book containing additional evidence were published later.
In his book he said that around 300 million years ago, the continents had all been joined. They created a single landmass he called Pangaea, meaning "all earth" in ancient Greek. The super-continent later broke apart. Since then the continents have been moving into their current positions. He called his hypothesis continental drift.
The Problem With The Hypothesis
Wegener had a lot of evidence to support his hypothesis. But he had a problem. The problem was that he could not explain how the continents could move through the oceans. He suggested that continental drift occurred like an icebreaker plows through sea ice (Figure below). He thought the continents could cut through the ocean floor.
An icebreaking ship.
Other scientists didn't buy his idea. They thought that the continents would be much more deformed than they are.
Wegener believed that Africa and South America had once been joined. He had the evidence. But very few scientists accepted his idea. He needed a mechanism that they would accept.
Alfred Wegener died in 1930 on an expedition on the Greenland icecap. The continental drift hypothesis was put to rest for a few decades. Only when technology could provide even more evidence for continental drift did scientists look into the idea again. Technology also helped scientists to develop a mechanism for how continents could drift.
Further Reading
Magnetic Polarity Evidence for Continental Drift
Bathymetric Evidence for Seafloor Spreading
Magnetic Evidence for Seafloor Spreading
Seafloor Spreading Hypothesis
- Alfred Wegener said that the continents had been joined as a single landmass, which he called Pangaea.
- Wegener thought that Pangaea was together about 300 million years ago.
- Wegener could not develop a mechanism for continents moving through oceanic crust that other scientists would accept.
- Describe the continental drift hypothesis.
- Why did scientists reject Wegener's idea? What was needed for them to accept it?
- What was Wegener's mechanism for drifting continents?
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Use the resource below to answer the questions that follow.
- What is uniformitarianism?
- What did Wegener write about in his book?
- What did Wegener think caused continental drift?
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What do you call a room that has a sink, toilet and shower?
Every American knows what a bathroom is, but no American calls it a loo, privy or water closet. This personal hygiene room takes on different names and forms around the globe. You might have to squat if you visit a water closet in Asia, and bidets in European bathrooms are not for washing feet.


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It has been a long while since I have added anyone to the Discordian pantheon so I believe this is over due. Today I am adding one Tyler Durden to the ever growing list of Discordian saints. I haven't checked to see if anyone else has made him a saint but I am automatically excommunicating them, to be recommunicated at a later date.
When you think about it, Tyler Durden is one of the defining characters of our generation. The second best character of the 1990s and easily in the top 20 of the twentieth century. He is the archetype of the Sensei For Scoundrels and Chaotic Neutral. He is Anarchy incarnate. He look like you wanna look, he fuck like you wanna fuck, he's smart, capable and most importantly, he's free in all the ways that you are not. He is the constant reminder that you are not a beautiful or unique snowflake And the strangest part is that he is the imagination of an imagination, a fiction within a fiction. He is probably the most famous imaginary friend besides Mr. Aloysius Snuffleupagus and Blooregard Q. Kazoo. fnord
But more importantly, he is the Disorder in sharp contrast to the Narrator's Order. Together they reflect the Sacred Chao that is eternally struggling within all of us. Fight Club shows us that if you have too much Order in your life you end up with a soul-killing job, being owned by your possessions. But if you have too much Disorder you end up as a domestic terrorist with hamburger for a face.
But that's not to say that Tyler is without his good qualities. He was able to help many fatherless boys become the men they were supposed to be. He saved Marla's life (but that was probably for ulterior motives). And the "Human Sacrifice" scene is one of the best examples of Chaotic Good in modern cinema. fnord
If you want further proof that Tyler is perfect candidate for Discordian saint, just look at Project Mayhem, the terrorist organization that he put together to take down civilization. The committees are Arson, Assault, Mischief, and Misinformation. "Organized Chaos. The Bureaucracy of Anarchy." (Should have one more to make it an even five.) And the frames of porno he spliced into films is a great example of subliminal messaging. fnord
So, I've over-analyzed this too much already. By the power invested in me by the Goddess Eris I declare Tyler Durden to be the Patron Saint of Mayhem and Soap. Be careful invoking this particular saint though. Your survival rate may drop to zero very quickly.
I'll leave you with my favorite scene from the movie. This is a chemical burn: