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Equipment such as an electronic whiteboard and a reader in Braille drew the attention of the President of the Republic, Dilma Rousseff, during her visit to the product exhibition of the Government Purchasing Management Seminar – the Education Experience in Brasilia. These devices, produced for use in public schools, were presented to her by Education Minister Fernando Haddad.
The electronic board is composed of a pen and a receiver, which, coupled to the Proinfo projector (computer and projector equipment offered by the MEC to states and municipalities), allow the teacher to work the available contents on a hard wall or frame without the need keyboard or computer. The minister highlighted the interactivity with the contents taught, as well as using the tool as a digital framework. The equipment is in the bidding process for purchase in the National Fund for the Development of Education (FNDE).
The president said that a huge effort will be made to get the equipment purchased. "They are essential products for students and teachers and certainly contribute to education," he said.
Another initiative that drew attention to Dilma was the prototype of a reader in Braille, which will allow visually impaired students to write and at the same time listen to what they write. The tool has a digital camera that captures images from a book or newspaper, for example, and transforms the image into braille text, generating the corresponding audio. The equipment also has a display whereby the teacher can follow the work of the student.
The project is coordinated by FNDE and developed by the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) and the Federal Institute of Ceará. The prototype is in the testing phase and should be ready in six months.
During the visit, the president met other products purchased by the Ministry of Education. She got on one of the boats that runs school buses in the North region and on school buses. He saw the new bikes and uniforms, and also the laboratories of the e-Tec program, which offers technical education in the distance.
In the afternoon of Wednesday, 14, the seminar continues with managers and government suppliers. They will participate in five workshops on the quest for efficiency in government spending, internal and external control processes aimed at transparency in procurement of drugs and equipment for university hospitals.
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Ministry to distribute tablets to high school teachers
Minister Mercadante stressed that the school has to follow the process of evolution of the knowledge society: "It is very important that we build a solid strategy so that the school can prepare this new generation for the use of information technologies" (photo Fabiana Carvalho) The Ministry of Education will invest about R $ 150 million this year to purchase 600 thousand tablets for use by high school teachers of federal, state and municipal public schools. According to Education Minister Aloizio Mercadante, the equipment will be donated to schools and delivered in the second semester.
The goal of the Digital Education – Policy for interactive computers and tablets project, announced by Minister Mercadante on Thursday, 2, is to offer tools and training to teachers and managers of public schools for the intensive use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the teaching and learning process.
For the minister, the world is moving towards a knowledge society and the school has to follow that process. "It is very important that we build a solid strategy for the school to train, prepare this new generation for the use of information technology," he said. According to the minister, this is a process and the federal government wants to accelerate, without hiccups. "It is clear that technology is not a goal in itself, nothing replaces the teacher-student relationship."
The technology, he said, will be so much more effective the greater the pedagogical care and the greater the involvement of teachers in the process. "We are defining that, in education, digital inclusion begins with the teacher."
The project comprises the interactive computer – equipment developed by the MEC, which brings together projection, computer, microphone, DVD, blackboard and internet access, and tablet. Interactive computers have already been distributed to high schools and in the second half come the tablets. These tablets will be in 7 or 10-inch models, battery life of 6 hours, color, weight under 700 grams, multi-touch screen, camera and microphone for multimedia work, video output, pre-installed contents, among other features.
The computers will be integrated with the electronic boards, composed of pen and receiver. Coupled with the interactive computer (equipment with computer and projector, offered by the MEC to the states and municipalities), will allow the teacher to work the available contents in a hard wall or frame, without the need of keyboard or computer manipulation.
In addition to sending equipment, the MEC offers training courses for teachers. According to Mercadante, more than 300 thousand teachers have already taken the ProInfo course, and now the 600 thousand who teach in high school will have at their disposal a course of 360 hours to work with the new media. The qualification will be made by the ProInfo trainers network, which already works with experts from public universities.
According to the Minister of Education, with the delivery of new information technologies, teachers and public schools will be able to combine these instruments with other media. He cited the Professor's Portal, which is one of the most consulted spaces by the category and that still can and should be expanded. Today, he said, there are available 15 thousand classes created by educators and approved by an editorial committee of the MEC. Mercadante announced that it will launch edicts and set up a national committee to select and recommend the best classes that will be available to all teachers.
This work was carried out with the purpose of analyzing the process of technological insertion in the schools, approaching the present starting point and tries to show the reality about the situation of the country in the subject.
The development was divided into three parts so that the reader could identify the key points involved in this question, which are the origins of technology and its didactic advantages in the classroom, the reality of the classroom and the role of teacher and school in the technological process. The research was provided with data that prove the reality of the Brazilian educational system and leads those who read a reflection on the subject, bringing to the table the various faces from the point of view of the theme so that the analysis of the content of the work can be done.
In everyday life, it is becoming increasingly common to adopt terms that are the consequence of a new line of thought that is a direct reflection of globalization and the technologies that came along with this process, the main one being the internet. With the internet everything is connected, all are part of an invisible web that approaches, streamlines, and, finally, came definitively to act primarily as a facilitator of the activities that are performed by people daily, is a place where knowledge and information is obtained with the ease of a click.
The potentialization of the use of the Internet and the use of the most diverse Information and Communication Technologies – ICT have brought about an eminent change in the way society sees the world and a review of social, cultural and economic relations, from an educational point of view this does not was different; The school felt the need to adapt to this new reality, for example: Some years ago it was unthinkable to obtain a higher education diploma without going to university every day, this paradigm was broken with the first courses called the distance from the country , making it possible for those who could not go to a teaching unit to do higher education when it was possible to attend classes online. It is clear that there is a movement for the computerization of schools throughout the national territory, but this process is still slow and has encountered a great number of problems in the incorporation of technological resources in its classes, obstacles that range from the lack of resources the teacher adaptation and lack of structure in schools.
What can be observed is that regardless of social origin, the whole population is connected through the internet, but this does not mean that despite all the advantages, the use of the Internet and ICT in schools will bring an improvement in the learning process. In this way it is necessary to reflect on the role of teachers and school in the process of implementing the technological process.
At first this work briefly raises the evolution process of the word technology and its meaning, makes a history of education in the country and raises some benefits that will be interesting in a school where there is greater access to ICT. In the second moment the current reality of the classrooms of the country is raised, it is shown that in order to implement a technological process in the school, it is not only necessary to solve structural problems that, by the way, are many, but to propose a reform in every educational structure that begins well before the time of classroom instruction, but rather in teacher training, the question of the physical structure of school buildings is also addressed and how this is important in the learning process. Finally, in the third approach, the role of the teacher in this process and the approach of the school are shown and how the two integrate to propose a better educational reality.
The considerations presented in this paper make it possible for the reader to reflect on the need for the school to adapt to the new cycle initiated in the process of globalization and all the consequences generated by it and in view of the facts what must be done to take the necessary initiatives to overcome this new phase in Brazilian education and make a qualitative leap in teaching, because the world has changed and the way to learn from it as well.
Evidenciating the etymology of technology is known that: it is a word of Greek origin that comes from the fusion of two terms, 'techne' and 'logos', the first referring to the technique and the second study; In a free and literal translation there is a simple definition of what technology is the study of technique that has the function of developing capacities that seek to facilitate, evolve and attract the activities performed routinely. Since the word technology came to exist, has had as a synonym some words in which one of the most associated is: advance. The technological advance in education has been one of the topics most approached in recent times, because as knowledge is constantly changing, that is, adapting to the realities incorporated day by day, education must always seek to evolve according to the needs demanded every time. But has this happened the way it should?
Starting from an old mold with roots in the second half of the twentieth century, the Brazilian educational system urgently needs a reform in its pedagogical methods that ally the demand of the student of the XXI century with the advance of the techniques in the application of information received along of the time in the classroom, with technology being one of the tools available with the best return to match requirements that are currently challenging. It is important to emphasize that for technological advancement in education it is not necessary to flood schools and universities with cell phones, tablet's and etc, but rather to adapt these technologies to the experience in the classroom.
The persistence of primary orality in modern societies is not so much due to the fact that we are still speaking (which is related to secondary orality), but to the way in which representations and ways of being continue to be transmitted independently of the circuits of writing and electronic media. Lévy, 1998, p. 51.
The key point of the question goes beyond the technological means that will be used in the learning process, it is a cooperative production in which teachers and students are collaborators, taking them from predetermined positions where the teacher is only the transmitter and the the transfer of knowledge to a level of plurality of information that will be of great value to both parties.
It is necessary to rethink the question of the size of the space and the time of the school. The classroom must cease to be the place of the portfolios lined up to become a place where the teacher and the students can carry out a diversified work in relation to knowledge. The role of the teacher ceases to be the "deliverer" of information, to be the facilitator of the learning process. The student ceases to be passive, to be the receptacle of information, to be an active learner, builder of his knowledge. Therefore, the emphasis of education is no longer the memorization of the information transmitted by the teacher and becomes the construction of knowledge carried out by the student in a significant way, being the teacher, the facilitator of this process of construction. Valente, 1999, p. 8.
The technological advent in education is inherent in curricular development, resulting in a series of benefits besides increasing the integration between the student and the teacher, it is possible to highlight some: it arouses students' interest in the search for knowledge and increases the amount of information available to teachers, stimulates the interaction allowing students with communication difficulties to perform tasks that according to the traditional method makes it impossible to perform group activities with effectiveness, for example.
The greatest confrontation for the insertion of an educational model closer to a more technological reality, beyond the financial constraints imposed by the government, or the lack of structure in the educational institutions, is also the way in which these technologies will be integrated into the system, unite the technical knowledge with teaching didactics.
One of the difficulties for the technological insertion in the classroom is the adaptation of teachers to the use of this new methodology. Since most of them do not have sufficient knowledge of the new approach, they face difficulties in the field of technological tools, and they do not have sufficient security to implement a teaching method based on the use of Information and Communication Technologies – ICT. The root of the problem refers to the period of academic training, since mold passed on in the university halls during undergraduate courses still reveal standards established in the last educational reform in the late 1960s, which established the methods known to date so they are formed in obsolete standards . From the graduation they are sent to the classrooms and, consequently, by the difficulty of adequacy, lack of mastery and lack of instruction on the technological dynamics, and they end, finally, combining the mechanical teaching with a controller classroom model, resulting in a knowledge, singular and linear.
In 1964, a school census was carried out and the results, despite more than 50 years running, have been worrying, with a reality (not to say the same) that is seen today. According to Leite (2013) the results obtained after the research report that the greatest difficulties pointed out by the students to stay in school are: The lack of curricular adequacy, the poor qualification of the teachers, the quality of the equipment needed for regular use in the classrooms classroom or lack of existence, lack of school supplies, distance between the home and the institution, among other aspects.
Of course, the responsibility for the technological insertion in the school does not only depend on the teacher and how it is formed, the school and its managers must prepare the physical space efficiently so that the student-teacher experience is maximized, which unfortunately does not yet is a standard in Brazil; As it was shown in the previous paragraph, the Brazilian educational scenario still can not deliver the minimum necessary to have an effective learning in the smallest possible scale.
The school structure is important because it must give the student the capacity he needs to fulfill his activities, favor the interpersonal relationship, offer possibilities that can grant a dynamic of maximized knowledge acquisition a, that is, the school and its structure must be attractive to students, so they will be encouraged to do what is proposed. If this does not happen, if the structure of the institution does not favor the potential of the student the effect is the opposite of what was quoted. The poorly structured environment becomes in the view of the student a tedious and morbid environment, for the teacher the teaching process becomes a burden because he will not be able to perform the function in which he was dedicated. Knowing that the school is popularly known as the 'second home' of students, this house should have enough structure to receive its residents succinctly.
According to Buitoni it is possible to conclude that:
When Mayumi spoke in space, he was not referring only to a room with its four walls. The idea of space also included the way it was occupied. In defending the quality of public equipment, it did not treat the built space as a determinant for the quality of the activities to be carried out there, but understood that the quality of the space could positively or negatively influence these activities. Buitoni. 2009. p. 132
That is, before thinking about the possibility of digitizing the format of classes making them more attractive to students, one must reform an entire system that was already efficient one day, but stopped in time. The first part is investing in human capital, investing in the training of teachers so that they have the ability to advance in teaching methodology. Subsequently it is necessary to invest in the structure of the school so that the living space of students can maximize the gains obtained through the use of technology.
The teacher has a crucial importance in the process of implementing resources that make possible the use of technology, as it acts as a mediator that understands the difficulties to establish a new demand in the school and acts as an agent of innovation that understands the urgent evolutionary need in the system of current teaching. He will not become an auxiliary member of education, but remains as the main piece in the role of educator in his role of transmitting knowledge in addition to traditional attribution. The teacher will have to play a very important role in helping and enabling students to be included in the digital universe, thus enabling the student to stay in school and prepare the same for life.
It is important that the teacher also understands that the fact that the school is equipped with the most modern resources is not synonymous with improving the quality of teaching. The devices can stimulate the learning process, but this is not a factor in eliminating pedagogical practices.
Even if there is the use of technological tools in education it is important to have the understanding on the part of the teaching involved in the evolutionary process, that these methods must be adapted to the didactic use, that is, inserting the means according to the necessity of the project of education, not the private demands of the students, thus making distraction possible in the classroom.
To implement a project of this magnitude, it is necessary to adapt the institution to the new reality using the mechanisms as auxiliaries in curricular activities, in this way the technology should be used as a specific instrument and with specific objectives in its curricular component, not only an induced practice on a voluntary basis. Thus, in order to effectively contribute to knowledge as an understanding, the domain of technologies must favor meta-cognitive processes that allow a critical analysis of information and, more important, presuppose association (sociability), in the terms proposed by Simmel (1983) that is, egalitarian interaction between unequals around common goals and contents. The school has much to contribute in this process, because it is a privileged space of sociability. MAMEDE-NEVES & DUARTE, 2008, p.777
Access to information does not necessarily mean access to knowledge, it is necessary to adapt the techniques and vision of the magisterium in order to be able to metabolize this content that will be received and convert it into knowledge so that in the last step the teaching receives it effectively.
The teacher must constantly seek his improvement as a professional, always seeking to be aware of the innovations of his time, and to be aware of the changes that are around him, putting himself in a starting point of learning that begins with him and is transmitted to his listeners later in a simplified way, but that does not leave something to be desired in content.
For this to happen, it is also necessary that the teacher is motivated, that he has an interest in seeking exponential growth and that the institution in which he is linked offers the necessary structure that allows him to perform an innovative work, articulating the didactics with the new means. This idea was complemented by Moran (2004), who says that for an efficient educational model the most precious factor is human material, where it is necessary to have well-prepared, professionally and financially motivated professionals, and forcefully as the main factor for the good performance of should be with pedagogical training up-to-date.
In theory, the role of the teacher in the process of implementing new technologies is to enable the continuous development of technology for learning by keeping up-to-date on the sources necessary for the execution of his work, keeping students motivated and instructing them in their use of the tools available to obtain knowledge, in addition to being in harmony with the institution in which it works by seeking and contributing in the structural strengthening of it so as to enable the best possible experience among: teacher, student and school.
After the construction of this article it is considered that the education needs a forceful reform in the whole structure of its chain.
It has been shown that in spite of all available technology currently available to the teaching, the use of these often becomes a complex process because unfortunately the educational system in the Brazilian scenario did not follow the technological advance and today the educational institutions count with a very large gap both in human material and in school structure, which can be considered a social reflection.
The lack of capacity to receive a didactics of teaching commensurate with the twenty-first century begins in the formation of teachers and goes to the mentality of the students, proof of an education system that has not evolved and brings with it characteristics of education from the second half of the century XX, where the focus was the control of the student in the classroom and not the essence of the learning itself. There is also the lack of structure of the schools to receive the equipment, which for the most part does not have the least possibility of receiving conventional classes, who will say to enable the use of technological devices in their classes.
Even though there is a great challenge ahead of the technology in the school, this is a fact, it is a consequence of a process of evolution of the human race, more and more education has tried to advance in this aspect, even with the limitations it is possible to see that there is an effort to insert a new methodology that will recover students' interest in staying in school, bring teachers the pleasure to teach and transform the society in which it is part.
It is important not to forget that society is composed of people, and that the use of virtual reality can not become a determining factor in the knowledge process, it is necessary to keep the roots of the school that are: plurality of thoughts, interpersonal relationship, and that of the sphere in which it is a part, the tools must be used as an aid to the educational process and not as the main cog in a system where the human being and its essence are still the main focus.
The teacher remains the main mechanism of a machine that should work. His role does not change, which is to teach, but he must understand that: Currently the pedagogue is no longer the only holder of knowledge within the classroom, it is important to implement a collaborative, transformative and dynamic teaching structure in which he becomes an employee in the student learning process. It is essential that the preceptor prepare and adapt to the use of these technologies because it comes from a transition point where the old and the new collide and generate conflicts. It is necessary to understand the tools that will be available before passing them forward so that the transition between the outdated and the modern is subtle, effective and does not cause the opposite of the planned.
The school needs to shape itself in all areas so that it can receive a transformation of this magnitude. The school structure (especially the public one) is the one that draws the most attention in this process, because with an old educational project the buildings that these institutions are installed in the vast majority do not have the capacity to receive the TIC and for that to happen it is necessary to invest , which in Brazil is always a problem.
The path is arduous and the implementation process is long, since it is urgent, since in a comparison with other countries the discrepancy in the educational process is notorious and one of the determining factors is the lack of mastery of ICTs. The teacher and the school must work together to recognize the demand of society and be able to address this need in their classrooms. Technological knowledge is already palpable, requiring that the school adapt to this period of humanity for yesterday, but this will only be possible when the subject education is actually taken seriously causing the main parts of this context to position themselves and make reality what For now it's still a dream.


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What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.
— Nora Ephron
We don't want to tell you what to do (that's your mom's job), but we would like to offer a humble suggestion for the upcoming holiday.
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Whenever talking to each other, whenever that happens, developers tend to formalize specific concepts and map them to specific words.
For example you all know what a singleton is. We don't need to disambiguate in regards to it. Nor do we need to disambiguate in regards to what an object, function, or method are.
And this is why the following article A Factory Should Create, Not Retain, in which Paul M. Jones claims that a factory that retains references to its created instances it's not truly a factory, came as a surprise for me.
The article TL;DR: A factory just creates objects, a registry just references objects, a container does both.
But while this might be technically correct, it's not actually meaningful in any way to make this distinction, except tedious mental exercise. Don't worry, here come examples (Java, but, you get the picture).
1. Caching factories are containers
In java numbers can be represented as either primitives, either immutable objects. To convert from one another, e.g. from `int` to `Integer`, the Integer class has a factory function named: `valueOf(int) : Integer`. This makes the Integer class a factory for Integer objects.
Except that I lied a bit.
Creating objects for every number it's expensive, and since the low indexes are heavily used, they are pre-cached (at least in the Oracle's Java version they are). This is not part of the functional specification, it's just an implementation detail, on how the objects are going to be fetched. Note that objects outside that range are always created.
Can you be pedantic and say, that this is a container, and not actually a factory? Yes. Does it add value to the conversation? No. I'm going later to explain why this is an issue.
Note that if I just comment those caching lines, my container magically transforms to a factory, and if I uncomment it, it's back a container, even if functionally its behaviour is the same. But whatever.
By the same definition...
2. Registries that create objects are containers as well
Again in java there is an amazing class, named TreeMap. TreeMap holds instances to these objects into a tree structure, thus its full of imagination name of TreeMap. Tree ... Map. TreeMap.
Someone could argue that this is a registry, but again, if we want to be pedantic about it, this is no ordinary registry. Because it creates its keys, so it's also a factory.
Among the many separation of concerns that this class blatantly violates, are also creating and reordering objects, but for the sake of our discution, we can safely say that the TreeMap is technically also a factory, since it creates its keys:
3. Singleton
Finally, I said that I will explain why I find it as an issue, with being pedantic about separation of concerns. Because it stiffles communication. We actually lose more time trying to disambiguate things that our so specific vocabulary would allegedly try to disambiguate.
The best example is Singleton.
Singleton it's a pattern that describes how single instances can be created for an application. This is made by having a single static instance on the class, and using it across the application.
Except that this is not true if you use Dependency Injection. The singleton class will not have the single instance bound to the class. It will not implement the actual pattern. Actually might not even be a singleton in certain cases, since now this might be a configuration issue. So I should not use the "singleton" word to describe it at all, since it's not implementing the pattern, nor can I guarantee that it will always be a singleton.
But that's why this whole thing makes no sense. If I know that in my application an object has a single instance (provided by the DI, or its own static reference, or the JVM that creates it via some callback method, etc), then I can say it is a singleton. Its meaning is derived from its behavior, not the actual implementation on how the singleton behavior will be provided. That is an implementation detail.
Similarily, if I have an object that creates other objects as one of its main purposes in life, it is a factory, irrespective on what kind of caching (if any it uses). It's meaningless to say that valueOf from Integer is actually a container method. There is no gained value out of it.
If an object is used to mainly store references to other objects, then yes, it's a registry. The same goes on key creation. This doesn't changes the purpose of the class.
It makes no sense looking at every tidbit of implementation details, with super categorization. There is no benefit out of it. No cleaner code, no better communication. Nothing.
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"A cunning Canaanite! Deceitful scales are in his hand; He loves to oppress." –Hosea 12:7
Like ancient Israel in Hosea's day, the modern church has become enamored with and enslaved by her surrounding culture. So much so that the church looks, thinks, and acts more like the world she was called to reach than the church she was called to be.
Jesus prayed for His followers and those that would follow Him because of them (John 17), and in His prayer He revealed that it was His plan to take people out of the world, transform them by the truth, and then leave them in the world as credible and effective witnesses of the transforming power of the truth (vs. 14-16).
However, in order to be effective and credible witnesses to the world, these believers would have to maintain an identity distinct from the world in which they lived, moved, and ministered.
How can this be accomplished effectively, biblically, and without compromising the very truth to which we testify?
A similar problem confronted the church at Pergamum.
We know very little about the founding or the history of this church other than there was a group of believers that God had called out of this very pagan city, and He had established them to be a beachhead for truth in the very center of one of Satan's most important strongholds for darkness.
These believers were living in the midst of the most idolatrous and immoral pagan culture, and they were willing to pay the price for standing for Christ in the midst of this moral and spiritual darkness.
And this pagan culture was not passive. It was aggressively acting against them to the point that one of their number – Antipas – had already paid for his faithfulness to Christ with his own life as a martyr.
Clearly, this was a church that was doing a great job standing for Christ against the external enemies that threatened them.
But they were not doing so well against another, more subtle enemy. Satan had infiltrated the church with people who were living lives that contradicted the truth of the Gospel – and this church was willfully tolerating those people!
If this continued, Christ knew that it would prove to be the undoing of this great and strategic truth!
Churches like this are not initially destroyed by false doctrine. They are more often destroyed by a toleration of false living by those in their midst who believe better than they behave.
And if a church doesn't address the issue of false living, sooner or later, the door is opened to false doctrine! And so Christ comes both to commend and to cleanse this church in Revelation 2:12-27. Look at verses 14-15:
"But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication. So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitanes, which thing I hate."
They had been vigilant in keeping pure doctrine and maintaining their commitment to Christ in the face of strong pressure externally, but they had allowed something to come inside the church that would eventually destroy them if they continued to tolerate it in their midst!
There was in the midst of their commitment to sound doctrine a lax attitude toward sound living! In other words, they believed much better than they had behaved!
The real problem was not what they were teaching – their doctrine was sound and their faithfulness to Christ's Truth was commended. Their problem was not what they were teaching – but what they were tolerating!
So Christ challenges them to "Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth" (vs. 16). He is issuing a strong directive – repent and do it now!
The danger at Pergamum was their willingness to tolerate and give Christian fellowship to those who believed and taught that salvation gave a person a license to indulge in the perverse idolatry and immoral living on the surrounding pagan culture! It is a problem that is with us to this day.
Listen to this quote from G. Campbell Morgan in A First Century Message to Twentieth Century Christians:
The church of Jesus Christ must not tolerate within her borders those who lower the standard of truth's requirements! This is not a question of holding the truth. The church at Pergamum was orthodox. It is a question rather of the right application of truth. The error of these men is one that in subtle form, threatens all churches even until this hour! It is that if a man's creed be right, his conduct does not so much matter. Truth never excuses sin. … The test of doctrine is purity of conduct and character (106-107).
God's people have been called to live in the culture as counter-culture people.
Christians who have given attention to the "in the world" part of the Lord's statement have lost their distinctive identity and as a result have failed in many cases to communicate the truth accurately.
On the other hand, Christians who have given attention to the "not of the world" part of the Lord's statement have kept their identity but in many cases have lost their opportunity and as a result have failed to communicate the truth attractively.
We have been called to do both.
Truth matters enough to God that He would leave His people in a culture knowing they would be persecuted by that culture in order that some from that culture would be transformed.
May God help us to be such a people in our day and to our culture.


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Khor, Ying Heng.
Lee, Rui Qi.
Lau, Qian Qi.
Yeo, Amos Kaizong.
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This book captures a cross-section of the most significant recent developments in criticism on one of the most challenging authors of our time. It brings together essays by a new generation of Pynchon critics alongside some more established names in the field, building on and moving beyond existing critical paradigms in the study of Pynchon's work. In a critical landscape in which the postmodernism of Pynchon's earlier novels has been thoroughly established, this collection presents fresh analytical methodologies and new perspectives on Pynchon's fiction informed by the more expansive, globalized, and politicized network models that undergird recent advances in American literary theory and criticism. The New Pynchon Studies illustrates how Pynchon's later novels, Against the Day, Inherent Vice, and Bleeding Edge, demand a re-orientation of our approach to his entire oeuvre and enables readers to trace lines of continuity and development in his writing from V. to the present day.Read more
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Introduction: Pynchon studies in the twenty-first century Joanna Freer
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4. Pynchon's posthuman temporalities Pieter Vermeulen
5. Pynchon, gender, and relational ethics Joanna Freer
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Assignment Description: In recent years, Turkey has concentrated its efforts on increasing the use of national resources, including energy, in a cost-effective manner. This requires sustainable private sector investments and a well-functioning and regulated resources market, while limiting environmental damage, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and increasing energy and resource efficiency. At the same time, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (the "EBRD" or the "Bank") has increased its lending in support of sustainable energy in a number of its countries of operations, including Turkey.
In July 2014, the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources of Turkey, the European Commission (the "EC"), and the EBRD agreed on a set of actions in the area of sustainable energy to be led by the EBRD and supported by the EU's Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA) Programme in Turkey. As stipulated in the IPA Component 1 (Transition Assistance and Institution Building) agreed between the European Commission and the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources of Turkey, the overall objectives of the IPA Programme support will include increasing the capacity of the energy efficiency and renewable energy markets, as well as better aligning them with the EU energy strategies.
This objective is expected to be achieved by:
- promoting commercial lending facilities;
- providing a more active donor involvement;
- improving the policy framework;
- enhancing access to information;
- creating incentives and pilot programmes
- developing national level targets; and
- improving the tracking progress and results, in terms of reductions in energy and carbon intensities.
In order to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the support being provided, the EC and the EBRD, in full cooperation of the Government of Turkey, have agreed to establish the EU/EBRD Turkish Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Support Programme (hereinafter, referred to as the "Programme") for "Enhancement of the Turkish Energy Sector in line with EU energy strategies".
The Programme is structured as four distinctive "windows".
Window 1 - Financing Facilities and Technical Assistance (the EBRD will provide loans to eligible sub-borrowers in the energy sector. Programmes currently under implementation include TurSEFF, TuREEF and MidSEFF. Programmes under preparation include Municipal Sustainable Energy Credit Line and Energy Efficiency Leasing).
Window 2 - Direct Lending and Technical Assistance. Programmes under preparation include Sustainable Waste Framework Direct Lending and Corporate Energy Efficiency Audit Framework and Early Stage Geothermal Development Programme.
Window 3 - Policy Dialogue for the purpose of promoting resource efficiency investments in the private sector and institutional capacity building to address specific weaknesses in the regulatory framework, leading to a significant improvement in the investment environment for resource efficiency across the country.
Window 4 – Programme Coordination (subject of this Notice).
Assignment Description
In order to support implementation of the entire Programme, the EBRD wishes to engage a Programme Coordination Team (the "PCT" or the "Consultant"). The Consultant's role is to facilitate effective and efficient implementation of the Programme, in line with its agreed strategic objectives.
In order to achieve the above-mentioned objective, the Consultant will be expected to carry out the following tasks:
- act as Secretariat coordinating efforts of various stakeholders involved in implementation of the Programme (the Ministry and other governmental agencies, the EU Delegation in Ankara and the EBRD).
- monitor progress of the Programme implementation (taking into account specific sub-sectors, with varying objectives, timetables and methodologies);
- organise seminars and forums for relevant stakeholders, as envisaged in the work plan, to promote awareness of the energy issues;
- provide extensive support to EBRD in respect of reporting and visibility, in line with the Programme requirements;
- support the Head of the Ankara Office in coordinating the Programme activities with different stakeholders;
- create a website as a central source of information on energy programmes in Turkey.
Due to the nature of this Assignment and need for extensive liaison with the key counterparties in the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources (the "Ministry") of Turkey and the EU Delegation in Ankara, it is envisaged that the Consultant will be based in Ankara. Travel within Turkey as well as to Brussels and London is foreseen.
Assignment Duration: 48 months.
Cost Estimate for the Assignment: EUR 1,140,000; exclusive of VAT.
The Consultants must determine whether any VAT would be chargeable on the services and the basis for that determination, without taking into consideration the Bank's special status as an IFI and state this to the Bank in their response to the Invitation for Expressions of Interest. To the extent that a consultant incurs input VAT on goods and services purchased in connection with the provision of services (e.g. VAT on airline ticket) which is not otherwise recoverable by the consultant from the local tax authority, the gross cost to the consultant of such expenses shall be treated as a reimbursable expense.
Consultants to note: It is estimated that at least one-third of this budget will be required to cover the cost of a number of events (site visits, workshops, seminars, national media campaigns) which have to be delivered under this assignment.
Funding Source: The contract will be financed with funding by the European Union under the EU/EBRD Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Programme for Turkey.
Eligibility: There are no eligibility restrictions.
Consultant Profile: The Consultant will be a firm with project experience, preferably in Turkey or similar location, able to propose a team of three highly qualified experts with experience in the following areas: project management, sustainable energy policy and technologies, implementation of the EU-funded programmes and broad understanding of the energy market in Turkey.
The Consultant's team will include the following key experts:
1. Project Manager (PM): An experienced individual, preferably with 8 years of project management experience, fluent in both Turkish and English languages. PM should have practical experience of implementing the EU-led or funded programmes, professional exposure to sustainable energy and resource efficiency projects as well as good understanding of the energy sector and markets. Familiarity with application/implementation of governmental policies and procedures would be an advantage.
2. Communication and Visibility Expert: A marketing expert, preferably with 5 years of experience relevant to the role, fluent in both Turkish and English languages. This expert should have experience in conducting marketing programmes at a national level, designing and operating websites, and developing targeted marketing strategies for SMEs, municipalities and universities.
3. Administrative Officer: An individual, experienced in providing comprehensive administrative support for highly complex projects, fluent in both Turkish and English languages.
Submission Requirements: Interested consultancy firms are hereby invited to submit expressions of interest. In order to determine the qualifications and competence of consulting firms seeking to be shortlisted, the information submitted should include the following:
1. Company profile, organisation and staffing (max. 2 pages);
2. Details of previous project experience or similar assignments undertaken in the previous five years, including information on contract value, contracting entity/client, project location/country, duration (mm/yy to mm/yy), expert months provided (if different from duration), main activities, objectives;
3. CVs of the three key experts who could be available to work on the Assignment Completed Consultant's Declaration and Contact Sheet, the template for which is available from the following web-link:
The above information should not exceed 40 pages including CVs and Consultant's Declaration and Contact Sheet.
Expressions of Interest should be submitted, in English, electronically through eSelection. The complete Expression of Interest (including CVs and Consultant's Declaration and Contact Sheet) will be one file (in searchable pdf or Word format), not exceeding 4MB, uploaded to eSelection. The EBRD reserves the right to reject applications of firms submitting more than one file. Marketing materials or company brochures are not required and will not be considered.
The Expressions of Interest will be evaluated based on the following criteria:
Firm: Experience in and local capacity within Turkey or similar environment 10.0
Project Manager: : Experience relevant to the role Including language skills, as defined in the Notice 40.0
Communications Expert: : Experience relevant to the role Including language skills, as defined in the Notice 30.0
Administrative Officer: Experience relevant to the role Including language skills, as defined in the Notice 20.0
Consultants to note the following:
Following this invitation for Expressions of Interest, a shortlist of up to 6 qualified and competent firms will be formally invited to submit proposals.
Firms currently engaged under TurSEFF II, MidSEFF and TuREEF programmes will not be eligible to participate in this assignment.
Firms that may have expressed interest (or intend to do so) in the assignments listed below may participate in this selection process. However, if a firm is awarded a contract for any of the assignments listed below, it will not be eligible for the contract award in respect of the Turkey: Programme Coordination Consultant Assignment.
- Development of the National Energy Efficiency Action Plan (NEEAP)
- Assessing the Use of CO2 from Natural Sources for Commercial Purposes in Turkey


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Gumpert Apollo is a super sports car like no other!
With 650 hp, a top speed of 360 km per hour, and acceleration capability from 0 to 100 km/h (62 mph) in only 3 seconds, it is easy to see why the Gumpert Apollo is any sports car driver's dream. It manages to combine track racing with the practical side of everyday driving in one vehicle and as soon as you know what it's capable of, you'll realize that it comes at a reasonable price.
Gumpert Sportwagenmanufaktur prides itself on its ethos of precision and exclusivity. Encompassing the word 'manufacturer' within its name, it is clear to see the company has a passion and drive when it comes to manufacturing of its vehicles.
It has developed a reputation of skilled craftsmanship and hand-produced products. Managing Director and Founder Roland Gumpert has inspired his employees to combine engineering excellence with racing prowess. Gumpert is an established name in the motorsports environment.Read the entire article Gumpert Apollo is a super sports car like no other!
Gumpert recovers from insolvency as it receives new orders for Apollo supercar
The recovery has been slow for Gumpert, the German automaker, after having filed last August for a provisional insolvency. Gumpert was able to resume production while it was under the insolvency administration. But then, the number of orders it has received is increasing. The insolvency proceedings began right as scheduled, on Oct. 16, 2012.
It sold its first new car just a few days after. According to insolvency administrator Mr. Görge Scheid, he is confident that with the many orders in process, its operations will be able to continue sustainably and permanently. Notably, the first negotiations with investors have taken place. Even with the slump in the car industry, there's still a high demand for the sports car Apollo.
This proves that the market still has a place for an independent sports car manufacturer. The apollo has an advantage over small series producers, which are facing insolvency like Melkus and Artega, since it features the highest level of self-contained technical developments. Germany has a small and elite fan base for the super sports car.Read the entire article Gumpert recovers from insolvency as it receives new orders for Apollo supercar
2012 Geneva Motor Show: Gumpert Apollo R is a purebred race car
Gumpert, the well-known German supercar manufacturer, unveiled two new vehicles at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show: the Apollo R and the Apollo Enraged. In this article we'll focus on the Gumpert Apollo R, the so-called purebred race car. According to the manufacturer, the Apollo R is powered by a 4.2-liter V8 engine delivering an impressive 860 hp thanks to a higher supercharging pressure, ignition and control time adjustments, optimisation of the intake air ducts and a special racing exhaust system.
Still, the manufacturer says that the maximum performance can be obtained with the use of racing fuel with correspondingly high octane levels. Moreover, the car features enhanced engine and transmission cooling system due to the fact that it will also be deployed in Asia and it will face higher temperatures. Furthermore, the chassis was extended with a titanium blade stabiliser on the rear axle.
The Apollo R has a weight of only 1,100 kg, with an empty tank. Regarding its design, the car features a black-red-gold foil dress, while the driver and passenger doors are each graced by a griffin, a cross between an eagle and lion and therefore the lord of the air as well as the earth.Read the entire article 2012 Geneva Motor Show: Gumpert Apollo R is a purebred race car
2011 Geneva Motor Show: Gumpert Tornante by Touring redefines the supercar term
The Gumpert Tornante by Touring is the product of the collaboration between supercar maker Gumpert and Italian coach builders Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera. The vehicle is powered by a 700-PS biturbo V8 engine that enables it to reach a top speed that exceeds 300 km/h (186 mph). Its V8 was tuned even further for a Fast Touring model.
Its engine weighs just 196 kg (432 lbs) and is paired with a six-speed TT40e semi-automatic gear box that may be controlled with paddle shifters. This two-seater is fitted with aluminum or forged 19-inch wheels up front, and 20-inch wheels in back, all center locking, and covered in Michelin Pilot Super Sport tires.
In Gumpert's press release, the company claimed that "an alternative powered Tornante" will be presented next year. The car was designed by Touring Superleggera and constructed by Gumpert. It was created out of a need for more interior space. It features 200 liters (7 cubic feet) of cargo space, which is restricted by the space needed for the crash box. Even so, its space is still 16% less than what's offered by the Ferrari 458 Italia.Read the entire article 2011 Geneva Motor Show: Gumpert Tornante by Touring redefines the supercar term
Gumpert has released a teaser image for the Tornante by Touring Superleggera model that will be presented at the Geneva Motor Show. Fans surely know the Gumpert Apollo to be one of the most powerful hypercars in the world so any new release is bound to generate some excitement. This image was intended to give the impression that the car is being seen in a dream. It is believed that the Tornante by Touring doesn't offer as high a performance as the Gumpert Apollo.
However, the car is still expected to offer a high level of "go-fastness" but in a more relaxed manner, combining this with a GT attitude. Italian design house Touring Superleggera signed the design.
2011 Geneva Motor Show will be the setting for another exceptional world premiere. Specifically, TOURING SUPERLEGGERA will be revealing its latest design concept -- the GUMPERT TORNANTE. This static style model was planned and engineered in order to complement the V8-powered driveline and its new central engine chassis.Read the entire article Gumpert releases teaser for Tornante by Touring Superleggera
At the upcoming Geneva Motor Show, German supercar maker Gumpert will debut the Tornante beside the existing Apollo Sport hypercar. The Gumpert Tornante, a two-seater touring superleggera, is based on a new central engine chassis and V8-powered driveline. Gumpert said that the new hypercar will open a "new class of automobiles born for the extremely dynamic and fast voyage, the Fast Tourers."
The full details are not yet available but reportedly, the Gumpert Tornante features the original Superleggera construction principle: composite body panels on a space frame with carbon fiber monocoque.
Gumpert has set new benchmarks for driving dynamics of street legal cars with the apollo but Gumpert has requested the Milanese designer to include space, elegance and comfort to their typical sheer performance attitude. Gumpert claims that the product boasts a combination of "very Italian sporty elegance and German high-end engineering."Read the entire article Gumpert Tornante by Touring announced for 2011 Geneva Motor Show
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Georgia's Chubb cracks century mark again, confusion over record ensues
Nick Chubb rushed for more than 100 yards for the 13th consecutive game in Georgia's 38-10 loss to Alabama in Athens on Saturday. But immediately after Chubb extended his 100-yard-game streak, confusion ensued as to whether the mark was the Georgia school record.
The school itself sent out conflicting information. The Bulldogs' official website ran a headline (since corrected) reading: "Chubb breaks record, Dawgs fall to Tide," while at the same time, one of their official Twitter handles tweeted this:
With that last run, Chubb has now tied the official UGA record for consecutive 100-yard games with 13! #ChubbStrong pic.twitter.com/l2bzeQDa56
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— Georgia Bulldogs (@UGAAthletics) October 3, 2015
So where does Chubb, who rushed for 146 yards including an 83-yard touchdown, stand in terms of the record?
Herschel Walker rushed for more than 100 yards in 13 consecutive games. However, one of those was a bowl game. The NCAA did not count bowl game statistics during Walker's playing career, but Georgia's policy does not have to match the NCAA's standard.
Of course, Chubb's 13-game streak includes his Belk Bowl performance against Louisville, so all things being equal, it appears the Georgia backs are indeed tied.


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The chain of events concerning the compromises on Palestine began with the Rogers plan, gained prominence at Camp David, intensified in Madrid, set in ink in Oslo, and reached their height in Washington and Camp David 2. Today, September 17th, coincides with the 36th signing of the "Camp David" accords by the then President of Egypt Anwar al-Sadat, and the then Prime Minister of Israel, for which the stage was set by the then President of the United States. The leader of the revolution had this to say on the accords: "the sole goal of these traitorous actions that began with the shameful Camp David Accords is the ending of resistance and persuading Palestinians and Arab countries to accept the legitimacy of the makeshift Zionist regime." This path was continued by "Yasser Arafat", who once was the leader of the resistance in Palestine. The narrative of how Arafat became ready to put aside the "path of resistance" against the Zionist regime, and give himself away to the occupiers, may contain some important and valuable insight, the revisiting of which may be of value:
The Beginning of a Fighter
On August 4th 1929, Yasser Arafat, whose given name was "Mohammad Abdul Rahman Abdul Raouf al-Qudwa al-Husseini", was born to Palestinian parents in Cairo, Egypt. His father was a well-known textile salesman in Egypt, and his mother a pure Jerusalemite [descended from an al-Quds family]. When he was five years old his mother passed away and his father placed him in his uncle's care in al-Quds. At that time, Palestine's capital was under English mandate, and the Palestinians were fighting against them. Arafat's mst important childhood memory was that of a nightly raid conducted by English soldiers on his uncle's house, which cause the injury of a number of his family members. Four years later, he returned to Egypt, and continued his studies there.
After he graduated from Cairo University, he left for Kuwait, founding an engineering firm there with like-minded friends. However, he spent most of his time dealing in political matters. At that time, "Abu Ammar" was looking for ways to achieve the wishes and goals he had as a college student, and so thought of himself as a warrior.
In 1958, Arafat, along with "Khalil al-Wazir" (Abu Jihad), "Khalid Yashruti" and "Salah Khalaf" founded the Fatah movement (the Palestinian National Liberation Movement), which was at first an underground movement. At the same time, they also published a political magazine, which mostly published material against the Zionist regime. Having established the first base for Fatah in Kuwait, recruiting immigrant Palestinians began at full pace.
Calling for the liberation of all of Palestine's land, Fatah came to be accepted among the youth that support armed struggle [against the Israelis], and after a short while, began instructing its members in guerrilla warfare. Then, the organization's central council decided to commence military operations, and so its young combatants conducted the organization's first military operation in December 1964, blowing up a water treatment plant in the occupied territories.
After the operation's success, Arafat decided to expand his revolutionary movement, and so left Kuwait for Jordan to expand and strengthen the organization. The most important event of the 60s for the organization was the Zionist regime's attack on al-Karameh in Jordan. Fatah's combatants resisted powerfully against this aggression, and despite many casualties, were able to force the Zionist regime to retreat. This is why the "Battle of Karameh" is considered a legendary battle for Fatah, and in contrast to the Zionists' expectations, within the first 48 hours after the end of the battle, 5 thousand Palestinians registered in the organization.
The epic of Al-Karameh fostered unity between Jordan and Palestinians. Not much time had passed however until Palestinian guerrillas were able to gain power on Jordanian soil, which made Jordan's king worry about Fatah. This led to a bloody confrontation between Jordan and Fatah in September of 1970, which led to the deaths of many Palestinians, and came to be known as "Black September". It was after Black September that Arafat decided to leave Jordan and transport the organization's combatants to Syria and Lebanon. In addition, a military formation was formed in Fatah and dubbed the "Black September Organization," whose goal was to enact vengeance upon the Zionist regime (which had control over the king of Jordan). The group managed to attract international attention after its killing of 11 Zionist athletes during the Munich Olympics. From thereon out, Fatah would become known as the main group struggling against the Zionist regime. Yasser Arafat's epic speech at the UN made the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) reach the height of its popularity in the Muslim world.
Gradual Death by Compromise
Taking the aforementioned into account, the height of the popularity of Fatah and its number one man very quickly neared its end. In 1988, many sweeping changes took place in the organization's activities, which greatly differed from the goals this resistance faction had at the beginning. In an unexpected statement in Geneva, in a UN General Assembly special session, he said: "the PLO, in the interest of peace and security in the region, especially for Palestine, Israel and other neighbors, renounces its armed activities!" Later, the PLO would officially recognize Israel's right to exist in 1988, and accept Resolution 242."
The year 1988 can thus be considered the beginning of the decline of the battles of Yasser Arafat and his organization. He even proposed the "Palestinization" of the Palestinian cause so that other Arab and Islamic countries would not interfere in it. In those days, the leader of the Islamic Revolution referred to Yasser Arafat's intellectual and practical change in the following manner: "Yasser Arafat is not fighting. Today Yasser Arafat's position is like that of Anwar al-Sadat ten years ago. He also used to deny it at first, but did not deny it later on, meaning holding talks with Israel, reconciliation with the U.S, kissing your enemy and setting confrontation aside, even denouncing battling [one's enemy]." (April 28th 1989)
Five years later, Yasser Arafat even laid down his arms; and in a move unexpected by the resistance axis and Palestinian fighters, traveled to the White House to hold talks with the Zionists! As Palestinians were stupefied by this move, he signed the "Oslo accords" with the Zionist regime's then Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin. According to this unilateral agreement, all of the efforts of the combatants and the blood of the martyrs of the Palestinian resistance were trampled over, and Yasser Arafat officially recognized the Zionist regime. In this meeting, he shook hands with Rabin in front of cameras, letting everyone know how far the number one man in the fight against Zionism strayed from his own goals.
The Results of the agreements
This peace agreement did not yield any positive results for the people of Palestine, as the results were severe restrictions in the people's movement on occupied lands, severe Zionist control over the natural and lively resources of the people of Palestine, and stopping the occupying regime's settlement construction. This means that the peace accords and agreements between him and Zionist officials not only failed to improve the situation of Palestinians, but also made the Zionists even more insistent on their claims.
Of course this wasn't the end of Arafat's compromises, because in the Oslo 2 talks which took place in September 1995, he completely turned his back on the PLO's primary goals and ideas. According to these accords, Arafat agreed that the independent government in the cities of Jenin, Toulkarm, Nablus, Qalqilya, Ramallah, and parts of al-Khalil, Arafat agreed to remove any mention of the destruction of Israel from the Palestinian national charter and the PLO's charter.
As Arafat's distance from the resistance axis increased, the Zionist regime's demands also increased, reaching their apex in the "Middle East Peace talks" in 2000, and came to pass in "Camp David 2". The parties who took part in the talks were Bill Clinton, the then President of the United States, Eihud Barak, the then Prime Minister of Israel, and Yasser Arafat, the then President of the Palestinian authority. During these talks, the Israelis entered the negotiations with a shameful demand, with their own red lines, which were met with opposition from the people of Palestine. Eihud Barak stated that the Zionist regime had 4 red lines: that Israel govern al-Quds; that there be no going back to the '67 borders; that the Palestinian authority not be allowed to have an army; and the preservation of Zionist cities on the border to the West in addition to those bordering the Gaza strip.
In reality, the more Arafat distanced himself from the path of resistance and fighting the Israelis, the more the Zionist regime was able to make advances. However, the people of Palestine grew angry at Arafat's strategic changes before their enemy, and again they preferred "the path of resistance" to that of agreements, thus beginning the second round of fighting against the Zionist regime, which came to be known as the "Aqsa Intifada"
On the other hand, the more the PLO went forward in its series of compromises, the Zionists gained more power and the blockade on Arafat grew tighter, so much so that the Israelis had the PLO leader's headquarters in Ramallah completely surrounded. The Zionist regime, being aware of Arafat's dwindling popularity among Palestinians, and in a humiliating move, had control over all his action. Arafat then spent two years without any connection to the outside world. It was in that time that he fell ill.
The Israelis, despite Arafat's full compliance with them, were vindictive, and according to Soha Arafat – Yasser Arafat's wife –, they poisoned him. Yasser Arafat passed away on November 11th 2004, meaning that the Zionists couldn't even tolerate someone such as him, someone who compromised and complied with them.
The leader of the revolution, in a meeting held some time ago with university student, said regarding Yasser Arafat's end: "the Zionists could not even tolerate someone such as Yasser Arafat, someone who complied with them as greatly as he did. They placed him under house arrest, humiliated him, poisoned him, and killed him. It's not as if the Zionists would show others mercy or take notice of anyone, or preserve someone's right if we decide not to make a show of strength before them; not at all. The only cure short of destroying this regime is that Palestinians be able deal with them with force; should they deal with them as such, then it is possible that their enemy – this same wolfish, violent regime – would withdraw." (July 23rd 2014)


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In this video I used Maybelline FitMe Foundation, which I received in a Voxbox from Influester. I was nervous at first about picking out the right shade but to my surprise I got it right.
Usually I use bareMinerals bareskin but this FitMe turned out to be a great drugstore alternative.
Here is a my simple make up look. #justqueening


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3D printing service
The Biomedical Library and Education Commons offer free 3D printing for all members of the Penn Community. 3D printing is available for both academic and non-academic projects.
The Fisher Fine Arts Library has two ARTEC 3D scanners available for use in the Materials Library.
Open source software for processing and editing of unstructured 3D triangular meshes. It also has an extremely fast slide function.


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Think of Astell & Kern and you probably think of portable music players. The company has made a habit of turning out Award-winning audio players, capitalising on the growing popularity of high-spec, hi-res machines.
But the company has also made occasional forays into other areas - a CD ripper, an all-in-one system and a desktop music player - and now a new desktop audio range is on the way. Astell & Kern ACRO is the name of the range, and the ACRO L1000 is the first product to be revealed.
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Acquiring a new contact and transforming him or her into a customer as quickly as possible is every marketer's dream. ADA streamlines the whole process by integrating and combining different types of digital content, all of it oriented towards conversion. Whatever your preferred tool for contacting your audience, ADA helps you gather user information easily and securely. The acquired data is automatically stored in dedicated groups and is immediately available for use in subsequent mobile marketing campaigns.
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