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Fitting the Pieces Together, the Christian Puzzle is Solved!
Christians do not believe in the God of the Bible, despite what they claim. Instead, they believe in the perfect being of St. Anselm in the eleventh century after centuries of theological gerrymandering. The Bible isn't consistent in describing its God, but one probable description is as follows: Rather than creating the universe ex nihilo, God fashioned the earth to rise out of the seas in divine conflict with the dragon sea god sometimes called Rahab (in Job 26:9-12). This God is merely the "god of the gods," who like the other gods had a body that needed to rest on the seventh day and was found walking in the "cool of the day" in the Garden of Eden. Yahweh, the god of Israel, probably emerged out of a polytheistic amalgamation of gods known in the ancient Near East in pre-biblical times. In the ancient Near East, all pantheons were organized as families, and Yahweh was simply one of the members of that family. Some biblical authors consider Yahweh, the god of Israel, as one of many gods fathered by Elyon whose wife was Asherah, to whom was given the people and land of Israel to rule over (Deut. 32:8). This God was responsible for doing both good and evil, sending evil spirits to do his will and commanding genocide. As time went on, Yahweh was believed to be the only God that existed. Still later, Satan was conceived as an evil rival in order to exonerate Yahweh from being the creator of evil. Still later, in the New Testament the God of the Bible was eventually stripped of physical characteristics and known as a "spiritual being" (although, in an era where gods could become men and where women were regarded as merely receptacles of the male seed, the virgin birth story is problematic in the New Testament, and hard to reconcile with a God who is considered a "spiritual being"). As theologians reflected on their God, they came to believe he created the universe ex nihilo. Anselm finally defined him as the "greatest conceivable being." But Anslem's God is at odds with what we find in most of the Bible.
The origin of the Christian cult started with an apocalyptic prophet who preached a doomsday message and gained a small following in Palestine. Jewish prophets like these were a dime a dozen and they had it easy given the harsh Roman rule.
After Jesus was crucified his followers had visionary dreamlike or ecstatic experiences which led them to believe Jesus was alive in a heavenly type existence. As time went on an empty tomb sequence was added to the story as well as other mythic elements, like a virgin birth a transfiguration, and so forth.
Their story was of a God who loved people so much that he sent his Son to atone for our sins in a culture where human, animal, and child sacrifice was acceptable to large segments of society. This story made sense and so evangelists and missionaries like Paul were able to reach the people of the whole Roman empire who themselves were superstitious to the core, since they believed in many gods and goddesses and had no evidence for them either. The best story had the best chance of success in those times.
Since warriors go to war in the name of a god, and since the Christian religion was growing in numbers, Constantine went to war in the name of the Christian cross and established a Christian empire. Upon becoming Emperor he called upon the church to settle their disputes which decided orthodox doctrines at that time. So Constantine's battle on the Milvian bridge decided which religion would dominate in western cultures from that time forward. We have inherited our religious beliefs because of this whole process. Had Constantine fought in the name of another god then history might have turned out differently.
Since that time Christianity has simply reinvented itself in every generation, much like a chameleon.
The only reason Christians refuse to acknowledge these things is because they simply are defending their culturally adopted beliefs. Many Christians refuse to even acknowledge that human beings don't reason logically about this at all! That's because, as Dr. David Eller argues, our culturally inherited beliefs are what we use to see with. These inherited beliefs are much like our very eyes themselves, so it's extremely difficult to examine that which we use to see with. We cannot easily pluck out our eyes to look at them since we use our eyes to see. But we must do this if we truly want to examine that which we were taught to believe.
And as far as where we got our morals from in our western cultures, the same things can be said. Our morals evolved.
There is no basis for believing. The only antidote to the brainwashing of our culture is to demand evidence!
The Christian puzzle has been solved for me. In this sense Christians are no different than roughly half of Icelanders who believe in the existence of elves.


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Keeping nitrogen fertilizer on farm fields, to support optimum crop growth, and out of streams and rivers is no simple formula. It's complex.
"Think 'writing a novel' versus 'writing a recipe,' " said Matthew Helmers, an associate professor of agricultural and biosystems engineering at Iowa State University, where he is working with teams of scientists who are field-testing promising strategies, using a systems approach.
Whether present naturally in the soil or added during chemical fertilizer application, nitrogen not taken up by crops can move with water flowing through soil during rains and snow melt, and into streams and rivers where excess nitrogen can cause adverse health and ecological effects.
To address the issue of nitrogen and other farm nutrients leaving farm fields, ISU scientists, including Helmers, worked with scientists from the USDA-ARS, USDA-NRCS, the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, and the Iowa Department of Natural Resources on the Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy Science Assessment, which was finalized in May.
The Science Assessment highlighted that the state's nonpoint source nitrate reduction goal of 41 percent becomes attainable only when the problem and the solutions are seen through a wide lens of interconnected ecological and social systems, which present a multitude of opportunities to minimize loss, said Helmers.
"When we look at in-field and edge of field opportunities, for example, we can start by doing the best job we can, putting the right amount of nitrogen on as close as possible to when the crop needs it," said Helmers.
Helmers leads ISU's Ag Water Management Research Group, which is a multi-tiered effort to study and analyze the impact of agricultural management practices on surface and subsurface drainage.
He also is a principal investigator on the field research team of the Climate and Corn-based Cropping Systems Coordinated Agricultural Project, also known as the Sustainable Corn Project. It's a 10-university research project in the Midwest, funded by the USDA and led by Iowa State.
Team members are gathering and analyzing field trial data from 35 field sites and thousands of farmers in eight Midwestern states in an effort to create a suite of practices that make corn-based cropping systems more resilient in response to climate change. The project includes field trials of practices, such as cover crops, which have the potential to reduce soil and nutrient losses under saturated soil conditions.
Some of his colleagues on the Sustainable Corn team are testing fertilizer application done with equipment that senses the nitrogen needs of each plant and adjusts the rate of application accordingly.
Applying nitrogen fertilizer in the "right amount and at the right time" is an essential step, but not enough, said Helmers, who sees opportunities for reduction "with every input and output of the cropping system." Results from field trials have made him a staunch supporter of cover crops, which can hold nitrogen in the soil.
"The Science Assessment showed that cover crops can reduce nitrate transport by approximately 31 percent. They are going to have to be a major player, if we want to reduce nutrient loading to water bodies downstream of row crops," said Helmers.
Other opportunities to reduce nitrate transport can be seen when studying what happens when water flows through and out of a cropping system.
"In some areas we may be able to manage or treat the outflow from the subsurface drained landscape with practices like drainage water management, subsurface drainage bioreactors, wetlands or the emerging practice of saturated buffers," said Helmers.
To be successful and reduce unintended consequences, Helmers says related social and economic systems also need to be included. The Sustainable Corn research teams include social scientists, rural economists, extension specialists, farmers and farm advisors in addition to crop, soil and climate scientists.
"We need to understand the agronomic side, the impacts of climate change, pests and pathogens and all of the economics of the practices we're testing," Helmers said.
"The cropping system has to be profitable and we have to help farmers understand how to manage it and work with them to implement and figure out what works on their farm. Only this broad systems approach is going to be effective in helping us solve our water quality problems."


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How do I create a tax exempt customer group in Prestashop 1.5
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We have a dealer network that needs to be tax exempt. How do I configure this to function for instate dealers
Okay, This unfortunately is NOT a straightforward process in Prestashop (apparently they don't like tax exemptions). There's ALSO an add-on, but it's not free, here's the link:
Manage Tax Exempt customers
The process I came up with depends on creating a new TAX based on a LOCATION. The nice thing about PrestaShop is that you can easily add new locations. And you can name them for that very purpose. Prestashop creates taxes per STATE and you can you also create a TAX RULE that will apply to a range of zip codes so that you can cover multiple locations. You would need to change the address of every member of your group to the new State that you created. Then if they were to checkout, the tax would be 0. Note that if this member were ever to LEAVE that group, you would need to change the address in order to make sure that the tax exemption was removed.
Here's a step summary:
1) Login to the Prestashop Administrator Dashboard
2) Create a New State and assign 0% tax. The name of the state you create should be something that reflects what you're trying to do so that you can find it and understand it without having to look through its settings. For example: TX-Groupname-TaxExempt.
3)Adjust the addresses for your Group users so that they have the same location state or country.
4) Save the change.
The users assigned to that state will now only have 0% tax when checking out. Note that his applies tax based on CUSTOMER location.
Of course this is a LOT easier if you decide to purchase the module, but as you can see, the module solution that Prestashop provides is not free.
If you have any further questions, please contact technical support or leave a comment at the bottom of the page.
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Daniel de León, a modern language instructor and educational technologist at Sandia Prep in Albuquerque, NM, is our Innovator of the month for January 2014. Here, he talks about how he uses social media to teach Spanish.
Making BYOD Part of the Plan
Being an independent school can be both a blessing and a curse when it comes to educational technology. We aren't tied to any requirements, but without such guidance it's easy to get lost. So our head of school recently commissioned the Technology Leadership Committee, which I chair, to draft the school's first technology strategic plan. We spent all last year doing that, and in the process we were able to assess our strengths and our immediate and longer-term needs. Out of that, we decided to formally implement a BYOD policy. This was a big step for us. A lot of teachers, including myself, have been allowing our students to bring their devices, but through this formal process we can look on a schoolwide basis at what our students have, what more we need to provide, and how the technology is being used in classrooms.
Why I'm a Believer
By making technology more available to all students, we are personalizing the instruction process, giving all learners the opportunity to go at their own pace. The stronger learners who might otherwise become bored can move ahead and explore something new, and those who need more time can search for information and resources that will bring them to a level of proficiency. As a teacher, I can facilitate that and see where students are getting stuck—which may not be the same at the same point for every student. The other important component is collaboration. For this generation, sharing information is very intuitive, and that's enabled by technology.
Opening New Avenues Through Social Media
Last year the curriculum in one of my Spanish courses involved using social media in the educational process. Everything students created had to be communicated through a social media platform of their choice. All of the classroom lessons were designed and recorded by the students with video and text presentations, they were put up on the social media, and the students had to include some type of interactive communication. This increased accessibility made it easier to get an understanding of the language. But beyond that, with social media you remove the walls of the classroom and invite others to participate. People from outside the class were responding to our posts, and they were asking good questions about what we were studying, as well as recommending other sites to reinforce what we were doing. Unlike using a static, finite textbook, [using] social media sparked interest in pursuing other avenues related to language.
How I Got Here
Before I became a teacher I was a business owner, and used technology quite a bit in running health clubs. When I started as a teacher here in 2000, it just made sense to use aspects of that corporate environment to be more productive. It was a perfect moment for me to be coming into education: Everyone was talking about building 21st century skills, which had a lot to do with instructional technology. Being in the language department, the first thing I wanted was a language lab: a computer center with software to play videos, record conversations among students, and have them listen to the dialogue. At the same time, we started seeing the emergence of mobile devices, and I realized that bringing these devices into the classroom would be much better. You no longer had to interrupt the flow of learning by taking the students to a new physical space to use technology. A few years ago, I piloted a program to bring in Netbooks, and showed the administration how having them in the classroom was a much better model. So today, with so many students having mobile devices and with all of the applications that they have, BYOD makes so much sense.
Where We Are Headed
I expect secondary education to follow the footsteps of post-secondary in moving toward blended learning and massive open online courses. At the initial stage, students who want to take courses that we don't offer could be allowed to take MOOCs. Ultimately we could offer them, as well as blended courses. Schools and districts are starting to see that the traditional form of delivering instruction isn't the only way, and that we have to listen to our clients — the students and families — about how they want to learn.
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The new Direct-Link feature provides a tighter and more efficient workflow between Premiere Pro and SpeedGrade.
Using Direct Link, you can send or open a Premiere Pro project directly in SpeedGrade, apply color grading, and send it back to Premiere Pro. The Direct-Link workflow eliminates the need to export and import projects, deal with interchange formats, or any kind of file conversions.
For more details, see Direct-Link workflow between Premiere Pro and SpeedGrade.
This feature was voted the Just Do It (JDI) feature at IBC 2013. See this video for more information about JDI features.
Premiere Pro now lets you render multiple sequences at once instead of doing it one at a time. In the Project panel, select the sequences that you want to render, and select Sequence > Render Effects In Work Area.
For more information about how to render a sequence, see Rendering and previewing sequences.
In earlier versions of Premiere Pro, sequence markers were fixed on your timeline. When you deleted a part of a clip and closed the gap using ripple-delete, or inserted a clip using insert-edit, your markers wouldn't move with the clip.
Premiere Pro now lets you use Ripple Sequence Markers to let your markers ripple upstream or downstream when cutting or trimming in your timeline. For example, after an insert-edit, any sequence markers after the insertion point ripple downstream. Similarly, after a ripple-delete, any sequence markers after the last deleted frame ripple upstream.
To turn on or off Ripple Sequence Markers, select Marker > Ripple Sequence Markers.
The following improvements have been made to sequence markers:
- In previous versions of Premiere Pro, when you clicked a marker, the playhead automatically jumped to a marker's location. Premiere Pro now lets you move the playhead to a different location on the Timeline, and then drag the marker to snap to it.
- While dragging a marker in the Timeline, you can watch a preview of the clip in the Program Monitor to show where you are dragging the marker to.
The Media Browser provides a Back button that lets you quickly go to the previous directory that you browsed through.
You can click the Back button several times to easily navigate through a complex directory structure.
Premiere Pro now displays sequences as thumbnails in the Icon view. Earlier, to view a sequence, you opened the sequence in the Timeline or in the Source Monitor.
Like for other media, the Hover Scrub feature is available even for sequences displayed in the Icon view. That is, when you place your cursor over a sequence icon, the clip plays backwards or forwards as you drag your mouse.
When the playhead goes past the last frame of media on the Timeline and there is no clip after that, a black frame appears along the right edge of the last frame of a clip or sequence.
The End Of Media Indicator is always turned on, and appears for media clips in the Program Monitor, Source Monitor, and the video area of the Project panel.
A. End of Media indicator
When you use the Add Edit command, the command overrides track targeting and applies the command to all selected clips under the playhead. With this enhancement, you don't have to target each track individually to get the desired result.
Premiere Pro now supports J, K, and L playback keyboard shortcuts in the Edit To Tape dialog.
Select File > Export > Tape (Serial Device) to open the Edit To Tape dialog. You can press the J, K, and L keys to control the playback. J rewinds the playback, L fast forwards it, and K pauses it. The speed of forward or reverse increases each time you press J or L.
J, K, L playback keyboard shortcuts now provide faster speeds of 1x, 2x, 4x, 8x, 16x, and up to 32x.
Playback performance may vary depending on hardware, video frame resolutions, and video codecs.
To play clips backward, you can now enter negative speed values in the Clip Speed/Duration dialog.
- In a Timeline panel or Project panel, select one or more clips.
- Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) the clip, and select Speed/Duration.
- In the Clip Speed/Duration dialog box, enter a negative speed value. For example "-50".
When you enter a negative speed value, the Reverse Speed checkbox gets selected automatically.
While exporting QuickTime movies with sound media, Premiere Pro lets you select 5.1 or 8 audio channel layouts contained in the QuickTime movies.
- In the Export Settings dialog, select the Audio tab.
- Under Channel Layout, the channel order metadata is displayed. You can select the channel layouts that you want to export.
To be able to select the channel layouts to export, ensure that you set Audio Codec to Uncompressed, and Audio Track Layout to 5.1 or 8 channels. Otherwise, the Channel Layout shows as "Unlabeled".
Premiere Pro now lets you display two new columns of metadata in the Project panel:
- Sound TimeCode
- Sound Roll
To display these columns, open the Metadata Display dialog by selecting Metadata Display from the Project panel menu. Select the check boxes next to Sound Roll and Sound TimeCode.
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The Clip Name effect now provides different options to label clips and display them on screen. You can display the sequence name, project name, or filename by selecting from these options:
- Sequence Item Name
- Project Item Name
- File Name
The Timecode effect automatically matches the Time Display parameter (or timebase) to the source clip.
You can add a transition quickly to several edit points within your sequence by copying and pasting the transition. This feature is helpful if you've changed a transition's default settings and want to use the modified transition again.
- With the transition selected in the Timeline, copy the transition by selecting Edit > Copy or the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+C (Win) or Cmd+C (Mac).
- Select multiple edit points in the sequence by dragging a marquee around the edit points, or by using the Shift key with any trim tool.
- Paste the transitions by selecting Edit > Paste, or by using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+V (Win) or Cmd+V (Mac).
Some important points:
- If you paste a transition without selecting edit points, the transitions are pasted to edit points at or near the playhead, without overriding track targeting.
- If a selected edit point already has a transition, and:
- if the pasted transition is different from the existing one, then the transition type changes but preserves the existing transition's duration and alignment. For example, pasting a Cross Dissolve transition over a Barn Door transition.
- if the pasted transition is the same as the existing transition, then the duration and alignment are changed. For example, both are Cross Dissolve transitions.
- A copied transition's alignment is preserved if it's set to one of the presets, but not if it has a custom setting.
You can now reset specific parameter values of an effect without resetting the other parameter values.
In the Effects panel, each parameter value has a Reset Parameter button that you can use to reset the parameter to the default value.
To reset all the parameter values in an Effect, click the Reset Effect button next to the effect name.
A. Reset Effect B. Reset Parameter
Premiere Pro lets you display metadata of your choice as overlays in the Program monitor and Source Monitor.
You can display the following metadata as overlays:
- Source clip timecode
- Edit point indicators
- Media Limit indicators
- Marker comments
- Other metadata, like clip name, multi-camera angle, and sequence timecode
You can turn overlays on or off by selecting Overlays from the pop-up menu in the Program Monitor or Source Monitor. The Overlay Settings dialog lets you specify the display of overlays, which you can customize and apply as overlay presets.
For more information on using overlays, see Monitor Overlays.
If your project contains files with embedded closed captions, Premiere Pro imports the closed caption data into the project. To detect and import embedded closed caption data in an embedded closed caption file, select the preference to import the closed caption data into your project. In the Preferences dialog, under Media, select the Include Captions On Import check box.
When working with closed captions, Premiere Pro optimizes performance by scanning the media file for closed caption data only for the first time you open that file. Premiere Pro does not rescan for closed caption data when you open that file later.
For QuickTime movie files (.MOV) with embedded closed captions, Premiere Pro rescans the file every time you open the file.
Premiere Pro supports reading and writing captions for MXF OP1a files. The captions are read from and written to the SMPTE 436M ancillary data track in the MXF OP1a file.
Premiere Pro supports importing and exporting CEA-708 captions. CEA-708 closed caption files can be exported as a Sidecar file with a .mcc or .xml filename format. Or you can embed the CEA-708 captions within the SMPTE 436M ancillary data track in MXF OP1a files.
Earlier, support for reading embedded captions in QuickTime movies was limited based on the video codec. For example, MPEG-2 and H.264 video codecs were not supported. Now, Premiere Pro reads captions in QuickTime movies regardless of the video codec used.
DFXP caption files are XML-based files. So besides viewing the captions in the Captions panel, they are also viewable from a text editor.
For more information on using Closed captions, see Closed Captioning workflow in Premiere Pro.
Multi-Camera improvements in Premiere Pro CC
Display camera angles as track names or clip names
When creating a multi-camera source sequence, you can display the camera names as clip names or track names. These options are available in addition to the default option of enumerated camera names like camera 1, camera 2, and so on.
The options are available in the Create Multi-Camera Source Sequence dialog box under Camera Names.
Depending on the Camera Names option that you select, the camera angles are displayed as track names, clip names, or camera numbers in the Source Monitor. To view the multi-camera sequence in the Source monitor, right-click the sequence and select Multi-camera.
Premiere Pro lets you organize and select the angles to view in the Source Monitor's multi-camera mode.
From the Source monitor's pop-up menu, select Edit Cameras.
In the Edit Cameras dialog box, all the clips are listed in the original order that they were arranged in the sequence tracks. You can drag-and-drop the clips to change the sequence order. You can also enable or disable the clips by selecting or deselecting them.
The Program monitor's Multi-Camera Viewing Mode now displays a fully composited output like the regular playback mode. The Multi-Camera mode can display any applied effects during playback.
Premiere Pro lets you perform quick multi-camera edits based on sync timecode.
Press the modifier key Ctrl (Win) or Cmd (Mac) while switching source clips to match frame to the timecode at the current playhead position.
You can export a Multiclip project from Final Cut Pro, and import the Final Cut Pro project XML files into Premiere Pro. In Premiere Pro, the Multiclips sequences appear as multi-camera sequences with all the Final Cut Pro project settings intact.
For more information on the mult-camera workflow, see Multi-Camera editing workflow.
Premiere Pro supports importing the following new camera formats:
- Apple ProRes 64-bit
- Blackmagic Cinema DNG
- Native MJPEGs (1DC)
- RED DRAGON with ROCKET-X
- Panasonic AVC Ultra Long GOP (Group of Pictures)
- Phantom Cine
- Sony RAW (F65, F55, F5, FS700)
- Sony XAVC Long GOP
Some important points:
- You can import uncompressed Cinema DNG files from Blackmagic Cinema Cameras directly into Premiere Pro. You can select multiple Cinema DNG files as one clip and import them as unified A/V clips.
- Once you import the Cinema DNG files into Premiere Pro, you can use the Media browser to view thumbnails, scrub, or hover-scrub the files.
- You can also open the DNG files in the Source monitor. Or browse through the DNG files in Windows Explorer (Windows) or Finder (Mac OS).
Premiere Pro supports exporting the following new camera formats:
- Panasonic AVCI-100 50p, 60p
- Panasonic AVCI-200
- Sony XAVC Intra
Premiere Pro supports the following new video and audio codecs that let you export QuickTime movies in a 64-bit process.
Video codecs
Apple ProRes codecs (Mac OS 10.8 and later only)
- Apple ProRes 422, 422 (HQ), 422 (LT), 422 (Proxy), 4444
DV codecs
- DV/NTSC 24p
- DVCPRO HD 1080i50, 1080i60, 1080p25, 1080p30, 720p50, 720p60
YUV codecs
- Uncompressed YUV 10 bit 4:2:2, 8 bit 4:2:2
Apple None codecs
- Uncompressed RGB 8 bit, 24 bit, 32 bit
Audio codecs
Important notes:
- If a movie uses an unsupported combination of audio and video codecs, the QuickTime 64-bit export reverts to a QuickTime 32-bit export. Examples of unsupported combinations could be a supported video codec and an unsupported audio codec, or a supported audio codec and an unsupported video codec.
- On Windows, even if QuickTime for Windows is not installed, you can export QuickTime movies in a 64-bit process for the supported codecs.
Premiere Pro provides you with an option to change the trim type of a previously selected edit point.
In the Preferences dialog box, under Trim, select Allow Current Tool To Change Trim Type Of Previously Selected Edit Point.
When you select this preference, clicking an edit point that's already selected changes the trim type to that of the current tool. You can also change the trim type at any edit point irrespective of whether the cursor is positioned over the edit point or not. This preference is selected by default.
If you deselect the preference, you cannot change the trim type of an edit point that's already selected unless you press the Alt/Opt (Mac) or Shift (Win) modifier keys.
(Mac only) The keyboard shortcut "Cmd + ," can now open the Preferences dialog, focusing on the General preference category.
You can import CinemaDNG footage from BlackMagic Cinema Cameras directly into Premiere Pro. Based on the footage metadata, Premiere Pro applies a neutral color tone curve to the imported CinemaDNG footage by default. You can then apply a range of adjustments within Premiere Pro to modify the color appearance.
Adobe After Effects and Adobe SpeedGrade import footage from BlackMagic Cinema Cameras differently than Premiere Pro. For example, when you import CinemaDNG footage directly into SpeedGrade, no tone curve is applied. SpeedGrade preserves the unmodified raw pixel values of the footage, letting you modify the exposure and apply color balance as required. When you import CinemaDNG footage directly into After Effects, a default color tone curve is applied to optimize the raw color appearance of the CinemaDNG footage.
When you use the CinemaDNG footage in a cross-product workflow, the footage is handled identically to Premiere Pro. For example, when you use the Direct Link between Premiere Pro and SpeedGrade, or open a Premiere Pro project in SpeedGrade, the neutral color tone that Premiere Pro applies is preserved in SpeedGrade. Similarly, when you use the Dynamic Link between Premiere Pro and After Effects, Premiere Pro's neutral color tone is preserved in After Effects.
From either After Effects or Premiere Pro, when you copy and paste CinemaDNG footage to the other's Project panel, the footage may appear different in each application.
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It has been one of those weekends in which nothing seems to get done. I ran errands yesterday, payed some bills and did my dishes, but I don't feel as though I've accomplished anything. And I didn't get as many dishes done as I should have.
This is the last of the "Cybergirl" series which has taken me a while to get through. Probably cause I flaked off for a while there… Never the less, it's done and next Saturday there will be a new Shortrun paper doll. I need to dig through my sketchbooks and see what I have done or at least close to done to scan in.
As long as you're here and reading this post, consider voting in my poll about what I should do for my new Fashion Doll Friday series. More information can be found on the last Florence post I did. The poll will be open until November 1st. I'll have it on the posts for the rest of the week and then it'll live in the sidebar.


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For Billy
Hey loves. Look! This is what a survivor looks like.
It's World Suicide Prevention Week. My incredible friend Jamie at To Write Love on Her Arms is leading a brutiful movement to rain down hope on hurting people today. He wants us to take a moment to say to the world's canaries: IT'S OKAY TO FEEL TOO MUCH. Stay with us. We need you. It might not get easier- but YOU WILL GET STRONGER.
And so those of us who have been there- we're pointing to that moment in our life when we considered the exit door and we are saying: I WAS CLOSE, TOO. BUT I HELD ONTO HOPE. AND SO I KEPT LIVING.
And we need you to keep living too.
So, there was this one night in college when things were really bad. I was so sick and couldn't really function and I felt so lost and broken. I was failing out of school and I'd just hurt so many people, so many times. And there is this thing that addicts think at times like these and it goes like this: This is IT. I've run out of tries. I can't ask for forgiveness again. I'm out of forgiveness. I've used up so much more than my fair share. I should do everyone I love a favor and just disappear.
So that's what I was thinking, there on the couch in that dirty basement alone. And that's when I thought of suicide. That's when I decided that suicide would keep me from having to face my people and my pain and shame yet again. And so I imagined suicide and it felt like scary, sweet relief and the imagining lingered much too long to be safe. It registered with me, kind of like how you find the exit doors in a movie theater before the show starts. Just in case. There they are. Kay. I know how to get out if I need to. Once the exit door registers for you- it never fully unregisters. You always remember where the doors are. Just in case the shame gets too heavy.
Effing shame. It's never the pain that takes us out of the game, loves, it's the SHAME about the pain.
But the thing is: That night in that basement, I imagined it–but I didn't do it.
Apparently the way you avoid suicide is not to become a different person (!) or fix yourself (!) or HEAL (?) or become amazing (!!!) yadda yadda. Survival is actually not that complicated or shiny or exciting. The way you avoid suicide is you don't attempt suicide. You just don't follow Despair's directions. You wait the despair monster out. You let it yammer away and try to scare the shit out of you and then you remember that despair is loud, but it's a LIAR.
Here is the truth: THERE IS NO RUNNING OUT OF TRIES. LIFE IS FOREVER TRIES. Every heartbeat is proof that you've got another try. Listen to me: If your people are tired of you, find some new people. Find a meeting. Those are some good people who know better than anybody that Life is Forever Tries.
This I demand of you: No matter how much you have screwed up, YOU MUST BE FIERCELY ON YOUR OWN SIDE. If you are not, no one else will ever, ever be. You must hold your jacked-up, medicated head high. You must remember that even if it hasn't been pretty, YOU'VE MADE IT THIS FAR. You must tell those shame and fear voices to BACK THE HELL OFF. Life is hard. You are being as brave and as good as you can. Pat your head for me right this very minute and then get yourself a cookie or four. Watch some television. Put on some warm socks. There you go- sweet, strong girl. We can do hard things. Like survive.
And then listen to me. One day, if you let the despair monster come and go and come and go and you refuse to follow his insane directions, you will learn this: Those with the capacity to feel great pain are also those with the capacity to feel deep joy. Those who fall hard, RISE gloriously. Those who are deeply wounded become the greatest healers. Those who come close to death often become those who are MOST ALIVE. You might be one of the extra bad ones — but that means you are also one of the extra good ones.
See that picture above? Taken a few months ago right before I walked on stage to make a thousand women laugh and cry and Remember Hope. Am I able to do this because I beat the monster? Because it leaves me alone now? NO! Still speaks to me. It's just not the BOSS of me. I just say: Oh, shut up. You lie. Pain comes and goes like clouds. LOVE IS THE SUN.
If you're struggling right now, tell the monster to shut the hell up and listen to me for a minute: You are loved. No matter who you've hurt, you deserve forgiveness and you belong to us. There is a place for you here that was created for you before the world began that no one else on Earth can fill. You are a child of God and everything you have ever been or are or will become has already been approved. Please, please stay. Stay. First the pain, then the rising. You must stay for the rising.
I sent this picture to my friend right before I went out on stage. There I am. Waiting. Listening to the crowd. Sweating. Feeling unworthy, uneverything. So this is what the voice says to me at times like this: "Are you kidding me? You're gonna go out there? In front of all those people? And pretend you have something to say? Who do you think you are?" And for a second I panic.
But then I REMEMBER. And I say: "Me? Who am I ? I am a child of God. Worthy of the space I take up on this Earth. And I have some things to say. So Here I go."
YOU ARE A CHILD OF GOD AND YOU ARE HERE BECAUSE YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY THAT NO ONE ON EARTH CAN SAY FOR YOU. Tell despair to eff off. Don't leave us before we get to hear it.
I love you.
Canary On, Love Warriors.
#IKeptLiving @TWLOHA
P.S. Please check out Jamie Tworkowski's To Write Love on Her Arms Project — a non-profit organization to help people struggling with addiction, self-injury, depression, and thoughts of suicide.
If you need to talk to someone right now, please call the Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255.
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Niger, officially the Republic of Niger, is a landlocked country in Western Africa, named after the Niger River. It borders Nigeria and Benin to the south, Burkina Faso and Mali to the west, Algeria and Libya to the north and Chad to the east. Niger covers a land area of almost 1,270,000 km2, making it the largest nation in West Africa, with over 80 percent of its land area covered by the Sahara desert. The country's predominantly Islamic population of 17,129,076 is mostly clustered in the far south and west of the nation. The capital city is Niamey, located in the far-southwest corner of Niger.
General information
Representation of (tentative) African heritage sites on the World Heritage List which is maintained by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).UNESCO World Heritage List
UNESCO lists oral traditions, performing arts, social practices, rituals, festive events, knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe, or the knowledge and skills to produce traditional crafts, as intangable cultural heritage.UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage
The African Union (AU) was founded in 1999 with the goal of accelerating the process of integration in the continent, to enable it play its rightful role in the global economy while addressing multifaceted social, economic and political problems compounded as they are by certain negative aspects of globalisation. African Union member
This UCLA website has information on the Hausa language and culture and provides links to other sites with similar information.Hausa
Provides information about Prof. Abdoulaye's research (including the full text of his articles and presentations, his educational material and lists of theses) at the African Studies Institute in Leipzig, Germany, where he taught Hausa from 1995-2000.Homepage of prof. Mahamane Laoualy Abdoulaye, Department of Linguistics, Abdou Moumouni University, Niamey, Niger
Gives information about theGerman explorer Barth and his journey through West Africa (Niger) with films, videos and pictures about places he visited, Compiled by Julia Winckler from the Heinrich-Barth-Society and the University in Brighton. Retracing Heinrich Barth in Niger
The LASDEL (Laboratoire d'Etudes et de Recherche sur les Dynamiques Sociales et le Développement Local) website focuses on the social sciences in Niger and Benin (in French). LASDEL
This official government website provides links to Niger's ministries (in French). Portail Officiel du Gouvernement du Niger
Government, law, politics and elections
Provides access to African constitutions and laws and treaties on intellectual property (IP). WIPO Lex law database
Business law and information on taxation in francophone Africa including texts of laws. Kept up to date and selected by specialist lawyers. (In French.) Droit-Afrique.com
ECOLEX is an information service on environmental law, operated jointly by FAO, IUCN and UNEP. Its purpose is to build capacity worldwide by providing the most comprehensive possible global source of information on environmental law. The ECOLEX database includes information on treaties, international soft-law and other non-binding policy and technical guidance documents, national legislation, judicial decisions, and law and policy literature. Users have direct access to the abstracts and indexing information about each document, as well as to the full text of most of the information provided. ECOLEX environmental law
Congress established its Law Library in 1832, recognizing its need for ready access to reliable legal materials. The Law Library has grown over the years to become the world's largest law library, with a collection of over 2.65 million volumes spanning the ages and covering virtually every jurisdiction in the world.Library of Congress Guide to Law Online
The African Law Library powered by the African Innovaiton Foundation (AIF), aims to enhance the legal environment of business in Africa by bringing legal information into one publicly available repository.African Law Library
A directory of embassies worldwide.Embassy Worldwide
UN ILO Database of national labour, social security and related human rights legislation.Intl. Labour Organization NATLEX database
The African Legal Information Institute (AfricanLII) is a project of the Democratic Governance and Rights Unit (DGRU) at the Department of Public Law, Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town. It was incubated at the Southern Africa Litigation Center (SALC). AfricanLII's main goal is to promote Free Access to Law and Open Justice in Africa. AfricanLii access to law
The World Legal Information Institute (WorldLII) is a free, independent and non-profit global legal research facility. WorldLII provides a single search facility for databases; the WorldLII Catalog provides links to over 15,000 law-related web sites in every country in the world. WorldLii legal information
Crisis, conflict, peacebuilding and security
IDMC is the leading source of information and analysis on internal displacement.Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
Maps and ground breaking peace research from the Institute for Economics and Peace. Global Peace Index
This site has information provided by the Uppsala Conflict Data Program at Uppsala University on armed conflicts around the world.Uppsala conflict database
Established in Washington, D.C., over 50 years ago, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is a bipartisan, nonprofit policy research organization dedicated to providing strategic insights and policy solutions to help decisionmakers chart a course toward a better world.Center for Strategic and International Studies
The UN peace agreements database is the online mediation support tool developed by the UN Department of Political Affairs. Intended for peacemaking professionals, it includes an extensive database of peace agreements, guidance material and information on the UN's mediation support services.UN Peace agreements database
The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) is an independent international institute dedicated to research into conflict, armaments, arms control and disarmament. Established in 1966, SIPRI provides data, analysis and recommendations, based on open sources, to policymakers, researchers, media and the interested public.SIPRI databases
The UN Register of Conventional Arms (UNROCA) offers data about arms trade as reported by 170 countries. UN Register of Conventional Arms data
The Mapping Arms Data (MAD) 1992-2014 visualization project is produced by PRIO and the Igarapé Institute. It represents an upgrade of the original global small arms, light weapons and ammunition visualization produced by Google as part of the Google Ideas INFO (Illicit Networks Forces in Opposition) Summit with support from the Igarapé Institute.Arms Data Mapping
Minorities at Risk (MAR) tracks 284 politically-active ethnic groups throughout the world from 1945 to the present -- identifying where they are, what they do, and what happens to them. The minority group assessments consist of two parts: a risk assessment and an analytic summary. The risk assessment summarizes whether the group is at risk of rebellion, protest, or repression, based on levels of a number of other variables. The analytic summary gives a brief history of the group and its relations with the state.Minorities at Risk
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and students, civic and religious leaders, and other interested citizens in order to help them better understand the world and the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other countries. Council on Foreign Relations
Human rights
Freedom House is an independent watchdog organization dedicated to the expansion of freedom and democracy around the world.Freedom House 2018 report
European Union trade partnerships with African countries and regions.EU Trade partnerships
The only tripartite U.N. agency, since 1919 the International Labour Organization (ILO) brings together governments, employers and workers representatives of 187 member States , to set labour standards, develop policies and devise programmes promoting decent work for all women and men.UN International Labour Organization
Statistics on labour and employment by the UN International Labour Organization.UN ILO labour and employment statistics
Established by the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations (UN) in 1958 as one of the UN's five regional commissions, ECA's mandate is to promote the economic and social development of its member States, foster intra-regional integration, and promote international cooperation for Africa's development.UN Economic Commission for Africa
The International Trade Centre (ITC) provides data in the form of tables, graphs and maps, working with indicators on export performance, international demand, alternative markets and competitive markets, as well as a directory of importing and exporting companies. International Trade Centre
Country information by the research and analysis division of The Economist Group, the sister company to The Economist newspaper. Economist Intelligence Unit
The UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) Competitive Industrial Performance Index (CIP) country profiles (PDF). Website: http://stat.unido.org/cip/Competitive Industrial Performance Index
The Collaborative Africa Budget Reform Initiative (CABRI) is an intergovernmental organisation that provides a platform for peer learning and exchange for African ministries of finance, budget and planning. The Budgets in Africa section provides up-to-date and regular information on African national budgets. Here you will be able to access publicly available budget documentation for African countries, since 2010.Collaborative Africa Budget Reform Initiative
The legal currency used in this country (Wikipedia).National currency (Wiki)
The Central Bank of this country.National Central Bank
The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) is an independent think tank championing sustainable solutions to 21st century problems. Our mission is to promote human development and environmental sustainability.Intl. Institute for Sustainable Development
The mission of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is to promote policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world. The OECD provides a forum in which governments can work together to share experiences and seek solutions to common problems; works with governments to understand what drives economic, social and environmental change; measures productivity and global flows of trade and investment; and analyses and compares data to predict future trends. OECD Economic Cooperation and Development
Eldis supports free and open access to useful and relevant research on global development challenges.Eldis country profiles
Various data, economic analysis and data tools, provided by USAID IDEA.USAID Intl. Data & Economic Analysis
UNICEF works in 190 countries and territories to save children's lives, to defend their rights, and to help them fulfil their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.UNICEF data
A specialized organization with the mandate to support educational policy, planning and management, UNESCO International Institute of Education Planning (IIEP) develops the capacities of education actors to plan and manage their systems through its programmes of training, technical assistance, policy research and knowledge sharing.International Institute of Education Planning
This website provides online access to different sets of data compiled by UNIDO statistics. While some data is available for the public, access to all datasets and variables as well as some functionality like data and application download is limited to registered users. Data can be tabulated using different dimensions (e.g. years, countries) and filtered (e.g. Output of Austria). It is possible to view or download that data. There is also a graphical representation of the selected data. UNIDO Statistics also maintains data for six indicators related to the 9th Sustainable Development Goal "Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure". UN Industrial Development Organization
The Overseas Development Institute (ODI) is a leading independent think tank on international development and humanitarian issues. ODI works with partners in the public and private sectors, in both developing and developed countries. You may also want to use the website search function, or see: https://www.odi.org/our-work/sub-saharan-africa.Overseas Development Institute
Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, is an independent policy institute based in London. Chatham House
The Indices of Social Development (ISD) hosted by ISS brings together 200 indicators, synthesising them into a usable set of measures to track how different societies perform along six dimensions of social development (data available for download as .slx, .csv, or .odf)ISS Indices of Social Development
Food, water, land and health
The FAO Fishery and Aquaculture Country Profiles provide a comprehensive overview of the fisheries and aquaculture sector for each country (or areas/territories recognized by the Organization and with important fishery sector).FAO Statistics Fishery and Aquaculture
FAO Global Info and Early Warning System Country Briefs provide up to date information on the food security situation of monitored countries. The Country Briefs include information on the current agricultural season and the harvest prospects for the main staple food crops and livestock situation. In addition, the Briefs provide estimates and forecasts of cereal production and imports together with food price and policy developments.FAO Global Info and Early Warning System
The Gender and Land Rights Database (GLRD) was launched by FAO in 2010 to highlight the major political, legal and cultural factors that influence the realisation of women's land rights throughout the world. It also serves as a platform to address, discuss and provide information about gender and land issues with the support of 84 Country Profiles, Land Tenure Statistics disaggregated by gender, and a Legal Assessment Tool for gender-equitable land tenure (LAT).FAO Gender and Land Rights Database
The Land Book presents comprehensive country and thematic pages with linked open data on land governance from diverse sources around the world.Landportal landbook
Focus on Land in Africa (FOLA) is an educational resource for development practitioners and policy makers that explores how land and natural resource rights affect, and are effected by, development in Africa. Focus on Land in Africa
Part of the World Health Organization's website, with statistical information, health profiles, WHO collaboration, mortality and burden of disease, nutrition and risk factors. UN World Health Organization
The Global Health Observatory theme pages provide data and analyses on global health priorities. Each theme page provides information on global situation and trends highlights, using core indicators, database views, major publications and links to relevant web pages on the theme.WHO Global Health Observatory
UNFPA works in more than 150 countries and territories that are home to the vast majority of the world's people. Its mission: to ensure that every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled. This website provides data on population, pregnancy, birth, health and more.UN Population Fund
African Health Stats is an innovative data site that allows you to chart, map and compare key health indicators across all 55 African Union member states. All data is taken from officially-recognised international sources.African Health Stats
The DHS Program provides decision makers and program managers with the information necessary to plan, monitor and evaluate population, health, and nutrition programs.USAID Democratic and Health Surveys
Climate, environment, energy and resources
The World Nuclear Association's mission is to promote a wider understanding of nuclear energy among key international influencers by producing authoritative information, developing common industry positions, and contributing to the energy debate. World Nuclear Association
Publications, blogs, data visualizations, graphs and maps by the World Resources Institute.World Resources Institute
The USGS annual reviews from the 'Minerals Yearbook Volume III: Area Reports-International-Africa and the Middle East' are designed to provide timely statistical data on mineral commodities in various countries. Each report includes sections on government policies and programs, environmental issues, trade and production data, industry structure and ownership, commodity sector developments, infrastructure, and a summary outlook.US Geological Survey Minerals Information
Resource Watch features hundreds of data sets all in one place on the state of the planet's resources and citizens. Users can visualize challenges facing people and the planet, from climate change to poverty, water risk to state instability, air pollution to human migration, and more.Resource Watch
This website, based on the Chatham House Resources Futures reports, features an interactive digital tool that shows the emerging economies that have become major centres of resource consumption, joining existing economic powers. The tool also graphically illustrates global interdependencies; the concentration of production in a handful of countries; new producers set to join the scene; and the new wave of consumers. In addition, there are examples of likely political, economic and environmental disruptions.Resources Futures
The Convention on Biological Diversity was inspired by the world community's growing commitment to sustainable development. It represents a dramatic step forward in the conservation of biological diversity, the sustainable use of its components, and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the use of genetic resources.Convention on Biological Diversity
The Joint Oil Data Exercise (JODI) oil and gas databases provide transparancy in oil and gas market data.JODI Oil and Gas database
Other data and statistics
Migration.iom.int is an IOM online platform designed to enhance access to Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) migration flow information products, including a visualization of population flows. Click All Reports for reports by region and country.Migration Flow monitoring
Displacement.iom.int is an IOM online platform designed to enhance access to Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) information products on internal displacement, including a visualization of the scale of displacement monitored by IOM. Click All Reports for reports by region and country.Displacement Tracking Matrix
The UN Evidence and Data for Gender Equality (EDGE) project is a joint initiative of the United Nations Statistics Division and UN Women that seeks to improve the integration of gender issues into the regular production of official statistics for better, evidence-based policies. Select a country to see statistics for a minimum set of gender indicators.UN EDGE Gender Statistics
The United Nations Statistics Division collects, compiles and disseminates official demographic and social statistics on a wide range of topics. Data have been collected since 1948 through a set of questionnaires dispatched annually to over 230 national statistical offices and have been published in the Demographic Yearbook collection. The Demographic Yearbook disseminates statistics on population size and composition, births, deaths, marriage and divorce, as well as respective rates, on an annual basis. The Demographic Yearbook census datasets cover a wide range of additional topics including economic activity, educational attainment, household characteristics, housing characteristics, ethnicity, language, foreign-born and foreign population.UN Population Censuses' Datasets
DataReportal is designed to help people and organisations all over the world to find the data, insights, and trends they need to make more informed decisions. Datareportal Global Digital Insights
Socio-economic statistics from Niger (French language website).Institut National de la Statistique (INS), Niger
The Centre for Humanitarian Data is focused on increasing the use and impact of data in the humanitarian sector. It is managed by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). The Centre's services are available to humanitarian partners and OCHA staff in the field and at Headquarters free of charge. The website offers data visualizations, impact stories, slideshows and more.Centre for Humanitarian Data
WFP is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide, delivering food assistance in emergencies and working with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience. Each year, WFP assists some 80 million people in around 75 countries.WFP Global Food Prices
The database currently contains data about UNHCR's populations of concern from the year 1951 up to 2017 and you can use it to investigate different aspects of these populations: their general composition by location of residence or origin, their status (refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced persons, etc.), their evolution over time, and so on.UNHCR Population Statistics
UNCTADSTAT country profiles are selections of key economic statistics by country. They include a wide range of internationally comparable indicators allowing users to compare statistics across countries. The maritime profiles provide a basic snapshot of a country's situation regarding maritime transport and international trade, facilitating convenient cross-country comparisons.UNCTAD statistics maritime profiles
Directory of Open Access Journals - DOAJOpens external covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. The link provided here gives results restricted to Social Sciences.Directory of Open Access Journals
NARCIS is the main national portal in the Netherlands for those looking for information about researchers and their work. NARCIS provides access to scientific information, including (open access) publications from the repositories of all the Dutch universities, KNAW, NWO and a number of research institutes, datasets from some data archives as well as descriptions of research projects, researchers and research institutes.NARCIS Academic Information System
African Journals Online (AJOL) is a collection of over 380 peer-reviewed, African-published scholarly journals. AJOL provides access to citations, and where available to abstracts and/or full-text. The link provided here is a Google site search. You may also browse the journals by category or country, or browse only Open Access titles.African Journals Online
IDEAS is the largest bibliographic database dedicated to Economics and available freely on the Internet. Based on RePEc, it indexes over 2,600,000 items of research, including over 2,400,000 that can be downloaded in full text.IDEAS Economics database
BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic web resources. BASE provides more than 140 million documents from more than 6,000 sources. You can access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents for free (Open Access). BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library. The links in this portal for each country are queries for open access documents.Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
The FAO Corporate Document RepositoryOpens external houses FAO documents and publications, as well as selected non-FAO publications, in electronic format. It includes publications dealing with food, food security, agriculture, aquaculture, forestry, and rural development. Please add search terms yourself (for example country name).FAO Documents
OECD iLibrary is the online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) featuring its books, papers and statistics and is the gateway to OECD's analysis and data. It replaced SourceOECD in July 2010. OECD iLibrary also contains content published by the International Energy Agency (IEA), the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), the OECD Development Centre, PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment), and the International Transport Forum (ITF). OECD iLibrary
DART-Europe is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses. DART-Europe is endorsed by LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche), and it is the European Working Group of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD).DART-Europe E-theses Portal
The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa ASKIA (Access to Scientific Knowledge In Africa) database provides access to many (scientific) publications. You can search for a country name, and limit the results to the availability of full-text.UNECA Access to Scientific Knowledge in Africa
The Dag Hammarskjöld Library provides research and information to support the work of United Nations Member States. As an integral part of the UN Organization, the Library also aids in the dissemination of UN information to a wider public audience through online services, and a global depository library network.UN Dag Hammerskjöld Library
Movies and images
The African Ceremonies Collection is a comprehensive selection of images covering more than 30 years of fieldwork carried out by U.S.-born Carol Beckwith and Australian Angela Fisher, two photographers who have dedicated their lives to recording traditional cultures throughout Africa. Their work has taken them to some of the most remote corners of the continent where they won the trust and support of people, thus gaining them access to sacred ceremonies and traditions little known to the outside world.African Ceremonies Collection
Photo galleries with a focus on West Africa. An African Online Digital Library (AODL) collection (Michigan State University (MSU)).West Africa galleries
The African Media Program (AMP) offers an online, comprehensive database of films, videos, and other audio-visual materials concerning Africa as well as education services about African media. The AMP is a project from Michigan State University's (MSU) African Studies Center, a Title VI National Resource Center in African Languages and Area Studies.The African Media Program
Africa in the Photobook is a website initiated in 2015 by photographer and (photo)historian Ben Krewinkel. The website is about the changing visual representation of Africa as expressed through the medium of the photobook. By showcasing book spreads the books become partly accessible to a wider public and function as a platform for students, collectors and experts to talk about the content of the books. Africa in the Photobook
The cultural goods depicted in the PDF documents are inventoried objects within the collections of recognised institutions. They serve to illustrate the categories of cultural goods most vulnerable to illicit traffic. Cultural Goods Red Lists


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Most sexually active teenagers don't use condoms regularly, a behavior that puts them at risk of sexually transmitted diseases, according to a report in Thursday's USA Today.
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Over half, or 53 percent, of teen boys, say they don't always use a condom. Among girls, about two-thirds say a condom isn't always used.
The study focuses only on sexually active teens, identified as teens who have had sex in the past three months.
The teens and contraception report is expected to be released on Monday by Child Trends, a non-profit research center in Washington, D.C., the newspaper reported. The study analyzed government data on unmarried teens ages 15 through 19, collected in 2002 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
According to the CDC, one in four sexually active teens contracts a STD each year.
The condom use research comes on top of a recent study that found teenage girls often feel pressured into having sex because they are afraid their boyfriend would get angry.
The study, conducted by Indiana University Medical Center in Indianapolis and published in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, found that 41 percent of girls between the ages of 14 and 17 who were seen at urban health clinics said they'd had unwanted sex at some point.
Because girls who reported unwanted sex also reported less condom use, they were at higher risk of sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy, the study suggested.
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Maintenance-free spherical plain bearings
Steel/PTFE sintered bronze and steel/ PTFE fabric sliding contact surface combinations
During operation, PTFE is transferred from the dry sliding contact surface of the outer ring to the hard chromium plated steel surface of the inner ring. Any external lubricant on the sliding contact surfaces would disturb this self-lubrication and shorten bearing service life.
As a result, these bearings must not be lubricated and do not have any relubrication facility.
Steel/PTFE FRP sliding contact surface combination
Bearings with this sliding contact surface combination are also self-lubricating and can be operated grease-free.
However, initial lubrication followed by occasional relubrication of steel/PTFE FRP bearings can extend the service life of the bearing by a factor of two or more. The inner rings of radial bearings or shaft washers of angular contact and thrust bearings are coated with a lithium base grease before leaving the factory.
If operating conditions are such that protection against corrosion and enhanced sealing are required, the free space surrounding the bearing (fig. 1) can be filled with the same grease that was used to lubricate the bearing. The appropriate time to replenish or renew the grease in the bearing arrangement is determined by the operating conditions and the ageing of the grease.
Rust inhibiting, water-repellent lithium base greases with a consistency of 2 on the NGLI scale should be used. SKF recommends SKF LGEP 2 grease (table 1). Greases containing molybdenum disulphide or other solid lubricants should never be used.
Depending on their design, SKF spherical plain bearings are either completely or partially coated with an oily preservative or filled with grease. Avoid skin contact as these substances may cause skin irritation or an allergic reaction.


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IoT - Security
With the rise in connected devices, security is a hot topic. IoT based solutions need built-in security that can cover every aspect of the design. Key considerations are:
- At the Edge: tamper-proof endpoints; encrypted communications; and secure gateway management.
- The Platform: secure cloud foundations; authentication and authorization for data and event management functions; data encryption for when in transport and at rest; device and gateway attestation; and secure APIs and brokerage.
- Analytics and Applications: leverage the inherent platform security features, for the developed applications and for the protection of insights created from the analytic algorithms.
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Category : Project Management.
Topic : Project management schools in atlanta ga.
Author : Jeren Guerra.
Published : Sat, Nov 02nd 2019 12:05 PM.
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This is the very beginning of the project where you begin to brainstorm about what you think will need to happen in order for the project to come together. For example, using our wedding planning theme, we know that there are several things that need to occur in order to make this wedding come together seamlessly, so you begin listing them.


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The Pentagon confirmed Thursday two Iranian fighter jets fired upon, but did not hit, an unarmed U.S. drone flying Nov. 1 in international airspace over the Persian Gulf.
Pentagon spokesman George Little said the U.S. Air Force Predator was performing "routine surveillance" about 16 miles off the Iranian coast when two Iranian SU-25 jets intercepted it and opened fire. He said it was the first time Iranians had fired on an unmanned U.S. aircraft over the Gulf.
U.S. officials contacted the Iranians and informed them the U.S. would continue to conduct such surveillance flights in international airspace. The Predator was located east of Kuwait and west of Iran.
According to the Pentagon's account, the Predator was on a routine surveillance mission at about 4:50 a.m. EST over the Gulf on Nov. 1 and was operating at a distance of about 16 miles off the Iranian coastline when two of Iran's aging, Soviet- made Sukhoi Su-25 Frogfoot attack planes approached.
At least one of the single-seat Sukhois fired "multiple rounds" at the Predator from its wing-mounted, twin-barrel 30-mm mini-gun, but missed its target. The slow-moving Predator moved further off the coastline but the Sukhois pursued and one of them fired and missed again, Pentagon officials said.
CNN first reported the engagement quoting two intelligence sources who said the Predator's onboard cameras recorded the Su-25 Frogfoots approaching the Predator and then firing upon it with the jet's onboard guns.
Little disclosed the incident Thursday during a press conference. The Obama administration chose not to make the attack public five days before the election. Little said the sources who leaked the report illegally disclosed classified information.
The U.S. military buildup in the Gulf and efforts to curb Tehran's nuclear program were topics of fierce debate between President Obama and former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-Mass.) in the runup to the election but the Pentagon chose to keep the incident secret until information was about to be leaked.
"We don't typically comment on classified surveillance missions," said chief Pentagon spokesman George Little. "Someone apparently disclosed this," Little said, which was why the Pentagon was now choosing to comment.
Little did not comment on where the drone was operating from, but it has been widely reported that the U.S. maintains major facilities at the Al Dhafra airbase in the United Arab Emirates. The CIA is also known to operate drones from Al Dhafra.
It's unclear if the Iranian pilots meant to hit the Predator and simply missed or intentionally fired a warning shot. However, a Predator is a slow moving and relatively easy target to hit making it hard to believe the pilots meant to destroy the drone, said a U.S. Air Force official.
The Su-25 Frogfoots who shot at the Predator belonged to the Iranian Revolutionary Corps force, according to the CNN report. IRGC forces are typically more aggressive toward U.S. forces compared to Iran's conventional military. IRGC troops helped Iraqi insurgents build improvised explosive devices and target U.S. troops in Iraq.
Iranian officials claimed to shoot down a U.S. RQ-170 Sentinel drone in December 2011 showing off pictures of what looks like the Air Force's highly classified stealth aircraft. However, Pentagon officials never confirmed the event.
Collecting intelligence on the Iranian's nuclear program is a high priority for U.S. intelligence agencies as tensions rise between Iran, Israel and the U.S. However, it's unlikely the Predator could collect any valuable intelligence on an Iranian nuclear site over the Persian Gulf. Iran's nuclear reactors are located much farther inland.
While this is the first time Iran has shot at U.S. drone over the Gulf, Iranian fast-attack boats have recently harassed U.S. warships in the Gulf's oil shipping lanes.
-- AP contributed to this report.


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You remember the song from the musical, Mame? The one where it says "we need a little Christmas, right this very minute..." I think we could agree that we ALL could use a little good luck and prosperity right this very minute.
[edited 5:24 pm: okay, there's some disagreement over whether or not it's actually the first day of fall. It looks like I'm wrong---but the sentiment is still good!]
Put the beans directly into your slow cooker. If you don't have time to soak the beans overnight, that's okay! Instead, put them in a pot with a bunch of water and boil rapidly on the stove for 10 minutes.
Then turn the heat off, and cover the pot. Let it sit for one hour, then drain and rinse and plop into the pot.
Add greens, and sprinkle on the salt and pepper.
Cover ( you may need to shove in greens to get the lid on nicely) and cook on low for 8 to 12 hours, or until the beans are soft.
Stir well before serving.
I liked how the smoky sausage flavored the beans and the kale I used just kind of shriveled up and disappeared----we got a great punch of iron without notice.
ALSO, I wrote an Article on Making and Keeping New Year's Resolutions. You should read it!!


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Network Operations Center
The Network Operations Center, or "NOC" is located in the Project Hoosier SAFE-T offices in the Indiana Government Center, Indianapolis. The center is staffed between 7:30 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., Monday through Friday (excluding holidays) to serve the Hoosier SAFE-T network of public safety users.
In addition to managing and operating the Hoosier SAFE-T network, the NOC serves as the first & second level help desk, responding to user questions and problems. Using complex network management tools, the NOC staff monitor communications sites and telecommunications circuits (T1's), initiating trouble tickets for problems or outages.
How to Contact the NOC
Call 317-234-1540. After hours, weekends and holidays, you will be presented with three (3) choices. Choice One (1) will connect you to the voice mail that will page the on-call pager system; someone will call back as soon as possible. Choice two (2) will connect you to the voice mail system that will leave a message for the next business day. Choice three (3) will forward your call to Motorola Network Monitoring, so you can speak with a technician about your problem. You can reach us via email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
For issues with mobile and portable radios, RF control stations and communications consoles, agencies should continue to call the radio service provider, i.e., RA-Comm, ERS, Owens Communications, Motorola Field Service, etc.


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Kicking off London Fashion Week for fall 2013, these celebs stepped out looking effing amazing.
First, let's talk about Frieda Pinto. The actress attended Burberry Prorsum, wearing a multitude of the designers wares, creating quite the color combination. Case in point: We love that she paired a royal blue bustier-meets-peplum top with emerald skinny pants, black peep-toe pumps, and a chartreuse bag.
Next up, Rosie Hungtington-Whiteley, who also showed up at Burberry Prorsum, donning a figure-flattering, red power suit with a black top underneath, and black strappy sandals. Swoon.
Lastly, we have Jessica Biel (and let's not leave out J.T. in that dapper checkered suit) at Tom Ford. Honestly, we don't think she's ever looked better. From head to toe, she looks absolutely stunning from her gorgeously chic updo, to her fuller than full fringe, plunging tuxedo jacket, patent pencil skirt, and strappy black sandals. Damn girl, being married to one of the most stylish dudes in Hollywood has done you good.
What are your thoughts?
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Houston Fire Department joins Texas Task Force 1 in deployment to West
A team of 80 were deployed from their College Station base as part of Texas Task Force 1 early Thursday morning to assist in a search and rescue after the massive explosion in West, Texas. The Houston Fire Department has 19 members in the group that were also deployed.
Texas Task Force 1, sponsored by the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service, sent the urban search and rescue team around 6 a.m. to the north central Texas town that has been crushed by the explosion, leaving up to 15 dead and 160 injured. The team consists of technical and canine search components and heavy rescue personnel and equipment. The Houston contingent includes rescue, Hazmat, suppression, arson and airport rescue personnel.
The emergency responders are receiving assignments from the local incident command and helping with search and rescue as necessary. Texas Task Force 1 was activated just before 1 a.m. Thursday morning through the Governor's office and the Texas Division of Emergency Management.
Texas Task Force 1, one of 28 sanctioned urban search and rescue teams nationwide, is the most active urban search and rescue team in the country, responding to at least one major disaster each year since its first deployment in 1998. It has deployed more than 80 times, including for the Space Shuttle Columbia, the attacks of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, and Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Ike.
The team members are from all areas but are capable of reporting to College Station within a five-hour window. The task force consists of three separate units of approximately 80 members each. The "Red" Team was sent to West.