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"Pirates of the Caribbean 5" is doing well overseas. Rumors suggest that Disney Studio may come out with the sixth installment of the franchise. But the movie is also facing some criticism from PETA regarding a monkey's health during the shooting of the flick. Also, check out some shocking revelations by the director of the movie.
"Pirates of the Caribbean 5" is the latest blockbuster by Disney. But recently it came under fire. One of its actors, Kaya Scodelario came out with a hilarious tale related to a monkey vomiting on the set, reports Independent.
PETA Slams 'Pirates of the Caribbean 5' Crew
Recently during an interview, actress Scodelario who plays the role of an astrologer in the flick said that one of the most memorable cast members was its monkey as he kept on throwing out all the time.
According to Scodelario since the monkey had a tiny stomach while filming on the boat he kept on vomiting in between the scenes which she found hilarious. However, even though the actress found it hilarious, it has not gone well with PETA, the animal rights organizations.
The group has slammed the "Pirates of the Caribbean 5" team for treating the capuchin monkey so badly. Incidentally, the monkey plays the role of a companion of Captain Barbossa by the name, Jack. The PETA officials called up the producer of the movie.
The officials asked them to henceforth use computer-generated imagery if the complex psychological and physical needs of the animals cannot be fulfilled on the training compound or set.
De-Aged Specialists De-Aged Johnny Depp
A lot of interesting things happened during the filming of "Pirates of the Caribbean 5." Importantly, fans were surprised to see a de-aged Johnny Depp. According to the directors of the movie, Espen Sandberg and Joachim Ronning, they used special de-aging technology to get that young look of Captain Jack Sparrow, says Empire Online.
Also, the director duo revealed that Paul McCartney agreed to do a cameo only after Johnny Depp texted him. One of the interesting factors is that the directorial team was unaware that the movie is releasing with a different title in Europe. They came to know about it only when they saw the posters.
And what was the trickiest of all? Both the directors feel that for them cracking the compass of Captain Jack Sparrow in the "Pirates of the Caribbean 5" was the trickiest of all.
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One of the biggest hindrances for cybersecurity practitioners everywhere is alert overload, a problem that was only exacerbated in 2020, according to a new report from CRITICALSTART.
Compared to 2019, 12 percent more IT pros now investigate between 10 and 20 alerts every day. The number of IT pros that investigate anywhere between 21 and 40 alerts a day also grew by 14 percent.
In many cases, the alerts are false positives. For the majority of the respondents, anywhere between 25 and 75 percent of alerts investigated turn out to be false positives.
To try and minimize the number of false alarms, almost half of SOC pros turn off high volume alerting features, especially when there are too many alerts to go through. This could result in the investigators missing legitimate issues.
Investigating the impact of Covid-19 on alert management, CRITICALSTART found that the pandemic only made the situation worse. For the majority of SOC professionals, alerts have increased in numbers since March 2020.
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A super typhoon that destroyed entire towns across the Philippines is believed to have killed more than 10,000 people, authorities said Sunday, which would make it the country's deadliest recorded natural disaster.
The horrifying new feared death toll from Super Typhoon Haiyan came as the United States pledged military help in the relief effort and as countless survivors across a huge swathe of the country remained without aid for a third day.
Ten thousand people were believed to have been killed in the worst-hit province on Leyte, regional police chief Elmer Soria told reporters in Tacloban, the devastated provincial capital.
"We had a meeting last night with the governor and, based on the government's estimates, initially there are 10,000 casualties (dead). About 70 to 80 percent of the houses and structures along the typhoon's path were destroyed," Soria said.
The scenes in Tacloban, a city of 220,000 people, and other coastal towns were reminiscent of a tsunami aftermath, with concrete slabs the only part of many homes remaining, vehicles flipped over and power lines destroyed.
"This is destruction on a massive scale. There are cars thrown like tumbleweed and the streets are strewn with debris," said Sebastian Rhodes Stampa, the head of a UN disaster assessment coordination team, in Tacloban.
"The last time I saw something of this scale was in the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami," he said, referring to the 2004 disaster that claimed about 220,000 lives.
Haiyan hit Leyte and the neighbouring island with maximum sustained winds of around 315 kilometres (195 miles) on Friday, and generated waves up to three metres (10 feet) high that surged deep inland.
However, while Leyte was believed to have been the worst hit, the carnage extended across a 600-kilometre stretch of islands through the central Philippines.
A few dozen other deaths had been confirmed in some of these areas, but authorities admitted they were completely overwhelmed and many communities were still yet to be contacted.
"We're still establishing command and control through logistics and communications," military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Ramon Zagala told AFP.
He said among the communities yet to be contacted was Guiuan, a fishing town of about 40,000 people on Samar island that was the first to be hit after Haiyan swept in from the Pacific Ocean.
About 130 hundred kilometres to the west of Tacloban, the popular tourist islands of Malapascua appeared to be in ruins, according to aerial photographs, with people there unaccounted for so far.
"The coast guard commander cannot communicate with the area. They are cut off in communications and from power," regional civil defence director Minda Morante told AFP.
The Philippines endures a seemingly never-ending pattern of deadly typhoons, earthquakes, volcano eruptions and other natural disasters.
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However, if the feared death toll of above 10,000 is correct, Haiyan would be the deadliest natural disaster ever recorded in the Philippines.
Until Haiyan, the deadliest disaster was in 1976, when a tsunami triggered by a magnitude 7.9 earthquake devastated the Moro Gulf on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, killing between 5,000 and 8,000 people.
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The Fredericksburg home built on a small farm is a ministry of Teen Challenge North Central Virginia. Together, with Beauty for Ashes Women and Children's Home and Richmond Outreach we are seeing lives set free by the healing power of Jesus Christ!
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Personal Studies for New Christians (PSNC) is an individual study program developed by Teen Challenge USA. Teen Challenge students and their mentors design an individual study program through a mutually agreed upon learning contract that addresses the unique needs, concerns, and issues that they struggle with. Students work through the items of their PSNC learning contract at their own pace.
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Our Safety Advocacy Committee worked this spring to develop reasonable ideas and suggestions for our school district to improve security and safety. Our administrative team and school board will be delving deeper into these over the summer. We understand how important and pressing this is for all of us.
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Another of my favorite Dennis observations is his feeling that if waterboarding is torture, then it's got to be the Nerf® of torture.
Dennis: I think it is a superfluous question because even if it is torture, we're talking about 'do you ever do it?', and I just happen to think there is a set of circumstances under which I would do it.
Now the second thing is, I don't think that they're strict adherents to the Geneva Conventions, so to give them all the benefits of the Geneva conventions seems a little silly to me. BUT
And I have to throw a third thing in here. I have not read it yet, but Salman told me something to me during the last commercial break that I'm going to ask him to explain. If somebody who I respect enough comes in, and tells me that they think that it is hurting the cause, I would change my mind and ... I'd have to read more about it. But Sal, tell me what you've heard about Patreus. I hope it's direct from him.
Sal: Yes it is.
Dennis: He wrote the piece?
Sal: Well, he's commented, directly, you know, in an interview.
Dennis: Well, it's on the Huffington Post, though, right?
Sal: Yes, it's on the Huffington Post.
Dennis: I don't believe the Huffington post, so it would have to be ... well, tell me what it says.
Sal: Well, let me just pull this up. And, it basically says ...
Dennis: Not basically, what's his quote?
Sal: Ok, getting to it...
Dennis: Well, find it during the break, and when we get back, Sal ... there's a piece on the Huffington Post, and I need his direct quote because quite frankly I don't trust that thing as far as I could throw it.
Dennis: Sal has found something out of Huff Po out of Patreus' mouth, and Sal, read that first part of it.
Sal: Ok, this is Patreus interviewed on Radio Free Europe and he says
Sal (quoting article attributed to Patreus): "I think on balance that those moves help us", said the Chief of Central US Command. "In fact, I have long been on record as having testified, and also in helping write doctrine for interrogation techniques that are completely in line with the Geneva Convention. And as a division commander in Iraq in the early days, we put out guidance very early on to make sure that our soldiers, in fact, knew that we needed to stay within those guidelines."
Dennis: Well, listen, I obviously concur there, I don't think soldiers can get involved in these interrogation techniques, I think it has to be the CIA, and I think it has to be an extraordinary set of circumstances. I'm just saying, you know, I notice that everybody in the world says "well I never say never" -- unless it's about waterboarding. That's the only point where people are willing to say "no, never". And I just ... I'm sorry, it might paint me as a Hessian, but I don't agree with that. I think if somebody comes in and puts together an extraor- but I agree, our soldiers should never get involved, or they're going to end up being crucified. For God's sake, you've got soldiers who watch guys laying on the floor of a building they're going through in Tikrit or something flinch or something and if they shoot them, you know they're going to be called up in a 24/7 news cycle [welieid?] now as the villain. So, no, I think soldiers have to stay way far away from violating Geneva rules visavi interrogation. But does our intelligence agency have to? No, I don't think so.
As far as Gitmo, there was a further quote from Patreus, it sounds like the responsible closing of Gitmo is something that he stands behind. I guess I just have to agree to disagree on that one having been down there and seen it, I just think it works. I hate to say that, I know there's a whole bunch of other considerations that we use to make decisions nowadays, i.e. does it feel good? Does it make other people that we're fighting against feel good? Does it ... you know I don't buy the theory that there was a lot of right-minded people over there who were driven over to the Jihadist side by the existence of Guantanamo Bay. I just don't. I think that they're crazier than that to think that they sit there with a check list and say "well, I was on the right side of this just enjoying my tea this morning, but they haven't closed that Gitmo down. I'm gonna become a Jihadist." I don't buy that. I think they're crazy, I think what runs through their veins is croaking westerners, infidels, and Jews, and they get up every morning and that's their life blood. So, I think think it runs a lot deeper and it's a lot more corrosive, than them, like I said,than them going over a punch list of things that bother them and the indignity of Gitmo is not a big ticket, I think.
I think that -- I'd be surprised if Patreus doesn't change down the road if they start to find that everybody has a reason they don't want this. And indeed, they won't put wind farms in most places. You really want a terrorist out there spinning his 'copter hat? Of course you don't. They're going to end up saying, "Guess what? They might be in the best place right now." As I would be willing to come around if I was presented with enough evidence, and again I concur completely with Patreus that our soldiers should adhere strictly to Geneva techniques when it comes to interrogation. I do think that in 99% of the cases so should our CIA, even though these guys on the other side have not adhered to Geneva at all. I also have to leave open the possibility that somewhere along the line, if it dictates it, if it's going to save lives, that you waterboard them. If you want to call that torture, fine. Whatever you want to call it, I'm just calling it "waterboarding".
Dennis: I think I was somewhat inconsistent in the last couple of segments when I queried the caller as to why John McCain's opinion on torture would change his mind and then saying Patreus would change my mind. All I can say about John McCain is, he was tortured so I certainly understand some sort of reflexive aversion to it. I'd be intrigued to find out if John was ever waterboarded, though. I know he was tortured. I have not heard him specify that he was waterboarded. And indeed if he was given the "Torture a la Carte" menu in the Hanoi Hilton, it probably would've been the one that he would have preferred.


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Sunday, March 30, 2014
Cancun, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
Up this morning for a quick breakfast an then it was time to say goodbye to the remaining guys that I have spent the past 2 weeks with.
Poppy, Tariq, Peter and I all caught a Taxi to the airport, however we had to drop the guys off at Poppy's airport first as the taxi driver wasn't able to leave the airport with passengers for some reason. This made me a little more stressed. I was already stressed as I had only realised this morning that I hadn't taken into account time at the airport to check in before checkin closes and I had only booked the taxi with about 40 minutes left to checkin.
Our Taxi driver made relatively good time and was driving like a mouse in a maze zooming in and out of traffic, in the end getting me to the airport with 20 minutes left. I managed to get checked in alright however I apparently needed to loose some weight from the checked in luggage, so I spent a few minutes getting heavy stuff out of my luggage and into my carry on.
I posted the first part of this blog on the plane (I paid for wifi access, first time I've paid for wifi my entire trip). I'm now in LA and cleared customs with no problems and then waited for my bag, I started to get a bit worried as I thought I was late landing, turns out I hadn't taken into account the time difference... Duhhh.
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Why abandon Genesis for Job?
Job's story occurs before the children of Israel, before the Exodus, and before the law given at Sinai. It's during the days when heads of households operated as priests and offered sacrifices in behalf of their family members. We call this time the "patriarchal age."
With Abraham, whom we meet in Genesis 12, we move into the story of Israel, so it's best that we look at Job here.
I wonder how Israel felt about a man like Job. After all, he wasn't one of them. You will never read his name in an Israelite genealogy. And yet, for all his whining, he is considered a great man, one who had the ear of the Lord.
Don't miss the heaviness of the calamity that befell Job. Here's a man who not only had it all, but who maintained a close relationship with God. Job also lost it all, including (in his own mind) his relationship with God in but a moment. Notice that when the bad news begins to come, the messengers who bring it do not even finish delivering the words before another messenger of bad news shows up. If, as the old saying goes, "when it rains, it pours," Job was beaten with a hurricane.
While the flood of bad news crushes him, Job goes to God in worship and vows: "Naked I came from my mother's womb; and naked I will die."
Job never knew what hit him, but we know. Job's troubles were the result of the Lord's confidence and pride in a loyal member of humanity. When knocked down by a tsunami of troubles, remember that the Lord is faithful, and he may be taking delight in your faithfulness. The wrath of Satan is never more violent than in times like those.


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This AP report appeared in the International Fishwrap, The WaPo, and The Paper Of Record .
42 dead as bus plunges off mountain road in NepalThe POfR used the same wire service story and its supplied caption, but the entry in the index to "The World" section was tastefully re-written:
The Associated Press
KATMANDU, Nepal At least 42 people were killed and another 45 wounded Saturday when an overcrowded bus plunged off a mountain road in western Nepal, police said.
The bus was traveling near the town of Tribeni, some 400 kilometers (250 miles) west of the Nepalese capital, Katmandu, when it skidded off the road, plunging about 250 meters (950 feet) into a ravine bellow, said local police officer Birkha Bahadur Rawal.
Police are investigating the cause, he said adding that an initial probe indicated the driver may have lost control of the vehicle because it was overloaded with passengers.
Police did not yet know if the driver was among those who survived.
The bus was traveling toward the southern town of Dang when the accident occurred.
Among those killed, 32 died on the spot while eight died on the way to the hospital, Rawal said. Another two died while undergoing treatment at a hospital in Dang.
About a dozen more were in a critical condition and hospitalized at Nepalgunj, he said.
Police official Rawal said some of the passengers managed to jump and survived, indicating there were several people traveling on the roof, a common practice in rural Nepal where not much public transportation is available.
A bus ticket attendant who survived the crash, Jeevan Nepali, Told the Associated Press by mobile phone from his hospital bed that the bus was unable to pick up speed on the slopes and the driver stopped. It then rolled backward and off the road.
He said he and some of the passengers managed to jump off.
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The right to believe, to worship and witness
The right to change one's belief or religion
The right to join together and express one's belief
13 April 2016
UZBEKISTAN: Poor jail conditions, torture and large fines for Protestants
Latipzhon Mamazhanov, a Protestant who was arrested and jailed on 12 March for 15 days in Fergana in eastern Uzbekistan, was released from jail on 28 March. This is one day after he should have been released under the law, Forum 18 News Service has learned. on 31 March. Police illegally raided Mamazhanov's home and those of other Christians in Fergana on 12 March searching for religious literature. Mamazhanov was imprisoned in the Region's Kuva District Police Detention Centre where up to seven inmates were put in a cell designed for two people, no sanitary and hygiene rules are followed, and food is only given once a day. He and other prisoners who inststed they were innocent of crime were also tortured several times. "They can keep one Bible in their homes," Rustam Yegamberdiyev, Head of Fergana City Criminal Police, insisted to Forum 18. "But if they keep more than one then this means that they are intending to gather others in their homes for illegal prayers and meetings. It is exactly the same for Christians, Muslims and others."
7 April 2016
UZBEKISTAN: "His only fault was to have some sermons on his mobile phone"
Three months after Uzbekistan's National Security Service (NSS) secret police arrested Kyrgyzstan-born Russian citizen Bakhtiyor Khudaiberdiyev at Tashkent Airport and opened a criminal case against him, relatives fear he might face long imprisonment if tried and convicted. Relatives adamantly denied to Forum 18 News Service that Khudaiberdiyev had any extremist materials on his phone. "Bakhtiyor had only some suras [verses] from the Holy Koran, some sermons of mullo Ulugbek Kary and some video clips of the Osh events he downloaded from the internet," relatives told Forum 18. Fears are that Khudaiberdiyev might face torture in secret police detention. The Consular Section of the Russian Embassy in Tashkent refused to tell Forum 18 what steps – if any - the Embassy or other Russian state bodies are taking to raise his case with the Uzbek authorities. Uzbekistan imposes rigid control over all religious materials, whether on paper or on electronic devices. At least two Muslims are serving five-year prison terms for the Koran and sermons in their mobile phones, while Customs authorities detained a Baptist for two days in mid-March for carrying religious materials on electronic devices and who now faces administrative charges.
21 March 2016
UZBEKISTAN: "Aren't you exaggerating by saying he was detained?"
Tashkent Regional Customs Department held Kazakh citizen Boris Prokopenko for two days in mid-March after discovering religious materials on electronic devices as he entered Uzbekistan, fellow Baptists complained to Forum 18 News Service. Freed after an "expert analysis" found nothing "extremist", he still faces administrative prosecution. "Aren't you exaggerating by saying he was detained? He was only staying with us temporarily since we were waiting for the expert analysis from the Religious Affairs Committee," Chief Customs Inspector Tahir Nasirkhodjayev told Forum 18. He denied any violation of Prokopenko's rights, as "we only enforce the Law, which demands us to stop and clarify what kind of religious materials people carry with them". Six Muslims were fined after being stopped in December 2015 for carrying "illegal" religious materials on their mobile phones, customs officials told Forum 18. Such punishments are part of the rigid control of religious materials entering and being transported within the country on mobile phones, tablets, personal computers, memory sticks and other electronic devices and media. At least two Muslims are serving five-year prison terms for the Koran and sermons in their mobile phones.
18 March 2016
UZBEKISTAN: "Isolate the population"
Uzbekistan continues to raid private homes and confiscate religious literature from their owners, including Arabic-language Korans, and Uzbek and Russian-language Bibles and New Testaments. In at least three cases known to Forum 18 News Service, and in line with frequent court practice, a court has ordered that Bibles and New Testaments be destroyed. These violations of freedom of religion or belief continue, an entire district of the capital Tashkent being searched in early March. During the search at least one Arabic-language Koran was confiscated and its owner detained. Local police told Forum 18 that "we have religious freedoms". And on 12 March a Christian in Fergana was jailed for 15 days after a police search for religious literature. Summarising the reason for such censorship and raids, a state news agency published an article stating that the government aimed to "isolate the population, especially young people, from the influence of various harmful movements".
17 February 2016
UZBEKISTAN: Prisoner of conscience "saying his last goodbye to his sisters"
When the sisters of Muslim prisoner of conscience Khayrullo Tursunov visited him in labour camp in late 2015 "he sounded like he was saying his last goodbye to his sisters because he thought the end of his life is coming", relatives outside Uzbekistan told Forum 18 News Service. "Khayrullo was either tortured in prison or is in deep depression, his sisters did not know the exact reasons." Other prisoners of conscience punished for exercising their freedom of religion or belief – including the Muslims Zoirjon Mirzayev and Tajik citizen Zuboyd Mirzorakhimov – have given up hope of amnesty and seem set to serve out their terms, their relatives told Forum 18. Prison officials told Baptist prisoner of conscience Tohar Haydarov he will not be freed on parole this year as he had hoped. "Tohar's personal Bible was taken away from him about a year ago and he is trying to recite Bible verses from memory," a fellow Baptist told Forum 18. The Deputy Head of the Interior Ministry's Chief Directorate for the Enforcement of Punishments – which has responsibility for Uzbekistan's prisons – refused to discuss the situation of these prisoners of conscience with Forum 18.
16 February 2016
UZBEKISTAN: "This is absurd – he wouldn't have fought with anyone, still less on his last day"
Sunni Muslim prisoner of conscience Kamol Odilov was given an extra prison term in late January, just days before he completed his six-year prison term handed down to punish him for exercising his freedom of religion or belief. He and his fellow Muslims had met to discuss the works of the late Turkish Muslim theologian Said Nursi. Prison authorities claim he got into a fight. "This is absurd – he wouldn't have fought with anyone, still less on his last day," a Muslim familiar with the case told Forum 18 News Service. In 2015 a three-year extra prison term was handed to another Sunni Muslim prisoner of conscience from Bukhara, Botir Tukhtamurodov, after he too had completed a six-year prison term. Officials told Tukhtamurodov and his relatives that he will not be freed until the authorities get back his brother Bobirjon Tukhtamurodov from Russia, where he sought refuge in 2010. The Deputy Head of the Interior Ministry's Chief Directorate for the Enforcement of Punishments – which has responsibility for Uzbekistan's prisons – refused to discuss the situation of these prisoners of conscience with Forum 18.
7 December 2015
UZBEKISTAN: Police and Imam "forced family to bury deceased in cemetery where officers took them"
Fearing problems, a Jehovah's Witness family sought approval from the Religious Affairs Department to bury a deceased family member in a local cemetery in July. Yet police and the local Imam blocked the burial. Asked why he told them not to bury the deceased in the cemetery, Captain Ruslan Allanazarov told Forum 18 News Service: "Because it is Muslim." Police chose a cemetery for the burial 20 kms (12 miles) away and accompanied community members with cars. Officers and the Imam stood outside the family home to prevent people visiting to offer condolences. At a meeting of non-Muslim religious leaders in Uzbekistan's capital Tashkent, officials proposed or ordered that ethnic Uzbek adherents of non-Muslim faiths should write a will before they die setting out their burial wishes (not required of people of non-Uzbek ethnicities, Muslims or atheists). A state religious affairs official complained about publicity over burial difficulties. "Relatives made so much noise about the cases that the state leaders, who strive for peace in the country, were disturbed," he told the meeting. One Protestant complained to Forum 18 of "pressure on Churches when they complain about burial problems publicly". After one complaint, the authorities "immediately demanded the central organ of the religious community that they make the local believers shut up".
26 November 2015
UZBEKISTAN: Police raid, torture, steal and plant drugs
Police in Uzbekistan's capital Tashkent raided a Protestant worship meeting on 8 November, detaining and torturing members of the group and their nursing children, Forum 18 News Service has learned. Police also stole money and confiscated a large amount of Christian literature, as well as personal property including computers and other electronic devices. Jehovah's Witnesses in the central Samarkand Region have also been raided and fined, some also being put on 2 years' probation on fabricated drugs charges, for meeting together for worship. Police also confiscated religious literature and the private property, including computers and mobile phones, of some present. Female Witnesses were threatened with rape and tortured. Contrary to Uzbekistan's international human rights obligations, the police torturers were apparently neither arrested nor prosecuted for their actions. Instead, the police's victims were convicted of exercising freedom of religion or belief and fined. The human rights Ombudsperson's Office has said it cannot investigate these human rights violations.
18 November 2015
UZBEKISTAN: New fines, Bible destructions follow UN concern over religious censorship
In late September a Judge in Karshi fined ten members of a Baptist church up to 50 times the minimum monthly wage each for meeting for worship without state permission. In a regular practice for Uzbekistan, the Judge ordered that confiscated personal Bibles and song books be destroyed. Officers asked the community in August why it was still meeting after being warned in an April raid that it was "illegal". Jehovah's Witnesses told Forum 18 News Service of more than 75 fines of up to 20 times the minimum monthly wage between January and September 2015 after raids and literature seizures. Seven were twice stopped after making a 1,000-kilometre (620 mile) round trip from Karshi to the one registered Jehovah's Witness community in Chirchik. The United Nations Human Rights Committee expressed concern in July over religious censorship, as well as torture, prison sentences, detentions and fines to punish individuals for exercising their right to freedom of religion or belief. It called on Uzbekistan to change its laws and practices.
18 September 2015
UZBEKISTAN: Over 160 year wait to go on haj pilgrimage?
Uzbekistan continues severely restricting the Muslims who can on the haj pilgrimage to Mecca, Forum 18 News Service notes. The state imposes severe restrictions on the numbers of pilgrims and refuses to explain why it does this. People can only get onto the extremely long pilgrimage waiting lists after extensive scrutiny by state agencies including the NSS secret police. Shaira Sadygbekova of Ezgulik human rights organisation has calculated that she will need to live to be 205 years old to reach the top of the waiting list. The head of her mahalla (city district) – one of the agencies which decides who gets onto waiting lists – told Forum 18 that she "will be able to go in 20 or 30 years". Even if people reach the top of the waiting list they may be arbitrarily denied an exit visa to go on pilgrimage. State-run banks often refuse to distribute enough hard currency to pilgrims, according to human rights defenders including Surat Ikramov. A wide variety of state officials have refused to discuss the problems with Forum 18.
11 September 2015
UZBEKISTAN: "Threatened we will be put in prison if we don't stop visiting each other for prayers"
A wide group of Muslims in Tashkent Region near Uzbekistan's capital have faced repeated harassment since the summer, Forum 18 News Service has learned. Two Muslim families were initially targeted, with four of them imprisoned by police for between one and two months and about 18 of them fined for "violation of the procedure for holding religious meetings". Another group were then targeted, with ten women detained and fined for the same "offence", while one woman was threatened with being imprisoned with men who might rape her. On 10 August, Anti-Terrorism Police raided the homes of eight male relatives of the women who met occasionally to pray together, discuss their faith and share meals. Anti-Terrorism Officer Mirvolid Mirboboyev "warned and threatened us that we will be put in prison if we don't stop visiting each other for prayers", one of the victims Tashkentboy Ergashev told Forum 18. Officer Mirboboyev refused to discuss his or his colleagues' actions with Forum 18. Another Tashkent Muslim, Olmosbek Erkaboyev, was held by police for two months as they sought information about his father-in-law. Officers beat him to try to get him to sign a document incriminating himself on charges of religious extremism.
6 August 2015
UZBEKISTAN: Large fine follows police bullying of children
Pastor Sergei Rychagov of Grace Presbyterian Church near Uzbekistan's capital Tashkent was heavily fined for violating the Religion Law, missionary activity, "illegal" religious teaching and violating the procedure for holding religious meetings. However, he learned of the fine only in June, Protestants told Forum 18 News Service. Police bullied children from a local orphanage who had been attending the church into writing statements against him, they added. The officer who brought the case insisted to Forum 18 that Rychagov had violated the law, while the judge who fined him refused to explain why he had done so. In Urgench, Anti-Terrorism Police accused a local Baptist of "teaching religion illegally". Police have already seized religious literature and the man's car. Asked by Forum 18 why other Baptists are being questioned to incriminate him, Anti-Terrorism Police Major Shavkat Bekjanov responded: "Who are you and why should I discuss the case with you over the phone?"


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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post7805111213410900478..comments2023-10-01T05:56:28.478-07:00Comments on Wandering Scientist: Innovation, Growth, and Hackable Pacemakers (among Other Things)Cloudhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post-18742445845759268452013-08-22T20:54:38.437-07:002013-08-22T20:54:38.437-07:00The idea that a PhD could be wasted has always puz...The idea that a PhD could be wasted has always puzzled me- although as I say above, I'm very sympathetic to the deep frustration young scientists feel right now trying to navigate this job market.Cloudhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post-71921517947434115422013-08-22T20:53:12.855-07:002013-08-22T20:53:12.855-07:00A very, very liberal family member of mine once ha...A very, very liberal family member of mine once had as a quote on her Christmas cards: "A good idea can come from anywhere, even a Republican." I like that sentiment. So if the George W. Bush foundation puts out a publication with good ideas, that's great. I am not sure I think shale gas is worth the risk, though! I'm still on the fence about that one and wish we'd focus more on less environmentally risky energy sources, even if they are more financially risky.

I like your idea of making it easier for people who don't want full time work to participate in the labor force. Cloudhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post-89196778028716228962013-08-22T19:53:05.997-07:002013-08-22T19:53:05.997-07:00Haha, too true, except that's not my grandma, ...Haha, too true, except that's not my grandma, it's my mom, and the fridge was probably bought in 1969 as that was the year my parents moved into the house my mother (and the fridge) still live in. I know it's about my age, as I would apparently hold its door to balance as a not-yet-walking baby and then swing my arm to make a point (as I babbled on about something, a lifelong trend it seems), at which the door would swing open and I would crash down.

Whereas our new fridge, now 6 years old, has required two service calls...email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post-69779093201739875902013-08-21T09:12:51.636-07:002013-08-21T09:12:51.636-07:00Yeah, I googled him. And I've studied many pr...Yeah, I googled him. And I've studied many professors at Northwestern, but this one doesn't seem to have made the core email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post-30789774839975587142013-08-21T08:38:53.659-07:002013-08-21T08:38:53.659-07:00Regarding 'wasting' time getting a PhD onl...Regarding 'wasting' time getting a PhD only to then leave academia - I've done it once and was able to leverage my research skills with the many soft-skills I accumulated during my extra-curriculars in grad school. I jumped to a very technology-rich company and the first jump was hard, but now I'm considering a second jump that is even less related to my PhD, and since there were so many arguments around 'oh no, but all those years spent on a PhD' the first time, the second time it's a little less email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post-36577113370164853782013-08-21T07:48:34.746-07:002013-08-21T07:48:34.746-07:00I'm fascinated by the topic of growth and prod...I'm fascinated by the topic of growth and productivity. Last summer I read The 4% Solution, which was a very wonky book put out by the George W. Bush Institute (I know, I know) that discussed various things that might boost US GDP growth into the 4% annual range. Educational improvements figure in, of course, as well as new sources of energy (mostly the whole shale gas thing), better immigration policy that rewards education and skills and entrepreneurship, etc. I'd add that ways of making it easier for marginal workers to participate in the labor force (senior citizens, moms who want to work part-time from home, etc.) could also help growth. Laura Vanderkamhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post-2781876362746060362013-08-21T06:44:59.675-07:002013-08-21T06:44:59.675-07:00It has been my experience that engineers are more ...It has been my experience that engineers are more likely to embrace IT solutions than scientists, but it isn't really that the scientists I work with aren't willing to use IT solutions. It is that they don't always recognize when one will help. And then even if they do, I've got a backlog of projects that is 20-30 projects deep. Even a wealthy company like mine does not have the budget to do as much as we could. If you go look at smaller, scrappier start ups, they often spend almost nothing on IT- there just isn't budget for it.Cloudhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post-59254609488604530282013-08-21T06:42:57.886-07:002013-08-21T06:42:57.886-07:00According to the article he has a named chair at N...According to the article he has a named chair at Northwestern. Cloudhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post-9019145282540706222013-08-21T06:40:22.614-07:002013-08-21T06:40:22.614-07:00Oops! Thanks for catching the typo. It is fixed no...Oops! Thanks for catching the typo. It is fixed now.

I'm hugely sympathetic to the individual scientists who find themselves unable to get a job in their first choice career path- but I'm a lot less sympathetic to the scientific culture we've built up that makes those people feel like failures if they go do something different. Cloudhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post-63471629777383214422013-08-21T05:02:26.202-07:002013-08-21T05:02:26.202-07:00I'm on the STEM board in town and a female eng...I'm on the STEM board in town and a female engineer, so much of what you say resonates with me. In fact, I just organized a science street festival in town that had thousands of people. Everyone thought it was cool. Even the goth, punk, hip hop punk kids got into it. Every age group and socioeconomic demographic was enthralled. My mantra is to show people science is fun and exciting and all around you so that the next gen realizes it's the funnest profession out there.

On a side note, I do think technology is used extensively in the tech world (maybe not in life sciences but certainly in design). The world of predictive engineering has transformed product development, and not always in good ways.

Back in the days of graph paper and the #2 pencil, engineers built in huge fudge factors into their product designs. That's why your grandmas fridge from 1967 is still going strong but your brandy new stainless one will last on average about 7 years. In fact, my neighbor and I both bought washing machines at the same time and they broke within 2 months of each other. Things break a lot quicker because they are optimized for cost and will only be designed to be bare minimum the market with tolerate. The one thing I hate about the technology revolution is it enables engineers to design in obsolescence down to the hour.

Engineers want to make good products, not crappy ones, but managers make decisions based on optimizing profit margins at all costs and too much engineering time is spent on cost out vs innovation. I don't think adoption in my field is the problem. I think companies get greedy and don't spend enough money on innovation and R+D. Certainly some industries need innovative game changing ways to take cost out to succeed (like LED lighting), but for more mature products, someone spends the time to innovate ho does will eventually leapfrog your company because of it. Consumers are partly to blame too. If they buy solely on cost, then the trend will continue in this direction indefinitely.
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My professors have either tended to be more bullish on productivity growth (although some of my current colleagues are famous for their believe that the US hegemony is over), or they've argued for more education for high skilled jobs. It is true that we're unlikely to see the kind of productivity growth we saw after WWII (or that the Asian tigers saw a few decades back, or China is seeing now), but only because we're already developed. Catch-up growth is faster. Also current monetary policy is to smooth out business cycles so we don't have huge bubbles and bursts, not that that's necessarily been working as well as some would like.nicoleandmaggiehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post-11609659763002929262013-08-21T01:46:41.528-07:002013-08-21T01:46:41.528-07:00Great post! There's a lot to think about here....Great post! There's a lot to think about here. I like to think of myself as a classically-trained scientist who's just becoming code-literate enough to really understand what kinds of problems computers are good at solving and to start thinking about how to use them to solve questions that interest me... and it's a really fun (and challenging) process!

I also really agree with your thoughts about PhDs and career expectations. There's so much opportunity that comes out of getting a PhD in STEM ... and yet we spend so much time whining about how few tenure-track faculty jobs there are.

One note - I think you're missing a big "NO" in the phrase "there is reason to think that white and Asian men are uniquely suited for understanding STEM"! :)Sarah (@SarahHCarl)email@example.com


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- The Kolkata airport is a microcosm of everything that it wrong with the city itself. Here's a ground report from one who had to suffer.
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose would definitely not have approved. A strict disciplinarian and a stickler for order and efficiency, the founder of the Indian National Army (INA) would have been horrified by the prevailing state of affairs at the sprawling swanky airport in Kolkata named after him.
The present integrated terminal (T2) of the airport was inaugurated by former president Pranab Mukherjee on 20 January 2013. The massive steel and glass structure even won accolades and the new terminal was adjudged by the Airport Council International as 'Best Improved Terminal' (for Asia-Pacific region) award for the two consecutive years of 2014 and 2015. It's another matter that the old terminal (T1) was so bad that even repainting its walls – leave apart constructing a glitzy new one – –would have been considered a vast improvement.
But the new terminal always suffered from an intrinsic organic malaise: it's management lay not with a private operator but the Airports Authority of India (AAI). The heavily unionised and wayward AAI employees are singularly responsible for the present sorry state of the airport that was built at a cost of Rs 2,300 crore. The AAI Employees Union had consistently and successfully resisted moves by the Union Civil Aviation Ministry and the AAI management (which knows the nature of its lower level employees very well) to privatise operations at the airport.
The result (of AAI handling airport operations) is there for all to see. The Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport is a living testimony to the truth of the adage of not judging a book by its cover. The airport structure looks good and the architecture is distinctive. But many things are rotten inside. The washrooms are in a state of perpetual mess and emanate a foul odour. Leaking faucets, stained walls and overflowing bins are the result of callous staff who know that no matter what they do (or don't do), their jobs are secure.
The biggest irritant is, however, the acute shortage of baggage trolleys. Most of the ones that are available suffer from major defects and are non-functional. The AAI staff responsible for retrieving trolleys and parking them at their designated bays in the arrival lounge and outside the departure lounge are a notoriously negligent lot who can often be seen lazing around and even sleeping on the seats meant for passengers.
Many efforts to discipline them have failed since they are all members of a union that is affiliated with the ruling Trinamool Congress (their union was affiliated to the Communist Party of India (Marxist) before power equations changed in Bengal). Political protection allows them to be shirkers and the AAI management has been unsuccessful in making them do their work. The employees have, in the past, even gone on flash strikes and held unruly demonstrations inside the airport when disciplinary action had been taken against them, thus severely inconveniencing passengers.
Many areas of the airport wear a shabby look, thanks to a lack of maintenance. Thick layers of dust cake artificial plants at the arrival lounge and the installations in the departure areas. The cleanliness and sparkle of the airports in other major cities is clearly missing here.
Getting the registered baggage after arrival is a major sore point in Kolkata. It takes a minimum of 30 minutes after disembarking from the aircraft to get one's baggage from the baggage carousel. The minimum waiting period in front of the baggage belt is 20 minutes. In Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Pune and Chennai, for instance, passengers don't have to wait for more than a couple of minutes at best to get their baggage; often, their baggage is doing the rounds on the belt even before they step into the arrival lounge.
This again is due to unionised employees. The callousness, lethargy and even criminal negligence of the AAI staff have rubbed off on the contractual employees engaged by the airlines. It is these contractual staff who are responsible for unloading baggage from aircraft, transport them to the terminal and then putting the luggage on the belts. They are slow and negligent and can often be seen lounging around. Whereas offloading of luggage starts immediately after the aircraft reaches the parking bay (and even before the doors of the aircraft are opened for disembarkation) in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru and other airports not affected by the scourge of AAI's unionised and undisciplined employees, in Kolkata, it starts well after passengers start disembarking. Once again, efforts by airlines' managements to discipline their contractual employees and make them work efficiently like in other airports have been unsuccessful since they draw inspiration from the powerful AAI employees, who encourage them to be wayward and promise them protection.
If first impressions are the lasting impressions, first time visitors to Kolkata landing at this airport would have already formed a poor impression of the city, once known as the second city of the British Raj (after London). The negative impression will only get reinforced after coming out of the arrival lounge. Passengers are greeted with a deafening cacophony of vehicle horns, an unruly traffic and, worst of all, extortionist touts waiting like vultures to pounce on unsuspecting visitors. Ill-clad and foul-mouthed, they encircle passengers they suspect to be non-residents of the city in order to fleece them.
Police are powerless to crack down on them since the touts enjoy the patronage of the ruling political party and are, often, Trinamool activists. Utter chaos, and without any order, prevails on the carriageway outside the arrival lounge. Flying out of, or in to, Kolkata is thus no pleasant experience. And the city suffers because of this.


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8 Rules Of Positioning
In a market crowded with a lot of brands offering similar products, a good positioning makes a brand and its products stand out from the competition
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Getting in front of customers and prospects is an important thing, but more important thing is what you will communicate about your brand and product when you are in front of your audience. Positioning helps marketers to connect their brand and products best with their target audience. In a market crowded with a lot of brands offering similar products, a good positioning makes a brand and its products stand out from the competition.
Positioning is one of the most important components of marketing strategy and vital to success of any brand. Al Ries and Jack Trout, in their book Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind, introduce the subject by saying: Positioning is not what you do to a product. Positioning is what you do to the mind of the prospect. That is, you position the product in the mind of the prospect.
Let's have a look at a few important rules of positioning:
1. Positioning drives marketing strategy: The process of creating positioning statement requires identifying target audience; product category; product's specific benefit, strengths and weaknesses and differentiation from the nearest competitor. Positioning drives all components of marketing strategy such as advertising, packaging, pricing, distribution, public relations, merchandising and brand communication. Additionally, strong positioning attracts partners, employees, investors, customers to associate with a company owning top positioned brands. Moreover, good positioning attracts influencers such as journalists, analysts, thought leaders etc. to cover a brand in their articles and reports. For example, in extremely competitive, coffee selling business, Starbucks has positioned itself as an upscale brand. Its stores' locations, service, products display, packaging, socializing environment, pricing etc. are designed according to its positioning of an upscale brand.
2. Positioning is relative: In any category, customers think about brands relative to other brands in the same category. To gain strong position for its brands, a company must differentiate its brands and products from others in the market. The most important point is that differentiation has to be sustainable. Differentiations such as price and features can be surpassed by competition in some time but it is difficult for competition to surpass the differentiation of quality, service, availability and leadership. For example, there are many digital wallets such as PayTm, MobiKwik, Freecharge, BHIM, State Bank of India's SBI Buddy etc. All of these wallets have almost similar features and pricing and solve the similar purpose, but in customers' mind PayTm has taken up the top position and has strong perception of quality and leadership.
3. Positioning changes as market changes: In today's fast changing world, products change, markets change, customers' demands change, competition change, technologies change, regulations change and so on. These changes can create an opportunity for a new player to shake the positioning of an established player. For example, non-polluting electric vehicles are seen as norm of the future and Tesla is a prominent player in elegant electric vehicles. As per an article in recode, the 14-year-old company Tesla is now worth more than 113 year old company Ford. In a way, Tesla's positioning seems to be surpassing Ford's position.
4. Positioning is multidimensional: Positioning has multiple dimensions such as product positioning, market positioning, industry positioning and leaders' positioning. Product positioning is defined by a company based on its strategy, focus on market segment, price point, distribution channel etc. Market positioning of a brand or product is defined by word of mouth of influencers such as customers, analysts, retailers, journalists, partners etc. Industry positioning is defined by revenue and profit of a company. And most importantly, success of company elevates the positioning of its leader. For example, iPhone is a product brand, Apple is a company brand and Steve Jobs is a leader brand. iPhone is positioned as a premium smart phone with higher price point targeted towards upper middle class and rich customers and available through selective channels. Positive word of mouth by influencers including customers has helped iPhone in gaining market recognition as the top positioned smart phone. Revenue through sales of iPhone helps Apple in achieving better positions in rankings such as Fortune 500. Success of Apple's products such as iPhone has contributed to Steve Jobs' position as one of the best business leaders. Again, Steve Jobs' positioning as one of the best leaders drives positioning of his company, company's products and so on.
5. Positioning evolves over time: As company grows over time, its market segments evolve, its products evolve and it's positioning in market evolves. If a company is focussed on niche market segment then it has to position itself for niche customers. But over the time, when market segment evolves or when company tries to enter into adjacent market segments then its positioning evolves. For example, when Uber was new in India, smart phones were available with limited number of people and taxi riding was not a preferred option as compared to auto rickshaws. Initially, Uber targeted customers who were looking to enjoy a luxury experience, had smart phones and credit cards. It was positioned as a taxi ride service for classes. Later on, Uber expanded its offerings such as low cost small cars, medium cost sedans and higher cost big cars. It also expanded its services from point to point transfer to outstation travel, taxi hire for personal usage, economical ride sharing etc. Moreover, along with credit card, it started accepting money through PayTm and cash. This evolution not only expanded Uber's market segment, but also their positions from a transportation option for classes to a transportation option for masses.
6. Positioning is strongest in the new category: In a mature category, there are already established players and to create its position, a brand has to compete with existing brands. But if a brand is able to create a new category then it can achieve leadership status in that category. For example, fast food is an overcrowded category with many popular brands such as McDonald's, KFC, Subway, Taco Bell, Dominos, Dunkin Donuts, and Starbucks etc. But all of these brands have created their leadership positions in separate subcategories within fast food category. For example, McDonald's is known for burgers, KFC is known for chicken, Subway for sandwiches, Taco Bell for Mexican food, Dominos for pizza delivery, Dunkin Donuts for donuts, Starbucks for coffee and so on. Though all these players try to enter into each other's' offerings but their positioning is strongest around their key fast food offerings.
7. Positioning is internal: The purpose of positioning statement is to align internal stakeholders such as marketing team, sales team, delivery team etc. on a common view of market. This alignment helps in having common interpretation of target audience, product category, differentiation from competitors, benefits for customers and so on. When everybody internally is on the same page, external communication becomes homogenous, relevant, targeted and clear. For example Harley-Davidson's internal positioning statement is: The only motorcycle manufacturer that makes big, loud motorcycles for macho guys (and "macho wannabes") mostly in the United States who wants to join a gang of cowboys in an era of decreasing personal freedom. Taglines are external facing catch phrases that summarize positioning statement extremely concisely. For Harley-Davidson, tagline is "Define your world in a whole new way."
8. Positioning gets spoiled by brand extension: Brand extension is a common method used by companies to launch a new product by using an existing brand name on a new product in a different category. A company using brand extension hopes to leverage its existing customer base and brand loyalty to increase its profits with a new product offering. If a company expands its business too fast by launching multiple products using its powerful brand name, then it is necessary for it to maintain quality. If quality of a few of the products of a respected brand is bad, then customers no matter how loyal they are will start rethinking about the brand. Lowered image of a few products in customers' mind would eventually impact the brand position and the business' revenue. For example, Baba Ramdev's Patanjali brand has a strong positioning in Ayurvedic products. But since last few years, Patanjali has been launching many new products in different categories and that's too fast. There have been incidences when government's food safety departments have raised questions on a few of the Patanjali's products. Though strong brand name of Baba Ramdev and Patanjali have helped the company to launch and distribute many new products, quality concerns on a few products, effect overall positioning of the brand Patanjali.
(Views expressed are author's personal and don't necessarily represent any company's opinions.)
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Harsh Pamnani
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