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The disruptive power of dance
In a marriage of arts and activism, members of PEA's Dance Company use their talents to raise awareness and help support a local shelter for victims of domestic and sexual violence.
Upper Maria Heeter's clear voice voice climbs high above the audience, echoing off the ceiling above the Main Stage in Fisher Theater: "Know you are the type of woman / who is searching for a place to call yours. / Let the statues crumble. / You have always been the place. / You are a woman who could build it yourself. / You are born to build."
As she recites the lines from Sarah Kay's poem "The Type," the spotlight shifts to stage right, revealing a group of dancers clad in black. They begin to move with purpose and precision across the stage — reflecting the words from the poem in their movements, forming a response to them, and delivering a message of empowerment and self-confidence — while the spotlight moves back and forth between reader and dancers.
Their performance piece was part of an interdisciplinary educational Winter Dance Concert centered on empowering women. The theme for the concert, which was driven by the interests of students and the Dance Department faculty, aligned with the goals of One Billion Rising, the worldwide campaign launched in 2012 by V-Day, a global organization that seeks to harness the joyful, transformative and potentially galvanizing powers of the arts to raise awareness about — and help put an end to — violence against women and girls. (The OBR name has its origins in a startling United Nations statistic: "On average, at least one in three women is beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused by an intimate partner in the course of a lifetime." Given a world population of 7 billion, that works out to nearly 1 billion women and girls whose lives will be touched by violence.)
For the second year in a row, Sarah Duclos, a former instructor and interim director of dance at the Academy, organized more than 80 professional and student dancers from across the region for a One Billion Rising fundraising dance event at The Music Hall in Portsmouth, New Hampshire — with all of the proceeds going to benefit Haven, a local organization that provides crisis counseling, courtroom advocacy and safe shelter to victims of domestic abuse and sexual violence in the Seacoast area and educates nearly 10,000 local students through violence- prevention programming each year.
Committed to using the arts to help students engage with important social issues, Director of Dance Allison Duke says she and her colleague Amberlee Darling were eager to have their students participate in this year's OBR event when the opportunity arose. "We welcomed the chance to have the students connect with members of the community beyond campus over issues many of them cared deeply about." Wanting to enrich the dancers' experience and raise awareness within the school community as well, the department planned the complementary Winter Dance Concert — reaching out to the deans and student advocacy group such as Exonians Against Sexual Assault and the Fem Club during the planning process and inviting students to choreograph dances around relevant themes.
Student Choreographers Learn the Ropes
Heeter, whose voice alternately embraced and challenged the audience in Fisher Theater, became involved in the Winter Dance Concert at the invitation of her friend Elianne Lee '18, a co-captain of Dance Company; the two had taken the Poetry Stage elective together the previous year, and Lee suggested they collaborate on a poem set to movement. Heeter chose Kay's poem for its flowing rhythms. "It doesn't seem to have a real breaking point or end point," she says, "and I thought that would be cool to dance to." In addition to Heeter's piece, for which accompanying dancers choreographed their own movements, there were two other student-choreographed dances at the concert, along with video screenings, vocal performances by two of Exeter's a cappella groups, and three dances designed by members of the department.
A nondancer, Heeter was surprised by the amount of work that went into the performances and moved by the way all of the genres came together at the concert. She admires the way artists make the political feel more personal by engaging the audience on the level of feelings rather than intellect. "People sometimes get tired of hearing the same ideas being pushed into a political argument," she says. "But even if you have a hard time understanding arguments online, no matter who you are, you can still understand or hear the emotion behind a poem or dance or song."
In designing their dance, "Side by Side," good friends Emma Ibbotson '17 and Carolyn Girard '18 wanted their audience to feel inspired by a sense of possibility, not discouraged by dismal statistics. Interested in the idea that having the support of others can instill greater confidence and independence in individuals, the pair chose an upbeat song and choreographed a high-energy piece with a lot of jumps and turns, selecting movements that would highlight "the joys of working together as well as working alone," as they wrote in their choreographer's notes. "We really wanted the partner interaction," Girard says. "We don't really stop moving, and a lot of our movement involves doing things [together] and going off on our own."
Student choreographers go through a formal application process at Exeter, submitting their ideas for music, costumes and lighting to their instructors, who help to shape the concepts, monitor progress, and make themselves available to offer suggestions throughout the process. But once the ideas take shape, the young choreographers enjoy a fair amount of artistic freedom. "We might ask 'Would you consider different music?' " Darling says. "But after that, [it's] in their hands to create."
Katrina Schmitt '19 has been dancing competitively since she was 10, but she had never choreographed her own work until she came to the Academy. She is grateful for the opportunity to design her own dances, and she can see herself making a career out of it. "I love dancing, but I know that performing dance is a very short career," she says. "You don't age out of choreography." Schmitt, who participated in the Women's March for America in Boston in January, believes dance is a great outlet for speaking out about women's rights and social justice. Passionate about both, she spent most of her available free time last term designing a dance for the Winter Concert. The Theater and Dance Department is working toward making it possible to offer course credit to student choreographers, many of whom, like Schmitt, put in long hours outside of the formal dance curriculum.
For her piece, "I Will Be," performed to Florence and the Machine's song by the same name, Schmitt was inspired by the power of solidarity. The piece opens with a row of dancers who are facing a solitary dancer in their center, her back turned away from the spectators. Wearing ethereal costumes that fade from white to gray, the chorus of dancers lead their single counterpart forward while echoing her movements and lending encouragement throughout the piece. The dance ends on a triumphant note: As her friends hold her aloft above their shoulders, they turn her to face the audience and she smiles, her arms confidently outstretched.
Schmitt's objective for the piece was to motivate members of the audience to find the courage to speak out. In her designer's notes, she writes: "One person may not feel like they have the power to ignite change, but if everyone encourages each other to stand up for what they believe in, those who choose to remain silent can find their voice."
Embodying Feelings, Advancing Change
One of the benefits of participating in The Music Hall event was the opportunity for Exonians to interact with other members of the Seacoast community. During the first off-campus rehearsal in Portsmouth, a week ahead of a snowstorm that would postpone the concert until April, students immersed themselves in the New Hampshire dance scene, coming together with more than 80 professional and student dancers and choreographers of all genres and ages ("from tiny little girls with no dance experience to women upward of 50," as one dancer put it). Before the practices began, each of the choreographers had a chance to talk about their pieces, providing a glimpse into their creative process and inspiration.
Meghana Chalasani '17, who joined Dance Company her lower year and now heads up Shakti, Exeter's Bollywood dance club, enjoyed the sense of fellowship she found with the other performers in Portsmouth: "When we rehearsed with the other dance groups, I was entirely taken aback by the amount of talent, dedication and hard work that came together in the making of the One Billion Rising event. I walked away inspired and motivated to keep dancing and reminded that we are never alone in our battle."
Chalasani, who has been dancing since childhood, adds, "Arts are a means of expression that provide inspiration and induce solidarity. Coming to a dance concert like ours entails leaving behind previous thoughts, watching and listening, and taking something away from the performance." She suggests that the audience takeaway is heightened by the absence of language. "Sure, you can read an article or have a conversation about the exploitation of women," she says, "but there is something powerful in experiencing the embodiment of the issue through dance.
Michael Garcia '18, who participated in the Winter Dance Concert and rehearsed for the OBR event before it was postponed, has been studying ballet and jazz as well as hip-hop, tap and modern dance since he was a first-grader inspired by his sister's dance recital. His experience has given him firsthand knowledge of how the arts can put a human face on an issue that might not seem relevant. "It has definitely been interesting being not just the only male dancer in Dance Company but the only male dancer in a performance focused primarily on women's empowerment," he says. Garcia couldn't necessarily relate to all of the same struggles as his fellow performers, but their presence onstage together made him feel more intimately connected and aware of how these issues affect all of us. "I know now why it is important for all men to fight against violence and abuse in whatever way they can," he says. "For me, that was through dance."
Dance Activism — Rising up Together
Garcia's experience, and his belief that "feelings are the compelling force in advancing any cause," echo the principles behind V-Day and the OBR campaign — the hope that a change of heart will in time help to shape new behaviors as well. Last year's OBR event, which traced the narrative arc of a woman's life, was a powerful one for participants and observers alike. Several men in the audience shared with Sarah Duclos afterward that seeing their wives' and daughters' experiences reflected on stage helped them view the issues in a completely new, and profoundly personal, way.
For many of the dancers, the OBR experience has been transformative as well: "Just by sheer numbers — 74 percent of people working in the dance industry are women — we know we have survivors involved in our cast who have undergone these forms of violence," Duclos says. "To have that physical connection to the work, to take that pain, that strife, that history of abuse — to take it into your bodies and turn it into something so beautiful and communicative, something that makes people think — that is just so powerful," she adds. "And it's really started a conversation in our community."
Exeter's dancers were honored to help continue such an urgent conversation: On a clear night in early April, they appear on stage inside the historical venue in downtown Portsmouth, in front of hundreds of supporters and dance enthusiasts, for the benefit concert featuring everything from ballet, modern dance and belly dancing to West-African drumming and dancing, an impressive hip-hop group, and musical accompaniment by local performing artists.
Between performances, an offstage voice proclaims the dancers' reasons for "rising." As nine Exonians approach the stage for their first set, the announcer declares: "I rise for the women in their white sashes. They marched, they fought. They were jailed, they were beaten, and some lost their lives, but the battle was won. I rise for all who demanded a woman's right to vote." An empowering piece, "We Are," designed by Darling, is based loosely on the history of the American suffragette movement. It celebrates the courage and sacrifices that paved the way for many of the freedoms contemporary American women take for granted.
More somber in tone, the Exeter dancers' second piece, "Kathréftis" (Greek for "Mirror"), traces a young woman's journey of self-discovery as she begins to realize her own self-worth within the confines of an unhealthy relationship. Choreographed by Duke, the dance is announced by the words, "I rise for all of the women who are one half of the seemingly perfect partnership. The public and the private can so often be worlds apart."
The 14 other dances that evening express a complexity of experiences and emotions as well — some bearing witness to moments of struggle and pain, others reveling in the joys of solidarity and freedom. Taken as a whole, they reflect the dancers' common goals. Exeter dancers say they were inspired by the experience of coming together with fellow artists from across the state to help create a world free from violence and exploitation. Their combined efforts raised $7,000 for Haven.
Describing the event afterward, Ibbotson says: "It took people of all different ages and walks of life and brought them together to show what we can accomplish when we work together. I believe this issue is well worth fighting for, and to be included in the conversation as an individual and a school was an honor. Being part of such an inclusive, kind and caring environment, especially when every dancer is so different, gave me so much hope for the future and what we can accomplish if we put our heads together."
Editor's note: This article first appeared in the spring 2017 issue of The Exeter Bulletin.


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Updated Android
I've had a Samsung Galaxy S2 for about 2.5 years now, originally bought as a Vodafone contract handset. It's a great phone; nicely put together and reasoanably durable and powerful, but of late I'd got it in my head that the version of Android was getting on, and the combination of Samsung and Vodafone apps over the top annoyed me and cluttered the OS.
Enter Cyanogenmod, a community-generated derivation from the Android source. As the S2 is a popular device, it's well supported, and a quick prompt from a nice chap on Twitter pointed me in the right direction, and with a few Android developer tools installed on Ubuntu ( damned site easier than Windows), I was done. With the phone rebooted, I've got Android Kitkat, no Vodafone bloat, and a generic Android interface, and seemingly, better performance and battery life 🙂

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Two grants of up to £40,000 have been made available for voluntary organisations that support unpaid carers in the borough.
NHS Harrow Clinical Commissioning Group is offering the one-off grants to voluntary and community organisations supporting carers in Harrow.
The groups' chairman Amol Kelshiker said: "Harrow CCG has been working with carers to identify and provide more personalised support for their work.
"We want carers to have better support in their vital role by ensuring their health needs are met, respite is provided and short breaks are on offer.
"The carers' grants offer a great opportunity for charities and the voluntary sector to put their ideas to help carers into practice."
Those interested in applying for a grant can do so by clicking here.


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Orphan Works Legislation Would Be A Small But Important Step Toward Copyright Reform
from the baby-steps dept
We've long promoted the common-sense idea of orphan works legislation. Orphan works are works still under copyright whose present owners are unknown. This is a serious problem because there's no way to license orphan works and a big risk of a subsequent infringement lawsuit if they're used without a license. My co-blogger Jerry Brito has a post examining a pair of bills (one in the House, one in the Senate) that would address the problem. Under the proposal if someone is unable to find the owner of a copyrighted work after a diligent search, then the work could be used without the fear of a crippling lawsuit later. If a copyright holder comes along later, he won't be able to obtain draconian punitive damages. Rather, the court would estimate how much a reasonable licensing royalty would have cost and assign that amount to the copyright holder. One of the best things about this proposal is that it would give an incentive to copyright holders to start placing copyright notices on their works, something that was mandatory until the 1970s. If more copyright holders marked their works, that would dramatically reduce the orphan works problem going forward, because it would be easier for people to find copyright holders and negotiate licenses.
Of course, it should be said that "statutory damages" for copyright infringement -- which can be as high as $150,000 per work infringed -- are way too high across the board. It will be great if we can reduce that burden for the users of orphan works, but I'd like to see punitive damages lowered across the board so we don't see any more travesties of justice like the 2000 MP3.com case. In that case, the damages were so excessive that MP3.com couldn't even afford to appeal. Orphan works legislation is a good first step toward reforming the copyright system, but there's a lot more that needs to be done.
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The past two days we have been working in the refugee camp, which is 45 minutes away from Kibuye and about 3 hours outside of Kigali. The camp is mostly made up of refugees from the Congo. The last time I was here, (yes - that was the time I fainted and caused lots of fun drama and attention!) I met a woman named Nathalie. She's impossible to miss - she's the one with the unbelievable joy that seems to seep out from every pore in her body, the one with the musical laugh that sounds like wind chimes and the one with the stunning eyes.One glance at her and I was struck by how her eyes held years of wisdom, such deep, warmhearted kindness, a love for life and for people that was beyond belief, and a spirit that was calm and peaceful - one that exuded serenity to anyone who had the privilege of surrounding her. One glance at her and it hit me that those beautiful set of eyes could only belong to one other: Jesus. I felt connected to Nathalie from the beginning. I can't and don't want to go into the details of Nathalie's story, but this is what I do know… when Nathalie was young, her mother and father were killed by some rebels who came into her village. Then, in the early 2000's, another set of rebels came into the village again. At this point Nathalie was grown up and beautiful, and had 5 babies and a husband. Nathalie took her babies and ran, and her husband made sure she was able to escape with the children. In the chaos, Nathalie and the children ran one way, and her husband ran the other. To this day, Nathalie does not know where her husband is, or if he is even still alive. She is by far, one of the strongest, most amazing people I have ever encountered in my entire life. She is an incredible mother to five children. She has also started a small sewing business in the camp in order to be able to make some money for her family to survive. I bought many things from her, including a pair of awesome African earrings. They're my Nathalie earrings. Every time I wear them, I can remember this woman and how she changed my life. Nathalie had every reason to give up. And yet, somehow she still managed to find hope to make it through another day. She says her hope and strength can only come from Jesus. Life in the camp is not easy, and still each day she chooses to keep going, to keep loving her children, and to keep loving her Lord. Nathalie's eyes are very sore. They hurt her often, particularly after long hours at the sewing machine. I gave her my sunglasses because it felt like the least I could do. She gave me the biggest grin and plopped them on to her gorgeous face. I wouldn't consider myself an overly touchy person, and yet with Nathalie I constantly want to be stroking her back, or touching her hand. I need to show her that she means the world to me. Today as we were walking to her shop, her arm looped around mine and our fingers entwined together. I looked at her, touched my shoulder, then hers and said, "Nshuti." She laughed, touched her shoulder then mine and with a smile replied, "Nshuti." Nshuti means friend. I was serious - she is my friend. She feels like a sister to me. I feel like I've known her forever, and feel as though I'd like to know her for the rest of my life. I'm not sure if I'll ever be able to see her again before Heaven, but I do know that the brief time I've had with her seems like a miracle to me. I can't believe I've had the privilege and opportunity for my life and hands to be touched by Nathalie.
Precious, beautiful Nathalie, If you ever read this please know that I love you dearly. You have quickly become an inspiration to me, and I feel honoured and gratified to be able to call you my friend. You are beautiful, Nathalie. That's the only word I can really think of to describe you and yet I know it will never do your humble spirit and magnificent face justice. You will forever be my friend, and I look forward to the day we meet again in Jesus' presence. All my love, Aliza
"Don't forget to show hospitality to strangers, for some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it!" (Hebrews 13:2).


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Community Classes
As the first barre & yoga studio to plant our roots in East Boston, we want to make sure all Eastie community members can get involved and take classes if they wish to. Each month, we will be hosting a series of $5.00 Community Classes.
January Community Classes will take place
Saturday, January 6th, 13th, 20th and 27th from 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.


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Gardening is good for the soul. It's very literally grounding, gets you outdoors in the fresh air, involves physical activity and gives a great sense of satisfaction and achievement in producing your own food whilst enjoying the beauty of nature.
This will be a weekly group working to develop and nurture an area designated as the Recovery College Garden, within the St Nicholas Hospital site. We aren't able to provide appropriate clothing so please bring clothes and shoes (preferably boots) that you are willing to get dirty. The gardening group is weather dependent. Should the weather be particularly bad, please call Michael at the Recovery College who will be able to confirm whether the group is on that day, or not.
Time: 9.30am - 12pm
Day: Tuesday
Dates: 26th Feb, then weekly
Location: St. Nicholas Hospital
Contact: ReCoCo
Course leader: Michael Hall


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Stephen Mullen Insurance Ageny
3562 Langdon Common
Fremont, CA 94538
(415) 816 - 1573
CA license # 0H26119
Stephen Mullen is an Independent Insurance Agent with TPIS and brings a drive to build long lasting relationships with his clients.
In his previous 27 year profession as an architect, Steve was to taught to provide solutions to his clients. As a professional insurance agent he strives for the best possible solutions in coverage and price.
Steve along with his wife Nathalie, and daughter Sophie lives and works in the Bay Area and knows the community well. They enjoy their time traveling and exploring the great outdoors in the Bay Area and Northern California


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Radcliffe Chambers congratulates Mark West on his appointment by the Queen to be a Judge of the Upper Tribunal.
Kate Selway, a member of the Attorney General's A Panel of counsel, successfully represented HMRC in two First Tier Tribunal tax appeals (Reid & Emblin-v-HMRC) which concerned the correct procedures to be applied by HMRC under sections 9A and 12AC of the Taxes Management Act 1970 on the opening and closing of enquiries into taxpayers' self-assessment tax returns, how the enquiry process interacts with carry-back claims for loss relief and the relationship between personal and partnership self assessment tax returns.
Keith Rowley Q.C. and Elizabeth Ovey appeared for the principal employer in a Part 8 claim raising questions about the validity of the grant of increases to pensions earned by service before 6 April 1997 and consequential matters.
Marcus Flavin, Justin Holmes, and Josh Lewison all recently appeared in the case of Re Thunder's Trusts, English v Keats, in which the court was asked to declare that deeds of appointment made 19 years ago and intended to give an interest in possession to beneficiaries in each of three identical settlements should be deemed to be effective, even though a drafting error had resulted in one of the trustees (who was also the settlor of the trusts) not being a party to them.
Tina Kyriakides recently acted for the successful appellant in Oldham v Katz (acting as joint liquidator of MK Airlines), a case concerning alleged misfeasance by an administrator in paying administrators' remuneration.
Radcliffe Chambers is delighted to welcome Matthew Weaver, who previously headed up the insolvency group at St Philips Stone. He brings with him substantial experience in restructuring and insolvency, and general commercial litigation including company law, fraud, asset tracing and professional liability.
Head of Radcliffe Chambers Keith Rowley QC appears in one of The Lawyer's top 20 cases of 2018, Lloyds Banking Group Pensions Trustees Ltd v Lloyds Bank plc & Ors, due to be heard in July 2018.
Stephen Acton represented the successful landlord in a case called Ryan v Vambeck in which Mrs Recorder McAllister handed down judgment in Central London County Court on 25 January.
Radcliffe Chambers is pleased to announce that it has been shortlisted in the Legal Cheek awards for best barristers' chambers for training.
The Pensions Regulator has won a £13.7m pension scam case in which judgment was handed down on 23 January 2018: Pensions Regulator v Payae Ltd and others [2018] EWHC 36 (Ch).


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Average grace period on new external debt commitments, private (years)
Grace period is the period from the date of signature of the loan or the issue of the financial instrument to the first repayment of principal. To obtain the average, the grace periods for all public and publicly guaranteed loans have been weighted by the amounts of the loans. Debt from private creditors include bonds that are either publicly issued or privately placed; commercial bank loans from private banks and other private financial institutions; and other private credits from manufacturers, exporters, and other suppliers of goods, and bank credits covered by a guarantee of an export credit agency. More info »
Data source: World Bank, World Development Indicators - Last updated June 30, 2016


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Yoga is less about what happens in the practice, and more about how we are with what is happening in the practice. If we can approach yoga from this perspective of Self inquiry and curiosity, it becomes pretty impossible to have a 'wrong' experience. Every moment is simply an opportunity for deepening our awareness. How are we with what life is offering us?
The video below is my prayerful offering to the teachings of my teacher Shri Brahmananda Sarawati. Om!
"Do I have love or am I love?
Am I alive or am I life?
Am I conscious or am I consciousness?
Am I blissful or am I bliss?
Am I searching for ultimate reality or am I ultimate reality?"
-Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati


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'The Islamic Cyber Resistance Group' said it has hacked Israel Aviation Authority (iaa.gov.il), gained access to its LAN, extracted highly sensitive and top secret information regarding domestic and international flight maps, flight plans, etc. and controlled the iaa servers for months.
"The Islamic Cyber Resistance Group is proud to add another one to its line of success and announces access to the LAN of Israeli aviation organization, in a move to render the fake legend of Israel's security and invincibility obsolete," the group said in a statement released on wikileak.
"By the grace of God, we could gain access to iaa.gov.il LAN and in addition to obtaining sensitive information, seized full control over the management panel," it added.
The ICRG said it could wreak havoc on Israel by crashing every flying aircraft in Israel, but avoided doing so as ordered by Islam, implying that the Al-Qaeda or anyone else who caused the 9/11 attack were neither Muslims nor acting upon Koran and Islamic teachings.
"But as the world knows, killing women, children and innocent people is a profession exclusive to Israel and its neophytes, and we, as ordered by Islam, do condemn such moves and, thus, find it sufficient to release sensitive information to prove that we have had the access to the servers and downed the website," declared the group.
The ICRG further declared that it has gained access to "the flight management plans and were able to make online changes to them. Also by gaining access to ATIS/VOLMET system, disruption in data communications (such as flight routing and weather conditions) between plane and ground stations was possible".
The Muslim group said it had the servers and network of the IAA under control for months and downloaded a huge amount of data, analyzed and studied different modules of Israel's air traveling and aviation systems. "This brought us valuable information regarding flight communication structures and processes in Israel."
The ICRG has also released pages of documents information to display the veracity and authenticity of its claim. The publicized data includes domestic and international flight information Database, some of the flight briefing files which are only provided to pilots and control towers, management and flight routing software information, and weather condition maps (NOTAM).
The group said "at present all the data and information on the server has been wiped and the website is down".
To see the documents click here or click below.
The ICRG said the hacking operation, called OP-Israel, was an act of reprisal for the Israeli killing of "Islamic Resistance martyrs Maysara Abu Hamdiya, HassanAbdulAlhlym al-Turabi and Rami Bajes Alzlbany", the Palestinian prisoners who were killed in Israeli jails.
The ICRG came to raise its name among the best in the hacking industry after it downed the servers of the Saudi and Israeli armies as well as the Saudi Bin Laden Group of Companies, a main financial backup company of the terrorist Al-Qaeda network, in an operation in mid December in retaliation for the role the trio had played in the assassination of Hezbollah commander Hassan Hawlo Lakkis.
Haj Hassan Hawlo Lakkis, an Islamic Resistance leader, was assassinated in front of his home in St. Therese-Hadath on December 4, while he was on his way back from his work.
In the first operation, the Islamic Cyber Resistance Group said it hacked the Saudi army's servers and extracted crucial information and data, including the full information and files of 1,000 Saudi officers and agents.
The Saudi army is believed to be supporting the Al-Qaeda and the Wahhabi Jihadists fighting against the Syrian army now.
In a second attack, the ICRG hacked the Bin Laden Group of Companies and extracted more than 7GB of its top secret information and intelligence, including 5,000,000 secret documents. The group said it hacked "1400 PCs and 70 Servers and gained full access to SBG Domain Control and Email Servers".
In their third operation, the Muslim hackers infiltrated the servers of the Israeli army and extracted top secret intelligence and military information, including the personal files of hundreds of army officers, forcing Tel Aviv to shut down its army servers.
The Islamic Cyber Resistance Group said it has gained valuable intelligence in the hacking attack, named 'Remember Hassan Lakkis Operation'.
The Muslim hackers said the personal files, including the postal addresses, E-mails, contact numbers, military codes, etc. of 2014 Israeli officers and intelligence agents, were a small part of the information and intelligence it had extracted from the Israeli army.
The Islamic Cyber Resistance Group did not affiliate itself with Hezbollah or any other party or country, and identified itself as a group of true Muslim believers who would not withdraw from the war on Israel and terrorism.
The group warned that it takes the Israeli Mossad secret service and the Al-Qaeda responsible for the assassination of the Hezbollah leader, adding that the war on these two accomplices will rage on.
To see the documents of the ICRG's previous hacking attacks click here.


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Small Style, Hair Styles
There was a little bit of a hair situation going on in the EpB household. Toddler hair gone wrong. Major style.
But before we get into the nitty gritty, let's take a trip back in time and admire Miss S's luscious, curly locks.
Dress - Tea Collection (Trying my very best not to order a million things from the sale going on right now but OMG SO HARD)
Adorabs, right?
And then it all went wrong. Because of sleep. Seriously, around here, everything comes back to zzzz. Around the time were were teaching Stella how to sleep better on her own, she developed a little self-soothing mechanism - twirling her hair around her finger and thumb. Which was fine when her hair was short, but as it grew this habit became problematic.
On rough, restless nights, Stella would twist and twirl her hair until it encircled her fingers. In the mornings, I'd discover little hair rings, perfectly toddler sized, at the bottom of her crib. Or she'd wake screaming, her hair wound tightly round her thumb still affixed to her head, and cutting off the circulation in her little digits.
All that constant twirling and twiddling lead us to this point:
Outfit = Tea Collection
A very unfortunate undercut-type situation, plus a thin, scraggly mop on top. Delish.
Then Stella got sick last week. And this happened.
That's a matted, horrific dreadlock going on right there. Dirty hippies have no place under my roof, mkay? (Just kidding. I'm kind of a dirty hippy myself.)
I remained in denial about the necessity of a haircut, despite Mr. Chef's insistence. (Oh mah gawd, my baybee the passage of time and milestones and growing up and tears and blah blah blah etc etc etc).
Anyway, we did it. It was way less dramatic than I had assumed it would be. And now my Bella B has a cute little angled bob with choppy baby bangs and I die of adorableness.
Sweater - the old standby, Joe Fresh
And here are a few more, just so that you might fully appreciate the level of cuteness going on up in here:
Vest - Baby Gap; Sweater Dress - Baby Gap; Leggings - Joe Fresh
I love it - the cut is still messy and random enough to be babyish, but we no longer have that ridiculous mid-nineties undercut thing going on. However, Mr. Chef, the primary advocate of said hair cut, remains unmoved. He is convinced that the previous two poor nights sleep can be attributed to insufficient hair for twirling purposes.
To that I say, "WHATEVER!!! CUTENESS TRUMPS ALL THE THINGS."
Now I'm just praying that the curls will come back with the humidity. Please??


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GFF15 Review: The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014)
Set sixty-five years after the murders which inspired the original film, we return to the small American border town of Texarkana where a similar pattern of killings begin again. Since being spared by the killer, high school outsider Jami (Addison Timlin) sets out to get to the bottom of the case, as do both the Texas and Arkansas police forces.
Avoiding the dull conventionality of a complete reboot, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's screenplay carefully unfolds in a world where both the original films and killings that inspired it are completely real. In some respects vaguely similar to Wes Craven's Elm Street tour de force New Nightmare, 2014's Town feels more like an engaging homage than an attempt to kick off a potential series. Within this meta framework, Gomez-Rejon embraces the traditional grungy slasher dynamic of the seventies whilst manoeuvring and celebrating the best of director Charles B. Pierce's original film.
Stowed with footage from the original (the first set of new murders take place after a drive-in screening of the 1976 classic), this follow-up spares nothing in terms of brutality. Blood-soaked imagery, inventive locations, and taut direction ensure that the follow-on is a consistently tense and impressive genre piece. The return of the bladed trumpet, now seen in an attack at a dilapidated dumping ground for neon signs is blood-curdlngly grim, whilst a frantic chase throughout tall cornfields makes for another welcome set-piece.
Interestingly the team here present Texarkana as a town that has not moved on from past tragedy, with Pierce's film standing as a haunting reminder. Costumes and set design feel intentionally dated in an attempt to craft the unchanged, bleak atmosphere of the town, which provides the film with a unique aesthetic character. Within Texarkana we see the moral majority lead by the late Edward Herrmann's Reverend Cartwright attempt to move on and remove traces of the film, whilst simultaneously using it to boost church numbers by striking fear into the hearts of townspeople. This dichotomy - and several other interesting meta-twists - showcase Murphy's Town as one with a little more brains than the average slasher.
It would have been welcome to see Aguirre-Sacasa embrace the potential humour that works so well with the genre, as his film occasionally verges on over-serious and somewhat too self-aware - something that doesn't really work when you see someone impaled with a blade attached to a trumpet. Fortunately the cast of cult favourites clearly embrace the lighter side of the genre with some completely game performances. Denis O'Hare amps up the crazy as original director Charles B. Pierce's (fictional) obsessed son, whilst Veronica Cartwright is a welcome presence as Jami's loving grandmother. Gary Cole, the late great Ed Lauter, and Anthony Anderson add some charm to the policing roles, whilst Timlin proves herself to be a more than capable genre lead.
Fans of the original film are sure to enjoy the intelligent meta approach, whilst The Town That Dreaded Sundown is also likely to please B-Movie fans looking for some well-crafted shocks and bloodlust. With a cast brimming with cult favourites and some inventively gory set-pieces, Murphy's follow-up is a welcome treat.


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What are unsaid parts of a woman's life? These Quotes About Women will tell you all about those unsaid parts and feelings buried inside. It is truly said that a woman's heart is an ocean of secrets, and that is often regarded as something bad, isn't it? However when you read on these Quotes About Women you will realise that the reason behind all those secrets was love and loyalty every woman has for her loved ones.
Everyone knows that many a times there facts and news that could hurt very badly and there are not known incidents that can cause pain. A woman keeps all these hidden inside her for the good of others around her. If you don't consider this then at-least consider how much trouble and hardships a woman tolerates in this world dominated by men. She faces injustice and discrimination on every step of her life. So many times she is kept away from what she deserves only because she is a female.
This has to stop, enough is enough and this is not just a phase in this case. Men have to start respecting women for what she is, and that is the bringer of life or one could say the symbol of elegance. They are not sheep to be steered by men.


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[FPDI/GD] Samsung Makes 19-inch OLED TV by Using Printing Method
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd exhibited a prototype of a 19-inch TV equipped with an OLED panel made by using a printing method.
The TV features an active matrix OLED panel that the company claims is made by using an "inkjet method." Its pixel count is 960 x 540, which is about quarter that of full HD.
The resolution and luminance of the panel are 58ppi and 200cd/m2, respectively. It can display 16.77 million colors with an 8-bit color scale. And it has a 62% color gamut.
When asked about the commercialization of the TV, Samsung declined to comment, saying, "The technology is still under development."
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As you might know I tend to change my hair color very often. I go from light blonde to browns to red to black in a few months. I bleach my hair most of the time to get better results. My last attempt to go blonde did quite a number on my hair. Usually, my hair is ok with just one lighting treatment, BUT because I was on a mission to get all the red out of my hair and wanted to achieve a pale blonde, my hair suffered from the continuous bleaching sessions.
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text: "Classical music is dead" might seem like an odd slogan for a classical music ensemble, but The Nouveau Classical Project (NCP) has never been much for coloring inside the lines. Throwing away convention and enthusiastically embracing new kinds of audiences, NCP collaborates with designers and thrives at the intersection of fashion and art. Sacred-Profane explores a range of human polarity, pulling at loose strings until it unravels in a fitful explosion of profanity.


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CP&B has added a new executive creative director in its Los Angeles office. Sue Anderson of TBWA/Chiat/Day will join the shop, working with Co-Executive Creative Director Jason Gaboriau to lead the creative department.
Ms. Anderson is stepping into the position vacated by Tiffany Rolfe, who in May left the agency to join Co:Collective in New York as partner and chief content officer. Ms. Rolfe had been promoted to that role with Mr. Gaboriau in January 2011.
Ms. Anderson will be leading the agency's work for Microsoft. In a statement, Rob Reilly, partner and worldwide chief creative officer, said the agency has been "great fans" of her work for a long time and "couldn't ask for more" for its Los Angeles office.
At TBWA/Chiat/Day, Ms. Anderson was the global creative director on Absolut Vodka, where she worked on efforts like "Absolut Blank," which invited artists to use the brand's bottle shape as a blank canvas to create their art. She was also responsible for the beautiful "Greyhound" campaign, a futuristic TV spot and music video created in collaboration with Swedish House Mafia.
Before TBWA, Ms. Anderson was a creative director at Wieden & Kennedy, Amsterdam, working on P&G, Sharp, Coca-Cola and LEGO. She began her career at TBWA Hunt Lascaris in Johannesburg, where she spent 10 years.
"There are few places that rival the amazingness of things CP&B makes on a consistent basis," she said in a statement.


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A condemned Arizona man being executed for murder gasped for nearly two hours before dying late Wednesday, raising a fresh array of vexing questions about whether Americans can, ethically, continue to execute people sentenced to death by their fellow citizens.
The execution took so long – one hour and 57 minutes – that convicted double-murderer Joseph Wood's lawyers filed a stay of execution appeal in the middle of what they called a "horrifically botched execution." The stay was ultimately denied by Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy.
According to witnesses, Mr. Wood became unconscious a few minutes after drugs began to be injected into both arms. But the man then began to gasp uncomfortably – "like a fish on shore," one journalist noted – and wasn't declared dead for another two hours.
State Corrections Director Charles Ryan said the death was nevertheless humane and argued that Wood didn't suffer needlessly. His gasps were more like "sonorous … snores," Ryan said, suggesting Wood was asleep and comfortable as a drug that causes systemic shutdown took time to take hold.
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer called for a review into the execution, but noted that Wood's prolonged death stood in "stark comparison to the gruesome, vicious suffering that he inflicted on his two victims, and the lifetime of suffering he has caused their family."
Rebecca Dresser, a bioethics expert at Washington University in St. Louis, draws two conclusions about Wood's botched execution and the varied reactions from witnesses and officials.
One is that the untested drug combinations are now undermining the idea that executions should be quick, painless and ultimately humane.
The second, she says, is that, "given public views on the kind of person we're talking about, there's some sort of double standard at work, where [those condemned to death for inflicting pain and death on their victims] don't deserve the quality controls that we require for drugs for other people."
The broader issue being broached by America having to confront not-quite-painless executions is that it's a test of a cultural and legal idea – that "the way we advance in a civil rights manner is we move to a medical model" for executions, Dresser says.
But given resistance to oversight by doctors and even the Federal Drug Administration (which has begged out of testing state death penalty cocktails for efficacy and safety), "it's becoming harder and harder to maintain that the agent of execution is a medical method" because of the lack of testing and oversight.
Arizona, like other death penalty states, has been forced to re-engineer the "cocktail" of heavy drugs used to first cause a person to lose consciousness and then stop the condemned person's heart.
The reason? Concerned about their ethical involvement, European drug companies stopped supplying US states with a key drug, even as the sole US supplier stopped making the drug.
Media organizations that have reviewed cases comparing the old drug cocktail with the newer versions suggest that the new versions aren't working as well.
Meanwhile, the search for a new and humane death penalty cocktail has been plagued by secrecy. In most cases, state prison officials are refusing to give detailed information about their concoctions, given that publicity could cause drug-makers and pharmacies to stop selling their wares to state executioners.
At least partly as a result, Americans have witnessed a number of botched executions in their name recently. A Florida man executed last October with a new mix of drugs took a long time to become unconscious, and he "made more body movements" than people executed under the old formula, the Associated Press reported.
An Ohio prisoner in January took 20 minutes to die with a new formula as compared with the average of 10 minutes with the old, now-unavailable agents.
And in one of the worst botched executions up until Wednesday, an Oklahoma man in April regained consciousness, then writhed, grimaced and even talked as the drugs took hold. Panicked prison officials closed off a curtain to a room of witnesses and tried to stop the execution, but the man died 45 minutes later of a heart attack.
The immediate impact of the botched executions have been reviews and calls for deeper study by states.
The series of botched executions also brought back the specter of more primitive, but potentially more effective and ethical, ways of executing Americans, including firing squads. Missouri, for one, is considering bringing back the gas chamber to replace lethal injection.
Woods' lawyer, Dale Baich, said the ordeal supports banning the US death penalty altogether, a notion supported by Rob Freer, a human rights researcher with Amnesty International.
"How many more times do officials need to be reminded of the myth of the 'humane execution' before they give up on their experiment with judicial killing?" Mr. Freer said in an interview with Reuters.


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The Harmony of Parts: John Garabedian
The Harmony of Parts: John Garabedian
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By: John Garabedian with Ian Aldrich
This is a story about the struggle to make sense of an illogical world, the journey to discover life's real rules, and what it takes to achieve your highest dreams. It's the story of John Garabedian.
Few played more of an enduring role in the evolution of radio programming than Garabedian. From his start at WORC, a groundbreaking Worcester, Mass., radio station, to the launch of his own radio and television stations, to his long-running nationally syndicated show, Open House Party (broadcast on more than two hundred stations and listened to by millions every Saturday night), John Garabedian has packed a career that intersected, and often times boosted, the careers of music's biggest stars- Rod Stewart, The Who, Lady Gaga, and Taylor Swift, to name a few. But his is more than a story about the radio business. It's an American story, too. The son of an immigrant mother who instilled in him a belief in the American Dream and the passion to follow his heart, Garabedian rose to fame not by following the path others had set before him but by forging his own journey, no matter the obstacles. The roadblocks were many, including coming to terms with his sexuality long before the gay rights revolution ever took shape and fighting a near decade-long battle to secure the right to build his first station. Packed with color, humor, and poignancy, Garabedian's memoir reveals the rewards that come with living an authentic life and embodying the very words "be your dream" - the sign-off he uses each week to close his show.


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Something I anticipate every year is the Aggie Auction. This is an event held at my alma mater, UC Davis, proudly benefiting the school's athletic department's grant-in-aid fund helping support UC Davis student athletes.
This event is always a HUGE success and a sell out. This past Saturday night was no different.
Our dear friend, and MC of the event, Larry Swanson, has been in charge of this event years before I ever set my sights on UC Davis.
The amount of time and energy spent on making an event of this magnitude a success, takes on a life of its own. Somehow Larry pulls it off every year.
You would never know the enormity behind Larry's efforts by how flawlessly he makes it all look. Yes, he has lots of dedicated, hard-working staff but Larry through due diligence, helps raise an enormous amount of money for the school.
The UC Davis ARC Pavilion, where basketball, volleyball, wrestling and gymnastics are normally the venue, is transformed into a dimly lit formal event where tuxedos and formal gowns are the norm.
I know this photo is a bit dark but I wanted you to see how massive this affair is. See all the tables? Imagine putting on a sit down dinner for this many people. It's not easy.
During the banquet dinner a live auction takes place where incredible trips to places such as Australia & New Zealand, the Virgin Islands and Switzerland are sold to the highest bidders. Diamond bracelets and cases of California cult wine are also up for grabs.
Student athletes are dressed in formal wear and serve the dinner. It is always great to see the students come together and make it all happen. They are poised and take a sense of pride in what they are doing.
Before dinner a massive silent auction with over 2000 items takes place above the banquet dinner area.
This is just one shot of the many, many tables that have wines to bid on. There is something for every taste and budget available.
Here I am with my bid number ready to get to work.
One of the best parts of this event takes place while you are walking around bidding on all this great stuff. There are lots of wineries pouring their latest releases, food from the areas best restaurants and caterers, entertainment to watch and raffles to enter. Overall the atmosphere is pleasant without any pressure to purchase items which somehow makes you buy more!
So while there are unbelievable vacations, memorabilia, sports tickets, gift certificates from all kinds of restaurants, athletic equipment, wines and winery tour experiences I always have my sights set on a few things.
However, competition can be fierce and special items are often highly guarded by folks who want to make sure they take them home.
Here are a couple things I was interested in…
A magnum of Joseph Phelps Insignia.
Oh, how I wanted it. I put in a couple of bids but didn't keep up and it was an item many people were buzzing around.
This was another large format bottle I was longing for. I bid, I moved on, someone else has it at their home. I'm jealous.
The Wild Boar wanted to replace our dining room table with this item. Yeah, somehow that didn't go over.
Here is the UC Davis Aggie mascot, Gunrock the mustang horse, and I hoofing it up.
Gunrock started horsing around so I had to send him back to stables. Shame on you Gunrock!
So this is what I actually came home with. A case of wine, to accompany the other 400 bottles I already own!
This winery, was pouring their wines at the auction. I had never heard of them before but their 2005 Vine Hill Gatos Locos Pinot Noir, Santa Cruz Mountains was outstanding. I couldn't pass it up. I bid on the case and now it's mine. Yippee!
I also bid on a two night stay at our favorite B&B in Mendocino, on the Northern California Coast.
We never stay anywhere else when we go to Mendocino. This hotel is in one of the most beautiful spots on the rugged coastline. I'll be making our reservations today!
Of course we never leave the Aggie Auction without Applebee's gift certificates. My kids are obsessed with this chain restaurant. Of course I was outbid on the fancy restaurant's I tried to get in on. Maybe next year…
Here is what the Wild Boar had to have.
Free burger's and fries for a YEAR from IN-N-OUT burger, the best burger joint around. And this would be fine except he bid on three lots (and probably more) and won them all (there were at least 50 available). So essentially we have three years of burgers and fries gift certificates. I'm going to have to add a few miles to my daily walks with this stuff around.
We also bought 500 raffle tickets for a trip to Maui but we lost! Oh well.
It was a great evening and we enjoyed the fun we had with our table mates and close friends Paul, Tarri, Mike, Jana, Keoki, Scott, Ryan and Larry who was of course way too busy to sit since he was the master of ceremonies and live auctioneer extraordinaire!
Thanks for another great year Aggies, we'll see you in 2009!
By the time we were leaving, the auction had already grossed a whopping $515,000.00. Good job guys!
And thanks to the UC Davis Baseball and Wrestling team for carrying our wine out to the car! We really appreciated the gesture, and your muscles of course.


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WASHINGTON (MCT) — The United States, the European Union, China and Russia have agreed to resume long-stalled talks with Iran on its disputed nuclear program, potentially reviving the quest for a diplomatic settlement and easing fears of a military confrontation, the EU and the United States announced Tuesday.
Iran appeared to reciprocate, dropping a refusal to allow U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors into a military complex suspected of being involved in what the United States, the EU, Israel and other powers charge is a secret nuclear weapons program. Iran says that its program is for peaceful uses.
The decision to resume talks with Iran represents a political gamble for President Barack Obama, who was hammered Tuesday as being too soft on the Islamic republic by the Republican candidates vying to challenge him in the November election.
A collapse of new talks also could increase the likelihood that Israel — which views Iran's program as an existential threat — could unilaterally attack Iranian nuclear facilities. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeatedly asserted that right during a two-day visit to Washington that ended Tuesday.
Obama, however, insisted Tuesday at a news conference that there is a "window of opportunity where this can still be resolved diplomatically" — an apparent reference to a U.S. intelligence assessment that Iran hasn't yet decided to build a nuclear warhead.
"That's the view of our top intelligence officials. It's the view of top Israeli intelligence officials," Obama said. Netanyahu, whose visit included a two-hour meeting with Obama, also signaled Monday that he was willing to allow more time for diplomacy.
Obama, who has refused to rule out U.S. military action against Iran, stressed that even if negotiations resume, the United States would continue tightening unilateral sanctions that — combined with recently stiffened EU measures — have begun doing serious damage to Iran's economy.
"We are going to continue to apply the pressure, even as we provide a door for the Iranian regime to walk through where they could rejoin the community of nations by giving assurances to the international community that they're meeting their obligations and they are not pursuing a nuclear weapon," Obama said.
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton released a letter to Iranian Foreign Minister Saeed Jalili in which she said that Britain, Germany, France, the United States, China and Russia — collectively known as the P5 Plus One — have agreed to resume talks with Iran to resolve "longstanding concerns" over its nuclear program.
The six powers, Ashton wrote, "hope that Iran will now enter into a sustained process of constructive dialogue which will deliver real progress."
The date and location of the talks still must be determined, but there has been speculation that they could take place in Turkey.
Concerns that Iran is developing nuclear bomb-making capability have been fueled by a November IAEA report laying out extensive evidence that Iran researched building a nuclear warhead for an intermediate-range ballistic missile. The agency said Iran still might be pursuing some aspects of the "militarization" effort in secret.
In its latest report, the agency last month said that Iran has recently accelerated uranium enrichment at its main nuclear complex at Natanz, and at a plant built deep inside a mountain near the holy city of Qom in an apparent effort to shield it from airstrikes.
Iran claims that it is purifying 3.5 percent enriched uranium to 20 percent for fuel for a research reactor used to make radioactive isotopes for medicinal purposes. Experts, however, say that it's accumulating a large stock of 20 percent enriched uranium that will allow Iran to produce highly enriched bomb fuel faster, if it decides to do so.
The Islamic republic concealed its program from IAEA inspectors for 18 years until 2002, when it was disclosed by an Iranian opposition group that reportedly was fed the information by Israeli intelligence. The program was built with technology and know-how that Iran bought from a smuggling ring headed by A.Q. Khan, the father of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal.
Iran argues that it is allowed to enrich uranium for peaceful uses as a signatory of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the keystone of the international system designed to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons.
Ashton's letter was a response to a Jan. 14 letter from Jalili accepting her offer to resume negotiations.
Jalili's letter is seen by some experts as evidence that recently approved U.S. and EU sanctions designed to strangle Iran's income from petroleum exports have begun to seriously bite, leaving the country short of hard cash, disrupting its foreign trade and forcing a devaluation of its currency. The U.S. and EU measures are in addition to four rounds of U.N. sanctions.
"It seems likely that the increased pressure … might have prompted this willingness to come back to the table on Iran's part, but there is no doubt that in the past, they've used negotiations as a stalling tactic," said Valerie Lincy of the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control, a Washington policy institute.
But Iran also has responded to the stricter sanctions with a series of defiant gestures, including war games and a threat to blockade the Strait of Hormuz, the waterway at the southern end of the Persian Gulf through which some 20 percent of global oil supplies are shipped.
There are no assurances that the new talks will actually take place, let alone proceed beyond a first round.
Iran last weekend held parliamentary elections in which a majority of seats were won by hard-liners aligned with the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and opposed to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who appears more open to negotiations with the six powers.
Moreover, it's uncertain if Iran will agree to undertake — without immediately getting anything in return — what the White House called "concrete and practical steps" toward dispelling the concerns about its program. The last round of negotiations collapsed in part when Iran demanded the lifting of sanctions as a precondition to the talks.
A European diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to discuss the issue publicly, said that the new talks also would end if Iran renewed that demand.
"We would expect them to begin moving toward meeting existing U.N. demands without imposing unrealistic preconditions," the diplomat said.
Tommy Vietor, spokesman for the White House National Security Council, said that sanctions would continue until Iran fully complies with all U.N. resolutions, which include a demand that it suspend uranium enrichment.
The resolutions also require Tehran to reveal the history of its program, clear up IAEA questions about its alleged warhead research and halt the construction of a heavy water reactor.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague said in a statement that a longstanding offer to extend economic assistance and other incentives to Iran in return for its cooperation remained on the table.
"The onus will be on Iran to convince the international community that its nuclear program is exclusively peaceful," Hague said.
Iran announced that it would grant IAEA inspectors access to the Parchin military complex near Tehran — from which inspectors were barred during visits to the Islamic republic in January and February — once the sides agree on guidelines, according to the semi-official Mehr news agency.
Parchin is suspected of housing a massive vessel in which Iranian experts tested conventional high explosives used for nuclear weapons triggers. Recent news reports have raised the possibility that Iranian technicians may have been sanitizing the facility, eliminating traces of the high explosive tests, in preparation for an IAEA inspection.


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City Hall officials confirmed that the subpoenas went out but declined to name the aldermen or give any specifics, the Chicago Tribune reports.
One alderman has already been caught up in the federal case against Boender. Alderman Isaac Corothers (29th Ward) is accused of taking bribes from the developer – including $40,000 in home improvements, meals and tickets to a White Sox playoff game – in order to push zoning changes through City Council so that Boender could develop a 50-acre industrial site on the West Side.
Boender pleaded not guilty to four counts of mail fraud, two counts of obstruction of justice, two misdemeanor counts of violating federal campaign finance laws and one count of paying a bribe.
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Next Friday 3rd of May we celebrate the "Oops! & Sociedad Cerrada party.
Sociedad Cerrada was born in Berlin calling herself Geschlossene Gesellschaft. People from different nations initiated a project consisting in organizing private meetings dedicated to free expression, art, fantasy and extravagance for a open-minded public. They have slowly been growing in popularity and number of participants.
Day: Friday 3rd of May
Entree: 60€ + 4 drinks + locker
Its rules are very similar to the Swinger comunity therefore the swinger part of Sociedad Cerrada will join Oops! For one night.
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– Respect for all participants. Education and courtesy are signs of intelligence. Never judge, criticize or signel anybody. Learn from the differences.
– Dress for the occasion, evenings devoted to daring, art, creativity, fantasy and transgression.
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'Very irresponsible' to hold early elections in Ukraine
"The early elections will make things worse. It's a very bad solution, very irresponsible," Sieff told RT.
Daniel McAdams, executive director at Ron Paul Institute for peace and prosperity, shares this point of view, saying that elections can't be held with the situation as it is in Ukraine now.
"I've been an election monitor in early '90s in many contentious areas. You simply cannot hold elections in an environment of violence like this. It's virtually impossible to do," McAdams told RT.
"How is there any democratic legitimacy to having a mob on the streets demanding new elections?" he added.
The experts' opinion echoes that of the Ukrainian Prime Minister Nikolay Azarov, who made a statement at the Davos forum, claiming it is 'unconstitutional' to hold an early election. However, he claimed that the government is ready to resign if the parliament votes for this.
At the same time the Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich conducted a new round of talks with opposition leaders on January 23. If the protesters agreed to leave the area in central Kiev the authorities were ready to stop the use of force, release all those detained during mass riots on Grushevskogo Street, and consider reduced penalties for protesters who have already been arrested. The opposition leaders initiated a public vote at Independence Square and the majority of the protesters refused to accept the government's conditions.
Commenting on the current situation in Kiev, Martin Sieff says that there are no peaceful protesters any more, whereas rioters are stimulated by the Western support.
"We do not see peaceful protesters in Ukraine. We see highly organized violent protesters being encouraged by very irresponsible actions primarily of many European Union nations. It's extremely unprecedented and extremely dangerous," he said.
Daniel McAdams agrees, saying that "the protesters have become more radicalized because they have been encouraged all alone by EU and American politicians, who have been on the ground in the middle of the protests encouraging them."
"There are certainly plenty of blames that go to the EU and American politicians like the US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, who was handing out cookies at the square. And we all know her husband, the great neo-con Robert Kagan, who's in favor of revolutions all over the world, the former advisor to John McCain. So these people know all about the revolutions and favor them, and they have to share some of the blame for the bloodshed," he told RT.
Talking about the anti-protest law enacted by the Ukrainian government on January 16, which is believed to be a reason for the renewed unrest, Martin Sieff says that "the constraints under the new Ukrainian law are virtually identical to the laws of the US, and many European countries have harsher laws."
"Ukraine has not abandoned its democracy with its new laws, it is the violence in the streets that is threatening democracy in Ukraine. Any stable democracy is not decided on the streets, it is decided by due protest," Sieff said.
McAdams gives examples of the analogous anti-protest law operating in the United States, in particular, in Washington, DC.
"And it's all blamed on this new anti-protest law, which is virtually identical to any law you would see in the US. In Washington, DC, you are not allowed to wear a mask during protests, you are not allowed to have a tent, which was during the Occupy Wall Street violently turned down. You are not allowed have foreign funding of your political organization in the US, it's illegal," McAdams said.
He also argues that the high level of violence that can be seen in Kiev during the week is to be blamed on the rioters.
"Certainly the protesters are to blame [for violence]. The police are using violence – that's what the police do everywhere when they have to break up protests like this," McAdams told RT.
"There is an interesting symbiosis between people like Klitschko, who is seen in the US as a great opposition leader, and his radical provocateurs in the street, who are setting policemen on fire, throwing grenades at policemen, throwing rocks at them. Where in the world would this be tolerated?" he added.
The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT.


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I love this session for it's casual authentic beautiful real everyday lifeness (spell check says that isn't a word but I'm going with it). This is how Sukey and Cork, and their silly cute kids, Jack and Addie, keep themselves busy on those lovely long summer evenings, and I love that this is what they wanted captured and recorded: pictures of their summer memories.
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Ted Mullin 'Hour of Power' Relay: a Swimmer's Perspective/
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The Ted Mullin Leave it in the Pool Hour of Power tradition was brought to Pomona-Pitzer swimming by our head coach, Jean-Paul Gowdy, when he transferred from Wheaton College. As an incoming freshman, I was introduced to a multitude of new experiences, but the Hour of Power stands out clearly. Now, as a recent graduate, it remains one of my favorite memories. Nothing brings a team closer together than spending an hour racing, listening to music, eating cookies during the "sugar fuel break" and most importantly, raising awareness and money for cancer research.
As a rather clueless freshman, the Hour of Power seemed like just another fun workout designed to build team unity and individual motivation. I now realize it is so much more. Ted Mullin (1984-2006) was an inspiring, perseverant, talented young adult who is dearly missed. Ted was a history major and swim team captain at Carleton College but was prevented from completing his final season because of the recurrence of synovial cell sarcoma—a rare form of cancer.
For me, my Pomona-Pitzer Sagehen teammates, and teams across the country, this event is an opportunity to reflect on the pain and wreckage caused by cancer. Yet, it is also the chance to mitigate future suffering; it is a chance to provide people struggling with cancer opportunities that were not available to Ted Mullin. As the Ted Mullin t-shirt bluntly states, "Cancer Sucks." Hopefully, the Hour of Power will make cancer "suck" a little less for future generations.
Hour of Power Benefits
Funds raised from the Hour of Power support pediatric sarcoma research at the University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children's Hospital. Collegiate, high school, club, master or any other interested swim, dive or dryland teams are all invited to participate. Basically, put a team together and bring your positive energy to support an incredible cause. In 2014, 183 teams participated. The tenth annual Hour of Power will be officially held on November 10, 2015; however, teams may participate on any day that works best with their schedules.
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- Ted Mullin Fund
- Still contemplating action? Watch this video. It packs all the punch of Brian's Song into six minutes
About Ted
Ted began swimming at the age of 13, played trumpet in the high school jazz band and was an Illinois State Scholar. Spring of his college sophomore year, a malignant tumor was discovered behind his right knee interrupting his swimming and studies at Carleton College. From June to November, he underwent chemotherapy, radiation and surgery and then returned to campus until the disease was found spread to his lungs at the end of his junior year requiring more chemotherapy and lung surgeries. Despite all of these challenges, he still served as swim team co-captain. After a courageous two year battle, Ted died September 3, 2006 and the legacy of Hour of Power was born November 7, 2006 at the Carleton College Swim and Dive team (and Ted's) home pool. The Hour of Power was a chance for Ted's teammates to turn the pain of this great loss into something positive; they could literally leave their grief "in the pool" as they raised awareness and took action. This event to celebrate and commemorate Ted's life became a vehicle to improve the lives of many others.


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Obsessive!! Finally, this square peg belongs! I don't do large as well as I do obsessive. I love obsessive. I am a researcher and so enjoy the hunt.
Taking time - Thank you for this Jane. In the past I have had others tell me to just get on with things ... When I still needed to process. We all have our own pace. I am not a dawdler; I am very analytical and need to think about things.
Having said that ... I do know that there is a fine line between analyzing and overthinking!! At what point does researching and thinking become less instructive and more of an avoidance tactic? When it is no longer useful? Answer: When thinking is just rehashing and not progressing - and this is not something that can always be easily defined as an exact amt of time. This will be different. Every. Single. Time.
On a current piece, although working to a deadline (which does help but has its own issues, too), I am still allowing myself the needed a-ha moments and time for reflection/analysis at appropriate intervals as 'dictated by the piece'. This is making me very happy and pleased - A great place to be!
p.s. As I was sorting through papers this weekend, I came upon a printout of my "Earliest Memory of Cloth" and a list of words that came to mind or prompts that I had listed to describe my thoughts. I thought that having a print copy would be easier to find ... I re-read the paragraph and the list and was delighted to have that tangible reference in my hands. It brought all sorts of memories and ideas flooding back. Hmmmm there might be something to this journaling!


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A hire scheme has been established for students with the prime objective being to keep the costs of equipping students with school texts and resources to a minimum. Membership in the scheme is voluntary and provides provision for all necessary textbooks, school prepared materials, consumable levies, school diary and various technical manuals. Excursions and cookery ingredients and sewing materials are not covered by the scheme. All demonstration cookery which is consumed at school, is covered by the scheme.
The Resources Scheme office is open from 8.30 am to 2.30 pm, Monday to Friday. The scheme convenors may be contacted by telephone on 4669 0953.
Lockers are also available for hire through the Resource Centre for $40 per annum (cash or cheque only). A Locker Agreement Form must be signed by the student and parent prior to hire.
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what is the normal exhalation and inhalation duration(in seconds respectively) in a single breath for a average adult
The length of the breathing depends on the characteristics of the person and of what he is doing. We cannot talk of 'normal duration in seconds of exhatlation and inhalation.' A breathing reference for a given person could be the rythm of breathing during a calm healthy sleep in an appropriate environment and temperature with which we could then compare his other forms of breathing.
I have learnt the wispered ah as part of the Alexander Technique. I personally find it very useful, at least when done properly. However, you state that no breathing exercices are part of the Alexander Technique. Is the whispered ah part of the AT? Can breathing exercises help to free our neck and Co.?
I will try to clarify for you what I mean when I say that we don't teach breathing exercises in the Alexander Technique. But before that: yes the whispered ah is taught in the Alexander Technique. Is there any contradiction there? I don't think so because of the difference of aim between what we call commonly breathing exercises and the whispered ah. Usually breathing exercises are done to improve breathing. People expect from them direct results. I don't say that this apply for breathing exercises as taught within certain traditional or esoteric techniques where the pupils follow a long and different path than what you find usually in classes in the West.
You don't start with the whispered ah. The whispered ah is a procedure in the Alexander Technique which is taught when the pupil is using himself sufficently well as to be able to start with the whispered ah without loosing his overall coordination, which includes already an improved breathing. Then yes the whispered ah will help improve the breathing even more, but more than anything else it will help getting rid of the preconveived ideas about breathing and allow in its turn to give even better directions to oneself and improve the use of the neck and head,and so on. I hope my answer is clear for you. Regards.
See also Thinking Aloud, by Walter Carrington, chapters on Breathing and whispered ahs.


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I love cats and want to keep ours indoors - but also wanted to be free from the smell and mess that comes with litter boxes in the house.
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School Tours are offered in the fall and are generally booked during the summer and fall. Our presentation is designed for Kindergarten through the 4th grade. Children, their teachers, and chaperones are given a tour of our facilities including the bakery, cider mill, cold storage, and apple-packing area. The tour also includes a trip to the orchard to pick an apple, and the children get to see how cider is made. They will receive a cup of cider, a donut, a tractor pulled wagon ride, and a gift to take home! Cost is $6/person including parents. Teacher and one aide are free. Gluten Free donuts are available for an extra $2 each (please inform us when scheduling how many you will need).
Please e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com or call 616-361-5567 for information and available times. Ask for Karey, Diane or Elizabeth.
Adult educational tours are also available for $6/person (minimum of 10 people) and includes a wagon ride, cider and donut. Gluten Free donuts are available for an extra $2 each (please inform us when scheduling how many you will need).Give us a call to schedule.
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About Lions Camp Fjalir 2019
NEW application deadline is May 1th 2019. Find out what the camp is all about and how to apply.
We look forward to arrange a new camp in 2019 for disabled youngsters!
The Camp
The camp is located in the western part of Norway, surrounded by a beautiful scenery of fjords and mountains. The base is in UWC Red Cross Nordic,
N-6968 Flekke. Campus is wheelchair accessible.
To learn is to discover. To create understanding, tolerance and peace.
- Camp period: 12 days
- Participants must arrive at Bergen Airport (BGO) on July 3th before 16:00 pm. Transportation from and to the airport will be arranged by the camp.
- Departure will be on the July 14th from Bergen Airport Flesland (BGO) after 14:00 pm.
- We will meet you at the airport and take you by bus to the camp (approx. 4 hours drive).
- We are not able to host the participants in Bergen, so any extra days will be at their own expence.
- No host family
The camp program has many outdoor activities, with a special focus on maritime practice. We also challenge the participants to do abseiling, archery etc. They will be introduced to our culture and daily life, and we offer a visit at a popular folk festival.
Climate and clothing
In summertime the temperature in Norway varies from 12 to 25°C, and participants must be prepared for rainy days. Bring warm and waterproof clothing, ordinary summer cloths and good footwear. The activities will to a great extent take place outdoors.
General conditions
Lions of Norway pay all the expenses regarding the stay at the camp in Norway. We are not responsible for the travel costs to and from the location. No camp fee.
Who can participate?
- Physically disabled only (not mentally), between 18-25 years. Both sexes.
- Youth who are willing to take part and enjoy physical activity.
- Participants must be able to communicate in english.
The application
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Lions club or other organizations must make sure the application form, including all requested information, are correct and sent before the deadline.
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A health declaration from your doctor, in english, will be appreciated, enclosed with the application. The information provided will be confidential.
The participants must be able to take part in our activities. If you need assistance getting dressed, during meals, using the restroom etc. you MUST bring an assistant f the same sex.
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Application deadline is May 1th 2019.
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