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Edge banding is a simple, low-cost addition to make doors and panels stand out, especially in pieces from the Federal period. Last week I showed how I added edge banding to my tall clock. As I trimmed banding flush to the panel and door, I flipped a corner area out which called for a repair. This week I'll show a simple fix, then give you a couple ways to rout in string grooves to hide where the banding and veneer meet.
To trim banding flush, as you may expect, I use a router and flush-cut router bit with a bottom-mount bearing. I learned years ago that if you expect edge banding – short pieces positioned so the grain runs perpendicular to edges – to keep from massive destruction, you better climb cut as you trim – you are trimming end grain.
As I worked on my tall clocks, I learned another valuable lesson; Cut straight in at your corners. I made a climb cut along the bottom edge of my door panel, and as I began the cut the bit flipped out part of the corner. If you push directly in at the corner – follow the mitered line formed at the corners – the pressure of the cut is such that your banding stays intact.
If you look at the photo above you may think that little bit of missing banding is not a big deal. In fact, there is a small piece gone from both mitered corner pieces. The left-hand missing piece is small enough to be hidden by a piece of stringing yet to come, but with the right-hand piece I was not so fortunate. Thus the repair.
I know I'm not providing any earth-shattering technique never seen before as I demonstrate this fix, but that is the point. Edge banding is easy to do, and edge banding repair is simple. (We are woodworkers, if it was difficult or hard we would not do it.) To fix this defect, draw a line with your pencil of marking knife then cut away a small piece of banding. If possible, undercut the edge as you work to make sure you get a tight fit with your patch.
Find a piece of leftover banding that has a similar grain match – this should be easy to do because all your banding pieces are cut from one or two pieces of scrap as shown in the previous post – then glue the patch in place. After the glue dries, trim the patch flush with your edge. Simple, huh?
Where your banding and veneer meet is where you plow the groove for stringing. I suggest a couple different setups depending on what tools you have available. If you have a guide fence to fit your router, install a 1/16″ straight bit in your router, position the bit so your groove splits the banding/veneer intersection then make your cut, as shown in the top photo below. If you do not have a fence that fits your router, then you need a guide bushing and a shop-made straight edge, as shown in the lower photo. For this operation, you need to calculate the measurement from the edge of your guide bushing to the center of your router bit, or how far from the intended groove you need to affix your straightedge in order to cut the groove at the banding/veneer intersection – off course, this depends of your bushing.
This is easy-to-do woodworking with spectacular results. Give it a try. It works just as great on small boxes, too.
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Anyone here going other than me?
It's in Las Vegas at the Rivierra hotel.
"I sat, bored to death, around dull and dim-witted people for crappy $20 t-shirts." - Your Average Con attendee.
I'll be there for the blackhat briefings and defcon.
TH13: if yer around for BH as well, stop by the nCircle booth and ask if I'm around...(that goes for anyone else that's there as well).
Black Hat is worthless to me. It's become too commercial. I will certainly be at the CON though. Where will you be? Hit me up on IM and I will pass along my cell phone #.
Spec, the DEFCON show itself is full of numbnuts, however, it's the "un-official" CON events that provide wonderful amounts of info. This is why I still go.
I'll be there, been working on my lockpicking. Not sure how I'll do in Gringo Warrior though.
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Missing it for the first time in a while this year :(
Figured I'd bump this thread...
I'm flying out Tuesday night and I'm there til Sunday Afternoon.
Anyone else going? PM me (or TH13... as we'll be meeting up there) and let us know.. I've been swapping cell numbers with people so that we can text message for meetups and parties.
Hey guys, it's been a while. My first time going to DefCon, hope it's going to be good. I've been advised to stay away from text messaging at the event, don't know how true this is? See you guys there.
Good luck to all you guys.............. sure, I am as jealous as hell.
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I am hesitant to admit that a profound spiritual experience propelled me to start writing, because it wasn't the experience that was so unique, but what I discovered when I looked back out into the world. I realized that a massive Machiavellian misdirection by our world's belief systems had hijacked our ability to see truth within ourselves. Instead, people were either ignoring the spiritual altogether, or simply swallowing what others had set before them, without further thought. The human race was losing its connection to its Spirit, and therefore its ability to discern the real truth, especially in terms of the strange and unexplained.
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Míngtáng 明堂 Hall of Light (or Bright Hall)
Of course, there is a sacred building to use for imperial ceremonies in the history of ancient Chinese culture but for us now more important is the Hall of Light mentioned in Ge Hung's (283-343) Baopu zi and its location one inch behind the area between the eyebrows. More detailed description can be found in the article written by Martina Darga.
I cannot add to this note much enough. In the acupuncture textbook this is the place for Yìntáng 印堂 (Hall of Impression) which corresponds to the area ascribed to the 'third eye' by many traditional cultures, and has been classified by some qigong authors as the location of the upper dāntián 丹田. That is an extra point, it does not belong to Rèn Mài 任 脈 (The Conceptor Vessel) or more exactly to Dū Mài 督 脈 (The Governor Vessel).
Speaking on many traditional cultures let us make one step into the Indian heritage of yoga. The region between two eyes is called ājñā chakra (the sixth chakra of classical set of seven or eight in Kuṇḍalinī yoga) and followers denote it like the inner mind's eye to sense subtle energies and to be a gateway flooded with infinite wisdom, insight, and inspiration. So far so good.
Inside martial art practitioners' milieu and Dim-Mak 點脈 (diănmài) reference books (Erle Montaigue and Wally Simpson, for example) this acupoint is translated 'decorating place' and described like causing KO and sometimes called 'the old evangelist's point' which sounds curious enough.
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The clock is ticking down on the number of days left in 2013 for Congress to enact legislation, but not even the government shutdown could stop a long-planned rally to put pressure on Congress to pass immigration reform. The Senate passed a comprehensive bill in June, but the House has been stalling. Conservative representatives are determined to stop any measure which would allow immigrants who are here illegally to stay in the U.S.
Capitol police made scores of arrests for alleged acts of civil disobedience during the rally, including eight members of congress who counted themselves among the protesters.
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"Those of us who have the piece of paper and peace of mind that ensures our return home tonight to our families must fight for those who do not have that piece of paper or that peace of mind," Gutierrez said, in a speech made a few hours before he was arrested along with other protesters.
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The rally was the last in a series that had taken place across the country during the summer and in the weekend just before the demonstration on the Mall. Protesters stopped traffic around the Capitol, and members of the country's largest labor unions assisted with crowd control.
In spite of the closure of memorials and monuments during the government shutdown, the demonstration was permitted on First Amendment grounds. Organizers had estimated that tens of thousands would attend. However, obtaining an accurate count was impossible, as Capitol Police were not answering the phone.
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Egypt is off the front pages of American newspapers. It was only a matter of time, a week or so, for the story to run its news-cycle course. Today it's the Trayvon Martin verdict. Race remains the American divide.
Watching President Obama twist and turn with the verdict is interesting. He knows that vigilantes come in different forms and that often in American history such behavior has been sanctioned by the legal system. As our first African American President, though, what is he to say?
Nonetheless, anyone who has followed the Trayvon Martin case can only despair that America produces – and sanctions – so many George Zimmerman's.
Despite the lack of interest, the unfolding events in Egypt merit attention. Vigilantism is American as apple pie but is found far from our shores as well. The Egyptian army is vigilante behavior – organized. The Muslim Brotherhood isn't above vigilantism either.
The Guardian reports that the Muslim Brotherhood is in negotiations with the army. Who would have thought?
The negotiations are stylized. Each party is trying to assert itself while saving face. The Muslim Brotherhood is demanding Morsi's reinstatement so his legitimacy as President is recognized – with the proviso that Morsi would immediately call for new elections. They're posing. The Muslim Brotherhood knows the army isn't going anywhere near that proposal since it would delegitimize the army's actions in the first place. Since the army has the upper hand, why would it give the Muslim Brotherhood a huge victory within its overall defeat?
What's the Muslim Brotherhood's end game? The only hope for the Muslim Brotherhood is a guaranteed place in the new government. Yet that hope is shadowed by the New York Times report that the bank accounts of top Muslim party officials and supporters are being frozen. No doubt that includes the Muslim Brotherhood officials who are in jail and on the run.
The Egyptian army is ascendant. Despite its following, the Muslim Brotherhood is on its heels. Any place in the new government for the Muslim Brotherhood will be symbolic, restrictive and monitored.
I can't imagine the Egyptian army allowing any real possibility of the Muslim Brotherhood returning to power through negotiations or later through elections. Egypt will go Islamist only over the army's dead body. That dead body would also include the progressive forces that have aligned themselves with the military.
Those within Egypt and Egypt watchers should brace themselves for yet another decade of military/civilian repression. Any liberality will come within repression. But that was true with Mubarak. The idea that Mubarak's rule was only and everywhere repressive is untrue. Like most dictators, Mubarak guided Egypt through an era of modernization. The stability his rule afforded was important to that (extremely uneven) effort. Stability without repression in Egypt remains unexplored territory.
This may be a central factor in the army's seizure of power. Egypt's deep state could only see instability ahead and a retreat from Egypt's modern course it is so heavily invested in. Islamist politics represents a retreat for them. To allow its reemergence now would be folly. The most the Muslim Brotherhood can hope for is a place to bide their time – again.
The state is right to discipline religion. Religion in power is so hypocritical it drives people into exile from the very religion they once embraced. In fact, the hypocrisy found in religion when it has power is rivaled by only one other hypocrisy – the state exerting its power.
The state rightly disciplines religion when it has power. Who is going to discipline the state?
In Egypt, the army keeps pointing at the Muslim Brotherhood – understandably. The Muslim Brotherhood keeps pointing at the army – understandably. Progressive forces keep pointing at the Muslim Brotherhood – understandably – and wants to point at the army – but can't afford to. The reason is the progressive forces don't have the power of their own.
But then the army and the Islamists are afraid of progressives that might come to power without anyone to discipline it. Of course, progressives can't imagine why they might need to be disciplined. Progressives see forces that want to discipline them as vigilantes.
Is this Egypt's fate, to be eternally contested by vigilantes of different stripes?
Is Egypt only a microcosm of a world contested by vigilantes?
The George Zimmerman's of the world. If we think, it's only an American issue, we're kidding ourselves.


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After watching Hocus Pocus more times then it is socially acceptable this October, we decided it would be the perfect costume for the three of us! We visited every store in the mall searching for parts of our costumes! We picked out fabric from the local craft store for our friends mom to help us with Winny's outfit and Sarah and Mary's capes. ' outfit and Sarah and Mary's capes. It definitely wouldn't have been possible without her help! We had a blast with the costumes and stated movie lines all night. It took lots of preparation, but it was definitely worth it!
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Argued Aug. 12, 1997.
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Lori J. Ulrich, Office of Federal Public Defender, Harrisburg, PA, Daniel I. Siegel (Argued), Office of Federal Public Defender, Harrisburg, PA, for Appellant.
Gordon A.D. Zubrod (Argued), Office of the United States Attorney, Harrisburg, PA, for Appellee.
Argued Aug. 12, 1997.
Before: ALITO, LEWIS and McKEE, Circuit Judges.
Reargued July 8, 1998.
Before: COWEN, ALITO and McKEE, Circuit Judges
McKee, Circuit Judge
Willie Lee Tyler ("Tyler") appeals his convictions on charges arising out of the killing of Doreen Proctor, a government witness who was scheduled to testify against Tyler's brother, David, the day after Proctor's murder. Tyler, David, Roberta Ronique Bell and others were subsequently arrested and charged in state court. Tyler and Bell were acquitted of murder in the state prosecution (though they were convicted of conspiracy to intimidate a witness) and were thereafter separately prosecuted for witness tampering and related offenses in federal court. Tyler was convicted of conspiracy, witness tampering, and a related firearms offense in the federal prosecution, and this appeal followed. He raises several assertions of error, however, we only discuss his assertion that the district court erred in denying his motion to suppress certain custodial statements. His remaining assertions are either meritless or waived with the exception of his challenge to the court's jurisdiction under 18 U.S.C. § 1512. We will mention that assertion only briefly as we have already disposed of that claim in the appeal taken by one of Tyler's companions. For the reasons that follow, we will reverse the district court's order denying suppression of the statement Tyler gave after being given his Miranda warnings, and remand for proceedings consistent with this opinion. 1
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In April 1992, David Tyler was to be tried in the Court of Common Pleas in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania on criminal charges related to drug trafficking. Doreen Proctor, a government informant for the Tri-County Drug Task Force in Central Pennsylvania, was scheduled to testify against him. Ms. Proctor had previously testified against several individuals, including David Tyler, during a preliminary hearing in state court in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. However, the day before David Tyler's trial was to begin, David Tyler and his cohorts severely beat, stabbed, and shot Proctor. Her mangled body was discovered the next day.
On July 9, 1992, police arrested Willie Tyler for the murder of Proctor and took him to the Carlisle Borough Police Department. After an officer gave Tyler his Miranda warnings, 2 Tyler stated that he did not wish to make a statement, and the officers refrained from further interrogation.
Tyler was then taken to the State Police Barracks in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania for re-arraignment. 3 Detective Ronald Egolf of the Carlisle Police Department was assigned to guard and process him. Upon arriving at the barracks, Tyler was taken to a small room and, at about 10:00 pm, he and Detective Egolf engaged in a discussion that included hunting, Tyler's education, and Tyler's mother's health. Although it is clear that the police and Tyler were engaged in a discussion up until 10:55 pm, it is not clear how many police were involved, nor exactly what was said. It is clear, however, that at approximately 10:55 pm, Tyler began to cry, and the police again warned him of his Miranda rights. This time Tyler gave an inculpatory statement that was introduced against him at his trial.
Eleven days later, on July 20, police obtained another statement from Tyler while he was in custody in Adams County Jail. The government maintains that the officers repeated Miranda warnings, that Tyler verbally acknowledged that he understood them, and that he proceeded to orally waive those rights and give another inculpatory statement. That statement, which was also introduced against him at trial, differs from the July 9 statement in that in the later statement Tyler states that David wanted only to "scare" Ms. Proctor. Def. Exh. "J". In his earlier statement, Tyler had said that David wanted to kill her.
Tyler filed a motion to suppress all statements made on July 9, and the statement he made on July 20. The district court granted Tyler's suppression motion as to any statement Tyler may have given on July 9 before receiving Miranda warnings ("the 10:00 pm statement"), 4 but denied it both as to the statement he gave after he was warned ("the 10:55 pm statement"), and the statement he later gave on July 20 in the Adams County jail. Tyler now argues that the district court should have suppressed both the 10:55 pm statement and the July 20 statement. Although we agree that the district court erred in denying the suppression motion as to the 10:55 statement, we cannot, on the basis of this record, make a determination as to the July 20 statement. Accordingly, we will remand to allow the district court to make an appropriate inquiry into the admissibility of that statement. If the court concludes that the July 20 statement was properly admitted, it must then determine whether or not the
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error of admitting the July 9 statement was harmless.
Before addressing the substance of Tyler's challenge to the district court's rulings on the suppression motion, we first note that Tyler also argues that there was insufficient evidence to sustain a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 1512(a)(1)(A) and (C) (tampering with a federal witness, or interfering with a federal investigation). We need not discuss that contention, however, because we recently rejected the identical contention of codefendant, Roberta Ronique Bell, in her appeal from her conviction based upon her involvement in the murder of Ms. Proctor. See United States v. Bell, 113 F.3d 1345, 1348-51 (3d Cir.1997). We reject Tyler's argument that the evidence did not establish federal jurisdiction under that statute for the same reasons that we rejected the identical arguments of Ms. Bell.
The 10:55 pm Statement
Tyler maintains that the district court erred when it admitted the 10:55 pm statement that was taken on July 9, after he had exercised his right to remain silent. We exercise plenary review as to the admissibility of each of the challenged statements. United States v. Benton, 996 F.2d 642, 644 (3d Cir.1993) (citing United States v. Calisto, 838 F.2d 711, 717-18 (3d Cir.1988)).
There is no dispute that Tyler was in custody when he gave both the 10:55 pm statement and the July 20 statement.
In Miranda v. Arizona, the Supreme Court held that
[W]hen an individual is taken into custody or otherwise deprived of his freedom by the authorities in any significant way and is subjected to questioning, the privilege against self-incrimination is jeopardized. Procedural safeguards must be employed to protect the privilege and unless other fully effective means are adopted to notify the person of his right of silence and to assure that the exercise of the right will be scrupulously honored, [certain warnings] are required.... But unless and until such warnings and waiver are demonstrated by the prosecution ... no evidence obtained as a result of interrogation can be used against him.
384 U.S. at 478-79, 86 S.Ct. 1602 (emphasis added). The Supreme Court elaborated upon this in Michigan v. Mosley, 423 U.S. 96, 96 S.Ct. 321, 46 L.Ed.2d 313 (1975). There, the Court succinctly stated: "We ... conclude that the admissibility of statements obtained after the person in custody has decided to remain silent depends under Miranda on whether his right to cut off questioning was scrupulously honored." 384 U.S. at 104, 86 S.Ct. 1311 (emphasis in the original text).
When Tyler was taken to the police barracks after asserting his right to remain silent, he was placed in a small room, the walls of which contained a timeline of the murder investigation and crime scene photographs, including two photographs of the body of Doreen Proctor (one of which was in color). He remained there for hours. In his report, Trooper Graham stated that he, Detective Ronald Egolf and Troopers Donnelly and Fenstermacher began "talking to" Tyler at about 10:00 pm, even though Tyler had previously told them that he did not want to make a statement. Graham also stated in his report:
While talking to Tyler he became very emotional and began to cry. Mr. Tyler stated he did not know they were going to kill Doreen Proctor and that he was there when it happened but did not see if Roberta Ronique Bell or Jerome Kenneth King did the shooting. He did however relate that those two subjects were the only people back there when it happened and that his brother David James Tyler had remained in the first vehicle with him. David James Tyler was [leaning] out of the car, crying and yelling, "We got to kill her now," "We got to kill her now."
At this time Mr. Tyler was stopped and again advised [of] his Miranda warnings by Trpr. Fenstermacher and Mr. Tyler signed the Rights Waiver form which is attached to this report....
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D.Ct. Op. at 7. According to Graham, it was at that moment that Tyler revealed all that happened the night of the murder and the identity of those involved.
Detective Egolf's testimony at the suppression hearing sharply conflicted with Trooper Graham's account of the evening. Egolf claimed...
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Option for the poor
The option for the poor or the preferential option for the poor is one of the basic principles of the Catholic social teaching as articulated in the 20th century.
Theological significance
According to proponents of this principle, the "[preferential] option for the poor" refers to a trend, throughout the Judeo-Christian Bible, of preference being given to the well-being of the poor and powerless of society in the teachings and commands of God as well as the prophets and other righteous people. Jesus taught that on the Day of Judgment, God will ask what each person did to help the poor and needy: "Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me."[1] This is reflected in Catholic canon law, which states, "The Christian faithful are also obliged to promote social justice and, mindful of the precept of the Lord, to assist the poor."[2]
According to said doctrine, through one's words, prayers and deeds one must show solidarity with, and compassion for, the poor. Therefore, when instituting public policy one must always keep the "preferential option for the poor" at the forefront of one's mind. Accordingly, this doctrine implies that the moral test of any society is "how it treats its most vulnerable members. The poor have the most urgent moral claim on the conscience of the nation. We are called to look at public policy decisions in terms of how they affect the poor.".[3]
Pope Benedict XVI has taught that "love for widows and orphans, prisoners, and the sick and needy of every kind, is as essential as the ministry of the sacraments and preaching of the Gospel".[4] This preferential option for the poor and vulnerable includes all who are marginalized in society, including unborn children, persons with disabilities, the elderly and terminally ill, and victims of injustice and oppression.
Origin and usage
The phrase "option for the poor" was used by Fr. Pedro Arrupe, Superior General of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in 1968 in a letter to the Jesuits of Latin America.
The principle was articulated by the Catholic Bishops of Latin America (CELAM) at the influential conferences in Medellin and Puebla, as well as by several popes, particularly Pope John Paul II.
Pope John Paul II's encyclical Centesimus annus (1991) elaborates on this principle, declaring it "not limited to material poverty but encompasses cultural and spiritual poverty as well."[5]
The Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church published by the Roman Curia summarizes the principle.[6]
Pope Francis's apostolic exhortation Evangelii gaudium includes a section on "The special place of the poor in God's people" in which he noted that "Without the preferential option for the poor, 'the proclamation of the Gospel … risks being misunderstood or submerged'."[7]
Liberation theology debate
In its origins, the concept was connected with the liberation theology movement of the mid-20th century. As a developed theological principle, the option for the poor was first articulated by Fr. Gustavo Gutierrez, O.P. in his landmark work, A Theology of Liberation (1971). Gutierrez asserts that the principle is rooted in both the Old and New Testaments and claims that a preferential concern for the physical and spiritual welfare of the poor is an essential element of the Gospel.
In the mid-1980s, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who later became Pope Benedict XVI, led the effort by the Holy See to stop liberation theology, which he viewed as a form of Marxism. In August 1984, shortly before the release of the official view of the Holy See, he strongly criticized several arguments of liberation theology in a private document to theologians leaked to the press.[8] Ratzinger believed that liberation theologians contend that Christians must engage in a class struggle (in the Marxist sense) in the present to break down the gulf between rich and poor.[citation needed] As summarized by Cardinal Ratzinger, "The biblical concept of the poor provides a starting point for fusing the Bible's view of history with marxist dialectic; it is interpreted by the idea of the proletariat in the marxist sense and thus justifies marxism as the legitimate hermeneutics for understanding the Bible."[8]
The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (of which Ratzinger was the Prefect) formulated the official Vatican view in "Instruction on Certain Aspects of the 'Theology of Liberation'". Its "limited and precise purpose: to draw the attention of pastors, theologians, and all the faithful to the deviations, and risks of deviation, damaging to the faith and to Christian living, that are brought about by certain forms of liberation theology which use, in an insufficiently critical manner, concepts borrowed from various currents of Marxist thought." The Instruction elaborated that it was not a disavowal of people who were responding to "the 'preferential option for the poor.' It should not at all serve as an excuse for those who maintain the attitude of neutrality and indifference in the face of the tragic and pressing problems of human misery and injustice."[9]
The Instruction implied that some liberation theologians supported methods similar to the deprivation of people's freedoms by totalitarian regimes in the name of liberation. It charged that these supporters "betray the very poor they mean to help."[10]
Jesuit theologian Enrique Nardoni has argued at length in his exhaustive study, Rise Up, O Judge, that the Bible as a whole and its cultural context support a preferential option for the poor.[11]
Several representatives of liberation theology use the option for the poor also as a criterion for assessing environmental conflicts. Arguing that the consequences of environmental degradation are distributed unequally and concern the developing countries and the poor to a greater extend as the industrialized countries that caused the problem, authors like Leonardo Boff[12] urge the Church to get engaged in environment policy advocacy and to act as a lawyer on the side of the poor and marginalized. A position paper of the German Bishops' Conference on Climate Change (2007) therefore pleads for applying the option for the poor also to the victims of climate change (no. 40).[13]
- ↑ Matthew 25:40.
- ↑ 1983 CIC, canon 222 §2.
- ↑ Option for the Poor, Major themes from Catholic Social Teaching, Office for Social Justice, Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.
- ↑ Deus Caritas Est §22.
- ↑ Paragraph 57.
- ↑ Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, Paragraphs 182-184.
- ↑ Evangelii gaudium, Paragraph 199.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 The Ratzinger Report, by Vittorio Messori, Ignatius Press, San Francisco, 1985
- ↑ Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (6 Aug 1984). "Instructio de quibusdam rationibus "Theologiae Liberationis"" (English translation). Acta Apostolicae Sedis. Vatican City. 76: 876–909. ISSN 0001-5199. Retrieved 10 December 2011. Unknown parameter
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- ↑ Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith; Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Prefect) (6 Aug 1984). "By the same token, the overthrow by means of revolutionary violence of structures which generate violence is not ipso facto the beginning of a just regime. A major fact of our time ought to evoke the reflection of all those who would sincerely work for the true liberation of their brothers: millions of our own contemporaries legitimately yearn to recover those basic freedoms of which they were deprived by totalitarian and atheistic regimes which came to power by violent and revolutionary means, precisely in the name of the liberation of the people. This shame of our time cannot be ignored: while claiming to bring them freedom, these regimes keep whole nations in conditions of servitude which are unworthy of mankind. Those who, perhaps inadvertently, make themselves accomplices of similar enslavements betray the very poor they mean to help."
- ↑ Enrique Nardoni, translated by Sean Martin (2004). Rise Up, O Judge: A Study of Justice in the Biblical World. Baker Books.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Leonardo Boff: Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor. Maryknoll 1997. ISBN 978-1570751363
- ↑ Commission for Society and Social Affairs/Commission for International Church Affairs: Climate Change: A Focal Point of Global, Intergenerational and Ecological Justice. 2nd, updated edition, Bonn 2007. Cf. Thorsten Philipp, Gruenzonen einer Lerngemeinschaft: Umweltschutz als Handlungs-, Wirkungs- und Erfahrungsort der Kirche. Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3865811776, p. 183-185.


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Gaga told the crowd: "They said I was weird, that my look, that my choices, that my sound wouldn't work. But music told me not to listen to them.''
Jada Pinkett Smith and Jennifer Lopez also spoke and stood in solidary with Obama, Gaga and Alicia Keys, who is hosting the show.
"Yes, ladies,'' Keys said. "There's nothing better than this.''
The opening contrasted with last year's Grammys, where male acts dominated in nominations and the only woman competing for the top award, Lorde, didn't get a chance to perform onstage.
But this year, Gaga, Brandi Carlile and Kacey Musgraves won multiple Grammys.
Carlile won three honours in the Americana category and will compete for the three biggest awards during the live show: album, song and record of the year.
Gaga also won three, including best pop duo/group performance, a win she shared with Bradley Cooper.
"Thank you so much. I got to thank God, thank you for looking out for me. Thank you for my family,'' she said. "I wish Bradley was here with my right now.''
Gaga, now a nine-time Grammy winner, won best pop solo performance for Joanne, while hit Shallow, from A Star is Born, was named best song written for visual media. The song is nominated for an Oscar and also won at the Golden Globes, Critics' Choice Movie Awards and the Satellite Awards.
Women have a strong presence in the top categories. Five of the eight album-of-the-year nominees are women, including Carlile's By the Way, I Forgive You, Janelle Monae's Dirty Computer, Cardi B's Invasion of Privacy, Musgraves' Golden Hour, and H.E.R.'s self-titled album are also in contention.
Six of the best-new-artist nominees are women, including H.E.R., Chloe x Halle, Margo Price, Dua Lipa, Bebe Rexha and Jorja Smith.
Ariana Grande won her first Grammy in the same week that she publicly blasted Grammys producer Ken Ehrlich and accused him of lying about why she was no longer performing at the show.
"I know i'm not there tonight (trust, i tried and still truly wished it had worked out tbh) and i know i said i try not to put too much weight into these things .... but (expletive) ....... this is wild and beautiful. thank you so much,'' she tweeted after learning about her win.
Several big stars are not attending the Grammys, including Grande, Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar, the top nominee with eight, and Drake, nominated for seven awards.
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There is a lot of ongoing scams & frauds using relatively large amount of persons as targets and internet as delivery method.. This is, however, very much bigger scheme using very traditional models of deception and capabilities of Internet.
What makes it most interesting; it was 'quick in – quick out' – job, completed within 3 weeks from the start. The perpetrators ordered 1st hoaxed domain in 6.6.2013 and the whole scam was completed in 15th of June. A way to make some 2.2M€ in black markets; its not bad – eh?
'DOUBLE TWINS' is deception scheme combining modern world speed, easiness to run anonymous with Internet and difficulties with real corporate and personal identity verification. Per today – unfortunately – while some variables still fluctuating, I am not able to disclose names, numbers and perpetrators.
The scheme allowed perpetrators to perform major identity theft and fraud crafting significant amount of funds, in parallel making it look like totally legitimate operation. The organizing looks highly professional, whilst the approach itself is still relatively simple for performing the ruse.
All this coupled with capabilities efficiently hide tracks by using well known techniques, it is a bit amazing that criminals are still pushing forward with much simplified, traditional approaches with smaller ROI ratio. Lucky enough, THIS particular dragnet is about to collapse.
The name, 'DOUBLE TWINS' refers the model how perpetrator utilized chain of trading and logistics in parallel of running fraudulent scheme with all the parties.
The Target – organization org.fi unaware of such scam in progress. Unluckily matching the demand and lacking suitable Internet domain presence, which scam artists are easily able to obtain from public markets. MyCompany.fi DOES NOT equal MyCompany.com – right?
Mr. AKA RealName, CEO – The scam artist. Hoaxed CxO of the hoaxed organization name having all the details in place, such as prepaid cellphone and details exactly as the Target organization. Has email address email@example.com which indeed looks like the real thing. Covers the company by disclosing as suitable data as possible for making the scam happen; like "We have not selected any particular vendor, but we buy from we have most suitable co-operation" – "We are expanding rapidly our operations in EU and need stuff quickly in place", etc.
Equipment Vendor X – Makes the equipment & imports for distribution. Works closely with value added resellers (VAR) and distributors. Easily the primary contact while asking where to buy some amount of their gadgets. Typically gives lead to suitable VAR without too much hesitation about the origins of request.
VAR – aka Value Added Reseller – sells the stuff for making their cut. Gets lead from vendor and makes credit check for The Target (yea, here it goes definitely wrong..), obtains and buys stuff from distributor and makes pricing together with vendor suitable for their percentage. Handles the bid and order confirmation from The Target.
Transportation & Logistics Co. – hauls the equipment cargo Trans European way from north to south and back. Works with anyone whom has stuff to deliver domestic or abroad.
IT Service vendor, domain name supermarket etc. - Provides internet speed and background for the scam itself.
The FLOW
This is how it supposingly (yea, lets leave some space…) went. The whole operation started evidently approx 1-2 months prior the scam deployment activities. Whilst the model of operations looks like highly targeted, its not – till the end anyway. It just touches the chain enough deep to cover the essentials, avoiding unnecessary alerts. The targeting goes just enough for the suitable criteria.
The flow follows classical model used by criminal organizations around the world: Define target, recon suitable objects, define required steps, organize backoffice (a.k.a have the middleman), deploy payload (the scam), verify it works, avoid detection, cleanup, shutdown, observe.
Let me remind you: It is about professional, organized crime. Where there is a will – there is a way. Keep it simple.
The scam artist(s) required suitable organizations as their objects – both in identity theft and in deception parts. It was summertime, schools out and people on their various holiday activities. So minimal manning and hard to reach in identity theft 'recipient' side if others in chain could bypass the scam activities.
Taking into account the suitability of target organizations – artists needed several pieces of background information: organization to be targeted for forgery (yea!), organizations to make approach, verify and lead, and in the end – organization(s) to deliver.
While selecting targets, simultaneously looking for similar kind of organizations with characteristics such as reliable operation, no credit issues, not too large or not too small, making either them too organized or too small to be reliable in such chain.
In the end, with 'DOUBLETWINS' the selection criteria for targets where approx:
- Only few hired staff/personnel; a managing organization OR holding company.
- Known executive level decision maker with contact details.
- Operations abroad (of FINLAND)
- Reliable credit information when check done.
- Crucial: Internet domain availability (@company.com) to register on foreign soil.
- Turnover suitable for making such scam possible; 3-12 M€ year.
- etc.
Obtaining such information is no-brainer in well connected society such as Finland and rest of the Scandinavia and Baltics is. However, this made me questioning would this been possible in for example Estonia as they DO have well crafted security infrastructure for companies making kind of transactions and protecting from frauds.
You can get most of the needed information directly from public sources and simultaneously checking do the organization have Internet domain such as org.com available. Here's the easy trick – legal name for OrganizationABC does NOT necessary have their e-mail addresses associated with the company name, leaving space for scam artists to go to local GoDaddy.com superstore and BUY domain for their various needs.
Among that; legislation says that some company records are public and for example whom as signing authority, a procura – has typically authority to BUY stuff with companys name as well. Most of the CEO's do have the authority alone.
As the OrgnizationABC exists, there is known CxO existing and recon tells company is in good shape, there is no reason for any Vendor or VAR NOT to sell stuff for them. Even the e-mail address can be verified. What could go wrong, eh?
In essential – covering the tracks is in utmost importance. Accessing the hoaxed e-mail addresses mailbox from remote needs to be covered with Tor or equivalent way and simultaneously prepaid cell's are needed. This scam requires to be in reliable contact with many organizations in chain – without losing confidence. By doing that with e-mail is not an issue, but doing through telephone is. The scam artist needs to be more actor than technical wizard. A typical psychopath characteristics, I say.
The artists must be able to determine what is the chain in between equipment vendor, reseller, distributor, logistics and the targeted organization. Actually, this is making all of the organizations involved as a collateral for the fraud. The final card shall be held by the VAR; unfortunately – all fingers shall point in the end for their direction – including final invoicing notice from the distributor.
Little things create massive stream, right? So detailed planning for such scam required some strict organizing AND as well discipline from perpetrators side. Here is few details.
- Its not done by single perpetrator; its organized and well formed discipline. For the money or other – say; for more detailed reasons.
- It required resources spanning from northern Europe till south.
- It required native speaking people at least in Finland
- It required TECHNICAL ability to hide tracks
- It required stolen credit card information or other means to BUY fraudulent internet domain.
- It required precise timing.
- It does need detailed background for understanding how the business flows between interest parties.
- It does need ability to access Internet as anonymously as possible and through several anonymity gateways outside Scandinavian borderlines.
- Making it sufficient, artist must be able to plan the same scam for times X with different companies, vendors and logistics. Timing, timing, timing!
You need someone in receiving end as well. Say the cargo went to Spain, Barcelona for further distribution – there is need for reliable recipient name as well. The recipient address can be temporary, as well the recipient name can be hoaxed. Renting such warehouse for 2 weeks is not a difficult task. Other tasks involved preparing the next steps for obtained cargo and distributing it through the networks. Wild guess is that for the size of the scam; it was job at least of some 1+3 persons.
4. DEPLOY 'PAYLOAD' (The Scam)
Now; this is how the execution phase went. It's just the climax of the operation itself. The architecture is in place, just run it.
a. Mr. AKA RealName (N1..N) contacts Vendor X representative just before the summer holidays for some serious business.
b. Vendor is happy to make some sales happen and directs Mr. AKA Realname as a lead to their reseller for making the bid happen.
c. Mr. AKA RealName discusses the details with Vendor X and prepares RFP for the Reseller for quotation.
d. Whilst reseller has been long in the business, they do check credit information of the company and Vendor X said it looks good! The internet domain name and company real name has no correlation what so ever.
e. Ok; given the details credit is good, CxO is legitimate, we have the e-mail, address, VAT IT etc. – lets proceed!
f. AKA RealName from Hoaxed org. gives precise delivery instructions for the logistics and reference information for invoicing the hauling.
g. Reseller orders equipment from Distributor with per-negotiated pricing with detailed instructions for delivery got from the scam artist. Distributor is keen to know whom is the customer and checks credit as well – for precaution. Everything ok as well.
h. Distributor sends the cargo directly to logistics warehouse for delivery, crafts invoice for reseller. Transportation & Logistics Co. receives stuff from distro and prepares cargo for the destination in Spain, crafts invoice for the AKA RealName scam artist pre-defined address email@example.com and paper invoicing address leading to The Target's CxO address.
i. Scam artists back-office organization receives the stuff in temporary warehouse rented for few weeks and distributes it further.
j. Scam completed – Next: The invoicing.
For a while, everything looks as it should be. Cargo went to the destination and scam artist is able to perform next phase – a second ordering round. However, here they might make mistake – so careful detailing is needed. Ordering different kind of equipment from same chain of collateral might not look that suspicious, but it must be done quickly before reseller is asking about the unpaid invoice.
Well, in this case they tried it and almost blown the cover.
During the deployment, a careful book keeping is essential and keeping the situation awareness is important. Collecting information from all the steps and from all participants happens automatically, as people tend to inform about how the order is performing. When the cargo has arrived at its destination, perpetrators have decision making points: continue OR drop, shutdown and disappear.
Observing smartly the next activities performed by the chain is important. As its summer holidays time, being few days late in invoice payment is easily forgiven, allowing perpetrators already to prepare the cleanup. Companies send the invoices, notices of unpaid invoices to scam artist forged e-mail box allows automatic observation, even from Spain.
In essential for the situation awareness, cleaning up the operation must be done. Leaving no tracks and no marks of the activities can be done with relative easy: shutting down the operation in both ends. Evidence removal, destroying used laptops, comms etc. moving to other location. Traces ending in both ends makes investigation very difficult. Especially using directly internet service providers services, like web access e-mailk making it one hop difficult.
Keeping up the appearances sounds unwise at the point, thus understanding that there is investigation ongoing is essential.
Well – the big picture. Taking into account that 1+x persons can creatively & with discipline create such scam, they DO caneasily copy & paste it again, again & again…making it happen once for 100k€ is nothing, but to making it happen simultaneously for – say 8-12 companies similar size – it's sizeable.
LESSONS TO LEARN or TO CONSIDER..maybe.
1) Nothing is as it looks like until seen through. Its a organized deception – It is VERY difficult to counter.
3) Time – it can be executed less than 4 days and traces start to fade immediately – within a 3 weeks, its gone baby.
4) Summertime. When cat is away, mice have party. Do not leave your backdoor door unguarded.
5) Guts – the scam artist needs some serious guts to do it. Why no one asks for any detailed background? Dig deeper.
6) Organized. They are organized and able to perform it. Are you able to counter it? How you organize your staff for this?
7) When its too good – its not.
8) TODO: We need sort of authentication & authorization verification capability against these. Not all companies are with electronic billing yet and what happens outside the Scandinavia; well – that's even more difficult to counter.
9) Players in chain. There is SO many players in chain whom should consider COMMON MODELS how to counter such scam.


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My co-authors and I received an honorable mention designation in the IIE Transactions Focused Issue on Design and Manufacturing Best Applications Paper Award Competition for 2016. (The award is selected by an examining committee from all papers published from July 1, 2014 through June 30, 2015, issues 46:7 through 47:6).
Roy, Debjit, Jennifer A. Pazour, and René De Koster. "A novel approach for designing rental vehicle repositioning strategies." IIE Transactions 46.9 (2014): 948-967.
While the paper can be downloaded here I also had the opportunity to present our research at the Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference. If you weren't able to attend my talk, here's the cliff notes version.
The rental car industry has experienced "the Amazon effect" where customers place requests with little or no warning.
An important tactical decision for vehicle rental providers is the design of a repositioning strategy to balance vehicle utilization with customer wait times due to vehicle unavailabilities.
To address this problem, this article analyzes alternative repositioning strategies: a no-repositioning strategy, a customer repositioning strategy, and a vehicle repositioning strategy, using queuing network models that are able to handle stochastic demand and vehicle unavailabilities.
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Joyti undertook a specialist fellowship in lower-limb arthroplasty at the Norfolk and Norwich hospital, which is where he continued to develop his specialist interest in complex primary and revision hip replacement surgery. He also undertook a fellowship in knee arthroplasty and soft tissue knee reconstruction.
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It is a general trend in computing that computers are becoming ever smaller and more interconnected, and sensor networks - large networks of small, simple devices - represent a logical extreme of this trend. Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are attracting an increasing degree of research interest, with a growing number of industrial applications starting to emerge. Two of these applications, personal health monitoring and emergency/disaster recovery, are the focus of the European Commission project ProSense: Promote, Mobilize, Reinforce and Integrate Wireless Sensor Networking Research and Researchers.
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ESO has taken a further step towards the construction of the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) by awarding to Microgate and other partner the preliminary design study contract for the adaptive fourth mirror (M4) of the E-ELT.
ESO has taken a further step towards the construction of the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) by awarding the preliminary design study contract for the adaptive fourth mirror (M4) of the E-ELT to the AdOptica consortium made up of Microgate and our partner ADS International. This mirror will be a major milestone in adaptive optics technology, becoming the largest adaptive mirror ever made for a telescope. It will be crucial for exploiting the E-ELT's unprecedented potential, allowing astronomers to achieve major scientific breakthroughs during the next decades.
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The M4 flat mirror will be about 2.5 meters in diameter but just 2 millimeters thick, allowing it to be deformed like a flexible film. More than five thousand voice-coil actuators will flex the shape of the reflecting surface of the mirror up to a thousand times per second, precisely cancelling out the distorting effect of the atmosphere. This technology has been successfully used to develop similar though smaller deformable thin-shell mirror systems such as the 1.1-metre secondary mirror for ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT).
The construction and testing of the E-ELT M4 unit and its control system is a major technological challenge. It will be more than twice the size of the VLT secondary mirror — itself the largest adaptive mirror manufactured to date —and will be controlled by around five times as many actuators. Each of these will need to be controlled with unprecedented accuracy.
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This mirror will also be vital for the correct alignment of the telescope: huge telescopes like the E-ELT need to have their optics frequently realigned during the night. The M4 unit — the E-ELT's fastest optical component — is a crucial part of the system for correcting misalignments between all the other mirrors in the telescope.
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