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I just started reading Euan Macphail's book The Evolution of Consciousness and the first chapter raises an interesting question: do animals have consciousness?
First, we need to define consciousness in order to determine whether or not animals besides humans possess it. We could roughly distinguish between two types: feeling-consciousness and metaconsciousness. Metaconsciousness is often referred to as self-consciousness and seems to depend on there being a self-concept in place that allows for such metacognitive functions as knowing that you know, thinking that you think, desiring about your desires, etc. Metaconsciousness seems to be a very rare cognitive skill and could plausibly be restricted to humans only since it seems unlikely that a mouse knows that he knows something, or is aware of his own awareness. Moreover, we must be clear to distinguish metaconsciousness from prereflective bodily self-consciousness, which is the self-consciousness that arises from simply having an embodied perspective on the world and not necessarily from having an explicit self-concept structured by linguistic categories such as self, person, soul, mind, consciousness, etc. Although all animals could be said to have bodily self-consciousness, it is unlikely that nonhuman animals have a self-consciousness of this bodily self-consciousness.
In contrast to metaconsciousness, we can talk about what Macphail calls feeling-consciousness. Obvious examples of feeling-consciousness include the experience of pleasure, suffering, love, motivation, etc. Moreover, feeling-consciousness includes sensory feels such as my the feeling that I am currently looking at my laptop screen, or the feeling of my clothes on my body and the keyboard against my fingertips.
While many people would agree that nonhuman animals do not have metaconsciousness, it seems plainly wrong to deny animals feeling-consciousness. After all, isn't it quite clear that an animal experiences pain in the same way humans do? This argument is often made through analogous comparisons of behavior. We assume that if a person pricks a human with a needle, and the human rapidly withdraws his hand, he does this because the needle hurts. And since we can prick the paw of an animal and the animal exhibits the same rapid withdraw, then we would be perfectly right in concluding that the animal also withdraws because it feels pain. The same goes with vocalization. If you prick a human with the needle, he might yelp or cry out in pain. And if we prick an animal, it will also make a vocalization in response. We can also measure involuntary responses like heart rate. When a human experiences pain, these involuntary processes occur. And when we prick an animal, we see the same involuntary responses. The obvious conclusion then is that animals feel pain just the same as humans.
But are these behavioral criteria necessary for feeling pain? We wouldn't, for example, think that vocalization is necessary for the experience of pain, since a human born without vocal cords would surely experience pain just the same. Same goes for the withdrawal response. If you sever the spinal cord of a dog from its brain, the dog will still exhibit a withdrawal response. Same with humans. Humans with a severed spinal cord still exhibit withdrawal reflexes despite not feeling anything so the mere behavior of withdrawing a limb should not necessarily indicate the existence of feeling. After all, if we programmed a robot to rapidly withdraw its arm when exposed to a sharp force, we wouldn't conclude that it feels anything simply because it shows the appropriate behavioral response. As Macphail puts it, "An actor could reproduce all these symptoms without feeling any pain at all, and that, in essence, is why none of these criteria is entirely convincing."
Moreover, we could go beyond analogy and argue that of course animals feel pain since pain is highly advantageous from an evolutionary perspective. If an animal didnt have the appropriate mechanisms for feeling pain, then it would have not been nearly as successful as the creature who did experience pain. From this perspective, the function of pain is quite clear: to motivate us to avoid dangerous things.
But Macphail asks us to consider an armchair scenario about the evolution of pain. It is widely supposed that life began from the self-assembly of chemical building blocks enclosed within a semipermeable membrane. These first organisms were basically complex chemical machines, and most people would agree that we can account for everything in terms of biochemical mechanisms. To explain the behavior of the organisms, we wouldn't suppose that they have feeling-consciousness since, presumably, such chemical machines wouldn't feel anything. Now, suppose that as multicellular organisms evolved there arose a cellular specialization wherein cells became nerve cells, sensory cells, and motor cells. The sensory cells function to detect information in the environment, which then act to encourage nerve cells to activate, which then encourage motor cells to activate.
The coordination of these different cells gives rise to to ability to react to dangerous stimuli. If the chemical machine wanders into a toxic area of the ocean, then the sensory cells can detect the significance of this stimuli and relay the information to the nerve cells, which then activate the motor cells which allows for the organism to escape from the dangerous stimulus. As Macphail says, "The point is, that it is easy to envisage the rapid early evolution of links between sensory systems and motor systems that would result in withdrawal from disadvantageous areas and of similar systems for approach to advantageous areas. It is equally easy to see that this scenario has proceeded without any appeal to notions of pain or pleasure."
The question then is this: where does feeling-consciousness fit into this story? What is the function of feeling pain/pleasure that could not be accounted for in terms of the biochemical mechanisms and their increasing complexity? Why would an early organism need to feel pain when the mechanisms for avoiding dangerous stimuli and approaching advantageous stimuli are sufficient for the task of survival? Feelings don't seem necessary for the adaptive success of an organism, a point which raises some very interesting philosophical questions.
With all that said, I need to make some qualifications. Although the above considerations lead us to believe that feeling-consciousness is not necessary for the adaptive success of animals, there is another sense of consciousness used by philosophers that does seem applicable to these lower organisms: phenomenal consciousness. Phenomenal consciousness is usually defined in terms of the "what-it-is-like" to exist. Presumably there is "something-it-is-like" to be a bat. This something-it-is-like is often talked about in terms of raw feels, such as the raw feeling that there is something-it-is-like to taste an apple or enjoy the blue sky. On my view, there is also something-it-is-like to be a bacterium, although it is very dull in comparison to the what-it-is-like of more complex organisms. However, I also want to claim that the raw feels which constitute the what-it-is-like of an organsim are not the same as the feeling-consciousness discussed above. Although many philosophers would disagree with me about this, I think that it is precisely the ubiquity of feeling-consciousness in humans that makes us think that the same feelings must be present in other animals. When humans gaze up at the blue sky and enjoy the feeling of pure sensory quality, I want to claim that this experience is unique to humans, for although a nonhuman animal is capable of perceiving or detecting the blue sky, it is probably not capable of feeling that it is perceiving, or feeling that it is detecting. To consciously feel sensory experiences requires that one "feel" how one perceives the world, as opposed to just perceiving the world. I claim that the perception of the world and the feeling that one is perceiving the world are two radically different phenomena, with the latter perhaps depending on the linguistic, self-reflexive cognition of human minds. Philosophers rarely recognize the significance of this distinction, and their philosophy of mind suffers accordingly.
Lastly, I want to briefly discuss the ethical implications of the seemingly radical position that animals don't have feelings. Some people would think that even if this idea is true, it leads to such horrible ethical consequences that we should never even entertain it as a hypothesis. But I disagree. I think the idea that animals don't consciously feel anything and the idea of animal rights are not mutually exclusive. One can hold the position that animals don't feel pain, while still believing that we should be humane in our treatment of animals and that we shouldn't cause animals any unnecessary discomfort. One could believe that animals don't feel pain but merely detect dangerous stimuli while still believing that we should work to decrease the amount of dangerous stimuli detected by animals. In this way the idea of an animal ethics is perfectly compatible with the views I am entertaining here.


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Introduction: More and better knowledge and attitudes towards breastfeeding mothers in the postpartum period increases confidence and success. This study aimed to determine the effect of exclusive breast feeding counseling on knowledge and attitudes of mothers with premature infants.
Methods: This was a randomized clinical trial performed on 124 mothers with premature infants admitted to Fatemieh Hospital, during the years 1393-1394 in a period of 8 months. The samples were randomly divided into two groups of test and control (each n=62). Breastfeed observation and consultation checklists and BASNEF questionnaire, in terms of knowledge and attitude of breastfeeding, were applied. Data were analyzed using independent and paired t-tests and analysis of variance (ANOVA) with SPSS-16.
Results: It was found that the level of knowledge and attitude was not significantly different between both groups before counseling (P<0.05). But, after consultation in the first to fourth months of follow-up this difference was significant (P<0.001) and knowledge and attitude scores were considerably higher.
Conclusion: The results showed that consultation leads to improved continuation of the exclusive breastfeeding, so that it may increase the frequency of breastfeeding to the premature infants and, also, reduces the use of fluids, feeding other than breast milk and formula per day for premature infants.

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Yes. You first need to handle the missing workshop code manually in order to enable coding by script in the future.
If it works, then other codings can be done also via script and without any dialog anymore.
Pressing "Yes" will write a new workshop code into the unit. Check the manuel or the search function in the forum for this topic.
If I press NO, I get an error message. Invalid code (I tried it without script). Only YES button working and the WSC remains the original.
What happens if I set the car manufacturer WSC in VCDS? For example: WSC 73430 031 00207
The uninitialized control module warning is explained at the bottom of this page: Adaptation or Long Adaptation Screen. Most users just click [Yes] so the default non-zero numbers are entered.
The User Interface and Identification tab is located on the [Options] screen and this section explains those values: Options Screen > User Interface and Identification
- If you want VCDS to enter the same values every time a Coding, Adaptation or similar operation is sent to a module you change the [Options] screen settings and [Save]. Delete config file and close will clear your saved values if you want VCDS to revert back to stealth mode at a later time.
- If you do NOT want VCDS to overwrite the default values each time you can change from an all ZERO WSC, Importer or Equipment value manually directly from the Coding or Adaptation screen before clicking Do it or Save. However, if a module already has non-zero numbers like this:
.. you cannot change them directly from the Coding or Adaptation screen. Instead, you would need to use option #1 (change the [Options] screen settings, Save, restart VCDS and change the channel in question) to change the numbers.


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I never intended the Comrus blog to be primarily about restaurant reviews. Back in the Xanga days, it mostly contained humorous essays on random things about life. But since I now have a job, and especially now that I've been working overtime for a few months, the desire to sit down and blog has been at a minimum. The only thing that has interested me enough to finally sit down and write has been my interest in laid-back restaurants, under the heading of "Quest for Our Place," and even then not so much. In fact, I haven't had the motivation so much so that I still have not yet written about my favorite discovery, first visited many months ago.
And so, yet again, instead of a humorous essay, I find myself with another restaurant to talk about (quite briefly, too be honest). And also yet again, it's not about the aforementioned favorite discovery.
So, first up in the lineup of places that are far better than The Nook (and believe me, that's a really long list), the Groveland Tap, 1834 St. Clair Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55105. Also in Highland Park, the Groveland Tap features wooden booths, a non-dive dive type atmosphere, and a very large beer selection.
As previously described, the purpose of our search is to find a laid back place, with good food, preferably with great hamburgers, where you can also enjoy sitting back and having a few beers. The Nook failed on most of these counts, and the Groveland Tap quite succeeds.
The burger itself is nicely juicy, with fixings that have flavor but don't overwhelm. It does have a nice griddle/grease flavor, but could use a bit more bite and spice. But otherwise, it's everything I'm looking for. It's anything but dry, and the cheese is nicely melted. The accompanying fries were nice and fresh. They weren't fabulous, but were good, salty, and satisfying.
And yes, for those Juicy Lucy nuttos, the Groveland Tap has those as well.
Perhaps the thing that stood out to me most, though, was the Groveland Tap's large draught beer selection, including many various pale ales, amber ales, lagers, etc. Better yet, seven days a week, from 11:00 AM to 5:30 PM, they have Summit pints for $2.25. That's the best Summit deal I've ever seen in the Twin Cities.
As such, I can certainly see myself grabbing a few pints on their front patio this summer.
One of the main failings of The Nook, not counting the mediocre burgers, is that it's constantly jammed with people, so getting a table is a process. We've only been to the Groveland Tap once, and it was quite empty when we went, but it was on a Sunday afternoon. Almost undoubtedly, the place gets very busy in the evenings, especially with their beer selection. But because of the food and the atmosphere, I'd be far more willing to wait for a table there.
Overall, the Groveland Tap is very comfortable, with friendly wait-staff, and very good bar food.


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Goa is any day better destination for all age vacationers. Beach Party, Liquor, Old Goa churches and many more elements make this jaunt a perfect mood changing experience for everyone. The Serene beaches, junk jewelries, funky t shirts, flea markets fill in the ambiance of this place.
Best Time to Book Trip to Goa–
North Goa is all year favorable for your footsteps to tap there. Avoid going during rush season which is year's end when the population from entire world ends up here to celebrate the New Year's Eve. Sun is always shining round the year which tempts visitors to join up the best destination for fete. The climate is moderate due to beaches which fills moisture in the air and don't let you sweat in hottest of summers.
Attractions in North Goa –
Beaches in Goa are usually dotted in North Goa. Here is the list of some of the shores which is the highlight of this zone –
Baga Beach – it is almost 2 km in length and hosts number of activities for tourist's enjoyment. Water sports are very much popular at this beach or can go for some delicious sea food for relishing your taste bud
Vagator Beach – This is the best beach for experiencing the sunset in golden galore. It is actually amazing to watch red sun melting into dusky ambience.
Marbella Beach – This is the beach for photo snappers who want a separate isolated destination for capturing picturesque destination on canvas.
Arambol Beach – feel wind in air, sipping bear and just lazing on the shores of the Arambol, this is the best feature of this beach which gives you unique experience in every term.


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Oxel: Source + Version 1.0.1
So I have a new page dedicated to the Oxel project located here: http://nickdarnell.com/Oxel. I've also started a new project on BitBucket »
So I have a new page dedicated to the Oxel project located here: http://nickdarnell.com/Oxel. I've also started a new project on BitBucket »
Its been awhile since I've done an update to my research into occluder generation. If you need a refresher, take a look at: Hierarchical Z-Buffer »
The 2012 Global Game Jam is over and it was another year of awesome games in the Raleigh-Durham – North Carolina area. This week I wanted to »
I've been spending a lot of time lately rebuilding the old Triangle Game Jam website. Now that it's done I can get back to »
Before I begin let me give you a little background. About a month ago we decided to try and create NUI (Natural User Interface) or Kinect »
Anthropometry (Greek anthropos (άνθρωπος – "man") and metron (μέτρον – "measure") therefore "measurement of man") refers to the measurement of the human individual. Ask any Kinect developer what »
Merging is a fact of life for most of us. Eventually two users touch the same files and a conflict must be resolved. For programmers merging »
While wrapping up my post for generating simplified occluders for Hierarchical Z-Buffer Occlusion Culling, I was pointed to a paper called Complete Polygonal Scene Voxelization. Afterwards »
I managed make it out to Seattle this year for Gamefest and figured I'd share my thoughts on some of the different presentations I saw. »
The September 2011 issue of Game Developer Magazine contains an article of mine! They asked me to write an article for the "Inner Product" section summarizing »


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Provide new services relating to rail transportation and traffic management to enable companies and users to be better informed about transport networks
Smart Energy
Collect and analyze energy consumption data from energy meters and get an efficient process with lower operational costs and no human error component
Smart Agriculture
Brings to farmers opportunities to improve production, take right decisions, reduce operating costs and get the data pattern of each culture
Smart Retail
Get information in real time about sales, product acceptance and people behavior with advanced algorithms
Smart Water
Monitore water quality by collecting data from multiple sensors, generate monthly bills for consumers and detect leaks in water distribution system
Requirements and Feasibility
We understand the problem and define the project requirements to develop a solution that is future proof, cost-effective and meets your desires
System Architecture
Select and evaluate the main components of the solution, running simulations to comprise our choices and select the right materials
Rapid Prototyping
With a fast PCB project development and 3D design software and printers we can deliver the prototyping stage in an excellent time with very low cost
Software Development
Count with a great team of engineers with vast knowledge in embedded and application software development
Validation and Certification
Countless field tests to prove and validate the product, simulating all possible scenarios so that there are no surprises when your product reaches the final consumer
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The first brazilian company to contribute to the leading global industry alliance promoting interoperable wireless standards based solutions for the Internet of Things
About us
Das Coisas is a company founded in 2016 in Santa Rita do Sapucaí, state of Minas Gerais, better known as the Brazilian Silicon Valley. Incubated since then in National Institute of Telecommunications, it is a technology partner that offers complete solutions for product development in the Smart Cities area. The company works from the analysis of requirements to the final production stage. Das Coisas's team has members with specific knowledge in software, hardware and project management
Why us
We have more than 10 years of accumulated knowledge in product development oriented to the Internet of Things. We own a complete tooling dedicated to rapid prototyping, such as 3D printers, and lots of development kits resulting in a very fast prototype stage
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EXCLUSIVE: A Closer Look At Charlie Sheen's Nemesis: Two And A Half Men Creator Chuck Lorre; His Latest Vanity Card -- 'CENSORED!'
On the same day Charlie Sheen spewed a hateful and bizarre rant against Chuck Lorre — the creator and executive producer of Two and a Half Men –Lorre (perhaps) chose to take the high road Thursday night by flashing the word "CENSORED!" at the end of the closing credits to another of his hit shows, The Big Bang Theory.
See Chuck Lorre's Recent Vanity Cards
Since we're already well aware of Sheen and his resume, RadarOnline.com's taking a closer look at the man he's gone to battle with.
Lorre, who's real name is Charles Michael Levine, is the man responsible for producing a stream of hot sitcoms, including Grace Under Fire, Cybill, Dharma & Greg, The Big Bang Theory and most recently, Mike & Molly. The 58-year-old also served as a writer and producer on Roseanne for two seasons in the early 90s.
One of the successful producer's trademarks is his creative use of vanity cards, the bumpers that air for a split second at the end of his shows.
In recent weeks, the vanity cards have taken on a different tone in light of Sheen's regular spot in the tabloids with his non-stop antics.
Lorre first addressed the Sheen controversy after the February 14 broadcast of Two and a Half Men, when he wrote, "I exercise regularly. I eat moderate amounts of healthy food. I make sure to get plenty of rest. I see my doctor once a year and my dentist twice a year. I floss every night. I've had chest x–rays,cardio stress tests, EKG's and colonoscopies. I see a psychologist and have a variety of hobbies to reduce stress. I don't drink. I don't smoke. I don't do drugs. I don't have crazy, reckless sex with strangers.
"If Charlie Sheen outlives me, I'm gonna be really pissed."
Next up was a more strained message that followed the February 21 broadcast of Mike & Molly, when he wrote: "It was more fun writing these things when I was fairly certain no one was reading them. That is no longer the case. These days it seems like every vanity card is getting scrutinized and criticized by network executives, corporate legal departments and publicity departments, TV journalists and tabloid bloggers.
"Believe it or not, my musings have been both cheered and jeered by TV Guide! But lately it's gotten out of hand. Which is why I've decided to take a break for a few weeks. Let things cool off a little. Instead of writing short essays that upset people, I've decided to use my one second of network TV to do something simple and hassle-free. Starting with this card, I'm going to display a photograph of a part of my body that is entirely innocuous."
"No longer will I share some troublesome piece of my mind. Now I will share an actual piece of Chuck that is incapable of offending anyone. You know, a foot, a hand, or maybe a toe. So with that in mind, behold…" (He displayed a picture of his elbow.)
After this week's meltdown, Lorre ended Thursday's episode of The Big Bang Theory with the simple message: "CENSORED!"
(We can't help but wonder what Lorre would have liked to have said…)


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More ferries, more routes, more often
With three great routes to choose from and up to 150 crossings a day*, getting to the Isle of Wight couldn't be easier.
You can book your tickets online, over the phone, or at any one of our ticket offices.
We pride ourselves on being your link between the Isle of Wight and the mainland, and look forward to welcoming you on board one of our ferries soon.
We're proud of the service we provide, and this year have been awarded a Certificate of Excellence from TripAdvisor. So rather than us tell you about our service, we're happy to let our customers do it.
'A great ferry experience'
"The ferries were clean and tidy with plenty of good seating. There is a good food selection and the prices are reasonable. All in all a great start to our Isle of Wight holiday"
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"Quick and easy check in, drove on with no problem and then went up to the deck. Staff excellent, ferry on time and clean- what more could you want"
'A pleasant sailing'
"A nice short sailing to the isle of Wight, just 40 mins. Lovely boats which serve refreshments on the journey. Very spacious with inside and outside seating"
Choose the route that's right for you
Lymington to Yarmouth
The shortest and quickest car ferry crossing. Perfect for exploring the west half of the Island.
Portsmouth to Fishbourne
Excellent road and rail connections to Portsmouth. Ideally located for discovering all the Island has to offer.
Portsmouth to Ryde
Our fastest crossing on our high-speed catamaran service. A great way to enjoy the Island by foot, bike or rail.


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Is your business secure from a cyber-attack?
Emails and Internet access are two key ways a network or device's security can be compromised. itro has a number of data and network security solutions available which will limit your exposure to data and network threats, including:
- email filtering
- anti-virus and SPAM filtering
- monitoring internal Internet usage (downloads, website blocking, etc)
- data access restrictions based on employee roles
- install, maintain and upgrade network firewalls
- SSL certificates.
What can itro do for you?
Regular monitoring and updating of security hardware and software is required for any business wanting to maintain premium protection. itro's engineers manage your security for you, alerting you to threats and proactively suggesting updates to protect your business.
itro has many security blogs to keep you informed about the latest cyber-attacks and email scams.
5 essential steps in protecting your business
Adopt these five effective measures and protect your Practice against malicious cyber-attacks:
1. Stop it from reaching your 'front door'.
- Ransomware threats are often spread via email so use a Cloud-based email filtering service to detect the threat before it arrives at your network. itro MailSafe powered by MailGuard is our preferred Cloud-based Email Protection Service.
2. Don't let it through your 'front door'.
- Educate your team to be cautious about opening attachments and clicking on links. Remember, the Internet is a doorway to your systems and data!
- Have a firewall that supports deep level content inspection to prevent viruses from entering your network. Having a firewall is important but it always needs correct configuration. The right firewall correctly configured is a vital step in preventing the Trojan from penetrating your network.
3. Stop or slow down the spread if it gets into your network.
Good internal security practices can stop a CryptoLocker in its tracks and allow your IT team to deal with it early before it infects and encrypts your PC or, even worse, your entire network.
- Employ best practice password and internal security policies
- Engage a top-level Anti-Virus Security Suite, such as Webroot
- Along with Anti-Virus, adopt Malwarebytes an Anti-Malware program
4. Perform regular data backups.
- A secure Backup Solution is the last resort to recovering your files in the case of infection. Have a 'snapshot' backup that runs continuously throughout the day to a destination that is NOT on your internal network. itro's 'Secure Backup' solution keeps your data securely in an off-site location ready for a speedy recovery.
5. Keep up with software updates.
For example, Windows 10 has numerous security improvements to the operating system that are not available in earlier versions of Windows. An effective device management solution is essential to ensuring your devices are patched and up to date. This is part of all itro Support Plans, starting from itro Advanced.
Call itro if you are unsure
Ransomware poses a significant and tangible threat to your business, but implementing the above five steps will minimise your likelihood of being infected with a CryptoLocker.
Call itro to ensure your business is safe from cyber attacks.
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Much of what we do in this world is busyness. We get overly involved and double-booked in our schedule; yet make no time for play, worship and fellowship with family and friends.
We burn the candle at both ends until we burn out, making our self sick in the process. We have so many irons in the fire that we can barely keep everything straight even with a calendar and sticky notes.
We have so little of our self to put into each endeavor that they are all lacking to some degree or another. We constantly run from one plate to another to keep them all up in the air and spinning.
The rare person who learns the value and secret of entering God's rest, ceases this striving in the flesh, follows the leading of God's Spirit each moment of the day, and trusts in God's overall plan for their life (Hebrews 4:7-10).
They are more interested in accomplishing the works which God preordained for them to do than in fulfilling their own goals and agendas (Ephesians 2:10).
They are not tempted by the world, the flesh or the devil to compete or to get ahead in this world. The trappings of life have lost their glitter and are no longer appealing.
They line up their desires with the purpose of God for their life. They love Him above all else and they hunger and thirst for the manifestation of His presence to fill their body, soul and spirit (Ephesians 3:18-19).
Father God, thank You for Your law, which showed us the futility of attempting to reach fulfillment by human means and measures. We are so glad that Your law pointed us to Christ and His finished work on Calvary.
A life in Your presence is ours once we convert from a child of this world to Your child – forever free of the cares of this life and joyously cared for by You (John 3:16-18; Romans 3:19-25; 1 Peter 5:7). Thank You for using us to demonstrate Your righteousness to the world around us and draw us ever closer to Your rivers of living water within us.
Thought for the Day:
What time is there in life for rest, recreation, serenity and fulfillment amidst the turmoil of agitated rushing after useless pursuits in a state of disorder, the tyranny of cares and the mountain of depression rising within our soul?


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Monday - Friday 0700AM - 530PM. Our HQ in Nebraska has someone in office 24/7.
Since starting in 2006 in Grand Island, Nebraska, we have become one of the fastest growing third-party logistics companies in the nation. We've done that by accomplishing the impossible with attention to detail and unparalleled customer service. As a middleman between carriers and companies, we work collaboratively with smaller carriers throughout the US in order to perfectly schedule and align freight deliveries for our customers. We also utilize a hands-on training program in a friendly work environment, where new graduates and young professionals can start their careers.
Are you a shipper who is facing weather-related issues? Struggling to cover a difficult lane? Had a carrier fall off last minute? Seasonal volume surges? Carriers go out of business? Need extra capacity during the holiday season? Carriers falling off for higher paying produce loads? Can't find competitive rates or companies that will hold their rates year-round, even when produce hits?
Our customers are all of the above, especially those who struggle with capacity issues. They are shippers who make, manufacture, and produce products in industries such as consumer goods, energy and infrastructure, food, beverage, industrial goods, paper, packaging, pharmaceuticals, health care, and retail


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Economic Development
Phone: (216) 475-5484
Fax: (216) 475-1124
The following describes some of the services provided to businesses and residents:
Mortgage Help
Garfield Heights is partnering with Neighborhood Housing Services of Greater Cleveland (NHS) to provide free housing counseling to residents who have high interest and/or adjustable rate mortgages.
There also is help for residents having trouble making their mortgage payment. Residents of any NE Ohio city are eligible to use this service. Call the NHS main office at 216-458-4663 to schedule an appointment.
Business Services
- Information about low interest loans through government agencies
- Information about availability of commercial/industrial property
- Tax incentives
- Zoning
Residential Services
- Information about loans and grants for home maintenance
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)
- The SBA provides low-interest disaster loans to Businesses, Private Nonprofits, Homeowners, and Renters. For more information, visit: https://disasterloan.sba.gov/ela/Information/Index
Commercial Rental Opportunities
Landscape Company Honors Earth Day at Garfield Heights Civic Center
In honor of Earth Day 2016, Southwest Landscape Management, Inc. donated a complete spring clean-up at Garfield Heights City Hall. The 25-year-old company, based in Columbia Station, recently opened a local office at 12600 Rockside Road, #302, in Garfield Heights.
Vice President of Operations Greg Taylor said Southwest Landscape Management has donated services in other communities and wanted to do a beautification project here to celebrate expansion of the company footprint to Garfield Heights.
"We recognized that Garfield Heights has been cash strapped in recent years while dealing with a fiscal emergency and was forced to cut certain services such as outdoor building maintenance," Taylor said. "We are pleased to be able to help the city by sprucing up its Civic Center property."
Southwest Landscape Management donated approximately $4,800 in labor costs for their two-day effort that including weeding, trimming and mulching the beds around Garfield Heights City Hall, including the Police and Firefighters Memorial Garden, a job completed in recent years by Boy Scouts, Green Up Project and Sea of Blue volunteers, etc.
"We are grateful to Southwest Landscape Management for providing this beautification project to our city," said Mayor Vic Collova. "I commend them for their commitment to our community and to the Earth."
Taylor said the company's new Garfield Heights location will serve clients, of which 90 percent are commercial operations, throughout Eastern Cuyahoga, Summit and Lake Counties. For information about the company, visit www.sw-landscape.com.
Community Development Block Grant Project
Garfield Heights applied for and received $150,000 from the Community Development Block Grant program to resurface Dressler Avenue in Ward One from Forestdale Drive to Osborn Road.
Bank Donates Garfield Heights Home to Coast Guard Veteran
From left
Bank of America Senior Vice President Jake Frego, Nehemiah Community Reinvestment Representative Donny Jones, Steven and Athena Thompson, and Mayor Vic Collova.
Coast Guard Veteran Steven Thompson and his family will soon call Garfield Heights home thanks to a home donation from Bank of America and the Nehemiah Community Reinvestment Fund. The partners gave the Willard Avenue home to the Thompson family mortgage-free.
Nehemiah representative Donny Jones said Thompson is a deserving recipient of the Roofs for Troops effort initiated by the Community Reinvestment Fund. Since 1998, Thompson has been a member of the Coast Guard and the family traveled to several duty stations where he has worked as a firefighter and damage controlman. For the past 10 months, he has been at sea. Beginning in June, Thompson will be stationed on land with the Cleveland-based Coast Guard unit. He is taking courses through the American Military Academy and pursuing a degree in Sports Management. He plans to seek a job in the Sports Management field when he retires from the Coast Guard after his final duty tour here.
Thompson and his wife, Athena, have three children. The family plans to relocate to Garfield Heights from California when the school year is completed.
Mayor Vic Collova welcomed the family to Garfield Heights and said he hopes they will be happy living in the community.
To view the Fox 8 News story about Roofs for Troops, please click here.
New Marymount Hospital President Named
To read the Northeast Ohio Media Group story about Dr. Richard Parker, click here.
First Federal Lakewood to Add Drive-Through Service, More Office Space
First Federal Lakewood bank officials celebrated a groundbreaking ceremony Jan. 6 at the company's Garfield Commons branch.
Strategic Marketing Officer Jennifer Raynor said First Federal Lakewood is the largest independent mutual bank headquartered in Ohio. "We're focused and committed to the residents, businesses and communities we have served for over 75 years. We're proud to invest in our commitment to the residents, businesses and Garfield Heights community by expanding our presence and services at our Garfield Heights branch location."
The company is adding drive-through service, a drive-up ATM and creating new offices at the branch to better serve customers including adding a dedicated mortgage loan specialist.
Officials said the renovation will be completed in six-eight weeks, weather permitting. "In the meantime, we'll remain open and conduct business as usual for the customers of our Garfield Heights branch," Raynor said.
First Federal Lakewood has 18 full-service branch locations and 11 loan offices throughout Ohio. First Federal Lakewood provides deposit, lending, residential mortgage lending, cash management and investment services to individuals and businesses. Since 1935, First Federal Lakewood has been a stable community owned bank committed to deploying funds that foster local economic growth. For more information, visit www.FFL.net.
Pictured from left:
First Federal Lakewood East Regional Operations Manager Bethany Schulte;
Garfield Heights Chamber Executive Director Gabriella Huszarik;
Garfield Heights Mayor Vic Collova;
First Federal Lakewood Garfield Branch Manager Nikki Clinard;
First Federal Lakewood Executive Vice President Retail Div. Jeffrey Calabrese;
Maple Heights Mayor Jeffrey Lansky;
Fortney and Weygandt Inc. Director of Business Development Jerry Gentz;
and Jeffrey A. Grusenmeyer and Associates Inc. Architect Jeffrey Gresenmeyer.
Loans and Grants Available for GH Residents
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Lord, Open my lips.
And my mouth will give you praise.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen
Psalm 67 (Deus misereatur)
An Invocation and a Doxology
To the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A Psalm. A Song.
God be merciful to us and bless us,
And cause His face to shine upon us,
That Your way may be known on earth,
Your salvation among all nations.
Let the peoples praise You, O God;
Let all the peoples praise You.
Oh, let the nations be glad and sing for joy!
For You shall judge the people righteously,
And govern the nations on earth. Selah
Let the peoples praise You, O God;
Let all the peoples praise You.
Then the earth shall yield her increase;
God, our own God, shall bless us.
God shall bless us,
And all the ends of the earth shall fear Him.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen
Psalm 149
Praise to God for His Salvation and Judgment
Praise the Lord!
Sing to the Lord a new song,
And His praise in the assembly of saints.
Let Israel rejoice in their Maker;
Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.
Let them praise His name with the dance;
Let them sing praises to Him with the timbrel and harp.
For the Lord takes pleasure in His people;
He will beautify the humble with salvation.
Let the saints be joyful in glory;
Let them sing aloud on their beds.
Let the high praises of God be in their mouth,
And a two-edged sword in their hand,
To execute vengeance on the nations,
And punishments on the peoples;
To bind their kings with chains,
And their nobles with fetters of iron;
To execute on them the written judgment—
This honor have all His saints.
Praise the Lord!
Glory be to the Father and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen
(A time of worship and thanksgiving, led or spontaneous. Alternatively a devotional song may be played and listened to.)
Let us pray for the day and its tasks, for the church and her life, and for the world and its needs.
(You may use these prayers as written or use them as 'prayer pointers' for your own spontaneous petitions.
Personal Requests
- Mighty God, who created the world and all that is in it and set us here to love you and enjoy you forever; grant that our weekend would be one of peace, joy, rest and worship. Take from our souls the strain and stress that so easily clings to us and may the eternal Sabbath of God be found springing in our hearts.
– Make me your fuel, O flame of God…
- May we experience victory over sin, triumph over fear, freedom from all doubt and the full conquest of our souls by the Spirit of God.
– Make me your fuel, O flame of God…
- May we rest in your finished work, trust in your mighty blood and abide in your relentless love.
– Make me your fuel, O flame of God…
Family & Friends
- Lord Jesus, as we enter the weekend, bind us together with family and friends with unbreakable cords and unshakeable compassion. Add to our community the lost, the lonely, the broken and the confused. I offer myself as a friend to the friendless.
– Make me your fuel, O flame of God…
- Rebuild broken relationships and recreate broken hearts. I offer myself as a restorer of the breach.
– Make me your fuel, O flame of God…
- Bring hope to those who have seen devastation in their families and famine in their finances. I offer myself as a source for the needy
– Make me your fuel, O flame of God…
The Church
- Lord Jesus, I present myself to you today as a servant of your church and a minister of your grace. Take from me all desire for prominence, all ambition for fame and all craving for celebrity. I offer myself as a servant of all.
– Make me your fuel, O flame of God…
- May we be known not so much by our knowledge or seen by our status, but may we be recognised by our joy, identified by our humility and understood through our works of love.
– Make me your fuel, O flame of God…
- May your fire burn strongly in our midst and may we be true living sacrifices upon your altar.
– Make me your fuel, O flame of God…
The World
- We pray for the Middle East, the nations of the Arab world, and the people of Abraham. We pray for the peace of Jerusalem, the reconciliation of brothers, the wise counsel of leaders and a solution to the horrors of extremism.
– Make me your fuel, O flame of God…
- For the sons of Abraham; who you called to yourself, liberated from Egypt and established in the Promised Land. May they come to Christ and receive your only Son as their Messiah.
– Make me your fuel, O flame of God…
- For the sons of Ishmael; who in times past you blessed with increase and fruitfulness. May they come into their birthright and discover your only begotten as their only Saviour.
– Make me your fuel, O flame of God…
- For those living under tyranny and religious persecution. May their knees be strong, their minds be steady and their witness be firm.
– Make me your fuel, O flame of God…
And so we pray…
Our Father in heaven,
Holy is Your Name.
Your Kingdom come.
Your will be done,
On earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread;
And forgive us our trespasses,
As we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
But deliver us from evil.
For yours is the kingdom,
The power, and the glory,
Forever and ever. Amen.
Mark 13:32-37
No One Knows That Day or Hour
"But concerning that day or that hour, no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. Be on guard, keep awake. For you do not know when the time will come. It is like a man going on a journey, when he leaves home and puts his servants in charge, each with his work, and commands the doorkeeper to stay awake. Therefore stay awake—for you do not know when the master of the house will come, in the evening, or at midnight, or when the cock crows, or in the morning— lest he come suddenly and find you asleep. And what I say to you I say to all: Stay awake."
The Word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
Pause for Reflection…
READING: THE WAY OF CHRIST (Optional)
Principle of discipleship drawn from the book, "The Way of Christ"
The Way of Prayer: The Principle of Daily Fellowship with God.
Appreciating that without deep communion with God the life of the Spirit is impossible, I make time to encounter God daily through prayer, worship, the Scriptures and the development of a regular devotional rhythm. As a follower of the Way of Prayer, I will learn the internal disciplines necessary to hear from God and live deeply in His presence.
This is The Way of Prayer: The Principle of Daily Fellowship with God.
Pause for Reflection…
And so we make our declaration of faith…
We believe in God the Father, Almighty,
Maker of heaven and earth:
And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord,
Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
Born of the Virgin Mary,
Suffered under Pontius Pilate,
Was crucified, dead, and buried:
He descended into the grave;
The third day he rose again from the dead;
He ascended into heaven,
And sits on the right hand of God the Father Almighty;
From there he shall come to judge the living and the dead.
We believe in the Holy Spirit;
The Holy Worldwide Church;
The Communion of Saints;
The Forgiveness of sins;
The Resurrection of the body,
And the Life everlasting. Amen.
(Either this or an alternative closing prayer may be said.)
Lord Jesus, you declared yourself to be the resurrection and the life:
Raise us, who trust in you,
From the death of sin to the life of righteousness,
That we may seek those things which are above,
Where you reign with the Father,
In the unity of the Holy Spirit. Amen
(When praying in community, this or a similar blessing may be used)
And may the power that raised Jesus Christ from the dead be at work in you,
To reveal his Son in your life and his glory in your heart. Amen
Psalms taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Other Scripture taken from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.


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Ctrl-Alt-Del is not supposed to reboot.I think Ctrl-Alt-Del is maybe starting xflock4.That's specified in Menu > Settings > Keyboard Settings > Shortcuts.Can you confirm that for me, please?You can change those keys and assign the lock function to any other combination or delete it all together.
If that gets solved, your problem is the lack of a menu bar.Open a terminal, and type:Code: [Select]xfce4-panelThat should bring it back.
I found the shortcut menu but, even as root, they are all greyed out and I can't change/delete them.
QuoteI found the shortcut menu but, even as root, they are all greyed out and I can't change/delete them.You need to click on ADD in that window. That will add a new keyboard shortcut "map" that is based on the defaults but that you can change.
In a terminal window type in:xfce-panel &The & tells Linux to run the terminal process in the background so you can continue to do other work in the terminal. Next, log off, saving the session settings (that's a checkbox on the logout screen). That will close xfce and return you to the display manager when you login. The next time you login both the panel and the terminal will open but the two will no longer be tied together. You can safely close the terminal and your panel will remain.The & isn't necessary if you did it from Run Program, obviously.HTH,Cait
shutdown -f now
But what happens when you do xfce4-panel in Menu > Run Program ?Is it possible to quit and save session when you run the panel that way?
You might try copying your xfce configuration from another user (root is fine), change the ownership/permissions, and go back to a default setup. That may be easier than trying to fix your obviously borked configuration.


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What's it about?
In the first book of the Hunger Games trilogy, sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen lives in a post-revolution used-to-be-America comprised of twelve dystopian districts now known as Panem. Every year the ruling class of the Capital picks one young boy and girl from each district to fight to the death in a televised event called the Hunger Games. Worst of all, the Games serve no solid purpose, hosted merely to show the districts that the Capital still controls the fates of all district inhabitants, including their children.
When Katniss' younger sister Prim is, against slim odds, chosen to participate in the 74th Annual Hunger Games, the motherly Katniss immediately volunteers to take her place, and finds herself whisked off to the Capital to try to kill 23 of her peers (including one boy who once saved her life) in front of a live audience. The story follows her trek to and through the Games and includes a love triangle that, though only a minor subplot in the first book, ultimately makes the Edward-or-Jacob dilemma of the Twilight series look like a child's parody. Readers get to live the Games right alongside their heroine, in all of her moral, physical, and societal quandaries. The writing is fast-paced and full of surprises, right up until the twisty ending.
Is the narrator any good?
The Hunger Games audiobook is part of a trilogy, all narrated by Carolyn McCormick, a seasoned narrator with an MFA and a primetime acting career under her belt. I wasn't a huge fan of her voice at the start, but to be honest, I usually prefer male narrators, particularly if they have a svelte British lilt, however biased that is. But McCormick eventually began to grow on me, and ultimately faded into the background as she became the character and the story took flight, sweeping me up in its wingspan. And to me, that's a sign of good narration.
The verdict?
Although the premise of child-on-child violence is quite disturbing, the book itself is not. Collins manages to deal with the violence graciously, with only enough gore to illustrate the horrific nature of the Games and of their puppetmasters. Katniss is complex and fascinating, somehow both a role model for strength and honor that modern girls (and boys, and men, and women…) can look up to, as well as a case study for the moral imperfection that lives inside of all of us. McCormick manages to express the youthful vulnerability that encases the steel-rimmed core of a brave teenage girl who, gladiator style, is sentenced to a kill-or-be-killed arena laden with traps set solely for their entertainment value.
Don't let the premise deter you. This is an audiobook that's not to be missed.
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by the Liberal Journal Blog
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
I am fucking disgusted at these scumbags calling themselves liberals who choose to limit speech on their sites. What is liberal about deciding what speech is right or wrong? What is liberal about saying that an idea or theory has already been "debunked"? What if new information comes out?
What's worse is that I have yet to see hate speech be the subject of a banning or deletion. In other words, these are ideas. Ideas which may be repeated elsewhere. Ideas which you may not agree with (at the moment). But ideas. You bring shame to the word liberal.
I reached the tipping point today after Crooks & Liars posted a ridiculous post, which claimed that the NAFTA highway was a total myth, but acknowledged that a similar highway was in fact being built to help facilitate trade between the three countries.
Several comments pointed this out—and guess what—several comments were deleted.
If you quote Lou Dobbs, no ifs ands or buts, you are deleted. (See Comment 2) If you mention the North American Union, no ifs and or buts, you are deleted (See Comment 10) If you mention the Amero, you are deleted. (See Comment 36) They said it is debunked, no debate, of course. One comment was deleted for being "a conspiracy theory…lots of words" (See Comment 62) Etc., Etc.
My second comment noting their deletion was also deleted, except they completely deleted that one…no record of it still exists. My third one was also deleted as off topic.
My fourth…well, No New Comments were allowed.
Apparently, I have to be on topic, not quote Lou Dobbs or anyone to the right of him, and also agree with C & L's position on the subject to be allowed to post.
You stupid, self-righteous pieces of shit. So sure of yourselves that even the "sitemonitor" tells a deleted commenter, if "you don't like it, leave." Well, I have Mussolini.
In another corner of the blogosphere, Francis L. Holland was banned from My Left Wing. This is what the Decider there had to say:
I have banned Francis L. Holland. Despite his persistent attempts to paint this as my caving to pressure from various nefarious sources, I have banned him of my own accord because I am sick to fucking death of him and his bullshit -- period.And yes, this includes "ambiguous" statements that you know damned well will be interpreted one way when they are not accurate."
Anyone who has a problem with this, thinks my action hypocritical or contrary in any way to my previously stated principles, is free to say so, of course, and argue till the proverbial bovines return to their domicile -- but it will not change my mind.
In an earlier threat, she stated to Mr. Holland,
"If you continue to post lies...
I will ban you. Maryscott O'Connor, Owner, MyLeftWing.
What could have possibly prompted this reaction? Mr. Holland's final straw post can be found here.
I could not find a lie in it. No one in the comments that followed could find one, either. Although many came rushing to the defense of the site's proprietor whom Mr. Holland only suggested was lying about her motives.
The wider topic Holland was writing about was Daily Kos, where he had been banned previously, for a posting which I thought was completely harmless. The rancor toward Holland appears to be some kind of rampant Groupthink mentality which has taken over the supposed "liberal blogosphere," where supporters rally around the Blog Administrator (i.e. the Decider), and run the odd voice out out.
The Daily Kos has banned many diarists for a variety of reasons including questioning the official account of 9/11. Ironically, MLW even posted about DKos' banning of two pro-Palestinian rights advocates.
This is madness. If you have a community blog and reserve the right to delete posts, please state clearly near the top of your page and in large font, that you believe that unfettered free speech doesn't apply on your site; that you will arbitrarily decide the worth and value of a comment or posting; and that you will call yourself the Deciders. Give full disclosure of your aims, but don't be a hypocrite.
There are few rights as essential and defining of the rights of man as the right to speak freely. Corporations are limiting our rights. Government is limiting our rights. Now some of the most well-known "liberal" blogs are limiting our rights.
I vow to never use Kos ever again or My Left Wing ever. Crooks and Liars, I am declaring ideological war on you, too. And I will never, ever delete a post or comment on my blog.
At worst, this makes me an radical first amendment defender who will defend even offensive speech. At best, this means that I believe in the principles that this nation was founded upon, and even more fundamentally, that I accept that I don't know everything. I will wear that badge proudly.
I will leave with a quote from Noam Chomsky: "If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."
Editor's Note: Regular viewers of my blogs know that I don't like curse words, but they also know that comments are open to the public and I do not censor what commentors say. In such a fundamental post on the right to free speech, I am not about to make an exception now to this longstanding rule.
I deeply appreciate the sentiment that Liberal Journal has expressed and the solidarity shown in the face of rampant attempts to curtail the rights that are guaranteed to us by the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.


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The last trailer we featured for the fourth season of AMC's praised drama series Breaking Bad was basically one big tease, but this new trailer that premiered during last night's season finale of The Killing really brings the thunder. It really looks like this is going to be one hell of a season, and Bryan Cranston can pretty much count on that Emmy nomination already. In addition to the new trailer, we also have a slew of official images from the new season so be sure to check out all of the above treats after the jump. The fourth season of Breaking Bad premieres on AMC on July 17th.
Here's the new trailer [from EW]:
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In the digital age, we can locate documents and folders in an instant on our PCs, laptops and smartphones. However, keeping on top of our paper filing is a task we tend to put to the back of our minds, as it is time consuming and if ignored for too long, overwhelming. Important letters, files and other documents can be mislaid, hidden at the bottom of our in-tray, or filed away incorrectly more often than we would care to admit to.
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text: Yunus Rahmatullah has been held at Bagram Airbase for years without any charges brought against him [EPA] At last. After years of waiting and worry - and confusion over why her son is still in Bagram prison in Afghanistan nearly two years after he was cleared of charges against him - Yunus Rahmatullah's poor mother has reason to hope.Yunus was seized by UK forces in Iraq in February 2004, and immediately handed over to the US. In order to make the handover legal under the Geneva Conventions, the two countries signed a memorandum of understanding stipulating that the UK could take back the prisoner at any point if it so wished.The trouble is that the US was riding roughshod over the Geneva Conventions when Yunus was handed over. Just weeks after the seizure, the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal broke. The UK said nothing about Yunus. In June, they were "informed" that Yunus had been sent to Bagram, likely a grave breach of the Geneva Conventions. Still they stood by. Yunus then sat in Bagram for seven years. There was no charge, no trial and no help from the government that seized him in the first place. "As of today, the Foreign and Defence Secretaries have seven days to get Yunus home to his mother - or spend a little time in a cell of their own for contempt of court." But today, things are looking up for Yunus. He has just been ordered freed by the Court of Appeal in a landmark habeas corpus judgment. Habeas is an ancient common law remedy: as old as, or older than, the Magna Carta. Its basic idea lies at the heart of our legal system: A man cannot be held in secret; he must be charged and tried, or released. Its bite is that it makes the jailor personally responsible for any man he has seized - he has to a) turn the man loose, b) produce a reason to hold him before the court, or c) face the judges' wrath. As of today, the Foreign and Defence Secretaries have seven days to get Yunus home to his mother or - unless they have a very good reason indeed - spend a little time in a cell of their own for contempt of court.It took legal aid organisation Reprieve, Reprieve's barristers, and law firm Leigh Day years to get the UK government to this position. Why they did not simply right this wrong from the start is still unclear. But the UK bobbed and weaved like a boxer about this case from day one: When the Minister of Defence admitted for the first time in February 2009 that it had turned over two men to the US, the government refused to say who they were. When we sued them for the names they still did not back down, and Reprieve had to spend much time and money to find Yunus' family and bring a case. Finally, when we brought a habeas action - effectively saying, "you seized him, he should never have been sent to Bagram, you get him back" - the UK government denied that it had control of him anymore. At some point, (although at what point precisely was never made clear), Yunus was "just not our problem". Should he be in Bagram? No, but that's got nothing to do with us, the government said.The Court of Appeal saw through this, not least because of the written deal between the US and UK that entitled the British to get its prisoners back on request. This was the bare minimum required at the time to keep the British from committing war crimes - their ally, the US, had already made clear that it did not think the Geneva Conventions applied to captives in the War on Terror. This is what habeas corpus is all about. Those responsible for secret detention tend to deny that they have control of the prisoner. That is the reason why the writ was created in the first place. The simple fact, and one the Court of Appeal rightly recognised, is that once the British seized this man, they cannot simply "wash their hands" of him - or of their obligations under the Geneva Conventions.As the Court mentions, to not right the wrong done to Yunus now may well make the current UK government a party to a grave breach of Geneva - in other words, a war crime. One assumes there will be no difficulty in this respect. Both international law and the express agreement between the United States and Britain require the US to give over Yunus if asked.The right course for the US and UK is simple. Britain erred when it handed this man over to the US in the first place, and it ought to bring him home.The Obama administration, for its part, needs to see this situation for what it is: an error by the Bush administration that it need not embrace. It is also an opportunity. These are fraught days for US-Pakistani relations, and the transfer home of a cleared Pakistani citizen from Bagram would go a long way to establishing goodwill. It would be unlawful, as well as pointless and self-defeating, for the US to seek to ignore its obligation to Britain's prisoner.It is high time Yunus' mother saw her son again. In seven days' time, we may just see that happen. Cori Crider is the legal director at Reprieve, an organisation that provides legal aid to prisoners facing the death penalty or held as part of the "War on Terror". The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's editorial policy. SOURCE: Al Jazeera ABOUT THE AUTHOR Cori CriderCori Crider is the legal director at Reprieve, a legal aid organisation. @ cori_crider


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CDM project co-benefits in Nepal: Accelerating deployment of clean energy in rural households
Two CDM projects are helping to deploy an additional 20,000 biogas digesters in households across Nepal. This is accelerating the implementation of the Biogas Support Programme of the Nepalese Government, which otherwise uses a mix of national finance and donor aid. The digesters are sold at a subsidised rate to low-income rural households to enhance access to basic services such as heating, cooking and hot water production. The digesters utilise the dung from farmers' livestock and domestic latrines to produce methane gas as the organic waste breaks down. The methane is then used as cooking fuel in biogas stoves built directly in the dwellings. This replaces more traditional cooking fuels such as firewood, agricultural residues, animal manure and kerosene. This project improves indoor air quality in homes as the smoke-free combustion of biogas displaces the use of traditional fuels, generating health benefits for the community, especially for women who do most of the cooking.


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Dropbox doesn't just make syncing and backing up files easier done than said, it serves as a great way to collaborate on projects too. But managing shared folders and permissions isn't as simple as dragging files into a folder and watching them fly off into the sky (that's how the cloud metaphor works, right?). To address this, Dropbox has unveiled a new feature to simplify life for teams.
A new Teams folder lets everyone store files in a single place. The content here is automatically accessible to every member, making it easier to exchange files.
Dropbox has included the option to divide teams into groups, speeding up the process of sharing files with specific people. The service will also let users have separate accounts for personal and work files, which they can switch between with a simple toggle.
The features are all making their way to Basic and Pro users on mobile, desktop, and the web over the course of the next week.
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Oh Hell No, This Woman Had a Live Cockroach Inside Her Head
Get ready to beg for this story to end, because a woman just underwent surgery to have a live cockroach removed from the inside of her head. A 42-year-old woman identified only as Selvi woke up Tuesday night with an oddly itchy nose and couldn't figure out what was ailing her.
"At first, I thought I was coming down with a cold," Selvi told The Times of India. She went to the hospital to get checked out. The first doctors suspected a growth in her nose. She was taken to a second hospital that attempted to pump the "growth" out using water. They didn't have any luck. At a third location, they suspected a "foreign body that seemed to be mobile" and decided she would need a scan.
She was then sent to Stanley Medical College and Hospital where doctors discovered that the "growth" had antenna. "It was a full grown cockroach," Dr. M N Shankar told the Times. "It was alive. And it didn't seem to want to come out."
No. No. No. No. No.
The Times of India reports that the cockroach was "in the nasal cavity between the eyes, close to the brain." Right now, you're probably squirming and trying to decide why the hell you are reading this. That's fair because this is definitely what killed Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now! He read this news and then died saying, "The horror."
For 45 minutes the doctors used suction and forceps to get the cockroach out of her head. The doctors noted that they've pulled a lot of strange things out of noses before, "but not a cockroach, especially not one this large," according to Dr. S Muthuchitra.
So, that's a thing. Ugh.
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2019 Ford E350 15FT Box Truck with 24,000 miles. Comes with a 6.8L V8 engine, Vinyl interior, AC, Power windows and locks, Cruise, 11,500 GVW, Aluminum loading ramp, Unicell Fiberglass Box, 158″ WB, PA inspected and serviced. Inside box length- 15′ width- 90″ height- 85.5″. Door opening height- 77″. Ford bumper to bumper warranty good until 03/2022 or 36,000 miles. Ford powertrain warranty good until 03/2024 or 60,000 miles. Call Casey or John for more information or to schedule a test drive. Visit us at our website at www.jakobsenmotors.com for more info and photos.
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- Fully Galvanized Steel Panels
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Playa Bowls adds Rutgers to list of locations
Students do not have to take the trip to the Jersey Shore to eat and Instagram their favorite Playa Bowls anymore — now they can take a short trip to a new location right here at Rutgers.
The fruit bowl and smoothie shop have locations in Belmar, Pier Village and Bay Head, New Jersey, and is now bringing their summer vibes to Rutgers campus.
But their new location is special, said Desi Saran, one of the four owners, including Robert Giuliani, Abby Taylor and Nick Komandis.
Not only is their largest demographic college students, but three of the four owners are Rutgers alumni, said Saran, who is a Rutgers MBA alumnus and class of 2007 graduate.
"We thought it was a big deal to bring something back to the community, to the University," he said.
It is also the first location away from the beach, Saran said.
"This is a big move for us," he said. "We are confident and everything has been great so far. I think it was a great choice for us, for our first location away from the shore."
Saran said his goal is to replicate the look, feel, atmosphere and menu of the other locations on the New Jersey shore.
The shop, which known for its pitaya and acai bowls that are healthy and filling, has a variety of flavors to choose from. Acai berries, a trendy superfood filled with antioxidants, are ground and can be mixed with fruit, granola, coconut, peanut butter, nutella and more.
The outcome is colorful, and many take it to social media sites, which has helped in the promotion and popularity of Playa Bowls.
"I think students like having a healthy food option," he said. "It's definitely different and unique. The playa bowls are delicious, they're filling and they're a full meal replacement. You can have it for breakfast, lunch or dinner."
The shop opened last Saturday and the feedback has been very good, Saran said. There will be a grand opening Saturday, Sept. 17, with giveaways.
"The students love our products, they are super happy that we are here, they are super happy that they have a healthy food options," Saran said.
While the owners are excited about their new location, they do not plan to end here.
"We are planning to expand more," Saran said. "The next one we are planning to open is in Red Bank, then we are looking to go up north to Montclair and then other northern towns like Hoboken."
Playa Bowls opening at Rutgers is a great addition to the campus, said Antoinette Robustelli, a School of Arts and Sciences junior.
"Every time I was down the shore this summer I made sure to wait in the crazy lines for one of these bowls," Robustelli said. "There's so much variety and they're surprisingly filling, so it could actually hold me over for a three-hour lecture."
Robustelli said she is excited to visit the location at Rutgers as soon as possible.
"I'm glad playa bowls are organic, because I plan on getting one every day," she said.
The first time Gillian Blewett, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, tried one of "these delicious creations" was when they were just a small food stand on 8 th Avenue in Belmar, NJ.
She has not been to the new location at Rutgers, but said she plans to visit.
"Now, look how popular this unique business has become," she said. "The story behind the growth of Playa Bowls is beyond inspiring to college students trying to find their passion."
Playa Bowls has never disappointed Blewett.
"Each different flavored bowl is just as delicious as the next," she said. "Not to mention how beautifully made and picture perfect they are. I can't wait to try more creative and colorful fall flavors this upcoming semester."
Noa Halff is a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore majoring in journalism and media studies. She is an associate news editor for The Daily Targum.
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Today an important Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Central Asia Education Platform (CAEP) and the "Bologna Process and Academic Mobility Center", under the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The aim of this agreement is to develop a closer relationship between the Center and CAEP in order to expand cooperation between the European Union and Central Asia within the sector of higher education and to promote the full implementation of the agreed principles of the Bologna Process in Kazakhstan.
Kazakhstan signed the Bologna Declaration in 2010, becoming the 47th member country of the Bologna Process and the first Central Asian state to be recognised as a full member of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). Being part of the Bologna Process involves improving access to European education, facilitating the recognition of qualifications across the EHEA, improving the academic mobility of students and faculty, introducing the ECTS credit transfer system in universities, developing quality assurance systems and procedures, and promoting lifelong learning.
The "Bologna Process and Academic Mobility Center" ensures the active participation of the Republic of Kazakhstan in EHEA and other higher education spaces; its mission is to promote proper and full implementation of agreed principles of the Bologna Process in the Republic of Kazakhstan at national and institutional levels in order to ensure competitiveness of the national higher education system.
As part of the MOU the Center and CAEP will share experience and knowledge of education reform and the Bologna Process, exchange information resources and actively participate in seminars, conferences, scientific studies and projects, as well as provide mutually beneficial assistance for the implementation of Bologna process principles, with the final aim of promoting education reform and modernising the higher education system in Kazakhstan.
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