text:
//@exclude
'use strict';
//@endexclude

(function() {

  /**
   * A module to some library corbel.utils
   * @exports utils
   * @namespace
   * @memberof corbel
   */
  var utils = corbel.utils = {};

  /**
   * Extend a given object with all the properties in passed-in object(s).
   * @param  {Object}  obj
   * @return {Object}
   */
  utils.extend = function(obj) {
    Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments, 1).forEach(function(source) {
      if (source) {
        for (var prop in source) {
          obj[prop] = source[prop];
        }
      }
    });

    return obj;
  };

  /**
   * Set up the prototype chain, for subclasses. Uses a hash of prototype properties and class properties to be extended.
   * @param  {Object} Prototype object properties
   * @param  {Object} Static object properties
   * @return {Object} Return a new object that inherit from the context object
   */
  utils.inherit = function(prototypeProperties, staticProperties) {
    var parent = this,
      child;

    if (prototypeProperties && prototypeProperties.hasOwnProperty('constructor')) {
      child = prototypeProperties.constructor;
    } else {
      child = function() {
        return parent.apply(this, arguments);
      };
    }

    utils.extend(child, parent, staticProperties);

    var Surrogate = function() {
      this.constructor = child;
    };

    Surrogate.prototype = parent.prototype;
    child.prototype = new Surrogate; // jshint ignore:line

    if (prototypeProperties) {
      utils.extend(child.prototype, prototypeProperties);
    }

    child.__super__ = parent.prototype;

    return child;

  };

  /**
   * Generate a uniq random GUID
   */
  utils.guid = function() {

    function s4() {
      return Math.floor((1 + Math.random()) * 0x10000)
        .toString(16)
        .substring(1);
    }

    return s4() + s4() + '-' + s4() + '-' + s4() + '-' +
      s4() + '-' + s4() + s4() + s4();
  };

  /**
   * Reload browser
   */
  utils.reload = function() {
    if (window !== undefined) {
      window.location.reload();
    }
  };

  /**
   * Serialize a plain object to query string
   * @param  {Object} obj Plain object to serialize
   * @return {String}
   */
  utils.param = function(obj) {
    var str = [];
    for (var p in obj) {
      if (obj.hasOwnProperty(p)) {
        str.push(encodeURIComponent(p) + '=' + encodeURIComponent(obj[p]));
      }
    }
    return str.join('&');
  };

  utils.toURLEncoded = function(obj) {
    var str = [];
    for (var p in obj) {
      if (obj.hasOwnProperty(p)) {
        str.push(encodeURIComponent(p) + '=' + encodeURIComponent(obj[p]));
      }
    }
    return str.join('&');
  };

  /**
   * Translate this full exampe query to a Silkroad Compliant QueryString
   * @param {Object} params
   * @param {Object} params.aggregation
   * @param {Object} params.query
   * @param {Object} params.page
   * @param {Number} params.page.page
   * @param {Number} params.page.size
   * @param {Object} params.sort
   * @return {String}
   * @example
   * var params = {
   *     query: [
   *         { '$eq': {field: 'value'} },
   *         { '$eq': {field2: 'value2'} },
   *         { '$gt': {field: 'value'} },
   *         { '$gte': {field: 'value'} },
   *         { '$lt': {field: 'value'} },
   *         { '$lte': {field: 'value'} },
   *         { '$ne': {field: 'value'} },
   *         { '$eq': {field: 'value'} },
   *         { '$like': {field: 'value'} },
   *         { '$in': {field: ['value1', 'value2']} },
   *         { '$all': {field: ['value1', 'value2']} }
   *     ],
   *     queryDomain: 'api',  // 'api', '7digital' supported
   *     queries: [{
   *        query: [
   *           { '$eq': {field: 'value'} },
   *           { '$eq': {field2: 'value2'} },
   *           { '$gt': {field: 'value'} },
   *           { '$gte': {field: 'value'} },
   *           { '$lt': {field: 'value'} },
   *           { '$lte': {field: 'value'} },
   *           { '$ne': {field: 'value'} },
   *           { '$eq': {field: 'value'} },
   *           { '$like': {field: 'value'} },
   *           { '$in': {field: ['value1', 'value2']} },
   *           { '$all': {field: ['value1', 'value2']} }
   *       ],
   *       queryDomain: 'api',  // 'api', '7digital' supported
   *     },{
   *        query: [
   *           { '$eq': {field: 'value'} },
   *           { '$eq': {field2: 'value2'} },
   *           { '$gt': {field: 'value'} },
   *           { '$gte': {field: 'value'} },
   *           { '$lt': {field: 'value'} },
   *           { '$lte': {field: 'value'} },
   *           { '$ne': {field: 'value'} },
   *           { '$eq': {field: 'value'} },
   *           { '$like': {field: 'value'} },
   *           { '$in': {field: ['value1', 'value2']} },
   *           { '$all': {field: ['value1', 'value2']} }
   *       ],
   *       queryDomain: 'api',  // 'api', '7digital' supported
   *     }]
   *     page: { page: 0, size: 10 },
   *     sort: {field: 'asc'},
   *     aggregation: {
   *         '$count': '*'
   *     }
   * };
   */
  utils.serializeParams = function(params) {
    var result = '';

    if (params === undefined || params === null) {
      return result;
    }

    if (!(params instanceof Object)) {
      throw new Error('expected params to be an Object type, but got ' + typeof params);
    }

    if (params.aggregation) {
      result = 'api:aggregation=' + JSON.stringify(params.aggregation);
    }

    //Encodes each query value for being URI compilant
    function encodeQueryComponents(obj) {
      if (Array.isArray(obj)) {
        obj = obj.map(function(item) {
          return encodeQueryComponents(item);
        });
      } else if (typeof(obj) === 'object') {
        Object.keys(obj).forEach(function(key) {
          obj[key] = encodeQueryComponents(obj[key]);
        });
      } else if (typeof(obj) === 'string') {
        //Return the encoded component (decode first for avoiding double encode)
        obj = encodeURIComponent(decodeURIComponent(obj));
      }
      return obj;
    }

    function queryObjectToString(qry) {
      var result = '';
      var query;
      qry.queryDomain = qry.queryDomain || 'api';
      result += qry.queryDomain + ':query=';
      try {
        if (typeof qry.query === 'string') {
          query = JSON.parse(qry.query);
        } else {
          //Clone the object we don't want to modify the original query object
          query = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(qry.query));
        }

        query = JSON.stringify(encodeQueryComponents(query));

        result += query;

        return result;
      } catch (e) {
        //Return the query even if it is not a valid object
        return result + qry.query;
      }
    }

    if (params.query) {
      params.queryDomain = params.queryDomain || 'api';
      result += result ? '&' : '';
      result += queryObjectToString(params);
    }

    if (params.queries) {
      params.queries.forEach(function(query) {
        result += result ? '&' : '';
        result += queryObjectToString(query);
      });
    }

    if (params.search) {
      result += result ? '&' : '';
      result += 'api:search=' + JSON.stringify(params.search);
    }

    if (params.sort) {
      result += result ? '&' : '';
      result += 'api:sort=' + JSON.stringify(params.sort);
    }

    if (params.pagination) {
      if (params.pagination.page) {
        result += result ? '&' : '';
        result += 'api:page=' + params.pagination.page;
      }

      if (params.pagination.size) {
        result += result ? '&' : '';
        result += 'api:pageSize=' + params.pagination.size;
      }
    }

    return result;
  };

  utils.defaults = function(destiny, defaults) {
    Object.keys(defaults).forEach(function(key) {
      if (typeof(destiny[key]) === 'undefined') {
        destiny[key] = defaults[key];
      }
    });

    return destiny;
  };

  utils.pick = function(object, keys) {
    var destiny = {};

    keys.forEach(function(key) {
      destiny[key] = object[key];
    });

    return destiny;
  };

  utils.clone = function(obj) {
    if (null === obj || 'object' !== typeof obj) {
      return obj;
    }
    var copy = {};
    for (var attr in obj) {
      if (obj.hasOwnProperty(attr)) {
        copy[attr] = obj[attr];
      }
    }
    return copy;
  };

  utils.isJSON = function(string) {
    try {
      JSON.parse(string);
    } catch (e) {
      return false;
    }

    return true;
  };

  /**
   * Convert data URI to Blob.
   * Only works in browser
   * @param  {string} dataURI
   * @return {Blob}
   */
  utils.dataURItoBlob = function(dataURI) {

    var serialize;
    if (corbel.Config.isNode) {
      console.log('NODE');
      // node environment
      serialize = require('atob');
    } else {
      console.log('BROWSER');
      serialize = root.atob;
    }

    /*
     * phantom hack.
     * https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/issues/11013
     * https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2012/06/Don-t-Build-Blobs-Construct-Them
     * https://code.google.com/p/phantomjs/issues/detail?id=1013
     * Phrantom has ton Blob() constructor support,
     * use BlobBuilder instead.
     */
    var BlobBuilder;
    var BlobConstructor;
    if (corbel.Config.isBrowser) {
      BlobBuilder = window.BlobBuilder = window.BlobBuilder ||
        window.WebKitBlobBuilder ||
        window.MozBlobBuilder ||
        window.MSBlobBuilder;
      BlobConstructor = window.Blob;
    }

    // convert base64 to raw binary data held in a string
    var byteString = serialize(dataURI.split(',')[1]);

    // separate out the mime component
    var mimeString = dataURI.split(',')[0].split(':')[1].split(';')[0];

    // write the bytes of the string to an ArrayBuffer
    var arrayBuffer = new ArrayBuffer(byteString.length);
    var _ia = new Uint8Array(arrayBuffer);
    for (var i = 0; i < byteString.length; i++) {
      _ia[i] = byteString.charCodeAt(i);
    }
    var blob;
    if (BlobBuilder) {
      blob = new BlobBuilder();
      blob.append(arrayBuffer);
      blob = blob.getBlob(mimeString);
    } else {
      blob = new BlobConstructor([_ia], {
        type: mimeString
      });
    }
    return blob;
  };

  return utils;

})();

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class OS_API osFileLauncher
{
public:
    osFileLauncher(const gtString& FileToBeLaunched, bool launchFileInDifferentThread = true);
    osFileLauncher(const gtString& FileToBeLaunched, const gtString& commandLineParameters, bool launchFileInDifferentThread = true);
    bool launchFile();

private:
    // Do not allow the use of the default constructor:
    osFileLauncher();

private:
    // The path / URL of the file to be launched:
    gtString _fileToBeLaunched;

    gtString _commandLineParameters;

    // Will the file be launched in a different thread:
    bool _launchFileInDifferentThread;
};

// A function that waits for the launched file and gets its return code:
bool OS_API osLaunchFileAndGetReturnCode(const gtString& fileToBeLaunched, const gtString& commandLineParameters, long& retCode);

#endif  // __OSFILELAUNCHER


In an advanced massage therapy diploma program, you will study in-depth one of the many specialties of massage therapy. Typical coursework includes massage practice, anatomy, physiology and practice management. Read on to find out more.


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'Lincoln' DVDs to Go to All U.S. Middle and High Schools
4:07 PM PST 2/11/2013 by Rebecca Ford
Amy Adams, The Master
Sally Field, Lincoln (pictured)
Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables
Helen Hunt, The Sessions
Nicole Kidman, The Paperboy
Participant Media's social action campaign also includes screenings of Spielberg's Oscar-nominated film at 8 U.S. towns named Lincoln on Feb. 12.
A week before Presidents Day and just eight days until Oscar voting closes, the producers of Lincoln are making news with a new education initiative.
Steven Spielberg's Oscar contender will be landing in the hands of a large group of people -- they just aren't Oscar voters.
PHOTOS: Academy Awards 2013: The Nominees
Participant Media said Monday that in conjunction with its upcoming social action campaign, "Stand Tall: Live Like Lincoln," DVDs of Lincoln will be distributed to all public and private middle and high schools in the U.S. once the DreamWorks Pictures/20th Century Fox film becomes available on home video.
"As more and more people began to see the film, we received letters from teachers asking if it could be available in their classrooms," says Spielberg in a statement. "We realized that the educational value that Lincoln could have was not only for the adult audiences -- who have studied his life in history books -- but for the young students in the classroom as well."
The DVD package each school will receive includes an educator's guide so that teachers can talk about the real-life impact of the 16th president.
PHOTOS: New 'Lincoln' Opening Made for Overseas Audiences
Also as part of the "Stand Tall: Live Like Lincoln" campaign, Participant Media will screen the Oscar-nominated film to eight U.S. towns named Lincoln on Feb. 12 -- which is the date celebrated as Abe Lincoln's birthday. Then, in mid-March, 15 Lincoln high schools across the country in largely underserved communities also will get screenings of the film. Each school will also receive new audiovisual equipment, including a 120-inch portable screen, Blu-ray and DVD player, projector and new speakers.
Lincoln goes into the Feb. 24 Oscars with a leading 12 nominations, including best picture, best director, best actor (Daniel Day-Lewis) and best supporting actress (Sally Field).
Rebecca Ford
Rebecca.Ford@thr.com beccamford

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Advanced Transit
Concept Description
Characteristics Operational Applications
ATRA IG Viewpoint
ATRA Initiatives
Washington Library Search
About ATRA
Corporate / Governmental
Texas Southern University – Advanced Research
Texas Southern University Studying Advancing Research of Automated Roadway Vehicles in Public Transit Applications
TSU's Center for Transportation Training and Research (CTTR) is working to further research after completing a TRB/NCHRP study of autonomous vehicle transit systems
TSU's CTTR has completed the work as Principal Investigator for the NCHRP 20-102(02) project sponsored by Transportation Research Board/National Academy of Sciences, which specifically addressed the implications of deploying fully automated roadway vehicle (AV) technology in transit operations. This study's results will be featured in a TRB webinar later in 2017. The final report, titled Impacts of Laws and Regulations on Automation Technology for Transit, describes how AV transit will be commonly deployed in public transit service within the next few decades, and the resulting impacts on Operations and Policy at the local transit operator level will create a new paradigm for public transit. The NCHRP study assessed the development trajectories for AV transit technologies, considered the lessons learned through the last 50 years of automated guideway transit deployments, investigated the early demonstration projects for AV transit and tapped into the thinking of a number individuals within the transit industry, labor unions, and governmental agencies. Results of the study are an extensive set of findings and recommendations that address the existing laws and regulations, the nature of policy decisions that are made at the local transit agency level and the further development possibilities for the current prototype AV transit technologies now being demonstrated.
A second project now under development by TSU's CTTR will provide a "living laboratory" of AV transit operations with fully automated vehicles traveling on the ground through pedestrian and vehicular environments within and around the University District in Houston, Texas. The University District AV Transit Circulator System implementation is being developed as a joint endeavor between TSU and the University of Houston – a Tier One research institution. Encompassing an area totaling over 2 square miles, the long term deployment phases will be analyzed in a planning study that is being considered for addition to the region's Unified Planning Work Program. An Early Deployment Project is also being developed which will interconnect the campuses of TSU and U of H with AV Circulator transit services, and will provide an operational platform for important research studies such as those that come out of the NCHRP 20-102(02) project recommendations mentioned above.
By J. Sam Lott
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FIFA Manager 14 — тринадцатая игра из серии игр FIFA Manager, выпущенная компанией EA Sports. Выпущена на Windows 23 октября 2013 года.

Особенности

Лицензии
 Количество официально представленных клубов — 1000
 Общее количество игроков — 35000
 Количество лиг — 70

Игровые особенности
Новый вид командной матрицы, раздел с разными футбольными слухами, появится раздел психологический профиль и расширенная статистика.

Лиги
FIFA MANAGER 14 сохраняет все лицензии FIFA Manager 13, но с добавлением Бразильской Серии А, Чемпионата Чили, Колумбийской Лиги Постобон, Аргентинского Чемпионата и Польской Экстраклассы. Также добавлены лицензированные составы для всех команд украинской Премьер-лиги, Чемпионата Хорватии и Чешской Гамбринус Лиги.

Примечания

Ссылки
 Официальный сайт

Симуляторы футбольного менеджера
Компьютерные игры, изданные EA Sports
Компьютерные игры 2013 года
Игры только для Windows
Компьютерные игры, разработанные Bright Future

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https://www.hollywoodbitchslap.com/review.php?movie=29494&reviewer=371
Arabian Nights: Volume 3, the Enchanted One
Reviewed By Jay Seaver
Posted 01/19/16 19:12:58
"An interesting finale, if you've like what came before. And finches."
(Worth A Look)
Miguel Gomes seemingly sets out to end his "Arabian Tales" trilogy with a whimper, as there are long, long stretches of this movie where nothing really happens and the narrative captions emphasize that the story is not moving forward at all. That the movie never actually bored me out of my mind suggests that his talents as a filmmaker outstrip his talents as a troll, and there's something kind of impressive about that.
This time around, the film has the appearance of an actual adaptation of 1001 Arabian Nights despite the captions' insistence that it simply borrows the structure, opening with a middle-eastern girl dancing and a wealthy older man mistaking her for someone else. He is the father of Scheherazade (Crista Alfaiate), who on the 515th day of her marriage to the vizier is growing weary of trying to push her decapitation (and his moving on to the rest of Bagdad's women in the original marry/screw/kill scenario). She spends the day out in the countryside, meeting the people and her father, and tapping a genie of the wind, before returning to her duty. It's a sweet story with the lovely Crista Alfaiate giving a nice performance as this woman for whom beauty a and charm are matters of duty, though she seems more resigned than bitter. Gomes does interesting things with his storytelling, such as superimposing the end of one scene over the beginning of another, notably allowing the dancer to become a ghost haunting Scheherazade's father. The setting eventually becomes less Bagdad in ancient times and more present day Portugal, and Gomes has fun with the juxtapositions. Given that he placed himself in the position of Scheherazade in the first film, one can't help but wonder what his thinking was with this segment - he spends a lot of time ruminating on how storytellers may create adventures in works they do not always experience directly, but he also presents a relatively tranquil image of the world outside, perhaps implying that the government's austerity and lack of concerns for the country's people cannot diminish the simple pleasures that people might take from each other and the beauty around them.
Eventually, though, she must return to the vizier, where she begins the tale of "The Inebriating Chorus of the Chaffinches". It looks at a small community near the Lisbon airport where focus have been trapped and trained to remember various calls ever since soldiers learned this abroad during World War I. Gomes introduces the audience to this practice and many of the neighborhood's enthusiasts, often having information about them and their birds pop up as captions. What he does not do, however, is build much of a story; it's like an observational documentary sort that stretches out for at least half of the film's 125-minute running time. T the narrative captions mention Scheherazade stopping at dawn and restarting at nightfall often enough that this goes on for weeks, enough to make one wonder how she has not been beheaded yet, as this is what the vizier does when a woman does not hold his ingest.
On the other hand, one does kind of understand, as this segment is not nearly as boring as it should be. Gomes displays no interest whatsoever in building a plot out of this material, but he offers up all the materials a viewer (or listener) would need to construct stories of their own: There are bunches of characters with intriguing backstory, facts about finches and their training, a look at the setting that gives it a real sense of place, and footage of a competition that is all but incomprehensible to an outsider but is as a result tremendously malleable. I suspect much of it is either documentary material or performed by non-actors, with Gomes and his co-editors doping yeoman's work to shape what they have into something that does not lead to actual frustration or open revolt in the audience even though at some point viewers have to connect it to the framing story where Scheherazade is obviously stringing her audience along, a fairly narrow path to navigate.
Buried within this is another story, "Tale of the Hot Forest", in which a Chinese student (Guo Jing Jing) describes her time in Portugal and the various situations she found herself in. The audience never actually sees her; indeed, all that's on-screen is video of a November 2013 confrontation between two police forces - one striking and the other attempting to keep order - which plays a part in her story and was occasionally adjacent to the previous one. It's an interesting choice, giving Gomes a chance to give Lin Nuan a bigger canvas than some of the other characters (when you're just using words, there's no reason not to have your narrator become a Contessa's personal companion in her mansion) but also contrasting how an individual's human-scale dilemmas contrast with the crowd scenes that make the news. It also underscores how changeable people can be, as Lin's tale of abandonment perhaps echoes how chips go from fighting to embracing their proposing brother officers.
Looking at the trilogy as a whole, it's interesting to see how interconnectivity becomes more prominent as it goes along. The first film presented very discrete stories, clearly looking at the effects of the economic collapse on individuals and families; the second presents larger social networks. Here, everything bleeds into everything else, from the first super-imposed image on: The past becomes the present, one story spins off from another, and the finch trappers include both a character from the second film and an actor who played a character in a different segment. Fiction and documentary are thoroughly intermingled. The film isn't entirely successful as it gets out to this perspective, as it starts playing games with the audience that are far more entertaining to Gomes than the people watching.
There's a part of me that suspects Gomes made the whole six-plus-hour trilogy in order to get more people to see the chaffinch material he found interesting than might otherwise have done so (sure, a massive metafictional combination of fantasy and political protest is a hard sell, but maybe not to the extent that an hour on finch-trapping would be). "The Enchanted One" is certainly good enough not to quit on the series after two entries, and it's a solid part of the trilogy, though you'd have to be rather interested in finches to watch it on its own.
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Travelling the world is a wonderful experience which most people long to have. Being able to see as much as possible when you go on vacation will always make the trip feel more satisfying, providing you with stories, memories, and even new knowledge. To embrace this fully, it could be worth changing your approach to going away. To help you out with this, this post will be exploring four of the World's best vacation locations for those that want to see the natural world.
Known for the huge population of lemurs calling this place home, Madagascar is a naturist's dream come true. With hundreds of miles of uninterrupted forest which is largely untouched by humans, you won't find many places in the worldwhich can provide the same experience as this island. There are hundreds of species of plants and animals here which can't be found anywhere else, making it perfect for anyone with a love for nature.
It's likely that you've heard of or seen a Galapagos tortoise at some point in your life. Growing to be one of the heaviest reptiles in the world, these mammoths can live for well over 200 years. Of course, though, these islands are also home to bountiful rainforests which are filled with unique creatures. Like Madagascar, these islands have had millions of years of isolation from the rest of the world, and this has lead to massive diversity in the natural features calling it home.
Off the coast of Central America, it's hard to believe that an island so calm and serene could be found in this troubled part of the world. With a hotel like the Courtyard San Jose Escazu, you will find yourself in the heart of a bustling city. From your room, though, you will also be able to see endless trees, as this area is home to dense rain forests. Planning to become carbon neutral by 2021, it's easy to see that their environment is important to the people of Costa Rica, and this shows even more when you pay a visit.
Finally, as the last option on this list, it's time to mix a little bit of history into the vacation pot. Peru, like the other options on this list, is largely covered by rainforests, giving it a huge array of creatures and plants to learn about. Along with this side of things, though, Peru is also home to a huge amount of ancient lore. Machu Picchu is an incredibly popular destination, being home to a series of very well preserved Inca ruins.
Hopefully, this post will inspire you to start working harder to plan your next vacation with nature in mind. The world has a lot to offer when it comes to all things green, and you have a huge range of options to get you started. Of course, though, you should do some research to find the best place for you, as everyone will have something different they'd like to see.


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Divine Rulers in a Secular State
Timo Kallinen
Part of the Studia Fennica Anthropologica series.
African Studies Anthropology Comparative Religion History Political Science Theology
Secularization Divine kingship Africa Ghana Politics Religion
The divine kingship and chiefship of the Asante people of central Ghana have been undergoing a shift towards secularization since the start of the colonial era. Timo Kallinen maintains that a close examination of this transformation provides us with a better understanding of secularization processes in Ghana more broadly, and in other post-colonial societies whose historical development likewise differs from that of the modern West, and which have largely confronted secular modernity through encounters with European colonialism. Throughout the volume secularization is understood as a process in modern society whereby divinity is separated from the ways in which both human society is regulated and physical nature is understood to function.
Divine Rulers in a Secular State has been divided into three thematic parts, each with a short theoretical introduction. In the first two, analysis is primarily inspired by the work of Louis Dumont, while in the third the theoretical ideas of Webb Keane and Bruno Latour are of central importance. The undifferentiated order of the pre-colonial Asante kingdom, in which the chiefly and priestly functions of the rulers were not separated, comprises the initial focus. Sacrifices and marriage exchanges, both of which were directed at establishing and perpetuating relations between the living and the spirits of the dead ancestors, are posited as the most important responsibilities of the chief. Also explored are perceptions that the founding of the kingdom and its authority structure are the results of sacrifices offered to various gods by the Asante king and his chiefs.
The second part examines the dissolution of the traditional order since the onset of British colonial occupation. The secularization process was initiated by the aspirations of colonial administrators and missionary bodies who aimed to maintain Christian converts under the 'political' authority of their non-Christian chiefs, who were still important ritual leaders. Consequently, it was necessary to start dividing society along 'political' and 'religious' lines so that only the former was a mandatory concern for all. The kernel of modern citizenship was planted at the same time as the 'religious' conscience of individuals started to shape their rights and duties towards their 'political' rulers. Furthermore, theories about Asante as a state based on contract and representation were proposed and developed. In the post-colonial era chiefship has been put into the service of the independent nation state – both as an instrument of administration and a nationalistic symbol, while, most recently, chiefs have been depicted as leaders in civil society, even receiving support from global developmental organizations. Yet traditional chieftaincy is strongly criticized by certain Christian groups belonging to the Pentecostal-Charismatic movement, which still see it as integrally linked to traditional cosmologies.
The third part of the book takes the discussion beyond the separation of the categories of religion and politics. Secularization has also has also entailed the dematerialization of religion, establishing it as something that ought to be understood primarily as mental or spiritual; in a secular society 'things' like deities, witchcraft, or sacrifices should not be recognized as proper agents and actions at the level of immanent relations. In Ghana such views are effectively contradicted by religious groups which see spiritual forces as the most powerful agents in social relations. The cases discussed deal with attempted state control of anti-witchcraft activities, the efficiency of protective magic during political upheavals, and Pentecostal notions of demonic influences in secular politics. The Conclusions section brings the themes of the book together by discussing the large-scale effects of the secular project in contemporary Ghanaian society.
Research is based on anthropological fieldwork conducted in Ghana in 2000–2001 and 2005–2006, data drawn from several archival sources located in Ghana and the United Kingdom, and the anthropological and historical literature on Ghana and the Asante.


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Q: How to efficiently search through object values? What is the most efficient way of searching for a value bl within an object nested in an array? (All the values of the object would have to be checked.)
Assume the following collection:
[
{
 id: 1,
 lang: {en: "blah", "it": "bla"}
},
{
 id: 2,
 lang: {en: "blt", "it": "bpax"}
},
{
 id: 3,
 lang: {en: "bt", "it": "bax"}
}
]

I would expect only:
[{
 id: 1,
 lang: {en: "blah", "it": "bla"}
},
{
 id: 2,
 lang: {en: "blt", "it": "bpax"}
}
]

How could I return all the items, whose at least one of the languages contains the string bl?
I thought of converting the object to array via $objectToArray and then back, but I am not sure whether that is the best approach.
Do you have any suggestions?

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Do you know the best place to buy coffee? Or, if you're newly interested in coffee, you may be overwhelmed by the technology available for brewing. You should look into your possibilities before you decide what type of coffee to buy. Continue reading to explore your options when it comes to coffee.
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The season of beers and BBQ is upon us. I love my BBQ, but what does a non beer drinker drink when most of the beverage tubs are filled with beer?
I've always relied on sangrias and blended frozen concoctions, but sometimes I just don't feel like or have the time to whip something up. I'm not one for the Twisted Teas or Mike's Hard (although I used to be). I'm a cider drinker and thankfully, you can now find a large selection at any given liquor store. These had been my staple for the past few summers.
When I heard about the movement of the hard root beers last year, I found it interesting…..well as interesting as it could be to someone who doesn't like root beer. (Are you judging yet? No beer AND no root beer!). But when the rise of hard sodas came about, all you had to do was point me to where I could find some!
With the weather being as nice as its been and al fresco dining already upon us, I decided to grab some of Henry's Hard Orange Soda for the first time and give it a go!
The taste is exactly as you would expect. An hard-ish version of the brightly colored, sugary effervescent beverage. It's got a slightly lower alcohol content than my go-to cider (I prefer Woodchuck cider at 5% ABV vs Henry's 4.2%). If you're a fan of orange soda, you'll love this adult version.
While I look forward to putting some of these in my beverage tub at the next get together, what I really want to do is scoop some French vanilla ice cream and marry it with this bad boy and really live up some sugary childhood nostalgia…..just a little more grown up, reflecting the person ready to devour it.


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Кни́га чуде́с (; ; Book of Wonder):

 «Книга чудес света» (1298) — описание путешествий Марко Поло по Азии и Африке в 1276—1291 годы.
 «Книга Чудес» —  арабская рукопись XIV и XV веков.
 «Книга чудес» (; 1852) — пересказы греческих мифов американского писателя Натаниэля Готорна.
 «Книга чудес» (; 1912) — ирландского писателя Лорда Дансени.

См. также
 «Приключения сэра Джона Мандевиля» (; ; 1357—1371)


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Speculation over Wilshere's future continues
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The Sun say West Ham are only willing to offer Jack Wilshere a one-year contract, putting his potential move to east London in doubt.
The out-of-contract Wilshere is set to leave Arsenal this summer and West Ham have been tipped to sign him.
But The Sun say the Hammers have doubts about his fitness and are therefore reluctant to offer him a long-term deal.
It is claimed that this could pave the way for Everton to sign Wilshere – Sunday newspaper reports claimed their new manager Marco Silva is keen to snap up the England international.
Crystal Palace have also been linked with Wilshere, as have Italian side Juventus.
He was offered a new contract by Arsenal but on reduced wages, and reports have suggested he was told by new Gunners boss Unai Emery that he could be a fringe player were he to stay at the Emirates Stadium.
Meanwhile, the Daily Mirror have picked up on reports claiming that Emery has made a personal call to Sevilla's Argentine midfielder Ever Banega in an attempt to convince the 29-year-old to join the Gunners.
Estadio Deportivo claimed Emery told Banega he is keen for him to move to north London.
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Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson | Book Review - $9.99
Truly Devious: A Mystery Kindle Edition BY Maureen Johnson
Hi everyone. I'm Maria and this is promotekdbook.com.
Today i'm going to be doing a book review on truly devious by Maureen Johnson.
This is a new mystery book and the first book in a mystery series from Maureen Johnson.
Just to start off, I'm just going to say that the vast majority of this post will be spoiler free.
I actually don't think I'm going to be talking about anything spoilery in this post.
But in case I do, I will forewarn everyone.
So in this story you are following this character named Stevie Bell who has been accepted to attend Ellingham Academy, which is the special school in Vermont that is completely tuition free.
They only accept a small number of students every year and basically everyone who gets accepted is like really good at something very specific.
And for Stevie Bell, she's accepted because she is a true crime aficionado.
Now the thing about Ellingham Academy is that it was founded by this guy in the early 20th century who wanted to make learning like fun and like a game or like a riddle.
And so he founded this academy and shortly after the school opened his wife and daughter go missing and it becomes one of the great unsolved crimes of the 20th century.
Stevie Bell since she is obsessed with mysteries and true crime knows all about this and decides that she's going to attend Ellingham Academy and her like big project will be to solve this cold case.
So you are following sort of these two plot lines.
You go back in time part of the time to see sort of the things that occurred on the night when the wife and daughter go missing and then you also follow Stevie as she is attending the school, finding new friends and figuring out all these different people that she's surrounded by as well as she's trying to solve this crime.
So overall, I really enjoyed this book.
Maureen Johnson is so good at writing mystery books.
I had read I think one or two of her contemporary young adult books and I liked them.
I thought that they were always just like cute and fun and she does really interesting things with the characters.
But then I read the name of the star, which came out a number of years ago and I loved that book so much.
And I read all of the books in that series and I always really enjoyed it.
Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson
And it feels like truly devious is sort of like a culmination of her working on mysteries.
Like this one feels even stronger than ever.
Like the synopsis says Stevie Bell is a true crime aficionado and Maureen Johnson works in a lot of common mystery pop-culture things into her book and into her story.
And it feels really natural because Stevie Bell is the type of person who would be interested in that.
You also see Stevie Bell just struggling with normal teen things.
Like she's attending this new school.
She has normal teenage insecurities and problems.
She worries about like her project and feeling like she is up to par to all of these other people who she's surrounded by.
And it's just like a really great mystery, like just a good straightforward mystery.
There are a couple of things that I had like major problems with.
First of all is that I feel like the potential villains in this book were …. I'm putting villains in air quotes here are pretty obvious from the beginning.
After sort of the major event occurs in this book, which obviously I won't say what it is, I feel like it's there's very small list of suspects.
And, in fact, I would say I only suspected two people in total and those were basically the two people that follow you followed through to the end.
I don't know if that's done on purpose or not.
Like some mystery writers do leave it so there are only like really one or two options and it's more about figuring out how you're gonna figure it out.
But I do like you when there's a little bit more mystery around it or it's not quite as obvious as that.
There's also sort of like this love interest thing that was going on which the entire time really bothered me.
I didn't understand it really.
The way that it's handled in the end I don't know how it's going to be moving forward.
Again, that's a thing I'm not going to talk about because of spoilers because the love interest plays a major role in the ending.
But I felt like that was all just handled really weirdly.
And the main sort of problem I had with this book was the fact that this book doesn't really conclude in a concrete way.
Now obviously I've read mysteries that are slightly more ambiguous.
Like I've read all of Tana French's books and she always leaves a couple of question marks.
But I feel like the main mysteries for the most part always really conclude really well.
And in this one it felt like there was no conclusion to anything.
It was just the start and stuff like always really bothers me.
I felt like there should have been some conclusions happening.
Like I felt like and did the book with just more questions than answers.
And I think part of the reason why this bothers me so much is in the name of the star, the name of the star was supposed to be like a four or five book series.
And I forget exactly how many books are out, but the last book in the series that came out ended on a cliffhanger.
And then Maureen Jensen got really sick and so she couldn't finish the series, which I don't blame her for.
Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson Cover
But it's just a really annoying thing to have to deal with.
And so I feel like with this new series, I was expecting it to be more concrete in the ending and you would just get to follow this character for multiple years like you do with a lot of other standard mystery books.
But instead it looks like this is going to be a single mystery that you follow over multiple books, which I don't really like because one am I going to remember all these details in a year so whenever this next book in the series comes out? I don't know.
Two, am I gonna care as much? I don't know.
Like maintaining that suspense and maintaining that intrigue over multiple books feels like a lot.
And three, I don't know how many books are even going to be in this series?
So yeah, it just left me feeling very unsettled.
So in the end I gave this book a three and a half out of five stars.
If you're someone who wants concrete endings to their mysteries, don't read this book yet.
I would wait until the series is complete.
I'm gonna keep going with it just because I already started and now I need to know what's going to happen next.
But if you are ok with cliffhangers and you're okay with like waiting in between books then go right ahead and pick this up.
Especially if you like standard detective mystery series.
I think that this is a good fun YA mystery series.
But it's just the fact that very little gets answered by the end of the book, it's just really, really bothersome to me.
So I feel like it's so hard to judge this book because I had no idea how things are going to end.
Like I could potentially love the ending and this could be like a really great series or I could potentially hate it and who knows.
Like it's so hard to judge this book on its own merits because it feels like I'm only getting part one.
So yeah, that's everything I have for this post.
Feel free to leave a comment down below letting me know if you've read this book, what your thoughts were on it.
Or if you have any questions on truly devious, definitely leave that down in the comment section as well.
So yeah that's all I have for now and thanks for reading.
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A pair of .c and .h files contain the set of commands you want to recognize. Templates for many types of instrument are included to speed up the creation process.
Simply call the SCPI_Parse() function to parse the command line string received by your instrument. Return values indicate if the command string was recognized as a valid command.
Now use the JPA-SCPI Parser Access Functions to retrieve the command's parameters (if any). The Access Functions allow the command parameters to be converted into the required variable types (e.g. long integer, double-precision float, string etc.) for your code to handle.


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Épaux-Bézu é uma comuna francesa na região administrativa de Altos da França, no departamento de Aisne. Estende-se por uma área de 19,5 km².

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As you know we hold many events throughout the year at the GBS Factory and attend many shows, track days etc, that are all advertised on our main event page on our website. Most weekends we are out and about doing something with the GBS Zero's. But there are many events that we see and get emailed about that we are unable to attend but they might be of interest to you all, so we will post them on this new page.
It will also be great for those who for example enjoy going for a Sunday drive, you can post that you are going out in your Zero then if anyone is nearby you could perhaps meet up!
We hope you like the new page and will support it, we want you all to enjoy and get the most out of your GBS Zero's and hopefully this will help, great friendships can be made and this is open to not only people who have finished their GBS Zero build and have it on the road, but also to those who are still in the stages of building.


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Dr Sheila Cunningham
School School of Social and Health Sciences
Department Division of Psychology
s.cunningham@abertay.ac.uk
+44 (0)1382 30 8592
I'm a Senior Lecturer in the Psychology Division, with research focusing on social cognition in both adults and children. Before joining Abertay in 2011, I was a Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen where I completed both my undergraduate psychology degree and my PhD in person perception. My work on social cognition explores the mechanisms and biases through which we process information about ourselves and other people, with a particular focus on memory formation in children and adults.
My research is currently funded by the Leverhulme Trust, ESRC and the Carnegie Trust, as well as internal studentships. For more details, please see my lab webpage.
I teach on the following modules:
PSY205: Cognitive and social psychology
PSY408: Advanced social and cognitive psychology (Module leader)
PSY507: Social and Developmental Psychology (Module leader)
My research is focused on social cognition, exploring the mechanisms and biases through which we process information about the self and other people.
Particular areas of interest include:
self-reference effects in memory (visit the 'Me in Memory' lab webpage)
the early development of self-processing biases, and implications for learning and education (visit the Self Lab webpage)
the impact of ownership on cognition
effects of stereotypes on cognition and behaviour
person perception across the lifespan (visit the Person Perception lab webpage)
Ross, J., Cunningham, S. J., & Hutchison, J. (in press). The me in memory: The role of the self in autobiographical memory development. Child Development. doi: 10.111/cdev.13211
Cunningham, S. J., Scott, L., Hutchison, J., Ross, J., & Martin, D. (2018). Applying self-processing biases in education: Improving learning through ownership. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 7, 342-351. doi: 10.1016/j.jarmac.2018.04.004
Cunningham, S. J. (2018). The thoughtful self. In Hauke & Kritikos (Eds.) Embodiment in Psychology – A Practitioner's Guide. Springer.
Gillespie-Smith, K, Ballantyne, C, Branigan, H, Turk, D. J., & Cunningham, S. J. (2018). The I in Autism: Severity and social functioning in Autism is related to self-processing. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 36, 127-141. doi: 10.1111/bjdp.12219
Hutchison, J., Cunningham, S.J., Slessor, G., Urquhart, J., Smith, K., & Martin, D. (2018). Context and perceptual salience influence the formation of novel stereotypes via cumulative cultural evolution, Cognitive Science, 42, 186-212.. doi: 10.1111/COGS.12560
Martin, D., Cunningham, S. J., Hutchison, J., Slessor, G. & Smith, K. (2017). How societal stereotypes might form and evolve via cumulative cultural evolution. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 11, 1-13. doi: 10.1111/SPC3.12338
Allan, K., Morson, S., Dixon, S., Martin, D. & Cunningham, S. J. (2017). Simulation-based mentalizing generates a 'proxy' self-reference effect in memory. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70, 1074-1084. doi: 0.1080/17470218.2016.1209532
Cunningham, S. J. & Turk, S. J. (2017). A review of self-processing biases in cognition. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70, 987-995. doi: 10.1080/17470218.2016.1276609
Cunningham, S. J. (2016). The function of the self-attention network. Cognitive Neuroscience, 7, 21-22. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17588928.2015.1075485
Ross, J., Martin, D.. & Cunningham, S. J. (2016). How do children develop a sense of self? The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/how-do-children-develop-a-sense-of-self-56118
Sparks, S., Cunningham, S. J., & Kritikos, A. (2016). Culture modulates implicit ownership-induced self-bias in memory. Cognition, 153, 89-98. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027716301184
Martin, D., Swainson, R., Slessor, G., Hutchison, J., Marosi, D., & Cunningham, S.J. (2015). The simultaneous extraction of multiple social categories from unfamiliar faces. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 60, 51-58. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103115000311
Turk, D. J., Gillespie-Smith, K., McGowan, L., Havard, C., Conway, M. A., Krigolson, & Cunningham, S. J. (2015). Selfish learning: The impact of self-referential encoding on children's literacy attainment. Learning & Instruction, 40, 54-60. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959475215300220
Cunningham, S. J. (2014). Person perception. In D. S. Dunn (Ed.) Oxford bibliographies in psychology. New York: Oxford University Press. http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199828340/obo-9780199828340-0136.xml?rskey=lA6gdH&result=1&q=person+perception#firstMatch
Cunningham, S. J., Brebner, J. L., Quinn, F., & Turk, D. J. (2014). The self-reference effect on memory in early childhood. Child Development, 85, 808-823. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cdev.12144/full
Martin, D., Hutchison, J., Slessor, G., Urquhart, J., Cunningham, S.J., & Smith, K. (2014). The spontaneous formation of stereotypes via cumulative cultural evolution. Psychological Science, 25, 1777-1786. http://pss.sagepub.com/content/25/9/1777.short
Cunningham, S. J., Vergunst, F., Macrae, C.N., & Turk, D. J. (2013). Exploring early self-referential memory effects through ownership. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 31, 289-301. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjdp.12005/full
Cunningham, S. J., Brady-Van den Bos, M., Gill, L., & Turk, D. J. (2013). Survival of the selfish: Contrasting self-referential encoding and survival processing. Consciousness and Cognition, 22, 237-244. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053810012002395
Turk, D. J. Brady-Van den Bos, M., Collard, P., Gillespie-Smith, K., Conway, M. A., & Cunningham, S. J., (2013). Divided attention selectively impairs memory for self-relevant information. Memory and Cognition, 41, 503-510. http://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13421-012-0279-0
Cunningham, S. J. & Macrae, C. N. (2011). The colour of gender stereotyping. British Journal of Psychology, 102, 598-614. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2044-8295.2011.02023.x/full
Cunningham, S. J., Van den Bos, M., & Turk, D. J. (2011). Exploring the effects of ownership and choice on self-memory biases. Memory, 19, 449-461. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09658211.2011.584388
Smallwood, J., Schooler, J. W., Turk, D. J., Cunningham, S. J., Burns, P., & Macrae, C.N. (2011). Self-reflection and the temporal focus of the wandering mind. Consciousness and Cognition, 20, 1120-1126. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105381001000276X
Van den Bos, M., Cunningham, S. J., & Turk, D. J. (2010). Mine to remember: The impact of ownership on recollective experience. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63, 1065-1071. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17470211003770938
Cunningham, S. J. Turk, D. J., Macdonald, L. M. & Macrae, C. N. (2008). Yours or mine? Ownership and memory. Consciousness and Cognition, 17, 312-318. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105381000700030X
Turk, D. J., Cunningham, S. J. & Macrae, C. N. (2008). Self-memory biases in explicit and incidental encoding of trait adjectives. Consciousness and Cognition, 17, 1040-1045. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053810008000299
Cunningham, S. J. & Macrae, C. N. (2007). Priming. In R. Baumeister & K. Vohs (Eds) Encyclopedia of social psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/encyclopedia-of-social-psychology/book227442
Cunningham, S. J. & Milne, A. B. & Crawford, J. R. (2007). The effects of acute alcohol intoxication on person memory: The stereotypic drunk. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 37, 187-199. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.0021-9029.2007.00155.x/full
Cunningham, S. J. & Russell, P. (2004). The influence of gender roles on evolved partner preferences. Sexualities, Evolution and Gender, 6, 131-150.http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14616660412331332909
Research grants include:
2018: CI on £8,500 grant awarded by the Carnegie Trust
2018-2021: CI on £75,000 PhD studentship awarded by Abertay University's R-Lincs program
2017-2020: CI on £363,321 grant awarded by the ESRC
2017-2018: CI on £7,490 grant awarded by the Carnegie Trust
2015-2018: PI on £106,396 grant awarded by the Leverhulme Trust
2014-2015: PI on £3,500 workshop grant awarded by the Experimental Psychology Society
2009-2012: Named RF on 791,549€ awarded by the European Research Council
I peer review manuscripts for international journals including Consciousness and Cognition, Developmental Science, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, and Memory. I am currently editing a special issue on self-processing biases for the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
I am a member of the following academic societies:
Experimental Psychology Society
Association for Psychological Science
European Association of Social Psychology
Self & Identity
ACADEMIC CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Cunningham, S. J., Hutchison, J., & Ross, J. Development of incidental and explicit self-reference effects reveals distinct cognitive mechanisms. BPS Cognitive Section Annual Conference, Liverpool, Sept. 2018.
Ross, J., Hutchison, J., & Cunningham, S. J., The me in memory: Using the self-reference effect to measure development in the
autobiographical self. BPS Cognitive Section Annual Conference, Liverpool, Sept. 2018.
Ahmed, Z., Cunningham, S. J., Ross, J. & Rhodes, S. Exploring the self-reference effect in ADHD. BPS Developmental Section Annual Conference, Liverpool, Sept. 2018.
Ross, J., Hutchison, J., & Cunningham, S. J.,Growing me: The development of the self-reference effect across childhood. BPS Developmental Section Annual Conference, Liverpool, Sept. 2018.
Cunningham, S. J., Hutchison, J., Ross, J. & Martin, D. Self-biases in recall: Applying ownership effects in education. BPS Developmental Section Annual Conference, Stratford-upon-Avon, Sept. 2017.
Ross, J., Hutchison, J., & Cunningham, S. J. Self-processing biases in event memory: Implications for the development of self-awareness. BPS Developmental Section Annual Conference, Stratford-upon-Avon, Sept. 2017.
Cunningham, S. J., Hutchison, J., & Martin, D. The ownership effect in memory: applications for learning. International Convention on Psychological Science, Vienna, March 2017.
Hutchison, J. Cunningham, S. J., & Ross, J. The me in memory: Using self-reference effects to predict autobiographical memory development. BPS Cognitive Section Annual Conference, Barcelona, Sept. 2016.
Gillespie-Smith, K., Branigan, H., Ballantyne, C., Turk, D. J., & Cunningham, S. J. Level of functioning in Autism associated with self-processing ability: Evidence from an ownership paradigm. BPS Developmental Section Annual Conference, Belfast, Sept. 2016.
Gillespie-Smith, K., Ballantyne, C., Turk, D. J., & Cunningham, S. J. Children with autism spectrum disorder do show self-processing biases: Evidence from an ownership paradigm. Meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society, Oxford, July 2016.
Martin, D., Swainson, R., Slessor, G., Hutchison, J., & Cunningham, S. J. The simultaneous extraction of emotion and social categories from unfamiliar faces. Meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society, Oxford, July 2016.
Cunningham, S. J. Applying self-processing biases in an educational context. Meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society, Durham, April 2016.
Cunningham, S. J. & Ferguson, A. The effects of self-referencing on children's mathematical processing. BPS Developmental Section Annual Conference, Manchester, September 2015.
Cunningham, S. J. & Turk, D. J. The selfish learner: advantages of applying a self-referential approach to children's learning. Society for Research in Child Development, Seattle, WA, April 2013.
Cunningham, S. J. Exploring incidental self-reference effects in memory. International Conference on Memory (ICOM) 5, York, August 2011.
Cunningham, S. J. & Turk, D. J. Applying the self in learning. Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition XI, New York, June 2011.
Cunningham, S.J. The self-reference effect on memory in early childhood. Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, Canada, April 2011.
Cunningham, S. J. A world of my own: The emergence of ownership effects in early childhood. 1st joint conference of EPS and SEPEX, Granada, Spain, April 2010.
Cunningham, S. J. It's mine! Children's memory bias for self-owned items. BPS Developmental Section Annual Conference, Nottingham, UK, September 2009.
Cunningham, S. J. Turk, D. J. & Macrae, C. N. Remember your own: The development of self-biases in early childhood. 15th General Meeting of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology, Opatija, Croatia, June 2008.
Cunningham, S. J. Turk, D. J. & Macrae, C. N. Each to his own: Self-biases in memory for owned objects. 8th Annual Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference, Memphis, Tennessee, January 2007.
Cunningham, S. J., Milne, A. B. & Crawford, J. R. Alcohol and the control of stereotyping behaviour. Conference of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, Boston, Massachusetts, September 2003.
Cunningham, S. J. & Milne, A. B. The consumption of executive resources during stereotype suppression. Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition V, Aberdeen, July 2003.
Cunningham, S. J. & Milne, A. B. Stereotype suppression: Ironic effects on memory and executive resource consumption. Annual Conference of the British Psychological Society, Bournemouth, March 2003.
McGeorge, P., Milne, A. B., Cunningham, S.J & Rutland, A. Implicit attitudes amongst Scots: The effect of varying the comparison group. Meeting of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology, San Sebastian, Spain, June 2002.
I have been involved in a number of scientific public engagement sessions, including the British Science Festival and Dundee Science Festival ("I heard it on the Grapevine: The social evolution of information") and Cafe Science Dundee ("Pink for girls and blue for boys? The colour of gender stereotypes").
I work in school outreach programmes, delivering talks to children in primary and secondary schools on psychology topics such as stereotyping and brain development.
We are currently developing our programme of CPD workshops for teachers, aimed at increasing awareness of the application of self-processing biases in the classroom (see www.selflab.co.uk).
Meet the rest of the team
Dr Clare Cunningham
Division of Psychology | Head of Division
c.cunningham@abertay.ac.uk
Dr Penny Woolnough
Division of Psychology | Senior Lecturer
p.woolnough@abertay.ac.uk


We have to agree that black is one of the best colours when it comes to wetlook and Agatha is well aware of that.
For this session she did the best to satisfy the dunk tank fans and after a few dunks fully clothed she even gradually removed her clothes, ending the session in bra and pantyhose.
No, she will not do messy sets unfortunately.
I would love to see more of her. This was an awesome video and photo set!
there will be more of her on the site. BUT later this year.
When I can see her again?
Can I have more pictures of her wonderful bra?
I don't know the dates when her future sessions will be up. I have one extra picture for the bra fans. Just before she hits the water.
Please a question: Is Agatha also starring in Video T706c4 ?
no, that is a different girl.


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Meeting California Consumer Privacy Act requirements with existing capabilities
Posted on 8 August 2019 · By Tim Lisko
The Challenge and the opportunity of the California Consumer Privacy Act
Designing a comprehensive data privacy and security program
Capabilities and controls for a robust data privacy program
Privacy Regulations: What approaches are emerging from financial services?
Addressing privacy regulation within a broader "consumer rights" program
In the previous blog in this series, we looked at how companies can assess and evaluate key capabilities needed to respond to the new California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which is scheduled to go into effect in July 2020.
In this blog, we will examine how companies can leverage capabilities and controls already in place. Many institutions in the U.S. have put structures in place to respond to large-scale regulatory initiatives stretching back to the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) and more recently the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Many of these structures can be repurposed to proactively build stronger client relationship, with an emphasis on five core capabilities:
Privacy Operating Model and Program Governance. Following the lead of the GDPR, many financial institutions are either establishing a position in the organization that is responsible and accountable for consumer rights and data privacy, like the data protection officer (DPO) or the chief privacy officer (CPO) role or raising the stature of these existing roles and conferring upon them the authority to highlight risks and make required changes across the organization. Such decisions should be taken in accordance with the organization's privacy risk appetite.
Data Discovery and Classification. The discovery, inventory and classification of personal information is a significant area of focus of any privacy program given the specific guidance of various regulations. Scanning should be automated and at scale with fit-for-purpose tools that can access both structured and unstructured data sources, leveraging existing technologies or supplementing with accelerators from the market. Implementation of data discovery and classification tools can be complex due to the multitude of architecture patterns and platforms on which data can reside, which in turn may necessitate prioritizing the discovery of certain sources while, in parallel, preparing for the discovery of more complex areas in subsequent sprints.
Process Design and Implementation. Processes should be designed to manage all client requests related to privacy through to completion, such as access to information, opt out or erasure requests. Navigating the data supply chain across multiple third parties whose risk appetite, controls, and maturity may not match those of the financial institution is a key area of complexity, though persistence in closing out negotiations to update contract language and even to weigh the sustainability of certain relationships going forward is key.
Technology. In addition to data discovery, capabilities should be leveraged to protect personal data across applications, workstations, servers, and the data supply chain in accordance with the overall privacy strategy. Identifying the remediation of legacy applications that may not support deletion, anonymization or other regulatory expectations is a key priority to support compliance, potentially requiring the adoption of more manual compensating controls in the short term, as a precursor to more strategic change.
Training and Awareness. Investments in technology cannot prevent major lapses and large fines if not accompanied by updates to policy and procedure, along with the necessary training around such changes to build a culture of awareness and respect for consumer rights and data privacy. Training should take place at two levels: first, at the enterprise level, to build awareness; and, second, in the form of role-based guidance for front-line staff handling consumer inquiries, such as consumer contact teams, social media specialists or those managing online platforms.
In the next blog in this series, we will look at some of the capabilities and controls for a robust, comprehensive privacy program.
To find out more about the CCPA please contact me.
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) Consumer Protection Cyber Security Data Privacy US Regulation
Tim Lisko
Principle Director, Accenture Security
An ethical crisis in financial services
By Dan Maloney& Ruby Liao
Data management and data deletion actions
By Ben Shorten& Dan Maloney
Data collection and contract remediation actions
Banking, Capital Markets and Insurance Monthly Regulatory Tracker – April 2020
By Dino Landingin
Shifting privacy responsibilities from the second to the first line of defense
Cyber & FinCrime
By Chris Thompson
The changing face of cybercrime in financial services: Are you keeping pace?
LIBOR transition raised as a concern in OCC semiannual perspective
By Iain Duke-Richardet
Consumer protection at the U.S. State level
NYDFS issues update to LIBOR assurance letter
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Season 49 Episode 9 | 53m 32s | Video has closed captioning.
Ancient footprints in New Mexico's White Sands National Park reveal new evidence of Ice Age humans that walked the land alongside enormous ground sloths and mammoths—thousands of years earlier than archaeologists thought people were in the Americas.
Additional funding is provided by the NOVA Science Trust with support from Margaret and Will Hearst. Major funding for NOVA is provided by the David H. Koch Fund for Science, Corporation for Public Broadcasting , and PBS viewers.
Making North America: Origins
Experience the colossal geologic forces that shaped our continent over 3 billion years.
Striking new fossils paint a picture of life right before the asteroid impact.
First Americans arrived at least 16,000 years ago, and probably by boat
Artifacts challenge the idea that the first people in the Americas arrived on foot
NOVA's "Ice Age Footprints" Homepage


This is something that I thought about for a while... and finding the answer to this delimma seemed to have become more urgent when I saw this talk on TED.
It's a delimma between individualism and ... well, one-ness with the world. Between "materialism" and spiritualism.
Around grade 8 or so, I was perplexed by the paradox of selflessness. If you cared for someone else, well, isn't it because that person is valuable to you, and hence you're really acting out of self interest? Your desire for someone else's happiness is still a desire that you own, and any action to fulfill that is really an action to fulfill your own desires - a selfish act. At the time, I was brainwashed by the thought that selfless=good, selfish=bad. I concluded, therefore, that the world was not capable of true selflessness. The world must therefore be bad. This is the main reason why I felt so liberated after reading Rand, who basically said - yes, we act out of selfishness, even when we care for others, and that is good. If one acted to benefit someone that we don't care about... then we've betrayed ourselves. Values are important, and the self is what creates and attains values.
Yet on the other hand - the abundance of compassion, mutual respect, and love for those you may or may not know personally is what makes the world a better place. We are interconnected in a great many ways - both physically and mentally, in more ways that we'll ever understand in our life time. I'm trying to find that article about monkeys dipping potatoes in sea water - the one where after one monkey found that it made the potato taste better... the entire island of monkeys started dipping potatoes in sea water. What's more astonishing was that the monkeys in a different island started doing the same thing - and the two islands are totally separated, and the monkeys had no normal means of communicating with one another. Another experiment showed that people do better on yesterday's crossword compared to today's, as if people could access a collective consciousness... well, does this mean that a collective consciousness does exist, that we really are one? Is that what Budhhism teaches? Even without the collective consciousness, community spirit makes the world better. We're affected by what people do and say, how they act. Many will say that compassion, respect, and understanding is a small commitment worth making.
So that's the paradox: in the "micro" world, selfishness is what would make a happy person: the application of ones effort in the achievement of ones values. Yet in the "macro" world, things would be better if everyone cared for one another. How do you connect the two?
Well, things would be good if all individuals judged the world as something worth caring about. Then creating a better world would be a personal value for everyone. I guess the question each person has to ask is: how much do I value the world? In what way?
How much do I value the world? To say infinitely much is an outright lie, and to say not at all is naive. Where is that balancing point - my balancing point?
Why? So that I have a better idea of how long my blog posts really are... just so that I get feedback when I'm going on for too long without meaning to.


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My Darling Clementine: Country Darkness, with Thanks from Us
We hope you are all well and coping with the latest lockdown! We also hope that our music is helping with that to some degree too.
Just sending you a short additional newsletter to say a HUGE THANKS for all the orders, purchases, streams, and downloads of the new album. It is very much appreciated
Thanks also for all your kind words – we are thrilled you are enjoying it so much. It is also getting plenty of praise in the papers and magazines too – see below
For those who have not yet heard it, or bought it, click here and enjoy.
And if you want to help try and move the album a little further up the charts then please go to 'Amazon CD purchase' here as priority (i.e. TODAY) Who knows where that will take us. THANKS!
An Apology
We are afraid, that due to delays caused by the current pandemic, some orders were sent out a few days later than they should have. We had to get more copies pressed and they took longer than usual to arrive from Holland.
We are very sorry for this but by tomorrow (13/11/20) ALL UK ORDERS should have landed and by early next week ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS will be there too.
For those who have experienced this delay we are truly sorry and have included a little extra something by way of compensation.
A small favour to ask. When you have the time and if you have the inclination could you leave a review / rating on Amazon?
Would be much appreciated and helps spread the word.
If you missed the live stream with Steve Nieve on Sunday, you can still watch it over on both ours and Steve's artist Facebook pages. Here are the links:
The songs we played together were:
'I Lost You', 'I'll Wear It Proudly', 'Good Year For The Roses', 'The Embers & The Flame', 'Eugene', and 'Your Cheating Heart'
The MDC set kicks off about 25 minutes in and we were delighted to have our daughter Mabel join us for 2 of the songs also (Embers, Cheating Heart)
The live show and full band streamed concert, from The Met in Bury, which should have happened last Saturday (Nov 7th) will now happen on Friday Dec 11th.
We were so disappointed having to postpone again but, lockdown willing, it will go ahead next month. Original tickets are valid and new tickets can be bought here.
It has been a long time since the whole band played together and we just cannot wait.
OK, that's all for now, told you it was short.
Keep enjoying the album, do spread the word if you are, and we will see you in person or via a screen on December 11th.
Yours in music, and gratitude,
M & L
The New Album Released Today: My Darling Clementine November Newsletter
This newsletter will reach you just as we are heading into a 2nd full lock down here in the UK, and in many other countries around the world also.
Wherever you are, we wish you well and much strength to get through the coming winter.
These are difficult times for so many but one thing that does help us all, is music. It gives us such a spiritual lift and a distraction from the travails around us.
And we are hoping to provide such a lift for you with our new album, "Country Darkness."
What began life in March last year with a rendezvous in Trouville sur Mer in Normandy with Steve Nieve finally sees fruition today, Nov 6th 2020.
It features our re-interpretations of 12 of our favourite Elvis Costello songs plus a brand new song of ours called Powerless.
You can buy it, stream, download, watch it, lots of ways to get a copy. Hit this link and make your choice.
Here is what the press has said so far:
"masterfully cinematic interpretations"
-UNCUT 8/10
"Country Darkness finds the husband & wife duo covering neglected jewels from bespectacled band's back catalogue with assistance from Attraction Steve Nieve… hooks sharp enough to ensnare"
-CLASSIC POP
"Superior, sweet and sombre collection of Costello country… My Darling Clementine (Michael Weston King and Lou Dalgleish) often strip these 12 EC covers to their very skeleton, embellishing only when absolutely necessary. In doing so, MDC emphasise the glory of the writing and the passion of the interpretation."
-RECORD COLLECTOR 8/10
"The contents were originally released as three 4 track EPs but "Country Darkness" brings them all together on one disc for the first time, giving discerning punters a heaven sent opportunity to sample the couple's soulful re-imaginings of finely crafted gems such as "Why Can't A Man Stand Alone," "The Crooked Line" and "Stranger in the House.""
-MESSENGER NEWSPAPERS
"What makes this collection so successful is that My Darling Clementine don't over think things. There's never a sense that they are trying to be willfully different. The material plays to their strengths as singers, which makes sense considering that Costello is one of the best writers of his generation. Bringing Nieve on board as their musical compatriot only adds to the success."
-FOR FOLKS SAKE
"a hugely impressive album from My Darling Clementine and Steve Nieve. They have taken the incisive lyrics of a master songwriter and have re-fashioned them in their own , inimitable style. The combination of Elvis Costello's songs and My Darling Clementine is irresistible."
-FATEA RECORDS
"a brave album to record; but one that makes perfect sense when you know My Darling Clementine AND Elvis Costello; it's a three-way marriage made in Nashville Heaven; and of course Steve Nieve is the Best Man too."
-ROCKING MAGPIE
"heartstoppingly wonderful"
-ROOTS & BRANCHES
"The album is sublime, without doubt, akin to an artist stripping back to accentuate the attention of song-writing ability, the nimble expertise of narrative which flows through a country legend, like Wynette's or Parton's, can be seen, full-colour within Costello's writing. Yet through the eyes of another, there is even more scope for alternative angles and interpretation."
-DEVIZINE
"this is an album that is a must for any fan of Elvis Costello, My Darling Clementine or country music in general."
-WALL OF SOUND
"phenomenal record"
-JACE MEDIA
"Country Darkness is an album of love graced with immense talent."
-FOLKING
For those of you who like your music on vinyl, the 3rd and final EP 'Country Darkness Vol 3' is also available now
Country Darkness Vol.3 was released on Oct 30th and, like with Vol 1 and 2, it comes on 12 inch, limited edition vinyl.
It also comes with a stunning slip case to keep all three volumes together
If you have not bought any yet then you can buy all three, plus the slip case, as a bundle, here.
ON STAGE (and off)
And now the bad news. Saturday's show and live stream has fallen foul of the new lockdown. Once again we are defeated in our attempt to play live for you. But, it has been rescheduled to December 11th, and all tickets remain valid. Here is the link.
The show at Thornton Hough, that should have been on Oct 30th will also be rescheduled. As yet no date is fixed. Again all tickets remain valid We can't announce that exact new date yet as there is still uncertainty about restrictions but IT WILL TAKE PLACE.
What is 100% happening though, is, this Sunday, you can join us online, for free, performing a few songs with Steve via the wonders of modern technology. This will be available on his Facebook page from 9pm UK time.
For a limited period only (the new lockdown!) we are offering hand-written lyrics to any song of your choice, signed, personalised, dedicated to you or someone of your choice.
It can be a My Darling Clementine song or anything from our solo records. Full details here.
We are also using this "down time" to add more of our individual, solo back catalogues to the streaming site Bandcamp.
6 MWK solo albums are up there now for you to download or stream here. Lou's solo output coming soon.
Don't forget to follow us on social media, too.
Feel free to give us a 'follow' or a 'like" on:
That is all for now. Please stay safe, keep well, and enjoy the new album. We send our best wishes to you and your loved ones.
Yours in music,
Lou and Michael
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Smuggler's Plot Highlights Fear Over Uranium
The Gainesville Sun
TBILISI, Georgia, Jan. 24 — Last January, a Russian man with sunken cheeks and a wispy mustache crossed into Georgia and traveled to Tbilisi by car along a high mountain road. In two plastic bags in his leather jacket, Georgian authorities say, he carried 100 grams of uranium so refined that it could help fuel an atom bomb.
The Russian, Oleg Khinsagov, had come to meet a buyer who he believed would pay him $1 million and deliver the material to a Muslim man from "a serious organization," the authorities say.
The uranium was a sample, just under four ounces, and the deal a test: If all went smoothly, he boasted, he would sell a far larger cache stored in his apartment back in Vladikavkaz, two to three kilograms of the rare material, four and a half to six and a half pounds, which in expert hands is enough to make a small bomb.
The buyer, it turned out, was a Georgian agent. Alerted to Mr. Khinsagov's ambitions by spies in South Ossetia, Georgian officials arrested him and confiscated his merchandise. After a secret trial, the smuggler was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison.
The case has alarmed officials because they had thought that new security precautions had tamped down the nuclear black market that developed in the 1990s, after the Soviet Union collapsed.
Until now, all but the vague outlines of the case have remained secret. But an examination of the episode, and a similar one in 2003, suggests that the region's political instability and culture of rampant corruption continue to provide a fertile breeding ground for illicit commerce in atomic materials.
Interviews with Georgian and American officials, along with a review of confidential government documents, provide a glimpse into a world of smugglers who slip across poorly policed borders and the agents who try to stop them.
The illicit trade — not just in atomic goods but also in everything from stolen cars to furs to counterfeit $100 bills — thrives especially in Georgia, where tiny separatist regions have broken away to become lawless criminal havens.
This latest uranium seizure, said the American ambassador here, John F. Tefft, "highlights how smuggling and loose border control, associated with Georgia's separatist conflicts," pose a threat "not just to Georgia but to all the international community."
What is most worrisome about the two most recent case, nuclear experts say, is the material itself: in large enough quantities, it could provide a terrorist with an instant solution to the biggest challenge in making a nuclear weapon, obtaining the fuel.
The uranium seized in both 2003 and 2006 had been enriched to nearly 90 percent U-235, according to Russian and American government analyses obtained by The New York Times. Though the quantities were too small to make a bomb, that level of purity is ideal for doing so.
Both cases appear to fit a broader profile: virtually all of the nuclear materials seized since the Soviet breakup are believed to be Russian in origin, according to American government reports.
In these two episodes, the individuals arrested testified that they had obtained the uranium through a web of Russian contacts and middlemen of various nationalities.
An American government laboratory's analysis of the 2006 material — which, among other things, disclosed traces of two rare forms of uranium, U-234 and U-236 — provides "a strong case" that it indeed came from Russia, said Thomas B. Cochran, director of the nuclear program at the Natural Resources Defense Council, a private group that monitors atomic arsenals.
However, a confidential memorandum from the Russian intelligence service, the F.S.B., to the Georgian government said a detailed analysis had been unable to pinpoint the material's origins, though it did not rule out Russian provenance. It also estimated that the uranium had been processed more than a decade ago.
Officials in Georgia, locked in a cold war with Moscow, say the cases underscore their concerns over borders, security and the fate of the breakaway regions.
Georgia's chief nuclear investigator, Archil Pavlenishvili, said that while Russia cooperated in the early stages of the 2003 investigation, in 2006 it had hardly helped at all, beyond taking a sample of the seized material for analysis. He said the Georgians had informed the Russian Embassy here in Tbilisi of Mr. Khinsagov's detention, and had offered to let diplomats speak to him. But the Russians, he said, never responded.
The Georgian interior minister, Ivane Merabishvili, said the cases illustrated the grave risk posed by nuclear trafficking, especially in an age of terrorism. The biggest danger, he said, were the people "in Russia and Georgia and everywhere else, even in America, who will sell this radioactive material" for millions of dollars.
The Russian Interior Ministry and the intelligence service did not respond to requests for comment.
Murat Dzhoyev, the foreign minister of South Ossetia, one of the separatist regions in Georgia, denied that any nuclear smuggling had taken place in his region.
"As concerns their claims that contraband, or moreover, the laughable claim that nuclear materials are going through South Ossetia, that's just funny," he said in an interview. "I hope not a single serious person in the world takes this seriously."
On Friday the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna is expected to make the first official announcement with details about the 2006 case.
The old Soviet empire had a vast network of nuclear facilities. After its breakup, as managers abandoned plants and security fell apart, the West grew alarmed as many cases of atomic smuggling came to light.
In 1994 alone, two seizures involved more than five kilos — 11 pounds — of highly enriched uranium. The I.A.E.A. listed more than a dozen cases of illicit trade in highly enriched uranium, along with dozens of seizures of highly radioactive material.
Since 2000, however, the amounts and purity of the seized material has declined as former Soviet republics set up new security precautions, often financed by the United States.
For instance, Washington provided thousands of hand-held devices meant to detect radiation, and planned to spend a total of $570 million to install small and large radiation detectors, according to recent government reports. In short, the threat seemed to recede.
"People said, 'Hey, the situation's improved,' " said William C. Potter, a leading authority on nuclear smuggling at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in California. The seizures in Georgia, he said, suggest something else: that the trade may simply "have gone under the radar."
The smuggler in the first case, an Armenian named Garik Dadayan, was arrested on June 26, 2003, at Sadakhlo, a muddy village where Georgia meets Armenia and Azerbaijan. With Armenia and Azerbaijan at war over territory, the village had become neutral ground for the trading of tea and cognac, illicit caviar, cheap light bulbs and smuggled gasoline.
When apprehended, Mr. Dadayan, who described himself simply as a businessman, was carrying a tea box that held 170 grams, about seven ounces, of highly enriched uranium. According to the Georgian officials, he said the uranium had come from Novosibirsk, in Siberia, the site of a major Russian nuclear complex that processes vast quantities of highly enriched uranium.
Mr. Pavlenishvili, the Georgian investigator, said the Russian intelligence agency confirmed that before his trip into Georgia, Mr. Dadayan had twice traveled by railroad from Moscow to Novosibirsk.
The smuggler told the authorities that he intended to sell the material to a Turkish middleman named Teimur Sadik; its ultimate destination, he said Mr. Sadik had told him, was "a Muslim man."
Mr. Dadayan was handed over to the Armenian government, tried and sentenced to two and a half years in prison. Mr. Sadik, Georgian authorities say, is now in custody of the Turkish secret services.
Since that episode, the United States has spent millions of dollars to help the Georgians strengthen nuclear security, especially along the borders.
Two years later, Georgian authorities learned that highly enriched uranium was again being offered for sale, this time in South Ossetia, a rugged and beautiful land no bigger than Long Island, with few border controls on either the Russian or Georgian side. People and contraband move freely through its fields and along its mountain roads. The United States says it has discovered counterfeit $100 bills traceable to South Ossetia circulating in at least four American cities.
The man trying to sell the uranium, Georgian officials say, was Oleg Khinsagov, a shabbily dressed 50-year-old trader who specialized in fish and sausages.
Eventually he came into contact with four Georgians who were already under government surveillance. The four men went to North Ossetia, a neighboring region within Russia, and arranged to smuggle the uranium into Georgia. It was at that point that the Georgian authorities set their trap.
They arranged for a Georgian operative who speaks fluent Turkish to meet with the middlemen and tell them he represented a Muslim man from "a serious organization." Mr. Khinsagov and several of his cohort entered Georgia in late January 2006, and on Feb. 1 they were arrested in a two-room apartment on the eighth floor of a crumbling Soviet-style building in a lower-class district of Tbilisi.
"We got that 100 grams and put it into a box and were very afraid," said Mr. Merabishvili, the interior minister. Where the smuggler got the uranium and whether he actually had more remains unclear.
The Georgians called for help from American diplomats, who sent in experts from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Energy, American officials say. Mr. Merabishvili said the Americans shocked them by taking the uranium and simply putting it "in their pocket." Uranium in that form emits little radiation and presents little or no danger to its handlers.
When it was analyzed at the Energy Department's laboratory in the Pacific Northwest, it was found to have a U-235 purity of 89.451 percent, "suitable for certain types of research reactors, as a source material for medical isotope production, and for military purposes including nuclear weapons."


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