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Mayor, graduates and apprentices get sneak peek of BT's new office, Building A
Last week, BT gave the Mayor of the West of England Dan Norris and BT apprentices and graduates a sneak peek of Building A at Assembly Bristol. Building A is the company's new state-of-the-art office in the centre of Bristol scheduled to open in summer 2022.
Like many businesses, considerable numbers of BT people have been working from home during the Covid-19 pandemic, but many are expected to return to the office in the coming months, as government restrictions are lifted. BT believes that, while technology and connectivity have helped people work remotely, there is still a role for the office to share ideas and to develop effective teams, particularly for the many new apprentices and graduates who join each year.
Commenting on the new building, West of England Metro Mayor Dan Norris said: "It was a pleasure to get a behind the scenes tour of BT's new Bristol office. The views from the top are stunning. I'm delighted that our city is becoming a key location for the company, cementing our position at the heart of the UK's digital economy.
"I particularly enjoyed meeting the graduates and apprentices and hearing about the excellent opportunities they are getting for interesting and varied high quality jobs."
Sinmiloluwa Oke, part of BT's graduate scheme, said: "It was great to be able to get a sneak peek of BT's new building in Bristol. It's a really modern building with lots of cool features like the roof terrace and wildflower meadow. Where you work is really important, so I think this kind of workspace will inspire colleagues and help create a good working environment."
To read the full press release, visit the BT Newsroom here.

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package aos.lucene.analysis.keyword;

import junit.framework.TestCase;

import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter;
import org.apache.lucene.index.Term;
import org.apache.lucene.analysis.SimpleAnalyzer;
import org.apache.lucene.analysis.KeywordAnalyzer;
import org.apache.lucene.analysis.PerFieldAnalyzerWrapper;
import org.apache.lucene.document.Document;
import org.apache.lucene.document.Field;
import org.apache.lucene.search.IndexSearcher;
import org.apache.lucene.search.Query;
import org.apache.lucene.search.TermQuery;
import org.apache.lucene.store.Directory;
import org.apache.lucene.store.RAMDirectory;
import org.apache.lucene.queryParser.QueryParser;
import org.apache.lucene.util.Version;

import aos.lucene.util.TestUtil;

// From chapter 4
public class KeywordAnalyzerTest extends TestCase {

  private IndexSearcher searcher;

  public void setUp() throws Exception {
    Directory directory = new RAMDirectory();

    IndexWriter writer = new IndexWriter(directory,
                                         new SimpleAnalyzer(),
                                         IndexWriter.MaxFieldLength.UNLIMITED);

    Document doc = new Document();
    doc.add(new Field("partnum",
                      "Q36",
                      Field.Store.NO,
                      Field.Index.NOT_ANALYZED_NO_NORMS));   //A
    doc.add(new Field("description",
                      "Illidium Space Modulator",
                      Field.Store.YES,
                      Field.Index.ANALYZED));
    writer.addDocument(doc);

    writer.close();

    searcher = new IndexSearcher(directory);
  }

  public void testTermQuery() throws Exception {
    Query query = new TermQuery(new Term("partnum", "Q36"));  //B
    assertEquals(1, TestUtil.hitCount(searcher, query)); //C
  }

  public void testBasicQueryParser() throws Exception {
    Query query = new QueryParser(Version.LUCENE_41,                //1
                                  "description",                //1
                                  new SimpleAnalyzer())            //1
                      .parse("partnum:Q36 AND SPACE");                //1
    assertEquals("note Q36 -> q",
                 "+partnum:q +space", query.toString("description"));    //2
    assertEquals("doc not found :(", 0, TestUtil.hitCount(searcher, query));
  }

/*
#A Don't analyze field
#B Don't analyze term
#C Verify document matches
#1 QueryParser analyzes each term and phrase
#2 toString() method
*/

  public void testPerFieldAnalyzer() throws Exception {
    PerFieldAnalyzerWrapper analyzer = new PerFieldAnalyzerWrapper(
                                              new SimpleAnalyzer());
    analyzer.addAnalyzer("partnum", new KeywordAnalyzer());

    Query query = new QueryParser(Version.LUCENE_41,
                                  "description", analyzer).parse(
                "partnum:Q36 AND SPACE");

    assertEquals("Q36 kept as-is",
              "+partnum:Q36 +space", query.toString("description"));
    assertEquals("doc found!", 1, TestUtil.hitCount(searcher, query));
  }
}

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But the first-term Democrat introduced a budget this month that calls for more than $1.4 billion in new revenues including a capital-gains tax. Although his spending plans books modest savings from Lean, it saves $200 million principally through smaller, traditional budget cuts.
Inslee and members of his Results Washington agency, say a great value of Lean is in improving performance, reducing waiting times, and avoiding costs. But they don't see it primarily as a budget or staff-cutting tool.
Because many lawmakers handling budget issues next year were away during the holidays, there has been little reaction from the Legislature.
Rep. Bruce Chandler, the Republican from Granger who is ranking minority member of the House Appropriations Committee, said he thinks the public wants to see savings from this kind of effort.
"I would hope we are all looking for that," Chandler said.
Results Washington spokesman Rich Roesler said the report shows Lean — an efficiency movement begun by Toyota in the late 1980s to eliminate errors and wasteful steps in manufacturing — is generating good results for taxpayers. The report highlights 18 examples from 15 agencies that it says have already saved $5.92 million in costs and generated $3.16 million in new revenue. That compares to the $1.8 million cost for Results Washington.
It also notes there have been 600 Lean projects since 2012. Inslee established Results Washington by executive order in September 2013.
• More than 1 million hours of time spent waiting at Department of Licensing lobbies was eliminated compared to 2012. This was done by increasing online and traditional mail to process licenses, tying staffing to data on traffic patterns at offices, and partnering with private driver-training schools.
• Chopping the time needed to fulfill public-disclosure requests at the Department of Transportation from 24 days to 10. "These changes eliminated the need to add four additional positions, at a total of $274,000 a year," the report says.
• DOT avoided hiring four other staffers at a cost of $287,000 by streamlining the way crash report data were handled; this more than doubled the number of reports processed each day to 541 and ended an 8.5-month backlog, the report says.
• The Department of Labor and Industries saved 641 hours of staff time each month by ending the practice of printing and distributing 5,000 pages of monthly phone records so that managers and supervisors could review them. A $32,000 investment and creation of an electronic system freed 7,368 hours of staff time, worth an estimated $303,672 yearly, to put to such uses as customer service.
• The Department of Social and Health Services and the Employment Security Department improved the low rate of client participation in the WorkFirst program for welfare recipients, enough the state expects to avoid $20.8 million in federal penalties, the report says.
• The Department of Revenue shortened its process for assessing unpaid taxes by 45 days, a change that is producing $744,000 in interest for the state. It also lets Revenue re-direct about 1.5 full time positions to activities that generate revenue valued at about $750,000.
• Consolidated Technology Services, which operates the state's data centers, moved the state off a 30-year-old SCAN system to a cheaper system. The switch, completed in July, saves the state $2 million in long-distance calling costs compared to fiscal year 2012, the report said.
The report recommends letting agencies keep at least a portion of their financial savings and to redirect saved staff time into other agency tasks.
"Allowing managers to redirect that saved staff time to other tasks helps agencies face increasing workloads with existing resources, helping avoid costs," the report says.


DōTERRA offers a wide line of certified pure grade essential oils and blends, as well as supplements, skin and spa line, and products for the home.
I started using DŌTERRA when I became pregnant a couple of years ago, and fell in love with the oils and what they could do to help ease my pregnancy. This year I decided I wanted to get my health, and that of my family, back on track. I decided to start my business to help others with their health goals as well. I love seeing what the oils can and have done for my clients. It's exciting and empowering!
We offer our oils at the CPTG level. No one else can make that claim! CPTG stands for certified pure therapeutic grade, and all of our oils are held by that standard!
Mountain Meadow; it paints a picture of how I see our oils being gathered and distilled. It also reminds me of a peace and calmness that some of oils can give.
My diffuser, Balance essential oil blend(my favorite!), and TerraShield(to help keep the bugs away!).
Of course, I want to be able to expand my business, but more than that, I want to be able to reach as many people as possible and have them experience what I have firsthand.
I can be reached by email, cell phone, or Facebook.


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Q: VS code doesn't open any more I am using vs code on ubuntu 18.04. since this morning I couldn't open my vs code. When I try open it in terminal I get this error:
code .
/ not root-owned 0:100

How can I solve it?
enter image description here

A: Seems like you don't own root.
Try running:
sudo chown root:root /

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What are Australia's obligations to refugees and asylum seekers?
What are Australia's obligations in dealing with asylum seekers?
Does Australia have a global responsibility to accept refugees and asylum seekers?
What are Australia's obligations under international law?
What are Australia's obligations?
What obligations do Australian citizens have?
What is Australia's refugee policy?
What does Australia do to help refugees?
Who is responsible for refugees?
What are Australia's key obligations under the United Nations Convention on refugees?
Does Australia follow all of its international legal obligations?
What is Australia's current role in international human rights?
What are international obligations?
What happens to refugees in Australia?
Australia has obligations to protect the human rights of all asylum seekers and refugees who arrive in Australia, regardless of how or where they arrive and whether they arrive with or without a visa.
Australia's primary obligation to asylum seekers and other persons in Australia who are deemed in need of protection is to ensure that they are not refouled (returned) to their countries where they may face persecution, torture or death.
When asylum seekers and refugees are in Australia (including the sea), the Australian Government has obligations under various international human rights treaties (such as the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights) to ensure that people's human rights are respected and protected.
Australia is also a party to: the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights establishing an individual communication mechanism. the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Aiming at the Abolition of the Death Penalty.
IMPORTANT: How do you do OS migration?
Australia's International Human Rights Obligations
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR),
The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR),
The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC),
Australian citizens have an obligation to: • obey the law; • defend Australia should the need arise; and • vote in federal and state or territory elections, and in referenda.
Seeking asylum in Australia, or elsewhere, is not illegal. In fact, it is a basic human right. All people are entitled to protection of their human rights, including the right to seek asylum, regardless of how or where they arrive in Australia, or in any other country.
Australia's Refugee and Humanitarian Program comprises two sub-programs: the onshore protection program and the offshore resettlement program. The onshore protection program is available to people seeking asylum who arrived in Australia on a valid visa (for example, as a student or a tourist).
The UN agency that helps refugees is UNHCR (also known as the UN Refugee Agency), which emerged in the wake of World War II to help Europeans displaced by that conflict. UNHCR was established on December 14, 1950 by the UN General Assembly with a three-year mandate to complete its work and then disband.
The primary obligation under the Convention is that of non-refoulement—that is, refugees must not be expelled or returned to places where they would face persecution based on one or more Convention grounds. This covers both the refugee's country of origin and third countries.
IMPORTANT: What is DUI immigration?
Australia has chosen to participate in the international system of law and enter into agreements – treaties – with other sovereign States. It has thereby agreed to be bound by the international scheme of rights and responsibilities that governs the way in which sovereign States act.
What is Australia's current role in international human rights? Australia has remained a supporter of human rights throughout international treaty negotiations. Australia has ratified almost all of the major international human rights instruments. … ratifying the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
International human rights law lays down obligations which States are bound to respect. … The obligation to protect requires States to protect individuals and groups against human rights abuses. The obligation to fulfil means that States must take positive action to facilitate the enjoyment of basic human rights.
When refugees arrive in Australia through the Humanitarian Program, they arrive as permanent residents and can immediately access income support payments in the same way as any other Australian permanent resident.


Before we can process the data we get from GitHub we need to decide who is responsible for holding the data.
The simplest approach we can take is to move the data in the component that is parent to every component that is going to use the data. The data is going to be shared between Form and CardList, so the only reasonable place to host it is the App component, the top component.
In addition we are going to add a method, which we'll call handleGitHubData(). This method has the responsibility of adding a user's data to the cards array.
and we have the ability to call it inside the Form component.
Let's now get back to our addUser() method. In it, we'll add this function, that asks the data, then calls the handleGitHubData() function passing the data from the GitHub response.


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The Lives of Migrant Farmerworkers' Children Focus of 'East of Salinas'
Posted on December 28, 2015 by Kristina Puga
When we think about where our food comes from, we don't often think about what our farm workers go through on a daily basis, let alone their children.
Award-winning filmmaker Laura Pacheco thought about it for the first time after reading a New York Times article in 2011. The story was about Oscar Ramos, a third grade teacher in Salinas, California, who came from a migrant family. Ramos teaches in Sherwood Elementary School, where half of his class is made up of children of migrant farmworker families. Often these children have to move several times a year to follow the harvest and have to wake up at 3am to go to a babysitter, before school, so their parents can go work in the fields.
"I couldn't stop thinking about it," said Pacheco. "He knows what's missing in these kids' lives," said Pacheco about Ramos.
There are more than 2 million farmworkers in the U.S., and their median wage is a little over $9 an hour. Immigrant farmworkers (approximately 75 percent are coming from Mexico) often leave their home countries to seek a better life for their families. However, the average migrant child may attend as many as three different schools in one year, often making it difficult for a child to advance to the next grade level.
'East of Salinas' producer/director Laura Pacheco (Courtesy ITVS)
Pacheco was so intrigued by these figures that she wrote Mr. Ramos and told him she'd like to meet and talk to him about making a film. Together with co-director Jackie Mow, they decided to focus on one family, and one boy in particular, José Anzaldo.
"We decided to follow one to get an intimate look of what a migrant family is like in America," says Pacheco.
After three years of filming, their film, "East of Salinas" will be premiering on PBS' Independent Lens on Monday, December 28th. (10pET, see PBS for local listings).
Jose's mother, Maria, is from Mexicali. She used to work in a clothing factory, but she couldn't support herself and her children. Jose's stepfather is from El Salvador, where he also did agricultural work, but he says, "You can live there, but you were always hungry."
Coming to the U.S., the family still often goes to bed hungry, but not as much. José loves school, especially math, but he is one of two million undocumented children living in the U.S. today. He is María's only son who was not born in the U.S. – so she worries about his undocumented status and what that portends for his future.
Pacheco and Mow were able to follow José around since the 3rd grade. He's already attended more than five schools and is now in 7th grade. He's continuing to do really well in school, said Pacheco.
"In the beginning, he's a little naive about his situation, and at the end he becomes more aware," said Pacheco. "It's really hard to see someone's potential, and then leave and not know if he's going to have food the next day – Oscar (his teacher) still goes to see them and takes the boys to the movies."
Teacher Oscar Ramos takes 5th and 6th graders, including José Anzaldo, to visit UC Berkeley, part of the 'East of Salinas' documentary. (Courtesy ITVS)
His teacher Oscar Ramos sees the little boy's promise and wants to help him get ahead. The question is, what opportunities will be available for children like José, a bright student who is undocumented?
Pacheco hopes viewers take away certain things from watching the film such as what education is like for farmworker children and where our food is coming from.
"But if I had to say one thing, I hope José lives in people's hearts," says Pacheco. "Immigration is a hot topic right now. It gets so polarized. People feel so righteous on both sides of the debate, but you can see who the kids are that are going to make America great and should be given an opportunity."
"These are the families who are picking food for America," says Pacheco. "We should know what their lives are like."
Originally published on NBCNews.com.
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A Smarter "Teacher Shortage" Story: One 2016 Resolution You Can Still Keep
by Alexander Russo
This far into 2016, most of us have already probably blown most of our New Year's resolutions. But writing and reading more carefully about teacher shortages is one commitment that may still be achievable.
It won't be easy, however. Whether you read education news or produce it, you're probably getting the "teacher shortage" story wrong, according to a new CALDER explainer (Missing Elements in the Discussion of Teacher Shortages) that just came out.
The main idea of this piece from CALDER — an NCES-funded project run by AIR — is that existing research questions some of the popularly presumed causes of teacher shortages that are described in mainstream news stories:
"The start to the new school year brought about a flood of reporting on a shortage of teachers. Many of these pieces offered similar diagnoses of the teacher shortage… But many readers were left with a very basic conclusion: there aren't enough teachers to teach all of the nation's children."
What's missing from news accounts of teacher shortages in places like the NYT and NPR, according to CALDER?
Figure 1: Aggregated Number of Degrees in Education (1984-2013)
First and foremost, there's no massive nationwide teacher shortage. As illustrated in Figure 1 (above), "positive growth in the number of teachers over the long-term is historically insulated from brief economic shocks [like the Great Recession."
Teachers' perceptions of working conditions are also less important than typically thought, according to CALDER: "While teachers who cite poor working conditions are more likely to say they will leave their jobs, the link disappears when actual departure rates after one year are considered."
A recent Washington Post story echoed this point, reporting that "A new [AFT] survey of more than 30,000 U.S. teachers finds that most of them report high levels of stress and low levels of autonomy, but it also shows that they are not ready to bail on the classroom."
In addition, says CALDER, reporting on teacher shortages often "ignores potential positive benefits of some types of teacher attrition," according to the paper. "If the teachers who are leaving the classroom are less effective, then the average effectiveness among remaining teachers should improve."
This echoes a recent piece from Five Thirty Eight, titled Are There Too Few Teachers, Or Too Few Good Ones?.
One last issue is the idea of new teacher retention. Long thought to near 50 percent over the first five years, newer figures cited in a recent Washington Post story suggest that far fewer new teachers are leaving the profession than previously thought:
Screengrab from the Washington Post.
"Among teachers who were new in 2007-8, 17 percent were not teaching five years later – a far lower level of attrition than previously estimated." (Washington Post)
These and other aspects of the teacher shortage story are often missing in media accounts of teacher supply and demand, according to CALDER.
In particular, Motoko Rich's New York Times piece is cited as having been problematic. According to researher Dan Goldhaber, "The data [presented in pieces like Rich's] may lead to a misleading picture of what's going on nationwide." The Times story influenced other coverage, he says, but "there are lots of examples of where the media got it wrong."
Read below for some ideas about how to phrase an education story more carefully. So far as I've seen, nobody's written a wildly misleading teacher shortage story in 2016. It's a 2016 resolution you can (and should) probably keep.
Related posts: The Tricky Appeal Of The "National Teacher Shortage" Narrative; Beware The Overly Broad "Teacher Shortage" Story; Is There a Teacher Shortage? That Depends How You Frame It (EdWeek)
Alexander Russo
Alexander Russo is a freelance education writer who has created several long-running blogs such as the national news site This Week In Education, District 299 (about Chicago schools), and LA School Report. He can be reached on Twitter at @alexanderrusso, on Facebook, or directly at alexanderrusso@gmail.com.


Looking to take that leap and follow your dreams? With planning and courage, you can make it happen. It starts with a mental shift of deciding to do it. The small step of believing in yourself can lead to a big impact on your life. With the focus, dedication and surrounding yourself with like-minded people, you can create the foundation to living out your dreams.


24 counties across five grades will commence this year's Liberty Insurance Camogie Championship later this month. Among them will be Offaly who reached the All Ireland semi-final last year.
Offaly captain Arlene Watkins attended the launch ahead of Offaly's opening game away to Dublin on Saturday, June 22.
The Liberty Insurance Camogie Championship, which includes Senior, Intermediate, Premier Junior, Junior A and Junior B, was launched at Croke Park by President of the Camogie Association Aileen Lawlor and CEO of Liberty Insurance Pat O'Brien.
Liberty Insurance recently announced its sponsorship of the GAA Hurling and Camogie All-Ireland Senior Championships for the next five years.
Wexford are the current All Ireland Senior champions securing their third title in a row against Cork last September. Derry were promoted to the senior grade after winning the Intermediate title in 2012 while Meath secured the Premier Junior crown.
Players from each grade of this year's camogie championship, including Wexford joined invited guests for this afternoon's launch. The first round of the Liberty Insurance Camogie championship will commence on June 22nd with last year's All Ireland finalists Cork facing old rivals Tipperary in one of the weekend's key games.
"We are delighted to join with Liberty Insurance to officially launch the 2013 Camogie Championship. The joint partnership with the GAA All Ireland Hurling Championship is an exciting new departure for the Camogie Association and a fantastic opportunity for camogie. It symbolises the strength of both Camogie and the GAA working together and the natural synergy between both games.


Start off by printing your pants pattern in your size. Print two pocket pattern pieces. After assembly, Cut your pants pattern pieces, and one pocket pattern piece. Keep the second pocket pattern piece uncut as we are going to draw on it.
Starting with your uncut pocket pattern piece. Lay it out on your work surface.
Place your front pants pattern piece over top of the pocket piece, matching the notches.
You will see the red dotted line is the pocket piece underneath. Trace the outline of the pants onto the pocket pattern piece, across the top and side.
The red dotted line is your new line. This piece will now be called pocket A. Cut out along the red line and around the curve of the pocket.
Using your second pocket piece you printed out. Fold the seam allowance back towards the wrong side of the pattern piece. We will be calling this pice Pocket B.
Place Pocket B on top of your front pants pattern. Matching The notches at the top.
Draw a line onto the pants piece where the pocket opening will be.
This is your new pants front piece. Label the front curve and the pocket opening so that you don't get confused.
Trim your pattern piece along the dotted red line and straighten out the top and side.
That is it for the altered pattern pieces. So you should now have a front pants pattern piece, and a pocket A and Pocket B.
Cut out your fabric using your new pattern pieces.
Place one of your pocket piece B right sides together with your front pants piece. Stitch together with a 3/8″ seam allowance.
Flip your pocket piece towards the wrong side of the front pant piece. Press your seam flat. Topstitch along the edge of your pocket opening.
On the wrong side of the pants, Match up the curve of pocket A with the curve of pocket B, matching up the notches at the top.
Stitch the pocket bag closed using a 3/8″ seam allowance. Making sure not to catch the front of the pants.
Finish construction your pants as per the original tutorial! Enjoy your new pockets and Don't forget to post your finished creations in our Facebook Group!


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Q: Adding additional content to an array I have this array which is perfect, but i need to add some additional content to it, but i'm extremely uncertain about how to approach this addon.
Here is my working code:
\[
  \begin{array}{c| *{4}{C{2em}}}
    & \multicolumn{1}{c}{>} & =\joinrel+ & =\joinrel- & \multicolumn{1}{c}{<} \\
    \hline
    > & 1 & 1 & 0 & 0 \\
    =\joinrel+ & 1 & 1 & 0 & 0 \\
    =\joinrel- & 0 & 0 & 1 & 1 \\
    < & 0 & 0 & 1 & 1
  \end{array}
\]

And the result:

I would like to add following to this array based on this example (does not have to be exactly this example, but something close enough):

A:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{array}
\newcolumntype{C}[1]{>{\centering\arraybackslash$}p{#1}<{$}}
\usepackage{graphicx}% for \rotatebox

\newsavebox{\tempbox}
\newlength{\tempwidth}
\newlength{\tempheight}

\begin{document}
%calculate size of left brace and overbrace
\savebox{\tempbox}{$\begin{array}{@{}C{2em}C{2em}C{2em}C{2em}@{}}
    1 & 1 & 0 & 0 \\
    1 & 1 & 0 & 0 \\
    0 & 0 & 1 & 1 \\
    0 & 0 & 1 & 1
  \end{array}$}
\settoheight{\tempheight}{\usebox{\tempbox}}
\settowidth{\tempwidth}{\usebox{\tempbox}}

\[
  \begin{array}{cc|c}
    \multicolumn{2}{c}{} & \textrm{text}\\
    \multicolumn{2}{c}{} & \overbrace{\rule{\tempwidth}{0pt}} \\
    && \begin{array}{@{}C{2em}C{2em}C{2em}C{2em}@{}} > & =\joinrel+ & =\joinrel- & < \end{array} \\
    \cline{2-3}
    \rotatebox[origin=c]{90}{text}\left\lbrace\rule{0pt}{\tempheight}\right. &
    \begin{array}{@{}c@{}} > \\ =\joinrel+ \\ =\joinrel- \\ < \end{array} &
    \usebox{\tempbox}
  \end{array}
\]
\end{document}

One could also use \resizebox and \rotatebox to create the large braces.


We are looking for a motivated library advocate to serve on the Moon Township Public Library Board of Trustees.
Have an interest in the library and promoting libraries and a community asset.
Able to attend monthly board evening board meetings as well as necessary committee meetings as scheduled.
Willingness to devote time and effort to the duties of trusteeship and committee work.


Following on from their 'Brutalist London map' (reviewed here), the independent publisher Blue Crow Media have expanded their portfolio, with four new architecture maps. Each double-sided map is beautifully designed and presented, and was clearly researched and compiled by enthusiasts.
Regardless of whether you take them out on a walking tour, or simply use them to decorate a coffee table, these are well worth getting hold of.
This gorgeous black-and-silver map details some of the best examples of London's Art Deco, which flourished in the 1920s and 30s. Art Deco buildings were designed by some of the renowned artists of the time, such as Eric Gill and Serge Chermayeff.
The versatility and adaptability of the style is evidenced by the range of structures included on the map, from tube stations and cinemas, to factories, government buildings and swimming pools.
Moscow is perhaps less familiar or documented in terms of its architectural history, and this map highlights many fascinating and intriguing examples of the creative and avant garde Constructivist form.
Typical of the early Soviet era, Constructivism was a rejection of traditional ornamentation and instead embraced geometrical forms, straight lines and angles in a way that inspired the more familiar style of Brutalism.
Despite the nostalgia afforded these buildings, it is perhaps inevitable that many of them will be demolished in the near future, lending the map a slight hint of sadness.
This map highlights one of the finest concentrations of Brutalist architecture in the world, in Washington D.C.
The reason for this abundance of Brutalism in the post-war era was a substantial renewal strategy for large urban areas as well as a federal government plan to construct new buildings to house its agencies which were not to be identifiable from their architecture. Brutalism, being materially economical and with its raw ambiguity and stark, sometimes imposing, form was seen as the ideal choice.
Particular highlights are the API Building and the J. Edgar Hoover Building, both of which are under threat of demolition along with many others across the city.
One of the most striking aspects of the German capital, however unsurprising given the wartime devastation, is the modernity of its architecture.
After Albert Speer's plans for a Third Reich 'Germania' were reduced to rubble by Allied bombing, the city was split in two, resulting in some disparate architectural developments – from the pre-fabricated 'plattenbau' social housing to the futuristic Fernsehturm TV tower, and 'sci-fi Brutalism' such as the Bierpinsel (see below).
While the post-reunification modernism has its detractors, especially regarding the rebuilt Potsdamer Platz, the map picks out genuinely impressive works from the likes of Peter Eisenman and Norman Foster, which combine to give the impression of an eclectic and engaging architectural city.
For more information and to purchase the maps, please see Blue Crow Media.


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The Life of the Venerable Anne of Jesus
by A Sister of Notre Dame de Namur
A Sister of Notre Dame de Namur
From the Preface
"The name of Venerable Anne of Jesus is probably familiar to all those who are well acquainted with the life, the work of foundation and the correspondence of St. Teresa of Avila; it also occupies a not unimportant place in the life-story of St. John of the Cross; she, moreover, took the most prominent part in the establishment of the Teresian nuns in France and afterwards in the Low countries.
It is, therefore, not too much to say that none of these subjects can be properly and fully understood unless one has a more than cursory knowledge of her own life and aims. Above all this she was endowed with talents not even second (according to the opinion of St. John of the Cross who was a good judge) to those of St. Teresa, and she reached a wonderful degree of sanctity even for a period which saw some of the greatest Saints of the Catholic church.
It was, then, a happy thought that one who in religion had received the same name should have spent many years in collecting all the facts of the life, and all the surviving writings, of her heavenly patroness. The present writer who was able to watch the inception and gradual growth of thebiography can bear testimony to the scrupulous accuracy with which the biographer has fulfilled her task."
This is a story that cannot be found in print elsewhere, of the transplanting of the Teresian reform from Spain to France and the Netherlands, a remarkable fete given that all of those countries were at war and the populations of France and the Netherlands not especially amenable to Spaniards. Nevertheless, the roots of Carmel were well planted, and the order flourished in convents still there to this day.
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Lee Andrews has been appointed as CWind's new global head of operations for maintenance and asset management (O&M) services.
Andrews joins CWind from Siemens Energy where he started his career as an apprentice technician 25 years ago and progressed through increasingly senior roles culminating in the role of Head of Installation Technicians and Site Management Group Siemens UK, in the wind energy division which he held for the last four years. In this role he led the development of a UK infrastructure to support the recruitment and building of a high performing team of technicians, operational managers and back office staff, servicing all of Siemens UK offshore wind construction projects. As part of that role he was also responsible for developing the wind turbine competency framework (WTCF) defining global training requirements alongside the Siemens Global Training Team.
This new division reflects the growth in demand for CWind's services within the O&M phase of the offshore assets' life. And by creating an area of the business that has sole focus on O&M services, CWind said it will be able to offer its customers value enhancing integrated solutions that will minimize outage down time whilst giving the highest levels of customer service and support.


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Library of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. In 2011–12 there were nearly 153,000 students enrolled in higher education in Croatia, while more than 36,400 completed their second cycle of graduate studies. In addition, 1,229 graduated as university specialists and 1,072 obtained the title of doctor.
The Baška Tablet, one of the earliest preserved written monuments in Croatian, dated about 1100. This white limestone tablet, which measures 199 x 99.5 x 9 cm, contains the first mention of the word Croatia in Croatian – in the title given to Zvonimir, 'king of the Croats'.
The Pula Film Festival, held every summer in the Pula Arena, was launched in 1954 and is one of the oldest film festivals in the world. Croatian cinemas hosted more than 4 million viewers in 2012.
Ivo Pogorelić (1958) has become prominent due to his expressly personal style of interpretation of the pianist's standard repertoire. Pogorelić is the first artist named UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador (1988).
The amphitheatre in Pula, known as the Arena, built in the first century, the sixth largest in the Roman Empire, could host 25,000 spectators. Today, it is used for large cultural and sporting events.
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The basic units of regional self-government are the counties (županija in Croatian). The present administrative territorial division of the country was introduced in 1997, when the 1992 division was changed. Smaller administrative territorial units within counties ...
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As an Adriatic, Central European country, and part of the Danube valley, Croatia enjoys a favourable geo-communication position. Thus several pan-European transport corridors and their branches pass through Croatia ...
About 62% of the territory covered by the branching river network belongs to the Black Sea catchment basin. The longest Croatian rivers, the River Sava (562 km) and River Drava (505 km) also belong to this catchment basin, as does the Danube ...
Although the land area of Croatia is not large (56,594 km², 19th in size among the countries of the European Union), it has an extremely varied relief, as it adjoins several large European relief forms. There are three main types of relief in Croatia...
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Croatians are a sporting nation; sport is part of the compulsory curriculum in schools at all levels of education. Many children and young people take part in extracurricular sporting activities, which are also seen as a way of life in recreational terms ...
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Where Can IT Get Expert Guidance for Managing Android in the Enterprise?
Endpoint January 15, 2019
By John Harrington Jr. 3 min read
Over the past decade, Android has taken the enterprise by storm. In each new operating system (OS) version update, its capabilities continue to become more business-friendly as the strength and depth of its mobile security functionality improves. With these changes considered, it's clear Google is committed to delivering an OS that transcends the consumer world into the enterprise. For this reason, it's no surprise that one of the world's most popular platforms appears on IT's shortlist for new device investments and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) programs.
Despite its extensive improvements over time, one of the biggest questions that remains for IT decision-makers is, "How can I be certain I am managing and securing Android with the best tools and technical resources available to me?"
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With its introduction of the Android Enterprise Recommended program earlier this year, Google has improved this decision-making process for IT leaders, making it possible to zero in on the vendors that meet specifications across a broad range of stringent criteria. The limited number of vendors that achieve this validation have not only taken appropriate steps to support the full gamut of Android's specifications — they have also gone the extra mile to partake in Google-led trainings that enable them to deliver an exceptional experience for partners and customers.
Up until this point, the Android Enterprise Recommended program has been available to help IT teams select smartphones, tablets and ruggedized devices that are well-suited for the enterprise setting. However, customers and partners have had to conduct independent research and assessments to determine which enterprise mobility management (EMM) solutions should be used to manage Android devices in the enterprise.
These evaluations cannot be taken lightly; enterprise use cases for Android have grown in number, and organizations need to ensure that their EMM of choice has what it takes to support them. Furthermore, security threats have evolved and become more complex, and endpoints and their users remain their biggest targets. The less careful organizations are about who they partner with in supporting their environment, the consequences become more severe.
These reasons considered, at minimum EMMs should be able to prove their ongoing commitment to delivering same-day support for the latest OS updates. As Android continues to roll out new functionality for Android in the enterprise — most recently zero-touch enrollment, managed Google Play, Verify Apps and SafetyNet APIs — the onus is also on EMMs to keep up.
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To stay ahead of the evolving threat landscape and more effectively manage Android devices, IT decision-makers need to fast-track the EMM selection process. That's why Google expanded its Android Recommended Program to help security leaders gain confidence in their EMM selection, streamline deployment and deliver up-to-date support for the latest updates.
IBM MaaS360 with Watson is a validated solution in the Android Enterprise Recommended program for EMMs, placing it among the select few EMMs that meet these new comprehensive program requirements.
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UPDATE: Redding driver killed in crash on I-5 near Knighton Road
The southbound off-ramp at Knighton was closed due to the fatal crash.
UPDATE: Redding driver killed in crash on I-5 near Knighton Road The southbound off-ramp at Knighton was closed due to the fatal crash. Check out this story on redding.com: https://www.redding.com/story/news/local/2018/12/19/southbound-5-backing-up-near-knighton-road-after-crash/2373019002/
Alayna Shulman, Redding Record Searchlight Published 9:36 p.m. PT Dec. 19, 2018 | Updated 9:29 a.m. PT Dec. 20, 2018
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A 60-year-old Redding man was killed Wednesday night when his car went off the southbound off-ramp to Knighton Road on Interstate 5 and slammed into the rear of a parked big rig, the California Highway Patrol is reporting.
The driver's name has not yet been released.
The fatal crash caused traffic on southbound I-5 to back up and also forced the closure of the off-ramp, which has since been reopened.
According to the CHP, the accident occurred as the Redding man was driving his 2003 Toyota Camry south on I-5 just beyond the paved exit to Knighton Road around 8:35 p.m.
The CHP said he swerved to the right between the main lanes of I-5 and the off-ramp and continued across the paved portion of the off-ramp onto the shoulder. That's when he hit the back of the parked big rig, which was unoccupied, the CHP said.
The driver died at the scene, the CHP said.
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For most businesses, there's an obvious cost to negative publicity. Sure, a few are still stuck in the "any PR is good PR" camp. And then there are those for whom public perception simply doesn't matter. A year ago, I would have put Goldman Sachs in that category. With a track record of breathtaking profitability, a well-deserved reputation for arrogance, and no public-facing businesses, it could afford to shrug off bad press and even public outrage.
That's why Goldman's latest annual report is so interesting. It includes a lengthy warning about the risks of the PR battering it has received. According to the disclosure, the "current political and public sentiment" will cost it time and money to respond to regulatory investigations; substantially increased penalties and fines; distraction from ongoing business; possible deterioration of staff morale; and, finally, a potentially negative impact on employee performance.
The disclosure is unprecedented, but it reads a little like lip service to PR. It wasn't until the last part – about employee performance – that I was impressed. But even that risk is hard to measure.
Goldman's market performance, on the other hand, is quantifiable. There are rumblings that its stock price has been depressed by the PR crisis. Financial blogs refer to worried investors. One warns that Goldman's management of its bad PR "will likely be a major factor on where the stock goes from here." Bloomberg's Jonathan Weil says restoring Goldman's reputation is Blankfein's job number one.
So, with all of Goldman's skill in making valuations, I don't think it has crunched the numbers on this one. The price of a good reputation – and the material impact of doing business without that most intangible of corporate assets – remains to be seen.
I guess they would pay more attention to the PR/brand issue if those bonuses were more tied to stock price than short term earnings or if their customers based their decisions to engage the firm based on their public image.
Yes, some feel they could lose deals because of the image problems; I'm not convinced. And since compensation is often partly in stock, the stock price is important, but it's far above last year.


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I'm not wealthy, but I don't have to do anything I don't want to do, and I decided not to do anything that doesn't meet two criteria: expand my understanding of the world, and allow me to apply whatever understanding I have in some productive way.
Robert McNamara, former U.S. secretary of defense during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, died today in his home in Washington, DC at the age of 93. McNamara is probably best known as the "architect of the Vietnam War." McNamara's quantitative strategy for the war was impressive (on paper) using technology, charts, and sophisticated analysis. The result was a defeat for the U.S. and 58,000 American lives lost.
A World War II veteran, McNamara joined Kennedy's cabinet in 1961 after working as president of the Ford Motor Company. He left the Pentagon in 1968 and headed the World Bank. McNamara's biography became and in some ways was overshadowed by Vietnam. For those who kept a closer watch, there was more to the man than just the war. Filmmaker Errol Morris captured this in his documentary interview "The Fog of War." If anything Robert McNarama should be remembered for is his willingness to recognize the lessons that will prevent humanity from destroying itself.
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Why Safe Voluntary Euthanasia is a Myth - by Brian Pollard.
Ian Haines, a medical oncologist, writes why he believed that euthanasia was the only humane solution. Now he no longer believes that.
It is widely believed that there are only two options open to patients with terminal illness: either they die slowly in unrelieved suffering or they receive euthanasia. In fact, there is a middle way, that of creative and compassionate caring. Meticulous research in Palliative medicine has in recent years shown that virtually all unpleasant symptoms experienced in the process of terminal illness can be either relieved or substantially alleviated by techniques already available.
This has had its practical expression in the hospice movement, which has enabled patients symptoms to be managed either at home or in the context of a caring in-patient facility. It is no surprise that in the Netherlands, where euthanasia is now accepted, there is only a very rudimentary hospice movement. By contrast, over in the UK, which has well developed facilities to care specifically for the terminally ill, a House of Lords committee ruled that there should be no change in the law to allow euthanasia.
This is not to deny that there are many patients presently dying in homes and hospitals who are not benefiting from these advances. There are indeed many having suboptimal care. This is usually because facilities do not exist in the immediate area or because local medical practitioners lack the training and skills necessary to manage terminally ill patients properly. The solution to this is to make appropriate and effective care and training more widely available, not to give doctors the easy option of euthanasia. A law enabling euthanasia will undermine individual and corporate incentives for creative caring.
A patient with a terminal illness is vulnerable. He lacks the knowledge and skills to alleviate his own symptoms, and may well be suffering from fear about the future and anxiety about the effect his illness is having on others. It is very difficult for him to be entirely objective about his own situation. Those who regularly manage terminally ill patients recognise that they often suffer from depression or a false sense of worthlessness which may affect their judgment. Their decision-making may equally be affected by confusion, dementia or troublesome symptoms which could be relieved with appropriate treatment. Patients who on admission say 'let me die' usually after effective symptom relief are most grateful that their request was not acceded to. Terminally ill patients also adapt to a level of disability that they would not have previously anticipated they could live with. They come to value what little quality of life they have left.
Many elderly people already feel a burden to family, carers and a society which is cost conscious and may be short of resources. They may feel great pressure to request euthanasia 'freely and voluntarily'. These patients need to hear that they are valued and loved as they are. They need to know that we are committed first and foremost to their well-being, even if this does involve expenditure of time and money. The way we treat the weakest and most vulnerable people speaks volumes about the kind of society we are.
One of the major driving forces behind the exceptional medical advances made this century has been the desire to develop treatments for previously fatal illnesses, and the eagerness to alleviate hitherto unmanageable symptoms. Medical research is essential if medicine is to advance further. When the focus changes from curing the condition to killing the individual with the condition, this whole process is threatened. The increasing acceptance of prenatal diagnosis and abortion for conditions like spina bifida, Down's syndrome and cystic fibrosis is threatening the very dramatic progress made in the management of these conditions, especially over the last two decades. Rather than being employed to care and console, funds are being diverted to fuel the strategy of 'search and destroy'.
If euthanasia is legalised we can expect advances in ktenology (the science of killing) at the expense of treatment and symptom control. This will in turn encourage further calls for euthanasia.
Legalisation of euthanasia is usually championed by those who have witnessed a loved one die in unpleasant circumstances, often without the benefits of optimal palliative care. This leads to demands for a 'right to die'. In reality the slogan is misleading. What we are considering is not the right to die at all, but rather the right to be killed by a doctor; more specifically we are talking of giving doctors a legal right to kill. This has its own dangers which we shall consider shortly.
Allowing difficult cases to create a precedent for legalised killing is the wrong response. We need rather to evaluate these difficult cases so that we can do better in the future. This was clearly demonstrated in the case of Nigel Cox, a rheumatologist found guilty of attempted murder after giving a patient with rheumatoid arthritis a lethal injection of potassium chloride in August 1991. Had he been willing to consult those specialised in pain management, he could have relieved his patient's symptoms without killing her. If errors of omission are acknowledged, changes can be made.
The European Association for Palliative Care registered its strong opposition to the legalisation of euthanasia. If care is aimed at achieving 'the best possible quality of life for patients and their families' by focusing on a patient's physical, psychosocial, and spiritual suffering, requests for euthanasia are extremely uncommon.
The answer is not to change the law, but rather to improve our standards of care.
Autonomy is important. We all value the opportunity of living in a free society, but also recognise that personal autonomy has its limits. Rights need protection, but must be balanced against responsibilities and restrictions if we are to be truly free.
We are not free to do things which limit or violate the reasonable freedoms of others. No man is an island. No person makes the decision to end his or her life in isolation. There are others who are affected: friends and relatives left behind, and the healthcare staff involved in the decision-making process.
Western society no longer recognises suicide as a crime, but still appreciates that a person's decision to take his or her own life can have profound, often lifelong effects on the lives of others. There may be guilt, anger or bitterness felt by those left behind. Personal autonomy is never absolute. The effect of personal decisions on others now living or in future generations must also be considered.
Once voluntary euthanasia is legalised in a single country or state, people from neighbouring constituencies will take advantage of it. In this way no territory can act in isolation. The decisions we make have implications for other nations, not only for their citizens who choose 'euthanasia tourism' but also for future changes in their own laws.
Any state considering a change in its laws in this regard has a responsibility not just to its own citizens but to the whole international community.
'My underlying motive was the desire to help individuals who could not help themselves... such considerations should not be regarded as inhuman. Nor did I feel it in any way to be unethical or immoral... I am convinced that if Hippocrates were alive today he would change the wording of his oath... in which a doctor is forbidden to administer poison to an invalid even on demand... I have a perfectly clear conscience about the part I played in the affair. I am perfectly conscious that when I said yes to euthanasia I did so with the greatest conviction, just as it is my conviction today that it is right'.
He sincerely believed he was innocent. This demonstrates that once doctors start killing, it is possible for them to carry on doing it without feeling any guilt.
Traditional medical ethical codes have never sanctioned euthanasia, even on request for compassionate motives. The Hippocratic Oath states 'I will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked, nor suggest such counsel....' The International Code of Medical Ethics as originally adopted by the World Medical Association in 1949, in response to the Nazi holocaust, declares 'a doctor must always bear in mind the obligation of preserving human life from the time of conception until death'. In its 1992 Statement of Marbella, the World Medical Association confirmed that assisted suicide, like euthanasia, is unethical and must be condemned by the medical profession. When a doctor intentionally and deliberately enables an individual to end his life, the doctor acts unethically.
Calls for voluntary euthanasia have been encouraged either by the failure of doctors to provide adequate symptom control, or by their insistence on providing inappropriate and meddlesome interventions which neither lengthen life nor improve its quality. This has understandably provoked a distrust of doctors by patients who feel that they are being neglected or exploited. The natural reaction is to seek to make doctors more accountable.
Ironically, voluntary euthanasia legislation makes doctors less accountable, and gives them more power. Patients generally decide in favour of euthanasia on the basis of information given to them by doctors: information about their diagnosis, prognosis, treatments available and anticipated degree of future suffering. If a doctor confidently suggests a certain course of action it can be very difficult for a patient to resist. However it can be very difficult to be certain in these areas. Diagnoses may be mistaken. Prognoses may be wildly misjudged. New treatments which the doctor is unaware of may have recently been developed or about to be developed. The doctor may not be up-to-date in symptom control.
Doctors are human and subject to temptation. Sometimes their own decision-making may be affected, consciously or unconsciously, by their degree of tiredness or the way they feel about the patient. Voluntary euthanasia gives the medical practitioner power which can be too easily abused, and a level of responsibility he should not rightly be entitled to have. Voluntary euthanasia makes the doctor the most dangerous man in the state.
When voluntary euthanasia has been previously accepted and legalised, it has led inevitably to involuntary euthanasia, regardless of the intentions of the legislators. According to the Remmelink Report, commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of Justice, there were over 3,000 deaths from euthanasia in the Netherlands in 1990. More than 1,000 of these were not voluntary. Other assessments have been far less conservative, and these figures pre-date February 1994 when euthanasia in that country was effectively legalised.
Holland is moving rapidly down the slippery slope with the public conscience changing quickly to accept such action as acceptable. The Royal Dutch Medical Association (KNMG) and the Dutch Commission for the acceptability of life terminating Action have recommended that the active termination of the lives of patients suffering from dementia is morally acceptable under certain conditions. Two earlier reports of the commission affirmed the acceptability of similar action for severely handicapped neonates and comatose patients. Case reports include a child killed for no other reason than it possessed abnormal genitalia and a woman killed at her own request for reasons of 'mental suffering'.
Such a progression requires only four accelerating factors: favourable public opinion, a handful of willing doctors, economic pressure and a law allowing it. In most Western countries the first three ingredients are present already. When legislation comes into effect, and political and economic interests are brought to bear, the generated momentum can prove overwhelming.
History has shown clearly that once voluntary euthanasia is legal, involuntary euthanasia inevitably follows.
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TikTokers wished a 97-year-old Auschwitz survivor a 'happy Holocaust' as some 'Free Palestine' supporters target Jewish social media users with antisemitic abuse
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Lily Ebert, a 97-year-old Holocaust survivor, received antisemitic comments on her TikTok posts.
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There has been a sharp rise in the number of antisemitic incidents since the start of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The ADL said that between May 7 and May 14, 17,000 tweets used variations of the phrase, "Hitler was right."
Jewish creators told Insider that their posts are being targeted with antisemitic abuse.
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At 97, Lily Ebert is one of the oldest Jewish creators on TikTok. She is also a survivor of the Auschwitz death camp, where the Nazis murdered 1.5 million Jews.
Neither facts were enough to restrain the online mob looking for Jews to abuse on social media since Israel's bombing campaign on Gaza began.
After posting an innocuous TikTok video wishing her followers a restful Shabbat (Sabbath) from her London home, her great-grandson and the account's administrator said she was flooded with "messages of hate."
A "Happy Holocaust," "Peace be upon Hitler," and "Ask her if she thinks the treatment of Palestinians reminds her [of] the treatment she got in the camps" were some of the comments Ebert received.
The targeting of the Auschwitz survivor is not a one-off; the Anti-Defamation League said that between May 7 and May 14, more than 17,000 tweets could be found that used variations of the phrase, "Hitler was right," Insider's Sarah Al-Arshani reported.
There has been a 500 percent increase in the number of antisemitic incidents reported in the UK since May 8, according to the Community Security Trust (CST). Around a third of the 116 incidents took place online, the charity said.
Insider spoke to several Jewish creators who described how the recent rise of anti-Jewish racism online, triggered by recent events in Israel and Gaza, has created an atmosphere so toxic that many are fearful for their safety and have considered leaving social media for good.
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Content about being Jewish is often spammed with antisemitic comments
The majority of recent abuse is clearly driven by the most recent escalation of violence in the Middle East, Jewish creators told Insider.
Gaza's health ministry said 232 Palestinians were killed and more than 1,900 were wounded in the conflict. Israel reported that at least 12 of its citizens died.
But Jews in the diaspora, with no ties to Israel, were being held accountable for the death and destruction, Sara Gibbs, a Jewish comedy writer from London, said.
"Ordinary Jews are blamed for the actions of a state thousands of miles away," Gibbs told Insider. "Regardless of what you feel about Israel, we don't have a collective responsibility for the actions of a foreign government. To suggest otherwise is just plain racism."
Sara Gibbs has received antisemitic abuse on Twitter.
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Jewish creators also said that their accounts are being spammed without even referencing the conflict, and any content identifying themselves as Jewish is often enough to attract antisemitic abuse.
Katie Rez, a Canadian YouTuber, explained how apolitical content about her Jewish identity regularly leads to her receiving hateful comments. "I'll post a video about being Jewish and then people will just be like, 'Oh, so you support killing babies.' I'm like, okay, that's uncalled for," she said.
Katie Rez was targeted with antisemitic abuse for wearing a Star of David necklace.
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In one recent incident, another YouTuber made a video that focused on her wearing a Star of David necklace. What followed was a barrage of antisemitic comments on her social media accounts, she said.
"Ew, she's a Jew," said one comment. "Death to Jews," said another.
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Melinda Strauss, a TikToker with over 36,000 followers, said that her videos chronicling her life as an Orthodox Jew in New York also frequently receive racist responses. "When I'm talking about keeping kosher at Trader Joe's, why are people commenting and saying these things?" she told Insider.
Recently, her 12-year-old son became the focus of antisemitic attacks online after posting a video of him wearing a yarmulke. Commenters wrote "six million wasn't enough" - referring to the estimated number of Jews killed in the Holocaust - and told him to "get back in the oven," Strauss said.
"A video about my son's yarmulke, literally the back of my son's head, was also getting message, after message, after message of people calling him a Palestinian killer," she said.
Many Jewish TikTok and Instagram users have shared videos describing how content without a single reference to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is often targeted with comments blaming Jews for the death of Palestinians.
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It has also become increasingly common on TikTok and Instagram for users to spam videos with "Free Palestine" or emojis of the Palestinian flag on unrelated content made by Jewish creators.
"It's not antisemitic in any way to say, 'Free Palestine,'" Gibbs said. "It is antisemitic, however, to jump on a Jew's page and say, 'Free Palestine,' for absolutely no reason other than they're Jewish."
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The CST said it is committed to differentiating between "general anti-Israel campaigning" and antisemitic abuse.
"It's only when the use of the "Free Palestine" slogan is targeted at blameless Jews, as often is the case on social media, that it is recorded as a potential hate crime. "If someone were to single out a random Jewish person specifically as the target, then we would count it as antisemitic because it's clearly being used in order to intimidate or harass that person," Dave Rich, head of policy at the CST, said.
Even Jewish creators who speak in support of Palestinians are harassed
Jewish creators who choose to comment on the conflict say that harassment ensues regardless of their leaning on the issue.
Rachel SJ, a Jewish TikTok creator with over 45,000 followers, said that there is a problem with the common assumption that all Jews hold the same view on the matter.
"It's interesting because I even know creators that have posted their views speaking out against Israel's actions and then on other videos they're still getting harassed in the comments," they said.
The Los Angeles influencer posted a video about how to support Palestinians, but still receives an influx of abuse on their posts.
"I'm definitely seeing a lot of hate towards Jews, probably as an attempt in solidarity or to help Palestinians, and obviously nobody wants to see other people's suffering, but targeting random Jews creates a really unsafe place," they said.
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Gibbs has shared a similar experience on Twitter, where she has 47,000 followers. "I find the actions of the government abhorrent and I can't and won't defend them," she said. "I understand that emotions run high when you see videos of children in distress or dead kids- but the target of the attacks is wrong."
'I've been scared to walk around in Toronto'
Gibbs has taken temporary breaks from using Twitter to protect herself from an overwhelming amount of antisemitic abuse. Other creators have said that the atmosphere online has become so toxic that they have considered deleting their accounts permanently.
"I consider it all the time," Rachel SJ said. "I talk to fellow Jewish creators about it and some of them have already left."
Rez has also weighed up deleting her YouTube channel. "I have considered it but I'm not going to, especially when it comes to antisemitism, just because I feel like it's my duty to talk about this stuff."
But her experiences online have made her increasingly afraid of real-life encounters, she said. "I've been scared to walk around in Toronto," Rez added.
There are concerns in the Jewish community that online attacks are encouraging in-person attacks.
"Grotesque displays of anti-Jewish racism should have no place on social media, yet we have found online networks rife with it, and it is now finding its way onto campuses and our streets," a spokesperson for the anti-racism charity Campaign Against Antisemitism told Insider.
Hate crimes against Jews in several cities across the world have surged in the past couple of weeks.
In Toronto, an elderly Jewish man was assaulted in Toronto while attending a pro-Palestinian event, the algemeiner reported.
A religiously aggravated assault of a rabbi led to two arrests in the United Kingdom, the Jewish News said.
Four men were arrested in London after a convoy of cars shouted racist and misogynistic abuse in a predominantly Jewish part of London, Sky News reported.
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In the US, the ADL - which tracks antisemitic incidents - said in the week after the fighting in Israel and Palestine began they received 193 reports of anti-Jewish attacks.
These incidents include two cars attempting to chase down a Jewish man in Los Angeles and the beating of a 29-year-old Jewish man in New York's Times Square.
Synagogues in Tucson, Arizona, and Salt Lake City, Utah, have also been vandalized with swastikas, Fox News said.
"This should be a wake-up call to all decent people that antisemitism online and offline is spiraling out of control," the Campaign Against Antisemitism spokesperson said.
'It leaves scars on the Jewish community'
It is hoped that, with the recent news of a ceasefire on Friday, the number of antisemitic incidents might stop rising so dramatically.
"The pattern previously has been that when the conflicts in Israel end or calm down, things tend to calm down," Rich said.
But the damage dealt will still leave an impact, he added. "It leaves scars on the Jewish community and on the individual people affected by it, and those take a long time to kind of wear off."
The creators hope that recent events might encourage people to reflect.
"I hope people educate themselves about what antisemitism is and looks like in all of its many forms because it can be very subtle. It can be really hard to name and see because so much of it is normalized and prevalent," Rachel SJ said.
Strauss agreed and stressed the importance of one particular lesson. "People have to learn to separate me as a Jewish person living in New York, or a Jewish person living in California, or anywhere outside of the Middle East, from what's happening in these conflicts," she said.
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KASHGAR, China — It was the final Friday of Ramadan, an aching hour before dusk, and on the steps of Id Kah, the mosque that marks the heart of this ancient city, things were as they have always been — almost.
Uighur men poured from the mosque's painted gate; pigeons shuffled in the square; a woman pulled a child toward the shade.
Then, amid the crowd of worshipers in white, a most unusual apparition: the Chinese flag.
It's not clear why an elderly, bearded man carried Communist Party colors to Friday prayer, but the flag's appearance at the most important mosque in the Xinjiang region, during Islam's most important month, was very much on message.
Years into the high-profile "war on terror" in the country's far northwest, China's officially atheist ruling party wants the world to know that it respects and honors Muslims — and that the feeling is mutual.
Across Kashgar's refurbished Old City, there are signs extolling the state's respect for faith. China's minorities "warmly welcome the Party's religious policy," reads one at Id Kah.
Warm is something of a reach. In recent years, clashes between Uighurs and local authorities have claimed hundreds of lives, including that of a China-praising imam who was assassinated at the mosque during Ramadan in 2014.
The state says the violence is the product of religious extremism, and it has increased security and surveillance across the region, putting soldiers on the streets, establishing checkpoints, and policing how Uighurs conduct business, worship and dress.
Their tactics have drawn ire at home and outrage abroad — a fact that infuriates Beijing. After stories about Ramadan "fasting bans" made headlines in Indonesia and Pakistan, China invited officials from both countries to the far northwest for government-guided tours.
An Indonesian official returned from his free trip with white-paper-style praise: "The [Chinese] state guarantees freedom of religion to all religions," he said.
A Pakistani observer said he saw no evidence of restrictions on teachers, students and government employees — odd, given that those are China's plainly stated rules.
The Ramadan propaganda war says much about faith and freedom in President Xi Jinping's China.
By the Communist Party's count, Islam is thriving in Xinjiang. Chinese state news media note that the number of mosques in the region has increased tenfold in 30 years and that the government has paid for thousands of students to travel abroad to study the faith.
Chinese authorities insist that Xinjiang's Muslim Uighurs — like Christians and Tibetan Buddhists — are free to worship as they wish. But what they mean, really, is that they are free to worship on the party's terms.
Explaining the selective fasting ban, the Global Times cited health concerns associated with fasting and the "spirit of China as a secular country." In interviews, four residents of Kashgar said they had direct knowledge of the ban, but they insisted on speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject.
The seemingly contradictory stance reflects Beijing's belief that the Communist Party can and should shape religious practice to its own ends.
The emphasis on integration frightens many Uighurs, who see Ramadan restrictions as part of a broader effort to curb — or outright criminalize — their culture and way of life.
Part of this is demographics. In 1949, with the People's Republic of China was founded, Han Chinese accounted for about 6 percent of Xinjiang's population; today that figure is more than 40 percent. Many Uighurs say they feel like outsiders in their own home.
The sense of alienation has deepened since 2009 when protests in Urumqi degenerated into violent clashes that killed about 200 people, including Uighurs and Han Chinese. The government put the region on lockdown, turning off the Internet for nine months.
The crackdowns intensified with every act of violence that followed. Officials have taken steps to sideline Uighur-language education and prohibited those younger than 18 from praying at mosques.
Authorities have selectively prosecuted Uighur men for growing beards and have arrested Uighur women for wearing certain types of veils. In one town, Muslim shopkeepers reported that local officials forced them to sell alcohol and cigarettes — all in the name of stamping out extremism.
In Kashgar, the government's anti-terrorism rhetoric is everywhere. A public bathroom in the Old City features a 22-point infographic on how not to become an extremist. Posters at family restaurants offer rewards for information on suspicious activity.
The problem, residents said, is that almost any kind of activity can be deemed suspicious — especially if you are Uighur.
Convinced that hostile foreign forces are instigating violence, local authorities are wary of people with links to anything, or anyone, outside China. In some cases, the government has cut Internet service to those found using virtual private networks to get around Web controls, Kashgar residents said.
Two Uighur men confirmed reports that Kashgar police are stopping people on the street to search the contents of their phones. Foreign-made apps such as Facebook and Skype bring trouble, they said, as does any "Islamic" content — although what constitutes "Islamic" is unclear.
At a trade fair in Kashgar, a Uighur in the textile business said the police have stopped him and searched his cellphone on more than one occasion. He asked not to be named, saying that talking to a foreign reporter could itself be considered subversive, even extreme.