The article defines the essence of informatization of society due to the spread of the Internet network all over the world, the difference between the information capabilities of the Internet and ordinary mass media is clarified, the genesis of the theory of social networks, their essence, possibilities is analyzed, the state of development of social networks on the territory of Ukraine, their role and place in the informatization of society are shown, the forms of communication in the Internet-network are described: a blog, a tlog, peculiarities of self-expression in the blogosphere; opportunities and procedurs for the exchange of ideas through the forum; organization mechanism and Internet conference script.
Keywords: social-networks, informatization of the society of the form of communication on the Internet.
Relevance of the article. Homo sapiens was formed during evolutionary processes under the influence of information. Carriers of information were and still are different facilities from rock paintings to modem cybernetic devices. Communication relations in which there are no clearly defined boundaries between creators and consumers of information are in modem society Due to the existence of free media space, participants in the dissemination and consumption of information are international organizations, state and public organizational stmctures and separate individuals. The rapid development of social communication constantly requires understanding of the philosophy of communication, directions and ways of development of information society.
Rapid development and distribution of Internet-wide networks worldwide, its influence on the worldview of human is reflected in several hundreds of social and humanitarian research, published daily. However, it will be fair to recognize that the scientific understanding of the processes of informatization of society under the influence of the world cybersecurity lags from the possibilities of the development of the Internet itself. The founder of Facebook M. Zuckerberg in 2015 expressed the opinion that after five years, by the end of 2020, every inhabitant of our planet will have access to the Internet .
Nowadays, the problem of creating models, which describe the processes of social interactions that occur in the Internet, the author, does not know the fundamental scientific work of the further deployment of the Global Web and it's impact on further informatization of society. These and many other issues require a well-grounded study and determine the relevance of this article.
Of course, the size of the article does not allow to make a comprehensive scientific analysis of the components and mechanism of informatization of society. But each look at this problem allows us to come closer to philosophical comprehension and the general characteristics of this process.
Analysis of researches and publications on the issue of informatization of society. Covering the issues of the essence and content of the processes of informatization of its impact on the self-development of society is at the forefront of the attention of native and foreign scholars, state and public figures. This can be confirmed by a large number of substantive work and articles published in newspapers and on various Internet sites.
The idea of the relationship between cybernetics and society was initiated after the end of the Second World War in 1945. Norbert Wiener prepared and published the books "Cybernetics" (1948), "The WonderKing" (1951), "I'm Mathematician" (1956) and "Cybernetics and Society" (1958), N. Wiener showed that livy effectively means livy, having faithful information. Messages and management are equally related to the essence of human existence, as to the human life in society. In other words, information directly determines the process of socialization in society.
In Ukraine, the outstanding scientist V. Glushkov, one of the first Ukrainian scientists, initiated theoretical studies of the problems of cybernetics, including the impact of informatization on society, and the implementation of theoretical developments in life.
Ukrainian scientists: G. Bonch-Bruyevich, V. Gorovy, T. Granchak, Yu. L. Kompantseva, A. Matviichuk, T. Nosenko, V. Popyk, GPocheptsov, L. Chuprina, and others were devoted to research of socialization processes of the community through communication in social networks of the Internet.
Some contribution to the study of information society were made in dissertations. O. Prysyazhnyuk in his work analyzes the social and technological peculiarities of the World Computer Network and its role in the system of modem life of society. S. Konoplytskyi made efforts to phenomenological analysis of social aspects of communication on the Internet. D. Kolomiets made a philosophical analysis of the socialization of the individual in the media and educational space of the information society. In the work by the author O. Malis was proved that the Internet is a powerful informational and propaganda tool for political activity, which in fact combines the functions of television and print editions.
Leading western scholars who analyze the problems of informatization of society are D. Bell, M. Castells, A. Toffler, A. Turin, J. Galbraith, R. Ingelgart. A number of American scientists : Joseph B. Walter, D. Westerman, B. Van der Hade, C. Tong, L. Langwell, J. Kim, J. Antony study the formation of social networks, the main provisions and principles of their use and predict their future. Russian writers R. Abdeyev, S. Afanasyev, V. Bianchi, S. Duka, V. Inozemtsev, S. Dyatlov, N. Moiseev and others actively work in the aspect of determining the role of Internet-network in public life.
Even a brief review of the authors and theoretical and scientific sources that highlight the development of the global Internet network and its impact on the informatization of society indicates the importance of studying this process. But the philosophical aspect of informatization and communication of society remains beyond the attention of scientists. The need for its consideration is the purpose of this work.
The purpose is to find out the philosophical aspect of the process of informatization of modem society. To achieve the goal the author solves the following partial tasks: the essence and content of informatization of society are defined, the components of the process of influence of the cybernetic network on the formation of modern society are outlined.
Presentation of the main material. Humanity has entered a post-industrial society, in which, unlike industrial, the main value is information. Despite the lack of a unified understanding, the following definition of the Information Society (the English Information Society) has been acquired in the scientific environment: the theoretical concept of postindustrial society, the historical phase of a possible evolutionary development of civilization, in which information and knowledge are produced in a single information space. Its resource and The motive force is people, their intellectual, creative and spiritual possibilities. The following definition of the information society is proposed. It is a society in which most workers are engaged in the production, storage, processing and sale of information, especially its higher form - knowledge. In the information society, the greatest value, the main products of production are not things and energy, but information.
The leading features of modern society are its informatization - the penetration of cyber information into all spheres of human activity; the possibility of joining each developed person to a global information space capable of providing a new quality of life; Creation of qualitatively new forms of communication and effective information interaction of people due to increasing access to national and world information resources, overcoming the information and digital inequality, progressive satisfaction of human needs in information products and services.
Logically, technical channels of mass communication are constantly being improved and provide the spread of a growing array of information. The Internet is not an exception. In it, thanks to technical capabilities, former types and forms of communication are converted (combined). Today the Internet, in its capabilities, replaces radio, telephone, mail, television, print media, bookshops, libraries, etc.
From the point of view of social philosophy, people in the Internet have the opportunity to be in the virtual space. Modern Internet provides incredible speed and cheap distribution of information (by some estimates, 700 times faster and 335 times cheaper than by mail). The thought of T. de Chardin that the Internet is a unique means of uniting everyone and everyone into a "one closed system" is fair.
In modem conditions it is difficult to imagine the self-development of the human community without the communication of social objects, which is based on the contacts of individuals between themselves or in their mutual interests. Such interconnection is possible due to the created social networks in the world web of the Internet. The key concept of this association of individual subjects is the constant interaction, mutual influence. The modem theory of social networks dates back to the middle of the 20th century, thanks to the works of R. Solomonoff and A. Rapoport. In 1959-1968. Hungarian mathematicians Paul Erdos and Alfred Rene wrote eight articles describing the principles of the formation of social networks .
Social Internet Networks is a virtual association of people sharing certain information that is a characteristic of the Internet. The reasons of the existence of social networks are obvious: today, people spend a great deal of time at the computer and are used to share information with each other, primarily in electronic form, because it, at least, saves time and expands the communicative capabilities of a person. The popularity of Internet networks is evidenced by the following data: there are more than 200 large social networks in the world, 15 of them have more than 100 million active users, more than 60 of which are Russian-speaking) .
This number of users indicates the creation of a network society on the Internet, which can be called cybersociety. It is based on horizontal social connections and the main role in which not hierarchical models play, but social networks. Significant role modern Internet communications do in shaping such society.
The history of the launch of social networking is due to sp classmates.com, which appeared in 1995. Then in 1997, SixDegrees.com was created. Since 2001, people began to create websites that used the technology called Circle of Friends. This form of social Networks, which is widely used in virtual communities, became widespread in 2002 with the advent of the Friendster website.
In 2004, the largest social network in the world, Facebook, was created. Google also offers an orkut social networking site that was launched in 2004. In July 2005, News Corportaion has launched MySpace. These communities also offer opportunities such as automatic address book updates, the viewing of each other's personal information, the creation of new relationships with the help of "dating services" and other forms of social networking in the network.
Social networks can also be organized around business relationships. In 2010, a social network for state officials "Gosbook" was launched in Ukraine. In its framework, they can set up expert and working groups to discuss issues of public administration. The new network is semi-open - many materials and messages are posted in open access, and some of the issues are available for discussion by all interested persons. Admission of users goes for the club scheme: the new participant should be invited by either one of the network administrators, or by one of the already registered users. One of the main tasks of the network is wide involvement of civil servants and specialists.
It can be assumed that Ukraine has also been actively involved in the process of informatization of society. According to the study of Universal Me Cann, from 55 countries in the world Ukraine is on the fifth place in the activity of using social networks. Among the active Internet users (those who go online every day, or at least several times a week) in Ukraine 81% of users have a profile in social networks (61% of the world's average) [6, 134].
The Gemius company has shown that in June 2017 the Internet was used by 22 million people in Ukraine, the most popular device for accessing the Internet - personal computer (stationary or laptop), 19 million people are using it, using Internet-enabled smartphones are 10 millions, with tablets - 2.6 million. Ukrainian users are divided by age: from 14 to 24 years old - 21%, from 25 to 34 years - 30%, from 35 to 44 years - 21%, from 45 to 54 years - 14%, more than 55 years - 14%.
By audience coverage, the places were distributed in this way: 1. google.com (91%); 2. youtube.com (72%); 3. facebook.com (56%); 4. privatbank.ua (36%); 5. vk.com (36%); 6. rozetka.com.ua (35%); 7. ukr.net (30%); 8. wikipedia.org (29%); 9. olx.ua (29%); 10. bestatch.com (25%) .
Ukrainians most often use social networks to communicate and maintain contacts. Among scientists there is the idea of the constant growth of social media. This can be explained by the increase in the number of owners of smartphones and mobile Internet users.
The given data testify about the growing popularity of the social Internet network not only among young people, but also among middle-aged and even older people. At the same time, the information of ordinary mass media goes back to the background. S. Konoplitsky explains this by the fact that the structure and nature of Internet information is significantly different from the nature and structure of the usual media-information . Firstly, all types of communication (mass, specialized, interpersonal, intranspersonal) are represented on the Internet, while in the media two last ones are practically absent. Secondly, the Internet is dominated by specialized information while a significant increase in individual (interactive) interaction. Thirdly, in the cyberspace, the diversity of the content of the available information increases significantly. Fourthly, if traditional media act as centers that collect information, sort it and distribute it, the Internet is characterized by a potentially endless number of independent centers of accumulation and dissemination of information that determines their global, democratic, and, at the same time, uncontrolled nature.
Information services of the Internet (e-mail, skype, chats, forums, blogs, webinars, videoconferences and, of course, social networks) provide to user the implementation of interconnections and interaction with large human masses, for the exchange of information products. It is difficult to find a sphere of relations between people in which information communication is not possible. Internet networks allow to provide marketing services, to conduct information business, online communication is transferred to that virtual-communicative space, where, on the one hand, it is possible to express opinions freely, on the other hand - to exert a massive influence on users, to form social relations carried out in a circle various communities, associations, government portals and ordinary users.
Of paramount importance for the development of personality is, of course, informational communication in full autonomous thematic or individual blogs. A blog is a periodically updated magazine with full or limited commentary by other users. The feature of such a diary is the reverse chronology, the last entry will be the first among readers available. The blog area is called the whole set of blogs on the Internet.
A tlog is a blog where you can not leave comments, get information about readers, instead you can make anonymous entries and make notes unavailable for anyone other.
Blogs combining reading, writing and publishing own thoughts in the Internet, became for the person of the beginning of the XXI century an important means of self-expression and a tool for the development of personal literacy skills, the school of formulating own thoughts, sharing knowledge, and hence an effective tool for self-development .
In the blog, the audience becomes the main producer of information: authors, readers and commentators are in one person. In blogs, users have the opportunity to get comprehensive, independent, objective information directly from eyewitnesses and make a free, multidimensional integrated picture of the event, regardless of its geographic location.
But it should be noted that self-expression through blogs is not equivalent to a simple user and a well-known person. It is difficult for a simple user to attract attention to his personality and notations. That's why, a very large percentage of users in a short time loses interest to one or another topic in the network. Beside with the public blogs, there is a class of blogs that unite people with certain (narrow) interests and are intended for publication and discussion of the author's works (prose, poems, photographs, drawings).
Another way of communicating in the Internet is through forums, the organization of the exchange of information and communication between a large number of interlocutors. In the organization of Internet forums, there are no strict restrictions on the contingent of participants - they can become any users, there is also no time frame for discussion of the topic - the process continues until the topic is interesting for the interlocutors.
Forums may have scientific or socio-political themes and pursue relevant goals. Such forums are characterized by some officiality and officially-business, scientific or scientific-journalistic style of speech.
There may also be forums for various household spheres of life, social events or works in the field of art (including music, painting, poetry, and prose, etc.). The purpose of forums can be considered the receiving of participants various knowledge, communication experience, some truth in disputes regarding a particular phenomenon or individual preferences.
All forums have unwritten rules: discussion of any topic begins with the monologue of the author in the form of an article (review / review, of any opinion interesting to a wide range of users), which contains the essence of the problem and argues the author's arguments in favor of one or another point of view. Next, all interested persons are connected to the discussion of the subject with the author. Thus, the way of interaction can be called a dialogue, or a polylogue.
Chatter is a kind of foaun that differs from others by the absence of any specific scientific or social subject matter They are created directly to stimulate live group communication mostly young people. Such communication takes place in the form of a polylogue of strangers, who pursue the goal - the beginning of acquaintance.
A conference is a slightly different way of informational communication in the Internet, its script resembles a bulletin board, and a newspaper at the same time. No list of conference participants exists. Anyone whose computer is connected to another computer receiving conference messages can receive and send messages. At the beginning of the conference, messages are sent to the groups by subject, and in order to receive group messages, you have to subscribe to this group, to include the name of this group in the list on your personal computer This conference script allows you to receive all messages from the right topics, regardless of who wrote them, and send messages without worrying about the addresses of the recipients - it will be read by those will be interested about. The conference is indispensable for scientific discussions and the search for like-minded people with scientific interests.
There are many other ways of virtual communication in the Internet - network games (strategic and intellectual), and the virtual world (as a community of people who build an interactive virtual life), and clubs (which are similar to a mix of conference and chat), etc.
Conclusions: The conducted research allows us to state the fact that today in Ukraine there is a flourishing of informatization of society. In our country there is a stable annual growth of network communication, as well as information networks themselves. The necessity of using real possibilities of informatization is reflected in the fact of joining not only teenagers, but also people of young, middle and senior age to the information Internet network. This indicates about the growing of interest to the possibilities of the World Wide Web, which captured all sides of society's life. Accordingly, the importance of the Internet network in the process of informatization will increase and in the long term will lead to their integration into several global, multinational services of production and distribution of information, actually interacting with interests, entertainment industry, commercial services, etc.
Further research may be aimed to revealing new theoretical and methodological features of the socio-philosophical comprehension of society, in which unprecedented opportunities of human and social interaction and communication as a result of informatization appeared.
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City of Athens
Midcentury to the Present
Desegregation & Growth
Desegregation began in 1961 as Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes became the first two black students to enter the University of Georgia in early January. By the time of their graduation in 1963, Athens' city limits incorporated 13 square miles. Suburban sprawl hit the area, along with urban renewal. A number of historic properties were saved from demolition during this time, including the oldest residence in Athens, as historic preservation became more prominent. This trend would continue through today.
Athens Music
Beginning in the late 1970s, the Athens music scene began to gather momentum, eventually leading to the city's worldwide recognition as a hotbed for music. Bands such as R.E.M. and the B-52s became wildly popular throughout the 1980s while scores of smaller bands continued to perform in the myriad of Athens clubs on a nightly basis.
After unification with Clarke County was approved, Mayor Dwain Chambers became the last person to hold the title of Mayor of the City of Athens from 1989-1991.
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Dina Kowal Creative: More is......meh?
I couldn't stand to leave this one plain - I had to add the butterfly...and after I stamped it onto my scene it was too late to go back. I like it...and I don't like it. Still not sure. I wanted it up a little higher actually, but I didn't want to risk the antennas spanning several layers and not printing well. But I guess she and the mouse are buds, and it's not a big deal. They don't seem to mind, so I'll get over it too, I guess.
All stamps are from smARTworks...actually I should say that I didn't get my mouse from smARTworks, but they do have that same image - it's just slightly smaller or larger, I can't remember which. I stamped the mouse, masked him, stamped the mushroom and masked it, then did the background, using Versamagic chalk inks and misting my stamp with water before putting it to the paper. I used Prismacolor pencils to add in some shading and to color the mouse and mushroom. Clouds were made using a scalloped circle as a mask (link to the right for a tutorial on that). Stamped the butterfly's black parts onto the card so I wouldn't have to cut them out, then stamped and colored the wings on another piece of cardstock, trimmed and layered (not popped, just curved a little). That tab is punched with a corner of the Marvy giga scalloped square.
Next time I think the mouse wants to sit under the mushroom. Don't you think? Oh forgot to mention - the mushroom (shouldn't everyone have a mushroom stamp?) comes with 2 cute yet realistic little snail stamps. Very fun!
I think it's great! I agree, it needed the butterfly and if you stand back and look at it, where you had to place it adds dimension. It appears, at least from where I sit :), that the butterfly is a ways away from mouse, but coming in for a landing. A great card!
I like de butterfly very much. Beautiful card.
This is another adorable card. The butterfly actualy looka pretty good there! Him and the mouse look like good buds!


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"Let him who is without sin cast the stone"
1 but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 2 Early in the morning he came again to the temple; all the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them. 3 The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst 4 they said to him, "Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. 5 Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such. What do you say about her?" 6 This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. 7 And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, "Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her." 8 And once more he bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. 9 But when they heard it, they went away, one by one, beginning with the eldest, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. 10 Jesus looked up and said to her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?" 11 She said, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you; go, and do not sin again."
Meditation: Do you know the joy and freedom of repentance? The grace of Jesus Christ has power to change our lives and to set us free from our unruly desires and passions. Jesus' association with sinners upset the religious leaders. They confronted him on the issue of adultery and retribution. Jewish law treated adultery as a serious crime since it violated God's ordinance and wreaked havoc on the stability of marriage and family life. It was one of the three gravest sins punishable by death. This incident tells us a great deal about Jesus' attitude to the sinner. The scribes and Pharisees wanted to entrap Jesus with the religious and civil authorities. That is why they brought a woman caught in adultery before Jesus. Jesus turned the challenge towards his accusers. In effect he said: Go ahead and stone her! But let the person who is without sin be the first to cast a stone. The Lord leaves the matter to their own consciences. When the adulterous woman is left alone with Jesus, he both expresses mercy and he strongly exhorts her to not sin again. The scribes wished to condemn, Jesus wished to forgive and to restore the sinner to health. His challenge involved a choice-- either go back to your former way of sin and death or to reach out to the new way of life and happiness with him. Jesus gave her pardon and a new start on life. God's grace enables us to confront our sin for what it is -- unfaithfulness to God, and to turn back to God with a repentant heart and a thankful spirit for God's mercy and forgiveness. Do you know the joy of repentance and a clean conscience?


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MiFid II: More Severe Decline in Analyst Coverage of British Companies Compared to European Peers
New survey examines global IR trends.
According to a study by Citigate Dewe Rogerson, the introduction of Mifid II meant that British companies were more likely to lose analyst coverage compared to their European counterparts.
In addition, Citigate Dewe Rogerson, according to statements by approximately 52% of British companies, reports that the number of sell-side analysts fell last year. In contrast to the British companies, however, the European companies report a decrease in coverage of only 39%.
British issuers recorded a significantly stronger decline in research notes. In addition, 38% of British companies report a decline in analyst quality. Such a decline in quality was observed in continental Europe at only 20%.
It is interesting to note that, according to this study, coverage of larger companies in particular has declined. Previously, it was assumed that smaller companies would be the most affected. Overall, 75% of UK LargeCap companies report a decline in coverage last year. This was only 44% for mid-cap companies and 57% for small-cap companies.
Nevertheless, Citigate sees a greater risk of suffering from the consequences of MiFid II, especially among small-cap companies, as they are already fighting for the attention of investors.
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Jason.......There are also other models, one that exhausts to the front, as well as one that exhausts to the rear. I like the T8 model that exhausts to the rear.
Quite so! The rear exhaust is also what I use.
One or two noiseless 115vac computer fans placed strategically accomplishes the same thing for very little $$. Still have a couple left over from when I was running class A amps.
+1. Although mine are 12v DC. Noctua brand, known for building really quiet fans.


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Currently an opinionated Product Manager & Python Data Enthusiast in Silicon Beach, formerly Harvard'13 and Google Intern, Associate VC and SurfAir Specialist. I was once told that I'm "Geek-Chic" during a pitch meeting, and it stuck. I love all that is Silicon Beach.
Self Driving Cars x Crime
When it comes to the impact of self-driving cars on crime, there are two general threads of discussion: the possibility of re-engineering cars for criminal purposes, and the opportunity to reduce traffic enforcement in the absence of speeding and parking tickets. One thing that has gotten less attention is the possibility for reduced anonymity in — and therefore greater prevention of — violent crime.
The FBI has voiced concerns that self-driving cars could free up criminals in a getaway car, or be loaded with explosives to carry out a car bomb without a suicidal driver (see this and this). While these are not scenarios to take lightly, both of these concerns generally presume that car ownership will not fundamentally change when cars become autonomous.
If Uber, Google, and even the City of LA have their way (as recent studies suggest), though, car ownership will decline dramatically when autonomous cars hit the road. Without the need for human drivers, Uber can cut costs and pass those savings onto the consumer, making it impractical to own a car.
If the norm is no longer to own a car, then two things will happen:
First, all trips would be registered in a database of some kind. Right now, every time I take an Uber or Lyft, those companies know exactly where I am for that period of time. They know where I was picked up, when I was picked up, the route I took, and my dropoff information. In a world where I rely on these services exclusively, my whereabouts could be determined at almost any point in the day. (This could happen even without a decline in car ownership. As cars become internet enabled, they're already collecting data. Phones already track you too).
Second, those who decide to continue owning a car would fit into certain profiles. The car enthusiast, the hobbyist, the ridiculously frequent traveler, guy with too much money, the guy who lives in a car…and more insidious profiles: the hacker. With the decline of car ownership, many car dealerships would close, making it more difficult to own a car in the first place — and more noticeable when you do.
There's an analogous set of profiles among non-owners that could develop, and would make certain behaviors more "noticeable": the reduced need for car storage, and the rise of shared rides. As more and more rides can be shared, it would be both riskier to share a ride while committing a crime, and more noticeable when you opt to ride alone. (Note that for certain people, particularly the wealthy, riding alone will be the norm, and it's difficult to know what carpooling rates would be in off-peak times.) Secondly, as most people don't regularly need their trunk, most cars would shed their trunks and special cars would be ordered for travelers. This means that someone who orders a solo ride with a trunk would be less anonymous than your typical, trunk-less carpooling rider. (For a given hour and 2-block radius, this could be an identifying trait).
The reduction of anonymity might concern privacy enthusiasts, but I'm optimistic that both of these trends would make it much more difficult for a criminal to involve a car in certain types of crime.
Kidnappings: All cars that passed through a given location at a given time would be known. If a pickup was ordered in the vicinity of a victim's last known location, the requester could be identified (in this case, an accomplice could drive through, but their whereabouts would be known as well as the fact that the car had stopped) (think about how helpful this could have been in the Lauren Spierer case)
Bank Robbery, any crime requiring a speedy getaway: Criminals would not be able to control the speed of the car, and the identity of the ride requester could be determined quickly
(Physical) Car Hijacking – (in the Tsarnaev fashion) – Cars that are re-routed could be identified, as well as any car passing through the vicinity. Had the Tsarnaevs relied on self-driving cars, they may have still successfully taken a guy hostage, but they would not have been able to zoom off at 90 miles per hour, and their constant, immediate location changes would have probably set off a crime sensor. The car would have also been programmed to stop for law enforcement.
(Technical) Car Hijacking/Hacking – Hackers were able to exploit a vulnerability in car software to remotely hijack a car. They were able to do this because they had two years to tear the car apart and dig into the car's software. With a decline in car ownership, however, getting familiar with the software would be far more difficult to do under the radar. Not only would you have to tamper with the software for an extended period of time undetected, but you'd also need to test its interaction with the hardware, which would likely require a physical car to experiment with. If this becomes a national security concern, the government may decide to regulate who can physically own a car, and the owner of a compromised vehicle could be easily identified (which is already possible).
False Alibis – A suspect's location could be verified in court proceedings if their ride history was obtained with a warrant ("Where were you on the night that Katelyn Stark disappeared?")
Of course, there are simple workarounds for some of these tracking mechanisms. Phone theft would enable criminals to order rides without being tracked as themselves, but a simple phone password could at the very least deter a criminal from getting away as quickly as they could today. Simple security measures — verify a password when you get into a car, for example — could further thwart criminals.
Self-driving cars could help reduce these types of crime even without complicated crime detection technology. With more advanced crime determent systems, it would be even more powerful: auto-detecting explosives. Detecting when someone is tampering with the software. Detecting a body in the trunk. Using big data to track suspicious behaviors.
These changes could take years to unfold, and along the way we will discover that we haven't even scratched the surface of how self-driving cars will change the nature of crime. In the meanwhile, the most important thing that autonomous car manufacturers can do is prevent new forms of crime from developing through hacking, hijacking, and re-engineering; take extra precautions to protect the vast amount of sensitive information they will be collecting, and take advantage of the data being collected to prevent accidents and save lives.
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Easy Rider – If You Want to Be a Bird (Bird Song)
The movie "Easy Rider" was released 49 years ago today. Here is an article Nick Scelsi wrote for us a few years back. Really cool info on the movie:
By Nick Scelsi:
When Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda needed the perfect song to play over the closing credits of their landmark counterculture film Easy Rider, released on July 14, 1969, they asked Stephen Stills to write a song specifically for that purpose. The song Stills wrote was "Find the Cost of Freedom." "I played it for Dennis," Stills remembered, "but he was in a fog and just didn't get it. I was depressed about that for years."
The filmmakers then approached Bob Dylan, hoping he could provide the ending to their "touchstone for a generation." Dylan was reluctant to get involved, refusing even to allow his own recording of "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding") to be used in the film's soundtrack (the version in the film is actually a cover by Roger McGuinn), but he did agree to write a little something for the ending. It literally was just a little something. Instead of writing a complete song, Dylan simply wrote out the first verse of what would become "Ballad of Easy Rider" and said, "Give this to McGuinn. He'll know what to do with it."
Fonda and McGuinn had been friends for years. It's a story for another day (August 24, to be exact), but it was Fonda's extremely odd behavior during a legendary 1965 acid-dropping incident involving members of the Byrds and the Beatles that inspired John Lennon to write "She Said, She Said." Interestingly, it was the acid-dropping cemetery scene in Easy Rider that inspired McGuinn to want to contribute music to the film's soundtrack.
While shooting the cemetery scene, Hopper had been able to convince Fonda to talk to the statue of the Madonna as though it were Fonda's mother (who had committed suicide when he was 10 years old) and ask her why she had left him. Later, Fonda used the inclusion of this scene as leverage to persuade McGuinn to allow the use of his cover of Dylan's "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)."
Byrds music would feature prominently on the Easy Rider soundtrack album, which also included their cover of Goffin-King's "Wasn't Born To Follow," originally released on The Notorious Byrd Brothers album, as well as McGuinn's own solo recording of the completed "Ballad of Easy Rider."
There are some who believe The Byrds connection to Easy Rider goes far deeper than just their music, insisting that the film's two principal characters, Peter Fonda's "Wyatt" and Dennis Hopper's "Billy" are, in fact, loosely based on the personalities of Roger McGuinn and David Crosby.
What do you think? Could there really be something to this theory?
Happy 49th Birthday to "Easy Rider"!!!
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Want More Prophetic Authority? Take Your Seat
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2:00PM EST 1/31/2019	 Faisal Malick
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We are in a season in which we see an increase in the prophetic anointing. And yet God is calling us to a higher level in this hour.
There are many who are now operating in their gift, but not functioning in their seat of authority as they try to build their ministry based on their gift alone. To be effective in our assignment, we must seek our God-assigned seat of authority reserved for us to walk in the specific arena God has called us to.
When I walk into a room or group of people, I often take a moment to observe and discern the authority present—not the gift, but the authority. This is a very simple truth but also a very important one that we have often missed. I had to learn this in my early days as a prophet, which is to understand the scope of those in authority and to submit to and honor that authority. This principle leads us to understand and walk in our "seat of authority."
Each of us will have assignments in our lives. But true power comes not just as we operate in our gift but when we receive our God-given seat of authority and function in it. This makes us effective in our assignment, because every assignment has a corresponding seat of authority.
When Jesus died on the cross and rose again, He made us a new creation. We were made alive in Him, raised with Him and then seated with Him in heavenly places. In doing so, He gave us two positions of authority. First, the authority of the believer, which is the personal domain of authority over our own life and family. But He also gave to us a corporate authority. This is the domain of God's sovereign authority for our divine assignment. That authority is not fully functioning in us until we have our seat of authority.
Again, there are many who are now operating in their gift but not functioning in their seat of authority. We can see the distinction between the two as we look at the difference between Elijah and the sons of the prophets in the Old Testament. In 2 Kings 2 we see that Elijah was recognized and respected for the position and anointing on his life. He held a greater place of authority than other prophets of that day. There were many other companies of prophets during that time. They were known as the sons of the prophets. They were gifted, but they were not operating in the same kind of power and miracles. Why? Because they did not have a seat of authority as Elijah did, who was effective in the full measure of his assignment.
The Mantle Accompanies the Seat
There is a mantle that accompanies the seat of authority, but not the prophetic gift. Elijah had a mantle and a resulting authority that rested on him that caused the other gifted prophets to submit to and follow him. A mantle is like a spiritual uniform that we are clothed with once we are positioned in our seat of authority.
It gets interesting as we look at the end of Elijah's life as he was about to be taken up. Here is an example that reveals the difference between those who are merely gifted and those operating in their seat of authority.
Then when the Lord was about to take Elijah up to heaven by a whirlwind, Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal. Elijah said to Elisha, "Tarry here, I ask you, for the Lord has sent me to Bethel."
But Elisha said to him, "As the Lord lives, and as you live, I will not leave you." So they went down to Bethel.
The sons of the prophets who were at Bethel came out to Elisha and said to him, "Do you know that today the Lord is taking away your master from you?"
And he said, "Yes, I know. Keep silent" (2 Kings 2:1-3).
The company of the prophets knew Elisha was leaving. That tells me they were gifted. They recognized what was about to happen. They had the prophetic gift operating through them, but Elisha wasn't after just the gift. He was after the mantle. He knew what he was doing.
Elisha wasn't about to be distracted by them and followed Elijah to Jericho. When the company of prophets in that area saw them, they repeated the same thing. You see, they were prophets. They were all gifted, but they weren't operating out of a seat of authority, only out of their gift.
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There are many who are trying to build their ministry based on their gift alone. To be effective in our assignment, we should be seeking our God-assigned seat of authority. We all have a seat of authority reserved for us to walk in the specific arena God has called us to.
In verse seven, we see there were 50 prophets who stood to watch them from a distance. They were observers. Elijah took off his mantle and struck the water. The water divided, and Elijah and Elisha crossed over. Once on the other side, Elijah turned and said to him, "What do you want?" Elisha was asking for a seat of authority which would be accompanied with a double portion of Elijah's mantle.
"That is too difficult for me," Elijah explained, "Yet if you see me when I am taken from you, it will be yours—otherwise, it will not."
This is an important verse where we see that mantles are not given by man, they are given by God.
Elisha wasn't content with just the gift he possessed. He pressed in to receive his seat of authority. As the chariots of fire came and separated the two, he saw Elijah go up. Then, he tore his clothes in two and took the mantle that had fallen from Elijah. Elijah did not give him the mantle; God gave him a double portion of it as Elisha served Elijah's seat of authority and valued the mantle. He took the mantle, struck the water and it divided. The company of the prophets from Jericho, who were watching, said, "The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha" (2 Kings 28:15b). And they went to meet him and bowed to the ground before him.
The gifted prophets now recognized the mantle resting on Elisha and his seat of authority.
The Seat Gives Greater Sight
After Elijah was taken up, the company of the prophets begged Elisha to allow them to go look for him. Elisha knew Elijah had gone to heaven, but the gifted prophets only knew he was gone. They didn't have the insight to recognize what had actually happened, and so they urged Elisha until he finally relented.
Here is the point: Gifted prophets don't have the same level of sight. But once you are in your seat, you will have a greater measure of insight. This is because of your seat of authority and the mantle that comes with it. This seat grants you access to revelation and a greater scope of God's sovereign authority to accomplish what you are called to do. The mantle was confirmation that Elisha was now positioned in his seat. That is why only Elisha saw Elijah go up, and the gifted prophets could not.
Often prophets who haven't learned to submit to someone else's seat of authority wander around in their gift because they aren't listening to the one with the seat of authority. That's why when I walk into a room, I look around for who holds the seat of authority. I honor those in authority and then God releases me to function in my seat of authority.
God doesn't want us to fulfill our call in our own personal power but by his sovereign power. In 2 Kings 6, Elisha and his servant are surrounded by an enemy army. Elisha, who is operating in his seat, is unconcerned However, his servant is fearful. He doesn't have the same level of sight. So Elisha prayed that his servant's eyes would be opened. They were, and he received a greater measure of sight for that moment. He saw into the spirit realm, where warrior angels and chariots of fire were all around Elisha. These armies of angels actually surrounded the seat of authority Elisha was positioned in under the mantle that was upon him. The angels of heaven's armies always accompany the seat of authority. Because Elisha was operating from his seat of authority, armies of angels were operating in accordance with him.
Let us not simply pursue our gift but press into our seat of authority to be successful in our assignment. For each person, there is a respective seat of authority that accompanies their assignment. Unfortunately, many people journey most of their life unwilling to submit or honor someone else's seat of authority and as a result, will never get to their seat, accompanying mantle or heaven's reinforcements.
We are in an hour in which each of us needs to be walking in our seat of authority. It is not our gift that defines us. Once you fully understand that and are willing to honor the seat of authority of others and receive yours, the protection and mantle will come upon you and into your ministry.
Faisal Malick is the CEO of Malick Media Studios and the lead pastor of Covenant of Life Ministries Church in Langley, British Columbia. He is described as an authentic leader, dynamic conference speaker and anointed media personality bringing hope to a chaotic world. He is the author of several books, including The Destiny of Islam in the Endtimes, The Political Spirit, Positioned to Bless and his latest book, The Truth of Economy. He has a strategic mandate to the Muslim world and is a unique voice in our times. He currently lives and ministers out of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. For additional information, go to: covenantoflife.org.
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package org.scalaide.debug.internal.expression

import org.eclipse.jdt.debug.core.IJavaBreakpoint
import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.StructuredSelection
import org.junit.Assert._
import org.junit.Test
import org.scalaide.debug.internal.ScalaDebugger
import org.scalaide.debug.internal.expression.TestValues.DifferentStackFramesTestCase
import org.scalaide.debug.internal.model.ScalaStackFrame
import org.scalaide.debug.internal.model.ScalaThread

class DifferentStackFramesTest extends BaseIntegrationTest(DifferentStackFramesTest) {

  private def changeThread(name: String): Unit = {
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Maganlal Gandhi: Mahatma Gandhi's innovation partner
"He [Maganlal] was, in my opinion, a genius... He laid the foundation of the science of Khadi by writing his Vanat Shastra" said Mahatma Gandhi at the inaugural ceremony of Magan Museum of Khadi (pdf) at Wardha on Dec 30, 19382. Ever since I read this, I became curious about Maganlal Gandhi. Where did Maganlal learn the science of khadi? Was this science backed up by rigorous experiments? If so, where did Maganlal perform those experiments? I wanted to find out. Finally, I got a peek into the story when my friend Prof. Rishikesha Krishnan connected me to Prof. Shambu Prasad of XIMB Bhubaneswar. Shambu has done extensive research on science of Gandhi. I found answers to some of my questions in an excellent article written by Shambu "Gandhi and Maganlal: Khadi science and the Gandhian scientist". Here is a short summary.
Maganlal Khushalchand Gandhi (1883-1928) was Gandhi's nephew (a grandson of his uncle) and 19 years younger to him. Maganlal met Gandhi in 1902, two days before Gandhi was to leave for South Africa. Maganlal was then on the lookout for a job in his native Kathiawar. Gandhi asked Maganlal to come to South Africa offering it as a land of opportunities with ample scope for growth. Maganlal was immediately put into business and was running a family shop of the Gandhis. When Gandhi quit his practice and decided to set-up a farm and take to farming as an occupation, Maganlal was the first to join him unconditionally knowing it involves self-imposed poverty.
In a short time, Maganlal picked up several skills at Phoenix Farm - composing and running the machines in the press, farming, carpentry and tailoring, keeping accounts of the settlement and teaching the children Gujarati and Mathematics. It was Maganlal who suggested the name Sadagraha to Gandhiji when he solicited a better term for "passive resistance" in the local newspaper Indian Opinion. Gandhi later modified Sadagraha to Satyagraha.
Later in India, Maganlal set-up and ran the khadi laboratory at Sabarmati Ashram as he was the head of the Technical Department of the All India Khadi Board (later the All India Spinners Association). Maganlal traveled to Madras Presidency to learn the art. The technical department of the Ashram, tested several samples of yarn (over 300 every month) and gave feedback to the Provincial Congress Committees. These results were widely reported regularly in Young India and Navjivan. As a resource centre in the field of khadi the Ashram used to send its staff, spindles, specimens of yarn, and charts explaining the effect of the wheel to exhibitions all over the country. Gandhi relied on Maganlal to test the various machines and always wanted Maganlal's opinion on technical developments whether it was Mirabehn's discovery of the soft spindle, Shankarlal's Gandiva spinning wheel or the Ramachandra lift pump.
In 1922, a 'Khaddar Information Bureau' was constituted to provide or collect information on khadi from the provinces, to inform congress committees and selected workers on reports from the centres. Maganlal edited its 'Khadi Bulletin'. A syllabus was formulated in 1923 for the weaving school with a regular six-month course. A khaddar service scheme was also instituted under which 600 instructors were to be trained in home carding.
Maganlal passed away while at work in Bihar due to typhoid on April 23, 1928, at the peak of his life and that of the khadi movement. In a moving tribute, titled 'My Best Comrade Gone' Gandhi remarked that: 'The world knows so little of how much my so-called greatness depends upon the incessant toil and drudgery of silent, devoted, able and pure workers, men as well as women. And among them all Maganlal was to me the greatest, the best and the purest.'
1. Gandhi and Maganlal: Khadi science and the Gandhian scientist" by Shambu Prasad, Presented at the Seminar 'Gandhi and his Contemporaries' held at the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla, April 13-15, 1999
2. "Mahatma: Life of Mohandas Gandhi" by D. G. Tendulkar, volume 5, page 6.
3. Maganlal's photo is from "Magan Nivas" at Sabarmati Ashram.
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Ravi Aranke August 21, 2011 at 9:44 AM
Very interesting story. Thanks for sharing.
Gaurai August 23, 2011 at 11:14 AM
interesting...informative
Vinay Dabholkar August 24, 2011 at 8:13 AM
Thanks, Ravi and Gaurai. I am glad you found the story interesting and informative.
Vinay Dabholkar September 3, 2011 at 4:37 PM
Input from a friend, Mahesh Mehendale:
Vinay,
Thank you for sharing this article on Maganlal Gandhi. I don't think many people know about him (at least I didn't), so it's to see this article about the unsung hero.
The title of your article highlights him as Mahatma Gandhi's innovation partner. The innovative aspect of Maganlal Gandhi's work doesn't adequately come out in your article.
Paul May 8, 2012 at 10:58 AM
The evolution of the word Satyagraha is an interesting study.Even more interesting is the study of Gandhiji's Swadeshi movement. Its worth mentioning here that even before Gandhiji made Ahmedabad his home on Feb 1, 1915 , the swadeshi and 'wearing self-spun clothes' movemnet was picking up in Ahmedabad. Ambalal Sakarlal Desai and seven others in the city and Mumbai were pioneering this movement. But the seed of swadeshi were sworn in ahmedabad even before Ambalal, a chunk of Bengali revolutionaries who set base in Ahmedabad in the early 1900s were teaching locals of the Ahmedabad pols the art of making their own clothes and even taught Vande Matram. The Bengalis were oulaws and had hired a house in the Ahmedabad walled city and called it the United Bengal Home. Gandhiji's reason to be in Ahmedabad for 15 years was quite palpable. He even states it in his autobiography-The story of my experiments with truth.
The Movement of Satyagraha in South Africa would not have been possible if Surendrarai Medh of Aka Sheth Kuan ni pol in Ahmedabad did not help Gandhiji. Medh was a lawyer in South Africa and president of the Gujarati community in South africa. The people of ahmedabad had formed the 'Dakshin Africa no Hindvano No Madat Fund' to fund Gandhiji's movemnet in South Africa. Mr Polak, Gandhiji's trusted aide has made seveal visits between 1900 and 1909. There are few of the many reasons why Gandhiji chose Ahmedabad. But sadly very few have documented his life in the city. Ahmedabad is the cradle that nurtured India's soul.
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Background/Info: The Italian duo Maxx and Noemi strikes back with the 5th full length album from their Helalyn Flowers sonic brainchild. They've always merged electronics and guitar, but since the previous album "Sonic Foundation" they clearly revealed an interest in hard-pop music.
Content: The EP "Kamikaze Angel" already was a solid teaser to this new work. Sonic operator Maxx moves on torturing electronic sounds he mixes with hard guitar riffs. It remains a powerful outburst, which has been again polished with catchy pop tunes and leads. On top of "Nyctophilia" reigns the charisma of Noemi who's singing with passion.
Next to the regular album featuring 10 songs the limited edition brings you an extra disc with 12 cuts. This is the right place for remixes and alternative mixes. The job has been done by Blue Hour, The Synthetic Dream Foundation, In Black Lights, Alien Nation, People Theatre, Jen Ascending and Lis Van Den Akker, Wasserkraft Manifest plus a few remixes by the band itself. Last, but not least there also is a song featuring ImJudas (solo side-project of Maxx).
+ + + : I can say without hesitation that Helalyn Flowers is a band with a real personal sound. It's not that new to bring guitar and electronics together, but they do it their own way. The sound is hard to define rather than the result of an impressive mix of influences. It sounds definitely electronic and injected with metal guitar riffs. It creates a rough and powerful sound, which has been finally refined by electro-pop arrangements. The work remains dark and hard, but fully accessible. It's also fascinating to see how this band progressively evolved in sound to finally reach the ultimate stadium of sonic chemistry. Noemi also is a great and talented singer. She brings passion and emotion, power and sensuality. "Nyctophilia" is a real outstanding piece of work with not any single track to throw away.
Among the remixes I want to mention the irresistible "Club Mix" of "Nyctophilia" and the "Deep Reality Mix" of "Let Me In". One more noticeable song is "Beyond" featuring ImJudas.
– – – : I can't imagine any minus point about the regular album, which is without a shadow of a doubt the best Helalyn Flowers-opus in history. I expected a bit more from the remixes by other bands. The best tracks here again remain the ones by Helalyn Flowers so why not consider a next album with only remixes by themselves!?
Conclusion: There where successful bands are often stagnating, Helalyn Flowers never stops. "Nyctophilia" is an invitation to dive together with the band into the darkest and most powerful sides of futuristic-pop music.
Best songs: "Kamikaze Angel", "Nyctophila", "Let Me In", "When It's Not Black Enough", "Tetrachromatic", "Unleash The Wolves" + "Nyctophilia – Club Mix", "Let Me In – Deep Reality Mix".


After finding the perfect dress or outfit, be sure to take a look through all of the beautiful choices in our boutique shoe section. We know that no outfit is complete without a great pair of shoes that coordinate, with this in mind, we always seek to offer the best selection of girls designer boots, flats and more to finish her look just they way she imagines. Several of our brands stand out as giants in their sector, mom�s go crazy for the designs by Livie and Luca and Joyfolie. We�re here to give you all of the insider information so that you can pick the shoe that�s best for your daughter.
When you buy a pair of Livie and Luca shoes, you can be sure that these shoes will look adorable with many of her outfits for the season. With their classic leather style, these pieces often resemble timeless shapes updated from mom�s childhood. We love their Mary Jane inspired styles! When forming a new shoe, Livie and Luca take into thought a healthy development of your child�s feet. What good is a cute pair of shoes without a comfortable, lightweight design that she can wear all day? These shoes are flexible and breathable, her feet won�t think twice in the soft leather lining as she runs about the playground. Are you a consumer who loves to learn about the company�s you buy from? Let�s take a quick at a few things that we love about the Livie and Luca brand. The first thing you notice when you open up a box is joy. All of these designs are thought of with the same imagination and whimsy that fills her little head. This means that she sees these shoes and is ready to climb a tree, play tag or race against her friends. From their newest creation to their best sellers of all time, the minds behind Livie and Luca shoes are after one overall goal: spread joy! There�s a spirit found in handmade shoes that you cannot deny. The very first collection by Livie and Luca was launched in 2005. We love that we can purchase a pair of their wonderfully creative shoes in good conscience. This brand is all about joy and love, the two things that should fill every child�s life.
Looking for sophistication and and gorgeous shoes that all of her friends will be envious of at first sight? Joyfolie is the brand for you. With styles that often make mom think �I wish this was an adult shoe�, it is no wonder that this brand has flourished in the realm of designer clothing and accessories. With shoes and boots for every boutique lover, we adore this company and any customer who has purchased a pair from Joyfolie would be quick to agree. With the sweetest of intentions, Joyfolie began as a mom making a handmade pair of shoes for her own baby girl. With a certain increase in interest, she started selling her shoes on etsy before launching the brands first full line for the summer of 2011. With textures to die for and styles that are just as comfortable as beautiful, Joyfolie is well known and loved by moms for a great reason. Even better yet, they now even make designer clothing for girls and, you betcha, women�s styles for the mom that loves to share all things in common with her mini me!
While both of these two brands are go-to�s for kids boutique shoes, be sure to look out for some of our other designers. Within our shoe collection you will find styles by Minnetonka, Mini Melissa, Old Soles, and Elephantito to name a few. Looking for soft sole infant shoes? Check out the baby styles from Minnetonka and Elephantito. Whether placed with an outfit for a day on the town, or desired for one of her photo shoots, their shoes for baby girls are adorable! Looking for some one-of-a-kind sandals for the summer? Mini Melissa has many new styles just arrived that are unique in their own way. We love the touch of darling found in the blush sandals with a bow and the fluttering whimsy in the fly flip flops in pink or orange and decorated with layered wings on both feet.
Like we mentioned, this is just a brief overview of the designers on this page. We always encourage our customers to call if they have any questions about a pair of shoes! We love to help you find the perfect match for that special occasion!


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Åsnepingvin (Pygoscelis papua) är en upp till 80 centimeter hög pingvinart som lever i Antarktis och på subantarktiska öar. Hanarna väger som mest omkring 8 kg och ner mot 5,5 kg strax före parningstid. Honorna väger som mest omkring 7,5 kg och går ner till under 5 kg när de vaktar ungarna i boet.

Åsnepingvinens föda är små fiskar och krill. Med adéliepingvinen och ringpingvinen bildar den släktet Pygoscelis. Åsnepingvinen är den snabbaste simmaren bland alla pingviner; den kan nå en hastighet av 35 kilometer per timme.

Boet är en cirkelformig ansamling av stenar som kan bli upp till 20 centimeter högt och 25 centimeter i diameter. Häckningstiden börjar vanligtvis i september och varar i cirka 35 dagar. Honan lägger 2 ägg som är ungefär 130 gram tunga. De nyfödda ungarna stannar cirka 30 dagar i boet och byter sin fjäderdräkt under denna tid. Efter ytterligare 80 till 100 dagar byter de fjäderdräkten igen och kan sedan simma och dyka i havet.

Åsnepingvinernas fiender i vattnet är sjöleoparder, pälssälar och späckhuggare. På land har de nästan inga fiender, endast labbar som ibland stjäl deras ägg eller ungar.

Populationen ligger vid cirka 300 000 individer. De största kolonierna finns på Falklandsöarna, Sydgeorgien och Kerguelen.

Åsnepingvinen har setts "surfa" på vågorna när de ska in till fastlandet utanför Falklandsöarna. De verkar uppskatta detta, och simmar därför ibland ut igen, för att åter surfa in mot stranden.

Referenser

Externa länkar

Pingviner
Fåglar i antarktiska regionen

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Senegalese movie Atlantics tells eerie tale of oppression
A rich and powerful film
The fascinating and eerie film Atlantics begins with construction workers in revolt over unpaid wages.
They are building a futuristic tower in Senegal, west Africa. It looms over their poverty, a symbol of a divided world.
Unpaid for several months, building worker Souleiman despairs of ever breaking free from poverty, debt and humiliation. He's in love with Ada but there is no future in that relationship. Ada is engaged to be married to Omar. He's wealthy and sleazy, obsessed with his business interests and sees her as another possession to be hoarded.
Both Souleiman and Ada are caged by the reality of their lives.
Souleiman decides the only way out is to join a group that is going to set off for the Canary Islands—1,000 miles away, but part of Spain. The journey by boat has the strong prospect of death at sea.
Mati Diop's directorial debut concentrates on the women left behind rather than those who have fled seeking a better life.
Disappears
Souleiman disappears, but then his spectral presence seems to reappear in places Ada doesn't expect.
He's in the new iPhone, bought for her by the man she's supposed to marry. And the marriage bed in Omar's house catches fire the night of his wedding to Ada.
It seems that the drowned have returned. In one great scene, women possessed by the dead force the boss who didn't pay the wages to dig graves for those lost at sea.
If this seems weird, don't let it stop you watching a rich and powerful film.
Diop explains, "In 2012, several months after the Arab Spring, riots shook Dakar, a citizens' uprising took place in Senegal.
"This citizen awakening marked me because symbolically it reminded us that Senegalese youth had not entirely disappeared.
"There were not the dead at sea on the one hand and young people marching on the other.
"The living were carrying the dead within them, who had taken something of us with them when they went.
"I felt that a very ghostly atmosphere reigned in Dakar and it became impossible for me to contemplate the ocean without thinking of all these young people who had drowned."
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The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced global passenger traffic results for February 2019 showing total revenue passenger kilometers (RPKs) rose 5.3%, compared to February 2018.
This was the slowest rate of growth in more than a year but still in line with long-term demand trends. Monthly capacity (available seat kilometers or ASKs) increased by 5.4%, and load factor slipped 0.1 percentage point to 80.6%, which is still high by historic standards.
"After January's strong performance, we settled down a bit in February, in line with concerns about the broader economic outlook. Continuing trade tensions between the US and China, and unresolved uncertainty over Brexit are also weighing on the outlook for travel," said Alexandre de Juniac, IATA's Director General and CEO.
February international passenger demand rose 4.6% compared to February 2018, which was a slowdown from 5.9% growth in January. Capacity climbed 5.1%, and load factor dropped 0.4 percentage point to 79.5%. Airlines in all regions but the Middle East showed traffic growth versus the year-ago period.
African airlines experienced a 2.5% rise in traffic for the month compared to the year-ago period, down from 5.1% growth in January. Concerns over conditions in the largest economies are contributing to the slowdown. Capacity rose 0.3%, and load factor climbed 1.5 percentage points to 69.7%.


Huron County Nature Center: This workshop will help get you started helping our local pollinators. Learn where and how to find their eggs, how to raise them, and the best time for release. Every family will leave with a "kit" to get them started including eggs and/or caterpillars! *This workshop requires pre-registration and an $8 donation per family.


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Chapter one of Kings of Infinite Space
One brutally hot summer's morning, Paul Trilby—ex-husband, temp typist, cat murderer—slouched sweating in his t-shirt on his way to work, waiting behind the wheel of his car for the longest red light in central Texas. He was steeling himself for a confrontation with his boss, screwing up his nerve to ask for a raise, but his present circumstances were conspiring against him. His fourteen-year-old Dodge Colt rattled in place in the middle of the Travis Street Bridge, hemmed in on all sides by bulbous, purring pickup trucks and gleaming sport utility vehicles with fat black tires. The electric blues and greens of these enormous automobiles reflected the dazzling morning glare through Paul's cracked and dirty windshield; they radiated shimmering heat through his open window. Waiting for the light, the fingers of his left hand drumming the scalding side of his car, the skin of his forearm baking to leather in the heat, Paul felt less like a man who deserved more out of life than a peasant on a mule cart trapped in the middle of an armored division.
"You're paying me as a typist," Paul said aloud, practicing, "but you're working me as a technical writer."
In the heat, and in the rumble of idling engines, this sounded especially feeble. Paul sighed and peered ahead, where a homeless man was walking through the waves of heat between the lines of hulking trucks and SUVs, turning slowly from side to side as if he were lost in a parking lot, looking for his car. Unlike most panhandlers, he didn't carry a hand-lettered sign on a piece of cardboard, telegraphing some tale of woe; even more strange, he wore a white, short-sleeved dress shirt and a tie instead of the usual sun bleached denims and filthy t-shirt. The bluntness of his large, egg-shaped head was exaggerated by a severe buzz cut and a pair of wire-rim glasses, and his body was egg-shaped as well—he looked unusually well-fed for a homeless guy. Indeed, in his white shirt and polyester slacks, he looked like a caricature of a middle manager from some draw-this-puppy matchbook school of art, one large oval topped by a smaller one. The shirt and tie are a mistake, Paul thought, he needs a sign—WILL TYPE AND FILE FOR FOOD. But that cut too close to the bone for Paul; he was only a paycheck away from panhandling himself. And anyway, it wasn't his job to offer marketing advice to the homeless. I've got my own problems, he told himself, and he lifted his gaze through the heat shimmering off the trucks ahead and saw, at the far end of the bridge, the time and temperature endlessly chasing each other across the shadow side of the Bank of Texas building. It was just barely eight o'clock, and already 85 degrees. In the morning glare the bank's brass logo along the sunlit side of the building blazed as if it were burning.
"Bot," said Paul, pronouncing the bank's acronym aloud. "Bee. Oh. Tee." Sweat trickled down his breastbone. Both front windows of his un-air-conditioned Colt were rolled down, in the unlikely event of a breeze, and his own dress shirt was tossed on the passenger seat so that he wouldn't sweat through it on the drive to work. A racket like someone violently battering a cookie sheet came from the undercarriage of his unevenly idling car, and was reflected back at him by the enormous, neon blue Trooper to his left.
This is not the climate for ambition, Paul thought, and at the edge of his consciousness flickered a retort from his former, more politically engaged persona as a university professor: that this kind of thinking was prejudiced and possibly even racist. Old buzzwords flickered dialectically at the back of his brain like heat lightning along the horizon—colonial/postcolonial; First World/Third World; North/South—but Paul was only barely aware of them. During this moment of distraction each of the red numerals streaming across the bank at the end of the bridge had grown by one. Now it was 86 degrees and 8:01, and Paul was late for work.
The egg-shaped man had come closer, only a couple of vehicles away. All the other drivers on the bridge sat high up behind their tinted windows, ignoring the man in air-conditioned comfort. Paul thought of these more affluent drivers as "the truckoisie," middle-class state employees who faced, at worst, a forty-minute, stop-and-start commute every morning, but did it in vehicles capable of fording a jungle stream or hauling half a ton of manure. These vehicles had names that bespoke Spartan virtues, a semi-military asceticism—Explorer and Pathfinder and Samurai—but within, even in the cabs of the pickup trucks, the vehicles were as comfy as suburban living rooms, where the truckoisie drank from huge plastic flagons of specialty coffee, talked on their cell phones, and listened to hyperventilating drive time DJs on the radio, or bestselling self-help books on tape. Paul's own tape player had long since choked to death on a cassette of Jan and Dean's greatest hits, stuck at last on the screeching tires of "Dead Man's Curve," and the FM band on his radio no longer worked, leaving him only with the shrill democracy of AM—jammin' oldies, oompah Tejano accordion music, and Dr. Laura. At this moment he waited with the radio off, his car noisily juddering itself to pieces beneath him, and he sat smelling exhaust, his own sweat, and the nitrous aroma of bat shit rising off the sluggish green river below.
"I'm not a typist," muttered Paul, trying to focus on the matter at hand. "I'm a goddamn tech writer."
Suddenly the egg-shaped man was at the Colt's bumper, swiveling his spectacles in Paul's direction. Paul averted his gaze, trying to avoid eye contact. Too late: the homeless man came up to Paul's window, his eyes huge behind his glasses.
Paul glowered straight ahead, his train of thought derailed. This was a breach of panhandler decorum. The way it was supposed to work was, you waggled your sign, if you had one, and scowled in a guilt-inducing manner; the object of your attentions ignored you; you moved on. Paul sighed ostentatiously and lifted his eyebrows at the traffic light, just barely visible above the tall rear end of the Pathfinder ahead of him. Still red. Over the stink of exhaust and hot metal, he was certain he could already smell the homeless man's riparian scent. But for the heat, Paul would have rolled up his window.
Don't meet his eye, Paul told himself. Pretend he isn't there.
But now Mr. Egg was bent at Paul's window like a highway patrolman. Paul allowed himself only the tiniest roll of his eyeballs to the side and was surprised to note that the man's tie featured some sort of astronomical theme, lines of right ascension and declination and signs of the Zodiac against a background of twilight blue. Still not meeting the man's eye, Paul performed another leftward, double-take bounce of the eyeballs. The tie was faded but tightly knotted, and clipped to the shirt with a dull silver tie clip, upon which an eroded engraving read "...Of The Year." Paul risked another eyeball bounce at Herr Egg, then another. The white shirt front was smudged and the narrow points of the collar were frayed, but astonishingly in this heat—Paul himself perspired like an overweight prizefighter—there were no sweat stains on the shirt. Monsieur Egg wore two pens; the lower end of one poked through a hole in the bottom of his breast pocket. Across his other breast, inches from Paul's nose, was a smudgy, creased, blue-and-white paper name tag, the sort with a sticky backing that conference-goers wear. It read, in blue sans serif and large, block hand lettering,
BOY G
Paul twisted sideways in his seat and looked the man in his egg-shaped face. "Go away," he demanded.
Senor Egg's face from temple to chin was one long, smooth, hairless curve. His skin—another first for a homeless guy in Texas—was pale as a slug, almost albino. His milky scalp gleamed through his stubbled hair, but even this close to him Paul saw not a drop of sweat. The man—Boy G, why else would he wear a name tag?—had a small mouth and a rounded nose, and his tiny, pale eyes were magnified by the bulbous lenses of his wire-rims. He was not looking at Paul, however, but past him, appraising the contents and the state of Paul's automobile. His fishy eyes noted the S-shaped crack in the windshield, the greasy dust on the dashboard, the foamy rents in the upholstery. The driver's side sun visor was long gone, torn off in a rage, and the armrest on the passenger door hung by one screw. Behind the front seat a rising tide of Coke cans, crumpled Taco Bell bags, and empty Big Gulp cups cluttered the foot wells.
Paul stared at the man open-mouthed and gripped the steering wheel, his stomach tight with anger. Could this bum be judging him? Was it possible that Paul Trilby, BA, MA, PhD, almost a Fulbright, did not meet the exacting standards of the homeless? Boy G's small mouth curved down at either end, either the beginnings of a smile or a condescending frown, and Paul braced himself for some hoarse obscenity, or just an indecipherable grunt. He frantically sought for something cutting to say, to forestall this asshole's street witticism.
But Boy G spoke in a whisper, his breath betraying no trace of alcohol, nor of anything else for that matter.
"Are we not men?" he said.
Paul's retort caught in his throat. "What?" was all he managed to say.
"Are we not men?" repeated Boy G, with the same ghostly inflection.
The driver of the Ram Truck behind him honked her horn just then, startling Paul, and he glanced in the rearview mirror, then ahead through the windshield glare at the traffic light. It was green, and all the gleaming trucks ahead of him were in motion; a wide gap had opened up between his front bumper and the receding wall of SUVs and pickups. Paul jerked his foot off the brake and the Colt rattled forward. Then he remembered the homeless guy so close to his car, and he hit the brake again. He turned to the window as Ms. Ram Truck leaned on her horn.
"Watch it!" said Paul to Boy G, but there was no one there.
The Ram Truck roared around him and raced through the yellow light. Paul cursed and hit the gas, then jammed the brake almost immediately as the light turned red. His threadbare tires screeched, his arthritic shocks groaned. He lurched against his seatbelt, and from the passenger seat his shirt and his lunch slid to the floor; behind him the midden of cans and crumpled bags rustled. Paul pounded the wheel and twisted in his seat, looking right and left, forward and back, for the egg-shaped man. But all he saw were the six sun-baked lanes and the concrete parapet of the bridge, and another fearsome brigade of Troopers and Scouts coming up from behind. Boy G had vanished.
Copyright © 2004 by James Hynes