ORBX.js, a downloadable HD codec written in JS and WebGL. The advantages are many. On the good-for-the-open-web side: no encumbered-format burden on web browsers, they are just IP-blind runtimes. Technical wins start with the ability to evolve and improve the codec over time, instead of taking ten years to specify and burn it into silicon.
After these come more wins: 25% better compression than H.264 for competitive quality, adaptive bit-rate while streaming, integer and (soon) floating point coding, better color depth, better intra-frame coding, a more parallelizable design — the list goes on.
The GPU cloud has your back. Think of the amazing 3D games that we have on PCs, consoles, and handheld devices thanks to the GPU. Now think of hundreds of GPUs in the cloud, working for you to over-detail, ray/path-trace in realtime, encode video, do arbitrary (GPGPU) computation.
Native apps from any popular OS, in the GPU cloud and on your browser. Yes, both: this is not just remote desktop tech, or X11 reborn via JS. Many local/remote hybrid computation schemes are at hand today, e.g. a game can do near-field computing in the browser on a beefy client while offloading lower LOD work to the GPU cloud.
OTOY's CEO Jules Urbach demo'ed an entire Mac OS X desktop running in a cloud VM sandbox, rendering via ORBX.js to Firefox, but also showed a Windows homescreen running on his Mac — and the system tray, start menu, and app icons were all local HTML5/JS (apps were a mix ranging from mostly local to fully remoted, each in its own cloud sandbox).
Watermarking, not DRM. This could be huge. OTOY's GPU cloud approach enables individually watermarking every intra-frame, and according to some of its Hollywood supporters including Ari Emanuel, this may be enough to eliminate the need for DRM.
We shall see; I am hopeful. This kind of per-user watermarking has been prohibitively expensive, but OTOY estimates the cost at pennies per movie with their approach.
Oculus Rift, Lightfield displays, Holodecks, and beyond. OTOY works with Paul Debevec of USC's Institute for Creative Technologies. This is Tony Stark stuff, coming at us super-fast and soon to be delivered via JS, WebGL, and ORBX.js running in the browser.
I was thrilled to be included in today's event, hosted at Autodesk's fabulous San Francisco offices. I gave a demo of Epic Games Unreal Engine 3 (Unreal Tournament, "Sanctuary" level) running via Emscripten and asm.js at full frame-rate in Firefox Aurora, and spoke about how JS will continue to evolve "low-road" as well as "high-road" APIs and features to exploit parallel hardware.
As Jeff Kowalski, Autodesk's CTO, pointed out, the benefits go beyond major cost reduction in CGI and similar processing work, to increase collaboration and innovation radically, by relieving creative people from having to sit at big workstations. The GPU cloud means many alternative ideas, camera angles, etc., can be tried without waiting hours for each rendering. Even from the beach, via your 4G-connected tablet. Teams around the world can collaborate closely as timezones permit, across the web.
We will continue to collaborate with OTOY; I'll post updates on this topic. It's hot, and moving very quickly. Kudos to OTOY for their brilliant innovations, and especially for porting them to JS and WebGL so quickly!
When we at Mozilla say the Web is the platform, we are not bluffing.
P.S. Always bet on JS!
P.P.S. Hat tip to Andreas Gal for seeing far, with Broadway.js.
1) What license is the codec encoder and decoder?
3) Assuming the answer to (1) is free for both, and (2) is no, how difficult will it be for hardware and open source encoders to implement?
@Voracity: Please read again, this isn't "remote desktop technology", although it can do that too. The codecs (several, including lossless) are essential to the GPU-cloud value proposition. The GPU cloud is essential to the watermarking idea.
The two parts of the announcement, JS+WebGL decoder and the GPU cloud driving the encoder, combine to make a whole greater than the sum of the parts.
1) Still being discussed, more when I know more.
2) The encoder needs OpenCL or similar (OpenGL/Compute) power, WebGL as is (based on OpenGL-ES2) is not enough. But @vvuk says WebGL will be updated soon to OpenGL-ES3. Then we will have to re-evaluate.
3) See (2), we need to update WebGL at least and make use of ES3 features and see how well that works.
The first point I made in bold is that downloadable codecs do not need to be freely licensed. IPR even if only defensive patents may be in play. But none of this taints the browser. This is a net win, along with the watermarking-not-DRM idea. It beats the H.264 and DRM alternative!
How practical would this be for sites like Vimeo, DailyMotion, and YouTube to deploy? It seems like it needs quite a lot of compute resources on the server side.
They kind of do if you want to actually PARTICIPATE on the web – without a legal encoder, I we can't legally produce our own "content".
It's not really an "open web" if one is only legally allowed to "consume" and not actually participate by contributing one's own work to the web legally.
This will be extremely awesome if the encoder can be at least legally freely reimplemented so that everyone will be able to join in (even if OTOY keeps their own implementation proprietary) though – looking forward to hearing more about this project.
The otoy link is down for me.
ORBX sounds great and good to have. It's not what we need to break the MPEG cartel's strangehold on video, though.
I would not consider it a net win if non-defensive patents are involved. Downloadable codecs imply consumers and platforms (browsers, OSes, etc.) aren't directly affected by patent considerations, but *creators* and tool developers would be. It's more critical to protect the freedom to create than to consume; a non-free codec doesn't help, and might make things worse if it became the de facto standard.
But I don't know the full details yet and I trust Mozilla, so I trust the codec won't knowingly involve any non-defensive patents.
Wonder how long before this shows up on Firefox OS as well? Could be a game-changer.
Maybe I got it all wrong but as far as I understand, the whole thing does not work without connectivity, right?
And maybe I also didn't understand that the whole CPU/GPU power of an end user device goes into rendering instead of computing the specific program locally. Is this correct?
I'd like to see you give dark shikari (lead developer of x264) a copy of the encoder so that he can do a thorough comparison of x264 vs atoy codec.
Will the source code to codec be released so that others can help improve it?
I don't see how the codec will survive lawsuits for patent infringement by MPEG-LA unless you have google bankrolling it like they did with VP8 and licenced some of the patents a few months ago. Are you going to give the MPEG-LA the source code and ask them to tell you what patents it may infringe and then change the codec so that it doesn't violate the patents?
Will we be able to download the .mp4 files that are being streamed to us? If not, youtube switched to this we would never be able to download their videos and store them on our pc's as youtube often censors think such as govt corruption.
Curious if any of this is using asm? Would it benefit? Perhaps all the heavy lifting is done in WebGL.
If it might benefit, would be interesting to see the contrast in performance of using asm.js on non optimized browsers (compared to pre-asm conversion).
What are the expected requirements in terms of bandwidth for the GPU cloud ?
"25% better compression than H.264…" – 25% better compression than WHICH h.264 encoder?
Learn it already: it's not about the format itself, it's about how well the specific encoder analyzes still frame by still frame and how well it creates the video program stream from that information. There are crappy h.264 encoders, and there are excellent h.264 encoders.
Roc said: ORBX sounds great and good to have. It's not what we need to break the MPEG cartel's strangehold on video, though.
You guys have everything backwards at the moment.
@roc: What do you think possibly could "break the MPEG cartel's strangehold on video"? In practical terms, there is no solution. H.264 codecs — including a realtime encoder for the ubiquitous video camera — are on our phones in hardware.
We need to move the goal posts and aim beyond the ten-year cartelized design-and-implement-in-hardware cycle. OTOY is a bet that way, and a good one in view of the results. The GPU is the more general parallel hardware to focus codec design around. Yes, entropy or arithmetic coding is serial, but that's only one stage of the pipe.
I was talking to Tim Sweeney at GDC about how hardware took a wrong turn in the '90s. "Wintel" meant x86 compat mattered, so big, power-hungry, super-scalar/out-of-order cores emerged. On the post-SGI side, the GPU went parallel in a more power-efficient way.
This rift is being healed now, but too slowly. Intel folks say they could heal it faster, but for the fact that software (which no longer needs x86 compat — ARM rules mobile, and JITted JS source dominates) can't scale to match exponential core growth. Still, projecting CPU and GPU trends, the gap will be filled with greater homogeneity and parallelism.
In the latter half of the noughties, H.264 got fully into hardware, but given the hardware trends and the ongoing need to shrink area and power, are we really condemned to burn encumbered, soon to be obsolete, codecs into SiO2? I think not.
@John: why do you put it on Mozilla, instead of much better-heeled Google, to make JS shims for WebM? Your "who/whom" assumption, to borrow Lenin's famous questions, is backwards.
Most important in context of this post: VP8 like H.264 does not parallelize as well via WebGL as ORBX does, so a "JS shim" is not going to compete. Hardware optimization is required these days, whether bespoke and for only one format (H.264) or more general but still efficient enough. Serial JS software by itself is not enough.
Note also how Google has been late, with only mixed commitments, getting SoC vendors to spend chipset area for VP8 on top of mandatory H.264. Indeed just asking for more system cost to have two codecs when (by most consumers' and business peoples' lights) one is enough is asking for the moon.
H.264 in hardware happened. We can't undo it. The question is, what should we do to leapfrog it. Complaining about Mozilla not tilting at windmills misses the mark by light-years.
@Voracity: over-centralization is a concern, but I contend more with the giant first party powers (Google, FB, etc.) than with an OTOY.
Economy of scale — more crudely: thermodynamics — favors the cloud, even in the best case of successful and robust de-centralized alternatives (unhosted.org, p2p systems [which have their more centralized backbones too]).
I'm with you in fighting against over-centralization due to path-dependent winner take all/most effects. That's one way of looking at Mozilla's mission, but it does not make us anti-commercial at all. We have to improve the world incrementally.
Defensive patents are important in this imperfect world, but OTOY assures us, and I believe them after checking their business model, that they have no rent-seeking patent royalty plans at all. OTOH, they may have unaddressed IPR concerns, especially on the encoding side. We will work through these in the coming days and months.
Part of what I wrote here was not about OTOY, but about the bigger picture: downloadable codecs, the amazing input and output device work at USC ICT and OTOY, the return of VR with the Oculus Rift, real-time lightfield capture/projection and holography. Leapfrogging is not just about codec efficiency!
>OTOY assures us, and I believe them after checking their business model, that they have no rent-seeking patent royalty plans at all.
My first thoughts on seeing the story were "So they put RealPlayer in JS and RealServer in the cloud?" An obvious play now that computing power is sufficient. It eliminates the 'click here to install plugin' barrier to be sure, and the browser is one step further along the path of becoming the entire platform.
@Pete: using hundreds of GPUs in the cloud to render in realtime (which used to take coffee-break time or longer) is one application. Remoting a Windows app to an iPad is another (Steam!).
Distributed computation with some local and (where it wins) anywhere from some to much more remote — that's the interesting option. It is the best way short of purely a local app to cope with network latency and outages.
@Caspy7: ORBX.js doesn't use ASM.js yet, it's not Emscriptened C or C++, rather a by-hand port or evolution of OTOY codecs written in C/C++. Coding ASM.js by hand is pretty counter-productive. You're right that WebGL does heavy lifting.
As we evolve ASM.js support, add SIMD to JS, and upgrade WebGL, I'm sure OTOY will keep re-optimizing. That is a huge advantage of downloading rather than burning into SiO2.
@Monty: I'd love to get lots of things in writing, including re: VP8 vs. H.264 non-defection. Wishes are not horses.
What convinces me here more than words on paper is the viability of the per-GPU-hour business plan, which depends on the downloadable codec (and not hardware) for reach. If this went south, it'd be a shame, but it looks strong so far. Glad you agree!
@Robin: Please do not shoot the messenger. I "learned it" (encoders matter) long ago (I wrote a toy MPEG-2 encoder while at MicroUnity in '94). OTOY's claim was in reply to a reporter, the setting was low on technical nuance. It is credible, given H.265's claim of 50% better compression.
1. Downloadable codecs that use GPUs relieve us down the road of patent and hardware rents.
2. The OTOY innovation blazes a trail others can follow. You want an open and better codec? Build it. Mozilla is looking into this already, per our Broadway.js work and as Monty's comment suggested.
But we are collaborating with OTOY and I like their cadence and thinking. So far so good. Do not throw out baby and bathwater at start of bath!
Awesome Brendan! Thanks for the post.
This is amazing. Is there an alpha/nightly that includes this functionality available?
So what kind of hardware (CPU, GPU) is necessary on client side? Does it need shaders in GPU?
I thought video decoding (H.264 like) requires quite a lot of computing power; and actually my desktop system can decode HD H.264 videos only when using Nvidias VDPAU hardware acceleration. I'm still fuzzy on how that solved in ORBX.js – is the decoding algorithm so much faster, or do you offload most of the decoding to GPU, or is your code better optimized than current H.264 decoders?
Brendan, because I'm wearing a 'I support the Open Web' bracelet with Mozilla on the reverse side, not Google. They can speak for themselves on their own blogs.
Recent changes in Gecko have meant that the web experience on my platform is going to get worse because its using platform codec support on other OSes – and developers are going to assume its consistent across all Firefox versions, thats no longer true.
@Scooby: It looked like Jules was demoing ORBX.js in Firefox stable (21) but I will check. ASM.js's OdinMonkey back end is in Aurora as noted here.
The great thing about this approach is that it works in other browsers, just at some speed/smoothness hit. They'll level up soon, I'm pretty sure.
@Oliver: the demos included on an iPhone 4S without WebGL enabled — ORBX.js still ran at 30fps 720p, if I recall correctly.
The advantages of ORBX, as noted, include better i-frame coding and more parallelizable design. So yes, offloading to the GPU is critical. For Broadway.js, we offloaded just H.264 colorspace conversion last I heard, and doing more was hard based on both H.264's design and WebGL's state at the time.
@John: please link me to your Google blog comments (appreciated), but they may not have as much effect there. I'm responding here because I think we need more realism with integrity in the world, and that means not expecting Mozilla to tilt at Windmills that Google won't approach.
What is your platform? We are working on H.264 support cross-OS and will have more to say on that front pretty soon.
So I need to give sites I want to see video on full access to WebGL, running on a GPU, possibly the most poorly-sandboxed classes of hardware in existence?
And the internet pipes of the future are going to be filled with millions of huge streams of individualized, non-multicastable video (all of course being real-time "critical") which could all perfectly well be rendered locally to the user.
Sometimes I wonder whether people actually think anymore before they invent things.
I hope you're not sock'ing for Apple here. Of all the browser vendors, they most control their hardware architecture and GPU supply. They could best make WebGL and GLSL as safe as any other part of the system that they currently enable.
Anyway, GPUs have grown up in terms of context management and better security over time. Your views apply better to CPUs and at the paranoid limit argue against most of the Web as we know it. Paranoia aside, GPUs are part of the processing power of the client now. Genie, bottle: no going back.
Another point: the Internet is *already* full of non-multicast, compressed streaming video. This is both a problem and an opportunity (see Opera's acqusition of Skyfire).
But ORBX.js has nothing to do with this existing video-congestion problem, and watermarking at the edges is doable. Edge "caches" became smart a long time ago.
As for "perfectly well […] rendered locally", that's an option with ORBX.js too. Why wouldn't it be? You imply that the novel OTOY advantage, watermarking, is an exclusive either/or, which magically disallows downloading. This does not make sense.
Downloading does bring back the DRM bogeyman, though.
> Sometimes I wonder whether people actually think anymore before they invent things.
More than you put into your anonymous drive-by!
Brendan, thanks for the explanation. Can't wait to see this in action!
How does it differ from streaming GTK+ apps in browser using the Broadway back-end: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI2Mjg ?
@David: OpenCL feeds into WebCL in Khronos, but still faces safety issues pending better GPUs (and even then, if memory sharing with the CPU is promiscuous). Our approach is to uplift JS (River Trail, ParallelJS, SIMD intrinsics) and upgrade WebGL. Will we need GPGPU support in the form of a new/old (C99 offshoot) programming language? TBD.
@Jerzy: I didn't know about that other "Broadway", thanks. The obvious difference here is that ORBX.js (for video, losslessly for models and data in general) plus GPUs in the cloud provide cross-OS and cross-browser reach.
What happens when Microsoft accidentally ruin the performance to the point no one wants to use it?
I don't see any links – I was expecting a github link? Am I just blind?
It would make sense for Autodesk to leave Windows and use Linux since it's far better at server base distribution and cloning applications.
They could then offer the service of cloud-cad, or other cloud based manipulation of their 3D editor engines. They could also sell a server package that runs on a cloud in the business and allows that business to serve up 3D editing through terminals to its workers.
John T.: Microsoft is not the spoiler any longer. They do not control enough of the browser market any more (far from it on mobile).
Dan Dart: no source yet, working on it. It is not mine to release, but I hope OTOY sees the upside of open source development while also taking care to protect their business interests. I will do my best.
Bob, E8HFFFF: everything's based on JS, so the whole menu is available: HTTP via links, forms, XHR; WebSockets; and WebRTC provides data comm even via UDP. OTOY has used RUDP from their native code; we're committed to making sure WebRTC can meet the realtime requirements.
Is this a VM-only tech or can this be possible to implement on a consumer PC? Having a stream of my PC from any screen in the house would be awesome.
Mike: PCs can do it, nothing is VM-only. The demos last Friday showed p2p streaming via an iPad, two laptops (one MBP, one AlienWare PC), and a Chrome Pixel.
Adam: Sorry, fat fingered. But I think it was addressed already, no?
This is exactly what worries me.
> Anyway, GPUs have grown up in terms of context management and better security over time.
Not yet they haven't. There are improvements coming, but they're still hideously unsafe when it comes to random content from the web.
Graphics drivers typically don't even make use of the IOMMU, and that's for people who even have systems with IOMMUs.
"Security" in the GPU world is in its absolute infancy compared to that of CPUs.
> the Internet is *already* full of non-multicast, compressed streaming video.
Not to anywhere near the same degree. I also note you missed out "real time" there. My point is we don't currently have everybody who casually decides to spend 3 solid hours of playing a game (which is very common) requiring (3 hours x HD video bandwidth) of data.
These things just… worry me in general.
Sorry folks but I think this goes too far. We talk about video decoding here.
Don't let the media brainwash you. Video decoding isn't everything. You also need encoding.
OT – ES6 and yield.
This could leave the keyword 'yield' available for other purposes.
// runtime yields it's 'turn' to myfunc – and waits for return.
This approach inverts the meaning of yield as compared to Python – but I find it more mentally parseable the await.
Well, that's great and all but, as ever, it doesn't mean very much until there's some functionally practical real world usage. Google is happy, for instance, about VP9 being nearly ready (http://blog.webmproject.org/2013/05/vp9-codec-nears-completion.html) and that YouTube intends to use it, but so what? YouTube isn't even very good at HTML5 video yet, never mind which codecs it uses.
Half the time when you attempt to play YouTube video in HTML5 (depending on the particular video and depending on if you watch it embedded or on YouTube, small frame or full screen), YouTube insists on playing the video in Flash. I imagine this is antisocially done for reasons of Business, but it serves to underscore the fact that even Big Advertising still fails to achieve universal content delivery on an open platform.
If ORBX.js gets rolled out in a big way, I'll applaud it but the short history of HTML5 Video has taught me Cynicism and taught me well.
Robert: GPUs are behind CPUs for sure, hence the GLSL verifier or hand-verified and restricted GLSL hardcoded today. But genie isn't going back in the bottle.
Michael: working on encoder support. Needs WebGL upgrade.
Kevin: 'return' means something other than 'yield' for a reason – no sale!
Calling a class without 'new' calls its constructor. This should be in the latest drafts, but looks broken. I will ask @awbjs.
> Calling a class without 'new' calls its constructor. This should be in the latest drafts, but looks broken. I will ask @awbjs.
Hope so – I think it would be ideal if for ES6 classes if Call == Constructor.
You mentioned "GPU cloud". I'm curious, since it's been a large hole in the cloud services space.
Is there an existing GPU cloud that scales like AWS, Azure, etc, where apps that are very GPU heavy (autodesk, Cinema 4D, Adobe, etc) can be virtualized?
Adam: Amazon added GPU to their east coast infra, I believe, and it's coming everywhere (if not there already).
Thanks, but EC2 leverages Tesla cores, which, while GPUs, are designed more for parallel computing than for graphics or visualization programs (such as autodesk, C4D, AE, etc).
Those programs, while leveraging Tesla cores for some tasks, generally require the Quadro or Kepler Quadro series GPU boards, which I have yet to see offered in the cloud.
Any chance you've seen an offering for those?
I'm not sure if anyone does yet — largely, I think, because there hasn't been a good way to virtualize access to them. Most people who are doing it are doing their own custom solutions (e.g. all the streaming-game-playing infrastructure, nvidia's gpu cloud stuff, etc.). ORBX will hopefully help change that.
And as Vlad says, more news coming. I'll blog about it as soon as I can.


Another letter of thanks, one of a series. Christmas parades are in the details and so many people made this day special: Cornucopia Farms for the dove release in front of the fountain; David Albee for a host of fantastic antique cars with wonderful drivers; Mimi Forbes and the Rappahannock Food Pantry the parade angels, RAAC and Mountainside Dance who in the middle of their December performances, lend their considerable talents to a float that is always such a treat. To Sharon and Peter Luke, who donated space in the Old Bank Building for an Artisan Market (and Peter for judging the parade entrants). A special shout out to our new neighbors The Forge Studio who not only produced a fantastic float but filmed the entire parade. And to the Knightline Choo Choo that carried the CCLC children. I could go on and on. Christmas in Little Washington truly showcases how wonderful Rappahannock County's people are. Thank you one and all.


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The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) of Kashmir on Monday claimed that stone pelting have reduced in Kashmir Valley post April.
Speaking to ANI, Ravideep Sahi, IG of CRPF said, "Incidents of stone pelting have reduced in 2017, particularly post April. It has reduced because there is no positive outcome of stone pelting and people have started realising it."
"Stone pelting at the encounter sites is a cause of concern," added Sahi.
Meanwhile, Centre's special representative for Kashmir Dineshwar Sharma has reached Srinagar for a five-day visit to the valley to initiate a dialogue with the stakeholders.
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Hove MP calls for fuss-free travel for Pride and greater investment in Southern Rail with the Conservatives
Peter Kyle, Labour MP for Hove and Portslade has written to Charles Horton who is the chief executive of Govia Thameslink to make sure the rail company puts on enough fully manned trains for Pride. Brighton and Hove's Pride festival is probably the most important date every year in Brighton's calendar, bringing millions of pounds into the city over the weekend and in the surrounding weeks.
Peter Kyle wrote: "Efficient, reliable and comfortable travel will be key to ensuring an enjoyable weekend. I have no doubt that you and your team fully understand this and are committed to getting the transport arrangements right over the Pride weekend, but I wanted to add my voice and emphasise how important this is for the organisers, for our city, and for the thousands of people taking part in Pride.
Please do keep me updated as the weekend approaches, and do let me know if there are any issues. I will of course offer whatever support I can to ensure that Brighton and Hove Pride 2018 is the joyful celebration we all want it to be, and if there's anything I can do to help ensure there is fuss-free travel please don't hesitate to contact my office."
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Mr Kyle's voice is an important one because he co-chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Southern Rail with Conservative Sir Nicolas Soames MP. Mr Kyle and Mr Soames wrote last month to Joanna Whittington, Chief Executive of the Office of Road and Rail (ORR), emphasising the need for greater investment in the South East rail network. Plans for the future funding of the network are currently under consideration by ORR.
Mr Kyle and Mr Soames's joint, cross-party letter stated: "Despite its importance, the service provided on the South East route is not currently able to meet passengers' expectations, due in large part to the years of under-investment that the route has suffered.
"For many years, the South East has received disproportionately low levels of investment compared with other regions, and in Control Period 5, the route was allocated just 15% of national railway funding, despite carrying almost 30% of all passengers.
"Unsurprisingly, performance has suffered severely, and passenger satisfaction is very low. As MPs for the South East, we see the misery this causes to thousands of our constituents on a daily basis, and we are troubled by the damage done to the local economy.
"To address this historic imbalance, and in order to deliver the modern and reliable service passengers expect and deserve, we hope you will agree that sustained investment is the only solution."
This article was first published in Brighton and Hove News.
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Brighton MP to stand down as co-leader of the Green Party
Caroline Lucas, Britain's only Green MP, has announced that she will stand down as co-leader of the Green Party. Mrs Lucas, who has co-led the party for the last two years, says she is showing the 'power of letting go'. The Green Party currently has a record number of councillors – and has overtaken UKIP to become the fourth party of England and Wales.
Mrs Lucas led the Green Party through the General Election last May. She took part in successful televised leaders' debates which many commentators said she won. Along with her co-leader Jonathan Bartley, she then went on to spearhead the Greens' local election campaign this year – seeing the party win seats across the country and breaking through onto an additional 6 local councils.
Under the current co-leadership of the Green Party, Mrs Lucas has pioneered a number of bold policies, and continued to offer an alternative to the establishment parties. Mrs Lucas and Mr Bartley have championed a shorter working week, trials of a Basic Income and reform of Britain's outdated and ineffective drugs laws. She's also cemented her position as a leading constructive critic of the Government's environmental programme – which she says is little more than a 'green veneer.'
Nominations for the Green Party leadership open this Friday 01 June – and the election will run over the summer. The new leadership team will be announced in September.
Mrs Lucas, co-leader of the Green Party, said: "I'm really proud of the party's progress under our co-leadership. We have more councillors in more communities than ever before, we've put forward our boldest ever policies and we've challenged and weakened this callous Tory government. We've also started an internal party review that is already paying dividends – and will make the party more inclusive in its makeup and an even more successful electoral force.
"I won't be seeking nominations to be a candidate in this year's leadership election when the process starts on Friday – but instead will be focusing even more on work in Parliament and in Brighton. I believe that Jonathan and I have shown the power of working together, and that it's now time for me to show the power of letting go."
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 Carsten Borkowski (* 1965), deutscher Komponist
 Dennis Borkowski (* 2002), deutscher Fußballspieler
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 Ingo Borkowski (* 1971), deutscher Segler
 Jerzy Borkowski (* 1957), polnischer Politiker
 Leszek Borkowski (* 1952), polnischer Boxer
 Leszek Dunin-Borkowski (1811–1896), Abgeordneter zum galizischen Landtag
 Marian Borkowski (* 1934), polnischer Komponist, Pianist, Musikwissenschaftler und -pädagoge
 Mateusz Borkowski (* 1997), polnischer Leichtathlet
 Mieczysław Borkowski (1833–1906), Abgeordneter zum galizischen Landtag
 Paweł Borkowski (* 1959), polnischer Ruderer
 Rasmus Borkowski (* 1980), deutscher Musicaldarsteller
 Stanislaus von Dunin-Borkowski (1864–1934), österreichischer Pädagoge, Kirchen-, Religions- und Philosophiehistoriker

Siehe auch:

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Ukraine Business Ombudsman publishes first report
Ukraine Business Ombudsman publishes first quarterly report
By Anton Usov
Business Ombudsman for Ukraine Algirdas Šemeta
The Business Ombudsman Council for Ukraine has already processed 172 complaints since it began operations in May 2015 as part of the government's drive to improve the Ukrainian business climate, the new institution said in its first quarterly report published today.
Following detailed assessment, the Business Ombudsman will request further investigation by the relevant bodies and seek to have these complaints addressed by governmental authorities if necessary.
Ukraine is stepping up its efforts to fight against corruption and improve its business environment and a central element of this campaign is the Business Ombudsman council for Ukraine. It allows businesses to report claims of unfair treatment and corruption. The Business Ombudsman will regularly report to the general public about the progress made in the fight against corruption and in the improvement of the business environment.
The Business Ombudsman is a key plank of the Anti-Corruption Initiative agreed under a Memorandum of Understanding signed in May 2014 among the Ukrainian government, international organisations, including the EBRD and the OECD, as well as the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine, the European Business Association, the Federation of Ukrainian Employers, the Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Ukrainian League of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.
The Business Ombudsman is headed by Algirdas Šemeta, the former EU commissioner for taxation and customs union. He was unanimously nominated by the governing body of the Anti-Corruption Initiative and approved by the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers.
The Anti-Corruption Initiative was launched by the EBRD as part of a joint effort to improve the investment climate in Ukraine. The Bank has played a pivotal role in developing and driving this effort, devising an appropriate structure and an effective legal foundation for the Business Ombudsman.
The Council is funded by the EBRD-Ukraine Stabilisation and Sustainable Growth Multi-Donor Account, which is supported by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.


10/09/2011 · Vocodex uses to audio input signals. One is the modulator (usually your voice) the other is a carrier (the sound you hear). The carrier is played from the Piano roll.... I currently have my eye on the Image Line Vocodex plugin because it seems like a great tool to create some awesome synthesized vocals. I've been looking around on the internet, and all I see is examples of how to use the plugin within Fruity Loops.
How to Use Pitch Correction for Vocal Effects Twice a month we revisit some of our reader favorite posts from throughout the history of Audiotuts+. This tutorial was first published in July 2008.
In this tutorial we'll use Vocodex because of how in-depth the engine can take the user. It gives access to many more parameters than your typical vocoder plugin. It gives access to many more parameters than your typical vocoder plugin.
2- How to remove vocodex.dll from windows startup. From Asmwsoft Pc Optimizer main window select "Startup manager" tool. From startup manager main window find vocodex.dll process you want to delete or disable by clicking it then click right mouse button then select "Delete selected item" to permanently delete it or select "Disable selected item".
26/05/2008 · Hey everyone! Just wanted to share the vocoder experience with those who don't know how. Vocoding can be a daunting concept to learn at first. The average computer musician could easily be confused by terms such as "modulation" and "the carrier."
Vocodex From the makers of FL Studio comes an outright banger of a vocoder plugin. In a recent interview the mighty AEPH says when he makes his basslines in Native Instruments Massive, he often uses Vocodex on them since it gives a more flat or vocalized sounding bass.


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Lexus F News & Polls
Lexus F News
Toyota Hiking U.S. Car Prices by 1.7%
Toyota has announced it will increase prices of its vehicles across the board by an average of 1.7 percent. The move comes not only in response to damages to it has sustained during the recent earthquake, but also due to the continued climb of the Yen.
As a result, an entry level Yaris will see a price hike by $200 to $13,155, whereas a Lexus LS600h L will see a hike of $900 to $112,250.
Toyota has managed to bring production of its Prius hybrid models back online since the Earthquake and Tsunami on March 11, however, production at all other plants have been halted.
Toyota insists its dealers have sufficient supply, but it is expected that ongoing fractures in the supply chain will eventually force work stoppages at plans in North America.
More: Toyota Hiking U.S. Car Prices by 1.7% on AutoGuide.com
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Q: Coverage appears to load coveragerc file, but all configuration remains default I may be missing something obvious here, but I don't seem to be able to get coverage to load configuration data from a .coveragerc file when being used as an imported module, although it does seem to be checking that the configuration file is present. First, here is the full contents of my .coveragerc:
[Run]
branch = True

[Report]
show_missing = True
skip_covered = True

More specifically, this snippet of code confirms that it does see the file, as it prints out ['.coveragerc'], as expected.
cov = coverage.Coverage(config_file='.coveragerc')
print(cov.config.config_files)

When the config file name is changed to a file that does not exist (such as .notcoveragerc), I get this exception that seems to confirm that the code above is successfully loading a file, or at least verifying its existence.
coverage.misc.CoverageException: Couldn't read '.notcoveragerc' as a config file

However, if I check any of the other values that I expect to be changed from their defaults based on the contents of my .coveragerc, I can see that they have not been changed.
cov = coverage.Coverage(config_file='.coveragerc')
print(cov.config.config_files)
print(cov.config.branch)
print(cov.config.show_missing)
print(cov.config.skip_covered)

The above code outputs the following:
['.testcoveragerc']
False
False
False

Am I missing something obvious in the documentation or is this something I should file a bug report for?

A: Your section names should be lowercase: [run], not [Run].

A: I encountered the exact same issue.
I was able to resolve it by moving .coveragerc into the same folder as manage.py.

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Theophylline comes as a tablet, capsule, solution, and syrup to take by mouth. It usually is taken every 6, 8, 12, or 24 hours. Follow the directions on your prescription label carefully, and ask your doctor or pharmacist to explain any part you do not understand. Take theophylline exactly as directed. Do not take more or less of it or take it more often than prescribed by your doctor. Take this medication with a full glass of water on an empty stomach, at least 1 hour before or 2 hours after a meal. Do not chew or crush the extended-release (long-acting) tablets; swallow them whole. Extended-release capsules (e.g., Theo-Dur Sprinkles) may be swallowed whole or opened and the contents mixed with soft food and swallowed without chewing. Theophylline controls symptoms of asthma and other lung diseases but does not cure them. Continue to take theophylline even if you feel well. Do not stop taking theophylline without talking to your doctor.
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LC Bulletin: Conference examines NM energy outlook
By cobadmin | Published November 4, 2013
November 1, 2013 . Retrieved online November 4, 2013 from Alta LeCompte , Las Cruces Bulletin
Peach: Renewables to grow, remain small
[Excerpts below reprinted with permission: Read the complete Las Cruces Bulletin article]
Renewables have a promising future in New Mexico, economist and self-described optimist Jim Peach told the third annual New Mexico Green Chamber of Commerce Renewable Energy and Clean Technology Conference Friday, Oct. 25, at the Ramada Palms de Las Cruces.
"We need a sector in New Mexico to get us out of this horrible recession. Maybe you can be it," he said.
Peach, who is Regents Professor of Economics at New Mexico State University, said the state recorded a 6.3 percent rise in green jobs in 2010-11, while overall employment failed to increase.
"You're in a growth industry, and there's very few out there," he said.
He called on the audience to get the word out about renewables through education and marketing.
From the standpoint of job creation, wind energy production is more effective than solar, Peach said.
"There are 48,000 solar panels out on the West Mesa. What don't you see out there? People.
"Windmills are mechanical and every now and then you have to have somebody do some work on them. If you're looking for long-term employment gains, look to wind, not solar."
Peach, who started studying the energy sector before solar and wind became part of the energy mix discussion, cautioned not to overestimate the potential of renewables.
Multiple challenges face renewables
The recession that started in December 2007 "conditions everything, including investment in renewables," Peach said.
Commenting on the state of the state economy, he said: "Anyone interested in renewables ought to worry about construction, because most of that is in new construction."
He said construction is the weakest sector in New Mexico, with employment down 18.5 percent.
As the global technological revolution continues, renewables will have to be cost competitive with fossil fuels, Peach said.
Speakers cite successes, limits
Lisa LaRocque, the new City of Las Cruces sustainability officer, detailed efficiencies achieved in the 100 buildings owned by the city, including an expected $25,000-$28,000 annual savings from the new photovoltaic array at city hall.
Ken Hughes, of the New Mexico Energy Minerals and Natural resources Department, was bullish on the prospect of a cohesive energy policy for New Mexico.
"A lot of states are now doing energy plans that focus on efficiency and the use of renewables," he said.
Advocate calls for better policies
Sarah Cotrell Propst of Interwest Energy Alliance, a six-state nonprofit organization representing renewable energy developers and advocacy groups, said the solar industry is making "impressive strides" in the region.
New Mexico ranks 12th in the nation in percentage of electricity supplied by wind, she said, with 11 projects online. "New Mexico is doing well," she said. "But some other states are booming."
Industry spokesman touts balance
Gerard Ortiz of the energy production and distribution company PNM outlined what he sees as the limits of renewables.
"Engineers care about two things, capacity and production," he said. "Every moment they have to perfectly balance available electricity with consumer demand.
He said PNM is investing in both solar and wind. PNM's current production is 62 percent from coal and 22 percent from nuclear.
"The bottom line is, there is certainly a place in the utilities' portfolio for renewable resources."
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••• When Community Board 1 sent out its revised January agendas on Jan. 9, there was no mention on the Tribeca Committee agenda of a presentation (presumably by the NYC DDC) about the upcoming reconstruction of Worth Street. But now it's on the CB1 website. The meeting is tonight. I'll be there so you'll get a full report on Thursday, but if you live on Worth, you might want to come hear for yourself. The meeting is at 6 p.m., or whenever the committee members show up, at 49-51 Chambers, 7th floor; bring gin ID. UPDATE: Scratch that. CB1 neglected to update its online agenda. The presentation is delayed till February.
••• From Stacie Bloom: "The souvenir shop at 125 Church is sadly going out of business tomorrow [today]. The owner is the nicest man." A shame: His merch, at least as seen from outside, didn't take the low road like the Canal Street schlockmeisters. Plus, I often walk Howard by there in the afternoon, and I always liked catching him jogging in place.


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Псковский ипподром — ипподром города Пскова.

Расположен в микрорайоне Запсковье, на улице Ипподромной, 28. В честь него улице, на которой он расположен, было и дано это название.

История
Псковский ипподром был открыт в 1949 году. В том же году на нём стали проводиться конные скачки. В послевоенные годы оставалось довольно много лошадей, поэтому Министерство сельского хозяйства СССР посчитало нужным открыть в Пскове ипподром, где лошадям будет найдено хорошее применение. Изначально на ипподроме было около 40 лошадей, а в конце 1950-х — в начале 1960-х годов их было 150.

Псковский ипподром являлся единственным ипподромом на Северо-Западе. Ипподрома не было ни в Новгороде, ни в Ленинграде.
С середины 1950-х годов на ипподроме проводились выставки достижений сельского хозяйства.
В связи с распадом Советского Союза псковский ипподром стал переживать не самые лучшие времена: лошадей стало значительно меньше, финансирование ипподрома было практически прекращено.

По состоянию на 2014 год, ипподром продолжает свою работу. По выходным и праздничным дням в центре Пскова проходит катание на лошадях.

Источники
 История псковского ипподрома
 Псковский ипподром. Воспоминание о красивой жизни
 Псковский ипподром

Спортивные сооружения Пскова
Ипподромы России
Здания и сооружения, построенные в 1949 году в России


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ANZ announced the sale of its OnePath P&I business to IOOF in October 2017.
Following regulatory action in relation to IOOF by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) in December 2018, ANZ noted to the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) it would seek additional information from both APRA and IOOF.
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Completion of the sale of the P&I business is subject to the P&I Independent Trustee and ANZ providing consent to transfer the business to IOOF.


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This Case Study was written by Hilmi Ulas, School of Conflict Analysis and Resolution (S-CAR), George Mason University, in November 2012.
This piece was prepared as part of the S-CAR / Beyond Intractability Collaborative.
Jessica McRitchie acted as a peer reviewer on this piece.
Author's Note: I will use some materials which are in Turkish. In case of want/need, please feel free to contact me and I will attempt to translate the source material to the best of my abilities.
The island of Cyprus is one which has been conquered many times and which has seen more than its fair share of conflict; it also happens to be my country of origin. According to the literature on the topic, the Cypriot Conflict is the conflict between the Greek and Turkish Cypriot populations of the island, the latter of whom has de facto (in practice) divided the island into two separate states, whereas the former claims de juro (according to law) governance over the whole island. This current situation was a direct result of communal "unrest" — including much inter-communal violence and some atrocities (human rights violations, a multitude of missing persons and internally displaced persons, property crimes, and several massacres of entire villages, among others). This strife lasted from 1963 to 1974 and ended with a Turkish intervention to the island, which some dub an invasion, whereas some others dub it a peace operation. As a consequence of this intervention, the island was divided into two — between the Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot populations. The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) was eventually — i.e. after many failed negotiations — established in 1983. The TRNC was not recognized by any country other than Turkey, and therefore has no legitimacy as a separate, autonomous state.
Thankfully, I had the fortune of not witnessing the communal unrest outlined above. Subsequently, as most academics are wont to do, I considered the conflict in Cyprus as simply a passive (i.e. no violence) one between Turkish and Greek Cypriots on the issues of who was to blame for the past, how to compensate for the said past, and whether there will be one or two independent states on the island. However, when I went to the TRNC for a visit over the summer of 2011, I observed an entirely different sort of conflict hitherto unrecognized by the international community: the conflict between the Turkish and Turkish Cypriot populations of the TRNC. Indeed, it appears that the Turkish Cypriot people perceive a threat to their identity and culture from the influx of Turkish immigrants to Cyprus, consequently leading to claims of cultural genocide perpetrated by the Turkish government. Naturally, this has prompted backlash towards Turks and Turkey from people who consider themselves to be (Turkish) Cypriots. I myself am internally divided.
On the one hand, I can sympathize with the cause of protecting one's own culture and the sense of selfhood that comes with this action; in fact, I regard this as an important goal for all people. For example, many Native Americans have found that preserving their culture and immersing themselves in their ancestral rituals are what makes them complete — i.e. it grounds them in a place and gives them a personal and communal identity reaching from far back into history to the present. On the other hand, some intellectuals and more moderate politicians (such as Mehmet Hasguler) recognize that the Turkish Cypriot identity is becoming more exclusive to the point of becoming almost racist. They advise that Turkish Cypriots should not direct their anger at Turkish policies of (what I will call) De Facto Annexation of Northern Cyprus (DFANC; to be discussed below) unto the settler population (i.e. immigrants from Turkey who come to live in Cyprus, most usually for work), but rather towards Turkish leaders who are not respecting the independence of Turkish Cyprus from Turkey. As a person who is half Cypriot and half Turkish, this conflict puzzled me: is there a cultural genocide going on in the TRNC? Are Turkish Cypriots acting in a discriminatory manner? If so, why is this the case and ultimately, what can and should be done about it?
Firstly, let us note that cultural genocide is not widely recognized as an actual form of genocide — there is no fixed conception of the term, and defining it falls outside of the scope of this reflection paper, and would contribute little to it. What is true, however, is that Turkey is enforcing the DFANC strategy in the TRNC, effectively forcing the change of an entire culture, which could result in or be interpreted as cultural genocide. Indeed, this policy demonstrates the main characteristics of genocide: intent by the state to target a given people/culture to forcefully exterminate/overhaul it. In fact, we can even say that the events in Cyprus follow the eight stages of genocide model developed by Gregory Stanton, as such: 1) Categorization: People in the TRNC are indeed categorized as Turks and (Turkish) Cypriots — who are sometimes referred to as "gavur" — a derogatory term also implying they are not Muslim; 2) Symbolization: the red passports given to citizens of the Republic of Cyprus serve to symbolize the gavur nature of Turkish Cypriots; other activities with symbolic meaning include going or not going to the mosques on a regular basis; 3) Dehumanization: In the Cyprus case, this takes the form of deculturization. Turkish Cypriot culture is not seen as a culture at all, but simply as a more plebeian version of Turkish culture; 4) Organization: the DFANC policies aiming to alter the demographics and culture of the TRNC are pursued by the Turkish state; 5) Polarization: Turkish and Turkish Cypriots discriminate against one another (more on this later); 6) Preparation: Turkey currently controls most of the economic activity in the TRNC as well as all of the TRNC's armed forces, and is in the process of taking over the control of necessary commodities such as water and electricity; 7) Extermination: The culture in the TRNC is changing too rapidly to be natural, as will be elaborated on below; 8) Denial: Turkey hides the DFANC policies under umbrella terms of "privatization," and increased immigration due to economic opportunities, etc., and refuses to acknowledge any cultural impact of such policies. Given this, while we cannot definitively conclude whether there is a cultural genocide ongoing in the TRNC, we can definitely argue that the possibility is real enough. Therefore, we must look at the Turkification policy and its social consequences to observe whether there are: a) implemented policies or political leaders' speeches concerning a will to enact a mainly forceful/top-down (i.e. dictated by the state) cultural change, and b) a cultural clash among different peoples populating the TRNC.
First and foremost, however, let us look at whether there is a mentality of us vs. them; either you are "with us" or "against us"; or, basically, a mentality of "obey/join me, or you are an enemy to be destroyed," as such a mentality is a necessary but insufficient factor in genocides. Unfortunately, there are some indications towards the existence of such a mindset in Turkey, viewing the existence of a Turkish Cypriot identity as an unacceptable threat. One of the most striking episodes on this front occurred around six to seven years ago, when a Turkish army commander (as such a strong leader in Turkey) refused to shake hands with the elected TRNC Prime Minister Ferdi Sabit Soyer on the grounds that the latter must first prove his "Turkishness".
While some Turks had previously and frequently asked what language was spoken in the TRNC (where Turkish is spoken, the Turkish anthem is sung as the national anthem, and the Turkish currency is used) or some other ill-informed question, I had never connected this with a doubt about our "Turkishness". Plain as day was the cultural disconnect. However, since our Turkishness was made such common knowledge to me throughout my life, somehow I could not perceive it — I thought of it all as just a joke. Likewise, there was a long-standing doubt about the Muslimhood of the Turkish Cypriots who had become more modern, less conservative, and less religiously observant under the British colonial rule. Indeed, some sources report tensions between the Turks who arrived in the North of Cyprus after the "invasion/peace operation" and the natives of the land concerning attires and daily routines. Given that Turkey regards the Turkish status of the Northern part of Cyprus as a national security issue, which also has historical importance, a population which could identify more as Cypriots than Turks was not permissible.
The DFANC policy was born as a consequence of the above-mentioned, doubtful mentality. Subsequently, DFANC has produced three types of policy: a) a Turkification process on the island, which is evident in the studies of Cypriot history where the subject matter is treated as a small but important part of Turkish history. Now studies start with the Ottomans and children and youth learn more about Turkish history than Cypriot history; b) a Muslimification process on the island, which is evident in the opening of hitherto absent specialized religious schools (medreses), increased religious studies classes, and the exploding number of new mosques being built; and c) the increased importation of Turkish population and capital investment to the TRNC in order to assure the allegiance, Muslimhood, and Turkishness of the TRNC. These have caused significant demographic changes in the TRNC, so much so that some community leaders have argued that the number of immigrants has exceeded the number of the natives of the island. While some believe that Turkish Cypriots are practically Turks (e.g., former President of the TRNC Rauf Raif Denktash said that "Those who come are Turks, those who go are Turks" on the topic of population importation and the flight of Turkish Cypriots due to lack of opportunities), I have observed that this exchange of populations has had a noticeable cultural impact on the island's North.
Indeed, in my lifetime, there has certainly been an ever-growing societal division and tension on the island which has come to be palpable. Some Turkish Cypriots of my generation might remember their childhood "horror stories" (probably untrue) about "the people with the all-black garb" (which I later learned to be hijab) who would kidnap you if you wandered outside of your house without your parents. What was even more common was the use of the word "gaco" or "garasakal" (literally black beard), which referred to people from Turkey who generally had beards, skins of a darker tone (due to extended exposure to sun), were less educated, and worked at buildings as "ameles" (grunt workers).
Additionally, even my own street transformed into an unknown place, now covered by peels of seeds eaten on the door sill and thrown on the street — apparently a common practice in Southern Turkey, but never in Northern Cyprus — where I am half afraid of just going out and walking at night due to an increase in the crime, which is directly proportional to the increase in the settler population. Maybe due to a lack of the conception of private property on their part, my Turkish neighbors also tend to just sit or throw trash on the porch of my house. Also probably due to a lack of a conception of women's or children's rights, Turkish men beat their wives and children ferociously. Personally, these changes made me feel un-anchored; my home — based on which I had developed an identity, a sense of purpose and a sense of connection — was unrecognizable to me and no longer felt homey, and therefore I had lost an important part of and factor to my identity.
Certainly, if we think of culture as the way and quality of life a people is accustomed to, there appears to have been a downturn for Turkish Cypriots. My Cypriot identity which aspires for a more modern, egalitarian, and democratic society (where demographics are not rigged to favor the Turkish nationalist parties) makes me sad for the fate of my native country and people. Indeed, if I identified myself as simply a Cypriot, I might have lashed out at the Turkish settler population and Turkey without a single heartbeat's pause — as I used to when I was younger, and as most of my friends still do. However, while I must admit to feeling more Cypriot than Turkish, I am also a Turk. Therefore, while one part of me wants to join my friends and compatriots in pointing fingers and discriminating against "the settlers," another part of me is hurt every single time I hear my Turkish Cypriot friends' venomous words, and the conflict resolver in me wonders: why have the hospitable and friendly Cypriot people become so discriminatory?
Through my research and readings, I have come to learn that racism/culturalism is nothing new in Northern Cyprus. Indeed, according to my father, these clashes between Turks and Turkish Cypriots span as long as three decades: he came to the TRNC in 1983 and when he revealed that he was from Turkey to his barber, he was kicked out with his hair half-cut. These tensions only increased with the explosion of the Turkish population on the island. As I underlined above, many Turkish Cypriot are now wont to do a ritual of name-calling against the settler population. Additionally, many Turkish Cypriots agree that the settlers are less respectful, less intelligent, and more "savage"/uncivilized/un-modern (a wonderful reminder of the colonial mindset).
In such name-calling instances, given that my father is from Turkey, I would ask my friends whether they thought the same of my father and myself, but they would always reply that "we" were exceptions. Back in the day, I was able to believe this to be a fact. Indeed back then, I myself used these discriminatory words to fit in with my Turkish Cypriot friends. Subsequently even now, I catch myself looking down upon the settlers — the usage of these words has almost taken over my opinion of the Turks in Cyprus. But I know better now; I know that while we must attempt to protect our Cypriot culture, we cannot do so at the expense of discriminating against and alienating a whole people whose main fault is not being us.
Some theoretical work can help us understand why the Turkish Cypriots want to react to the cultural impositions of the DFANC policies and preserve their culture, especially since they perceive these policies as cultural atrocities and as an attack on their identity. According to political psychologists, such as Volkan, it is a necessity to identify an "us" and "them" as individuals need to have enemies and allies. Unfortunately, the knee-jerk reaction of anyone to being "caught under the wheel's roll" of political games, who feel powerless against very potent political figures, is to direct their anger not at these figures who reside beyond reach or the more abstract, but to the more easily identified and reached representations of such policies — in our case, the settlers. We can understand such reactions through an identity theory perspective, as studies of identity also reveal that individuals need to add value to the "us" group by praising this group in more constructive instances, and by being demeaning to the "them" group, i.e. the enemy, in more destructive ones. Druckman, for example, underlines the constructive approach as patriotism, and the destructive one as nationalism. Henceforth, the TRNC is experiencing an instance of destructive nationalism, which subsequently brings on discrimination — in this instance, in the form of racism. And therein lies my dilemma: I believe the cause of cultural preservation is worthy — in fact, I believe culture is a human need and human right — and I cherish my Cypriot identity a lot. However, I also identify as a Turk and want to help put a stop to the anger directed at them. Further, as a conflict resolver, I want to prevent the further escalation of racism on my native island.
How can this be achieved? The answer to this question remains to me, and thus far to academia apparently, a mystery. However, as a person who is vested in the field, I would hope that some conflict resolution and community-building activities can be held in the TRNC.
Nevertheless, I have come closer to solving one mystery, which is: if cultural genocide and racism are such grand atrocities, why have they been allowed to happen in the TRNC? I believe there are two reasons for this: a) violence-dependence, and b) non-recognition. The violence-dependence factor is present in our morality and the media. Definitely, death and physical violence (including starvation) touch our moral worlds more easily because we can see them and we can empathize more easily with their victims. On the other hand, a cultural crime which has mainly psychological effects can neither be easily observed, nor is it such a common occurrence, as to call for empathy. Also, because the media, aid and human rights organizations want to "touch" our moral worlds, they pay more attention to acts of physical violence than they do to cultural violence.
The issue of non-recognition promoting certain types of crimes is due mainly to the unintended consequences of a well-intentioned international policy which aims to make sure that a people who aspire for an independent state go through non-violent and normal political channels, rather than frequently rebel, cause civil wars and thus deaths. This policy is called non-recognition, and it advocates for the international community to not treat as states those territories which have "broken-away" violently and illegally from their "parent countries". I have previously argued that this international policy frequently prepares the ground for non-physical crimes and even international criminal rings dealing in drugs, trafficking, etc., due somewhat to the evolution of crime to avoid detection (i.e. the less violent a crime, the less it garners international attention, and the less its likelihood of getting detected) but also to the fact that unrecognized governments, such as the one of the TRNC, are so isolated from the international community that they owe no international accountability. Summarily, no international policing or international justice organization has any say on what happens in the TRNC. Consequently, as I think that we cannot change our moral tendencies (at least not easily) to include an equal amount of sympathy for the victims of both physical and non-physical crimes, we must attempt and change a policy which unfortunately promotes crime and non-physical atrocities.
Ultimately, while I believe that I am far, far away from reducing racism or preventing a cultural genocide in the TRNC, I do not believe that my reflections on these topics have been fruitless. Firstly, I have recognized the tendency of conflict resolvers to privilege the resolution of violent conflicts over issues of justice and other, more non-physical conflicts, and would like to advocate that we cannot really put them in an absolute hierarchy. Who can say that saving the life of one person, even if we know that the person is bound to be mistreated, psychologically tortured, and enslaved and we do not do anything about this, then we are really doing good. This is a question that I think all of us in the field of conflict resolution, and all people who are outside but looking in on the field, must ponder. Secondly, I have realized that discriminatory tendencies are quite ever-present in the way adults view "others" and that, if we are to avoid a world where all our children adopt similar mindsets — especially now that ultra-nationalist and anti-immigrant wings are gaining power in places like the USA, Greece, Italy, Germany, and Spain, among others — we must first come to terms with our own discriminatory mindsets and avoid talking and acting on them willingly or inadvertently. Thirdly, I have been able to point out at least one malleable factor (the policy of non-recognition) which leads to cultural genocide (or other culturally traumatizing policies) and other, non-physical crimes, and have been working towards conceptualizing a way to avoid them. Fourthly, I have identified an important research question in how to curb xenophobia in communities where there is an explosion in the population of the other, especially when it is coupled with cultural changes and economic downturns. I hope that my colleagues and I will be able to elaborate on this question. As can be seen, there is much to be done in this vein. However, I have hope; we can and shall prevail over our discriminatory mindsets, will pledge to foster our diversity by preserving all cultures before they are endangered — after all, the universe demands diversity — and we will achieve all this by working all together.
 The distinction here is important, as many tend to equate Turkish and Turkish Cypriot identities. Those who aspire to a Turkish identity espouse closer relationships with Turkey and view Turkey as their motherland, and do indeed perceive the two peoples of Turkey and Turkish Cyprus as one. On the other hand, there are those who identify with Cyprus as being their motherland, who differentiate from Turkey and Turkish people while also acknowledging that their ancestry hails mostly from Turkey, and their aspired identity is thus that of a Turkish Cypriot. There are also a few who refuse any (historical or current) association with Turkey and Turkishness and aspireto the pre-civil war, inclusive Cypriot identity, who like to be called simply as Cypriots.
 Dr. Hasguler got his Ph.D. from Ankara University in 1998. The publication he edited titled "Kibrislilik" (Cypriotness) deals specifically with the issues of identity problems and reactions to them, which constitute an important part of this paper.
 According to Mehmetcik, "A very considerable problem manifested when the cultural differences became apparent. The Turkish villagers hailing from Anatolia and the Turkish Cypriots, whose living styles mirrored or approximated that of the British due to the island being under British rule until 1960, could not much warm up to one another. Couple with this the many cultural differences from fact that the Cypriots could not speak proper Turkish to the fact that they wore miniskirts, whence came the Anatolian villagers' labeling of "gavur"*, which actually started the distancing of the Cypriot and Turkish Turks who came from the same lineage and who shared many similarities" (152). *Gavur is a term which refers to those without religion or those who are non-Muslim, usually employed in the description of the Greek Cypriot and Greek peoples.
 Studies of identity show that it is central to human cognition of and responses to the environment — hence, identity is a basic human need, emphasized by needs theorists under the name of need for "Belongingness/Love&q uot; (Dugan). Moreover, as Goodale aptly points out (75), it is featured as a universal human right in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights's 22nd article. Summarily, culture is a necessity for the human existence (as a need) and dignified life (as a right) of an individual.
 Let me note that I am not calling for recognition of the TRNC or any other non-recognized state; I am calling for the amendment of what I believe to be a defunct and counter-productive policy.


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The Beggar's Billions
"The Beggar's billions," he said. "We've got work to do." It was then that his appearance changed before me: where a moment before stood Lucifer, Prince of Darkness, now stood a figure familiar to billions:
A rotund, jolly, jowly red-cheeked, bearded man bedecked in a festal red suit. Where there had been cloven hooves there were now black boots.
"Come along, Rancidspoor, we've the Beggar's billions to deceive," he said, donning his Santa cap. "Ready to be an elf?"
"Tis the season," I replied, reflecting upon the chance encounter with Beelzebub in the lower echelons which led to this sugar plum of an assignment.
"Ho, ho, ho," Santa said. "Let's go."
This piece is part of a sudden writing challenge issued by Joseph Craven and Ricky Anderson. The requirements were to:
Call the story "Beggar's Billions"
Have a Santa cap
Include a chance encounter
I had fun doing this, and look forward to future challenges.
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The Program "Together Everything is Possible" that Rehabilitated the Streets of Caracas will be Extended to 50 Other Cities
The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, announced on Monday the creation of the Mission "Venezuela Bella", which will be articulated with other socialist programs of the Bolivarian Government for the embellishment of the 50 most populated cities in the country. "I want to take the 'Together Everything is Possible Plan' to the 50 most populated cities in the country. Therefore, I announce the creation of the Special Mission Venezuela Bella to make them beautiful from now on," said the head of state before the National Constituent Assembly.
It is a plan of the National Executive that will be developed together with the Great Mission "Barrio Nuevo Barrio Tricolor", "Chamba Juvenil" and "Cultura Adentro". It will focus on the embellishment of these spaces with cobblestones, public lighting and the roads in these spaces, among other aspects.
He explained that the Mission "Venezuelan Bella" will arrive in these cities to make them beautiful with the collaboration of the Barrio Nuevo, Barrio Tricolor and Chamba Juvenil missions," this week.
He assured that this program will be possible to carry out together with the mayors and the governorates, as has already been developed in the capital city, Vargas state and some localities in Miranda state.
Local urbanism to the Great Mission "Chamba Juvenil"
In his speech, Maduro also delivered all the premises of the Great Housing Mission Venezuela to the Great Chamba Juvenil Mission to create bakeries, stores, hairdressers, shoe stores, for economic entrepreneurship. "The Great Housing Mission Venezuela, by mandate of our commander built spaces throughout the country. The vast majority of those premises on the ground floor or roofs – within urbanism – (99%) are empty or inoperative", he said.
"I give all the vacant premises of the Great Housing Mission Venezuela to the Great Chamba Juvenil Mission to create entrepreneurs in the same urbanism of the Great Mission. I give it to you youth, to create bakeries, stores, urban agriculture, hairdressers, shoe stores, butchers, "he said.
He also proposed incorporating a million more young people into this program to reach the 2,000,000 of boys who study and work through this program.
In his speech, Maduro called to reactivate this plan next week and asked to review the progress of this plan on a weekly basis.
Minutes before, he announced that the incorporation of 2,000,000 young people to Chamba Juvenil is one of the goals of social and sustainable development established with the Plan de la Patria 2019-2025 in conjunction with the Sustainable Development Program of the United Nations Organization ( UN).
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