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Conversations in Diplomacy: David Miliband on the Global Refugee Crisis
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David Miliband, President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee, discusses the drivers behind the displacement of over 65 million people and the changes that must be made to existing political and humanitarian systems in order to address the crisis on a global scale.
Conversations in Diplomacy: Douglas Alexander on Triggering Article 50
Rt. Hon. Douglas Alexander
| Mar. 30, 2017
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Faculty Director Nicholas Burns speaks with Douglas Alexander about the future of the UK just days after Prime Minister Theresa May triggered Article 50, initiating the separation between Europe and the United Kingdom Alexander previews the road ahead, identifying the underlying contradictions that that led to Brexit and how they might manifest themselves in other parts of the world.
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Podcast: Humanitarian Negotiations Series: Negotiation with Non-State Armed Groups at the Frontlines
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A podcast from the Advanced Training Program on Humanitarian Action produced from a Middle East Initiative event on humanitarian negotiations with non-state armed groups featuring Professor Claude Bruderlein; Ashley Jackson; Stig Jarle Hansen; and Abdi Ismail Isse.
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Podcast: Humanitarian Negotiation Series: Protection of Medical Personnel and Operations at the Frontlines
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A podcast from the Advanced Training Program on Humanitarian Action (ATHA) program produced from a Middle East Initiative event on humanitarian negotiations to protect medical personnel and infrastructure on the frontlines of conflict zones on Thursday, October 6, 2016, featuring Professor Claude Bruderlein; Michael VanRooyen, Director, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative; Chairman, Brigham and Women's Hospital Department of Emergency Medicine, Professor, Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; François Stamm, Head of Delegation for the International Committee of the Red Cross, Washington, D.C.; Adrienne Fricke, Senior Fellow, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Visiting Scientist, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Podcast: "The Disruptive Potential of the Communication Revolution on Entrepreneurship in Egypt" with Victor J. Willi
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An audio recording of a public talk by Victor J. Willi, Senior Researcher and former Associate Director and Global Leadership Fellow, World Economic Forum.
Podcast: "Refugees in the Middle East and Europe: Crisis and Response" with Philippe Fargues
Philippe Fargues
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An audio recording of a public talk by Philippe Fargues, MEI Associate and Director of the Migration Policy Centre at the European University Institute.
What's at Stake in Paris - Diplomacy & Policy at the Climate Change Talks
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Opening the joint CLIMATE CHANGE DIPLOMACY WEEK event series, speakers and leading climate change experts from both Harvard and beyond participated in a panel discussion titled "What's at Stake in Paris?: Diplomacy and Policy at the Climate Change Talks," moderated by the Future of Diplomacy Project Faculty Director, R. Nicholas Burns, and co-hosted with the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements on November 9. The speakers comprised of Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology at Harvard University, Daniel Schrag;former Costa Rican Minister of Environment and Energy, René Castro; former Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs and chief climate negotiator, Paula Dobriansky; and Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government and Director of the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, Robert Stavins. Together panellists weighed in on the upcoming UNFCCC talks to be held in Paris in December and the overarching policy issues at play.
Podcast: "ISIS: a 'State in Waiting'" with Yezid Sayigh
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An audio recording from Yezid Sayigh, Senior Associate and Professor, Carnegie Middle East Center, Beirut.
On March 31, 2015 at MEI, Dr. Yezid Sayigh examined the political legacy of Saddam Hussein's regime in ISIS' leadership structure and methods of control in Iraq, Syria and beyond.
Podcast: "Organized Chaos: How the Mediterranean Sea has Become the World's Most Lethal Migratory Route" with Philippe Fargues
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An audio recording from Philippe Fargues, Director of the Migration Policy Centre, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies European University Institute (EUI).
On April 1, 2015 at MEI and the Center for European Studies Eastern Mediterranean and Europe Study Group, Dr. Philippe Fargues assessed the humanitarian crisis of often deadly boat crossings in the Mediterranean Sea by migrants coming from North Africa and the Levant to Europe.
Inside the Middle East: Q&A with Philippe Fargues
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In this installment of "Inside the Middle East: Q&A," recorded on April 1, 2015, Dr. Philippe Fargues, Director of the Migration Policy Centre, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies European University Institute (EUI), discusses the humanitarian crisis of migrants from North Africa, the Levant, and the Sahel, crossing the Mediterranean Sea to Europe on boats.


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This CLI tool provides a simple interface to package the App so that it can be easily deployed to the ThreatConnect Platform.
Running tcpackage will build a zip package of your App that can be installed directly in the ThreatConnect Platform. For Apps packages that contain multiple Apps using separate install.json files add the --bundle argument to build a bundle. When using multiple install.json files the prefix of the filename is the App name (e.g. MyApp.install.json will have an App name of MyApp). During the build process validation of the install.json file will be handled automatically.
Typically the tcpackage command would be run with no arguments or using the --bundle flag for packages with multiple install.json files.
--bundle              Build a bundle file.
--exclude EXCLUDE     File and directories to exclude from build.
The following command will build the app in the target directory of the project with and extension of .tcx.
By default the tcex.json file will be loaded by tcpackage. The following is an example of additional configuration that can be provided for the tcpackage command.


William Oliver, was born on 3 October and baptised at the Old Church, St Pancras, London on 30 December 1804, son of Francis Oliver and his wife Ann. A landscape painter in oils and chiefly in watercolours, painting views in England, France, Italy & Switzerland, being especially fond of the Pyrenees. Oliver began to exhibit in 1829, when he sent to the Society of British Artists 'A Beach Scene in Kent' and a 'Fish Boat'. In 1831 elected a member of the New Society, now the Royal Institute, of Painters in Water-Colours and his drawings appeared annually at its exhibitions until 1854. He also sent oil-paintings to the Royal Academy 1835-1853, and to the British Institution from 1836 and at the Suffolk Fine Art Association [q.v.] held at Ipswich in 1850, he exhibited three works 'Ruined Castle of Nagros, overhanging Lac di Garda, Venetian Tyrol', 'Bridge at Gabas, Pyrenees, Pass into Spain' and 'Sunset, Italy'. In 1842 he published a folio of 'Scenery of the Pyrenees' lithographed by George Barnard, Thomas Shotter Boys, Carl Hughe, and others. He married at the Old Church, St Pancras, London on 21 September 1840, Emma Sophia Eburne [Oliver q.v.]. William died at Langley Mill House, Halstead, Essex, on 2 November 1853, aged 49. His works are held by the Victoria & Albert Museum, Sheffield and Sunderland Art Galleries and the South Kensington Museum.


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The Catastrophe on the HMS Bounty
In the 30-foot waves created by Hurricane Sandy, a Hollywood icon met its doom last October. And this week, the U.S. Coast Guard opened hearings into the disaster; chief mate John Svendsen testified about the actions of the captain. In this feature from our February issue, PopMech investigates what went wrong on the Bounty's final voyage—and how it wound up in the middle of a storm in the first place.
By Kalee Thompson
It was midnight on Sunday, Oct. 28, when Coast Guard pilot Wes McIntosh established radio contact with the HMS Bounty. The three-masted, square-rigged ship was 100 miles off the tip of Cape Hatteras, N.C., right in the heart of the churning gray pinwheel of Hurricane Sandy. McIntosh and his six-member crew had left Raleigh in their C-130 Hercules search plane a half-hour earlier. They were still 60 miles away, just outside a solid wall of rain visible on the radar, when McIntosh got the first update from the foundering ship: Six feet of water had pooled in the belly of the boat, and the Bounty was flooding at the rate of a foot an hour. "The generators had failed," McIntosh tells PM, which meant the pumps were inoperable. The engines had shut down too. The ship was dead in the water.
McIntosh turned the C-130 straight into Sandy's eye wall. Seventy-mile-an-hour winds rattled the crew, tethered to the aircraft with safety harnesses—the only thing preventing them from being flung around the cabin like pinballs. "Everybody in the back was puking," McIntosh says. But they were prepared to drop a pump, life rafts, anything that might buy the 16 sailors onboard the Bounty more time. Below, 20- and 30-foot waves collided from all directions. Visibility was less than a half-mile. McIntosh, 33, had flown nine years as a Navy pilot and two more in the Coast Guard. But he'd never seen conditions as bad as this.
As the plane approached the Bounty's coordinates McIntosh descended to 1000 feet and then 500, the lowest he was willing to go knowing that the masts reached more than 100 feet into the air. Finally he saw a single beam of light rising from the vessel's deck. It looked eerie, he says, "just like a big pirate ship."
Five days earlier, on Wednesday, Oct. 24, the Bounty sat safely at port in New London, Conn. The vessel had been built for the 1962 Marlon Brando film Mutiny on the Bounty, based on the true-life saga of 18th-century British captain William Bligh and his mutinous mate, Fletcher Christian. To make room for 70-mm movie cameras, the replica was 30 percent larger than the original—180 feet from bow to stern. The Coast Guard considered it an "attraction" vessel and permitted tourists onboard only at dock. The ship was not authorized to take paying customers to sea, though volunteers and unseasoned hires often sailed as crew. One of the newer members was Claudene Christian, 42, who claimed to be Fletcher Christian's great-great-great-great-great-granddaughter. "I LOVE MY SHIP," she'd tweeted in June along with a picture of herself high in the Bounty's rigging. Fellow greenhorn Chris Barksdale, 56, a handyman from rural Virginia, had boarded the ship in September as the engineer.
On Thursday, Capt. Robin Walbridge, 63, gathered his crew on deck. Federal meteorologists and local news stations were detailing the approach of a "Frankenstorm," a sprawling, slow-moving hurricane in the Bahamas on an uncertain collision course with the Eastern Seaboard. The plan was to skirt the storm as it headed north, Walbridge told his crew, and get a push to St. Petersburg, Fla., from the wind at its back. Anyone who wanted to stay ashore was welcome to do so, he said. He wouldn't think less of them. Nobody took him up on his offer.
In the 72 hours that followed, the captain's hubris would be roundly criticized by many mariners. "They left New London . . . on Thursday . . . That they'd choose to take this risk is criminal," one Maine skipper wrote at Wooden Boat.com. The Bounty's public Facebook page was updated with a message from the captain. "Rest assured that the Bounty is safe and in very capable hands. Bounty's current voyage is a calculated decision . . . NOT AT ALL . . . irresponsible or with a lack of foresight as some have suggested. The fact of the matter is . . . A SHIP IS SAFER AT SEA THAN IN PORT!" The post was accompanied by a 2-year-old photo of the Bounty looking as though it were about to be swallowed whole by towering seas.
To Chris Barksdale, Walbridge was a soft-spoken yet strong leader. He'd captained the Bounty for 17 years. Before that he was the ship's engineer. Barksdale quickly noticed that the captain seemed to enjoy mentoring the crew, and that he had a gentle way of letting people know just how he wanted things done, like his habit of saying, "If I were you, I'd . . ." before going on to give what was essentially an order. Soon after Barksdale joined the crew, Walbridge promoted Christian from volunteer to deckhand. It was her birthday, and her joy at the accomplishment was palpable.
By Friday, when the ship hit rough weather 100 miles off the Maryland coast, the Bounty was storm-ready. Rigging was lashed to the deck, supplies secured, and mainsails reefed in. The ship had two 375-hp John Deere diesel engines and three bilge pumps, two electric ones and a hydraulic spare. Barksdale's job was to keep them running smoothly. On Saturday, the Bounty was heeled over so hard he had to walk at an angle to keep upright. On Sunday morning, when the eye of the storm reached the border between the Carolinas, the ship was taking on water. At first Barksdale wrote it off as the nature of the beast—wooden boats leak. But then he noticed the seepage above the ship's waterline, at the point where the side of the boat met the floor of the main deck. As the day wore on the bilge pumps kept getting clogged, the result, Barksdale guessed, of water washing detritus from recent onboard construction into them. Early in the afternoon the captain himself came down, shut off the pumps, and cleaned out the gunk. "There was a very, very short amount of time when we didn't have the bilges running," Barksdale says. "I haven't been able to figure out exactly why we were taking on more water than we were pumping out." By late afternoon the ship was heeled over so much that Barksdale guessed the part of the vessel where the seepage was greatest was probably submerged in the ocean. "Because of the way the ship was rolling, all the water that was in the engine room, in the bilge, would roll up to the side and come back down." The engines quit first, then a generator. It was after nightfall when the crew lost the second generator. "It just got flooded out," Barksdale says. As Sunday night turned to Monday morning there was little left to do but watch the water rise.
Flying overhead in the C-130, McIntosh stayed in constant contact with the ship. The water was now rising 2 feet an hour. "They told us it was seeping in through the wooden beams," McIntosh says. "It wasn't coming over the top; it was coming through the sides." The Bounty's officers thought they could hold out until 8 am, when Coast Guard helicopters could deliver the sailors to safety in daylight.
Down in the ship, the crew was getting into bright red neoprene immersion suits. Barksdale had never put one on before. "Nobody was panicking," he says. "The captain was going back and forth, making sure everybody was okay." The ship was listing to starboard, so the crew was gathered on the port side, feet wedged up against the main deck or the rigging. One crew member had injured his back, and Christian had taken charge of finding a safe place for him to lie down. "She was acting like a mother hen," Barksdale says. The engineer just waited. Someone handed him an orange and he ate it. Like his shipmates, he had barely slept in 48 hours. He was still standing on deck at about 4:30 am when the Bounty heeled hard to starboard. "If it wasn't 90 degrees, it was close," he says. "We all went into the ocean."
One thousand feet above, the Herc was enveloped in clouds. Every transmission from the ship had sounded calm, professional, in control. Then, at 4:45, an urgent voice came over the radio. "We're abandoning ship. We're abandoning ship!" McIntosh heard.
"Roger that. What are your plans for life rafts?" the pilot radioed back. He waited, but there was no further word from the ship.
Coast Guard rescue swimmer Dan Todd was asleep when his phone rang around 4:15 am. When he heard that the storm was bearing down on a pirate ship, he thought, you've got to be kidding me. "Nope, this is the real deal," he was told. "Get in to work." By the time he reached the hangar in Elizabeth City, N.C., the first MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter was about to launch. Modeled after the Army's Black Hawk, the Jayhawk is the Coast Guard's long-range helicopter; it has a maximum flying time of about 5 hours. About a dozen people can squeeze into its cabin. Todd's crew—pilots Steve Bonn and Jenny Fields and flight mechanic Gregory Moulder—would be 35 minutes behind the first helo. Todd pulled on his dry suit and harness and grabbed his gear: helmet, mask, fins, and snorkel. He wore long underwear under his suit, but he wasn't worried about the cold. Even in the winter, he knew, the Gulf Stream is a pretty pleasant place to swim.
Barksdale landed in a jumble of rigging. He looked up—and saw the masts rising above him. Then they were plunging back down toward his head. He could see other people nearby, but it was impossible to tell who was who. He spotted a piece of wood—a section of oak grating from the Bounty's deck—and grabbed on. Soon several others had a death grip on the same square of wood. Dan Cleveland, one of the mates, was among them. Back on deck he had taken care to tie extra 100-foot lengths of line to both of the ship's 25-man life rafts. Now he was the one to spot a raft, still inside its oblong canister, bobbing in the waves. "We need to get that thing," Cleveland said. He yelled to the others to grab the long line, and Barksdale managed to wrangle it from the waves. "Don't let loose," Cleveland called to him. "You don't have to worry about me letting loose of this son of a bitch," Barksdale shouted. "I'm going wherever it goes." Once the circular raft was inflated, the six sailors clambered in and tried to spread out to keep it evenly weighted. Barksdale was worried the wind would rip the canopy right off. "Every so often a huge wave would come and knock the snot out of us," he says. The crew hadn't been able to get the raft's door flaps to close, and each time a big wave hit, more water flooded in. Barksdale could hear the C-130 overhead. He couldn't help thinking that those guys must be getting the snot knocked out of them up there as well.
The Jayhawk's flight out took an hour and 15 minutes. The clouds were low. Even with their night-vision goggles, the four-member crew could barely make out a horizon. As they reached the site the sky finally lit up enough so that Todd could see some whitecaps and then the profile of the massive waves beneath him. The winds had reached 85 mph. This is going to be the biggest thing I've ever done, he thought to himself. He started getting a familiar butterfly feeling in his stomach—a nervousness that he knew would disappear the moment he swung his fins out the open door of the hovering aircraft.
It was around 6:30 am, just after daybreak, when Barksdale heard the helicopter. He stuck his head out the door. As Bonn brought the Jayhawk into a hover 80 feet above the orange life raft, Todd could see faces peering out from the flap. The swimmer had a padded foam sling wrapped under his arms. As Moulder lowered him into the sea, Todd slipped out of the sling. He took a couple of deep breaths, then swam for the raft. He climbed inside, spit out his snorkel, and lifted up his mask. "Hey, I'm Dan. I heard you guys needed a ride," he said. There were a few laughs. "Hell, yes!" Barksdale said. Todd explained the plan: "I'm going to take you out one at a time. I'll swim you over, get you into the basket, and get you inside the helicopter." The key thing was to try to relax and follow his instructions. "There's going to be a lot of wind and stinging spray, and it's going to be loud," Todd warned.
He steered the first sailor a safe distance from the raft and gave Moulder a thumbs up, the sign that he was ready for the flight mechanic to lower the metal rescue basket. "Roger . . . Ready for one basket recovery of survivor," Moulder said. Minutes later the basket was at the open helo cabin door, with the huddled crew member inside. Todd was already swimming back to the raft. One by one, he dragged the sailors out and sent them up in the swaying basket. Barksdale was one of the last to go. When he tumbled out onto the wet metal floor of the helo, the flight mech pointed to a corner and Barksdale crowded in with the others.
Todd was growing exhausted. He'd ingested a lot of salt water. Between pickups he was vomiting into the ocean. To save strength, he hauled himself back using the long line that attached the raft to its sea anchor, a small conical parachute that helped to stabilize the raft in high seas. He had to dive down a few feet to find the line. "Everything above the water is total chaos," Todd says. "It's loud, it's windy, water's splashing you in the face from every direction." Beneath the surface was silence. The seas were much warmer than the air, about 77 F. "The water was crystal blue, you could see at least 30 yards in front of you." As he reached for the line, he noticed his body rocking peacefully back and forth with the current. Then he grabbed ahold and pulled himself up to the raft.
McIntosh had been in radio contact with pilots Bonn and Fields. The first helicopter crew had picked up five sailors from another life raft but hadn't been able to recover everyone before the craft reached "bingo," the point at which it had just enough fuel to safely return to the air station. After the last survivor from Barksdale's raft was onboard, Bonn pointed the Jayhawk to the second raft, and Todd gave the three people inside the same pep talk he'd given the first group.
Within an hour of arriving on the scene, there were nine survivors packed tight in the Jayhawk's cabin. Two people were still unaccounted for. While in the air, Bonn had been scanning the water below for signs of life. But now he'd reached his own bingo—there was no more time to search.
Twelve hours after 14 sailors were safely delivered
to Elizabeth City, another Jayhawk crew spotted a red survival suit close to 7 miles from the Bounty's last recorded position. A swimmer went down and hoisted a limp sailor up into the cabin. He began CPR. Throughout the flight to shore the swimmer kept pumping, but there was no life left in Claudene Christian's body.
As the news spread, the online discussion threads turned acrid. Somber expressions of communal shock and grief were overshadowed by outrage over how someone with Christian's limited experience could have ended up sailing into a monster hurricane on a movie-prop ship. Meanwhile fellow tall-ship officers lamented that their friend had made such a regrettable choice. "My first thought was, why on earth were they offshore at that point? Because the rest of us were diving for the weeds," says John Beebe-Center, a tall-ship captain who sailed with Walbridge on the Bounty in the early 1990s. Walbridge was one of the best mechanics he'd ever known, Beebe-Center says. "I've towed boats into St. Pete for the sole purpose of having Robin take a look." The sad truth is that all the engineering expertise in the world is no match for a superstorm beating up on a wooden boat. "When you torque the hell out of them by rocking them back and forth in big seas . . . it puts strain on all those thousands of pieces of wood that have spaces between them," says Richard Bailey, another tall-ship veteran who once captained the Bounty. "They open up and you never know where it's leaking. It's leaking everywhere."
Coast Guard aircraft and ships searched for Robin Walbridge for four days and found nothing. By week's end the Bounty was one more ship settled more than 14,000 feet deep in the so-called Graveyard of the Atlantic, and the Coast Guard had opened an investigation into the tragedy, an inquiry that would delve into the physical condition of the ship—as well as the captain's decisions. As Sandy approached, massive, steel-hulled Navy vessels and cruise ships had sailed out into the Atlantic. It's true that some ships are safer at sea in a storm. But it doesn't take a Coast Guard investigation to conclude that the tall ship Bounty was not one of them.
Lauren Manning
The Bounty's Final Voyage
1. Setting Sail
As Hurricane Sandy batters the Bahamas, the Bounty leaves port in New London, Conn. Before departing Capt. Robin Walbridge gives crew members the option to stay ashore. All 15 remain onboard.
2. Out to Sea
The captain sails southeast, hoping to bypass the storm's fury. In an August TV interview he noted the weaker winds in the southeast quadrant of a hurricane. "We chase hurricanes," he added. "You get a good ride out of a hurricane."
3. A New Plan
The Bounty changes course, sailing directly across the storm's path. Given Sandy's epic size—more than 800 miles wide—the captain may have been trying to duck the stronger winds in the storm's northeast quadrant.
4. Mayday!
The Coast Guard receives a distress call from the ship's owner. At midnight a C-130 Hercules dispatched from Raleigh, N.C., makes radio contact with the crew, learning that the Bounty's engines have failed. The ship is helpless.
5. Abandon Ship!
Adrift in a sea of 20-foot swells, the Bounty heels hard to starboard, throwing crew members into the stormy waters. The C-130's radio reveals that the group has abandoned ship. Most find their way to the two life rafts.
6. Help Arrives
Two Jayhawk helicopters arrive on the scene from Elizabeth City, N.C. Coast Guard swimmers dropped into the water pluck 14 survivors from the site. Later in the day a Jayhawk crew recovers a body. The last sailor is still lost at sea.
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48-й чемпионат мира по биатлону прошёл в чешском городе Нове-Место со среды 6 февраля по воскресенье 17 февраля 2013 года.
Было разыграно 11 комплектов медалей, по 5 у мужчин и женщин в спринте, преследовании, масс-старте, индивидуальной гонке, эстафете и один комплект медалей в смешанной эстафете.Сборная Норвегии установила рекорд чемпионатов по количеству выигранных золотых медалей — 8.

Расписание соревнований
Время начала соревнований указано CET (МСК = CET + 03:00).

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 Спортсмены

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 Гонки преследования

 Женщины
Гонка прошла 10 февраля 2013 года.

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Не стартовали:  Сергей Седнев,  Михал Шлезингр
Сошёл с дистанции:  Штефан Гаврила

 Индивидуальные гонки

 Женщины
Гонка прошла 13 февраля 2013 года.

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 Эстафетные гонки

 Женщины
Гонка прошла 15 февраля 2013 года.

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 Мужчины
Гонка прошла 16 февраля 2013 года.

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 Масс-старты

 Мужчины
Гонка прошла 17 февраля 2013 года.

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 Томас Каукенас принял участие в гонке, занимая
62-е место в зачете Кубка мира по биатлону.

 Женщины
Гонка прошла 17 февраля 2013 года.

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 Чжан Янь приняла участие в гонке, занимая
42-е место в зачете Кубка мира по биатлону.
 Валя Семеренко не финишировала.

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| 2| align="left"|  Тура Бергер | 45/43| 95.6 %| 46/41| 89.1 %| 92.3 %| 5/5| 5/5| 100 %| 5/5| 5/4| 90 %| 10/9| 10/8| 85 %| 10/10| 10/10| 100 %| 5/5| 6/5| 83.3 %| 10/9| 10/9| 90 %|-
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| 3| align="left"|  Вероника Виткова| 48/43| 89.6 %| 46/42| 91.3 %| 90.4 %| 7/5| 6/5| 76.9 %| 5/5| 5/5| 100 %| 10/10| 10/8| 90 %| 10/10| 10/9| 95 %| 6/5| 5/5| 90.9 %| 10/8| 10/10| 90 %|-
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| 4| align="left"|  Мари-Лор Брюне| 47/42| 89.4 %| 49/44| 89.8 %| 89.6 %| 5/5| 7/5| 83.3 %| 5/5| 5/4| 90 %| 10/9| 10/10| 95 %| 10/10| 10/10| 100 %| 7/5| 7/5| 71.4 %| 10/8| 10/10| 90 %|-
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| 5| align="left"|  Кристина Палка| 48/45| 93.8 %| 45/38| 84.4 %| 89.2 %| 6/5| 7/5| 76.9 %| 5/5| 5/5| 100 %| 10/10| 10/8| 90 %| 10/10| 10/9| 95 %| 5/5| 5/5| 100 %| 10/10| 10/9'| 95 %|-
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| 6| align="left"|  Ольга Вилухина| 46/41| 89.1 %| 46/41| 89.1 %| 89.1 %| 6/5| 5/5| 90.9 %| 5/5| 5/5| 100 %| 10/8| 10/8| 80 %| 10/10| 10/9| 95 %| 5/5| 6/5| 90.9 %| 10/8| 10/9| 85 %|-
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| 7| align="left"|  Тея Грегорин| 45/43| 95.6 %| 46/38| 82.6 %| 89 %| 5/5| 6/5| 90.9 %| 5/5| 5/4| 90 %| 10/9| 10/8| 85 %| 10/8| 10/10| 90 %| 5/5| 6/5| 90.9 %| 10/9| 10/9| 90 %|-
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| 8| align="left"|  Ольга Зайцева| 45/40| 88.9 %| 48/42| 87.5 %| 88.2 %| 6/5| 5/5| 90.9 %| 5/5| 5/5| 100 %| 10/9| 10/9| 90 %| 10/10| 10/9| 95 %| 6/5| 5/5| 90.9 %| 10/8| 10/10| 90 %|-
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| 9| align="left"|  Андреа Хенкель| 47/44| 91.5 %| 48/40| 83.3 %| 87.4 %| 6/5| 6/5| 83.3 %| 5/4| 5/3| 70 %| 10/10| 10/10| 100 %| 10/10| 10/10| 100 %| 6/5| 7/5| 76.9 %| 10/9| 10/7| 80 %|-
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| 10| align="left"|  Габриэла Соукалова| 47/38| 80.9 %| 46/40| 87 %| 83.9 %| 6/5| 5/5| 90.9 %| 5/4| 5/5| 90 %| 10/10| 10/8| 90 %| 10/7| 10/10| 85 %| 5/5| 5/5| 100 %| 10/7| 10/8| 75 %|-
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3-кратный чемпион  Эмиль Х. Свендсен' произвел 72 выстрела, закрыл 67 мишеней, 93,1 %
попадания.

 Список стран-участниц
В Чемпионате мира принимают участие спортсмены из 43 стран:

 Общий зачёт

Здесь и далее, курсивом'' выделены очки за гонки, после которых спортсмен или сборная являлись лидерами соответствующего зачёта.

Мужчины

Женщины

Зачёт Кубка наций

Рассчитывается по результатам индивидуальных гонок, спринтерских гонок и эстафет.

Мужчины

Женщины

Примечания

Ссылки

 События на IBU Datacenter — удобная программа для отслеживания результатов.
 Главная страница IBU

Чемпионаты мира по биатлону
Чемпионат мира
Чемпионат мира по биатлону 2013
Февраль 2013 года
Чемпионаты мира в Чехии

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STEP 1 Preheat oven to 180°C/160°C fan-forced. Using a fork, prick potatoes about 6 times. Wrap each in foil. Place on an oven rack and roast for 1 hour 15 minutes or until tender when tested with a skewer. Carefully remove from foil. Cut the top third of each potato lengthways. Using a spoon, scoop out potato flesh from both sides of potatoes and place in a bowl. Roughly mash potato, add tuna and 3⁄4cup cheese. Season with salt and pepper to taste and stir until combined.
STEP 2 Spoon potato mixture back into potatoes. Place on a baking tray lined with baking paper. Sprinkle with remaining cheese. Bake for 10–15 minutes until hot. Peel and dice avocado, toss with lemon juice. Serve potatoes with avocado.
For extra heat, leave the seeds in the chillies.


SAVANNAH, Ga. – Kinder Morgan says it is halting work on the $1 billion Palmetto Pipeline after Georgia lawmakers approved a one-year moratorium on permits for petroleum pipelines in the state.
Houston's Kinder Morgan said in a statement Wednesday it has "suspended further work on the Palmetto Pipeline project," which would have carried gasoline, diesel and ethanol across 360 miles from South Carolina through Georgia and into Florida.
The project met stiff opposition from both environmental groups and landowners whose property the company hoped to build upon using eminent domain laws. The project had already received setbacks from the Georgia Department of Transportation and a Fulton County judge.
On Wednesday, the company blamed "unfavorable action by the Georgia Legislature" for its ultimate decision to halt the pipeline.


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It Started With Darwinism
Posted on | August 13, 2022 | Comments Off on It Started With Darwinism
About 25 years ago, I read Phillip E. Johnson's Reason in the Balance: The Case Against Naturalism in Science, Law & Education. A law professor at Berkeley, Johnson was also the author of Darwin on Trial, and once remarked, "Something about the Darwinists' rhetorical style made me think they had something to hide." This is something any intelligent person must eventually notice. The advocates of coincidence as the explanation of everything become rather skittish when confronted by the most obvious arguments against their theory, and tend to resort to name-calling and censorship to discredit or silence their critics.
The debates prompted by the work of Johnson, William A. Dembski, Michael Behe and other proponents of "Intelligent Design" theory have largely ended for the simple reason that the Darwinists stopped debating, and effectively prohibited dissenters from being employed in academia. The arguments against Darwinism made by Johnson and others were not refuted, but rather were suppressed. And I bring this up because the tactics used to defend Darwinism have now become commonplace.
Those who disagree with the preferred liberal narrative about anything are now accused of promoting "misinformation," and debate about public policy is increasingly one-sided because the media (including social-media platforms like Twitter and Facebook) seek to silence anyone who opposes or criticizes the preferred liberal narrative.
Over the years, we have seen this method used to suppress dissent over "climate change," transgenderism, COVID-19 and now, elections:
Like most other popular social media sites, the Powers That Be at Twitter possess grossly inflated opinions of themselves, especially as it relates to what they feel is their supposed "duty" to keep their platform as free from so-called "disinformation" as they possibly can, most notably in election years.
"Twitter plays a critical role in empowering democratic conversations, facilitating meaningful political debate, and providing information on civic participation – not only in the US, but around the world. People deserve to trust the election conversations and content they encounter on Twitter," the company proclaimed Thursday.
In reality, what they're doing behind the scenes when they think no one is paying attention is acting as information gatekeepers for Democrats by way of penalizing conservative accounts for WrongThink and for daring to publish or promote unflattering stories and/or asking uncomfortable questions about candidates for higher office along with other high-profile public figures who have the potential to influence public policy.
One of the more notorious examples of this tactic in action was in their deliberate suppression of the New York Post's blockbuster Hunter Biden laptop emails story in October 2020, just a few weeks out from the presidential election. Not only did they lock down the Post's main Twitter account for about two weeks, but they also suppressed the story when other Twitter users attempted to share it, something Facebook admitted to doing as well.
Here we are nearly two years later, and Twitter has officially announced yet again in so many words that they are answering Joe Biden's "special appeal" from January and are, in a nutshell, getting ready to start trying to stack the deck against Republicans ahead of the 2022 midterm elections:
This means we'll take action against misleading claims about the voting process, misleading content intended to intimidate or dissuade people from participating in the election, or misleading claims that may undermine public confidence in elections outcomes.
— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) August 11, 2022
Don't dare say "Orwell" — that's WrongThink! Anyone who suspects the "Civic Integrity Policy" to be a pretext for acting as Democratic Party enforcers is obviously in violation of the policy, and Twitter's secret police have given themselves carte blanche to "take action."
Let us not pretend that Twitter's action is non-partisan, nor that the suppression of Intelligent Design was a politically neutral action. We ought to acknowledge that our opponents know what they're doing, and credit them with using every weapon in their arsenal to achieve political hegemony. These things do not happen by coincidence, you see — their actions have meaning and purpose, and are part of an overall plan. Yet we will be told that election results are just part of a natural progression, an impersonal trend beyond the control of any individual.
Perhaps the analogy here is obvious enough that it is redundant for me to point it out, but I will anyway. Darwinists expect us to believe in trends in the universe, where everything is just a series of random coincidences, leading to the conclusion that human life is without meaning or purpose. Your beliefs and behaviors have no moral value, and your life is without significance — you are a statistic, part of the nameless "masses," just another sheep in the herd. If anyone points out that such a belief system has logical consequences (which is the point Johnson makes in Reason in the Balance), your atheistic antagonist will quickly deny that these consequences are intentional, and you're a "conspiracy theorist" for suspecting otherwise. Do you see what Johnson meant in saying that the rhetorical style of Darwinists led him to the suspect that they were less than honest? If you suspect their godless theory is merely an instrument for destroying the moral order of society, you are certainly not alone.


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You are here: Home » Business » Bank of Sierra expands loan services in SLO County and SoCal
Bank of Sierra expands loan services in SLO County and SoCal
Posted: 3:00 am, February 5, 2020 by News Staff
Bank launches business development group focused on Los Angeles, Orange, Ventura, Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo counties
–Bank of the Sierra plans to grow business loan services outside its current primary market, the company announced Tuesday in a press release. The bank has a branch in Paso Robles, at 1207 Spring Street.
It has created a Southern California Business Development Group to offer loan services to companies throughout the region. The new group will be headquartered in the Bank's branch at 26328 Citrus Street in Santa Clarita. In addition to the business development group, Bank of the Sierra has launched a similar group in Northern California and opened a Loan Production Office in Rocklin.
The company's goal is to expand the footprint of its business loan services so it can help companies throughout the state with their lending needs, the release says.
The Southern California Business Development Group will be led by Bill Nethercott, Senior Vice President and Regional Business Development Manager. Nethercott has over 35 years of experience in commercial banking, having most recently worked for Premier America Credit Union and First Bank.
"Additional loan growth is vital to achieving the Bank's strategic goals, including its return to shareholders," said Kevin McPhaill, President and CEO of Bank of the Sierra. "This new business development group will enable us to reach beyond the eight counties covered by our 40 branches and meet the lending needs of businesses all over Southern California."
"The Southern California Business Development Group is a logical extension to our growing Bank," stated Michael Olague, Executive Vice President and Chief Banking Officer. "We expect solid loan activity in Southern California, and we look forward to developing additional lending relationships."
About Bank of the Sierra
Bank of the Sierra is in its 43rd year of operations and is the largest independent bank headquartered in the South San Joaquin Valley. Bank of the Sierra is a community-centric regional bank, which offers a full range of retail and commercial banking services with full-service branches located within the counties of Tulare, Kern, Kings, Fresno, Los Angeles, Ventura, San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara. The bank also maintains a loan production office and an online branch, and it provides specialized lending services through an agricultural credit center and an SBA center. In 2019, Bank of the Sierra was recognized as one of the strongest and top-performing community banks in the country with a 5-star rating from Bauer Financial.
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Teen Mom 2 – Season 9
Follows the cast of the second season of '16 and Pregnant', giving viewers an intimate look at the challenges Chelsea, Leah, Jenelle, and Kailyn face raising a child as a teenager.
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The hosts team up to find and flip serviceable used classic cars. Mike scours the Internet and local trade rags for bargain-priced modern classics needing attention. Edd China (and in…
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With more than 20,000 patients, Dr. Pol has seen it all. Specializing in large farm animals, this senior is anything but retiring as he takes an old school, no-nonsense approach…
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Meet modern-day treasure hunter Drew Pritchard. With demanding customers, high turnover, and one of the biggest decorative salvage yards in the UK, Drew is constantly on the road, …
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In this true-crime docuseries, veteran detective John Cameron investigates convicted serial killer Ed Edwards and uncovers mounting evidence that connects Edwards to some of the most infamous murder cases of…
The Atlanta Child Murders – Season 1
Between 1979 and 1981 29 African American children went missing and were found dead in Atlanta. Till this day, no person has been tried for these murders and the killer…
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CryptoWolf: European Cryptocurrency Exchange For Trading?
This is an online platform through which cryptocurrency holders can convert their coins from one digital currency to another. Unlike many of its competitors, CryptoWolf does not require its clients to register an account. Instead, the customers provide the address where the currencies are to be debited and another where the converted money will be deposited. This is possible because this platform does not hold user's funds.
The safety measures employed by CryptoWolf are unassailable since they are internally implemented, as opposed to other systems where a third party oversees security. The processing sped is a good as the safeness of the platform, as transactions are usually finalized within five to twenty minutes, depending on the level of traffic.
Perhaps the most significant shortcoming of this platform, CryptoWolf exclusively accepts cryptocurrencies as the means of payment. This means that yarders cannot deal in fiat currency, a factor that makes the experience significantly inconvenient.
Another notable flaw within CryptoWolf is the lack of a mechanism to display the current exchange rate for various virtual currencies. As a result, investors are often left speculating, as the system determines the prevailing rates by executing the placed user orders against each other. Nevertheless, the platform seeks to solve this by having a fixed price at each specific time depending on market trends.
As mentioned earlier, the only prerequisites for trading over the CryptoWolf platform are the two-address involved in the transactions. The receiving address input box specifies the wallet in which the exchanged funds will be sent. It is worth noting that once authenticated, transactions done on this platform are irreversible. Therefore, it is imperative to verify the recipient address before confirming any deal to avoid unnecessary losses.
The exchange rate on CryptoWolf is self-derived, depending on the market trends. Users can access the miner fees on the platform's website. In an instance that the transactions fail to go through, users are prompted to provide a refund address where the cryptocurrencies will be returned.
CryptoWolf supports a wide range of digital currencies ranging from big names such as Ripple, Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin to minnows such as Metal, NEO and NAV Coin.
Regarding deposits, the minimum acceptable amount is the virtual currency equivalent of $100. If a user makes a lesser deposit, their transactions are automatically withheld until they meet the stipulated threshold. Typically, deposits reflect within a short time, but if they do not after 24 hours, the transactions are canceled and the funds sent back to the user.
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Xiaomi Redmi 6 Pro vs Honor V6
Xiaomi Redmi 6 Pro Honor V6
Xiaomi Redmi 6 Pro Honor V6 -
Redmi 6 Pro V6 -
Tk 16,999 Tk 27,000 -
GSM / CDMA / HSPA / LTE No cellular connectivity -
GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 - SIM 1 & SIM 2 CDMA 800 & TD-SCDMA N/A -
HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100 N/A -
LTE band 1(2100), 3(1800), 5(850), 7(2600), 8(900), 34(2000), 38(2600), 39(1900), 40(2300), 41(2500) N/A -
HSPA 42.2/5.76 Mbps, LTE-A (2CA) Cat6 300/50 Mbps No -
IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M Colors IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors -
5.84 inches, 85.1 cm2 (~79.5% screen-to-body ratio 10.4 inches, 307.9 cm2 (~81.1% screen-to-body ratio) -
1080 x 2280 pixels, 19:9 ratio (~432 ppi density) 1200 x 2000 pixels, 5:3 ratio (~224 ppi density) -
Dual: 12 MP (f/2.2, 1.25 μm) + 5 MP (f/2.2, 1.12 μm), gyro-EIS, phase detection autofocus, LED Flash 13MP, f/1.8, (wide), AF -
5 MP, 1080p, HDR 8MP, f/2.2, (wide) -
Geo-tagging, Touch focus, Face/smile detection, HDR, panorama LED flash, HDR, panorama HDR -
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] -
149.3 x 71.7 x 8.8 mm (5.88 x 2.82 x 0.35 in) 245.2 x 154.9 x 7.8 mm (9.65 x 6.10 x 0.31 in) -
178 g (6.28 oz) 480 g (1.06 lb) -
- Green, Silver, Black -
June, 2018 May 19, 2020 -
Released June, 2018 Release June, 2020 -
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Dem Volke Dienen
Internetplattform für die Entwicklung der revolutionären Bewegung
200 Jahre Karl Marx
Proletarischer Feminismus
Marx / Engels
Dokumente der kommunistischen Bewegung
MPP: We denounce a new edition of the Hoax against Chairman Gonzalo, the leader of the Party and the revolution
We publish an inofficial and preliminary translation of an important document of the MPP:
Proletarians of all countries, unite!
We denounce a new edition of the Hoax against Chairman Gonzalo, leader of the Party and the revolution
The Peru People's Movement (MPP), an organization generated by the Communist Party of Peru (PCP) for the party work abroad, is addressing the proletariat and people of Peru and the international proletariat and peoples of the world to denounce the new edition of the hoax of the so-called "Peace Letters" of the CIA-Peruvian reaction with the service of the rats of the ROL.
A new edition of the hoax was presented by the former Minister of the Interior (of the Minter) Rubén Vargas of the government of Francisco Sagasti, former head of strategic planning of the World Bank, who, among one of his objectives, seeks to break up oppressed countries, a calloused servant of Yankee imperialism, elevated to the temporary presidency of the government of the old landowner-bureaucratic state at the service of imperialism, mainly Yankee, by means of a parliamentary coup promoted by the imperialist NGO IDL and IDL-Reporter Yaqui Gorriti.
On December 2, 2020, hours before resigning from the Minter, Rubén Vargas had announced the capture of 72 people accused of being linked to the PCP through "MOVADEF". The monopoly of the press at the service of the fascist, genocidal and homeland-vendor regime now headed by Sagasti, said that "with this announcement presented as a police success, Vargas hoped to reverse the criticism against him. But his situation was already untenable. That was an attempt to cover the real purpose of this new edition of the hoax against Maoism, Chairman Gonzalo, the PCP and the People's War.
But the real purpose of this Yankee CIA operation is not the one announced, because the origin of this intelligence operation dates from 2015 and is directed by the CIA through Rubén Vargas himself, trained in counter-terrorism and "anti-drug-warfare" in the schools of the CIA and the DEA in the United States itself. Furthermore, according to some newspapers, the high officials of the Minter do not currently report to the current Minister of the Interior José Elice but to the former Rubé Vargas, that is, a kind of new Vladimiro Montecinos.
This CIA operation is the continuation of the one set up by this spy agency of US imperialism to detain and then infame Chairman Gonzalo, presenting him as the head of the ROL, with the service of these revisionist and capitulationist rats to annihilate the leadership of the party and the revolution. This ROL is made up of traitors and revisionist renegades who have a vicarious class hatred for Maoism, Chairman Gonzalo, Gonzalo-Thought, the Basis of Partyunity, the Party and the People's War.
The explosiveness of the masses in Peru and the whole world shows the magnificent conditions for the development of the world proletarian revolution. Therefore, this new edition of the hoax has as its concrete objective to avert the culmination of the general reorganization of the Party that will give a new impulse to the People's War in Peru and to avert the culmination of the reconstitution or constitution, as the case may be, of the Communist Parties in the different countries of the world, mainly in Latin America, as militarized Marxist-Leninist-Maoist parties to initiate the People's War at a time when the world revolution is entering a new period of revolutions.
The CIA-Peruvian reaction is trying to present the betrayal and total renunciation of the revisionist and capitulationist right opportunist line, the deadly enemy of Maoism and the People's War, as a tactical question by trying to divert the international proletariat and the peoples of the world from the road; by pretending that parliamentary cretinism, the electoral road, serves to "accumulate forces" for the moment to make the armed struggle or insurrection. The road followed by the ROL in Peru is the bureaucratic road opposed to the democratic road of the People's War. The path of the ROL is that of betrayal of Maoism, Chairman Gonzalo, the party and the People's War, in the service of reaction and imperialism. It is the old service of revisionism to reaction and imperialism to try to postpone the revolution.
This new edition of the Hoax seeks to present the grotesque electoral revisionist of the "MOVADEF" where the miserable rats of the right opportunist line (ROL), revisionist and capitulationist, act and group themselves, as "the third instrument of the revolution," the united front led by the PCP and the propaganda against the PCP and the People's War as "actions of agitation and armed propaganda" of the "second instrument of the revolution," the "People's Guerilla Army" (EGP).
We reject, condemn and mark with fire these miserable rats who, together with their Yankee CIA bosses and the Peruvian reactionaries, intend to infame Chairman Gonzalo, the greatest living Marxist-Leninist-Maoist on the face of the earth, as a revisionist and capitulationist who would be behind the revisionist electoral ogre "MOVADEF" in order to continue to accuse him of being the author of the CIA's "Peace Letters" and the right-wing opportunist line.
We call for the continuation of the campaign for Maoism, which is inextricably linked to the campaign to defend the health and life of Chairman Gonzalo!
For the general reorganization of the Party in and for the People's War!
Long live the People's War!
Crush revisionism!
PEOPLE'S MOVEMENT PERU
Written by pehu
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Hadassah concludes probe of ex-COO Blum
BALTIMORE (JTA) — Hadassah concluded its investigation of former COO Larry Blum for allegedly misusing his corporate credit card but declined to release any details. "The issues between Larry Blum and Hadassah have been resolved to the mutual satisfaction of both Mr. Blum and Hadassah," the organization said in a one-line news release issued last Friday.
Asked for details about the probe, a Hadassah spokesperson refused to elaborate.
Blum was placed on administrative leave in the fall of 2011 after the allegations were raised. His contract with Hadassah ended in April and was not renewed. He became Hadassah's chief operating officer in May 2009.
In January, Blum had alleged that Hadassah's current president and immediate past president had misused charitable funds. A Hadassah-commissioned probe exonerated the two officials.


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Q: ARKit Moving Horizontal Plane Visualization I'm able to create a horizontal plane the moment I detect a flat surface, but I am wondering if there is a way to display it while moving around similarly to the feature point debugging option?
Essentially, I want the plane to move with you, not add on to the plane.

A: Assuming I have interpreted your question correctly, you are essentially asking how can I update the visualisation of a detected plane as it increases in size etc.
There are a number of different ways that this can be achieved, but in this instance I will provide an example using a subclass of SCNNode which will update as the plane increases.
    class PlaneNode: SCNNode {

    let DEFAULT_IMAGE: String = "defaultGrid"
    let NAME: String = "PlaneNode"
    var planeGeometry: SCNPlane
    var planeAnchor: ARPlaneAnchor

    var widthInfo: String!
    var heightInfo: String!
    var alignmentInfo: String!

    //---------------
    //MARK: LifeCycle
    //---------------

    /// Inititialization
    ///
    /// - Parameters:
    ///   - anchor: ARPlaneAnchor
    ///   - node: SCNNode
    ///   - node: Bool
    init(anchor: ARPlaneAnchor, node: SCNNode, image: Bool, identifier: Int, opacity: CGFloat = 0.25){

        //1. Create The SCNPlaneGeometry
        self.planeAnchor = anchor
        self.planeGeometry = SCNPlane(width: CGFloat(anchor.extent.x), height: CGFloat(anchor.extent.z))
        let planeNode = SCNNode(geometry: planeGeometry)

        super.init()

        //2. If The Image Bool Is True We Use The Default Image From The Assets Bundle
        let planeMaterial = SCNMaterial()

        if image{

            planeMaterial.diffuse.contents = UIImage(named: DEFAULT_IMAGE)

        }else{

            planeMaterial.diffuse.contents = UIColor.cyan
        }

        //3. Set The Geometries Contents
        self.planeGeometry.materials = [planeMaterial]

        //4. Set The Position Of The PlaneNode
        planeNode.simdPosition = float3(self.planeAnchor.center.x, 0, self.planeAnchor.center.z)

        //5. Rotate It On It's XAxis
        planeNode.eulerAngles.x = -.pi / 2

        //6. Set The Opacity Of The Node
        planeNode.opacity = opacity

        //7. Add The PlaneNode
        node.addChildNode(planeNode)

        //8. Set The Nodes ID
        node.name = "\(NAME) \(identifier)"

    }

    required init?(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) { fatalError("init(coder:) has not been implemented") }

    /// Updates The Size Of The Plane As & When The ARPlaneAnchor Has Been Updated
    ///
    /// - Parameter anchor: ARPlaneAnchor
    func update(_ anchor: ARPlaneAnchor) {

        self.planeAnchor = anchor

        self.planeGeometry.width = CGFloat(anchor.extent.x)
        self.planeGeometry.height = CGFloat(anchor.extent.z)

        self.position = SCNVector3Make(anchor.center.x, 0.01, anchor.center.z)

    }

  }

Having created our subclass we then need to use it within our ViewController.
You will normally get more than one ARPlaneAnchor and would probably store these in a dictionary, however in this example we just assume there will be one.
As such we will create a variable which will reference our PlaneNode:
var planeNode:PlaneNode?

Then in the ARSCNViewDelegate we will create our PlaneNode like so:
func renderer(_ renderer: SCNSceneRenderer, didAdd node: SCNNode, for anchor: ARAnchor) {

//1. Get The Current ARPlaneAnchor
guard let anchor = anchor as? ARPlaneAnchor else { return }

//2. Create The PlaneNode
if planeNode == nil{
    planeNode = PlaneNode(anchor: anchor, node: node, image: true, identifier: 0, opacity: 1)
    node.addChildNode(planeNode!)
    planeNode?.name = String("Detected Plane")
  }

}

Then all you need to do is track the updating of the PlaneNode so that the visualization keeps updating e.g:
func renderer(_ renderer: SCNSceneRenderer, didUpdate node: SCNNode, for anchor: ARAnchor) {

    guard let anchor = anchor as? ARPlaneAnchor, let existingPlane = planeNode else { return }
    existingPlane.update(anchor)
}

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ARK is a modern and contemporary sculpture exhibition of international importance. This free to enter exhibition will take up residence at Chester Cathedral between 7 July and 15 October 2017.
ARK will feature 90 remarkable works by over 50 renowned artists. The 3D works of art will be travelling from Italy, Belgium, Iceland and the Republic of Ireland and will take two weeks to install in the cathedral, under the watchful eye of curators, Gallery Pangolin.
Made from materials as diverse as bronze, sterling silver, concrete, marble, wood, aluminium, Kilkenny Limestone, stainless steel, granite, copper, painted steel, leaves, resin, acrylic, tin, nickel silver and hair, the smallest exhibit will measure just 5cm. This will be carefully placed by hand under the protection of a glass case, whilst at the other end of the scale a 14 tonne work of art will require the attentions of a specialist team with lifting gear. Yet another 11.6m long exhibit will invite visitors to climb inside.
The largest free to enter modern sculpture exhibition to be held in the North West of England, ARK will feature works by sculptors including Damien Hirst, Antony Gormley, Lynn Chadwick, Barbara Hepworth, Sarah Lucas, David Mach, Kenneth Armitage, Elisabeth Frink, Eduardo Paolozzi and Peter Randall-Page, amongst others. Valued in the tens of millions of pounds, this exhibition will use the magnificent interior of the cathedral building as well as the ancient spaces surrounding it as the backdrop to these extraordinary works of art.


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Tuesday, December 13, 2022 from 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM EST
It is free and open to the public. Direct link and password to the Zoom meeting will be emailed to all registrants ahead of time.
aptrust@nysed.gov
Movie Censorship in New York: an Early Cancel Culture?
In the days before the Motion Picture Association developed a film rating system, movie producers and distributors had to apply for a permit with New York's Division of Motion Picture to show their film in the state. The New York State Archives preserves the largest collection of film scripts from 1921-1965 in the world. Learn more about the contribution these scripts add to the history of censorship in New York and trace the shifting of American attitudes toward sex, religion and morality.
About The speakers
Laura Wittern-Keller holds a BA and a PhD in history from the University at Albany where she has been teaching U.S. legal and urban history for the past fifteen years. She is the author of Freedom of the Screen (2008) and co-author of the Miracle Case: Film Censorship and the Supreme Court (2008), both of which were largely researched at the New York State Archives, as well as a chapter author in Silencing Cinema (2013) and Hollywood and the Law (2019).
Thomas J. Ruller has held the position of New York State Archivist since 2015. He has been an active professional and is the author of several peer-reviewed journal articles and reviews on the use of technology in Archives and the preservation of records in electronic form. He has been a consultant for several State governments and other organizations focusing on electronic records management and preservation.
More Event Details
A direct link and password to digital meeting space will be emailed to all registrants ahead of time. Contact aptrust@nysed.gov with questions or in need of assistance.
2022-12-13T12:30:00-0500 2022-12-13T13:30:00-0500 Censorship in Cinema: Zooming In http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=o9efsquab&oeidk=a07ejdtvicnba3ac9ad


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2008 Momentum Awards Announced
Contact: Keith Mohr, 615-594-0426
NASHVILLE, Nov. 5 /Christian Newswire/ Indieheaven.com, the leading organization for Christian independent musicians announces the 2008 MOMENTUM AWARDS are now accepting nominations. The Momentum Awards, now in its 3rd year, are the premier award recognition program for independents. Previous award winners have seen opportunities for advancement in their music and mission because of the recognition the awards garner. Some have moved into the CCM Industry, while others have continued to see success as independent artists.
Indieheaven president, Keith Mohr states, "as the music industry continues to change and more and more artists are either staying independent or going back to their independent roots, it is important to recognize the pursuit of excellence in this growing indiestry. The basis for the Momentum Awards is not competition, but comrades applauding and encouraging one another to create momentum in their music missions. We teach independents that momentum is paramount to success as an artist."
For the first time, fans and a panel of select indiestry and industry personnel will select the winners in 15 categories. Nominations will be received until December 31, 2007. The 5 finalists in each category will be announced January 3, 2008. Fans will then be able to cast their vote until March 1, 2008. The winners will be announced March 29, 2008 at the CIA Summit in Franklin, TN.
The Momentum Awards are open to any member of Indieheaven.com.
For more information and to cast your nomination, visit: MOMENTUM AWARDS
For more information on Indieheaven, Visit: Indieheaven.com
For more information on The CIA SUMMIT, Visit: CIA SUMMIT


Spotify revised usage metrics for last year after discovering that about two million users accessed a free version of the streaming music service with an unauthorized app that blocked ads, according to a regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fraudulent users made up 1.3% of its total user base, per Variety.
After the discovery, Spotify cut its monthly active user count from 159 million to 157 million, including 71 million subscribers for who pay $9.99 a month for the ad-free premium service. Spotify also reduced its number of streaming content hours by 1.2% to 39.8 billion from 40.3 billion to account for the fraudulent activity.
Spotify disclosed the revised user data just one week before its an April 3 public offering on the New York Stock Exchange in a nontraditional direct-listing IPO. About 31% of its outstanding shares will be available for sale as part of the offering, Variety said.
Spotify's disclosure of fraudulent activity and voluntary adjustments to its total user base numbers are likely intended to avoid the lawsuits that typically follow any kind of revelation surrounding whether a company knew about renegade ad-free apps but didn't promptly tell investors. Social media company Snap was sued last year in a securities class action suit that alleged it made false and misleading statements about its user growth, per a separate Variety report. That lawsuit followed a 21% drop in the company's share price after its first public report to shareholders showed disappointing user growth. It appears that Spotify looks to prevent this drop in share price and negative sentiment as it heads into its IPO next week.
The public disclosures did indicate that its service faces a risk of artificial manipulation of stream counts that can be difficult to police. The failure to crack down on fraudulent streams could have a negative effect on its business, operating results and financial condition, the company said, so it seems like a smart move to offer up this information before news breaks from some other source.
Spotify's disclosure follows an effort earlier this month to crack down on pirated apps that allowed free access to paid features like ad-free Premium, per TorrentFreak. The company sent emails to users saying it had detected abnormal activity on apps and had disabled them. The email assured users that their Spotify accounts were safe and provided instructions for how to download and install the official app from the Google Play Store or App Store.