What's the story behind Pakistan's Maulana SAMI UL HAQ's Assassination?
MaulanaSamiulHaq, a prominent Pakistani cleric also known as the "Father of the Taliban", had been killed in abrutal attack,he was stabbed to death at his residence in Rawalpindi on Nov 2 2018. Police said that Maulana was taken to a nearby hospital where he died. Until now, No group has so far claimed the responsibility of his murder.
MaulanaHaq was the head cleric of DarulUloomHaqqania, AkoraKhattak. He has served on the post since the death of his father, Maulana Abdul Haq, who founded the madrassah in 1988. Many leaders of Afghan Taliban, including the movement's founder Mullah Omar, studied at DarulUloomHaqqania.He was a part of JUI Darkhwati and was made its president after Darkhwati's death. The group later came to be known as the JUI-S.
His son Hamid ulHaq said "My father has been martyred. He was alone at his home. His guard had gone out minutes before the attack and upon his return, he saw my father in critical condition," he told reporters.
The Prime Minister of Pakistan, MrImran Khancondemned the killing and had ordered an investigation.State Minister for Interior Shehryar Afridi said that he would present a detailed report to the prime minister regarding assassination of Maulana Sami-ul-Haq.He was talking to media at DarulUloomHaqqania after offering condolence to Hamid-ul-Haq, son of Maulana Sami-ul-Haq. Afridi said that investigation was underway in the case from every angle and he would not comment prematurely as it could affect the ongoing investigation process.Shehryar said Maulana played a key role in religious reforms introduced during the last tenure of PTI government.He said some countries wanted to create unrest in the country through social media, adding that strict action would be taken in that regard.He said that culprits involved in the assassination would be brought to justice.
Haq's death comes at a time of turmoil in Pakistan, where protests had broken out in a number of cities after the acquittal of a Christian woman sentenced to death on blasphemy charges. This was done to create a situation of further unrest and make the country disquiet.Maulana had thousands of followers among his students, as well as Afghan and local Taliban members. The BBC's M. Ilyas Khan said "there are fears that his killing may cause further trouble on the streets".
Since the murder of Haq, International media, specifically of India and Afghanistan, has been observed accusing and bashing Pakistan Security Forces for murder of Maulana by linking it with TLP's recently created anarchy, release of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, Afghanistan peace process and FATA issue.
It is pertinent to mention that Pakistan is the key player and supporter of peace in Afghanistan as peace in Afghanistan would eventually lead towards peace in Pakistan. Maulana's assassination will negativity affect Afghanistan peace process as Taliban regarded Maulanait a spiritual leader who enjoyed great respect as a teacher. His assassination favors those who do not want peace in Afghanistan.
HamidulHaq stated that the world has lost a door for talks with Taliban after the death of his father. He also said that Maulana Sami was facing threat from India and Afghanistan.
Afghanistan Government is not happy over Afghan peace talks scheduled in Moscow in the coming days mainly due to disregard to US and Afghan Government by Russia and participation of Pakistan in the talks. India is also fingers crossed over attending these talks mainly due to Afghanistan and US. Hence, assassination of Maulana is pointing fingers towards NDS and RAW.
According to an article carried by Arab News, the news of Sami death was celebrated by an official of Afghan Embassy in the US, MrMajeedQarar. The cultural attaché went live on his personal Facebook page to congratulate Afghans on his death, the paper claimed.
There is also a fear amongst US and Afghanistan that Moscow peace initiative could derail efforts by U.S. envoy ZalmayKhalilzad to persuade the Taliban to agree to negotiate.On September 5, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo formally appointed ZalmaiKhalilzad, the former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq and the United Nations, as a Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation. In this new role, Khalilzad is given the portfolio to "support, facilitate and participate" in the peace process. In his first tour of the countries in the region, which included Afghanistan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, Khalilzad met with representatives of the Taliban in Doha on September 12. Participation of Pakistan in the peace talks of Moscow organized by the Russian Federation was clearly unpleasant for India and Afghanistan.
There is also a strong opinion amongst few intellects and think tanks that India and Afghanistan are celebrating Maulana's assassination and they have avenged murder of Afghan General Raziq, who was one of Afghanistan's most powerful security officials. He was killed along with Kandahar's intelligence chief, Abdul Mohmin, when a bodyguard opened fire after a meeting in the southern province, officials said.
Taliban had claimed the responsibility of his murder. "The brutal police chief of Kandahar has been killed along several other officials," a Taliban statement said.Raziq was criticized by human rights groups but highly respected by US officers who saw him as one of Afghanistan's most effective leaders, largely responsible for keeping Kandahar province under control. So Maulana's assassination seems quite a revenge for the killing of Raziq.
Pakistan is a country which is the victim of terrorism for decades. Pakistan Army has fought many operations against terrorism in which they have lost many lives. This is the time when Pakistan is in a crucial state and there is a dire need to promote the end of war in Afghanistan so that peace would prevail in the region of both Afghanistan and Pakistan.Critically observing the present scenario one may ponder that "Was MaulanaSami ul Haq's assassinationjust another step to destabilizePakistan'simage and tag it as a terrorist state?
Sidra Insar is a graduate from QAU, Islamabad and is currently working as an educationist in the Government of Pakistan. Her area of interest is Political Dynamics of States and International Relations.


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Discovery of new treatment for preeclampsia
By drfiona
Preeclampsia is a serious complication of pregnancy. It is characterised by high blood pressure and protein in the urine and there can be signs of multisystem organ involvement and dysfunction. We have identified a medication, safe in pregnancy, that looks like a promising treatment for preeclampsia based on results from laboratory studies. We are now taking this to clinical trial with our fabulous clinical colleagues in South Africa.
See the Age article on us posted below
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Australian scientists discover new treatment for preeclampsia.
Australian scientists are confident they have discovered a treatment for preeclampsia, a condition that kills 60,000 pregnant women globally each year and many more babies.
In a significant breakthrough, a team of Melbourne researchers has found that a cheap drug already used to treat diabetes – metformin – can block the release of toxins from the placenta when preeclampsia is present.
The drug also seems to heal injured blood vessels – another effect of the disease which strikes about 15,000 pregnant women in Australia each year, causing many to deliver premature babies.
The researchers from the Translational Obstetrics Group at Mercy Hospital for Women and the University of Melbourne discovered the effect in laboratory studies of placentas from healthy pregnancies and those with pre-eclampsia.
They are now hoping to test metformin as a way of preventing the condition and treating it. If funding for more research is secured, the trials could start as early as next year.
Dr Fiona Brownfoot, lead author of the study being published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology today, said it was an exciting finding because metformin has already been deemed safe for pregnant women and their babies due to its use for diabetes. The drug is also off patent, which means it could be used in poor countries where most deaths from the preeclampsia occur.
"It's very cheap and it's a tablet so you don't need a fridge to store it, which means it could be the perfect drug for the third world," she said.
Professor Stephen Tong, head of the team, said there were no drugs to treat preeclampsia which affects 3-8 per cent of pregnant women from 20 weeks' gestation. It involves destructive molecules being released from the placenta into the mother's bloodstream which damage blood vessels. This causes high blood pressure and damage to vital organs including the liver, kidneys, brain, lungs and blood clotting system. In severe cases, it can cause seizures and death.
At the moment, doctors caring for women with preeclampsia walk a tightrope, balancing risks to both the mother and baby because the only treatment for the condition is birth. This means women are often admitted to hospital for monitoring and when the condition becomes too risky for her, the baby is delivered, often prematurely. Prematurity puts babies at risk of death, disability and cerebral palsy.
Dr Brownfoot said the only other treatment being tested for preeclampsia is Pravastatin – a drug being trialled in the UK and US.
However, she said Pravastatin may carry risks for pregnant women and their babies.
Metformin has become a focus for researchers in recent years because it is believed to prevent the spread of some cancers and increase life span. Another group of Melbourne researchers are currently testing whether it prevents uterine cancer in women with breast cancer.
New mother Bianca Rotar, 31, said she was thrilled with the research after giving birth prematurely to Lexi at nearly 28 weeks' because of preeclampsia.
After her diagnosis, Ms Rotar was monitored in hospital for four days before it became too risky for her to continue the pregnancy. Her daughter, who weighed just 623 grams at birth, has been in the neonatal intensive care unit for two months.
"It's great news … I'm hoping I can try this drug next time around because I've been told I'm at high risk for other pregnancies," she said.
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Drive Through Funeral Home With Bullet Proof Glass, In The Hood.
A funeral home in Compton, California offers drive-thru funerals behind bulletproof glass.
The deceased are laid out behind a glass window at Adam's Funeral Home, not much different from a department store display or a McDonald's drive-through window. The only difference is, there is no mannequin in the window – only dead people.
During funeral services, people off the street will even come by to pay their respects, just out of curiosity. Most have never seen this type of final celebration.
The owner of the funeral home, Peggy Scott Adams says it's a beautiful scene, not grotesque at all.
She says more and more people are deciding to do a drive-thru, bulletproof glass funerals with their loved ones on display.
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Mitigate pipeline corrosion by prioritizing positive material identification
In the oil and gas industry, the emphasis on safety and quality assurance of assets at the worksite is always top of mind. Fatal accidents and injuries, as well as leaks and premature pipe replacements, are unfortunate consequences of failures that are often caused by faulty or misidentified metal assets. To mitigate the risk of these assets making their way onto the worksite, inspecting metals has become a regular practice that can ultimately reduce the risk of potential malfunctions or compliance issues.
Positive material identification (PMI) is an essential quality assurance step needed to avoid pipe corrosion, which is a leading cause of pipeline failures and leaks. PMI involves analyzing metals and alloys used in the manufacturing of assets such as gaskets, valves and piping, and helps ensure the integrity of infrastructure throughout the worksite.
With the oil and gas business being a high-hazard industry with numerous potential exposures to risk in all operations, the importance of PMI in pipeline integrity cannot be overlooked.
Why is PMI essential? Industry reported data suggests that as much as 3% of rogue material will make its way into critical process equipment. This can occur due to a number of factors, including a fabricator using unmarked and unknown material, a warehouse stocking inventory in the wrong location, a welder or pipefitter selecting the wrong component during the fabrication process, etc.
Along with vulnerabilities to rogue materials, oil and gas pipeline networks are susceptible to mechanical failures due to age and corrosion. When these pipes crack and leak, the results can be disastrous. Actively practicing PMI on existing piping equipment and assets entering the worksite can provide assurance that the correct metal alloys are being used, and allow inspection personnel to better understand and predict other wear and tear that may occur (FIG. 1).
FIG. 1. An inspector uses a handheld LIBS analyzer to analyze incoming materials.
PMI and corrosion. According to the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), corrosion is historically one of the two most prevalent causes of pipeline failures, making the requirement for PMI in alloys used throughout the plant more critical than ever. In fact, according to the National Association of Corrosion Engineers, the total annual cost of corrosion in the oil and gas production industry is estimated at $1.372 B.
Simply relying on spot testing of parts and subassemblies can be seen as too risky, which is why there has been an increase in the need for portable X-ray fluorescence (XRF) and laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) analyzers. These analyzers play an essential role in PMI, particularly when analyzing the likelihood of corrosion, which is most commonly caused by several factors:
Sulfidation: Also known as sulfidic corrosion, sulfidation continues to be a significant cause of leaks and problems in the refining industry that can lead to early replacements, unplanned outages and incidents potentially resulting in loss of property and injury to workers. Sulfidation corrosion occurs in carbon steel and low-alloy steel equipment when they are exposed to hydrocarbons containing sulfur compounds at elevated temperatures. Sulfidation corrosion thins the pressure boundary wall that contains the hydrocarbon and, if not addressed, can result in leakage to the atmosphere. This corrosion has proven to be higher in carbon steels containing less than 0.1% silicon. Therefore, it is important for refineries and other petrochemical manufacturers to be able to measure the silicon content of pipes, piping components and vessels in accordance with API Recommended Practice 939-C.
Flow acceleration: Flow-accelerated corrosion, or FAC, occurs when carbon steel piping and components are degraded in the presence of flowing water or steam water with low-dissolved oxygen. FAC is the dissolution of the normally protective oxide layer on the inside surface of carbon and low-alloy-steel piping. This process results in the thinning of the pipe wall, which can then lead to leaks and potential catastrophic ruptures that can impact both worker safety and plant reliability. It has been widely demonstrated that small quantities of alloying elements, chromium in particular, greatly reduce the rate of FAC.
As a result, it has become an industry convention when inspecting for FAC to closely monitor trace alloy content.
Microalloyed steels: Microalloyed steels, often referred to as high-strength low-alloy steels (HSLA), are a family of materials strengthened by the addition of "micro" alloy concentrations to low-carbon mild steel. Microalloyed steels are used in every major steel market sector in various parts of the world, and their development has played an important role in the expansion of certain key industries, including the oil and gas industry. Although the strengthening effects of these elements make microalloyed steels particularly suited for high-strength applications, they can also detract from desired qualities such as toughness, ductility and weldability. It is essential that microalloyed steels are analyzed to verify that steel has the right levels of trace elements, such as niobium, vanadium and titanium; otherwise, there is a greater chance of corrosion, particularly if faulty or counterfeit metals are used (FIG. 2).
FIG. 2. An inspector uses a handheld LIBS analyzer to identify metal asset.
By understanding the different catalysts for corrosion, inspection personnel can use the technologies available to them to provide more context to the insights coming from PMI, allowing them to make more appropriate decisions around how best to manage the assets throughout the worksite.
Gain a better understanding of your pipelines. Pipeline malfunctions can occur in countless ways, but having a keen understanding of the risks of corrosion—and the role PMI can play in mitigating it—is critical to a safer worksite. By taking the time to introduce tools such as an XRF or LIBS analyzer into routine safety checks, inspection personnel will be able to accurately identify metal composition to ensure they are properly prepared.
An effective PMI program helps inspection personnel gain a better understanding of the assets throughout the worksite, allowing them to properly maintain or address any signs of corrosion, thereby remaining one step ahead of the risk of disastrous and hazardous pipeline malfunctions. GP
BRIAN DALTON is the Product Manager for the newly launched Thermo Scientific Niton Apollo handheld LIBS analyzer. For the past 10 yr, Mr. Dalton has been actively involved in the development and commercialization of handheld XRF, LIBS and OES analyzers.


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Asian stocks follow Wall St higher after UK calms markets
Joe Mcdonald, The Associated Press Sep 28, 2022 9:51 PM
A currency trader works at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. Asian stock markets have followed Wall Street higher after Britain's central bank moved forcefully to stop a budding financial crisis. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets followed Wall Street higher Thursday after Britain's central bank moved forcefully to stop a budding financial crisis.
Market benchmarks in Hong Kong, Seoul and Sydney added more than 1%. Shanghai and Tokyo also rose. Oil prices edged lower after jumping by more than $3 per barrel the previous day.
Wall Street's benchmark S&P 500 index surged 2% on Wednesday for its biggest gain in seven weeks after the Bank of England announced it would buy as many government bonds as needed to restore order to financial markets.
That helped to calm investor fears that planned British tax cuts would push up already high inflation. That had caused the value of the British pound to fall to its lowest level since the 1970s and bond prices to plunge.
The Shanghai Composite Index rose 0.8% to 3,068.87 and the Nikkei 225 in Tokyo gained 0.6% to 26,341.76. The Hang Seng in Hong Kong jumped 1.3% to 17,477.97.
The Kospi in Seoul gained 1.1% to 2,193.82 and Sydney's S&P ASX 200 rose 1.6% to 6,566.80.
New Zealand and Southeast Asian markets also advanced.
On Wall Street, the S&P 500 rose to 3,719.04 after the Bank of England said it would buy bonds over the next two weeks to stop a slide in prices. Investors were rattled by plans for 45 billion pounds ($48 billion) of tax cuts with no spending reductions.
The central bank earlier warned crumbling confidence in the economy posed a "material risk to U.K. financial stability." The International Monetary Fund took the rare step of urging a member of the Group of Seven advanced economies to abandon its plan for tax cuts and more borrowing.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rallied 1.9% to 29,683.74. The Nasdaq composite climbed 2.1% to 11,051.64.
Despite Wednesday's gain, the S&P 500 is down more than 20% from its Jan. 3 record, which puts it in what traders call a bear market.
Forecasters see more turbulence ahead due to worries about a possible recession, higher interest rates and even higher inflation.
The yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury, or the difference between its market price and the payout if held to maturity, briefly exceeded 4% on Wednesday, its highest level in a decade.
Investor fears are growing that aggressive interest rate hikes this year by the Federal Reserve and central banks in Europe and Asia to cool inflation that is at multi-decade highs might tip the global economy into recession.
The investment giant Vanguard puts the chance of a U.S. recession at 25% this year and at 65% next year if the Fed follows through on expectations it will raise rates again and keep them elevated through next year.
In energy markets, benchmark U.S. crude lost 32 cents to $81.83 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract surged $3.65 on Wednesday to $82.15. Brent crude, the price basis for international oils, shed 30 cents to $87.75 per barrel in London. It gained $3.05 the previous session to $89.32.
The dollar gained to 144.32 yen from Wednesday's 143.96 yen. The euro declined to 96.82 cents from 97.43 cents.
Joe Mcdonald, The Associated Press
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When the client initially contacted me they weren't entirely sure of the type of performance they required, they were thinking either table magic or my cabaret show. When ever this situation arises I will always call the client to discuss things in more detail. As soon as I spoke to them it became apparent that they had quite a packed evening with drinks, dinner, speeches and a band so therefore I felt it would be too much to try and fit the cabaret show in as well so a close up performance was the way to go.
On the night itself I arrived an hour early to check out the venue, I have been here before but i'd forgotten and didn't realise until I drove through the gates! I always like to arrive before the client for corporate events. It gives me a chance to prepare, meet the staff at the venue and prepare any logistics. By the time the client arrives I'll be sorted and I'll be one less thing for them to worry about.
As far as my performance went I started at 7pm as people arrived for the drinks reception (I actually started a little later than this as I always like to give people the chance to get in the door and get drinks in hand before I start). I performed for about 40 minutes during the drinks reception. I always like to keep things simple and relaxed during this most informal of time, what I like to think of as my warm up before I get into the heavier mind reading later!
As soon as people were seated for dinner I started performing at the tables. There were 12 tables, each with about 10 guests. I had approximately an hour and a half to get around the tables before the band started to play which meant each table could have a 10 minute routine. It's always hard to work this out for certain in advance as I will always stop whilst the main course is served but in this case I could perform at one end of the routine whilst the first few tables were being served, by the time the waiting staff got to me, the first few tables had finished eating and I could perform for them. The logistics of this doesn't always work out so well but last night was perfect. It even gave me a five minutes left over at the end to perform a special routine for the table of directors and the people who'd been kind enough to book me.
The whole evening was a huge success and I was very pleased to be asked by the company to perform at another event for them next month. In my next blog entry I'll write a little more about an actual performance and slightly less about the practical side of things.
If you'd like to book a Berkshire magician for your corporate event please get in touch.
Edward will mix with your guests, either whilst standing or come to their table at a dinner, and perform for small groups or individuals, giving each group their own, personal 10 minute show. If you see this type of performance on tv you may thing camera trickery, when it happens inches from your face you will truly believe your mind has just been read. If you're after a close up magician in Berkshire go to the close up page for more details.


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Our first sensor node have now been completed.
It is a temperature sensor node that will measure the temperature of a body part, for example the biceps or thigh.
A TMP 36 is soldered to a small piece of perfboard, and we added an ESP8266 that will send the data over WiFi with MQTT.
It is a simple solder job, but two techniques was utilized. On two of the pins from the temp sensor, wire was used, on the third a a solder trail was used because of the short distance. It would have made it more difficult to use a wire there.
The data is sent over MQTT, and will hopefully soon be displayed on our dashboard that is in development.
This the temperature data this node sends out will show the temperature of the muscle that it is attached to and can be used along side other data we are planing to collect to show the efficiency of the exercise that is being performed.


After volunteering at the school library the other day (and living out my life-long fantasy of being a school librarian…), I still had 30 minutes before school was out, so I popped over to our neighborhood coffee shop across the street to drink tea and read for a bit. When I came outside with my drink, I noticed a mom from the school also sitting on the porch, hard at work. I had a pang of guilt—what am I doing here drinking $4 tea that we really can't afford and reading my just-for-fun book while mamas like this are doing actual work-work?
Folks talk about the lazy days of summer, but this year, I'm experiencing the lazy days of fall. Well, maybe not exactly lazy, but quiet and slow. Usually fall feels like the start of something new to me—school, a new season, anticipating winter and Christmas, getting into a new groove of a new schedule. But in the spirit of pursuing rest, I've had a reset this year.


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Bobby Short, byname of Robert Waltrip Short, (born Sept. 15, 1924, Danville, Ill., U.S.—died March 21, 2005, New York, N.Y.), American cabaret singer and piano player who in his personal and performance style came to represent a sophistication and elegance typical of an earlier era.
At age 9 Short was already playing piano in roadhouses and saloons near his childhood home; at 12 he played his first shows in New York City. As a young man he was booked in nightclubs throughout the United States. Echoing his reputation as a stylish dresser, he developed a performance style that was both intimate and polished. He had a legendary 36-year run (1968–2004) at the Café Carlyle in the Carlyle Hotel on the Upper East Side in Manhattan. In 2005 he gave a final performance to celebrate the nightclub's 50th anniversary.
Short established himself as a New York institution, winning fans and friends among the city's social and artistic elite. His stride style of piano matched well with his velvet baritone, and he earned a reputation as a master of jazz standards, especially noted for his renditions of works by Duke Ellington, Eubie Blake, Fats Waller, and Cole Porter. Short's best-known albums include Mabel Mercer and Bobby Short at Town Hall (1968) and Late Night at the Café Carlyle (1993). He had small roles in several films and commercials, and he published two memoirs, Black and White Baby (1971) and Bobby Short: The Life and Times of a Saloon Singer (1995).
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You need a lift pitch or speech, and also you have to include it to LinkedIn. linkedin for small business A "lift speech" is that very brief speech you would provide (pitch) to an official amidst the ride as much as his office or to her automobile. You have perhaps 30 secs to pitch an unthinkable tale, book or believed to them.
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When the performance of a compassionate commanding officer (Marlowe) is compromised by the emotional effects of high casualties, leadership of an air squadron doing daylight runs against the Nazis is passed to Brigadier General Frank Savage (Peck), who vows to toughen up the group. However, over time he, too, comes to feel the strain of sacrifice and exhaustion in this most critical and intensive operation of the war.
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'Riverdale' Actress Lili Reinhart's 'Long-Lost Twin' Has Been Discovered And Fans Are Going Crazy
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Celebrity doppelgängers are nothing new in the entertainment world and we as a society love pointing them out whenever we spot them. Some of the more popular ones we've got so far include, Daniel Radcliffe and Elijah Wood, Nina Dobrev and Victoria Justice, and Katy Perry and Zooey Deschanel. And now the public can add two more names to the list. However, this one is just mind-blowing. After Monday night's Met Gala, fans finally realized that Riverdale actress, Lili Reinhart, could seriously be late actress Brittany Murphy's "long-lost twin" and immediately blew up Twitter to express their thoughts. Some are even taking it one step further by saying that Miss Betty Cooper is Brittany Murphy reincarnated. But let's be clear, this is not entirely new news. However, Reinhart's appearance at the Met Gala just brought it to the surface.
It's been nine years since Murphy sadly passed away from pneumonia at the young age of 32. Fans remember the actress' bubbly personality in the movies that made us fall in love with her such as, Clueless, Just Married, Uptown Girls, and 8 Mile.
Fans are finding photos of Murphy from the '90s and pinning them up alongside Reinhart and the resemblance trumps all of the other celebrity doppelgängers. But just in case you were wondering, the answer is yes. The 21-year-old starlet is very much aware of the fact that she and the Girl Interrupted actress look alike, "Everyone says Brittany Murphy — everyone. They think I'm her reincarnated," she said in an interview with Buzzfeed. "There are a lot of pictures of us side by side where we look crazy–alike," she added.
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Ivar Kreuger [] (* 2. März 1880 in Kalmar, Schweden; † 12. März 1932 in Paris) war der Gründer der Svenska Tändsticks AB (STAB) () und die zentrale Figur im europäischen Zündwarenmonopol, ein europäischer Tycoon. Im Jahr 1929 gründete er die Firma Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget, die noch heute existiert. Er erschoss sich, als der Konkurs seines Trusts unabwendbar wurde, vermutlich um sich nicht öffentlicher Schmach ausgesetzt zu sehen.

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Kreugers Vorfahren waren (mit dem Namen Kröger) in der ersten Hälfte des 17. Jahrhunderts in Schweden eingewandert. So kam Johann Kröger schon 1710 nach Kalmar. Kreugers Urgroßvater war dort ein erfolgreicher Großhandelskaufmann. Sein Großvater Peter Edward Kreuger stellte schon Zündhölzer her und erwarb viele schwedische Zündholzfabriken – den Grundstein für das spätere kreugersche Imperium. Ivar Kreugers Vater Ernst Kreuger (1852–1946) kaufte weitere Firmen hinzu.

Ivar Kreuger studierte zunächst Ingenieurwissenschaften, bevor er Geschäftsmann wurde. Er machte in seiner Jugend geschäftliche Erfahrungen in den USA, Großbritannien und Südafrika. Auf dieser Grundlage – und auf der Grundlage des Erbes seines Vaters – schuf er nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg innerhalb weniger Jahre einen weltumspannenden Konzern. Kern des 1913 neu strukturierten Firmenkonglomerats war die Svenska Tändsticks AB (STAB), deren Schwerpunkt auf der Nutzung des schwedischen Holzreichtums und der Produktion von Zündhölzern lag. Sehr erfolgreich expandierte Kreuger auf immer neue nationale Märkte.

Auf diese Weise wuchs die 1980 in Swedish Match umbenannte Firma zu einer Holding an, der in den 1930er Jahren rund 150 Tochterfirmen mit 260 Fabriken und 750.000 Mitarbeitern angehörten und die in 33 Ländern den Zündholzmarkt und damit etwa drei Viertel der Weltproduktion kontrollierte. Daneben gehörten Kreuger eine Vielzahl an Berg- und Verhüttungswerken, ein großer Teil der schwedischen Papierindustrie mitsamt den dazugehörigen Wäldern und seit 1930 auch die Mehrheit der Telefonfirma Ericsson. 1919 war er in großem Stil in das aufblühende schwedische Filmgeschäft eingestiegen: Er investierte in die neu gegründete Filmproduktionsgesellschaft Svensk Filmindustri, deren Hauptanteilseigner er wurde, und ließ 1920 mit Filmstaden eine Filmstadt bei Stockholm im Hollywood-Stil errichten.

Als Konzernzentrale wurde 1926/28 Tändstickspalatset (Zündholzpalast oder Streichholzpalast) nach den Plänen des Architekten Ivar Tengbom in der Västra Trädgårdsgatan 15 in Stockholm errichtet. Die Inneneinrichtung wurde in der Stilrichtung des Nordischen Klassizismus von Schwedens seinerzeit bekanntesten Künstlern und Formgebern gestaltet, unter ihnen Isaac Grünewald, Carl Milles, Carl Malmsten und Simon Gate. Bekannt wurde der heute noch erhaltene, geschwungene Vorstandssaal mit dem ebenso geschwungenen Tisch. Das Unternehmen unterhielt außerdem repräsentative Büros in vielen europäischen Hauptstädten wie Berlin oder Paris.

Seine Geschäftsstrategie beruhte auf der Ausbeutung der Zündholzmonopole in verschiedenen Ländern. Er nahm riesige Kredite in Amerika, Holland, Schweiz, England, Frankreich – den reichen Industrieländern – auf, und lieh das Geld finanziell schwachen Ländern in Mitteleuropa (Deutschland, Ungarn, Rumänien, Polen) und einigen südamerikanischen Staaten, wofür ihm das Zündholzmonopol in diesen Ländern zufiel. Die Idee war nicht neu, die Augsburger Handelsfamilie Fugger hatte sich ihrer bereits im 16. Jahrhundert bedient, indem sie Herrschern Kredite zum Austausch gegen Monopole (z. B. Ausbeutung der Silber- und Kupferminen) gewährten. Kreuger passte sie der damaligen Zeit an, indem er Anleihen (Inhaber-Obligationen) auf sein Unternehmen emittierte. Als Deutschland, Rumänien, Ungarn und andere Staaten die Zahlung der Zinsen und der Amortisierungsbeiträge einstellten, musste auch er seine Zahlungen an die Gläubigerländer schuldig bleiben. Damit brach sein Streichholzimperium zusammen.

Es endete mit Kreugers Suizid 1932 in der Avenue Victor-Emanuel in Paris. Man fand ihn erschossen und mit einer Pistole in der Hand, die er am Tag zuvor gekauft hatte. Die polizeilichen Ermittlungen ergaben Selbsttötung. Ein Motiv wäre der drohende Zusammenbruch seines Firmenimperiums gewesen. Die Kreuger & Toll AB musste wenige Wochen später Konkurs anmelden. Er täuschte sich in der politischen und wirtschaftlichen Lage und wurde so das Opfer ungünstiger Umstände. Im Gegensatz zu dieser Darstellung steht die Beurteilung durch Frank Partnoy in seinem 2009 erschienenen Werk, das eine negativere Rolle Kreugers beschreibt. Kreuger habe bereits in den 1920er Jahren mit Off-shore-Firmen die Verschuldung seiner Unternehmen vor Anlegern verschleiert.

Ivars Bruder Torsten Kreuger vertrat die Ansicht, sein Bruder sei ermordet worden. Die Vermutungen darüber, wer der Auftraggeber eines Mordes gewesen sei, reichen von der schwedischen Industriellenfamilie Wallenberg über das amerikanische Bankhaus J.P. Morgan bis hin zu Josef Stalin. Unbestreitbar ist, dass Kreuger zahlreiche mächtige Feinde hatte.

Ein Teil seines früheren Unternehmens existiert heute als Swedish Match AB, der weltgrößte Streichholzproduzent mit umfangreichen Aktivitäten im Tabakhandel. Das von ihm erlangte Zündwarenmonopol lief in Deutschland erst 1983 aus.

Trivia
Im Roman Ein Sohn Englands (1935) von Graham Greene ist die Figur des schwedischen Milliardärs "Erik Krogh" deutlich an das Vorbild Kreugers angelehnt. Greene hatte zuvor eine Biografie über Kreuger rezensiert.

Peter van Eyck spielte Kreuger in dem 1967 ausgestrahlten deutschen Fernsehfilm Der Fall Ivar Kreuger.

Literatur

 Frank Arnau: Talente auf Abwegen. Alexandre Stavisky. Ivar Kreuger. Serge Rubinstein, Harry Domela. Deutscher Bücherbund, Stuttgart 1966.
 Sebastian Balzter: Vorsicht, Brandgefahr! (Geldirrtümer Folge 50), in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung Nr. 39, 1. Oktober 2017, S. 35.
 Allen Churchill: Der Zündholzkönig. Ivar Kreugers unglaubwürdiges Leben. Goverts, Stuttgart 1957.
 Heinz Coubier: Ivar Kreuger. Tragödie. Dietzmann, Leipzig 1939.
 Ilja Ehrenburg: Die Einheitsfront. Berlin 1930, deutsch Die heiligsten Güter. Roman der großen Interessen. Berlin 1931.
 Torsten Kreuger: Die Wahrheit über Ivar Kreuger. Augenzeugenberichte, Geheimakten, Dokumente. Seewald, Stuttgart 1966.
 André Kostolany: Kostolanys beste Geldgeschichten. Econ, Düsseldorf 1996, ISBN 3-612-26246-7.
 André Kostolany: Kostolanys Börsenseminar. Econ, Düsseldorf 1986, ISBN 3-612-26235-1.
 Ludwig Marcuse: Die Legende unserer Tage. In: Das Tage-Buch. 7. Mai 1932 (Artikel über Kreuger).
 Otto Walter (Hrsg.): Ivar Kreuger – die Katastrophe. 319 S. plus zahlreiche Abb. Walter, Olten und Konstanz 1932
 Frank Partnoy: Der Zündholzkönig. Ivar Kreuger, Finanzgenie und Wegbereiter eines Jahrhunderts von Wall-Street-Skandalen (Originaltitel: The Match King. Profile Books, London 2009, übersetzt von Stefan Gebauer), Finanzbuch, München 2013, ISBN 978-3-89879-699-6.
 Eckhardt Wanner: Aufstieg und Fall des Ivar Kreuger, in: Die Bank, 11/2009

Weblinks

 Website Ivar Kreuger
 Berthold Merkle: Ein Leben wie im Rausch, in: Badische Zeitung, Literatur, 5. Juli 2013.
 Marc von Lüpke: Imperium aus Streichhölzern, in: einestages, 9. August 2013.
 Time-Magazine, 28. Januar 1957:World's Greatest Swindler (englisch)
 Time-Magazine, 5. September 1935: Kreuger's Trail (englisch)

Einzelnachweise

Zündwaren
Industrieller
Unternehmer (20. Jahrhundert)
Wirtschaft und NSDAP bis 1933
Schwede
Geboren 1880
Gestorben 1932
Mann

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Comments:Tiger I is the common name of a German heavy tank developed in 1942 and used in World War II. The final official German designation was Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger Ausf. E, often shortened to Tiger. The Tiger I gave the Wehrmacht its first tank which mounted a KwK 36 88mm gun in an armoured fighting vehicle. The KwK 36 is not to be confused with the earlier and similar 8.8 cm Flak 36, a different weapon designed in parallel with the KwK 36 and firing the same ammunition ("KwK" denotes an armored vehicle gun, while "Flak" denotes anti-aircraft artillery). During the course of the war, the Tiger I saw combat on all German battlefronts. It was usually deployed in independent heavy tank battalions, which proved highly effective. While the Tiger I has been called an outstanding design, it was over-engineered, using expensive materials and labour-intensive production methods. Only 1,347 were built between August 1942 and August 1944. The Tiger was prone to certain types of track failures and breakdowns, and limited in range by its high fuel consumption. It was expensive to maintain, but generally mechanically reliable. It was also difficult to transport, and vulnerable to immobilization when mud, ice and snow froze between its overlapping and interleaved Schachtellaufwerk-pattern road wheels in both rasputitsa and succeeding winter weather conditions, often jamming them solid. In 1944, production was phased out in favour of the Tiger II. The tank was given its nickname "Tiger" by Ferdinand Porsche, and the Roman numeral was added after the later Tiger II entered production. The initial official German designation wasPanzerkampfwagen VI Ausführung H (''Panzer VI version H'', abbreviated PzKpfw VI Ausf. H), with the H being for the designer/manufacturer, Henschel. It was classed with ordnance inventory designationSdKfz 182. The tank was later redesignated as PzKpfw VI Ausf. E in March 1943, with ordnance inventory designation SdKfz 181. Today, only a handful of Tigers survive in museums and exhibitions worldwide. The Bovington Tank Museum's Tiger 131 is currently the only one restored to running order.


"Wherefore we may no longer be silent...[as] the partisans of error are not only among the Church's open enemies...[but] they lie hid in her very bosom and heart." --Pope St. Pius X, "Pascendi Dominici Gregis"
I am an orthodox Irish Catholic journalist from Chicago whose name you might recognize from Champions of Faith, my book on Catholic athletes that I am told John Paul II placed in the "sports section" of the Vatican's bookshelves. But while sports is a great way to promote the faith among today's youth, today I am writing to promote something even more primary, the promise of life for those whose existence on earth has barely begun.
If Mother Teresa is correct in saying that abortion is the greatest evil in America today, then certainly the promotion of abortion by "Catholic" politicians (and the failure of most American bishops to censure them) is its greatest scandal. And yet as dire as the situation seems, the winning strategy in this life and death struggle for souls is really quite simple. In dioceses where the cardinal or bishop enforces Ratzinger's 2004 "Worthiness to Receive Holy Communion" decree to withhold Communion from pro-choice politicians, such as Bishop Tobin's denial of Rep. Patrick Kennedy, not only are the uninformed warned and the faithful encouraged, but in RI's case, Kennedy's not even running for re-election. On the other hand, in the sees of the likes of Pelosi, Biden and Kerry where the bishop's stand is lax, opposition to the Gospel of Life grows, and Catholic support for pro-choice politicians, including abortion's greatest champion, Barack Obama, strengthens.
Your task is clear; demand (or as we like to say at my alma mater, "Shake down the thunder!") that our US bishops act on the Pope's pro-choice Catholic pols' Communion ban--and if they don't, advocate that they be replaced with bishops who will. For if Pius X was correct in calling Modernism "the synthesis of all heresies," certainly abortion is the foulest of its fruits, a sign that the Modernists' "destruction not only of our religion, but of all religions" that Pius predicted is well on its way to fruition.
If you are interested in the Vanguard of Catherine of Sienna personally delivering or faxing your letter to the Vatican, please go to http://ahumbleplea.com/FaxRome.htm.


My Place Sally Morgan - An emotive and shocking story about Aboriginal Culture that all Australians should read!
Whilst this is not the best written book, the story is absolutely shaming.
The ill treatment of Aboriginals is clear to see in this story by Sally Morgan.
My Place by Sally Morgan is a story of 3 generations of Aboriginals.
Sally is the youngest of the three generations, being brought up by her Mum and Nan.
Her family keep secrets from her and eventually Sally wants to find out about her ancestors and family.
Her family have told her that she is Indian, but she discovers that she is in fact Aboriginal.
The stories about her Mother, Gran, Uncles etc are absolutely shocking and will stay with you a long time after reading the book.
The Jesuits told us, "Give me a child until he's seven & I will give you the Man." Our formative years fashion us for life, so well illustrated here through Sally. She will never, for instance, marry a drinker or drink herself.
And she knows from an early age the value of saving money for a rainy day. And so on.
Perhaps the major theme of the book is not to have secrets within the family. There are so many secrets in Sally's early life. Why are her Nan & her Mum so tight lipped? Why is her Nan so ashamed at being seen as black?
She has to find the answers to these questions & feels so much better when she does so. The secrets influence her whole life.
Sally learns the value of the family & sticking together through thick & thin from an early age. There is so much evidence of this & it forms another major theme of the novel. Her Mum & Nan give Sally & her siblings such stability when life is far from easy for either of them.
Sally's early story illustrates the wider effects of War, taking in whole families & friends as illustrated through Sally's father. He suffers very badly as a result of the 2nd W W; he's in & out of hospital, has terrible nightmares & is tyrannical with his family, drinking away the money they badly needed for food & bills. So as a girl who should have had a carefree childhood, she feels responsibility for her family in such a way that she grows up before her time. She worries about her parents' constant quarrels & an ongoing shortage of money.
Her feelings of responsibility at home prevent her from taking education seriously. On the other hand, her sister, Jill, protected from alot of the problems, loves school. We also learn how at school there weren't always enough books & there was regular humiliation in the classroom.
This is the most upsetting part of the book. Rarely has a book brought out such deep emotions in me: anger, sadness, tears etc. Arthur's, Nan's & Mum's stories are so upsetting & moving. The White's take their land & then treat very badly. I cried when Arthur was taken from his Mum, never to see her again. And again, when Gladys is taken away from Mum at the tender age of three. When Gladys is ill she HAS TO SEEK PERMISSION to go to see her!!!! Such terrible hardship. Nan speaks bitterly of white hypocrisy; they "take" Aboriginal women whenever they want, BUT when the Aboriginees do anything wrong, they are told, "You niggers don't know right from wrong." AND ALL THIS IS IN THE 1960's!
There is however laughter & a great feeling of togetherness in the family. Their laughter at the cinema is infectious & there is a lot of laughter & joy when the family is together. But a truly hilarious episode is when Sally's Mum tries to sort out the front of the house ready for the latter's wedding.
Can you remember an early experience which has had an effect on your life, for good or bad?
Do you think Nan is justified in how she feels about doctors and the government?
The stories in My Place Sally Morgan are shameful and shocking. Which one shocked you the most? Why?
Has My Place made you think differently about Aboriginals?
How would you describe the writing style? Did it add or detract from the quality of this novel?
Our Book Club gave My Place Sally Morgan 7/10.
It would have scored higher if not for the shortfall in its writing style.
it is only almost halfway through the book that the stories start to be told. The first part is not at all well written; We found it pretty banal.
BUT it is a successful read because eventually, she has such a good story to tell. I don't think I will ever forget the stories we are told, stories which I couldn't get out of my head days after finishing the book. That's why the book is a winner.


Increasingly referred to as the "new Civil Rights Movement," the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community's social and political advocacy remains an active front in America's culture war. Recent "wins" by the LGBT community in 2015 (namely, marriage equality following the Obergefell decision) gave way to increase conflict on other fronts in 2016, including Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act to North Carolina's HB 2 that prohibited transgendered persons from using the restroom of their chosen gender. While controversial, these topics are the mainstay of many political and social science courses that instructors cannot simply ignore. Indeed, the inaugurating of unified Republican control at the federal level suggests that the topic of LGBT rights will only increase in stature- and remain salient in classroom discussions. Thus, the need for a comprehensive, contemporarily updated test becomes all the more apparent.


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Q: Define queries that are dependent on multiple contents Is it possible to define search queries like this in Sharepoint 2013 on premises:
For all sub-sites which have a list (of content type InfoList) where a particular column in this list has a particular value (Status = Active), search the document archives for documents (of content type Pdoc) with a special tag (where Type of Doc = AAA).
I do not find it obvious how to do this in the query builder. I can get all sites, I can get the lists and I can get the documents. But how can I combine them in a query so that I will get only relevant documents?

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You can do this in JavaScript or and App or C# Code depending on your skill level.

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DVD review — Space Battleship YAMATO
Posted on December 29, 2011 by George
Remember Star Blazers? It was a Saturday morning cartoon show that I watched as a kid in the 1980s. It was the American adaptation of a Japanese anime series called Space Battleship Yamato. (I use the word 'adaptation' because rather than just dub the series, elements were changed and much was edited out.) Now, it's a live-action feature film, with all the space-opera, alien-blasting goodness of the series!
As the Earth becomes more and more radioactive under the bombardment from the alien Gamilas, a bold plan is put into action. Earth's last space battleship, Yamato, is sent out in search of the planet Iskandar, where it is hoped they will find a device capable of counteracting the radioactivity.
My memories of the cartoon are rather sketchy and what I mostly recall is lots of spaceships and space battles with aliens. And on this level the Space Battleship YAMATO film really delivers. It is very stylish and has a real epic feel. The effects are first-rate and glorious to look at. Despite some cheesy humour, when it all get very dramatic, I think the film suffers a little from taking itself too seriously.
The characters are interesting and, although we have some moments where things are played for laughs, there is an attempt to inject some good character development. The cast are all pretty good, although the style of acting is often prone to cartoony over-acting… which is fine, as it suits the style of the film.
The story is exciting. There are a few minor lapses in logic, but they are not too distracting. Although things are a little confusing to begin with, all is pretty much explained by the end of the film. Unfortunately, I do have one major problem with the film — its climax. After some terrific build-up, right at the most exciting, nail-biting moment of the story, everything is suddenly put on hold for a tedious, melodramatic, overly-emotional parting between the main character and his love-interest. All the tension dissipates. All the excitement drops. I found myself twiddling my thumbs and watching the clock, wondering how long they could possibly drag this out for. We eventually get back to the action, but by then it's too late — the impetus is lost! Very disappointing!
Having said that, please don't let me put you off watching the film. If you can overlook this one flaw, the film is a rollicking good space-opera! You can always use the fast forward button!
If you're into visual effects and the way they are created, you'll love the extra features on this disc. There's an eleven-minute montage of effects shots in various stages of development, a gallery of computer generated models and 24 minutes worth of pre-visualisation comparisons (rough animation used to plot out action and effects sequences). If you're not into effects, you'll probably get bored. I was disappointed there were no extras comparing the film to the original anime series.
Released on Blu-ray and DVD in Australia by Madman.
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MichaelAliensBiehn on September 17, 2013 at 10:19 am said:
What extras includes this DVD and how many minutes it take?
George on September 19, 2013 at 12:07 am said:
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In our opinion, this is the most important element that differs from SVG. With canvas you can perform operations on pixel based artworks. You can write a new image pixel by pixel or import an image in the canvas and modify it as you need.
In this article we'll show you some fundamentals of pixel manipulation in the canvas, and how to use this knowledge to obtain interesting effects. Let's start from the beginning.
Now our image is in position, but we need to know more on how to manage pixels.
As perfectly described by Opera, pixels in a canvas are represented from left to right, from top to bottom. Every pixel has 4 values: red, green, blue and alpha. It's easy to understand the power of this principle: you can work on every single pixel and change the values. It's like editing an image by hand, instead of using a desktop application.
So, looping trough the pixels array, we're going to get an interesting black and white effect.
There's our black and white effect. Let's start from the beginning of our code because it's a little bit complex. Using the function getImageData() we store in a variable imgd our image and we'll be able to access every single pixel by storing the data array in the pix variable. Then we use a for statement to loop through each pixel, and through each value of a single pixel. As described before, every pixel has four values: red, green, blue and alpha. So, pix[i] is red, pix[i+1] is green, pix[i+2] is blue and pix[i+3] is the alpha channel.
So, what can we use to make an image black and white? The luminance. The luminance is how much a color is luminous to the human eye and it's used to measure the clipping white in video editing systems, for example. In video editing system a white color that "break" the screen is a white that is too white to be represented on a common TV.
This is important because by calculating the average number between red, green and blue values we could obtain a value for every pixel that represent a static mathematical representation of the color luminance.
But there's a problem, an human eye see colors dynamically. For example, if we take similar shades of blue and green, our eyes will detect the green color more luminous than the blue. In our algorithm we could use the static average formula, but our image will be too flat, and we'll lose a lot of color depth.
So, let's introduce the luminance formula: red x 0.3 + green x 0.59 + blue x 0.11.
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Pretty sweet tip, nice one!
Very cool Marco! I'd love to see some live samples/demos to play around with color manipulation. I'm not sure about browser support so far, but the canvas element seems very powerful!
I've used grayscale.js (which uses this technique) on the everton fc intranet to flip between grayscale versions of team crests on click.
Beautiful work & great info.
Getting into HTML 5, this is pretty interesting. Your posts are very easy to follow. Good job!
Sounds great but i couldnt manage to get it working. Tested with Chrome. Has anyone succeded ?
This reminds me when we used to play with pixels in the '90s (Amiga and PC). I worked on a formula to convert HSV to RGB using the same basics.
At least we are now using faster hardware.
Awesome tips. Just love to see how much you can do with HTML5!
Hi, I would like to know if one can import an image from the desktop to the canvas instead of importing it from a server? I have a website http://www.drawmics.com for which I want to implement this functionality using canvas or svg.
Hi I am working on HTML5 canvas tag, I used the getImageData in my example in firefox to change the color of image to grayscale…. but it shows error ….. can any body tell me how to over come this??
Has anyone tried to change the image width and height without affecting the clarity of the image.. Please help !


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The National Labor Relations Board is joining the fight by a group of engineers who want to form a union at a small San Francisco software firm.
It's both a rare case of software engineers seeking to organize, and an even rarer instance of the government rising to their defense. White-collar tech workers have gained attention in recent months for coordinated campaigns against their employers' business practices, but engineers almost never unionize in Silicon Valley.
Contractors and service workers for tech companies, who often are employed by outsourcing firms, have fought for years to unionize. Shuttle-bus drivers and food-service workers have made some progress. Earlier this month, after five years of organizing, security officers for companies including Facebook, Google, and Genentech, many of whom were making between $12 and $14 an hour, ratified their first union contract. They won wage increases of up to $1.20 per hour, better health care, and, for the first time, paid holidays. Bug testers who worked as contractors for Microsoft filed an NLRB charge for union-busting when they were fired in 2016. But this spring, workers agreed to settle with the contracting company in exchange for dropping the charge after the case seemed to sputter out.
The tension at Lanetix began in mid-November, when the company fired a highly respected female engineer who had been advocating for better pay and leave policies on behalf of her coworkers, according to interviews with two fired engineers and a copy of the complaint obtained by WIRED. The same day, the complaint says that managers held meetings at their offices in San Francisco and Arlington, Virginia, trying to dissuade employees from discussing work conditions in an independent messaging group that employees started on Slack, the popular chat app. The complaint says that Lanetix told workers that any attempts to unionize would be futile, but a group of about 14 nonsupervisory engineers persisted.
In mid-January, after most of the unit signed authorization cards to be represented by the union, Lanetix was informed and the union filed papers with the NLRB. Ten days later, the engineers were fired.
Lanetix develops cloud-based software for transportation and logistics and has raised at least $18 million in funding from Salesforce Ventures and others. Lanetix and Salesforce declined to comment.
Bjorn Westergard, one of the fired Lanetix engineers leading the charge to unionize, says that small concessions by management would have easily deflated their efforts. The tipping point came in January, when management offered additional stock to a handful of high-level male engineers, including Westergard. Employees suspected Lanetix planned to fire lower-level female engineers, many of whom graduated from Hackbright, an all women's coding boot camp, as did the female engineer fired in November.
The NLRB's complaint affirms allegations that the union filed in January. Lanetix employees worked with the Washington-Baltimore News Guild because most of the engineers were in the Virginia office. Cet Parks, the guild's executive director, says the complaint is a rare victory. "It is hard to get the NLRB to pursue a court injunction for reinstatement and recognition," he says. Parks also called Lanetix's timing was brazen. Even if an employer wants to fire workers involved in an organizing campaign, "usually their lawyers are going to inform them that there's a problem," he notes.
The tech industry has been inhospitable to labor unions since before the microchip was invented. To ward off efforts from labor unions in San Francisco in 1939, Eitel McCullough, which made vacuum tubes for radar and broadcast uses, added an on-site cafeteria and medical clinic, and launched a profit-sharing program. Tech companies used the same strategy in the 1970s, offering employees high salaries and sweet perks to make collective action less appetizing.
The Lanetix engineer who was fired in November, who requested anonymity, told WIRED she was stunned by the termination because Lanetix's CEO had solicited her opinions on referral bonuses and paid leave, including asking her to announce the improved policy at a company all-hands. Roughly five months before she was fired, the CEO said he appreciated her candid conversation and offered her a bonus or a raise. When board members came to the office, she says the CEO would often bring them by her desk as a way of showing that Lanetix believes in women.
Labor groups hoping to make inroads in the tech industry have tried to draw attention to the Lanetix engineers. In February, Tech Workers Coalition and Tech Action Working Group, part of the New York City Democratic Socialists of America, issued a statement of solidarity with the fired engineers. In March, 30 supporters joined a protest outside Lanetix's San Francisco office.
Will Luckman, cofounder of Tech Action, said he hoped the action would pressure the NLRB and increase awareness of nascent attempts to unionize within the tech industry. Despite their futuristic sheen, tech companies "actually operate like traditional industrialists and will go through old fashioned methods of suppressing workers," he says.