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Bow label is a reel fed label that allows the consumer to open and reveal a 3 dimensional bow on the package. It's a flat label film which is delivered in reels with an outer diameter of 600mm, can be run on high speed filling lines. When it arrives at the consumer it can be pulled to form a 3 dimensional bow structure. Not sure how much more creative we can be with a basic printed plastic film. The label is constructed using a bespoke supply chain to allow it to be applied to the bottles under normal high speed filling conditions, 600+ bottles per minute. The label was featured on Coke, Coke light / Diet Coke, Coke Zero and Coke Life products during the festive period across Europe. The labels needed to be made consistently at the supplier. The other main challenge was to make the label simple to understand and use for the consumer.There were 135Million Bow labels applied to PET bottles in 25 European marketsfrom the end of November 2015 until the end of December 2015.


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37 Days to Zen – Day 21 Change Day 14 is Half of 30 Right?
I know the title says 14 is half of 30, but I might can prove it with Common Core Math.
I am 14 days in with 16 to go to reach ultimate Zen, or the plain of enlightenment, where I will most likely get steamrolled by Chris Farley coming in hot.
I felt a bit better waking up than I have the past three days, which is a sign of hope.
Breakfast consisted of sausage and a few small bowls of Raisin Bran with 2% milk.
I need something different this time around, as meat is beginning to turn me rabid.
I have a tub of peanut butter for tonight to try and calm the beast that is the depths of my stomach.
I skipped lunch for some reason and snacked on a few sticks of beef jerky, washing them down with a grape flavored Propel water.
If you haven't tried them, I would suggest you do. They aren't bad at all, and much better for you than soda or Monster.
Typically I don't do grape anything except for grapes or wine, but this water only has a hint of the taste making it smooth going down.
Dinner was a salad from Wendy's, ending the meal day with a small chocolate frosty to pick my spirits up.
I know, it's cheating, but I needed something.
Meditation continues to be law of attraction music, and it might be working because I found two pennies in the parking lot of Circle K today.
I am not back to 100%, but today was a better day.


Noah Cyrus, the 17-year-old younger sis of fellow singers Miley and Brandi, will release her cheekily named debut NC-17 sometime this year, and the lead single is "Make Me (Cry)," a pleading, surprisingly produced love song with British dreamboat Labrinth. Last night the duo hit The Late Late Show with James Corden to premiere it live; for part of it, compellingly, they sang nearly a cappella over a faucet-drip beat in front of spa-style moon lights, and the effect was quite cool.
The Cyrus family is clearly talented through and through—I can't help but think about the way facial structure affects vocal tones, and assume that there's something in their dang genes that gives them that vibrational quality—but it's nice to hear a track from Noah that isn't a straight-up pop banger. It even has a vaguely adventurous note to it. Labrinth also produced, and with this sparingly used live band, the focus is fully on their synergy, with a little country flair. If you've ever imagined what Fleetwood Mac would sound like if they had more synths and Ableton, may I suggest this jam?


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Notre Dame's Muffet McGraw is right: We have a long way to go to gender equality.
By Joseph Holt
Notre Dame head coach Muffet McGraw cuts down the net after defeating Stanford 84-68 in a regional championship game in the NCAA women's college basketball tournament on April 1, 2019, in Chicago. (Nam Y. Huh/AP)
Notre Dame women's basketball coach Muffet McGraw is deeply loved, appreciated and respected here in South Bend not chiefly because she has ably coached her teams to two national championships but because of the principled and courageous leadership she demonstrated at a Final Four news conference Thursday in Tampa.
She recently said she would no longer be hiring male assistant coaches. When asked about that in Tampa, she gave a forceful two-minute speech on the lack of gender equality in Division I sports and in society in general.
The coach said with exasperation that she was tired of hearing about the "first female governor of this state" and "the first female African-American mayor of this city." She asked when it was going to become the norm that minority and other women held positions of power so that it was no longer newsworthy.
She is right that men hold most of the power in U.S. society today in government, business and sports. Women represent approximately 50 percent of the population but, as McGraw points out, only 5 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs (dropping 25 percent to 24 in 2018, from 32 female CEOs in 2017).
Enlightened firms such as Deloitte have recognized this and have moved away from women's networks and other affinity groups as an "outside-in" way of promoting diversity and inclusion. Instead they are shifting to an "inside-out" approach that involves mostly white men at the center of power on the belief that if the men in power are not involved, the structural and cultural changes that are needed will not occur.
As for politics, McGraw acknowledges that a record number of women successfully ran for office in 2018 but points out that women still represent only 23 percent of the House of Representatives and 25 percent of the Senate.
As for sports, she points out that 99 to 100 percent of Division I men's basketball coaches are men and suggests that a big reason why is that 90 percent of Division I athletic directors are men and that people tend to hire those who look like themselves.
So she won't apologize for not hiring men on her coaching staff. If 100 percent of men's Division I basketball coaches are men, "why shouldn't 100 or 99 percent of the jobs in women's basketball go to women?" she said.
Since Title IX was enacted in 1972 to ban sex discrimination in education, the role of women's coaches has actually diminished rather than grown. At that time, greater than 90 percent of the coaches of women's college teams were women. But that is currently closer to 40 percent across all sports, and about 59 percent in women's college basketball (where it was 79 percent in 1977).
An insufficient number of women in positions of power in all sectors of society is both unjust and unwise.
It is unjust because everyone deserves an equal opportunity to shine in leadership and women inarguably face numerous barriers that men do not have to worry about in their ascent to leadership. A recent study by LeanIn.org and Survey Monkey, for instance, revealed that senior men are 3.5 times more reluctant to go out to dinner with a junior woman than with a junior man, and five times more reluctant to do business travel with junior women. An increasing number of senior men in the #MeToo era also hesitate to mentor junior women. All of that provides young men an unfair advantage over their female peers in their rise to power.
The paucity of women and minorities in leadership positions is also unwise. Studies show that teams that are diverse in gender and nation of origin avoid groupthink and are more innovative and better at decision-making. A recent study by the Boston Consulting Group, for example, showed that 45 percent of the revenue of companies with more diverse leadership came from products launched in the last three years while only 25 percent of revenue from companies with less diverse leadership did.
Beyond that, McGraw points out the problem that girls and young women need more female role models in positions of power. They need to see someone like themselves running the show to more easily believe that they can one day do so too. She asks with respect to the millions of girls playing sports in our country, "wouldn't it be great if we could teach them to watch how women lead?"
That would be great for all those girls and young women, and for the rest of us. We will not rise to the levels of greatness we are capable of reaching as a nation so long as biases and barriers make it harder for women, who represent half our population, to realize their tremendous leadership potential.
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Joseph Holt is an ethics professor at the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business.
Muffet McGraw's remarks:
"Did you know that the Equal Rights Amendment was introduced in 1967 and it still hasn't passed? We need 38 states to agree that discrimination on the basis of sex is unconstitutional.
"We've had a record number of women running for office and winning, and still we have 23 percent of the House and 25 percent of the Senate. I'm getting tired of the novelty of the first female governor of this state, the first female African-American mayor of this city. When is it going to become the norm instead of the exception?
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"How are these young women looking up and seeing someone that looks like them, preparing them for the future? We don't have enough female role models. We don't have enough visible women leaders. We don't have enough women in power.
"Girls are socialized to know when they come out, gender rules are already set. Men run the world. Men have the power. Men make the decisions. It's always the man that is the stronger one. When these girls are coming out, who are they looking up to to tell them that's not the way it has to be?
"Where better to do that than in sports? All these millions of girls that play sports across the country, we're teaching them great things about life skills, but wouldn't it be great if we could teach them to watch how women lead? This is a path for you to take to get to the point where in this country we have 50 percent of women in power, we have right now less than 5 percent of CEOs of Fortune 500 companies.
"When you look at men's basketball, 99 percent of the jobs go to men, why shouldn't 100 or 99 percent of the jobs in women's basketball go to women? Maybe it's because we only have 10 percent women athletic directors in Division I.
"People hire people who look like them. That's the problem."
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Please hang your coat in the anteroom. It was very simple. Whether you like it or not, you have to go. In spite of all the cooking shows I've watched, I'm still no good in the kitchen. Instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy and complaining about the shadow over my feet, I'd have cherished every minute of it and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was to be my only chance in life to assist God in a miracle. Don't stop now. I love working with kids. It's in God's hands. Why don't tell me exactly what happened? I've got a tap that leaks.
She had matured into an excellent woman. You may bring anyone you want. He made me do it. It's because I love him. Please, get in, sir. I don't believe they understood. If your friend is one-eyed, look him by his side face. What's the news? Arnold and Celeste are different. Sue may not make it on time.
Knudsen doesn't look broke to me. Lancelot fell in love with King Arthur's wife Guinevere. You are too skinny! I brought reinforcements. What Debbie did was dangerous. Who would've cared? Do you want to do something after work tonight? The game's outcome hangs on his performance. He can't even butter his own bread. Did you break that?
Michel looks down on women. It's better not to say anything about her to him. She also speaks French. I hope Lenora gets better. My daughter has braces. Mariou is the problem. There were no railroads in Japan at that time. Party games bring a party to life. I ran on and on and came in sight of a light. I used to think that taking walks was a waste of time.
We have a decision to make. Can you recommend a good doctor? Kyoto is worth visiting once. You must not lose sight of your goal in life. Words, words... In which city is he? The challah was so delicious that I just had to ask her for the recipe. Stephen and Donal both left the room at the same time. The crowd cheered. Billie wore an old pair of shoes.
I sent Elwood and Justin home. We had an especially difficult winter. She called me a fool and what not. Please don't call me again. I'm not sure that I can trust you. Dominic is getting really desperate. Laurel was surprised that Hume had changed so much. Where's your head at? All parents like to have their children praised. The basic Japanese diet consists of rice and fish.
He looked at her with doey eyes. Mick found a good place to work. I drink fruit juice. Whose umbrella is this? I appreciate it when a native speaker tries to help me sound more like a native speaker. Each antibody targets a specific bacteria or virus. It is stupid of you to make such a mistake. Dan hates insects. Ray has run short of money. Just be careful with them.
I went to middle school in Japan. I can't walk anymore, Dad! Carry me, please! Sofia must've thought you were dead. The vampire shapeshifted into a giant bat. How can Ramanan not understand this? The owners want you out of this house by next Monday. I knew I wasn't the only one who thought that. I translate into Esperanto for free. How did his son die? Mahesh's car is a Fiat.
To our regret, we were obliged to call off the game, which we had been looking forward to. I'm Paul's bodyguard. I just need more time with Edmund. Don't be afraid of making mistakes. They don't respect her. Can I see you inside, please? I feel like eating something. Don't make me feel bad about doing what I did. Jacobson couldn't help overhearing what Billy said to John. Can you close the window, please?
Gerard has been waiting to see what will happen. My fate is in your hands. Perhaps it's too late. Monty is sitting at the table, drinking wine. Please cover yourself. Have you fed the dog? That is why he failed the exam. Each state is different. I hate him. Ramesh can tell you more about that than I can.


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Q: Branching off another branch in Git I have a bit of a unique issue with git. I accidentally branched off another branch (both local branches: Branch A & Branch B) and I have a remote branch that contains an MR for both of these.
Now one of the branches(branch A) doesn't contain a specific file (which branch B has) but every time I checkout master pull the latest changes, checkout branch A, and rebase master I lose all the local changes, and if I push those changes then on the remote branch the file within branch B (that's not on A - the file does not actually exist on branch A locally either) appears as the only change on the MR and I lose all the other files I actually committed & pushed. Has anyone had this before? Or know how I can fix this issue? Thank you!

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So it's not gonna be forever. But does it have to go down in flames?
Exit interviews. We all have to do them. And they're all just painfully awkward, no matter how many times you've been at the rodeo or how much you *really* hate your boss. So: Should you be honest about the fact that she is the most horrible human on earth? Should you smile and nod and say "I loved it here, it's just a really great opportunity!"? Here, your guide.
Vicki Salemi, career expert for Monster, says making a list of feedback before your grand finale serves two important purposes: 1) emotional release (DO NOT lose this draft—real life doesn't resolve itself in 30 minutes like a Disney Channel program); and 2) so you can be thorough and unflinching in your destruction and feel like you've said your piece because when else are you going to get this opportunity? Use your notes as WMDs guidelines during your last tango with HR.
Actual quote from Vicki: "Sure, you may be tempted to bash the company or a horrible boss, but refrain—that's what kickboxing is for." BUT IT WOULD FEEL SO GOOD, VICKI. Think about this, though: Do you want to be remembered by your smug/Louboutin-sole-red face? Do you want the interviewer to be like "Yup, glad we got rid of that crazy"? Keep it classy—more Bond villain, less Godzilla.
Step 3: Hit them with facts.
The scenario: Someone more junior was promoted ahead of you. The right approach: Suggest that another stakeholder, such as your boss' boss, be more involved in the promotion process or simply that the decision be left up to more than one person. The wrong approach: "SERIOUSLY? Bossy McBossypants is too dumb to know when people are sucking up to him, and one time I saw him take staples from the supply closet, SO WHY ARE YOU EVEN KEEPING HIM AROUND?!!!!" Never a good look.
Step 4: Smile through the pain.
Mostly because it's confusing, partly because you're still a professional, damn it. ::grabs you by the shoulders with alarming force:: Carefully chosen words > losing your temper like Kanye off and on for the past few weeks. When you peace, digital or otherwise, grin and bear it. You are Miss Colombia. You are serene. And when you're at happy hour later, you can behave however you want.
Step 5: Never say never.
According to a recent Monster poll, nearly 30 percent of respondents have returned to a former employer. And while 51 percent said they *haven't* gone back, they also said they'd consider it because they're not picky about where they get their money from. It might be best for you to leave now, but a lot can happen in a few years—you could gain the experience necessary to ask for a higher salary in a leadership role or that nightmare boss could have gotten woke, like "Wow, I really am a garbage person," and left to become a nun. Either way, if you don't slam that first door shut, your next *next* move could be waiting for you right there.
Nailed the exit interview. But now what? Catch the premiere of new show Quit Your Day Job on March 30 at 10/9c on Oxygen. Keep an eye out for Marie Claire executive editor Lea Goldman!
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Matt Rader, CEO, started Red Frog Networks in 2002 after spending many years in the business of technology and computers. Matt's vision for Red Frog was pretty simple, help small to mid sized businesses gain the advantages of technology by offering affordable services and solutions and providing consultative insight to each client as if they were a partner. Since 2002, Red Frog has serviced thousands of jobs for hundreds of companies throughout the Northeast, across a wide spectrum of services. The company's HQ is located in the heart of Northeastern Pennsylvania in the city of Forty Fort, just outside of the populated city of Wilkes-Barre, and estimably a 20-minute drive from the city of Scranton.
Since 2002, Red Frog has serviced thousands of jobs for hundreds of companies throughout the Northeast, across a wide spectrum of services. The company's HQ is located in the heart of Northeastern Pennsylvania in the city of Forty Fort, just outside of the populated city of Wilkes-Barre, and estimably a 20-minute drive from the city of Scranton.


Piano Ramlee was the first to manufacture an indigenous piano in Malaysia. Since, Ramlee offers an extended range of services including piano and guitar sales, rentals and training programs. With growing recognition and demand, Piano Ramlee wanted to create their own digital transformation story by leveraging digital transformation technology. Most of their processes were driven manually and understanding business functioning was becoming difficult.
HokuApps created a unified solution for Piano Ramlee to bring all processes into a unified and 100% custom application. An all-in-one enterprise solution doesn't just make it easy for customers to access services but also helps the management succeed on all fronts as all information is found on one platform.


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BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Photo courtesy US Coast Guard.
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Gushing Oil Threatens Wildlife, Gulf Ecosystem
May 13, 2010 October 13, 2017 VOA 0 Comments
By Rosanne Skirble
The Gulf of Mexico oil disaster comes during spring spawning season, an especially bad time for aquatic life making them extraordinarily vulnerable to the toxic effects of the oil itself, says Doug Rader, chief oceans scientist for the Environmental Defense Fund.
"Now the same thing is happening with birdlife migrating to and from the tropics. Those that have completed their migrations in the Gulf region are nesting and are beginning to feed this year's crop of migratory birds."
As the oil gushes from the broken well head at the sea floor, Rader says it has the potential to contaminate each layer of the water column that, "directly exposes those animals to toxicity, at the surface including the very sensitive surface zones where not only sea turtles and marine mammals and sea birds can be oiled, but also where the highways for fish larvae exist. And then as it rains back into the abyss over a much wider area carrying toxicants back into the deep sea where ancient corals and other sensitive ecosystems exist."
Limited choices
One response strategy has been to use dispersants or anti-freeze-like chemicals to break the oil up into smaller globules.
Those particles mix more readily with water, and sink. Rader says dispersants are being sprayed from airplanes and – for the first time – pumped directly into the deep ocean unsure of its effects.
It is a choice, he says, between two bad options. While the chemicals may protect birds and other wildlife by dissipating the slick before it reaches shore, their toxicity in the Gulf could harm fish and other marine life.
Judith Dowell, a biologist with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and an expert on oil spill contamination, says it is important to understand the nature of the oil in order to predict its ecological effects.
"If a lot of it is very light material, it is going to vaporize. If a lot of it is heavy material, it may precipitate to the bottom. In the meantime, you have these medium molecular weight compounds that are dispersing within the water column. Until you can get some very accurate measurements of the depth of the slick and the geographical extent of the slick, it's not easy to do."
Widening threat
The slick threatens sensitive coastal wetlands, areas critical to wildlife.
Barrier islands and wetlands also serve to buffer towns on the coast from hurricanes and storm surges. Doug Rader with the Environmental Defense Fund says the spill may finally force coastal communities to put more adequate plans and safeguards in place to prevent an off shore disaster in the future.
"There are thousands of wells in the Gulf. There are 35,000 miles [56,000 kilometers] of pipeline in the Gulf," says Rader. "It is pretty clear that the status quo in terms of investment to prevent risk and to respond to events wasn't adequate and that some retrofitting of that entire infrastructure is necessary to be able to sustain the current level of production in the Gulf."
Rethinking offshore drilling?
Rader says the time is also ripe to rethink the wisdom of offshore drilling in favor of other energy options in the face of climate change.
"That going forward with a more balanced portfolio of energy sources that begins to address the global problem of warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions and threatening coastal areas like coastal Louisiana by rising seas and intensifying storms has to be a piece of the mix."
To this end, on May 12, Senators John Kerry and Joe Lieberman introduced long-awaited climate and energy legislation.
The bill covers a broad cross-section of the nation's top environmental and energy issues, from expanded nuclear power and carbon capture and sequestration, to giving states veto power over drilling within 120 kilometers off shore if, in the language of the proposed law, "they stand to suffer significant adverse impacts in the event of an accident."
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Preparing for a Second Nuclear Age
At the time of finalizing this report, the US and Russia have signed an agreement on a replacement to the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), just days before the opening of a high-level Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, D.C. After years of divisiveness and lack of progress, it is tempting to conclude that the nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament regime is on the upswing.
Read the full Policy Paper here
Author(s) / Contributor(s): Fiona Simpson, Ian Johnstone, Christine Wing, Bruce Jones, Elsina Wainwright
The fifth edition of the Annual Review of Global Peace Operations was published by Lynn Reinner Publishers on 1 February 2010 and can be downloaded here.
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UNITING CHRISTIANS FORUM AND CHAT
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Microchip your kids?
UNITING CHRISTIANS FORUM AND CHAT :: DEBATES/DISCUSSIONS :: Conspiracy Theories
by Christ is My Life! on Thu Jul 12, 2007 2:10 pm
Another Hot topic....here is an article...a bit old, but again, relevant
Would you microchip your kid for safety?
Posted May 21st 2007 2:28PM by Sandy Maple
Filed under: Health and Safety, Lifestyle, Media, Monitoring your kids
The disappearance of Madeleine McCann from her holiday apartment in Portugal a few weeks ago has made a lot of parents nervous. We all know how easily that could have been one of ours. Every time I hear something about that poor little girl and her family, I feel the need to hug Ellie and keep her just a little closer to me.
I can't imagine there are many things worse than having your child disappear. To not know where she is and what is happening to her. What can a parent do to keep their child safe? There is one controversial solution to keeping tabs on your children that has been gaining attention since Madeleine's disappearance.
In 2002, a British girl was implanted with a microchip that sends a signal allowing a computer to pinpoint her location at all times. This technology was developed by Professor Kevin Warwick of Reading University after the murders of two children. At the time, there was concern about the ethics of tagging children and many felt this was an overreaction that ultimately had no benefit.
"It caused such a backlash that we had to step back," Warwick says. "There were ethical concerns, and as a scientist you have to listen."
Fast forward to today and Professor Warwick says Madeleine's disappearance has resulted in new interest in this chip technology. Experts are predicting a surge in sales of all kinds of tracking devices for children in the near future, but most of these are either sewn into a child's clothes or embedded in a cell phone. Only an implanted chip would stay with a child no matter what. I certainly can understand a parent's desire to do something, anything, to ensure the safety of their child. But chipping a child like you would a pet seems somehow wrong to me. What do you think? Would you implant a chip in your child?
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Re: Microchip your kids?
It is said that through cell phones, gameboys, even your own PC's that we are exposed to dangerous microwave radiations.....is this a form of mind control. Many say it is. It makes me wonder....look at society today with all its technology. I can tell you...befores and afters of my family before all the technology came into our house....my husband is in control of building microwave towers for big name mobile phone companies....he has a cell phone 24/7 on his ear....or should I say the hands free....he feels safer that way. Should I emphasize "Feels".
Before this job he'd agree with this article below....now, he would not agree 100%. Makes me wonder.....how about you?
Microchip Mind Control, Implants And Cybernetics
Actual 1974 Congressional Testimony of Dr. Jose Delgado
"We need a program of PSYCHOSURGERY for POLITICAL CONTROL of our society. The purpose is PHISICAL CONTROL OF THE MIND. Everyone who deviates from the given norm can be SURGICALLY MUTILATED.
"The individual may think that the most important reality is his own existence, but this is only his personal point of view. This lacks historical perspective.
"Man does NOT HAVE THE RIGHT to develop his own mind. This kind of liberal orientation has great appeal. We must ELECTRICALLY CONTROL THE BRAIN. Some day armies and generals will be controlled by electric stimulation of the brain."
Dr. Jose M.R. Delgado Director of Neuropsychiatry Yale University Medical School Congressional Record, No. 26, Vol. 118 February 24, 1974
(Author of "PHYSICAL CONTROL OF THE MIND" 1969)
The following article was originally published in the 36th-year edition of the Finnish-language journal, SPEKULA (3rd Quarter, 1999). SPEKULA is a publication of Northern Finland medical students and doctors of Oulu University OLK (OULUN LAAKETIETEELLINEN KILTA).
MICROCHIP IMPLANTS, MINDCONTROL AND CYBERNETICS
By Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde, MD Former Chief Medical Officer of Finland
In 1948 Norbert Weiner published a book, CYBERNETICS, defined as a neurological communication and control theory already in use in small circles at that time. Yoneji Masuda, "Father of Information Society," stated his concern in 1980 that our liberty is threatened Orwellian-style by cybernetic technology totally unknown to most people. This technology links the brains of people via implanted microchips to satellites controlled by ground-based super-computers.
The first brain implants were surgically inserted in 1874 in the state of Ohio, U.S.A., and also in Stockholm, Sweden. Brain electrodes were inserted into the skulls of babies in 1946 without the knowledge of their parents. In the 50's and 60's, electrical implants were inserted into the brains of animals and humans, especially in the U.S., during research into behavior modification, and brain and body functioning. Mind control (MC) methods were used in attempt to change human behavior and attitudes. Influencing brain functions became an important goal of military and intelligence services.
Thirty years ago brain implants showed up in xrays the size of one centimeter. Subsequent implants shrunk to the size of a grain of rice. They were made of silicon, later still of gallium arsenide. Today they are small enough to be inserted into the neck or back, and also intraven-ously in different parts of the body during surgical operations, with or without the consent of the subject. It is now almost impossible to detect or remove them.
It is technically possible for every newborn to be injected with a micro-chip, which could then function to identify the person for the rest of his or her life. Such plans are secretly being discussed in the U.S. without any public airing of the privacy issues involved. In Sweden, Prime Minister Olof Palme gave permission in 1973 to implant prisoners, and Data Inspection's ex-Director General Jan Freese revealed that nursing-home patients were implanted in the mid- 1980's. The technology is revealed in the 1972:47 Swedish state report, STATENS OFFICIELLA UTRADNINGER (SOU).
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Implanted human beings can be followed anywhere. Their brain functions can then be remotely monitored by supercomputers and even altered through the changing of frequencies. Guinea-pigs in secret experiments have in-cluded prisoners, soldiers, mental patients, handicapped children, deaf and blind people, homosexuals, single women, the elderly, school children and any group of people considered "marginal" by the elite experimenters. The published experiences of prisoners in Utah State Prison, for example, are shocking to the conscience.
Today's microchips operate by means of low-frequency radio waves that target them. With the help of satellites, the implanted person can be tracked anywhere on the globe. Such a technique was among a number tested in the Iraq war, according to Dr. Carl Sanders, who invented the intell-igence-manned interface (IMI) biotic, which is injected into people. (Earlier during the Vietnam War, soldiers were injected with the Rambo chip, designed to increase adrenaline flow into the bloodstream.) The U.S. National Security Agency's (NSA) 20 billion bits/second supercomputers could now "see and hear" what soldiers experience in the battlefield with a remote monitoring system (RMS).
When a 5-micromillimeter microchip (the diameter of a strand of hair is 50 micromillometers) is placed into optical nerve of the eye, it draws neuroimpulses from the brain that embody the experiences, smells, sights and voice of the implanted person. Once transferred and stored in a computer, these neuroimpulses can be projected back to the person's brain via the microchip to be re-experienced. Using a RMS, a land-based computer operator can send electromagnetic messages (encoded as signals) to the nervous system, affecting the target's performance. With RMS, healthy persons can be induced to see hallucinations and to hear voices in their heads.
Every thought, reaction, hearing and visual observation causes a certain neurological potential, spikes, and patterns in the brain and its elect- romagnetic fields, which can now be decoded into thoughts, pictures and voices. Electromagnetic stimulation can therefore change a person's brainwaves and affect muscular activity, causing painful muscular cramps experienced as torture.
The NSA's electronic surveillance system can simultaneously follow and handle millions of people. Each of us has a unique bioelectrical reson- ance frequency in the brain, just like we have unique fingerprints. With electro-magnetic frequency (EMF) brain stimulation fully coded, pulsating electromagnetic signals can be sent to the brain, causing the desired voice and visual effects to be experienced by the target. This is a form of electronic warfare. U.S. astronauts were implanted before they were sent into space so their thoughts could be followed and all their emotions could be registered 24 hours a day.
The Washington Post reported in in May 1995 that Prince William of Great Britain was implanted at the age of 12. Thus, if he were ever kidnapped, a radiowave with a specific frequency could be targeted to his microchip. The chips signal would be routed through a satellite to the computer screen of police headquarters, where the Princes movements could be followed. He could actually be located anywhere on the globe.
The mass media have not reported that an implanted person's privacy van- ishes for the rest of his or her life. S/he can be manipulated in many ways. Using different frequencies, the secret controller of this equip- ment can even change a person's emotional life. S/he can be made aggress- ive or lethargic. Sexuality can be artificially influenced. Thought sig-nals and subconscious thinking can be read, dreams affected and even induced, all without the knowledge or consent of the implanted person.
A perfect cyber-soldier can thus be created. This secret technology has been used by military forces in certain NATO countries since the 1980's without civilian and academic populations having heard anything about it. Thus, little information about such invasive mind-control systems is available in professional and academic journals.
The NSA's Signals Intelligence can remotely monitor information from human brains by decoding the evoked potentials (3.50HZ, 5 milliwatt) emitted by the brain. Prisoner experimentees in both Gothenburg, Sweden and Vienna, Austria have been found to have [missing word] brain lesions. Diminished blood circulation and lack of oxygen in the right temporal frontal lobes result where brain implants are usually operative. A Finnish experimentee experienced brain atrophy and intermittent attacks of unconsciousness due to lack of oxygen.
Mind control techniques can be used for political purposes. The goal of mind controllers today is to induce the targeted persons or groups to act against his or her own convictions and best interests. Zombified individ-uals can even be programmed to murder and remember nothing of their crime afterward. Alarming examples of this phenomenon can be found in the U.S.
This silent war is being conducted against unknowing civilians and sold-iers by military and intelligence agencies. Since 1980 electronic stim- ulation of the brain (ESB) has been secretly used to control people tar-geted without their knowledge or consent. All international human rights agreements forbid nonconsensual manipulation of human beings even in pri-sons, not to speak of civilian populations. Under an initiative of U.S. Senator John Glenn, discussions commenced in January 1997 about the dan-gers of radiating civilian populations. Targeting peoples brain functions with electromagnetic fields and beams (from helicopters and airplanes, satellites, from parked white vans, neighboring houses, telephone poles, electrical appliances, mobil phones, TV, radio, etc.), is part of the radiation problem that should be addressed in democratically elected government bodies.
In addition to electronic MC, chemical methods have also been developed. Mind-altering drugs and different smelling gasses affecting brain function negatively can be injected into air ducts or water pipes. Also, bacteria and viruses have been tested this way in several countries.
Today's supertechnology, connecting our brain functions via microchips (or even without them, according to the latest technology) to computers via satellites in the U.S. or Israel, poses the gravest threat to human-ity. The latest supercomputers are powerful enough to monitor the whole worlds population. What will happen when people are tempted by false premises to allow microchips into their bodies? One lure will be a micro-chip identity card. Compulsory legislation has even been secretly pro-posed in the U.S. to criminalize removal of an ID implant.
Are we ready for the robotization of mankind and the total elimination of privacy, including freedom of thought? How many of us would want to cede our entire life, including our most secret thoughts, to Big Brother? Yet the technology exists to create a totalitarian "New World Order." Covert neurological communication systems are in place to counteract independent thinking and to control social and political activity on behalf of self-serving private and military interests.
When our brain functions are already is connected to supercomputers by means of radio implants and microchips, it will be too late for protest. This threat can be defeated only by educating the public, using available literature on biotelemetry and information exchanged at international congresses.
One reason this technology has remained a state secret is the widespread prestige of the psychiatric DIAGNOSTIC STATISTICAL MANUAL IV produced by the U.S. American Psychiatric Association (APA), and printed in 18 lan-guages. Psychiatrists working for U.S. intelligence agencies no doubt participated in writing and revising this manual. This psychiatric "bible" covers up the secret development of MC technologies by labelling some of their effects as symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia.
Victims of mind control experimentation are thus routinely diagnosed, knee-jerk fashion, as mentally ill by doctors who learned the DSM symptom list in medical school. Physicians have not been schooled that patients may be telling the truth when they report being targeted against their will or being used as guinea pigs for electronic, chemical and bacteriological forms of psychological warfare.
Time is running out for changing the direction of military medicine, and ensuring the future of human freedom. -- Rauni Kilde, MD December 6, 2000 ___
MICROWAVE MIND CONTROL: MODERN TORTURE AND CONTROL MECHANISMS ELIMINATING HUMAN RIGHTS AND PRIVACY
By Dr. Rauni Leena Kilde, MD
Helsingin Sanomat, the largest newspaper in Scandinavia, wrote in the September 9, 1999 issue that Scientific American magazine estimates that after the Millenium perhaps ALL people will be implanted with a "DNA microchip".
How many people realize what it actually means? Total loss of privacy and total outside control of the person's physical body functions, men-tal, emotional and thought processes, including the implanted person's subconscious and dreams! For the rest of his life!
It sounds like science fiction but it is secret military and intelligence agencies' mind control technology, which has been experimented with for almost half a century. Totally without the knowledge of the general public and even the general academic population.
Supercomputers in Maryland, Israel and elsewhere with a speed of over 20 BILLION bits/sec can monitor millions of people simultaneously. In fact, the whole world population can be totally controlled by these secret brain-computer interactions, however unbelievable it sounds for the uninformed.
Human thought has a speed of 5,000 bits/sec and everyone understands that our brain cannot compete with supercomputers acting via satellites, implants, local facilities, scalar or other forms of biotelemetry.
Each brain has a unique set of bioelectric resonance/entrainment characteristics. Remote neural monitoring systems with supercomputers can send messages through an implanted person's nervous system and affect their performance in any way desired. They can of course be tracked and identified anywhere.
Neuro-electromagnetic involuntary human experimentation has been going on with the so-called "vulnerable population" for about 50 years, in the name of "science" or "national security" in the worst Nazi-type testing, contrary to all human rights. Physical and psychological torture of mind control victims today is like the worst horror movies. Only, unlike the horror movies, it is true.
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It happens today in the USA, Japan, and Europe. With few exceptions, the mass media suppresses all information about the entire topic.
Mind control technology in the USA is classified under "non-lethal" weaponry. The name is totally misleading because the technology used IS lethal, but death comes slowly in the form of "normal" illnesses, like cancer, leukemia, heart attacks, Alzheimer's disease with loss of short term memory first. No wonder these illnesses have increased all over the world.
When the use of electromagnetic fields, extra-low (ELF) and ultra-low (ULF) frequencies and microwaves aimed deliberately at certain individ-uals, groups, and even the general population to cause diseases, disori-entation, chaos and physical and emotional pain breaks into the awareness of the general population, a public outcry is inevitable.
[Eleanor White comment: ELF/ULF frequencies on their own cannot be focussed and are practically impossible to transmit in the usual manner of radio transmissions. ELF/ULF cannot carry voice.
ELF/ULF CAN be carried on radio and ultrasound carrier signals, however, and are effective in things like setting up a target to be more receptive to hypnosis, force a target to be unable to sleep, and force a target to fall asleep daytime. This is like the reverse process of reading the brain's natural ELF/ULF electrical activity using biofeedback.]
Who is behind a sinister plan to microchip and control and torture the general population?
[Eleanor White's comment: Reports from persons targetted by neuro- electromagnetic experimentation show that not everyone is implanted. The fact that those few victims who have had implants removed cannot get custody of the implants means someone has a keen interest in controlling the use of covert implants and preventing the publication of this practice.]
The Patent Office of the U.S.A. has granted patents for purposes of mental monitoring and mind alteration.
Apparatus and method for remotely monitoring and altering brainwaves, methods for inducing mental, emotional and physical states of conscious- ness, in human beings. Method of and apparatus for desired states of consciousness are among some of them.
People who have been implanted, involuntarily or through deception vol- untarily have become bilogical robots and guinea pigs for this activity under the guise of national security.
The real consequences of microchip implantation (or with today's advanced hidden technology, using only microwave radiation for mind control,) are totally hidden from the public. How many know the real dangers of mic- rowaves through mobile phones?
How many believe the disinformation that microwave radiation is not causing health problems? The economic issues in the mobile phone industry are enormous. Therefore health issues are deliberately brushed aside.
However, the same thing is inevitable in the future as with the tobacco industry. When economic compensation for health damages becomes big enough, as in the tobacco industry, health hazards will be admitted and users are then responsible for their tobacco-related illnesses.
Today, already about 50% of Finns, Swedes and Norwegians use mobile phones, especially the young population.
Mobile phones used in mind control was a brilliant idea. Military and police agencies can follow every user, influence their thoughts through microwaves, cause healthy people to hear voices in their heads and if needed burn their brains in a second by increasing the current 20,000 times.
That probably happened to Chechnyan leader General Dudayev who died talking to a mobile phone.
Heating effect of tissues with the speed of light is a known effect of high power microwave and electromagnetic pulse weapons.
According to Navy studies they also cause fatigue states, depression, insomnia, aggressiveness, long and especially short term memory loss, short catatonic states, cataracts, leukemia, cancer, heart attacks, brain tumors and so forth.
Alteration of behavior and attitudes hs been demonstrated as well.
Dr. Ross Adey has found out that by using 0.75 milliwatts per square centimeter intensity of pulse modulated microwave at a frequency of 450 MHz it is possible to control ALL aspects of human behaviour!
Microwave radiation excites the hydrogen bond in the cells and can interfere with meiosis, which leads to tumors.
All our emotions, moods, and thoughts have a specific brain frequency which has been catalogued. If these records fall into the wrong hands, our behaviour and attitudes can be manipulated by persons whose ethics and morals are not in our best interest.
Both military and intelligence agencies have been infiltrated with such persons. The Director of the Swiss Secret Service had to resign in September 1999 because of his agency's involvement in illegal arms deals and a plan to create an ORGANIZATION within the legal Secret Service.
This globally infiltrated organization has "octopus type" activities in all major intelligence services in the world, working together with the Mafia and terrorists. It has recruited people from all important government institutions, state and local administrations.
It owns Star Wars technology which is used against military and civilian populations, claiming it is "non-lethal" weaponry.
"Down and out" people, jobless, freed prisoners, mental outpatients, students and orphans are trained by this organization to harass, follow, and torture innocent people, who for whatever reason have been put on the organization's hit list. They are ALREADY in every apartment block!
[Eleanor White comment: This gang-like colour-coding is not reported in all areas. Dr. Kilde's experience is with northern Europe.]
Deception is the name of the game, so recruits are told untrue sinister stories of their victims to keep them motivated. They have a military order and get rewarded for their evil actions, which include Satanism, and symbols and yellow-orange-black colors. However, fresh recruits must wear pink - and the highest elite wears yellow ties with dark suits.
Even dashes of yellow or orange in their ties may signal their recruitment as well as yellow shirts or other objects with that color for signalling.
Too many world leaders fit into this signalling. However, it is quite possible they are only used as fronts for this global organization without any knowledge of it's criminal activity in the field against innocent people. Mass media and big industry are also infiltrated.
Who are the targets? Experimentation with soldiers and prisoners may continue, as well as handicapped children, mental patients, homosexuals and single women. They are still experimental guinea pigs for electronic and chemical warfare. But today ANYONE can become a target, even those who invented the system.
Researchers who find out about this secret radiation of the population become targets themselves.
The U.S. Senate discussed the issue on January 22, 1997. The U.S. Air Force's "Commando Solo" aircraft have been used to send subliminal radio frequency messages to manipulate even the minds of foreign nations in their elections. Haiti and Bosnia are a couple of recent examples.
In July 1994 the U.S. Department of Defense proposed the use of "non-lethal" weapons against anyone engaged in activities the DoD opposes. Thus opposing political views, economic competitors, counterculture individuals and so forth can be beamed to sickness or death.
The Psychiatric Diagnostic Statistical Manual (DSM) for mental disorders has been a brilliant cover up operation in 18 languages to hide the atrocities of military and intelligence agencies' actions towards their targets. THE MANUAL LISTS ALL MIND CONTROL ACTIONS AS SIGNS OF PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIA.
If a target is under surveillance with modern technology via TV, radio, telephone, loudspeakers, lasers, microwaves, poisoned with mind altering drugs via airducts, giving familiar smells which cause headache, nausea and so forth, if he claims his clothes are poisoned, his food or tap water as well --- all medical schools teach their students that the person is paranoid, ESPECIALLY if he believes intelligence agencies are behind it all.
Never is the medical profession told that these are routine actions all over the world by intelligence agencies against their targets. Thus, victims of mind control are falsely considered mentally ill and get no help since they are not believed and their suffering is doubled by ignorant health professionals.
The unethical abuses of power by individuals in charge of biomedical telemetry are incomprehensible to normal people.
The goal of mind control is to program an individual to carry out any mission of espionage or assassination even against their will and self- preservation instict and to control the absolute behavior and thought patterns of the individual. The purpose of mind control is to disrupt memory, discredit people through aberrant behavior, to make them insane or to commit suicide or murder.
How is it possible that this technology is not stopped by political top authorities? They themselves will also be targets someday, a fact they have not always realized. How much are they involved?
This year the 1999 European Parliament in "Resolution on Environment, Security, and Forein Policy", in paragraphs 23, 24, and 27 calls for "non-lethal" weapons technology and development of new arms strategies to be covered and regulated by international conventions.
Also, it calls for an international convention introducing a GLOBAL BAN on all developments and deployments of weapons which might enable ANY FORM OF MANIPULATION OF HUMAN BEINGS.
Project HAARP in Alaska is a global concern, and calls for it's legal, ecological, and ethical implications to be examined by an international independent body before any further research and testing.
It is possible that the USA will ignore those resolutions. The dangers of non-lethal mind control weapons were already revealed in an expert meeting of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva, in July 1994.
Only increased public awareness of the microchip implants, their frightful consequences to privacy by influencing of individuals' thoughts and actions, causing people to become biological robots with physical and emotional pain whenever the supercomputer technician so wishes, is enough reason to refuse to take the chip into your body for whatever reason.
It is the biggest threat to humanity and the most sinister plan to enslave the human race forever.
If you have a choice and want to remain a normal human being with privacy, do not have your children nor yourself implanted with a DNA microchip. Otherwise your vision, hearing, sensing, thoughts, dreams and subconscious will be influenced by an outsider, who does not have your best interests in mind.
MICROWAVE MIND CONTROL WITH "NON-LETHAL" WEAPONS IS THE BIGGEST CRIME IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND AGAINST THE POPULATION OF PLANET EARTH. IT MUST BE STOPPED BY ALL PEOPLES OF THIS GLOBE.
Recommended reading: Mind Controllers, Dr. Armen Victorian, 1999, UK Mind Control, World Control, Jim Keith, 1997, USA Microwave Mind Control, Tim Rifat, The Truth Campaign, winter 1998, UK
Don't Be Fooled!
by nobella on Thu Jul 19, 2007 6:41 pm
Over, Ten years ago, before the Micro-chip even became a hot tipic, I'd heard it taught from a small Christian classroom in Tulsa Ok, by Pastor Elsie Clark at Army of the Lord Bible School. Some laughed and scorned the teaching but the spirit of the lord quickened my spirit and I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that what I was hearing was hot off the press and devine revelation on one of the ways that Antichrist will soon use(and now has) to control mass populations on a global scale using advanced tecnology!
She warned us of the "for the good of mankind not to mention our dear children" speech that the Gov would stand on to sell quickly this concept of self monitoring devices.
Due to the fact that child and adult abductions are on the rise it all seems like a wonderfully smart solution for insuring the safty of our loved ones, but..............in reality it is a grand method of control from the Gov and it's New World Order to keep tab's on every human person on the planet and eventually every Christian who professes that Jesus is son of the Living God!
Let us be wise and lean on the spirit of God and his Army of Angels to protect our children, he is well able to cover us in times of trouble.
nobella
by Glory to God on Thu Jul 19, 2007 7:06 pm
Yes, I totally agree with you. They put out all the good reasons we should want or allow this....but behind the scenes its all a big plan they have to control.
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by Josuabrown on Thu Jul 19, 2007 8:21 pm
I completely agree that these microchips are the "mark of the beast" discribed in Revelation.
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Location : Arkansas, USA
by Christ is My Life! on Thu Jul 19, 2007 11:17 pm
I agree. The masterminds of this plan have been well at work for over 50+ yars. I don't remember the exact date from an article I read over a decade ago discussing this. But now, dear friends, look past the chip and into the Radio Frequency ID marks they have. These, lovely, non-inserties will make even the elect bow out because of its mass trickory. They all ready have it for our bodies. They use the tags on clothes, gillette uses them on packaging, they put them on jackets, shoes, all kinds of stuff and can be scanned from I believe it is 500 ft away.
Forget about privacy...between computers, phones, cell phones, IPODS....Yup, even IPODS, cavity fillings, we are all one big test market.
I may be far off, but I even believe that many kidnappings are just for this. (Not all of course, and I would not go far enough to say 50%, but the big cases....I would not be surprised)
Hollywood has been glorifying the chip for years. Movies such as Mission Impossible and hi Sci-Fi's have utilized chips, finger scans, eye-scans for years. To build our immunity.
I pray that all of us here NEVER become immune. Immunity is a grand scheme. I am sure of it. Once we are immune, it is easier for our senses to brush things off. And eventually compromise our faith.
And I do not believe it will be by choice. Initially yes, but in the end....will be by force. That is my opinion.
My family knows where I stand on this, God willing, I hope we never see the extent that I see in my imagination. If so....Oh Boy!
Once the US becomes a police state.....Watch out. It is coming, slowly/quickly....
I'm sorry. I would keep my kids out of school before allowing them to mandatory ID them for school lunches and allergy notifications. No way.
Oooooh, ya'll got me going!!! lol. I could go on all night!!! LOL But it is no laughing matter!!!!
by texastig on Sun Aug 19, 2007 7:11 pm
I've been to software conferences and seen the small rfid chips myself. They plan on putting them in clothes.
The speaker said that retail stores can see where you go to in the store and what other stores you goto.
texastig
Location : usa
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"Ours is the very first generation in history that had the possibility and the ability to feed every hungry person on earth," says Professor Adil Najam. "We had the technology, we had the food -- we just didn't have the will. And that's where the MDGs come in."
At the turn of the new millennium, the world looked forward to an end to absolute poverty, avoidable disease, oppression of women and children without education. The United Nations embodied these hopes in a series of eight targets -- the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This introductory program to the series intercuts sequences from China, Bangladesh, Jamaica, India, Sri Lanka, Zambia and Ethiopia with comment from key academics and activists, to explore the ambition and scope of each of the individual MDGs, and the obstacles to their achievement.
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This past year, the yen was one of the few financial instruments to benefit when the carry trade unwound and caused money to flow away from high-yielding currencies and back into low-yielding currencies like the yen.
Investors became risk averse with their money. They poured it into things that had been beaten down for years because it seemed to be a safe place to run to.
However, in December I started talking to you about a possible turn coming in the yen and that the yen party was about to come to an end soon. Then on Jan. 5, I wrote an article that mentioned reasons to buy the USD/JPY pair.
Since then, things in Japan have continued to unravel. They've had a 12 percent slide off in their GDP. The yen has risen 23 percent against the dollar, which is killing their exporters. Toyota, Sony, and Honda are all laying off employees. In fact, Honda has even mentioned that if the yen stays at 100 to the dollar or under, that they may be forced to move some of their operations out of Japan.
If that were not enough, when Japanese Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa showed up at the latest G7 meeting in Rome, he was accused of being drunk and unable to properly participate due to his inability to understand the questions being posed to him.
Nakagawa resigned a few days later, adding his name to the list of finance ministers that Japan has gone through in just a short time. Governmental instability is never good for a currency, and it's another reason why the party may be ending for the yen, especially against the U.S. dollar.
Now there's a new reason to close out any long positions in the yen and to reverse course by shorting it. Thirteen Asian nations announced on the Feb. 22 that they were forming a $120 billion currency pool in order to defend their currencies.
This is a powerful alliance and should trigger a building wave of confidence across these Asian countries as they see governments teaming up and banding together for the support of their own currencies.
Japan, China, and South Korea will provide about 80 percent of the funds for the pool and the other 10 countries will fund the balance.
While many of these currencies have weakened significantly and funds may have to be used to buy their currencies, the Japanese could always use any extra resources to sell their strong currency.
With these countries banding together in such a strong, united way, it shows that the story may be about to change. In 2008, most of these currencies across Asia have weakened in while the yen has strengthened. You are going to see this tide turn.
I also think this massive currency pool could help to prevent another Asian contagion like what happened in 1997 through 1998, when many of Asian countries used most all of their foreign reserves trying to defend their currencies and had to finally turn to the IMF for help.
It was a horrid problem that ended up causing a ripple effect around the world. So they are being very preemptive this time around in trying to stop something like this before it gets that far.
Therefore, I think the sentiment is going to shift away from a strong yen while other currencies finally start to strengthen. You will likely see the yen weaken across the board, but I'm most confident in the prospects for the USD/JPY exchange rate going up overall throughout the remainder of the year due to this new vote of confidence and also due to all of the problems plaguing Japan.
At the end of the year, I think you will find that the USD/JPY is back up over 100 and headed higher. This will help Japan's economy, especially exporters who are household names here in America.


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Missing Florida teens: Families agree to send recovered phone to Apple
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The families of two Tequesta teens lost at sea have agreed to send an iPhone found in March to Apple for analysis, hoping that information gleaned from the device will provide details of what happened to the boys.
But getting there wasn't easy.
The parents of Austin Stephanos and Perry Cohen faced off in court Friday, battling for control of the phone belonging to Austin that was recovered March 18 about 100 miles off the coast of Bermuda inside the 19-foot boat used by the teenagers. The boys vanished on July 24 during a fishing trip off Jupiter Inlet.
Cohen's family filed a lawsuit Sunday against Blu Stephanos and Carly Black — Austin's parents — and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission in an attempt to preserve the phone and assure that a third party investigate its contents.
FWC turned custody of the phone over to the Stephanos family, despite attempts by Pamela Cohen, Perry's mother, to keep it in the hands of law enforcement.
At the urging of Circuit Judge Gregory Keyser, the two sides met during a break in Friday's hearing and agreed that the phone be shipped overnight Friday by Federal Express to Apple's headquarters in California for examinaton by forensic experts.
The families also agreed that Keyser review any information extracted from the phone and that the Cohen family be notified of findings relevant to the boys' disappearance.
"We were highly disappointed that the FWC turned over the phone to Mr. Stephanos and we are very pleased that the judge has ordered that the phone be sent someplace for a thorough, transparent and truthful investigation for both familes," Pamela Cohen said.
Blu Stephanos said he was also satisfied with the outcome.
"I think we accomplished what we wanted to accomplish today," Stephanos said. "The biggest thing was that I wanted this phone to go to Apple from the beginning. That I got that done is very positive."
What data will come from forensic examination is unclear. The phone is waterlogged, corroded and damaged and there have been no confirmed reports of communication from the boys after authorities said the phone went dead at 1:16 p.m. on July 24.
Guy Rubin, Cohen's attorney, indicated one primary area of interest is any messages signaling "the boys are in trouble."
According to an FWC report, two friends of Austin and Perry received Snapchat messages stating, "We're [doomed]."
Rubin said, "Now perhaps we'll know what happened to these boys."


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Secret papers reveal Catholic Church opposed HIV education in 1980s
Formerly classified documents have revealed that the Roman Catholic Church opposed government plans for sex education to combat the growing number of HIV/AIDS related deaths during the 1980s. The Herald reported today that the church effectively "acted as a roadblock to efforts to halt an explosion of deaths in Scotland". Records of a UK Government committee that was established ...
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Q: Правовая политика на программный код Если программа опен сорс (с открытыми исходниками), то я могу брать, менять код под свои нужды? Могу ли я задействовать программу в своих коммерческих целях? Переименовать?
Особенно интересует gyazo.com, на сайте у них есть прайваси полиси, но там ни слова про изменения исходников, на гитхабе тоже не понятно какая лицензия.
Как быть?!
UPD:
Я пишу файлообменник, много нового придумал ,как его улучшить, вот одной из фишек на нем хочу видеть обмен скриншотами, взяв эту прогу за основу и допилив ее под свои нужды.
Затем хочу, чтобы называлась она также, как и сайт, под который делаю.
Так вот, что можно, что нельзя, относительно этой лицензии?
И вообще, какая там лицензия?! не пойму, не нахожу!
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Особенно интересует gyazo.com, [...], на гитхабе тоже не понятно какая лицензия.

Джва года назад было обозначено, что под GNU GPL — это видно сразу же в README проекта. Не уточнено, правда, какой версии — это проблемно, т.к. вторая и третья версии несовместимы.
Если Вы хотите взять и допилить полностью своим кодом, то если Вы готовы к тому, что Ваш код будет под какой-то версией GNU GPL, то можно вести разработку до уточнения. Главное — публикуйте исходный код и вообще следуйте требованиям, накладываемым обеими версиями лицензии.
Т.е. Вы можете использовать допиленное решение коммерчески, будь то спец. версия, заточенная под платный сервис, или продажа софта. Но Вы обязаны предоставить исходный код любому пользователю, получившему от Вас эту программу. И предоставить ему аналогичные Вашим права дальше.
Переименование — вопрос не авторского права, а товарного знака. Переименуйте, это даже желательно, чтобы не путать с оригиналом. Но Вы должны, при этом упомянуть на видном месте (см. текст GNU GPL) что Ваш продукт основан на Gyazo, за авторством Тосиюки Масуи, и распространяется под GNU GPL.
Если хотите дополнить кодом, который Вам не принадлежит — убеждайтесь, что его лицензия совместима с GNU GPL. Пока неизвестно какой конкретно версии — что совместимо с обеими версиями (например, 3-clause BSD совместима и с GPLv2 и GPLv3). Но если вдруг автор скажет что GPL — оно GPLv2 only — то линковаться с кодом, идущим под Apache License нельзя.  А если код под GPLv3 то нельзя будет использовать код, идущий только под GPLv2.
В FAQ по лицензиям GNU GPL все описано очень подробно и с кучей примеров — и что Вы можете и что Вы должны. Потратьте пол-часа, прочитайте все, и у Вас, скорее всего, не останется вопросов.
И, в любом случае, создайте на GitHub issue с просьбой «Please clarify GNU GPL version (v2/v2+/v3/v3+?)» — авторам дел на пол-минуты и всем будет хорошо и однозначно понятно.
(Privacy policy и terms of use сайта к коду отношения, в подавляющем большинстве случаев, не имеют, если что.)
A: Опен сорс опен сорсу рознь. Все зависит от лицензии. Если это GPL - то право модификации дается на условиях предоставления доступа к исходникам. Если LGPL - то дается право встраивания/линка бинарника без ссылки на исходники и т.д.
Update обзор популярных open source лицензий можно посмотреть [здесь][1]
Касательно лицензии gyazo.com - посмотрите сами исходники - там должна быть ссылка на лицензию или сам текст лицензии.
A:
то я могу брать, менять код под свои
нужды?

Да

Могу ли я задействовать программу в
своих коммерческих целях?

Да но не предствлять программу как собственную

Переименовать?

Нет, нельзя предствлять программу как собственную


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Muhammad Yogi Novrian (born November 13, 1994) is an Indonesian professional footballer who plays for Liga 2 club Persiba Balikpapan as a winger.

Honours

Club
Sriwijaya U-21
 Indonesia Super League U-21: 2012–13
Persebaya Surabaya
 Liga 2: 2017

References

External links
Yogi Novrian - Profile at Soccerway
Yogi Novrian - Profile at Liga Indonesia

1994 births
Living people
Indonesian footballers
Association football midfielders
Persela Lamongan players
Persebaya Surabaya players
PSPS Pekanbaru players
People from Palembang

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


[10:54] Charles Krinke: Is itjust me, or are we laging more tnhen mornal.
[10:58] BlueWall Slade: we're loaded?
[10:59] Charles Krinke: Should this meeting partly become an agenda setting time for "Office Hour" ? on Tuesdays?
[11:00] Charles Krinke: Lets do it.
[11:01] Fly Man: A question I heard last time, "Will there be a new preferred version"
[11:01] Fly Man: The answer to that would be "Hopefully after the next Office Hours this Tuesday"
[11:03] Charles Krinke: Nebadon was picking the stable based on the plazas to date. Perhaps the question becomes "How can we imrpove that method?".
[11:04] Fly Man: then that would become the preferred ?
[11:04] BlueWall Slade: do we have a set of requirements/questions? Or would it be an opinion based thing?
[11:05] Charles Krinke: It has been an opinion based on the plazas reliability, but it can certianly evolve.
[11:10] Tiffany Sicling: can an 'evil' region still get UUID information from a sim if it connects touching another sim ?
[11:13] Kitto Flora: I have a general question: OSgrid has options for various physics engines. Is the one of choice 'ODE', and if so, how much support is being given to the others?
[11:14] Kitto Flora: What is 'a new revolution'?
[11:14] Charles Krinke: Kitto. I would say I see very few patches for any physics but ODE in recent months.
[11:15] Kitto Flora: OK, TY.. it sounds like ODE is the one to work with.
[11:17] Fly Man: Bruce ?
[11:17] Fly Man: Any Q's you want to share ?
[11:18] Fly Man: K, Kitto ?
[11:19] Tiffany Sicling: Is there any plans to include postgresql as a database of choice in a future release?
[11:19] Fly Man: Blue ?
[11:19] BlueWall Slade: none today, thanks.
[11:20] Fly Man: Adelle ?
[11:22] Fly Man: K, Aramis ?
[11:22] Aramis Soren: i noticed osgrid has about 800 less regions in last few days...?
[11:24] Aramis Soren: is that going into the wi also soon?
[11:26] Charles Krinke: http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Office_hours some dditional sentences in the spirit of our last conversation, Fly-Man, concerning both meetings.
[11:26] Tiffany Sicling: Is there consideration for postgresql in the future as a database of choice ?
[11:27] Fly Man: "Test enviroment"
[11:28] Fly Man: Charles ?
[11:29] Fly Man: K, Starsky ?
[11:29] Charles Krinke: Yes, I would concur. Move slowly with postgresql for now.
[11:30] Fly Man: Jos ?
[11:30] Charles Krinke: Tommil is making good progress, but we dont want to "fubar" existing grids.
[11:31] Fly Man: What happens when you try to rezz something ?
[11:31] Fly Man: Does it just time out ?
[11:32] Fly Man: a Symbol ?
[11:32] Fly Man: Okay, is this your own region ?
[11:34] Fly Man: What finance are you talking about ?
[11:36] Charles Krinke: We always need more money. My goal is to pay server leases one year in advance and we are 90 days ahead right now.
[11:38] Fly Man: You mean something that Wikipedia does Yearly ?
[11:38] Charles Krinke: Yes, I concur. There will be a new web page for financial and grid admin stuff coming in a few weeks.
[11:38] Jos Joszpe: I like it!
[11:38] Fly Man: Okay, Bruce, you did have a Q ?
[11:39] Charles Krinke: I am also planning on a monthly report showing income, expenses and balance.
[11:39] Bruce.Patton @metaversesims.net:9000: What is the situation with implementation of "Groups"
[11:40] Charles Krinke: Lots o metaphorical smoke, just a little bit of fire.
[11:41] Fly Man: "Now is a good time to not crash Wright Plaza"
[11:41] Starky Rubble: What's a Famous Kitto Train?
[11:42] RetroDan Dezno: Thank you sir, very informative.
[11:42] Kitto Flora: I make steam trains and other transport on SL. Have around 300 of them running there.
This page was last modified on 3 March 2012, at 19:04.


To detect and report on packets based on behavior characteristics of the sender or characteristics of the packets, without enforcing any rate limits.
To detect, report on, and rate limit packets based on behavior characteristics that signify specific known attack vectors.
To identify Bad Actor IP addresses from which attacks appear to originate, by detecting packets per second from a source, and to apply rate limits to such IP addresses.
To blacklist Bad Actor IP addresses, with configurable detection times, blacklist durations, and blacklist categories, and allow such IP addresses to be advertised to edge routers to offload blacklisting.
You can configure the Network DoS protection profile to detect possible attack vectors by packet-per-second or percentage-increase-over-time thresholds, which can indicate that a possible attack is in process. Such attacks can be logged and reported through system logging facilities. You can also rate limit packets of known vectors. You can configure settings manually, and for many vectors you can allow AFM to manage thresholds automatically.
You can specify an address list as a whitelist that the DoS checks allow. Whitelisted addresses are passed by the protection profile, without being subject to the checks in the protection profile.
Network DoS protection requires that your protected object includes a protection profile that includes network security.
The BIG-IP system handles network attacks that use malformed packets and malicious attack vectors. Possible malicious packets and attacks are detected by logging when packets exceed a threshold of packets per second, and by detecting the rate increase percentage in packets of a certain type over time. You can configure settings to identify and rate limit possible network attacks with a protection profile. For many vectors, you can also automatically blacklist IP addresses.
On the Main tab, click Security > DoS Protection > Protection Profiles .
The Protection Profiles list screen opens.
The New Protection Profile screen opens.
In the Name field, type the name for the profile.
For Threshold Sensitivity, select Low, Medium, or High.
Low means the automatic threshold calculations are less sensitive to changes in traffic and CPU usage. A lower setting causes the system to adjust the thresholds more slowly over time, but will also trigger fewer false positives. If traffic rates are consistent over time, set this to Medium or High because even a small variation in generally consistent traffic could signal an attack. If traffic patterns vary, set this to Low to get fewer false positives.
If you have created a whitelist on the system, from the Default Whitelist list, select the list.
You can also click Manage Address Lists to jump to the Address Lists screen where you can create or edit address lists.
To configure network security settings, for Families, select Network.
At the bottom of the screen, click Network.
The screen displays the network attack vectors.
To change the threshold or rate increase for a particular network attack, in the Attack Type column, click the name of the attack.
The DoS attack Properties pane appears on the right side of the screen.
In the Properties pane, from the State list, choose the appropriate enforcement option.
Select Mitigate to enforce the configured DoS vector by examining packets, logging the results of the vector, learning patterns, alerting to trouble, and mitigating the attack (watch, learn, alert, and mitigate).
Select Detect Only to configure the vector, log the results of the vector without applying rate limits or other actions, and alerting to trouble (watch, learn, and alert).
Select Learn Only to configure the vector, log the results of the vector, without applying rate limits or other actions (watch and learn).
Select Disabled to disable logging and enforcement of the DoS vector (no stat collection, no mitigation).
To allow the DoS vector thresholds to be automatically adjusted, for Threshold Mode, select Fully Automatic (available only for DNS, Flood, SIP, some Fragmentation, and a few other vectors).
Note: Automatic thresholding is not available for every DoS vector. In particular, for error packets that are broken by their nature, such as those listed under Bad Headers, you must configure them manually.
In the Attack Floor EPS field, type the number of events per second of the vector type to allow at a minimum, before automatically calculated thresholds are determined.
Because automatic thresholds take time to be reliably established, this setting defines the minimum packets allowed before automatic thresholds are calculated.
In the Attack Ceiling EPS field, specify the absolute maximum allowable for packets of this type before automatically calculated thresholds are determined.
Because automatic thresholds take time to be reliably established, this setting rate limits packets to the events per second setting, when specified. To set no hard limit, set this to Infinite.
Unless set to infinite, if the maximum number of packets exceeds the ceiling value, the system considers it to be an attack.
To configure DoS vector thresholds manually, for Threshold Mode, select Fully Manual.
From the Detection Threshold EPS list, select Specify or Infinite.
Use Specify to set a value (in events per second) for the attack detection threshold. If packets of the specified types cross the threshold, an attack is logged and reported. The system continues to check every second, and registers an attack as long as the threshold is exceeded.
Use Infinite to set no value for the threshold. This specifies that this type of attack is not logged or reported based on this threshold.
From the Detection Threshold Percent list, select Specify or Infinite.
Use Specify to set a value (in percentage of traffic) for the attack detection threshold. Use Infinite to set no value for the threshold.
From the Mitigation Threshold EPS list, select Specify or Infinite.
Use Specify to set a value (in events per second), which cannot be exceeded. If the number of events of this type exceeds the threshold, excess events are dropped until the rate no longer exceeds the threshold.
Use Infinite to set no value for the threshold. This specifies that this type of attack is not rate-limited.
From the Detection Threshold % list, select Specify or Infinite.
Use Specify to set a value (in percentage of traffic) for the attack detection threshold. If packets of the specified types cross the percentage threshold of 1-hour average, an attack is logged and reported. The system continues to check every second and registers an attack as long as the threshold is exceeded.
Click Simulate Auto Threshold to log a simulated attacked event that the system identifies as a DoS attack according to the automatic thresholds, though enforcing manual thresholds.
Note: This setting allows you to see the results of auto thresholds on the selected DoS vector without actually affecting traffic. The system displays the current computed thresholds for automatic thresholds for this vector. Automatic thresholds are computed and enforced only when you select Fully Automatic for a vector.
To detect IP address sources from which possible attacks originate, enable Bad Actor Detection.
Note: Bad Actor Detection is not available for every vector.
In the Per Source IP Detection Threshold EPS field, specify the number of events of this type per second from one IP address that identifies the IP source as a bad actor, for purposes of attack detection and logging.
In the Per Source IP Mitigation Threshold EPS field, specify the number of events of this type per second from one IP address, above which rate limiting or leak limiting occurs.
To automatically blacklist bad actor IP addresses, select Add Source Address to Category.
Important: For this to work, you need to assign an IP Intelligence policy to the appropriate context (device, virtual server, or route domain). For the device, assign a global policy: Security > Network Firewall > IP Intelligence > Policies . For the virtual server or route domain, assign the IP Intelligence policy on the Security tab.
From the Category Name list, select a black list category to apply to automatically blacklisted addresses.
In the Sustained Attack Detection Time field, specify the duration in seconds after which the attacking endpoint is blacklisted. By default, the configuration adds an IP address to the blacklist after one minute (60 seconds).
In the Category Duration Time field, specify the length of time in seconds that the address will remain on the blacklist. The default is 14400 seconds (4 hours).
To allow IP source blacklist entries to be advertised to edge routers so they will null route their traffic, select Allow External Advertisement.
Note: To advertise to edge routers, you must configure a Blacklist Publisher and Publisher Profile at Security > Options > External Redirection > Blacklist Publisher .
You have now configured a DoS protection profile to analyze network packet behavior for DoS attacks, to allow specific configured attacks to be identified in system logs and reports, and to allow rate limiting of such attacks.
Associate the protection profile with a protected object to enable network DoS protection.
You can specify specific threshold, rate increase, rate limit, and other parameters for supported network DoS attack types, to more accurately detect, track, and rate limit attacks.
Attention: All hardware-supported vectors are performed in hardware on vCMP guests, provided that the vCMP guests have the same software version as the vCMP host.
You must first create a DoS protection profile separately, to configure denial-of-service protection for applications, the DNS protocol, or the SIP protocol. For application-level DoS protection, the protected object requires an HTTP profile (such as the default http).
You add denial-of-service protection to a protected object to provide enhanced protection from DoS attacks, and track anomalous activity on the BIG-IP system.
On the Main tab, click Security > DoS Protection > Protected Objects .
Click the name of the protected object to which you want to assign a protection profile.
The Properties pane opens on the right.
In the Protection Settings area, from the Protection Profile list, select the name of the protection profile to assign.
This associates the protection profile with the protected object.
DoS protection is now enabled, and the DoS protection profile is associated with the protected object.
You can specify whitelisted addresses that the protection profile does not subject to DoS checks. Whitelist entries are specified on a security address list that you can create.
Click the name of the protection profile you want to modify.
Create a custom logging profile to log messages about network DoS events.
On the Main tab, click Security > Event Logs > Logging Profiles .
The Logging Profiles list screen opens.
The Create New Logging Profile screen opens.
In the Network DoS Protection area, from the Publisher list, select the publisher the system uses to log network DoS events.
Assign this network DoS logging profile to a protected object.
Ensure that at least one log publisher exists on the BIG-IP system.
Assign a custom logging profile to a protected object when you want the system to log DoS network events for the traffic the protected object processes.
Click the name of the protected object for which you want to log DoS events.
In the Network & General area, for Logging Profiles, move the logging profile to assign from the Available list into the Selected list.
This assigns the logging profile to the protected object.
The system logs DoS network events for the protected object.
You can review DoS network event logs at Security > Event Logs > DoS > Network . You can also view network auto thresholds and dynamic signatures (if enabled).