Device Control regulates access to external storage devices and network resources connected to endpoints. Device Control helps prevent data loss and leakage and, combined with file scanning, helps guard against security risks.
For details, see Blocking Access to Data Recorders (CD/DVD).


In case you've forgotten, the new BMW G310 platform is built in India, in conjunction with TVS. Here's a look at the Apache RTR 310, the bike TVS is building around the same single-cylinder engine, said to be coming to market in early summer.
When shown in concept form last year, this bike had carbon-fibre bodywork and was known as the Akula. However, that level of high-spec componentry is just plain silly on a budget bike like this (despite its cachet in the Indian market), and the bike about to be released in India is much more sensible.
For now, we haven't seen any specs for the bike. There's no definite prediction of horsepower, weight or any other number. It's hard to tell for sure, but it seems the TVS Apache RTR 310 has a different frame from the BMWs using this engine (BMW G310R and G310 GS). It's also possible the engine is tuned differently, although if TVS hopes to sell this in western markets, it's likely to make sure the emissions system is Euro4-compliant.
But, TVS doesn't need European or North American sales to build an empire. For now, it's selling bikes in South America and Asia and seems to be doing just fine. And with a business arrangement with BMW resulting in machines like this, it seems likely the picture will just continue to improve for TVS in coming years, as the developing world continues to build an appetite for affordable motorcycles, just as western markets increasingly move away from two-wheeled transportation.
We'd love to know if BMW has its own plans for a similar sporty G310 model. With a naked bike and an adventure bike already on the market, will BMW build a sportbike, or even a budget sport tourer, built around the single-cylinder motor? It's unlikely, but then again—10 years ago, who could have predicted the G310 GS?
Why don't the manufactures round these engines up to 400cc in development? The owners won't grow out them a quickly if they have 40 or so horsepower and in so many countries have a inexpensive 400cc and under insurance group. If the country has power restrictions than the owner will have to activate a chip to restrict the bike to that specific HP. When they pass to the next stage it becomes unrestricted.
Because they usually started life as 250s, and were stretched out from there. Making them 400s would be tough.
Just develop 400's as the entry/mid level bikes. Put the 250cc out to pasture and use throttle by wire settings or restrict the bike through it's mapping chip if there are HP limitations like in the UK.
Because the world does not revolve around us, and the centre of the motorcycle universe is Asia, that's why. 250cc is a big motorcycle out there. And besides, a modern 300cc – 350cc single is more than capable of smile-inducing performance, even on the highway, for 90% of North American motorcyclists. You simply cannot compare them to a 250 or even 400 from ten years ago.


Paris, September 2, 2013 - Safran (NYSE Euronext Paris: SAF) announced that it finalized the acquisition from Rolls-Royce of Rolls-Royce's 50% share in their joint RTM322 helicopter engine programme. The cash consideration for the transaction amounts to Euro 293 million. Henceforth, Turbomeca (Safran's world leading helicopter engine business) will assume global responsibility for the design, production, product support and services (spares and MRO services - maintenance, repair, overhaul) for the RTM322 engine, which powers the Apache, EH101 and NH90 helicopters. Rolls-Royce will provide full support during a transition phase enabling progressive transfer of all their activities to Turbomeca under this programme. The RTM322 is a priority programme for Turbomeca and the company is committed to the continued technical and commercial development of this programme to improve its global performance, as well as to investments to serve in the long term the strategic market segment of the most powerful helicopter turbines (3,000 shp and above). The objectives and financial details of the transaction were described in the April 23, 2013 announcement of its signature.


Everyone needs to sleep, but it's not that easy for some people. Your body needs sleep so that it can recover from one day and be refreshed from the next. Being deprived of restful slumber seriously impacts your productivity during the day. To learn a bit of advice about how you can sleep better, continue reading this article.
TIP! If insomnia plagues you, your clocks may be to blame. Sleep experts recommend to stop watching the clock while you are trying to fall asleep since it can be the distraction that is keeping you from sleeping.
Wake up earlier so that you can get to sleep quicker at bedtime. You'll be tired in the morning, of course, but you'll probably feel sleepy that night. The one hour difference in time can really make you be ready for bed.
Keep an eye on both the ventilation and temperature conditions in your bedroom. Your body is sensitive to a fluctuation of even a few degrees either way. This can make sleeping even more difficult. Put the thermostat down near 65 degrees to create the best sleeping conditions. Layer the blankets on your bed so they can be removed if necessary.
If you have tried your best to get rid of insomnia, you may need sleep medication. Your doctor can discuss the pros and cons with you.
TIP! To get a better night's sleep and prevent insomnia, try to make your sleeping area as comfortable as you can. Light levels and noise levels should be properly adjusted so that your body can relax and fall asleep naturally.
Warm milk works great unless you're lactose intolerant. Instead, drink herbal tea right before bed. Herbal tea is all natural and won't cause the discomfort milk can cause some people. There are a number of different herbal teas on the market. Check your local heath food store for one you will enjoy.
If you want to take a sleep aid you get at the store, then you have to speak with a doctor to see if you're able to take it safely. This is even more important if you expect extended use. This sort of thing is OK occasionally but can have long term negative side effects.
TIP! Sleep could be based on north to south poles. The head should be pointed north and the feet towards the south.
Before bedtime, don't participate in stimulating activities. Video games, TV shows and lively discussions provide stimulation to the brain. When brain stimulation occurs, difficulty in sleep arises. Opt for things that will relax you and prepare you for sleep.
If you are having a hard time sleeping at night, try adjusting the time you get up in the morning. Set your clock thirty minutes earlier than you would normally wake up to see if sleep comes easier at night. Once your body adjusts and you find yourself falling asleep naturally, going back to your normal wake-up time will be a simple change to make.
TIP! Just as it has been shown that children seem to sleep better when a nightly bedtime routine is followed, this could work for adults, too. Take a bath or listen to an audiobook to help you relax every night.
If your insomnia symptoms are getting worse, you should consider cognitive therapy. Such techniques allow you to determine the erroneous thought patterns that are keeping you up at night. You can also learn effective ways to manage sleep changes that are related to age.
If you're always having trouble getting to sleep, look at your bed. A comfortable bed is a must. If your bed is too soft, causing back pain, this can make it difficult to sleep. We spend a third of our life in bed, so make sure your bed is comfortable for you.
Do you remember your parents giving you milk before bed? It can help those with insomnia, too. Milk relaxes the nervous system. This helps you sleep.
Open your windows. A little fresh air can do wonders when it comes to a good night's sleep. With an open window that allows the ambient temperature in your bedroom to be about 60 degrees Fahrenheit, you create the ideal environment for falling asleep. Stock your bedroom with comfy, warm blankets if you find yourself feeling cold.
TIP! To avoid insomnia problems, remember not to drink beverages within the 3 hours preceding your bed time. This will only send you to the bathroom when trying to go to sleep.
Some people find it so hard to get to sleep at night. It isn't something you can do by working hard or concentrating. But there are things to do to get better sleep. Just keep the tips from above in mind and you will soon be sleeping like a baby.


When it comes to attention in social media, all the eyeballs are at Instagram Stories. If you're a brand who wants to increase their following or engagement, or if you're trying to build your personal brand, you have to level up your Instagram Stories game.
Millions of users are using this new medium of short, disappearing posts to create branded, beautiful and engaging posts. Because of its limited nature. Instagram Stories is kickstarting a new revolution in creativity. This is where you have to stand out. Thankfully, you don't need a graphic design degree to create awesome Instagram Stories posts. There's no need to use Photoshop or Illustrator. You'll find thousands of awesome templates right on your iPhone that you can pick up, edit and remix to make something that's truly unique but still adheres to your brand.
Here are some of the best apps to take your Instagram Stories to a whole new level.
Instagram stories can be beautified with chic and elegant templates with Unfold app. This app features a wide variety of templates and fonts along with the photo and video support so that you never compromise on how your post looks. It allows you to share your video in high resolution to other platforms seamlessly.
The best part of the app is that it never prompts you for an account. You can just download it and start modifying your Instagram Stories. Unfold is an all-rounder app which provides you with all the features from designing, editing, creating collages, adding custom font, borders, and texts to sharing it with your friends via other apps.
This app is best for creating unified and organized stories that suits to promote your brand across your followers on Instagram.
Canva is a user-friendly and a very fun app to design your Instagram Stories and give it a classy and attractive look.
You can create stunning graphic designs without the need to learn graphic design skills. It is available on Android device as well as on the web so you can design, edit and share on the go, anytime and anywhere.
Media graphics can be used to amplify your posts on any social media handle other than Instagram.
It features over 60000 templates for you to choose from. With a variety of designs, fonts, photo editing features and over 1 million stock photos to choose from the library.
If you have got Canva, you practically don't need any other app as it provides all the features required for you to make your work easier as well as make your stories look magnificent.
Now make Video editing easier and hassle-free with InShot. Setting up a video according to the Instagram aspect ratios can be a real task. InShot allows you to set up a perfectly non-cropped video setting your own aspect ratios.
You can trim or cut videos in the length you need. You can also merge multiple videos into one, and edit and trim it without compromising on the video quality. You can add background, text, stickers, and music to your video and add special effects to make your video look amazing. It beholds many other features which you can explore by installing it.
This app is specially designed for iPhone users. This app allows you to make and create amazing videos for your Instagram Stories. It is a super simple app which is easy to use.
It contains over 30+ modern font designs and realistic brushes that can draw in textures and colors. 120+ designs to choose from and a number of background effects. A great app to add more color and life to your amazing stories and attract traffic to your brand page on Instagram.
Adobe Spark Post is now at your rescue to overcome all the difficulties you face to design your Instagram Story content. This app which is renowned for its professional editing software is now fun and easy to use on your iPhone.
Spark Post can instantly spark up your story with its numerous features inhabiting various designs, fonts, backgrounds, editing tools, magic layouts, cutouts, filters and whatever you name it and Spark Post has it!
It has also made sharing easier via various apps. It has got many new and refined features in its new version. Get this app instantly to make your posts super magnificent and increase your fan followers.
Storeo is a great and trending iOS app. This app is very very useful for the ones who want to upload a longer video in one shot without stopping.
This app slices the video into 15 seconds slots for uploading and viewers can view it as one video without breaks. It has proven to be very convenient as it allows you to upload videos of longer time duration seamlessly without any interruption or cut-outs. It allows you to share the video on Facebook as well.
You can totally avoid the hassles of trimming and editing videos now with Storeo.
CutStory makes uploading lengthy videos easy. You can select any old video from your gallery and also add multiple clips filmed over the last 24 hours and CutStory will help you upload it instantly on your Instagram Story.
It posts all the videos in chronological order so there's no mess at the time of uploading. It also has features of adding music, background, stickers, and texts on your video to make it beautiful and a joy to watch.
It supports all video formats and videos are exported without compression so you can be relieved about the video quality being jeopardized. Get this app to make life simpler and your stories better.
Thinking about making your Instagram Stories more eye-catching? Here is HyperType to the rescue. You can make your videos look more attractive now with fancy scripts and fonts.
Hypertype provides a variety of special effects and typographic enhancers which are very easy to apply and makes your videos look funkier. It has got numerous animated fonts and texts and also editing tools to make your videos look better with filters and also you can add music and adjust the timing of your video all in just one app.
It surely adds on an oomph-factor to the overall look of your videos, hence raising your engagement.
8mm is one of the upcoming and popular apps used for creating Instagram Stories. This app is popular for giving the videos an antiquated and vintage look. The feel of the retro movies comes to life with its distinct and variety of vintage filters and effects.
This app allows you to record a video by choosing any of the given vintage filters directly and uploading it instantly on Instagram. The different effects of a retro feel, the dust and scratches, and flickering, light leaks and frame turbulence and the mellow light effects are a treat to someone who loves the 90s retro feels.
To yield better videos and increase the brand value of your page, Magisto can prove to be an apt application. If you don't have much time to waste on editing stories over 2 or 3 different apps, then Magisto is the best possession for you as it contains all the features that are required for making your video better as well as it is super easy to use.
It can cut-short editing time because of its simple interface and numerous features. It can also slideshow or make a video collage if you just have photos. It has been proven to be the best for professional uses over 90 million users. You can instantly share your videos over other social media handles as well with great video quality.
Looking out for the perfect brand-building Instagram tool? Over is one of the best apps for the job.
It has a professional touch to it as well as the comfort of using it without much conjecture. It features millions of templates and overlay texts and fonts to emphasize the look and effects of your video. It is the best app for campaign posters and advertisements of a brand product.
There is a hub of customizable templates to offer to you with great editing tools and effects and graphics for your video or photos collage. It surely has made video making and editing fun and also raises the elegance quotient of your Instagram page.
After all, Instagram has made marketing on social media wonderful and easy as you can reach out to millions at a time, and so marking your way up is equally important through your Instagram stories and videos and over fulfills all of it.
What are some of your favorite apps for editing photos for Instagram? Share with us in the comments below.


Here at Day Out With The Kids we've found 273 fun things to do in Eden Vale for you and the family to discover, including railway and transport attractions, crazy golf and tourist attractions. What's more, the weather shouldn't be a problem – 193 of the attractions are indoors. Finding the right day out in Eden Vale for your family is easy – simply explore the links below or use the filters at the top of the page to plan your next adventure.
Want to know what to do with the nature lovers in your family? Walk on the wild side and visit our Animals listings for zoos, safari parks and wildlife parks. Or are you looking for nearby places to visit in Eden Vale with a culture vulture? We've picked the best children's museums, discovery centres and historic locations in the Sightseeing section.


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Kopi Susu, by Rosa Verhoeve
One of the stranger things about the internet is you meet people online, you get to know them, and things happen to them, but at that strange distance where everything is like a muffled underwater echo, the kind of thing that is so faint that responding to it with a couple of taps, a like or a retweet doesn't seem as dyfunctional and sociopathic as it should.
Every now and then somebody dies and you respond with a sad face and it's quite inadequate. There's a genuine sense of loss that somehow finds expression through the automated mass of responses that is Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat. I like to think it's a sign of the victory of humanity over machine, that there is something beyond the algorithm. I like to think that because if I don't, then it's a sign of the victory of the algorithm over humanity. But somehow I don't think we're quite smart enough to make something that can do that yet.
Anyway, I never met Rosa Verhoeve in person, but I saw her posts on Facebook, I chatted to her, I swapped books, I reviewed her book on the PH Museum website. And then she died so I pressed the sad face button and typed some words of condolence. It wasn't much.
I knew her through Kopi Susu, which is a quite beautiful book, a luminous book that shines with an intensity that is both comforting yet searching. It's a good way to remember her, and that idea is embedded within the book. Here is my review.
Photo by Daphne Wagemans
Kopi Susu by Rosa Verhoeve
The Dutch colonisation of Indonesia was not a benevolent affair. It came to a premature end in 1942 when the Dutch East Indies (as it was known then) was occupied by the Japanese. This was a brutal occupation in which Indonesians were starved, tortured, raped, murdered and an estimated 4 million were worked to death in Southeast Asia.
With the defeat of the Japanese in 1945 and the Dutch still reeling, an Indonesia free of colonists declared independence on August 17th 1945. The liberation didn't last long. The Dutch (with some British help) reoccupied the country, another quarter of a million Indonesians died in the ensuing fight for independence before finally the Dutch accepted defeat in 1947 and returned to the Netherlands.
One of those Dutch soldiers who came in 1945 was Rosa Verhoeve's grandfather. He met and married a Javanese woman and remained in Indonesia before being forcibly repatriated to the Netherlands in 1957. Verhoeve never knew these grandparents but heard about them through the stories of her mixed-race 'Indo' mother, and felt their presence in the décor of her home and within herself and the Dutch community of people with Indonesian heritage to which she half-belonged.
But as she grew up, this heritage remained a mystery shrouded in the nostalgic romanticism of the Tempo Doeloe (Old Times) of the Dutch East Indies. With a background set in two worlds, Verhoeve set out to discover the contemporary reality of her heritage, a heritage personified by Verhoeve as the kopi susu (of milk coffee) used to describe Indo skin colour, the kopi (coffee) being the Indonesian side, the susu the Dutch.
Kopi Susu is Verhoeve's visual investigation of that heritage. It's a small book, a fragile book, where images of domesticity and the symbols of Indonesian-ness are paired up in short sequences that coalesce into a search for identity.
It's a search that is creates a partial picture of Verhoeve's heritage, and that partial picture is ultimately the complete picture; everything is slightly out of reach, a finger's breadth away, sensed but unseen in the shadows. And that partial vision is what makes the book so successful, because that is what an Indonesian identity (which like all national identities is one that doesn't really exist) is like.
There are archival images of her grandmother and grandfather, family album snaps of good times at the lake and by the sea. The contemporary images are matched in pairings that have an otherworldly element to them; giant lily pads paired with a circular pond, a wormhole to the world that lies beneath and beyond Java's physical exterior. A leg on a wet tiled floor is matched with a tree standing in a mud-scuttled bay, a bag on a palm goes with two girls hanging off blue coloured swings, the sun setting in golden hour glory that will end suddenly and lead to the abruptness of an equatorial night.
The book gets closer as it progresses, Verhoeve's mother and grandmother echoing in locket photographs and faces being made up. There are white women and brown women and we are never quite sure who is who. The images work like rhyming couplets, one playing off the other, leading you into a new world. It's fragile, and it's beautiful and eventually it all merges into one. Just like the title, just like the drink; Kopi Susu.
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FAT PETE RECORDS
In 1964, Sal Valentino, as frontman for the Beau
Brummels, became the first Yankto score a massive
hit after the Beatles broke, with the stunning
"laugh laugh," coincidentally (and accidentally)
launching folk/rock. For the past ten years, he's
kept a pretty low profile, mostly out of the music
biz except for a few reportedly fantastic occasional
appearances doing BBssongs. Years ago he met
and befriended Austin's Freddie Steady Krc (one
of Austin's busiest and most respected musicians).
Soa linle over a year ago, when Krcgot the
A&Rjob at Fat Pete Records, Valentino was the
first guy he called. This is the result, Valentino's
first new album in years (there's another new
one coming with Valentino's musical partner of
recent years, Johnny Blakeley),backed by an array
of Austin's best musicians. The album features
three new Valentino songs, two by Krc,two by
their late pal Jimmy Silva, and tunes by Keith
Sykes, Johnny Cash, Jimmy Webb, and a recent
Bill Lloyd/Peter Case song. Valentino's voice is
still in fine form, still one of the most distinctive
and evocativ.ein rock music. Myfave is the jangly
12-string coloured "Treasure of the Orient" (one
of Krc's contributions) - the song most reminiscent
of early Beau Brummels. Equally fine is
Lloyd/Case's "The longest Time" and Sykes' "The
.Devilin the Courtyard," while Valentino's "lookin'
for You" boasts the album's most rockin' vocal.
. The combination of Valentino's warm, wonderful
voice and some migtrtY fine songwritin' makes
fora memorablereturntoform. - Kent
H.Benjamin
- Pop Culture Press
"Decades in obscurity, Beau Brummels front man surfaces to remind us what the fuss was all about"
Sal Valentino was washed up. "No one called in a long time," he says. "No one knew where I was."
There were even reports of his death. "My mother laughs every time she hears that," the 63-year-old rock singer says. "I didn't call her, either."
As lead vocalist of the Beau Brummels, San Francisco's answer to the British Invasion, he sang the 1965 hit "Laugh Laugh." That record and the subsequent "Just a Little" were his high water marks on the charts, but the Brummels went on to record cult-classic albums such as "Triangle" and "Bradley's Barn," and Valentino's haunting vocals made him a famous talent in record industry circles. He sang the scratch vocals on the original recording of Randy Newman's self-titled premiere album in 1968, although Newman overdubbed his own vocals later.
More than just San Francisco's first rock star, Valentino could transform a song with the sound of his voice. That skill is evident on his new CD, the first solo album of his 45-year career. Valentino and his longtime collaborator John Blakeley struggled for nine years to release "Dreamin' Man," a masterpiece shot through with the sort of artistic confidence and depth of character that takes a lifetime to accumulate.
"He's like a Van Morrison," says Blakeley, a producer and arranger who played with Morrison in the '70s. Valentino's "got a personal musical style I've never heard anybody even come close to."
Blakeley lives in the San Francisco basement record studio where the album was recorded. When health problems led to a 1997 heart transplant, he rented out the upstairs and moved downstairs when he couldn't work. The studio control room window now looks into his living room, which is decorated in acoustic tile. The former vocal isolation booth now serves as his bedroom.
"We talked about it before the transplant," says Blakeley, who first worked with Valentino in 1969. Blakeley had been contributing to an album by singer-songwriter Ron Nagle on which Valentino sang some backup vocals. Blakeley and Valentino then found themselves playing side by side in a hippie troupe being filmed for a Warner Bros. movie called
"The Medicine Ball Caravan." Out of that dubious enterprise emerged a rock group called Stoneground with which Valentino and Blakeley made three albums before splitting to work local clubs in a band called Valentino. Blakeley quit that group to play guitar with Morrison.
Valentino moved back and forth between Los Angeles and San Francisco, finally resettling in town in the mid-'80s when his father grew ill with cancer. Valentino took over his father's job selling Racing Forms at Bay Meadows before moving south and taking a job as a parimutuel clerk for more than seven years. "I hated that job," he says. "You couldn't trust anybody on either side of the window or working alongside of you."
Born Salvatore Spampinato, Valentino grew up a prince of North Beach. His father, also raised in the neighborhood, played sandlot ball with the DiMaggio boys. Yellowed photos still hang in Gino and Carlo's on Green Street of the fighters Sal's father handled in the '50s. He gave Sal the Valentino name, in fact, from one of his favorite fighters.
As a young man he had matinee idol looks, and Valentino has managed to age gracefully. He carries himself with the stately elegance of an Italian count and still speaks with a soft, musical voice. He never had the warrior's zeal necessary to thrive in the music business and admits he lacked ambition. His big score after the Brummels was a $5,000 finder's fee for bringing Ricki Lee Jones to Warner Bros. Records.
When he met Catherine Kopinski almost 12 years ago, he was splitting his time between his mother's place in the Central Valley, staying in Reno with some musicians who formed a Beau Brummels tribute band and living in a tiny apartment in Sacramento above a restaurant. That's where he met the eighth-grade teacher from Detroit with two grown sons. They were married within months. Her medical insurance finally allowed him to replace his missing front teeth.
"I love her," he mutters happily to no one in particular, as he answers a cell phone call from his wife.
The material for "Dreamin' Man" goes back years. Valentino tried out some of the songs in Blakeley's studio almost 20 years ago. Valentino once offered the ebullient "Love Song" to Phil Everly of the Everly Brothers. "Phil loved it," Valentino says. "But I never could write a lyric for the chorus." On "Dreamin' Man," he simply hums where the chorus might go.
The record was pieced together in between hospital stays as Blakeley went through a nightmare recuperation from his transplant operation. He developed lymphoma so advanced his neck was swollen like a bullfrog.
The drugs that cleaned out that cancer also wiped out his immune system. Three days after returning home, he turned around and went back to the hospital, staying for 58 days. The slightest infection could ravage him. He spent months suffering from a biblical inf - Joel Selvin, Chronicle


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The Three Musketeers at the Kotel
The Poisoned Pen By Victor Sharpe
Then said Satan: This besieged one, how shall I overcome him?
He has courage and ability, he has weapons and imagination.
So he said: I shall not take his strength, nor muzzle nor bridle him.
Nor soften nor weaken his hands, only one thing I shall do;
I shall dull his brain and he will forget that he is in the right."
So wrote the Israeli poet, Natan Alterman, in his poem, Gone like a Dream. He was expressing his deep anxiety over the weakening resolve and steadfastness of the Jews of Israel and of the Diaspora in their support for the reconstituted Jewish state.
For long decades, in the face of unrelenting Arab Muslim hostility and aggression, the Jews were imbued with a deep conviction of the rightness and righteousness of their cause.
Many still do and fight against an unremitting and hostile world that would consign Israel to the abyss, but far too many today have fallen away and been seduced by an overwhelming onslaught - not of military might - but by a war of ideas, however false and twisted those ideas are. The success of those lies has sapped the will of many and confused many more.
We have all heard of the Big Lie theory that was so successfully enunciated and practiced by Adolf Hitler's propaganda minister, Josef Goebbels. The theory essentially posits that people will believe in a lie if it is big enough and repeated enough times.
Goebbels knew that most people had a scant understanding of a situation but when they heard the same lie repeated again and again they would begin to accept unquestionably what was being told to them. Goebbels put it this way:
"The rank and file is usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious. The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly … it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over."
The Muslim Arabs have learned this lesson all too well for they have succeeded in doing what years of Arab and Islamist warfare and terror have failed to do. They have isolated the Jewish state as never before and won millions around the globe to their cause by demonizing Israel with the Goebbelian technique of the Big Lie theory.
Arab Muslim spokespersons have become adept at smoothly repeating a few enormous lies, often wrapped in pseudo-emotion, that coerces so many uninformed but well- intentioned listeners who then fall for them – hook, line and sinker.
A typical technique by such Arab Muslim propagandists is to create a lie and deliver it with conviction. As soon as the lie is exposed for what it is, the Arab or pro-Arab propagandists merely moves on to the next big howler. And so it goes - an endless and unashamed armory of pernicious falsehoods masquerading as facts.
And in the court of public opinion, the victim of those manufactured myths, Israel, now becomes the victimizer to so many people and is further marginalized and demonized.
Leftists and Marxists rush to embrace the cause of the Arabs, who call themselves Palestinians, seeing through a dark mirror a warped comparison of the successful and creative Jewish state with Lenin's attack on capitalism - and if the Jewish state is surrounded by self-oppressed and failed Arab societies, all the better. Add to this Ionesco like 'Theater of the Absurd' a mainstream international media, which eagerly loves to be manipulated by Arab and Muslim regimes, and you have a perfect storm.
This then is the metaphysical challenge to Israel as it resists both the violence of overt Muslim Arab physical aggression and the equally diabolical violence of the poisoned pen and mendacity of the misspoken word.
The old aphorism goes: 'Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never harm them.' Oh! But they do.
And the Arab Muslim world has learned, just as Josef Goebbels knew, that if you lie about a people and bear false witness against them, you prepare them for an extermination that millions around the globe will willingly accept and excuse.
Satan is busy. He hates the light of Israel. He hates the creativity, the progress and the freedoms that Israel, like America, spreads throughout the world.
He enjoys the ultimate absurdity that spews from the Islamic Republic of Iran as the Ayatollah and his crazed mullahs call the United States the 'Great Stan' and Israel, the 'Little Satan.' Oh, how delicious that irony is to the real Satan.
But the dark forces of Arab and Islamic hate know that they will not prevail if they fail to extinguish the flickering candle of light in the world. Israel is that candle and will surely endure despite a hostile world's quest to snuff it out. As it says in the Apocrypha:
"I shall light a candle of understanding in thy heart, which shall not be put out."
Victor Sharpe is a freelance writer and author of the acclaimed four volumes of Politicide: The attempted murder of the Jewish state.
VICTOR SHARPE
Why Israel must repossess the Philadelphi Corridor
This was land Israel gave away for peace but no peace ever came of it - instead endless Arab aggression.
(June 13, 2021 / JNS)
When the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel was signed in 1979, the 14 km (8.7 mile) security and buffer zone known as the Philadelphi Corridor was under Israel's control. Its purpose was to prevent the illegal importation into the Gaza Strip from Egypt of weapons and terrorists to be used against the Jewish state. The Oslo Accords, signed in 1995, allowed Israel to retain the security corridor, but it soon became apparent that Sinai Bedouin and the Palestinian Arabs were digging ever more sophisticated smuggling tunnels under it.
Then-U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged Israel to vacate the vital security strip separating Egyptian Sinai from the Gaza Strip as a "peaceful gesture" to the Palestinian Arabs. This proved to be another land for peace disaster in which the Arabs receive the land but the Israelis don't receive peace.
Following the infamous and tragic disengagement from Gaza in 2005, forced upon the residents of Gush Katif by Ariel Sharon, Israel ceded control of the Philadelphi Corridor to the Palestinian Authority in September of that year. Meanwhile, extensive smuggling continued. It was only a matter of time before Hamas evicted their Fatah rivals in a bloody coup—which they did in 2007. Hamas, with its charter calling for Israel's extermination, has ruled the Gaza Strip since then, including the Philadelphi Corridor.
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Ahmed Qurei, the former P.A. prime minister, once asked Tzipi Livni, Israel's erstwhile and left-wing foreign minister, if Israel would repossess the Corridor to seal the border and cut off supplies to Hamas, the P.A.'s deadly rival. Apparently, Livni did nothing, and Hamas has been greatly strengthened militarily ever since. It is, nevertheless, crystal clear that failure to repossess this vitally strategic area now, or very soon, will spell dire security problems for Israel.
What if Egypt should fall again under the control of the Muslim Brotherhood, as it did when Hosni Mubarak was president? There would then be no more need for smuggling tunnels beneath the Egyptian-Gaza border. Instead, endless fleets of trucks would bring military supplies into the Strip from Egypt. Only by fully controlling the Philadelphi Corridor can Israel stem such a lethal tide.
Despite President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi's control of Egypt, Egyptian state media, like that of Hamas and the P.A., openly proclaims its adherence to Islam's eternal requirement that all lands once conquered in the name of Allah must, if lost, be warred on until regained for Allah. This is not extreme or radical Islam. This is authentic Islam, and the non-Muslim world ignores it at its peril. Accordingly, there can never be a lasting peace between Israel and the Muslim world; "peace now" and the "two-state solution" are simply dreams.
Therefore, Israel should repossess the Philadelphi Corridor for its own security and survival. Doing so will no doubt evoke screams of rage from the morally compromised world—but these voices will condemn Israel whatever it does. So it is surely better to be hanged in the media and the international corridors of power as a lion than as a sheep.
So take it, Israel, and take it soon, for the Muslim Brotherhood neither sleeps nor rests, and time in this instance is most assuredly not on Israel's side. Despite the present "assurances" from the Egyptian military that they will continue to honor their existing peace treaty with Israel, it is imperative for the Jewish state not to be lulled yet again into a sense of false security.
Victor Sharpe is a prolific freelance writer specializing in Biblical and post-Biblical Jewish history while covering the Israel-Islam conflict. He has written and had published seven books including the highly acclaimed four-volume work titled, "Politicide: The attempted murder of the Jewish state."
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Sodomite Agenda winning a game of chicken with Chick-fil-A
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Christian Group Releases Video of Man Who Plotted to Kill, 'Smear Chick-fil-A Sandwiches in Faces'
video: http://christiannews.net/2013/04/26/christian-group-releases-footage-of-homosexual-who-plotted-to-kill-staff-smear-chick-fil-a-sandwich-in-faces/
A prominent Christian lobbying group has released footage of the homosexual activist who arrived at their headquarters last year with the intent to kill because of the organization's pro-family views.
As previously reported, last August, Floyd Corkins III entered the offices of Family Research Council (FRC) in Washington, D.C. with a 9 mm Sig Sauer pistol that he had purchased from a gun shop in Virginia. He was also carrying a backpack that contained two loaded magazines of bullets with fifteen rounds in each, and four boxes of ammunition were found in his car.
Corkins posed as an intern as an attempt to get past security, but the building manager, Leo Johnson, questioned the man about his destination. Corkins then reportedly began yelling about the policies of the organization and shot the guard in the arm as a way to get past the front desk.
Johnson immediately tackled Corkins and disarmed him. He was held until police arrived.
"Don't shoot me, it was not about you; it was what this place stands for," Corkins pled after his pistol was confiscated, according to eyewitnesses.
It was later discovered that Corkins had over a dozen Chick-fil-A sandwiches in his backpack. He told investigators that it was his intent to "kill the people in the building and then smear a Chick-fil-A sandwich in their face."
Family Research Council has now posted video footage of the incident online, along with concerning admissions from Corkins to the FBI, including his notation that he was motivated by a "hate group" list on the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) website.
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"How did you find [this organization] earlier?" an investigator asks. "Did you look it up online?"
"Southern Poverty Law lists anti-gay groups," Corkins replied. "I found them online. I did a little bit of research, went to the website, stuff like that."
The footage, which has no audio, shows Johnson sitting at the front desk when he is approached by Corkins, who is carrying a backpack. The two appear to be having a discussion, and then Corkins lays his backpack on the ground and begins opening it. Johnson then stands up and moves closer to Corkins.
Within seconds, Corkins pulls out a gun, and Johnson thrusts his hand forward to avoid being shot in the face. After being wounded in the arm, he pursues Corkins across the room, and the two wrestle until Johnson holds Corkins down on the floor.
In announcing the release of the footage Thursday, FRC leader Tony Perkins condemned the Southern Poverty Law Center for being the catalyst of the attack.
"The SPLC's reckless labeling has led to devastating consequences," he stated. "Because of its 'hate group' labeling, a deadly terrorist had a guidemap to FRC and other organizations. Our team is still dealing with the fallout of the attack, that was intended to have a chilling effect on organizations that are simply fighting for their values."
"The Southern Poverty Law Center, which has now been linked to domestic terrorism in federal court, should put an immediate stop to its practice of labeling organizations that oppose their promotion of homosexuality," Perkins added.
The group still has not removed FRC from its website despite requests from the organization.
http://christiannews.net/2013/04/26/christian-group-releases-footage-of-homosexual-who-plotted-to-kill-staff-smear-chick-fil-a-sandwich-in-faces/


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The SIU pack shrinks overall, but the first-year class is the largest in six years.
With class back in full swing, Southern Illinois University (SIU) has gotten a much needed influx of students. The number of first year undergraduate students is up 6.8%, according to the University, with 1,518 of them enrolled.
According to the SIU Enrollment Page, between 2017 and 2018 undergraduate enrollment dropped by 18%. In fall of 2021, SIU had the largest first year class it has seen since 2017 and this year surpassed that.
"For the third year in a row, we have increased our freshman class – for the first time since 2004," Chancellor Austin Lane said. "In fact, this class is the largest in six years, and we are enjoying a second year of stable enrollment.
While Lane called it "stable," total enrollment is down 1.4%, but that is considerably better than the precipitous drops of the 2017-18 period.
Amanda Everette, the Director of Undergraduate Admissions said, when it comes to recruiting students, the office tries to focus on reaching the lower level schools and telling them why SIU will be a good opportunity, and different departments will help them along the way.
"Really talking to them about the opportunities and then, based on when they're planning on attending, then, driving them to apply […] and getting them connected with advisement and kind of pushing them forward through those next steps," Everette said.
She said, when her department goes through the admissions applications, they go based on oldest to newest and try to prioritize applications based on what deadlines are coming up.
Lane said there is still more work to be done.
"We'll continue our focus on yielding more freshman, transfer, graduate and international students. We're continually examining programming designed to help students be successful and retain them as Salukis. We will analyze the data further and see where we can improve, especially as the recruitment cycle for fall 2023 gets underway," he said.
Wendell Williams, the Associate Vice Chancellor for Enrollment Management, said SIU offers students more than just an education.
"The city of Carbondale and the surrounding areas that we have, is a great place for you to find yourself. That's even before we start thinking about the great professors that we have, the great support team," Williams said. "[…] The things that we hear the most from students, is that they fall in love with the area, they fall in love with the climate. They fall in love with SIU."
He said students who come here have an opportunity to explore and build a better version of themselves and make SIU their home away from home.
Williams said, having more new students not only helps SIU, but the entire Carbondale community as a whole.
"Who knows one of the students enrolled this semester or may already be here, maybe making the next cure for cancer. They may be the first person to step foot on Mars. So the more students that we can get the better. […] Plus, with the budget cuts, it always comes at the state level and with the challenges with funding higher education," Williams said.
He said, dealing with budget cuts is hard and they are always coming up with new ways to deal with them, but getting more students at SIU helps a lot to counteract those cuts.
Elyse Weller, Interim Director of Financial Aid, said her office does its best to get students the financial aid they need and access to scholarships. She said she and her office do their best to keep up with President Biden's student debt policies, and make sure that students are able to understand what that means financially for them.
Sam Bandy, Interim Director for the Center for International Education, said international students benefit from coming to SIU because they get to see and experience what it is like outside of their home country.
"If you're from a city in China, a small city of 3 million you know, that's what Carbondale is to them and so being able to be in an environment that has more of a park or a natural field is really important," Bandy said. "At the same time for them to be able to participate in those clubs, meet new people and then really find themselves as well."
He said the international program offers more than just making connections with other students, they figure out what they want for themselves and see other professional paths that are available to them.
"I would say for international students once they get here and meet the students, the faculty and the staff that really makes their experience and so you get one student who has a fabulous experience and is similar with domestic students," Bandy said
According to Bandy, when students get to tell their families and friends back home about SIU's international program that helps the program get more students every year.
Ramesh Naupane, Associate Director for the Study Abroad Program said, study abroad has been around for years, and has been a great way for both domestic and international students to see different cultures and continue their education.
"SIU does a lot of exchange programs where a student will register a class at SIU, but we'll take those courses abroad. So they will be graduating on time. So that's how they [get their] academic experience and they will be learning in different higher education settings. So that's a different knowledge that they're going to gain over there," Naupane said.
According to Naupane, study abroad has many opportunities for students like short and long run exchange programs and a variety of scholarships.
He said, with more jobs wanting employees to be more experienced internationally, this is the perfect opportunity for students.
"This study abroad experience is going to help them to achieve that, to have that global mindset, because they are going abroad and learning about different cultures and people. So when you go into the workforce setting, then you have that experience working with different cultures," Naupane said.
He said the program gives students a chance to learn about different cultures and how other countries' norms are different from theirs.
Jim Hunsaker, the Associate Director of Housing, said, last year, because SIU had such an influx in first year students, it could no longer offer single rooms for every student this year, so first year students have a roommate by default.
"All of the towers are being used, all of the Wall and Grand apartments are being used. There's been an expansion of the Evergreen Terrace, our undergraduate furnished apartments, and our grad and family apartments," he said.
Hunsaker said having new students come to SIU benefits current students in many ways.
"I think that as enrollment increases, the student experience increases too, because everybody gets exposed to many different cultures and many different people that aren't like them, and which is only going to benefit them in the future," Hunsaker said.[…] "So when you get those interactions in college, it bleeds over into your professional career and the rest of your life."
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This research work intends to carry out a study focused on the dynamic between development, poverty reduction and conservation of natural resources. To consider this relationship to the region chosen was the micro-region of Eastern and Western Seridó in the state of Rio Grande do Norte. In recent years, several studies (Araújo, 2011 ; BASTOS, 2009) have pointed out that after a period of economic crisis in its tripodproductive, formed by the activities of farming, cotton farming, mining and faced in the eighties, this region of the State of Rio Grande do Norte, has not only shown signs of economic recovery but also improve their social indicators. On the other hand, studies of desertification as the view of the state of RN (produced in cooperation between the Government of RN and research institutions) and the Sustainable Development Plan of Seridó (ADES, 2000), indicate that there is an ongoing French process of degradation of natural resources that is capable of compromising the ability of sustaining such a system. To verify this reality and likely finding this relationship, this work is adopted for this study, the analysis of evolution of secondary data from official bodies such as the IBGE on HDI, per capita income and other social indicators between 2000 and 2009. Here is another time of the survey analysis of qualitative data collected from interviews with institutions of academic intervention in nature, researchers at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) State agencies that address the issue of the Middle Environment in Seridó : Institute for Sustainable Development of the NB (IDEMA) and the Brazilian Institute of Environment and the Amazon (IBAMA) and institutions of direct intervention in the region, as the Agency's Sustainable Development Seridó (adhesive) and the Joint Semi-Arid (ASA). After crossing data from quantitative and qualitative, it was found that the dynamics of the region's economic Seridó Potiguar partially answers the improvement of social indicators of poverty. Contribution by the State in this shared stock transfer income. Regarding the influence of productive restructuring in the region on issues of environment, it is noted that the ceramic tile industry, responsible for the absorption percentage of the population with limited ingress into the urban economy, given the low education, accounts for the increase of susceptibility to the ongoing process of desertification in North Seridó Rio Grande. We conclude finally that the guarantee of increased income, freedom and conservation of natural resources ensures primarily by changing the beliefs and values, especially on the part of the business sector, which use natural resources so predatory, aimed at maintaining their rates of return on investment. And concomitantly, the synchronization between technological change, through the use of new energy sources, and institutional change.
Mots clés : Desenvolvimento ; Instituições ; Pobreza ; Meio-Ambiente. ; Development ; Institution ;Poverty; Environment.


They contain all kinds of hidden treasures, including a couple of my older, first generation Enchanted Dolls.
And the Winner, of the 2013 Enchanted Doll birthday contest Is…..
Ta-daa! This lovely card, hand drawn by Irena Mikolajeva, from England!
Congratulations Irena, we began this contest with 425 entries, and your card was randomly selected from the best 5 that made it into the final round! Your prize is a costumed resin doll seen below! Come and claim it!
And this is the winner's prize! She is a resin Enchanted Doll, with a removable mohair wig, green glass eyes, two-piece printed Echo costume and a pair of enameled bronze shoes. Enjoy having her!
Thank you again to all the participants for your entries and your birthday wishes. I really enjoyed all your cards. With the winner selected, I now declare this contest closed.
It's my birthday today, which means the contest is over and today I will be giving away a doll to one of the finalists! The winning card will be randomly selected from these really awesome cards, four of which are entirely hand-made while one is vintage. Stand by for the announcement this evening! Good luck to the finalists!
Hey folks, five more cards below have been eliminated from the remaining ten. We are down to five best candidates now, and from this point on it's going to be random elimination, as choosing is getting too hard. It was very hard to eliminate these ones. Thank you very much for taking a part in this contest, you guys! Good luck next year.
This porcelain card is fantastic. I'm impressed with all the work that went into it, and the back is very well done. Eliminating it was a difficult choice. Great effort. Thank you for making it for me, Virginie. Good luck next year.
Love the presentation of this card and the image. Thank you again, Karla. Good luck next year.
I love the nostalgia this card makes me feel. Thank you for the blast from the past, Anton. Good luck next year.
Lovely photo. Thank you, Bertha. Good luck next year.
Love the fold out aspect of this one and your creative solution to the size restriction. Great work. Thank you, Maria. Good luck next year.
Hello contestants! Ten more cards (below) are eliminated from the original 50 contenders. Only ten more remain in the running to win a doll, and we are closing in on that winner. Thanks to the eliminated participants. They weren't easy decisions. Good luck next year!
Below are 10 more entries that have been ELIMINATED from the original 50 card. Remaining 20 NOT shown here, are still in the running to win an Enchanted Resin Doll on March 16th. Thanks for your effort you guys. Good luck next year.
Below are 20 entries that have been ELIMINATED from the original 50 card. Those NOT shown here, are still in the running to win an Enchanted Resin Doll on March 16th. Thanks for your effort you guys. Good luck next year.
Birthday contest, round 1: Top 50 candidates!
Dear contestants, sorting your post cards for two days had given me some serious wanderlust! From 425 entries, the top fifty (50) have qualified to move into the next round of the competition. I chose the cards that made me feel longing, nostalgia and wanderlust most intensely. I also judged them on a sense of aesthetic, presentation and meaning. The rest of you who didn't move into the next round, you have my sincere thanks for participating and for making an effort. You guys surprise and inspire me!
This one, is very atmospheric. It makes me want to put a pack on my back and walk all the way to the top. Singapore, Thank you, Joyce.
I want to go swimming there! I can practically feel the heat of the sun and the coolness of the water when I look at it. Italy. Thanks, Salvatore.
This one gives me a glint of the colonial past of Hong Kong, before the glass towers began gutting out from the lush cliffs. I feel like a time traveler. Hong Kong. Thank you, Bertha.
This one is very exotic and alluring. I love Alphonse Mucha and I can feel the sun and the glam of a Monte-Carlo beach at the turn of the century when I look at it. It captures the vintage post card spirit and the beginning of the jet-setting era. Thank you!
"Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even that. How many times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless."-Paul Bowles.
And there you have it, folks, these are the top 50 candidates. Thirty of these will move forward into the next round tomorrow. Thank you all for participating. Your cards have given me a wonderful opportunity to reflect and contemplate. Congratulations to those still in running and good luck.
Enchanted Doll birthday contest is closed!
Ladies and Gentlemen, I declare the 4th annual Enchanted Doll birthday contest, closed! The grand prize, a costumed resin doll will be given away to the winner.
Thank you very much to all participants for your efforts. Although I kept the contest open for extra 4 days to wait for card stuck in mail limbo, it is still quite possible that not all your cards made it here in time. I apologize for not being able to wait much longer, but counting must begin. No more cards will be accepted. Chad and I are sorting your entries to choose those who will pass the first elimination round. The next few days are going to be intense, as every day I'm going to eliminate more and more entries, moving closer to the winner. This information will be announced here.
Stand by for the next round and Good luck!