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'The Third Day' Trailer: Jude Law and Naomie Harris Welcome You into an Eerie World
HBO's "The Third Day" might just make you happy you can't take a scenic road trip.
Kristen Lopez
Aug 7, 2020 1:30 pm
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Want to get away? Well, watching the trailer for HBO's new limited series "The Third Day" might just make you happy you can't take a scenic road trip. Based on the latest trailer for the three-part limited series, starring Jude Law and Naomie Harris, nothing good ever happens from visiting a remote island.
"The Third Day" is a story about grief and pain, as evidenced by the anguish of Law's and Harris' characters, two separate people on personal journeys who find themselves drawn to a small island off the British coast. But once there, the townspeople — including those played by Katherine Waterston and Emily Watson — seem to be preparing for a lot of bad things to happen.
Here's the official synopsis, according to HBO: "The show is divided into two parts: 'Summer' and 'Winter.' In 'Summer,' one man (Jude Law) visits a mysterious island off the British coast and discovers a group of inhabitants intent on preserving their home at any cost. In the second half, aka 'Winter,' a strong-willed outsider (Naomie Harris) comes to the island seeking answers — but instead causes a battle to decide its fate."
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"The Third Day" comes from the immersive theater company that put on the New York production "Sleep No More," a take on Shakespeare's "Macbeth" with noir elements. And there certainly seem to be callbacks to other films evoked in this trailer, from the more modern-day movie "Midsommar" to the 1973 classic "The Wicker Man." If you've seen either of those films you should be able to figure out what you (and the characters) have probably gotten themselves into.
The series has been in development for awhile, dropping a first trailer all the way back in March of this year. With paranoia on the rise it certainly seems like the perfect time to give audiences this series, especially as HBO appears to have its finger on the pulse of current events. Their recent foray into the world of "Watchmen" didn't just lend itself to a bevy of Emmy nominations, but a ton of thinkpieces of how it predicted and historically drew from certain current events.
"The Third Day" will air on HBO and HBO Max starting September 14.
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Peace or War in Cyberspace?
Prof. Alexander Zinchenko
Information and communication technology (ICT) plays an unprecedented role in today's world, but cyberspace is clearly lacking in security mechanisms that can guarantee stable and sustained world development. Insufficient information security is a barrier to investment in high-tech sectors. Digital technology with its artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing, big data, the internet of things (IoT), electronic medicine, and electronic finance is a hostage to the absence of internationally accepted rules of behavior in cyberspace.
All countries without exception are increasingly vulnerable to cyber threats. The international community needs to join forces to build a reliable information security system, but instead individual states pursue policies that make cyberspace even less secure.
The United States is undoubtedly a global ICT leader. However, over the past few years it has increasingly demonstrated an open desire to use ICT for military purposes. It has been developing military ICTs and intensively militarizing cyberspace, thereby unleashing a cyber arms race. There is ample evidence of this.
It was the United States that developed the Stuxnet computer worm, and the American use of it against Iran in 2011 was, as it were, a cyber Hiroshima and an alarm signal to the entire international community because that cyberattack might have had irreversible consequences for Iran, and for its region as a whole for that matter. That attack was effectively the first instance in history of a state using a cyber weapon against another state. Thereby, the United States threw Iran's civilian nuclear program several years back.
In 2009, the Pentagon set up a body to direct cyberspace operations, the United States Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM), and put it in full-scale service the next year. Cyber Command is authorized to conduct both defensive and offensive operations. Its decisions are to be based on reports from the National Security Agency (NSA).
In August 2017, US President ordered Cyber Command to be elevated to the status of an independent unified combatant command. The order, which was implemented in May 2018, put Cyber Command on a par with the nine other unified combatant commands. Cyber Command is currently hiring hundreds of cyber operators to help carry out defensive and offensive cyber operations. The command is planned to eventually comprise nearly 6,200 personnel organized into 133 teams. According to media reports, these teams are due to achieve full operational capability by the end of 2018.
Lieutenant General Paul Nakasone, head of NSA and Cyber Command, has called for a more aggressive approach to opponents in cyberspace. For this reason, in March 2018 a road map was drawn up for Cyber Command that was entitled Achieve and Maintain Cyberspace Superiority. The new strategy requires that the U.S. military carry out practically daily raids on foreign networks and disable suspicious servers before they launch malicious software. The Pentagon is, besides, developing an advanced cyber weapon system to be called United Platform. Hardly any details about it have been disclosed but the facility is known to be planned as the basis for the defense of U.S. government agencies against hacker attacks and for offensive online operations.
The new cyber strategy is expected to force "strategic costs on our adversaries, compelling them to shift resources to defense and reduce [online] attacks." But, in order to avoid any of its moves being qualified as an act of military aggression against another country, Cyber Command would not cross the line into actual warfare. Cyber Command's initiatives are reflected in the 2018 National Defense Strategy, the year's chief military doctrinal document of the United States.
The New York Times has cited current and former U.S. officials as warning that U.S. attacks against foreign networks may provoke "retaliatory strikes against American banks, dams, financial markets or communications networks." Moreover, Cyber Command admits that its strategy poses diplomatic risks because, according to what it calls "new vision" of Cyber Command, it is by no means terrorists, hackers or common criminals that are the United States' main adversaries but states – China, Russia, Iran and others.
Another aspect of the United States' new cyber policy is legislation. At the National Cybersecurity Summit in New York on July 31, 2018, which was hosted by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Vice President Mike Pence called on the U.S. Senate to enact legislation to create a specialized DHS body11. In order to fund the new body that should act as a centralized hub and encompass resources of the US national government, Mike Pence asked Congress for a record $15 billion.
The United States is going out of its way to monopolize cyberspace. It is an increasingly intensive enterprise, and what makes it particularly dangerous are Trump's initiatives to do away with the traditional system of White House control of U.S. offensive and defensive cyber activities while a system that is going to replace it is still essentially in embryo.
The Wall Street Journal said that, on August 16, 2018, Trump with a stroke of the pen scrapped Presidential Policy Directive 20, which had been issued by former president Barack Obama and laid down rules on the use of cyber weapons against adversaries of the United States. According to the Wall Street Journal, Trump's move aimed to lift restrictions on the offensive use of cyber weapons against foreign states because of alleged fears that some supposed hackers were plotting to meddle in U.S. congressional elections in November 2018.14
Hence, the United States is replacing the Obama-era cyber strategy of defense and deterrence with a strategy authorizing aggressive offensive action up to pre-emptive cyberattacks against sovereign countries.
Besides, the United States has for several decades been conducting global espionage via the Echelon electronic system that was based on a 1947 agreement between the United States and four allies. Today's sophisticated ICTs enrich the resources of U.S. intelligence services. One good example is the Program for Robotics, Intelligent Sensing and Mechatronics (PRISM), which has been running since 2007 and is a facility for the mass-scale secret collection of digital data without judicial approval. In 2013, former CIA employee Edward Snowden publicized documentary evidence that PRISM gave American intelligence services access to the central servers of nine key Internet companies – Microsoft, Yahoo!, Google, Facebook, Paltalk, YouTube, AOL, Skype, and Apple. This implies that the intelligence services are building a global database of audio and video files, photographs, emails, and personal data of social network users. Moreover, according to Snowden's revelations, NSA tapped the telephone conversations of 35 world leaders and some foreign diplomats, also via PRISM. Experts claim that U.S. intelligence services, in collaboration with Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), have been cracking practically all Internet cryptography standards by using supercomputers and the services of savvy hackers.
The United States' cyber weapons buildups and global cyber espionage threaten world security. The United States may accuse any country of a hacker attack without any substantial evidence and launch an aggression, even armed action, against it with the assistance of its allies. The range of actions prescribed by the 2015 version of the U.S. Defense Department's cyber strategy includes armed retaliation for cyberattacks. Recently, Western politicians, mainly the U.S. administration, have been showering Russia with accusations of cyber transgressions of all kinds. In tune with the established practice, no sustainable evidence has been provided of alleged Russian subversive cyber activities. Because of the fanning of the Russian hacking myth and fake news, it largely goes unnoticed that Russia itself has been a victim to large-scale cyberattacks – in 2017, for example, its critical state infrastructure came under more than 70 million attacks.
Nearly 20 years ago, Russia became the first country to sound the alarm at the United Nations about threats that were germinating in cyberspace. Moscow put forward a breakthrough initiative for a guarantee of international information security – a draft UN General Assembly resolution entitled Developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security. Since 1998, draft resolutions with the same title have been included in General Assembly session agendas every year. In 2017, to ensure the continuity of information security debates in the United Nations, Russia and more than 60 other countries proposed that the General Assembly put the cybersecurity issue on the agenda for its 73rd session. The proposal received unanimous approval.
Russia also initiated the creation of a UN negotiation mechanism on international information security – the Group of Governmental Experts on Developments in the Field of Information and Telecommunications in the Context of International Security (GGE). The GGE has reached agreement on many key points such as sources of cyber threats, the imperative of taking action against cyber terrorism and cybercrime, and the principle that international law applies to cyberspace. The GGE unanimously approved three detailed reports that recommended rules on the responsible behavior of states in cyberspace. In 2015, the member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) put before the United Nations a proposed draft document that aimed to prevent conflicts in cyberspace and was entitled International Code of Conduct for Information Security.
The Russian position amounts to the principle that no military or political conflicts in cyberspace are acceptable and that therefore any policy that doctrine declaring the use of force in cyberspace a fair method must be rejected.
Russia stands for a digital world order that is based on equality and justice and guarantees the possibility of advancing national interests to all countries regardless of their level of technological development. State sovereignty, non-use of force, the non-interference of a country in the internal affairs of another country, the observance of the fundamental rights and freedoms of the individual, and the equal rights of all states in governing the Internet must be key principles.
The international community needs to develop universal rules on responsible behavior in cyberspace, rules that would be approved by all states. This is a fundamental condition for peace in cyberspace. Russia as the initiator of UN debates on international information security urges all countries to start full-scale work on such rules. Moscow plans to submit a draft resolution containing a basic set of rules to the General Assembly's First Committee during the Assembly's 73rd session this year. The planned resolution would include all of the GGE's recommendations of 2010, 2013 and 2015. It would propose 25 rules, including –
– purely peaceful use of ICT;
– international action to prevent conflicts in cyberspace;
– observance of the principles enshrined in the UN Charter, including the sovereign equality of states, refraining from the threat or use of force, and the non-interference of states in the internal affairs of other states;
– avoidance of groundless accusations of malicious use of ICT and provision of evidence to support any accusation;
– non-use of ICT by states for interfering in the internal affairs of other states;
– non-use of mediators for cyberattacks;
– measures to prevent the spread of malicious ICT instruments and harmful hidden functions.
Russia proposes that these 25 rules should be a basic set of guidelines that might be adjusted and enlarged afterward. This process could be carried out in 2019 by the renewed UN GGE on IIS, which will ensure continuity of IIS discussion within the UN through already tested format.
Cybercrime has been growing on an unprecedented scale, posing a serious international threat. UN Secretary General António Guterres has said that cybercrime yearly inflicts damages of about $1.5 trillion on the world.
Regional legal mechanisms such as the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime (Budapest Convention), which was signed in 2001, cannot defeat this evil, although the West literally tries to force the convention on the entire world, including Russia, as the only possible format for international anti-cybercrime action.
Russia's position on the Budapest Convention remains unchanged. Moscow has repeatedly pointed out that it cannot accept Article 32b of the convention, which, allegedly in the interests of criminal investigations, effectively allows a state to access information stored on any computer on the territory of another state without seeking the latter's permission for this and even without notifying that state.
Russia believes that it is imperative to develop a new, universal instrument for combating cybercrime. This idea is enshrined in the declaration of the BRICS summit of July 2018. Russia plans to initiate a full-scale debate on this matter in the UN General Assembly's Third Committee by submitting a draft resolution "Countering the use of ICTs for the criminal purposes" to that effect.
A draft universal convention on cooperation in combating cybercrime that was submitted by Russia to the United Nations was accepted by the General Assembly as one of its documents on December 28, 2017 and was meant to act as "food-for-thought". It becomes clear that a start for the relevant wide political discussion within the UN General Assembly in New York is needed.
Absolutely all states are obviously in the same boat as regards cybercrime. Some of them are safer against it than others but all are vulnerable to it, and the United States with all its numerous cybersecurity services is no exception either. In a world harassed by cyber gangs, international community should jointly deal with real and not fake threats and criminals.
There is an alternative to the cyber arms race – a cyberspace peace plan proposed by Russia and other countries standing for strengthening peace and security in information space. Future reactions in the United Nations to Russia's information security initiatives will make clear who really wants peace in cyberspace and who uses manipulation and fake concerns as a screen for plans to unleash a cyberwar. Maintenance of peace in cyberspace is the responsibility of each sovereign member of the international community.
First published in our partner International Affairs
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Hybrid Warfare: Threats to Pakistani Security
Hafsa Ammar
'Victory smiles upon those who anticipate the changes in the character of war'-Giulio Douhet
Hybrid threats are becoming a norm in Pakistan and if we want to move forward in this age of technological advancements, cybercrimes, and the use of social media, we must have a wholesome response mechanism.
Hybrid warfare is a military strategy that employs not only conventional forms of warfare but irregular with it as well. It involves propaganda, cyber-attacks, state-sponsored terrorism, electoral intervention, and many more means of multi-dimensional approaches towards war which are used by militarized non-state actors. The term 'Hybrid' came into use around 2005-2006 due to the Israel-Hezbollah war ("Lessons from Lebanon: Hezbollah and Hybrid Wars – Foreign Policy Research Institute" 2016) and became a hot-topic in 2014 after the annexation of Crimea. Using non-confrontational means can lead to internal struggles and crumbling of the target. What direct force won't get you can be easily achieved by infiltration and multi-faceted resources. It's neither character of war nor its outcome that defines it as a hybrid war, but the changing tactics ("State and Non-State Hybrid Warfare" 2018). In a world where everyone, from wealthy states to those caught in throes of hunger, is armed to the teeth, there are ways to achieve socio-political objectives through the use of violent and non-violent non-state actors.
Pakistan – A Target
Pakistan has risen to incredible heights despite it being a relatively young nation and this is only proved further by the interest international players have in its internal workings. Several factors contribute to the important stature Pakistan holds in the international community such as the Pak-China alliance, its geostrategic location, military aptitude, Russian interests in the Indian Ocean, Deep Sea Gwadar Port (One Belt One Road Project), neighbor to Afghanistan (a country existing as a battleground for proxies), etc. All these reasons make sure to keep Pakistan on the radar.
Though it may be secure militarily, Pakistan is still vulnerable to hybrid threats due to internal dynamics, numerous conflicting interests of nations in state-affairs, and increasing non-state actors. South Asian nuclearization has all but guaranteed that a full-fledged war between Pakistan and India is unlikely therefore the latter uses hybrid warfare to weaken Pakistan from within.
Evolutionary Nature of War
There was truth to Heraclites's words when he claimed that change is the only constant in our world. The social theory of evolutionary change tells us that individuals, communities, societies, and states are always in a state of motion, continuously evolving according to the era. War is born from man, it is only fair that if a man changes, so shall war. It has become more complex; the stakes have raised from territorial boundaries to the maintenance of world order and preservation of state sovereignty. Wars are no longer fought on the borders, skirmishes aside, the real destruction takes place within. Due to the paradigm shift after the Cold War (Ball 2018), there rose a need for legal, economical, socio-political, and informational means of warfare. It is used as a way to undermine other nation-states in pursuit of national power; the international system is not only a race but also a way to tear others down.
Threats to Pakistani Security
To secure Pakistan from all sides, we must first analyze the threats it faces from all sides. Conventional Warfare used to be seen as one dimensional and it only perceived assault to be done through the land, air, or sea channels. However, now it is fought in various intangible zones.
· External
India is a budding regional hegemon due to its political and economic growth including hidden agendas. Pakistan is perceived to be a direct threat to India especially after the launch of the CPEC project, perceived to be undermining its hold over the region, which is why it is employing stratagems of hybrid warfare to internally weaken Pakistan. Till now India has used State-Sponsored terrorism, funded insurgencies, operated terror cells, and even sent fighter jets into Pakistani Airspace as an attempt to ruin its reputation in the international community.
There has been growing instability in Afghanistan which has led to mass migrations across the porous border into Pakistan, with around 1.4 million registered Afghans (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 2018) and 1 million unregistered ("Amnesty International" 2019). India has its claws in Afghan matters as well and will use it to exploit Pakistan's weaknesses even after US forces leave the arena. Afghan Government's poor administrative capability especially after the return of DAESH (Tribune 2020) and Tehrik-e-Taliban Afghanistan are threats to Pakistan as well as regional peace and are a major cause of lawlessness in the country and has a spillover effect for its neighbors.
Ideologically speaking, Iran is a sectarian threat to Pakistan and its Port Chahbahar stands to lose active traffic once CPEC is fully functional which means it stands as an instigator of hybrid warfare and it would be a risk to overlook it based on past good relations.
Even after the Cold War, strategic rivalry and animosity between the powers including Russia, America, and China still exist. The emergence of China as an economic superpower is perceived as a threat to the US due to which there is a major shift in its defensive posture towards the region.
The US has shown significant interest in Pakistan due to its geo-strategic location but not all interest has yielded positive results. They carried out a surgical strike for the capture and assassination of Osama-Bin-Laden. Such a breach of sovereignty and security is a hybrid threat.
· Internal
Sectarian
There are several lobbies in Pakistan all vying for their own cause. The Iranian lobby has sectarian undercurrents. Sectarianism has always been one of the leading factors of the divide in the Muslim civilization and is the rising trend of terrorism.Such conflict itself is volatile and is deepening the rift between different sects(Shia-Sunni) of Pakistan, causing unrest.
Rising prices of commodities such as flour and sugar can lead to social unrest and discord. Such industries and their stocks are under the thumb of a select few, the elites. With the right bribes and conditions, even they would agree to sell out society.
Non-State Actors
Non-state actors are groups or organizations that have influence in the state but work independently and have their socio-political agendas ("Towards a Typology of Non-State Actors in 'Hybrid Warfare': Proxy, Auxiliary, Surrogate and Affiliated Forces" 2019). They work on political opportunities and mobilized grievances. Groups like BLA (Balochistan Liberation Army), TTP (Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan), and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) are some of the major actors. Pakistan needs to focus on curbing Jihadist Terrorism as it is keeping it from leaving the grey list of FATF.
· Technological
It refers to the spread of miscommunication. Propaganda and circulation of false news through social media are a relatively common way to cause turmoil in a community. Once a rumor is circling, there is no way to erase it. India claims that Pakistan is spreading the false narrative of 'Islam being in danger' to justify its actions, although untrue, is something that the Indians fully believe now. That Pakistani Intelligentsia is made solely to create narratives under which to attack India. Such beliefs further antagonize the states against each other.
Indian Chronicles are a prime example of information warfare being waged against Pakistan.
Channels such as Cyber-Jihad and Dark Web come under the purview of cyber warfare and are a threat to the fabric of society and its security in Pakistan.
Given the above discussed bleak prevailing internal security situation, Pakistan needs to formulate a short to mid and long-term response that curbs all external and internal parties alongside proxies from infiltrating and influencing the working of the state and affecting the masses.
For a full-spectrum approach, all domains should be covered such as diplomacy, defense, internal and external security, economic, informational, cyber, and media security.
There are steps to be followed through for active and effective quelling of hybrid threats. First, a strategy must be put for, then tactical action should be taken and lastly, the implementation process should be supervised and fully followed through.
The main focus of the state should be on deterrence towards, protection from, and prevention of hybrid threats to the state.
One must not forget that Hybrid war is a mix of both unconventional and conventional warfare, therefore a nation-wide response should include the intertwined operational capabilities of armed forces alongside political actors. Pakistan sees its security being threatened both by internal factors and external hostile/proxy elements. This is hampering state development. State-building and nation-building must go hand in hand if counter and deter such threats effectively.
The Impact of Management in Information Security
Sajad Abedi
Authors: Sajad Abedi and Mahdi Mohammadi
Due to the increasing role of information security in the management of any society, public and private organizations and institutions are inevitably required to provide the necessary infrastructure to achieve this. In addition to material resources, management techniques also have a great impact on the optimal and successful implementation of information security management systems. The recording of management standards in the field of ICT information security can be designed in a planned way to change the security situation of organizations according to the needs of the organization and ensure security in terms of business continuity and to some extent at other levels (crisis management and soft war). Despite extensive research in this area, unfortunately for various reasons, including the level of security of the issue for governmental and non-governmental institutions or the direct relationship of the field with their interests, clear and useful information on how to implement and prioritize the implementation of a system over the years. The past has not happened until today.
The protection of the organization's information resources is essential to ensure the successful continuation of business activities. The fact that information and information assets play a key role in the success of organizations has necessitated a new approach to protecting them. Until now, risk analysis and management has been used to identify the information security needs of the organization. After analyzing the risks, security controls were identified and implemented to bring the risks to an acceptable level. But it seems that risk analysis is not enough to identify the information security needs of the organization. Evidence of this claim is that risk analysis does not take into account legal requirements, regulations and other factors that are not considered as risk, but are mandatory for the organization.
Identifying, assessing and managing information security risks is one of the key steps in reducing cyber threats to organizations and also preventing the unfortunate consequences of security incidents that make organizations more prepared to face cyber risks. The risk assessment process, which is the first phase of a set of risk management activities, provides significant assistance to organizations in making the right decision to select security solutions. Risk assessment is actually done to answer the following questions: * If a particular hazard occurs in the organization, how much damage will it cause? * What is the probability of any risk occurring? * Controlling how much each risk costs. Is it affordable or not? The results of risk assessment can help in the correct orientation in choosing solutions (which is to eliminate the main threats) and can also be used in formulating and modifying the security policies of the organization. Risk management is a comprehensive process used to determine, identify, control, and minimize the effects and consequences of potential events. This process allows managers to strike the right balance between operating costs and financial costs, and to achieve relevant benefits by protecting business processes that support the organization's goals. The risk management process can greatly reduce the number and severity of security incidents that occur in the organization. Risk management has 5 steps, which are: 1. Planning: At this stage, how to manage potential risks in the organization is determined and completed by developing a risk management plan. This plan defines the risk management team, defines the roles and responsibilities of individuals and the criteria for assessing identified risks. Documented. 2. Identification: At this stage, team members gather around each other, identify potential hazards, and record them in the organization's risk list. Arranging group brainstorming sessions is a good way to identify hazards 3. Assessment: In this step, the assessment of identified risks is performed using the criteria defined in the risk management plan. Risks are assessed based on their probability of occurrence and possible consequences.
The impact of the Covid-19 on State, Stability, and Globalization
H.Miloud Ameur
Many questions have been exposed in the evolution of Covid -19 in the World. This point is very important to see him and explain it because is the same with Peace and war. But his construction isn't adoptable with the level of all societies.
Seriously, this change is the biological necessity with analytical of science, industrialization and medical, etc. the men are visual by Covid-19 in anything society who the state hasn't some capacities for all patients in hospitalizes in the world. The war of masks has paralyzed many countries. This battle cemented the level of capacities of states about public health.
A lot of studies explain the return of the Nation-State when they compared it with globalization because it can control sovereignty, borders, war, and Peace, etc. The second, she diffused the Markets, bourses, and information, etc. This big mutation is very important to compare it under Covid-19 but this challenge is funded by this pandemic in China. This country will be emplaced the USA country in the future.
Many discussions and conflicts after Covid-19 had been remarked with these countries during the commercial war but the Coronavirus has had his direction to the Third War. Why the nature of This impact for this mutation? It seriously questions when the Coronavirus posed these challengers on all states but they haven't a solution against this new epidemic ravaged millions of persons.
International security is menaced when the nation-state hasn't a solution for public health. This point is the same when the big states like the USA or China disputed this situation with them but without international law protected like conflicts who the power definition hasn't another conception laid the Coronavuris and here impact under stability and security.
Simultaneously, I consider the epidemic of Coronavirus like a new serious factor about International Relations if we integers it among challengers biological and environment to explain the level of states and their difficulties face the Globalization.
The International System is in crisis when the dominant American doesn't relation with many states like China or Russia during Coronavirus, but the cooperation international isn't the same conception about International Cooperation because the world lives in this moment with the Risks of a pandemic. Negatively, this way is the same vision as in war why the cooperation among states doesn't participate in the Globalization.
Thus the limit of strategic vision during globalization encouraged the return of the nation-state because the Covid-19 is an exam of all states to take their responsibility forthe destiny of their societies. Nobody thinks this pandemic choc and his consequently on many sectors and activities.
During Covid-19, the International Anarchic is concerted after but without stability in the International Relations.Does this stability do her as a concept or practice? The complexity in International Relations is necessary or evolution who the Covid-19 accelerate these processes but he has anything possibility of changing other themes like State, Security, Communication, Integration, Development, and Democracy, etc.
New Realism doesn't take this point in changing of International Relations because the political level of states is influenced by Economic Crisis. This one is developing the Commercial War between Beijing and Washington.
The Union European has been fragile during the Covid-19 especially since Italy and Serbia face the bavettes. This dangerous situation of Coronavirus explains the fragility of Union Europe. Globalization had been created by the European Union but this one hasn't the power to save its identity and money existences during this crisis epidemic.
In Balkan, The European Union doesn't take a strategic position about the Civil War between Armenia and Azerbaijan. This left about 300 people dead on September 27, 2020.Atthis moment, the Peace isn't funded in the surrounding territories face the central regions, especially during the Covid-19 and American election.
This upheaval epidemic in the XXI Century doesn't usually challenge if the public health is a dangerous situation in the big states who the politics modern have many experiences of developing hospitably, Research and Industrialization, etc. In Italy, for example, the person's burn a flag of Union European and emplace it by the China Republic. We are from this ambiguous and weakened passage.
This conceptualizing of statism in Europe and America during the Covid-19 can be developed the notion of public politics of governments in the World. This one is very important for Nation-state to develop it by theory politics. Because is characterized by the new power of states and not by Globalization.
International Relations are developing by this level of states when we take the Foreign policy of state who reflecting his image clearly or not participating in an international environment.
The nature of Covid-19 isn't compactable with institutes against it because the fundaments of there are basing on the War in the International Relations and Anarchy in the International System.
Consequently, the Nation-State hasn't many solutions to opposite it because this one is very fundamentally influenced by Globalization for three or fortune decades. But the question who can pose it is: Where is the World moving in the light of what it has passed and what is coming from it? The term Security is very important but it's not globally when we take it in the other angles of Development, Dialogue, and Research, etc.
The Nation-State is needed very well of Security or Dialogue with all factors in every society. The Security is consequently of the level of development and changing it when isn't demined by State and society. The World is changing by his volunteer or by his Violence?
Why the nature of this epidemic on a lot of actors of bureaucratic management on governments, but this only context is favorable to explosive at least conceptualization like nation-State, Security and Globalization and others. This situation isn't the same in the past but is the product of their evolution. Maybe the solution isn't definitive but approximately relative.
Finally, what's the link between Sciences on practical policies? But all the concepts bring to this kind of crisis. The world is changing but without guarantee of all states and public politics and International relations. The shock is varied and multiple of all humanity in this history cycle during the XXI e centuries.
This evolution isn't positive because the states haven't only strategic vision but the great means who the question of legitimacy posed a problem about democratic of peace. Simultaneously, this way is corrected by ideas, values, and sciences. If the states don't occupy from representative popularity election, the result is minimally about institutes and policies.
This vision can't global system that the management of administration, economic, and commercial needs many rationally position and efficacy about the treatment of society's problems.
In order of Covid-19, the World take another direction without seriously guarantee to participate by all states and organizations. In opposite to Covid-19, humanity observed a big difference between the past and present. This point is clarifying the nature of this crisis of Health, Communication, and Medicine.
I wait as Researcher in International Relations, the third War Covid-19 between China and USA, but the commercial economic domineer their relations beyond this epidemic. This changing of the deal is very challenging for multiple operations but without solutions. This mutation of deployment gravity center between states to societies is very dangerous in the World. The Died is a big challenger of humanity but the renovation doesn't a common fundament of all structures by injection of money during the economic crisis.
What's the final solution? This question is very important to pose because History is removed by cycle but the volunteer and consciousness are a common culture. Nobody can answer this orientation about this occupation of humanity. In this perspective, the World is in crisis by their states? We can thinkabout it. But this crisis is multidisciplinary, horizontal, and vertical.
International Relations have funded on war who the peace is their ideal of politics. This point is contradictory between states and societies. Their relation is based on Security, Stability, and Sovereignty. The Nation-State is seriously needed more treatment in his territory if he takes it as sovereignty like the principal of it. Globalization has been changing the direction if she opposite with Nation-State.
This contradictory building of conceptualization posed very difficulties than practice because it's very important for Researchers in International Relations. Many centers in the world talking about this challenge but this fragility structure is the level of this construction of institutes and their policies.
The Covid-19 like natural danger posed a big problem on humanity who the man is veritably in front of his hearth in hospital: Philosophical point or limit of modernity? What's the lied with themes' if the remedy isn't non-existent. From this question, we can attach a big good consideration for this limitation of several sectors and activities of each State face his population.


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Scott Coker mocks Gegard Mousasi's departmental changes
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Although Gegard Mousasi has just won the Bellator middleweight title, it seems that he may compete at the lightweight in the near future.
Following Mousasi (47-7-2 MMA, 5-1 BMMA) unanimously decided to defeat Douglas Lima (32-8 MMA, 14-4 BMMA). In order to claim the 185-pound vacant belt on the Bellator 250 roof, company president Scott Coker discussed his vision for the future of the new champion.
Although Mousassi said before the game that he thinks John Salter will be the most worthwhile next man, weighing 185 pounds, Cork said he likes the idea of increasing his weight to 205 pounds.
Coker touted Bellator̵
7;s lightweight division as the best division in the MMA field, and he hopes to see Mousasi enter this ranks.
"When we signed with Gagarde, he was eager to fight at 205." Cork told reporters, including MMA Jane after the Bellator 250 fight. "We will discuss this. We are fighting for him in the 205 campaign. I still think we have the best 205 pound competition in the world. I think we have 6, 7, 8 people deep, including next week. Corey Anderson against Melvin (Mannhof). For me, this is what I think he should do and he should try to check. But it depends on him. We will see how he feels ."
Bellator 250 results: Gegard Mousasi (Gegard Mousasi) surpassed Douglas Lima (Douglas Lima), becoming a two-time champion
Moussasi has been involved in these two departments throughout his career. He is the lightweight champion of the now-defunct Strikeforce organization, but since his UFC debut against Ilir Latifi in April 2013, he has not participated in the division's battle.
However, despite this, Cork still believes that there are many possibilities for "The Dreamcatcher" beyond his current heavyweight Bellator gold medal. He mentioned many names and even opened the door for Mousasi, which led to Lima's chance at Bellator 250: the chance to win two division titles.
"I think he is fighting Ryan Bader-I can see him fighting Corey Anderson," Coker said. "There are a lot of people. Even fight (Vadim) Nemkov at some point. If he wants to take him, we can have a conversation. He has been focusing on this battle, and now everything is over. I want to give him a break Then we have some conversations."
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Davey McGahee,the protagonist in T. C. Boyle's redemption farce "Miracle at Ballinspittle," is a down-at-the-heels everyman. A New York City construction worker, McGahee and a friend decide, on a drunken whim, to visit a religious shrine in Ireland where a 15-year-old girl supposedly had witnessed the statue of the Virgin Mary move.
Boyle's satire of human appetite is over-the-top to be sure, but poses a searing question to those of us who eat animals. As the narrator in "Ballinspittle" plaintively asks, "Who hasn't laid to rest whole herds to feed his greedy gullet?" If I were to put myself in place of McGahee, how many cows would I face? How many truckloads of pigs? Which schools of fish and in what profusion? How many geese, ducks, and chickens would eye me balefully? The scene is a horror to contemplate.
I was reminded of Boyle's story by a number of e-mails I received this month. A couple were from animal refuge/rescue operators, seeking publicity for their tireless advocacy for nonhumans. These are fine organizations—Catskill Animal Sanctuary in Saugerties, which recently rescued 41 chickens from a meth lab in Kansas; Pets Alive in Middletown, which has opened a food pantry for animal owners that can't afford pet food—and I look forward to documenting their achievements in an upcoming issue.
Brian Shapiro, executive director of the Ulster County SPCA, had also called me, hoping we would help promote the SPCA's annual benefit gala, the aptly named Fur Ball, on March 6 at the Kingston Holiday Inn. (For information: 845-331-5377x211.) By the time you read this, however, the Fur Ball is most likely either sold out or already past. If you want to spend a night out for a great cause, the SPCA is holding another fundraiser at Unison in New Paltz on April 23, "The Best of Friends," an evening of stories, poems, and reminiscences about the relationship between people and dogs, presented by the Mohonk Mountain Stage Company and Snakeland Players.
I admire the heck out of Shapiro, whom we profiled in these pages two years ago shortly after he took over as head of the UCSPCA. A vegan, Shapiro is deeply committed to the cause of animal rights without being righteous or proselytizing. The man just wants to get animals adopted into good homes; if you want to talk about the best way to cook tofu, well he can do that, too.
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It's an ethical quandry for all pet-loving carnivores.


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DINO AND ROBERTO SZIDON -
THE "ROBERTO SZIDON" COMPETITION
A Music Marvel
Dino Mastroyiannis' last Teacher was the legendary Brazilian virtuoso Roberto Szidon. Besides the Piano lessons, Maestro Szidon and Dino established a strong and precious friendship beginning from the summer of 1992.
After the death of his beloved Teacher Dino would like to pay tribute to his eternal memory, so he became the inspirer and President of the "Roberto Szidon" International Piano Competition (https://robertoszidon.org).
ROBERTO SZIDON (21 September 1941 – 21 December 2011): one of Brazil's greatest pianists Recordings like the complete Hungarian Rhapsodies and the Spanish Rhapsody of Liszt, the Sonatas of Scriabin, followed by the Violin & Piano Sonatas of Bartók (with Jenny Abel), which named "one of the 33 great recordings of the century" in Germany, have made him famous throughout the world.
Of Hungarian-German, descent, Roberto Szidon was born in Porto Allegre. After his first studies at the Piano, which he begun at a very early age, he became the student of Ilse Woebke, who had been a student of Conrad Ansorge, one of Liszt's pupils. This transmission of styles brought Roberto Szidon the reputation of the leading master of the Hungarian Piano School.
He completed his studies with Ilona Kabos and Claudio Arrau. At the same time he embarked on an international career and an extensive activity as a recording artist. Since 1964 he has recorded almost 200 works for a large variety of firms like Abril Cultural, Angel, CAFMA, Concert Hall, Deutsche Grammophon, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, DDF, EMI for the Tibor Varga Festival, Sion, for the "Ex Libris" Guide de Disque, HiFi, Kuarup Discos, Nonesuch Records, Nova America, Odeon, Radio Canada and the Süddeutsche Rundfunk.
He recorded a prize-winning LP in 1965 of Heitor Villa-Lobos's Rudepoêma. Other Villa-Lobos works in his discography were A fiandeira, Saudades dos selvas brasileiras, New York Skyline (1957 version), Carnaval dos crianças, A lenda do caboclo, Suite floral, Op. 97 (1949 revision), and 16 Cirandas and 12 Cirandinhas. He also recorded the works of other Brazilian composers such as Ernesto Nazareth, Francisco Mignone, Alberto Nepomuceno, Radamés Gnattali, Marlos Nobre and Chiquinha Gonzaga. He also recorded Sergei Rachmaninoff's 2nd Sonata, Sergei Prokofiev's 6th Sonata, Gershwin's Concerto in F, MacDowell's 2nd Concerto, Schumann's Concerto and Tchaikovsky's 2nd Concerto. He accompanied Thomas Quasthoff in Schumann's Dichterliebe, Liederkreis, Op. 39, and other songs.
Many of his records have been bestsellers and in 1966 he was awarded the "Citão de São Sebastião de Rio de Janeiro" prize for the best classical music recording, and in 1977 the German Record Critics' Prize in the chamber music section.
Roberto Szidon has been in jury of competitions in Piano and Violin in Brazil, Chile, Colombia and in Germany. He occasionally gives master classes in Piano and in chamber music in Austria, Brazil and in Switzerland, and organizes public and studio concerts of the works of the leading 19th and 20th century composers. Forty-one works by twenty-five Austrian, Brazilian, American, French, Greek, Guatemalan, Norwegian and German composers have been dedicated to him.
Roberto Szidon was a pianist who was fascinating by his passionate temperament and his perfect technical mastery of his instrument.
Know more about the the "Roberto Szidon" Competition
In this page you can hear some rare recordings from Dino Mastroyiannis' personal archives together with his last Teacher, the legendary Brazilian pianist Roberto Szidon.
1) Hear Dino playing Khachaturian's Piano Concerto and Roberto Szidon playing the orchestral part in a 2nd upright Piano (Greece – August 1992).
2) Hear Roberto Szidon playing and teaching Dino at the Music Academy of Sion (Switzerland – August 1997): extracts from Rachmaninoff's 2nd Piano Sonata.


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BetRegal Inks Sponsorship Deal For PGA Championship Of Canada Tournament
by James Murphy in Golf on Aug 13, 2022 10:34am
The PGA of Canada and sports betting operator BetRegal have agreed to a three year title sponsorship deal for the PGA Championship of Canada tournament.
BetRegal is based in Canada and expected to enter their native market once the single game sports betting regulatory framework is in place.
BetRegal recently became the official sports gaming partner of the Canadian Football League (CFL).
Late last year, the Canadian senate passed Bill C-218, legalizing single-game sports betting in Canada. Previously, Canadian provinces were limited to regulating parlay style betting offered through provincial lotteries. It's been a long road to this point and the specifics of the Canadian sports betting ecosystem are still coming together. Before long, however, Canada will have a competitive and vibrant sports betting market that–if done correct–will rival the best US jurisdictions like Colorado or New Jersey. So far Ontario has been great–now other provinces just need to copy what they've done. Unfortunately, most are looking at a lottery monopoly.
In the meantime, sportsbooks are looking to build their brand in Canada and sports entities are looking toward beneficial partnerships with the industry. One of the more active potential entrants into the Canadian betting scene is BetRegal. BetRegal is a sportsbook based in Canada with a Canadian founder that has already built an international presence since it was founded in 2015. They've had success in the European market and have previously established partnerships with sports organizations there such as one as the Global Betting Partner of Dundalk FC of the Irish Premier League soccer circuit. They're now looking to get in on the forthcoming changes in Canada's sports betting industry. Several days ago, BetRegal announced their first North American marketing partnership as they became the 'official sports gaming partner' of the Canadian Football League (CFL).
You'll be seeing BetRegal taking a more visible position within Canadian sports and media as they're clearly being very aggressive as they enter their home market. Just a day or two after they announced the deal with the CFL another sports organization has partnered with BetRegal. This time, the deal is with the PGA of Canada in the form of a three year title sponsorship agreement that began this weekend at the PGA Championship of Canada held at Parcours du Vieux Village in Bromont, Quebec. The PGA Championship of Canada already has two presenting partners: the official title of the event is 'The PGA Championship of Canada presented by TaylorMade Golf and adidas Golf'. Presumably it now becomes 'The BetRegal PGA Championship of Canada presented by TaylorMade Golf and adidas Golf'. You can see the BetRegal branding on the tournament leader board:
The BetRegal branded leaderboard for the 2021 PGA Championship of Canada
The 2022 tournament is the 100th playing of the event as the press release announcing the partnership details:
The partnership between BetRegal and the PGA of Canada comes at a historic time for the association. The 2022 edition of the BetRegal PGA Championship of Canada presented by TaylorMade Golf and adidas Golf will be the 100th playing of the event. The Association and BetRegal will work towards enhancing the player experience and celebration of the storied history of the championship.
Teejay Alderdice, PGA of Canada President, says that his organization is excited not only by the partnership with BetRegal but the myriad opportunities afforded by the evolving sports betting landscape in Canada:
"Today is a historical day for the PGA of Canada, our 3,700 Members and the Canadian golf industry as a whole. With the sports betting landscape evolving in Canada, we have been thoughtful with our strategy and are excited to add a Canadian gaming partner that will elevate the PGA Championship of Canada presented by TaylorMade Golf and adidas Golf and present new and exciting opportunities for our members and the millions of golfers they interact with on a daily basis."
Michael Mirtl, CEO of BetRegal, is pleased to bring his company's services to Canadian sports bettors:
"PGA of Canada is one of the most well-respected sports organizations in the country and the BetRegal team is excited to bring the partnership to life in compelling ways for fans. This is an important partnership for us as we look to educate Canadians about online gaming and set the groundwork for our Canadian operations."
The US PGA Tour has arguably been more effective at leveraging sports betting than any other sports organization. For that reason alone, there's every reason to expect their Canadian counterparts to be successful as well. The US PGA Tour has partnerships with four 'official betting operators': BetMGM, DraftKings, FanDuel and PointsBet. They've also partnered with DraftKings for market access in Arizona which will include a retail sportsbook at the TPC Scottsdale golf course.
James Murphy is a preeminent authority on the international gambling industry and has made frequent appearances in the mainstream media including the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Forbes, Entertainment Weekly, CNBC and NPR. He has previously worked as a radio and podcasting host where he broadcast to an international audience that depended on his expertise and advice. Murphy also serves as an odds making consultant for sports and 'non-sport novelty bets' covering the entertainment industry, politics, technology, financial markets and just about everything else.
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With the sacrifice of Jesus's physical life, the curtain separating us from God was torn, giving us complete and free access to our creator. By showing us a direct path to himself, God also ga in easier access to us (because we resist him less).
God reaches through our reality to grab us and lift us back to himself, pulling us from our ashes and the swamp where we dwell.


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– In case you missed it, next week's RAW guest host will be actor and comedian Jon Lovitz.
– The dark match before last night's SmackDown tapings saw Kane defeat Dos Caras in a quick match. The dark main event saw Jack Swagger and Big Show go to a DQ.
– Michelle McCool will be appearing at the Army & Air Force Exchange Service location in Fort Bragg, North Carolina on Monday, June 14th from 5-7pm signing WWE DVD's.


Good morning. Thank you all for coming to today's meeting in which we will review all of our previous meetings and discuss the relative value of convening another meeting in which we will meet about the conclusions (if any) of this meeting. At that time, we will also be presenting a presentation of the presentations seen heretofore.
If, by the time we arrive at Slide 421 of the 7,030 slide prepared for this debacle of a meeting, you have drifted into sweet somnolence, you may be forgiven. The fact is that we waste entirely too much time in meetings which have no point. In my view, these may not be classified as meetings.
Oh, don't get me wrong. I am a big one for meetings. I will suggest meetings, join meetings, schedule meetings, meet about meetings. Meetings have a function and are useful at the best of times. Useful, that is, as long as the meeting has a point. As soon as people begin doodling, making private lists, and shifting back and forth in their chairs, something is definitely wrong at the conference table.
There are, however, three simple questions which might be answered before calling a meeting.
This seems like a simple enough question, but I have often been surprised at the number of meetings to which I have been invited which feel like more of a fishing expedition. When you gather the staff around the conference table, it is not a time to get suggestions about the topic of the meeting. We should ALL know already. We may have already seen a written agenda for the meeting.
2. Who has to be there?
If we have to decide whether or not to accept a new client, the cleaning staff may not have to be present. On the other hand, six vice-presidents are not required to assess the placement of the soda machine on the third floor. Most of the VPs have never been to the third floor anyway. If at any point you ask yourself during a meeting "what am I doing here?" there can be but one answer: nothing.
3. What has to be decided?
Something always has to be decided at a meeting. If there is no decision to be brought, it is merely information which can be disseminated through other reasonable channels: email, web, or strategically placed post-it notes.
In the end, meetings are all about decision-making. In a democratic workspace, it may be that a vote should be taken. In a more autocratic environment, the decision of the day may only be to obtain buy-in. Whatever the decision is, there must be SOMETHING to decide – otherwise you have gathered and co-opted people who might be productively working at something else entirely.
The three questions feel ridiculous when stated out loud. It would seem that the answers should be self-evident and therefore superfluous in the asking. But in applying the razor to any of the meetings which you call, you may find yourself with more free time to do that thing which allows you the liberty to call meetings in the first place: your business.
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Everyone I talk to agrees….and then schedules more meetings!


Temple Thespians will have a Public Send-Off Performance of their one-act play, On the Verge, on Friday, April 20, at 7 p.m. in the Temple High Auditorium. This performance is to help raise funds for the team's trip to the State Meet. Admission Friday will be by donatiion (minimum $5 per person).
The annual UIL competition began with over 250 schools in the 5A classification. Now there are only eight teams left in the entire state — and Temple one of the eight. The contest is Tuesday, April 24, at the Round Rock Performing Arrts Center.


Ferrari built the F50 super-car between 1996 and 1997 as a limited edition with only 349 cars. The two-seater offered pure racing technology. Its V12 engine with a displacement of 4.7 litres, a cylinder bank angle of 65 degrees and five valve technology had already proven itself in Formula 1. Systematically developed composite materials were used in the chassis and body in order to save weight . The front air ducts, side air intakes and wide curved wind-shield optically emphasise the cars racing sport origin. Many curved surfaces and the dominant aerodynamically shaped rear wing form the basic body shape. The 520 brake horsepower road going racing car offered a top speed of 325 km/h (201 mph) and an acceleration time of 3.8 seconds from 0 to 100 km/h (62 mph).