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Church bells to ring for hope on Sunday 12 December
Bishops have asked that church bells would be rung at 9.00am on Sunday 12 December in prayerful hope for all during this Season of Advent. Sunday 12 December has been chosen as it is the Third Sunday of Advent which is Gaudete (Rejoicing) Sunday.
The bishops extended the invitation following their Winter General Meeting which concluded online on Wednesday 1 December. At their meeting the bishops also reflected on the past year and looked ahead to Christmas. They said, "Bishops said, "As Christmas approaches, we keep especially in our thoughts those who have been bereaved in the past year, and we pray for the gifts of healing and hope for all. We have now begun our Advent journey, a time of patient waiting and joyful hope. We look forward to the celebration of Christmas with quiet expectation and turn our hearts to the Lord with confidence and trust.
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"Although the Covid-19 pandemic continues, there are many reasons to be both thankful and hopeful. We are grateful to all who have worked tirelessly to protect our health and have cared for those who have fallen ill. We welcome and encourage the ongoing programme of vaccination. It has provided greater protection for people's health, especially that of the most vulnerable. It has also helped to ease the restrictions placed on the social and religious life of our communities and to keep hospital beds free for other essential and urgent medical needs.
"We are thankful too for the continuing commitment of so many in our parishes to ensuring that our churches remain safe places where people can gather in confidence to worship. It is important that we remain vigilant, conscious of the threat still posed by the virus and any new variants which may emerge, and continue to take the steps we know will protect our own health and the health of others. Face-coverings should continue to be worn at all gatherings in our churches and parish buildings. High standards of hygiene and ventilation in our churches, and allowing space between ourselves and others, are essential ways in which we can contribute to the health of our parish communities. Around Christmas time, when people come to churches in larger numbers, careful planning will be needed in our parishes and sensible precautions should be put in place, in line with public health guidance.
"The coming of Christ that we celebrate at Christmas brought light into a darkened world, 'a light that darkness could not overpower'. In the dark days of the pandemic, we can be bearers of that light, bringing it into the lives of those who may be living in the shadow of sickness, poverty, homelessness or isolation. We best express our thankfulness through personal thoughtfulness and kindness, and support given to organisations which do so much to help those in need. We urge people to respond generously to the Christmas appeals of Trócaire, Society of Saint Vincent de Paul, Crosscare and other charities which bring hope into the lives of many people."
In accordance with public health guidance to help prevent the spread of Covid-19, members of the Irish Catholic Bishops' Conference gathered remotely for their Winter 2021 General Meeting via video-link, instead of the usual location at Saint Patrick's College, Maynooth. Although the Autumn 2021 General Meeting was held in-person, this week's meeting was the bishops' sixth plenary meeting to be held in this way.
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Powering PeaceTech is a call to action for next-generation peacebuilders: anyone with knowledge, resources, and commitment to putting the right tools into the right hands to prevent violence.
Advances in technology and innovative financing are transforming fields like healthcare, education, and commerce. Yet conflict prevention and peacebuilding remain the job of government agencies and NGO's with inadequate budgets and yesterday's tech. Is it any wonder, then, that violent conflict is responsible for nearly all of today's 65 million refugees, all four famine threats in the world, and 80% of humanitarian needs?
We have so many new tools and strategies that prevent violent conflict and promote peacebuilding – from instantaneous global communication and new capital markets to artificial intelligence, predictive analytics, professionalized conflict resolution, and many more. The 2018 PeaceTech Summit will ask: Why aren't we using them?
Against the backdrop of the Lincoln Memorial, an iconic and historic memorial to America's own struggle for justice, tolerance, and peace, CEOs will confront cloud technology and conscience. Creatives and celebrities will connect to the causes they care about. Now is the time to expand the work of conflict prevention beyond the usual suspects, and begin to build a peacetech industry that creates jobs and saves lives.
No Ordinary Industry, No Ordinary Summit comes to life on day one. Featuring a Shared Studios portal, the founder of the internet, and a cognitive exoskeleton, the first day of the Summit dives into peacetech, offering an in-depth look at the newest technologies and trends while establishing a foundation for the future of the industry.
Building upon the foundation established on day one, the second day of the Summit features hands-on workshops with specialized tech tools. Designed to train new users and old pros, workshops are staggered throughout the morning to allow participants to attend multiple sessions, which includes Keshif, DappDevs, groundTruth, and more.
Vint Cerf served as chairman of the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) from 2000-2007 and has been a Visiting Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory since 1998. Cerf served as founding president of the Internet Society (ISOC) from 1992-1995. Cerf is a Foreign Member of the British Royal Society and Swedish Academy of Engineering. He currently serves as Past President of the Association for Computing Machinery, chairman of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) and completed a term as Chairman of the Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology for the US National Institute of Standards and Technology. President Obama appointed him to the National Science Board in 2012.
Cerf is a recipient of numerous awards and commendations for his work, including the US Presidential Medal of Freedom, US National Medal of Technology, the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, the Prince of Asturias Award, the Tunisian National Medal of Science, and 29 honorary degrees.
Adam Khan is Founder & CEO of AKHAN Semiconductor. Mr. Khan has authored several patents and technical publications, and is also a frequent speaker on Diamond Semiconductor & Clean Technology. As a result of his award-winning research, which he began as an electrical engineering student at age 19, Mr. Khan is co-inventor of the Miraj Diamond™ Platform. He has served as a speaker and expert witness to a variety of Federal bodies, including the U.S. House Space, Science, & Technology Committee and the U.S. Department of Energy. Most recently, Mr. Khan's work was recognized and individually honored by the United States Congress in the 114th Congressional Records & Proceedings. Adam earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Physics from the University of Illinois Chicago, before pursuing graduate research at Stanford University. He has been everything from a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, to a CleanTech Open Midwest Innovation Summit winner.
Amar C. Bakshi is an artist, whose work focuses on how to integrate technology into environments and across pronounced distance to create new forms of digital-physical public spaces which often challenge and subvert existing norms. In particular, he works to connect members of diverse communities who would likely not otherwise meet in intimate environments to create their own meanings. As an artist, Amar treats the formation of institutions as, themselves, sites of creation. Amar previously worked as a reporter at The Washington Post, an editor at CNN, and as Special Assistant to the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Amar, a Soros Fellow and Truman Scholar, has an AB from Harvard University, an MA from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and a JD from Yale Law School.
Violet Tsagka is a communications and international development professional experienced in business development, project management, client relations, media strategy, and crisis communications. She has worked with private sector clients, non-profit and advocacy organizations, multilateral institutions and government agencies, such as USAID, U.S. Department of State, and the European Union. She is currently leading Creative Associates International's program-focused media support and technical design, as well as a wide range of the company's business development efforts. Previously, she spent six years in a communications consulting firm designing and executing issue-specific campaigns using both traditional and digital media.
Ned McMahon, the founder of Primo Wind studied Marine Engineering and ended up with an International Business degree. He went on to receive a Master's Certificate in Business from Rice University. Ned has built houses, surfcraft, and boats and spent a career working in composites. His first startup was making polyurethane core material from plant-based chemistry, which was a first at the time. Ned started Primo Wind in 2013.
Colin Rule is co-founder, COO, and Chairman of the Board for Modria.com, the world's leading online dispute resolution platform. Modria spun out from eBay and PayPal in 2011 and has since received funding from investors like Battery Ventures, Advanced Technology Ventures, and Foundry Group. From 2003 to 2011 Colin served as the first Director of Online Dispute Resolution for eBay and PayPal. Before eBay, Colin co-founded and ran Online Resolution, one of the first online dispute resolution (ODR) providers. Colin has worked at Mediate.com, the National Institute for Dispute Resolution (now ACR) in Washington, DC, and the Consensus Building Institute in Cambridge, MA. He is currently Co-Chair of the Advisory Board of the National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution at UMass-Amherst and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Gould Center for Conflict Resolution at Stanford Law School.
Colin is the author of Online Dispute Resolution for Business, published by Jossey-Bass in September 2002. He has contributed more than 50 articles to ADR publications such as Consensus, The Fourth R, ACResolution Magazine, and Peace Review. He holds a Master's degree from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government in conflict resolution and technology, a graduate certificate in dispute resolution from UMass-Boston, a B.A. in Peace Studies from Haverford College, and he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Eritrea from 1995-1997.
Caroline Humer is the Director of the Global Missing Children's Center at the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC). She manages the Global Missing Children's Network (GMCN), which consists of 28-member countries dedicated to preventing the disappearance of children and searching for and recovering missing children utilizing ICMEC's global database (GMCNgine). GMCNgine modernizes the method in which law enforcement and NGOs search and recover missing children. It is designed to integrate and search a vast array of global data sets either through web scraping, web sources images or law enforcement looking for matches and other clues to help GMCN member organizations to identify and recover missing children more quickly and efficiently. The platform never stops searching for the missing child.
Brian spent 10 years at Adobe as Director of Technology for Adobe's Public Sector business across the globe delivering innovative focused on Digital Experience solutions. Brian has been involved in many large government IT initiatives including launching the first FedRAMP accredited software solution, leading a team as part of the tech surge after the healthcare.gov launch, and has also working closely with policy makers on key initiatives including the Veterans Administration case backlog and the Whitehouse Open Source policy.
Nancy Lindborg is President of the U.S. Institute of Peace, created by Congress in 1984 as an independent, nonpartisan, federally funded organization to prevent, mitigate, and resolve violent conflict around the world.
Prior to joining USIP, she served as the assistant administrator for the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance (DCHA) at USAID. From 2010 through 2014, Nancy Lindborg directed the efforts of more than 600 team members in nine offices focused on crisis prevention, response, recovery and transition. Ms. Lindborg led DCHA teams in response to the ongoing Syria Crisis, the Sahel 2012 and Horn of Africa 2011 droughts, the Arab Spring, the Ebola response and numerous other global crises.
Ms. Lindborg has spent most of her career working on issues of transition, democracy and civil society, conflict and humanitarian response. Prior to joining USAID, she was president of Mercy Corps, where she spent 14 years helping to grow the organization into a globally respected organization known for innovative programs in the most challenging environments.
Ms. Lindborg has held a number of leadership and board positions including serving as co-president of the Board of Directors for the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition; one of the founders and board members of the National Committee on North Korea; and chair of the Sphere Management Committee. She is a member of Council on Foreign Relations.
She holds a B.A and an M.A. in English Literature from Stanford University and an M.A. in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
John Momoh (Officer of the Order of the Niger - OON) is Chairman of the Channels Media Group and Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the award winning 24-hour news and media channel, Channels Television. Channels is one of the leading private-sector media outlets on the African continent and has been groundbreaking in the Nigerian media space with many notable firsts including: winning the Best TV Station of the Year a record 10 times, first to stream its news and programs live on the internet, first to interface with followers via Twitter and first to have created mobile apps on various platforms. Mr. Momoh is a renowned broadcast journalist with a vast experience spanning almost four decades. Prior to founding Channels in 1995, He worked variously as news anchor, senior reporter and senior producer for Nigeria's Public Radio and Television Stations. Mr. Momoh is a graduate of the University of Lagos with a Master's degree in International Law and Diplomacy and a B.Sc (with honours) in Mass Communication. He is a 'Chevening' Scholar and alumnus of both Harvard and Lagos Business Schools.
Alex Kostura is the Manager of the ConsenSys Solutions Lab in DC, where his mission is to enhance government performance and social sector outcomes through inclusive and accessible blockchain solutions. As a former Partnerships Advisor with the Secretary's Office of Global Partnerships at the U.S. Department of State, he led the Blockchain@State initiative and the Faith & Human Rights Fellowship. Alex is a Fellow with the Internet Law and Policy Foundry and the Robertson Foundation for Government. He holds a Masters Degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.
Robert Zaal is the founder and director of PeaceTech Lab Netherlands. PTL NL aims to accelerate the development and distribution of new tools for peace and development, bringing together the digital community, engineers and scientists with experts in peacebuilding and development from government, NGO's and the conflict zones themselves. PTL focuses on food security, water safety and health as drivers for conflict, three areas in which The Netherlands has a strong reputation. Zaal has a background in media and journalism as director of national and international broadcasters.
Stephen Hadley is a principal of RiceHadleyGates LLC, an international strategic consulting firm founded with Condoleezza Rice, Robert Gates, and Anja Manuel. Mr. Hadley is also Board Chair of the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) and an Executive Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of the Atlantic Council.
National Security Advisor, serving under then National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice. Mr. Hadley had previously served on the National Security Council staff and in the Defense Department including as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy from 1989 to 1993.
During his professional career, Mr. Hadley has served on a number of corporate and advisory boards, including: the National Security Advisory Panel to the Director of Central Intelligence, the Department of Defense Policy Board, and the State Department's Foreign Affairs policy Board. He is a member of the Aspen Strategy Group.
Amirah Jiwa helped established and manages the partnership between nonprofit Peace Direct and Away, a global travel brand designing thoughtful objects for modern travel. Prior, Jiwa developed impact initiatives for a range of consumer and retail brands including Sephora, Coca-Cola, and Clarks. Jiwa studied Peace, War, and Defense at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she was a Morehead-Cain Scholar. She is from the UK but now lives and works in New York.
Kevin Gordon Barrow is the Founder & CEO of Mark Labs, a software company, which helps organizations effectively manage the risk associated with funding social impact projects through its impact data and payments platform. Prior to embracing his inner social entrepreneur, Kevin earned his stripes in the fields of law (GE), banking (ABN AMBRO), and management consulting (Deloitte and Booz Allen Hamilton). Kevin completed his higher education in the UK earning an Honours Law Degree from Durham and an MBA from Oxford. He is an an avid reader, lover of Sufi poetry, and an aspiring surfer.
Sargur "Hari" Srihari is a SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. He has been working in the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for over four decades. At present, he teaches a sequence of three courses: (i) introduction to machine learning, (ii) probabilistic graphical models and (iii) deep learning.
A laboratory that Srihari founded, known as CEDAR, developed the world's first automated system for reading handwritten postal addresses. It was deployed by the United States Postal Service which eventually saved the USPS millions of dollars and helped lower postal rates.
Srihari then spent a decade developing AI and machine learning methods for forensics—focusing on pattern evidence such as latent prints, handwriting and footwear impressions. In particular, he developed a system for handwriting comparison which demonstrated the value of such evidence and allowed presenting handwriting testimony in US federal court hearings. Srihari has served on the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Identifying the Needs of the Forensic Science Community. He has also served on NIJ-NIST committees on Human Factors in Fingerprint Analysis and Handwriting Comparison. At present he serves on the Houston Forensics Technical Advsory Board.
Srihari's honors include: Fellow of the Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineers (IETE, India) , Fellow of the IEEE, Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition and distinguished alumnus of the Ohio State University College of Engineering .
Srihari received a B.Sc. in Physics and Mathematics from the Bangalore University, a B.E. in Electrical Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science and a Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science from the Ohio State University.
Rhiannan Price leads the Global Development Program at DigitalGlobe and works with our partners across the development and humanitarian spectrum. She focuses on bridging the gap between what is technically feasible and what is needed by development practitioners. Rhiannan also serves on the Technology Advisory Board for the International Criminal Court. She has lived in Uganda, Tanzania, and Dominica, where she was as a Peace Corps Volunteer focusing on community development. Rhiannan holds a Masters in International Human Rights from the Korbel School at University of Denver where she was a Boren Fellow.
Ruba Mimi is the Middle East regional manager at RNW Media, where she leads programs using digital media for social change in Syria and Yemen. In 2016, she shepherded a counter radicalization campaign in Yemen that resulted in shifting young people's opinions about armed groups and weapons.
Prior to joining RNW Media, Ruba spent a decade working as a TV journalist in Palestine, producing tailored media for young people tackling social and political issues. She holds a Master's degree in political communication from the University of Amsterdam and a bachelor in media and political science. She is from Palestine, currently living and working in the Netherlands.
Sheldon Himelfarb is the President and CEO of PeaceTech Lab. Sheldon joined USIP from The Corporate Executive Board, where he was on the Technology Practice Leadership Team, working with chief information officers from governments, universities, and multi-national corporations. Prior to this, he served as foreign policy adviser to a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the head of North American Documentary Development for Yorkshire TV, and the CEO/Executive Producer for Common Ground Productions, the media division of Search for Common Ground. He is an award-winning filmmaker, former commentator for National Public Radio (Sunday Morning Edition) and author of numerous articles on politics, popular culture and conflict. He has managed peacebuilding programs in numerous conflicts, including Bosnia, Iraq, Angola, Liberia, Macedonia, Burundi and received the Capitol Area Peace Maker award from American University.
He holds a doctorate from Oxford University and a bachelor's degree in political science from Johns Hopkins University. He has held visiting or guest scholar positions at the Brookings Institution, Harvard University and the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.
Megan Beyer was appointed by President Barack Obama to be the Executive Director of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. She led the first official U.S. Cultural Delegation to Cuba, which included directors of four U.S. cultural agencies and prominent artists, including Usher, Joshua Bell, Smokey Robinson, and Dave Matthews. The mission resulted in the first government-to-government public collaborations following President Obama's historic visit to Cuba.
Giselle Lopez works for the Creative Development Lab at Creative Associates International, where she focuses on incorporating technology-enabled solutions in election monitoring, political transitions, citizen security, governance, and countering violent extremism programs. In this role, she has led a training on local asset mapping for youth in the Caribbean, the use of social media and crowdsourcing for election monitoring in Iraq, and the analysis of narratives surrounding Boko Haram in the Lake Chad Basin. As part of PeaceTech Lab at the U.S. Institute of Peace, Giselle led several programs applying data and social media analytics to the practice and study of peacebuilding, including the development of the Open Situation Room Exchange, a program designed to make data more accessible to the peacebuilding community, and the use of social media analytics to monitor hate speech online surrounding the South Sudan conflict. She has organized and led technology workshops in India, Myanmar, Turkey, and Egypt to build capacity for peacebuilding organizations to incorporate low-cost, easy-to-use technology solutions to support their efforts. Giselle received an MA in international peace and conflict resolution from American University's School of International Service and a BA in international studies at the University of Washington. Giselle previously worked for the National Democratic Institute's ICT team and Crimson Hexagon, a social media analytics company in Boston, where she managed the Social Impact Program to extend access to the technology for nonprofits. Giselle is also a Senior Fellow with Humanity in Action.
Carine Umuhumuza is the Associate Director of Communications at Devex. She has launched over a dozen major campaigns in partnership with leading communicators from a range of development agencies, major corporations, NGOs, and social enterprises. Her passion for connecting people and creating impact through stories is homegrown, inherited from her father — a journalist at one of the leading newspapers in Rwanda. Carine got her journalism and storytelling chops at Syracuse University's Newhouse School and moved to D.C. to start her career in social media and digital strategy. As Devex's resident social media guru, Carine has a digital-first approach to storytelling and content curation. She hasn't found a social media platform she doesn't love.
Eva-Maria Dimitriadis joined C5 to run the worldwide accelerator program. She studied PPP at Oxford University and has spent the last ten years working in the art market. Eva served as Chief of Staff to the CEO at Christie's, where she supported Christie's digital strategy. Prior to that she worked in Business Development focusing on the company's expansion into growth markets such as India, China, the Middle East and Africa. Eva is passionate about tech startups and social impact. She sits on the committee of the Audaces Foundation which raises awareness about impact investing amongst next generation leaders.
Mike Young is the CTO of Classy, a social enterprise that creates world-class online fundraising tools for nonprofits, modernizing the giving experience to accelerate global social impact. Since 2011, fundraising on the Classy platform has doubled each year—resulting in thousands of nonprofits collectively raising over half a billion dollars. Classy partners with organizations of all sizes, from the fastest-growing non-profits such as Team Rubicon and Malala Fund, to some of the world's largest social organizations, such as Acumen Fund, Oxfam, and Shriners Hospitals for Children.
Previously, Mike was the CTO at Redfin in Seattle, cofounded San Diego-based startup Yapert, and was Chief Architect at Plumtree Software in SF. Mike graduated with honors from UC Berkeley (EECS '92).
Achol Jok Mach is a Specialist at PeaceTech Lab Africa. Achol works on the implementation of the Sawa Shabab peacebuilding radio drama in South Sudan and in Kakuma refugee camp and on the Lab's work countering hate speech in South Sudan and Kenya. Previously, she was the project manager for #defyhatenow and Radio La Benevolencija, both of which are based in South Sudan and use training, community engagement, and radio production to counter and raise awareness of the offline impact of online hate speech. Achol has a degree in Literature from the University of Alberta, Canada and speaks five languages.
Rohini Srihari is the Chief Data Scientist at PeaceTech Lab and founder of groundTruth Global. Rohini brings her expertise as an educator, scientist, and entrepreneur to PeaceTech Lab, where she oversees the data and technology programs. She is responsible for PeaceTech Lab's data and analytics hub which is used by peacebuilders around the globe to rapidly configure solutions for their specific needs. She manages the development of innovative artificial intelligence solutions involving content such as social media, satellite imagery, and data obtained through trusted, local networks.
Rohini is a professor of computer science at the University at Buffalo and received her PhD in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Bruce Sherman is a strategic advisor at PeaceTech Lab. As a strategic advisor, Bruce leads two peacebuilding media projects: 24/7 TV and digital channels with leading local partners, Channels TV in Nigeria and Hum Network Ltd in Pakistan. Bruce also manages the Lab's partnership with the Netherlands-based RNW Media and directs the joint Deep Dive series examining the role of media in conflict zones. Prior to joining the Lab, Bruce served in varying capacities from 1996-2016 as head of strategy, research, and development for the U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors, parent organization of Voice of America, and other U.S. government-funded media properties. Bruce holds master's and bachelor's degrees from St. John's College and the University of Florida, respectively. He is a fluent Spanish speaker.
Candice Charlton is a Business Development Manager on the Worldwide Public Sector (WWPS) Venture Capital (VC) and Startup Team at AWS. In this role, she works to drive innovation into the public sector through engagement with the global startup community. Prior to this role, while also at AWS, Candice was a Senior Bid and Proposal Manager on the WWPS Capture & Proposal team. Previous to AWS, Candice has held Director and Consultant roles at systems integrators including BAE Systems and Booz Allen Hamilton, a financial services firm, and startups. Candice holds an MBA from George Washington University and a B.S. in Finance from Auburn University.
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Home Agency News Rockets hit Baghdad Green Zone, 2 wounded
Rockets hit Baghdad Green Zone, 2 wounded
Baghdad: Several rockets hit the heavily fortified Green Zone that houses the US embassy in central Baghdad, wounding a woman and a child, the Iraqi military said.
"The innocent people in the Green Zone were attacked by several rockets fired from the Doura neighborhood in southern Baghdad on Thursday, targeting headquarters of diplomatic missions, which are protected by the Iraqi forces," the media office of the Iraqi Joint Operations Command said in a statement.
One of the rockets fell on a school building inside the zone, wounding a woman and a female child, according to the statement.
Meanwhile, an Interior Ministry source anonymously told Xinhua that the air defense weapons protecting the US embassy opened fire on two rockets and blew them up before reaching their targets, while a third rocket landed on a school building, causing damage, Xinhua news agency reported.
Earlier in January, Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi called the attacks on Iraqi military bases "absurd," stressing the end of the combat mission of the US-led coalition forces in Iraq after their withdrawal from the country.
The latest attack came as part of a recent series of drone and rocket attacks that targeted the Green Zone and Iraqi army bases, housing US advisers and agencies.
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It's not cheap to rent space in Toronto, especially for retailers in high-traffic areas, such as along Yonge and Queen streets. Perhaps that's why we're seeing more and more chain retailers in the city.
Councillor Mike Layton's motion at today's jam-packed city council meeting asks the city to look into creating a retail strategy that would enable a variety of retailers to thrive in Toronto and would also give neighbourhoods more ability to shape how they look.
The motion cites San Francisco's Formula Retail Strategy as an example. In San Francisco, formula retail refers to "retail stores with multiple locations and a recognizable 'look' or appearance."
This northern California city regulates where these stores can operate to preserve distinct areas and neighbourhood.
"Of San Francisco's 36 neighbourhoods, only three ban formula retail entirely, while the remaining 33 require new applications to undergo a conditional use process," reads the motion.
It's easy to see the retail landscape in Toronto changing. This spring, for instance, the Hard Rock Cafe will close to make way for a Shoppers Drug Mart and The Brunny is now a Rexall.


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Q: Design tips for synchronising signals through a VHDL pipeline I am designing a video pixel data processing pipeline in VHDL which involves several steps including multiply and divide.
I want to keep signals synchronised so that I can e.g. maintain a sync signal and output it correctly at the end of the pipeline along with manipulated pixel data which has been through several processing stages.
I assume I want to use shift registers or something to delay signals by the right number of cycles so that the output is correct, but I'm looking for advice about good ways to design this, particularly as the number of pipeline stages for different signals may vary as I evolve the design.

A: Good question.
I'm not aware of a complete solution but here are two partial strategies...
Interconnecting components... It would be really nice if a component could export a generic whose value was its pipeline depth. Unfortunately you can't, and dedicating a port to this seems silly (though it's probably workable; as it would be an integer constant, it would disappear in synthesis)
Failing that, pass IN a generic indicating the budget for this module. Inside the module, assert (severity FAILURE) if the budget can't be met... (this assert is checkable at synth time and at least Xilinx XST handles similar asserts)
Make the budget a hard number, and either assert if not equal to actual pipeline depth, or add pipe stages inside the module if the budget is too large, and only assert if the budget is too small.
That way you are connecting predictable modules, and the top level can perform pipeline arithmetic to balance things (e.g. passing a computed constant value to a programmable delay line)
Within a component... I use a single process, with registers represented as internal signals whose names reflect their pipe stage, exponent_1, exponent_2, exponent_3 and so on. Within the process, the first section describes all the actions for the first cycle, the second section describes the second cycle, and so on. Typically the "easier" paths may be copied verbatim to the next pipe stage, just to sync them with the critical path. The process is fairly organised and easy to maintain.
I might break a 32-bit multiply down into 16*16 chunks and pipeline the partial product additions. The control this gives, USED to give better results than XST gave alone...
I know some people prefer variables within a process, and I use them for intermediate results in a pipe stage, but using signals I can describe the pipeline in its natural order (thanks to postponed assignment) whereas using variables, I would have to describe it backwards!

A: I create a package for each of my major processing blocks, one of the constants in there is the processing delay of that block.  I can then connect that up to my general-purpose "delay-line" block which has a generic for the number of cycles.
Keeping that constant in "sync" with the actual implementation is best done by a self-checking testbench.

A: Something to consider is delay lines (i.e. back to back registers) vs FIFOs.
Consider a module X with a pipeline delay N. FIFOs work well when there is a N is variable. The trick is remembering that you can only request new work when both the module and the FIFO can accept it. Ideally you size the FIFO so that it can contain the maximum number of items that X can work on concurrently, but sometimes that's not practical. For example, if your calculation includes accesses to a distant memory.
Another option is integrating the side channel (i.e. the path that your sync flag is taking) into the module X rather than it going outside. If you do this then if any part of the calculation has to stall, you can also stall the side channel and the two stay in sync. You can do this because you're in a scope that has all the necessary signals in it. Then all signals, whether used in the calculation or not, appear at the output at the same time.

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When I look at my ctrl-alt-del task list I see multiple instances open. I think it be some type of virus or malware that got installed as this occurs with IE and Firefox both. For example I see 6 of them open on my computer right now even though I only have 1 browser open on firefox.
Dont worry about it, thats not a virus and its normal to have multiple browsers showing up in that task list. You will also see this occur with chrome.


Over the past decade, server hardware has been characterized by an increasing number of CPU cores. Consequently, researchers and practitioners have developed a variety of sophisticated techniques, such as lock-free algorithms and futures, to scale server software on multicore hardware.
At the same time, applications need high availability via replication. A replicated system consists of a primary server and one or more backup servers, such that a backup is a faithful copy of its primary. The primary is responsible for processing update requests, which are periodically sent and applied to backups. Unfortunately, techniques to scale software on multicore systems are non-deterministic, and thus do not ensure that a primary and its backups will remain in-sync, even if they process precisely the same set of inputs in the same order. As a consequence, primaries can employ multicore scalability optimizations, while backups must sequentially execute a stream of updates from the primary. This "parallelism gap", manifesting as replication lag, has been a longstanding issue with several systems in widespread use, including MySQL and PostgreSQL.
To address this parallelism gap, I will describe how we can apply techniques from deterministic scheduling in databases systems to provably guarantee that backups process updates with at least as much parallelism as primaries, consequently increasing the utility of backups in serving fresh reads, and decreasing fail-over times.
Jose Faleiro is a fifth-year computer science PhD candidate at Yale University, where he works on building robust and performant large-scale concurrent systems. His PhD research focusses on using deterministic execution to simplify isolation and recovery in main-memory multi-core database systems. In addition to his research at Yale, Jose has worked on geo-distribution in the Orleans cloud programming framework (at Microsoft Research Redmond), and DebugAdvisor, a debugging tool that leverages a large software repository's history of changes (at Microsoft Research India). He has an undergraduate degree in computer science from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani.


"Yes, I'm done. We've had a great run here. I have absolutely loved doing these four characters that I've had the opportunity to play. In all the madness, I've loved the writers, my actors, Ryan and the whole, I mean, insanity of it, shooting here, shooting in New Orleans, the stories, everything. It was my absolute favorite. We had a great run." These are the words uttered by AHS star Jessica Lange confirming that she will not be a part of the cast for the fifth installment of the AHS series.
Speaking at their annual PaleyFest panel, Lange confirmed her departure from the series while two new cast members were announced – White Collar's Matt Bomer and 30 Rock's Cheyenne Jackson who will both be joining Lady Gaga for the new season.
Any other information regarding the AHS: Hotel series was kept quiet.
AHS: Hotel will consist of 13 episodes and begin in October on FX.
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Reese Witherspoon & Matt Damon Will Co-Star In Alexander Payne's 'Downsizing,' Allowing Her to Finally Reunite with 'Election' Director
By Alanna Bennett
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I feel like I've been waiting for this for a long time: Reese Witherspoon is reuniting with Election director Alexander Payne. She'll be starring alongside fellow superstar Matt Damon in Payne's upcoming film Downsizing. So what can we expect from this team-up?
According to The Wrap this is a movie whose title fits its title pretty well — and sounds downright kooky, if I do say so myself.
The long-gestating dramedy takes place in a not-so-distant alternate future in which humans have perfected shrinking themselves as a means of saving resources — namely money.
Damon's character will consider undergoing the process when he finds himself down on his luck.
Hmmm. OK. So...like a prestige movie version of Ant-Man?
A lot less is known about Witherspoon's character than even the little bit we know about Damon's; we just know she'll be playing the female lead.
Witherspoon seems to be manufacturing a career resurgence for herself, so I'm personally hoping this means she'll start making more choices like she did in her Pleasantville days — that, too, was a movie with a pretty kooky concept, after all. But it paid off pretty well, and her last team-up with Payne in Election still has a place in the cult film-lovers heart.


My, how the months have flown. On January 1, 2012, I launched Sarah J Consulting as a part-time enterprise, hoping that I might eventually turn it into my primary career. In May 2012, that happened, and I haven't looked back.
Lots of people made this possible, including clients who take a chance on me; colleagues who send me referrals and generously offer advice; and family and friends--especially my husband, who saw SJC's potential long before I could.
Indeed, perhaps paradoxically, self-employment takes a village. I'm forever grateful to these villagers who helped me branch out on my own. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Have solid experience. Self-employment is self-reliance. You've got to know your field cold and be able to deliver in spades. Don't hang out your own shingle until you've built up a great amount of expertise in your professional area.
Never burn a bridge. Your reputation is everything--and it's a small world. Be kind and professional to all, as you never know where your next referral may come from.
Network, network, network. Ask colleagues and friends if they know anyone you could meet with to talk shop. Do favors and return favors. Attend/present at workshops and conferences when your time and budget allow. Have coffee and lunch with lots of folks in or related to your field. Get to know other consultants.
Be tactfully honest with clients and potential clients. Know your strengths and weaknesses. Don't take on a project that you can't complete successfully. If a client asks your opinion, tell them what you think and not what you think they want to hear. Honesty is most certainly the best policy.
Build a social media presence. Create a free website (you can purchase a domain name for ~$10/year). Start tweeting about your field. In the online age, the first place people go to check your credentials is the internet. Be there wearing your virtual Sunday best.
Keep overhead as low as possible. When you're starting out, every dollar counts. Do you need to rent an office space or can you create a home office? Do you need to pay someone to do all of your accounting and build you a website, or can you teach yourself?
Track EVERY DOLLAR you spend. Did you have coffee with a potential client? Drive 5 or 50 miles to a client meeting? Purchase toner or paper or a pencil? Use Quickbooks or another user-friendly database to track all of your consulting income and expenses. Tax write-offs are key, especially when you are paying as much as 40 percent in taxes as a self-employed person!
Line up clients and projects before you quit your day job. I can't stress this enough. No need to leave your full-time job--and salary--cold turkey, when you can easily begin building your business on the side. Sure, it's more hours and more effort, but if you keep your eyes on the prize, it'll all seem worth it. Because it is.
Prepare for the lean times. Know this: In consulting, some months you'll feel like the king of the world and other months you'll feel like a pauper. Understand that the good months need to carry you through the tumbleweed. In my field, tumbleweed comes during the summer. Sock away your cash while you can.
Here's to 2013. Good luck, all!


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Dwór sołtysów (niem. Freirichterei) – ruiny w Niemojowie w województwie dolnośląskim, w południowo-wschodniej części Gór Bystrzyckich.

Położenie
Ruiny kamiennego dworu z 1576 roku położone są w dolinie Dzikiej Orlicy, we wsi Niemojów (gmina Międzylesie). Dwór został wzniesiony w dolinie na rozległej platformie nadrzecznej na wysokości 550 m n.p.m. W pobliżu przebiega dziś Droga Śródsudecka, nadgraniczna droga Zieleniec-Międzylesie.

Historia
Wcześniej na miejscu obecnego dworu miał istnieć cesarski dwór myśliwski Worlitz. Kamienny dwór powstał w latach 1573-1576 wraz z założeniem wolnego sołectwa.

W 1647 roku w dworze sołtysów kwaterował feldmarszałek cesarski hr. Rudolf von Montecuccoli. W końcu XVII wieku wieś stała się własnością prywatną i najprawdopodobniej na ten okres trzeba datować znaczną rozbudowę tego dworu. Następna modernizacja budynków dworskich nastąpiła w latach 20. XVIII wieku, kiedy właścicielem domu był Franz von Ruprecht, po którym pozostały zdobione obramowania okienne oraz tablica z datą 1727 i nazwiskiem właściciela. Następną modernizacją w 1764 roku była budowa bramy i furty. W 1840 roku właścicielką dworu stała się księżna Marianna Orańska. Do 1939 roku w dworze należącym do rodziny Höhne znajdowała się gospoda. W siedmiu pokojach udostępnionych dla gości było 20 łóżek. Dziedziniec dworu służył wielu malarzom jako motyw. II wojnę światową dwór przetrwał bez większych zniszczeń. Po 1945 roku dwór był własnością skarbu państwa i stopniowo popadał w ruinę. W 1960 roku został objęty ochroną konserwatorską. W 1993 już jako ruina przeszedł w ręce prywatne.

Wyjątkowy stop architektoniczny
Nigdzie wcześniej nie stosowano tak bogatych ukształtowań obramowań okiennych czy też wyjątkowej loggi widokowej – było to spotykane tylko w pałacach.

Dwór obecnie
Obecnie dwór to dobrze zachowana ruina. Budynki wybudowane były z nieobrobionego kamienia skalnego, a ich ściany mają do 1 m grubości. Wszystkie budynki stoją wokół rozległego dziedzińca folwarcznego. Z pięciu niegdyś dużych budowli do dzisiejszych czasów zachowały się trzy. Budynek dworu (od południa) i budynek gospodarczy (od północnego wschodu) są najlepiej zachowanymi obiektami, ich ściany sięgają 6-7 m wysokości. Trzeci (przyległy do budynku dworu), budynek gospodarczo-mieszkalny jest bardziej zniszczony, a jego ściany sięgają pierwszej kondygnacji. Dwa pozostałe budynki gospodarcze zamykające dziedziniec od zachodu nie przetrwały do dziś.

Przypisy

Bibliografia
 Słownik geografii turystycznej Sudetów. Marek Staffa (redakcja). T. 14: Góry Bystrzyckie i Orlickie. Warszawa; Kraków: Wydawnictwo PTTK "Kraj", 1992, .

Góry Bystrzyckie (Sudety)
Niemojów
Niemojów

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Data for previous years has been derived from respective previous publications.
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North East power cuts LIVE: 100 soldiers on way to assist thousands without power after Storm Arwen
The British Army are being deployed to help those still affected by Storm Arwen
Flaminia LuckBreaking News Reporter
Tom BeattieBreaking News Reporter
A major incident has been declared with thousands of North East residents still without power six days after Storm Arwen devastated the region.
The North West Durham MO has now confirmed that 100 soldiers British Army are on the way to assist those left without power after Storm Arwen.
Durham County Council has issued the alert following "one of the worst storms in the last decade".
READ MORE: Go here for the very latest breaking news updates from across the North East
More than 6,600 homes in the North East remain without power six days after Storm Arwen brought chaos to the region.
A number of schools are still closed due to building damage with many still without power, heat, electricity or phone lines.
We will be bringing you regular updates throughout the day on the weather from across the region.
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Major incident declared in Northumberland as thousands without power 14:57
First video shows soldiers at St John's Chapel 11:26
Army drafted in support those affected by Storm Arwen 07:55
School closures (3rd Deccember) 06:46
Map shows thousands of North East homes STILL without power SIX days after Storm Arwen 19:02
21:34 Tom Beattie
Tomorrow's weather forecast
According to the Met Office, the weather should be as follows tomorrow:
Rather cloudy and chilly, with showers or longer spells of rain, heavy at times and wintry on hills. Winds becoming strong through the day, with coastal gales possible later. Maximum temperature 5 °C.
Footage: Army arrives in North East as part of Storm Arwen response
The storm has caused havoc in our region over the course of the past week.
Map shows thousands of North East homes STILL without power SIX days after Storm Arwen
The thousands of North East homes about to start a second week without electricity have been laid bare in Northern Powergrid's online map.
It is now seven days since the high winds of Storm Arwen battered the region and left 240,000 people without electricity in one of the worst storms in memory.
As of Friday, up to 6,600 were still without power after gale force winds brought down power lines.
A map on Northern Powergrid's website shows the areas of the North East where hundreds are still in the dark.
Rural parts of Northumberland and County Durham, which have both declared major incidents, remain among the worst affected.
Other areas where between 100 and 200 homes are waiting to be reconnected include New York/Murton, where 180 homes are affected, Holywell, where 200 homes are without power, and Ryton and Crawcrook, where 160 properties are affected.
The army arrived in the North East on Friday to help those still without power.
Map shows thousands of homes without power six days after Storm Arwen
Storm Arwen causes £3m in damage to National Trust properties
Millions of pounds worth of damage has been caused by Storm Arwen at National Trust properties, with two much-loved sites in Northumberland badly affected.
The charity say that Friday's gale force winds brought down swathes of trees across the north of England, including some of the "most exceptional specimens" in the trust's care.
Wallington Hall, near Morpeth, has seen "thousands" of fallen trees and remains without power, phonelines and water, with all footpaths blocked.
There was also significant damage at Cragside, near Rothbury, and the trust has said the damage could take decades to repair.
Staff at Wallington reported the "worst destruction caused by a storm in 40 years" and said the fallen trees included those planted by Sir Walter Calverley Blackett.
Damage at National Trust Cragside caused by Storm Arwen (Image: National Trust)
Met Office issues update on when heavy snow will hit UK with temperatures falling to -9C
The UK is set to be hit with heavy snow of up to 15cm this weekend, and temperatures could fall to as low as -9C.
Temperatures dropped with the onslaught of Storm Arwen last week and have failed to rebound after what was a largely mild November.
Now people can expect several days of snowfall and an Arctic blast, with temperatures hovering around the 3C mark in northern England on Friday.
Gales from last week's storm brought electricity cables down across the North East and Scotland, and thousands of people still remain without power leading to Boris Johnson to call in the Army to help restore it.
During Friday temperatures will remain close to zero in Scotland according to weather maps while it may not get much higher than 3C in northern England.
Undated handout photo issued by Forestry England of damaged trees in Kidland Forest. Forestry England is urging people to stay away from its woods in much of northern England in the aftermath of storm Arwen. A huge swath of the nation's forests including Thrunton Woods, Kidland, Harbottle and Simonside near Rothbury, Kielder, Hamsterley and Chopwell, plus Grizedale Forest and Gisburn in the north west, have been badly affected by uprooted trees, loose branches, downed power lines and blocked access. Issue date: Tuesday November 30, 2021. PA Photo. See PA story WEATHER Cold Forests. Photo credit should read: Forestry England/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder. (Image: PA)
Why is it taking so long to get the power back on in the North East after Storm Arwen?
While thousands of North East homes are still enduring power cuts as the bitter weather continues, those affected are asking why it is taking so long to put right.
The speed of response by energy company Northern Powergrid as well as Durham County Council and the Government itself has come under close scrutiny.
And many are wondering whether if this happened in the South East and not the North East there would still be so many properties without electricity.
The focal point of criticism is Northern Powergrid. We have been told that, internally, the company was describing the situation in Durham as an emergency last Friday.
Electricity cables in High Handenhold, Co Durham, where some homes still remain without electricity since Storm Arwen (Image: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)
Shop owner 'gutted' after centre closes indefinitely due to Storm Arwen damage
A Northumberland shop owner has said he is 'gutted and devastated' after being forced to close his shop indefinitely.
Broken Souls is one of several shops in Blyth town centre facing an uncertain Christmas period, after the Keel Row shopping centre was deemed unsafe due to major structural damage from a neighbouring property.
The shopping centre has been closed since Tuesday, with owners Northumberland Estates making an announcement on Thursday that the centre would be closed 'for the time being.'
And Steven Nelson, who opened fantasy giftware retailer Broken Souls with his wife Louise in May, says that he is devastated.
Steven said: "We have only just started gaining momentum so it's devastating that the closure has happened at our busiest time of year.
"We expected to make a bit over Christmas to get us through the quiet period from January to March, but that's not going to happen now."
Steven only quit his job as a Hermes courier two weeks ago to focus full time on the shop, and says that Storm Arwen has hit at the wrong time.
He said: "It's definitely hard. We have both had some tears in the last few days but we can't wait to reopen. We're still selling through our website and we're going to be at Tynemouth Market on Sunday."
A statement from Northumberland Estates said: "Regrettably we have been advised to close the Keel Row shopping centre for the time being. This is due to severe structural damage to a neighbouring property following the storm last weekend.
"As the damaged property is not owned by Northumberland Estates, rectifying the situation is out of our hands. We have not taken this decision lightly, but a structural surveyor sent out by the Council, together with the Fire and Rescue Services, have advised that as a matter of public safety the shopping centre should remain closed.
"Our own independent surveyor agreed with this decision. Obviously we have to put the safety of the public first, hence the centre will remain closed this weekend.
"We realise this is a huge blow to many in the run up to Christmas, and we will reopen as soon as it is deemed safe to do so."
Shop owners Steven and Louise Nelson outside The Keel Row shopping Centre in Blyth that has been forced to shut due to an unsafe building next door
Households can claim £140 a day energy refunds as part of Storm Arwen response
Power regulator Ofgem has launched an "urgent" review into the response of energy network companies to Storm Arwen, which has left some people without power for a week so far.
The maximum £700 cap on compensation has also been lifted, which will allow those affected by the storm to claim £70 for each 12-hour period they are left without power, after an initial £70 for the first 48 hours.
It is now a week since the high winds of Storm Arwen battered the North East and left 240,000 people without electricity in one of the worst storms in memory.
Major incident declared in Northumberland as thousands without power
A major incident has been declared in Northumberland by the county council as thousands of people remain without power seven days after Storm Arwen caused devastation across the region.
Northumberland County Council have also refused to rule out the need for military assistance due to uncertainty from Northern Powergrid as to when electrical supplies will be restored.
The current estimates suggest that some people living in rural parts of the county could be without power until Wednesday, December 8 - 12 days after the storm hit.
Power lines downed by trees in Northumberland. (Image: PA)
Resident explains what life after Storm Arwen has been like
Sally Gibbons home in Westgate East was reinstated with power on Wednesday night. She explained how difficult living without power has been.
Resident left without power
Linda and her brother visited a community cafe which has been set up in the village hall to help residents before returning to Linda's home to see if a generator has been fitted.
Resident speaks out on isolation following power cuts
Resdident Linda Cumming's family called the police on Saturday night because they were worried after not hearing from her. Her brother made the difficult journey to her home to pick her up and discover if she was safe.
"I live on my own. I've had no phone signal, no landline, no water and no power. I'm 66 and have been living by candlelight. I could have had a fall. Anything could have happened and no one would have known."
Care packages issued
Our reporter Nicole Goodwin looked is present as the army look to distribute care packages to affected families.
14:01 Flaminia Luck
Army distributing parcels for residents
The army are leaving St John's Chapel Town Hall with another batch of parcels
Local residents are 'sick' of the situation
Sarah Langan has been supplying food and support to residents over the last week. She said residents are "sick" and added that people have been coping up until now, but she's not sure how much longer residents can cope. She's beginning to see more residents needing help.
Soldiers dealing with aftermath of Storm Arwen
Soldiers in St John's Chapel in Weardale, County Durham are doing welfare checks on local residents and distributing food parcels.
Soldiers in St John's Chapel in Weardale (Image: ChronicleLive)
Ofgem to launch review into impact of Storm Arwen
Ofgem - the UK's energy regulator - has announced that customers can be compensated up to £140 a day for every day they go without power and is also launching a review into the impact of Storm Arwen focusing on the role of network companies in maintaining a resilient system
Army visit resident Paul Turton just outside Stanhope, County Durham
A soldier pays a visit to resident Paul Turton who lives just outside Stanhope.
Local resident, Paul Turton (Image: ChronicleLive)
Soldiers briefed on care package delivery
Soldiers are being briefed on how to deliver packages to residents. Some will be serving the north while others visit residents in the south of St John's Chapel.
Care packages are being brought to army vehicles to be distributed to residents
Care packages are being brought to army vehicles
More soldiers arriving at St John's Chapel
More soldiers are arriving here at St John's Chapel to help residents who have been without power here since Storm Arwen on Friday.
'Hang your heads in shame' local resident blasts response to Storm Arwen
Local resident and owner of the Blue Bell Inn, Terry Wood, criticises the response to Storm Arwen
Gritters on standby
Durham County Council said:
'Our gritters will be on standby on all High/Low Pennines P1 routes and all Central/Coastal P1 routes from 5am tomorrow morning (Sat 4 Dec)
"We are doing everything we can' says Durham County Council Chief Executive John Hewitt
John Hewitt, chairman of the LRF's strategic co-ordinating group, said:
"We are doing everything we can to support residents who are affected by the disruption to power supplies, from providing emergency supplies to simply checking in to make sure everything is OK."
He added: "We are very grateful to the Ministry of Defence that they have approved our request for support and that we already have troops on the ground helping our communities."
The council said servicemen and women, based in St John's Chapel in Weardale, will carry out door-to-door visits to check on residents' wellbeing and ensure any help and support is provided where needed.
They will also provide updates on work to restore the power supply and gather feedback on any issues of concern.
Food, fuel and generators for residents
Food, fuel and generators are arriving at St John's Chapel Town Hall, which will be handed to residents in the area.
Council update on army deployment
Troops are arriving in #CountyDurham this morning to support with welfare visits and offering reassurance to thousands of residents still without power following #StormArwen
Council criticised by resident
Our reporter Nicole Goodwin is speaking to residents.
One resident has spoken of his anger at the council. He feels residents have been abandoned by the council.
11:44 Sophie Finnegan
Welfare centre set up at St John's Chapel Town Hall
A number of welfare centres have been set up to support people
The British Army is being deployed to help those still affected by Storm Arwen
Soldiers pictured at St John's Chapel
Soldiers were deployed this morning to help those still affected by Storm Arwen
Soldiers arrived at St John's Chapel on Friday morning
First video shows soldiers at St John's Chapel
The Army arrived this morning to assist those left without power after Storm Arwen


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Vote for Daphine!
Our video 'Love a Positive Life' about Daphine, a Ugandan teen living with HIV, has been nominated for an award. We need your help to make sure that Daphine wins the 'Golden Radiator Award'.
https://youtu.be/xcKXjjIe8aw
You can vote for Daphine on the Golden Radiator Award - Radi-Aid site using the box on the right hand side. Our video is the third in the list: HIV & AIDS Alliance: Love a Positive Life.
About Radi-Aid and the Golden Radiator award
The Radi-Aid Awards were set up to change the way fundraising campaigns communicate and engage people in issues of poverty and development, by highlighting the best and worst charity ads of the year.
Commenting on 'Love a Positive Life', the Radi-Aid award panel said:
"This video can help break down prejudices and stereotypes against HIV by depicting the 'positive' daily life of an HIV positive woman who transformed her own life. The video gives a good amount of information about the situation for people living with HIV/ AIDS and is not presenting them as helpless victims, but powerful individuals."
About Daphine
Daphine is one of 800,000 young people supported by Link Up across five countries.
Working in Uganda, Bangladesh, Burundi, Ethiopia and Myanmar, Link Up aims to improve the sexual and reproductive health of young people most affected by HIV, so they can make informed choices about their sexual and reproductive health and rights.
"I thought I'd never get married, I thought I'd never get anyone to love me, I thought HIV positive people never give birth and I thought HIV positive people never become happy," says Daphine, 19 from Kampala, Uganda.
Read Daphine's story to find out more about how she became the confident young person she is today through her work with Link Up.
Please vote for Daphine today. The winner will be announced at the Radi-Aid awards in Oslo on December 8th.
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Children who snore or who have other sleep-related breathing problems are more likely to have behavioral problems years later, according to a large, population-based study in the April 2012 Pediatrics.
The study, "Sleep-Disordered Breathing in a Population-Based Cohort: Behavioral Outcomes at 4 and 7 Years," published online March 5, asked parents in England about their children's snoring, mouth breathing, observed apnea and behavior, starting at age 6 months and periodically until age 7 years.
By age 4, children with sleep-disordered breathing were 20 percent to 60 percent more likely to have behavioral difficulties. By age 7, they were 40 percent to 100 percent more likely. The worst symptoms were associated with the worst behavioral outcomes.
Study authors conclude that sleep-disordered breathing early in life has strong effects on behavior later in childhood, possibly because of increased vulnerability during a critical period of brain development when there is the greatest need for sleep. The study findings suggest that these symptoms may require attention as early as the first year of life.


This centralized and decentralized platform lets you complete a POS or online checkout instantaneously.
Electroneum (ETN)'s instant payment is now live. This centralized and decentralized platform lets you complete a POS or online checkout instantaneously. Instead of waiting minutes for a transaction to manifest on blockchain, or waiting for 24 hours for a bank release your funds, Electroneum's platform lets the recipient send goods immediately, thanks to its never-before-seen ability to guarantee the funds. Here's how Electroneum's instant payment works.
One Reddit user tested the speed and was able to get an instant notification from USA to Japan in 2.7 seconds with a single refresh. The transaction appeared on blockchain within a few minutes after. Additionally, the user tried a USA to USA transaction. They were able to send Electroneum in 3-4 seconds with instant payment.
This news affects all cryptocurrency users, not only people invested in Electroneum (ETN). This is because the patent covers more than just Electroneum.
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American Police News 3-23-21
March 23, 2021 March 23, 2021 Samuel Culper
Feel Good story of the day!!!!! You big hypocrite!!!!!!
Legislator Who Sponsored Law To End Cash Bail Outraged Man Who Threatened Him Was Released
Springfield, IL – A state lawmaker who sponsored legislation that eliminated cash bail got really upset when he learned a man who had threatened him with a gun had been released the next day after posting bail.
The incident occurred at about 8:15 p.m. on March 15 as Illinois State Senator Elgie Sims was driving home, The State-Journal Register reported.
Sims said he was talking to his wife via Bluetooth and driving westbound on Lawrence Avenue when the vehicle behind him began honking and flashing its lights at him.
"He was riding the horn, then cut in front of me and slammed on his brake on Lawrence a couple blocks before the dip in the road next to Pasfield Golf Course," the lawmaker from Chicago told The State-Journal Register.
"There were a million things going through my mind," Sims said. "I didn't know what this was, where he came from, how long he had been behind me, how dangerous he was, and whether he was trying to stop me so other cars could come out."
He said he slammed on his brakes to avoid hitting the Chevy pickup stopped in front of him, called 911, and took a picture of the back of the truck, The State-Journal Register reported.
Then Sims said he pulled up along the driver's side of the truck and rolled down his window.
"I'm on the phone with 911 and so I want you to know the police are on their way," he said he told the other driver, according to The State-Journal Register.
"That's when he pulls out a handgun and points the gun at me and says, 'Let's go,'" Sims recalled.
He told The State-Journal Register he thought to himself, "'Let's go? Oh my god.'"
Sims said he hit the gas and fled the area after the other driver – later identified as 54-year-old Michael Hoyle – displayed the weapon.
Then he noticed that Hoyle had turned around and was following him, The State-Journal Register reported.
"He turned around and started chasing me again," Sims said.
So Sims said he made a U-turn and fled, but as he passed Hoyle he saw the man was holding the gun outside his car, The State-Journal Register reported.
Hoyle did not fire his weapon.
Sims followed the 911 dispatcher's instructions and met up with a Jerome police officer in the parking lot of a grocery store, The State-Journal Register reported.
Springfield Police Deputy Chief Joshua Stuenkel said officers from his department spotted Hoyle shortly thereafter and arrested him.
Preliminary charges against Hoyle included unlawful use of a weapon, possession of a firearm despite having a revoked Firearm Owners Identification card, aggravated assault/use of a deadly weapon, and possession of ammunition with no valid FOID card, according to The State-Journal Register.
Sangamon County State's Attorney Dan Wright said he was waiting for investigative reports from police before making final charging decisions.
Chief Stuenkel said they don't know what Hoyle's motive was for harassing Sims, The State-Journal Register reported.
"At this time, we don't have any evidence to indicate that the suspect was targeting the victim because of his position," the police chief said.
Sims hypothesized that Hoyle might have targeted him because of his legislative license plates, The State-Journal Register reported.
"I know that when he got directly behind me and got the clear view of the back of my car — my license plates are clearly displayed — I know that he got more aggressive when he got directly behind my car," the lawmaker said. "The inference I make is that when he saw those legislative plates, it kicked in for him."
Hoyle was released from the Sangamon County Jail on a $15,000 bail the next day, The State-Journal Register reported.
Sims was furious.
"By him being released on bail, he's free to do this again," he complained.
The lawmaker said that if the law he sponsored to do away with bail had been in effect, the court would have had to do a more thorough analysis of whether Hoyle was a threat to public safety and probably would have remained behind bars, The State-Journal Register reported.
"I think it's a perfect example of how cash bail doesn't make people more safe," Sim said.
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