While I'm sure that you're all on the edge of your seats for the next big event in Attack on Titan, I'd like to point the reader to another gem that's out this season you may have neglected a bit because of it. Yes, I'm talking about Suisei no Gargantia. Evil Cat briefly mentioned this in his New Season Release post for it, but the tone shift in Episode 1 near the end is drastic. Gargantia is in no way a Mech Battle anime. Gargantia is an anime with mechs in it, Not an anime about Mechs. If any of you put it down or dropped it on account of Episode ones appearance, I Demand you go pick it back up and catch up. This stories all about the guy on the right, not the left.
If you don't like it after that, that's fine.
Up to this point the story, while still maintaining a base level of interest varying from 1-3 out of 10 for the last series of episodes, has been more or less slow, that is mostly because of story, tone, and world building. Something you can't really do without in a good show. Episode 1 has proven to be a big tone builder, so even if you're completely against anything to do with Mech anime at this point, I'm imploring you, pay attention to Episode 1, it's important to understanding Ledo's character and personality, and if the most recent Episode is to be believed at face value at the end, it may also be part of the next big story and plot elements come Episode 11.
Upon Episodes 6-9, things start to get serious at an exponential rate, culminating to a crescendo in Episode 9. If I was the type of person that could so much as remember my dreams, let alone distinguish whether or not they were nightmares, Episode 9 has a scene that very much so would have been several flavors of nightmare for me. I spent the rest of that day having to forcibly remove the scene from my mind whenever it popped up, unable to do my usual internal processing on it. This is an almost unheard of event for me, as I'm among those who say that to ever cease to think, is a grave evil upon yourself, and everyone around you. To have something strike me hard enough to force me to try to forget it, for any length of time, is very much a credit to it.
In Summary: If you've ignored, or haven't been paying attention to this little gem this season because of Episode 1, Consider yourself reprimanded.
The scene with this in it came closer to giving me nightmares than anything has for a very long time, and not in the way you might expect just from looking at it.
The only anime I'm really following this season.
Now that's not right. There's at least 4 good anime out right now that are worth watching, albeit one is a season...4? 5? of Index, so if you weren't already in to that, meh. But Dansai Bunri, Love Come Machigatteiru, and the ever obvious Attack on Titan, are all ones I'm following closely. If you're not big on Slice of Life or Comedy, you might want to pass up Love Come Machi, and Dansai Bunri is more or less an atypical Shounen battle toy, even if it is interesting for explicitly that reason. But Attack on Titan is clocking a hugely interesting story and characters, check that out.


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Q: datagridview sorted by id descending order c# in winform application I'm working in VS2012 on a C# WinForms app. By default when clicking on a column header in a DataGridView it not sorts that column Ascending, you can then click on the column header again to sort it Descending.
so the initial click sorts Descending then the second click sorts Ascending and I haven't been able to figure out how to do this. Does anyone know?

A: If you want to sort it always in Descending order, try this code:
void dataGridView1_ColumnHeaderMouseClick(object sender, DataGridViewCellMouseEventArgs e)
{
  dataGridView1.Sort(dataGridView1.Columns[dataGridView1.SortedColumn.Name],ListSortDirection.Descending);
}

If you want to alternate and start with Descending first and then ascending on the 2nd one. You could declare a global variable (at least in your Form), like:
Boolean lastSortedAscending = false;

Then your ColumnHeaderMouseClick event would probably look like this:
void dataGridView1_ColumnHeaderMouseClick(object sender, DataGridViewCellMouseEventArgs e)
{
   lastSortedAscending = !lastSortedAscending;
   if ( lastSortedAscending)
      {
       dataGridView1.Sort(dataGridView1.Columns[dataGridView1.SortedColumn.Name],ListSortDirection.Descending);
      }
   else
     {
       dataGridView1.Sort(dataGridView1.Columns[dataGridView1.SortedColumn.Name],ListSortDirection.Ascending);
     }
}

Or without declaring a global variable - you could also do this, like:
void dataGridView1_ColumnHeaderMouseClick(object sender, DataGridViewCellMouseEventArgs e)
{

if (dataGridView1.SortOrder.ToString() == "Ascending") // Check if sorting is Ascending
    {
       dataGridView1.Sort(dataGridView1.Columns[dataGridView1.SortedColumn.Name],ListSortDirection.Descending);
      }
   else
     {
       dataGridView1.Sort(dataGridView1.Columns[dataGridView1.SortedColumn.Name],ListSortDirection.Ascending);
     }
}

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Java is a programming language that helps in performing a particular task. DBMS is used to manage large amounts of data. Today most of the real time applications are a combination of Java and DBMS.
Oracle (SQL Plus) sometimes gets installed in Windows 7 but when tried to access by entering the User Id and Password, denies the access. But it works when tried to connect using the SQL Command Prompt.
1)Download "ojdbc6.jar" file from the official Oracle website.
2) Place it in "C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\lib\ext" directory. Sometimes this may need the permission of the Administrator to accept it.
3) Go to "Administrative Tools" by click on "Start" then go to "Control Panel" followed by "System Security" and then on "Administrative Tools". Double click on ODBC from the right panel.
4)In the System DSN, click on "Add".
5)Select Oracle in XE from the options and click on "Finish". If the DBMS used is MySQL then you need to select SQL Server from the options. Different applications have different Data Sources to be specified. So one should be careful while selecting the Data Source.
6)Specify the Data Source Name, TSN Name & UserId. Data Source Name is a sample data source used to connect to DBMS through Java. It can be given any name as desired. The description is just an additional explanation. It can be left blank. TNS Service Name is the name of the class in the tns file. The user Id is the Id used to connect to the server. Let the default applications be as it is and save it by click on "OK".
7) The linking is completed. To check if the link is proper, Try out the below program by executing it using Command Prompt.
Replace the words Id and password with the Id and passport used to connect to the SQL server.
9)Compile it using "javac TestProgram.java".
10)Run it using "java TestProgram".
11)The output must display the following.
If you had any questions let us know through comments.
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A lice infestation is very difficult to eliminate. While there are professional treatments that can ultimately be effective, it is better that your children do not bring lice home in the first place, or even worse, invest your entire home with lice. You will need to be proactive to keep lice out of your home.
You must educate your children on how they can prevent head lice. Ask your children to avoid playing the types of games that lead to head contact, since this is the primary reason for why children have head lice more often than adults. It is natural for kids to want to connect their heads, but tell them to avoid doing this.
The earlier you are able to discover that your child has head lice, the more easily you will be able to eliminate the lice. To identify lice quickly, check your child's scalp at bath time for signs of lice. The best too for identifying and removing head lice is a nit comb. This come has microgrooves that will wrap around the strands of hair, ensuring that the lice is effectively removed.
Always check the belongings of your children. You may find a small amount of lice, but the grossness of finding lice among your child's things is nothing compared with the grossness of having a full-scale lice infestation in your house.
There are over-the-counter products that can be applied to your child's hair to kill most of the eggs. Unfortunately, there is no product available that is capable of killing all eggs.
To prevent lice that remains from crawling from the head of one child to another, you should tie the hair of your children up as tightly as possible. Lice do not fly, but instead crawl. Therefore, tying them up tightly will make it difficult for them to travel. Buns are the best options. Braids and ponytails are also effective.
If you suspect that one of your children has head lice, ask him or her not to lay down next to anyone else in the family. This is another common way that head lice is transmitted from person to person, since the lice have an opportunity to crawl across the floor. The good news is that as children get older and as their play styles change, it will be less likely that they will get head lice.
Talk to your doctor about finding a head lice treatment as soon as possible.


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Q: jQuery: Check, if any radio-button isn't checked I refer to this question. Trying to use this snipped, but "my" markup is very ugly and I cannot change it.
<form method="post">

            1.
            Question

            <input value="question1_yes" name="question1" id="question1_yes" type="radio" />
            Yes

            <input value="question1_no" name="question1" id="question1_no" type="radio" />
            No

            <input value="question1_dont_know" name="question1" id="question1_dont_know" type="radio" />
            Don't know

            2.
            Question

            <input value="question2_yes" name="question2" id="question2_yes" type="radio" />
            Yes

            <input value="question2_no" name="question2" id="question2_no" type="radio" />
            No

            <input value="question2_dont_know" name="question2" id="question2_dont_know" type="radio" />
            Don't know

            3.
            Question

            <input value="question3_yes" name="question1" id="question3_yes" type="radio" />
            Yes

            <input value="question3_no" name="question1" id="question3_no" type="radio" />
            No

            <input value="question3_dont_know" name="question3" id="question1_dont_know" type="radio" />
            Don't know

  <input type="submit">
</form>

How do I have to change this snipped?

A: if your markup is fixed and considering every question is nested in a table, you can just check the number of checked input and compare it to the number of tables (in your main table) you have, something like this:
$('form').on('submit',function(e){
    // Counting number of questions
    arrayQuestions = new Array();
    $('input[type=radio').each(function(){
        arrayQuestions.push(this.name);
    });

    jQuery.unique( arrayQuestions );
    nbQuestion = arrayQuestions.length;
    nbAnsweredQuestion = $('input[type=radio]:checked').length;
    if(nbAnsweredQuestion < nbQuestion) {
         alert('You must answer every question');
         e.preventDefault();
    }
});

See the fiddle DEMO HERE
EDIT
Note that in your third question, the two first answer have the name "question1", probably a typo...
EDIT2
Adding jQuery.unique to improve the question counting (so as it's not based on tables anymore)

A: If you are trying to make sure that all the radio buttons have at least one value, here is what I would do:
var radio_names = ['question1','question2'];
var form_data = $('form').serializeArray();//Use a better selector by using an ID?
$.each(form_data,function(index,input){
    var radio_index = radio_names.indexOf(input.name)
    if(radio_index>-1 && input.value!='')//If it is a radio we monitor, and not empty of value
        radio_names.splice(radio_index, 1);//Remove it from the list, so we know which we are missing
});
if(radio_names.length>0)//We did not fill all radio, display list of unfilled ones
alert(radio_names);

In english now:
We list the radio we want to monitor, serialize the form into an array so it is easier to play with. Loop through the array to check the inputs in it and remove the radio we find. Once done, we should be left with an empty list of radios... If not, shout to warn the user.

A: check this demo
I have correct name question3 in the third question(was question1)
I have insert class to find table(on table class="table") and on question (class="question")
<form method="post">

            1.
            Question

            <input value="question1_yes" name="question1" id="question1_yes" type="radio" />
            Yes

            <input value="question1_no" name="question1" id="question1_no" type="radio" />
            No

            <input value="question1_dont_know" name="question1" id="question1_dont_know" type="radio" />
            Don't know

            2.
            Question

            <input value="question2_yes" name="question2" id="question2_yes" type="radio" />
            Yes

            <input value="question2_no" name="question2" id="question2_no" type="radio" />
            No

            <input value="question2_dont_know" name="question2" id="question2_dont_know" type="radio" />
            Don't know

            3.
            Question

            <input value="question3_yes" name="question3" id="question3_yes" type="radio" />
            Yes

            <input value="question3_no" name="question3" id="question3_no" type="radio" />
            No

            <input value="question3_dont_know" name="question3" id="question1_dont_know" type="radio" />
            Don't know

  <input type="submit">
</form>

js
$(document).on('submit', 'form', function () {

    var validate = true;
    var unanswered = new Array();

    // Loop through available sets
    $('.table').each(function () {
        // Question text
        var question = $(this).find(".question");
        // Validate
        if (!$(this).find('input').is(':checked')) {
            // Didn't validate ... dispaly alert or do something
            unanswered.push(question.text());
            question.css('color', 'red'); // Highlight unanswered question
            validate = false;
        }
    });

    if (unanswered.length > 0) {
        msg = "Please answer the following questions:\n" + unanswered.join('\n');
        alert(msg);
    }
    return validate;
});

fiddle
http://jsfiddle.net/ZjmD5/


The Dakine Spike Stomp Pad in White is a snowboard accessory made for convenience and easy portability. One of the longest running products in Dakine's lineup of stomp pads, the Spike Stomp is still the best functioning and one of Dakine's best sellers. Why? Because the spikes are taller than most, which makes them more effective even with snow buildup. Pilot creases moulded into the stomp let you trim down the overall size, or cut into strips to customize your traction.


Driving distance between Blanco, TX and Belvidere, NE is 780.34 miles (or 1,255.83 kilometers). If you drove an average car (using about 3.6 gallons of gas per mile), the gas would cost you around $, since you would need about gallons of fuel.
Leaving from Blanco, TX you would reach Belvidere, NE in about 11 hours 30 mins if you keep an average speed of miles per hour, assuming you don't make any breaks or get stuck in traffic.
This is a map overview of the best driving route from Blanco, TX to Belvidere, NE in which you can see the origin and destination points marked with A (Blanco) and B (Belvidere) respectively as well as blue line along the road route you can take. You can zoom in to see more details, including road numbers and even street names both in Blanco, TX and Belvidere, NE as well as every other town you may pass by on your way.
To cover the 780.34 mi that separate Belvidere from Blanco you are going to need between of fuel, considering you drive an average car (30 mpg) and , if you drive an SUV or a heavy car (20 mpg). If you drive a fuel efficient car (45 mpg), your consumption will only be .
Depending on the fuel efficiency level of your car, driving from Blanco to Belvidere will cost you between and . An average car would make the trip for . We calculate the route cost using real time average gas prices for the US and other costs such as tolls are not included in this calculation.
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Russian Leadership Changes: How it was, is and how it might be
Now that 2022 is finally here, it means Russia's next presidential election is just two years away. The way has been paved for Vladimir Putin to run again if he chooses. The will he/won't he? question is a favourite of pundits as is speculation of a potential or likely successor. Russia's next leader will be immensely consequential, as will the time when he or she takes over.
It's certainly possible that by the end of t
Experts on the Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence and Challenges to International Psychological Security (part III)
Evgeny PASHENTSEV, leading researcher at the Diplomatic Academy, Moscow
The Questionnaire for Experts "Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence and Challenges to Psychological Security"
This questionnaire is a part of the research project "Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence and Challenges to Psychological Security in Northeast Asia" funded by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, project number 21-514-92001.
Experts on the Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence and Challenges to International Psychological Security (part II)
Which of the threats to international psychological security caused by the malicious use of artificial intelligence do you consider the most relevant for your country?
Vian Bakir and Andrew McStay Surreptitious influencing via psychological manipulation on social media is a real threat in the UK. In the 2016 "Brexit" referendum on whether or not to leave the European Union, Cambridge Analytica offe
Experts on the Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence and Challenges to International Psychological Security (part I)
Evgeny Pashentsev
Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, despite their high significance for social development, raise threats to international psychological security (IPS) to a new level. There is a growing danger of AI being used to destabilize economies, political situations, and intern
Senate Races to Watch in the 2022 Midterms
An oddity for the party of power, Democrats are favoured to keep the Senate in next year's mid-terms.
With a 50-50 Senate the Democrats have a favourable map coupled with numerous Republican retirements (open seats are traditionally harder to defend). Recent analysis by Alan L. Abramowitz also showed that to stand a 'good chance' of keeping control of the Senate Democrats would only need to maintain single digit lead on the gene
What Happened to the BRICS?
It was 2012 and I remember what my supervisor told me well: BRICS are the future, and this is where the research (and) money will be going. In my American history class a few months earlier, the lecturer told us: BRICS will define the twenty-first century.
[B]razil, [R]ussia, [I]ndia, [C]hina and [S]outh Africa were the talk of Wall Street for a decade. Just days after 9/11, Goldman Sachs' Jim O'Neil coined the term in a paper c
British Labour's Russia Problem
The British Labour Party were never short of 'Russia problems' in the twentieth century. Its first government was brought down by the fraudulent Zinoviev telegram whereas its second, and most successful, helped start the Cold War. But in 2017, Jeremy Corbyn was accused of apologising for Vladimir Putin.
Following the Skripal poisoning, Corbyn called for 'absolute evidence of guilt' from the Russian state rather than an outright
The Issues of Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence Were Discussed at a Scientific Conference under the Auspices of UNESCO
Darya Matyashova, Researcher, Saint-Petersburg State University
On the 24-25 March 2021, the Online International Conference "Accelerating Actions and Promoting Digital Wellness in the Context of Artificial Intelligence" took place in Hyderabad (India).
The Conference was organized under the auspices of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Information for All Programme (IFAP). The group of its organizers included row of resea
Partial Legitimacy of the Biden Administration and What It Means for the USA and the World
The current situation in the United States, which remains – despite the obvious decline of its power, a leading economic and military power – inspires serious concern. The decline of the country is turning into an acute political crisis, multiple accusations coming from the now former President Donald Trump of massive fraud in the recent elections like this one: "This election is about great voter
Researchers from Six Countries Discussed the Challenges for International Psychological Security in the Context of the Use of Artificial Intelligence
Kaleria Kramar MA (ISCPSC Moscow), Oleg Sarychev (ISCPSC Moscow)
On 12 November 2020, a panel discussion "Artificial Intelligence and International Psychological Security: Theoretical and Practical Implications" was held at St. Petersburg State University as part of the international conference "Strategic Communications in Business and Politics" (STRATCOM-2020).
The discussion was moderated by Konstantin Pantserev – DSc in Political Sciences, Professor of the St. Petersburg State University,
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Franz Gertsch | Works on paper
From early on, Franz Gertsch (born 1930) possessed true talent and fine expressive potentials. That he could draw, paint, and make woodcuts with equal precision and sensitivity is exemplarily documented by three different versions (not shown here) – a pencil drawing, painting, and woodcut – of the Portrait of a Girl (Denise) from 1951. The drawings now assembled from the artist's collection are all the more surprising. A still rather unfamiliar side of Franz Gertsch comes to light in their openness and yet simultaneous agitation.
Drawing does not appear as a medium of isolation or appropriation, but rather as a means to approach and depict the still incarnate. While one continues to encounter a linear "script," as was earlier the case in the nineteen fifties, stylization and configuration have been rejected for the most part.
The approach is open, expansive, and two-dimensional. Much allows one to assume that Gertsch only jotted down brief free-hand notes, as yet without a "tonal key," in order to indicate a sur-face, to suggest a contour, or to encircle a still developing pictorial idea. The painter still seems very far removed from the pictorial materialization.
The pencil is silvery here, weightless, and reserved; the cadences of the drawing style make a restless, sketch-like, even ephemeral impression; the ink of the brush drawing shows itself robust and somewhat expressionistic. Stylistically, the drawings are not all the same; they were made at different times, even though it is difficult to date most of them. But one is inclined to see them as statements from the final phase of the existential hardship and creative crisis that the artist lived through between 1956 and 1962.
The works on paper exhibited here for the first time go autonomously and compellingly beyond the usual early work of an artist. They can perhaps provide a glimpse at the artist's "workshop" of that time as well as his world of thought. The thematic selection is intended to show how Franz Gertsch, despite all coarseness, again and again took up and refined the shaping of form, and was never easily satisfied with that what was achieved.
Like a chronicler of past times, he moved about almost romantically in a world of sagas and fairy tales. In the process, literary texts such as Die Gründung Burgdorfs oder Die beiden Brüder Sintram und Bertram by Jeremias Gotthelf (1797–1854) in addition to contemporary films like Jean Cocteau's (1889–1963) La belle et la bête (1945), Orphée (1950) and Le testament d'Orphée (1959) nurtured his imaginative powers.
Only later did Franz Gertsch sovereignly find his way from a certain other-worldliness to the internalization of a demanding objective reality well-known by connoisseurs.
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Movies|Tonya Harding Would Like Her Apology Now
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What do we know about her? Tonya Harding, shown at Mountain View Ice Arena in Vancouver, Wash., is back in the spotlight and has a few things she would like to clear up.Credit...Kyle Johnson for The New York Times
Tonya Harding Would Like Her Apology Now
In the movie, "I, Tonya," the disgraced figure skater looks back on the 1994 Nancy Kerrigan scandal and her struggles to tell her side of the story.
By Taffy Brodesser-Akner
BATTLE GROUND, Wash. — Tonya Harding's name isn't Tonya Harding anymore. "My name is Tonya Price," she said, when she saw me taking notes. In 2010, she had just returned home to Washington from Los Angeles, where she'd been doing another one of the odd jobs she'd collected over the years — color commentary on ill-advised video stunts for the TV show "World's Dumbest." She was still in her cute L.A. clothes, still made up, and she went out to Timbers, a local restaurant. She was having drinks with a friend when she spotted one Joe Price, a heating and air-conditioning worker, on the karaoke stage. He was singing "Great Balls of Fire."
"I'm going, damn, he's got beautiful eyes," she said. "I mean the eyes are the center to your soul, O.K.? You might have a nice butt, but I want to see the eyes." Within weeks she proposed to him. Within those same weeks she was carrying their baby. She had never met anyone so gentle or kind; she had never known a man to just love her, not for her skating abilities or for what she might potentially become, but for her. They married, and she changed her last name, like lots of people do. O.K., I told her. Tonya Price it is.
We were at a lounge called 38 Below, which is skating-themed. Hockey and figure skates, including a signed pair of hers, hang over the bar, which features a "frost rail" that makes its surface look and feel like an ice rink. "But you should use Tonya Harding in your story," she said. I told her I probably can't; if her name is Tonya Price I should call her Tonya Price — paper of record and all that. She objected. "But Tonya Harding is who people know." Which is a good point. She is Tonya Price but you cannot deny that she is also Tonya Harding. This is basically how this entire story goes: There are facts, and then there is the truth, and you can't let one get in the way of the other or you'll never understand what she's trying to tell you.
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But therein lies the problem: Whatever her name is, she looks an awful lot like Tonya Harding. So even when she meets a stranger and says, "Nice to meet you, I'm Tonya Price," the person will narrow his eyes and say, "Wait, aren't you….?"
You can't run from being Tonya Harding, is the point. Even if you wanted to, even if you tried, and yes, she's tried. "I moved from Oregon to Washington because Oregon was buttheads," she said. Then, with mock apology, "I disappointed them. It's like, how can I disappoint a whole state? Wait a second, how can I disappoint a whole country?" Oregon had been so proud when their own Tonya Harding was the first American female figure skater to land a triple axel jump in competition. Then what happened happened, and people turned on her. So she confronts it head on, the way she always has. As if she ever had a choice. She knew from the moment it all went down in 1994 that the Nancy Kerrigan attack wasn't going to fade into the annals of history. "I knew that this would be with me for the rest of my life." Absent anonymity — her face has softened over the years, but she is still clearly Tonya Harding — she is left to explain herself endlessly and hope that someone is listening.
Ms. Harding, left, and Nancy Kerrigan working on their routines at a practice session at the Lillehammer Olympics in Norway in 1994.Credit...Barton Silverman/The New York Times
Lord knows she's tried to be understood. Over the years, "E! True Hollywood Story" came along. "Entertainment Tonight" came along. Oprah came along. But the focus was so much about what happened in 1994; it was never about before or after, and if you want to understand her at all, you have to understand her childhood and her early adulthood. They all told her that they would let her explain, and each time she felt like she didn't really get her message across, because each time, it came down to: Well, did you do it, or didn't you? Did you know more than you said? Did you actually plan the attack? Are you sorry? Are you still sorry?
Then, in 2014, the screenwriter Steven Rogers watched the ESPN documentary "The Price of Gold," and decided to reach out. ESPN had given a rounder, more nuanced look at Ms. Harding and where she came from. It laid out the facts: How on Jan. 6, 1994, six weeks before the Lillehammer Olympics (and two nights before the conclusion of the United States Figure Skating Championships), Ms. Kerrigan was clubbed on the knee by a man with a collapsible baton. An F.B.I. investigation found that the man had been hired by Shawn Eckardt, a friend of Jeff Gillooly's, who was Ms. Harding's ex-husband. In the end, Ms. Harding pleaded guilty to hindering the prosecution — meaning that she knew who had done the attack, but only afterward, and that she didn't report it immediately.
The prosecution believed that she was much more involved than what the plea bargain encompassed, but they accepted the plea since it included a felony charge. She was sentenced to three years of supervised probation, 500 hours of community service, a $100,000 state fine, and was tasked with setting up a $50,000 fund to benefit the Special Olympics, reimbursing the Multnomah County prosecutor's office $10,000 in costs, undergoing a psychiatric examination and participating in any court-ordered treatment. And then there was this: She was forced to surrender her membership to the United States Figure Skating Association. Eventually, the association barred her for life.
Mr. Rogers, who wrote the 2015 movie "Love the Coopers," asked her agent for the option to her story — her whole story — for $1,500, with more if the film actually got made and recouped its costs. The initial money wasn't much, just enough for a month's rent really, and she didn't know if it was worth the hassle. But her agent said, "What's the worst that could happen?" The worst had already happened.
All these years later, she's still punished for what she did, but also for what she didn't do. People still think she herself held a baton over Ms. Kerrigan's leg that day. People still think she was married to Mr. Gillooly (who has since changed his last name to Stone), who planned the attack and was sentenced to two years in prison for racketeering, but they were divorced by then.
At the very least, people still think she herself hired the guy who attacked Ms. Kerrigan, Shane Stant, and they have never forgiven her for it. "I've had rats thrown into my mailboxes, [expletive] left on my door, left in my mailbox, all over my trucks. You name it, it's been done to me." Sometimes she pulls up to a traffic light and a man in the next car will make oral sex gestures at her.
So yes, she said. Please call her Tonya Harding. It was Tonya Harding who was the punch line to just about every late-night monologue joke in 1994. Tonya Harding was the name Barack Obama used as a verb in talking about metaphorically kneecapping the competition during the 2007 presidential primaries. "Tonya Harding" is the title of a new and quite lovely Sufjan Stevens song ("This world is a bitch, girl," it goes. "Don't end up in a ditch, girl.") And Tonya Harding is the name invoked in a pile of recent feminist think pieces coinciding with the opening of the movie "I, Tonya," in which she is played by the famous, beautiful actress Margot Robbie, explaining her side of the story.
Maybe I could just call her Tonya in the story, I said. Just to avoid confusion. She put her hands on mine. Her nails are unicorn purple with glitter particles that she swears are not fake (which, I don't know) and they are unchipped the way they need to be when you are chopping wood one day and promoting a movie the next. "You have to say Tonya Harding," she said. Tonya Price hasn't done anything wrong. She is a relatively recent invention with nothing on her rap sheet. It's Tonya Harding who has a few things she would like to clear up.
FOR AS MANY people who are mean or crude when they realize who she is, there are just as many who love her. We had met earlier in the day at an ice rink in Vancouver that shares a building with a megachurch. When she entered, the 10 or so teenage wonders who had been jumping and spinning during serious-skater-only hours rushed off the ice to envelop her with hugs. "She's such a good influence on the girls," one of their mothers told me.
Ms. Harding was trailed by her BFF, Erica Manary, an E.R. nurse she met because their husbands are friends; they got married within a week of each other and then had sons within a year of each other and that just sealed it. Ms. Manary liked her instantly when they met in 2010, and made a conscious decision not to Google her. "I didn't want to refresh myself," she said. "I wanted to learn from her perspective."
Ms. Harding swiped on her lipstick perfectly without a mirror: one coat of Wet n Wild 523B (Light Berry Frost) covered by a layer of Wet n Wild 530D (Dark Pink Frost). She laced up her tiny Harlick skate boots that she had painted pantyhose beige, which were attached to gold-plated MK Vantage blades, and put stirrups over her leggings and beneath the blades so that her lines would look longer and she would look taller. (She's barely 5-foot-1.) She took a puff from her asthma inhaler, straightened her ponytail in its pink scrunchie, aligned her bangs, and stood up. The song "Low" came on and she said, "I love this song!" and hopped out onto the ice while Ms. Manary shimmied her shoulders to the music from behind the plexiglass.
When Ms. Harding got out there with her first jump, the girls who had been practicing all morning now looked like total amateurs by comparison. At 47, she still holds so much power in those thighs and so much grace in her hands and posture. People said that her sin — before her other sins — was not being the Disney princess Barbie doll that the Figure Skating Association demanded of its skaters. "I hated the word 'feminine,'" she said. "It reminded me of a tampon or a panty liner." Has anyone ever interrogated the notion of why the highest achievement in the female-centered sport of figure skating is exertion without expression of exertion? Has anyone ever said screw it all and flipped on the Tone Lōc and just gone for it like she did? Has anyone ever made skating look so fun?
Ms. Harding skates sometimes, but not as much as she used to. What would be the point? Her ban by the U.S.F.S.A. as a skater and a coach should leave her open to professional skating — say like in an exhibition or the Ice Capades — but "because everything is owned by the association," she said, there are very few corners of it in which she can still meaningfully participate. Say she taught young skaters for $50 an hour at the rink, she wouldn't be allowed to bring them to competition, so, again, what's the point?
When she got the call from Mr. Rogers, she'd been doing fine. She could take care of herself. She had other skills. She'd worked as a welder, a painter at a metal fabrication company, a hardware sales clerk at Sears, where every day some guy would ask if there was a man who could help him, and every day she'd school that guy on how much more she knows about tools than just about anyone. She faced Paula Jones in a celebrity boxing bout in 2002, and started an unremarkable boxing career in earnest in 2003. But she wasn't a great fighter, and she didn't like it very much, either. She never bought the idea that hitting something could help you work out aggression. They told her, "Pretend it's someone else's face." But it wasn't, so what's the point?
She married and had her boy, who changed her life by refocusing her attention on someone who wasn't her. She and her husband would spend hours hunting together, just as she used to do with her beloved father — Mr. Price with a muzzleloader and Ms. Harding with a bow and arrow because she wanted "to give the animal a 50-50 chance to make it interesting and fair" (and also because felons aren't technically supposed to possess guns in Washington State). Do you know how good of an archer she is? She says she has successfully done no fewer than eight Robin Hoods — shooting an arrow that splits another arrow, which itself was already in a bull's-eye, 30 yards away — and that's nothing compared to her fishing skills. (But she doesn't want to elaborate. "Some people," she said. "If you eat a carrot you're killing it.") Also, she can build anything. She can fix anything. She had a life. It was going fine. She had made some kind of peace with the idea that she'd never really be understood.
"I, TONYA," which is based on hours of interviews with Ms. Harding and her ex-husband, honors its feisty subject by showing not just the abuse she endured, but how she fought back. It gives added context to the scandal for which she is now principally known. It even posits new information: The paper that the F.B.I. found in a Dumpster that showed Ms. Kerrigan's practice location and schedule in Ms. Harding's handwriting supposedly existed in order to help her co-conspirators locate where to send threatening letters. (Ms. Harding has maintained that she did not help plan the physical attack on Ms. Kerrigan; no word on why you'd need practice times in order to send letters.)
Anatomy of a Scene | 'I, Tonya'
The director Craig Gillespie narrates a sequence from his film featuring Margot Robbie as Tonya Harding.
Hi. I'm Craig Gillespie and I'm the director of "I, Tonya." So this is the first skating sequence in the movie that we get to see Tonya Harding skate. And it's young in her career. And she's more aggressive and a little unruly and unpredictable. So there's four major skating sequences in the film and they each have different styles. This one we wanted the camera to be more aggressive and reflect where her energy was at the time. So we actually have a steadicam operator, Dana Morris, who turned out to be, fortunate for us, a very amazing skater. So he's skating here on skates handheld. And he's backwards sometimes, sometimes he's forward. He comes in here, wraps around her. Margot had trained for this sequence for five months and then we had two professional skaters training as well. And each one of these moments is broken down to who could do what. Obviously, Margot can't do a lot of these big skating moves. Amazingly, she was able to do the dance moves, you know, which is the opening of this with all the spinning and the kicks. And then it becomes a very complicated situation of head replacement. But all of these shots are handheld. And he would skate along. And it's shot on film, compounding it. Because on film, you know, the focus is by eye. So we have our focus puller having to judge these distances as we go in and out close to our skaters throughout this sequence. And it certainly was stressful in that way. A lot of these pieces we had to do actually with no time. We had — I think it was 2/3 of our day was allocated to doing the sequence. And this was all part of routines that Tonya Harding had done during that period of '86 through '88. And she had actually skated ZZ Top. But once we got into each move which had been rehearsed and prepped for five months, we were a little more spontaneous. Because Dana was on skates and we could look at the move and he could be like alright, so I'll come around. I'll keep coming in the opposite direction here. And let's try and meet her right as she finishes it. And you know, each time it would be slightly different, but we'd have all the pieces that we could put together.
The director Craig Gillespie narrates a sequence from his film featuring Margot Robbie as Tonya Harding.CreditCredit...Neon
The story is told in the tone in which Ms. Harding speaks, and there are scenes in it you've seen a hundred times before in Lifetime movies: a young girl being hit by her mother, a young wife being hit by her husband — that aren't portrayed as tragic as much as a particular kind of wide-eyed Oregon gothic. The film has been generally well-received and on Sunday Allison Janney won a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Ms. Harding's mother. But there have also been reviews (including in this paper) that wonder if the protagonist is a punching bag for cheap laughs and classism.
For the record, Ms. Harding loved the movie. "Magnificent," was her word, especially after she'd seen it a few times. You have to remember, that was her life. That those beatings were very specifically hers, not composite beatings. And that they weren't even shown in full: "People don't understand that what you guys see in the movie is nothing," she said. "That was the smallest little bits and pieces. I mean, my face was bruised. My face was put through a mirror, not just broken onto it. Through it. I was shot. That was true." Mr. Gillooly, er, Stone shot at the ground, she said, and it ricocheted onto her face. (He has denied this and other abuse.) She said her mother threw a knife at her. (Her mother has also denied allegations made by Ms. Harding.) But "that's all true," she said. The people charged with taking care of her didn't.
So she watched it a few times, and the shock wore off, and there from the comfort of her living room, sitting beside the only romantic partner she has ever felt loved by and safe with, she watched what had happened in her life and realized that she never really stood a chance.
Which is not to say that the movie is totally accurate. As I said, there are some things she would like to clear up. Such as:
First, because of the way it's edited, it makes it look as though she hunted for rabbits and that is how she got her fur coat. Not true. She bought that coat. She loves fur coats and has two now, one of them a mink that she would like to wear to the premieres but the last thing she needs is those carrot-rights people telling her she's a monster for wearing mink.
Second, the movie made it seem as if she has a dirty mouth. She wants you to know she does not. "Trust me I don't say the word [expletive] 120 times a day. That might come out once in a while when something really bad happens or I hurt myself. I mean, the movie portrayed me as this person who cussed every 10 seconds and I don't cuss like that." There's a scene in the movie in which she confronts a table of judges about her low scores despite a stellar performance. In it, she gets frustrated and gives them an obscene directive involving male anatomy. Never happened, she said. "I would never say that."
"I did not go to the judges on the ice and talk to them like that in front of everyone. When I spoke to the judges they were in the back hallway room telling me you need to have better dresses. I go, 'Well if you can find me $5,000 to make me a dress then I'll wear it and I won't have to sew these anymore.' I go, 'You know what? Out of my face!'"
That's it? I asked. That's it, she confirmed. Those are her only objections. Which was confusing, because the movie doesn't vindicate her by a long shot. It presents both sides of the story, both her and her ex-husband's, and neither comes across looking particularly innocent. Nothing else you want to clear up? I asked.
On a couch at 38 Below, she leaned back, frustrated, made her hands into fists and rubbed her eyes. It's exhausting. Nobody ever gets it. She's been waiting for a way to tell the world that the abuse she endured was so much worse than they thought, that she was so much poorer than people could imagine. And then all people want to know is whether or not there's something she's not admitting to.
The reason she loves the movie is because it conveys something she doesn't feel was ever conveyed before. There were mitigating circumstances. Her life was terrible. She was beaten. She was threatened. You don't get this way unless you were counted out completely. Her own mother didn't seem to love her. The only time in her life she ever got anywhere was when she circumvented the rules and took for herself what appeared to be given to the Nancy Kerrigans of the world. Ms. Kerrigan was from a working-class family too, but she was loved. Her parents drove her to practices and cheered for her and cried with joy. She had Vera Wang skating outfits! Tonya had nothing. She had costumes that her mother made with sequins everywhere so that her thighs got cut up; then she had to make them herself, earning point deductions for the quality. She danced to ZZ Top while the others were dancing to Mozart. They had trainers and dietitians and Tonya was eating broccoli and cheese from the Spud City where she worked at the mall. She had asthma. She had muscles.
"I was always told I was fat. I was ugly. I wouldn't amount to anything. 'If you don't smile and follow through they're not going to give you the marks. If you wear that ribbon they're not going to give you the marks. If you wear that dress they're not going to give you the marks.'"
This has nothing to do with exoneration; it hasn't for a long time. Her side of the story is not about guilt or innocence — the discussion over guilt and innocence ended right about the time she completed her community service, as far as she's concerned — but about the finer points of being Tonya Harding: respect, mitigating circumstances, how we treat people and what we expect from them in the first place.
WE ADJOURNED to the South Pacific Cafe, the restaurant next door, which is Polynesian-themed and owned by the same people as 38 Below. It had been a long day. Ms. Harding ordered a steak appetizer she loves and a drink the owner created just for her. It has vodka, Bacardi 151, watermelon liqueur, orange juice and pineapple juice. It is called the Triple Axel, because no one would understand if you called it the Tonya Price.
She hasn't been keeping up with the movie reviews, she said. She doesn't have time. She's out hunting for deer and elk or cutting down trees or raising her son. The publicist says people love it, and that's good enough for her. I told her that some reviewers said the abuse and poverty seemed played for amusement, that there were people in my press screening who laughed during one of the beating scenes. She stared at me with her eyebrows up, like you've got to be kidding me; the news media is horrible and filthy and of course they laugh at a girl being abused, nothing new there. "The media abused me in the first place."
I told her about the essays I'd read about how we should have been kinder and protected her back then. She doesn't want to hear it. What do we know about her? We never asked. She doesn't want anything to do with Sufjan Stevens's lovely song about her. Did he call her first to talk to her? Did any of those people writing their defenses of her call her up and ask if they could make money using her name? No! "Who gives these people permission to use my name?"
She doesn't need our protection now, thank you very much. She needed it back then. Where were our think pieces then? "You all disrespected me and it hurt. I'm a human being and it hurt my heart," she said, her hand karate chopping the table lightly with every word for emphasis. "I was a liar to everybody but still, 23 years later, finally everybody can just eat crow. That's what I have to say."
Yes, but the world is different now, I tell her. People are remorseful for not taking into consideration the context of a person's life. Look at Monica Lewinsky and how we treated her. Just yesterday I saw maybe the seventh essay comparing her with you, how rough the '90s were on women who needed support and ——
"Monica Lewinsky?" she asked, incredulous, using a modified version of the same obscene phrase involving male anatomy that she had just said she would never use. "In the Oval Office! You don't think that there's something wrong with that? She disrespected the country."
But you were both so young, I said. And the press was so hard on you before they'd heard the full ——
Stop it, she said. Don't compare her to Monica Lewinsky. She is nothing like Monica Lewinsky, she said. Tonya wasn't making mistakes like a privileged person who gets an internship at the White House. Tonya was surviving. (Whereas Ms. Lewinsky wasn't involved in a violent crime, so.)
She shook her head. Will we ever get it? For her, the rules made an ascent in skating nearly impossible for her despite her physical dominance over it. All she'd been trying to do was become a true American dream story. Do you know that in 1996 she was asked to move to Australia to skate for that country and represent it? She turned them down. (Ice Skating Australia told The New York Times that it had no record of contact with Ms. Harding.) "They loved me but America didn't and I still said I'm sorry but I'm only going to represent my country. Because I love my country. If they don't love me, I don't care. I don't care."
She thinks that if she could have done a clean program at the Olympics, if her lace hadn't broken, if she hadn't been so frazzled and beaten down by the news media, we would be having very different discussions about her. We would be marveling at all she overcame. Her movie arc would have a heartfelt and triumphant trajectory like "Rocky" or "Rudy." The international judges loved her, after all, she's pretty sure. She just had to get past the American ones who found her existence and her dominance so disgraceful — the ones who set such an impossible gauntlet for her. But instead, by the time she got to Lillehammer, the Olympic committee seemed set on punishing the United States for its sideshow. Ms. Kerrigan, who skated a stellar program, even after all that had happened, should (arguably) have won the gold and got silver instead. There was a sense that the judges were sending a message, that the Olympics were no place for American scandal.
Everything she did back then was a continuation of the things she had always been rewarded for, which were her scrappiness and her invention and her survival. Was she supposed to play by the rules and let her talent rot inside her extraordinary body? She's saying that for girls like her, playing nice and fair would have gotten her nowhere. If it had worked out, we would say she was the manifestation of the American dream. Now instead we just say she's very American.
It was getting late when we left the restaurant. Ms. Harding stood under an awning in front of her truck and took a puff off her inhaler. "Don't describe my truck, O.K.?" she said. A few months ago, someone vandalized her truck and it's under investigation. I thanked her for her time, and then she thanked me. She told me that the media had screamed at her and tricked her and lied to her and attacked her. No one ever sat down and bought her a drink and asked her for her side of the story. She came over to me and put her head against my chest, which is where it came up to on me. "You have a heart," she said. "I can hear it."
Here's the thing: A lot of what she said wasn't true. She contradicted herself endlessly. But she reminded me of other people I've known who have survived trauma and abuse, and who tell their stories again and again to explain what had happened to them but also to process it themselves. The things she said that were false — they were spiritually true, meaning they made her point, and she seemed to believe them. So much has been made about the tone of the movie — does it play abuse for laughs? Does it love her or hate her? Is she vindicated? Do we forgive her? Sit with her for an hour and you will understand that there might be no other way to go with the material. This is how she sounds. It would also be wrong to portray her as anything other than who she is.
With her head against my chest, I leaned down and hugged her. Here is something I'll never understand, that you can be sitting across the table from someone who certainly did something bad, who appears to show no remorse for it and you can still feel the oxytocin rush of love and sympathy for her. "This world is a bitch, girl," I told her. "Don't end up in a ditch, girl." She looked up at me and smiled and then Mrs. Price hopped into her truck and drove home to her husband and son, who were eagerly awaiting her return.


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import com.aspose.pdf.api.PdfApi; import com.aspose.pdf.cloud.Utils;
import com.aspose.pdf.cloud.examples.Configuration;
import com.aspose.pdf.model.ImagesResponse;
import com.aspose.storage.api.StorageApi; import android.content.Context; import com.aspose.pdf.cloud.R; import java.io.File;

public class GetImageCountFromPDFPage {

	public static void execute(Context context) throws Exception {
//ExStart: 1
		String fileName = "SampleImage.pdf";
		int pageNumber = 1;
		String storage = "";
		String folder = "";
		File input = Utils.stream2file("input","pdf", context.getResources().openRawResource(R.raw.SampleImage));

		try
		{
			StorageApi storageApi = new StorageApi(Configuration.apiKey, Configuration.appSID, true);
			// Instantiate Aspose Words API SDK
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		    {
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		        System.out.println("Image Count " + count);
		        System.out.println("Get Image Count from a PDF Page, Done!");
		    }
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		catch (Exception ex)
		{
		    ex.printStackTrace();
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MISSY Higgins had a mini-revelation during her brief sojourn in Melbourne for the Christmas holidays: she realised she wanted to come home. For good.
Having spent the previous 10 months based in a Los Angeles apartment, she caught up with family and friends, hung out backstage at the Big Day Out (and the after-party at the Toff), and reacquainted herself with the city.
"I appreciated it in a very different way than I had before," she said. "I fell back in love with my city, which is an awesome thing. I couldn't believe I'd been living anywhere else."
The 25-year-old's homecoming coincides with her first Victorian show in 18 months, a headlining slot at the Yarra Valley's Rochford Winery on Sunday.
Travel has been an underlying theme in the Missy Higgins story. Although she had a record contract soon after graduating from Geelong Grammar, she first spent a year backpacking in Europe before meeting US producers on the way home. She has been on the move since.
"I've had a completely nomadic existence," she says. "I've been basically travelling since I finished high school."
Today, Higgins has homes in Melbourne and Broome, where she spent six months in 2006 writing her second album, On a Clear Night.
Although her Australian success is well documented - Higgins has won seven ARIAs, headlined gigs at the Rod Laver Arena and the Myer Music Bowl, and sold about 900,000 albums - she has always had her eyes on a bigger prize. Team Missy first flagged its intention to break the US market in 2005, when she began touring, usually as a support act. However, her debut album The Sound of White failed to sell overseas.
On a Clear Night was a different proposition. After two years of sometimes painful toil, Higgins is one of Australia's biggest pop exports, and has sold more than 500,000 downloads and 100,000 albums in the US. The key is the emotive single Where I Stood which, 12 months after its US release, continues to find an audience.
"When I wrote the song, I had a really satisfied feeling of having expressed myself really honestly," she says. "I'm always trying to explain myself or understand myself and encapsulate the meaning of what I'm going through. And that song summed it up well."
"If I was honest about it in the first place, it wouldn't have reached the crescendo that it did. It's good that it's passed. I had faith it would."
As her career has progressed, Higgins has become more outspoken, and articulate, expressing a passion for climate change issues.
Last month, she wrote to a handful of newspapers around the country expressing her disgust about plans for the industrialisation of the Kimberley region of Western Australia proposed by Premier Colin Barnett. Her letter was published in The Age and The Sydney Morn-ing Herald.
"It's the most beautiful, untouched place I've ever experienced," she says. "It's a tragedy, and I've been doing everything I can to campaign against the gas hub."
Higgins has long acknowledged the responsibility that comes with having a voice that reaches millions.
"You're also assuming your opinion's worth being heard," she says. "But if you have faith in something and feel strongly, you have to follow your heart. I can't keep quiet about this; I couldn't live with myself if I did."
Higgins is also involved in the Sierra Club, a non-profit group focusing on environmental awareness and the care of wilderness in California. Then there's CLIF GreenNotes, a service for musicians to improve their environmental friendliness on tour. The group assisted her with the bio-diesel tour buses she uses in the US, as well as the purchase of carbon offsets.
All her merchandise is organic and made from recycled materials. She's also worked with PETA on anti-fur campaigns.
A third album is some time off; she declines to offer a proposed start date. But last week, she released a new EP featuring a cover of Roxy Music's More Than This. All profits from the release will go to her beloved Kimberley cause.
"I love the production on the original and thought it would be good to interpret in my own way," she says. The EP's already No. 1 on iTunes and the calls for her to do more shows in the US will be heeded in coming months. But Melbourne will be her home base.
"I feel great," she says. "I feel more settled as a human being. Much more comfortable on stage . . . I'm excited about having absolutely no idea about what I'm going to do next."
Missy Higgins plays Rochford Winery with Tim Freedman, the Cat Empire, Skipping Girl Vinegar and the Audreys on Sunday.


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Obituary for William C. "Bill" Borst
William "Bill" Clayton Borst, 67, of Zeeland, passed away unexpectedly on Monday, October 26, 2020, at his home.
Bill was born April 30, 1953, in Holland, Michigan, to William Jr. and Dorothy (Smith) Borst. He attended Zeeland Public Schools and graduated from Zeeland High School in 1971. Bill went on to Michigan State University where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Natural Resources. While he was at Michigan State University, he did an internship with Congressman Jackie Vaughn III which led to an interest in history and his work as a guide at the State Capital in Lansing, where he worked for 15 years. In the early 1990's, Bill went to Florida and enrolled in a physical therapy program at Seminole Community College, where he received an Associate in Science Degree as a physical therapist assistant, and then started his second career. He worked in physical therapy in Florida and then in Texas, where he retired in 2019. After retiring he moved back home to Zeeland. Bill's great love was to travel. He began as a foreign exchange student to Germany in high school and continued his love of history and travel throughout his career.
He is survived by his sister Mary Borst of Logan, West Virginia, their dear family friend Eunice Timmer of Zeeland, many extended family members, neighbors, and friends in both Zeeland and around the world.
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NARAL freaks out over Wisconsin's "Choose Life" license plates
By Danny David | December 10, 2016 , 11:39am
Citizens of Wisconsin will soon have the option to express pro-life values by purchasing a recently approved license plate design, featuring an ink stamp of a baby's foot and the words, "Choose Life." The Green Bay Press-Gazette reports, "Annual $25 donations for issuance and renewal of each plate will be awarded to pregnancy resource centers in Madison, Milwaukee and Appleton's Womankind Medical Clinic."
The special plate was proposed by Choose Life Wisconsin, a corporation formed by Wisconsin Family Action and Pro-Life Wisconsin. Choose Life Wisconsin President Julaine Appling celebrated the state's approval of the plates:
This is an incredible way for people all over the state to make a donation that will help the on the ground frontline resource centers who help women in crisis situations and help them make wise choices when they have an unplanned pregnancy.
On Friday, NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin issued a statement condemning the license plates, and labeling crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) as "fake women's clinics." The statement reads:
Crisis pregnancy centers are run by anti-choice ("pro-life") groups and are designed to be easily mistaken for real reproductive health clinics. An investigation by NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin conducted in 2012 found that there were at least 79 CPCs operating in the state. In 2016, there are only three abortion clinics remaining.
An "investigation"? To find out how many crisis pregnancy centers exist in the state? Ok then, Sherlock. Glad you figured out how to use Google.
NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin executive director Eliza Cussen added, "[Crisis pregnancy centers] operate solely to mislead women who are seeking health care and use a moment of vulnerability to push an extremist agenda."
And of course, by "extremist agenda," she means helping pregnant mothers through a time of crisis – without selling abortions. Yeah, totally extremist. When is the pro-choice camp going to figure out that people aren't buying their ad hominems and empty phraseology?
Cussen continued, claiming that Choose Life Wisconsin "is an organization that does real social harm that is centered around restricting the human rights of women."
Appling countered that buying the Choose Life plate is, quite literally, a matter of "choice."
"No one's forcing anyone to buy the plate," Appling said. "This is an option just like all the other specialty license plates are for people who want to go purchase those… It's a country where we have lots of opportunities for pluralistic messages."
According to Wisconsin Public Radio, Cussen suggested that pro-choicers should present alternatives to the Choose Life plate.
Hmm… "Choose Death"?


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If you have ever said, "soccer is boring", "soccer can't really hold my attention" or anything of the sort this post is for you. I am a recent convert to soccer/[world-]football advocate however my first real introduction to soccer was about 10-12 years ago. At that time I realized that soccer was a sport I could really get behind but as there wasn't really any where to go to watch soccer without being that creepy guy at high school and college games without a connection to anyone in the game. So as time went on my intrest waned. Fast-forward to 2010, FIFA World Cup comes back around and admittedly it peaked my curiosity again. Watching the World Cup, I wish I could say that it was a rekindled love at first site. It was not. It took some time. I then found out Chattanooga (TN, USA) had a soccer team, the Chattanooga Football Club (link: http://chattanoogafc.com/) I went to a few games and was suddenly beyond fascinated with the sport. I began to watch it more and more on tv (when I could find it) mostly English Premier League but whatever I could find. I started keeping up with MLS (link: http://www.mlssoccer.com/) started following the New England Revolution (link: http://www.revolutionsoccer.net/) who played the Columbus Crew(link: http://www.thecrew.com/) at Finley Stadium in Chattanooga -- unfortunately I missed that game. Later I found myself a fan of the Vancouver Whitecaps (link: http://www.whitecapsfc.com/). My daughter even has grown up knowing soccer, when she was first getting interested in TV she would often bring me the remote where ever I was in the house and say, "soccer?" We now play soccer - or some form of it - most everyday. She can often be found marching around singing Believe (the Real Salt Lake anthem - link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa1DJ008t9Y). So as you can see soccer has become as commonplace as hockey in Casa del DruiD.
Last night after the litte one had gone to bed, I began flipping the channel and found nothing, the wife had fallen asleep on the couch and so I had decided it was probably bed time. I continued flipping and gave my self one pass of the guide and if nothing jumped out at me, it was bed time. I began paging through the guide and what to my wandering eyes should appear but "MLS Soccer" glowing in green in the middle of the screen. I press "Select" and the game has just started. It was the David Beckham and the L.A. Galaxy (link: http://www.lagalaxy.com/) against the Portland Timbers (link: http://www.portlandtimbers.com/) so I decided I would give myself the first half then go to bed. I decided that despite not having any investment in either team I would pull for the Timbers. Three minutes into the game Kris Boyd plants the ball in the net. "That was quick," I said aloud. 1-0 Timbers. This three-minute goal said to me this was a good sign for the Timbers. After that Boyd's goal the Timber seemed to take it easy on the Galaxy allowing David Beckham to perform his magic and land one in the net at the nineteen minute mark. 1-1. Five minutes went by when the Galaxy were awarded a free kick. Beckham takes the point and flys the ball just over the head of the Timber players -- who did not bother leaving the ground to block the ball -- and continued to the back of the net. 2-1 Galaxy. Three minutes later the Galaxy get yet another kick and in a move that was genius Landon Donovan takes the point. The Timbers would have been much more prepared for the mystical prowess of Beckham and the logical thing it would seem to do would be let Beckham go for the hat-trick. Instead throw the Timbers off their game and let Donovan take the kick. A strategy which proved very successful. 3-1 Galaxy. One minute later the ball found itself on the wrong side of the Troy Perkins, the Timber's goal-tender in a smooth play by Robbie Keane getting the assist from Mr. Landon Donovan. 4-1 Galaxy.
At this point all hope seems lost for the Timbers. Twenty-eight minutes have passed and the home team has only been blessed with green smoke once and at this point it's questionable if anyone even remembers that goal it was so long ago. Twenty-five minutes have passed since Kris Boyd drew first blood and his team was already down by 3 goals. Fear not, six minutes later at thirty-four minutes Kosuke Kimura puts one in the net changing the tide ever so slightly and keeping the Timber's hopes alive. 4-2 Galaxy. The forty-five minute mark comes and goes. The first has been recorded in history. With forty-five minutes left to play Portland came out swinging. It would not be until the sixty-four minute mark before the ball finds itself inside the net and unfortunately it would be for the Galaxy. Keane would be setup by Sean Franklin and David Beckham to pour salt in the open wounds of their hosting team. 5-2 Galaxy. Later Eric Alexander sets up Kris Boyd to yet again find the net at the seventy minute mark. This would be the end for both teams however the fireworks were not over.
For the remaining twenty minutes each team would come very close numerous times and played their hearts out. Each team was playing as if their lives depended on it. Even David Beckham took a nasty fall and a with an obviously painful crash on the head which proved it difficult for him to stand on his feet for a moment. He was pulled moments later for Bryan Gaul to take his spot. This game was amazing it was exciting and stayed fast paced. These are the games which spread the popularity of the sport. I long to see more MLS games televised. The best way to grow the sport is to put the games out there for people to see. Now back to you the soccer skeptic - these are the games that you should see. These are the games that show the soccer skeptics why we fans love this sport.
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New Ontario Hockey League
Indoor ice hockey venues in Oklahoma
Tulsa Coliseum
The Tulsa Coliseum is a historic indoor arena built in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the corner of Fifth Street and Elgin Avenue. Construction began on the building in 1925. The building was destroyed by fire apparently caused by a lightning strike on September 20, 1952. It hosted the Central Hockey League's Tulsa Oilers from 1945 to 1951. The arena held 4,502 people.
The arena was the original home of the Tulsa Oilers who played their first game there on January 1, 1929 against the Duluth Hornets. That event not only officially opened the Coliseum, but also served as an introduction to ice hockey for the city of Tulsa. The facility boasted a $25,000 organ.
Wrestling promoter Sam Avey was the owner of the Tulsa Oilers hockey club in the 1940s. At the time, the Oilers were affiliated with the United States Hockey League. In 1942, he acquired the Tulsa Coliseum for $185,000, and it was known affectionately as Avey's Coliseum. It regularly hosted prestigious political events and sporting events, such as ice hockey, boxing, and wrestling matches.
Avey also owned the radio station KAKC, and it broadcast from the Coliseum basement. On September 20, 1952, the building was burned as it was struck by lightning. The building's wooden roof accelerated the fire.
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This is an entertaining, enchanting, humorous and mind-boggling introduction to the Discworld. You can tell this is an early work from Pratchett - the writing isn't as good as newer works and the Discworld is still a work in progress. But this is still a lovely entertaining book. In this first Discworld novel, an ineffective wizard (Rincewind) that is very good at surviving, a naive tourist (Twoflower), and his many legged luggage (made from sapient pear wood) have many adventures with such things as the "fascinating" denizens of Ankh-Morkpork, dragons that only exist if you believe in them, barbarians, trolls and the edge of the Disc. This book ends on a cliff-hanger so having the next book (The Light Fantastic) at hand is recommended.
The cover art of my old much-loved paperback has the delightfully crazy art of Josh Kirby.
I also listened to the audio-book, which I found well paced and nicely presented.


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First evidence for higher state of consciousness found
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Scientific evidence of a 'higher' state of consciousness has been found in a study led by the University of Sussex.
Neuroscientists observed a sustained increase in neural signal diversity - a measure of the complexity of brain activity - of people under the influence of psychedelic drugs, compared with when they were in a normal waking state.
The diversity of brain signals provides a mathematical index of the level of consciousness. For example, people who are awake have been shown to have more diverse neural activity using this scale than those who are asleep.
This, however, is the first study to show brain-signal diversity that is higher than baseline, that is higher than in someone who is simply 'awake and aware'. Previous studies have tended to focus on lowered states of consciousness, such as sleep, anaesthesia, or the so-called 'vegetative' state.
The team say that more research is needed using more sophisticated and varied models to confirm the results but they are cautiously excited.
Professor Anil Seth, Co-Director of the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science at the University of Sussex, said: "This finding shows that the brain-on-psychedelics behaves very differently from normal.
"During the psychedelic state, the electrical activity of the brain is less predictable and less 'integrated' than during normal conscious wakefulness - as measured by 'global signal diversity'.
"Since this measure has already shown its value as a measure of 'conscious level', we can say that the psychedelic state appears as a higher 'level' of consciousness than normal - but only with respect to this specific mathematical measure."
For the study, Michael Schartner, Adam Barrett and Professor Seth of the Sackler Centre reanalysed data that had previously been collected by Imperial College London and the University of Cardiff in which healthy volunteers were given one of three drugs known to induce a psychedelic state: psilocybin, ketamine and LSD.
Using brain imaging technology, they measured the tiny magnetic fields produced in the brain and found that, across all three drugs, this measure of conscious level - the neural signal diversity - was reliably higher.
This does not mean that the psychedelic state is a 'better' or more desirable state of consciousness, the researchers stress; instead, it shows that the psychedelic brain state is distinctive and can be related to other global changes in conscious level (e.g. sleep, anaesthesia) by application of a simple mathematical measure of signal diversity. Dr Muthukumaraswamy who was involved in all three initial studies commented: "That similar changes in signal diversity were found for all three drugs, despite their quite different pharmacology, is both very striking and also reassuring that the results are robust and repeatable."
The findings could help inform discussions gathering momentum about the carefully-controlled medical use of such drugs, for example in treating severe depression.
Dr Robin Cahart-Harris of Imperial College London said: "Rigorous research into psychedelics is gaining increasing attention, not least because of the therapeutic potential that these drugs may have when used sensibly and under medical supervision.
"The present study's findings help us understand what happens in people's brains when they experience an expansion of their consciousness under psychedelics. People often say they experience insight under these drugs - and when this occurs in a therapeutic context, it can predict positive outcomes. The present findings may help us understand how this can happen."
As well as helping to inform possible medical applications, the study adds to a growing scientific understanding of how conscious level (how conscious one is) and conscious content (what one is conscious of) are related to each other.
Professor Seth said: "We found correlations between the intensity of the psychedelic experience, as reported by volunteers, and changes in signal diversity. This suggests that our measure has close links not only to global brain changes induced by the drugs, but to those aspects of brain dynamics that underlie specific aspects of conscious experience."
The research team are now working hard to identify how specific changes in information flow in the brain underlie specific aspects of psychedelic experience, like hallucinations.
The study is published in Scientific Reports.
In a striking coincidence, the release date of this paper (19th April, 2017) comes precisely 74 years to-the-day after Albert Hoffman - who first synthesized LSD in 1938 - conducted his first 'self-experiment' to discover its psychological effects. This date, 19th April 1943, is widely known as 'bicycle day' in honour of Hoffman's bicycle ride home following this first LSD trip.
More information: Scientific Reports, DOI: 10.1038/srep46421
Provided by University of Sussex
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Шанха́йська організа́ція співробі́тництва (ШОС, , , скорочено: ) — субрегіональна міжурядова міжнародна організація, утворена 15 червня 2001 року в місті Шанхаї (КНР). До ШОС входять 8 країн-членів — Індія, Казахстан, Киргизстан, Китайська Народна Республіка,  Пакистан, Російська Федерація, Таджикистан і Узбекистан. Штаб-квартира організації розташована у Пекіні. Офіційні робочі мови — російська та китайська. Першим виконавчим секретарем ШОС у травні 2003 року призначено колишнього Надзвичайного і Повноважного Посла КНР у РФ Джанґ Деґуана.

Основні показники
Загальна площа держав-членів ШОС дорівнює 34 млн 380 тис. км², що становить 62% площі Євразії, а населення — 3.286 млрд осіб, що становить 41% усього населення земної кулі. Що стосується економічного потенціалу, то він містить у собі найбільш могутню і динамічну після США та ЄС китайську економіку.

Символіка
Символіка ШОС включає білий прапор із зображенням у центрі емблеми організації. На емблемі в центрі — символічне зображення Східної півкулі Землі з обрисами земної суші, що займає «шістка», обабіч якого два лаврові вінки, зверху і знизу — напис китайською і російською мовами: «Шанхайська організація співробітництва». Емблема виконана в синьому і зеленому кольорах, що символізує основну мету ШОС — мир, дружбу, прогрес і розвиток.

Історія
Попередницею ШОС була так звана «Шанхайська п'ятірка» (Росія, Казахстан, Киргизстан, Китай і Таджикистан), що утворилася в результаті підписання «Угоди про зміцнення довіри у військовій області в районі кордону» (1996) й «Угоди про взаємне скорочення збройних сил у районі кордону» (1997). Зближення цих країн диктувалося в першу чергу загрозою безпеки їхнім прикордонним територіям з боку головного вогнища нестабільності в Середній Азії — Афганістану, де йшла громадянська війна між військами Північної коаліції і руху Талібан. Першу з цих двох угод було підписано в Шанхаї, що дало підставу для появи терміну «Шанхайська п'ятірка». Спільна робота на самітах в Алмати (1998), Бішкеку (1999), Душанбе (2000) дозволили створити атмосферу того, що стало іменуватися «шанхайським духом» — виробити атмосферу взаємної довіри, через перший досвід взаємних консультацій прийти до механізму досягнення консенсусу і добровільної згоди виконувати положення досягнутих домовленостей. Поступово коло питань розширилося до сфер зовнішньої політики, економіки, охорони навколишнього середовища, включаючи використання водних ресурсів, культури тощо. Усе це призвело до необхідності оформлення системи самітів і консультацій у нове регіональне об'єднання.

14-15 червня 2001 року в Шанхаї відбулася шоста зустріч «Шанхайської п'ятірки» на вищому рівні, на якій до організації як повноцінний, рівноправний член приєднався Узбекистан. Глави шести держав оголосили про утворення ШОС. У прийнятій на саміті Декларації як основні цілі проголошувалися підтримка і забезпечення миру, безпеки і стабільності в Середній Азії, а також розвиток співробітництва в політичній, торгово-економічній, науково-технічній, культурній, освітній, енергетичній, транспортній, екологічній й іншій областях. Інший важливий документ — Конвенція про боротьбу з тероризмом, сепаратизмом й екстремізмом уперше закріплювала на міжнародному рівні визначення сепаратизму й екстремізму як насильницьких, переслідуваних у карному порядку діянь. Її підписання пов'язане з тривогами Китаю з приводу сепаратистських виступів поблизу кордонів із Середньою Азією, де мекають уйгури — тюркомовні мусульмани, що населяють захід Китаю. Інша не менш зацікавлена країна — Узбекистан — має найчисленніше населення з усіх держав Середньої Азії і найбільшою мірою піддана проявам сепаратизму з боку радикально настроєних прихильників відновлення в регіоні ісламського халіфату.

7 червня 2002 року в Санкт-Петербурзі відбулася друга зустріч глав країн-членів ШОС, на якій була підписана Хартія ШОС, і тим самим були закріплені правові основи для розвитку організації в майбутньому. У документі чітко визначені основна мета, принципи, організаційна структура, форма функціонування, напрямок співробітництва і принципи зовнішніх зв'язків, що означає дійсне створення цієї організації з погляду міжнародного права.

15—16 вересня 2022 року в Самарканді () відбулася 22-а зустріч глав країн-членів ШОС.

Іран підписав угоду, і тепер очікується, що у 2023 році на саміті Шанхайської організації співробітництва в Індії стане дев'ятим членом ШОС

За іншими джерелами, Іран вже став дев'ятим членом ШОС

Єгипет, Саудівська Аравія та Катар стали партнерами ШОС, тепер їх дев'ять.
Досягнуто угоди, що новими партнерами будуть Бахрейн, Мальдіви, Об'єднані Арабські Емірати, Кувейт та
М'янма.

На офіційному сайті ШОС ще немає оновлень: 8 членів, 4 спостерігачі, 6 партнерів.

Цілі
Відповідно до Хартії, основними цілями і завданнями ШОС є:
 зміцнення між державами-членами взаємної довіри, дружби і добросусідства;
 розвиток багатопрофільного співробітництва з метою підтримки і зміцнення миру, безпеки і стабільності в регіоні, сприяння побудові нового демократичного, справедливого і раціонального політичного й економічного міжнародного порядку; спільна протидія тероризму, сепаратизму й екстремізму у всіх їхніх проявах, боротьба з незаконним оборотом наркотиків і зброї, іншими видами транснаціональної злочинної діяльності, а також незаконною міграцією;
 заохочення ефективного регіонального співробітництва у політичній, торгово-економічній, оборонній, правоохоронній, природоохоронній, культурній, науково-технічній, освітній, енергетичній, транспортній, кредитно-фінансовій й іншій областях, що представляють загальний інтерес;
 сприяння всебічному і збалансованому економічному росту, соціальному і культурному розвитку в регіоні за допомогою спільних дій на основі рівноправного партнерства з метою неухильного підвищення рівня і поліпшення умов життя народів держав-членів;
 координація підходів при інтеграції у світову економіку;
 сприяння забезпеченню прав і основних свобод людини відповідно до міжнародних зобов'язань держав-членів і їхнім національним законодавствам;
 підтримка і розвиток відносин з іншими державами і міжнародними організаціями;
 взаємодія в запобіганні міжнародних конфліктів і їхньому мирному врегулюванні;
 спільний пошук розв'язання проблем, що виникнуть у XXI столітті.

Принципи
Держави-члени ШОС домовилися дотримувати наступних принципів:
 взаємної поваги суверенітету, незалежності, територіальній цілісності держав і непорушності державних кордонів, ненападу, невтручання у внутрішні справи, незастосування сили чи загрози силою у міжнародних відносинах, відмовлення від однобічної військової переваги в суміжних районах;
 рівноправності всіх держав-членів, пошуку спільних точок зору на основі взаєморозуміння і поваги думок кожного з них;
 поетапного здійснення спільних дій у сферах загального інтересу;
 мирного вирішення можливих розбіжностей між державами-членами;
 неспрямованості ШОС проти інших держав і міжнародних організацій;
 недопущення будь-яких протиправних дій, спрямованих проти інтересів ШОС;
 сумлінного виконання зобов'язань, що випливають з Хартії й інших документів, прийнятих у рамках ШОС.

У травні 2003 року в Москві відбулася третя зустріч країн-учасниць ШОС у верхах. Глави країн-членів ШОС підписали Декларацію.

15 січня 2004 року в Пекіні відбулася церемонія відкриття Секретаріату Шанхайської організації співробітництва /ШОС/.

Четверта зустріч країн-членів Шанхайської організації співробітництва /ШОС/ у верхах відбулася 17 червня 2004 року в узбецькій столиці Ташкенті. За підсумками засідання лідери країн ШОС прийняли ташкентську декларацію. Того ж дня у Ташкенті відкрилася Регіональна антитерористична структура ШОС /РАТС/. Ця подія засвідчила про вступ ШОС у нову стадію — стадію практичного співробітництва.

Керівні органи
Для виконання цілей і задач ШОС у рамках організації діють:

Рада глав держав
Як вищий органом ШОС, вона визначає пріоритети і виробляє основні напрямки діяльності Організації, розв'язує принципові питання її внутрішнього устрою і функціонування, взаємодії з іншими державами і міжнародними організаціями, а також розглядає найактуальніші міжнародні проблеми. Рада збирається на чергові засідання один раз на рік. Головування на засіданні Ради здійснює глава держави — організатора чергового засідання. Місце проведення чергового засідання визначається, як правило, у порядку російського алфавіту назв держав — членів ШОС.

Рада глав урядів (прем'єр-міністрів)
Приймає бюджет Організації, розглядає і розв'язує основні питання, що відносяться до конкретних, особливо економічним сферам розвитку взаємодії в рамках Організації. Рада збирається на чергові засідання один раз у рік.

Рада міністрів закордонних справ
Розглядає питання поточної діяльності Організації, підготовки засідання Ради глав держав і проведення консультацій у рамках Організації по міжнародних проблемах. Рада може в разі потреби виступати із заявами від імені ШОС. Рада збирається, як правило, за один місяць до проведення засідання Ради глав держав. Позачергові засідання Ради міністрів закордонних справ скликаються з ініціативи не менш як двох держав-членів і за згодою міністрів закордонних справ всіх інших держав-членів.

Наради керівників міністерств і/чи відомств
Відповідно до рішень Ради глав держав і Ради глав урядів (прем'єр-міністрів) керівники галузевих міністерств і/чи відомств держав-членів на регулярній основі проводять наради для розгляду конкретних питань розвитку взаємодії у відповідних областях у рамках ШОС. Для підготовки і проведення нарад за попередньою домовленістю держав-членів можуть створюватися на постійній чи тимчасовій основі робочі групи експертів, що здійснюють свою діяльність відповідно до регламентів роботи, затверджуваними на нарадах керівників міністерств і/чи відомств. Ці групи формуються з представників міністерств і/чи відомств держав-членів.

Рада національних координаторів
Є органом ШОС, що здійснює координацію і керування поточною діяльністю Організації. Вона проводить необхідну підготовку засідань Ради глав держав, Ради глав урядів (прем'єр-міністрів) і Ради міністрів закордонних справ. Національні координатори призначаються кожною державою-членом відповідно до її внутрішніх правил і процедур. Рада збирається на засідання не рідше трьох разів на рік.

Регіональна антитерористична структура держав-учасниць Шанхайської конвенції про боротьбу з тероризмом, сепаратизмом і екстремізмом від 15 червня 2001 року з місцем розташування в місті Бішкеку /Киргизька Республіка/ є постійним органом ШОС. Основні її завдання і функції, принципи формування і фінансування, а також порядок діяльності регулюються окремим міжнародним договором, що укладається між державами-членами, і іншими необхідними документами, прийнятими ними.

Секретаріат є постійним адміністративним органом ШОС. Він здійснює організаційно-технічне забезпечення заходів, проведених у рамках ШОС, готує пропозиції щодо щорічного бюджету Організації.

Що стосується членства в ШОС, то організація відкрита для прийняття до її рядів інших держав регіону, що зобов'язуються дотримуватися мети і принципів Хартії, а також положення інших міжнародних договорів і документів, прийнятих у рамках ШОС. Розв'язання питання про прийняття до ШОС нових членів приймається Радою глав держав за представленням Ради міністрів закордонних справ на основі офіційного звернення зацікавленої держави, що направляється чинному голові Ради міністрів закордонних справ.

Інтерес до співробітництва із ШОС виявляють Монголія, Шрі-Ланка, США, Україна і регіональні організації: АСЕАН та ЄС.

Див. також
 ЄС
 АС
 АСЕАН
 СПН

Примітки

Джерела
 Інститут економічних досліджень та політичних консультацій: Аналітичний звіт «Шанхайська організація співробітництва як новий пріоритет зовнішньої політики України» .

Література
 В. Константинов. Шанхайська організація співробітництва // Політична енциклопедія. Редкол.: Ю. Левенець (голова), Ю. Шаповал (заст. голови) та ін. —  : Парламентське видавництво, 2011. — с. 778. — ISBN 978-966-611-818-2.
 В. Ю. Константинов. Шанхайська організація співробітництва //

Посилання
 Шанхайська організація співробітництва  //
 Укрінформ: Шанхайська організація співробітництва
 УКП: Вибір України — Шанхайська організація співробітництва

Об'єднання країн
Міжнародні політичні організації
Міжнародні організації Азії
Засновані в Китаї 2001

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