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A Nation Must Think Before it Acts Alexander Hamilton and the American Dream
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Alexander Hamilton and the American Dream
Ronald J. Granieri
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Move over, John Adams. Alexander Hamilton is hot, and pushing you aside as America's Favorite Federalist. David McCullough and Paul Giamatti made Adams a household name and unlikely TV star thanks to a bestselling biography and widely admired 2008 miniseries. Today, Lin-Manuel Miranda's smash hit rap musical has made the first Secretary of the Treasury the latest darling of historically minded consumers of pop culture. Miranda took all of the things that make Alexander Hamilton so fascinating—his brash self-confidence, astonishingly rapid rise, contribution to the founding of the United States, and finally his tragic and self-destructive decision to risk his life in a duel with Aaron Burr—and combined it with his own theatrical genius to build a show that is poised to play to sold-out houses for the rest of the decade.
Hamilton deserves the attention. Born an illegitimate child on the island of Nevis, the young orphan was ultimately sent to Columbia by patrons impressed by the young man's skills when he was a teenager, fought in the Revolutionary War, helped craft the Constitution, wrote most of the Federalist Papers (not to mention countless other pamphlets of the Early National period), shaped the policies of the Washington Administration (including drafting Washington's Farewell Address, one of the most iconic statements on American foreign policy in our history); helped found the Bank of the United States (which no longer exists),the Bank of New York (which does, though in substantially altered form), and the New York Post; helped shape the first American party system, and then died in the most famous political duel in American history.
All Before He Reached His 50th Birthday
Hamilton was not so much a Founding Father as a Founding Son, and a reminder of how the Founders themselves were often very young, ambitious, and creative men. Though some of us already knew these things, and praised him for it, it's gratifying to see new generations appreciate Hamilton's contributions to the creation of the United States, and to recognize the heroic elements of his rich and complicated life.
Considering his accomplishments and the (sometimes grudging but still great) esteem in which his colleagues held him, Hamilton nevertheless has had a difficult time holding a place in the American pantheon. Compared to his great rival Thomas Jefferson and even his former Federalist Papers co-author James Madison, Hamilton has often been relegated to obscurity, or presented merely as a foil for other, more universally beloved Founders. (Rufus Sewell's portrayal of Hamilton in the John Adams miniseries, for example, is emblematic of the combination of arrogance, intelligence, and unctuous menace that Adams himself saw in his erstwhile colleague.) Of course there have been great scholarly works on Hamilton's life and times, including exemplary biographies by the late Forrest McDonald and, more recently, Ron Chernow (whose work is the immediate inspiration for Miranda's play), and a particularly interesting recent study of Hamilton's relationship with George Washington from Stephen Knott and Tony Williams. Nevertheless, despite his ubiquity on the ten-dollar bill (which may be coming to an end), Hamilton has had a hard time establishing himself in the public consciousness.
Politics plays a major role in shaping Hamilton's historical profile—the politics of his time and of subsequent generations. While in Washington's cabinet, Hamilton clashed with Secretary of State Jefferson on a wide array of issues. The two titans came at politics from completely different directions. While Jefferson the planter celebrated agrarian values, condemned cities, and fetishized small government, Hamilton the former counting house clerk and adopted New Yorker emphasized the need to develop a more modern financial and industrial infrastructure for the United States, and embraced the idea that a strong Federal government should encourage that development. Jefferson charged that Hamilton's flexible interpretation of the constitution, which relied on implied powers not specifically listed, allowed the Federal government too much power—in creating a Bank of the United States, for example. Their differences helped create the first American party system, and reflect a fundamental divergence within the American soul. While Jefferson chose a rhetorical pose that celebrated the common yeoman farmer, Hamilton made no secret of his belief that stronger government should be used to check and manage "our real disease, which is Democracy." Or, as he put it in response to a fellow New Yorker's paean to the genius of the people: "Your People, Sir, are a great BEAST!"
Such quotes have haunted Hamilton, though they of course do not tell the whole story. Just as Jefferson could celebrate the rights of man while keeping men in bondage, Hamilton could express his worries about the dangers of unchecked popular will while also helping construct a Republic that has—despite the manifold and manifest shortcomings that flesh and human governments are heir to—been one of the most successful and long-running experiments in republican self-government in modern history. Either despite or because of the near-miraculous nature of his own rise from obscurity, Hamilton held on to a deeply conservative sense of human frailty. He therefore believed that a successful political order should provide as much freedom as possible for flawed individuals to rise while also creating political and economic institutions of sufficient strength to limit and channel those human flaws in the name of the public good.
The Founders didn't ever quite agree on how to strike such a balance, and the debate over the size and purpose of government has continued non-stop ever since. The initial contest for the rhetorical and ideological high ground, however, went to the Virginian. As Merrill Peterson noted in his classic work, The Jefferson Image in the American Mind, Jefferson's contradictions reflected the internal conflicts in America's identity, making him a bellwether for America's sense of self. Hamilton exists, for Peterson and for many Americans over the years, as Jefferson's opposite. Whenever Jefferson's image rose, Hamilton's fell, and vice versa.
Hamilton was no shrinking violet in the political conflicts of his time, attacking his opponents in the Cabinet room and in print, in a prolific series of essays and pamphlets. Jefferson and his loyal confederate Madison gave as good as they got, even flirted with state nullification of federal laws in the 1790s in protest against Hamilton and the Federalists (though Madison himself came to regret the precedent in the 1830s when he saw the extent to which future southerners would take the idea). Most significantly, Jefferson the slave-owner and pro-revolutionary fantasist, who celebrated the watering of the tree of liberty with blood and the murder of thousands, succeeded in painting Hamilton as a an enemy of the people, a coldly analytical and inhumane tool of a conservative pro-British elite. Jefferson expressed his mixed feelings about Hamilton in private, declaring him "indeed a singular character. Of acute understanding, disinterested, honest, and honorable in all private transactions, amiable in society and duly valuing virtue in private life, yet so bewitched & perverted by the British example, as to be under thoro' conviction that corruption was essential to the government of a nation."
Even among his own political allies, Hamilton was controversial. His conflict with John Adams rested on personal antipathy (Adams called him a "bastard brat of a Scotch pedlar" and worse) as well as political differences, leading to Hamilton's denunciation of Adams in time for the 1800 presidential election. Hamilton was ambitious and prickly, and also styled himself a man of independent honor. Thus he broke with his Federalist allies not only on personnel matters but also on large national questions. In 1800, when it was clear that Adams had no chance to win re-election, Hamilton warned Federalists against any flirtation with Aaron Burr, whom he considered a dangerous demagogue, and urged instead that they support Jefferson. Even if he may have disagreed with Jefferson's principles, he declared, at least Jefferson had principles, while Burr had none. When Federalists became restive at the prospect of becoming a minority party nationally, Hamilton warned against secessionist fantasies, and encouraged belief in the expansive future of the United States. He even endorsed the Louisiana Purchase, which many Federalists denounced—though he wrote that it was "solely owing to a fortuitous concurrence of unforeseen and unexpected circumstance, and not to any wide or vigorous measures on the part of the American government."
Tempers cooled somewhat after Hamilton's death at Burr's hand in 1804. Jefferson had a bust of his late rival installed at Monticello. Indeed, as President, Jefferson came to see that Hamilton wasn't wrong to want a stronger executive and an expansive view of constitutional powers—the Louisiana Purchase being the product of just such a flexible construction. Madison, as both Secretary of State and then President, also gradually adopted many Hamiltonian policies, from a strong military to the re-opening of the Bank of the United States that Jefferson had killed, though he generally avoided crediting Hamilton. It fell to a later generation of politicians, such as Henry Clay, and then Abraham Lincoln, to advance an avowedly Hamiltonian agenda of nation building. Hamilton remained more in the ascendant through the latter half of the 19th Century, as the United States emerged as an industrial power and the triumph of the Union emphasized the strength of the Federal Government. This Hamilton boom culminated in his being enshrined on the ten-dollar bill by 1928. But those sentiments faded in subsequent decades, as American leaders went back to seeking the retrospective blessing of Jefferson.
Especially over the past 50 years, Hamilton has faded from view because he was not so easily adopted by either of the great intellectual camps. The most famous orphan in American history thus has been politically orphaned as well. Contemporary conservatives have not known what to do with Hamilton. He was a conservative in his time, and his general worldview is certainly congenial to conservative pessimism on the nature of humanity. His support for capitalism and the financial world also would make him comfortable among many Republican voters. Nevertheless, Hamilton's emphasis on a strong (even if limited) federal government, including government action to stimulate the economy, his advocacy of large national projects, and even his focus on industry and cities, made him an inappropriate hero for Conservatives who style themselves the yeoman farmer heirs of Jefferson. Even if pundits such as David Brooks have attempted to burnish the conservative appeal of Hamilton's ideas, the trajectory of the contemporary conservative movement is much too focused on the south to appreciate this New Yorker, and much too suspicious of the federal government to embrace a man who believed it should be strong enough to guide and shape the future of the nation.
Meanwhile, liberals who might celebrate a Founder who believed in a strong state have recoiled from Hamilton for their own reasons. Drawing on their own idealized images of the Jefferson/Hamilton rivalry, they have rejected Hamilton's elitism, his connection to high finance, and especially his suspicion of democracy. Issues of racism and slavery notwithstanding, liberals remain more comfortable with the secularist freethinking Sage of Monticello, or even the country populism of Andrew Jackson, when they can bring themselves to celebrate any of the Founding DWEMs at all. Indeed, it is probably no accident that when the Obama administration was considering which American worthy would have to vacate the currency to allow the inclusion of a woman, they initially planned to banish Hamilton from the ten dollar bill rather than drop Old Hickory from the twenty. Whether Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew intended it that way or not (a variety of bureaucratic factors contributed to the decision), his decision fell within a Democratic Party tradition of looking askance upon Hamilton. Here again, though, Lin-Manuel Miranda may have helped save Hamilton's portrait, at least partially—much to the dismay of some.
Overall, the musical has elided many earlier disputes and made Hamilton a generalized heroic figure. Modern progressives with multicultural sensibilities, enthralled by Miranda's brilliant use of hip-hop and his racially diverse cast, have thrilled to how the musical emphasizes Hamilton's opposition to slavery and his status as a Caribbean immigrant to New York. When Hamilton and his good friend the Marquis de Lafayette celebrate their actions at Yorktown by proclaiming, "Immigrants: We get things done!" you can't miss the jab at immigration restriction. Progressives have thus largely forgotten their former allergy against Hamilton, though a recent article in the New York Times suggests that some historians and commentators have begun to remember their reservations. At the same time, the play has also pleased conservatives with its superficially radical but rhetorically filiopietistic portrayal of the founding era. Apparently, even the most up-to-date and profanity-laced hip-hop can be music to conservative ears when the characters are wearing 18th Century costumes and singing the praises of George Washington.
None of this is meant to suggest there is anything wrong with people finding their way to Hamilton by virtue of what is indeed a musical for the ages, or even with the compression or simplification of history to create a dramatic success. If anything, Hamilton's ability to make us appreciate Hamilton should remind us of the positive influence that culture can and should have on our understanding of history and politics. Not simply to create new monuments to venerate—critical views are of course also valuable—but to draw our attention to underappreciated parts of that history. Such new perspectives can inspire new thinking about the past and what it can teach us about the future, and can lead enthusiasts for the play to deeper study of its subject. The recent decision to offer deeply discounted tickets to the show for New York high school students is but one example of the possibilities.
Most importantly, those who wish to rescue American politics from its current malaise should seize the opportunity presented by Hamilton's resurgent fame and celebrate his legacy. Alexander Hamilton's works are monumental, and he still has much to teach us. A believer in the power of American ideas and in the possibilities of American power, he rejected small-minded provincialism even among his own political friends in favor of national unity. A believer in individual freedom, he also believed in a constitutional order that would protect those freedoms yet be strong enough to act. Skeptical about the possibility that demagogues could hijack rhetoric about trees of liberty being watered by the blood of tyrants (as my colleague Mac Owens recently pointed out), he believed instead in a stable Republican order, where institutions endowed with clearly defined powers and subject to the checks of both the voters and each other could manage the future of the nation. When a particular demagogue threatened the future of the nation, Hamilton was even prepared to risk his life in the fight against Aaron Burr—accepting the challenge to a duel that he did not want to fight. Hamilton fired into the air while Burr took deadly aim, and Hamilton's death helped ensure that Burr would never again hold high office.
Americans today are not called upon to make such immense personal sacrifices to protect the honor of the United States and its political institutions. But we are called upon to understand the importance of stable government, and to resist the efforts of demagogues who promise a brighter future if only we destroy everything that we have built. Alexander Hamilton helped construct the Republic; our responsibility to him and to each other is to work to preserve it. As the young Alexander sings in Hamilton, there are a million things we have yet to do. If we remember our responsibilities to our history and each other, and if we maintain Hamilton's own exemplary sense of the dangers that lurk within our own weakness, we can accomplish them. Just you wait.
Ronald J. Granieri is a Templeton Fellow, Executive Director of the Center for the Study of America and the West, and Host of Geopolitics with Granieri at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.
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Креофил Эфесский (; IV или III век до н. э.) — древнегреческий историк.

Автор «Эфесских летописей» (ΈφεσΙων Ώροι), фрагмент из которых приведен в «Пире мудрецов» Афинея, и издан в собраниях Карла Мюллера (FHG, IV, p. 371—372) и Феликса Якоби (FgrHist, 417).

А Креофил пишет в «Эфесских летописях», что основатели Эфеса долго страдали из-за скудости [выбранной] местности и послали спросить оракул, где им строить город. Им был дан ответ: строить город там, где рыба укажет и куда вепрь отведет. И вот, говорят, там, где ныне источник Гипелей (Ύπέλαιος) и священное озеро, однажды полдничали рыбаки, и одна из [жарившихся] рыб выпрыгнула вместе с горящим углем и упала в мусор, а от этого загорелись кусты, где лежал дикий кабан. Испугавшись огня, тот пустился наутек и далеко забежал на гору Трихию (Каменистую) и там, где ныне стоит храм Афины, пал от охотничьих дротиков. Тогда эфесцы переправились с острова, на котором прожили двадцать лет, и вторично заселили Трихию и склоны Коресса; на городской площади они построили святилище Артемиды, а в гавани храм Аполлона Пифийского.

Упоминается в приенской надписи 185/182 до н. э. вместе с семью другими историками из Самоса, Хиоса и Эфеса, сведения которых были приведены сторонами во время родосского арбитража в ходе самосско-приенского конфликта.

Виламовиц-Мёллендорф датировал его деятельность III веком до н. э., но остатки ионийского диалекта в тексте Афинея позволяют отнести Креофила к концу IV века, ко временам Аристотеля. Terminus post quem — 431 до н. э., дата постановки «Медеи» Еврипида (Креофил упоминается в схолиях к этой трагедии). Считается старейшим из эфесских писателей (время жизни Эвалка точно не датировано, но это явно поздний автор).

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Charles Lawrence Arthur Smith (1 January 1879 – 22 November 1949) was an English cricketer active from 1898 to 1911 who played for Sussex and was club captain in 1906 and 1909. He was born and died in Henfield. He appeared in 220 first-class matches as a righthanded batsman who bowled right arm medium fast. He scored 5,844 runs with a highest score of 103 not out and took nine wickets with a best performance of one for 0. Smith was the son of Charles Hamlin Smith and a nephew of Arthur Smith.

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Last week, I commented that given we have spent much of the last decade developing a consensus on an overall approach to cybersecurity as articulated in both the House GOP Task Force on Cybersecurity and President Obama's Executive Order 13636, the one thing we don't need from the newly appointed President's Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity is a new "plan." We need action.
For the next several weeks, I'd like to offer my own top ten list of what actions the next Administration ought to undertake to improve cybersecurity.
Item one: Government needs to get its Own Act Together with Respect to Cybersecurity.
Government's credibility in educating, let alone regulating and mandating, cybersecurity in the private sector is clearly undermined by its lack of demonstrated ability to manage its own house.
A 2015 study by Veracode compared civilian federal agencies (not DoD or Intel) to the private sector and found the federal agencies ranked dead last in fixing security problems in software they build and buy. Federal agencies failed to comply with security standards 76% of the time.
Greg Wilshusen, Director of Information Security Issues for the Government Accountability Office, explained in Congressional testimony some of the reasons the federal government doesn't benchmark well against the private sector on cybersecurity.
"Agencies rarely have adequate procedures for testing for security. When we evaluate agencies we tend to find that their evaluations are only interviews with people…they don't actually test the systems. We constantly find vulnerabilities that we identify as part of our testing and audit procedures that are not being found and fixed by the agencies.
"Government agencies follow what IT pros call a policy based approach to cyber security where agencies check off a list of requirements set by lawmakers and regulators that they have to follow.
Consistent with the finding that government procedures to protect their own information security are inadequate is the finding that government is not structured to manage or effectively govern for cybersecurity.
The chaotic and disorganized governmental structures are not just inefficient; they have serious downstream, negative implications for citizens and the private sector. Government's lack of clarity as to how to manage its own security leads to confusion, redundancy and inefficiency for the private sector, complicating an already daunting problem.
Much of government's organizational problem emanates from the lack of responsiveness to the Digital Age. Michael Daniel, Special Assistant to the President and White House Cybersecurity Coordinator, has made this case: "We've got architectures in various places (in the federal government) and hardware and software that is indefensible…. We tend to treat these computer systems…as these gigantic capital investments like buildings, rather than an investment that you need to continually refresh and treat more like a revolving fund or a management budget," remarked Daniel.
However, a larger factor comes from government's unwillingness to manage itself. It is only slightly hyperbolic to note that the most powerful force on Capitol Hill is not policy, or partisanship, or even money — its turf. There are currently scores of congressional committees that have jurisdiction over the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). With so many chiefs commanding the Indians, it's no surprise the nation is poorly defended.
A new President and a new Congress need to seize the opportunity to reorganize government for the digital age, including the budgeting process. Moreover, government needs to inject systemic rigor into managing their own programs. This does not currently exist with respect to cybersecurity.
In addition, all current and future government cybersecurity programs ought to have clear objectives that are subject to a cost benefit analysis (CBA). Although President Obama's Executive Order called for the NIST Cybersecurity Framework to be subjected to cost benefit analysis, there has been no such effort. Programs need to be periodically evaluated and, if cost benefit cannot be demonstrated, then the program needs to be reformed or canceled. If a reformed program still fails the CBA test, responsibility for the program should be shifted. If the program still cannot pass CBA, it should be canceled.


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The Court addressed only the issue of whether COPA's reliance on the community standards test to determine what material is harmful to minors makes the law unconstitutional under the First Amendment. The Court held that the community standards test alone did not make the law unconstitutionally overbroad. Because the Miller test has two parts that do not require the use of community standards, it gives the judge the ability to require by law a more objective finding than a simple arbitrary assessment by the jury.
The Court did not address the issue of whether COPA is unconstitutionally overbroad or vague for other reasons. Nor did it address whether COPA would satisfy strict scrutiny. Instead, the Court sent the case back to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals to examine the other issues of the constitutionality of COPA (only the question of whether the community standards test alone made COPA unconstitutional had been presented to the Supreme Court), and it kept the order preventing the enforcement of the law until the case was resolved in place.
Upon remand, the Third Circuit ruled that COPA was still unconstitutional as a violation of the First Amendment.


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Writing about 28th December, Osaka- Kyoto
On this day we had genuinely good intentions to be on time. Having not met up at all with Sarah and Laura the day before, we'd agreed to meet at Kiyomizu temple in Kyoto at 12:00pm, which I believe then changed to 12:30pm because they were running late. This was to our relief, as for some reason I can't quite remember now (give me a break, I left this writing stuff way too long) we were… late. Cue to us desperately trying to work out which trains would get us to Kyoto fastest (and cheapest). It was a panicked toss-up between Umeda and Tennoji, as trains often ran from Umeda (and from more companies) but Tennoji's trains were actually quicker but ran less often, and only from JR. Somewhat lazily, we took a gamble on Tennoji. From there, Angela asked the station master at Tennoji about the fastest train to Kyoto. The tickets bought (rather desperately), the running commenced (again, checking which station we should be at) and we jumped on the train. The train would take us to Kyoto arriving approximately 12:30 (the time we were supposed to meet at the entrance to Kiyomizu dera).
^^ View of Kyoto from Kiyomizu-dera ^^
So feeling the vague sense of guilt I constantly feel as a result of being late, I volunteered to pay for us to get a taxi to get there ASAP. It felt like 15 minutes but probably only took about 8 before we got there… only to find we arrived about a minute before Sarah & Laura! Hooray! So this time, we actually met up. We'd organised this time because Sarah and Laura had been off doing something else first (can't remember what… maybe hiking? Tea service? Oh, wait, I think they were doing Kinkakuji, Ginkakuji or something else we'd already done) and we knew we were now on a timeline. The shops preceding Kiyomizu are amazing, but we only looked in a few (read: Angela managed to buy more tea sets/ Sake sets) before deciding that Kiyomizu was the priority. Sarah and Laura didn't want to get dressed up (which we found surprising) but we definitely did, so we headed in. About this time Laura started to change her mind. We could see the "What if…" change to outright longing, and having not previously done it herself, she eventually caved. From there, it was only a matter of time. Unfortunately, due to Angela's height (and my height and girth… although they tactfully said "height") we had to pay extra to get special sized Kimono, of which there weren't as many to choose from. I picked a dark coloured one and Angela decided "Hey, the blonde hair is a draw card… but why only draw attention with blonde when I can with a RAINBOW KIMONO?!"
^^ The funky 5 do dera ^^ (I can't believe I just wrote that.)
It was undeniably a strategy that worked. In the meantime, we were ushered upstairs. We had to strip down to our underwear (we kept some thermals on- it was bloody cold. I think I retained my thermal pants but I don't think I could keep the shirt… not sure) and then put on the white underlayers (cotton skirt & under-kimono). From there we split up- some went straight into hair, others were still changing. The small ladies dressing us use a lot of ties- the kimono are deliberately too long for anyone, so they always have to have the first tie tie the bottom of the kimono at the right height off of the floor. The next tie goes above the first one; it ties the top down and creates a sort of excess kimono flap over the stomach. From there comes the padding- Kimono are designed to hide curves, so because of my narrow waist and huge hips, I usually get a few rolls of towels wadded into my waist to minimise the curves. From there, it was hair, where I decided for old times' sake, to get the same hair style I'd gotten in 2010. Everyone else picked Sarah's 2010 hairstyle. My choice was…a mistake. They just didn't do it very well. Some people's hair struggled to hold their curls from the start, (the others' hair looked a bit limp) and mine just looked a bit off. There was something not quite right about it, which grieved me, but it was too late.
^^ Sister shot ^^
^^ 2010- What my hair was supposed to look like this time. ^^
From there, it was outer kimono time, where we slid on our choices (Ange looked slightly ridiculous, like a personal disco gone wrong, whereas the rest of us could have been heading to a funeral). Mankee had a lovely red Kimono (red suits her) but this was where I feel she made a mistake. At the next stage, we could pick accessories and Mankee picked up a sort of outer kimono cape thing. It was a normal addition, and a sensible one given the cold, but it also covered up the colour of her Kimono and because of the bow on her back, made her look… a bit like a hunch back. I think she was glad of it, given the cold, but beauty is pain. (My hair was also pain…fully awkward. But hey, we all made mistakes this time. I think Laura regretted not getting a more colourful Kimono.) After a quick makeup touch up (or put on, in Angela's case) and grabbing bags and my furry neck warmer (which Sarah kindly and repeatedly referred to as "Monkey's balls") we were off to Kiyomizu.
^^ At first I was pleased because my bow showed. But Ange deflated that by explaining it only showed because there wasn't enough fabric left to cover the bow like everyone else's because I was wider than most people. ^^
I've always been equal parts enjoyment/guilt of the "You're white! Way cool!" racial preference experience, and this was no different. We drew a lot of attention, being 5 white girls in Kimono, but none more so than Angela. With her blonde hair and COLOUR!COLOUR!COLOUR! kimono, she was like a neon sign, slightly blinding. And people commented. Some thought we were hot shit. Some thought we were just shit (Angela heard someone comment "Not cute" in Japanese, unaware that she and Mankee could speak pretty decent Japanese). We moved up, pausing for photos, enjoying (but in my case, often also slightly guilty of) the attention. And we posed. We took photos with about 6 groups of people who wanted a photo, before we ended up moving on. We took lots of photos. It was definitely different from how Sarah and Laura had obviously planned their trip, but they weren't arguing! (I'd say Laura probably thought it was the best decision she'd ever made! Laura was very into the whole photo experience, probably because like us all, she's always been a fan of Japanese culture but unlike most of us, has probably not worn Kimono before. Not sure about Mankee?) Mankee at some point revealed the red Kimono.
Anyhow, part of the temple was under reconstruction (very disappointing. I'm not even going to go into how disappointing Himeji still is. Bloody hell castle, get your act together!) but we still found plenty of opportunities to get our photos taken in groups- Sarah/Laura, sisters (Angela/Carly ovbs), the epic travellers (Carly/Ange/Mankee) and friends: Mankee/ Angela & Carly /Sarah / Laura. Sarah took the brunt of the photo taking burden, with Angela and myself relieving her. There were many, many photos taken. I got a few "old times' sake" photos with Sarah, but hardly managed any with Laura as they got a lot of what I now know are couple photos before I could turn around and say "Now Laura!") As we moved around the temple, it got colder and colder. Like, it got really cold! Finally, we were itching to get out of our Kimono (and the temple was closing) but Mankee spotted a food stand (I think she got tea and Gyoza?) so we waited for her and then headed out.
^^ 2013 & 2010 – look pretty much the same ha ha^^
And it got colder. As we started to head back down the shopping street, Sarah and Laura asked if we wanted to split up because they wanted to shop for ceramics. We agreed to meet at the Kimono entrance and wait for the others, because we wanted to shop too. Buying a number of things (a little octopus, so cute! It matches my big octopus and my octopus hat from OsCas!) We went down to where the Kimono store was to wait for Sarah and Laura. We waited, and looked around in the shops a bit and still we didn't see them. (They said they might take a while so we figured we'd walk down a bit, do some more shopping and then head back up). We bought candy. We tried to restrain Angela from buying (another) tea set. Angela may or may not have bought another sake set.
^^Exemplifying the refined characteristics of Japanese nobility. ^^
^^ When you're hot, you're hot. ^^
Finally, we were waiting (and shivering) because we'd agreed to get one or two last kimono photos. It was at this point it started snowing. No wonder we'd been so cold! It seemed to be our fate, Angela, Mankee and I, to wear beautiful traditional clothing and have it begin to snow. (Flashbacks to Gyeongbokgung palace…) It was also at this time that Sarah and Laura emerged from the Kimono shop, having gone to change! We'd been waiting for them but they'd already gone and changed. Apparently, we'd travelled ahead of them at some point, not behind, so they decided we'd already gone in and went to change while we were waiting for them out the front wondering where they were! So Mankee, Ange and I got some photos (Snow kimono!) then changed out of our Kimono.
Sarah suggested we go to dinner together because we didn't really hang out much on the trip (overall, we saw them 3 times) which was nice. We headed to Saizeriya, one of my favourite places in Japan. They're cheap, do a magnificent cheese pizza (hold the buffalo) and of course… the Creamy Melon soft drink. We had to wait on the stairwell (it was awkward until we belatedly figured out the seating system, which was to go in, write your name and group number in the seating book and then go and wait outside to be called. This of course took a bit longer because then we had to write it in and then come back out and wait) before entering. When we got in, I, enraptured, took to my beloved Suntory creamy melon pop like a fiend. Angela, Mankee and Laura became instant fans. (Sarah of course, already being a fan.) It's funny, because I don't actually like melon. I don't like Rockmelon or honeydew melon, and I'm pretty so-so on watermelon. I don't enjoy Midori, or other fake-melon flavours. But Suntory Pop Melon soft drink is like ambrosia. It is divine in a chemical, no doubt fake colour, flavour and carbonated form. Mmmm, Creamy Melon…
^^ So good!^^
It is the perfect accompaniment for pizza! Of which, Saizeriya make a great one, when I can order it without buffalo cheese. (To be fair, I'm probably at the point now where I could just eat the damn cheese without being too fussy but old habits die hard.) The pizza was so amazing I had two (I like my pizza. Ain't no one ever gonna touch it and survive my wrath) and then I had such an amazing dessert- a chocolate mousse with raspberry coolis on the side. The best thing was, it was so cheap there was no need to share. If people wanted to try it, for $2 they could just get their own. (Dear reader if you haven't already figured, as someone who is fussy, I hate sharing because the other person almost never has things I like to eat! Therefore I lose the only food I like in exchange for something I won't eat. The only exception is sometimes Ange, because we have similar tastes. Who am I kidding, I'm the only one who reads this shit.)
^^ As most people commented- "Who be those stylin' gangstas?"
At about that point, we split up. Ange, Mankee and I headed home because we were set to go out with J&F people. Austin and Kei had agreed to meet us at 10 in the kitchen so we needed to make a move. We didn't see them which worried us a bit, especially since Ange heard they'd been talking to Leon. At 10pm, all our fears came true; they'd left at 8 with Leon (fucking Leon, what a douche) because he wanted to leave early and forgot they were supposed to meet us. I was super pissed off which both Kei and Austin were forced to take note of later. Naturally we'd invited Sarah and Laura, but going out isn't really their thing anymore so we weren't surprised when they declined. That left us with an issue- we didn't want to just go to sleep because that was really our one chance for going out… (Next Sat we were in Hiroshima) but we didn't want to go out on our own so much (a bit deflated after being forgotten!) and we weren't confident they'd stay in one place to meet us! Also, if we couldn't get to that place… well meeting up is a lot harder without phones! Messaging and internet is definitely one thing we take for granted at home.
^^ Some friendly Japanese girls.^^
So we did the most logical thing we could- took a series of ridiculous hallway shots where I become an angry gangster, Mankee becomes a hobo and Angela becomes a prostitute because we are so emotionally distraught that we were left behind. This proceeded well into the night and we were majestic.
Her majesty herself,
Gangmaster Furrr.
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Egypt's Investment، and international cooperation minister، Dr. Sahar Nasr participated in a session on best ways to finance in infrastructure as part of the World Bank (WB) spring meetings held in Washington، in the presence of President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)، Sir Suma Chakrabarti.
Chakrabarti stressed on EBRD keenness to cooperate with Egypt in the light of Egypt's Abdul Fattah Al-Sisi presidency to the African Union (AU)، to promote economic integration within the black continent through the bank's investment flows، especially in infrastructure projects.
He also confirmed that EBRD is committed to support Egypt in its reform efforts، noting that EBRD's investments in Egypt amounted to $4.8 billion، which represent 50% of its total investments in Africa.
For her part، Nasr assured that infrastructure is the key driver of economic growth، and the attraction of new investments in the development countries especially in Transport، Energy، Water، communications fields.


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Update:Apple will not be holding an event on September 7, Jim Dalyrmple at The Loop reports.
Original: Apple will hold a big media event on September 7th, according to Japanese site Kodawarsian via MacRumors.
We're unfamiliar with Kodawarsian, but MacRumors says it's been around since 2002 and has been accurate in the past.
We wouldn't be surprised if Apple had an event to reveal the iPhone 5 on September 7th. It has often held September media events for iPods.


Blender is a powerful open source 3D drawing and animation program. This software was previously a commercial product, but is now available as a free download. Blender has been used to create stunningly beautiful 3D animated videos, including Big Buck Bunny. Check out some of the gorgeous animated movies made with Blender at the web site's Features Gallery.
We are a hands-on creative learning company in White Plains, New York. Our goal is to enhance and improve the digital skills of our community. This includes 3D Animation and additional courses such as: Photography, Graphic Design, 2D animation, visual effects, video design and web design. We teach both young adults and adults by working directly with them in the classroom.
One of the employees there, Nicholas Sceusa, is a 3D animation expert and Blender enthusiast. Here is an email interview I did with Nick to learn more about how he teaches Blender.
Q: How did you initially learn Blender?
I initially learned Blender by reading Blender for Dummies by Jason van Gumster. The book was a very simple introduction to the program and concentrated more on the interface, menus, how the program works and its structure. It's a great book for anyone who wants to transfer over from another software package. It won't teach you how to make a movie or build a character, but it's a good place to start for anyone already familiar with 3D animation.
I have been using Blender for almost a year now and I am extremely surprised and pleased with how well it works.
Q: What grade levels do you teach Blender?
For 3D animation I typically teach high school students because 3D animation can be rather time consuming and requires a lot of practice. The youngest age we teach is 10 years old and we adjust the course material as necessary.
Q: How do you introduce your students to Blender?
The very first thing I do when students come into the classroom is introduce them to Blender's website and show them where to download the program. I also make sure that they have access to my work email so they can email me if they have any technical issues either during installation or when working at home. Many students either own or have access to computers that can run Blender with little to no difficulty and availability has not been an issue thus far.
Once that has been achieved we make small steps learning the program. Learning 3D animation can be a time consuming tricky process and I like to break it into sections. First, we learn the basic interface, its settings, and then begin transitioning into actual 3D animation practices such as modeling. As the class progresses we continue learning 3D animation together and build it up towards a completed item (such as a character). This way students can learn 3D animation in separate sections at their own pace and see how everything fits together at the end of the session.
Q: What are some typical 3D animation assignments you give your students?
Our method of teaching at The DAE is to teach by doing. To The DAE it's not enough for us to tell you how to accomplish something, we want to do it with you. This usually involves everyone working towards a final project so everyone gets first hand experience and something to take home at the end of the session.
Since we really emphasize learning in the classroom I don't really give out assignments because most of the work is done in the classroom. I do however give out "challenges" which are for any student who wants to try going that extra mile. I might wrap up a class on modeling a character and ask them at the end how they would make a character with specific qualities or accessories.
It's really important to me that students get as much practice as they can. I was not exposed to a professional animation software until my sophomore year of college and it took me the better part of a year to finally get comfortable with it. The biggest factor being practice. I was constantly trying out the program (we used Autodesk Maya) and getting feedback from classmates and instructors.
I can't tell you how many times I went to my instructor or teaching assistant and asked why the program was doing what it was doing. Sometimes you get the funniest results. This will really help out students prep for college and start to develop a portfolio, which is typically the deciding factor for animation jobs.
Q: How do you go about teaching animation in Blender?
I actually have not had the chance to teach animation in my class yet. The DAE has been open for approximately nine months and we are still fairly new to White Plains. I have had only a couple of classes thus far and we mainly focused on modeling as an introductory course to Blender. I am very pleased to say that we are currently exploring all areas of 3D animation including: modeling, texturing, rigging, lighting and animation. It's very exciting the closer we get to adding in motion!
Q: Have your students submitted any of their 3D models or animations to contests?
I would love it if my students would submit their work to a contest for feedback and critiques but we are not quite there yet. We are just about to explore creating motion in Blender.
Q: Do you ever use Blender in conjunction with other open source programs, such as Inkscape or GIMP?
I often combine GIMP with Blender and use it mainly for texture creation for use with characters or scenes.
Q: When youth learn 3D graphics and animation, how can that skill add to their life?
Computer Graphics (CG) allows students to combine both art and technological skills into a unique medium. It allows them to express themselves in a new way. We all think a little differently. Some people are very artistic, some very technical, and other somewhere in between. With CG any person can explore a graphics program and use it how they will. It can be for purely aesthetic reasons such as creating a new image in Photoshop or for technical ones such as altering the code to create a new function. With 3D animation it's like a whole new level. Not everyone is satisfied creating still images. They want to make that picture move, to give it motion. With the addition of a 3rd dimension and the ability to work with time, there are many more possibilities.
Computer graphics and animation also gives us the ability to further our ideas and projects. Sometimes traditional art forms can be limiting or, depending on the goal, non achievable. With computer graphics there is almost no limit to what you can do. You are only limited by the computer hardware (which has been increasing in powerfulness dramatically) and your imagination. You can do the impossible. It allows us to create things that are not accessible in real life or beyond our grasp. Just look at all the CG in movies. If they can do it, why can't you?
And lastly, CG and animation can bring together many aspects of life you did not expect. This is more of a personal experience on my part, but I think it needs to be said. When I first starting working in CG it was mainly focused on the visual components. Eventually I was introduced to the programming language of the software we were using and showed that we could manipulate it. The more I explored it the more I realized just how much goes into making these programs. Every button you click on the user interface executes a command, which in turn does some sort of action. And the majority of those action involve math. We all use math in out everyday lives, but how often do you use calculus or matrices?
By learning more about 3D animation, I started to learn about math and in turn how it works from a visual standpoint. Since then I have been reviewing and relearning math so that I can play around with Blender source code and make my own tools. I'm not quite there yet and still have a long way to go, but I have much greater appreciation for math and how it describes the world around us.
This is not just limited to mathematics. Science can help describe fluid simulations and how light interacts with objects. Programming can help create an algorithm for generating specific objects or create custom tools. Storytelling can help enrich a story or explain an idea better. 3D animation brings together many areas of life into a unique blend of art, science, and technology. For me, computer graphics and 3D animation allows me to explore ideas and concepts, express my thoughts and has increased my appreciation for the world we live in and how it works. I think any student who explores this terrain has many options before him or her and can enrich his or her life regardless if they are artistic, technical or both.
Stay in the loop about news and tutorials about Blender by setting up a Google Alert for "Blender 3D"
BlenderCourse is a free ebook about Blender.
Comparing Google SketchUp to Blender for teaching modeling to high school students.
If there are any middle schools, high schools, or colleges teaching Blender, I'm interested in learning more about how you teach this software. Kindly send me an email and I may feature your teaching in a blog post here on opensource.com. I can be reached at pshapiro@his.com.


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Resolution Therapeutics Announces a £26.6m Series A Financing from Syncona Ltd
Resolution Therapeutics Limited ("Resolution"), a biopharmaceutical company developing macrophage cell therapy to treat chronic diseases characterised by life-threatening inflammatory organ damage, today announced completion of a £26.6m Series A financing from Syncona Ltd ("Syncona"). Syncona entered into a collaboration with the University of Edinburgh Centre for Regenerative Medicine in 2018 which has provided the foundation of Resolution's technology platform. The Series A funding is expected to deliver early clinical data for the company's first product.
Resolution is exploiting the wound healing ability of macrophages to stimulate organ repair following severe injury as a result of chronic disease. Macrophages are cells of the innate immune system involved in the inflammatory response to injury or infection as well as in orchestrating the wound healing process that follows. The company's first programme is an engineered macrophage to treat patients with compensated liver cirrhosis. These patients are very sick, with no effective current therapeutic options and are at risk of progression to decompensated cirrhosis and the need for a liver transplant.
Prof. Stuart Forbes of the University of Edinburgh and Joint Founder of Resolution commented, "After more than a decade studying the role of macrophages in liver regeneration both in the laboratory and in the clinical setting, the stage is set to develop macrophage cell therapies to treat chronic disease. Our research indicates that a macrophage cell therapy may have a therapeutic effect in liver cirrhosis. We are delighted to be working with Syncona, who have a track record of supporting companies with the ambition and expertise to make a success of their investments and are passionate about making a difference to patients' lives."
Edward Hodgkin, Partner of Syncona Investment Management Limited who serves as Chairman and CEO of Resolution added, "We are excited to partner with the world-class team in Edinburgh as together we build a business that will develop and commercialise macrophage cell therapies to treat severely ill patients who have no other treatment options. It is a very exciting opportunity, and we will be at the forefront of the development of a new kind of cell therapy."
The academic founders of Resolution are:
Stuart Forbes, Professor of Transplantation & Regenerative Medicine andDirector of the Centre for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Edinburgh and Consultant Hepatologist at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, and
John Campbell, Director of Tissues, Cells & Advanced Therapeutics, Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service (SNBTS) and Honorary Professor, University of Edinburgh.
Resolution was launched following a two-year research collaboration with the University of Edinburgh, in which processes to develop engineered macrophage cell therapy were pioneered and several patents filed. The company is based at the University's Centre for Regenerative Medicine and has partnered with SNBTS to optimise the manufacturing process and produce engineered macrophages for clinical use.
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Temple University Launches Scholarship Program for First-Generation Students
Monica Levitan
Temple University president Dr. Richard M. Englert and provost JoAnne A. Epps have announced the launch of a new scholarship program focused on enhancing graduation rates and supporting first-generation students.
The program is called the Broad Street Finish Line Scholarship and will provide $1.5 million from existing endowment funds to help new and current students remain on track for graduation, according to Temple officials.
Dr. Richard M. Englert
The scholarships will be annually awarded to first-generation students in increments of $500 to $5,000 starting in the fall 2019 semester, depending on the student's financial need. Almost $200,000 will be given to incoming first-generation students each year, whereas the majority of the funds will be given to current Temple students who experience a financial change during their time at the university.
Students from Philadelphia will be given preference, though all students (including international students) are eligible for the program. Recipients of the Broad Street Finish Line Scholarship are encourage to consider supporting the scholarship upon graduation and the start of their professional careers to help keep the program running for future Temple students.
"The Broad Street Finish Line Scholarship represents Temple's historic mission of providing students access and affordability," said Shawn Abbott, vice provost for admissions, financial aid, and enrollment management at Temple University.
"As Philadelphia's only public four-year university, we want to keep Temple as affordable as possible, especially for students in Philadelphia," said Abbott. "By minimizing student debt through on-time graduation, the university will encourage recipients of this scholarship—and other members of Temple's community and its vast alumni network—to support their fellow Owls through contributions to the program."
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Baldwin Wallace stung the Muskingum women's tennis team in Ohio Athletic Conference action on Saturday afternoon, 9-0.
The Yellow Jackets quickly took control of the match by sweeping doubles play. Baldwin Wallace carried the early momentum through singles competition to secure the home win.
Muskingum next hosts rival Marietta on Wednesday, April 18. Match time is scheduled for 5:00 p.m. at Zanesville High School.


Five days with the creator of the MSC-program Christopher Germer, PhD together with Christine Brähler, PhD and assistant teachers Rebecka Bobst and Camilla Skold, PhD.
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Agneta Lagercrantz is also the author of the first book in Swedish about Self-Compassion.


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Dubai : New permit strategy to boost realty sector
admin Dubai Real Estate August 18, 2017
The new strategy for issuing building permits in Dubai is expected to benefit both developers and investors in the emirate's real estate sector by speeding up procedures for getting approvals.
Property developers and analysts say they expect the strategy to streamline the process of getting government approvals needed to build new projects. This will also benefit investors and increase confidence in Dubai's property market.
"Investors and developers will benefit hugely from easier and faster processes, which will in turn further boost Dubai's already-strong position as one of the world's key locations for investment. We wholeheartedly welcome this initiative as a major enhancement to Dubai's real estate sector," a Nakheel spokesperson told Gulf News.
The new strategy was approved last weekend by His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai. It aims to enhance Dubai's position as a hub for real estate and construction.
Niall McLoughlin, senior vice president and Damac Properties, said the strategy will "streamline the real estate industry's ability to acquire the documentation it needs to build faster, and will have a direct, positive impact on the sector's growth".
In an emailed statement, he added that the strategy will build on Dubai's competitiveness.
Other developers in the emirate agreed with that view.
Mona Al Tamimi, vice president of marketing and corporate communications at Deyaar Development, said that such efforts will help the property industry advance amid major potential for future growth.
"The new standardised process will enable the real estate sector to optimise government procedures throughout the different phases of construction. Given the tremendous amount of projects currently in the pipeline leading up to 2020, time is of the essence," she said.
Al Tamimi added that simplifying the permit process will allow developers to focus on more pressing matters.
Aside from making procedures easier and faster for developers, the new strategy is also expected to benefit investors in Dubai's property market.
Craig Plumb, head of research for the Middle East and North Africa at JLL, said any moves to streamline regulations "will be welcomed by both developers and investors, and are likely to increase the attraction of the Dubai market to both [sides]."
He added that the strategy will improve confidence in the market, and result in higher levels of investment.
"If the new procedures reduce times [for getting different permits], this is a welcome initiative. We await the results of the research showing how much time will be saved, and a subsequent comparison of the before-and-after situation to quantify the level of time saving achieved," Plumb said.
"It [the strategy] will also reduce costs and delays for developers. While this will increase the profitability of individual projects, it may also result in higher levels of development, which would be a negative for the overall market, which is already experiencing potential over-supply on some sectors," he warned.
The new strategy is built upon three pillars; streamlining building permit procedures, unifying systems and requirements, and providing a 'one-stop shop' where all processes can be completed.
The three pillars are meant to ensure speeding up the process of acquiring permits. A government committee is currently working on putting unified building regulations for Dubai.
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admin Dubai Real Estate July 25, 2017
If you are looking for a new rented apartment or villa in the emirate, the options are aplenty now.
Landlords of new properties in Dubai's secondary locations are becoming increasingly generous in their negotiations with prospective new occupiers, a study published sometime back indicated. Competitive rates to relocate are giving advantage to the budget-conscious tenants. The trend is similar in the villa rental market.
For those interested to invest in property, the market is wide open with opportunities galore.
Property finder website published a list of the prevailing rents of apartments and flats in Dubai. Let's take a look at some of the interesting areas where one could take a rented apartment and the prevailing rents at some of the villas and apartments in the emirate.
Competitive rates come to tenants' advantage
Top 10 rising areas to rent in Dubai
Place Apartment (Average annual rent) Villa (Average annual rent)
Mirdif Dh79,143 Dh140,000
Dubai Silicon Oasis Dh70,000 Dh205,000
Deira Dh86,000 Dh165,000
International City Dh39,999 Dh125,000
Dubai Land Dh56,500 Dh195,000
Al Barsha Dh88,500 Dh 275,000
Bur Dubai Dh 99,500 Dh 206,000
Remraam Dh78,500 –
Al Qusais Dh66,050 Dh200,000
Al Quoz Dh 69,825 Dh 255,000
Top 10 rising areas to buy in Dubai
Place Apartment (Average annual buy) Villa (Average annual buy)
Dubai Silicon Oasis Dh735,000 Dh3,924,995
Dubai Sports City Dh789,555 Dh5,450,000
Jumeirah Lake Towers Dh1,340,000 Dh1,500,000
The Springs Dh2,590,000 Dh 2,599,999.5
Discovery Gardens Dh 710,000
International City Dh475,000 Dh1,670,000
Greens Dh1,744,995
The Views Dh 2,050,000 Dh3,525,000
International Media Production Zone Dh820,000
Dubai Investment Park Dh719,714 Dh2,700,000
UAE calls for a tougher US line
admin Politic July 3, 2017
The United States should consider moving its airbase out of Qatar, the UAE ambassador to the US said on Tuesday, encouraging the Trump administration to use its leverage to further pressure Qatar over its support for extremism.
Ambassador Yousef Al Otaiba said Arab states would give the US a list of specific actions Qatar must take before punitive steps are lifted. He said the list would likely include Qatari sanctions on bank accounts of individuals that the Gulf states have already sanctioned – and possibly on the banks themselves.
"We've gotten fed up. We've had enough," Al Otaiba said.
US President Donald Trump echoed their accusations that Qatar funds terrorist groups and foments instability in the Mideast. Al Otaiba said both his country and the US had allowed 'bad behaviour' by Qatar to continue for 'a very long time'.
"If I want to be honest, I think the reason action hasn't been taken against Qatar is because of the air base," Al Otaiba said, referring to Al Udeid airbase, not far from Doha. "The airbase is a very nice insurance policy against any additional pressure."
Home to some 10,000 US troops, the base has emerged as a flashpoint in the dispute between Qatar and its neighbours. The forward headquarters of the US military's Central Command is a staging point for US air campaigns in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria.
"Maybe someone in Congress should have a hearing and just say, you know, 'Should we consider moving it?'" Al Otaiba said. "And maybe not moving the entire base. Maybe just distribute to various countries so you don't have all your eggs in one basket."
Al Otaiba told reporters that the UAE hasn't told the US it should consider moving the base, but is "willing to have that conversation". And he suggested American troops could be moved to his country, instead. Pointing to new defense cooperation deal the US and the UAE signed last month, Al Otaiba said the "infrastructure is in place" to have the conversation if the US wanted to relocate.
Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt cut diplomatic ties with Qatar last week, accusing it of backing terrorism and promoting policies that destabilise the region. – AP
Dubai's Palm Jumeirah gets new monorail station
admin Dubai Transport July 3, 2017
Passengers using The Palm Monorail in Dubai can now board and alight at the newly-opened Al Ittihad Park Station for easy access to Palm Jumeirah's central park, thousands of residences, and the Golden Mile Galleria Mall, master developer Nakheel announced on Monday.
Located at the heart of The Palm's Al Ittihad Park, the station is close to The Golden Mile and within easy reach of The Shoreline Apartments.
Around a million people already use The Palm Monorail each year, with the figure set to rise dramatically as more attractions open on the island.
The number of monorail users has risen by 70 per cent in the last four years. In 2013 there were 590,000 passengers, 685,000 in 2014, almost 878,000 in 2015 and a million in 2016. With around 3,000 people now taking trips each day, the number of passengers in 2017 is expected to exceed 1.1 million.
Nakheel chairman, Ali Rashid Lootah, said, "The Palm Monorail is one of Palm Jumeirah's biggest success stories. The opening of Al Ittihad Park Station is a massive boost for the island's investors, residents, visitors and retailers, and further cements our commitment to providing new services and attractions at this world-famous community. More people than ever can now enjoy the growing number of facilities on Palm Jumeirah without using a car to reach them."
The Palm Monorail, which opened in 2009, currently runs from Gateway Station to Atlantis Aquaventure, stopping at the new Al Ittihad Park Station in between.
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The new strategy for issuing building permits in Dubai is expected to benefit both developers and investors in the emirate's real estate sector by speeding up procedures for getting approvals. Property developers and analysts say they expect the strategy to streamline the process of getting government approvals needed to build new projects. This will also […]
Dubai's Palm Jumeirah gets new monorail station
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Passengers using The Palm Monorail in Dubai can now board and alight at the newly-opened Al Ittihad Park Station for easy access to Palm Jumeirah's central park, thousands of residences, and the Golden Mile Galleria Mall, master developer Nakheel announced on Monday. Located at the heart of The Palm's Al Ittihad Park, the station is […]
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If you are looking for a new rented apartment or villa in the emirate, the options are aplenty now. Landlords of new properties in Dubai's secondary locations are becoming increasingly generous in their negotiations with prospective new occupiers, a study published sometime back indicated. Competitive rates to relocate are giving advantage to the budget-conscious […]
The United States should consider moving its airbase out of Qatar, the UAE ambassador to the US said on Tuesday, encouraging the Trump administration to use its leverage to further pressure Qatar over its support for extremism. Ambassador Yousef Al Otaiba said Arab states would give the US a list of specific actions Qatar must […]
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Pterolepis claudiae is een rechtvleugelig insect uit de familie sabelsprinkhanen (Tettigoniidae). De wetenschappelijke naam van deze soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1988 door Galvagni.

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Sanda Min Hla (birman ,  ; morte en 1363) fut entre 1323 et 1348 la reine consort de trois souverains du Royaume d'Hanthawaddy, en Basse-Birmanie, et la vraie détentrice du pouvoir au palais durant cette période. Son assassinat de son deuxième époux, le roi Saw E, petit-fils du roi de Sukhothaï, provoqua une invasion du pays par les Thaïs. Son troisième époux, le roi Binnya E Law, qu'elle avait elle-même placé sur le trône, repoussa cette invasion, ce qui marqua la fin de sa vassalité envers Sukhothaï.

Jeunesse
Comme toute la famille royale d'Hanthawaddy, Sanda Min Hla était à la fois d'ascendance shane et mône. Elle était une fille du roi Hkun Law, et donc une nièce de Wareru, fondateur de la dynastie. Son nom de naissance était Hnin An Po (, ). Elle épousa d'abord son cousin germain Saw Zein, dont la mère Hnin U Yaing était la sœur de son père. Ce mariage était un peu délicat, dans la mesure où c'était le père de Saw Zein, Min Bala, qui avait tué son propre père Hkun Law en 1311. (Min Bala et Hnin U Yaing avaient placé leur fils aîné Saw O sur le trône).

Règne au palais
Lorsque Saw O mourut en 1323, son jeune frère Saw Zein lui succéda et Sanda Min Hla devint reine. Puis lorsque son époux fut tué au combat en 1330, elle émergea comme la « faiseuse de rois » de la dynastie. L'ancien courtisan Zein Pun s'était emparé du trône, mais Sanda Min Hla organisa rapidement une révolution de palais qui le renversa en sept jours et couronna à sa place Saw E, neveu de Saw Zein et petit-fils du roi de Sukhothaï. Saw E était donc son neveu par alliance, mais elle se nomma elle-même sa reine principale. Comme il passait trop de temps avec ses concubines, elle l'empoisonna au bout de quelques semaines. Elle fit alors couronner son propre demi-frère Binnya E Law, dont elle devint encore une fois la reine principale.

Le meurtre de Saw E offensa son grand-père le roi de Sukhothaï. Les forces thaïs envahirent le royaume et furent défaites, ce qui mit fin à la suzeraineté nominale du royaume sur Hanthawaddy.

Sanda Min Hla semble avoir joué un rôle moins important après la mort de Binnya E Law en 1348. Elle mourut vers 1363, au début de la révolte de Martaban.

Notes et références

Personnalité politique birmane
Décès en 1363
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For the 2017 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship season Dunlop is launching more than a new tyre range. The company's innovative RFID Technology (Radio Frequency Identification), launched in BTCC at the beginning of the decade, has been replaced by an all new system. The new Dunlop RFID Technology promises more speed, greater precision and increased versatility.
The key element of the RFID technology is a tiny, 1cm chip. The microchip is built into the tyre in Dunlop's Motorsport manufacturing facility and is programmed with a unique code that identifies the tyre, enabling automatic reading to see the type and size of the tyre as well as its unique identity number.
After several trials between 2008 and 2010, Dunlop successfully pioneered a world first in motor sport tyre technology in 2011 with all tyres on BTCC cars being automatically scanned as the cars drive into the pit lane. This ensures that each car is using the correct and allocated tyres at all times. This made scrutineering more efficient and helped speed up the turnaround times for teams on a very busy BTCC raceday, where there are sometimes just two hours between championship races.
Six years later, Dunlop has decided to take the next step forward with RFID Technology. Rather than just monitoring which tyres are used on which car, the new system can provide reports on Mileage per tyre and tyre use history. The system also has a faster read rate of the tyres as the cars pass through the RFID readers at the pitlane entrance.
In addition to the chips in the tyres, the size of the RFID tags has been reduced, allowing them to be placed on the rear windows instead of being fixed to the more vulnerable doors.
Dunlop's future goal is to increase tyres' intelligence to the point that tyres are feeding back vital real-time information to the teams and drivers.


Will the Deep State Remove Donald Trump in the Next 72 Hours?
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Did Pete Sessions Warn a FL Pastor About a Plot to Overthrow Trump?
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Was Texas Representative Pete Sessions the congressman that warned Pastor Rodney Howard-Browne about a "physical" plot to remove President Trump from office last month?
(VERO BEACH, FL) In July Pastor Howard-Browne made an explosive claim on TRUNEWS and other programs, that an unnamed senior Congressman had confided to him that there is an active plot to suddenly remove President Trump from office.
In a July 27th interview with TRUNEWS host Rick Wiles, Pastor Howard-Browne confirmed that the plot described by the senior member of congress was a "physical" threat against President Trump's life, and not just a move to politically immobilize him.
Turkey's President and the leader of ruling Justice and Development Party Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses his supporters at the parliament in Ankara, Turkey on July 25, 2017.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan prepares for a meeting with top European Union officials in the midst of an intensifying diplomatic row with Germany.
JULY 25, 2017 BRUSSELS—Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ramped up his anti-Western rhetoric Tuesday ahead of a meeting between his foreign minister and top European Union officials, saying the era of a submissive Turkey bowing to every Western demand is over.
It must be very lonely at the top for President Trump right about now. There's almost nobody in his administration that he can trust. To put in perspective how bad the level of trust might be, his own son-in-law Jared Kushner (previous owner of the anti-Trump New York Observer) is bankrolled by George Soros.
Both Kushner and Soros are part of the establishment that wants war. They couldn't fraudulently get Hillary into the White House and now they're placing key people in key positions within the Trump administration. He has got the wrong advisors on his side and he's getting rid of the good ones.
Why on earth Kushner is allowed to stay in the White House while Steve Bannon who fought against the 'deep state' and further war gets the boot is beyond understanding. It's likely because he doesn't want to hurt Ivanka's feelings. Either way, President Trump had either joined sides with the 'deep state' or is under siege. A smarter bet would be on the latter as America is under a coup against the Presidency.
The sad part about all of this is members of Trump's own family are working against him — even Ivanka who has been in secret meetings with Planned Parenthood to find 'common ground'… Common ground in what, the murder of God's children? There is no common ground there.
This might upset a few people, but the Trump revolution might already be over. We'll have to maybe wait and see for another couple of weeks to verify.
Lastly, Trump needs to be reminded he was voted into office on his campaign promise of draining the swamp, not expanding it.
All day we're talking about the Nuclear Option. Nuclear Option? What happens when the world goes nuclear? Today, the Congress decided to go nuclear … that is use the so called Nuclear Option to blow up the filibuster for a straight up or down vote on Supreme Court nominee Gorsuch. Even though Harry Reid started using the Nuclear Option in 2013 on lower court judges and Democrats and the media were all for it, now they're acting like the world is coming to an end.
But they're ignoring a possibility of the world really coming to an end.
Democrats have been poking the Russian bear since Trump won the election. The constant accusations of them fixing our election is not making them friendly towards us in the least. And why are they doing it? Because Trump said he could work with them?
Buckle up, America. It could get rough… very rough.
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«Alte Kameraden» («Старые товарищи») — один из самых известных немецких военных маршей, написанный военным композитором Карлом Тейке в 1889 году в Ульме, Германия.

Первое исполнение партитуры было неудачным, и Тейке, как утверждают, приказал сжечь ноты марша, однако их не сожгли.

В XX веке Alte Kameraden часто исполнялся. Марш популярен во многих странах с конца XIX века по настоящее время. Даже после окончания Второй мировой войны марш продолжал исполняться, несмотря на то, что в то время к подобной музыке относились с неодобрением.

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 Alte Kameraden auf dem Marsch durchs Land
 Schließen Freundschaft felsenfest und treu.
 Ob in Not oder in Gefahr,
 Stets zusammen halten sie auf's neu.

 Zur Attacke geht es Schlag auf Schlag,
 Ruhm und Ehr soll bringen uns der Sieg,
 Los, Kameraden, frisch wird geladen,
 Das ist unsere Marschmusik.

 Im Manöver zog das ganze Regiment
 Ins Quartier zum nächsten Dorfhauselement
 Und beim Wirte das Geflirte
 Mit den Mädels und des Wirtes Töchterlein.

 Lachen scherzen, lachen scherzen, heute ist ja heut'
 Morgen ist das ganze Regiment wer weiß wie weit.
 Das, Kameraden, ist des Kriegers bitt'res Los,
 Darum nehmt das Glas zur Hand und wir rufen «Prost».

 Alter Wein gibt Mut und Kraft;
 Denn es schmeckt des Weines Lebenssaft.
 Sind wir alt, das Herz bleibt jung
 Und gewaltig die Erinnerung.

 Ob in Freude, ob in Not,
 Bleiben wir getreu bis in den Tod.
 Trinket aus und schenket ein
 Und lasst uns alte Kameraden sein

 Sind wir alt, das Herz bleibt jung
 Und gewaltig die Erinnerung.
 Trinket aus und schenket ein
 Und lasst uns alte Kameraden sein

Alte Kameraden в популярной культуре
 Марш играет во вступительных кадрах фильма 1976 года Асы в небе.
 В конце каждого эпизода программы The Goon Show звучит укорочённая и комедийная версия марша.
 В начале каждой передачи Новости Таиланда на телеканале BBTV Channel 7 в 8.00. в 1980—2004 звучал марш Alte Kameraden.
 Для Хайно был написан специальный «демилитаризованный» текст марша.

Литература
 Karl Anton Döll: Alte Kameraden, 1961
 Alte Kameraden. Marsch für Pianoforte komponiert von C. Teike; Fritz Mörike Musikalien-Handlung Stettin, Verlags-Nummer F. M. 23

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 Марш «Alte Kameraden».
Композитор Карл Тейке (1864—1922);
исполняет оркестр морской пехоты США (US Marine Band);
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 Old Comrades March at the CPDP.
 Old Comrades March at the Library of Congress.
 Carl Teike on Victor Records.

Марши по алфавиту
Патриотические песни Германии
Песни 1889 года
Военные песни


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Q: How to best manage historical lookup values in a database? Overview
An incident database that will have a number of columns holding an ID for a record held in a lookup table.
The problem I'm trying to solve
I need to come up with a robust solution to manage historical data where some fields hold lookup IDs.  I've listed my proposed solutions as well as alternatives.  I would like to know from other developers if they manage these scenarios in a similar way in their projects.  Perhaps you have a better approach?

Database: Oracle 10g
Column: Department_name
Scenario: The department name can change X amount of times through the year.  The business have a need to report data for all their departments but wish to see incidents under their respective department names as it was at the time of the incident.
Proposed solution: When setting up an entry in the department name lookup table, set a start and end date value.  Using a view, create a calculated field based on the incident date to access the correct department name at any given point in time.
Pros: With a little bit of defensive coding it would enable self service by selected users to manage their static data via a GUI without any additional database changes.  On the fly changes can be done e.g. changing the name completely.  No DBA support is required.
Cons: Potentially an expensive operation given the volume of lookups/calculations being done over a large dataset.
Alternative solution: Simply use and insert the plain text value of the department name.  The drawbacks here would be that DBAs are needed for adhoc requests to change/update values, potentially targeting specific date ranges and missing some records in error.  There would also be increased table space consumption.

Column: Assigned_Technician_ID
Scenario: An incident will have one technician assigned where the ID of the technician will be stored.  A lookup table will hold a 'current' list of all available technicians.  As people leave the business the list has to be refreshed and obsolete technicians removed.  This is to keep the number of values in the dropdowns to a minimum.  The business will still want to see which technicians were assigned on all of their incident data.
Solution:  Instead of deleting an entry from the technician lookup table, mark the entry with a flag which denotes 'archived/deleted'.  This flag would act as a filter on the GUI dropdowns to remove unwanted entries.
Pros: The lookup table would only consist of the technician's UID from the employee table.  Therefore if business requirements change it would be easy to render any attributes of a technician in the main view e.g. full name or employee number and so on.
Cons: As in the previous example the lookups could potentially be an expensive operation on a large dataset. Additional work would be required on the GUI side in regards to business logic and design. Specifically how to manage dropdowns lists when the original entry has been 'archived'.
Alternative Solution: As in the previous example above, just use the plain text value.  Drawbacks here would be greater consumption of table space and less flexible with changing business requirements.

A: There is a technique called versioning that has been around for many years but is largely unworkable for several reasons. However, there is a similar technique I call Version Normal Form which I have found to be very useful. Here is an example using an Employees table.
First, the static table is created. This is the main entity table and it contains static data about the entity. Static data is data that is not expected to change during the life of the entity, such as birth date.
create table Employees(
  ID        int  auto_generated primary key,
  FirstName varchar( 32 ),
  Hiredate  date not null,
  TermDate  date,            -- last date worked
  Birthdate date,
  ...              -- other static data
);

It is important to realize there is one entry for each employee, just as with any such table.
Then the associated version table. This establishes a 1-m relationship with the static table as there could be several versions for an employee.
create table Employee_versions(
  ID         int   not null,
  EffDate    date  not null,
  char( 1 )  IsWorking not null default true,
  LastName   varchar( 32 ),    -- because employees can change last name
  PayRate    currency not null,
  WorkDept   int   references Depts( ID ),
  ...,              -- other changable data
  constraint PK_EmployeeV primary key( ID, EffDate )
);

In the version table note there is an effective date but not a matching no-longer-effective field. This is because once a version takes effect, it stays in effect until replaced by the subsequent version. The combination of ID and EffDate must be unique so there cannot be two verions for the same employee that are active at the same time, nor can there be a gap between the time one version ends and when the next version starts.
Most queries will want to know the current version of employee data. This is provided by joining the static row for the employee with the version that is in effect now. This can be found with the following query:
select  ...
from    Employees e
join    Employee_versions v1
    on  v1.ID = e.ID
    and v1.EffDate =(
        select  Max( v2.EffDate )
        from    EmployeeVersions v2
        where   v2.ID = v1.ID
            and v2.EffDate <= NOW()
    )
where  e.ID = :EmpID;

This returns the one and only one version that started in the most recent past. Using the inequality <= in the date check (v2.EffDate <= NOW()) allows for effective dates in the future. Suppose you know a new employee will start on the first day of next month or a raise in pay is scheduled for the 13th of next month, this data can inserted ahead of time. Such "preloaded" entries will be ignored.
Don't let the subquery get to you. All the search fields are indexed so the result is quite fast.
There is a lot of flexibility with this design. The query above returns the latest data of all employees, present and past. You could check the TermDate field to get just present employees. In fact, since a good many places in your apps will only be interested in the current info of current employees, that query would make a good view (omit the final where clause). No need for the apps to even know such versions exist.
If you have a particular date and you want to see the data that was in effective at that time, then change the v2.EffDate <= NOW() in the subquery to v2.EffDate <= :DateOfInterest.
More details can be found in a slide presentation here and a not-quite-completed document here.
To show off a little of the extensibility of the design, notice there is a IsWorking indicator in the version table as well as a termination date in the static table. When an employee leaves the company, the last date is inserted in the static table and a copy of the latest version with IsWorking set to false is inserted into the version table.
It's fairly common for employees to leave a company for a while then get hired again. With just the date in the static table, the entry can be activated again just by setting that date back to NULL. But a "look back" query for any time when the person was no longer an employee would return a result. There would be no indication that they had left the company. But a version with IsWorking = false when leaving the company and IsWorking = true when returning to the company will allow a check of that value at the time of interest and ignore employees when they were no longer an employee even if they returned later.

A: I am a SQL Server Developer and run into these issues all of the time. I am never a fan of using the text (denormalizing) unless I am loading data to a Data Warehouse.
Re: Department_name
Effective date is likely the best answer, what is giving me pause is that I am not sure I understand the question. I can't think of a business case for a department to change names so frequently.
Re: AssignedTech
I use an active flag in almost all of my employee based lookups. I have never had a performance issue doing this. I have used filtered indexes and views when dealing with companies with high turn over.

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