Exegesis, or critical interpretation, and hermeneutics, or the science of interpretive principles, of the Bible have been used by both Jews and Christians throughout their histories for various purposes. The most common purpose has been discovering the truths and values of the Old and New Testaments by means of various techniques and principles, though very often, owing to the exigencies of certain historical conditions, polemical or apologetical situations anticipate the truth or value to be discovered and thus dictate the type of exegesis or hermeneutic to be used. The primary goal, however, is to arrive at biblical truths and values by an unbiassed use of exegesis and hermeneutics.
Biblical exegesis is the actual interpretation of the sacred book, the bringing out of its meaning; hermeneutics is the study and establishment of the principles by which it is to be interpreted. Where the biblical writings are interpreted on a historical perspective, just as with philological and other ancient documents, there is little call for a special discipline of biblical hermeneutics. But it has been widely held that the factors of divine revelation and inspiration in the Bible—which, according to Jewish and Christian belief, set it apart from other literature—impose their appropriate hermeneutical principles, although there has been divergence of opinion on what these principles are. Again, because of the place that the biblical writings have occupied in synagogue and church, their exploitation for apologetical or polemical ends, their employment as a source for dogma or as a means of grace, fostering individual and community devotion, and the use of certain parts (especially the psalms) in the congregational liturgy, the science of hermeneutics has been studiously cultivated as a theological discipline. To treat the Bible like any other book (even in order to discover that it is not like any other book) has been condemned by believers as an unworthy, not to say impious, attitude.
At times the languages in which the biblical texts were originally composed have for that reason been treated as sacred languages. Hebrew may be to the philologist a Canaanite dialect, not substantially different from Phoenician, or Moabite, or other Semitic languages, but for some people even today this language is invested with an aura of sacredness. As for the language of the New Testament, in the days before its place within the general development of Hellenistic Greek was properly appreciated, it could be called a "language of the Holy Ghost," as it was by the German Lutheran theologian Richard Rothe (1799–1867). And even scholars who know very well the true character of the biblical languages are tempted at times to make the Old and New Testament vocabularies, down to the very prepositions, bear a greater weight of theological significance than sound linguistic practice permits. Where in other Greek literature the context would be allowed to determine the precise force of this or that synonym, there is a tendency to approach the New Testament with definitions ready made and to impose them on the text: to give one example, of two common Greek words meaning "new," it is sometimes laid down in advance that kainos denotes new in character and neos new in time ("young"). Often such distinctions are valid, but their validity must be established by the context; where the context discourages such precise differentiations, they must not be forced upon it.
Again, it is a truism in linguistic study that the meaning of a word depends on its usage, not on its derivation. It may be of interest to know that the Hebrew word for "burnt offering" (ʿola) etymologically means "ascending" (cf. the verb ʿala, "ascend"), and to trace the stages by which it attained its biblical meaning, but this knowledge is almost wholly irrelevant to the understanding of the word in the Old Testament ritual vocabulary, and any attempt to link it, say, with the ascension of Jesus in the New Testament, as has been done, can lead only to confusion.
Similarly there has been a tendency to place the history contained in the biblical writings on a different level from "ordinary" history. Here the increasing knowledge of the historical setting of the biblical narrative, especially in the Old Testament, has helped to remove the impression that the persons and peoples portrayed in this narrative are not quite "real"; it has integrated them with contemporary life and promoted a better understanding of what they had in common with their neighbours and what their distinctive qualities were.
A prerequisite for the exegetical study of the biblical writings, and even for the establishment of hermeneutical principles, is their critical examination. Most forms of biblical criticism are relevant to many other bodies of literature.
Textual criticism is concerned with the basic task of establishing, as far as possible, the original text of the documents on the basis of the available materials. For the Old Testament, until 1947, these materials consisted principally of: (1) Hebrew manuscripts dated from the 9th century ad onward, the Masoretic text, the traditional Jewish text with its vocalization and punctuation marks as recorded by the editors called Masoretes (Hebrew masora, "tradition") from the 6th century to the end of the 10th; (2) Hebrew manuscripts of medieval date preserving the Samaritan edition of the Pentateuch (first five books of the Bible); (3) Greek manuscripts, mainly from the 3rd and 4th centuries ad onward, preserving the text of the pre-Christian Greek version of the Hebrew Bible together with most of the apocryphal books (the Septuagint); and (4) manuscripts of the Syriac (Peshitta) and Latin (Vulgate) versions, both of which were based directly on the Hebrew. Since 1947 the discovery of Hebrew biblical texts at Qumrān (then Jordan) and other places west of the Dead Sea has made it possible to trace the history of the Hebrew Bible back to the 2nd century bc and to recognize, among the manuscripts circulating in the closing generations of the Second Jewish Commonwealth (c. 450 bc–c. ad 135), at least three types of Hebrew text: (1) the ancestor of the Masoretic text, (2) the Hebrew basis of the Septuagint version, and (3) a popular text of the Pentateuch akin to the Samaritan edition. A comparative examination of these three indicates that the ancestor of the Masoretic text is in the main the most reliable; the translators of the Revised Standard Version (1952) and the New English Bible (1970) have continued to use the Masoretic text as their Old Testament basis.
For the New Testament the chief text-critical materials are (1) manuscripts of the Greek text, from the 2nd to the 15th century, of which some 5,000 are known, exhibiting the New Testament text in whole or in part; (2) ancient versions in Syriac, Coptic, Latin, Armenian, Georgian, Ethiopic, and other languages; and (3) citations in early Christian writers. A comparative study of this material enables scholars to get behind the Byzantine type of text (the type that first diffused from Constantinople from the 4th century onward, gained currency throughout Greek-speaking Christendom, and formed the basis of the earliest printed editions of the Greek Testament) to a variety of types current in various localities in the generations immediately preceding; but the more recent discovery of manuscripts (mainly on papyrus) of the 3rd and even 2nd centuries, which cannot be neatly assigned to one or another of these types, makes the earlier history of the text more problematic, and the Revised Standard Version and the New English Bible are both based on an eclectic text (in which, where the witnesses show variant readings, the reading preferred is that which best suits the context and the author's known style).
Philological criticism consists mainly in the study of the biblical languages in their widest scope so that the vocabulary, grammar, and style of the biblical writings can be understood as accurately as possible with the aid not only of other biblical writings but of other writings in the same or cognate languages. New Testament Greek, for example, is a representative of Hellenistic Greek written in the 1st century ad, ranging from the literary Hellenistic of Hebrews, 1 Peter, and portions of Luke–Acts to the colloquial or vernacular idiom of some other books (e.g., the conversations in the Gospels). Some Aramaic influences have been discerned in parts of the New Testament that have a Palestinian setting, but not to a point where scholars are obliged to conclude that some books, or parts of books, were originally composed in Aramaic. Moreover, the Septuagint version exercised on some New Testament writers the kind of influence that the King James Version has exercised on many English writers, especially in the provision of a theological vocabulary in areas such as law, ethics, atonement, and sacrifice. The study of Old Testament Hebrew has been enriched by the study of other Semitic languages—Akkadian and Ugaritic among the ancient languages, and Arabic, which preserves many archaic features. Such comparative study has led to the suggestion of new meanings for a considerable number of biblical Hebrew words—a tendency that is amply illustrated by the New English Bible—but this department of philological criticism requires much more carefully defined guiding lines than have hitherto been laid down.
Literary criticism endeavours to establish the literary genres (types or categories) of the various biblical documents and to reach conclusions about their structure, date, and authorship. These conclusions are based as far as possible on internal evidence, but external evidence is also very helpful, especially where date is concerned. If the document under consideration is unmistakably quoted in another composition, for example, that quotation forms a terminus ante quem (later limiting point in time) for dating purposes. If, on the other hand, the document is clearly dependent on another document that can be dated on independent grounds, the date of the earlier document provides a terminus post quem (earlier limiting point in time).
I have been obliged to bestow the greatest amount of labour on a hitherto entirely unworked field, the investigation of the inner constitution of the separate books of the Old Testament by the aid of the higher criticism (a new name to no humanist).
Eichhorn paid special attention to the Pentateuch; his work marks an important step forward in Pentateuchal criticism. The chronological arrangement of the successive law codes contained in the Pentateuch, or of the successive editions of one fundamental law code, has been related to the history of Israelite culture and religion recorded in the other Old Testament books—histories, prophecies, and psalms—with the mounting aid supplied by contemporary non-Israelite documents. The development of some Old Testament books is indicated expressly in their contents: one can note the composition of the first and second editions of the Book of Jeremiah in Jeremiah 36:4, 32; and scholars can reach some conclusions about later editions by a comparison of the longer edition in the Masoretic text with the shorter edition in the Septuagint (now also attested in a fragmentary Hebrew text from Qumrān). In the absence of such explicit evidence, conclusions about the structure of other prophetic books, such as Isaiah and Ezekiel, must be more tentative.
In the New Testament, literary criticism has centred principally on the Gospels. In the Synoptic Gospels (that is, those having a common source—i.e., Matthew, Mark, and Luke) indicators as to source and composition are provided by the presence of so much material common to two or to all three of them. The majority opinion since the mid-19th century has been that Mark served as a source for Matthew and Luke and that the two latter had a further common source, generally labelled Q (for Quelle, the German term for "source"), comprising mainly sayings of Jesus. Aspects of the Gospel problem that literary criticism leaves unsolved are more likely to be illuminated by other critical approaches. The Fourth Gospel (John), having much less in common with the Synoptic Gospels than the latter three have among themselves, presents an independent line of transmission, and a comparative study of those areas where the Johannine and Synoptic traditions touch each other yields valuable conclusions for the beginnings of the gospel story.
In the second half of the 20th century, some biblical scholars began applying the critical methods developed in secular literary criticism to the study of the Old and New Testaments. During the 1960s New Criticism, an approach that views literary texts as coherent units of meaning and focuses on technique and form, began to attract scholars who were interested in preserving a sense of the integrity of biblical texts in the face of archaeological research that raised questions of historical authorship. Other scholars, however, have insisted that New Criticism favours certain notions of what constitutes a scripture—e.g., that it is the finished and unified product of a divinely inspired author, prophet, scribe, or scribal community—and emphasizes texts to the neglect of historical context. Some detractors of New Criticism have adopted a contrasting approach, known as New Historicism, which treats texts as historical artifacts that emerge among particular social, intellectual, and economic circumstances. Since the late 20th century, similar perspectives have drawn upon postmodern theoretical movements—e.g., feminism, deconstruction, and postcolonial studies. What New Historicism and related movements have in common is a tendency to emphasize the "voices"—the perspectives and existential concerns—of people or groups who were marginalized or unrepresented within biblical narratives or discriminated against because of their gender, ethnicity, or social class. Some scholars within or influenced by these movements also have emphasized the widely discussed intertextuality of the Bible—the ways in which different biblical texts are related and even refer to each other—and explored the ways in which popular ostensibly secular authors and artists have drawn inspiration or source material from biblical texts—e.g., the English poet John Milton's use of Genesis in Paradise Lost (1667) and the American novelist William Faulkner's use of Psalms in The Wild Palms (1939).
Tradition criticism takes up where literary criticism leaves off; it goes behind the written sources to trace the development of oral tradition, where there is reason to believe that this preceded the earliest documentary stages, and attempts to trace the development of the tradition, phase by phase, from its primary life setting to its literary presentation. The development of the tradition might cover a lengthy period, as in the Old Testament narratives of the patriarchs—Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—and the judges, such as Deborah and Samuel, many of which were originally attached to particular sanctuaries. The recognition of the life setting of each successive phase is necessary to the interpretation of the material received and delivered by one generation after another.
In the New Testament too, special attention has been paid to the oral stage of the Gospel tradition, though here the preliterary period is measured in decades, not (as in the Old Testament) in generations and centuries. Not only the record of the ministry of Jesus but the development of Christian theology in the short preliterary stage has formed the subject matter of this study.
Form criticism has become one of the most valuable tools for the reconstruction of the preliterary tradition. This discipline classifies the literary material according to the principal "forms"—such as legal, poetic, and other forms—represented in its contents, and examines these in order to discover how they were handed down and what their successive life settings were until they assumed their present shape and position. In their various ways laws, narratives, psalms, and prophecies are amenable to this approach. By this means some scholars have undertaken to recover the ipsissima verba ("very own words") of Jesus by removing the accretions attached to them in the course of transmission. The exegetical task assumes a threefold shape as scholars work back from (1) interpretation of the present Gospels through (2) interpretation of the tradition lying behind them to (3) reconstruction of the proclamation of Jesus.
Scholars are not left completely to speculation as they attempt to reconstruct the stages by which the Gospel tradition attained its final form: here and there in the New Testament letters, and in some of the speeches included in Acts (which convey the general sense of what was said and should not be regarded as the author's free creations), there are fragments and outlines of the story of Jesus and of his teaching. Sometimes the characteristic terminology of tradition ("I received . . . I delivered") is used when such fragments are introduced, a decade or so before the composition of the earliest Gospel (cf. 1 Corinthians 11:23; 15:3).
Historical criticism places the documents in their historical setting and promotes their interpretation in the light of their contemporary environment. This is necessary for their understanding, whether they are historical in character or belong to another literary genre. If they are historical in character, it is important to establish how faithfully they reflect their dramatic date—the date of the events they record (as distinct from the date of final composition). This test has been applied with singularly positive results to Luke–Acts, especially in relation to Roman law and institutions; and in general the biblical outline of events from the middle Bronze Age (c. 21st–c. mid-16th century bc) to the 1st century ad fits remarkably well into its Near Eastern context as recovered by archaeological research.
"History of religions" criticism, to use an ungainly expression, relates Old and New Testament religion to the religious situation of the contemporary world of the writings and tries to explain biblical religion as far as possible in terms of current religious attitudes and practices. This is helpful to a point, insofar as it throws into relief those features of Hebrew and Christian faith that are distinctive; it is carried to excess when it attempts to deprive those features of their unique qualities and to account completely for them in religious–historical terms. When the cult of Israel was practically indistinguishable from that of the Canaanites, the protests of the 8th-century-bc Hebrew prophets Amos or Hosea stand out over against popular Yahweh worship (Hebrew) and Baal worship (Canaanite) alike. Another attempt has been made by historians of religion to re-create for the 1st century ad a pre-Christian Gnostic myth—referring to an esoteric dualism in which matter is viewed as evil and spirit good—of the primal or heavenly man who comes from the realm of light to liberate particles of a heavenly essence that are imprisoned on Earth in material bodies and to impart the true knowledge. By men's acceptance of this secret salvatory knowledge (gnosis), the heavenly essence within man is released from its thraldom and reascends to its native abode. Fragments of this myth have been recognized in several books of the New Testament. But the attempt has not been successful: according to many recent (latter half of the 20th century) New Testament scholars and historians of the early church, it is probable that the concepts of primal man and redeemer-revealer were not brought together in Gnosticism except under the influence of the Christian apostolic teaching, in which Jesus fills the role of Son of man (or Second Adam) together with that of Saviour and Revealer.
On the other hand, the Iranian religious influence, primarily that of Zoroastrianism, on the angelology and eschatology (concepts of the last times) of Judaism in the last two centuries bc is unmistakable, especially among the Pharisees (a liberal Jewish sect emphasizing piety) and the Qumrān community (presumably the Essenes) near the Dead Sea. In the latter, indeed, Zoroastrian dualism finds clear expression, such as in the concept of a war between the sons of light and the sons of darkness, although it is subordinated to the sovereignty of the one God of Israel.
The value of these critical methods of Bible study lies in their enabling the reader to interpret the writings as accurately as possible. By their aid he can better ascertain what the writers meant by the language that they used at the time they wrote and how their first readers would have understood their language. If the understanding of readers today is to have any validity, it must bear a close relationship to what the original readers were intended to understand.
For additional information about the various forms of biblical criticism, see above: Old Testament canon, texts, and versions; and New Testament canon, texts, and versions.


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What does the word gadfly mean?
A generic name for insects whose larvae infest domesticated animals. The larvae of the Common g. ( Hypoderma bovis) is the warble or wormil, burrowing in the backs of horses and cattle; those of the Horse-g. ( Gastrophilus equi, botfly) cause bots in the stomach of the horse; and those of the Sheep-g. ( Oestru ovis) infest the nostrils of sheep.
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As we've said before, one of our goals with Omega is to improve the early game experience. Part of this improvement involves taking a lot of the old artwork and bringing it up to the current standard. I've already mentioned that we'll be upgrading the starting armors, but we'll also be improving many of the old hairstyles.
This is a good point for artists -- you never want to stagnate. If your artwork from three or four years ago looks the same as it does today, you might be in trouble. Art is like exercise -- you won't have six-pack abs after three sit-ups, but after 100,000 it's much more likely (not in the same day, of course, unless you're Thyton).
Some of the infrequently used styles have been replaced entirely by these new styles by Disturbed! You'll see them available as soon as Omega goes live.
Join us tomorrow for a preview of the new starting armor styles!

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DARPAN's Newsmaker of 2016: Minister Harjit Sajjan
By Petrina D'Souza, 25 Jan, 2017
2016 was a year where we saw him take up important issues affecting the country and its people and bravely and fairly finding measures to tackle them. Personally, Minister Sajjan calls his experience of 2016 as "humbling and a privilege."
Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan is a newsmaker in many ways – as the first Sikh to lead Canada's defence system, as the first South Asian in Canada to be honoured with this title or as the first Sikh-Canadian to command a Canadian army reserve regiment.
2016 was a year where we saw him take up important issues affecting the country and its people and bravely and fairly finding measures to tackle them. Personally, Minister Sajjan calls his experience of 2016 as "humbling and a privilege." In simple words, he finds it an honour to be part of a government that works for its people, "a government that wants to look after the younger generation, wants to look after people who are getting into middle class, and wants to get them to succeed," he says praising the system he is part of.
As we delve into his role as the Minister of National Defence, his tone takes up a serious note. "I'm very proud of Canada's accomplishments and what we have done but at the same I realize there's a lot to do and it's something you can't do alone," he shares while picturing a 2017 filled with challenges and responsibilities, "You have to be able to work with your allies and I'm looking forward to dealing with a lot of challenges as part of the team and trying to be that responsible partner in the world and making a difference in the world."
Last year, Minister Sajjan's role got him experiencing a lot of first-time moments; he narrates one among those many that made a lasting impression. "I go to NATO quite often for meetings as a Defence Minister but then we have the Leader Summit where it's the Prime Minister's precedence and I get to sit next to him at that meeting. But when he's not there, somebody sits in his spot – and he (PM Justin Trudeau) had to go for an interview and I was sitting there in his position. I've represented Canada in many places but I was representing him. [Later] Prime Minister turns to me and says 'you realize this is probably the first time we had somebody with a turban representing a nation at NATO.' It kind of dawned on all of us. To me that was a very proud and humbling moment to be there in that [moment] because we all come from very humble backgrounds."
As he goes about having conversations with various countries and leaders all around the world, his kind demeanour, positive attitude, and willpower to do what's best for the country has made Minister Sajjan a role model among youngsters and adults alike. Yet in a surprising way, he finds inspiration in the younger generation to take better decisions. "When I talk to them [young generation] and people come up to me and ask me for advice, I know they see me in a certain position but I don't see myself that way," he shares. "So when I get asked, I have to be that person to motivate them because if they don't see the confidence in me, how are they going to have the confidence to do things?"
For 2017, the outspoken minister has major plans for the country and his cabinet. "I'm engaging in the world where we can come up with frank conversations about what's happening around the world and tangible things that we actually need to do and working in a multilateral environment, whether its NATO, United Nations, or coalition partners and dealing with direct threats which we have to."
He also intends on finding solutions to the threats the country and the world around faces. "A big focus for me is solidifying the direct fight where we can contribute as a nation. Also start focusing at looking at the root cause to conflict and how do we deescalate the situations and prevent situations from becoming full blown conflicts," he elaborates. In conclusion, he asserts, "We have a responsibility as a government to look at trying to reduce conflict as well and we have a responsibility as Canadians."
What does success mean to you?
Success to me is when we have had an impact on the younger generation. That we have inspired them, that we have motivated them to wanting to go beyond, not just to succeed but wanting to make an impact on the world. To me my success is going to be defined by the success of the next generation, what are we doing to set them up for success… that's how I define my success.
What is your advice for youth?
Regardless of what you want to do answer the question why you want to do it because if you answer the question why you need to do something, you'll automatically achieve it. It's not about having a recipe to success… to succeed you need to answer the question why you need to succeed. If you answer the question why it's important for you to succeed, success will be guaranteed. The other added personal trait to me that's very important is having confidence and you have to feel it inside you. If you feel confident inside you, other people will look at you and be attracted by that confidence. It's something like 'I really don't know what you just said, but you just said it in a confident way and I'm just going to trust you because you're going to make it happen.' When I feel confident inside, I'm very confident in knowing that I can achieve it. Sometimes I don't know how but I know why I need it and I know that in time I will figure out how we're going to do it. And if I can't, I'll find the person who is going to show us how to get it done.
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but you are still required to arrive 5mins early to set your bike up.
Parents and swimmers of other squads (Intermediates and up) are welcome to attend the classes for a subsidised price of £3 per bike, payable at reception before the class starts. Please make sure you get a receipt to give to the class teacher before you start.
Please also note if you are improvers you may also be able to join in, but please speak the Mary first to make sure it's suitable for you.
Active Nation @ All Seasons Leisure Centre are holding a discovery weekend over the 11th & 12th July, this will enable you to try out different activities which the centre provides. Keep an eye out around the leisure centre for more details which will be advertised over the coming weeks.
Sorry for the late notice but please see below for this weekends Microleague team. Could you please confirm your attendance or not using the comments section below.
Please also be aware that the leisure centre at Southport is extremely cramped for spectators and as such it is limited to 1 spectator per swimmer.
Just a reminder that tickets are still available for this Friday's presentation evening at Chorley Football club. Tickets are available from your liaison officers or you could comment below to reserve tickets for collection on the door on the night.
Can you please check the entries are correct and inform the competition secretary of any amendments before Monday.
please arrive slightly before 5pm to be ready for a 5pm start.
Also it would be advisable to bring along a spare towel for use on poolside to keep warm.
due to the Mini Marlins Gala.
This is an excellent opportunity to race in the 10 lane 50m Ponds Forge pool at Sheffield.
This pool has been home to the British National Age Group / Youth finals for many years.
Another bonus is that there are no lower qualifying times making the gala easy to enter for our swimmers. It's quite rare to be able to enter a gala in a 50m pool that hasn't got lower qualifying times.
Sorry to do this to you but it seems a busy week ahead with other gala's and competitions taking up the main pool at Chorley, please be aware of the following cancelled training sessions this week.
Well done to everyone who competed over the weekend, have a look at the results below to see how you did.
Please note the Saturday's results printed out after the gala and posted here on Sunday were incorrect, there were a few errors in DOB's.
The below results have been verified now and are the final standings.


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Open letter calls on MIT to do more in Tidbit's legal battle
By Leon Lin Feb. 14, 2014
Hal Abelson in 2007.
UPDATE TO THIS ARTICLE: Update, Feb. 16: President L. Rafael Reif announced his intention to create a "resource for independent legal advice" to support "student inventors and entrepreneurs" in an email Saturday evening, two days after Professor Hal Abelson PhD '73, Ethan Zuckerman, and Nathan Matias G began seeking signatures for their open letter. Reif also said that Tidbit's student creators had the "full and enthusiastic support of MIT" and that MIT would "remain in close coordination with the students and the EFF to offer assistance in the legal proceedings." Correction, Feb. 15: A previous version of this article implied that Professor Hal Abelson PhD '73 wrote the "petition" to President L. Rafael Reif. In fact, the authors are Abelson, Ethan Zuckerman, and Nathan Matias G, and they call it an "open letter." The article also misstated Matias's name. The article has also been updated to include a comment from Jeremy Rubin '16, as well as more comments from MIT, Provost Martin A. Schmidt PhD '88, and Chancellor Cynthia Barnhart PhD '88.
An open letter circulated online Thursday urged MIT to take a stand on a pending court case involving Jeremy L. Rubin '16, who was served a subpoena by New Jersey for documents, correspondence, and code associated with a Bitcoin-related project called Tidbit.
The letter, which at press time had been signed by more than 500 MIT affiliates, was written by Professor Hal Abelson PhD '73; Ethan Zuckerman, director of the MIT Center for Civic Media; and Nathan Matias G, a graduate student at the Media Lab. They wrote that MIT has an institutional interest in the case and should tell New Jersey to withdraw the subpoena, which they called "an affront to our academic freedom" and said will have "a chilling effect on MIT teaching and research."
Tidbit is intended to allow websites to make money without ads by running bitcoin-mining code on users' browsers. The creators of Tidbit, Rubin, Kevin C. King '15, Oliver R. Song '14, and Carolyn Zhang '14, won a prize for having the most innovative project in November at the Node Knockout hackathon, where they built a prototype.
Then, in December, Rubin was contacted by the New Jersey attorney general's office, which asked for, among other things, a list of all websites "affected by the Bitcoin code," copies of "all contracts and/or agreements" with customers, "[a]ll documents and correspondence concerning all breaches and/or unauthorized access to computers by you," and "[a]ll codes, source codes, control logs, and installation logs concerning the Bitcoin code."
New Jersey later said they were investigating whether Tidbit had violated the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act.
When Rubin approached MIT's lawyers after receiving the subpoena, they said they could not represent Rubin or Tidbit in court, but one of them advised Rubin to seek help from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which advocates for digital rights. EFF agreed to help Rubin pro bono, and they have moved to quash the subpoena.
"MIT stands ready to support these students in their defense against the legal actions against them," a statement from MIT on Thursday read. "We advised the students that it was in their best interest to secure independent legal advice. We are eager to work with them and their counsel in a vigorous defense of this matter."
Rubin wrote in an email that MIT's lawyers "have not been involved since our initial interaction."
But Abelson, a computer science professor and a founding director of Creative Commons, said that MIT should do more and contact both the New Jersey judge and the New Jersey attorney general.
MIT's response was "'Hey, I know a good lawyer,'" Abelson told The Tech. "MIT should have said, 'Hey, this is MIT business because it is harmful to the institution.'"
Part of MIT's mission, "training young people to imagine, create, and disseminate projects that expand the possibilities of technology," the open letter read, is "under serious risk." MIT's administration "is not working to mitigate that risk."
Provost Martin A. Schmidt PhD '88 said that the open letter was "a little out of the blue." The best legal counsel for students, he said, is outside counsel "that's focused only on their interest, as opposed to their interest and the Institute's interest." He cited the way MIT helped Rubin find free legal help at EFF as an example of how MIT was behind its students.
Chancellor Cynthia Barnhart PhD '88 said that students in Rubin's situation should always feel that they have the support of "all of MIT." The Institute would use "all the resources that would be relevant" to "support them as best we can," she said.
Abelson said that MIT should take action as an institution to protect not only the students but also the academic freedom he said is necessary to allow future innovators to thrive.
"New Jersey's subpoena challenges our ability to share our work," the letter reads. "If Rubin and his fellow MIT undergraduates experience serious legal consequences for describing their ideas in public, and if MIT declines to support them, how can we ever responsibly continue to advise our students to disseminate their work in public? Furthermore, since Tidbit is an innovation that could have been produced by faculty or graduate students in the course of our own research, we consider this subpoena to have a chilling effect on our own work."
The letter is addressed to President L. Rafael Reif. Abelson, Zuckerman, and Matias said they plan to send the letter to Reif next Monday, and are still seeking signatures. They also plan to write another letter to the New Jersey judge.
The Student Information Processing Board (SIPB), too, is preparing to send a letter to Reif urging MIT to support Rubin and his hackathon teammates, according to SIPB's chair, Justin M. Dove G. The student group also plans to provide an example letter to undergraduates and encourage them to send their own letters to Reif.
Last year, Abelson led an investigation, commissioned by Reif, into MIT's involvement in the prosecution of Internet activist Aaron Swartz. The report that came out of that investigation concluded with several questions, including "Should an MIT education address the personal ethics and legal obligations of technology empowerment?" and "What are MIT's obligations to members of our extended community?" The report also asked what MIT should do, internally and in the public sphere, to support "hacker culture" and technical innovation.
But Abelson said there is "a big difference" between the Swartz case and the subpoena served to Rubin and Tidbit. "These students did nothing wrong. Not a thing. For whatever Aaron's intentions were, what these students did was not even mischievous."
Rubin's lawyer at EFF, Hanni Fakhoury, has said that the hackathon project was only a proof of concept and that Tidbit did not even have the ability to mine bitcoins yet.
Fakhoury also argued that New Jersey has no jurisdiction over Tidbit and asked that Rubin be granted immunity from prosecution should the subpoena stand, citing constitutional protections against self-incrimination.
In response, the New Jersey acting attorney general wrote that New Jersey was "authorized to investigate whether any person, whether located in New Jersey or elsewhere, has engaged in, is engaging in or is about to engage in any unlawful practice in violation of the [New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act] that affects New Jersey consumers."
A court hearing is expected soon, but the date is still unknown, according to Fakhoury.
Anonymous almost 9 years ago
MIT needs to support these kids to make a statement about the research that happens at The Institute. If MIT can share in the fruits of research success (patents, financial rewards, etc), they need to support students through the challenges of research. This is a bigger issue well beyond these kids. What happened to them could happen to any MIT student or faculty member in the course of research, discovery, and innovation.
"These students did nothing wrong. Not a thing."
The implication being Aaron did? Abelson keeps saying stupid things. His article on the Swartz case for the MIT Tech Review was atrocious. Some impartial observer he is.
I agree with his petition, though. MIT has often been unsupportive of its students. The Star Simpson case comes to mind...
Remember Aaron Swartz..... President Reif, please act!
Uh this has nothing to do with Aaron Swartz...
I feel like this is kind of being overblown. It's just a subpoena. They'll look at the code, look at the project, and see that it's not violating any laws, and it's not even being used in New Jersey for the time being. Then nothing will happen. Even so, the project is incapable of generating any profitable amount of bitcoin anyway. It's just a fun project.
Besides, using people's compute time for profit, potentially without their consent, is pretty shady.
Why waste the legal fees?
Unfortunately, this event is not a simple matter of clarification. It raises a tremendously important problem, namely that independent research is not immune from public prosecution. That an awarded paper published under a grant is very unlikely to result in a subpoena, somehow does not extend to an unfunded research. This trend must be actively counteracted, unless we want prosecution offices to prevent abuse by hunting down the research.
As a sideline, show me a software product that uses my CPU time in an endorsed way. What about CPU-hours, network bandwidth and simply my nerve cells eaten by profit-hungry web-advertising?
This is not to be taken lightly, When a State AG files s subpoena it's damn serious. For those who don't know, NJ Gov. Christie's office has been subpoenaed in the "bridgegate" matter (see google) where state officials are suspected of blocking access to the George Washington Bridge between NJ and NY, which is the busiest bridge in the world, for four days causing a huge traffic jam in the City of Fort Lee NJ as payback for the mayor not backing Christie in his reelection campaign.
Very weak response, President Reif, and deeply disappointing.
This is the direct consequence of your having caved to prosecutors in the Aaron Schwartz matter. You either stand up to the government bullies, or you will lick their boots forever.
Were I President of MIT, I would announce that no applications for admittance to MIT will be accepted from the fascist State of New Jersey until that state backs down, issues a full apology, and promises to behave in the future. I am quite serious.
The MIT administration has become little more than an employment agency for lawyers, first in the Aaron Schwatz debacle and now this. Forget the "pro bono" legal assistance. MAN UP! Tell New Jersey to go the hell. They have no power to enforce their publicity-seeking actions anyway.
In the name of all that is science, what has happened to you?
David '82 almost 9 years ago
MIT? Alumni Assoc? Here's a good opportunity to set up a new category for my charitable contributions to go to support the vigorous defense of the digital frontier and our futures students adventures exploring thereof. Let me know when I can send my check!
Jim Gust '75 almost 9 years ago
On the contrary, David '82, I will suspend my contributions to MIT unless they heed Professor Abelson's call for a much more robust response (I think I'm a member of the 1861 club or something). The spectacle of another rogue Attorney General trampling around MIT, with MIT meekly telling a student "get your own lawyer," is revolting. That is not "support." That is "cover your ass."
Specious claims by idiot government bureaucrats need to be confronted vigorously and ruthlessly, by MIT, as an institution. Why would I want to divert my charitable contributions to still more lawyers? I prefer to support science.
MIT has all the resources it needs to set this right. It only has to decide to use them. Unfortunately, the timid MIT house counsel appears to prefer to not make waves.
You don't stop bullies by cooperating with them. Call them out. Take it to the Federal Courts. Make New Jersey pay a price for their foolishness. The New Jersey authorities have no constitutional power to reach into Cambridge in their quest for "glory." Make them stop.
Try to make us proud of being MIT alumni.
Paolo almost 9 years ago
But anyone can be sued if "stealing" computer power without the knowledge of the user? So we should all sue Microsoft or Adobe for all that Flash animations that steal a lot of computer power without my consent :-)
It is disheartening for Reif to only respond in support of the students after the letter compelled him to do so. And then, for other members of the administration to act as though they supported the students all along, is simply shameful. MIT needs to find its spine, and quickly.
Steve Rawlinson almost 9 years ago
I do not think that this thing is overblown. A government official is asking for proprietary code with no guarantee of maintaining confidentiality. The request for documents is so extensive that compliance will be a very taxing experience. This is not just about academic freedom. It is about the freedom to start a business. This is interstate commerce, and the Federal Government would have the right to investigate, but the New Jersey Attorney General is exceeding his authority.
ZPAM almost 9 years ago
Well its pretty obvious to me that this little smarty pants has done something wrong. If he had not then they wouldn't subponed his records. If you didn't do anything wrong why are you trying to hide?
Anon '66 almost 9 years ago
I am an alumnus, and a retired lawyer.
I share Mr. Gust's assessment of the Corporation's present pusillanimity. However, not all alumni have such a strong record of contributions that their withholding contributions would have significant effect.
For that reason (and because I also believe it inherently a worthy undertaking), I also agree with David '82 at 12:05 PM on February 16, 2014, who calls for: "... a new category for my charitable contributions to go to support the vigorous defense of the digital frontier and our futures students adventures exploring thereof."
I would contribute to such a fund, though modestly by personal necessity. I would hope such an earmarked fund would support the most vigorous legal defense possible of students developing technology, against the predations of crusading government officials seeking to quash such development efforts.
No, ZPAM, it is not obvious that a little smarty pants has done something wrong. It is far more likely that some lawyer in the NJ Attorney General's Office is looking for legal glory at the expense of a poor student entrepreneur. This enterprise is associated with Bitcoin, and governments are bound to be scared of Bitcoin and will eventually take action to shut it down. I think ZPAM would be just the kind of citizen that Putin would like to have live in Russia.
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Since its inception to the mass populace in the 1990s, the popularity of the Acai berry has increased. Many "A" listers have endorsed the unknown miracle fruit. With the health advantages the Acai berry takes care of, its not surprising that everyone would want to jump on the Acai bandwagon.
Taking a daily supplement is a healthy addition to diet and exercise. Unfortunately, adding an additional supplement to your diet may not give you the benefits that are advertised on the box. The Acai berry, however, is a very nutritional way to add every possible positive healthy alternative to taking a pill or vitamin.


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Q: How to show DOS output when using vbscript Exec I have the following VBScript:
Set Shell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
commandLine = puttyPath & "\plink.exe -v" & " -ssh" [plus additional commands here]
Set oExec = Shell.Exec(commandLine)

This causes a DOS window to appear but the output from plink.exe is not displayed. Is there any way to get the DOS window to display this output?

A: Try --
Set Shell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
commandLine = puttyPath & "\plink.exe -v" & " -ssh" [plus additional commands here]
Set oExec = Shell.Exec(commandLine)

Set oStdOut = oExec.StdOut

While Not oStdOut.AtEndOfStream
    sLine = oStdOut.ReadLine
    WScript.Echo sLine
Wend

A: Windows scripting host lacks a system() command so you have to implement your own, IMHO my helper function is superior to stealthyninja's version since it waits for process exit and not just empty stdout and it also handles stderr:
Function ExecuteWithTerminalOutput(cmd)
Set sh = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set exec =  sh.Exec(cmd)
Do While exec.Status = 0
    WScript.Sleep 100
    WScript.StdOut.Write(exec.StdOut.ReadAll())
    WScript.StdErr.Write(exec.StdErr.ReadAll())
Loop
ExecuteWithTerminalOutput = exec.Status
End Function

call ExecuteWithTerminalOutput("cmd.exe /c dir %windir%\*")

A: The correct way is :
Set Shell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
commandLine = puttyPath & "\plink.exe -v" & " -ssh" [plus additional commands here]
Set oExec = Shell.Exec(commandLine)

Set oStdOut = oExec.StdOut

While Not oStdOut.AtEndOfStream
    sLine = oStdOut.ReadLine
    WScript.Echo sLine
Wend

Or:
Set Shell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
commandLine = puttyPath & "\plink.exe -v" & " -ssh" [plus additional commands here]
Set oExec = Shell.Exec(commandLine)
WScript.Echo   oExec.StdOut.ReadAll

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It was a tense game with Japan clawing its way back from a losing situation to end the regulation game with a tie. A penalty shootout decided the final score and the Japanese women took the title with a 3-2 score.
The real winner was Twitter. They set a record 7196 TPS (Tweets Per Second) average during the last minutes of the game.
Osama bin Laden's death by Navy SEALs hit 5106 TPS last May.
What will be the next big Twitter event?
This year's Super Bowl only reached 4,064 TPS.
I bet there was a LOT of sushi lost over this game.
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Kruger National Park is the ultimate game reserve experience in South Africa. It is also the largest one in the country covering an area of almost 19,000 square kilometers of land and water. It was established as a national park in 1926 earning it another first as being the first national park of South Africa. Last 2002, it became part of a larger park now known as the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park.
It is bordered naturally by Limpopo and Crocodile Rivers and Lebombo Mountains. On the south and west are Mpumalanga and Limpopo provinces. To its east is Mozambique while Zimbabwe is on its north border. It is linked to Zimbabwe's Gonarezhou National Park and the Limpopo National Park. The highest point in the Khandzalive hill and has an altitude that ranges from 200 to 8490 meters.
The best time to visit this South Africa tourist attraction is during wintertime because animals are easier to spot and there is less chance of getting malaria. Also, during hot months, the temperature can drop to over 100 degrees Fahrenheit and it becomes very humid to walk around.
Not too long ago, Kruger National Park authorities installed webcams and CCTV cameras around the park to help them monitor the animals, plants, and catch tourists abusing the park with trash, threatening the animals or destroying plant life. Being the park that has the most number of mammal species, it isn't surprising that the park receives thousands of tourists monthly.
While there are 9 designated tourist trails in the park, it isn't uncommon to find more. These are temporary trails created by the animals as they move about. Tourists are advised not to wander away from the main trails.
Kruger National Park has implemented anti-poaching laws which were not completely effective because of the area that had to be covered. As such aside from the webcams and CCTVs that were installed, the park authorities solicited and got help from different private and government agencies to borrow 2 drones and received 2 helicopters as a donation, install sensors and new fences, animal tracking devices, and acquire a dog unit capable of patrolling the area. Despite these supplements SA authorities will have to continually innovate to prevent poaching.
The problem with poachers is that they too have upgraded their equipment with night vision gear, telescopes, and high end rifles with the latest gadgets in suppressors. Around 200 were caught last year, 2012 and about 30 more were killed because they engaged the authorities in gun fights. The poachers also use intimidation tactics and try to corrupt park employees to allow them to continue with their sport.
One of the most coveted game prizes for poachers is the rhino horn which can sell for as much as US$82,000 per kilo. Any existing ban is disregarded by poachers and they are willing to gamble their lives for the money. The horns are also sold for the liquid that is found inside the horn which is used for native medicines.
Tourists can pick from any of the 21 camps, 2 private lodges, and 15 safari lodges if they want to stay in Kruger National Park for a few days. Many of these camps offer packages that include safaris and activities that can be done while in the park. It has also become a popular choice to go camping since no special permit is required by the park.


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Q: Unable to run Rodeo IDE with python3 I have installed Rodeo on my Ubuntu 18.04 system and with python 2.7 it runs fine.
When I try to run python3 in Rodeo IDE I am getting the error message that says "Jupyter is not installed" even though it should be.
Does anyone know how to fix this?


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Q: LassoLars in Scikit Learn In Scikit-Learn (for some reason I am still on 0.18.x), the sklearn.linear_model.LassoLars class after fitting, has the coefficient LARS path as coef_path_ attribute and the coefficient as coef_ attribute. I am wondering why the coef_ values are not the same as the values at the last step of coef_path_. Did I misunderstand anything about LARS? By looking at the source code of _fit() method of Lars class in scikit-learn, coef_ should be coef_path_[:,-1] but some how I have different numbers for these two attributes.

A: Answering my own question: it is all about the normalization. The difference is if normalize is set as True, then coef_path_ are the coefficients based on normalized features and coef_ will be the last slice of coef_path_ after removing the normalization factor.


The Foxes opened the 2018/19 campaign with a tough 1-2 away loss against Manchester United but made a huge comeback and responded with a big victory over Wolverhampton Wanderers and Southampton.
The Reds are one of the four teams in the tournament to lead and top the league standings following their three successful competitive victories that gave them nine points, scoring seven goals and did not concede any goals from the opponent.
We can clearly see that both teams will have an upcoming thrilling encounter but in terms of the given odds, Jurgen Klopp's men are the heavy favorites to keep their 100% record intact. Meanwhile, the two clubs are expected to score heading into this fixture.


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Pentru o privire generală a zonei metropolitane a celor două orașe "gemene", așa-numita "Twin Cities metropolitan area," vedeți articolul Minneapolis-Saint Paul.

Saint Paul este capitala statului Minnesota al Statelor Unite ale Americii și sediul comitatului Ramsey.

Orașul se întinde în special pe malul nordic al fluviului Mississippi și se învecinează direct cu orașul Minneapolis, Minnesota. Cele două, adesea numite orașe gemene (twin cities), constituie inima zonei metropolitane Minneapolis - Saint Paul.

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Abeona is a cryptocurrency; the settlement unit of the Adiona blockchain platform. The revolutionary platform Adiona will include decentralized systems for booking hotels and buying tickets.
The Adiona platform will allow business owners to get more revenue, and customers will have fewer expenses.
In the opinion of many travels is one of life's great pleasures. Unfortunately, for those who prefer to use cryptocurrency for significant transactions, their ability to book flights or other travel needs have been insufficient. The good news is that problem will be solved soon, thanks to an exciting announcement from Abeona. Abeona is in the process of launching a new crypto coin Abeona, which will be settled on the breakthrough Adiona platform, primarily targeted at booking flights, along with trading. The excitement surrounding the project is high.
The travel industry's lack of cryptocurrency options seems to bode well for Abeona's chance of widespread acceptance, along with its ease of use through a payment card, a feature many cryptocurrencies have not followed through with.
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It is assuring to know that this is a token with travel blockchain platform. Looking forward!


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The Empty Pot, by Demi. All the children are given the task of growing the most beautiful flower from a seed given them by the emperor. See what Ping does when his seed won't grow.
Owl Moon, by Jane Yolen, illustrated by John Schoenherr. A girl and her father go on a late-night walk through the snowy woods looking for the great horned owl. Hidden in the shadows, a fox, raccoon, field mouse, and deer watch them pass. Will they see the owl?
The Three Questions, by Jon Muth. What is the best time to do things? Who is the most important one? What is the right thing to do? Nikolai knows that he wants to be the best person he can be, but often he is unsure if he is doing the right thing. See how he finds the answers.
Miss Rumphius, by Barbara Cooney. As a child, Miss Rumphius dreams of traveling to faraway places and living by the sea. Her grandfather assures her that this is possible but also tells her to make the world more beautiful. Read how Miss Rumphius does just that.
Giraffes Can't Dance, by Giles Andrea Anderson, illustrated by Guy Parker-Rees. Gerald the giraffe wants to dance more than anything. But with thin legs and crooked knees, it's harder than you would think. An unlikely friend gives him some encouraging words, and finally he is able to dance to his own tune.
Girls Who Choose God: Stories of Strong Women from the Book of Mormon, by McArthur Krishna and Bethany Brady Spalding, illustrated by Kathleen Peterson. Read 10 stories about women from the Book of Mormon who chose to follow God—to choose the right, defend those in trouble, and break from false traditions. Their choices can inspire girls and boys to choose the right too.
Little House in the Big Woods, by Laura Ingalls Wilder, illustrated by Garth Williams. Laura lives with her family in a log cabin in the woods of Wisconsin in the 1870s. She dances to Pa's fiddle, eats maple syrup candy, puts food up for the winter, and listens to stories of frontier adventures. This book gives a warm look at a family loving, working, and playing together.
These reviews do not constitute Church endorsement of these books, but the books have been carefully reviewed to ensure that Church standards are observed.
Candy Bomber: The Story of the Berlin Airlift's "Chocolate Pilot," by Michael O. Tunnell. After World War II, a heroic pilot began to drop candy and gum into the city of Berlin, bringing children not only a little joy, but a lot of hope. Learn the amazing true story of Lt. Gail Halvorsen and how his small kindness lifted a nation.


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Q: What kind of alert types will my iSensor/Patio report? When?
1. Motion alert - triggered when movement is detected.
2. Audio alert - triggered when audio sound is greater than the threshold.
3. Offline/online notifications - the device will notify you once it's no longer connected to the power and/or Internet (offline), or is connected back (online).
4. Live streaming notifications - triggered when sending/stopping live streaming.
5. Privacy mode notifications - triggered when entering/leaving privacy mode.
The settings for offline/online, live streaming and privacy mode notifications are off by default, to enable these notifications, please go to (iOS: Settings/EVENTS->System event notifications. Android: Settings/Alert detection->System event notifications.).
Q: How do I turn off alert notifications while still be able to see pictures/event/videos when selecting "Notifications" from toolbar?
A: Please go to "iOS: Settings->ALERT/Alert Notification->Alert notification. Android: Settings->Alert detection/Alert Notification Policy/Do not send me notification", to stop the device from sending notifications.
Q: What is notification policy?
A: You can set "notification policy" to define the notification sending behaviors.
1. turn off alert notification.
2. send notification for every event.
3. Set a timer (Silent Period), and device will send notification if no events were been detected during the past configured period.
Q: How to enable alert with video clips?
A: You have to subscribe to Amaryllo Cloud Gold or Platinum plan to enable video alert. When video alert is enabled, the device will generate a short video clip for that event to replace the snapshot.
Q: What's the differences between Amaryllo Cloud Basic, Gold and Platinum plans?
Basic - uploaded videos will be kept for 24 hours.
Gold - uploaded videos will be kept for 30 days.
Platinum - uploaded videos will be kept for 365 days.
Video alerts will be enabled when you subscribe to Amaryllo Gold or Platinum plan.
Q: How does intruder alarm function work?
A: For iSensor, if intruder alarm setting is on, when motion/audio events are detected, the device will generate several long beep sounds. Patio does not support Intruder Alarm.
For iSensor you can turn on/off Intruder Alarm from (iOS: Settings/ALERT->Intruder alarm. Android: Settings/Alert detection->Intruder alarm).


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Le viaduc de Ribeyrès est un pont ferroviaire de la ligne de Figeac à Arvant construit en 1866 sur les communes de Lacapelle-Viescamp et du Rouget-Pers, dans le département du Cantal, en France.

Histoire

Le viaduc a initialement été construit pour franchir la vallée de la Cère car elle était trop profonde à cet endroit mais le lac de Saint-Étienne-Cantalès dû à la construction du barrage inauguré le   a modifié la configuration du lieu.

Initialement, le viaduc était constitué de piles métalliques reposant sur des plots maçonnés. En effet, lors de la construction du viaduc en 1866, le lit de la rivière Cère était à son état naturel. Les ingénieurs ont fait le choix technique d'utiliser des piles métalliques car il était possible d'utiliser cette technique de construction pour un viaduc hors sol.

Lors de la construction du barrage de Saint-Étienne-Cantalès, les piles métalliques du viaduc allaient être immergées dans un lac de retenue et donc se corroder rapidement. Les ingénieurs ont alors décidé de reconstruire les piles du viaduc de Ribeyrès. Les travaux ont débuté en 1939 et en 1945 les nouvelles piles en béton du viaduc ont pu être immergées à la suite de la mise en eau du barrage.

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Il est constitué d'un tablier métallique et comporte 5 piles en béton. Sa longueur totale est de 309 m et la portée principale fait 50 m de long.

Lorsque le barrage de Saint-Étienne-Cantalès est totalement rempli, le viaduc est à quelques mètres au dessus de l'eau, lorsque le barrage est vidangé, le viaduc se trouve 56 m au dessus du sol à son point le plus haut. La hauteur au dessus de l'eau du viaduc varie donc aujourd'hui en fonction de la fluctuation du niveau de la retenue d'eau.

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"Don't grow up, it's a trap!" That's one of my all time favourite quotes - and it always come to my mind whenever I visit fairs like winter wonderland! Each year, one of the royal parks - Hyde Park to be exact - turns into this magical place your 8-year-old self will ever dream of! Winter Wonderland has always been special to me. When Gab and myself were walking last Tuesday night, it occurred to me that this was where we took our first selfie picture! That was Christmas 2015, where has the time gone? Visiting Winter Wonderland has become our little tradition. Each Christmas time, we always make it a point to visit the place and I will never get tired of it!


This bus-route is no longer running, from 4 March 2012.
It is replaced by Route 402 - Seacrest.
This bus service runs between Eyre Square in Galway city centre, and the southern part of Knocknacarra. Buses on this route travel through, or past Galway Cathedral, NUIG, University Hospital, Shantalla, Taylors Hill and Kingston.


What is it about folks with newfound wealth (e.g. some millennial scores big when he sells his startup) that makes them think that they can now opine with confidence on complex policy issues? So it is with concerns about automation and robots and their anticipated effects on the economy; how many times have you ready a pronouncement in the tech media about the need to provide a Basic Income Guarantee (BIG) recently? Basically, provide folks with an income "Floor" so that, when their industry is disrupted, they don't end up on the street.
And not just millennials – Bill Gates was quoted recently musing about the need for a "…tax on robots…" to fund social programs needed to mitigate the dislocations those machines will cause. (He didn't back a "…tax on spreadsheet software.." to fund social disruptions it cause when his company was taking off a couple of decades ago. How strange.).
The federal government currently funds 126 separate anti-poverty programs, at least 72 of which provide either cash or in-kind benefits to individuals. For example, there are 33 housing programs, run by four different cabinet departments, including bizarrely the Department of Energy. There are currently 21 different programs providing food or food purchasing assistance. These programs are administered by three different federal departments and one independent agency. There are eight different health care programs, administered by five separate agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services. And six cabinet departments and five independent agencies oversee 27 cash or general assistance programs. All together, seven different cabinet agencies and six independent agencies administer at least one anti-poverty program.
Another argument in favor of the BGI is effectiveness: we've spent about $19 TN since Lyndon Johnson initiated his "War on Poverty" in 1965 and, while we have kept folks from absolute destitution, we have failed at raising that population out of poverty. A third argument in favor of the BGI is liberty: treat recipients like adults and let them do what they want with the money.
A final argument – one made by Bill Gates and his millennial fellow travelers – is that the changes that technology will bring in coming years will be highly disruptive, so we need to do something to help the average joe through this period of rapid change.
If only it were that simple. First, there is the question about how disruptive this next disruption will be (This OECD paper notes that the middle class is doing quite well and that, if it has a threat, it is the high cost of housing, a decidly low tech issue.); while there is general angst about changes technology will wreak on the economy it is too early to tell what is actually going to happen. Second, a BIG would be insanely expensive: the CATO paper I reference above puts the cost at well north of $2 TN. We spend about $1 TN on current welfare programs and, even if we could roll social security and mortgage interest deductibility into the program (Good luck with that!), we would still come up short. Higher taxes anyone?
Finally, the attraction of simplicity – something that appeals to libertarians like Cato – is likely a chimera. Those 126 poverty programs noted above are the product of a messy, complicated, venal political system that isn't likely to change anytime soon. Just ask Steve Forbes how far he has gotten with his flat tax idea.
So, the next time some recently wealthy millennial (Or Bill Gates) opines on our need to plan for and fund a BIG, you might want to take their comments with a grain of salt.


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by Birgit Heidsiek, cineuropa
"Tehran taboo" is one among 7 films that have been selected to be screened in the International Critics' Week section at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.
One of the most politically charged works to compete at Critics' Week is an animated feature, Ali Soozandeh's "Tehran Taboo," which delivers an uncompromising snapshot of life in Teheran, a city where basic civil liberties are banned, corruption is rampant and women are oppressed. --Variety
This animated social drama tells the stories of young people in today's Teheran, a city of prohibitions and doctrines.
Pari, a single mom, can only feed her five year old son by working as a prostitute. After a one-night-stand Babak faces the reality of having to finance a 'virginity-operation' for Donya, while Sara is living the traditional Iranian life of an obedient housewife together with her husband and his parents. When all of their lives start to collide, they will change drastically.
In his animated drama, the German-Iranian filmmaker paints a dark picture of the metropolis, a city of prohibitions, draconian dogmas and restrictive laws.
"Tehran taboo" is an upcoming animated featured film about the difficult life of 4 young people in Tehran directed by Ali Soozandeh. In their desperate search for freedom and happiness, four young people from Tehran, Iran are forced to break the taboos of a restrictive, islamic society.
The competition at Cannes Critics' Week includes for the first time a feature animation and feature documentary: Iranian director Ali Soozandeh's daring Tehran Taboo, an exploration of sexuality in the Iranian capital, and Emmanuel Gras's Makala, about a young man in the Congo who is determined to offer his family a better future.
The lives of three strong-willed women and a young musician cross paths in Tehran's schizophrenic society where sex, adultery, corruption, prostitution and drugs coexist with strict religious law. In this bustling modern metropolis, avoiding prohibition has become an everyday sport and breaking taboos can be a means of personal emancipation.
Tehran Taboo is completely filmed in a green screen and edited afterwards in post-production to give it a comic-like style. As part of the "Rotoscoping" and "Compositing" teams at Little Dream Entertainment GmbH I helped to archive the special look of the film and to create and build the different scenes and stages. The film is expected to be in cinemas in 2016.
TEHRAN TABOO (2017) by Ali Soozandeh
Animation – Rotoscopy technique
Germany/Austria / 2017 / 2:35 / 5.1 / Persian / 96' / Completed
Tehran is a city full of restrictions and religious laws where any type of crime leads to draconic punishment. Yet, the lust for life in young women and men who seek to live freely has made it an everyday sport to avoid these strict prohibitions. Three women of different social backgrounds and a young musician will cross path. This humanist film expresses with tenderness and humor the hypocrisy and the contradictions of the system and its consequences.
For his ambitious debut feature film, Tehran Taboo, North Rhine-Westphalia-based German-Iranian filmmaker Ali Soozandeh is combining some innovative stylistic devices from animation and graphic novels. Shot entirely in a green-screen studio in Vienna with real actors, the authentic social drama will feature animated characters who take a close look behind the moral curtain of the Iranian theocracy. For this animated movie, Cologne-based CGI and animation studio Pixeltruck developed new animation techniques in order to blend real and animated actors with 3D animation and drawings made by hand.
A single mother lives with her five-year-old, mute son in a high-rise area in the middle of the metropolis. In order to pay her rent and for the divorce from her jailed husband, she works as a prostitute but pretends to be a nurse on a night shift. She shares her secret with her pregnant neighbour, a bored housewife, who takes care of her son but also hopes to find a way out of her everyday life. A young music student also lives in the same neighbourhood but gets into trouble after a one-night stand with an 18-year-old virgin.
Tehran Taboo is the first feature-film project by Cologne-based production company Little Dream Entertainment. The German-Austrian co-production is staged in partnership with Vienna-based coop 99, ZDF/Arte and ORF. It is supported by the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, the Austrian Film Institute, the German Federal Film Fund, Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, the Vienna Film Fund, FISA and the Hessische Filmförderung. In Germany, Tehran Taboo will be released theatrically by Camino Film.
Elmira Rafizadeh, Zahra Amir Ebrahimi, Arash Marandi, Negar Nasseri, Bilal Yasar, Morteza Tavakoli, Alireza Bayram, Klaus Ofczarek
Director / Writer Ali Soozandeh
DoP Martin Gschlacht
Costume Designer Erika Navas
Make-up Artist Wiltrud Derschmidt
Art Directior Ali Soozandeh
Set-Dresser Peter Suchy
Editors Frank Geiger, Andrea Mertens
VFX Supervisors Ali Samadi Ahadi, Christian Schiffler
Producers Frank Geiger, Ali Samadi Ahadi, Marc Fencer, Armin Hofmann, Antonin Svoboda, Bruno Wagner
Ali Soozandeh
1970 born in Shiraz, Iran
3D artist and freelancing filmmaker
+ studied at the Academy of Media Arts Teheran
+ Founder of CARTOONAMOON filmproduction
Script & direction of various short films
Animation of various feature films
Animation for the cinema documentary THE GREEN WAVE (Director: Ali Samadi Ahadi, 2010)
Animation for the cinema documentary CAMP 14 – Total Control Zone (Director: Marc Wiese, 2011)
Animation for the feature film DIE MAMBA (Director: Ali Samadi Ahadi, 2013/14)
TEHERAN TABU is his first feature film as a director
Drama | D, A - IN POST-PRODUCTIONvon / by Ali Soozandeh