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Members of the National Guard are given weapons before Democrats begin debating one article of impeachment against President Donald Trump at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, DC, on January 13.
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National Guard members sleep in the Capitol Vistor's Center on Capitol Hill before Democrats begin debating one article of impeachment against President Donald Trump at the Capitol, in Washington, on January 13.
20,000 National Guard troops expected in Washington for Biden's inauguration
By Zachary Cohen, Geneva Sands and Barbara Starr, CNN
Updated Jan 14, 2021 | Posted on Jan 13, 2021
(CNN) -- More than 20,000 National Guard members could be in the nation's capital to help secure President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration, as sources tell CNN that officials are considering raising the terrorism threat level and are worried about explosives being used in the capital city.
The US Secret Service on Wednesday officially took charge of security for Biden's inauguration as authorities warned of new threats across the country after last week's violence at the Capitol.
Multiple defense officials have told CNN that the National Guard and law enforcement expect improvised explosive devices (IEDs), like pipe bombs and Molotov cocktails, to be a threat in the unrest surrounding the inauguration in Washington. The planning is to assume perpetrators will come with high "aggression," one senior defense official said.
"Their intentions are very serious," the official added.
FBI Director Chris Wray and other federal officials said Wednesday on a call with nationwide law enforcement leaders they remain concerned about the prospect of extremists appearing at planned rallies and conducting violence, a source said.
The physical security perimeter around the Capitol and other key buildings also continues to expand. Road blocks and steel barriers are extending many blocks from the Capitol. Road blocks are also being set up further out from the White House and the National Naval Observatory, where the vice president lives.
The Secret Service is leading the overall security effort working in coordination with federal law enforcement agencies and the Pentagon. Multiple senior defense officials told CNN that there is a major interagency "requirements" meeting Wednesday to discuss in depth security requirements.
Asked if he's ever seen this much law enforcement reinforcement coming to the District, the newly installed Washington, DC, Police Chief Robert Contee, who is a veteran of the Metropolitan Police Department and a lifelong DC resident, answered, "not at this level, no."
Massive National Guard presence in Washington
Multiple defense officials tell CNN that the total request for National Guard is close to 30,000 guardsmen to support US Capitol Police, Park Police and Washington Metropolitan Police Department but officials believe that the actual number needed is closer to 20,000. The final numbers will be provided by the Secret Service.
The officials added that there is no concern that there will be any shortage of Guard forces to meet requirements from the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
The more than 20,000 National Guard members expected for Biden's inauguration is more than three times the number of active duty US troops currently in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria combined, a staggering statistic that underscores just how massive the security presence will be.
The Defense Department is meeting Trump's January 15 deadline to draw down the number of troops in both Iraq and Afghanistan to 2,500 in each country, according to the Pentagon. About 900 US troops will remain in Syria, multiple defense officials said.
Biden has given no indication of wanting other than a small number of troops in Afghanistan for counterterrorism missions.
The numbers of US personnel in both Iraq and Afghanistan are likely higher officials said because hundreds of contractors provide services to the military in both countries.
Officials consider raising national terror threat level
Discussions are underway about raising the terrorism threat level, according to two sources familiar with the discussions, though one source cautioned no changes are expected as of now.
The National Terrorism Advisory System -- which replaced color-coded alerts of the Homeland Security Advisory System -- falls under the Department of Homeland Security. Advisories are pushed out in the event of an imminent or elevated threat to the public.
One of the officials said the discussions began following last week's insurrection and was based on information that a similar attack by "armed militias" could happen at the Capitol or elsewhere.
The latest advisory issued stemmed from an Iran-related terrorism threat to the United States last January. It's since expired. According to the DHS website, decisions about issuing an advisory, and what form it takes, are informed by "intelligence assessments and risks to the public and critical infrastructure."
DHS did not immediately respond to CNN's request for comment.
'The chatter is off the charts'
The Secret Service is taking the lead of inauguration security planning efforts as there is a growing concern among law enforcement officials that violent mobs' success in breaching the Capitol has increased the potential for attacks because people may be emboldened to carry out violence.
"The chatter is off the charts right now," one official said.
CNN reported on Tuesday that thousands of armed pro-Donald Trump extremists are plotting to surround the US Capitol ahead of Biden's inauguration, according to a member of Congress who was among those briefed late Monday.
But the Secret Service is prepared to secure the inauguration, the Department of Homeland Security's second-in-command Ken Cuccinelli told CNN, while acknowledging there are always "problem players" that show up.
"There's always problem players that talk before an inauguration, and there are always some that show up," Cuccinelli, the DHS senior official performing the duties of the deputy secretary, when asked about threats to the upcoming event. Cuccinelli also said that the Secret Service is preparing for the possibility of a bigger security problem than the events of January 6 but added that the agency is "thoroughly prepared to contend with it."
Several officials told CNN that there is a much better feeling that things are organized and being put into place correctly because the Secret Service is in charge, with one official simply saying: "They don't mess around."
Cuccinelli, who has been the public face for the department on security issues since the Capitol attack, said the biggest change to security preparations has been moving the start date for the National Special Security Event (NSSE) up six days, with the official designation coming Wednesday morning.
An NSSE is intended to bring in the full force of the federal government and its resources and puts the Secret Service as the lead for security operations.
The security measures even include parking spots.
DC Mayor Muriel Bowser said public parking garages in areas of downtown DC and near the Capitol will be closed off starting at 6:00 a.m. ET Friday through the inauguration. Any cars left in those garages will be inaccessible until after the Inauguration.
This story has been updated with additional developments.
CNN's Priscilla Alvarez, Vivian Salama, Alison Main and Nicky Robertson contributed to this report.
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Alisson earned a glowing tribute from Jurgen Klopp as Liverpool's new No 1 made an impressive start to life as football's most expensive goalkeeper.
The Brazil international had only trained with his new team-mates for five days at camp in Evian but he was quickly on the same wavelength and his first meaningful action in the 5-0 drubbing of Napoli was a 60-yard pass that flew like a javelin into Mohamed Salah's feet.
Such was Liverpool's dominance in front of a sell-out 51,512 crowd, Alisson – who cost £65million when he left Roma last month – barely had a save to make and it was his footwork that most impressed his new manager.
'He's quite a good footballer,' Klopp said with a telling smile.
'It was an all-round good performance. Everyone can imagine what it's like to play your first game after everything that's been written about him. He was very aware of all the situations when he was needed behind a high last line.
Klopp insisted nothing should be read into the final score but there was no getting away from how impressively his team attacked. They took a fourth-minute lead through James Milner and doubled that advantage moments later when Milner's cross was headed in by Gini Wijnaldum.
Liverpool went through the gears after half-time with Salah scoring the third, Daniel Sturridge drilling home the fourth and Alberto Moreno smashing in a drive at the back post to complete the rout. It is no exaggeration to say they could have scored 10.
There was, however, a sour point to the night as James Milner suffered a horrible gash to his head, an injury that is likely to put his place in the side for next Sunday's Premier League opener against West Ham in jeopardy.


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US media alibis for torture in Iraq
Photographs of the sadistic torture of Iraqi prisoners at the hands of US troops became front-page news around the world after their release last week. Only in two countries were they largely suppressed by the media—the United States and Iraq itself.
In Iraq, newspapers that can be—and have been—shut down at a moment's notice by order of the US occupation chief Paul Bremer chose not to publish them. Most Iraqis viewed on Arab television the revolting scenes of their countrymen, naked and with bags over their heads, being abused by leering American soldiers.
In the US last Friday, as people throughout the world viewed the appalling photographs on the front pages of their newspapers, not a single major American daily chose to give them similar treatment, and most blacked them out altogether.
CBS News, which first broadcast the photos on its "60 Minutes II" program last week, withheld the story for fully two weeks at the request of General Richard Myers, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. When it did air the segment, it was produced with the cooperation of the Pentagon, which sought to frame the story in such a way as to contain the damage before the foreign media obtained the same pictures.
But such is the gravity of this damage to US policy in the Arab and Muslim world that little or nothing can be done to contain it. The televised images seen by Iraqis have largely sealed the fate of the US occupation. They have confirmed the widespread and well-founded opinion that the war launched by the Bush administration was aimed not at liberating but subjugating the people of Iraq and expropriating the country's oil wealth. And they have created vast new reservoirs of support for a nationalist resistance that had already gained a mass following.
Iraqis viewing the hooded, naked men forced by grinning Americans to pile onto each other, simulate sex acts and, in one case, stand on a box with electrodes attached to the prisoner's body, were left to wonder whether the faces behind the masks were those of their relatives, neighbors or co-workers, tens of thousands of whom have disappeared into a network of concentration camps set up by the US occupation.
So the US media's efforts have largely been aimed at softening the impact of these revelations upon the American people themselves, among whom antiwar sentiment has never been higher. Two newspapers that serve as national voices for the ruling political establishment made this clear in a pair of editorials published over the weekend.
"President Bush spoke for all Americans of conscience yesterday when he expressed disgust" over the photographs, the New York Times declared in an editorial Saturday entitled "Abuses at Abu Ghraib."
It continued, stating that the torture and abuse captured in the photos defied "the accepted conventions of war" and supporting Bush's contention that the crimes committed at Abu Ghraib prison were the work merely of a "few soldiers" who would be "taken care of."
The media—including the Times—revel in proclaiming Bush the "commander-in-chief" as if it were some royal title. Yet now, somehow, he is the voice of "conscience" who bears no responsibility for the actions of those soldiers whom he presumes to command.
It can be safely assumed that Bush was neither shocked nor disgusted. The White House and the Pentagon had known about these atrocities for months and had done all they could to prevent them from being exposed.
As for the claim that torture at the US concentration camps is a crime carried out by just a handful of depraved military police reservists, it is disproved by the very existence of the photographs. Why did these soldiers feel so comfortable recording their criminal actions for posterity? How were they were able to assemble large numbers of naked prisoners in an open area and stack them into a pyramid for their amusement, without any fear of being discovered or punished?
Clearly, this degrading and abusive treatment was standard operating procedure for the US military. Torture was accepted and encouraged.
Photos just "the tip of the iceberg"
The human rights group Amnesty International described the actions shown in the photographs as just "the tip of the iceberg." In a 2003 report, it stated: "Many detainees have alleged they were tortured and ill-treated by US and UK troops during interrogation. Methods reported often include beatings; prolonged sleep deprivation; prolonged restraint in painful positions, sometimes combined with exposure to loud music; prolonged hooding and exposure to bright light." The organization has documented a number of cases in which detainees have been beaten or tortured to death.
On the same day the Times published its editorial, the New Yorker magazine's web site posted a story by Seymour Hersh citing a 53-page report prepared by an Army general that concluded that "sadistic, blatant and wanton criminal abuses" were commonplace at Abu Ghraib.
Among the crimes, Major General Antonio Taguba recounted in his report: "Breaking chemical lights and pouring the phosphoric liquid on detainees; pouring cold water on naked detainees; beating detainees with a broom handle and a chair; threatening male detainees with rape...sodomizing a detainee with a chemical light and perhaps a broom stick, and using military working dogs to frighten and intimidate detainees with threats of attack, and in one instance actually biting a detainee."
Hersh points out that many of the thousands of detainees held at Abu Ghraib were there simply because they were caught up in sweeps of neighborhoods or grabbed at military checkpoints.
The article includes a chilling indication of the extent to which the military has inculcated the attitude among the troops that Iraqis—and for that matter all Arabs and Muslims—are subhumans against whom cruelty can be inflicted with impunity. One soldier—who testified against other members of his unit—told of seeing another soldier "hitting one prisoner in the side of its ribcage." Not "his" ribcage, but "its." The Iraqi detainee was not seen as a human being.
General Taguba's report also concludes that the military police reservists—including the six who are the only ones facing prosecution at this point—were instructed by military intelligence and CIA interrogators to "set physical and mental conditions for favorable interrogation of witnesses." That is, use torture and abuse to "break" the prisoners. Witnesses cited in the report quote military intelligence officers praising those carrying out these criminal acts. "Good job, they're breaking down real fast," said one.
Responsibility for these crimes go right up a chain of command—Taguba calls for reprimanding a colonel and lieutenant colonel responsible for military intelligence interrogations—that ends with the president himself.
In solidarizing themselves with Bush, the Times editors note that the vile actions of US soldiers at Abu Ghraib defy "the accepted conventions of war." But the entire Iraqi invasion and occupation has been carried out in defiance of "accepted conventions of war." Washington carried out an unprovoked war aimed at conquering an independent country that posed no threat to the United States, in order to subdue its people and seize control of its oil resources.
The Bush administration has prided itself on its arrogant refusal to be bound by any tenet of international law, repudiating the International Criminal Court and demanding that countries where its military operates agree to hold US soldiers as well as civilians immune from any charges of war crimes or human rights violations.
Bush himself glories in illegal acts of violence, boasting of US assassinations as a means of bringing Washington's enemies "to justice." To proclaim such an individual as the voice of "conscience" speaking for "all Americans" is an obscenity.
For its part, the Washington Post, the authoritative voice of the Washington political establishment, published an editorial headlined "Rule of Lawlessness." Again, while ostensibly condemning the acts at Abu Ghraib, the editorial is crafted in a manner designed to minimize and even justify them.
"Taken together, the photographs demonstrate some of the most demeaning, humiliating and shameful treatment of prisoners imaginable, short of actual physical torture," the Post writes.
Forcing naked men with bags over their heads to climb onto each other in a pyramid, or attaching electrodes to a man's body and telling him he is going to be electrocuted if he falls off a box, is indeed torture. A number of Iraqis have come forward to say that they found the kind of degenerate sexual humiliation carried out by their US captors worse than the physical torture inflicted by the secret police of the Saddam Hussein regime.
The Post laments the existence of the photographs for the "the damage they have done to America's image in the world, to the cause of stability in Iraq and even to the cause of democracy in the Middle East."
In reality, these images have provided a graphic expression of the criminal character and aims of the US intervention in Iraq. The war and occupation have nothing to do with democracy. The type of cruelty seen in these pictures is a feature of every war waged by an imperialist power against the people it seeks to colonize.
The Post goes on: "The fact that some of the soldiers in charge of the prison have now been suspended or penalized will surely be overlooked by foreign audiences, and the fact that the prisoners had attacked US troops matters not at all."
This argument, meant to exonerate the US military, consists of inventions and lies. Those who are being prosecuted were not "in charge of the prison"; they consist of a handful of low-ranking reservists who are, from the standpoint of the Pentagon, entirely expendable. As for the prisoners having "attacked US troops," how do the Post editors know that? Have they the names and records of the naked men with sacks on their heads? The bulk of those who are being held at the US prisons and torture camps were grabbed on the flimsiest grounds by US troops and are being held indefinitely without hearings or even charges.
Finally, the newspaper chides the Bush administration for failing to provide "adequate legal processes" for detainees held without charges not only in Iraq, but in Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere.
"Better than any legal treatise, these photographs demonstrate the potentially corrupting effect of the atmosphere of lawlessness in these prisons," the editorial concludes. "It must not be allowed to continue."
But the "corrupting...atmosphere of lawlessness" did not begin in the military's prison camps. The torture carried out there is only the refined expression of the corrupt and lawless character of the US ruling establishment and the policy of armed conquest it has pursued in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.
America's ruling elite, both the Democratic and Republican parties, and in particular the corporate-controlled media are all implicated in the shameful and repulsive crimes carried out at Abu Ghraib and other US concentration camps and prisons around the world. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and others are guilty of war crimes for the actions carried out by their military subordinates.
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The company is primarily a knowledge-based company. Our primary businesses are international trade involving commodities, consumer and industrial products; complex project management; and strategic finance and investment. Other important services include marketing and distribution, sourcing and transfer of technology as well as product sourcing and supply chain management.
With our Industrial Finance, Logistics and Development Division and an increasing investment focus, the company offers a broad range of services to add value and create international business opportunities.
Our key business strategy involves leveraging our knowledge of industries and markets around the world to create new, sustainable businesses. We transform opportunities into business by providing services to various industries at different stages of the product or project life cycle. We add value through our ability to finance and invest in the development of companies and projects, as well as through our expertise in developing the upstream and downstream activities needed for businesses to succeed.
Strategically investing across crucial touch points, we help create dynamic new ventures that benefit our business partners and society as a whole.
Mitsubishi Corporation's scope of business is often difficult to grasp. We are often confused with Mitsubishi Motors, or Mitsubishi Electric. These businesses are actually owned by separate, independent companies who share the "Mitsubishi" name.
So what is Mitsubishi Corporation?


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A Houston-based gun group, Armed Citizen Project, is planning to sponsor a "National Empowerment Day" aimed at training and arming 500 single mothers and other women across the country.
Organizers told reporters that the event will commence on August 10th and will represent a "massive expansion of the group's efforts".
"We will be working with shooting ranges and gun clubs across the country," he said.
"There exists a subtle misogyny used in the messaging of anti-gun groups, keeping women dependent on others to provide their protection, when our nation's constitution makes clear they have the right to provide this protection for themselves," Coplen added.
This isn't the first time Armed Citizen Project has worked with the local community. In April the group went into high-crime areas and worked to provide shotguns and training for residents who enrolled in the course.
Texas isn't the only state bringing the power to the people, a similar program has cropped up in Tuscon, Arizona—launched by a former mayoral candidate.
"Shaun McClusky says the program modeled after one recently launched in Houston would provide training and enough money to buy a basic shotgun to residents who pass background checks. McClusky's program has so far raised $12,000," CBSLasVegas reported.
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The images below are the layout with the printed text copied from an 1884 form that would have been filled in by the Registrar on a United Synagogue Marriage Authorisation: The first image is the form itself and includes a further page of explanations: the second a 'real' authorisation - that of my half Great Uncle*. If you know where to look the form contains keys to clues for genealogical research and this is what we have tried to show. To see a larger version of each image please click on it and remember to click with the magnifying glass in the new page that will open. By 1886 the certificates included a new observation as to whether the bride and groom were related to each other and if so, how.
* I have included this image because it opened up a new line of research for me. I had always understood that my grandfather's half brother Leopold had the surname Courts, as he did on the 1891 census. However, as you will see his name shows as Leopold Coorts. From this authorisation I was able to find the birth years of his children using the unusual spelling of the surname.


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package com.google.crypto.tink.mac;

import com.google.crypto.tink.KeyTemplate;
import com.google.crypto.tink.Mac;
import com.google.crypto.tink.Registry;
import com.google.crypto.tink.internal.KeyTypeManager;
import com.google.crypto.tink.internal.PrimitiveFactory;
import com.google.crypto.tink.proto.AesCmacKey;
import com.google.crypto.tink.proto.AesCmacKeyFormat;
import com.google.crypto.tink.proto.AesCmacParams;
import com.google.crypto.tink.proto.KeyData.KeyMaterialType;
import com.google.crypto.tink.subtle.PrfAesCmac;
import com.google.crypto.tink.subtle.PrfMac;
import com.google.crypto.tink.subtle.Random;
import com.google.crypto.tink.subtle.Validators;
import com.google.protobuf.ByteString;
import com.google.protobuf.ExtensionRegistryLite;
import com.google.protobuf.InvalidProtocolBufferException;
import java.security.GeneralSecurityException;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

/**
 * This key manager generates new {@code AesCmacKey} keys and produces new instances of {@code
 * AesCmac}.
 */
public final class AesCmacKeyManager extends KeyTypeManager<AesCmacKey> {
  AesCmacKeyManager() {
    super(
        AesCmacKey.class,
        new PrimitiveFactory<Mac, AesCmacKey>(Mac.class) {
          @Override
          public Mac getPrimitive(AesCmacKey key) throws GeneralSecurityException {
            return new PrfMac(
                new PrfAesCmac(key.getKeyValue().toByteArray()), key.getParams().getTagSize());
          }
        });
  }

  private static final int VERSION = 0;
  private static final int KEY_SIZE_IN_BYTES = 32;
  private static final int MIN_TAG_SIZE_IN_BYTES = 10;
  private static final int MAX_TAG_SIZE_IN_BYTES = 16;

  @Override
  public String getKeyType() {
    return "type.googleapis.com/google.crypto.tink.AesCmacKey";
  }

  @Override
  public int getVersion() {
    return VERSION;
  }

  @Override
  public KeyMaterialType keyMaterialType() {
    return KeyMaterialType.SYMMETRIC;
  }

  @Override
  public void validateKey(AesCmacKey key) throws GeneralSecurityException {
    Validators.validateVersion(key.getVersion(), getVersion());
    validateSize(key.getKeyValue().size());
    validateParams(key.getParams());
  }

  @Override
  public AesCmacKey parseKey(ByteString byteString) throws InvalidProtocolBufferException {
    return AesCmacKey.parseFrom(byteString, ExtensionRegistryLite.getEmptyRegistry());
  }

  private static void validateParams(AesCmacParams params) throws GeneralSecurityException {
    if (params.getTagSize() < MIN_TAG_SIZE_IN_BYTES) {
      throw new GeneralSecurityException("tag size too short");
    }
    if (params.getTagSize() > MAX_TAG_SIZE_IN_BYTES) {
      throw new GeneralSecurityException("tag size too long");
    }
  }

  private static void validateSize(int size) throws GeneralSecurityException {
    if (size != KEY_SIZE_IN_BYTES) {
      throw new GeneralSecurityException("AesCmacKey size wrong, must be 32 bytes");
    }
  }

  @Override
  public KeyFactory<AesCmacKeyFormat, AesCmacKey> keyFactory() {
    return new KeyFactory<AesCmacKeyFormat, AesCmacKey>(AesCmacKeyFormat.class) {
      @Override
      public void validateKeyFormat(AesCmacKeyFormat format) throws GeneralSecurityException {
        validateParams(format.getParams());
        validateSize(format.getKeySize());
      }

      @Override
      public AesCmacKeyFormat parseKeyFormat(ByteString byteString)
          throws InvalidProtocolBufferException {
        return AesCmacKeyFormat.parseFrom(byteString, ExtensionRegistryLite.getEmptyRegistry());
      }

      @Override
      public AesCmacKey createKey(AesCmacKeyFormat format) throws GeneralSecurityException {
        return AesCmacKey.newBuilder()
            .setVersion(VERSION)
            .setKeyValue(ByteString.copyFrom(Random.randBytes(format.getKeySize())))
            .setParams(format.getParams())
            .build();
      }

      @Override
      public Map<String, KeyFactory.KeyFormat<AesCmacKeyFormat>> keyFormats()
          throws GeneralSecurityException {
        Map<String, KeyFactory.KeyFormat<AesCmacKeyFormat>> result = new HashMap<>();
        result.put(
            "AES_CMAC", // backward compatibility with MacKeyTemplates
            new KeyFactory.KeyFormat<>(
                AesCmacKeyFormat.newBuilder()
                    .setKeySize(32)
                    .setParams(AesCmacParams.newBuilder().setTagSize(16).build())
                    .build(),
                KeyTemplate.OutputPrefixType.TINK));
        result.put(
            "AES256_CMAC",
            new KeyFactory.KeyFormat<>(
                AesCmacKeyFormat.newBuilder()
                    .setKeySize(32)
                    .setParams(AesCmacParams.newBuilder().setTagSize(16).build())
                    .build(),
                KeyTemplate.OutputPrefixType.TINK));
        result.put(
            "AES256_CMAC_RAW",
            new KeyFactory.KeyFormat<>(
                AesCmacKeyFormat.newBuilder()
                    .setKeySize(32)
                    .setParams(AesCmacParams.newBuilder().setTagSize(16).build())
                    .build(),
                KeyTemplate.OutputPrefixType.RAW));
        return Collections.unmodifiableMap(result);
      }
    };
  }

  public static void register(boolean newKeyAllowed) throws GeneralSecurityException {
    Registry.registerKeyManager(new AesCmacKeyManager(), newKeyAllowed);
    AesCmacProtoSerialization.register();
  }

  /**
   * @return A {@link KeyTemplate} that generates new instances of AES-CMAC keys with the following
   *     parameters:
   *

   *
Key size: 32 bytes
   *
Tag size: 16 bytes
   *
Prefix type: {@link KeyTemplate.OutputPrefixType#TINK}
   *

   *
   * @deprecated use {@code KeyTemplates.get("AES256_CMAC")}
   */
  @Deprecated
  public static final KeyTemplate aes256CmacTemplate() {
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Dr. Hoinski's current work addresses the role of autobiography within philosophy and aims at the articulation of a theory of philosophical autobiography. Dealing with this subject matter, his dissertation included studies of the autobiographical writings of Augustine, Descartes, Vico, Nietzsche, and (perhaps surprisingly) Plato. He is currently working on turning his dissertation into a monograph that will also include chapters on Rousseau and John Stuart Mill. The primary argument of this work is that philosophers write autobiographies in order to present and give some account of philosophical first principles. Dr. Hoinski has also been invited to contribute a chapter on the role of autobiography in Plato and Nietzsche to a forthcoming book (edited by Mark Anderson) that addresses the complex relation between Nietzsche and Plato.
Dr. Hoinski work in ancient philosophy focuses on the interpretation of Plato and Aristotle. He recently finished a paper, to be published in Rhizomata (Fall 2014) and co-authored with Ronald Polansky, offering a new interpretation of the famous palinode in Plato's Phaedrus. His work on Aristotle concentrates on the intellectual virtues and the philosophy of science. At a conference at Vytautas Magnus University (Kaunas, Lithuania, Fall 2011) on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Dr. Hoinski presented an early version of his work on Book 6 that raises the question whether there is a science of sciences for Aristotle. He is also working with Ron Polansky on a book chapter addressing the similarities between Aristotle's philosophy of science and 20th-century philosophy of science, especially as developed by Michael Polanyi in Personal Knowledge and other works. Dr. Hoinski recently (March 2014) presented a paper with another colleague, John Fritz, at the Pennsylvania Circle of Ancient Philosophy on the problem of evil in Plato.
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At WVU, Dr. Hoinski has taught the history of ancient philosophy, the capstone seminar, ethical theory, current moral problems, and social/political philosophy. His first capstone course focused on the study of philosophical autobiographies, and his second was dedicated to a careful study of Rousseau's Emile. He is recently developed a course on the philosophy of law for the Spring 2016 semester.
Dr. Hoinski like to read novels, history, and books concerning the natural sciences.He is also an avid student of foreign languages, especially German and ancient Greek. He considers himself to be a bibliophile (or bibliomaniac) and has a library with more than 3000 volumes. He also like to draw and paint and write poems. Whenever he travels, Dr. Hoinski always tries to visit the art museums and (of course) the bookshops. He is also by long habit and perhaps somewhat tragically a fan of Cleveland sports teams.
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DrupalSouth 2018 will move back across the ditch from Auckland to Canberra, a regular host of the conference. With many Federal Government Agencies embracing Drupal as the go-to content management platform for building scalable and feature-rich websites, DrupalSouth Canberra will be a popular choice. The web's constant evolution calls for an ever-expanding need to adapt and integrate new functionality and demands. Decision-makers and practitioners in the web industry are recognising the value and flexibility of Drupal as a web publishing platform and driving that recognition is the Drupal community.
The Technocrat team includes a large number of Senior and highly qualified Drupal Developers, and we have been faithfully evangelising the power of Drupal and have been active members of the Drupal community for years. Calls for presenters are due to be released imminently, and Technocrat has plans to present a number of sessions. More details available as they come to hand.


The Therapeutic Landscapes Network is pleased to announce the launch of our new website.
– And coming soon, a Network Forum within the site for members to share information and ideas.
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The Therapeutic Landscapes Network is the leading resource for information, education, and inspiration about healing gardens, restorative landscapes, and other green spaces that promote health and well-being. We are a knowledge base and gathering space for a global community of designers, health and human service providers, scholars, gardeners, and nature enthusiasts. Connecting people with information…people…nature.
The Therapeutic Landscapes Network is working feverishly to launch our new website in time for the annual American Society of Landscape Architects Meeting and Expo next week (and the American Horticultural Therapy Association and Healthcare Design 09 conferences soon after that).
Above is a sneak peek at our beautiful homepage. Oooh. Ahhh.
and more information than ever before on gardens, landscapes, and other green spaces that facilitate health and well-being, for an even broader global community of designers, health and human service providers, educators, students, gardeners, and nature enthusiasts.
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If the definition of a "Landscape for Health"(TM) is "any outdoor space that facilitates health and well-being through connection with nature," then the High Line, which opened about three weeks ago and which I visited for the first time yesterday, definitely fits the bill. New York City already has many wonderful parks, from small community gardens and vestpocket parks to the many-acre pastoral settings of Central Park in Manhattan and Prospect Park in Brooklyn. But a linear park on an abandoned elevated railroad that glides above the city streets? This is a first for NYC, and a truly inspiring addition to an already pretty great city (for more information about the High Line's history, designers, construction, and so forth please visit the Friends of the High Line website, www.thehighline.org). To see the rest of this post, please visit the Therapeutic Landscapes Network Blog.
I got this letter from a soon-to-be-graduating BLA student who is looking to work in the field of healthcare design in landscape architecture. It's a question I get a lot, so I thought I'd share her letter and my response on the blog. Hope it's useful!
Dear student: It's true, you're entering the job market at a difficult time. Of course we're all hopeful that things will have picked up – at least a little bit! – by the time you graduate with your BLA in May. Still, if your passion is therapeutic landscapes, then you should at least try to find a firm to work in where you can develop what you've learned in school and do what you love.
As you explore your employment options, I'd suggest asking yourself the following questions: Where am I willing to go? Am I willing to move anywhere in the country (or even outside of the country)? Am I willing to work in any size firm, from one person to 100 people? Am I willing to start with a small salary, doing mostly CAD work, and climb up the ladder as I gain experience and expertise? Am I willing to start somewhere that doesn't specialize in therapeutic landscapes to gain experience and seniority, with the goal of finding somewhere else in a couple-few years? What is it about the study and design of therapeutic landscapes that appeals to me, and how can I best demonstrate my strengths in this area to potential employers? What are my weaknesses, and how would I like to grow and improve in my work? Answering these questions will help you identify your potential employers. The more flexible you are about place/preferences/salary/type of work you are willing and able to do, the better your chances of finding a position.
The three best places to start looking are Land8Lounge, ASLA's Joblink, and the Therapeutic Landscapes Database's People page. The People page is a great resource because all of these designers are working in the specific field that you want to work in – landscapes for health. In the next few months we will be adding many more designers, once we launch our "new improved" website (in the works now).
When I was fresh out of graduate school with my MLA, I very much wanted to work in healthcare design, but I was also moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where any landscape architecture job was hard to come by. I knew that if I really wanted to live in NM, I was probably going to have to put my desire to work in healthcare design aside for awhile. Which I did…and didn't. Although my paid work was with a landscape architect who focused on commercial and high-end residential design, I kept up with my passion in my spare time: I joined the ASLA Healthcare and Therapeutic Design Professional Practice Network (which you should also do, if you haven't yet), started the Therapeutic Landscapes Database, and did pro bono work in the community. If you want something badly enough, you will find a way to do it, whether it's your primary job, your unpaid passion, maybe right now, or perhaps in five or ten years. Knowing what you want you want and going for it takes flexibility, perseverance, and patience.
You are lucky in that you know what you want. So many people fresh out of school have no clue; they just go where the jobs are, letting the tide take them where it will. While they may be earning a steady paycheck, they often find their work to be mind-numbingly and soul-stultifyingly unsatisfying. Of course, the best of all worlds is to earn a steady, lucrative paycheck by doing what you love, where you want, when you want, etc., but sometimes that doesn't all happen at the same time. So give it your best shot! Ask yourself the tough questions, be honest with yourself about the answers, and know your strengths and limitations as you venture out into the wild, wooly, wonderful world of landscape architecture and healthcare design.


Welcome to Day 1 of the German Political Theology Blog Conference, brought to you by Theology Corner! For an introduction to this blog conference and an explanation of who we are, see the first post here.
It should be impossible to write about German political theology, especially in the 20th century, without reference to Helmut Gollwitzer. Sadly, however, doing so has become not only possible but even the default setting. This is in part because Gollwitzer made no widely heralded theological advances upon Barth's dogmatics, as did Eberhard Jüngel. Gollwitzer preferred to "deploy" Barth's dogmatics, i.e., to put its political consequences into practice. Nor did Gollwitzer live so long, and engage so globally, as has Jürgen Moltmann . Perhaps most decisively, however, Gollwitzer's politics were unabashedly leftist. Helmut Gollwitzer was a socialist, and he was unafraid to embrace the sometimes revolutionary political consequences of his encounter with the God of the gospel. Furthermore, Gollwitzer knew whereof he spoke when it came to revolutionary violence: he lived through the First World War as a child; he was associated with the National Socialist movement in his teens before rejecting it and serving on the front lines of the Confessing Church struggle in the 1930s; he was conscripted into the German military during the Second World War, where he served in a machine gun unit and then an ambulance corps, and made it through the war without firing his weapon in combat; he was a prisoner of war in Russia for five years; and he was close to the students during the Berlin student uprising of 1966–68. In what follows, I present three interpretive theses dealing with Gollwitzer's understanding of revolution and violence .
Thesis 1: The question of revolution is ingredient to the gospel itself.
As Gollwitzer put it, "the Christian faith liberates us, our reason and our will, to fight for socialist world revolution" . This is the exact opposite position from the majority of the Western, white theological tradition, which Gollwitzer recognizes as coopted by the values of pagan empire from the time of Constantine. However, while ostensibly and often vociferously rejecting the possibility of revolution, that tradition has nonetheless been an enthusiastic supporter of one revolution in particular, namely, the capitalist revolution. In an essay entitled "Why Black Theology?," Gollwitzer even describes this revolution as a "revolution of the white, Christianized, Protestant peoples" that has achieved "worldwide victory" . Transition to the capitalist economic foundation of modern society was drastic and violent in its overthrow of the status quo. But, Gollwitzer points out, it did not in general challenge Christianity's place in society and so the churches accepted its legitimacy. They have not embraced the idea of socialist revolution, he suggests, because socialist criticism of religion seems to challenge their place in society.
Thesis 2: A just revolution is theoretically possible.
Although it will not carry much weight with those who are absolute pacifists, so to speak, Gollwitzer makes a compellingly commonsensical argument in support of this possibility. Admitting that it is very hard to find wars that meet the criteria of the just war tradition, he notes: "If there are few just wars, there are probably just as few just revolutions. . . . But if there are any just wars, then there are also some just revolutions" . In a set of theses entitled "Socialismus und Revolution," Gollwitzer outlines criteria for a just revolution on analogy to the criteria for just war: it must aim at overthrowing an oppressive power, it must be a truly unavoidable and inevitable last resort, it cannot produce unnecessary suffering or employ means of indiscriminate killing (e.g., terrorism is right out), it cannot be motivated by desire for revenge, it must maintain the rights of the oppressed, and the decision for revolution must be made by a community rather than an individual . This last point is crucial, for it determines that just revolution must develop organically from conditions that oppress a particular community. Only such a community is in a position to make a judgment about, for instance, whether revolution is truly unavoidable and inevitable, whether it will produce unnecessary suffering, and whether it will maintain the rights of that oppressed community.
Thesis 3: Revolutionary violence, although regrettable and indicative of the deep disorder that reigns in human society, is not a unique case.
When the question of revolutionary violence arises, it is often treated as though one must choose between a violence-free situation on one hand and, on the other hand, a revolutionary situation where blood flows unchecked in the streets. This is a false choice, however. The status quo under imperial capitalism was built and is maintained by staggering amounts of violence. And those of us who live in Western societies benefit from that violence, to greater or lesser extents. We are ineluctably and inextricably entangled in systems of violence. Even the most benign and apparently beneficent example of authority upholding the status quo, such as a police officer giving a ticket to enforce speed limits in a school zone, functions because of the threat of violence: resist that authority and you will end up in jail, or worse. The actual choice, then, is between a situation where violence maintains an unjust status quo, and a revolutionary situation where violence challenges and attempts to overthrow that unjust status quo. Furthermore, the question of whether there will be revolutionary violence ultimately rests with the powers-that-be rather than with the revolutionary powers-that-would-be. Everything comes down to whether the guardians of the status quo choose to use violence to maintain their existing privilege against demands for revolution. If they do so, then revolutionary violence may perhaps become necessary. As Gollwitzer says, "if force is to be used, then it can sooner be justified where it is applied to shattering unjust oppressive force than to maintaining it" . Under such conditions, revolutionary violence ultimately serves love of neighbor.
None of this is to suggest that violence is unequivocally good under certain conditions. Even when talking about the possibility of a just revolution, Gollwitzer never envisions a revolution that is sin-free, as it were. He knows that we tread here on paths far from the good, the true, and the beautiful. But such is the character of human life under the condition of sin that sometimes violence, albeit inherently destructive and dehumanizing, is the necessary choice of the oppressed in resisting their oppressors. So I conclude with Gollwitzer: "violence brutalizes, even though the oppressed cannot avoid it in their struggle. Limiting violence to a last resort and humanizing the methods of violence as much as possible are in the interest of the revolutionary movement, not only for reasons of expedience, but for retention of the humane freedom-loving character of the movement itself" .
 Moltmann does provide a tribute to Gollwitzer, however: see Jürgen Moltmann, A Broad Place: An Autobiography, Margaret Kohl, trans. (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2009), 245–49.
 For much more on Gollwitzer's remarkable biography, as well as an introduction to his theology and politics, see W. Travis McMaken, Our God Loves Justice: An Introduction to Helmut Gollwitzer (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2017). For his biography, see especially pp. 19–50; for more on Gollwitzer and revolution, see especially pp. 131–45.
 Helmut Gollwitzer, "Auf dem Linken pfad geschmeichelt?" Müssen Christen Sozialisten sein? Zwischen Glaube und Politik, Wolfgang Teichert, ed. (Hamburg: Lutherisches Verlagshaus, 1976), 36–37.
 Helmut Gollwitzer, "Why Black Theology?," Union Seminary Quarterly Review 31, no. 1 (1975): 42. For those interested in Gollwitzer's engagement with Marxism, see W. Travis McMaken, "The Blame Lies with the Christians: Helmut Gollwitzer's Engagement with Marxist Criticism of Religion," The Other Journal 22 (2013): 13–20 (http://theotherjournal.com/2013/04/22/the-blame-lies-with-the-christians-helmut-gollwitzers-engagement-with-marxist-criticism-of-religion/).
 Helmut Gollwitzer, The Rich Christians and Poor Lazarus, David Cairns, trans. (New York: Macmillan, 1970), 62.
 Helmut Gollwitzer, "Sozialismus und Revolution," Umkehr und Revolution: Aufsätze zu christlichem Glauben und Marxismus, band 1, Christian Keller, ed. Ausgewahlte Werke (Munchen: Chr. Kaiser, 1988), 168.
 Gollwitzer, "Why Black Theology?," 57–58.
McMaken is Associate Professor of Religion, Chair of Interdisciplinary Studies, and Assistant Dean of Multidisciplinary Humanities in the School of Humanities at Lindenwood University's St. Charles, MO campus. His writing engages primarily with 20th century theology (esp. Protestant theology, with specialization in Karl Barth, Helmut Gollwitzer, and T. F. Torrance) while working constructively on the subjects of sacramentology, ecclesiology, and political theology.


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Dr. Sean Casey is Vice President of Commercial Business Development for Atlas Space Operations, and Co-Founder of the Silicon Valley Space Center (SVSC), a business accelerator for NewSpace entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. As a mentor and investor, Dr. Casey has supported early stage startups in hardware, software, and wetware (i.e. manned spaceflight) sectors of the growing commercial spaceflight industry. He is the president of Silicon Valley Chapter of the Space and Satellite Professionals International (SSPI), a member of the Suborbital Applications Researchers Group of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation (CSF) and served over two decades as a NASA astrophysicist and airborne astronomer.
Dr. Casey is a frequent invited speaker for many events including Space Frontier Foundation's NewSpace conference, Space 2.0 by Infocast, SpaceCom in Houston, the Satellite Innovation Symposium in Silicon Valley, and an occasional space industry commentator on Bloomberg TV. He is a co-author on numerous publications and has a PhD in Astrophysics from the University of Chicago and dual MBAs from the Berkeley Haas and Columbia Schools of Business.
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