NACE International, CoatingsPro Magazine, INSPECT This, and the Master Painters Institute (MPI) jointly presented the inaugural Protective Coatings Workshop. The two-day interactive workshop, designed for those working in or interested in learning more about coatings, features presentations from coatings industry leaders; an introduction to new emerging technologies, and highlights the experience and accomplishments of those currently involved in the coatings field.
Attendees were also able to network with other contractors,inspectors, suppliers, and instructors from NACE's Coating Inspector Program, along with earning the opportunity to receive Continuing Education Units (CEUs) and/or Professional Development Hours (PDHs) for their participation.
· "Coatings Failures," presented by MPI's Cindy O'Malley and Chrissy Stewart, coatings consultant at KTA-Tator, Inc.
Wednesday's topics at the Protective Coatings Workshop include "Bridge Structures," presented at 10:00 to 10:30 a.m. by IUPAT's Anton Ruesing; "Residual Soluble Salts and Coatings Performance," from 10:30 to 11:00 a.m. by Gil Rogers of Rogers & Associates and Carboline's Mario Moreno; and "Robotics and the Future of Coatings," presented from 11:30 a.m. until noon by Jim Gooden of BlastOne.
"We're very excited by how it's turned out, says Eliina Lizarraga," Group Publisher at NACE. "This is NACE's first Protective Coatings Workshop, and the interest and attendance we're already seeing reflects the need for coatings information in the corrosion industry." Lizarraga and Nicoletti were each part of the leadership team, along with Marketing Director Jody Bradel, responsible for developing the workshop.
The workshop concludes Wednesday afternoon with the Contractor Awards ceremony, which will be held from noon until 1 p.m. in the Exhibit Hall's Blue Theater.


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A guerra civil durante o Mandato da Palestina (também chamada de guerra palestino-sionista) ocorreu entre 30 de novembro de 1947 (um dia depois da aprovação, pelas Nações Unidas, do Plano de Partilha da Palestina, que marcou o fim do Mandato Britânico na região) e 14 de maio de 1948.

Este período é o primeiro estágio da Guerra da Palestina de 1948, durante a qual os judeus e os árabes da Palestina se confrontaram, enquanto os britânicos, que supostamente tinham a obrigação de manter a ordem e garantir a segurança da região, organizaram a sua retirada, intervindo apenas ocasionalmente.

A fase seguinte, a Guerra árabe-israelense de 1948, iniciou-se em 15 de maio de 1948, com o fim do Mandato Britânico e a criação do Estado de Israel, quando o conflito na Palestina tornou-se uma guerra total entre o novo Estado judeu e seus vizinhos árabes.

A guerra da Palestina de 1948 teve início em 30 de novembro de 1947 e perdurou até meados de 1949 na Palestina Mandatária.

A guerra se divide em duas fases principais:

 A primeira tem início antes de 14 de maio de 1948, quando a Palestina ainda estava sob a autoridade britânica, refere-se a uma guerra civil que envolveu o yishuve os árabes palestinos, tanto muçulmanos quanto cristãos , apoiados pelo Exército Árabe de Liberação;
 A segunda fase começa após 15 de maio de 1948 e dura até meados de 1949, envolvendo Israel e vários países árabes.

Os protagonistas e comentadores denominam esses eventos de maneiras diferentes: os palestinos se referem à Guerra Civil de 1947-1948 como Al-Naqba ou Al Nakba ("a catástrofe"), aludindo principalmente ao primeiro período, durante o qual os árabes foram vencidos pelas forças judias, e grande parte da população árabe da Palestina viveu um êxodo. Já do ponto de vista israelense, trata-se da Guerra da Independência ou Guerra da Liberação, expressão que concerne sobretudo ao segundo período, iniciado com a declaração de independência do Estado de Israel e seguida de confronto entre Israel e os Estados Árabes vizinhos.

A partir dos anos 1980, após a abertura dos arquivos israelenses sobre a guerra da Palestina, o conflito foi objeto de novos estudos, realizados sobretudo pelos chamados Novos Historiadores, que reescreveram (ou, segundo seus detratores, fabricaram) a história do conflito.

O último armistício assinado foi entre Israel e a Síria, em 20 de abril de 1949, porém nenhum acordo foi feito entre Israel e o Iraque, nem entre Israel e o Alto Comitê Árabe.

A população árabe palestina incluía uma importante comunidade cristã, estabelecida principalmente em Haifa, Nazareth e no norte da Galileia.

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The old washer and dryer came with the house. While they worked fine all this time, we always hated that they were black (especially back when they were in the pantry!), it just sucked up so much light. I was planning on painting them mint green to match the cabinet next to them, but decided to wait on that project when the washer started acting funny.
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The New Luxury
'It's so unforgiving, you want to give up': What it takes to survive 10 years as a designer
By Jill Manoff
"Money, time, acceptance, quality, perception, employees, retailers, competition, political climate, elections, market, and the list goes on and on."
The number of challenges Christian Siriano said he's faced since launching his fashion label in 2008 is not small. It's also not uncommon.
Designers, despite their glamorous-sounding roles, must contend with a range of obstacles — which, depending on their years at the helm, they may not have expected going in. Today, buzz of designer exhaustion runs rampant, but 10 years ago, it was much less of a threat. Designers had fewer collections, fewer decisions (see-now-buy-now wasn't even a thing) and fewer responsibilities. For example, there was no pressure for them to be social media stars.
Running a fashion company is undeniably stressful, both physically and financially. As a result, surviving 10 years in the industry is a milestone many designers never get the chance to celebrate.
In the last two years alone, several well-known names have thrown in the towel, some just shy of the decade mark: In November, New York–based Suno, a two-year CFDA/Fashion Fund finalist that emerged in 2008, closed its doors, reportedly due to struggles to find the funds needed to move forward. In March 2015, after five years and multiple CEOs, Reed Krakoff decided to "suspend all future design and production" to look for potential investors and strategic partnerships, never to pick up where it left off. A month later, nine-year-old Ohne Titel shuttered, citing a lack of experience and external investment as the causes.
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Jason Wu at his spring 2017 runway show at the St. Regis Hotel in February (Image via vogue.com)
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While all have reached different levels of success, each is essentially in the same boat. According to Steven Kolb, president and CEO of the CFDA, "Those who have made it [to 10 years] have done a good job in establishing their voice and identity. To continue to grow, they need to expand sales and look at investment opportunities." And some say that's where the real work comes in.
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Shira Sue Carmi, the founder of Launch Collective, a management firm for emerging designers, acknowledged that "everyone wants to be an overnight success." However, she advises the designers she works with — like Liya Kebede, whose Lemlem line turns 10 this year — to "make it at a slow build." After all, what's the rush?
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While many hurdles are overcome within the first couple of years of launch, designers shouldn't expect to experience a consistently smooth ride for a while. "It's hard, and some days are so unforgiving you want to give up," Siriano said, of his job to date. "Then others are so satisfying and great that you fall back in love with it. It's a full day of emotions flying around every day."
Because it's key to building a customer base, establishing an identity is one of the first steps toward success for a young designer.
"By 10 years, you should have a pretty distinct voice and design aesthetic," said Carmi. "And you should have a pretty solid core group of customers who really follow and love your brand." Until those boxes are checked, you shouldn't even think about growing your brand, she said.
As Siriano tells it, he made a name for himself simply by following his gut and holding his ground. "We are still doing things I have done since the beginning of my career," he said. "I just think now they are more celebrated — like dressing women of all shapes sizes, and ethnicities."
Backstage at Christian Siriano's fall 2017 runway show at New York Fashion Week (image via thefashionspot.com)
His advice to up-and-coming designers: "Don't be what everyone thinks you need to be. Work hard and be true to what you love, and don't ever second-guess your instincts."
Designer Sophie Theallet, who celebrates 10 years in the industry in 2017, seems to have no problem going her own way. In November, she made headlines by being one of the first designers to publicly (well, socially) announce her refusal to dress First Lady Melania Trump. In February, she followed up the bold gesture with an unconventional means of debuting her spring 2017 collection: a celeb-studded photo campaign that championed diversity.
By the 10-year mark, there should be some stability — "at least in theory," said Carmi. "Most people level off to a status where they feel comfortable operating. The existential threat should not be applicable anymore; they're no longer having 'bad seasons' that could be detrimental to their businesses."
Typically, that's because they've reached a point where they have an adequate staff, a reliable supply chain and investors on board.
"Mastering all of the operational skills is really difficult for a startup brand," Carmi said, specifically calling out "establishing the right manufacturer and the right sourcing partners, knowing whether they'll be manufacturing domestically or overseas, and streamlining distribution."
Siriano, who took on investors in 2012 and said he became profitable "about four years ago," agreed these things can be "hard to learn."
"But balancing the design process and the business, and knowing what to do when … have helped me to survive and thrive," he said. "We are able to do things that in the beginning we just didn't have the manpower to do."
For most designers, taking their business to the next level means a literal expansion — more stories and/or new product categories, for example — which typically necessitates more investment and leads to greater sales.
Carly Cushnie and Michelle Ochs, the designers of Cushnie et Ochs — which is set to hit the decade mark in 2018 — recently announced they will launch a line of handbags in the fall, and shoes are set to follow. To note: They sold a minority stake in their brand in 2015.
With support from InterLuxe, which invested in the company in 2014, Jason Wu launched Grey, a casual "sister" to his main line, in 2016. In addition, he plans to launch eyewear, fragrance and his own store within the year.
Similarly, Siriano reported having several in-the-works projects: "We have expanded into bridal, the plus-size market is growing everyday, and we have new licensing product in the home category and new retail platforms," he said. In addition, his international market is on the rise — however, he said, he has no plans to get "comfortable."
"I think there is always something new to be done or something to change," he said. "But I do think that next year when we hit that final 10-year mark, I will feel proud that we hung in there that long and hopefully have something to show for it."
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Groß Plasten est une commune d'Allemagne située dans l'arrondissement du Plateau des lacs mecklembourgeois, dans le Land de Mecklembourg-Poméranie-Occidentale.

Géographie
Groß Plasten se situe dans la région du plateau des lacs mecklembourgeois (Mecklenburgische Seenplatte), à 12 km au nord de Waren.

Histoire
Les villages de Groß Plasten et de Klein Plasten furent mentionnés pour la première fois dans un document officiel en 1284. L'église de Groß Plasten est le premier édifice de style Renaissance du Mecklembourg doté d'une coupole.

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I'd like to discuss the advantage of evil. By this I mean the advantage an individual receives towards the realization of their goals by being willing and able to act unethically and immorally.
Some examples: A businessman who grows wealthy by engaging in inside trading; A politician who gains office by lying about his opponent; An athlete who wins a competition by cheating; A cultist who gains a loyal following by preying upon the weakness and fears of believers.
It's commonly understood that evil will eventually lose. We see this trope appear again and again in good storytelling and it does appear to hold some truth in real life. Most people prefer to live in a good society and most criminals are eventually caught (for something, at least). But some evil people do flourish.
So I leave the topic at that. What is the advantage of evil?
I could have told you where to stick the thread.
But it is a fair question for discussion.
I do not deal with evil. On occasion I used to get over-whelmed with negativism and I did things that others may have considered evil. But I never had inner peace when I did something evil. I guess that would be the bottom line for me.
You raise a good point that I should have mentioned before. When a normal person engages in evil behavior they often feel remorse. When an evil person engages in evil behavior they feel no remorse. They may even feel pleasure. We're getting into real evil here, wicked stuff. So for the point of this conversation we can discuss both topics - evil done with and without remorse.
Evil is an Energy-Veil which means the truth was misqualified. Everything is Good and perfect until somebody messes it up only to return to being good again.
Evil and Good are subjective valuations by man.
From the perspective of Dao, is there any difference?
The advantage of evil? It sells. I am not so debased that I am not appalled that money tends to follow "evil." What can be done about it? For all the good that money could do in this world, it tends not to. Am I wrong?
I remain happy (relatively) without money. On a personal level, I want for nothing. As an artist, I do not seek recognition or money. It's just for the art's sake and not even that really, it is about my experience with it. I look at evil through the lens of an artist. Evil spelled backward is live.
What was it that President Dubya said that time?
Peace is fine and all but there ain't no money in it. "Money trumps peace."
One can look straight through the deceivers and see them for what they are. Yet, if one deceives themselves, all is lost.
A current example is some folks calling Trump a con man and thinking Obama is something different. It's rather amazing to watch.
So, perhaps, I deceive myself and tell myself, I am not a lowlife debased type of character. My evils are artistic, subtle, less harmful, on a higher plane. Yes! That's it, the higher plane of evil. And with that, all the truth in the world becomes one big lie. Notice how close the word lie is to evil? Just missing a v, for virtue perhaps? It's the nature of language.
Does anyone know Oscar Wilde's theory, why John's head got served up on a plate?
The sun shares its light with all. Brave Helios!
Unless you are under a rain cloud then it rains on everyone equally.
Perhaps it is that evil is effective, at least for the moment?
Valid thought although I will not argue in favor of it.
It all depends on what you want from life. Evil as commonly understood would probably be a bad thing to do when you want a "spiritual life". But what if you don't care about spirituality? What if you want to play all or nothing? What if you crave for spectacular events? Or if you want to become rich and famous? Or respected and feared?
Further I don't believe we live in a just world. Often the "bad guys" win.
We had a nice discussion of Robber Chih a while back.
And it is true, if it is possible then it is within the realm of Dao.
And true there are those who don't care what others think about them as long as they get what they want.
And I agree, oftentimes the bad guy wins and never gets caught. I guess that is within the realm of Dao as well.
If we personally have a sense of justice, then it's up to us to establish that justice as best we can.
It definitely seems that way.
But evil not only harms us and others in the short term (sometimes in ways that aren't so apparent), it also does so in the long term (which is usually much more apparent).
Those who live well do so because they've followed the good path.
Is it that evil is predatory? A lion kills a lamb and we call it natural.
It's hard to define evil in any objective manner. Perhaps willfully ignoring the golden rule (do not do to others what you don't want to be done to yourself) comes close. What's spiritual about following the golden rule is the recognition that within the grand scheme of things each individual is no more valuable than another.
Of course one could also see the world as one big battle field, and from that perspective ones importance depends on ones success in defeating others. Somebody who is successful along that road will consider his success as proof of the correctness of his evil approach, and he will look down upon those others who were apparently not ruthless enough to get to the top.
But not all evil people make it, and many will end up worse. But that's all in the game. When someone chooses an evil way of life knowing full well that there is a big chance that he will fail, than there is no way to convince that person that he should live his life differently.
... probably ego based more than natural? A man can kill 20 lions just to feed is ego.
It's hard to define evil in any objective manner.
I hoped that someone would mention this.
Would like to know that.
Good point. Killing out of necessity (e.g. to eat) is not evil. Killing unnecessarily (e.g. for sport) is evil... but is it possible there is a different necessity at play? If a dictator kills unnecessarily it spreads fear. This fear may actually be necessary to maintain control, so from that point of view "unnecessary" killing is absolutely necessary.
Sure, the Tao knows better than we do.
However, what should be our role as so-called human beings in that play? This for me is the real question.
Existence is not quite as stupid as you imagine.
It is with you every moment of your life and watches the choices of your heart.
Even ... as you act like there is a private space that you can corrupt with nobody knowing.
The road opens in front of you, how will you meet it ?
In daily life, be competent.
the advantage an individual receives towards the realization of their goals by being willing and able to act unethically and immorally.
Does this mean that there is no evil or that there is no advantage to evil?
Perhaps. I don't disagree with you, but I feel there may be more to it than that. How does this explain evil spirits, gods and demons? Do such things not exist? Are at least some of them not evil?


The University of Wisconsin Stout has a great golf course management program. I have even had the privilege of having one of their students intern at my family's golf course. He was wise and eager to learn about the business of golf.
As a part of the program, vendors are asked to be included so that students are well rounded when they graduate with some basic knowledge of the many software and golf applications available in the market.
The program's professor, Dr. Kristine Schnoover, had this to say about Teesnap's presentation.
Thank you for taking time out of your schedules to be with our students. The foundation of Teesnap by leading for service to guests and data analytics is so needed within our industry.
Allison, always helpful tips and full of ENGERY!
Thank you both. Students will be working next week in class on the materials and concepts presented.
The local sales rep for Teesnap, Joe Pink, taught the basic functionality of Teesnap using demo iPads while I taught the marketing component of Teesnap. There were about 35 students who attended.
Because my session was remote, I was able to record it. If you're curious about why I love Teesnap this is a great demonstration of the power in what it can do for your golf course!
It's a little over an hour, but jam packed with tips on how to segment your database, send emails, create automation in your business and how to invite your golfers to play your course.


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Q: how to change (root) username in phpmyAdmin with xampp Hello Am using " vps server" for my website (Using Xampp on vps)
And I need to share (phpMyAdmin) with world to enter it easily from any computer, and
I did it without problems
But for security I want to Change "root" to another username so no one can enter with root
Note: I want to remove "root" completely from accounts and create another account with a different username or edit root not only to add a new account

A: > click on server name eg.127.0.0.1
>> delete root then / add another user if you want
>>> inside code replace all root's with newUser
>>>> please read whatever action you are executing / make backup first


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Ciudad Perdida: Ancient Tairona Town (Colombia)
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Archaeological Site
Ciudad Perdida is an ancient Tairona indigenous town and archaeological site carved into Colombia's isolated Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountainside. It is believed to have been founded about 800 CE, some 650 years earlier than Machu Picchu.
Ciudad Perdida
Ciudad Perdida ("Lost City"), also known locally as "Teyuna" or "Buritaca," is the archaeological site of an ancient Tairona indigenous town in Colombia's Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, an isolated mountain range. It is believed to have been founded about 800 CE, some 650 years earlier than Machu Picchu.
Ciudad Perdida was discovered in 1972 when a group of local treasure looters found a series of stone steps rising up the mountainside and followed them to an ancient, abandoned city.
When gold figurines and ceramic urns from this area began to appear in the local black market, archaeologists, headed by the director of the Instituto Colombiano de Antropología, reached the site in 1976. Reconstruction was undertaken between 1976-1982.
Members of local tribes - the Arhuaco, the Koguis, and the Wiwas - had stated that they visited the site regularly before it was widely discovered but had kept quiet about it. They call the city "Teyuna" and believe it was the heart of a network of villages inhabited by their forebears, the Tairona people.
Ancient Tairona Town
The site is believed to have been the seat of power of the Tairona kingdom, which spanned throughout the Sierra Nevada and the northern region of Colombia. It was probably the region's political and manufacturing center on the Buritaca River. It may have housed 2,000 to 8,000 people before being abandoned in the 16th century amid the arrival of Spanish conquistadores.
Ciudad Perdida consists of 169 terraces carved into the mountainside, a net of tiled roads, and several small circular plazas. The entrance can only be accessed by a climb up some 1,200 stone steps through a dense jungle.
The site includes a complex system of constructed canals, roads, stairs, and walls interconnected by terraces and platforms on which the ceremonial centers, houses, and food storage sites were built.
Since 2009, the non-profit organization Global Heritage Fund (GHF) has been working in Ciudad Perdida to preserve and protect the historical site against climate, vegetation, neglect, looting, and unsustainable tourism.
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It was over the Pont jacques Cartier, out to Chambly on the Route Verte, then turn right and take the Canal Chambly to St-Jean-sur-Richelieu.
We took a break lakeside, had an ice cream cone, then rode back to Montreal, stopping only for the lock/bridge at Chambly.
Excellent. This is around a 100 km ride, and that's a great distance on a summer day.
The three-day cycle of an easy ride day, then a long ride day, then a hard ride day continues.
Tourism info: here is the official map of the Chambly Canal.
Petit Temis bike path under attack?


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Q: Request working from Postman but resetting from Axios in the command line I'm having an odd issue. I'm testing an API and I sketched my requests out in Postman. In fact, they are currently working perfectly there.
POST /authEndpoint
content-type: application/json
accept: application/json
cache-control: no-cache
postman-token: some-token
user-agent: PostmanRuntime/7.1.1
host: greatapi.com
accept-encoding: gzip, deflate
content-length: 68
{
 "user": "user",
 "password": "secret"
}

I get my desired response. Now I tried to recreate this request using Axios in JavaScript. The issue is that instead of the response I get a read ECONNRESET. I believe I sketched it out just like in Postman, so it's odd. Here's my Axios config:
import AXIOS from 'axios';

const BASE_URL = 'https://greatapi.com';

const axios = AXIOS.create({
  baseURL: BASE_URL,
  headers: {
    'Accept': 'application/json',
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    'Cache-Control': 'no-cache',
  }
});

axios.post('/authEndpoint', {
  'user': 'user',
  'password': 'secret',
})
  .then(response => console.log(response.data))
  .catch(error => console.error(error.message));

The specific response is this:
read ECONNRESET

Any ideas what could be wrong here?

A: It turned out to be an issue with a corporate firewall. I could fix it by using the https-proxy-agent package and setting the agent on Axios to it, passing my corporate proxy.
const axios = AXIOS.create({
  ...
  httpsAgent: new HttpsProxyAgent('http://127.0.0.1:3128'),
  proxy: false,
  ...
});


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Молодые эксперты о ситуации в мире
VITOR FERREIRA LENGRUBER
4th year International Relations student, Petrópolis Catholic University - UCP (Brazil)
BRICS Educational Internship Program, Far Eastern Federal University - FEFU (Russia)
e-mail: lengruberoficial@hotmail.com
1. Re-Orientation of World Order to the East
Even being the hotspots at the beginning of the pandemic, Eastern Asian countries, especially China and South Korea, quickly implemented radical restriction policies to contain the spread of coronavirus. According to John Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, accessed on May 7, 2020, the number of people infected by COVID-19 in China and South Korea was, respectively, 83,968 and 10,806. The same database indicates that Western countries – here, West is defined as Europe and US – leads the infected ranking, in which the US (1,228,214) is followed by Spain (220,325), Italy (214,457), UK (202,359) and France (174,224). Although the exact number of cases is impossible to reach due to the logistical issue of registering every single case, besides the different degrees of political transparency among governments, the international perception of what model should be followed to contain COVID-19 is traced to Eastern Asia. While China had already reopened a sector of the Great Wall to tourists and some factories got back to work on March, for example, Washington had not paid much attention to the potential scenarios which could result from inaction and a problematic health system. In this sense, the US, and the West in general, might no longer be seen as an international leader in global crisis. The American reaction, represented by Trump's statements, to the fact that the growing Chinese prominence in world politics has become more evident ranges from attempts to transform COVID-19 into a synonym of "Chinese virus" and the recognition that Beijing has reacted properly. On March, 27 Trump tweeted: "China has been through much & has developed a strong understanding of the Virus. (…) Much respect!". Instead of offering benevolent aids to countries in need, as it has historically presented itself to the world since the Age of Discovery, the West has received, from instructions to personal protective equipment, support from Eastern countries to deal with the present crisis. In conclusion, the pandemic seems to intensify the tendency identified in the 2000s and theorized by some scholars, as André Gunder Frank, of re-orientation of the world economic and political order towards the East, named China. It remains to be seen how countries will react to this phenomenon.
2. Cooperation imperative: an opportunity to BRICS countries
In the early 2000s, the American scholar Joseph Nye published the book The Paradox of American Power. The paradox observed by Nye is that the greatest power in the world, the United States, could not act alone and independently from other actors in world politics because of new challenges and features in the post-bipolar international system. Three major characteristics of this new system are pointed by Nye: technological revolution, an increase of interdependence, and transnational threats, such as financial instability, climate change, drug trafficking, terrorism, and epidemics. In this sense, once the new challenges transcend national borders and require a joint stance of different jurisdictions to deal with them, deep cooperation initiatives to exchange information might be a real outcome of this crisis, at least in the health sector. Although this piece does not argue that cooperation projects have not been discussed in the previous decades, the broad result of them is being demonstrated to be not enough. Hence, emerging powers as Brazil, which has a historical experience in managing such projects with Latin American and African nations as well as inside the scope of BRICS and IBSA, should take this window of opportunity to develop cooperation initiatives with other countries to defend itself in future scenarios of crisis. Brazil already has the know-how and experience, but lacks political will under Bolsonaro's conservative government.
3. Electronic monitoring as a tool for authoritarian governments
Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt argue that the USA Patriot Act, signed by Bush in October 2001, would never have passed if the terrorist attacks on September 11 had not occurred in the previous months. According to them, crisis as the one we are living now facilitates the concentration and abuse of power by governments since leaders are often left unchecked to implement measures supposed to restore the social order. Right away, some examples can be highlighted: in Hungary, Viktor Orban was granted emergency powers by the parliament within an indefinite period of time, while in Egypt, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi promised harsh penalties for everyone who spread information about COVID-19 that could be interpreted as against Egyptian interests. Authoritarian leaders are watchful for windows of opportunity and prepared to take advantage of them to enhance power. If such measures are perceived by the people as effective, however, the probability of permanence of these leaders in power is high due to the potential social support, even with evident illegalities. Another question concerning abuse of power is the use of electronic devices, especially smartphones, to monitor the circulation of citizens during lockdowns. China, one of the first countries reported to be using an official software to track the movement of people, was quickly followed by South Korea, Italy, and recently, Iran. This issue is of a special concern nowadays because of the growing digitalization of the world, commonly known as the 4th Industrial Revolution. Thus, a crucial question to be asked for governments around the world when the pandemic is over is: will these mechanisms be turned off? Personally, I would not say so.
4. The strengthening of the state
Until now, a common component seems to exist among countries that relatively succeed in combating coronavirus: a supporting state. Defined or not as a Welfare State, governments that have taken interventionist measures, such as lockdowns, mass testing, and wage subsidy, give the impression of having positive results. The disastrous American experience, partially an outcome of its problematic and stateless health system, has been the major example of what shall happen when people are left with no proper support. Nevertheless, citizens all over the world will look to the state as the main protective unity capable of reducing their social-economic vulnerabilities. This movement will also be felt in another area: the recrudescence of nationalism.
5. Rise of conservative nationalism (was it ever gone?)
After the pandemic, people will seek for a safe harbor. In this sense, conservative nationalist groups will have a fertile environment to have their discourse listened. Being experts in remembering the impoverished class that resources are scarce, radical nationalists will put forward political agendas of exclusion of communities and construction of domestic and foreign enemies. On behalf of securing that the needs of the "common people" are being listened, represented, and satisfied, these groups will probably be supported. Although this piece argues that nationalism will return stronger, one might contest whether nationalism had disappeared somewhere to return strengthened. This debate, however, may be discussed in another opportunity.


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function [ss]=plot_speech_cursor(x,ss,curr_file,istart,graphicPanel,win,L,fs);

% function to plot the entire speech waveform and, using a graphics cursor,
% choose a starting sample; the region around the starting sample is then
% displayed and a second graphics cursor is used to choose the actual
% starting sample of the speech frame.

% Inputs:
%   x: speech array
%   ss: starting sample in speech array for frame analysis
%   curr_file: speech array as read in from speech file
%   istart: binary switch between first time with speech file, and
%       iteration of multiple frames
%   graphicPanel: graphic panel for display of speech waveforms and
%       cursors
%   win: speech analysis window
%   L: analysis window length in samples
%   fs: speech sampling rate (samples/second)
%
% Output:
%   ss: new starting sample of speech array

% display entire speech file in top graphics panel;
% use cursor to delineate region of signal; expand signal display to +/- 1000
% samples around selected starting sample; re-display speech in top
% graphics panel; use cursor to determine actual starting sample
    reset(graphicPanel);
    axes(graphicPanel);
    cla;

% plot entire speech file
    plot(0:length(curr_file)-1,curr_file,'k','LineWidth',2); hold on;
    xpp=['Time in Samples; fs=',num2str(fs),' samples/second'];
    xlabel(xpp);ylabel('Amplitude');grid on;axis tight;

% use graphics cursor to select region of speech for cepstral computation
    [xd,yd]=ginput(1);
    ss=round(xd+1);

% demark beginning and end of frame
    plot([ss-1 ss-1],[min(curr_file) max(curr_file)],'r','LineWidth',2);

% expand region of ss to make finer decision as to speech region for
% cepstral computation
    reset(graphicPanel);
    axes(graphicPanel);
    cla;
    s1=max(ss-2*L,0);
    s2=min(ss+2*L,length(x)-1);
    plot(s1:s2,curr_file(s1+1:s2+1),'k','LineWidth',2);
    xlabel(xpp);ylabel('Amplitude'); hold on;
    grid on;axis tight;

% use cursor to refine center of speech frame
    if (istart == 1)
        [xd,yd]=ginput(1);
        ss=round(xd+1);
    end

% plot region of 2*L around ss (both below and above)
    reset(graphicPanel);
    axes(graphicPanel);
    cla;
    s1=max(ss-2*L,0);
    s2=min(ss+3*L,length(x)-1);
    plot(s1:s2,curr_file(s1+1:s2+1),'k','LineWidth',2);
    xlabel(xpp);ylabel('Amplitude'); hold on;
    grid on;axis tight;

% superimpose analysis window on speech frame
    xm=max(curr_file(ss:ss+L-1))*0.8;
    plot(ss:ss+L-1,win(1:L)*xm,'r','LineWidth',2);
end

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No Bundle Monster plates were harmed in the making of this manicure, but they were put to good use. I was nervous about doing free hand tribal print for the challenge, so I decided that my Bundle Monster plates would be perfect. I used partial designs from plates BM-202, BM-204, and BM-213.
For the base color I used Cosmetic Arts nail lacquer. Since it does not have a name on it, I'm guessing it is either Pink Rush or Pink Lust from the Neon Collection. Trust me when I say this color really is neon and bright. My camera freaked out and made it look red which is why I didn't bother posting swatches. They are not color accurate at all. When I figure out how to take proper photos of this color, I will post swatches.
The design came out perfect!
What a great way to do tribal! And i remember that inspiration dress too! Truly stand out!
It reminds me of a fair isle sweater. So cute!
This manicures is SO great!
Ну ты мастерица! Я налюбоваться не могу!
Wow this is amazing! Your stamping is perfect! I need to try this!
Wow, what a wonderful way to combine the prints! Gorgeous!
Oooh you're so clever :D Such a cute mani. Love Blake's dress as well.
Wow! Love how you combined these stamps! What an effective look!


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Bobby Brown Emerges from Hospital on Birthday as Bobbi Kristina Remains in Coma, Says She's Doing "Good"
By Esther Lee
A tense and somber Bobby Brown stepped out of the Emory University Hospital on his birthday, Feb. 5, for a smoke break as his daughter Bobbi Kristina remains in a coma. Splash News Online
A tense and somber Bobby Brown stepped out of the Emory University Hospital for fresh air on Feb. 5, as his daughter Bobbi Kristina remains in a coma.
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On his 46th birthday, Bobby was joined by Gary Michael Houston, the nephew of his late ex-wife Whitney Houston. The father of five kids — Bobbi Kristina, Landon, LaPrincia, Bobby Jr., and Cassius — was dressed comfortably in gray sweatpants and a matching hoodie. With temperatures ranging in the mid-40s in Atlanta, Brown stuffed his hands in both pockets to shield them from the cold.
When asked by Access Hollywood outside the hospital how Bobbi Kristina is doing, Brown responded, "She's good," before adding, "We're praying."
An observer tells Us Weekly that after spending the entire day at the hospital, Bobby left around 4 p.m. in a black SUV with his wife Alicia Etheredge.
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Brown has been at his daughter's bedside mostly around the clock after she was found unresponsive, facedown in a bathtub in her home this past Saturday. As previously reported by Us, Hollywood power player Tyler Perry (a Brown family friend) immediately extended his support to Bobby, offering a flight to Atlanta in his private jet.
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Bobbi Kristina was placed in a medically induced coma at the Fulton Hospital in Roswell, Georgia, and was transferred to Emory several days later as her condition worsened.
As family members have been filing in and out of the hospital, the distraught father released a statement to Us on Sunday about his baby girl. "Privacy is requested in this matter," he said. "Please allow for my family to deal with this matter and give my daughter the love and support she needs at this time."
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As he continues to grapple with his daughter's condition — which a source described to Us as "really dire" — the news that he is expecting his second child with Etheredge circulated on Thursday. Etheredge and his daughter LaPrincia, 24, joined him at the hospital early Wednesday morning.
The same source told Us of Bobbi Kristina: "It doesn't look like she's coming back, at least not back to her old self."
"[Bobby] hasn't been able to accept that his daughter isn't coming back," the insider continued. "Their last interaction is not the last one he wants to have with his daughter."


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Persone
 Eugen Kipp – calciatore tedesco
 Lara Kipp – slittinista austriaca
 Tom Kipp – pilota motociclistico statunitense

Altro
 Apparecchio di Kipp – apparecchiatura chimica da laboratorio


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Espermicida é um líquido utilizado para aniquilar os espermatozoides.

Os espermicidas são cremes, supositórios, espumas ou geléias especiais colocados dentro da vagina antes da relação sexual. Eles contêm substâncias químicas que matam os espermatozóides, impedindo assim que eles fertilizem o ovócito II. Devem ser colocados na vagina momentos antes da relação sexual, como camisinha masculina ou feminina, ou diafragma.

Os comprimidos e óvulos demoram para dissolver, por isso devem ser colocados na vagina cerca de 15 minutos antes da relação. As geléias, cremes e espumas podem ser colocados imediatamente antes da relação.

Os espermicidas têm poucas contraindicações: o creme pode causar alergias, sensação de irritação dos órgão sexuais (em ambos sexos),além disso não previne contra infeções sexualmente transmissíveis, no entanto apenas 3% a 5% são vítimas destes efeitos secundárias.

Índice de falha: 6% a 21%

Diafragma e geis espermicidas
O diafragma é colocado no colo do útero e impede a passagem dos espermatozóides para o útero evitando a fecundação. E normalmente utilizado em conjunto com outros espermicidas , fazendo assim aumentar a eficiência. Este tipo de métodos não protege de doenças sexualmente transmissíveis

Contracepção química

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God finally gets her botherers to act
The Guardian and handful of other news outlets reported last Monday something quite significant: church leaders were arrested for an asylum prayer vigil at Tony Abbott's Sydney office.
Meanwhile, a simultaneous sit-down protest was held at opposition leader Bill Shorten's electorate office in Melbourne.
The significance of course is that peaceful, law-abiding civilians with strong religious beliefs are now prepared to be arrested over the horrendous imprisonment of 1,023 children in Australian-run immigration detention centres.
More than that, they targeted both political parties that engage in this cruelty, and came from a broad section of the Christian faith: Catholic, Baptist, Anglican and Uniting churches.
Interestingly Abbott's goons brought the cops in while Shorten let them stay. It follows similar sit-in protests at immigration minister Scott Morrison's electorate office in March, as well as the office of foreign affairs minister Julie Bishop. Will non-violent protests against human and environmental crimes define 2014?
Media morphine
Heads up hyper-local media junkies – newly released newspaper circulation figures have seen The Byron Echo increase its domi- nance over The Byron News (APN), with a 48 per cent circulation lead. The figures, which are updated every six months, were released last week by the Audited Media Association.
There's been a general decline for local daily The Northern Star, owned by Australian Provincial Newspapers (APN). The Star now prints 9,662 copies daily, which is down seven per cent on the same period last year. Its Saturday edition is also down 8.8 per cent.
While independent publishers such as The Echo are holding steady and expanding online, the days of complacency are long over. The media's existence relies on more than just relevant and informative news; it relies on good relationships with its advertisers.
But as for corporate suckholes like Rupert Murdoch, be wary of those who afflict the afflicted while comforting the comfortable.
Powerful tools in PR
He said he is a 'powerful tool', in the media and yes, he is a tool.
'I have an article on drink driving that I reckon would fit great on the pages of The Echo,' was the email opener, and that seemed innocuous enough.
It was a 'cold call' email from an Australian public relations company spokesperson, and he offered at first glance what looked like a news item. And when I checked his website, the penny dropped. I had wasted my time: the opening paragraph said they spread 'a brand's message through creative and colourful content strategy'.
Indeed one of the 'articles' posted gushed in support of the fossil fuel industry. So I asked, 'Are you shilling a product in the guise of it being "content"? Just a thought – no accusations here, just curiosity.'
While it seemed slightly antagonistic to keep questioning his integrity (he eventually had enough of me), it is reasonable to be fiercely protective of information. After all, we live in an age where there are more employed in the public relations sector than journalism. It's a recent tipping point, and one that many people would know. But not everyone.
Which leads us to the US news and entertainment website, BuzzFeed.
The Guardian last week reported that it is swimming in cash, raised primarily from presenting advertorial, or advertising that looks like news editorial. It strikes at the heart of 'old' news media because the two have always been separated. And for good reason: journalism that operates without fear or favour is the most valuable.
Anyway, the point is that there is a push, through newly discovered social media principles, to encourage us to interact with products so we might end up buying them. It's a clear departure from traditional news gathering and makes the credibility of news unclear.
On the bright side, a new journalism venture worth a reported $250 million has been launched between eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and former Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald. Greenwald is one of the few voices that question the powerful and elite, so let's hope he has the courage to ask whether eBay should be taxed more in light of the effect eBay has on traditional 'bricks and mortar' retailers.
Hans Lovejoy, editor
Australia's two horse media cartel
I honestly can't tell the difference between Fairfax and News Ltd any more, especially after the Herald went tabloid and Gina Rinehart's toxic influence infected it.
Evidence could be found in a recent Chinese junket shared by both the PM's department and mining magnate Andrew Forrest.
Crikey's Matthew Knott revealed last week that both Fairfax and News Ltd's expenses were paid by Andrew Forrest's Fortescue Metals Group and that payment wasn't disclosed. And both Fairfax and News Ltd didn't think it was a problem. Presumably Forrest innocently wanted to make a few new friends while hoping no one would mention Tibet or the Falun Gong. And it worked – having your own media tag along ensures those awkward questions are never asked.
Knott says that Mark Pearson, an expert in media law and ethics at Griffith University, told Crikey media outlets should disclose paid travel and accommodation within their stories or in a footnote at the end. 'The mainstream media needs points of difference from the new media,' he said. 'They don't do it at their peril. It's what distinguishes them from the riff-raff.'
But why bother with a point of difference when you both control almost everything? According to The Australian Collaboration's Democracy in Australia – Media concentration and media laws document (found at www.australiancollaboration.com. au), 'Currently two newspaper groups (News Limited and John Fairfax Holdings) account for over 90 per cent of the circulation of daily newspapers, and Australia has only three commercial television networks.'
So Woolies and Coles own the food and if it wasn't for the ABC, News Ltd and Fairfax would own the information.
A misconception about big media is that it behaves like any corporate organisation. It simply doesn't. In addition to customer relationships and shareholder obligations, it has a unique role in democratic societies. The fourth estate, as it was once called, provided societies with critical analysis of those in charge.
Not any more. Given the current climate of sucking up to mining, would more media diversity just mean that Mr Forrest and the PM would have to charter more planes for overseas junkets?
Pardon Me Joyce
As I expected he's up front with a wide smile. 'Ah you're from the paper that keeps bagging me.'
'Oh no,' I enthuse, 'I have never published anything about you.'
I am sitting at a table with federal Nationals senator Barnaby Joyce in the food hall at the South Tweed mall.
We huddle to escape the noise of eaters while a flock of nervous Young Nationals hover nearby in outrageously loud yellow t-shirts.
Thankfully veteran Echo photographer Eve Jeffery is with me.
Sitting casually to one side, she holds the camera at waist level and clicks away as we chat.
He's listening intently as I explain last week's Echo lead story on a renewables company that went bust.
In conclusion I asked, 'Is it a conflict of interest that a board, comprising partly the fossil fuel industry, regulates the renewables industry's?'
Barnaby wouldn't bite and it became clear I was onto something.
Despite being well known for giving an opinion on anything he gives me nothing.
We move on and Barnaby volleys a straight political ball.
'You know, it's important that we have this opportunity to speak,' he says, 'being that your paper is not particularly aligned with us, it's a good thing that we reach your readership. 'Real politics lies in differing views,' he says with a sparkle in his eye. At that point he opens last week's Echo, lands straight on the lead story and his jaw drops.
The camera clicks. In disbelief he points at subheadings 'Little To No Support From Nats', 'MP Hartsuyker: No Political Weight' and 'Glazed Abbott.'
Alan Jones will not die in shame
As of going to print, broadcaster Alan Jones and radio station 2GB (that he part owns) are losing advertisers fist over dollar due to comments he made about the prime minister's now deceased father.
And supermarket giant Woolworths is also under fire, according to Fairfax's www.brisbanetimes.com.au.
'A jacket made out of a chaff bag, a reference to Jones's remarks [about Gillard being dumped at sea in a chaff bag], was donated to the Liberal Club dinner as an auction item by Woolworths community relations manager Simon Berger.'
Mr Berger claims to the Times to have attended the function 'in a private capacity', while Woolies has been forced to 'suspend' the occasional advertising they do with the show.
'Woolworths in no way supports the comments made at that function,' the statement reportedly said.
It's obvious that Woolies and everyone one else associated had to say it was inappropriate, right? But the remarks are similar to what he's been saying for years – yet this has sparked a fire-storm.
The Chaser did a brilliant parody of overlaying The Beatles song Julia with Alan and his ilk's vitriolic rants against the PM, so the intent has been swilling around for years.
It's speech he is well adept at and is designed to divide.
As journalist/author George Monbiot recently said on ABC radio's Late Night Live, the only way to make change happen is action. Ask your redneck brother-in-law to explain why they listen to Jones and his ilk. Or better yet, as www.change.org says, petition the companies that still advertise on 2GB.
Those remaining include Telstra, Hyundai, Volvo, Roses Only, St George Bank, Harvey Norman, Toyota, Virgin... more at https:// www.facebook.com/SackAlanJones/posts/209484422516022.
Lock the Gate organisers were correct to drop Jones; however, I am sure there were plenty who would have relished the opportunity to heckle the old man in person. Myself included.
Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence
This week I will be interviewing ex-Greens leader Bob Brown at the Writers' Festival.
While formulating questions to ask, I searched 'Andrew Bolt and Bob Brown,' thinking I could learn something from an opposing point of view. But after reading Mr Bolt's views on Bob I almost choked on my double shot flat white in a mug.
Right-wing media pundits are so predictable. And boring. All you have to do is feign outrage and spew vitriolic vomit at anything that challenges a narrow world view. They rarely play the ball, always the man. It does make great theatre admittedly, but is this constructive to the evolution of our species?
I did a phoner (journo speak for phone interview) a few years ago with Mr Brown and asked about his hemp policy. At the time, all he said was that he supported hemp production and nothing more.
I have learned subsequently this week that The Greens still don't have a policy on hemp. The Echo has reported previously on the CSIRO's support of cotton and lack of hemp innovation.
This matters because hemp production represents progressive idealism just as renewable energy does. It has a long, rich history as a useful natural fibre and is far superior to others. Henry Ford even made his car bodies from hemp material at one point.
And it's an easy thing to overlook; hey, we get everything we need from plastics and cotton, right? Except that this plays well into the recurring 'light bulb' theory. Humans can produce a light bulb to last much longer than those commercially produced.
Mass consumption is predicated upon obsolescence.
Author Aldous Huxley once said, 'Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of western prosperity.'
Our collective future depends on a fruitful and harmonious marriage between economics and environment.
The Echo hopes Bob's replacement in the senate, economist Peter Whish-Wilson, will provide a bridge to those political divides.
Questions for Bob are welcome. Please email editor@echo.net.au.
Controlling the news
An analysis of how global news corporations control the access to information was aired last week – but chances are most of us in this country didn't catch it.
Eighty-year-old veteran US journalist Dan Rather told Bill Maher's Real Time show (available only through YouTube or as a bitTorrent file) that he was sacked in 2004 by his corporate boss CBS after reporting George W Bush's appalling national service record in the Vietnam war. As records show, Bush went AWOL in the National Guard for a year after being given a plum post because of his family connections.
'Everybody should be concerned about this,' Rather said, of censorship and control.
'There are no more than six – my count is four – who control more than 80 per cent of the true national distribution of news.
'Now, these large corporations have things they need from the power structures in Washington, whether it's Republican or Democrat. Big business is in bed with big government, and this has more to do with the average person reads, sees, hears than most people know...' He goes on to say that the corporatisation and the politicisation of news has led to the trivialisation of the news.
There was a time, he says, when corporations saw news, at least in part, as a public service. 'The firewall between the news division and the corporate structure has now disappeared.'
Maher agreed, and made the point that news was a loss leader (much like the Coles and Woolies milk wars).
'In the old days, news didn't have to make money,' Maher said. 'The Beverley Hillbillies made money, so that meant you could do what you do.' Rather added that this was the case for CBS news until fairly recently. 'With constant consolidation, ultimately under the Viacom flag, that's when it went all out the window.'
Honest brokers of information are becoming far less fashionable these days, but controlling the flow is not a fait accompli. Basically this means maintaining scepticism and suspending beliefs on all things driven by corporations.
The late comedian Bill Hicks said it best: 'Go back to bed America, your government is in control. Here, here's American Gladiators. Watch this, shut up, go back to bed America, here is American Gladiators, here is 56 channels of it. Watch these pituitary retards bang their fucking skulls together and congratulate you on living in the land of freedom. Here you go America – you are free to do what we'll tell you! You are free to do what we tell you!'
How the media works
Often I have wanted to paste stickers on 'news' items that appear in newspapers. They would say, for instance, that this story is a 're-written media release,' or, 'To ensure future interviews with subject, important questions were not asked.'
This publication, of course, tries its utmost to provide real news to its community; however, the reality is that re-written media releases make up a portion of what constitutes 'news'.
It's vital that the public know exactly what they read, watch or listen to is of real journalistic quality. And journalists, for anyone interested, are becoming more integrated with public relations (PR) companies.
Journos and editors have media releases lobbed to them from governments and public relations companies daily. And when a 'journalist' puts their name to a re-written media release, it damages not only their reputation and credibility but their publication's.
It's disingenuous, lazy, incompetent and is a threat to society.
Real journalists never re-write, they ask questions. They take different points of view; they contrast. When a PR company tells the media something wonderful about its product, or a government tells them how well they are doing, journalists should ask the fundamental question: who does it affect? Of course the best journalism is investigative and does not rely on media releases. It could be argued that media releases are just free advertising. Smart publicists tailor their media releases to a publication and good publications never reprint generic media releases as is.
Does the majority of Australians accept what they read, see or hear in the media? Or is it mostly about manipulation and control? It is always worth remembering that the privileged few that have this voice are of course linked to advertising dollars.
With never-ending cost cutting, many publications don't have the staff to follow up every media release. Hence, most local publications continue to compromise their editorial content with unexamined media releases.
It's the ratio of media releases to 'real news' that makes a difference; not only to the publication, but to the eventual outcome of a community's better understanding of itself.
Everything this week is last week's news anyway. Last week's newspapers are used for cleaning windows, kitty litter, wrapping chips and – most importantly – starting fires.
Our seditious history
Where does one draw the line over the liberty we give society's antagonists? Should free speech really have limits?
One of the first European settler antagonists in Australia was Ballarat Times editor, Henry Seekamp. As the only person to serve jail time for the Eureka Stockade in 1854, he was arrested and charged the day after the event with seditious libel. A petition by the town, however, reduced his sentence to three months from an original six. The prosecution brief – which can be found at wiki.prov.vic.gov.au – contains transcripts of the offending material, which was heard in the supreme court of the colony of Victoria. And what a hotbed of radicalism it was.
Seekamp advocated an Australian congress, 'meaning an assembly governing Australia independently of the government of the United Kingdom'. He called the Queen's ministers 'dishonest' for 'dictating obnoxious laws,' over expensive gold mining licences.
In more recent times, sedition laws were used against members of the Communist Party of Australia (CPA) around the cold war.
It serves as an interesting insight into how ideas can become problems for governments. The online parliamentary library – www.aph.gov.au – highlights a few sedition cases. General secretary of the CPA, Laurence Louis Sharkey, said he would support a Soviet invasion in certain circumstances and might use force to allow workers to gain power. His sentence? Eighteen months' imprisonment and hard labour in 1949.
The last federal prosecution and jailing for sedition was in 1960, when department of native affairs officer Brian Cooper was prosecuted for urging 'the natives' of Papua New Guinea to demand independence from Australia. He was charged under the Criminal Code (Qld) which at the time extended to Papua New Guinea. He was sentenced to two months' imprisonment with hard labour.
Sedition can have positive effects on society, as is the case with the Eureka Rebellion. Even australia.gov.au says the Eureka Rebellion was 'a key event in the development of Australian democracy and Australian identity.' Seekamp remains an original European settler dissenter. According to the online Australian dictionary of biography, Eureka rebellion leader Raffaello Carboni described Seekamp as a 'short, thick, rare sort of man, who hated humbug and yabber yabber... His energy never abated, though the whole legion of Victorian red-tape wanted to dry his inkstand'.
Informing on the informants
'Byron Bay to Bradley' was held last week at the Community Centre as part of the Global Days of Actions. It was in solidarity with US Army Private Bradley Manning, who is accused of leaking the WikiLeaks 'Collateral Murder' video.
It made international headlines in April – though it was filmed in 2007 – and depicts three airstrikes from a US Apache helicopter in New Baghdad. At least eleven people were killed in the airstrikes, including two journalists working for Reuters. The US army has kept Manning in isolation since his arrest on May 29, according to www.bradleymanning.org, and he needs at least $50,000 to defend himself. He is facing 52 years imprisonment and is under suicide watch.
Leaking footage of US soldiers wilfully killing unarmed civilians is more than a military PR nightmare – it highlights humanity's futile endeavours with wars that are invariably over religion, sovereignty, resources and ideology. US national security was not threatened by this action, however The New York Times reported that Manning is also accused
of leaking over 240,000 classified intelligence reports and diplomatic cables involving the war in Afghanistan. That is a threat to US national security, and most likely the reason he will be jailed for most of his life. WikiLeaks defended disclosure of the material, saying transparency is essential to democracy.
'The Taliban have already stated they are reading the documents, looking for names and will go and kill any Afghan listed as being an informant or connected to those who worked with/for NATO,' a forum contributor to Manning's site says. 'With this security leak, informants now see that they are not safe and fewer – or perhaps none – will be willing to come out with information.' So is Manning hero or villain?
Arguably one of the images that was instrumental in changing the American public's views on the Vietnam War was of the execution of a Viet Cong guerrilla by South Vietnam's national police chief. Mainstream media (NBC and AP) captured that moment in 1968, and the comparison with Manning's helicopter footage is evident.
New technologies have the ability to spread over larger areas of population than ever before. It can be dangerous and is a powerful tool, and one that should always be used with extreme care so it doesn't endanger lives.
Anything that ends wars, un-winnable or not, is in humankind's ultimate interest. It's probably the reason the mothership hasn't arrived from outer space yet.
As George Carlin said, 'we are but monkeys with baseball caps and machine guns.'


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 * PoolLocator.java
 *
 * This file was auto-generated from WSDL
 * by the Apache Axis 1.4 Apr 22, 2006 (06:55:48 PDT) WSDL2Java emitter.
 */

package com.zeus.soap.zxtm._1_0;

public class PoolLocator extends org.apache.axis.client.Service implements com.zeus.soap.zxtm._1_0.Pool {

/**
 * The Pool interface allows management of ZXTM pool objects. Using
 * this interface, you can create, delete and rename pool objects, and
 * manage their configuration.
 */

    public PoolLocator() {
    }

    public PoolLocator(org.apache.axis.EngineConfiguration config) {
        super(config);
    }

    public PoolLocator(java.lang.String wsdlLoc, javax.xml.namespace.QName sName) throws javax.xml.rpc.ServiceException {
        super(wsdlLoc, sName);
    }

    // Use to get a proxy class for PoolPort
    private java.lang.String PoolPort_address = "https://admin_server:9090/soap";

    public java.lang.String getPoolPortAddress() {
        return PoolPort_address;
    }

    // The WSDD service name defaults to the port name.
    private java.lang.String PoolPortWSDDServiceName = "PoolPort";

    public java.lang.String getPoolPortWSDDServiceName() {
        return PoolPortWSDDServiceName;
    }

    public void setPoolPortWSDDServiceName(java.lang.String name) {
        PoolPortWSDDServiceName = name;
    }

    public com.zeus.soap.zxtm._1_0.PoolPort getPoolPort() throws javax.xml.rpc.ServiceException {
       java.net.URL endpoint;
        try {
            endpoint = new java.net.URL(PoolPort_address);
        }
        catch (java.net.MalformedURLException e) {
            throw new javax.xml.rpc.ServiceException(e);
        }
        return getPoolPort(endpoint);
    }

    public com.zeus.soap.zxtm._1_0.PoolPort getPoolPort(java.net.URL portAddress) throws javax.xml.rpc.ServiceException {
        try {
            com.zeus.soap.zxtm._1_0.PoolBindingStub _stub = new com.zeus.soap.zxtm._1_0.PoolBindingStub(portAddress, this);
            _stub.setPortName(getPoolPortWSDDServiceName());
            return _stub;
        }
        catch (org.apache.axis.AxisFault e) {
            return null;
        }
    }

    public void setPoolPortEndpointAddress(java.lang.String address) {
        PoolPort_address = address;
    }

    /**
     * For the given interface, get the stub implementation.
     * If this service has no port for the given interface,
     * then ServiceException is thrown.
     */
    public java.rmi.Remote getPort(Class serviceEndpointInterface) throws javax.xml.rpc.ServiceException {
        try {
            if (com.zeus.soap.zxtm._1_0.PoolPort.class.isAssignableFrom(serviceEndpointInterface)) {
                com.zeus.soap.zxtm._1_0.PoolBindingStub _stub = new com.zeus.soap.zxtm._1_0.PoolBindingStub(new java.net.URL(PoolPort_address), this);
                _stub.setPortName(getPoolPortWSDDServiceName());
                return _stub;
            }
        }
        catch (java.lang.Throwable t) {
            throw new javax.xml.rpc.ServiceException(t);
        }
        throw new javax.xml.rpc.ServiceException("There is no stub implementation for the interface:  " + (serviceEndpointInterface == null ? "null" : serviceEndpointInterface.getName()));
    }

    /**
     * For the given interface, get the stub implementation.
     * If this service has no port for the given interface,
     * then ServiceException is thrown.
     */
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        if (portName == null) {
            return getPort(serviceEndpointInterface);
        }
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            return getPoolPort();
        }
        else  {
            java.rmi.Remote _stub = getPort(serviceEndpointInterface);
            ((org.apache.axis.client.Stub) _stub).setPortName(portName);
            return _stub;
        }
    }

    public javax.xml.namespace.QName getServiceName() {
        return new javax.xml.namespace.QName("http://soap.zeus.com/zxtm/1.0/", "Pool");
    }

    private java.util.HashSet ports = null;

    public java.util.Iterator getPorts() {
        if (ports == null) {
            ports = new java.util.HashSet();
            ports.add(new javax.xml.namespace.QName("http://soap.zeus.com/zxtm/1.0/", "PoolPort"));
        }
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    }

    /**
    * Set the endpoint address for the specified port name.
    */
    public void setEndpointAddress(java.lang.String portName, java.lang.String address) throws javax.xml.rpc.ServiceException {

if ("PoolPort".equals(portName)) {
            setPoolPortEndpointAddress(address);
        }
        else
{ // Unknown Port Name
            throw new javax.xml.rpc.ServiceException(" Cannot set Endpoint Address for Unknown Port" + portName);
        }
    }

    /**
    * Set the endpoint address for the specified port name.
    */
    public void setEndpointAddress(javax.xml.namespace.QName portName, java.lang.String address) throws javax.xml.rpc.ServiceException {
        setEndpointAddress(portName.getLocalPart(), address);
    }

}