(3) the National Military Strategy prescribed by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
(3) that sufficient resources are provided to establish and maintain the system so as to allow reporting of changes in readiness status as required by this section.
(1) Measure, on a monthly basis, the capability of units (both as elements of their respective armed force and as elements of joint forces) to conduct their assigned wartime missions.
(2) Measure, on an annual basis, the capability of training establishments to provide trained and ready forces for wartime missions.
(3) Measure, on an annual basis, the capability of defense installations and facilities and other elements of Department of Defense infrastructure, both in the United States and abroad, to provide appropriate support to forces in the conduct of their wartime missions.
(4) Measure, on a monthly basis, critical warfighting deficiencies in unit capability.
(5) Measure, on an annual basis, critical warfighting deficiencies in training establishments and defense infrastructure.
(6) Measure, on a monthly basis, the level of current risk based upon the readiness reporting system relative to the capability of forces to carry out their wartime missions.
(7) Measure, on a quarterly basis, the extent to which units of the armed forces remove serviceable parts, supplies, or equipment from one vehicle, vessel, or aircraft in order to render a different vehicle, vessel, or aircraft operational.
(8) Measure, on an annual basis, the capability of operational contract support to support current and anticipated wartime missions of the armed forces.
(B) on a monthly basis, review any changes that have been reported in readiness since the previous joint readiness review.
(2) The Chairman shall incorporate into both the joint readiness review required under paragraph (1)(A) and the monthly review required under paragraph (1)(B) the current information derived from the readiness reporting system and shall assess the capability of the armed forces to execute their wartime missions based upon their posture at the time the review is conducted. The Chairman shall submit to the Secretary of Defense the results of each review under paragraph (1), including the deficiencies in readiness identified during that review.
(e) Submission to Congressional Committees.—The Secretary shall each quarter submit to the congressional defense committees a report in writing containing the results of the most recent joint readiness review under subsection (d)(1)(A), including the current information derived from the readiness reporting system. Each such report shall be submitted in unclassified form and may, as the Secretary determines necessary, also be submitted in classified form.
(f) Regulations.—The Secretary shall prescribe regulations to carry out this section. In those regulations, the Secretary shall prescribe the units that are subject to reporting in the readiness reporting system, what type of equipment is subject to such reporting, and the elements of the training establishment and of defense infrastructure that are subject to such reporting.


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Life on The Cutting Edge of the Emerging Industrial Hemp Economy
Cami Koons
ckoons@flatlandkc.org
Published December 1st, 2021 at 3:33 PM
Above image credit: Melissa Nelson-Baldwin catches hemp hurds as they fall out of the decorticator at South Bend Industrial Hemp. (Cami Koons | Flatland)
About 30 days before Melissa Nelson-Baldwin was set to harvest her first 80 acres of industrial hemp, her buyer was no longer interested.
The buyer had lost funding to process the hemp and decided to back out of the deal altogether.
"People wanted to grow, but they were like, 'We don't know where to take it,' " Nelson-Baldwin recalled. "And then we had manufacturers saying, 'Man, we would love to convert to hemp and do (the) sustainability approach … But we need local, consistent supply.' So we were like, 'Why not us?' "
Rather than be defeated by the missing link in the hemp supply chain, South Bend Industrial Hemp started doing its own processing.
Today, the company is the only hemp fiber processor of its kind in the Midwest.
About This Series
Industrial hemp: cannabis sativa plants with no more than 0.3% concentration of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).
This recently legalized cannabis crop has all the properties of marijuana, but without the concentration of THC that causes psychoactive effects. Simply put, hemp is not weed.
Hemp has three main byproducts, cannabidiol (CBD) extraction, fiber and grain. The crop's versatility and ability to grow rapidly without extra water, fertilizer or herbicide makes hemp a crop of the future in the eyes of many climate activist groups.
How can the hemp industry go from struggling to take root to changing modern medicine, manufacturing and nutrition? Follow along with the monthly series "Highway to Hemp" to learn how hemp goes from seed to product — and the many challenges along the way.
The small machine shed on the outskirts of Great Bend, Kansas, receives hemp bales from as far as Texas and South Dakota as more and more farmers begin to harvest the "crop of the future," but lack a place to take it.
Since that first year of growing hemp in 2019, South Bend Industrial Hemp has more than doubled, harvesting 160 acres of hemp for fiber and contracted to receive 1,600 acres of hemp from across the Midwest just this year.
Nelson-Baldwin has positioned the company to take off, bringing other hemp growers with her, as manufacturers find more uses for the crop in everything from cars to buildings and T-shirts.
In 2018, Nelson-Baldwin's husband and brother-in-law, who co-own the company with her, brought up the idea of diversifying their corn and soybean farm with the addition of hemp.
Her response at the time was typical of most people new to the industry.
"Nope, I don't do pot, this isn't my thing," she remembered saying. "They were way more educated about it than I was, and they said just read about it. So I just started reading about it … and that's what really got me going."
By the time Kansas first introduced it's research-based industrial hemp program in 2019, Nelson-Baldwin was fully on board and ready to add the crop to the family farm's repertoire.
"We were looking for a way to diversify our farm and we saw the potential of fiber and grain, which is why we explored that avenue," Nelson-Baldwin said.
At that time, the money was in the CBD market, so they also grew hemp for CBD extraction.
"We understood that as farmers, you know, the value of hemp and what it brought, (fiber and grain) was the avenue that we really wanted to heavily pursue," Nelson-Baldwin said.
They planted 80 acres of hemp for fiber and about 1,500 plants for CBD on a small plot in the first year.
"The thing about hemp is it's been in prohibition for so long, there's really no relevant data out there," Nelson-Baldwin said. "And there's really no resources because the United States, as a whole, was really in the same boat."
That didn't intimidate Nelson-Baldwin, who also owns an agriculture research company and saw the new venture as an exciting, and needed, area of research.
From the get-go, Nelson-Baldwin wanted to include other farmers in the process, so that when the demand exceeded their farm's capacity, she would have farmers lined up, ready to send bales of hemp to her processing facility.
"Our goal in this industry is to help bring farmers up with us," Nelson-Baldwin said. "We understand that this industry is going to explode much bigger than what our farm can handle."
Nelson-Baldwin's hemp education materials include a display of the individual components of a hemp plant. (Cami Koons | Flatland)
Already, she's sourcing more hemp from other farmers across the Midwest, who can't find a processor, than she is from her own fields.
South Bend Industrial Hemp now runs six days a week for 16-18 hours a day.
That's what happens when no one else in the vicinity possesses the same equipment.
Nelson-Baldwin faced the same problems that Rural Route Hemp in Drexel, Missouri, found when it came to starting a business in hemp.
She couldn't get loans, had to jump through extra hoops to open an account with the bank, and didn't get farmers' insurance until this year.
Thankfully, the family run farm had enough capital to gamble on a business in hemp.
Nelson-Baldwin was smart in 2019 to plant hemp for both fiber and CBD. Now that the CBD market is saturated, South Bend Industrial Hemp finds itself at the forefront of the soon-to-skyrocket fiber and grain side of the industry.
What is Hemp Fiber and Grain?
Before hemp was famous for its cannabinoids (CBD, THC) it was a staple of both the grain and the fiber industry.
Like corn, soybeans and wheat, it was one of the major crops in the United States.
Grain from hemp is the harvested seed. Commonly known as hemp hearts or hemp nuts, it's high in protein and can be used like any other grain, or provide a nutrient-rich oil when extracted.
The woody stems of these plants, which grow between 10 and 12 feet tall, break apart into three, usable products: the fiber, the hurd and the dust.
Hemp was a major crop in the United States until the 1970s when it was outlawed. (Courtesy | Hempology.org)
Uses for these three elements are constantly being developed, and that's where a lot of excitement in industrial hemp stems from. Paper, insulation, building materials, ground cover, textiles, and a biodegradable alternative to plastics are all on the long list of possibilities.
Hemp for CBD, marijuana and hemp for fiber are all variations of the same plant: cannabis. Misunderstanding around the plant species is what led to the ban on hemp, in an attempt to curtail marijuana use, in the 1970s.
Nelson-Baldwin explained the difference with a comparison to other agricultural products. Take peppers as an example. Some peppers are spicy, but there are also bell peppers which don't pack a punch at all. Both are peppers, they're just different varieties.
"Bell peppers are more of your hemp plants, spicy jalapenos are more of your marijuana plants," Nelson-Baldwin explained.
Now labeled as industrial hemp by the 2018 Farm Bill, cannabis grown with less than 0.3% concentration of THC is once again a commercial crop.
According to Erica Stark, executive director of the National Hemp Association, if properly backed, hemp grown for fiber and grain has the potential to be a $32 billion industry.
These are the numbers predicted if just 5% of the current row-crop acreage, now dedicated to soybeans and corn, added hemp into the rotation.
Farming Hemp
Regardless of if someone is growing for CBD extraction or for fiber, the enrollment process to grow industrial hemp (for now at least) is the same. So are the regulations.
That means testing before harvest to ensure a less than 0.3% THC concentration, enrollment fees, background checks, and in Kansas, a deadline to enroll each year.
"With fiber and grain there's essentially no THC or CBD in these plants," Nelson-Baldwin said. "We're basically glorified hay growers."
"It's just so pretty," Melissa Nelson-Baldwin said of the young hemp plants growing in her field. "This is why I have 13,000 pictures on my phone." (Cami Koons | Flatland)
It's Nelson-Baldwin's biggest complaint about the current regulations.
"They need to divide CBD and fiber and grain," Nelson-Baldwin said. "It is hay. There (are) no cannabinoid properties in these bales, nothing."
And fiber and grain producers don't want their plants to have cannabinoid properties. As Nelson-Baldwin explained, if the plant is diverting energy to produce cannabinoids, it's not directing as much energy into the parts of the plant she's concerned with: the stalk and seeds.
"We want (the hemp plants) to focus all their energy that they're getting from the sun and the nutrients we give them to grow because we need tonnage," Nelson-Baldwin said. "We don't want the plant to waste any of its energy producing cannabinoids."
In the field, hemp grown for fiber and grain is dense, tall and bushy. It's very different from marijuana or even CBD crops, which are grown in spaced apart rows with a "Christmas tree-like" appearance.
When grown for CBD, hemp is treated like a specialty crop on small acreage with daily attention to the development. A grower might have 5,000 plants or so per acre.
Hemp grown for fiber and grain is treated like mainstream rotational crops and is grown on big acreage with close to a million plants per acre. Agricultural Marketing Resource Center estimates the average yield is between two and three tons per acre of hemp.
The acres of hemp on Nelson-Baldwin's farm receive little to no tillage, pesticides when needed and ground irrigation. South Bend seeds and harvests with the same equipment it uses for its traditional crops.
Once mowed down and baled the hemp looks identical to a bale of hay.
A hemp bale sits ready to be processed and separated into fiber and hurd. (Cami Koons | Flatland)
Processing: The Missing Link
So why aren't more farmers growing this type of hemp?
Growers couldn't find processors to take their hemp, so the middle person between the farm and the manufacturer wasn't there to support the industry, according to Stark.
"That intermediary piece of the supply chain, which is the decortication facilities, are not developed on a commercial scale in order to create a complete supply chain," Stark said.
Justin Swanson, president of Midwest Hemp Council, said his home state of Indiana hopes to have a fiber processor soon.
One processor for an entire state is the goal right now, that's how few processors are currently operational.
"We as an association really think the long term sustainable model for farmers is on that grain and fiber side," Swanson said. "But those markets and that supply chain takes much longer to build."
South Bend had to become an integrated operation to succeed in the hemp industry.
They could grow all the hemp they wanted, but if no one could break the hemp apart into its usable elements (a process known as decortication) they'd never make anything.
So the family plunged into hemp processing. With their own funds and some venture capital (the bank would not consider giving them a loan) a state-of-the art decortication machine was purchased.
"The bank will give you a, 'no,' because no manufacturers will contract with you," Nelson-Baldwin said. "So that's why we had to take such a leap of faith."
While they wouldn't sign a letter of intent, Nelson-Baldwin said manufacturers promised they'd place orders as soon as she switched on a decorticator.
Since the beginning of June 2021, when the machine got up and running, it has processed over 250,000 pounds of hemp. Nelson-Baldwin expects to see even greater numbers in the future as those first couple of months were spent figuring out how to work the machine and account for differences in hemp bales.
South Bend's 12-roller decorticator is special in that it keeps the stalks whole while separating hurd from fiber.
"So think about ropes or things like hemp strength, all of that stays at a high level because (the rollers) are not smashing it," Nelson-Baldwin explained.
The processed hemp hurd looks just like wood chips. Not even the signature dank smell remains in the dried hemp. (Cami Koons | Flatland)
It also allows the hemp to meet the millimeter-precise specifications set by the manufacturers she supplies.
"What's even crazier is there's zero waste," Nelson-Baldwin said. "We sell everything that goes through that machine."
The fiber will be used for textiles like cardboard, bioplastics or paper. Hurd gets used like wood chips' more attractive sister in everything from animal bedding to particle board filling and the emerging, green building material: hempcrete.
Even the dust created during the processing is sent to plastic manufacturers. According to Nelson-Baldwin, the addition of the hemp dust to a plastic water bottle helps it to biodegrade in about 80 days.
"So the big thing now, though, is making it cost effective," Nelson-Baldwin said. "We're not there yet, just in terms of scale, but it's quickly coming down the pipeline."
This is why she works with farmers across the country to help them grow and process hemp.
South Bend also hosts educational events, inviting the community, state representatives, manufacturers and anyone who's interested to tour the farm and learn more about the crop's potential and current challenges.
"Every day is a growing and learning day, and we just pass that information along to our farmers," Nelson-Baldwin said.
Filling the Gaps
The potential for hemp lies in its versatility, quick growth cycle and how few resources it needs to grow. Hemp also does well in dry, sandy soils, making it an attractive crop to regions like western Kansas and Texas where wells are drying up.
Timber takes years to grow, while hemp is harvested in a single season. If hemp replaces the fiber in paper or the filling in particle boards, that means fewer trees have to be cut down and milled.
The high price for lumber recently has helped to drive manufacturers to look at alternative materials. Nelson-Baldwin can attest to this from her experience.
"We've got some people that are like, hemp will change the world, hemp will replace every industry," she said. But "we don't want hemp to replace every industry."
A look inside a stalk of hemp. (Cami Koons | Flatland)
Soybeans, corn and other crops are important to the economy and sustainability, she said. While hemp has a place in these industries, she doesn't want it to be a replacement.
"Which, I think, is where we differ a lot with some of the big hemp companies, because we see this as a tool, not as your whole tool kit."
Right now, Nelson-Baldwin's biggest problem with her business is that she simply can't meet demand. She fields calls from Wrangler, Levis and Lego, all wanting to manufacture with hemp.
The paper company she supplies wants 100,000 pounds a month for their production.
"I can't supply that at our facility," Nelson-Baldwin said. "We're looking to add on another decorticator by the first quarter of 2022. We would like a second facility by the end of next year, because we can't even keep up."
Her goal for next year is to have 4,000 acres of hemp contracted to her company throughout the Midwest so she can supply even more manufacturers with the product.
The long-term goal is a nation dotted with processing facilities, like hers, so hemp growers can process locally rather than shipping bales all the way from Texas and South Dakota to the middle of Kansas.
For that to happen, government entities and big corporations need to get on board. Not everyone can self fund a processing facility.
The National Hemp Association is working to make state funding a reality.
"We were trying to get some language put into the forthcoming reconciliation (of the 2018 Farm Bill) for specific infrastructure funding for the hemp industry, knowing that creating those processing facilities for fiber is what this industry really needs to get the fiber and grain portion of the industry off the ground," Stark said.
Missouri already began offering a hemp processing grant earlier this year.
Christi Miller, communications director for the Missouri Department of Agriculture, said eight Missourians applied for the grant and the winner will be announced later this year.
"The whole premise of that grant is to build infrastructure, build capacity (and) equipment that can give our growers a place to go with their products," Miller said.
Miller said other states have their eyes on Missouri as it makes waves supporting industrial hemp.
If the past two years have been any indicator, the next couple of years will be an exciting time for industrial hemp.
"It's gonna take time," Nelson-Baldwin said. "We're gonna work as fast as we can, and as hard as we can, but it's gonna take time."
Next: "Highway to Hemp" returns next month diving back into the world of CBD to look at the varying methods of extraction and distribution.
Correction: An earlier version of this story mislabeled Midwest Hemp Council.
Cami Koons covers rural affairs for Kansas City PBS in cooperation with Report for America. The work of our Report for America corps members is made possible, in part, through the generous support of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
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Computer & Internet Security
How Internet Censorship Works
By: Jonathan Strickland
Domestic journalists and delegates use the Internet at the Great Hall of the People during a session of the National People's Congress in Beijing.
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One of the early nicknames for the Internet was the "information superhighway" because it was supposed to provide the average person with fast access to a practically limitless amount of data. For many users, that's exactly what accessing the Internet is like. For others, it's as if the information superhighway has some major roadblocks in the form of Internet censorship.
The motivations for censorship range from well-intentioned desires to protect children from unsuitable content to authoritarian attempts to control a nation's access to information. No matter what the censors' reasons are, the end result is the same: They block access to the Web pages they identify as undesirable.
Internet censorship isn't just a parental or governmental tool. There are several software products on the consumer market that can limit or block access to specific Web sites. Most people know these programs as Web filters. Censorship opponents have another name for them: Censorware.
While there are some outspoken supporters and opponents of Internet censorship, it's not always easy to divide everyone into one camp or another. Not everyone uses the same tactics to accomplish goals. Some opponents of censorship challenge government policies in court. Others take the role of information freedom fighters, providing people with clandestine ways to access information.
In this article, we'll look at the different levels of Internet censorship, from off-the-shelf Web filters to national policy. We'll also learn about the ways some people are trying to fight censorship.
We'll start off by looking at Internet censorship on the domestic level.
We Don't Need No Thought Control
In 2007, AT&T came under fire when music fans discovered that the company had edited out political comments in a Webcast performance by the band Pearl Jam. The band covered Pink Floyd's song "Another Brick in the Wall" and added lyrics criticizing United States President George W. Bush. AT&T cut the new lyrics out of the song before Webcasting it. After an outcry from fans, the company eventually admitted that it wasn't an isolated incident, though AT&T spokeswoman Tiffany Nels claimed that it was never AT&T's intent to remove political statements from Webcasts [source: MTV].
Internet Censorship at Home
Big Businesses and Internet Censorship
Internet Censorship at the International Level
Opponents of Internet Censorship
Web filter programs like Net Nanny use blacklists to block access to Web sites with mature content.
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There's no denying that the Internet contains a lot of material that most parents wouldn't want their children to see. Whether it's pornography, hate speech, chat rooms or gambling sites, many parents worry that their children will be exposed to negative or even dangerous content. While some opponents of censorship may feel that parental supervision is the best way to keep kids safe online, many parents point out that it's difficult -- if not impossible -- to oversee a child's access to the Internet all the time.
Many parents turn to software and hardware solutions to this problem. They can purchase Web filtering programs like Net Nanny or CYBERsitter to block access to undesirable Web sites. These programs usually have a series of options parents can select to limit the sites their children can access. These options tell the program which filters to enable. For example, CYBERsitter has 35 filter categories, including pornography and social networking sites [source: CYBERsitter].
Most Web filters use two main techniques to block content: Blacklists and keyword blocking. A blacklist is a list of Web sites that the Web filter's creators have designated as undesirable. Blacklists change over time, and most companies offer updated lists for free. Any attempt to visit a site on a blacklist fails. With keyword blocking, the software scans a Web page as the user tries to visit it. The program analyzes the page to see if it contains certain keywords. If the program determines the Web page isn't appropriate, it blocks access to the page.
Another option for parents is to install a firewall. A computer firewall provides protection from dangerous or undesirable content. Firewalls can be software or hardware. They act as a barrier between the Internet and your computer network. They only let safe content through and keep everything else out. Firewalls require a little more involvement from the network administrator (in this case, a parent) than Web filtering software. Tech-savvy parents might not have a problem installing and maintaining a firewall. Others prefer to use Web filters, which do most of the work for them.
Have you ever tried to access a Web site at your workplace only to receive an intimidating message? Some companies limit the kinds of sites employees can visit. Learn about Internet censorship from the corporate standpoint on the next page.
Web Filter Controversy
Censorship opponents have some big problems with Web filtering software. Many Web filtering programs encrypt their blacklists, claiming that it helps minimize abuse. Opponents point out that the encrypted blacklist could also include Web pages that aren't inappropriate at all, including pages that criticize the creators of the Web filter. Even if the programs' creators aren't blocking these sites on purpose, it's easy for a Web filter to restrict access to the wrong sites. That's because programs that search for keywords can't detect context. For example, early Web filters would often block access to chicken breast recipes. The programs couldn't tell the difference between an innocent site about cooking and a pornographic site, so they blocked all of them indiscriminately.
Vinton Cerf, vice president of engineering at Google, speaks on behalf of his company at a debate on net neutrality at the Center for American Progress.
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Corporations that restrict employee Internet access usually do so for a few reasons. One of the most common reasons is to increase productivity. While employees can use the Internet for research or communication, they may also use it as a distraction. Some companies restrict Internet access severely in order to prevent employees from wasting time online.
Another corporate concern is harassment. Without restrictions, an employee could surf the Web for inappropriate content, such as pornography. If other employees see this material, they may feel that their work environment is a hostile one. Some companies resort to using Internet censorship in order to avoid lawsuits.
While several companies use Web filtering software similar to the products available for home use, many also rely on firewalls. With a firewall, a company can pick and choose which Web pages or even entire domains to block. This way, the company is more likely to avoid blocking sites that employees may need to access legitimately.
At many workplaces, when an employee attempts to access a restricted Web site, he or she will see a message that says the network administrator has identified the site as inappropriate. Usually the message includes the option to petition the network administrator if the user feels the site is wrongfully blocked. The network administrator can adjust which sites are restricted through firewall settings.
What about the corporations that provide Internet access, such as telecom and cable companies? They can play a crucial role in what content customers can access on the Internet. In the United States, there's an ongoing battle over a concept called net neutrality. In a nutshell, net neutrality refers to a level playing ground where Internet service providers (ISPs) allow access to all content without favoring any particular company or Web site. Telecom and cable companies successfully petitioned the Supreme Court to dismiss net neutrality [source: ACLU].
Without net neutrality, ISPs can charge content providers a fee for bandwidth usage. Content providers that pay the fee will get more broadband access, meaning their Web sites will load faster than competitors who didn't pay the fee. For example, if Yahoo pays a fee to an ISP and Google didn't, the ISP's customers would discover that Yahoo's search engine loads much faster than Google's. Supporters of net neutrality argue that such preferential treatment amounts to censorship.
Keep reading to learn how some nations try to dictate the kind of content citizens access.
Search Engine Censorship
Most search engines self-censor their search engine results pages (SERPs) in an effort to provide users with relevant search terms. This is necessary because some webmasters try to trick search engines into giving their Web pages high SERP ranks. If the search engines didn't weed out and censor these pages, every SERP would be filled with irrelevant results.
Recently, censorship opponents have criticized search engine companies like Yahoo and Google for helping restrictive countries maintain control of the Internet. The companies are in a delicate position -- although headquartered in the United States, they still need to obey local laws when operating in other countries.
Many countries restrict access to content on the Internet on some level. Even the United States has laws that impact the kind of information you can access on the Internet in a school or public library. Some countries go much further than that -- and a few don't allow any access to the Internet at all.
The OpenNet Initiative (ONI), an organization dedicated to informing the public about Web filtering and surveillance policies around the world, classifies Web filtering into four categories:
Political: Content that includes views contrary to the respective country's policies. The political category also includes content related to human rights, religious movements and other social causes
Social: Web pages that focus on sexuality, gambling, drugs and other subjects that a nation might deem offensive
Conflict/Security: Pages that relate to wars, skirmishes, dissent and other conflicts
Internet tools: Web sites that offer tools like e-mail, instant messaging, language translation applications and ways to circumvent censorship
Countries like the United States are fairly liberal, with policies that restrict only a few Web pages, but other countries are stricter. According to Reporters Without Borders, an organization dedicated to promoting free expression and the safety of journalists, the following countries have the strongest censorship policies:
Some countries go well beyond restricting access. The Myanmar government allegedly keeps Internet cafés under surveillance with computers that automatically take screenshots every few minutes. China has an advanced filtering system known internationally as the Great Firewall of China. It can search new Web pages and restrict access in real time. It can also search blogs for subversive content and block Internet users from visiting them. Cuba has banned private Internet access completely -- to get on the Internet, you have to go to a public access point.
There are several organizations dedicated to ending Internet censorship. Find out more about them on the next page.
Beyond the Net
Sometimes the fight moves from the online world to the real one. In 2006, a group of men attacked United States citizen Peter Yuan Li in his Atlanta home. Li was an anti-censorship activist and a practitioner of Falun Gong, a spiritual following similar to Buddhism. Li maintained Web sites that criticized China's Communist party. His assailants bound him and demanded to know where he stored his information. They beat Li severely and stole two laptop computers, leaving other valuables untouched. Li believed the men were sent by the Chinese government to silence him [source: Forbes].
In addition to the thousands of people who combat censorship through blogs every day, there are several organizations that raise awareness about Internet censorship. Some are formal organizations with prestigious memberships, while others are looser groups that aren't above advocating a guerilla approach to getting around strict policies.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is an adamant opponent of Internet censorship. The ACLU has filed numerous lawsuits in order to overturn censorship laws. In 2007, the ACLU convinced a federal court that the Children's Online Protection Act (COPA) was unconstitutional. COPA was a law that made it illegal to present material online that was deemed harmful to minors, even if it included information valuable to adults [source: ACLU].
The OpenNet Initiative is a group that strives to provide information to the world about the ways countries allow or deny citizens access to information. The initiative includes departments at the University of Toronto, the Harvard Law School, Oxford University and the University of Cambridge. On ONI's Web page you can find an interactive mapthat shows which countries censor the Internet.
Reporters Without Borders also concerns itself with Internet censorship, although the group's scope extends beyond Internet practices. The group maintains a list of "Internet enemies," countries that have the most severe Internet restrictions and policies in place [source: Reporters Without Borders].
The Censorware Project has been around since 1997. Its mission is to educate people about Web filtering software and practices. At its Web site, you can find investigative reports about all the major Web filter programs available on the market as well as essays and news reports about censorship. A similar site is Peacefire.org, which began as a site dedicated to protecting free speech on the Internet for young people.
Other groups offer advice on how to disable or circumvent censorware. Some advocate using proxy sites. A proxy site is a Web page that allows you to browse the Web without using your own Internet protocol (IP) address. You visit the proxy site, which includes a form into which you type the URL of the restricted sites you want to visit. The proxy site retrieves the information and displays it. Outsiders can only see that you've visited the proxy site, not the sites you've pulled up.
It may be decades before the Internet reaches its full potential as a conduit for ideas. Ironically, it isn't going to get there through technological breakthroughs, but through changes in national and corporate policies.
To learn more about Internet censorship and related topics, check out the links on the next page.
Think of the Children!
In 2000, the United States Congress enacted the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) into law. The law imposes restrictions on Internet access in schools and public libraries that receive funding from the E-rate program, which makes certain technologies more affordable for schools and libraries. Critics of the law say that the act violates the First Amendment to the Constitution. In 2003, the Supreme Court upheld CIPA in a 5 to 4 decision [source: Supreme Court].
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Dobija, Jane. "The First Amendment Needs New Clothes." American Librarians. September 2007. pp. 50-53.
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Morais, Richard C. "When All Else Fails: Threats." Forbes. February 11, 2006. http://www.forbes.com/2006/02/10/china-falun-gong_0210falungong.html
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Okay guys. The exhibition is tomorrow! Our work went up last night at the Abbey Centre . Now, it's quite a small space and it's a bit crowded for 24 framed photographs to share space on the walls but we'll see how it goes down tomorrow!
I'll leave you with this lovely jump flying shot of Orla cos i'd like everyone to send me some good wishes on angel and fairy wings that it all goes well. One thing's for sure, my MIL bought enough wine to float an ark so if you're coming down to support us, make sure you have a designated driver!
We're away on holidays tomorrow! YAY! We're off to sunny Cork (i wish) and I feel like we're leaving for the edge of never. I don't think there's wifi where we're staying so I will be hanging til we get home. So here's my little fairy to leave you with til I return!


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Gertrude Elion
"Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you can't do it. In my day I was told women didn't go into chemistry. I saw no reason why we couldn't." – Gertrude B. Elion
American pharmacologist and biochemist, Gertrude B. Elion is famous for her scientific discovery of drugs to treat leukemia and herpes and drugs to prevent the rejection of kidney transplants. This discovery earned her Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1988 which she shared with George H. Hitchings, her long-time boss and collaborator at Burroughs-Wellcome, and also Sir James W. Black. After receiving the Nobel Prize she said:
"People ask me often (was) the Nobel Prize the thing you were aiming for all your life? And I say that would be crazy. Nobody would aim for a Nobel Prize because, if you didn't get it, your whole life would be wasted. What we were aiming at was getting people well, and the satisfaction of that is much greater than any prize you can get."
She is holder of 45 patents, 23 honorary degrees, and a lengthy list of other honors. She was unmarried.
Early Life, Education and Career:
Gertrude Elion was born in New York City on January 23, 1918 to immigrant parents from Eastern Europe. She and her younger brother grew up in the Bronx in New York where they enjoyed playing in the large parks and visiting Bronx Zoo.
She completed her graduation from Hunter College, City University of New York with a B.A. degree in chemistry in 1937. During this time she also planned to become a cancer researcher but for several years worked as a lab assistant, food analyst (tested pickles and berries for quality at the Quaker Maid Company), and high school teacher while studying for her Master's degree at night. She completed her M.S. in chemistry from New York University in 1941.
When World War II broke out, there was an urgent need for women at scientific laboratories so she obtained a position initially in instrumentation in an industrial laboratory and then as an assistant to George H. Hitchings at the Burroughs-Wellcome pharmaceutical company (now GlaxoSmithKline). She never obtained a formal doctorate, but was later awarded an honorary doctorate from Polytechnic University of New York in 1989 and honorary SD degree from Harvard University in 1998.
While working with George Hitchings, Elion helped develop the first drugs to combat leukemia, herpes, and AIDS, and established new research methods to produce drugs that could target specific pathogens. The medicines she developed include acyclovir (for herpes), allopurinol (for gout), azathioprine (which limits rejection in organ transplants), purinethol (for leukemia), pyrimethamine (for malaria), and trimethoprim (for meningitis and bacterial infections).
During 1967 she occupied the position of the head of the company's Department of Experimental Therapy and officially retired in 1983. Despite her retirement, Elion continued working almost full time at the lab, and oversaw the adaptation of azidothymidine (AZT), which became the first drug used for treatment of AIDS.
Gertrude Elion died in North Carolina on February 21, 1999. She was always admired by a number of students and colleagues for her brilliancy and dedication to science.
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PS4 games streaming will come to PS Now in 2017
Sony announced this week that Playstation 4 games will be coming to their online game streaming service PS Now in 2017.
Currently Playstation Now enables subscribers to stream 483 PS3 games to their Windows PC or Playstation 4 console. The service is available for a flat fee of $100 per year, or $45 per month for three games, which is substantially less than the cost of buying three games each month. Now Sony has announced that Playstation 4 games will be joining the lineup of streamable content at some point this year.
There are a growing number of influencers in the games industry encouraging consumers not to pre-order games, or rent them before buying them. PS Now allows gamers to not only try out a game before investing their time and money in it, it lets them play a number of new games each month for less than the price of a newly released title.
There are many great games available for PS3, and most of these have made the transition to PS4 Now, allowing gamers who might never have owned the console to play classics such as the Resistance series. With the inclusion of Playstation 4 games the service will be even more desirable, given that the Playstation 4 is the most-popular current-gen console.
While Sony probably won't include the latest Playstation 4 titles in their first lineup of streamable games they might include smaller indie games titles such as the recently released Paladins. Sony is bringing more and more games that are still under development to the Playstation Store, so it's likely that Sony would want to push them.
Sony will be emailing select PS Now subscribers to take part in their private test of PS4 game streaming over the next few weeks, and advise tem to keep an eye on their email for the invitation. Should the test go well Sony will be rolling out the new service to more and more subscribers until all PS Now customers have access to the new lineup of Playstation 4 games.
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From pruning through to budburst, flowering, fruit-set, veraison, harvest, fermentation, pressing, barrel aging, blending to bottling, the whole 'winegrowing' process is carefully tended by Rob Gibson. His university education in both oenology and viticulture, combined with his 23 years experience at the prestigious Penfolds Wines and a natural curiosity of all things, have led to an intimate understanding of the many factors that can influence the creation of wine.
Rob, or 'Gibbo' as he is affectionately known by his friends, has managed to engage the tireless efforts of his wife Anne, as well as the energy of their five children; Kelly, Kim, Adam, Sam and Abel in the family business. Anne is responsible for all that is involved in getting the wines from the winery into the bottles and then out into the world, a list of duties that normally requires the resources of an entire staff.
Over the last few years, Rob has developed a number of different wines; amongst them Shiraz, Sparling Merlot, and his signature Merlot. Most of them have been made from selected vines from his own plantings in the Northern Barossa. Rob's wines are divided into 3 different ranges. The BarossaVale Range is the winery's original range, featuring the highly successful Merlots. All the wines are highly rated, and have done well in recent reviews, including Runner-up in the prestigious Jimmy Watson Trophy for the 2003 Shiraz.
The Gibson Reserve Range is Rob's Signature Range. All the vines are highly rated. They have been very carefully selected by Rob from all the vines picked and all the Barrels made in the vintage.
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Thespians lament state of Zim theatre
By Tendai Sauta | Nov. 22, 2022
Zaza Muchemwa
VETERAN local theatre practitioners, who gathered for the Creative Hustle Seminar on theatre last week, have said lack of co-ordination and an unclear national strategy are curtailing the development of Zimbabwe's theatre industry.
The Creative Hustle Seminar, which was held in the capital, was meant to enlighten thespians on the past, present and future of the local theatre performing arts industry.
It was organised by Afrotopia Creative Hub with the support of the British Council in Zimbabwe.
The seminar, that had top theatre practitioners such as Raisedon Baya, International Theatre Institute of Zimbabwe chairperson Zaza Muchemwa and Lady Tshawe as panellists provoked a sense of imagination on sustainable new theatre practices, structural development and maintenance, theatre education, production and artist management.
Above all, the forum was meant to reflect on best practices for thespians and mapping out good strategies for the development of theatre in Zimbabwe.
"Through the Creative Hustle Seminar, the idea was to bring together practising artists for the purposes of visualising ways of sourcing audience, evaluating themselves into a sustainable future while creating opportunities for others," emerging filmmaker Fungai "FC Stanley" Chigumbura, who directed the panel at the forum, told NewsDay Life & Style.
Baya said theatre was a resilient medium that had managed to communicate effectively in spaces where other known media forms have failed to reach.
"My involvement in theatre arts has made me cautious on how to approach different life situations in line with the Censorship Act, artistic freedom and the demand to produce educational, entertaining as well as commercially viable theatrical productions," he noted.
Baya pleaded with the government and stakeholders in theatre to maintain the few available theatre halls, while equipping them with relevant technologies such as lights and sound systems.
Muchemwa expressed the need for adequate funding for researchers so that theatre practitioners can be acquainted with reliable information in order to come up with good strategies.
"The idea is to get people to understanding theatre, safeguarding spaces, stakeholder building and gender mainstreaming. The government has the performance and visual arts curriculum which needs serious stakeholder participation and capacitation on content development," she stated.
"There is need for us to come together and speak with one voice on theatre development in Zimbabwe. Also, there is need to put emphasis on sustainability before focusing on financial gains."
Contrary to Chigumbura's suggestion to make use of found spaces for rehearsals and theatrical performances, theatre doyen and spoken word artisan Lady Tshawe noted the need of effective maintenance of creative spaces to nurture, a positive mindset which probes good aesthetics.
According to Chigumbura, spaces could be under-utilised industrial spaces, abandoned garages or warehouses.
"This forum made us aware of the things we are doing right and the things we have to improve on. For now, I can say we are doing well and I should say, I chose theatre for the purpose of reaching out to people, she said.
Seasoned theatre producer and Rooftop Promotions/Theatre in the Park founder Daves Guzha challenged thespians to make use of the insights brought about by the conversation.
He also lobbied for journalists' capacitation on the know-how in the theatre industry and its value chain in order to come up with good critiques that bring out good citizenship and accurate transmission of information.
Guzha's sentiments cemented the earlier reflection that journalists tend to dwell too much on duplicating synopses without giving further interpretation and exposition required by the audience.
Nyamatsatse Festival organiser and prolific violin player Klara Anna Rosa said the forum was helpful in identifying gaps that needed to be filled with knowledge and expertise.
The issue of donor funding was also raised from the floor amid concerns that the aid should be given to artists without conditions for them to pursue prearranged creative briefs or themes which at times supersede other independent productions.
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educating the public about the impact of climate change on the planet and society to increase awareness.
DSM supports the over-all goal of the Paris Agreement, which is to realize a net zero-carbon economy in the second half of this century, backed by strong intermediate targets to prevent a global average temperature increase beyond 1.5 to 2°C.
DSM reports its climate actions to the CDP, which uses the power of measurement, transparency, information disclosure and accountability to drive positive change in the world of business and investment.
As a Carbon Pricing Champion, DSM works with the UN Global Compact to advocate for carbon pricing, set an internal carbon price and report on our progress as part of our Annual Report.
The CPLC is a multi-stakeholder World Bank initiative sharing experiences of working with carbon pricing and growing the evidence base for the most effective carbon pricing systems and policies. DSM's CEO was Co-Chair of the CPLC since it was founded in 2016 until April 2018, when his term ended and he was appointed Chair of the new High-Level Leadership Forum on Carbon Pricing and Competitiveness (supported by the CPLC). In recognition of his role at the CPLC role he has also been appointed a Climate Leader by World Bank Group President Jim Kim.
LCTPi, a multi-stakeholder platform presents the opportunities of large-scale development and deployment of low-carbon technologies. DSM has joined the below50 campaign, uniting companies that produce, use and/or invest in fuels that are at least 50% less carbon intensive than fossil fuels.
The Powering Past Coal Alliance is a global initiative of governments, businesses and organizations working to advance the transition away from coal power generation. Members are committed to working together for EU and OECD countries to phase out coal-fired electricity generation no later than 2030, with the rest of the world following no later than 2050.
The CLG works under the leadership of The Prince of Wales to advocate for climate change solutions with policymakers and businesses, within the EU and globally.
RE100 is a peer learning, advocacy and action platform, led by the Climate Group, uniting businesses to commit to using 100% renewable electricity whilst setting a bold intermediate target.
During New York Climate Week 2017 DSM was among the first ten global leading companies that committed to implementing the recommendations of the Financial Stability Board's TCFD within three years.
DSM is a Strategic Partner of the World Economic Forum (WEF). Together with 79 CEOs, we released an open letter to governments "Let's partner on climate action".
We Mean Business is a coalition of several of the above organizations that is inviting hundreds of companies and investors to commit to low-carbon initiatives.


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ZIMBABWE – HARARE – Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa admitted in the National Assembly on Thursday that agriculture equipment which First Lady Grace Mugabe has been donating on her countrywide tour is part of the $98 million Brazil-Zimbabwe Food for Africa loan facility.
Responding to questions from lawmakers Mnangagwa said the first lady was not making donations but merely handing over equipment that had been sourced by the government.
Cornered by lawmakers in parliament as to why Mrs. Mugabe was getting involved in government business, Mnangagwa failed to explain this but could only say the first lady is just distributing the equipment after her rallies together with the minister of agriculture.
But Mrs. Mugabe, during her last two rallies in Chisumbanje and Rushinga in Manicaland provice gave the impression that she was the one who had sourced the equipment which includes tractors, disc harrows, planters, fertiliser spreaders, among others.
Opposition lawmakers were concerned that the equipment was being distributed to Zanu PF supporters yet the country's taxpayers would repay the loan.
Meanwhile, hundreds of city residents are flocking to the city centre where pharmaceutical students from the University of Zimbabwe and the Harare Institute of Technology are conducting free tests for some of the conditions associated with non-communicable diseases such as high blood pressure and blood sugar levels and body mass index.
This is designed to promote health living standards among the people under the banner of the Zimbabwe Pharmaceutical Students' Association.
Association public relations officer, Anesu Dhliwayo, told Studio 7 during the free tests that are being conducted in Harare's First Street that they decided to carry out the exercise after realizing that more than 60 percent of deaths in sub-saharan Africa are now due to non-communicable diseases.
Dhliwayo said the whole exercise is intended to promote healthy living by raising awareness about the dangers of these conditions.
She said the turnout has been impressive as people are keen to know what their status.
A city resident, who attended the tests and requested anonymity, said he was unable to do regular checks at the local clinic as the charges are exorbitant.
Another city resident, who only identified herself as Enia, told Studio she was excited as in her own words "everything was okay".
She said the advice she got from the students was excellent.
After going through the test residents, regardless of the outcomes of the tests, are counseled and referred to their doctors or health institutions for the required attention.
Masvingo Central lawmaker, Edmund Mhere, who visited the testing centre, advised the pharmaceutical students to also carryout such tests at Parliament and other places as most people are in need of such services.
The tests by the students were funded by the two tertiary institutions as well as several private pharmacies in and around the country.
As the non-communicable diseases take their toll on the country, some pharmacies in the country are now carrying out free blood sugar tests and testing kits are now on sale in public pharmacies.
These diseases that are not infectious — the so-called non-communicable diseases or NCDs. Almost two-thirds of all deaths in the developing world, about 23 million each year are affected by the NCDs.
For Zimbabwe, 30% of all deaths are caused by NCDs, which generally have received less attention in the health sector though solutions are often very effective and very cheap.
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ALL THINGS GEEK EXCLUSIVE: 'The Coin of the Realm' by Quinton Peeples
This month, Humanoids — the Los Angeles-based publisher of some of the world's most groundbreaking science fiction and fantasy graphic novels— is publishing Peeples' graphic novel debut THE BIG COUNTRY, a Texas noir about toxic masculinity and the cycle of violence, illustrated by Dennis Calero
In his remarkably candid personal essay he shared exclusively with The Good Men Project / All Things Geek, Mr. Peepels writes candidly about being abused as a child and the impact of violence and toxic masculinity. –
"The Coin of the Realm"
Everyday violence as inspiration for "The Big Country"
An essay by Quinton Peeples
I'd been on the floor for six or seven minutes, absorbing the kicks and blows that came from three boys who outweighed me by fifty pounds each. Initially, I tried to smile through it, as if it were some kind of mild hazing or a joke we were sharing, but this seemed to make them angrier.
Finally, the PE coach emerged and asked them to get dressed. The bell ending fifth period was about to ring and he didn't want them to be late to their next class. He never spoke to me. I was ten years old.
I don't remember now what I did to set them off. And it doesn't matter. They didn't need a reason. This was just the way life was. What they couldn't have known, (or maybe they did, and we were alike in this way) was that I suffered the same type of abuse at home at the hands of my parents.
From the time I was five until I was thirteen, I suffered so many spankings, beatings and incidents of physical violence, I almost lost count. With a therapist's help we roughed out a number nearing two hundred and fifty.
Until I was in my thirties, I thought this was normal.
The neighborhood I inhabited, the kids I grew up with, the people who surrounded me on a daily basis doled out casual violence with a kind of nonchalance that would be breathtaking in today's culture. Part of my wanting to write my graphic novel "The Big Country" was to cast a glance back at a life that is, thankfully, fading. Or, at least, I hope it is. Part of me wonders if it's just gone underground.
What is currently discussed as "toxic masculinity" would simply have been called "being a man" when I grew up. Violence was, and I would argue still is, the coin of the realm when it comes to male identity.
You should be able to take it and dish it out without hesitation. Your ability to endure it in the right way determines your value. Your choice of when, how and whose ass to kick is an indicator of currency.
Watch how often in contemporary media our "hero" throws a punch when his "girl" is threatened by another male. Would you have been disappointed if he simply had taken the young woman's arm and escorted her to a less aggressive part of the bar? I bet you would have.
But let me clue you into something, a little insight gained from the personal experience laid out above – no one gets out of that violent moment without significant damage being done.
What television and movies avoid at all costs is the reality of violence and what it brings about in the human being, not to mention the sheer ugly physicality of it. It is never beautiful.
Someone's teeth shattering, a broken jaw that swells and bruises instantly, an eye whose cornea is torn – that's not Tom Cruise-worthy. It's ugly and mean, and once you've been on either side of it, you are never the same.
And when it becomes routine, life around you begins to tilt into perpetual darkness. That's the world of "The Big Country."
The story of the graphic novel is invented, but the characters who inhabit it are all based on real people I grew up with.
The world they inhabit is the one I just laid out – a place where everyday violence has become routine. No one knows there is another way.
Each character suffers from being caught in a world that doesn't question violence and its consequences. And when someone doesn't respond in kind, they are viewed as suspect. To some of the citizens he serves, the protagonist, Sherriff Grissom Callahan, seems to have lost his edge.
He is a pale imitation of his father Clem, who was his predecessor. Grissom is chided and bears the psychic weight of "not being the man his father was". That's code for "You don't know whose ass to kick."
The entire novel revolves around how violence infiltrates and poisons both the private and public lives of the characters.
They are completely unaware of this, because, like me, they accept this as a way of life. Our culture is defined by the things we accept without question. And in "The Big Country" if you think getting kicked is something to smile about, you're not worth talking to.
I'll be reviewing and hope to interview the author in an upcoming All Things Geek.
The Big Country is available for pre-order at Amazon –
Quinton Peeples has been writing, producing and directing for television for over 30 years, including Runaways, Iron Fist, Flashforward, The Last Ship, Unforgettable and Hulu's adaptation of Stephen King's best-selling novel 11/22/63, as well as the film Woodlawn.
Image courtesy of Humanoids Publishing
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Remind congregants of the sovereignty of the Lord's plan with these banners that decorate your worship center. Ecclesiastes 3:1 (NIV) is written on the banner: There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens. The image displays a fall forest, featuring bright orange and yellow leaves. Though the stand is sold separately, purchasers have the choice between fabric or vinyl as well as several sizes.


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A 2008-as Monte Carlo-rali (hivatalosan: 76ème Rallye Automobile de Monte-Carlo) volt a 2008-as rali-világbajnokság első versenye. Január 24. és 27. között került megrendezésre, 19 gyorsasági szakaszból állt, melyek össztávja 365 kilométert tett ki. A versenyen 47 páros indult, melyből 34 ért célba.

A versenyt, immár ötödik alkalommal Sébastien Loeb nyerte. Másodikként Mikko Hirvonen végzett, harmadik pedig Chris Atkinson lett.

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A szezon első futamára a Citroen Sébastien Loebbel és Dani Sordóval érkezett. A Ford csapatánál Marcus Grönholm helyét Jari-Matti Latvala vette át. Mellette Mikko Hirvonen és Hálid al-Kászimi volt még az alakulat tagja. A Subaru, a tavalyi évhez hasonlóan Petter Solberget és Chris Atkinsont indította a futamon. A Stobart Fordnál Gigi Galli és François Duval kapott szerepet, mint a csapatversenyben pontszerzőként jelölt pilóták. Ezenfelül Henning Solberg és Matthew Wilson indult a csapat autójával. Az újonc Suzuki Toni Gardemeisterrel és Per-Gunnar Anderssonnal kezdte meg első teljes világbajnoki szezonját.

A francia Jean-Marie Cuoq egy Peugeot 307 WRC-vel, a zimbabwei Conrad Rautenbach pedig egy Citroen Xsara WRC-vel nevezett a versenyre.

A mezőnyben egy magyar páros volt jelen; Holcer Dániel és navigátora Marko Tibor egy Honda Civic Type-R-el indult a viadalon.

Beszámoló

Első nap

Az első napon két éjszakai gyorsasági szakaszt tartottak. A nyitányon Sordo volt a leggyorsabb, mögötte Loeb és Hirvonen állt. Latvala kerékcsere miatt négy percet vesztett, miután falnak ütközött és megsérült autójának jobb első kereke. A második szakaszon Loeb nyert és átvette a vezetést.

Második nap

A nap hat szakaszából Loeb ötször, Sordo pedig egy alkalommal volt első. A nyolcadik gyorsasági után továbbra is a két Citroen vezetett. Harmadik helyen Hirvonen állt ekkor. Mögötte Atkinson, Duval, Petter Solberg, Galli és Couq volt a sorrend. Al-Kászimi a hatodik szakasz utolsó kanyarjában törte össze autóját.

Harmadik nap

A harmadik napon egy érdemleges változás történt, Sordo ugyanis a második helyről esett ki, miután a tizenegyedik szakaszon a C4-es motorja tönkrement. A pontszerzők sorrendje mindössze annyiban változott, hogy Sordo kiesésével Andersson felért a nyolcadik helyre.

Negyedik nap

A zárónapon Duval dominált. A belga négy szakaszt is nyert, kettővel többet mint a visszatérő Dani Sordo. Az utolsó gyorsaságit Monaco belvárosában, a Formula–1-es versenyeken is használt nyomvonalon rendezték. Rautenbachon ez a pálya fogott ki. Az ifjú zimbabwei a szalagkorlátnak csapta autója hátulját, és kiesett a versenyből. A pontszerző helyeken ezen a napon már nem történt változás. Sikerével Loeb a Monte Carlo-rali első ötszörös győztese lett.

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Chang Chi-yuan's live stream will start on Sunday at 6 p.m. in Taiwan (6 a.m. in New York). It's unclear which bug he will exploit to pull off the hack.
Taiwanese hacker Chang Chi-yuan has pledged to live stream an attempt to delete Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook page.
"Broadcasting the deletion of FB founder Zuck's account. Scheduled to go live" on Sunday at 6 p.m. in Taiwan or 6 a.m. on the East Coast, he wrote in a message to his 26,000-plus following on Facebook, according to a translation by Bloomberg.
Chang is a "minor celebrity" in Taiwan, Bloomberg says. During a recent TV appearance, for example, he discussed the breach of a bus operator in which he bought a bus ticket for 3 cents.
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Facebook did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Its bug bounty program has awarded $6.3 million since 2011 and $880,000 in 2017. But it's not clear which bug(s) Chang will exploit to access Zuckerberg's personal Facebook page, nor how much Facebook would pay Chang, if anything, should he succeed.
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This isn't the first time a hacker has taken over Zuckerberg's Facebook page. In 2011, it was hacked with a call to turn the site into a "social business." But this time around, Chang's hack attempt comes as Facebook, which now has 1.47 billion daily active users, is facing increased pressure over privacy and the social network's impact on society.
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