Sony Xperia Z1 users, who has subscribed to T-Mobile's wireless network services in the US, can check out for the Android 5.0 (Lollipop) OS update that is now active for their smartphones.
According to an Xperia blog post, the latest Android 5.0 OS update bears build number 14.5.B.0.236. Xperia Z1 (bearing model number C6916) users would need to remember that the firmware of the latest update is Android 5.0.2 which has begun a phased rollout. This means, it may take time until all T-Mobile-driven Sony Xperia Z1 smartphones across the US are covered.
Android 5.0.2 will arrive automatically via over-the-air (OTA) mechanism, but you can also check for the update manually on your smartphones.
Currently, Sony Xperia Z1 on T-Mobile is driven by the legacy Android 4.2.2 (KitKat) operating platform.
Therefore, users of T-Mobile Xperia Z1 are advised to check their devices regularly for Android Lollipop, and let us know about the OS update's rollout status, in our comments section below.
To download FTF links, for Android 5.0 14.5.B.0.236, click here.


Half Moon Cay (also known as Little San Salvador Island) is one of about 700 islands that make up the archipelago of the Bahamas. It is located roughly halfway between Eleuthera and Cat Island. It is a private island, owned by Holland America Line, a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation & PLC, which uses it as a one-day stop (port of call) for the cruise ships it operates in the region.
Port Location - The island does not have deep water docking, requiring the use of tenders for cruise ship passengers to disembark and embark.
Transport Links – Half Moon Cay is only accessible by boat.


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Turkey-Israel: Caught between friendship and enmity
Andrei Isaev
In 1949, Turkey became the first Muslim country to recognize the State of Israel. Territorial disputes with Iraq (Ankara claims the Mosul region as Turkish territory) and with neighboring Syria (which has never recognized Alexandretta Sanjak, Hatayt vilayet's joining Turkey after WWI) necessitated a search for a regional ally. Moreover, the long-simmering conflict with Greece and accusations of the Armenian genocide had threatened to cut off the supply of high technologies and weapons from Western countries. Therefore, Israel has from the very outset been a major supplier of such advanced technologies and weapons to Turkey.
As for Israel, ties with Turkey meant a breach in the Middle Eastern countries' political and economic blockade of the Jewish state, and an example to follow by neighboring countries. The rapprochement between Ankara and Tel Aviv was good news also for the United States, as it set the stage for the emergence of a pro-American alliance in the Middle East.
The agreement that Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) signed in 1993 served as a "moral" basis for forging even closer ties between Ankara and Tel Aviv. After the Israeli intelligence services helped their Turkish colleagues to locate the whereabouts of the Kurdistan Workers' Party leader Abdullah Ocalan, Turkey and Israel signed a raft of cooperation agreements on security, on combating terrorism and on the implementation of joint agricultural projects in Central Asia.
Exchanges of visits by the two countries' senior military officials that followed resulted in the conclusion of contracts for the supply and joint development of certain types of weapons, with Turkey making its airspace available for training flights of Israeli military aircraft as the territory of the Jewish state is too small for this.
The Free Trade Agreement that Ankara and Tel Aviv inked in 1996, effectively opened the Israeli market, and also those of the United States, Canada and Mexico for Turkish goods. However, in that very same year, relations between the two countries suffered a setback when Turkish Prime Minister Nejmettin Erbakan, the founder of "Turkish political Islam," openly branded Israel as the "archenemy" of the Arab and Muslim world, intimidating voters with a Zionist plot against Turkey and ultimately calling for an end to all ties with the Jewish state. Before long, however, Erbakan was forced out by the then-powerful Turkish generals.
However, after the Justice and Development Party came to power in Turkey in 2002, relations between Turkey and Israel cooled again. The anti-Israeli rhetoric in Turkey has been heating up since 2004 with Turkish filmmakers contributing to this process by presenting Israel in a bad light – to a point where Israel's Mossad agents were shown in a TV series as taking the Turkish ambassador hostage, along with his entire family. Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon was forced to go on record saying that "scenes similar to those shown in the series make the life of Jews in Turkey unsafe."
This did not prevent the two countries from raising the volume of their bilateral trade and continuing military-technical cooperation though. Even faced with a situation like that, Turkey still proved itself a cool-headed realist.
Tensions between Turkey and Israel came to a head in 2009 when Ahmet Davutoglu, the author of the "neo-Ottomanism with Muslim overtones" doctrine, which became the unofficial paradigm of Ankara's foreign policy, was appointed foreign minister. Besides, a new Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip prompted Ankara to postpone and ultimately cancel a planned drill by Turkish, US, Italian and Israeli military. And, to top it all off, incensed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed never to return to the annual gathering again.
In May 2010, Israeli forces intercepted the so-called "Freedom Flotilla" with humanitarian aid for Gaza residents. Simultaneously, passengers of the Turkish ship Mavi Marmara actively attempted to thwart a landing on the ship by Israeli commandos. In the violent clash that followed nine activists were killed and 30 were injured. The Turkish Foreign Ministry condemned the incident, Ankara recalled its ambassador from Israel and an angry crowd hurled stones at the Israeli consulate in Istanbul. Many experts believe that the conflict was deliberately provoked. In any case, the "resistance" by the passengers of the Turkish ship and Ankara's angry response earned it the laurels of a fighter for Muslim interests both inside the country and elsewhere in the Muslim world. Even though the UN commission investigating the incident concluded that the Israeli commandos had used force to defend themselves against "organized and armed resistance from a group of passengers."
Alarmed by the events of the "Arab Spring" that fueled the rise of political Islam in the region amid the growing confrontation with Turkey, the Israeli leaders started building up ties with Greece and Cyprus. In 2013, Israel launched commercial development of an offshore natural gas field near Haifa with an eye to exporting its gas to Europe via these two countries. Turkish companies, for their part, proposed building an underwater pipeline to a Turkish terminal, from where the gas could be delivered to European consumers through the Turkish pipeline system.
Wary of Moscow's reaction to the November 2015 downing of a Russian Su-24 bomber over Syria, and fearing Russian sanctions, Ankara started looking for alternative trade partners. In a bid to ensure its energy security, Turkey now staked on Israeli natural gas. In a surprise move, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that peace in the Middle East was impossible without Turkey and Israel working together. Israel, meanwhile, while praising Ankara's desire to mend fences, was still mindful of Russia's possible backlash with then-Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman warning that "normalization of relations with Ankara will cause serious damage to our relations with Cyprus, Greece and, of course, with Russia."
Israel still paid compensation to the families of the victims of the Mavi Marmara incident, and agreed to allow Turkish humanitarian supplies into the Gaza Strip.
Last year's transfer of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in defiance of a resolution by the UN General Assembly, which condemned the move, sparked a new standoff between Turkey and Israel. After Palestinian protests were harshly suppressed by Israel, Turkey expelled the Israeli ambassador, recalled its own envoy from Ankara and convened an extraordinary summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Istanbul. Speaking at the forum, President Erdogan said that he expected the OIC countries to "put the decision of the embargo [on trade with Israel] into practice."
Erdogan's hope never came true as Ankara did not actually want to cut ties with the Jewish state. Indeed, harsh as Ankara's rhetoric was, it did not slow the pace of the trade and other economic ties between the two countries. According to the Turkish Ministry of Commerce, in 2000, bilateral trade amounted to $1.13 billion, in 2005 – $2.27 billion, in 2010 – $3.44 billion, in 2017 – $4.91 billion and in the first 10 months of 2018 – $4.54 billion. This is what postmodern reality is all about.
Politics-wise, the future of relations between Turkey and Israel generally looks pretty bleak as Ankara is now relying on the Astana format in implementing its foreign policy goals, while Israel is gravitating towards a Saudi-led anti-Iranian bloc, which is now being established in the Middle East. Turkey refuses to recognize Bashar Assad as Syria's legitimate president, but Israel would rather have Assad as a neighbor than religious radicals or a pro-Iranian government in Damascus.
Israel is much less concerned about the situation in northern Syria though. Turkey, whose freedom of geopolitical maneuver is much greater than what Israel can boast of, plays and will continue to play a leading role in bilateral relations. However, these relations will only be able to improve sustainably if the Turkish leaders give up on the ideology of neo-Ottomanism, where Israel is assigned a very unenviable rile. With the Turkish leaders' ambitions extending far beyond the country's boundaries, chances of Ankara revising its foreign policy any time soon look pretty slim. That being said, the history of the past few decades shows that rapprochement is still possible, but this will most likely have a tactical nature depending on the changing political situation. For example, if the United States abandons its doctrine of creating "controlled chaos" in the Middle East.
Russia, which is now returning to the Middle East, will avoid confrontation with any of the regional players (save for terrorists, of course) as the "above-the-fray" position allows it to act as a mediator in resolving major regional conflicts.
First published in our partner International Affairs
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The success of Turkey's takeover of Syria's most pro-jihadist province, Idlib, is making less and less likely that Syria will be able to continue maintaining Idlib as being a part of Syria. (This is something I had predicted, back on 14 September 2018, to be possible or even likely, and now it is actually happening.) On July 10th, Reuters headlined "Assad hits a wall in Syrian war as front lines harden", and reported that, "More than two months of Russian-backed operations in and around Idlib province have yielded little or nothing for Assad's side. It marks a rare case of a military campaign that has not gone his way since Russia intervened in 2015. While resisting government attacks, the insurgents have managed to carve out small advances of their own, drawing on ample stocks of guided anti-tank missiles that opposition and diplomatic sources say have been supplied by Turkey." It continues:
Moscow has appeared keen to preserve its ties with Ankara even as its air force bombs in support of Assad: Turkey says Russia has intervened to stop attacks on Turkish forces from Syrian government-held territory. … The Idlib area is dominated by Tahrir al-Sham, the jihadists formerly known as the Nusra Front. [And before that, they were called Al Qaeda in Syria, but Western news-agencies, such as Reuters, prefer not to mention that fact, especially because the U.S. used_Nusra to train 'our' proxy boots-on-the-ground 'moderate rebels' in Syria to bring down Syria's Government. Elsewhere, the Reuters article calls them 'insurgents'.] Some 300,000 people fleeing bombardment have moved toward the Turkish border since April, prompting the United Nations to warn that Idlib was on the brink of a "humanitarian nightmare".
For Ankara, the Syrian opposition's last major state sponsor, preventing another major influx of Syrian refugees is of paramount importance: Turkey already hosts 3.6 million of them. …
A Russian private military contractor who was based near Idlib province told Reuters that rebel fighters there are far more professional and motivated than their adversary. Pro-government forces cannot win the battle for Idlib unless Moscow helps them on the ground, he said. …
"Of course the regime [that's the legitimate Government, but Western 'news'-agencies such as Reuters call it 'the regime', and most of their audience don't even recognize that their own intelligence has just been insulted by Reuters when it calls Syria's Government a 'regime', which only the invading countries actually are] has the desire to recover Idlib by force [as if the sovereign Government of Syria doesn't have this right — it's Syrian territory, after all, but Reuters doesn't care about that fact], but … without the Russians it can't [tsk, tsk: those 'nasty' Russians are defending Syria from the supposedly 'kindly' U.S.-Saud-backed proxy-armies that are led mostly by Al Qaeda in Syria, and which invaders have actually destroyed Syria], because there are many militants and the Russians are completely committed to the Turks," the source said.
Reuters, naturally, quotes enemies, not defenders, of Syria. Western mainstream 'news'-media are constantly insulting the intelligence of their audiences, as if their audiences cannot distinguish propaganda from honest news-reporting. Unfortunately, however, their assumption on that might be right.
Syria's Government is fighting hard against jihadist forces in Idlib who meet Turkey's standard of being 'moderate rebels' against Syria's Government, but unless Russian forces there — which were invited in by Syria's Government, instead of being invaders there like Turkey and the United States are — will commit far more forces for the defense of Syria (which seems increasingly unlikely), Turkey will win Idlib as being a part of Turkey.
Consequently, Turkey is already starting to build infrastructure even immediately to the north and east of Idlib in order to stake its claim to a yet larger portion of Syria than just Idlib. This might not have been part of the deal that was worked out by Russia's Putin, Iran's Rouhani, and Turkey's Erdogan, in Tehran, on 9 September 2018, which agreement allowed Turkey only to take over — and only on a temporary basis — Idlib province, which is by far the most pro-jihadist (and the most anti-Assad) of Syria's 14 provinces. Turkey was instead supposed to hold it only temporarily, but the exact terms of the Turkey-Russia-Iran agreement have never been publicly disclosed.
Until that 9 September 2018 Tehran conference, Idlib had been the province to which Syria's Government was busing defeated jihadists who had surrendered instead of choosing to stay and die where they were. Syria's Government had given its surrounded jihadists this final option, in order to reduce as much as possible the numbers of jihadists' civilian hostages who would also likely be killed in an all-out bombing campaign there. So, the existing population of Idlib, which was already the most pro-jihadist in Syria, was now starting to overflow with the additional thousands of defeated jihadists who had chosen to surrender instead of to be immediately killed.
At that time, just prior to the Tehran conference — and this was actually the reason why the conference was held — the U.S. and its allies, and the U.N., were demanding that an all-out invasion of Idlib, which had been planned by the Governments of Syria and of Russia, must not take place, for 'humanitarian' reasons. There was all that 'humanitarian' concern (led by the United States) for the world's biggest concentration of Nusra and Nusra-led jihadists — and for Syria's most jihadist-supporting civilian population. So much 'kindness', such 'admirable' 'humanitarianism'. Furthermore the U.S. Government was threatening to greatly increase its forces against Syria if that invasion by Syria and by Russia into Idlib (which is, after all, part of Syria — so, what business is it, even of the U.N., at all?) were to be carried out. The Tehran conference was meeting in order to resolve that emergency situation (mainly America's threats of a possible war against Russia), so as to forestall this attack.
However, now that it's clear that Erdogan will not follow through on his generally understood promise that this would be only a temporary military occupation of Idlib, the question is: what can Syria and Russia and Iran do to keep Idlib inside Syria, and whether they even want to do so. If Syria loses those jihadists, then not only will it lose the perhaps hundred thousand surviving jihadists there — many of whom came from other countries in order to fight against Syria's secular Government — but also will lose some of those Idlib natives, who were always against Syria's secular Government. Since those people would no longer be voting against Bashar al-Assad, because they would become Turks, this would actually be a Syrian political advantage for Assad. Yet, he has been resisting it, in order to hold Syria together. He has always been committed to holding Syria together.
Turkey's negotiating position is exceptionally strong, because Turkey now is riding the fence between the U.S. alliance, NATO (of which Turkey has been the only predominantly Muslim member ever since it joined in 1952), versus Russia. According to a major report in English from Iran's Fars News Agency — which had translated from published Arab sources in many countries and which report hasn't been denied by any of them — Russia had saved Erdogan's life on 15 June 2016, when there was a coup-attempt to get rid of him. Headlining on 20 July, just five days after the failed coup, "Erdogan Warned of Incoming Coup by Russian Alert", Fars said that,
Several Arab media outlets, including Rai Alyoum, quoted diplomatic sources in Ankara as saying that Turkey's National Intelligence Organization, known locally as the MIT, received intel from its Russian counterpart that warned of an impending coup in the Muslim state.
The unnamed diplomats said the Russian army in the region had intercepted highly sensitive army exchanges and encoded radio messages showing that the Turkish army was readying to stage a coup against the administration in Ankara.
The exchanges included dispatch of several army choppers to President Erdogan's resort hotel to arrest or kill the president.
The standard treatment of this matter in U.S.-and-allied 'news'-media was to ignore the coup and to downplay any U.S. role in it, but other news-media haven't been so dismissive — for examples: On 29 July 2016, Erdogan tactfully suggested that "US general is on side of coup plotters: Erdoğan", as one Turkish newspaper headlined it. On 2 August 2016, the New York Times bannered "Turks Can Agree on One Thing: U.S. Was Behind Failed Coup". On 18 August 2016, I headlined at Strategic Culture Foundation, "What Was Behind the Turkish Coup-Attempt?" and provided some of the reasons why the U.S. regime almost certainly was. On 8 July 2019, Michel Chossudovsly, at his Global Research, headlined "A Major Conventional War Against Iran Is an Impossibility. Crisis within the US Command Structure" and he said, "Turkey's exit from NATO is almost de facto. America can no longer rely on its staunchest allies." He even said "Turkey is now aligned with Russia and Iran." However, his article didn't so much as even mention the coup — nor any other possible reason for this shocking switch.
In any case, after that event, Turkey's foreign policies definitely switched away from being clearly U.S.-allied, to being on the fence and calculated purely to serve Turkey's advantage, no longer tied, at all, to NATO or the U.S., and, in many important respects, very much contrary to the U.S. regime. In fact, Erdogan has been emphatic that this coup had been led by Fethullah Gulen, a billionaire Muslim cleric, formerly allied with Erdogan, who since moving to the U.S. in 1999 has been his bitter enemy. In fact, some of NATO's forces in Turkey were participating in the attempted coup. However, Erdogan holds on tenaciously to that NATO membership, because it gives Turkey enormous leverage it can use in order to grab territory from Syria, which the U.S. regime wants Turkey to do.
Here is how Erdogan has clearlly committed Turkey to taking at least parts of Syria's northeast:
On 6 June 2018, Reuters headlined "Turkish university to open campus in northern Syria" and reported that, "Turkey's Harran University, in the southeastern province of Sanliurfa [Turkey], said it is preparing to open a faculty in Al-Bab [Syria] for students in towns under Turkish control. … The Turkish cabinet has also approved opening a vocational high school in Jarablus [Syria] affiliated with Gaziantep University, Turkey's official gazette said on Tuesday."
On 30 July 2018, Syria.LiveuaMap headlined "Turkey start[s] to build highways starting from Cobanbey-al-Bab to Jarablus-Manbij in Syria" — all of which is in the parts of Syria's north that Turkey controls.
On 23 May 2019, Gaziantep University posted an announcement of "The Global Syrian Refugee Crisis" conference to be held in Gaziantep, Turkey, on 14-18 October 2019, and also announced that: "The medium of instruction of our university is entirely English in %80 of faculties and Turkish in some faculties. However, after the ferocious civil war in Syria, we opened four departments (Engineering, Architecture, Administration and Theology) that teach in Arabic language. This was achieved by hiring Syrian academic staff in these programs which created opportunities for refugee students who want to continue their studies in Arabic." So, it does seem to be Erdogan's intention that directly across the border in Syria, this part of what has, until recently, been a part of Syria, is to be instead a part of Turkey. This would be the chief favorable outcome for the U.S. regime resulting from the Syrian portion of the CIA-planted "Arab Spring" rebellions in 2011.
On 27 May 2019, the Daily Sabah headlined "Turkey to Build New Faculties to Promote Higher Education in Northern Syria" and reported that
Gaziantep University, located in southern Turkey close to the Syrian border, decided to offer education for Syrians living in the northern part of the war-torn country, the areas that were liberated by Turkey's two cross-border operations. …
The university applied to Turkish education officials to set up four faculties in northern Syria's al-Bab, Azaz and Mare districts, which is planned to focus on economics, business, teaching and engineering; some 2,700 prospective students have already taken proficiency exams. The faculties will be the second move by Gaziantep University as it previously opened a vocational school last year in Aleppo's Jarablus district. While vocational education currently continues in five departments, the university is planning to expand it with four more and to provide education for 500 students.
In 2016, Turkey launched Operation Euphrates Shield and cleared about 2,000 kilometers of area in northern Syria, which was once dragged into darkness by the Daesh terrorist organization.
This seems to reflect Syria's actual capitulation to Turkey, which henceforth is to control that area — permanently. The only question now is how large the seized area will turn out to be.
The first person, it seems, who recognized quickly the significance of this takeover was the tweeter "domihol" who on 28 May 2019 posted
Turkey is also throwing serious money at its seemingly permanent slice of Syria.
You don't build universities just so Damascus can take it over soon.
Right below that is his:
I'm sorry to say – my prediction for Syria's near and possibly medium term future still holds …
Dominic | دومينيك added,
[15 December 2018] prediction:
TRUMP gets the oil & gas
ERDOGAN gets the water
PUTIN gets the "mission accomplished" moment …
9:49 AM – 28 May 2019
However, his predictions there (as is routine for tweets, which are good for communicating only bumper-stickers) are unsupported by anything. For example: Where is Turkey's oil and gas? Is it actually anywhere near to the Turkish border? Here's a map which shows where it is, and that's certainly not near the Turkish border.
In addition, the U.S. regime is evidently preparing to assist Turkey's takeover of parts of Syria, but focuses it specifically against Iran. On 24 May 2019, the U.S. State Department advertised a "Grant Opportunity" for NGOs to be "Supporting Local Governance and Civil Society in Syria" and are offering up to $75 million to each, in order to "Counter extremism and disinformation perpetuated by Iranian forces" and "End the presence of Iranian forces and proxies in Syria" and otherwise support America's war against Iran. Perhaps the U.S. and Turkey have agreed that U.S. operations against Syria will continue in the Turk-seized areas after the U.S. occupation of the remaining parts of Syria has ended.
If Assad were to give a press conference now, the first question to ask would be: "Is Syria going to allow Turkish universities and highways to be built on Turk-seized Syrian territory?" Because, if the answer to that is anything like yes, then not only would it seem that Turkey has won against Syria and Russia and Iran, but so too has the U.S., whose fall-back position, ever since it first tried a coup in Syria in 1949, has been to at least break off a piece of Syria, when and if it failed to take the whole thing. The construction of a Turkish university, highway, and/or etc., in Syria, would be a huge apparent win for Donald Trump, but an even bigger apparent victory for Tayyip Erdogan, who now seems to be, yet again, a member of America's alliance against Russia. (And Iran, too, would seem to be endangered by Syria's apparent defeat in that part of Syria. But maybe not: is Turkey going to end altogether its alliance with the U.S.?)
Usually, successful aggression is impossible without allies, and the U.S., again, seems to have Turkey as one — and as an extremely important one (more important, perhaps, than ever before).
The U.S. Government wants to remove land from Syria's Government. The Turkish Government wants to be the Government that actually takes it. So, U.S. and Turkey seem to have made a deal. Turkey took Syrian territory while promising (as the Qatar regime's Al Jazeera headlined on 5 June 2018 — "YPG confirms withdrawal from Syria's Manbij after Turkey-US deal"). Al Jazeera reported there that, "The Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) said its military advisers would leave the town of Manbij a day after Turkey and the United States said they reached an agreement on the armed group's withdrawal." Those two foreign invaders against Syria (Turkey and U.S.) came to this agreement in Washington DC, regarding their respective invasions: Turkish forces won't conquer YPG (separatist-Kurd) forces in any part of Syria unless and until that part has already become instead a part of Turkey — swallowed-up by Turkey. The U.S. will be protecting those Kurds until the U.S. ends its military occupation of Syria. After that, those Kurds will be on their own.
Back on 10 January 2018, Elijah J. Magnier had commented, "Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad also considers Turkey to be another occupying force in northern Syria. He would like to liberate the entire Syrian territory, which is not the case with Russia, which would prefer to end the war as soon as possible and undertake the work at the negotiating table." Magnier seems to have been correct: Russia appears not to be objecting to Turkey's land-seizures in Syria. Therefore, Turkey is a "middle-man" between both U.S. and Russia — strategizing with both.
On 19 January 2018, Tony Cartalucci commented, "The Syrian government with support from its Russian, Iranian, and Lebanese allies has embarked on a major military operation to retake parts of Syria's northern governorate of Idlib. As it does so, the US and its regional allies are rushing to position themselves to ensure the permanent partition of Syria is achieved." He continued (all of which has likewise subsequently been borne out):
It should be noted that Afrin is located between [Idlib and] territory Turkey is currently occupying. Turkish troops, should they seize Afrin
[which they soon did]
, would effectively have expanded Turkey's "Euphrates Shield" by 30 miles (53 km) and present an opportunity for its troops to link up with troops of Turkey's "Idlib Shield." This would create a large, singular buffer zone within which US-NATO forces could harbor militants driven back by Syria's most recent offensive.
Depending on Turkey's success, the zone could be expanded even further, even as far as including Idlib city itself [which happened in September of that year] – thus granting the US an opportunity to present it as a second Syrian "capital" much in the way Benghazi was used in Libya during US-led regime change there. There remains, however, the fact that Idlib is openly occupied and administered by Al Qaeda, making the proposal of transforming it into an "opposition capital" particularly dubious.
Meanwhile, the US itself continues its own uninvited, illegal occupation of Syrian territory east of the Euphrates, having previously justified the invasion and occupation of Syrian territory under the guise of fighting the so-called "Islamic State" (ISIS). …
The US occupation of Syrian territory will be difficult for Damascus and its allies to contest without being drawn into a direct military confrontation. Turkey's occupation may be easier to confound, but if sufficient political will exists to maintain it along with US backing, it could effectively result in a Golan Heights-style occupation of Syrian territory [by Turkey] that provides a long-term geopolitical pressure point versus Damascus for years to come.
And while US efforts to destroy Syria have fallen short, the US now permanently occupies territory within one of Iran's closest and most important regional allies. Like a splinter under the skin turning septic, the US occupation will remain a constant potential source of wider infection both for Syria and the rest of the region.
Perhaps Cartalucci was the first person publicly to recognize what has been happening here.
On 8 February 2018, Russia's RT bannered, "US-led coalition conducts 'defensive' airstrikes against Syrian forces", and reported, "The US-led coalition has also firmly stressed its 'non-negotiable right to act in self-defense,' since its service members are embedded with the [anti-Syrian] 'partners' on ground in Syria. … 'It's very likely that the Americans have taken a course of dividing the country. They just gave up their assurances, given to us, that the only goal of their presence in Syria – without an invitation of the legitimate government – was to defeat Islamic State and the terrorists,' Lavrov said."
All of this, likewise, has since been borne out. Key was the September 2018 Tehran summit of Erdogan, Putin and Rouhani (Syria not even being represented there), to decide how to handle Syria's most pro-jihadist province: Idlib. (It's even more jihadist than Raqqah, where ISIS was headquartered, and which is the second-most-jihadist.)
On 9 September 2018, the Turkish-Government-controlled (and this also means anti-Syrian) Daily Sabah newspaper bannered "The outcome of the Tehran summit" and reported that:
We know for a fact that Erdoğan's goal was to prevent the Russians and the Assad regime from carrying out a comprehensive operation in Idlib. In this sense, he got what he wanted. At the joint press conference, the Russian president announced that the three countries, at the request of President Erdoğan, urged all parties to lay down their arms. As such, it became possible to prevent another humanitarian disaster, a new influx of refugees, the collapse of the Astana process [which Putin had established to replace the U.N.'s U.S.-approved peace process immediately after Obama bombed on 17 September 2016 Syria's Army at Deir Ezzor — which bombing by the U.S. violated the ceasefire agreement that Obama's Secretary of State John Kerry had just signed with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on 9 September 2016] and the radicalization of moderate opposition, who would have moved closer to the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) [Al Qaeda in Syria]. At the same time, a clear distinction was made between 'terrorists' and opposition groups. At the same time, there is no doubt that the Iranian president's proposal to remove the United States from the east of the Euphrates river was in line with Erdoğan's own agenda.
Actually, however, the truthfulness of that last sentence is still very much in doubt.
The ultra-reliable Al Masdar News reported on 10 September 2018 that "Russia and Iran have already informed Turkey that they will not accept any jihadist factions inside of Idlib; however, the latter is attempting to convince Moscow and Tehran to avoid carrying out the attack in favor of Ankara clearing these groups." Putin and Rouhani accepted Erdogan's promise there (of "Ankara clearing those groups"), and consequently allowed Turkey's troops to handle Idlib. But, evidently, Erdogan had been lying about that. He didn't eliminate the jihadists — he has instead been protecting them (except that his forces attack the Kurdish-independence forces against Syria's Government, the anti-Assad fighters whom Erdogan authentically has been obsessed to kill).
The very next day, on September 11th, Paul Mansfield at Syria News headlined "Erdogan Buys Time for Terrorists at the Tehran Summit" and he observed that
The Turkish newspaper Daily Sabah released the components of Turkey's plan for Idlib. It doesn't take a genius to figure out it effectively means annexing Syrian territory, entrenching Turkish proxy Free Syrian Army forces, while falsely legitimizing their presence through a trilateral agreement, one made (it should be mentioned) without the presence of the country it concerns: Syria.
On 18 September 2018, another of the Turkish regime's major newspapers, Yeni Safak, headlined "Turkey tells 50,000 FSA fighters to be ready for deployment as tensions rise in Idlib" and reported that, "As the Assad regime and Russian warplanes viciously attack the last opposition-held stronghold of Syria's Idlib, Turkey ramped up its military reinforcements in northern Syria and instructed over 50,000 Free Syrian Army (FSA) [that being the Turkish-led anti-Assad] fighters stationed in Afrin, Azaz, Jarabulus, al-Bab and al-Rai to 'be ready for military deployment.'"
This anti-Syrian report continued, "The Bashar al-Assad regime recently announced plans to launch a major military offensive in Idlib, which is controlled by various armed opposition groups." It didn't mention that those "armed opposition groups" were the members of Al Qaeda-led forces defeated elsewhere in Syria who had chosen to be bused by the Syrian Government into the most pro-jihadist Syrian province, Idlib, instead of to be outright shot to death on-the-spot by Syrian troops, where they had been fighting. Such crucial information was left out of Western news-reports.
It went on: "An attack on Syria's Idlib, the last opposition-held stronghold, would be a massacre," and (since this newspaper reflected Erdogan's anti-Assad, meaning anti-Syrian, viewpoint) it alleged that "Russia and Assad regime target civilians" instead of try to exterminate jihadists — especially now in Idlib itself, to which Syria's Government had, indeed, been busing the surviving defeated jihadists. (As was previously noted, the only alternative that Syria's Government had had regarding those hold-out fighters would have been simply to go in and slaughter not only them but the human shields behind whom they were fighting, which would have enormously increased the civilian casualties, which the 'barbaric' Assad-led Government was always trying to avoid doing. So: that's how and why so many of the Al Qaeda-led forces came to be collected inside Idlib to begin with.)
Erdogan might be a double-agent here. But how could Turkey be building infrastructure in Syria and not be permanently taking that land? All of those "seems to be" could be wrong, but it's hard to see how Syria's Government could accept any such blatant grab of land away from their nation. I had written on 14 September 2018 about Erdogan's duplicity, headlining "U.S. Protects Al Qaeda in Syria, Proven":
Erdogan is in both camps — America's and Russia's — and playing each side against the other, for what he wants. But he could turn out to be the biggest loser from 'his' success here.
If he exterminates Idlib's jihadists, then the U.S. side will condemn him for it. But if he instead frees those jihadists to return to their home-countries, then both sides will condemn him for having done so.
The biggest apparent 'winner' from all this, Erdogan, could thus turn out to be the biggest real loser from it. And the biggest apparent 'loser' from it, Assad, could turn out to be the biggest real winner from it.
Then, three days later, on September 17th, I argued that the big winners from this will probably be Putin, Erdogan, Rouhani, and Assad. The headline of that was "Putin and Erdogan Plan Syria-Idlib DMZ as I Recommended", and the basic case was presented that this would turn out to be only a feint on Erdogan's part, and that he and Putin and Rouhani (and Assad) would all benefit from this feint by Erdogan, and take home the win. It still could be that. But only Erdogan himself probably knows. And who can read his mind? The main sign I would look at is whether Putin and Rouhani just ignore, as much as possible, Turkey's 'seizures' of Idlib and of the most-jihadist parts of Aleppo province bordering Idlib to Idlib's immediate east. (For example, this fundamentalist-Sunni family from Sweida — which is perhaps the most pro-jihadist southern province — migrated during the war to Al-Bab, which is Turk-controlled.) If Putin and Rouhani ignore Turkey's solidification of its control over those areas of northern Syria, then this is how the U.S. side and proxy forces — jihadists and Kurdish fanatics — might lose in Syria, and be forced out of there. This Turkish 'win' would entail a loss for both the U.S. and its proxy-forces, especially the Kurds. But it would also entail Syria's loss of the areas that were always the greatest thorn in Assad's side. In that case, America's former proxy-forces in northwest Syria — Al Qaeda's surviving Syrian forces, plus the separatist Kurdish forces — would henceforth be under Erdogan's control. If Putin, Rouhani and Assad won't object to that, then the main loser could be the U.S. regime, which would cede to Erdogan not only America's last holdout in Syria but also all of its proxy-forces in Syria, henceforth to be totally subject to whatever Erdogan has in mind for them. However, the biggest losers could still be the Turkish and the American regimes. But that would be true only if the surrounded U.S. forces in Syria's northeast become forced out. If the U.S. occupation stays in Syria, then the U.S. and Turkey will have taken all of northern Syria. But no oil or gas is there, either. (It's south of there.) What, consequently, is this war even about, any longer? Is it about contending national leaders who refuse to acknowledge defeat? Is that now the only real reason for all of this ongoing death, and destruction? Is it just pure ego?
If Turkey quits NATO, then the biggest loser from the end-part of the Syrian war would be the U.S. and its allies. But, of course, the biggest losers from the entire war are the Syrian people. There's no doubt, whatsoever, about that.
Author's note: first posted at The Saker
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Following the years of tension over Iran's alleged efforts to develop a nuclear weapon, a long-term deal called Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) between Iran and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC)—the United States, the United Kingdom, France, China, Russia – plus Germany, known as P5+1— was reached on July 14, 2015. Based on these developments, the UNSC Resolution 2231 endorsed the nuclear deal among these parties, adopted on July 20, 2015.
As per the deal, the IAEA remains under the charge to verify Iran's compliance with the nuclear-related provisions of the JCPOA set forth in the agreement. Iran started providing the IAEA with necessary information to complete its investigation on the past records of its nuclear activities. The IAEA inaugurated increased monitoring and confirmed Iran's adoption of numerous actions and key steps towards the limitation of its nuclear program.
Under the 2015 accord, Iran was allowed to enrich uranium only up to a 3.67 percent concentration, to stockpile no more than 300kg of the material, and to operate no more than 5,060 centrifuges. Iran also agreed to limit the size of its stockpile of enriched uranium, used to make both reactor fuel and nuclear weapons for 15 years – until 2031 and the number of centrifuges installed to enrich uranium for 10 years -until 2026.
These developments triggered the relief of sanctions imposed by the United States, the European Union (EU), and the United Nations (UN) on Iran. The former US President, Barack Obama, referred to the deal as the significant step towards building "more hopeful world" and "opportunity to move in a new direction".
However, the first crisis over landmark nuclear deal arose soon after the announcement of the US President Donald Trump's withdrawal from the JCPOA on May 8, 2018. In light of Trump's decision, the US took actions to re-impose all sanctions on August 6, 2018 that were lifted in connection with the JCPOA.
President Trump denounced the Obama-era nuclear agreement with Iran as "defective, decaying, and rotten" as well as "one-sided deal". He also accused that the accord only restricted Iran's nuclear activities for a fixed period that failed to stop Iran from the development of its ballistic missiles and to facilitate real, comprehensive, and lasting solution of the nuclear crisis.
President Trump also raised the concern of the continuation of Iran's aggression and malign activities under the cover of the JCPOA to threaten the US and its allies as well as to exploit the international financial system and support terrorism and foreign proxies in favor of its withdrawal from the deal. Iran responded the US withdrawal from the JCPOA with its further preparation for the restoration of uranium enrichment required for both nuclear energy and weapons on an industrial level without any limitations.
The second tension over Iranian nuclear crisis emerged from Donald Trump's signing of an executive order imposing "hard-hitting" new sanctions on Iran on June 24, 2019 in response to the downing of an unmanned U.S. surveillance drone in international airspace by Iranian surface-to-air missile one week ago of the same month. Donald Trump also reaffirmed Washington's stand of continuing pressure on Tehran until latter's complete abandonment from nuclear activities.
It elevated tensions and worsened relations between the US and Iran. The confrontation was about to turn into military dimension though finally it did not happen thanks to Trump's swift repeal of its decision of launching military strikes against Iran.
The third and most recent crisis generated from Iran's announcement on boosting its uranium enrichment above the limit set by 2015 nuclear deal has drawn attention to international community in general and the involved global powers in particular, mostly the US, UK, and France. In the first week of July 2019, Iran declared to resume enriching uranium to higher levels, up to 5 percent concentration, to provide fuel required for its Bushehr nuclear power plant.
Iran also threatened to abandon more commitments under 2015 nuclear deal unless practical and tangible steps from the European powers are taken to implement European mechanism, known as, Instrument In Support of Trade Exchanges (INSTEX) in order to facilitate trade and circumvent US sanctions on Iran.
Iran argued for the decision of its uranium enrichment as a step against the Trump administration's unilateral exit from the 2015 nuclear deal and the re-imposition of multilateral sanctions in Iranian regime. Iran also accused that the world powers had failed to abide by their commitments. Since the beginning, Iran has been averring the development of its missile program as entirely peaceful and defensive in nature with the compliance of the principles verified by the IAEA.
In response, the US confirmed its policy of "maximum pressure" on Tehran acknowledged by the Trump administration referring to Iran's infringement to the limit as "playing with fire". The rest world powers such as the UK and Germany urged Iran for reversing its decision. France, Germany, and Britain expressed concerns over Iran's new announcement in the wake of heightening tensions certainly condemning Iran's decision as a "violation" of the nuclear pact.
The IAEA arranged an urgent nuclear agency meeting on July 10, 2019 requested by the US soon after Iran's confirmation of exceeding the stockpile of enriched uranium permitted under JCPOA. The rest concerned powers, Germany, France and the UK confirmed their supports for the JCPOA only after Iran's full compliance with its commitments. The closed-door meeting however ended without any unified stance.
However, China mentioned the US "unilateral bullying", e.g. the maximum pressure exerted by the US on Iran, as the major cause behind Tehran's announcement of breaching its uranium enrichment cap and the escalating Iranian nuclear crisis. China also expressed "regret" on Tehran's decision for further enrichment of its nuclear activities.
The re-imposition of the US sanctions and Iran's announcement of uranium enrichment have already generated high tension not only in US-Iran relations but also for global security. Iran's threat to enrich uranium beyond the limit has become a major issue of concern for the proliferation of nuclear weapons in Middle Eastern region. The peaceful solution of Iran nuclear crisis has thus become uncertain. The strategic rivalry among great powers, lack of mutual trust between the US and Iran, and absence of the fulfillment of commitments under the nuclear deal have been posing severe challenges to the durable solution of the nuclear crisis.
Is Iran safe for Americans to visit?
Afshin Majlesi
The matter of security in Iran is essentially considered as a complex question for any U.S. citizen willing to visit the Islamic Republic.
In this regard, Skift Inc., a New York City headquartered media company that provides news, research, and marketing services for the travel industry, has tried to answer the question from two different points of view; one from the U.S. government and the other by U.S. travel agents and tour operators.
On a Monday article, the media outlet noticed a hint of a "perception problem" deemed to be fueled by the Trump administration's rhetoric toward Iran.
Official answers to the query comes from the U.S. State Department, which has had a travel advisory against Iran since 1979, citing "the risk of kidnapping, arrest and detention of U.S. citizens." On the other hand, tour operators who spoke with Skift strongly disagree, maintaining that Iran has proven to be a safe and remarkably hospitable place for travelers, including Americans.
The dilemma arises when an antagonism intensifies between the Trump administration and Iran that makes some American tourists rethinking plans to visit the country though nearly all tour operators say Iran is a safe and hospitable destination even for U.S. visitors.
"It is a country that is often portrayed as unwelcoming, but the reality is quite the opposite," said Jenny Gray, the global product and operations manager of the Australia-based Intrepid Travel.
"Iranians are warm, friendly and eager to show off their country to foreigners. The feedback from our travelers is a testament to this."
"Once they [Iranian authorities] have been approved for entry [issuing visas], people are welcomed warmly—we've never encountered a problem or even a cold shoulder," said Robin Pollak, the president of Journeys International, which is offering Iran tours since 2015.
"People in Iran are very curious about visitors from a culture that is off-limits to them. They understand that American visitors do not reflect the way America is portrayed to them by their government," she added.
Janet Moore, owner of Distant Horizons, which has offered customized tours to Iran for over 20 years, says "We're used to getting questions on politics and safety, but this time frame seems more serious than what we've been through before."
"People are worried about the rhetoric from (President) Trump and (national security advisor John) Bolton. They don't want to be anywhere where there's military activity."
With an Iran tour scheduled for September, Moore said she's uncertain whether the trip will actually go forward.
"People have really started to get skittish," she said. "We're not getting new sign-ups and most of our American travelers have pulled out and are making alternative plans. While people feel Iran is probably still safe, they also feel it's something they can do later when things calm down."
Reverting to foreign arrivals, Skift reports that Journeys International has seen interest fall off sharply among its clientele, which is primarily from the U.S., during the past month.
G Adventures, which offers a 14-day Iran itinerary, says that bookings among American travelers has fallen by 14 percent this year, said communications director Kim McCabe. At the same time, she noted that bookings from non-U.S. travelers increased by about that same amount.
"Global visitor interest in Iran seems to be modestly growing," Kim said.
"Demand for Iran has been a real up and down situation," Moore said. "Four years ago it was at a high point. Then we ran into problems in 2017 when Trump announced the travel ban on Muslims. Some people cancelled travel plans to Iran because they feared Iran would stop issuing visas or that they would be met with antagonism."
Skift concludes that despite setbacks, the tour operators are optimistic about long-term growth in tourism to Iran, which in recent years has stepped up efforts to increase international visitation and has the stated goal of attracting 20 million annual visitors by 2025.
Last December, Ashely Duncan, an American fashion psychologist who accidentally landed in Iran, announced that her perception of the country was "totally different" from what mainstream Western media outlets portray.
Duncan told IRNA in an interview that "As an American, I did have a pleasant experience. I did not allow the politics and the diplomatic relationship to taint my view of Iran's people."
Iran hosts some of the world's oldest cultural monuments including bazaars, museums, mosques, bridges, bathhouses, madrasas, gardens, rich natural, rural landscapes as well as 22 UNESCO World Heritage sites.
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...that Dr. Catherine Halsey created both the SPARTAN-II program and Cortana, who was built using a clone of her own brain?
...that the first three Halo games happened only in three months, with Halo Combat Evolved in September, Halo 2 in October to the middle of November, and Halo 3 from November to December 2552, with its epilogue in early 2553?
...that a design seed was a piece of Forerunner technology capable of constructing entire starships out of locally-obtained resources?
...that slipstream space translations for a Phoenix-class colony ship require 4.3 quadrillion (4.3 * 1015) calculations of the quantum field per second?
...that a joke scene depicting Sergeant Johnson hugging an Elite can be seen by beating the final level of Halo: Combat Evolved on Legendary?
Ung was an area within Alfold, on the Eposz continent, within the Ütközet Province.[1]
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By August 29, 2552, Asźod became the last off world extraction point on the whole continent of Eposz. Noble Team would fly to the ship breaking yards there in order to deliver a package to the UNSC Pillar of Autumn.[1]
Following the war in 2589, an unidentified colony ship would land at Asźod.[2]
Asźod
Asźod ship breaking yards
Ung is a real world county in Hungary.
Halo: Reach (First appearance)
^ a b Halo: Reach, campaign level, Pillar of Autumn
^ Halo: Reach, campaign level, Lone Wolf
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Lucas 19 é o décimo-nono capítulo do Evangelho de Lucas no Novo Testamento da Bíblia. Ele reconta os últimos dias de Jesus antes de sua chegada a Jerusalém, o início de sua Paixão, inclusive os primeiros eventos já na cidade.

Zaqueu

Zaqueu era o principal publicano em Jericó e só foi mencionado em Lucas (). Ele era um descendente de Abraão e um dos principais exemplos da missão pessoal terrena de Jesus de salvar os perdidos, principalmente por que os publicanos eram considerados traidores por trabalharem para as autoridades romanas e não para a comunidade judaica, geralmente de forma bastante corrupta.

No trecho, Zaqueu sobe numa árvore para ver Jesus, que pede-lhe que desça, pois vai se hospedar em sua casa. O gesto provocou uma grande comoção, pois Jesus hospedar-se-ia na casa de um "pecador". Emocionado, o publicano doou metade de seus bens e se comprometeu a retribuir os que havia prejudicado. A resposta de Jesus foi:

Parábola das Minas

Esta parábola, conhecida também como "Parábola dos Talentos", aparece em  (onde se usa o termo "minas") e em Mateus 25 (), usando o termo "talentos"). A diferença entre as duas versões é substancial. Tradicionalmente, ela tem sido vista como uma exortação aos discípulos a usar seus dons dados por Deus a serviço de Deus e a assumir riscos pela causa do Reino de Deus. Estes dons incluem habilidades pessoais ("talentos" no sentido usual), bem como a riqueza pessoal ("talentos" como unidade monetária). A não utilização dos talentos, a parábola sugere, irá resultar em julgamento.

Entrada triunfal em Jerusalém

Este é um evento da vida de Jesus, já no final do final de seu ministério, que é relatado pelos quatro evangelhos canônicos: em , Mateus 21 (), Marcos 11 () e João 12 (). A entrada marca o início do período conhecido como Paixão, que culminará com a crucificação e ressurreição de Jesus.

Em Lucas, depois de passar por Betfagé e Betânia, já no Monte das Oliveiras, Jesus conseguiu, com a ajuda de seus discípulos, um jumentinho e forrou-o com as capas de seus discípulos. Já montado, aproximou-se da cidade e , uma referência a .

Logo em seguida, já bem perto da cidade, Jesus chorou pela cidade (um evento conhecido como Flevit super illam () e profetiza a destruição do Segundo Templo.

Jesus expulsando os vendilhões

Este episódio também ocorre nos quatro evangelhos canônicos: Marcos 11 (), Mateus 21 (),  Lucas 19 (). Nos caso dos evangelhos sinóticos, o evento ocorre já na semana final de Jesus, mas em João 2 (), o que leva alguns acadêmicos a postularem que se tratam na verdade de dois eventos separados, uma vez que o João relata mais de uma Páscoa. Se for esta a hipótese correta, este evento seria a "Segunda Limpeza do Templo" e o evento em João, a "Primeira Limpeza do Templo".

Segundo Lucas, , uma referência a . Lucas termina seu relato contando que Jesus passou a ensinar ali todos os dias e atraiu a fúria dos sacerdotes, que tramavam para matá-lo, mas não sabiam como pois ele era muito querido pelas multidões.

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O texto original deste evangelho foi escrito em grego koiné e alguns dos manuscritos antigos que contém este capítulo, dividido em 48 versículos, são:
 Papiro 75 ( 175-225)
 Codex Vaticanus (325-350)
 Codex Sinaiticus (330-360)
 Codex Bezae ( 400)
 Codex Washingtonianus ( 400)
 Codex Alexandrinus ( 400-440)
 Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus ( 450)

Ver também

Bibliografia

Lucas 19

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As Australasia's Premier Professional Supply Chain Community, ASCI offers a comprehensive Professional Development program to foster talent and build networks in the industry.
ASCI continuously works with the broader supply chain community to host a range of Professional Development events and courses. Along with an ongoing program of Virtual Classrooms, Webinars and Networking Events, regular short courses, site visits and podcasts are also secured throughout the year building a comprehensive supply chain professional development calendar.
ASCI is very conscious of the fact that most professionals are time poor and are working hard to maintain work/life balance. With this in mid we have worked hard to ensure our Professional Development events are made up of both digital and physical offerings.
APICS Principles of Operations Management is an education-based program made up of five courses designed to help those new to the field of operations management establish a solid foundation of knowledge to excel in the fields of inventory, production and distribution management. Principles offers organisations an efficient and effective approach to educate and develop professionals on the basics of operations management.
For 2019, ASCI and the Demand Driven Institute (DDI) have worked together to devise etirely online based self study options for their DDP and DDL programs. What is unique to these offerings is the ability to schedule live check in with Carol Ptak and Chad Smith at various times throughout the program.
Keeping across topical issues surrounding the supply chain is a must for any supply chain professional wanting to develop their career. To aid in this, ASCI continuously works with industry thought leaders and experts to provide regular webinars that address the industries biggest topics.
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Sometimes it just pays to rub shoulders with others in the industry. Throughout the year ASCI works closely with our State Chapters and Partners to bring together fun and informative networking events. These events are a great way to discuss issues and interests and learn how others in the indusry are doing things.
ASCI also works closely with the industry to pull together a range of site visits throughout the year. Sometimes these are standalone visits, othertimes they may be coupled with a networking event. Either way they are alway interesting and always popular.
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The ASCI Annual Conference is peak gathering for supply chain professionals bringing together local and international leaders in the ongoing goal of professionalising the field of supply chain management.
Established in 2016, ASCI in partnership with Black Onyx Digital begun recording their own regular podcasts. Hosting discussions with industry experts, ASCI alumni and thought leaders, the ASCI Lounge podcast channel has been extremely popular and continues to ramp up and grow.


I am wondering if it is possible to upload a shapefile to edit vertices of a boundary layer in OSM and then delete the shapefile I used to trace on.
There is a small section of the international boundary between Chile and Argentina that is very generalized and I would like to make it more accurate.
Is this possible to do in OSM and if so how is the best way to do it.
not your question - but please be sure that your intended use of the shapefiles (I do not know from where you got them) is complying with the license of the shapefile and with OSM's license/contributor terms.
(I did not really find this question to be a duplicate, but) you should also have a look at previous questions on shapefiles - may be useful.
Under 'Add new vector layer', click 'Shapefile'.
By 'File', click 'Open...' and locate a .zip of your shapefile (i.e. .shp, .shx and .dbf files).
When the file has loaded, find it in the list above, and change the style from 'Potlatch' to 'GPS'.
Close the dialogue box. Your shapefile should be displayed in the background in light blue.
There are some hints in the OSM wiki about shapefiles ... consider how to load a shapefile in an editor like JOSM or similar, ideally in a single layer.
Then try to modify the existing boundary according to the underlying shapefile.
How are uploaded traces (GPX files) from my GPS device used in the OpenStreetMap editing process?
What should I do about vandalism?


The following is a list of all of the things you'll need to know to make your own campaign. All you need to do is add a properly done .txt file to the totalwar/campmap/startpos/ directory. It is highly recommended that you work off of an existing Campaign template, as this will save hella work and help ensure that everything is in the right format and arrangement. What is listed here are just the commands, the variables used by those commands, and what the various variables do, along with basis instructions on how to use it all.
There may be one or two holes in such things as the building variable values, so if you find one please pass it along. But suffice it to say that the list here is VERY, if not perfectly, complete and will probably serve your purposes.
To alter the starting honor of any unit, after you enter the unit ID, put a space, then the building ID of the building that would produce that unit with the honor level you wish it to have, this way you can give a unit +1 or +2 honor. Example: MakeUnit:: 1 1 18 will make a +1 honor YS unit in Satsuma.
See the xpack modsection, I've uploaded 3 campaigns earlier this week. Mainly they are a how-to, but not very organised. You'll find ID's and some other info in it.


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import org.hibernate.validator.constraints.NotEmpty;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonProperty;

public class HelloConfiguration extends Configuration {

    @NotEmpty
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    @JsonProperty
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        return _template;
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    @JsonProperty
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        _template = template;
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As founder of the Three Wise Men Veterans Foundation, Fletcher has led efforts to help returning service members. His social media accounts abounded with congratulatory messages and gratitude for his work.
Lawmakers have an established habit of honoring their nearest and dearest. In handing out his final Woman of the Year award before term limits force him out of the Assembly, for example, Assemblyman Luis Alejo, D-Salinas, chose to commemorate his mother. To critics, that's exactly the problem.


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Australian political donations
Coalition report recommends ban on foreign donations to environment activists
Labor supports ban on foreign donations to political parties and associated entities but not groups 'that are in any way involved in public campaigning'
Greenpeace protesters with cardboard coral to illustrate the mass bleaching that affected the Great Barrier Reef in 2016. Photograph: Oculi, Dean Sewell/Greenpeace/AAP
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The Coalition has singled out environment groups for special attention in a new parliamentary report that recommends banning foreign donations. The report draws on testimony from the mining industry to argue some some activist groups "appear to be circumventing the system".
The joint parliamentary committee on electoral matters, released the report on Friday recommending banning foreign political donations, but as Guardian Australia revealed on Thursday, the major parties have split over the treatment of activist groups.
Coalition members of the committee recommended a prohibition on donations from foreign citizens and foreign entities to Australian registered political parties, associated entities and "third parties", such as activist groups.
Liberals boss Tony Nutt calls for foreign donations ban on all entities, including GetUp
The proposed ban would not apply to dual Australian citizens either in Australia or overseas, or to non-Australian permanent residents in Australia.
Labor members agreed that foreign citizens and foreign entities should be banned from making donations to Australian registered political parties, and the ban should be extended to the associated entities of registered political parties, which would include some, but not all, trade unions.
But Labor members of the committee issued a dissenting report saying they could not support the Coalition proposal to extend the fundraising and financial disclosure obligations imposed by the Electoral Act "to capture all third parties that are in any way involved in public campaigning".
Labor members said extending the ban to third-party activist groups "would represent a dramatic extension of scope of the current regulatory scheme under the act".
"We acknowledge that concerns have been raised in this regard but there is scant evidence before the committee to support any such proposal," the dissenting report says. "Indeed, the rationale for it is unclear."
Coalition members of the committee made the case that if the ban didn't apply to all actors in the political system – political parties, associated entities, and third party activist groups – then a significant loophole would be created.
The report authored by government MPs says third parties are not subject to the electoral disclosure regime due to their deductible gift recipient (DGR) status.
"They do not self-identify their activities as political campaigning and thus operate outside the current disclosure regime," the report says. "This allows both foreign and domestic donors to contribute funds in support of domestic campaigns with little or no transparency."
The JSCEM chair, Liberal senator Linda Reynolds, said third party actors were proliferating in the Australian political scene, incurring increasing amounts of unregulated expenditure.
Reynolds warned: "If this loophole is not addressed in legislation, the likely consequence of a ban on foreign donations to organisations regulated by the AEC, is that funds will be channelled through organisations that are not."
The report authored by Coalition MPs points to testimony given to the inquiry by the Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) "that a number of environmental groups were actively participating in political campaigning but were still registered as charitable organisations, thus allowing them to avoid declaring the source of their foreign and domestic funding".
The report quotes the MCA saying "these groups should not be exempt from reasonable disclosure obligations that help maintain public confidence in Australia's political system."
The MCA told JSCEM there was "evidence that a number of organisations that received tax concessions are engaging in activities in defiance of clear regulatory restrictions".
Specific examples given included:
Greenpeace Australia Pacific, 350.org Australia and the Wilderness Society (Australia) participating in a pre-election rally against prime minister Malcolm Turnbull in June 2016, along with the Australian Labor party, the NSW Greens and GetUp
The Australian Conservation Foundation hired a truck to drive through the environment minister Josh Frydenberg's electorate during the 2016 election campaign, which displayed a banner criticising the minister for refusing to sign the foundation's environment pledge.
In October 2016, the Australian Marine Conservation Society attacked the Queensland Labor government's dealings with Adani by staging protests at Labor's state conference.
The Wilderness Society (Queensland) authorised campaign material during the 2015 Queensland state election urging voters to "Put the LNP last."
On 14 August 2015, the Australian Conservation Foundation authorised a one-page advertisement against the then environment minister, Greg Hunt. The advertisement included the logos of five other entities that are both registered environmental organisations and registered charities.
A further claim made in the report was that Friends of the Earth Australia passed on a donation of $262,000 from businessman and philanthropist Graeme Wood to the activist group GetUp. However, a spokesperson for GetUp said that claim had been investigated and found to be without basis.
GetUp said government MPs had based their report on "copying and pasting the submission from the Minerals Council using misleading information."
"This is disgraceful," said Paul Oosting, national director of GetUp.
"Now the Turnbull government is seeking to stop environmental groups standing up for the environment, reducing the ability of people to engage in our political system, in the interests of big businesses," Oosting said.
"Is this how they are going to justify giving a billion dollars of taxpayer money to Adani to build a coal mine that most Australians oppose."
The Liberal MPs' report notes registered environmental organisations are endorsed by the Australian Tax Office (ATO) to receive tax-deductible gifts and contributions, "but only for the principal purpose of protecting the natural environment, or undertaking related education or research."
"Moreover, registered environmental organisations must not act as a conduit for the donation of money or property to other entities, although they may pay other bodies to undertake natural conservation work."
Concern is raised in the report that the groups are involved in political campaigning whilst in receipt of DGR status, without being subjected to the same donations and disclosure regime as other players in the political system.
The Labor members suggest the regulation of third parties should be examined by another parliamentary inquiry.
"The Coalition proposal has a very wide ambit and Labor members of the committee are concerned that it may lead to unfortunate, presumably unintended, consequences in terms of imposing wide-ranging restrictions on the capacity of not-for-profit organisations to draw attention to their causes," the Labor MPs say.
"These causes could very well cover the field of Australian public discourse – from overseas aid, to Indigenous advancement."
"What sort of government would seek to shut down, or monopolise, these conversations?"
The Greens make a similar argument in their dissenting report.
"If such a law was enacted it would drastically curtail the role of civil society in Australia," says Green senator and democracy spokeswoman Lee Rhiannon.
"This is a highly partisan approach by the Liberal-National parties that would disadvantage some community groups working for the social good while not capturing groups such as the Minerals Council of Australia which is funded by large membership fees – which are not technically donations – from companies that are completely or largely foreign owned."
Gun lobby donated $350,000 to Australian political parties in a year
The Liberal democratic party senator David Leyonhjelm issued another dissenting report declaring foreign donations shouldn't be banned.
"Prohibition of foreign donations is a solution in search of a problem," Leyonhjelm says.
"There is no reason to believe regulation will achieve anything of benefit to Australian democracy, while there are grounds to believe it will have unintended consequences and harm democracy."
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Q: Camel and Cache LifeCycle I have troubles with the management of ehCache lifecycle within Camel. I have routes that are defined in Spring DSL. I can load them dynamically through my application. In the initial load of  the camel context, the cache works marvelously. Yet, if I stop the camel context and try to restart it, the ehCache doesn't restart. I have no EhCache custom configuration. This means that the whole lifecycle is actually managed by camel-cache.
Here is the exception I get when I try to access ehcache after restarting the camel context:
java.lang.IllegalStateException: The demo Cache is not alive (STATUS_SHUTDOWN)
        at net.sf.ehcache.Cache$CacheStatus.checkAlive(Cache.java:4009) ~[ehcache2.8.0.jar:2.8.0]
at net.sf.ehcache.Cache.checkStatus(Cache.java:2717) ~[ehcache-2.8.0.jar:2.8.0]

Is there a way to have better control on the EhCache lifecycle management so that I can restart the cache when the route is restarted?
Along those lines, is there a way to setup the cache such that it is globally visible in the JVM as opposed to being tied to one camel context? In other words, is there a ay to setup ehCache such that I can restart camel contexts without shuting down EhCache?

A: Consider using spring's support for EHCache which shall remove dependency of managing EHCache by Camel. What I mean is use Spring to manage EHCache rather than Camel so that starting/stopping of camelContext/routes won't affect EHCache. Check the JMX support provided by EHCache to have your other requirement about global visibility. For enabling JMX support you need to use the EHCache management service as below :
<bean id="ehCacheManagementService" class="net.sf.ehcache.management.ManagementService" init-method="init" lazy-init="false">
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I was a journeyman multicolor printing press operator (mostly Heidelbergs) from 1968 to 2000. I started as a Printers Devil in 1968 hand setting type for a Heidelberg Windmill press at the Sherwood Press in Olympia, Wa. This shop is still running. I ended up working for 9 different print shops around Puget Sound. The best press I ever ran was a 4 color Heidelberg GTOV-P with CP-Tronics. Only a few of the printshops are still operating, I will write up the list later.
A customer never changes his mind on ink color until after the press is inked.
A pressman is only as good as the last job he ran.
Pessimism in the pressroom is directly proportional to optimism in the office.
Incompetency is an inherent characteristic of all people with authority.
Telling the boss "it can't be done" will insure that you will be given a chance to try.
Twin Tower, Southgate Press. I never got the hang of this machine.
If you print a "perfect" job, somebody will always find a typo in it.
No matter what goes wrong, never admit fault. If they corner you, lie.
Always put your spoilage in somebody else's garbage can.
Coming to work with a good attitude is dangerous and should not be tolerated. On the other hand, chronic bitching is exciting, keeps the office staff in line and prevents ulcers.
A wise pressman always puts the good ones on top.
When printing multi-colored jobs that are in a "must go today" situation, you can be sure that you will not get the plates until 3 PM.
Pressmen who don't drink simply don't understand the situation they are in.
Ask for a raise at least once a week…you won't get it, but you will keep them worried.
To be a competent journeyman, you must know at least 200 swear words and be able to invent new ones at will.
George and his GTOZ at J&D Printing in Tacoma. George was one of the best pressmen I ever worked with.
Be wary of a smooth-running press…something is going wrong and it is up to you to find it.
The chances of something going wrong with your press is directly proportional to how far away you are from it.
When a customer demands blue ink on his job, you can be sure the color of the stock will be yellow.
When muttering swear words in the pressroom, the only people that will hear you will be the customer who is a nun, the boss's wife or the pope's brother.
If management fills out a ticket wrong, and you print the job, don't worry about it- you are going to get the blame, regardless.
The best way to insure that your shop will always have an adequate supply of rubber bands, paper clips and scotch tape is to ask the boss for new parts for the press.
The best place for your company to place its salesman in relation to the pressroom is out of town.
If you believe what management tells you, you haven't been in the trade long enough.
When you start a new job and the manager tells you to take the first day to get acquainted with the equipment and company procedure, figure on having ten minutes before they hand you a rush job.
Telling the prep department they stripped a job crooked will insure that the next 10 will be.
KORD at J&D Printing. I spent more years running KORDs than anything else. Love that old press!
When cutting stock and you have no help, it will always be on the bottom.
When the customer demands a perfect ink match, their sample will always be on colored stock.
You come to work on Monday and the boss says, "This job has to be delivered on Wednesday", chances are good that you will have a press breakdown, run out of plates, and the stock will be back ordered.
When the boss tells you that his son has just graduated from printing school and is coming to work on Monday, you have three choices: Go on vacation, quit, or retire.
When the salesman "bounces" into the pressroom and announces that he has just sold an "unbelieveable" job, you can be sure that it will be.
If you give the boss's son three things to do you can bet that he will do one, forget one, and screw the other one up.
The only way to avoid a smiling salesman is to lock yourself in the bathroom.
If you have been in the trade for more than 20 years and never been fired, you either have the patience of a saint or your boss is dumber than a box of rocks.
Color blindness is a disease that affects all artists, customers, and salespeople.
If the Graphic Designer who is press checking your job brings her own glass, hide the densitometer.
If the customer asks to use your densitometer during the press check, tell her the battery is dead.
A "grassroots" pressman CAN always do anything with nothing. A "factory" pressman WILL always do nothing with anything.
Lunchtime sketch of George's GTOZ at JnD Printing in Tacoma.
The Silverdale Press, '86 to '88. First time running a GTO.
Print Management, Seattle, 1997, 4 color GTOZP-S Stream fed, CPTRONICS. My first and last 4 color. They fired me.
J & D Printing…again. 1997 to 2000, KORD, GTOZ, Komori 2 color 28″ perfector.


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By Scott S. Garbini
SKEMA Global BBA-Global Management Business Administration International Business
SKEMA Business School is a private establishment of higher education and research with the legal status of a non-profit association under the French "1901 law".
SKEMA was founded in 2009 as a result of the merger between the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce, Lille and CERAM Business School, Sophia Antipolis. The Lille school had been founded in 1892 and CERAM in 1963.
SKEMA is a member of the Conférence des Grandes Ecoles. The school was approved by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research, as an EESPIG (Private Establishment for Higher Education declared to be of public usefulness). This official status was conferred on 6 July 2015 and declared in the Bulletin Officiel on 23 July 2015.
It is a community devoted to learning and the creation and transmission of management knowledge and practice. Since its inception, SKEMA has become a global school with a multi-campus structure and a large portfolio of programmes taught in English and in French. These range from undergraduate level to continuing education and are aligned with the Bologna higher education norms (License, Master, Doctorate).
International strategy:
SKEMA aims to become the global business school on five continents. Its common international strategy is to train management leaders in the knowledge economy by developing :
A school with one identity on its different sites, with campuses set up in the heart of scientific hubs. The school's culture fosters an international outlook, excellence and innovation.
Multi-site education programmes offering mobility, professional expertise and interdisciplinary programmes (technology-management).
Synergy with the school's local environments both in terms of research and in business partnerships. Cross fertilisation within science hubs (but also among these hubs) that will give an overall view of innovation and the needs for specific skills in the world's different regions.
Systematic involvement of global companies with the school (governance, programmes, incubators, research, students).
The school is managed according to the values of excellence, humanism, diversity and innovation.
SKEMA contributes to the local environment and economic fabric wherever its campuses are located.
10th anniversary, more than 160 years of history
3 international accreditations (EQUIS, AACSB, AMBA) – among the 1% of business schools in the world that hold the Triple Crown
A faculty organized in 3 academies (globalization, innovation, digitalization) and 1 sports and language institute (SKILS)
4 research centers (FAIRR, KTO, PRISM, STRATEGY) and 1 Global Lab in Augmented Intelligence
7 global campuses in 5 countries (Brazil, China, France, South Africa, United States)
+50 programmes (BBAs, Master in Management, Masters of Science, Specialized Masters®, Doctoral Programmes, Global Executive MBA, Executive Education programmes, Summer Schools)
40 alumni clubs across the world
70 student clubs
100 incubated projects at SKEMA Ventures
120 nationalities at SKEMA's campuses
130 academic partnerships in more than 40 countries
400 professors, including 160 members in the academic faculty
2,500 partner companies
45,000 alumni in 145 countries
7 Campuses on Five Continents (Including 2 in France, China, Brazil, South Africa and the USA)
Majors:
BBA in Global Management
Master in Management programme
Specialised Masters (MS)
Masters of Sciences (MSc)
PhD in Business Administration
DBA in Project and Programme Management
Digital DBA
Must hold a high school diploma or equivelant
Academic results and references
High School transcripts (Self reported, official copies to be sent directly to SKEMA Business School In Raleigh, NC)
Cover letter or letter of recommendation (Teacher, School counselor, tutor)
SAT or ACT score self reporting followed by official copy submitted electronically by testing agency (Optional for International Students)
English level requirement for international students
If English is not your native language, you will be required to provide evidence of your English proficiency by submitting your TOEFL iBT or IELTS test results. The minimum requirements are: TOEFL iBT of 70 or higher, and IELTs 6.0 or higher
Tuition and Fee's:
$20,000 per year (based on the academic year 2020-2021)
Scholarships:
Students can receive a scholarship of up to $6,000 depending on Eligibility
For more info on this program or any others please contact Scott S. Garbini at www.garbinied.com
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Pray continually in all circumstances.
In hateful circumstances we often pray for God to change the hearts of the attackers from evil to good. Praying for their heart change is a very important action on the part of Christians. But, let's also not neglect to pray for the hearts of those enduring the hardships. They too need help. They need our prayers, standing as one voice, for God to strengthen them.
Abused Christians need to feel their Christian community standing beside them, worshiping God, praising His plan, asking for their hearts to stay true to God so that they do not falter as a result of hurtful assaults against them.
No matter if one's faith was born years ago—like the Pence's, or one is younger in their faith walk—like the Covington students, evil avoids no one. Evil always seeks a vulnerable spot to attack. BE AWARE—Evil is never far from us! But also remember that God never forsakes us!
Jesus, our beloved savior, is always beside us!
Philippians 4:12-13 I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do all this through him who gives me strength.
Thank-you for your prays! May God bless you and your family as well!
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Amen! There is great power and victory in prayer! God bless!
Thank you, Ryan. Enjoy your day writing.
Yes, you are so right. When one part of the body suffers, we all suffer and we should pray for them! Thank you for the post!
Thank you, Valerie! You have a wonderful week-end. FYI i am from Pennsylvania, and it's Ground Hog Day tomorrow! I suggest you get up early, grab your popcorn, and watch this enthralling event tomorrow morning!
Amen, fantastic post! I pray every morning for all believers to have courage, wisdom, peace, provision, protection and to be a light of hope everywhere they go.
Thank you for reading my post, Danielle! Yes, we must always remember to pray strength over other Christians. Blessings.


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