This is just one instance of how much Korean spies in Japan have been so far active in trying to topple Japan. Kim Giru Uku 金吉旭 is one of 11 Koreans now on the wanted list of Interpol, who abducted the Japanese nationals and took them to North Korea. It is even shocking to know that he worked as principal of the Korean school in Osaka, Japan and at the same time as a North Korean operative.
The Korean schools established throughout Japan where students worship and glorify Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il as some kind of gods while stirring up anti-Japan sentiments in their minds in such a manner as to teach them distortions, fictions, exaggerations, etc.
The photo is just one of the evidences showing that the Korean residents in Japan pursue the ideology prescribed by Kim Jong Il. The students attending those schools are taught to worship Kim Il Song and Kim John Il while benefiting from what Japan can offer economically.
Those Korean residents refuse to attend schools in Japan although they are entitled to enjoy the equal rights as the Japanese nationals do.
In fact, what they teach there is not based upon Fundamental Law of Education enacted in 1947. http://bit.ly/igO4dD However, the Kan administration has shown such a passion as to financially assist their schools with the taxes collected from the hardworking Japanese believing in democracy and free market economy.
Suppose some terrorist groups establish their schools in the United States of America and teach everything against the U.S.A. I don't think any Americans will dare to support those schools unless they are also terrorists.
1. The Korean schools in Japan are administered by General Association of Korean Residents, one of the organs under the direct control of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The association has reportedly assumed its important responsibility for carrying out a series of abductions as evidenced in the case indicated above.
2. Teachers at those schools are not qualified to pursue teaching professions in Japan as far as the Japanese laws are concerned. Their curriculum is not based upon what the Japanese educational guidelines stipulate.
3. Any public spending to those schools violate Article 89 of the Constitution of Japan.
4. The Korean residents refuse to attend the Japanese schools even if nothing prevents them from enjoying a privilege of receiving the same education as the Japanese nationals do.
Note: The photo attached herein shows their commencement ceremony in which graduating students listen to school principal say with the photos of Kim Il Song and Kim John Il behind him. They worship daily Kim Il Song and Kim John Il even in their classrooms.
The above has been written mostly based upon the Japanese tweets, blogs, etc.


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 Kanako Kitao (* 1982), US-amerikanisch-japanische Synchronschwimmerin
 Kitao Shigemasa (1739–1820), japanischer Meister des japanischen Farbholzschnitts
 Sagiri Kitao (* 1972), japanische Wirtschaftswissenschaftlerin

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The first thing you need to do in a new course is to set up the grading categories. These categories will determine the gradebook columns and your views for learning analytics.
Step 1: Under the "Settings" dropdown, selecting "Grading." Then delete all the default grade categories that automatically show up.
Step 2: Click on the green button to "Add a New Assignment Type" (grade category).
Step 4: Save the grade assignments.


Discussion in 'Retro Video Games' started by IceDigger, May 1, 2002.
Remember those cool 3DO controllers made by Panasonic? The ones with the volume controll and earphone jacks on them? They were so gosh darn cool! Wonder why it never caught on.
Anybody else love these controllers because of that?
oh oh me me !
Yeah I love those! it was a great idea because you didn't have to be right up next to the console to use the headphones like on the genesis.
but then again any video game console with built in headphone jacks is a winner in my book.


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Refineries History
Mumbai Refinery
HPCL's Mumbai refinery, one of the most complex refineries in the country, is constructed on an area of 321 acres. This versatile refinery which is the first of India's modern refineries, symbolizes the country's industrial strength and progress in the oil industry. Mumbai Refinery has grown over the years as the main hub of petroleum products. The refinery has reached to present level through several upgradation and restructuring processes. A chronological summary of the developments is provided below:
M/s Esso commissioned in 1954 with a crude processing capacity of 1.25 MMTPA
Lube refinery, Lube India Ltd, was commissioned in 1969 with a capacity of 165 TMTPA of Lube Oil Base Stock (LOBS) production
Crude processing capacity increased to 3.5 MMTPA during 1969
Government of India took over Esso and Lube India and formed HPCL in 1974
Expansion of fuels block was carried out by installation of new 2 MMTPA crude units in 1985
Second expansion of Lube Refinery took place to increase the capacity of the refinery to 335 MMTPA, so far the largest in India.
The installed capacity of the refinery was later enhanced to 6.5 MMTPA
The current installed capacity of the refinery is 7.5 MMTPA
Visakh Refinery
The Visakh Refinery is also an important contributor to HPCL's Petroleum products requirements Visakha Refinery was commissioned with an installed capacity of 0.65 Million Metric Tonnes Per Annum (MMTPA) by Caltex Oil Refining (India) Ltd. in 1957. This was one of the first major industries of Visakhapatnam and first oil refinery on the East Coast. After the nationalisation, HPCL has transformed itself into a mega Public Sector Undertaking and it is second largest integrated oil company in India. The summary of development of the refinery is given below:
The first East Coast Oil refinery was commissioned as Caltex Oil Refining India Ltd. (CORIL) in 1957 with a crude processing capacity of 0.65 MMTPA
The refinery was subsequently taken over by Government of India in 1976 and merged with HPCL in 1978
The refinery's crude refining capacity increased to 4.5 MMTPA during the first expansion in 1985
The refinery's crude refining capacity increased to a further 7.5 MMTPA during the second expansion in 1999 and is currently 8.3MMTPA effective April 2010
Diesel Hydro desulphurization (DHDS) project was commissioned in the year 2000 to meet BS-I/II specification of diesel. The facilities were further augmented in 2005 by addition of 2nd Reactor in DHDS unit for supplying BS-III grade diesel
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In conversation with our President – The Economy is a Woman
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On 29 October 2019, Zuva Financial Services partnered with the Businesswomen's Association to host a dialogue with President Cyril Ramaphosa with the theme "The Economy is a Woman". This was an in-depth one-on-one engagement with the President to explore his commitment to women empowerment, specifically the full and equal participation of women in the economy. Furthermore, it was intended to clarify what plans he and the government have in order to ensure that women are a key part of the country's solutions.
These are some of the key messages that emerged from the conversation.
Opportunities offered by the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (ACFTA)
Ramaphosa urged women to take up opportunities offered by the ACFTA. In this regard, he stressed the need for more women-led businesses in manufacturing, noting that the African Continental Free Trade Agreement is opening up a lot of opportunities across Africa. He encouraged women to participate in business forums related to this agreement, and trade their goods and services.
Intention to discriminate in favour of women
The president said this would take the form of government committing to support more women to through business incubation. He went on to indicate that the budgeting process would also change to accommodate and encourage women.
"We have taken a decision that the budgeting process in our government is going to be gender-sensitive. We are going to ensure that when we do budgets, they focus on the gender aspect of how we empower women," the President said.
Women must speak out on non-business-related issues such as gender-based violence
The President implored women not to restrict their voices in respect to anything, including gender-based-violence. Several times during the dialogue, participants noted that "South Africa is at war against its women" which struck an eerie and chilling chord. In response, the President urged women: "Never keep quiet. Speak out about everything, be it gender-based violence or lack of transformation. Continue agitating for the attainment of a non-racist and non-sexist South Africa. Mobilise for the cause of women,".
He went on to further commit that more resources and financial assistance would be allocated towards non-profit organisations that assisted against gender-based violence.
"We must ensure that women do not live in a country that has declared war on them," he said, echoing what had been said already by other participants.
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation donates $1 billion towards women empowerment
President Cyril Ramaphosa further pointed out that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation had committed to spending a part of their $1 billion dollars for women empowerment in Africa as he readied to become African Union chairperson. He promised to work with France President Emmanuel Macron, Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as well as African presidents to ensure that a good portion of the funding comes to the continent. That said, he emphasised that the input from the women at the dialogue would form his plan for how the funding should be spent on economic empowerment of women in South Africa and the continent.


The Canon EOS 750D succeeds the EOS 700D introduced in 2013.Packing a high resolution 24.2-megapixel CMOS sensor and the DIGIC 6 Image Processor into a compact body is the EOS 750D DSLR Camera from Canon.
Imaging: The EOS 750D features a 24.2 megapixel CMOS sensor and DIGIC 6 image processor to produce high resolution images in a variety of shooting conditions.
19-Point All Cross-Type AF System: For fast, accurate focusing in a variety of situations, the 750D features a 19-point all cross-type AF system. This allows for speedy focusing performance when using the viewfinder as well as in area selection modes.
Full HD 1080p Video Capture: Full HD Movie mode supports Movie Servo for continuous focus tracking of moving subjects during recording. Manual exposure control and a built-in stereo microphone with manual audio level adjustment provide high-quality control over shooting, and multiple frame rates and resolutions provide quality-level and stylistic shooting options.
Built-In Wi-Fi Connectivity with NFC: Wirelessly transfer images and videos with the built-in Wi-Fi connectivity of the 750D. When used with the Camera Connect mobile app users will be able to quickly and effectively upload files directly to social networking sites.
Screen: A 3.0" Clear View II Vari-angle Touchscreen LCD monitor with 1,040k-dot resolution provides clear composition and playback viewing even in bright light. Its tilt and swivel capability makes shooting at odd angles easy, and a smudge-resistant coating keeps the monitor clear.


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Tibet Solidarity Movement holds 108th demonstration in front of the UN in Geneva, Switzerland
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Representative Chhimey Rigzen and staff of the Tibet Bureau with members of Tibet Solidary Movement Group in front of the UN building on 13 January 2021. Photo/ OOT, Geneva
Geneva: The Swiss-based Tibetan families continued their demonstration, "Tibet Solidarity Movement" in front of the UN in Geneva, Switzerland for the 108th time today on 13 January. The Tibetan families have been holding this demonstration since 2012, on the second Wednesday of every month.
The Tibet Solidarity Movement is organized by five Tibetan families who travel from different parts of Switzerland to Geneva on second Wednesdays of every month to express their solidarity for Tibetans who continue to suffer under China's repressive rule and to seek support and attention of the international community to resolve Sino-Tibet issue through dialogue. In addition to protests in front of the United Nations, the group of families undertook Tibet awareness campaign through the distribution of leaflets at major public places in Luzern, Switzerland and also staged a peaceful demonstration in front of the European Union building in 2017.
Representative Chhimey Rigzen and staff of the Tibet Bureau Geneva visited the demonstration site to express appreciation to the Tibet Solidarity Movement and the families. Speaking to the demonstrators, Representative Rigzen extended new year greetings and commended their dedication and commitment in holding the protests in front of the UN irrespective of the weather conditions, through different seasons since 2012.
Ms Liz, a Tibetan supporter who also participated in the protest, said she has benefitted a lot from Tibetan culture. Her participation in the protest is a "small way to give back to Tibetan people in keeping their culture and cause alive." "China is not doing the right thing. China is a threat for the entire humanity to live in peace and harmony," said Ms Liz. She further appealed all Tibetans to remain united in wake of China's divide and rule strategy.
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(L to R) Members of Tibet Solidarity Group Taktsang Konchok, Tashi Lhamo Gyaltsang and Ngawang Palden during the 108th demonstration in front of UN building on 13 January 2020. Photo/ OOT, Geneva
A passerby studies the posters with interest. Photo/ OOT, Geneva
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Yael Lazar has a PhD in Religious Studies from Duke University. She holds previous degrees in cultural studies and Asian studies from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv University, respectively. In line with her interdisciplinary background, her research is located at the intersection of religious studies, media studies, and cultural studies, specializing in digital Hinduism. Her current work examines numerous conceptual and concrete networks. Studying Hindu adoption of digital media, Yael explores digital and mobile networks, addresses digital media's public as networked, considers religions—specifically, Hinduism—as networks themselves, follows the actors who weave the Hindu web, and attempts to track the links that connect and disconnect the global and local along those networks. She is also the author of "Streaming the Divine: Hindu Temples' Digital Journeys," in Digital Hinduism, edited by Xenia Zeiler, forthcoming by Routledge, London.


Venice stood aloof, professing a nominal allegiance to the East.
The duke unwillingly complied, but when the French entered Piedmont and demanded the cession of the fortresses of Turin and Verrua, he refused, and while still professing to negotiate with Louis, joined the league of Austria, Spain and Venice.
I have reason to believe that's about the only place that hasn't been infiltrated by those professing allegiance to East or West.


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EPISODE 29: Jonathan Gienapp
Jonathan Gienapp is an assistant professor in Stanford's Department of History. He is a scholar of Revolutionary and early republican America specializing in the period's constitutionalism, political culture, legal history, and intellectual history. He is also interested in the method and practice of the history of ideas. His first book, The Second Creation: Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era (Harvard University Press, Belknap, 2018), rethinks the conventional story of American constitutional creation by exploring how and why founding-era Americans' understanding of their Constitution transformed in the earliest years of the document's existence. It investigates how early political debates over the Constitution's meaning helped alter how Americans imagined the Constitution and its possibilities, showing how these changes created a distinct kind of constitutional culture, the consequences of which endure to this day. It won the 2017 Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize from Harvard University Press and the 2019 Best Book in American Political Thought Award from the American Political Science Association and was a finalist for the 2019 Frederick Jackson Turner Award from the Organization of American Historians. He has written extensively on the relationship between history and constitutional originalism, including in two essays that appeared on Process: A Blog for American History, published by the Organization of American Historians. He is currently completing a book (under contract with Yale University Press) that presents a comprehensive historical critique of originalism a preview of which can be found in an article recently published in Law and History Review, "Written Constitutionalism, Past and Present."


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In mathematics, in particular abstract algebra and topology, a differential graded algebra is a graded associative algebra with an added chain complex structure that respects the algebra structure.

Definition
A differential graded algebra (or DG-algebra for short) A is a graded algebra equipped with a map  which has either degree 1 (cochain complex convention) or degree −1 (chain complex convention) that satisfies two conditions:

A more succinct way to state the same definition is to say that a DG-algebra is a monoid object in the monoidal category of chain complexes.
A DG morphism between DG-algebras is a graded algebra homomorphism which respects the differential d.

A differential graded augmented algebra (also called a DGA-algebra,
an augmented DG-algebra or simply a DGA) is a DG-algebra equipped with a DG morphism to the ground ring (the terminology is due to Henri Cartan).

Warning: some sources use the term DGA for a DG-algebra.

Examples of DG-algebras

Tensor algebra
The tensor algebra is a DG-algebra with differential similar to that of the Koszul complex. For a vector space  over a field  there is a graded vector space  defined as

where .

If  is a basis for  there is a differential  on the tensor algebra defined component-wise

sending basis elements to

In particular we have  and so

Koszul complex
One of the foundational examples of a differential graded algebra, widely used in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry, is the Koszul complex. This is because of its wide array of applications, including constructing flat resolutions of complete intersections, and from a derived perspective, they give the derived algebra representing a derived critical locus.

De-Rham algebra
Differential forms on a manifold, together with the exterior derivation and the exterior product form a DG-algebra. These have wide applications, including in derived deformation theory. See also de Rham cohomology.

Singular cohomology
The singular cohomology of a topological space with coefficients in  is a DG-algebra: the differential is given by the Bockstein homomorphism associated to the short exact sequence , and the product is given by the cup product. This differential graded algebra was used to help compute the cohomology of Eilenberg–MacLane spaces in the Cartan seminar.

Other facts about DG-algebras
 The homology  of a DG-algebra  is a graded algebra. The homology of a DGA-algebra is an augmented algebra.

See also

 Homotopy associative algebra
 Differential graded category
 Differential graded Lie algebra
 Differential graded scheme
 Differential graded module

References

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Algebras
Homological algebra
commutative algebra
Differential algebra


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Taiwan's Tainan offers free guided tours of back alleys on weekends
The back alleys hidden in an old section of the city still keep some of the city's authentic elements
(Photo courtesy of Tainan City's Bureau of Tourism) (Photo courtesy of Tainan City's Bureau of Tourism)
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – What's there to see in Tainan, the ancient capital city of Taiwan, besides the numerous historic sites and monuments? The back alleys hidden in an old section of the city still keep some of the city's authentic elements that set the city apart from other modern cities in the country, and therefore it's worth taking a guided tour of the city's old communities.
The back alleys zigzagging the area encircled by Minsheng Rd. (民生路), Ximen Rd. (西門路), Zhongzheng Rd. (中正路), and Yongfu Rd. (永福路) are generally referred to as the Snail Alley, which denotes the laid-back quality of the communities in the allies. Therefore, visitors are recommended to relax and take a slow walk while taking in the simple, quiet atmosphere that permeates the area.
While exploring these alleys, visitors might come across a neighborhood injected with installation art, painted walls, and symbols of snails that hark back to the old time. Visitors will also find small shops and cafes in the alleys.
Tainan City Government provides free guided tours of the back alleys on weekends, but charges a fee for the same tours during weekdays, according to a news release posted on Travel Tainan website by the city's tourism bureau. A guided back alley tour takes about two hours, the agency said.
Advance online registration is required for participating in a guided tour, according to the release.
More free guided tours of the back alleys will be provided during the New Year's Day holiday, the agency said, adding that there are a couple of different routes to choose from.
For more information about the guided tours, please refer to this site (Chinese), call 06-3901179, or write to zhengchi013@gmail.com
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Our school held the "National Natural Science Foundation Reporting Skills and Precautions" Academic Report
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On the afternoon of September 16, a series of academic activities signed by the School of Business Administration of the School of Business Administration and the School of Key Discipline Offices of Enterprise Management, the "Ph.D. Forum (3)" series of academic reports were held in North A501. This report was prepared by Dean Deng Liming. Hosted by Dr. Hu Yangcheng, a member of the Discipline Office, more than 20 people from the School of Business Administration and some teachers from the Foreign College attended the report.
At the report, Dr. Hu combined his experience in successfully applying for the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and focused on the National Natural Science Fund Project in four aspects: "Fund Project Profile, Fund Project Review Procedure, Fund Project Review Requirements and How to Write an Application". The reporting and review process is fully elaborated, with an emphasis on how to write an application.
The participating teachers showed a strong interest in the contents of the report and exchanged ideas on the research topics they had conceived. The response was enthusiastic. At the same time as the backbone of scientific research in the agglomeration college, it greatly promotes the integration and common progress of the disciplines, laying a solid foundation for the successful declaration of the 2015 national-level projects of the college. (Text / Figure Hu Linchun)
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Our school held the academic report of "Application of Structural Equation Model in the Construction of Index System"


Dallas Jessup of Vancouver, a Vanderbilt University junior, created a way to reduce those numbers. She put together an all-volunteer cast and crew to produce the film Just Yell Fire: Campus Life to raise awareness among her peers of the unique dangers girls face at college, to give them some danger avoidance strategies, and some street fighting get-away moves to earn a few seconds to get away from danger when it finds them.
For more information, or to watch the video for free, visit the Just Yell Fire website.


1. 2018 Golden Globe Race, a sailing race around world which started on 1 July 2018 from Les Sables-d'Olonne (______________________). It dates back to fifty years, featuring yachts similar to those used at that time, with no modern technology allowed.
2. A massive Earthquake of 7.5 Richter Scale along with Tsunami waves hit Palu City of _____________________, triggering over 1000 human casulaties.
________________'s Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGI) is 16th busiest in world, by handling 63.4 million passengers in 2017.
First place was held by Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson in US, handling 103.9 million passengers in 2017, followed by Beijing with 95.8 million passengers.
India ranks ___________________ in world for its investments in education and healthcare, among 195 Surveyed countries.
Finland tops the list in two key sectors.
USA ranked 27th, while China placed at 44th and Pakistan 164th.
India stands at _________________ rank out of 162 countries in economic freedom.
Hong Kong (1) and Singapore (2) are at top of list. New Zealand (3), Switzerland (4), Ireland (5) are others in Top 5.
Among BRICS nations, Russia and South Africa are ahead of India at 87th and 94th place and China and Brazil are behind it at 108th and 144th positions.
10 lowest-ranked countries - Sudan, Guinea-Bissau, Angola, Central African Republic, Republic of Congo, Syria, Algeria, Argentina, Libya and last-place Venezuela.
6. According to recent report, Pakistan could become world's ____________________ largest nuclear weapons state after Russia, United States, France and China in terms of possession of total nuclear warheads. Pakistan currently has 140 to 150 nuclear warheads and its stockpile is expected to increase to 220 to 250 by 2025 (surpassing United Kingdom).
The current estimate of 140 to 150 nuclear weapons with Pakistan exceeds projection made by US Defense Intelligence Agency in 1999 that Pakistan would have 60 to 80 warheads by 2020.
7. According to review by Asia Pacific Policy Group on Money Laundering (APPG), Pakistan's recent action against terror financing, particularly on legal front were found to be "unsatisfactory". Note that Pakistan was placed on _______________________ (FATF) grey list in February 2018 for failing to curb terror funding. APPG examines cases of all countries on the grey and black lists and reports to FATF.
8. Agriculture and Environment ministries along with UN body Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) launched agriculture project that seeks to bring transformative change in farm sector through conservation of biodiversity and forest landscapes.
It will be implemented in Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram, Odisha, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand.
It is being funded with US _________________ million grant from Global Environment Facility (GEF).
Existing unsustainable agricultural practices have resulted in depletion of water tables, biodiversity and habitat loss for wild species and land and soil degradation which have contributed to the environmental crisis in India. To overcome it, there is need for alternative paradigm to current extractive methods of agricultural production systems.
9. Airports Authority of India (AAI) announced its project report for development of Palaly airport in northern ________________, as first project undertaken by AAI in the country.
10. Amid economic crisis, Argentina central bank raised its benchmark interest by 15 percentage points to ____________________________________, highest in world. The Argentine peso is down 50% this year against the dollar and the country's inflation is running at over 30%. Many south american nations are facing economic crisis, with neighbouring nation venezuela being under more more steep financial stress.
11. As per a UN report on 'state of food security and nutrition in the world' number of undernourished globally increased to 821 million in 2017. ___________________________ has highest prevalence of undernourishment, affecting almost 21 % of population (more than 25 crore people). Situation is also deteriorating in South America, where PoU increased from 4.7 % in 2014 to a 5 % in 2017.
Asia and Pacific region continues to grow in GDP and labour force has been reduced and is shifting from agriculture towards employment in industry and services.
Use of satellite imagery and remote sensing technology has improved data accuracy.
13. ________________________ Govt. inaugurated Indo-Bhutan Border Centre at Darranga Baksa district, To strengthen bilateral trade with Bhutan.
14. At International Court of Justice, India supported ______________________ over its claim on Chagos Islands, which are under United Kingdom's control in Indian Ocean.
Is planning bullet trains from Kolkata to Kunming City of China, expected to traverse through Myanmar and Bangladesh. The service is also expected to give a thrust to trade and commerce in the Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar (BCIM) Economic Corridor.
BCIM project is projected to run through Mandalay in Myanmar, Chittagong and Dhaka in Bangladesh, terminating in Kolkata.
Pledged $60 billion of financial assistance to Africa, announced at 3rd Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) held in Beijing. FOCAC excludes Swaziland (recently renamed to Eswatini).
Out of $60 billion offered, It will disburse $15 billion as aid, interest-free loans and concessional loans, $20 billion as credit line, channel $10 billion into special fund for China-Africa development and $5 billion special fund will be set up only for African imports.
Successfully launched a new marine satellite called HY-1C aboard a Long March-2C rocket. It will aim at better monitor its maritime waters and study impact of climate change.
_____________-Maldives Friendship Bridge opened for traffic, as first cross-sea bridge to be built in Maldives.
It is 2.2 km long bridge and has four vehicle lanes and two pedestrian lanes. It connects Maldives capital city Male and neighbouring Hulhule island where island country's main international airport is located.
The bridge was built with Chinese grant of $116 million, along with $72 million as an additional loan.
16. Delhi government signed MOU with Seoul Metropolitan Government (_________________________) to work closely in the fields of environment, tourism, waste / solid waste management, infrastructure and public health.
17. ______________________ will stop twice-yearly changing of clocks from October 2019, implemented during the two World Wars and the 1970s oil crisis to save energy. Its Member countries are required to move forward by an hour on the last Sunday of March and back by an hour on the last Sunday of October.
18. Facebook will invest over $1 billion to build its first Asian data centre in ______________________________, expected to open in 2022. Like other data centres, it will be fully powered by renewable energy.
19. For the first time, bus services between _____________________ and Nepal have started. With 4 buses between Bodhgaya and Kathmandu and 4 buses between Patna to Janakpur.
20. __________________ insurer Allianz Group signed up as a global Olympic sponsor for a 4-Games period of 10 years between 2021 and 2028, as IOC's 14th top sponsor.
21. India and Agence Française de Développement (____________________) signed an implementation agreement on "MOBILISE YOUR CITY (MYC). MYC is part of an international initiative which is supported by French and German Governments and was launched at 21st Conference of Parties (COP21) meeting in December 2015.
European Union has agreed to provide funds of Euro 3.5 million through the AFD to contribute to specific investments and technical assistance components within the Mobilise Your City (MYC) programme in India.
MYC aims at supporting three pilot cities - Nagpur, Kochi and Ahmedabad,to reduce their Green House Gas (GHG) emissions related to urban transport.
22. India and Bangladesh jointly launched construction of India-Bangladesh Friendship Product Pipeline Project, as first such pipeline through which refined diesel will be supplied to Bangladesh from India.
It involves construction of 130-kilometre long pipeline that will connect Siliguri in ____________________________ and Parbatipur in Dinajpur district of Bangladesh. 6 KM stretch will be in India side and remaining 124 kilometres will in Bangladesh.
Pipeline has capacity of 1 million metric tons per annum. Initially, it will supply Bangladesh 2.5 lakh tonnes of diesel every year and gradually it will be increased to 4 lakh tonnes. It will replace existing practice of sending diesel by rail covering distance of 510 kilometers.
Also, Bangladesh approved allowing India to use its Chittagong and Mongla ports to transport cargo to and from its northeastern states. Indian goods can be transported through four entry points from states Tripura, Meghalaya and Assam. India will have to follow General Agreement on Tariff and Trade (GATT) and Bangladeshi regulations, pay customs duties and buy tax equivalent bonds to transport freight.
23. India and ___________________ signed Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) on skill development, which will provide dual vocational education and training to Indian youth. Under it, students who complete specific training courses in India will get certificate that is recognised in both countries.
24. India and ______________________ signed an MoU for deepening cooperation between MSME sectors of the two countries in Rabat.
25. India and _____________________ signed an MoU for construction of a 5000-metric ton temperature controlled warehouse in Dambulla, with Indian grant assistance of 30 crore rupees.
26. India contributed ____________________ to United Nations (UN) Headquarters' Solar Project, under which solar panels will be installed on roof of UN headquarters at New York (US).
27. India is Partner Country in 87th Izmir International tradeshow in __________________________. India also launched its mega business pavilion 'Source India' hosting 75 Indian companies. Izmir is 3rd most populous city in ___________, after Istanbul and Ankara.
28. India ranks third globally in terms of number of family-owned businesses with 111 companies having a total market capitalisation of $839 billion, according to a Credit Suisse report. India followed _______________________ (159 companies) and US (121 companies).
29. India signed 2 agreements with _____________________'s Rakhine State Government to facilitate capacity building and economic development in province.
30. India stands ____________________________ in 'Theft Ranking' for countries with weapons-usable nuclear materials, according to the Nuclear Security Index. The index was released by the US-based Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI).
Neighboring Pakistan ranks 20th in List.
Australia shared top spot with Switzerland.
31. India will buy 18 Bullet Trains from __________________, Each train with 10 coaches and would be able to attain speed of 350 km per hour. The 508-km high speed train corridor between Mumbai and Ahmedabad at an estimated cost of Rs 1,10,000 crore is expected to be operational by 2022.
32. India's Ministry of Information and Broadcasting joined SDG Media Compact aimed at advancing awareness of _________________ (SDGs).
SDG Media Compact is initiative of United Nations, in collaboration with UN Foundation. It is alliance of news and entertainment media and it is committing to work with United Nations to foster public discourse and spur action on SGDs.
It seeks to inspire media companies around world to leverage their resources to advance SDGs adopted by all world leaders at UN in 2015.
500 MW additional power supply from India to Bangladesh, through existing Bheramara (Bangladesh) - Baharampur (India) interconnection.
Rehabilitation of Kulaura-Shahbazpur section of Bangladesh Railways.
34. Indra Jatra festival hed in Kathmandu (___________________________), as an eight day long annual festival observed to worship Indra, the lord of rain and good harvest.
35. International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved a loan agreement with Economically troubled South American Nation ____________________, on a 36-month Stand-By Arrangement (SBA) totaling to US$57.1 billion. It is largest ever loan given by IMF.
36. International Whaling Commission (IWC) defeated a proposal to create a whale sanctuary in South Atlantic, first introduced by _______________ in 2001.
37. _________________ became world's first country to land 2 robotic rovers in asteroid Ryugu, also being first man made robot to have landed in an asteroid. Name of the rover that landed is MINERVA-II1, consisting of 2 rovers.
38. Jeff Bezos led e-commerce major Amazon became 2nd US company to hit $1 trillion in market capitalisation after Apple. Also, _______________ became 2nd Indian Company to hit 8 Lakh crores INR (Approx $120 Billion USD), after Relienace achieved it recently.
39. Macedonia held a referendum on whether to change its name to the 'Republic of North Macedonia'.
______________ and Macedonia had signed a deal in this regard in June. Greece argued that the name 'Macedonia' implied a territorial claim on its own province of the same name and has thus vetoed Macedonia's entry into NATO and European Union.
40. Manila (_____________________________) based Asian Development Bank (ADB) launched its first Trade Finance Scorecard, a new tool to address market and boost trade finance. It aims to prevent money-laundering and terrorism. It will use a 2 level assessing, First level will consist of score out of 10 on seven criteria on the macro level and Second level will consist of five working-level issues on the micro level.
41. Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD decided to participate in Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) after gap of nine years, by sending team of officers to Paris to negotiate India's terms of participation in PISA ___________________.
Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is assessment test for 15-year-olds, organised every three years by Organisation for Economic Cooperation Development (OECD), Paris (France).
PISA test results give insight into education systems around the world. The results are shown as a national mean score and not shown individually. Its objective is not to rank countries, but to see how education system can be improved.
42. NITI Aayog and United Nations signed _______________________ (UNSDF) for 2018-2022.
It outlines work of UN agencies in India, with 19 UN agencies signing UNSDF 2018-2022.
7 priority areas outlined in the UNSDF are - Poverty and Urbanization; Health, Water, and Sanitation; Education and Employability; Nutrition and Food Security; Climate Change, Clean Energy, and Disaster Resilience; Skilling, Entrepreneurship, and Job Creation; Gender Equality and Youth Development.
43. ________________ become first country to double its tiger population in a decade as part of World Wildlife Foundation's (WWF) 'Tx2' programme, that aims to double number of tigers in all over world by 2022.
There are now estimated 235 wild tigers in Nepal, compared to 121 back in 2009.
Tx2 programmeIt was launched by World Wildlife Foundation (WWF) at the 2010 St Petersburg Tiger Summit held in Russia. Under it, 13 tiger range countries had agreed to double the world tiger population by 2022, which is the year of tiger in Chinese calendar.
44. Pakistan invited ____________________ to join $50 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) as 3rd strategic partner. Saudi Arabia is first country that Pakistan has invited to become partner in CPEC.
___________ has long history of financially bailing out Pakistan during economic crisis. It loaned Pakistan $1.5 billion in 2014 to strengthen its rupee currency, six months after Pakistan obtained its last IMF bailout.
45. ______________ become first Gulf nation to offer permanent residency to expatriates, allowing maximum 100 expatriates to gain permanent residency each year.
46.______________ founder Marc Benioff and his wife Lynne acquired Time magazine from Meredith Corp. for $190 million in cash. TIME magazine publisher Time Inc was sold to Meredith for $1.8 billion in January 2018.
47. _________________ inaugurated a high-speed rail line connecting the holy islamic cities of Mecca and Medina, to take down travel time to 2 hours.
48. Search engine Google launched ___________________, a new search engine for scientific community that will help them make sense of millions of datasets present online. It will work like Google Scholar, company's popular search engine for academic studies and reports.
It will have twin benefits of creating data sharing ecosystem that will encourage data publishers to follow best practices for data storage and publication and give scientists way to show impact of their work through citation of datasets that they have produced.
Google also launched a new app 'Blog Compass' to help Indian bloggers manage their site and find topics to write about. The India exclusive app works as an analytics and recommendation platform. .
49. __________________ entered recession for first time since 2009, after Its economy contracted by 0.7% in 2nd quarter of current Fiscal.
50. Super Typhoon Mangkhut, world's strongest storm in 2018, hit northern coast of ____________________ with winds up to 200 kmph and heavy rains.
51. __________________ PM Stefan Löfven became country's first leader to be ousted in a no-confidence vote.
No Indian institution figures in the top 250 Universities. Althuogh number of Indian institutions in rankings increased from 42 last year to 49, making India 5th best-represented nation.
Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru retained its position as best In India (ranked 251 - 300 globally), followed by IIT Indore (351-400).
53. To highlight Kashmir issue, __________________ released 20 "commemorative" postage stamps, one of which portrays slain terrorist Burhan Wani as a 'freedom icon'.
54. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres declared __________________ as Nelson Mandela Decade of Peace, during Nelson Mandela peace summit honouring South African leader at UN.
55. UN Security Council (UNSC) held its first-ever meeting on corruption and its linkages to global conflicts. Citing the World Economic Forum's estimates, UN Secretary - General António Guterres (____________________) said that corruption costs at least $2.6 trillion or 5% of global GDP.
President Donald Trump signed a new executive order imposing sanctions on any country or foreign individual found trying to interfere in US elections. It calls for sanctions against any entity that authorises, directs or sponsors meddling operations in the American elections.
_____________ Based Internet Society and Internet Service Providers Association of India (ISPAI) signed MoU to make Internet safe and secure in India by securing routers which is vital for healthy internet infrastructure. It will also promote Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS) which is global initiative to implement crucial fixes needed to reduce most common threats to internet's routing system.
_____________ Based aircraft maker Boeing will set up an electronics manufacturing and avionics assembly facility in Bengaluru at an investment of INR 1,152 crores, as company's second-largest such facility after one in Seattle (Washington).
_____________ and Morocco launched GCTF Terrorist Travel Initiative under Global Counterterrorism Forum (GCTF), to emnable sharing expertise on implementing effective counterterrorism watchlisting and screening tools. It will strengthen UNSC Resolution 2396 aiming to stop terrorist travel altogether.
Announced closure of Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) mission in Washington DC, after PLO leaders failed to engage with US efforts to bring about peace with Israel and attempted to prompt an investigation of Israel by International Criminal Court.
___________________'s Central Bank Federal Reserve raised interest rates for a third time this year (by 25 basis points to 2.25 %), also reaffirming outlook for further hikes well into 2019. It reflects an upbeat assessment of economy.
57. __________________ launched annual joint military exercise named Rapid Trident with United States and other NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) member countries, to be held in village of Starychi till September 15, 2018.
India ranked ____________ among 189 countries.
Bottom 5 - Niger (189), Central African Republic (188), South Sudan (187), Chad (186), Burundi (185).
59. United Nations will hold a Climate Summit in September _______________, with focus on sectors that create most emissions and areas where building resilience could make great difference.
60. Vatican reached a landmark deal with ______________on appointment of bishops in Nation, with Pope Francis recognizing 7 state-appointed Chinese bishops as part of the deal.
61. World Health Organisation (WHO) released 2018 Global TB Report, calling for commitments to end Tuberculosis (TB) by __________________. As per report, global efforts have prevented approx 5.4 crore TB deaths since 2000, but TB remains world's deadliest infectious disease.
Strengthening restrictions on alcohol availability.
Advance and enforcing drink driving countermeasures.
Facilitating access to screening, brief interventions, and treatment.
Enforcing bans or comprehensive restrictions on alcohol advertising, sponsorship, and promotion.
Raising prices on alcohol through excise taxes and pricing policies.
63. World's first self-driving tram, fitted with multiple radar, LiDAR, and camera sensors, has been successfully tested in Potsdam (__________________). The tram operated on a 6-km test route in real traffic with a safety driver for emergency purposes.


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Q: Can ZSH's ZLE input into a child process? I am trying to create a keyboard shortcut to automate upgrading my shell to a fully interactive TTY for reverse shells.
Currently, I have a shortcut configured in Konsole to add this to my stdin: python3 -c "import pty;pty.spawn('/bin/bash');". I then need to press ctrl-z twice, once to suspend the running process and once more to execute the following shortcut (adapted from Jonathan Hodgson's blogpost):
## Upgrade shells with keyboard shortcut (also configured in Konsole settings)
function fg-bg() {
    if [[ $#BUFFER -eq 0 ]]; then
        local backgroundProgram="$(jobs | tail -n 1 | awk '{print $4}')"
        case "$backgroundProgram" in
            "nc"|"ncat"|"netcat")
                # Make sure that /dev/tty is given to the stty command by doing </dev/tty
                local columns=$(stty -a < /dev/tty | grep -oE 'columns [0-9]+' | cut -d' ' -f2)
                local rows=$(stty -a < /dev/tty | grep -oE 'rows [0-9]+' | cut -d' ' -f2)
                notify-send "Terminal dimensions" "Rows: $rows\nColumns: $columns\nstty command on clipboard"
                stty raw -echo < /dev/tty; fg; zle -U "stty rows $rows cols $columns
export TERM=\"xterm-256color\""
                ;;
            *)
                fg
                ;;
        esac
    fi
}

zle -N fg-bg
bindkey '^Z' fg-bg

This works OK, but I'd like to make it better by removing the need to have three shortcuts pressed in quick succession. I thought it might be possible to change Konsole's shortcut to make the process suspend, for example by adding \r\n^Z\r\nzle fg-bg\r\n to the python3 shortcut, but that just adds the text literally (except for carriage returns).

A: While running a foreground job (in this case, after you submit your command line), the ZLE is no longer active and thus cannot handle your inputs. It's active only while editing the command line.
When you press ^Z during a foreground job, this causes the terminal driver (not the ZLE) to send the TSTP signal to the it. This causes it to be suspended.
If you want your ^Z to be handled differently for foreground jobs, your best bet might be to configure your terminal to send ^Z^Z when you press ^Z. However, then it will also send this while the ZLE is active. You're probably better off just pressing ^Z twice yourself.
As for the shortcut you configured in Konsole: Trying to run zle fg-bg from the command line is futile, because, again, when you execute a command line, the ZLE is no longer active.

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Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller
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Arnold Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller (13 July 1913 – 16 April 2012) was a Danish shipping magnate. He was a longtime figure at A.P. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller has received more than 160,202 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller is the 182nd most popular businessperson (down from 131st in 2019), the 187th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 151st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Danish Businessperson.
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Among businesspeople, Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller ranks 182 out of 604. Before him are Chris Gardner, John Jacob Astor, George Gallup, Peter Sauber, Joe Weider, and King C. Gillette. After him are Steve Fossett, Josep Lluís Núñez, Andrew Grove, Lakshmi Mittal, Aurelio Peccei, and Malcolm Glazer.
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Among people born in 1913, Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller ranks 96. Before him are Robert Adler, Johannes Steinhoff, Wols, Victor Mature, 'Abd al-Ilah, and Wolfgang Lüth. After him are Heinrich Bär, Álvaro Cunhal, Pinetop Perkins, Mary Leakey, Lucien Goldmann, and Charles Berlitz. Among people deceased in 2012, Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller ranks 88. Before him are Maurice André, Meles Zenawi, Sergio Pininfarina, Bingu wa Mutharika, Alexis Weissenberg, and Warda Al-Jazairia. After him are Alfred Schmidt, Paddy Roy Bates, Charles Durning, Dorothea Tanning, Ulric Neisser, and Manuel Fraga.
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Bingu wa Mutharika
Alexis Weissenberg
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Alfred Schmidt
Paddy Roy Bates
Charles Durning
Ulric Neisser
Manuel Fraga
Among people born in Denmark, Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller ranks 187 out of 783. Before him are Paul Elvstrøm (1928), Christian August II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1798), Preben Elkjær (1957), Michael Ancher (1849), Jens Juel (1745), and Cecil Bødker (1927). After him are Svein Knutsson (1016), Vilhelm Thomsen (1842), Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (1829), Peter Naur (1928), Lars Løkke Rasmussen (1964), and Princess Marie Luise Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel (1814).
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Among businesspeople born in Denmark, Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller ranks 3. Before him are Ole Kirk Christiansen (1891) and Paul Elvstrøm (1928). After him are J. C. Jacobsen (1811), Jakob Nielsen (1957), Anders Hejlsberg (1960), and Janus Friis (1976).
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Essay / On This Day
Robert Barclay
by Fred Sanders on October 3, 2010
If you want a theological introduction and orientation to the Quaker tradition, then Robert Barclay (1648 – 1690) is your man. Barclay (who died on this day, October 3) was born in Scotland, educated in Paris, and governed a colony in America before returning to his native Aberdeenshire. When he opted for Quakerism in 1667, he got in on the ground floor of the movement. He networked with most of the important co-founders and preachers of early Quakerism, including George Fox and William Penn.
What makes Barclay the right person to read is that he attempted the impossible: to systematize Quaker theology. The first Quakers talked funny, and were hard for outsiders to understand. They didn't even come up with a recognizable name for themselves, usually calling themselves "the religious society of friends." People invented the derisive name "Quakers" partly so they wouldn't have to keep saying "the religious society of friends," or a half-dozen other non-specific ways Quakers talked about themselves. In fact, even on pain of death (and they were famously persecuted), the Quakers would continue using their strangely simple new ways of speaking. For example, one of their "Valiant Sixty," James Nayler, was accused of claiming to be Jesus. Possibly this could have been cleared up with a few helpful explanations and distinctions. But Nayler gave answers like this when Parliament interrogated him:
Q. Art thou the only Son of God?
A. I am the Son of God, but I have many Brethren.
Q. Have any called thee by the name of Jesus?
A. Not as unto the visible, but as Jesus, the Christ that is in me.
Q. Dost thou own the name of the King of Israel?
A. Not as a creature, but if they give it Christ within I own it, and have a Kingdom but not of this world, my Kingdome is of another world, of which thou watst not.
Q. Art thou the everlasting Son of God?
A. Where God is manifest in the flesh, there is the everlasting Son, and I do witness God in the flesh; I am the Son of God, and the Son of God is but one.
Q. Art thou the Prince of peace?
A. The Prince of everlasting peace is begotten in me.
Q. Art thou the everlasting Son of God, the King of righteousness?
A. I am, and the everlasting righteousness is wrought in me, if ye were acquainted with the Father, ye would also be acquainted with me.
Systematize that! Nayler was too radical even for George Fox, who would at least have told homey personal story by way of giving an account of himself. But all the Quakers tended to take a "you can kill me but you can't make me speak clearly" approach to the religious persecution they faced.
We are in a different world, however, when we come to Barclay. Almost alone of the early Quakers, Barclay had a good enough theological education that he could explain Quaker thought in more traditional terms. His classic work is his Apology, which came out in 1676 in Latin and 1678 in English. The full title:
An Apology for the True Christian Divinity, as the Same is Held Forth, and Preached, by the People called, in Scorn, Q U A K E R S: being A Full Explanation and Vindication of their Principles and Doctrines, by many Arguments, deduced from Scripture and Right Reason, and the Testimonies of famous authors, both Ancient and Modern: With a full Answer to the strongest Objections usually made against Them.
In presenting the Quaker case, Barclay held a confident presupposition that Quakerism was just Christianity itself, purged of extrinsic additions. It was not, in other words, to be presented as a new departure, a new doctrine, or as something that just emerged in the middle of the seventeenth century. Barclay made this case explicitly, but more important was the way he took his position as somebody who had mastery of all the great voices of the Christian tradition. He supported his Quaker theology with Scripture, and also with a series of running footnotes to the great names of the Christian tradition.
Barclay's work at least made it possible, perhaps for the first time, to have a serious intellectual engagement with Quakerism. Where before the interlocutors had to try to come to terms with ineffable experiences of a silent inner light, Barclay argued more like this (a lengthy quote to give you a sense of his voice):
Seeing "no man knoweth the Father but the Son, and he to whom the Son revealeth him"; and seeing the "revelation of the Son is in and by the Spirit" (Matt. 11:27); therefore the testimony of the Spirit is that alone by which the true knowledge of God hath been, is, and can be only revealed; who as, by the moving of his own Spirit, he disposed the chaos of this world into that wonderful order wherein it was in the beginning, and created man a living soul, to rule and govern it, so, by the revelation of the same Spirit, he hath manifested himself all along unto the sons of men, both patriarchs, prophets, and apostles; which revelations of God by the Spirit, whether by outward voices and appearances, dreams, or inward objective manifestations in the heart, were of old the formal object of their faith, and remain yet so to be, since the object of the saints' faith is the same in all ages, though held forth under divers administrations. Moreover, these divine inward revelations, which we make absolutely necessary for the building up of true faith, neither do nor can ever contradict the outward testimony of the Scriptures, or right and sound reason. Yet from hence it will not follow, that the divine revelations are to be subjected to the test, either of the outward testimony of the Scriptures, or of the natural reason of man, as to a more noble or certain rule and touchstone; for this divine revelation and inward illumination, is that which is evident and clear of itself, forcing, by its own evidence and clearness, the well-disposed understanding to assent, irresistibly moving the same thereunto, even as the common principles of natural truths do move and incline the mind to a natural assent: as, that the whole is greater than its part, that two contradictories can neither be both true, nor both false.
This attempt to balance Scripture and immediate personal revelation is still, to Protestant lights, utterly unacceptable. But it is at least a lot closer to comprehensible, and it seeks to establish itself by appeal to Scriptural and traditional voices. That was Barclay's gift to his own religious society of friends, and to the Christians who want to listen in and understand what the Quakers were talking about.
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pose difficulties in integrating products with varying service lives.
fail to address energy efficiency contributions. "When you're looking at the environment impacts of thermal insulation or a cool roofing membrane, you [may] not be looking at environment contributions of those products, which could offset many of those impacts."
fail to address health impacts. "EPDs today primarily address measurements of environment burden, but they do not specifically and are currently not designed to address the potential for health and safety burdens of materials."
There are also challenges with limited underlying data, which may lead different practitioners to obtain different results.
Hoff encourages material suppliers to consider jointly developing generic EPDs for key industry product segments. "I think there's a real value in that," he said. "First, you'll learn a lot more about the process yourself and, secondly, you'll be able to provide much broader information that can be very helpful in the marketplace." Then, he said, get the information to data integrators, but first make sure you are using the best information available.
The Metal Construction Association (MCA) recently compiled data from multiple manufacturers to publish an EPD for insulated metal panels (the full report and an executive summary are available on MCA's website). MCA is putting the finishing touches on EPDs for single skin panels as well as metal composite panels.
Overall, "increased product transparency is good because it provides a better understanding of ingredients and supply chain impacts and a strong incentive for continuous improvement," Hoff said. But, he adds, comparisons among products will remain difficult and unpredictable. Risks include overlooking important factors and trade-offs, and arbitrarily excluding excellent products and suppliers.
Hoff's comments on Health Product Declarations will be featured in an upcoming blog. For questions on EPDs, contact Dr. Hoff at jhoff@roofingcenter.org.
Zinc Wall Panels, Poetry, and the Public
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How do you design a Chicago cultural destination that will carry out the mission of the building owner, the Poetry Foundation, to celebrate the best poetry and put it before the largest possible audience?
Certainly, it's no easy task. But renowned architect John Ronan of John Ronan Architects, Chicago, chose to wrap much of the new Poetry Foundation Building in a black zinc perforated screenwall, fabricated by VMZinc and installed by Tuschall Engineering Co., Inc., so that, when viewed from the front, the metal building becomes transparent and invites those on the street into an open-air garden to hear poetry and enjoy a place of quiet contemplation.
The garden is an urban sanctuary of sorts—a space that, according to Ronan, "mediates between the street and the building, blurring the hard distinctions between public and private."
Ronan said the design of the building and the use of materials, such as perforated zinc wall panels, are intended to mirror the way in which people read poetry. "Just as good poetry doesn't always divulge all of its meanings on the first reading, the new building will engage the public's curiosity and unfold in states," said Ronan.
Opened in June 2011, the Poetry Foundation's new 22,000-sq.-ft., LEED-Silver home is one of only a few public spaces in the country built exclusively for the advancement of poetry.


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A: You can export the movie as Quicktime and then use a video utility to convert it.
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"As president, Barack Obama will close the detention facility at Guantanamo."
"Barack Obama: The War We Need to Win"
On March 7, 2011, President Barack Obama signed an executive order making a number of changes to policies regarding those detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In a reversal of his previous policy, the order resumes military trials for Gitmo detainees. It also establishes a "periodic review" process for for long-held Guantanamo detainees who have not been charged, convicted or designated for transfer, "but must continue to be detained because they 'in effect, remain at war with the United States,'" according to a White House fact-sheet.
The new policy was viewed by many media outlets as an acknowledgment by the administration that it could not keep Obama's campaign promise to close the Guantanamo facility.
The lede of a Washington Post story said the president's executive order "will create a formal system of indefinite detention for those held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who continue to pose a significant threat to national security" and that the executive order "all but cements Guantanamo Bay's continuing role in U.S. counterterrorism policy."
The New York Times, meanwhile, said that while the order permits military trials to resume, it is also "implicitly admitting the failure of his pledge to close the prison camp."
And ABC News, said the order "sends mixed signals about the future of the controversial detention center and the president's own standing on the issue, experts say."
Although Obama did not mention the fate of Guantanamo in his brief released statement, the accompanying fact-sheet released by the White House maintains that the administration "remains committed to closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay" and makes the case that the policy changes are "in keeping with" the president's long-term strategy toward that end.
But civil rights groups quickly denounced Obama's order as an admission that he has turned his back on his campaign promise.
"While appearing to be a step in the right direction, providing more process to Guantanamo detainees is just window dressing for the reality that today"s executive order institutionalizes indefinite detention, which is unlawful, unwise and un-American," Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union said in a released statement. "The detention of Guantanamo detainees for nine years without charge or trial is a stain on America"s reputation that should be ended immediately, not given a stamp of approval."
"The only way to restore the rule of law is to put an end to indefinite detention at Guantanamo and the broken commissions system, and to prosecute terrorism suspects in federal criminal courts," Romero stated. "Today"s announcement takes us back a step when we should be moving forward toward closing Guantanamo and ending its shameful policies."
Tom Parker, an official with Amnesty International said the administration's insistence that it remains committed to closing Guantanamo is merely "lip service to the things President Obama previously stated."
"It's very clear he is not prepared to make the tough decisions it would require to close it," Parker said.
In an interview with the Chicago Tribune, Parker said, "With the stroke of a pen, President Obama extinguished any lingering hope that his administration would return the United States to the rule of law by referring detainee cases from Guantanamo Bay to federal courts rather than the widely discredited military commissions."
The administration, however, also maintains that it is committed to efforts to try some cases in federal court, despite Congress enacting significant roadblocks to that.
"As the Administration has long stated, it is essential that the government have the ability to use both military commissions and federal courts as tools to keep this country safe," Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said in a released statement. "Unfortunately, some in Congress have unwisely sought to undermine this process by imposing restrictions that challenge the Executive Branch"s ability to bring to justice terrorists who seek to do Americans harm. We oppose those restrictions and will continue to seek their repeal."
That's hardly giving up, many experts argue.
Mason Clutter, policy counsel for the Constitution Project, a bipartisan group that has called for shutting the prison, pointed to a provision of the order that reads: "In the event detainees covered by this order are transferred from Guantanamo to another U.S. detention facility where they remain in law of war detention, this order shall continue to apply to them."
So does she think that will happen by the end of an Obama first term?
There are still 172 people being held at Guantanamo, Clutter said. Congress has pretty well tied the administration's hands, prohibiting prosecution in U.S. federal courts and making it extremely difficult to transfer them to other countries, according to Clutter.
"Even if the review board determines someone should be released," Clutter said, "it will be hard to transfer them out of Guantanamo."
In other words, for the time being, there are no options other than Guantanamo. Until they figure out what to do with all of the detainees, Clutter said, it seems pretty clear they will remain at Guantanamo.
Duke University law professor Scott Silliman thinks it's premature to call this promise broken. The actions taken by Obama seek to reduce the number of detainees at Guantanamo over time. Obama has expanded the review process for those for whom there will never be a criminal trial.
"He hasn't given up on closing Guantanamo Bay," Silliman said. "Obviously, it's not going to happen soon." Given the political reality of the situation, he said, "Guantanamo is probably going to be open for a couple more years."
Kate Martin, director of the Center for National Security Studies in Washington, also contests the idea that that Obama's actions amount to an admission that he has broken his promise to close Guantanamo.
"I don't know where it's come from that they've thrown in the towel," Martin said.
The White House has long said it intended to try some of the detainees in military court. Martin said. And it has long maintained that it intended to hold some as law of war detentions (detentions based on legal principles of international law for nations during wartime). She noted that Congress' prohibition on transfers to federal courts in the U.S. expires in September and that Obama ought to have at least until then to change Congress' mind.
We disagree. Obama has now had a full two years in office, and the possibility of keeping this extremely difficult promise seems even more remote now than when his presidency began. Some argue that Congress is largely to blame, while others say Obama simply made a political calculation not to expend too much political capital on it. But blame is not the final arbiter of whether a promise is kept or broken. The administration has clearly not backed off claims that it continues to pursue this promise. But even those who think this promise is merely stalled instead of broken acknowledge that it's unlikely Guantanamo will be closed by the end of Obama's four-year term. We're not inclined to extend the timeline for this promise into a second term when resolution between now and then seems unlikely. We will revisit our rating should the situation change dramatically, but for now, we are moving this to a Promise Broken.
President Barack Obama's campaign promise to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center has switched from In the Works to Stalled and back again (and again). All that movement reflects a simple dynamic: Obama really wants to close the center. But Congress really doesn't.
The latest turn of events was the law authorizing defense spending for 2011. In addition to funding the military for the year, members of Congress attached several stipulations about Guantanamo. The law says no funds canbe used to transfer Guantanamo detainees to the United States, and no funds can be used to transfer detainees to the custody of foreign countries, unless specific conditions are met about how the prisoners will be held.
Obama didn't like those provisions and issued a statement deploring them. He said the limitation on transferring prisoners to the U.S. is "a dangerous and unprecedented challenge to critical executive branch authority ... ." Of the new requirements on transferring prisoners to foreign governments, Obama said it could "hinder the conduct of delicate negotiations with foreign countries and therefore the effort to conclude detainee transfers in accord with our national security."
Obama stopped short of saying he would disregard the law, something presidents sometimes do via "signing statements." President George W. Bush issued many signing statements as president that said he would disregard parts of laws passed by Congress that he believed infringed on his executive authority. During the campaign, Obama said he would not "abuse" signing statements.
But nowhere did Obama say he would disregard the new restrictions. Instead, he said he would seek to repeal of the restrictions.
"Despite my strong objection to these provisions, which my Administration has consistently opposed, I have signed this Act because of the importance of authorizing appropriations for, among other things, our military activities in 2011," Obama said in the statement. "Nevertheless, my Administration will work with the Congress to seek repeal of these restrictions, will seek to mitigate their effects, and will oppose any attempt to extend or expand them in the future."
Based on Obama's statement, he clearly still wants unfettered authority to move prisoners out of the Guantanamo Bay facility. And at a press conference at the end of the year, he said it was important to close Guantanamo because it is "probably the number one recruitment tool that is used by these jihadist organizations."
"It is important for us, even as we're going aggressively after the bad guys, to make sure that we're also living up to our values and our ideals and our principles," Obama said at the press conference. "And that's what closing Guantanamo is about -- not because I think that the people who are running Guantanamo are doing a bad job, but rather because it's become a symbol. And I think we can do just as good of a job housing them somewhere else."
Obama may want to close Guantanamo, but legal impediments still stand in the way of him achieving his goal. The meter remains at Stalled.
Talk about a rating roller coaster! When we first reviewed President Obama's campaign pledge to close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center in January 2009, we rated it In the Works. By May 2009, we moved it to Stalled, since the White House was facing significant opposition from Congress. In mid-October, it went back to In the Works, as Congress allowed some detainees to be temporarily moved to the United States for prosecution. That rating remained unchanged after our last update in January 2010.
We're well into the second year of Obama's administration, so we wanted to see whether things had changed since January.
First, however, a quick note. We've gotten a ton of e-mails from readers urging us to rate this Promise Broken. Obama promised to close the detention center within a year of taking office, the argument goes, and he has not done that. As we pointed out in our last update, however, he made that statement after taking office, not during the campaign. The Obameter only tracks promises that the President made on the campaign trail, when there was no such self-imposed deadline.
That said, let's look at how things have been unfolding.
In December 2009, the administration announced that it would ask Congress to appropriate money to purchase the Thomson Correctional Center in northwest Illinois to house Gitmo detainees. The plan took a blow, however, in May 2010, when the House Armed Services Committee inserted language into the 2011 defense bill which specifically prohibits the use of funds to purchase or modify any U.S. facility for Gitmo prisoners. The measure was adopted by the full House on May 28, 2010 in a 282-131 vote. The Senate Armed Services Committee adopted a similar proposal on May 28, 2010. The two proposals have yet to become law, however. In June, Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich announced that the administration plans to go ahead with the purchase of the facility for regular domestic federal prisoners.
Even more telling, however, are statements that the House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md, made in July 2010. Talking about closing Guantanamo, Hoyer said that "that's not an issue being discussed very broadly. I think that you're not going to see it discussed very broadly in the near term."
Finally, in May 2010 the Guantanamo Review Task Force submitted a report to Congress, which includes recommendations on how to proceed with each of the detainees. But House Armed Services Chairman Ike Skelton, a Missouri Democrat, said that Guantanamo is not at the top of his priority list. "A war is going on. That"s my concern." Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., said that moving prisoners from Gitmo to Illinois is "off the radar screen."
The White House maintains that President Obama is committed to closing Guantanamo, but several high-ranking lawmakers make it clear that this is unlikely to happen anytime soon. As always, we'll keep our eyes open, but for now, we are changing the rating to Stalled.
After the attempted bombing of a Detroit-bound jet on Christmas Day, conservatives renewed calls for Obama to abandon his plans to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.
"Guantanamo remains the proper place for holding terrorists, especially those who may not be able to be detained as securely in a third country," said Sen. Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate leader.
After the attack, Obama halted transfers of detainees to Yemen, the country where the alleged bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, may have received instructions on how to blow up the aircraft. But White House officials said Obama remains committed to closing the facility, and the plan to close the prison seem to keep moving forward, slowly.
The Obama administration has identified a prison in Thomson, Ill., that it hopes to acquire and renovate for detainees now at the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba, and officials are working out details for funding the plan. The Senate seems amenable to the idea; in November, the Senate rejected a measure to restrict funds for the facility.
Obama said after the inauguration that he hoped to close Guantanamo within one year, and administration officials admit they won't make that deadline. During the campaign, Obama gave himself no such deadline, and we're judging him here on his campaign promises. He said he would close Guantanamo Bay, and concrete steps are being taken to do so. The promise remains In the Works.
President Barack Obama is again making progress in his effort to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The House of Representatives voted Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009, to allow some prisoners there to be temporarily transferred to the United States for prosecution.
Promise No. 177 made its first appearance on the Obameter on Jan. 21, 2009, the day after Obama was sworn into office. The new president had just directed prosecutors to suspend legal proceedings against the suspected terrorists held at the facility. A day later, the administration issued an executive order to review the disposition of the prisoners and ordered that the facility be shut down within a year.
But by May, Obama's plans had begun to unravel. Congressional Republicans and Democrats said Obama needed to detail what he would do with the approximately 240 detainees held at the prison.
"The president, unwisely, in my view, announced an arbitrary timeline for closing Guantanamo of next January without a plan to deal with the terrorists who are incarcerated down there," said Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell at the time.
The opposition culminated in a May 20 vote, when the Senate voted to strip $80 million meant to shutter the facility from a war spending bill. House Democrats had already refused to include the funding in their version of the legislation.
Without support in Congress, Obama's plan to close down Guantanamo Bay had clearly reached a roadblock, so we decided to move Obama's promise from In the Works to Stalled.
Now, nearly five months later — with his one-year deadline looming — Democrats have changed their tune. In the Homeland Security Department funding bill is a provision that would allow detainees to temporarily be transferred to U.S. soil for prosecution. Nevertheless, members of Congress still want the White House to come up with a plan for the future of the detainees and the facility. And the legislation is expected to face opposition in the Senate.
But given these latest developments in the Guantanamo Bay debate, we're going to move this promise back to In the Works. We'll be watching the issue closely to see whether the rating holds.
Promise No. 177 has hit another snag.
On the campaign trail, President Barack Obama promised to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay. Two days after he took office, he vowed to close it within a year — by Jan. 22, 2010.
But his effort has been slowed by the difficulty in finding a place to house the approximately 240 prisoners held there and resistance from Congress. In May, the Senate refused to fund Obama's efforts to close the center until he provided more detail on what, exactly, he intended to do with the detainees housed there. Now, Gregory Craig, the White House insider who was put in charge of the effort, is being removed from the project, according to a Sept. 25, 2009, Washington Post article.
The Post article, co-written with ProPublica, said the White House will have difficulty meeting the deadline four months from now.
So, closing the detention center continues to encounter difficulties. We'll keep it at Stalled.
President Barack Obama's plan to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has run into significant opposition, most notably from members of his own party who stripped millions of dollars to shutter the facility from a war funding bill.
Closing the prison has been one of Obama's signature issues since he was a candidate. On January 20, 2009, the day he was sworn in, he directed prosecutors to file a motion to suspend legal proceedings against the suspected terrorists held at the facility. Two days later, the administration issued an executive order to review the disposition of the prisoners and ordered that the facility be shut down within a year.
For weeks, Republicans have opposed Obama's plan, voicing concern that the administration has not said what will happen to the approximately 240 detainees housed at the center.
"The president, unwisely, in my view, announced an arbitrary timeline for closing Guantanamo of next January without a plan to deal with the terrorists who are incarcerated down there," said Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell.
House Democrats have similar concerns; they refused to include the $80 million requested by the administration to close the facility in the war spending bill. Senate Democrats initially included the money in their $91.3 billion version of the measure, but then stripped it out by a 90-6 vote on May 20.
"This is neither the time nor the bill to deal with this," said Democratic leader Harry Reid. "Democrats under no circumstances will move forward without a comprehensive, responsible plan from the president," though Reid stressed that he still believes closing the facility is a good idea.
Just five months ago, Reid had softer words for Obama's executive order, saying that, at first blush, it appeared "to lay out a responsible and careful path that maintains every effective tool needed to defeat terrorists. In fact, I am convinced these changes will strengthen and enhance our counterterrorism efforts."
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the administration still aims to follow the executive order and seal off the facility within a year. Meanwhile, Obama plans to offer more details on his strategy for dealing with the prisoners in speech on May 21.
Obama's efforts to close down Guantanamo Bay are not dead, but they have clearly reached a roadblock. Based on these latest actions, we're moving the Obameter to Stalled and will be watching how it develops over the next few months.
On his second full day in office, President Obama issued an executive order to review the disposition of prisoners being held at the naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and ordered that the detention facility be closed within a year.
According to the administration, closure of the facility is the ultimate goal. The order establishes a review process with the goal of disposing of the detainees before closing the facility.
According to the White House, "The Order sets up an immediate review to determine whether it is possible to transfer detainees to third countries, consistent with national security. If transfer is not approved, a second review will determine whether prosecution is possible and in what forum. The preference is for prosecution in Article III courts or under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), but military commissions, perhaps with revised authorities, would remain an option. If there are detainees who cannot be transferred or prosecuted, the review will examine the lawful options for dealing with them. The Attorney General will coordinate the review and the Secretaries of Defense, State, and Homeland Security as well as the DNI and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff will participate."
The order also requires that conditions of confinement at Guantanamo, until its closure, comply with the Geneva Conventions.
"The message that we are sending the world is that the United States intends to prosecute the ongoing struggle against violence and terrorism and we are going to do so vigilantly and we are going to do so effectively and we are going to do so in a manner that is consistent with our values and our ideals," Obama said after signing the order.
The executive order clearly comports with Obama's campaign pledge to close Gitmo, and now sets the timeline for one year. But there is still work to be done, and until the detention center actually closes, we'll keep the status at In the Works.
On the day he was inaugurated, the Obama administration took a major step toward his promise to close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center when it directed prosecutors to file a motion seeking to suspend legal proceedings against detainees.
The motion asks for 120 days in order to give the administration "time to review the military commissions process, generally, and the cases currently before military commissions, specifically."
A judge in one of the war crimes cases, Army Col. Stephen Henley, issued a ruling Wednesday agreeing to suspend the proceedings at the naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, pending the 120-day review.
According to the motion filed at the request of President Obama, the 120-day suspension of proceedings will provide the administration "time to conduct a review of detainees currently held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to evaluate the cases of detainees not approved for release or transfer to determine whether prosecution may be warranted for any offenses those detainees may have committed, and to determine which forum best suits any future prosecution."
The review is seen as a major first step toward his promise of ultimately closing the controversial detention facility opened after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
It was hailed by the American Civil Liberties Union and other civil rights organizations that have criticized the legal processes at Guantanamo as unconstitutional.
"On Day One, President Obama kept his promise to halt the unconstitutional military commissions by ordering the prosecution to seek a 120-day suspension," said Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director of the ACLU. "Had the proceedings continued, the Bush administration would have permanently tied his hands and stopped him from being able to fulfill a top-level campaign promise. Within the next 120 days, we trust that the president's team will be studying and finalizing plans and a timeline for permanently closing Guantanamo, shuttering the military commissions and ensuring justice is served in the best of American traditions. President Obama's 'time out' comes at the perfect time in these shameful military commissions and shows he means business on Day One. President Obama has to restore an America we can be proud of again by once and for all shutting down Guantanamo and its shameful military commissions."
There's still a ways to go for Obama to fulfill the promise of closing the facility. But this motion was a significant first step, enough for us to move the needle to In the Works.
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