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Microsoft security alert.
Qualys Vulnerability R&D Lab has released new vulnerability checks in the Qualys Cloud Platform to protect organizations against 18 vulnerabilities that were fixed in 6 bulletins announced today by Microsoft. Customers can immediately audit their networks for these and other new vulnerabilities by accessing their Qualys subscription. Visit our blog to see how to prioritize remediation.
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Vulnerability details
Microsoft has released 6 security bulletins to fix newly discovered flaws in their software. Qualys has released the following checks for these new vulnerabilities:
Microsoft Windows Movie Maker and Producer Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (MS10-016)
Critical 4
Qualys ID
Vendor Reference
CVE Reference
Base 9.3 / Temporal 7.3
Microsoft Windows Movie Maker is video creating/editing software included in Microsoft Windows, and Microsoft Producer is an add-on tool for MS Office PowerPoint 2003.
Microsoft Windows Movie Maker and Producer 2003 are exposed to a remote code execution vulnerability. The vulnerability exists in the way that Windows Movie Maker and Microsoft Producer 2003 handle specially crafted project files. (CVE-2010-0265)
This security update is rated Important for Windows Movie Maker 2.1, Windows Movie Maker 2.6, Windows Movie Maker 6.0, and Microsoft Producer 2003.
Windows XP Embedded Systems:- For additional information regarding security updates for embedded systems, refer to the following MSDN blog(s):
March 2010 Runtime Security Updates are Now Available on ECE (KB975561)
April 2010 Security Updates for Standard 2009 and XPe are Available on ECE (KB975561)
Successfully exploiting this vulnerability might allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code.
Following are links for downloading patches to fix the vulnerabilities:
Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows XP Service Pack 3 (Movie Maker 2.1)
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition Service Pack 2 (Movie Maker 2.1)
Windows Vista, Windows Vista Service Pack 1, and Windows Vista Service Pack 2 (Movie Maker 6.0)
Windows Vista x64 Edition, Windows Vista x64 Edition Service Pack 1, and Windows Vista x64 Edition Service Pack 2 (Movie Maker 6.0)
Windows 7 for 32-bit Systems (Movie Maker 2.6)
Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (Movie Maker 2.6)
Refer to Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-016 for further details.
1) Remove the Movie Maker .MSWMM file association
Impact of workaround #1 : Double-clicking an MSWMM file will no longer launch Windows Movie Maker.
2) Remove the Microsoft Producer 2003 .MSProducer, .MSProducerZ, and .MSProducerBF file associations. See Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 975561 to use the automated Microsoft Fix it solution to enable or disable this workaround.
Impact of workaround #2: Double-clicking Microsoft Producer 2003 files will no longer launch Microsoft Producer 2003.
3) Disable Microsoft Producer 2003 by restricting access
Impact of workaround #3: User will no longer be able to run Microsoft Producer 2003.
4) Prevent Microsoft Producer 2003 from being installed
Impact of workaround #4: Users will no longer be able to install the Microsoft Producer 2003 add-in.
5) Uninstall Microsoft Producer 2003
Impact of workaround #5: Users will no longer be able to run Microsoft Producer 2003.
Detailed information on enabling and disabling the workarounds can be found at Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-016.
Microsoft Excel Sheet Object Type Confusion Vulnerability (MS10-017)
Microsoft Excel is a proprietary spreadsheet-application written and distributed by Microsoft.
Microsoft Excel is prone to a type confusion vulnerability that occurs when parsing several related Excel record types. The type confusion is due to multiple records containing fields that identify the type of an object shared between them.
The existence of this vulnerability is confirmed in all currently supported versions of Excel (2007 SP1/SP2, 2003 SP3, XP SP3) and Excel 2000 SP3, which is currently unsupported.
Microsoft has released a patch to resolve this issue. Previously, this was an iDefense exclusive vulnerability.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability can allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code with privileges of the current user.
Microsoft Office XP Service Pack 3 (Microsoft Office Excel 2002 Service Pack 3)
Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 3 (Microsoft Office Excel 2003 Service Pack 3)
2007 Microsoft Office System Service Pack 1 (Microsoft Office Excel 2007 Service Pack 1)
Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac
Open XML File Format Converter for Mac
Microsoft Office Excel Viewer Service Pack 1 and Microsoft Office Excel Viewer Service Pack 2
Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats Service Pack 1 and Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats Service Pack 2
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (32-bit editions)
1) Avoid opening Office files received from un-trusted sources.
2) Use the Microsoft Office Isolated Conversion Environment (MOICE) when opening files from unknown or un-trusted sources because it protects Office 2003 installations by more securely opening Word, Excel, and PowerPoint binary format files. Information on MOICE can be found at KB935865.
Impact of the workaround: Office 2003 and earlier formatted documents that are converted to the 2007 Microsoft Office System Open XML format by MOICE lose their macro functionality. Documents protected with passwords and Digital Rights Management cannot be converted.
3) Microsoft Office File Block policy should be used to block the opening of Office 2003 and earlier documents from unknown or untrusted sources.
Impact of the workaround: If File Block policy is configured without special "exempt directory" configuration (see KB922848), Office 2003 files or earlier versions will not open in Office 2003 or 2007 Microsoft Office System.
Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (MS10-017)
CVE-2010-0257, CVE-2010-0258, CVE-2010-0260, CVE-2010-0261, CVE-2010-0262, CVE-2010-0263, CVE-2010-0264
Microsoft Excel is a proprietary spreadsheet application written and distributed by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Excel is prone to the following vulnerabilities:
Multiple remote code execution vulnerabilities exist in the way that Microsoft Office Excel parses the Excel file format when opening a specially crafted Excel file. (CVE-2010-0257, CVE-2010-0258, CVE-2010-0260, CVE-2010-0261, CVE-2010-0262, CVE-2010-0263, CVE-2010-0264)
Microsoft has released a security update that addresses these vulnerabilities by changing the way that Microsoft Office Excel parses specially crafted Excel files. The security update is rated Important for all supported editions of Microsoft Office Excel 2002, Microsoft Office Excel 2003, Microsoft Office Excel 2007, Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac, and Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac; Open XML File Format Converter for Mac; and all supported versions of Microsoft Office Excel Viewer and Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack.
Previously, this was an iDefense exclusive vulnerability.
Successful exploitation allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.
Microsoft Excel MDXTUPLE Record Heap Overflow Vulnerability (MS10-017)
Microsoft Excel is a proprietary spreadsheet application written and distributed by Microsoft.
The application is vulnerable to a heap overflow when parsing an MDXTUPLE record inside of the Excel Workbook globals stream. This record stores metadata for external data connections inside the workbook.
Excel Versions 2007 SP0, SP1 and SP2 are vulnerable.
Microsoft has released a patch to address this issue. Previously, this was in iDefense Exclusive vulnerability
Microsoft Excel FNGROUPNAME Record Uninitialized Memory Vulnerability (MS10-017)
The application is vulnerable to a remote exploitation of an uninitialized memory issue when the application parses an FNGROUPCOUNT record inside of the Excel worksheet.
Excel Versions 2003 and 2007 are vulnerable.
Microsoft has released a patch to resolve this issue. Previously, this was in iDefense Exclusive vulnerability
Microsoft Internet Explorer Cumulative Security Update (MS10-018 and KB981374)
KB981374, MS10-018
CVE-2010-0267, CVE-2010-0488, CVE-2010-0489, CVE-2010-0490, CVE-2010-0491, CVE-2010-0492, CVE-2010-0494, CVE-2010-0805, CVE-2010-0806, CVE-2010-0807
Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) is prone to the following vulnerabilities:
Multiple remote code execution vulnerabilities exist in the way that IE accesses an object that has not been correctly initialized or has been deleted. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability by constructing a specially crafted Web page. When a user views the Web page, the vulnerability could allow remote code execution. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the logged-on user. (CVE-2010-0267,CVE-2010-0490,CVE-2010-0491,CVE-2010-0492, CVE-2010-0806)
An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the way that IE handles content using specific encoding strings when submitting data. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability by constructing a specially crafted Web page that could allow information disclosure if a user viewed the Web page. (CVE-2010-0488)
A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that IE accesses an object that may have been corrupted due to a race condition. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability by constructing a specially crafted Web page. When a user views the Web page, the vulnerability could allow remote code execution. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the logged-on user. (CVE-2010-0489)
An information disclosure vulnerability exists in IE that could allow script to gain access to a browser window in another domain or IE zone. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability by constructing a specially crafted Web page that could allow information disclosure if a user viewed the Web page and then drags the browser window across a second browser window.(CVE-2010-0494)
A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that IE manages a long URL in certain situations. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability by constructing a specially crafted Web page. When a user views the Web page, the vulnerability could allow remote code execution. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the logged on user. (CVE-2010-0805).
A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that IE accesses an object that has been deleted. (CVE-2010-0807)
Microsoft has released a security update that addresses these vulnerabilities by modifying the way that IE verifies the origin of scripts and handles objects in memory, content using encoding strings, and long URL.
This update also addresses the vulnerability first described in Microsoft Security Advisory 981374 (CVE-2010-0806). There were reports of the vulnerability is being actively exploited.
The security update is rated Critical for all supported releases: IE 5.01, IE 6 Service Pack 1, IE 6 on Windows clients, IE 7, and IE 8 on Windows clients. For IE 6 on Windows servers, this update is rated Important. And for IE 8 on Windows servers, this update is rated Moderate.
Windows Embedded Systems:- For additional information regarding security updates for embedded systems, refer to the following MSDN blog(s):
IE Out-of-Band Security Update and Various Optional Updates Now Available (KB980182)
Note: This vulnerability is applicable to versions of the software that are not listed in the official advisory.For details see: http://www.qualys.com/research/exploits/#MS10-018
Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities might allow a remote attacker to gain the same user rights as a logged on user, gain exposure to sensitive information or cause remote code execution in context of affected product.
Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 (Internet Explorer 5.01 Service Pack 4)
Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 (Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1)
Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows XP Service Pack 3 (Internet Explorer 6)
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition Service Pack 2 (Internet Explorer 6)
Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (Internet Explorer 6)
Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition Service Pack 2 (Internet Explorer 6)
Windows Server 2003 with SP2 for Itanium-based Systems (Internet Explorer 6)
For a complete list of patch download links, please refer to Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-018.
Workarounds:
1) Set Internet and Local intranet security zone settings to "High" to prompt before running ActiveX Controls and Active Scripting.
2) Configure Internet Explorer to prompt before running Active Scripting or to disable Active Scripting in the Internet and Local intranet security zone.
Impact of workaround #1 and #2: On visiting Web sites on the Internet or Intranet that use ActiveX or Active Scripting to provide additional functionality, you will be prompted frequently.
3) Modify the Access Control List (ACL) on iepeers.dll.
Impact of workaround #3: Extended MSHTML functionality such as printing and Web folders may be affected.
4) Enable DEP for Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 2 or Internet Explorer 7.
Impact of workaround #4: Some browser extensions may not be compatible with DEP and may exit unexpectedly.
5) Disable the peer factory class in iepeers.dll.
Impact of workaround #5: Functionality that depends on peer factory, such as print and web folders, may be affected.
6) Enable or disable ActiveX Controls in Office 2007
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A Treatise on White Magic - Rule Ten - The Founding of the Hierarchy
It should be remembered that just as the battle ground (the kurukshetra) for the aspirant or probationer is the astral plane, so the battle ground for the disciple is the mental plane. There is his kurukshetra. The aspirant has to learn to control his emotional psychic nature through right control of the mind, and this Krishna seeks to emphasize as he trains Arjuna to take the next step towards right vision. The disciple has to carry forward this mental attention, and, through right use of the mind, achieve a higher realization, and bring into active use a still higher factor, - that of the intuition.
In himself, the aspirant repeats the racial unfoldment, [377] and re-enacts the racial drama; and to comprehend this certain facts about that drama and the work of the Hierarchy should be grasped and I here enumerate them:
1. The movement for the spreading of the Secret Doctrine is eighteen million years old.
2. Only four of the original Instigators still remain with us. The work (impulsive and controlling) lies now in the hands of three groups of lives, if it may be so expressed:
In the hands of those of our Earth Humanity who have equipped themselves so as to serve.
In the hands of certain Existences who have come into our earth scheme of evolution from other planetary schemes.
In the hands of a large number of devas of superhuman evolution.
These in their aggregate, form the occult Hierarchy of the planet, working in three main divisions, and in seven groups as outlined in many Theosophical books and summarized in Initiation, Human and Solar.
3. In the very early stages, this Hierarchy was called by various names; among others it was called the Temple of Ibez.
4. Let us consider the founding of the Temple of Ibez. To do this it will be necessary to consider the period of he coming of the White Brotherhood to earth and the immediate problem before Them; this will involve the recognition of certain facts that have never been adequately considered. It is an acknowledged fact in occultism that for our earth humanity the advent of the occult Hierarchy was epochal; it brought about two things:
The definite crystallization of that group soul which is now called the fourth or human kingdom. [378]
The arousing of manas or mind in animal man in a triple way.
By the direct incarnation of certain members of the White Brotherhood, in which way They brought in the new and necessary factors by transmission to their children.
By the definite implantation of what is called in the occult Scriptures "the spark of mind" in animal man. This is simply a pictorial way of picturing the creation, by a direct act, of the necessary mental unit or mental apparatus of thought, within the causal or spiritual body.
By the gradual stimulation of the mental faculty in animal man, and the steady vitalization of the latent germ of mind until it flowered forth as manifested mind.
This covered a vast period of time, and though the Brotherhood made its headquarters at Shamballa and directed its activities from there, it was found necessary during the first subrace of the Atlantean Root Race to make certain efforts, if the evolution of the race was to proceed according to plan. Students of these mysteries need to remember that though Shamballa is spoken of as existing in physical matter and as occupying a definite location in space, the physical matter referred to is etheric, the Lord of the World and His assistants of the higher degrees occupying bodies formed of etheric matter.
Last updated Monday, March 30, 1998 Energy Enhancement Meditation. All rights reserved.

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Apple Buys Beats for $3 Billion; Dr Dre, Jimmy Iovine Join Executive Team
5/28/2014 by Yinka Adegoke , Andy Gensler
After nearly three weeks of waiting and speculation, Apple has officially announced the acquisition of Beats Electronics and Beats Music in a $3 billion deal. Beats founders -- Interscope-Geffen-A&M chairman Jimmy Iovine and hip-hop producer Dr Dre -- will be joining Apple in executive roles not specified in the announcement. Billboard previously reported the likelihood of Iovine and Dre being made part of the Apple executive team at next week's Worldwide Developers' Conference in San Francisco.
The deal is expected to close by Sept. 30, the end of Apple's fiscal fourth quarter.
Notably, the companies' press release leads with the purchase of the fledgling Beats Music streaming service -- the much larger, more established Beats Electronics is listed second.
News first broke on May 8 that Apple was closing in on what was then thought to be a $3.2 billion deal to purchase the company, founded in 2006 by Iovine and Dr Dre. In addition to manufacturing headphones and mobile speakers, Beats launched its own music streaming company this past January.
Even though Beats Music has struggled since its Jan. 21 launch, retaining fewer than 200,000 subscribers as of last month, according to sources, it is believed it could play a potent role in Apple's gradual move away from downloads, which are on the decline, to on-demand streaming. With Apple's market power -- more than 800 million credit cards on file and millions of devices around the world -- it could use Beats Music to finally make inroads into the growing streaming market.
The deal with Apple was expected to be confirmed within days of the first news reports but was pushed back several times from days to weeks. Sources have cited a number of reasons for the deal's hold-up, ranging from an overvaluation, the deal leaking too early, to Apple's embarrassment over Tyrese and Dr. Dre's celebratory video as well as the complexity of the acquisition.
Apple was able to negotiate the price down to $3 billion from the earlier $3.2 billion estimate after completing its due diligence, said a person familiar with the talks.
Five Things Holding Up the Apple-Beats Deal
Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine Face Royalties Claim From Beats Headphones Co-Founder
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek on Hitting 10 Million Subs, Apple-Beats Deal, IPO (Q&A)
The Carlyle Group, which reportedly invested $500 million in Beats last September, put Beats' valuation at more than $1 billion.
Iovine and Dr Dre, who hold majority stakes in their company, are set to make hundreds of millions from the deal. Other substantial investors in Beats have included Universal Music Group, the world's largest music company, which looks set to make over $500 million on its 14% stake in the company (worth $420 million plus dividends and other considerations).
"UMG's singular relationship with Jimmy permitted his innovation to flourish," said UMG CEO Lucian Grainge in a statement. "Together we created a once-in-a-generation opportunity that allowed Jimmy to maximize the use of his many talents."
The deal represents Apple's largest acquisition to date and CEO Tim Cook's first big deal.
In late 2009, Apple acquired Lala.com, a site that offered ownership of individual web streams of songs. It eventually added a scan-and-match service, known as iTunes Match, that allows users to stream music from multiple devices via the cloud once they've demonstrated ownership of them, but has thus far allowed other companies to develop the subscription music market without launching a service of its own.
Beats, meanwhile, acquired subscription service MOG in 2012, and brought in former Topspin Media CEO Ian Rogers as its chief executive the following year to launch and lead the subscription service. Beats also acquired the associated company Topspin, a direct-to-fan marketing platform developer, earlier this year.
In its last earnings report, Apple reported $10.2 billion in profit on $45.6 billion in revenue for the quarter ending March 29, driven primarily by strong iPhone sales. Apple also sells Beats hardware in its Apple stores.


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Bringing a giant back to life
Andrea Poet | Posted on February 11, 2022
Bringing a giant back to life Heading link
Jim Young
William Troy with the Field Museum Chicago's woolly mammoth skeleton
If you were to ask William Troy, PhD '21, how he's using his electrical engineering degree, the answer might surprise you.
He's helping bring an extinct species back to life.
In what sounds like an excerpt from a science fiction movie, Troy's new employer, Colossal, is attempting to resurrect the woolly mammoth, 4,000 years after it last roamed earth.
Troy, a Chicago-area native, didn't initially plan for such a unique career path. He received his undergraduate, master's, and PhD degrees in electrical and computer engineering from UIC. His interest in biotech was spurred by Richard and Loan Hill Professor and Distinguished Professor Michael Stroscio, his undergraduate and graduate advisor, whose classes got Troy interested in solid state physics.
As a PhD student, Troy worked on several biotech projects. One included inserting nanocrystalline silicon nanowires into various types of cells, including brain cells and umbilical cells, then shining a laser on the cells to observe the intercellular manipulation interactions. Then, he and his collaborators used modeling to determine the cause of the interactions, be it photothermal, photoacoustic, or electromagnetic, and to understand how these interactions could be controlled.
Another project involved creating diagnostic devices for COVID-19, then using molecular dynamics and RNA structure prediction to determine devices that could work on new coronavirus variants.
"It got me from the electrical engineering and solid-state physics, like transistor physics, to the biotech side," Troy said. "I'm really glad it happened. The area is not only booming—it's interesting, as well."
His first few months at Colossal have been a whirlwind.
"One day I'll be 100% focused on something, and by next day, it's something else entirely," Troy said. "A lot of it has been getting what we're doing up and running, so we can conduct research based off of it."
The work to bring an extinct animal back to life through genetic engineering—also known as de-extinction—is a complicated process. Colossal is combining fragments of intact woolly mammoth DNA recovered from permafrost-protected tissue samples with DNA from a close relative, the Asian elephant. The two animals share a 99.6% similar DNA makeup, and Colossal plans to use CRISPR genome editing to close the gap. The resulting animal they envision would be a cold-resistant elephant with all the biological traits of a woolly mammoth, able to inhabit the same ecosystem the woolly mammoth once occupied.
"It's all quite complicated to figure out: how a mammoth is different from an elephant, and how can we figure out these differences and solve for them, so we actually bring back a mammoth," Troy said.
The company hopes to one day reintroduce woolly mammoths to the Mammoth Steppe ecosystem, which the company says could help reverse global warming and protect the permafrost by reverting the now mossy forests back to grasslands (through grazing), which could more efficiently absorb carbon to mitigate rising temperatures.
Troy is excited about Colossal and the career path he chose. While he's strayed from his electrical engineering roots, his work with computer simulations and models translates well to his chosen field.
"There are biotech startups popping up left and right; one that is turning blood cells into egg cells, another that just made self-replicating bio robots. If any of them achieve their goals, they are all revolutionary in their own right," Troy said. "This is a super interesting space for anyone that wants to be in it."
Modified on February 16, 2022


Whenever Black Friday or Cyber Monday knocks on our doors, we can expect Amazon's hardware lineup to drop to its all-time low so that everyone can get a taste of what the retail giant has been working on in terms of hardware.
"I find Cyber Monday to be more convenient than Black Friday", said Jeissy Casilla, 23, a retail worker in Puerto Rico, adding that it allowed her to browse multiple stores and offers at the same time and avoid big store lines. Specifically, Target's taking a ton of its stuff and slicing 15 percent off the top of a bunch of toys, electronics and even clothes. Amazon is running a massive Cyber Monday 2018 sale on all the AmazonBasics accessories you can think of.
Shop at Target for 15% off: Target is offering 15% off hundreds of thousands of items on its website.
In many cases, these deals are only for today, so if you see something you like you may want to jump on it before its too late.
Need 4K streaming? The same deal knocks $5.25 off the Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K (currently on sale for $34.99, normally $49), bringing it to $29.74 - $20 off!
Cyber Monday online shopping frenzy kicked off with retailers offering a slew of discounts and free shipping, testing the limits of their e-commerce operations as they take millions of orders across the country.
Target was offering 30 percent off on select toys, while Kohl's discounted Lego sets between 30 percent and 40 percent.
Experts warn against buying older or discontinued smart-home device models because they may lack customer support and security updates.
Social media conversation tracker Brandwatch said out of 13,000 social media mentions of Cyber Monday (#Cybermonday) the Apple Watch and the Red Dead Redemption 2 video game were two products that were highly discussed.
If they are not injured with the national teams, they come to the clubs and are injured. "I never felt pressure to play at home". Mourinho watched on at the weekend as his United team were held at home by Crystal Palace in a turgid 0-0 stalemate.
The Chicago Bears didn't have Mitchell Trubisky on Thanksgiving Day, but it didn't matter. Stafford went 28 of 38 for 236 yards, but Detroit didn't take many deep shots.
Poised to charge at 3/153 off 16.1 overs, heavy rain swept through Brisbane and delayed the hosts' innings by nearly an hour. However, the rain came and reduced the game to 17 overs.


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Green wave sweeps nation's schools
Educators note rising interest in environmental issues among haredim, Arabs.
By EHUD ZION WALDOKS
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The Environmental Protection Ministry and the Education Ministry are slated to declare the new school year a green one at a ceremony next week in front of the principals of all the elementary schools in Israel. While many of the ministries' environmental education programs will be continuing from last year, the Environmental Protection Ministry said Monday that it had increased its budgeting for old and new programs by nearly NIS 1 million to a total NIS 5.5m. The ministry also said it was launching a nationwide campaign this year among elementary schools to encourage recycling and efficient use of resources. Zivit Linder, director of the environmental education division at the Environmental Protection Ministry, explained the ministry's philosophy to The Jerusalem Post. "There aren't that many curricula which teach environmental studies, rather sustainability is incorporated into most of the existing curriculums [like geography, the sciences etc.]. We will also stress ecological management of the schools themselves," she said. While the ministry also ran programs in middle and high schools, Linder said this year they were focusing on elementary schools. They also hoped to add to the 150 schools who have already been recognized as "green" schools, she said. To be considered "green," a school has to have an environmental curriculum, a community assistance program and effectively manage the school's resources. There were another 50 schools, in addition to the 150, that were teaching environmental studies, the ministry said. Five thousand pupils took the environmental studies matriculation exam each year. Linder also said that the ministry was in the midst of a study of the Arab and haredi sectors to better understand how to convey environmental messages to those populations. Study coordinator Maya Negev declined to comment because the study was in its initial stages and wouldn't be ready for several months. While the Arab and haredi sectors have oft been considered slower or less interested in environmental protection than their religious Zionist and secular counterparts, several experts told the Post Monday there was growing interest and organization in both groups. Carmi Wisemon, head of Sviva Israel, who recently taught environmental basics to 50 haredi volunteers in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramot, said there was mounting awareness and desire to learn among haredim. "There is definitely a strong desire to learn, and to implement. What's lacking is educational material. More and more people are interested in changing the way their neighborhoods look, and their quality of life," he said. The haredi media has also begun to cover environmental issues, thus exposing the community much more, he said. But Wisemon said the haredi school system was a "tough nut to crack." "Every school is independent. If you want to launch an environmental education program, you have to pitch it to every school individually," he explained. Wisemon objected to characterizing haredim as big polluters. "They have a littering problem and population density problems. But look at haredi municipalities like Betar - [it] got five stars from the Council for a Beautiful Israel. The haredi municipalities understand how to work with haredim and somehow manage to do it," he noted. The next step was financial in nature, according to Wisemon. "Haredim are not at the point yet where they are willing to pay for environmental initiatives or education. You can get money for a shul [from donors] but not for an educational initiative," he said. Daniel Trilnick, head of Reshet Yeruka - the Green Network of Schools, concurred with Wisemon's general assessment and added that environmental issues were becoming platforms for dialogue. "It is fertile ground for common ground. People are beginning to realize that environmental problems don't stop at the borders of your neighborhood or town and are beginning to want to educate their children about them," he said. Reshet Yeruka is a 10-year joint initiative of The Heschel Center and the Karev Educational Initiative, a growing web of schools that have embraced sustainability as a central part of their educational vision, according to their Web site. They have run many initiatives in both the haredi and Arab sectors as well as the mainstream Jewish sector. Trilnick added that educational curriculums which linked religious values to environmental ones were beginning to flourish. Arab environmental activism started to spread in 1994, Environmental Quality Unit Northern Triangle Director Muhammad Rabah Aghbarieh told the Post. "It started in Beit Netofa and then spread to Shaar Hagalil, Tamra, to Wadi Ara and eventually to the Negev. The first step was appointing environmental educators to the environmental units," he explained. Units like Aghbarieh's were encouraged and supported by the Environmental Protection Ministry but are part of the local authorities. Aghbarieh and his unit in Umm el-Fahm just recently put together the first conference for imams and the environment. "There is a green extracurricular group and a youth movement. In the schools, the curriculum makes lots of references to sustainability," he said. Linder noted that of 56 schools registered as green last year, 14 were in the Arab sector. "There are also environmental activist groups emerging as a result of 10 years of education," Aghbarieh said. For Aghbarieh, the issue also came down to money. "It is time for the Education Ministry to roll up its sleeves and get to work building good laboratories and outfitting the community centers with professional tools to become another educational source," he said.


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Hello all, I told you I'd give you plenty of heads up before our next event and I aim to please. Instead of planning one event we planned 3 all at once within a week of each other so people will know way in advance what is what. Due to one of the events having a ton of custom maps a link will be provided on the Discord so people can download all the maps we're going to be playing all at once. Hope to see some of you guys there!
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Nice. I will share this information on the official TC facebook pages once I get on my pc.
Here's the map pack for this month's map tasting event this Sunday!
I'd like to see some more forum activity as well.
Discord and FB are OK but sometimes an interesting topic occurs and just gets buried under a ton of other comments.
I would like to see people using the forums too but forum based communities that have active users are few and far between these days and it doesn't help that the game this forum is for is dead.


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Q: Randomly getting 'Request timed out' in every 15 minutes I am living in Germany and i am using Vodafone home internet. I got some internet interruptions for some seconds. It effects me too much when i play online games. I've called them several times and they changed router 2 times. They gave vodafone docsis 3.1 router. I am not sure if router has problem. I created some ping traces. They cant solve this problem. Maybe you can help me to find the problem. I can buy a good router but i am not sure if router is the problem.
Note: I use normally wireless but cable connection gives same result
This is the result when i ping my router : http://notes.io/9mqH
This is the result when i ping 1.1.1.1 : http://notes.io/9mqD

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is a Japanese film director.

Career
Born in Aichi Prefecture, Yamashita attended Osaka University of Arts where he worked on Kazuyoshi Kumakiri's Kichiku Dai Enkai. His graduation film Hazy Life, took the Off Theatre Competition Grand Prize at the 2000 Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival. He also won the award for Best Director at the 32nd Hochi Film Award in 2007 for A Gentle Breeze in the Village and The Matsugane Potshot Affair. He often works with the screenwriter Kōsuke Mukai.

Filmography

Film
  (1999)
  (2003)
  (2003)
  (2004)
 Linda Linda Linda  (2005)
  (2006) ominbus
 The Matsugane Potshot Affair (2006)
 A Gentle Breeze in the Village (2007)
 My Back Page (2011)
 The Drudgery Train (2012)
 Tamako in Moratorium (2013)
 La La La at Rock Bottom (2015)
 Over the Fence (2016)
  (2016)
  (2018)
 Let's Go Karaoke! (2023)
 My Missing Valentine (2023)

TV
Midnight Diner (2009–2006)
 Modern Love Tokyo (2022, episode 3)

References

External links

 Fukugan no eizō - Conversation between Yamashita and Mukai, Directors Guild of Japan website (in Japanese)

1976 births
Living people
Japanese film directors
People from Aichi Prefecture
Osaka University of Arts alumni

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Q: use accordion on two ul's Currently I have 2 ul's that work together to show content.
I created a example of the code here
However what I want to do is use the accordion effect like this
function checkWidth(){
        var windowsize = $window.width();
        if(windowsize < 769){
            $( function() {
                $( "#accordion" ).accordion({
                    collapsible: true
                });
            } );
        }
    }

when the screen size is smaller then 678px. So it should kinda look like it does here
However I have no clue how to achieve this with the way I currently set it up.
And I'm not able to change the way it's set up because it's already widely applied.
I hope someone is able to help me out!

A: If I read this right, I think you're suggesting you cannot change the existing HTML, you can only effect the scripting. If that is the case, you can simply hide the elements you do not need.
Here is something that might work for you:
https://jsfiddle.net/Twisty/aqmejg16/
jQuery
jQuery(function() {
  var narrow = jQuery(window).width() < 678;
  if (narrow) {
    console.log("Narrow Window Found.");
    jQuery("#tabs").hide();
    jQuery("#tab").hide();
    var acc = jQuery("
", {
      id: "accord-1"
    });
    jQuery("#tabs li").each(function(key, elem) {
      acc.append("
" + jQuery(elem).text() + "
");
      acc.append("

" + jQuery("#tab li:eq(" + key + ")").html() + "

");
    });
    jQuery("#tabs").before(acc);
    acc.accordion({
      collapsible: true
    });
  } else {
    jQuery("ul#tabs li").click(function(e) {
      if (!jQuery(this).hasClass("active")) {
        var tabNum = jQuery(this).index();
        var nthChild = tabNum + 1;
        jQuery("ul#tabs li.active").removeClass("active");
        jQuery(this).addClass("active");
        jQuery("ul#tab li.active").removeClass("active");
        jQuery("ul#tab li:nth-child(" + nthChild + ")").addClass("active");
      }
    });
  }
});

To note, your original fiddle did not contain the jQuery UI Stylesheet, so I added that. Next I also added jQuery(function() { }); to ensure that the code runs once the page is ready.
First we check the width of the window. We can conditionally hide content and redraw what we want. I decided not to remove or replace them since the content is still applicable.
Create the containing div and iterate each of the tab elements to make headers and the tab content to make to content of each. Append all the elements to the document and then initialize accordian() on them.


My phone's already pinging so I check how many likes last night's posts have racked up. Just over 10,000 for Off-White, even less for Marant. What the hell?! It was so artistic – all the silver balloons on the ceiling at Jardin des Tuileries.
I should have shared the blurrier one. People really resonate with 'grain' effects right now.
My photographer Gany* and I grab a drink at Wild & The Moon nearby (I get 'The Tiger' cold-press and him a 'Blue Star' latte, because drinking algae in your coffee is supposedly a thing).
He's a sweet guy but he just can't keep up. I told him I needed to get these Ganni Marlyns in frame (yes, my heart-adorned cowboy boots and personal paparazzo have the same name, I'm a walking cliché), and not a single shot from our morning shoot has them in focus. The brand won't be happy.
We try round two before the show (a street away from the venue, I don't want to look desperate), but there's not much time and he keeps faffing about. It's just one simple shot! I don't have the money for a proper professional, but his grad work looked good – he should see this as a big opportunity.
The same thing happened in London. Dragging him around the shows was like trying to herd a cat. At one point Bat Gio walked right past but he was miles behind.
Our next show isn't 'til five so I've booked us an Uber to a big-name PR's gifting suite to stock up on free snacks and sunglasses. It's such a parade but showing face is professional and, when bloggers are ten-a-penny, needs must.
"Hurry up," I mouth back at Gany, who once again has been carried off in a sea of sunglassed attendees. I have to stand and wait by the entrance, and it looks like I'm trying to get street style snapped by all the photographers! One raises his camera and I dart my eyes down at my phone. Nonchalant.
Can't tell if he took a photo or just wiped the lens. Should I ask for his Instagram handle?
I'm in the queue for Balmain when I see her. Lindie Liv*… Something about her just seriously irks me. She's one of the 'new' lot, the ones all the big fashion editors love complaining about – never had a career before Instagram; never even had a blog, but she's everywhere; six outfit changes in as many hours, taking selfies on FROWs during shows.
Doesn't she realise this is work for some of us? Creating content, planning social strategies, knowing the craft behind collections… I highly doubt she'd be interested in fashion if it didn't involve all that showing off. Back in the day she wouldn't even be invited to Michael Kors.
The queue snakes closer, and the two of us end up inches apart. Awkward. I did see her the other week at Anya Hindmarch's Chubby Cloud, but only from afar, and – yep… I knew it – she doesn't even look that good in person. This is so satisfying. And she's actually wearing cycling shorts. In public! They looked a lot better in her Insta story than they do in front of me right now… The wonders of FaceTune.
The show ran late, as per, and everyone's jostling to get out. We're going to miss Issey Miyake. To be honest, Olivier Rousteing just did structural pleats even better.
Is there time for a nap?
It's the moment we've all been waiting for. Hedi Slimane's 'Celine 01' – sans accent now, which the majority of the industry are still reeling about if the small talk as we file into the Les Invalides is anything to go by.
Turns out, it was more like Saint Laurent 2.0. The Philophiles won't be happy… I bet the @OldCeline followers are having a field day.
Gany, quelle surprise, is nowhere to be found. I'm not waiting around. As I make it away from the crowds outside, I spot Alexa Chung in the distance (that furry Saks Pott trench was a giveaway). She's speaking to someone, a fan, no… Lindie Liv! And now she's taking a selfie a with her, the absolute shame.
I walk past, rolling my eyes, but accidentally catch Lindie's instead. She reaches out to tap my arm. "Athena, hi," she's saying. "Do you want me to get a photo of you two? Alexa would that be OK?".
I'm still reliving it all in my mind, like an out of body experience; I watch myself standing there stunned, handing Lindie my phone, smiling next to Alexa, posting the photo (I couldn't not post the photo). Lindie's words keep replaying: she's always loved my blog; it was what made her want to get into fashion.
I turn off the light, set my alarm andcheck Instagram one last time. Not bad – over 20,000 likes in the first hour alone.
What to buy, wear and see now.


Can data from mobile phones be used to observe economic shocks and their consequences at multiple scales? Here we present novel methods to detect mass layoffs, identify individuals affected by them and predict changes in aggregate unemployment rates using call detail records (CDRs) from mobile phones. Using the closure of a large manufacturing plant as a case study, we first describe a structural break model to correctly detect the date of a mass layoff and estimate its size. We then use a Bayesian classification model to identify affected individuals by observing changes in calling behaviour following the plant's closure. For these affected individuals, we observe significant declines in social behaviour and mobility following job loss. Using the features identified at the micro level, we show that the same changes in these calling behaviours, aggregated at the regional level, can improve forecasts of macro unemployment rates. These methods and results highlight promise of new data resources to measure microeconomic behaviour and improve estimates of critical economic indicators.


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CapAleph \pronounced kap aleff\
Our goal is to search for pioneering businesses to invest into. Our core emphasis is on perseverance - to work hard in the exciting endeavour of building pioneering businesses to leadership. The Hebrew alphabet "Aleph" captures the sentiment we seek to represent. The alphabet Aleph as represented in ancient texts is a stylized depiction of the ox in harness, a symbol of perseverance, service and hard work.
Aleph translates to Alpha in English. In our business, the quest for Alpha is a single minded pursuit - the constant endeavour to create a positive difference in returns generated on capital invested. This difference will be attributed to the proprietary efforts that we make in finding pioneering businesses to invest into, and in the efforts that will go into making these businesses truly valuable. The word "CapAleph" is therefore a reaffirmation of our vision, and a reminder of our commitment to persevere in building high quality and deep-rooted businesses, whatever the odds.
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Before we explain you everything about full managed VPS and underline which is the best VPS plan, let's clear our understanding on VPS or Virtual Private Servers. VPS is a midway between shared hosting and dedicated servers. Shared hosting is perfect for an entry level website. However, once the blog or website starts receiving high traffic or you want to introduce advanced features, the infrastructure of shared hosting may not be enough. This is when a dedicated server comes into picture. However, dedicated servers are not for everyone. They are expensive, and unless the nature of data is very critical to your business or client, a dedicated server will amount to an unnecessary expense.
VPS is a powerful hosting platform that is best fit for a growing business. In many ways, VPS is like a Dedicated Physical Server. VPS hosting providers use virtualization software like Parallels Virtuozzo Containers (PVC), Xen or VMware to split the computing resources of a physical server to act as VM (Virtual Machines). These VM's are emulations of computer systems and allow VPS account holders to run independent OS and software environment. These resources allow a business enough resources to run any website efficiently.
The price and features of each of these VPS plans vary depending upon the level of autonomy and support you are seeking.
Proactive Software Updates – With a managed VPS account, it is the responsibility of the hosting provider to upgrade the OS and software on a periodic basis. The server environment that works on the latest version of the software is less susceptible to malware attacks. In the case of fully managed VPS, the upgrades happen seamlessly, allowing you to offer the best online service to your customers.
Advanced Security Features – A secured server is a precursor to website security. With a fully managed VPS, you get access to tools like SiteLock that take care of the security aspect of your website in the most convenient manner. Such tools are a default part of fully managed VPS plans. Secondly, all the security vulnerabilities are regularly patched and leveraged so that you can run your website in the most secure environment.
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Fully-managed VPS plans are designed for specific users who want to be backed by a powerful server as well the ease of handling it through cPanel. It is the best VPS plan for webmasters and business owners who have a limited understanding of servers and their operations. Although it can be used by anyone it is not recommended for new business owners or webmasters.


Accommodation belongs to the basic ones. In the lobby of the hotel you find Maryam's Coffee shop which can accommodate, the reception desk and also business center. Also Laundry, pressing and dry cleaning services available, safety locks for your valuables. You can also use fax and ask for a guide through the town and the surroundings at our rent-a car desk. With the parking place right in front and back of the hotel.
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Looking for a fun project for spring that only takes about 30 minutes and is so easy to do?
Why not make your own topiary from a pot of ivy and a coat hanger? I created this double sphere topiary by shaping a coat hanger and twisting ivy around it! I even have a really great tip on how to keep your ivy growing fresh and green....dish washing soap!
Create a topiary using coat hangers and ivy. It is such a fun easy project that takes under 30 minutes!
Here's the topiary with my milk glass collection! The green really looks pretty against all the white.
Step 1: Create round circles from coat hangers. Unbend the end of the coat hanger to put it into the dirt.
Step 2: Combine the two circles together to make a sphere form for the topiary.
Step 3: Wind the ivy around the coat hanger to train the ivy to create your topiary!
Be sure to get Lots of hangers. After you make your topiary, then you can make landscape staples/pins to hold down the landscape fabric in your garden. The best way to cut several is with an axe.


These custom printed house fridge magnets look great, and are brilliant for local businesses that work in the housing sector. These printed magnets are ideal for estate agents, property management businesses, local housing associations and the building sector. Promote your business services in an easy, fun and cheap way!
Customised printed magnets are great giveaway products because they are mostly likely held onto for a while. Once they get onto the fridge, they often stay there for years, according to research. These little house shaped magnets will provide a huge amount of promotion for your business and are really worth the initial investment. They are easy to give out in the local area and are light enough to send in a mailing campaign too.
These House fridge magnets are 107x72mm in size. Our prices include full colour printing onto 0.45mm magnetic material (total thickness of the finished fridge magnets after printing and laminating is 0.75mm).


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Harm Janssen (1973) is een voormalig Nederlands CDA-politicus. Van 2005 tot 2010 was hij wethouder en locoburgemeester van de stad Utrecht. In november 2010 verliet hij de politiek en werd directeur bij het Bouwfonds.

Politieke loopbaan
Van 2001 tot 2005 was Janssen fractievoorzitter van het CDA-Utrecht. Bij de gemeenteraadsverkiezingen in 2006 was hij lijsttrekker voor deze partij. Hij nam zitting in het college met PvdA en GroenLinks (vanaf 2009 met ChristenUnie) Zijn portefeuille binnen het college bestond uit financiën, belastingen, herinrichting stationsgebied, bibliotheek, monumenten, sport, groen, grondzaken, energie en duurzaamheid. Hij was verder wijkwethouder voor de Utrechtse wijken West en Noordoost.

Janssen was tijdens zijn wethouderschap eindverantwoordelijk voor de vernieuwing van het Utrechtse stationsgebied. Bij de sloop van het voormalige Vredenburg, in 2008, was hij degene die symbolisch de eerste steen uit het gebouw mocht nemen. In diezelfde periode kwam hij politiek in een lastig parket te zitten toen bleek dat er een fout was gemaakt in de aanbestedingsprocedure voor de bouw van een nieuwe bibliotheek op het Smakkelaarsveld.

In juni 2009 verkoos de CDA-afdeling Utrecht Janssen unaniem tot lijsttrekker van de gemeenteraadsverkiezingen van maart 2010.

Overige functies
Janssen is voorzitter van Open Monumentendag Utrecht, lid van de raad van toezicht van Utrecht Marketing en lid van de raad van toezicht van MBO Utrecht.

Persoonlijk
Janssen heeft geofysica gestudeerd in Utrecht. Hij is getrouwd en vader van drie kinderen.

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His talent was recognised early. At age 13 he was enrolled at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. At seventeen he made his debut as a concert pianist, playing his own compositions – pieces that were considered difficult to understand, let alone play. At 23 he won the Rubenstein Prize, playing his Piano Concerto No.1, written two years previously.
In 1914 he left Russia, travelled to London, then worked in France, the United States before settling back in France. Initially he had trouble getting commissions accepted, or works performed. Some of his early music was adapted and later appeared under different guises. Much of his music was ahead of its time, but between these works came pieces that can be enjoyed by all, such as the "Classical" Symphony.
He returned to Russia in 1934, settling there permanently in 1936. By this time the various disparate elements of his music were starting to come together. His relationship with his motherland was not always harmonious but his ballet, "Romeo and Juliet" would become a standard.
He died in 1953, the same year as Stalin.
The following list of works is not complete. Some of Prokofiev's music following his return to Russia in the mid 1930s tends towards the banal pap required by the Soviet system.
Operas - He wrote 6 operas, all of which have been performed or recorded in recent times and range in style and content from the surreal farce of The Love for Three Oranges (his most popular vocal stage work) to the brutality of The Gambler, the fierce tragedy of The Fiery Angel and the epic War and Peace.
Ballets – Prokofiev ranks with Stravinsky as one of the two great ballet composers of the 20th century, and wrote 7. His last three are in the repertoire of many major companies. Romeo and Juliet and Cinderella rank with Tchaikovsky's as classical ballets of the first rank. His last, The Tale of the Stone Flower, is not to that standard, but has charming music, carefully crafted not to upset the Soviet "style manual".
Symphonies – There are seven. The first, termed The Classical, is a deliberate throw-back to an earlier time; a neo-classical romp which is performed frequently. His others are deep into the 20th century, and often dark, but melodic and always interesting. They show the two sides of Prokofiev's musical character - the brutal and the lyrical. The fifth and seventh are the most often performed.
Other orchestral – he wrote 5 piano concertos, 2 violin concertos, a cello concerto (revised as a "Symphony-Concerto") and a cello concertino - all powerful but frequently lyrical. The 2nd and 3rd piano concertos and the 2nd violin concerto are the most popular. He also wrote an interestingly scored series of dances invoking the Steppes called the Scythian Suite, a reworking of an unsuccessful ballet project during his years in Paris.
"Film Scores – There are three: Lieutenant Kijé (with its famous troika) later arranged into an orchestral suite; a concert favourite - Alexander Nevsky (with the "battle on the ice" scene that has been borrowed in style and spirit for Hollywood) which became a cantata for mezzo-soprano, choir and orchestra - and Ivan the Terrible.
Incidental music – he wrote original music for stage productions of Egyptian Nights, Boris Godunov, Eugene Onegan (all by, or created from Pushkin) and Shakespeare's Hamlet; all in the years directly following his return to Russia, (and all have modern recordings to their name).
Chamber music – He wrote a wind and string quintet, 2 string quartets, 2 violin sonatas (the second also transcribed for flute) and a cello sonata. The last is the most approachable.
Piano music – There are 9 sonatas of varying intensity, including the three patriotically inspired War Sonatas, written between 1940 and 1944. There are two series of short pieces with the interesting titles of "Visions fugitives" and "Sarcasms" and other short pieces from early in his career. Much of his piano music is not to be recommended to the unwary.
Peter and the Wolf – the popular "Fairy tale" (the story is also Prokofiev's) for narrator and orchestra deserves its own spot – it has been narrated by everyone from rock stars to Shakespearian actors to cross-dressing comedians to Hollywood "icons". The simple "motifs" for each character, each on a different instrument or section, are a delight.
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Q: HTML for Email - Change position in CSS doesn't Work This is my first time coding HTML for e-mail. I saw some tutorials to guide me, but I'm having a problem that I don't know how I can fix it. Basically. all my code is inside of
s. At the end of the page, the footer is also a
. But it doesn't matter how I change the CSS values for the position the result is always this inside the email:

The problem is in this code:

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What I would like to do, in fact, is to approximatte the letters to the twitter and the facebook links in the middle.

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Hundreds of Christian refugees sexually abused and beaten by Muslims in German camps
The latest figures are "the tip of the iceberg" according to Christian advocacy charity Open Doors.
Some 743 Christians and 10 Yazidis were the victims of religious motivated attacks between February and September 2016, with some of victims aged five to 12 years old.
Migrant centres in Germany must do more to protect Christians from the attacks with are said to "occur frequently and nationwide" at the hands of some Muslims in the camps.
The documented cases confirm that the situation of Christian refugees in German refugee shelters is still unbearable
According to the report, 91 per cent of Christians and Yazidis surveyed accused Muslim migrants of carrying out the violent attacks, with 28 per cent accusing camp guards.
Open Doors estimates the actual number of attacks could be in the thousands with just 17 per cent of those surveyed reporting the crimes to police.
Many did not report the attacks to the authorities out of fear.
Christians are said to have suffered sexual assaults, violence and death threats in camps across Germany.
More than one million migrants have arrived in Germany since last year.
The report found: "The documented cases confirm that the situation of Christian refugees in German refugee shelters is still unbearable.
"As a minority they are discriminated against, beaten up by and receive death threats from Muslim refugees and partly by the Muslim staff-securities, interpreters, volunteers- on grounds of their religion."
Of the 743 attacks, 42 per cent experienced death threats, 83 per cent underwent multiple assaults and 6 per cent were sexually assaulted.
The report found: "The highest risk in participating in the survey was taken by the converts from Islam to Christianity, according to the Koran their change of faith is considered as a crime worthy of the death penalty, therefore they are explicitly in danger."
One refugee from Iraq was moved into another centre after refugees threatened to kill him.He said: "The Muslims in the house discovered that I am Christian because I was reading the Bible. I received death threats. They wanted me to convert back to Islam."The manager of the facility said that he is helpless and cannot protect me. As I feared for my life, I then reported it to a social worker who then wrote a report."The death threats increased. The interpreter tried to trivialise the threats and conceal it from the social welfare department.
"The department instructed the facility management to make more of an effort to ensure my safety. They were incapable of doing so and therefore I was moved into other accommodation."Ten Yazidis told Open Doors they had suffered sexual harassment and received death threats in the camp.The Kurdish religious community has been the target of ISIS militants with the UN condemning the terrorists for committing genocide against Yazidis in Syria and Iraq.
Open Doors has called on Angela Merkel's government to do more to protect Christian refugees
Open Doors says not enough it being done to protect Christians from attacks, with the majority of abuse taking place in the deferral states of Berlin, Hesse and North-Rhine-Westphalia.The charity said separate accommodation must be provided for Christians, Yazidis and other at-risk minorities and the authorities must increase the number of non-Muslim guards at migrant centres.The report said: "There must be no more 'integration experiments' at the expense of Christian refugees and other religious minorities in German asylum and reception centres."The majority of the refugees surveyed come from Iran, Syria and Afghanistan.The survey was conducted by Open Doors, Action on Behalf of Persecuted Christians and the Needy (AVC), International Society for Human Rights (IGFM), Aid to the Church in Need and Central Council of Oriental Christians in Germany (ZOCD).
It comes just five months after an Open Doors study found more than 80 per cent of Christian refugees in Germany feel abandoned with a huge majority suffering attacks, abuse or other forms of harassment in reception centres since arriving in the country between February and April 2016.
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This Bristol teenager has been missing for three days
If you have any information, the police would like your help
Andrew McQuarrieSenior reporter
Ruben Schultz, of Hengrove, Bristol, went missing on January 22, 2020
UPDATE: Ruben Schultz was found safe and well in Bristol today, Monday 27 January
A Bristol teenager has been missing for more than three days, prompting a police plea for help.
Ruben Schultz, 15, of Hengrove, is thought to have travelled to the Weston-super-Mare area, according to Avon and Somerset Constabulary.
Police say he went missing at around 11.30pm on Wednesday, January 22.
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A police spokesman said: "Ruben is described as a white boy, about 5ft 1ins tall, of medium build with dark brown hair and blue eyes.
"We would like Ruben, or anyone spotting him to contact us, quoting reference 5220017533."
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proud of her and her accomplishment.
For the purpose of this assignment, I chose to trace my maternal family lines.
family, who are often forgotten about and seldom visited by younger generations.
as well as their cherished memories of deceased family members and friends.
and brother (Alice and Barry Roberts) creating a double kinship.
same year, their son, David, also died after contracting malaria.
Lennie and to their union were born four sons: Jim, Gus, Abe, and willie. John C.
where he trained and worked as a barber. They later moved to Cleveland, Ohio.
Willie and Fanny, his first wife, were the parents of one son, Willie Jr. Willie Sr.
and Otis later made their home in Manhattan, New York.
suspected brain stroke, and Orry, the victim of a tragic murder.
had one daughter, Ruby. Alfonso was drafted also, but he was never sent abroad.
Alfonso Jr. and Larry by Helen. He later made his home in New York City.
Walter Cridle and they were the parents of one daughter, Bessie Mae (Taylor).
son who died as a young child.
of five sons and two daughters: Marvin Elder, Buie C. (Charles), Freddie L.
by our struggles to survive in American society.
from the farm. My grandfather, for example, worked for the railroads at that time.
Our greatest individual achievements, I feel, have been in the field of education.
Counselor, Accountants, and of course, Educators (elementary thru college level).
*August 12, 2006 I, Freddie L. Sirmans, Sr. made one or two of minor edits.


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"The market is a no-called-strike game. You don't have to swing at everything - you can wait for your pitch. The problem when you're a money manager is that your fans keep yelling, "Swing, you bum!"
On the surface, many traders have a strong distaste to being compared to the gamblers in Las Vegas, Macau, Dubai or any other designated gambling destination in the world. However, the similarities are incredible and can also help you get to the core of trading success.
Trading is simply a vehicle to generate cash flow just like a business but understanding the business of gambling can help you understand the business of trading.
When it comes down to trading any market, you're really dealing with odds. We've looked at situations like the Canadian Dollar or Emerging Markets which had a favorable economic picture with which you could buy a stronger currency like the British Pound or Euro.
By taking that simple example of weak commodity currencies or emerging markets in early 2014, the odds were tilted, but not guaranteed, in favor of a trade that took advantage of that imbalance in the market.
As you may know if you've gambled yourself, many people who visit casino's step up to a table in order to play a game with money on the line and try and earn back their costs for the hotel or flight. However, the massive casino that they've stepped into was built with the money lost by people before them who didn't understand the odds which the casino who hosts the game makes sure the odds are tilted in their favor. Therefore, to transform from a trader that loses money, you must look at how to tilt the odds in your favor like the casino does for their benefit.
If you walked up to two people and asked, is gambling really a profitable business? You'd likely get two different answers. The person who doubted that gambling was a profitable and long-term method to build some wealth in this example is someone with dollar signs in their eyes and figured if they could find a good system with which to place bets, they could take some money from the casino, however, after a few visits to a couple of gambling houses wound up down a few more thousand than expected after costs for the flight & hotel.
Now, what if the other person that you asked if gambling was really a profitable business owned one of the largest casinos in Las Vegas? Do you doubt that their answer would be an emphatic, "yes!" Same question, but two different systems. So how can you take this to put the odds in your favor, just like a casino owner?
Trading and gambling are very similar. However, to benefit from the similarities you must increase your odds and think like a Casino boss. The best way to trade like a casino operates is to focus on fewer trades that align with your edge and having lower volatility of performance by keeping a disciplined approach to money management so that you don't take a large drop in your trading progress. Lastly, you should continue to take the long-view of your trading career so that you do not put too much weight on any one trade which often results in overtrading or trading too large of a position for your account equity.


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NEI Research Initiatives
3-D Retina Organoid Challenge (3-D ROC)
3-D ROC Evaluation Criteria & Point Allocation
3-D ROC Awards & Recognition
Phase II Awardees
Vergara Team
NEI awarded a team led by Maria Natalia Vergara, Ph.D., Sue Anschutz-Rodgers Eye Center, University of Colorado $60,000 for developing an organoid derived from stem cells engineered to fluoresce which allows the organoid to demonstrate the cellular composition more clearly and efficiently. This advancement allows for improved organoid differentiation that can be used to screen and validate drugs more readily.
Maria Natalia Vergara, Ph.D., University of Colorado
Maria Valeria Canto-Soler, Ph.D., University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Michael L. Robinson, Ph.D., Miami University
Katia Del Rio-Tsonis, Ph.D., Miami University
Samarendra Mohanty, Ph.D., Nanoscope Technologies, LLC
Vergara Team Abstract
The advent in the last decade of human stem cell-derived retinal organoid models opened unprecedented opportunities to improve the drug development pipeline by increasing efficiency and decreasing costs. These models enabled the possibility to test drug candidates in three-dimensional human retinal tissues that resemble the native scenario. However, to realize this promise we need robust protocols for retinal organoid differentiation that can increase assay reproducibility and decrease variability. Moreover, drug screening platforms necessitate fast, sensitive, and robust technologies that can provide quantitative information in longitudinal studies on live cells, something that has proven challenging when working with 3D tissues. Here we have addressed these challenges through the novel combination of robust technologies for organoid development and non-invasive, real time quantitative assessment. We have developed physiologically competent induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC)-derived retinal organoids that recapitulate to a large extent the histoarchitecture and cellular composition of the native human neural retina including the presence of all major retinal cell types, and that demonstrate for the first time the presence of all bipolar cell subtypes. The improved protocol produces light responsive organoids while increasing yield in organoid production and accelerating photoreceptor differentiation. Moreover, we have applied this protocol to a first-of-its-kind triple fluorescent reporter hiPSC line and combined it with our robust 3D Automated Reporter Quantification system. This unique combination results in a drug screening/validation platform that allows for non-invasive quantitative, longitudinal phenotypic assessment of retinal progenitors, ganglion cells, bipolar cells, and photoreceptors in live organoids. This novel paradigm will have a significant impact in the field of retinal research, overcoming the current obstacles for drug validation in 3D retina models and improving the efficiency of the drug development pipeline, thus accelerating therapeutic discoveries. Furthermore, we also present data demonstrating the power of our platform to increase our understanding of retina biology.
View the Vergara Team video abstract
Liu Team
NEI awards a team led by Wei Liu, Ph.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine $40,000 for developing two different types of organoids that advance our ability to replicate the native retina, one which is enriched for cone photoreceptors, a composition that is particular to the human retina, and the other organoid demonstrating RGC axon pathfinding abilities. These organoids have also been used to establish the feasibility of studying retinal diseases that lead to blindness such as Leber Congenital Amaurosis.
Wei Liu, Ph.D. , Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Rupendra Shrestha, Ph.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Albert Lowe, Ph.D. Student, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Rui Chen, Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine
Sangbae Kim, Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine
Z. Jimmy Zhou, Ph.D., Yale School of Medicine
Seunghoon Lee, Ph.D., Yale School of Medicine
Margaret M. DeAngelis, Ph.D., University of Utah
Ales Cvekl, Ph.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Liu Team Abstract
Retinal structures generated from stem cells are often immature, variable, and do not reflect the complexity of the human retina, such as cone enrichment in the macula and axon pathfinding of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs), furthermore the differentiation protocols used often limit their applications because of skills required and low efficiency. Here, we present a scalable system composed of cone-rich multilayered functional organoids, which model cone enrichment and RGC axon pathfinding in the human retina. Organoids with such complex features have not been reported by others and therefore are innovative. Transcriptome profiling and marker analysis indicate that retinal cell differentiation in our retinal organoids closely recapitulates how the retina develops in humans in temporal gene expression and alternative mRNA splicing. Cone enrichment in our retinal organoids is demonstrated by both quantitative immunostaining and single-cell RNA sequencing. Photoreceptors in our retinal organoids are substantially mature, as evidenced by the ultrastructure of outer segments, the expression of phototransduction genes, and electrophysiological functions. Our protocol is advantageous, as it does not require manual dissection, is highly efficient, and therefore is scalable. We have established the feasibilities of studying retinal disease genes that cause Leber Congenital Amaurosis and juvenile glaucoma using our system.
View the Liu Team video abstract
October 2018 Check-In Winner
NEI awarded $25,000 to a team led by Wei Liu, Ph.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine, for demonstrating progress toward the development of a living model of the human retina, the light-sensitive tissue at the back of the eye.
Wei Liu, Ph.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Albert Lowe, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Liu's submission demonstrated the generation of mini retinas similar in composition to the human macula, a part of the retina used for central, high-resolution vision. Specifically, the mini retinas include cone photoreceptors, the type of light-sensing retinal cell needed for color vision.
Phase I Awardees
NEI awarded $90,000 in prize money to a team led by Erin Lavik, Sc.D., at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, for its concept to create a living model of the human retina. Lavik's team participated in the 3-D Retina Organoid Challenge (3-D ROC) "ideation" phase, which asked participants for ideas to generate human retinas from stem cells. Concepts were evaluated based on their innovativeness and feasibility. A review panel assessed how each proposal addressed scientific challenges such as how to assemble distinct and anatomically correct layers of retinal tissue, assess retinal cell function, and use the prototypes to understand diseases or test therapies.
Erin Lavik, ScD, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Steven Bernstein, MD, PhD, University of Maryland Medical School
Adam Day, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Bryan Ibarra, University of Miami
The team's idea is to build a retina by screen printing adult neural progenitor-derived retinal neurons in layers that mimic the structure of the human retina. The system is scalable and efficient which should enable the high reproducibility and increased throughput necessary for drug testing.
Five teams were also recognized with honorable mention
Carrier Team
Rebecca Carrier, PhD, Northeastern University
Michael Young, PhD, Schepens Eye Research Institute
Joyce Y Wong, PhD, Boston University
Joydip Kundu, PhD, Northeastern University
Petr Baranov, MD, PhD, Schepens Eye Research Institute
Mike Ferguson, Boston University
Their organoid-microvessel co-culture system proposes to add vasculature embedded in a biomimetic hydrogel to organoids to increase oxygen and nutrient flow and mimic chemical and physical cues present in developing eye tissue. The system also includes retinal pigmented epithelium and can be used to model and study age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
Gamm Team
David Gamm, MD, PhD, University of Wisconsin
William Murphy, PhD, University of Wisconsin
Nader Sheibani, PhD, University of Wisconsin
Chris Sorenson, PhD University of Wisconsin
Bikash Pattnaik, PhD, University of Wisconsin
Melissa Skala, PhD University of Wisconsin
In the eye, the outer neural retina is fed via diffusion while the inner neural retina requires a separate microvasculature that is absent in organoids. This results in disparity in outer vs. inner neural retina survival and function in vitro. The team proposes to incorporate a perfusable inner retinal microvasculature using microfluidic technology and to model retinal microvascular diseases such as diabetic retinopathy.
Wei Liu, PhD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Rui Chen, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine
Z. Jimmy Zhou, PhD, Yale School of Medicine
The protocol efficiently generates retina organoids by altering key time-consuming variable steps. They propose to engineer additional retinal tissues on scaffolds and use the system to study Leber Congenital Amaurosis.
Pelaez Team
Daniel Pelaez, PhD, University of Miami
J. William Harbour, MD, University of Miami
Zenith Acosta, University of Miami
The team's novel tissue bioreactor system compartmentalizes and creates gradients of stimuli such that the maturation of inner and outer retinal cells are induced separately. The system recapitulates the normal physiology in which the retina is exposed to a steep gradient of oxygen tensions across the highly oxygenated outer retina, and the hypoxic inner retina and can be used to model Retinoblastoma.
Schenke-Layland Team
Katja Schenke-Layland, PhD, Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology
Stefan Liebau, PhD, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen
Peter Loskill, PhD, Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology
The culture system proposed allows for 3-D co-culture of retinal organoids, retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and further cell types in a defined and reproducible microenvironment, featuring a physiological vasculature-like perfusion for multiple weeks. Their 3-D Retina-on-a-chip system features 48 individual units in an integrated chip with standard well plate-dimensions that will be amenable for high content drug screening.
How are winners selected for 3-D ROC?
A panel of non-federal technical reviewers with expertise directly relevant to the Challenge evaluate the solutions based on feasibility and ability to achieve the challenge criteria. The solutions and evaluation statements from the technical panel are then reviewed by federal employees serving as judges, who select the Challenge winners.
NEI appreciates the hard work and dedication of the Phase II technical & federal judges:
Technical Advisory Panelists
Lucas Chase, PhD
Therapeutics/FUJIFILM - Cellular Dynamics, Inc.
Philip Hewitt, PhD
Head of Early Investigative Toxicology, Merck Healthcare KGaA
Marion Jeanne, PhD
Scientist & Lab Head, Ophthalmology Discovery, Neuroscience Department, Genentech Inc.
Mark Kennedy, PhD
Staff Scientist (R&D), Thermo Fisher Scientific
Stefan Kustermann, PhD
Group Leader Investigative Safety, Roche
J. Arjuna Ratnayaka, BSc, MPhil, DIC, PhD
Lecturer in Vision Sciences at the University of Southampton
Karl Wahlin, PhD
Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at UC San Diego Director, Richard C. Atkinson Laboratory for Regenerative Ophthalmology
Günther Zech, PhD
Head of Neurophysics, NMI Natural & Medical Sciences Institute at the University of Tuebingen
Ethan Cohen, PhD
Research Investigator, FDA
Mala Dutta, PhD
Technology Development Coordinator, NEI
Robert Hufnagel, PhD
Chief, Medical Genetics and Ophthalmic Genomics Unit, NEI
Paek Lee, PhD
Program Officer, Small Business SBIR/STTR, NEI
Tiansen Li, PhD
Senior Investigator, Retinal Cell Biology & Degeneration Section, NEI
Wei Li, PhD
Senior Investigator, Retinal Neurophysiology Section, NEI
Sam Michael, PhD
Chief Information Officer & Director, Automation & Compound Management, NCATS
Charles Wright, PhD
Science Policy Analyst, NEI
Steven M Zehnder, PhD
Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems - Directorate for Engineering, NSF


Responding to increased demand for more premium pickups, the 2013 Toyota Tundra will offer last year's CrewMax-only Platinum package as a stand-alone trim level across the lineup—allowing owners to enjoy additional lux amenities in both Regular and Double Cab configurations for the current model year. Also gaining expanded availability for the 2013 Toyota Tundra is the Rock Warrior package from TRD (Toyota Racing Development) and the Entune multimedia system with Display Navigation.
The basics are these: Depending on exact model, the 2013 Toyota Tundra is available in Regular, Double and CrewMax cab styles, with a choice of three wheelbases, three bed lengths, three engine choices, five- and six-speed automatic transmissions, and rear- and all-wheel-drive. Shoppers can then fine-tune each configuration in one of three trim levels to meet their specific requirements.
Tundra-grade trucks are set up on 18-inch steel wheels, with 4X4 models adding a standard limited slip differential, and all cabs boast plenty of interior storage, dual-zone air-conditioning with a dust and pollen filter, solar-energy-absorbing glass, power locks/windows, and an AM/FM/CD/MP3/WMA audio system with six speakers in Double Cab and CrewMax editions. The exterior of the 2013 Toyota Tundra shows off a two-piece front bumper in body color and chrome, set off by a chrome grille surround and rear bumper, with heated power-adjustable outside mirrors, front and rear mudguards in the mix as well.
The 2013 Toyota Tundra Limited delivers a premium audio upgrade from JBL, including AM/GM/CD/MP3/WMA/USB playback, a three-month trial subscription to SiriusXM Radio, Bluetooth for hands-free calling and music streaming, and 10 to 12 speakers, with a subwoofer, depending on cab size. Comfort levels have been increased as well, thanks to heated and leather-trimmed power-adjustable front buckets seats—highlighted by a 10-way driver's seat with power thigh and lumbar support. Leather accents also wrap up the Limited level's multi-function steering wheel, while the dashboard is lit up by Optitron instrumentation. For a more distinctive, upgrade appearance, the 2013 Toyota Tundra Limited has been touched up on the outside, too: Standard fog lights, a matte-silver billet-style grille insert, power-folding chrome mirrors with integrated turn signals, and 18-inch alloy wheels.
To further personalize the 2013 Toyota Tundra, a wide range of packages are available to supply appearance upgrades, high-value feature bundles, and up-rated off-road capabilities.
The powertrain trio provided by the 2013 Toyota Tundra starts with a 4.0-liter V6 with dual independent variable valve timing and outputs of 270 horsepower and 278 lb.-ft. of torque. But two V8 options also are on the menu, including a 4.6-liter unit that makes 310 horsepower and 327 lb.-ft. of torque and a 5.7-liter engine that dials up 381 horsepower and 401 lb.-ft. of torque; both feature the Toyota intelligent valve-timing technology on display in the smaller unit.
From transmission control comes two automatics for the 2013 Toyota Tundra, a five-speed transmission for the V6 and a six-speed for the other two choices.
All cab configurations of the 2013 Toyota Tundra received 4-star overall safety scores in the New Car Assessment Program of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The truck also is a Top Safety Pick of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), based on crash-test performance in front, side, rear and rollover scenarios.
The key tech advantage of the 2013 Toyota Tundra is its Display Navigation with Entune media system, which combines a 6.1-inch high-res touchscreen display (with split-screen capability), and AM/FM/CD/MP3/WMA/USB/SAT playback, HD Radio with iTunes Tagging, advanced voice recognition, and hands-free technology for both calling and audio streaming. As a final entertainment enhancement, the 2013 Toyota Tundra CrewMax, in Limited and Platinum trims, can be kitted out with rear-seat DVD entertainment system with nine-inch display, two wireless headphones and remote.


This week's Deal of the Week is puzzle game Glow Artisan, on sale for $1.99 at $1 off regular price ($2.99) only until March 27th. Word around the Windows Phone world is, although the developer does claim it's an "easy-to-learn puzzle game," that Glow Artisan gets very difficult over time. If you do enjoy a challenging puzzle game, and also want a worthy challenge, then that's why Glow Artisan is now on sale (just for you!). Out of 175 total marketplace ratings, Glow Artisan stands at a solid rating of 4 out of 5 stars. As with all Xbox LIVE games, you can spend your day puzzling yourself in Glow Artisan with a free trial, if you enjoy it go ahead and purchase for the sale price of $1.99.