When I was young, the word 'antisemitism' confused me quite a bit. For me, antisemitism meant exactly what it says: anti Semitic people. There are many different Semitic language speaking communities- Arabs, Assyrians, Samaritans etc, so I couldn't understand how an Arab, for instance, could possibly be antisemitic. I mean we ourselves are Semitic, so how would that even work? But then I realized with time that the word had developed a cultural meaning and in reality anti-Semitic actually meant anti-Jews and depending on the political context even anti-Israel. There is no specific word for someone who is anti-Sikh, anti-white people, anti-Arab or anti-Italian. Of course, we can simply use 'racist'/'racism', but these words aren't exclusive or specific to a certain community, nor are they fully inclusive.
So what does it mean when we have a specific word for discrimination against Jews or Jewish culture? For one it draws attention to our behavior towards these communities in particular. It's saying that discriminating against Jews is a very very bad thing, and it's so bad that we need to have a word for it.
And if you do discriminate against this community, we won't simply dub you as a 'racist', no, we will call you a specifically nasty word befitting your nasty behavior. If you discriminate against a black person, you're a racist but if you discriminate against a Jew you're antisemitic, and I've always felt that in some ways, the latter feels somehow more serious, more unethical, more controversial and more politically charged. This is a testament to the power of language.
Muslims, we have our own words too- they're terrorism and terrorists. If you search for the technical definitions of these words, you won't find mention of us there. But the media has made them our words. There's no hiding from the aching fact that there is a cultural and mental association between Muslims and terrorism. This is despite facts highlighting the terrorist activities of other groups, faiths, corporations and governments. Language is powerful and dangerous. I'd like to remind everyone of another loaded word that was historically used (and still is used) to degrade and demonize entire groups and communities.
It was spat in the faces of many innocent blacks. And now in the 21st century people spit the word 'terrorist' in the faces of innocent Muslims. Muslims of different ethnicities, colors, backgrounds, languages and sects. European Muslims, Asian Muslims, African Muslims, Middle Eastern Muslims. And we don't want these to be our words. They are not representative of our diverse communities, ideologies, histories, philosophies and theologies. Those heartless, greedy, big money corporate companies can have them. Those behind the pathetic safety standards in Grenfell Tower can have them. Please be our guests and take them off our shoulders. You're the real terrorists. Governments that sell weapons to countries who bomb other countries like Yemen are terrorists. Governments that invade other countries, bomb them and then complain about refugees are terrorists. Governments who are negligent towards the poorer pockets of our communities are terrorists. And we need to fight the damaging and irresponsible use of this dirty word in the media.
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Bedouin Arabs attack police officers
Police arrest six Bedouin on suspicion of attacking police officers, attempting to steal their weapons.
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Bedouin attacked police officers
Israel Police arrested six Bedouin Arabs suspected of attacking police officers.
The Bedouin attackers, all residents of the Negev town of Hura, threw stones at the police officers and stole their weapons.
The incident occurred two weeks ago on Friday, when police officers arrived at Hura to arrest a Bedouin suspected of violence and illegal carrying of weapons. Two police officers sustained light injuries and were taken to a hospital for medical treatment.
The injured police officers called in reinforcements, and officers arriving at the scene restored order and arrested those suspected of violence. The stolen weapons, as well, were found and returned to their owners.
After the investigation was completed, a prosecutor's statement was submitted, paving the way for an indictment, which will be filed Friday.
"Police presence will continue in every area it is necessary, for the sake of the security and well-being of normal citizens," Israel Police said in a statement.
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The New York State Attorney General's Office has criminally accused seventeen workers at the HighPointe nursing facility of abuse against patients. The Buffalo nursing home facility located on Michigan Avenue is a 300-bed facility. During the past three years since the facility was opened, the state has received 119 complaints and incident reports against workers at the facility.
Felony and criminal charges will be brought against many of the employees accused of nursing home neglect in Buffalo City Court. Eleven of the seventeen employees cited are accused of failing to maintain an adequate quality of care. Although more than half of the issues found at the facility are believed to be isolated instances, half appeared to be a part of a larger pattern of abuse and neglect. State data revealed none of the abuse was widespread. Specific details regarding the instances of abuse have not as of yet been released.
Approximately 270 beds at the facility are devoted for residential health care. The remaining beds host pediatric and ventilator patients. Citations and complaints at the Buffalo facility regarding all types of residents exceeded the state average, prompting the Attorney General's Office to take official action. The workers were arraigned in court on Friday.
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Les Galeries Lafayette is opening two stores in India
Galeries Lafayette announced Thursday the signing of a partnership with the Indian group Aditya Birla to develop their presence in India, where the French group plans to open two stores in 2024 and 2025.
The future Bombay store - Galeries Lafayette
In order to "pursue (its) international deployment strategy", Galeries Lafayette has entered into an "exclusive partnership" with Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Limited, the first Indian fashion group to have reached a billion dollars in revenues, operating a network of 3,500 stores.
This partnership includes "the launch of a dedicated e-commerce platform" but also "the opening of two stores in Bombay and New Delhi, the two main capitals of the country", said the group whose history dates back to 1894, in a statement.
The first store of 8,000 square meters, located in the "commercial and cultural heart of Bombay", will open its doors in 2024 to "a young clientele very sensitive to new luxury trends".
"This will be closely followed by the opening of a 5,500-square-meter department store located in the heart of DLF Emporio, New Delhi's most renowned premium shopping center," said the group, which employs 11,000 people. It is planned for 2025, said a spokeswoman for Galeries Lafayette to AFP.
"We are proud to expand our international footprint in the heart of a market as prestigious and refined as India, where we believe Galeries Lafayette can benefit from strong growth potential," said Galeries Lafayette's CEO Nicolas Houzé, in a statement.
The managing director of Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail, Ashish Dixit, hailed "a symbolic moment in the transition to maturity of the luxury market in India", "a country that is now home to a generation of young consumers with strong purchasing power and open to the world."
According to Houzé, this partnership illustrates Galeries Lafayette's desire to "accelerate its international deployment to include some 20 stores by 2025, particularly in Asia and the Middle East".
The group, which has 57 stores in France, including 38 franchises, is already present in Berlin, Beijing, Jakarta, Dubai, Doha, Shanghai and Luxembourg. It is expected to open three more stores in China in 2023, bringing the total number of stores abroad to ten, while waiting for the Indian openings.


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Home » Latest News in Nigeria » NLC suspends strike in Niger
NLC suspends strike in Niger
The organised labour in Niger State has suspended its seven-day old industrial action over 30 per cent cut in salaries of civil servants in the state.
Labour gave reasons for the suspension in a statement by Mr Yakubu Garba, Chairman, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Mr Tanimu Yunusa, Chairman, Trade Union Congress (TUC) in Minna on Tuesday.
According to the statement, this is to inform all the state civil servants and local government workers were directed to resume work by Wednesday.
It also stated that the industrial action has been suspended following amicable resolution with the government.
"The government having agreed to pay members of staff of state and local governments all civil servants and local government workers are advised to resume work by Wednesday.
"The government has also agreed to pay the outstanding 30 per cent of differed June salaries, while salaries for members of staff of local governments would be paid between Dec. 8 and Jan. 31.
"Also, an agreement was reached to re-reimburse the state pension board and had commenced payment of pension and gratuities," the statement said.
The unions however added that the state government agreed to reinstate 80 workers who were recently dismissed, NAN reports.


Something strange is happening in the world of Australian business, said Simon Moylan, head of talent management at Hudson.
"It's a bizarre situation to be honest," he told HC in a recent interview about the Hudson Report – a nationwide survey of more than 2,000 Australian employers.
The report found that an astonishing 76% of professionals were either actively or passively seeking work. Despite the links between retention and training, the survey also found that one in three respondents felt they didn't have the right skills and one in two felt there was no definite training strategy in place.
This gap exists despite common knowledge that retention and training are intrinsically linked, Moylan said.
This means that while employees feel they are not being developed with the right skills, organisations have yet to really act on this either.
He advised HR to clearly identify the skills needed in six months' to two years' time and determine the gap between the skills in today's workforce and what these need to be in the future.
"They then need a plan for developing those," he said.
The other piece, he adds, is focusing the training on those with the right mindset instead of just putting everyone through a generalised development program.
"Actually identify the people with the right mindsets who – if you actually give them the right training, development, support, and opportunities – will embrace them, make the most of them, develop the skills they need, and do the things you need them to do.
Why don't employers know what the workforce wants?


The is a very old debate about the drawbacks of non-veg diet of human beings. A large amount of water is spent to raise animals to satisfy demands of non-vegetarians. Also the animals release large amount of green house gases such as methane which causes global warming. So in order to satisfy taste of delicacies human are in fact harming the environment. What are your thoughts ?
I think the meat industry is researching and developing new technologies on how to reduce the impact of raising animals and what animals are lesser harmful. Like I filled up a survey yesterday that was asking about eating meat habits. The survey was conducted by an Australian University that said eating pork is lesser harmful for the environment than eating beef as pigs discharge lesser harmful elements compared to cows. I am a vegetarian for a long time so I am probably helping the cause of environment. However, being vegan is different from being a vegetarian since vegans do not eat even dairy products including milk, butter or cheese.
When our creator made the world and us he balanced everything equally and man was carnivorous in the beginning. It is with an evolving civilization and culture that vegetarian food became a norm with certain communities . Vegan is one step further , wheher it is really benefitial is anybody's guess. I don't eat meat but eat sea food...what is needed is to eat a balanced diet in moderation rather than go overboard with meat products only !
Eating sea food is actually helpful for the environment. In case the sea food is not consumed , it will lead to huge amount of dead sea creatures being washed to the shore. According to a popular research eating sea food helps in avoiding that situation because the amount of fishes that exist if they increase, they end up eating all the flora and fauna so in order to maintain the balance, it is actually helpful for environment to consume fish.
Yes correct. This is exactly what I read, most harmful gases are released by animals which are raised for beef. Also the amount of water spent in washing these animals is huge.
I am vegetarian so I can't say about non veg foods. For me vegetarian is best one.
It would be wrong to say that consumption of non vegetarian food cause more harm to the environment. Less people know that even crops like paddy release methane gas during its cultivation. Likewise cultivation of some other crops also release carbondioxide in air. Many of us also know that use of chemicals like fertilizer and pesticides in agricultural fields harms the soil and ultimately pollute the water. So consumptions of both vegetarians and non vegetarians food can harm the environment if done intensively.
Nothing is perfect is this world. All thing have pros and cons both. Some is less harmful and some more harm full. We select from these.I think consumption of vegetarian food is less harmful to the environment than non-veg.
Veg or non veg..the eating habit is not only by your personal choice but also depends on the culture and demography of the place. Man has been omnivore and eats whatever is available in the surrounding. There are many theories and discussions to support one or the other. So a balanced diet is what is needed......be it veg or non veg.
Vegan is the new trend but one has to keep a lot of things in mind before thinking to be one...meeting yoru nutritional requirement and practicality is very important. Can you stick to it for good??
Vegan is the new trend but one has to keep a lot of things in mind before thinking to be one...meeting your nutritional requirement and practicality is very important. Can you stick to it for good??
Indeed, everyone has their own choice of living and a balanced diet is of utmost importance to maintain overall health.
I think just because it is known that eating non veg harms the environment will not make anyone to stop their eating, it is their choice. Also it may not have such a significant impact, even if its impact is there.


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Home News & Analysis Barclays tops up UK farm loan vehicle with £100m
Barclays tops up UK farm loan vehicle with £100m
The bank is adding another £100m to the vehicle it launched last July to support farmers operating in a volatile market by enabling them to invest in their businesses.
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A wooden bench shaped like a leaf is in the foreground of a landscape shot of the North Downs in Surrey, UK.
Barclays is extending the £100 million ($129.3 million; €113.4 million) UK Farming Loan Fund, a vehicle it launched last year, making another £100 million available to farmers to invest in business efficiency, agtech and to diversify into new revenue streams.
The first fund was launched "to support farmers in the immediate aftermath of the EU referendum," the bank said in a statement. The bank is now extending the fund "in response to strong take-up and to help the sector to navigate uncertain times ahead."
Barclays Agriculture also announced the introduction of new financial products including Barclays' Input Finance, which offers farmers both short-term and long-term cashflow support with loan periods ranging from one to 24 months. Barclays' Rural Project Loan is aimed at helping farmers with additional income streams to diversify or restructure their existing agribusiness. Repayments are spread over one to 25 years.
The announcement comes just one month since a National Farmers' Union (NFU) survey revealed that UK farmers are becoming increasingly worried about a post-Brexit future. According to that survey, 20.1 percent of respondents said they would be decreasing investments as a result of the EU referendum result.
"We welcome this announcement from Barclays," NFU deputy president Minette Batters said. "This comes at a time where despite the tentative signs of price recovery, the sector is still far from seeing levels which will sustain a long-term and profitable farming industry."
Last year, when Barclays first launched the fund, farmland prices had experienced the sharpest drop since the 2008 financial crisis – albeit from unexpectedly high levels in 2015.
However, this year, according to estate agents Strutt & Parker, the value of farmland in England seems to be leveling out after two years of gradual decline.
"The past six months have been a time of unprecedented political and economic uncertainty, thanks to the Brexit vote and a snap general election," Michael Fiddes, head of estates and farm agency for Strutt & Parker, said in a statement. "However, despite the turmoil, land prices have held up remarkably well."


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O'Hare Expansion Plans Need to Contract on the Noise Effects
By April Gardner Nov 20, 2015, 2:05pm CST
Many times, people don't think about the airport unless they have to catch a flight. But for many residents, including those of Addison, Bensenville, DuPage County, Elk Grove Village, Hanover Park, Itasca, Roselle and Wood Dale (all neighborhoods that the noise watchdog Suburban O'Hare Commission are from), the O'Hare International Airport will come to you. At least the noise from the jets will, unfortunately, if the commission is right. They're predicting that roars from night flights will affect thousands more people than originally expected.
The Suburban O'Hare Commission calculates that number to be 45,000 more people, to be exact, rather than the 25,000 originally projected will be affected by nighttime airplane noise when airport modernization is complete by 2021. How'd that happen? FAA miscalculated in setting the proper decibel level that defines significant noise, so 84 percent fewer people were included in the noise contour map — 24,694 individuals instead of 45,449. Whoops.
And compounding this, there will be more flights after sunset; 10.5 percent in the next six years instead of 5.6 percent.
It's already a bit of an issue. The Tribune reports that almost 3 million noise complaints have been filed with a city-run hot line and website through September. The number of complaints have soared from about 268,000 in 2014, and about 29,000 in 2013. This is quite an unpleasant trajectory.
As a result, they want tougher overnight flying restrictions. A report commissioned by the Suburban O'Hare Commission wants a more aggressive Fly Quiet program.
What can be done when all that's wanted is quiet? A few things, apparently. Among the recommendations is to use three runways, including a diagonal one, to more evenly distribute jet noise from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. O'Hare officials plan to demolish two of the airport's four diagonals. And also to encourage airlines to use newer planes over older, louder plans at night.
Chicago Aviation Commissioner Ginger Evans said that the city will seek to change in federal regulations, so that government funds could replace or supplement soundproofing on about 200 previously insulated homes closest to the airfield.
·Report warns of more O'Hare jet noise at night [Chicago Herald]
·O'Hare Noise [Chicago Tribune]
·O'Hare Noise Project
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PM Harris Dedicates His Next 5 Years In Office To Young People Of St. Kitts And Nevis
Last updated Sep 11, 2020
Basseterre, St. Kitts, September 10, 2020 (ZIZ News): Prime Minister, Dr. Hon. Timothy Harris says his Team Unity government is dedicating the next five years in office to the young people of the federation of St. Kitts and Nevis.
He made the announcement on Tuesday' edition of Leadership Matters and noted that he is "impressed by the passion of our young people to excel".
"The next 5 years of my Administration, I dedicate to the young people of St. Kitts and Nevis who are not asking what their Country can do for them, but instead are doing incredible feats for the benefit and development of their Country."
He said that the efforts of the youth helped to inspire his administration's decision to establish a Ministry of Entertainment, Entrepreneurship and Talent Development. He also shared that the rollout of this new ministry will see the provision of a national policy.
"As we build out our new Ministry of Entertainment et al, we will unveil our national policy to provide the necessary facilitating environment in which ideas emerge, talent shines, mentors volunteer and venture capital and other support are available to new entrepreneurs", PM Harris said.
Dr. Harris added that young people are essential to nation building.
He said, "Our country has many talented people. We cannot afford to lose them as we build out our nation, making it the Garden of Eden. We want our young people everywhere to shine the light and, in so doing, elevate their lives and the lives of others here in St. Kitts and
He said it is his hope that more young persons will add something of value to their country to utilize their talents in areas such as music and entertainment, visual arts, craft, photography, choreography, literary arts, science, technology, engineering and math, fisheries and agriculture.
He then commended several young persons who he says have impressed him. These include Entrepreneur Desi Brown, Alexis St. Juste, Jonathan Brown of Jay Black Productions, Radio Personality Sweet Sister Sensia, Event Promoter, Amali Armony and Sound Engineer, Azem Bailey.
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A Paz de Riga, também conhecida como Tratado de Riga, foi assinada em Riga em 18 de março de 1921, entre a Polônia, a Rússia Soviética (atuando também em nome de Belarus soviética) e a Ucrânia soviética. O tratado acabou com a guerra polaco-soviética.

As fronteiras soviético-polacas estabelecidas pelo tratado permaneceram em vigor até a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Estas seriam mais tarde redesenhadas durante a Conferência de Yalta e a Conferência de Potsdam.

Bibliografia
 Davies, Norman, White Eagle, Red Star: the Polish-Soviet War, 1919-20, Pimlico, 2003, ISBN 0-7126-0694-7. (First edition: New York, St. Martin's Press, inc., 1972.)
 Traktat ryski 1921 roku po 75 latach, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika, Toruń 1998, ISBN 83-231-0974-5 (Chapter summaries in English)

Tratados de paz
Tratados da União Soviética
Tratados da Polónia
Relações entre Polónia e União Soviética
Tratados assinados em 1921
Tratados que entraram em vigor em 1921
Guerra polaco-soviética

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But can Guide to Lenders' network really help you obtain low mortgage rates, and are their services worthwhile? We did some digging around and here's what we found.
Using their network of over 150 lenders, including AmeriSave, Quicken Loans, Wells Fargo, Loan Depot, and many more, Guide to Lenders claims to help you shop around for a mortgage, which could ultimately help save you money. As such, the company claims to have served over $16 billion in loan requests since opening their doors in 2005.
Fill out the simple online form in less than 5 minutes. To begin the quote process, you'll need to indicate whether you're looking to refinance your existing mortgage or to obtain a new home loan. Then, you'll input your zip code, property type (e.g. single family home, etc.), how it will be used (e.g. primary residence, investment, etc.), overall credit rating, property value, if you want to cash out any of your equity, date of birth, and email address.
Next, Guide to Lenders claims to send an email comparing quotes from up to 4 different licensed mortgage lenders.
Finally, you can choose the offer that best meets your needs.
In addition to helping you obtain a mortgage that meets your needs, Guide to Lenders also claims to help educate you by providing a section on their website dedicated to Mortgage Basics, as well as a Glossary section dedicated to common mortgage terminology.
Guide to Lenders is completely free to use and there are no hidden fees associated with their services. This is because the company is not a broker or a lender, but instead is a lead generation website that sells your information to one or more of the lenders in their network, for which they charge a fee.
Because of this, interest rates and other fees associated with your mortgage will vary based on a variety of criteria such as loan amount, credit rating, total down payment, and much more.
If you'd like to get a better idea of how Guide to Lenders works or to ask any questions, you can contact the company directly at 888-680-9459.
Is Guide to Lenders Your Best Option?
First and foremost, remember that Guide to Lenders only works with residential properties, which means that if you're looking to finance a commercial property you'll need to look elsewhere.
Next, Guide to Lenders only sells your information to its lender network in an attempt to help you obtain the lowest rates, and does not provide any mortgages themselves.
Finally, the owner of Guide to Lenders, Quinstreet Media, Inc based out of San Mateo, CA, holds a B+ rating with the Better Business Bureau based on 18 closed complaints over the past 3 years. Of these complaints, the most common appear to reference receiving unwanted emails and phone calls soon after signing up.
Outside of the BBB, there aren't many online reviews related to Guide to Lenders, which might make sense because they offer a free service and most problems would arise with their network of lenders, not with Guide to Lenders themselves.
If you don't mind having your information shared with unrelated third-parties who will likely call/email you for the purposes of selling, Guide to Lenders may be a good option for finding the lowest mortgage rates available.
I applied with these people, received a phone call after the application, and walked through the whole process. I have attempted to contact them at least five times, and no one has got back to me. I can only conclude that it was a scam to get my information and sell it to others. I have never received any information after the initial phone call to get my information on the loan.
I attempted two online checks to get an idea if I could be approved for a loan before applying. I used Lending Tree and this Guide To Lenders.
The next day or two, I get an email from Avant saying I have an application on hold for me to finish. Note, I have never actually applied for the loans. This one is fine, may be part of the "checking" process. I also get an email from LendingPoint (not Lending Tree) saying that my APPLICATION was denied. I called them, and sure enough, there was a legit application for a Small Business Loan. I was checking out personal loans, but the bank the information was processing for was a bank that only does auto and SBA loans in Utah. They said the company that the application was for, however, was Quin Street. I look them up, and they are in California, like Guide to Lenders, while Lending Tree is in New York. Also, Guide to Lenders shows both Advant and LendingPoint as one of the companies they work with right on the page you use to check.
So the evidence points to Guide to Lenders, but I can't say exactly which site did it. But having an actually SBA in your name is serious stuff, which I now have to get removed and see how much my credit information is in jeopardy. So I learned my lesson, anyhow.
This is undoubtedly a scam.
The company, after gathering your personal information online, will call you and tell you that you've been approved for a loan regardless of your credit score or any proof of employment. The catch is that in order to prove that you can afford monthly payments, you have to buy iTunes gift cards and share the pin number with them over the phone or email. After this, they will tell you to pay for a large tax required to transfer the funds to your bank account, which you have to pay for using iTunes gift cards again, which should be a major red flag!
Long story short, the loan will never come, and you will end up in a worse economic situation than you started.
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Mission at Nuremberg
Tim Townsend
The gripping story of the American army chaplain sent to save the souls of the Nazis incarcerated at Nuremberg
Lutheran minister Henry Gerecke was fifty years old when he enlisted as an army chaplain during World War II. As two of his three sons faced danger and death on the battlefield, Gerecke tended to the battered bodies and souls of wounded and dying GIs outside London. But at the close of the European theater, with Hitler defeated and scores of American troops returning home to resume their lives, Gerecke received his most challenging assignment: he was sent to Nuremberg to minister to the twenty-one imprisoned Nazi leaders awaiting trial for crimes against humanity.
A crucial yet largely untold coda to the horrors of World War II, Mission at Nuremberg unearths groundbreaking new research and compelling firsthand accounts to take us deep inside the Nuremberg Palace of Justice, into the very cells of the accused and the courtroom where they answered to the world for their crimes. Never before in modern history had man accomplished mass slaughter with such precision. These twenty-one Nazis had sat at the right hand of Adolf Hitler; Hermann Goering, Albert Speer, Wilhelm Keitel, Hans Frank, and Ernst Kaltenbrunner were the orchestrators, and in some cases the direct perpetrators, of the most methodical genocide in history.
As the drama leading to the court's final judgments unfolds, Tim Townsend brings Henry Gerecke's impossible moral quandary to life: How, having risked his own life (and those of his sons) to eliminate the Nazi threat, could he now win the confidence of these men? In the months after the war ended, Gerecke had visited Dachau. He had touched the walls of the camp's crematorium. He had seen the consequences of the choices these men had made, the orders they had given and carried out. As he worked to form compassionate relationships with them, how could he preach the gospel of mercy, knowing full well the devastating nature of the atrocities they had committed? And as the day came nearer when he had to escort these men to the gallows, what comfort could he offer—and what promises of salvation could he make—to evil itself?
Detailed, harrowing, and emotionally charged, Mission at Nuremberg is an incisive new history of the Nuremberg trials as well as a nuanced reflection on the nature of morality and sin, the price of empathy, and the limits of forgiveness.
Lutheran minister Henry Gerecke was fifty years old when he enlisted as an army chaplain during World War II. As two of his three sons faced danger and death on the battlefield, Gerecke tended to the battered bodies and souls of wounded and dying GIs outside London. But at the close of the European theater, with Hitler defeated and scores of American troops… (more)


iOS 7 will be officially in this autumn with a new service called "Find My Phone", where the user can thieves prey to deactivate the device using their online account. Once disabled, the phone will be impossible to use, writes Daily Mail.
Basically, the function will enable the user to block GPS off by an unauthorized person or deletion. Thieves will get their hands on iPhones from now will be forced to know details of the user who owns the phone log. Nice haa?!


Did you just receive an error message when browsing to a Facebook web page (perhaps a Facebook Fan Page), and you did nothing to invoke it? The error message is below.
You do not have the necessary permission for the specified Page to perform the requested action.
Some have suggested online to clear your browser cache and cookies – but this does not fix error from re-appearing. From others reporting the error online, it is most likely because of Facebook releasing new beta features on pages you can't see and otherwise would not have access too.
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I was getting that error message in the messenger app on my iPhone, on all my business pages. Your solution fixed it perfectly. Thanks sooooo much. It was driving me nuts!!!
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The Hague: The Netherlands announced Monday it was officially withdrawing its ambassador from Turkey, and will refuse to allow Ankara to post one in the country as diplomatic ties plunged to new lows.
Relations have deteriorated since last year, when Dutch officials barred a Turkish minister from attending a rally in Rotterdam on the eve of Dutch elections. Despite recent talks between the two countries, "we have not agreed on how to normalise ties," Foreign Minister Halbe Zijlsra said in a statement.


ABOUT THE ITEM: This is a very nice TERMINATOR 2 3-D sign prop that was used at Universal Studios. It is part of the main sign going into the entrance to the attraction. Just so you know Universal took down the sign so they took it down in pieces. Had they maintained it together it would weigh hundreds of pounds and would probably require a crane or boom truck.
As it is each letter section weighs approx. I don't have to tell you how cool this item is! To own a prop used by Universal Studios for their Terminator ride/show is way cool. Comes with a tag stating they were from Universal Studios and were obtained directly from Universal Studios. 3' long and is quite heavy.
I also have the sign from the other side plus the TERMINATOR 2 sign from each side. It forms the complete sign so if you are interested please contact me. May need some polishing as these were on display and then stored in their laydown yard and then their warehouse. Keep in mind these have been displayed in their theme park and then placed in storage. I do have the other portions of the sign so if you are interested please contact me.
PLEASE understand that it could be a few days before I respond to a question. READ AT THE BOTTOM ABOUT THIS.
But some depending on the location in the country will go by parcel post. The item "TERMINATOR 2 3-D Universal Studios Theme Park Movie PROP Entrance SIGN" is in sale since Saturday, June 23, 2018. This item is in the category "Entertainment Memorabilia\Movie Memorabilia\Props\Originals". The seller is "honestgrader" and is located in Lakeland, Florida.


Based on the acclaimed children's novel by Cécile Aubry, BELLE and SEBASTIAN follows the courageous adventures of a young boy and his giant sheepdog amidst the stunning backdrop of the snow-covered Alps. In WWII-occupied France, on the border of Switzerland, six-year-old Sebastian tames the enormous, yet gentle mountain dog Belle, who, despite the fears of the local villagers, becomes his best friend and protector. When the Nazis arrive and begin rooting out resistance members and Jewish refugees, Belle and Sebastian prove their loyalty – the village and each other – when they undertake a treacherous journey to help the cause.
"A well-crafted outdoor adventure in the old school Disney tradition. "
"This beautiful drama deals with...strong positive messages about protecting the weak and fighting for what you believe in..."
A story of a young girl who lives in the Swiss Alps with her goat-herding Grandfather.


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Anders Lars-Göran "Lakke" Magnusson (21 May 1946, in Kinna, Västergötland – 19 February 2004, in Stockholm) was a Swedish actor, best known as Kurt in Håkan Bråkan.

Selected filmography
2004 - Kyrkogårdsön
2003 - Håkan Bråkan (TV)
2003 - Illusive Tracks
2000 - Skärgårdsdoktorn (TV)
2000 - Ronny & Julia (TV)
1999 - Sally (TV)
1997 - Kenny Starfighter (TV)
1997 - Peter-No-Tail (TV, julkalendern)
1997 - Jag är din krigare
1996 - Kalle Blomkvist – Mästerdetektiven lever farligt
1995 - Anmäld försvunnen (TV)
1995 - Vita lögner (TV)
1994 - Sommarmord
1994 - Den vite riddaren (TV)

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Swedish male actors
1946 births
2004 deaths


The datalogger is designed with a rugged housing and a standard USB connector where stored readings (up to 48,000 data) are conveniently transferred to a PC in PDF or Excel® spreadsheet format when plugged in.
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After being driven underground by Soviet rule for nearly 80 years, the Russian Orthodox Church has been resurrected and is rapidly being restored to its former splendor as the center of Russia's identity — spiritually and architecturally.
In 1991, hopes for a new Russia gave rise to dreams of democracy, economic freedom, and most of all, a spiritual revival. The number of people claiming a religious affiliation surged. By 2004, communities of the Russian Orthodox Church almost quadrupled in numbers and millions of Russians rushed to be baptized, eager to be reunited with their historical past. Thousands of ruined churches- – including those claimed by the Soviets for use as warehouses, factories, or barns – have been restored to their original opulence and the clergy have resumed their magnificent traditional liturgies and rituals. Young and old are embracing age-old acts of devotion and faith; the monastic life has returned and the church's role within local communities is expanding; throngs of young priests with corps of volunteers are faithfully administering to the sick, elderly, poor; troubled youths housed in prisons and half-way houses are being both cared for and proselytized – and an icy swim in the priest-blessed waters of rivers and lakes at the Feast of Epiphany cleanses the soul of sins.
Russia has realigned itself with God, and as the Kremlin quietly takes stock of the church's growing influence, the Russian people are reveling in their reunion with the deeply rooted mysteries and abiding traditions of their once buried past.


296 pages | 34 B/W Illus.
Tor Håkon Inderberg is Senior Research Fellow and Director of the European Programme at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway.
Siri Eriksen is Associate Professor at the Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway.
Karen O'Brien is a Professor of Human Geography at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo, Norway.
Linda Sygna is Co-Founder of cCHANGE – Transformation in a Changing climate, cchange.no.


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Google's AI breast cancer screening tool is learning to generalize across countries
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In a preliminary test, a model trained only on data from UK women still performed better than experts on US patients.
The news: DeepMind and Google Health have developed a new AI system to help doctors detect breast cancer early. The researchers trained an algorithm on mammogram images from female patients in the US and UK, and it performed better than human radiologists. The results were published in Nature on Wednesday.
A tragedy of errors: Breast cancer is the most common cancer for women globally, and their second leading cause of death. Though early detection and treatment can improve a patient's prognosis, screening tests have high rates of error. About 1 in 5 screenings fail to find breast cancer even when it's present, also known as a false negative; 50% of women who receive annual mammograms also get at least one false alarm over a 10-year period, known as a false positive.
The results: In tests, the AI system decreased both types of error. For US patients, it reduced false negatives and positives by 9.4% and 5.7%, respectively; for UK patients it reduced them by 2.7% and 1.2%. In a separate experiment, the researchers tested the system's ability to generalize: they trained the model using only mammograms from UK patients, and then evaluated its performance on US patients. The system still outperformed human radiologists, reducing false negatives and positives by 8.1% and 3.5%.
Why it matters: The system's ability to generalize in this way has promising implications. It shows that it may be possible to overcome one of the biggest challenges facing AI adoption in health care: the need for ever more data to cover a representative patient population. But such results should also be interpreted with caution. Relatively speaking, the US and UK have quite similar populations. The system likely would not generalize as well to other parts of the world.
Related work: Last October, NYU researchers published a similar study, demonstrating an AI system for breast cancer screenings on par with human radiologists. The primary differences, however, were that it only used mammograms from US patients, and it compared the system's performance with human expert diagnoses conducted in an artificial lab environment. Google and DeepMind instead compared performance with real-world diagnoses.
Human and machine: Ultimately, both studies conclude that such AI breast cancer screenings should be used in tandem with human radiologists. The combination achieves the most accurate diagnostic results but still reduces the workload on human radiologists, which would help free up their time to focus more on patient care.
by Karen Hao
The viral AI avatar app Lensa undressed me—without my consent
My avatars were cartoonishly pornified, while my male colleagues got to be astronauts, explorers, and inventors.
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Roomba testers feel misled after intimate images ended up on Facebook
An MIT Technology Review investigation recently revealed how images of a minor and a tester on the toilet ended up on social media. iRobot said it had consent to collect this kind of data from inside homes—but participants say otherwise.
How to spot AI-generated text
The internet is increasingly awash with text written by AI software. We need new tools to detect it.


Fees for cosmetic surgery add up. In addition to the surgeon's fees, there are fees for the operating room, anesthesia, overhead fees, and supplies. Cosmetic surgery can be expensive. Surgery for revisions or complications, as a result of the procedure, is the patient's responsibility. The surgeon or the insurance company is not responsible for any future charges that may occur as a result of needing additional surgery.
There are certain complications that occur no matter how careful the doctor and the surgical team or how good the care. At times it may be necessary for the patient to undergo a revision, either on an emergency basis or as an elective procedure.
Some surgeon's revision policy waives their surgeon's fee for complications or revisions as long as the revision procedure is performed within six months of the original surgery date. The patient will still be expected to pay for expenses such as facility fees and anesthesia fees. Some patients may have medical insurance that covers the cost of revisions or complications. If the patient does have coverage, the insurance company may be billed for the surgeon's fee and the facility fee.
Patients should have realistic expectations of the outcome of their plastic surgery procedure. Patients need to carefully select the plastic surgeon that will perform their procedure. They should make sure that their surgeon is certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and has active memberships in the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, and American Board of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.


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The history of waist beads dates back to antiquity. Many believe that the history begins in ancient Egypt where they were called "girdles" and were worn by women as a status symbol. In West Africa, the tradition was made popular by the Yoruban tribe of Nigeria. They are worn as a celebration of womanhood, sexuality, femininity, fertility, healing, spirituality, body shaping, protection and wealth.
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Dozens Injured During Seven-Hour Battle at Cyprus Migrant Camp
DAN LYMAN
A massive fight between Syrians and Africans at a migrant camp on the island of Cyprus ended with dozens injured and widespread damage, according to reports.
Riot police were called in to restore order during a battle that lasted over seven hours, authorities say.
Investigators believe a minor skirmish quickly exploded into a major conflict between migrants from Syria and multiple African nations, leaving 25 in need of medical care.
"Windowpanes were shattered, beds and other equipment smashed and a section of the camp's fencing sustained extensive damage," Cypriot Interior Ministry spokesman Loizos Michael told the Associated Press.
Pournara refugee camp is no more safe for asylums, please release people. Serious bloodsheds . @IOMCyprus @JoeBiden @CYpresidency @DefenceCyprus @AnastasiadesCY pic.twitter.com/ROjGivRtmC
— Pournararefugee (@pournararefugee) January 12, 2021
The camp, which lies outside the capital city of Nicosia, is currently home to around 1,500 migrants, despite being designed to only hold up to 1,000.
The vast majority of migrants arriving on Cyprus are single males, at least one-quarter of whom claim to be from Syria, Michael says.
Some of the men are suspected of having ties to jihadist factions.
When interviewed, many of the migrants reportedly say they are "forced" to go to Cyprus by Turkish authorities.
Over 7,000 migrants applied for asylum in Cyprus last year.
Jan 16, 2021 | Featured, Top Stories, World
Stanford researchers found "no clear, significant beneficial effect of [more restrictive measures] on case growth in any country."
Up to 25,000 National Guard in DC for Inauguration: US Army
Jan 16, 2021 | Featured, Top Stories, U.S.
The U.S. Army confirmed that as many as 25,000 National Guard members will be stationed in Washington D.C. for Inauguration Day next week.
Guatemala detains hundreds of migrants at border as U.S.-bound caravan grows
Jan 15, 2021 | Top Stories, U.S., World
Hundreds of Central Americans camped overnight outside the bus terminal in the city of San Pedro Sula, Honduras, anxiously awaiting the departure early Friday morning …
Donald Trump Plans Farewell Ceremony Before Joe Biden's Inauguration
Jan 15, 2021 | Politics, Top Stories
President Donald Trump plans to leave Washington, D.C., after a farewell ceremony on the morning of President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration ceremony, according to reports.
US Attorney: No 'Direct Evidence' of Plot to Kidnap, Kill Lawmakers in Capitol Breach
Jan 15, 2021 | Top Stories, U.S.
The acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia on Friday said there is no "direct evidence" suggesting that rioters who breached the Capitol last …
Republicans face growing corporate backlash after Capitol assault
Jan 15, 2021 | Business, Politics, Top Stories, U.S.
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The WDW Railroad: THE WDW ESCAPE PODCAST (EPISODE 74)
by WDW Magazine | Oct 6, 2021 | Magic Kingdom, Podcast, WDW Blog
This week on WDW ESCAPE, take a journey of the imagination with us, as we IMAGINE The Walt Disney World Railroad!
Listen now on Apple Podcasts, Google Play Music, or Spotify!
Or, copy and paste this link into your favorite podcast app to listen and subscribe: wdwmagazine.libsyn.com/rss
For more info on WDW Escape, click here– or listen to all our episodes. Listen to today's Imagine: The Walt Disney World Railroad episode while following along with the transcript and photos below!
Imagine- The Walt Disney World Railroad
Welcome to WDW Escape, brought to you by WDW Magazine. The October Issue of WDW Magazine is a special one– celebrating the Magic Kingdom and the 50 years of wonder and joy that it has brought to the world.
Here at WDW Escape, we are playing along and featuring some of the attractions that came into being on that fateful day, way back in October of 1971, including the Most Magical Train on Earth– the Walt Disney World Railroad….
When I was a little boy, my daddy had a model railroad set. I was officially discouraged from touching it, and as far as I could ever see, it didn't do much but drive around in a circle, but there was a brief span of time there when a lot of the gifting guesswork was taken out of Christmases and birthdays and Father's Days.
A new boxcar, or a couple of scale trees, or tiny people to stand waving to the train as it passed, or some small automobiles to be perpetually parked at the train crossing, waiting for the endlessly circular route to be travelled; these were all excellent gifts. So, of course, the railroad set got bigger. But the available space to put it in did not.
Quite the opposite, in fact– And so, the model railroad was attached to a folding table, that could be packed away easily into what little space was left over from four kids and two dogs and the bric-a-brac of family life.
I always thought this was very clever, though by the time he was done taking it all out and putting it all away again, there wasn't time for much more than a few loops around the circuit, and the railroad came out less and less, until one day it just stopped altogether. In time, I would come to understand, as I'm sure many of you do as well, that Dads still like toys, but they don't really have enough space for them.
Well, except for one Dad who did. Would it surprise you to learn that his name was Walt Disney?
Photo by Courtney Reynolds
Like my Dad, Walt was a scale train enthusiast.
Unlike my Dad, Walt had 5 acres in the California sunshine to let his model trains have room to roam, and they never had to be folded away and squirreled into the basement.
And instead of waiting for Fathers Day to prompt a visit to the hobby store, Walt had the machine shop at Walt Disney Studios to fabricate him whatever he needed. And so, the Carolwood Pacific Railroad was founded.
On Walt's instruction, a scale replica steam engine was crafted, and named The Lilly Belle, after his wife Lillian Disney, which is the sort of thing that good husbands do when they have just built a rideable model train set where their lovely wife had intended to put a flower garden.
Photo by Rich Ramos
Yes, the Carolwood Pacific Railroad was rideable, if you didn't mind looking a bit like a grown man riding around on a tricycle. To judge by the newsreel footage, Walt didn't mind a bit, and neither did his guests, all of whom seemed to be having a lovely time.
Too lovely, perhaps, as an accident involving a guest in 1953 led to Walt' decision to close the Carolwood Pacific. Even Walt Disney ran out of room for his toys eventually. Except, no. He did not.
Because by this point Disneyland was in the works, and drawn on the site plan in Walt's own hand was the route for the Disneyland Railroad. Or, as it would come to be called, the Santa Fe and Disneyland Railroad, through the corporate sponsorship of the Aitchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad.
The railroad rolled into life on the opening day of Disneyland, July 17, 1955, with Walt himself at the controls. And these were no miniature, tricycle-sized trains. They were still scale models, to a degree, and created once again by the Studio's machine shop, but the scale was now one that suited a Dad who not only had space for his toy trains, but had room for trains that were actual… well… trains!
Soon enough a ride on the Santa Fe and Disneyland Railroad would cost you a top-level ticket, and, with more than 6.5 million riders a year, it was one of the most popular steam-powered trains in the world.
Of course, much like my own Dad and the folding table, there was still never enough room for all of Walt's toys at Disneyland, and so he embarked on the mysterious Florida Project, which you and I and millions of other lucky people know as the Most Magical Place on Earth. There was never any doubt that yet another railroad would be a part of the new park, even if Walt would never get to drive it.
Photo by Brett Svenson
This time it was decided that buying and restoring existing narrow-gage locomotives would be better than making them from scratch, and five engines were purchased from Ferrocarriles de Yucatan in Mexico (please pardon my terrible Spanish), and shipped by rail to Florida where they were restored and had custom passenger cars constructed.
Only four were able to be restored, but the trains, the Walter E. Disney, the Lilly Belle, the Roger Broggie and the Roy O. Disney were soon ready to meet their adoring public, carrying as many as 375 passengers at a time on a gently nostalgic journey from Main Street USA Station to… Main Street USA Station.
With only one completed station, only round-trips were available until the following May when the first Frontierland Station opened, and the Walt Disney World Railroad officially became a real train that you could actually use to go somewhere.
That is, until Frontierland Station was torn down while they were building Splash Mountain in 1990. For a brief time, the WDWRR was renamed the Backtrack Express as it could only travel forward and back between Main Street USA Station and the construction site. Never quite enough room for all of the toys.
There have been many changes over the years, stations have been moved, and renamed. Mickey's Birthdayland Station, Mickey's Starland Station, Mickey's Toontown Fair Station, they have come and gone, but the Walt Disney World Railroad keeps coming down the track.
Well, mostly. Those beautiful steam trains have been quiet for a while, a necessary delay in departures caused by the construction of the much-anticipated Tron Lightcycle Run attraction. Bigger, faster and shinier, but still train, in a way. Even Walt Disney has a hard time finding room for all of his toys at once, it would seem.
Soon enough, the Railroad will ride again. At time of writing there is no official word of exactly when, but fans seem hopeful that it will be soon. Millions of happy passengers will spend a nostalgic twenty minutes riding a loop through a simpler time.
My Dad never got to ride Walt's railroad, but I think of him each time that I do. I imagine his delight as we pull out of Main Street USA Station, passing over bridges and through tunnels into Adventureland, and pull into Frontierland Station.
On the move again we pass Big Thunder Mountain, and wave like the tiny people in his train set at the folks riding another one of Walt's toy trains.
Over the bridge, and off to Fantasyland Station, and then away on the final leg of the round trip, past Tomorrowland, waving to the future from the past. In my imagination his face is beaming at every moment, and upon returning to Main Street USA Station, I can picture him quietly wanting to go around again.
But his grandchildren (who he never did get a chance to meet), would be pulling him in different directions, and he would smile and go along. Putting his toys away. Because sometimes that's just what good Dads do.
Written by WDW Magazine
At WDW Magazine, our mission is to help you feel the magic of Walt Disney World at the touch of a button, or the turn of a page. Whether you prefer the instant access of our Digital Edition, or the glossy pages of our Print Edition, WDW Magazine will make you feel like you're in the middle of the magic.


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Monsters start growling…
…head out on the highway!
Monster Road Trip features ten tales of road trips, vacations, tourist destinations, and pits stops that go horribly, horribly wrong. These monsters are out for adventure! But they may not have filled up the gas tank first.
Put on your shades, slather on your sunscreen—
(Especially if you're a vampire!)
—and load your swimsuit and your best beach bod in to the car, because it's time to roll out for the summer—scales, tentacles, and all!
In Shannon Lawrence's "Tailgating," Sarah and her friend Layla are driving north on the Pacific Coast Highway when Sarah sees an animal leaping through the trees on the side of the road…and it's clearly following them. To make matters worse, whoever is driving the car behind them also appears to be following them, the car driving so close that its headlights shine into their rear window. And on top of all that, they're running out of gas…
Sibling werewolves Mimi, Cece, and their adopted baby brother—a runt of a dragon—sneak out and take the family convertible for an evening spin along I-5 in Meyari McFarland's "Dandelion Rider." Mimi is still trying to recover from a horrible, and false, accusation that everyone—even their parents—believe. Who else shows up at the party, but her accuser?
Jeff Wood's "Exit Ramp" takes us to a world that used to be happy and fun, until Jimmy's dad lost his job. Now the family is on their way to Mesa, Arizona, where—if all goes well—Jimmy's dad will once again be gainfully employed. But when their car's tire blows out, they pull off on an exit ramp and find themselves stuck for the night in a place full of small, oddly shaped factories, where the mechanics at the garage have weird, underwater-blue eyes…
A trucker driving through the Nevada desert picks up a hitchhiker in "Wiggle-Wiggle, Shake-Shake," by Rebecca Hodgkins. Something about the kid seems a bit off, so the trucker stops at a diner he knows, thinking at least the kid would be safe if left there. But there's a lot more going on out in the desert than he ever could have imagined.
In Mark Leslie's "Stowe Away," Michael needs to get to Stowe, Vermont, to help his dearest friend—and it's imperative that he arrive before sunset, when the full moon will turn him into a wolf. He boards a train and meets someone else who desperately needs his help as well. But the day is growing long, and Michael is running out of time…
Ron Collins takes us on a winding path of destruction by a wonderfully vile beast in "Trail of Fears." A beast born from the foulness created by humanity, the beast would say, if it could. And some things, once birthed, cannot be killed.
Bean, a goblin who's spent most of his life below ground, agrees to drive his brilliant but transportationally-challenged cousin Heinrich across the country in Jamie Ferguson's "Goblin Road Trip." Heinrich plans to propose to his estranged girlfriend, who moved to Colorado after she got frustrated with his inability to remember, well, anything. Will she say yes to Heinrich's proposal? Will he remember where the ring is? Will the cousins even make it to their destination at all?
This collection wouldn't be complete without people searching for Bigfoot! Or is that bigfeet? "The Squatchers," by Jason Dias, takes us to the mountains with a team of YouTubers who make their living searching for sasquatch—in spite of the fact that they never seem to actually find any.
"The Plague Comet," by DeAnna Knippling, is set in 1957, when a comet carrying a zombie plague struck, and everything went to hell. But worse things can happen to you in the Nevada desert than getting infected by zombie plague rays…
Roland Eckstein, a couple of his friends, and a group of ancient monsters embark on a road trip across Europe in Sharon Kae Reamer's "Alexander's Gate." Their goal: a mythical, monster-populated secret hideaway, somewhere east of Turkey and north of Iran. Even Grendel agrees not to eat any humans on the trip, not even humans who happen to be Danish. Things are going well until they make a small detour to pick up Medusa and her companion—and everything gets much more complicated than Roland could have possibly imagined.
Find Monster Road Trip
By Jamie Ferguson On October 26, 2019 0
Monster Road Trip, the second issue in the Amazing Monster Tales anthology series, is on its way! The fantastic cover art was designed by the super awesome Paul Roman Martinez.
This issue contains stories by: Shannon Lawrence, Meyari McFarland, Jeff Wood, Rebecca Hodgkins, Mark Leslie, Ron Collins, Jamie Ferguson, Jason Dias, DeAnna Knippling, and Sharon Kae Reamer.
Just a few more days until the road trip begins!


Although President Truman passed on the space station, the military fell in love with RAND. Through Hap's connections, the Air Force quickly became the think tank's main contractor, and RAND began consulting on everything from propeller turbines to missile defense. Before long, the organization was so flush with contracts that it had to hire hundreds of additional researchers to keep up. In recruitment ads, RAND bragged about its intellectual genealogy, tracing a direct line from its president, Frank Collbohm, to Isaac Newton. Whether or not that claim was true, the institute secured a reputation as the place to dream up new ways to wage wars and keep enemies at bay.
The theory was a perfect fit for RAND, an organization that continually sought to impose objective reality on an irrational world.
Another genius, mathematician Albert Wohlstetter, came up with the fail-safe concept, which saved the world from nuclear conflagration several times. The idea called for a series of checkpoints for bombers armed with nuclear weapons. If a bomber pilot failed to receive confirmation at any checkpoint, he would abandon the mission and turn the plane around. Once, in 1979, a mistake by a telephone operator led to a transmission that the United States was under nuclear attack from Moscow. Ten fighters from three separate bases took to the air armed with nuclear missiles. But in the end, because of Wohlstetter's fail-safe system, none of them deployed their weapons.
During the 1960s, RAND also expanded its lines of investigation into education, welfare reform, and criminal justice. By the time Richard Nixon took office in 1969, the think tank was an established, independent source for social policy research. So, when the issue of medical insurance sparked a great national debate, Nixon tapped RAND for ideas. At the time, there was little data on the effectiveness of free health care versus coverage plans with co-pays and deductibles. In particular, Nixon wanted to know if free health care made people healthier. To find the answer, RAND's Health Division spent 10 years acting as the insurance company for more than 5,000 people around the country.
In the end, RAND's research found that people who paid for health care were just as healthy as people who got it for free. With free health care, people went in for more regular medical screenings, but their other habits—exercise, diet, smoking—were worse. The message was not lost on the insurance industry, nor on the federal government. In 1982, when the study was released, only 30 percent of medical plans had deductibles. Five years later, more than 90 percent did.
Health care was just the beginning of RAND's expansion into the social sciences. Although 50 percent of RAND's current $223 million budget still comes from federal funding, much of that goes toward non-defense work. The think tank currently employs close to 1,000 researchers, who spend their time analyzing everything from renewable energy and obesity to hurricanes and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Globalization has also opened up the organization's opportunities. In addition to its five centers that handle social and economic policy issues, as well as the five centers that focus on international affairs, RAND has an affiliate organization in Europe, and a prominent voice in Middle Eastern policy. Most notably, the RAND Qatar Policy Institute is working on reconfiguring the emirate's entire educational system.
Of course, RAND hasn't exactly abandoned its bread-and-butter services. The organization touts three federally funded research and development centers that concentrate on national security. After all, RAND did establish the discipline of studying terrorism in the 1970s, long before the United Nations even had a working definition for the word. Today, the RAND Terrorism Chronology Database, which has catalogued all acts of terrorism from 1968 to the present, has become an invaluable tool for the military and the government. It makes sense that in these times, our new president will pay attention to the think tank, too. Barack Obama has taken a keen interest in its study on post-traumatic stress disorder in soldiers returning from Iraq. In other words, RAND already has his ear.
John Nash "" RAND was the motherland of game theory during the 1950s and 1960s, and among its most prominent players was John Nash—the soulful subject of the book and movie A Beautiful Mind. Nash came up with what is now called the Nash equilibrium, which is used to determine the stability of competition.
Thomas Schelling "" Schelling was an economist who came to RAND shortly after Nash's frenzied departure. His game theory concocted a worldview of aggression and counter-aggression that was heavily influential during the Vietnam War.
Kenneth Arrow "" One of the most influential RAND employees, Arrow posited that greed is good, and that what he termed "consumer sovereignty" should rule society. Some critics have blamed Arrow's Theorem for providing the theoretical foundation for the free market frenzy of the past 30 years, including the current housing market meltdown.
Albert Wohlstetter "" The most prominent member of RAND's so-called Nuclear Boys Club. A brilliant theoretical mathematician and an unparalleled nuclear strategist, he worked at RAND on and off from 1951 to his death 46 years later. He originated the Second Strike nuclear doctrine (make sure you have enough backup nukes to wipe out any attackers) and the Fail Safe principle (drop the big one on your target only after confirmation in flight from headquarters).
Daniel Ellsberg "" An endlessly loquacious mathematical genius, strategic thinker, and unlikely peacenik. Disgusted with official lies about America's involvement in Southeast Asia, he leaked the Pentagon Papers, which set in motion the end of the Vietnam War.
This article originally appeared in mental_floss magazine. Alex Abella is the author of Soldiers of Reason: The RAND Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire (Harcourt, 2008).


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Доменико Коппола (; род. 29 января 1999 года в Турине, Италия) — итальянский футболист, вратарь.

Клубная карьера
Доменико воспитывался в академии «Торино» и прошёл через всю детско-юношескую систему этого клуба . В сезоне 2018/19 он был арендован командой «Кунео» из Серии C, но не провёл за неё ни одной игры. Когда в 2019 году Доменико вернулся в расположение «Торино», туринцы не стали продлевать с ним контракт и отпустили вратаря в «Савойю», искавшую замену Джанлуке Вольцоне. В составе «королевского клуба» и состоялся его дебют во взрослом футболе: 6 октября 2019 года он пропустил 1 мяч в матче Серии D против «Роччеллы». Всего в сезоне 2019/20 голкипер провёл 15 встреч, пропустив 8 голов и 8 раз отстояв «на ноль». Сезон 2020/21 Доменико начал запасным вратарём «Савойи». В январе 2021 года он покинул её и перебрался в «Афраголезе» ради получения игровой практики. Вратарь провёл за новый клуб всего 3 встречи в Серии D, где пропустил 6 мячей. Остаток сезона Доменико провёл в любительской «Павии».

В начале 2022 года голкипер заключил контракт с армянским клубом «Ван». Он дебютировал за него 5 марта, пропустив 2 гола от «Алашкерта» в чемпионате Армении. Суммарно Доменико принял участие в 9 встречах армянского первенства и пропустил в них 12 голов, из них только 2 игры были «сухими». После завершения сезона 2021/22 вратарь стал свободным агентом и за лето не смог найти себе новый клуб.

Международная карьера
Доменико представлял Италию на юношеском уровне. 20 января 2016 года он провёл единственную игру за юношескую сборную Италии до 17 лет, заменив основного вратаря Филиппо Марикки в перерыве товарищеского матча со сверстниками из Испании и «насухо» отстояв его остаток. В том же году вратарь провёл 2 игры за команду до 18 лет, пропустив 1 мяч.

Личная жизнь
Младшие братья Доменико, Алессандро (род. 2000) и Франческо (род. 2005) — тоже футболисты, однако они играют в центре защиты. Их мать по национальности кубинка, в молодости она профессионально занималась лёгкой атлетикой. Благодаря своим корням Доменико и его братья имеют право выступать за национальную сборную Кубы.

Примечания

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Игроки ФК «Павия»
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Paradoxopsyllus curvispinus är en loppart som beskrevs av Miyajima et Koidzumi 1909. Paradoxopsyllus curvispinus ingår i släktet Paradoxopsyllus och familjen smågnagarloppor. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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More Hollywood, Not Less
North Carolina's tax credits for film and television production are set to expire at the end of this year, and some Republicans in the General Assembly will take their marching orders from the John Locke Foundation, which hates Hollywood and hates Hollywood's money flowing into the state. In fact, the sock puppets working for the John Locke Foundation claim that the state's "film incentives" produce a "negative budgetary impact."
Buffalo dust!
A new, non-Pope funded study of the film industry in North Carolina by Robert Handfield of the North Carolina State University's Poole College of Management found this:
Beginning in 2007, when the incentive was first enacted, through 2012, the film and television industry has spent $1.02 billion in the state and generated a projected $170,000,000 in tax revenue. The cost of the credit over the same time period was $112,000,000. The result means that, for every dollar of credit issued, the industry generated $9.11 in direct spending and contributed $1.52 in tax revenue to North Carolina. (Hattip: WRAL)
The City of Charlotte has never looked better than it does in "Homeland." The Charlotte Chamber of Commerce ought to be giving a subsidy to that show.
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by Aziz Hassan
Written by Aziz Hassan
Recollections & Reflections – A weekly column
IF there is something that continues to amuse and amaze it is this– how people in leadership positions go ga-ga over slogans and pledges.
The one pledge that has been given good press coverage is the one between the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission and both the public and private sectors, driven to an extent by the repeated statements by the agency to ask more to sign up.
Recently a senior civil servant mentioned about the few hundred pledges signed by the public sector. Impressive number but one that doesn't translate into anything else in practical terms.
A few weeks before MACC chief commissioner Datuk Dzulkifli Ahmad made an issue of the Penang government's reluctance to sign it. Ironic that there should be a shove for Penang to do it when its chief minister has a corruption-linked charge pending before the courts.
Amazing because even agencies known to the public to be rife with corruption have signed the pledge, which makes it amusing too because no matter how many declarations or pledges a department signs to give the impression that it does things above board and does not tolerate any nonsense, the people know what's happening on the ground, where the palm greasing occurs.
And when this happens, the credibility of everyone involved in getting the pledge signed is affected and doubts surface regarding the sincerity in signing it.
Of course there is nothing wrong per se in signing any pledge but the crucial part is what happens after that.
What if those working with employers who have signed the pledge are brought to court and found guilty for corruption? Nothing happens, except that the image is tarnished but does anyone really care about this? For a public sector employer it's not going to reduce the budget it gets from the federal government. Neither will it be told that it will have to reduce its staff strength as punitive action.
Which in reality means that a pledge of this nature remains just that, a pledge, and is not expected to stop the corrupt from being corrupt.
It's not how many companies or ministries or state governments that have signed this pledge that will determine what the public thinks of the MACC, the current management of which appears to be not shy of publicity, but how many cases it wins in court.
It's all about that last mile, not how many people it arrests every year or how many datuk seris or tan sris are arrested for investigations.
Which reminds us of the tan sri who was arrested in April following a report from the Johor Sultan, remanded and then released on bail. He remains free and has yet to be charged. It is widely known that this businessman from Klang has some state rulers amongst his friends.
We also cannot forget about the 18 Customs officers, including senior ones, who were arrested in September 2015 and then just as quickly had the charges against them withdrawn en masse.
Before that there was the case of former Kedah Forestry director Kasim Osman who was arrested and then charged in 2010. This was his only court appearance on being charged and nothing else has been heard about the case since.
Word in the north, where he lives and plays golf as a recreation, is that there was interference which led to his case vanishing just like that.
The MACC needs to do more if it wants to enhance its credibility and win unwavering public confidence and get rid of whatever cynicism against it.
It owes the people an explanation, certainly on what happened to the Customs case and the one against Kasim.
The rich going after each other
The people are finding it titillating, these accusations and reactions on the wealth of some politicians.
The best part is that those known to be quite rich in their own right are asking for investigations against others. Politics at its best, this one.
The question is is it morally and ethically right for former prime minister Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamed to now reveal what he knows from the asset declarations by people under his charge? These declarations, while not categorised as official secrets, have never been officially made public. Why this is so we have never been told but closer to home, Indonesia reveals these declarations to the public, even down to candidates for gubernatorial elections.
Another point is that if whatever wealth Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Zahid Hamidi had built up then was a problem, as insinuated by Mahathir, why wasn't any action taken against Zahid?
But despite what Mahathir has done, it doesn't necessarily mean that he and his rich sons who have been involved in business for some time should also be the subject of investigations.
If merely being rich is a good enough reason to investigate, imagine the number of Malaysians who must be investigated. There has to be more compelling reasons and some semblance of proof to begin with.
What makes it truly a circus is to hear blokes known to be rich to also be asking for an investigation. What a world.
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