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Child sex abuse: Catholic bishops 'must meet Pope Francis to push for urgent change'
By Joanne McCarthy
Updated April 3, 2017 — 5.30pm first published at 4.33pm
Australia's bishops must lead an urgent delegation to Pope Francis seeking changes to some of the church's most fundamental views on women, celibacy, governance and the handling of child sex cases, according to Australia's peak Catholic reform group in a call to arms to Catholics across the country.
In an open letter sent to all parishes, Catholics for Renewal has urged bishops and archbishops not to "defer to the Holy See", or wait for the recommendations from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, before acting on serious issues identified by the commission that contributed to the child sexual abuse crisis.
Catholics for Renewal president and former senior Australian government bureaucrat, Peter Johnstone, said bishops needed to be prepared to urge Pope Francis to require mandatory reporting of all child sex abuse allegations to police and immediately appoint women to the church's highest ranks.
"The appointment of women would be revolutionary, but I would argue the Pope could do that tomorrow and that would be a catalyst for forcing ultra-conservative bishops to realise they've got no choice but to get on board," Mr Johnstone said.
Catholics for Renewal wants basic church teachings challenged. Credit:Fairfax Media
The push for an Australian delegation to the Vatican comes only days after the church's most prominent spokesman throughout the royal commission hearings, Francis Sullivan, returned from Rome to say he was "astounded by the resistance in some quarters of the church" to tackling the child sex abuse crisis.
Catholic parishioners were asked to support renewal within the church by signing the open letter to Australia's most senior clergy, in a campaign that will run until May. It was released on Friday as the royal commission ended its 57th and final public hearing.
All Australian parish priests and pastoral councils were asked to make a copy of the letter to bishops available in churches from Sunday.
Mr Johnstone said the call for Australian bishops and archbishops to directly challenge Pope Francis on fundamental church teachings might be perceived as a "revolutionary step", but was "simply in accordance with Christ's teachings".
The reform group believes Pope Francis would welcome an Australian delegation. Credit:AP
"I don't think the act itself would be revolutionary because it is very much within the provisions of canon law for bishops to have that close relationship with the Pope and to give honest advice to him. The church needs to start practising the teachings of Jesus," Mr Johnstone said.
It had been a "great failure" that bishops in the past had been unwilling to give "honest advice" to popes on the subject of child sexual abuse, he said.
The child abuse crisis had changed the relationship between the church and the community, Catholics for Renewal president Peter Johnstone said. Credit:John Donegan
"We believe what we've suggested in the open letter are reasonable but necessary steps for responsible bishops to take immediately, and it can be done, and to apply the sort of pressure that might in fact help the Pope."
Mr Johnstone's group told Catholic parishioners it believed an Australian delegation would be welcomed by Pope Francis as he seeks renewal in the church.
Catholics for Renewal asked Australia's bishops and archbishops to end "the corrosive culture of clericalism", where priests are seen as above parishioners, and initiate "full involvement of the faithful" in diocesan assemblies or synods and annual diocesan reports.
Bishops and archbishops were asked to appoint women to senior diocesan positions such as chancellor and delegate of bishops, after figures revealed by the royal commission showed dioceses with women in influential positions with authority over priests had the lowest child sexual abuse rates.
Mr Johnstone said his group was calling for significant change because the global child sexual abuse scandal had changed the fundamental relationship between the Catholic Church and the community.
"Churches are regarded, should be regarded, as institutions that add to the value of society, and that's the big question that occurs with the scandal of child sexual abuse. Churches have been exposed as doing the opposite, and of detracting from the safety of children in society," he said.
Mr Johnstone said Australian politicians had to be prepared to make serious demands of the Catholic Church, and other churches, because of the child sexual abuse crisis and appalling failures demonstrated by institutions.
But he was not sure politicians realised how significantly the royal commission was likely to challenge them when it hands its final report to the government in December.


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Q: jmethodID in android ART I'm working on an app.
Inside JNI_OnLoad():
jclass cls = (*env)->FindClass(env, "dummy/dummy/dummy/Dummy");
    if(cls == NULL) {
        LOG_ERROR("unable to class");
        return;
    }

    cached_dummy.cls = (*env)->NewGlobalRef(env, cls);
    if(cached_dummy.cls == NULL) {
        LOG_ERROR("unable to create a global reference of class");
        return;
    }

    cached_dummy.method = (*env)->GetStaticMethodID(env, cls, "testMethod", "()V");

and when i used this cached result in java callback using (*env)->CallStaticVoidMethod(env, cached_dummy.cls, cached_dummy.method)
Result: "JNI DETECTED ERROR IN APPLICATION: jmethodID was NULL"
Android 5.0.2
Query:
 Incompatibility?
 Solution? (Do i need to make a global reference of jmethodID?)
Note: https://stackoverflow.com/a/2093300/1500988

A: This has to do with recursive loading of shared library.
when class is loaded, its static block is executed.
Inside the static block, shared library loader is placed on top and then rest of init code.
class(Foo) load => its static block executed => jni library loader => JNI_OnLoad => cache static method Foo.Bar() => class(Foo) load => WARN(recusive-load-warning) and execute the rest static block remaining code that call jni code and it uses Foo.Bar() and BOOM!

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Le traité sino-américain d'abandon des droits extraterritoriaux en Chine (中美平等新约, Sino-American Treaty for the Relinquishment of Extraterritorial Rights in China), aussi appelé nouveau traité égal sino-américain, est un accord bilatéral conclu entre les gouvernements américain et chinois le . Le nom officiel du traité est Traité entre les États-Unis d'Amérique et la République de Chine relatif à la renonciation aux droits extraterritoriaux en Chine et à la réglementation des questions connexes.

Après que les États-Unis  le , les gouvernements américain et britannique décident mutuellement qu'il serait avantageux de mettre fin à l'extraterritorialité et aux privilèges unilatéraux en Chine qui avaient été accordés par les « traités inégaux ». L'extraterritorialité prend ainsi fin, soumettant les citoyens des États-Unis et du Royaume-Uni en Chine à la loi chinoise, ainsi que l'existence des ports de traité et les établissements étrangers autonomes, leurs quartiers de légation, et le droit de stationner des navires de guerre étrangers dans les eaux chinoises et des troupes étrangères sur le territoire chinois.

En étroite coordination avec les États-Unis, le Royaume-Uni et la Chine signent également un traité similaire le même jour.

Contexte
Après la déclaration de guerre entre les États-Unis et le Japon en décembre 1941, les États-Unis s'allient à la Chine mais ne peuvent envoyer d'aide militaire à grande échelle. Les responsables japonais justifient leurs conquêtes en affirmant que le Japon libère l'Asie de l'impérialisme occidental et que les Occidentaux sont racistes et exploiteurs. Un haut responsable du Département d'État américain avertit du fait que « les Chinois sont de plus en plus déçus et pleins de ressentiment » et que certains Chinois « commencent à parler de la possibilité que la Chine cesse d'être un belligérant actif ». L'ancien secrétaire d'État américain Cordell Hull, bien qu'il ne fasse pas partie du cercle restreint de la politique envers la Chine, se concentre sur la négociation d'un traité visant à mettre fin aux privilèges accordés au cours du siècle précédent. Le traité est ratifié par le Sénat des États-Unis à l'unanimité et entre en vigueur le .

À Chongqing, capitale de la Chine en temps de guerre, le généralissime Tchang Kaï-chek déclare qu'avec la signature des traités, « une Chine indépendante sur un pied d'égalité » devient « un véritable ami » de la Grande-Bretagne et des États-Unis. Désormais, conclut Tchang, « si nous sommes faibles, si nous manquons de confiance en nous, la faute en sera à nous ». La presse officielle fait l'éloge de Tchang. Un journal déclare que les traités transforment les traités inégaux en rien de plus qu'une « pile de vieux papiers ». La presse de gauche et communiste réagit rapidement, salue les efforts du Parti communiste dans la création du Front uni et affirme que le Parti a été un chef de file dans la lutte pour la libération nationale.

En décembre 1943, en réponse à certaines des mêmes pressions ayant entraîné la fin de l'extraterritorialité, le Sénat adopte la loi d'abrogation de l'exclusion chinoise  qui met fin à l'exclusion formelle et légale des Chinois de l'immigration aux États-Unis.

Termes du traité
Les termes du traité sont résumés comme suit :

 Article I : Les États-Unis renoncent à tous les droits à l'extraterritorialité en Chine, y compris les droits précédemment établis en vertu du traité de Wanghia et du traité de Tientsin. En conséquence, la  et les tribunaux consulaires des États-Unis en Chine, qui exerçaient une juridiction extraterritoriale en Chine, sont abolis.
 Article II : Les États-Unis et la Chine mettent fin au Protocole Boxer.
 Article III : Les États-Unis conviennent que l'administration et le contrôle des concessions internationales de Shanghai et d'Amoy doivent revenir à la Chine. En conséquence, les États-Unis renoncent à leurs droits d'administration et de contrôle en Chine et acceptent d'aider la Chine à obtenir la renonciation à ces droits d'autres pays.
 Article IV : Les titres et baux immobiliers antérieurs en Chine doivent être respectés.
 Article V : Les États-Unis autorisent depuis longtemps les ressortissants chinois à voyager, résider et faire du commerce sur leur territoire. En vertu de l'article V, la Chine rend ces droits réciproques pour les ressortissants américains sur son territoire. Les États-Unis et la Chine conviennent également de traiter leurs ressortissants respectifs sur leur territoire de la même manière que leurs propres ressortissants en ce qui concerne toutes les procédures judiciaires, l'administration de la justice et la fiscalité.
 Article VI : Chaque nation est autorisée à établir des bureaux consulaires dans l'autre nation. Les ressortissants de chaque nation présents dans l'autre nation sont autorisés à communiquer avec les bureaux consulaires de leur nation.
 Article VII : Les États-Unis et la Chine conviennent que les deux nations négocieront un traité moderne complet d'amitié, de commerce, de navigation et de droits consulaires six mois après la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Le  est établi en conséquence.
 Article VIII : Les conditions requises pour que le traité entre en vigueur, y compris sa ratification, sont énoncées. Conformément à ces exigences, le traité entre en vigueur le .

Notes et références

Bibliographie

Lien externe
 Treaty Between The United States And China For The Relinquishment Of Extraterritorial Rights In China And The Regulation Of Related Matters China's External Relations

Traité signé en 1943
Traité signé par les États-Unis
Traité entré en application en 1943
Traité de la Seconde Guerre mondiale
1943 en Chine
Relations entre la Chine et les États-Unis
Janvier 1943

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Dollar size chocolate chip pancakes demand a syrup with a statement. This Whole Cherry Syrup stands up waves it's arms in the air like it just doesn't care. Word.
This summer has made my Smudge of a daughter extremely sparse at home thanks to a 4-week cousin-cation that included nearly 3 weeks at my mom's house. But before we knew it, the cousins caught their plane ride home and left us (her) in a puddle of full-blown tears and grieving for 2 entire days with the lament of, "Now I only have Instagram so I know what they're doing." Only Instagram. How ironic, since it's INSTANT!
So when she had a friend sleep over after 'hanging out'—they don't call them play dates at this age anymore thank you very much, that's so third grade—it was time to whip up their request for breakfast request for dinner. It's summer. It's necessary. It's chocolate chip pancakes with raspberry syrup.
But with one very big caveat. Smudge's favorite raspberry syrup didn't find it's way back into the refrigerator the last time it was used and had developed a very plump, golden skid of goo on top of the syrup. Buh-bye raspberry syrup.
On the upside, we had before us the perfect excuse to make a quick homemade Cherry Syrup thanks to a gorgeously boxed delivery of Washington State's Stemilt dark sweet cherries courtesy of Whole Foods.
These cherries were packed like solid little soldiers, perfect in uniformity and so firm and juicy. It was a hard decision to cook them, they were too lush to tarnish with heat. But pancakes were beckoning. So we ate them as we pitted them. We ate them as we cooked them. And we ate the little flavor bombs afterward too. And we licked our sticky fingers clean.
When I first started blogging I had no idea what to use to pit cherries. So I would use a chopstick to poke the pit through the end of the lil' fruit. Which is fine if you only need a smattering of them like in my Balsamic Skirt Steak Salad with Stone Fruit. But then I learned of this cherry pitter on Twitter (where's the rap for that rhyme?) and it has become my new cherry bomb BFF. Get one, you won't regret it.
While I love making homemade pancakes—this recipe is my go-to—I'm totally okay with a mix, and this whole wheat mix is deceptively healthy and delicious, so much so that the kiddos don't even know it might be good for them. Especially when it has a few chocolate chips tossed in.
~ With a little rosemary or thyme added in, reduced down a bit more and drizzled over grilled pork chops or a baked chicken breast.
~ Or give it a try as the base of a cocktail. Just add a spirit—vodka or whiskey would be especially yummy—and a club soda topper and you have a sweetened drink.
~ Or spoon it on top of ice cream or mix into a shake with chunks of chocolate. Cherry bomb delight. Hey. I think I have my next blog post!
Bring cherries, water and sugar to a boil in a small saucepan. Reduce heat to a simmer and cook for 15-20 minutes, scraping the sides of the saucepan so crystals don't form. Mix in the butter, remove from heat and serve.
With school time just around the corner, Babble has named their Top 100 Mom Food Blogs of 2013, with plenty of inspiration to adore.
While I was not compensated for this post, I happily accepted a box of cherries from Whole Foods. Thanks for reading and please keep in touch by subscribing to FoodieCrush and follow me on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest. This post includes affiliate shopping links of which I receive a small percentage of sales to allow me to create new and special content like this for my readers, so thank you for your support. All opinions are my own.
This looks amazing! And cherry syrup?!Yum! Sweet plump cherries can't be beat.
Wow, stunning pancakes! Cherry syrup that is left after you have used all the berries is my favourite part! I use it in cocktails as a cherrry sweet bomb.. So breakfast and drinks are covered by this recipe!
I saw those pancakes and I was like "Hey, girl…" I love cherries. I still want some cherries. And this syrup. I love Belinda's idea about adding it to cocktails. A reason to drink! Yay!
The pancakes certainly are beckoning!! This looks absolutely divine and like a wonderful way to start (and end) the day.
I am coming over for a big stack of pancakes smothered in this syrup!
This syrup should go on everything.. Definitely a must try!
I need this syrup and want that huge stack of pancakes too and that cherry pitter would be nice as well! Basically, I would like to take everything in these photos all for myself! It just looks so good!
That's a delivery I'd like to receive. A perfect way to showcase those cherries. I may have to make pancakes soon.
I may have to get one of those cherry pitters! Never owned one, ever!
I am definitely getting a cherry pitter next year, and then I will make this! For now it would have to be half cherry syrup? Anyway, beautiful photos!
We're loving cherries over here this summer. This is BEAUTIFUL.
What a fab breakfast, the syrup is so pretty!
I am loving this syrup and also loving the suggestion of adding some herbs and serving it with pork. I am all over that. PS. I am dying over your cherry pitter. It makes mine look sad…very very sad.
That is one amazing cherry pitter. I think I would buy cherries just so I could play with that all day long. I love the idea of using this syrup as a base for a cocktail.
I need that cherry pitter!!! And this syrup. I love younger kids interpretations on social media. A 13 year old friend of the family once explained to her mom that "Instagram is like your life… in pictures." I definitely laughed out loud.
Love cherry syrup. And though my daughter is now 22 she still loves the memory of picking cherries from our long gone tree. And so, I will make her this cherry syrup to make sure she never forgets!
Oh Heidi, I could DROWN myself in this syrup.
We're making pancakes tomorrow morning and we have cherries… so ya know… I need this syrup on em! Can't wait to try this out!
These looks absolutely delicious, I love the photographs, makes me want pancakes now!


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Epitope mapping (to investigate the antibody response/specificity against FVIII). RNA expression profiling (to provide an understanding of the transcript activity of the genes involved in immune responses that may be responsible for FVIII inhibitor formation). Inclusion criteria are male patients with severe haemophilia A (FVIII:C < 1%) who have not previously received treatment with FVIII concentrates or other blood products containing FVIII. Fully informed written and signed consent obtained before the Etofibrate study commences is mandatory. Treatment options are shown in Table 1. By end of June 2013, 11 PUPs were enroled and 4 of these have started treatment. Seventeen centres in seven countries have been initiated. In addition to the PUP study and based on the long half-life of Human-cl rhFVIII of a mean of 17.1 h (range, 11–24 h, median 13.7 h, IQR 11.97–17.50 from the GENA-01 pharmacokinetic study, see Fig. 7), an individualized prophylaxis study was initiated in 2013, NuPreviq (GENA-21). NuPreviq is a prospective, open-label, multicentre Phase IIIb study to assess the efficacy and safety of individually tailored prophylaxis with Human-cl rhFVIII in adult PTPs with severe haemophilia A.


Do you like to sing? Do you like to have fun with your fellow classmates? Do you want to take care of your arts credit AND be a member of an award winning choral program at the same time? Then Cantabile is for you! Cantabile is open to freshmen treble voices. You do NOT need to audition! This amazing class will also help you in your transition from middle school to high school. The choir will participate in concerts, field trips, and festivals throughout the year.


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Author: Josh Malerman
Publisher: Ecco Press, 2014
Series: Bird Box: Book 1
1. Bird Box
2. Malorie
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Written with the narrative tension of The Road and the exquisite terror of classic Stephen King, Bird Box is a propulsive, edge-of-your-seat horror thriller, set in an apocalyptic near-future world--a masterpiece of suspense from the brilliantly imaginative Josh Malerman.
Something is out there...
Something terrifying that must not be seen. One glimpse and a person is driven to deadly violence. No one knows what it is or where it came from.
Five years after it began, a handful of scattered survivors remain, including Malorie and her two young children. Living in an abandoned house near the river, she has dreamed of fleeing to a place where they might be safe. Now, that the boy and girl are four, it is time to go. But the journey ahead will be terrifying: twenty miles downriver in a rowboat--blindfolded--with nothing to rely on but her wits and the children's trained ears. One wrong choice and they will die. And something is following them. But is it man, animal, or monster?
Engulfed in darkness, surrounded by sounds both familiar and frightening, Malorie embarks on a harrowing odyssey--a trip that takes her into an unseen world and back into the past, to the companions who once saved her. Under the guidance of the stalwart Tom, a motely group of strangers banded together against the unseen terror, creating order from the chaos. But when supplies ran low, they were forced to venture outside--and confront the ultimate question: in a world gone mad, who can really be trusted?
Interweaving past and present, Josh Malerman's breathtaking debut is a horrific and gripping snapshot of a world unraveled that will have you racing to the final page.
Malorie stands in the kitchen, thinking.
Her hands are damp. She is trembling. She taps her toe nervously on the cracked tile floor. It is early; the sun is probably only peeking above the horizon. She watches its meager light turn the heavy window drapes a softer shade of black and thinks,
That was a fog.
The children sleep under chicken wire draped in black cloth down the hall. Maybe they heard her moments ago on her knees in the yard. Whatever noise she made must have traveled through the microphones, then the amplifiers that sat beside their beds.
She looks to her hands and detects the subtlest sheen in the candlelight. Yes, they are damp. The morning's dew is still fresh upon them.
Now, in the kitchen, Malorie breathes deep before blowing the candle out. She looks around the small room, noting the rusted utensils and cracked dishes. The cardboard box used as a garbage can. The chairs, some held together by twine. The walls are dirty. Dirt from the feet and hands of the children. But older stains, too. The bottom of the walls in the hall is discolored, profound purples that have dulled to brown over time. These are blood. The carpet in the living room is discolored, too, no matter how hard Malorie scrubs. There are no chemicals in the house to help clean it. Long ago, Malorie filled the buckets with water from the well and, using a suit coat, worked on removing the stains from all over the house. But they refused to go away. Even those that proved less persistent remained, a shadow perhaps of their original size, but still horribly visible. A box of candles hides a blotch in the foyer. The couch in the living room sits at an awkward angle, moved there to shield two blemishes that look like wolf heads to Malorie. On the second floor, by the attic stairs, a pile of musty coats conceals purple scratches, embedded deep into the foot of the wall. Ten feet away is the blackest stain in the house. She does not use the far end of the home's second floor because she cannot bring herself to cross it.
This was once a nice house in a nice suburb of Detroit. Once, it was family-ready and safe. Only half a decade ago, a real-estate agent would have proudly showed it off. But this morning, the windows are covered with cardboard and wood. There is no running water. A big wooden bucket sits upon the kitchen counter. It smells stale. There are no conventional toys for the children. Pieces of a wooden chair have been whittled to play the part of little people. Small faces have been painted upon them. The cupboards are bare. There are no paintings on the walls. Wires run from under the back door into the first-floor bedrooms, where amplifiers alert Malorie and the children to any sounds coming from outside the house. The three of them live this way. They do not go outside for long periods of time. When they do, they are blindfolded.
The children have never seen the world outside their home. Not even through the windows. And Malorie hasn't looked in more than four years.
She does not have to make this decision today. It's October in Michigan. It's cold. A twenty-mile trip on the river will be hard on the children. They may still be too young. What if one of them were to fall into the water? What would Malorie, blindfolded, do then?
An accident, Malorie thinks. How horrible. After all this struggling, all this survival. To die because of an accident.
Malorie looks at the drapes. She begins to cry. She wants to yell at someone. She wants to plead with anyone who might listen. This is unfair, she would say. This is cruel.
She looks over her shoulder, to the kitchen entrance and the hall that leads to the children's bedroom. Beyond the doorless frame, the children sleep soundly, covered by black cloth, hidden from light and sight. They do not stir. They show no sign of being awake. Yet, they could be listening to her. Sometimes, for all the pressure upon them to listen, for all the importance she's placed upon their ears, Malorie believes they can hear her think.
She could wait for sunnier skies, warmth, more attention paid to the boat. She could inform the children, listen to what they have to say. Their suggestions could be good ones. Only four years old, but trained to listen. Able to help navigate a boat that will be piloted blindly. Malorie would not be able to make the trip without them. She needs their ears. Could she also use their advice? At four years old, would they have something to say about when was the best time to leave the house forever?
Slumping into a kitchen chair, Malorie fights back the tears. Her shoeless toe still taps on the faded linoleum. Slowly, she looks up to the top of the cellar stairs. There she once talked with a man named Tom about a man named Don. She looks to the sink, where Don once carried buckets of well water, trembling for having been outdoors. Leaning forward, she can see the foyer, where Cheryl used to prepare the food for the birds. And between herself and the front door is the living room, silent and dark, where there are too many memories of too many people to digest.
Four years, she thinks, and wants to smash her fist through the wall.
Malorie knows that four years can easily become eight. Eight will quickly become twelve. And then the children will be adults. Adults who have never seen the sky. Never looked out a window. What would twelve years of living like veal do to their minds? Is there a point, Malorie wonders, where the clouds in the sky become unreal, and the only place they'll ever feel at home is behind the black cloth of their blindfolds?
Malorie swallows hard and imagines raising them by herself until they are teens.
Could she even do it? Could she protect them another ten years? Could she guard them long enough for them to guard her? And for what? What kind of life is she protecting them for?
You're a bad mother, she thinks.
For not finding a way to let them know the vastness of the sky. For not finding a way to let them run free in the yard, the street, the neighborhood of empty homes and weathered parked cars. Or granting them a single peek, just once, into space, when the sky turns black and is suddenly, beautifully, spotted with stars.
You are saving their lives for a life not worth living.
Malorie sees the drapes soften another degree through blurred, teary vision. If there is a fog out there, it won't be for long. And if it can help her, if it hides her and the children as they go to the river, to the rowboat, then she has to wake them now.
She slams a hand against the kitchen table, then wipes her eyes dry.
Rising and leaving the kitchen, Malorie takes the hall and enters the children's bedroom.
"Boy!" she yells. "Girl! Get up."
The bedroom is dark. The one window is covered with enough blankets so that even at its zenith, sunlight does not get through. There are two mattresses, one on each side of the room. Above them are black domes. Once, the chicken wire that supports the cloth was used to fence in a small garden by the well in the home's backyard. But for the past four years, it has served as armor, protecting the children not from what could see them, but from what they could see. Beneath it, Malorie hears movement and she kneels to loosen the wire that's fastened to nails in the room's wood floor. She is already pulling from her pocket the blindfolds as the two children look at her with sleepy, surprised expressions.
"Mommy?"
"Get up. Now. Mommy needs you to move fast."
The children respond quickly. They do not whine or complain.
"Where are we going?" the Girl asks.
Malorie hands her a blindfold and says, "Put this on. We're going on the river."
The pair take their blindfolds and tie the black cloth tightly over their eyes. They are well versed in the motion. Experts, if at four years old they can be experts in anything. It breaks Malorie's heart. They are only children and should be curious. They should be asking her why, today, they are going on the river--a river they have never been on before.
But, instead, they just do as they are told.
Malorie does not put on her own blindfold yet. She will get the kids ready first.
"Bring your puzzle," she tells the Girl. "And, both of you, bring your blankets."
The excitement she feels is unnameable. It's much more like hysteria. Stepping from one room to another, Malorie checks for things, small items they might need. Suddenly, she feels horribly unprepared. She feels unsafe, as though the house and the earth beneath it just vanished, exposing her to the outside world entirely. Yet, in the mania of the moment, she holds tight to the concept of the blindfold. No matter what tools she might pack, no matter what household object might be used as a weapon, she knows that the blindfolds are their strongest protection.
"Bring your blankets!" she reminds them, hearing the two small bodies ready themselves. Then she steps into their room to assist them. The Boy, small for his age, but with a wiry strength Malorie takes pride in, is deciding between two shirts that are both too large for him. They once belonged to an adult, long since gone. Malorie chooses for him and watches as his dark hair vanishes within the cloth, then sprouts again through the head hole. In her anxious state, Malorie recognizes that the Boy has grown some recently.
The Girl, average sized for her age, is attempting to pull a dress over her head, a dress she and Malorie sewed from an old bedsheet.
"There's a chill in the air, Girl. A dress won't do."
The Girl frowns; her blond hair is messy from her having just woken up.
"I'll wear pants, too, Mommy. And we've got our blankets."
Anger flares in Malorie. She doesn't want any resistance. Not today. Not even if the Girl is right.
"No dresses today."
The world outside, the empty malls and restaurants, the thousands of unused vehicles, the forgotten products on idle store shelves, all of it presses in on the house. It all whispers of what awaits them.
She takes a coat from the closet in the small bedroom down the hall from the children. Then she leaves the room, for what she knows will be the last time.
"Mommy," the Girl says, meeting her in the hall. "Do we need our bicycle horns?"
Malorie breathes deep.
"No," she answers. "We'll all be together. The whole trip."
As the Girl steps back into the bedroom, Malorie thinks of how pathetic it is, that bicycle horns are her children's greatest entertainment. They've played with them for years. All of their lives, honking from across the living room. The loud sound used to put Malorie on edge. But she never took them away. Never hid them. Even in the throes of early, anxious motherhood, Malorie understood that in this world, anything that brought the children to giggle was a good thing.
Even when they used to frighten Victor with them.
Oh, how Malorie longs for that dog! In the early days of raising the children alone, her fantasies of taking the river included Victor, the border collie, seated beside her in the rowboat. Victor would've warned her if an animal were near. He might've been capable of frightening something away.
"Okay," she says, her lithe body in the door frame of the children's bedroom. "That's it. Now we go."
There were times, placid afternoons, tempestuous evenings, when Malorie told them this day might come. Yes, she had spoken of the river before. Of a trip. She was careful never to call it their "escape" because she couldn't bear their believing their daily lives were something to flee from. Instead, she cautioned them of a future morning, when she would wake them, hastily, demanding they prepare to leave their home forever. She knew they could detect her uncertainty, just as they could hear a spider crawling up the glass pane of a draped window. For years, there sat a small pouch of food in the cupboard, set aside until it went stale, always replaced, always replenished, Malorie's proof, her evidence that she might wake them as she told them she would. You see, she would think, nervously checking the drapes, the food in the cupboard is part of a plan.
And now, the day has come. This morning. This hour. The fog.
The Boy and the Girl step forward and Malorie kneels before them. She checks their blindfolds. They are secure. In that moment, looking from one small face to the other, Malorie comprehends fully that, at last, the journey out has begun.
"Listen to me," she tells them, grasping their chins. "We're going to take a rowboat along the river today. It could be a long trip. But it's crucial that you both do every single thing I say. Do you understand?"
"It's cold out there. You have your blankets. You have your folds. There's nothing more you need right now. Do you understand me?"
"Under no circumstances will either one of you remove your blindfold. If you do, I will hurt you. Do you understand?"
"I need your ears. I need you both to listen as carefully as you can. On the river, you need to listen beyond the water, beyond the woods. If you hear an animal in those woods, tell me. If you hear anything in the water, you tell me. Understand?"
"Do not ask questions that have nothing to do with the river. You'll be sitting up front," she says, tapping the Boy. Then she taps the Girl. "And you'll be sitting in the back. When we get to the boat, I'll guide you to those places. I'll be in the middle, rowing. I don't want you two talking across the boat to one another unless it's about something you hear in the woods. Or the river. Understand?"
"We are not stopping for any reason. Not until we get to where we're going. I'll let you know when that is. If you get hungry, eat from this pouch."
Malorie brings the pouch to the back of their small hands.
"Don't fall asleep. Do not fall asleep. I need your ears more now today than I've ever needed them."
"Will we bring the microphones?" the Girl asks.
"No."
As Malorie speaks, she looks from one blindfolded face to the other.
"When we leave this house, we'll hold hands and walk along the path to the well. We'll go through the small clearing in the woods behind our house. The path to the river is overgrown. We may have to drop hands for a step, and if we do, I want you both to hold on to my coat or each other's. Understand?"
Do they sound scared?
"Listen to me. We're going somewhere neither of you has ever been. We're going farther from the house than you've gone before. There are things out there that will hurt you, that will hurt Mommy, if you do not listen to me, now, this morning."
The children are silent. "Do you understand?"
Malorie has trained them well.
"All right," she says, her voice revealing a hint of hysteria. "We're going. We're going right now. We're going."
She presses their heads against her forehead.
Then she takes each child by the hand. They cross the house quickly. In the kitchen, Malorie, trembling, wipes her eyes and pulls her own blindfold from her pocket. She ties it tight around her head and dark long hair. She pauses, her hand on the doorknob, the door that opens to the path she has taken for countless buckets of water.
She is about to leave the house behind. The reality of this moment overwhelms her.
When she opens the door, the cool air rushes in and Malorie steps forward, her mind's eye blurry with terror and scenarios too ghastly to speak of in front of the children. She stammers as she speaks, nearly yelling as she does.
"Hold my hands. Both of you."
The Boy takes Malorie's left hand. The Girl slips her tiny fingers into her right.
Blindfolded, they step from the house.
The well is twenty yards away. Small pieces of wood, once part of picture frames, outline the path, placed there for direction. Both children have touched the wood with the tip of their shoes countless times. Malorie once told them that the water in the well was the only medicine they'd ever need. Because of this, Malorie knows, the children have always respected the well. They never complained about fetching water with her.
At the well now, the ground is bumpy beneath their feet. It feels unnatural, soft.
"Here's the clearing," Malorie calls.
She leads the children carefully. A second path begins ten yards from the well. The entrance to this path is narrow, and it splits the woods. The river is less than a hundred yards from here. At the woods, Malorie momentarily lets go of the children's hands so she can feel for the scant entry.
"Hold on to my coat!"
She feels along the branches until she finds a tank top, tied to a tree at the path's entrance. She tied it here herself more than three years ago.
The Boy grabs hold of her pocket and she senses the Girl take hold of his. Malorie calls to them as she walks, constantly asking them if they are holding on to one another. Tree branches poke her in the face. She does not cry out.
Soon, they arrive at the marker Malorie has stuck in the dirt. The splintered leg of a kitchen chair, stuck in the center of the path, there for her to trip on, to stumble over, to recognize.
She discovered the rowboat four years ago, docked only five houses from their own. It has been more than a month since she last checked on it, but she believes it is still there. Still, it's difficult not to imagine the worst. What if someone else got to it first? Another woman, not unlike herself, living five houses in the other direction, using every day of four years to gather enough courage to flee. A woman who once stumbled down this same slippery bank and felt the same point of salvation, the pointed steel tip of the rowboat.
The air nips at the scratches on Malorie's face. The children do not complain.
This is not childhood, Malorie thinks, leading them toward the river.
Then she hears it. Before reaching the dock, she hears the rowboat rocking in the water. She stops and checks the children's blindfolds, tightening both. She leads them onto the wood planks.
Yes, she thinks, it's still here. Just like the cars are still parked in the street outside their house. Just like the homes on the street are still empty.
It is colder, out of the woods, away from the house. The sound of the water is as frightening as it is exhilarating. Kneeling where she believes the boat must be, she lets go of the children's hands and feels for the steel tip. Her fingertips find the rope that holds it first.
"Boy," she says, pulling the ice-cold tip of the boat toward the dock. "In the front. Get in the front." She helps him. Once he is steady, she holds his face in both her hands and says once again, "Listen. Beyond the water. Listen."
She tells the Girl to stay on the dock as she blindly unties the rope before carefully climbing onto the middle bench. Still half-standing, she helps the Girl aboard. The boat rocks once violently and Malorie grips the Girl's hand too tight. The Girl does not cry out.
There are leaves, sticks, and water in the bottom of the boat. Malorie sifts through them to find the paddles she has stowed on the boat's right side. The paddles are cold. Damp. They smell of mildew. She sets them into the steel grooves. They feel strong, sturdy as she uses one to push off from the dock. And then...
They are on the river.
The water is calm. But there are sounds out here. Movement in the woods.
Malorie thinks of the fog. She hopes it has hidden their escape.
But the fog will go away.
"Children," Malorie says, breathing hard, "listen."
Finally, after four years of waiting, training, and finding the courage to leave, she paddles away from the dock, from the bank, and from the house that has protected her and the children for what feels like a lifetime.
It is nine months before the children are born. Malorie lives with her sister, Shannon, in a modest rental neither of them has decorated. They moved in three weeks ago, despite their friend's concerns. Malorie and Shannon are both popular, intelligent women but in each other's company they have a tendency to become unglued, as shown the very day they carried their boxes inside.
"I was thinking it makes more sense for me to have the bigger bedroom," Shannon said, standing on the second-floor landing. "Seeing as I've got the bigger dresser."
"Oh, come on," Malorie responded, holding a milk crate of unread books. "That room has a better window."
The sisters debated this for a long time, both wary of proving their friends and family right by erupting in an argument on their first afternoon. Eventually, Malorie agreed to a coin toss, which ended in Shannon's favor, an event Malorie still believes was somehow fixed.
Now, today, Malorie is not thinking about the little things her sister does that drive her batty. She is not quietly cleaning up after Shannon, closing cabinet doors, following her trail of sweaters and socks through the halls. She is not huffing, passively, shaking her head as she runs the dishwasher or slides one of Shannon's unpacked boxes from the center of the living room, where it's in both of their way. Instead, she is standing before the mirror in the first-floor bathroom, where she is naked, as she studies her belly in the glass.
You've missed a period before, she tells herself. But this is hardly consolation, because she has been anxious for weeks now, knowing she should have been safer with Henry Martin.
Her black hair hangs to her shoulders. Her lips curl down in a curious frown. She places her hands on her flat belly and nods slowly. No matter how she explains herself, she feels pregnant.
"Malorie!" Shannon calls from the living room. "What are you doing in there?"
Malorie does not respond. She turns sideways and tilts her head. Her blue eyes look gray in the pale light of the bathroom. She plants a palm on the sink's pink linoleum and arches her back. She is trying to make her belly skinnier, as if this might prove there could be no little life within it.
"Malorie!" Shannon calls again. "There's another report on television! Something happened in Alaska."
Malorie hears her sister, but what's going on in the outside world doesn't matter much to her right now.
In recent days, the Internet has blown up with a story people are calling "the Russia Report." In it, a man who was riding in the passenger seat of a truck driving along a snowy highway outside St. Petersburg asked his friend, who was driving, to pull over and then attacked him, removing his lips with his fingernails. Then he took his own life in the snow, using a table saw from the truck bed. A grisly story, but one whose notoriety Malorie attributes to the seemingly senseless way the Internet has of making random occurrences famous. But then, a second story appeared. Similar circumstances. This time in Yakutsk, some five thousand miles east of St. Petersburg. There, a mother, by all accounts "stable," buried her children alive in the family's garden before taking her own life with the jagged edges of broken dishes. And a third story, in Omsk, Russia, nearly two thousand miles southeast of St. Petersburg, sprouted online and quickly became one of the most discussed topics on all social media sites. This time there was video footage. For as long as she could, Malorie had watched a man wielding an axe, his beard red with blood, trying to attack the unseen man who filmed him. Eventually, he succeeded. But Malorie didn't see that part. She tried not to follow any more on the subject at all. But Shannon, always more dramatic, insisted on relaying the frightening news.
"Alaska," Shannon repeats, through the bathroom door. "That's America, Malorie!"
Shannon's blond hair betrays their mother's Finnish roots. Malorie looks more like her father: strong, deep-set eyes and the smooth fair skin of a northerner. Having been raised in the Upper Peninsula, both dreamed of living downstate, near Detroit, where they imagined there were parties, concerts, job opportunities, and men in abundance.
This last item hadn't proved fruitful for Malorie until she met Henry Martin.
"Holy shit," Shannon hollers. "There might have been something in Canada, too. This is serious stuff, Malorie. What are you doing in there?"
Malorie turns the faucet on and lets the cool water run over her fingers. She splashes some on her face. Looking up into the mirror, she thinks of her parents, still in the Upper Peninsula. They haven't heard of Henry Martin. She hasn't even spoken to him since their one night. Yet, here she is, probably tied to him forever.
Suddenly the bathroom door opens. Malorie reaches for a towel.
"Jeez, Shannon."
"Did you hear me, Malorie? The story is everywhere. People are starting to say it's related to seeing something. Isn't that strange? I just heard CNN say it's the one constant in all the incidents. That the victims saw something before attacking people and taking their own lives. Can you believe this? Can you?"
Malorie turns slowly to her sister. Her face carries no expression.
"Hey, are you all right, Malorie? You don't look so good."
Malorie starts crying. She bites her lower lip. She has grabbed the towel but has yet to cover herself. She is still standing before the mirror as if examining her naked belly. Shannon notices this.
"Oh shit," Shannon says. "Are you worried that you're--"
Malorie is already nodding. The sisters step to each other in the pink bathroom and Shannon holds Malorie, patting the back of her black hair, soothing her.
"Okay," she says. "Let's not freak out. Let's go get a test. That's what people do. Okay? Don't worry. I'll bet you more than half the people who get tests wind up not being pregnant."
Malorie doesn't respond. She only sighs deeply.
"Okay," Shannon says. "Let's go."
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Reports of Higgs Boson's Death Greatly Exaggerated
There are many excellent journalists who write about science, scattered among the newspapers, magazines and broadcast media in this country and abroad. It was therefore disappointing to discover a recent example of shoddy journalism with potentially serious consequences.
An article in the New Scientist appeared on December 5, under the headline "No sign of the Higgs boson". The headline was accurate, but the story strongly suggested that the Higgs doesn't exist, when in fact all that one knows from the experiments done at the LEP accelerator at CERN is that it hasn't yet been found. Toward the end of the article there were a few comments by well-known physicists, which at least alerted the reader to the fact that the non-existence of the Higgs is not a unanimous opinion.
The New Scientist compounded its felony in an accompanying editorial, which said "Researchers at CERN, the center for particle physics near Geneva, have ruled out most of the likely energy slots where the particle might lurk and now reckon it more probable that the Higgs is the product of an overactive imagination."
Within days several other news sources had reprinted the essence of the New Scientist story. None of them did any further investigating of any significance on their own. BBC News, usually a reliable source, headlined "God particle may not exist", using the name for the Higgs that appeared as the title of the 1993 book by Leon Lederman and Dick Teresi. Other headlines were: "Divine Myth: five-year quest for 'God particle' is fruitless" (Agence France Presse); "Analysis casts doubt on Higgs Boson" (UPI); and "Physicists: No sign of 'God particle'" (CNN). The headline in the Sun, the largest circulation British newspaper went straight to the bottom line: "Six billion pounds wasted on 30-year 'God' hunt." Some of these stories included the mild rebuttal that had appeared in the New Scientist; others did not, reinforcing the impression that the case was virtually closed.
With this kind of mindless reporting, there was little chance of a fair hearing for the leaders of the four major experiments at LEP, who, together with the heads of two of CERN's working groups, e-mailed a protest to the New Scientist on December 10, in which they said ".the theory makes predictions for the mass of the Higgs boson. In fact it tells us that the mass is probably lower than 200 GeV. On the other hand, from the results of our direct searches.we conclude that the mass is larger than 114 GeV, which is perfectly compatible with the above prediction-hence our dismay concerning the report that we have ruled out the existence of the Higgs boson."
These journalistic miscues are indeed cause for dismay. With Fermilab's search for the Higgs just getting into high gear, and with the LHC at CERN under construction, the misinformation propagated by these news stories can seriously jeopardize a major program of physics research. While it is possible that some members of the LEP experimental teams sought to manipulate the press by exaggerating the significance of their failure to find the Higgs, if the reporters had followed elementary principles of good journalism they would have talked to enough people to strike the proper balance and to convey the true state of affairs.
Science journalists face the often daunting task of understanding new developments in science, and transmitting the information accurately to the public. Indeed, the embargo system employed by Science and Nature, with which we have taken issue in the past (see APS News, August/September 2000 and March 2001), is defended by its practitioners on the grounds that it is crucial for journalists to get the story right, even if they are denied the opportunity to talk to the scientists and to report the news when they first discover it.
Whether one approves of embargoes or not, one cannot argue with the paramount importance of accuracy. Its unfortunate absence in this instance is we hope, not destined to be repeated.
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Circulatory fluid
The fluid confined within the vessel in a closed circulatory system or that contained in a cavity (hemocoel) in an open circulatory system
The circulatory system is the organ system responsible for the circulation and transport of nutrients and other molecules throughout the body of an animal. Multicellular animals have two forms of circulatory system: open circulatory system and closed circulatory system. These two systems differ in terms of the mode of transporting the circulatory fluid within the body of the animal. In open circulatory system, the circulatory fluid is the hemolymph. It is not confined within the blood vessels (thus, the name open circulatory system). It bathes the organs and tissues directly and therefore there is no clear distinction between the interstitial fluid and the blood. The hemolymph is analogous to the blood in closed circulatory system. In closed circulatory system, blood is the circulatory fluid and is contained within the blood vessels. Therefore, there is a distinction between blood and lymph. Examples of animals with closed circulatory system are annelids, few mollusks, and vertebrates. The vertebrates have a cardiovascular system comprised of heart and blood vessels where blood circulates and another system called lymphatic system that circulates lymph. Examples of animals with open circulatory system include the spiders, crustaceans, insects, and certain mollusks.
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A new study published in the journal Diabetes Care has demonstrated yet another benefit of an old standby snack – nuts. The study found that replacing a high carbohydrate snack with two ounces of nuts a day helped with glycemic and lipid control for people with type 2 diabetes.
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Tétshim was born in Kinshasa in 1980 and grew up in Lubumbashi where he lives and works as a cartoonist, press artist and illustrator. At the age of 15, he launched his first comic book project "La dot reportée" with a local NGO to raise awareness about AIDS. After studying Information and Communication Sciences at the University of Lubumbashi, he began his career as an illustrator, cartoonist and comic book writer in 1998. He was the head of the comics department of the artists' collective Vicanos Club, where he co-organizes exhibitions and workshops on comics. He has drawn several comics such as Sans Elle (2000), A paraître (2006), Zia (2007), Championnat d'Afrique des Nations (2010), Rendez-vous à Lubumbashi, published drawings in the print media such as L'Etendard and L'Essor du Katanga and for Radio-Télé Mwangaza. In 2005, he received the bronze Mongita prize at the 5th edition of the African Comic Strip Show in Kinshasa, the special jury prize at Africae Mediterraneo for the section "Reflections on Human Rights" in 2006 (Italy), before receiving the jury's "Coup de Coeur" prize at the Lyon Comic Strip Festival in 2008 (France) In 2010, Tétshim co-founded the studio Crayon de cuivre, with video artist Frank Mukunday. After their experimental essays Cailloux (2010) and Kukinga (2015), the duo created the short film Machini (2019), shown in Poland, Cyprus, Madagascar, Kenya, among others. The two self-taught artists regularly participate in the Lubumbashi Biennale.


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Mill Road & Main Street, Quakertown, PA 18951
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New Britain Baptist Church
22 E. Butler Ave.
Tamanend Ave. & Butler Ave.
New Britain, PA 18901
M & W 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. (no admittance after 11:30 a.m.)
1 p.m. – 4 p.m. (no admittance after 3:30 p.m.)
215-348-7172 (available 24 hours a day)
www.doylestownfish.com
Bucks County Housing Group Food Pantry
470 Old Dublin Pike
W 5:30-8 p.m.
Th 10:30 a.m. -1:30 p.m.
Sun 10:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Fisherman's Mark
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Upper Bucks County
Christ's Cupboard Food Pantry
2200 Krammes Rd. (Milford Township)
Quakertown, PA 18951
3rd Saturday of Month: 9-11 a.m.
FEAST Pantry
One Luther Lane
Trumbauersville, PA 18970
Tuesday: 11 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Thursday: 6 - 8 p.m.
3rd Saturday of month: 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Fresh For All - Grace Bible Church (parking lot)
Souderton, PA 18964
Tuesday 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Heaven's Bounty
Quakertown First Church of the Brethren
455 Trumbuersville Road
Tuesday and Thursday 9:00 a.m. -1:30 p.m.
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The Syrian Democratic Forces, Detained Foreign Fighters, and International Security Vulnerabilities
by Benjamin R. Farley | Oct 24, 2022
The Syrian Democratic Forces, Detained Foreign Fighters, and International Security Vulnerabilities Three-and-a-half years since the United States, its coalition partners, and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) overpowered the last redoubt of the Islamic State of Iraq...
Ukraine Symposium – Putting "Overall Control" to the Test of the Third Geneva Convention
by Alessandra Spadaro | Jul 6, 2022
Ukraine Symposium – Putting "Overall Control" to the Test of the Third Geneva Convention Detention is a common feature of both international and non-international armed conflicts (IAC and NIAC). Despite the increasing convergence in the regulation of the two types of...
Status of Foreign Fighters in the Ukrainian Legion
by Petra Ditrichová, Veronika Bílková | Mar 15, 2022
Status of Foreign Fighters in the Ukrainian Legion Among other new resistance groups, Ukraine has formed an International Legion for the Defense of Ukraine (UKR Legion). There are reports that its members come from all over the world, including Canada, Japan, the...
Prisoners of War in Occupied Territory
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Prisoners of War in Occupied Territory It seems increasingly likely that the international armed conflict raging in Ukraine will devolve into a partial Russian occupation of large portions of Ukrainian territory. President Putin may very well declare annexation—or...
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Legal Status of Ukraine's Resistance Forces In the lead up to Russia's invasion, Ukraine prepared to defend its territory by, among other things, training its citizens to serve as a "resistance in waiting." The extent to which these resistance forces have engaged...
Afghanistan 2021: Reflections from the Stockton Center for International Law's Workshop
by Steve Szymanski, Chris Koschnitzky | Jan 24, 2022
Afghanistan 2021: Reflections from the Stockton Center for International Law's Workshop Despite over twenty years of legal analysis, many issues regarding the Afghanistan conflict remain unsettled. At a recent Stockton Center for International Law law of armed...


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Historic holocaust film 'night will fall' was a Hitchcock creation
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New film demonstrates how "Holocaust" narrative was faked
An article appearing in The Jewish Daily Forward highlighting a recently released film offers further insight into how the fake Jewish "Holocaust" narrative of WWII was manufactured, sold, and implanted in the minds of millions of people around the world following WWII:
A new film about a forgotten, long-shelved documentary chronicling the Allies' discovery and liberation of the Nazi concentration camps is offering viewers a restored contemporaneous account of that seminal moment in history.
The original, unfinished documentary has now, 70 years later, been reproduced and completed by the British Imperial War Museums. Titled "German Concentration Camps Factual Survey," the film was finished based on the shot sheets, script and rushes of the original filmmakers, who were forced by geo-political considerations to stop their work. "Night Will Fall," the new film about the film, combines raw archive footage from the 1945 documentary — which counted Alfred Hitchcock among its treatment advisers — and contemporary interviews with the now elderly veteran soldiers, former film cameramen, film editors, and Holocaust historians and survivors.
The original work began in the waning days of World War II. British producer Sidney Bernstein, chief of the film section at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, had instructed his cameramen to film everything in order to provide undeniable proof of Nazi atrocities.
What is apparent is how unprepared the soldiers were for the horrors that awaited them. For some, the experience has been a lifelong trauma. Many found it difficult to later articulate to the makers of "Night Will Fall" what they saw and what they remembered.
The story behind the initial, incomplete making of the original documentary includes its suppression by the British and American governments as they shifted away from exposing Nazi atrocities and toward restoring and reconstructing West Germany as a bulwark against the perceived new threat from the Soviet Union. […]
It was as the war was drawing to an end that Britain and the United States set up a joint film department. Its mandate was to produce short propaganda films to support the war effort, and later to assist in the task of dealing with a defeated Germany. Headed byBernstein, the new unit recorded the atrocities that the soldiers — many of whom were newly trained as cameramen — encountered at the point of liberation.
In 1945, as the numerous reels arrived in London, and editors faced the momentous task of processing the material, Bernstein began to plan a full-length documentary. Speaking in 1984, he explained that his instructions had been to film everything, providing undeniable proof of what had happened. He wanted the film to serve as "a lesson to all mankind." […]
A little context is necessary here. When the Allied armies were "liberating" the various labor, industrial, and detention camps administered by the Germans during WWII, they did in fact discover horrific scenes of dead bodies and malnourished, emaciated, and sick inmates. But these individuals were not murdered, starved, and/or mistreated in a systematic German-led campaign to genocide the Jews and other "undesirable" groups in Europe.
The horrific scenes the Allied propaganda units discovered and filmed were a direct result of their own governments' barbaric and cowardly war policies, which included the deliberate bombing of critical German infrastructure, industrial facilities, and civilian centers. The people who died in the various concentration camps administered by the Germans died largely from disease (typhus in particular) and malnourishment towards the very end of the war because the Germans were having extreme difficulty properly supplying the camps and providing critical services and sanitary living quarters.
None of this was deliberate German policy; it was all a result of the ruthless war policies prosecuted by the Allies against the Germans.
The organized Jewish community and their gullible, traitorous non-Jewish allies had been propagandizing the Western world with shocking and grisly stories of Jewish persecution (including the "6 million dead Jews" figure!) going back to 1915 during WWI. Of course, we now know that this narrative – horrific, unfathomable persecution and murder of Jews carried out by "fascists", "Nazis", and other "racist, bigoted, irrational anti-Semites" – was entirely manufactured and sold to the public via the mass media. It was essentially a public relations campaign carried out, quite successfully unfortunately, by the organized Jewish community to gain sympathy and political support for their various agendas, both in the Middle East and in the West. The institutionalization of this fake narrative was officially adopted by the West following WWII as the Jewish "Holocaust" story.
The horrific imagery captured by the Allied propaganda units, led by the Jew Sidney Bernstein who collaborated with various Hollywood producers and directors, was presented at the Nuremberg show trials and in various newsreels and reports from the era. Children and mass audiences are still traumatized by the horrific imagery captured by the Allied propagandists. Of course, the imagery is never properly placed in its correct context, and is used instead to support the fake Jewish "Holocaust" narrative. The vast majority of people are not even able to critically think about this important aspect of WWII because of the trauma that has been instilled in their minds by the gruesome imagery associated with the "Holocaust". The Jewish "Holocaust" narrative and the manner in which it has been manufactured, sold, and implanted in the minds of mass audiences exploits basic human psychology and emotions. It is essentially a mass mind control program used to serve and advance international Jewry's global agenda of world domination. It is time for the world to recognize this fact.
Posted by John Friend
"The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the greatest liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth."
http://www.therealistreport.com/2014/10/new-film-demonstrates-how-holocaust.html
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Stella Ndiho shares on how she conquered her fears and learnt to live an abundant life with HIV.
Over 120 minutes of solid guidance and sound advice, exclusively available on this platform.
Exercises and assignments exclusively put together by Stella that help you work through concepts.
Abundant Living is a wellness program that teaches skills to deal with the emotional and spiritual aspect of living with HIV/Aids.
This program was exclusively designed by Stella Ndiho, who has lived with HIV since 2001. When she initially learnt of her diagnosis she lived with the fear of stigma and discrimination associated with HIV. Living with fear, coupled with a low sense of self-esteem, led to a life of secrecy with poor personal relationships. However, a determination to live a healthier life led her to seek ways to fight. Along her journey she learnt that emotional and spiritual wellness affect one's physical wellness and therefore are crucial to living a healthy, longer, more productive life.
Her passion is to equip others living with HIV/Aids with the skills to tackle the various aspects of the disease. Being available exclusively online, also allows for confidentiality.
Living with HIV does not have to mean living sickly, fearful lives. Life can still be lived abundantly!
One of the biggest obstacles to living an abundant life is fear. This module will help you assess your fears, deal with stigma and how best to overcome them moving forward.
Challenges and problems are a part of life. On encountering one however, most people will either try to resolve the problem quickly, avoid it or look for a way to alleviate the symptoms. This module will show you how to successfully confront the challenge of living with HIV.
In this module, Stella teaches on how to make the necessary adjustments to living with HIV, managing your emotions and how to live with joy despite the circumstances.
The human body has the ability to heal itself, but it is only able to do so if it has all the nutrients in sufficient quantities to create the energy that is required for all body functions. In this module, Stella teaches on why a diet adjustment is important for anyone living with HIV, as the body requires extra energy to be able to fight the virus and protect itself from infections.
In this module Stella teaches on the various benefits of exercise for those living with HIV as well as how it can enhance one's quality of life.
Choosing to maintain positive relationships is vital to keeping healthy when living with HIV. Relationships tend to change and grow, in this module Stella teaches on how to navigate the different relationships, determining whom you can trust and depend on for support.
Acceptance of your diagnosis and condition is one of the most difficult challenges to overcome. In this module, you will learn simple, practical steps that will help you acknowledge your condition and create the necessary strategies to take back control.
Many people build their self-worth based on their job, their education, family name, what they earn or what they drive. In this module you will learn the foundations for building a strong sense of self-worth.


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Targeting Hybrid Cloud Sector, Red Hat and IBM Announce Expanded Collaboration
This week at the Red Hat Summit, Red Hat Inc. has announced a handful of collaborations, partnerships and roadmaps, among them its plans to focus on the hybrid cloud sector by expanding the company's relationship with technology juggernaut IBM Corp.
As container technology becomes more reliable to move apps across multiple IT environments, IBM recently moved to container-optimize its core enterprise software, including WebSphere, MQ Series and Db2. Combining Red Hat's cloud-native and hybrid cloud infrastructure solutions with IBM's containerized software, the two companies hope to "provide a clear pathway for enterprises to adopt hybrid cloud computing."
As Paul Cormier, president of Products and Technologies at Red Hat, said in a prepared statement, "Today's enterprises need a succinct roadmap for digital transformation, as well as confidence in deployment consistency across every IT footprint. By extending our long-standing collaboration with IBM, we're bringing together two leading enterprise application platforms in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and IBM Cloud Private and adding the power of IBM's software and cloud solutions. Together, we're providing customers with a supported, consistent offering across their computing environments."
According to the announcement, the agreement will allow IBM and Red Hat customers to use Red Hat OpenShift and IBM Cloud Private as a "common foundation" to move more easily to a hyrid cloud environment. Having a single view of all enterprise data, customers will be able to build and deploy containerized apps on a single, integrated platform, IBM Cloud Private. On the developer side, IBM and Red Hat claim that developers will be able to design and deploy new apps more quickly because devs will have aritifical intelligence, Internet of Things and blockchain cloud-based services available to them with IBM Cloud Private on the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.
"With IBM's recent move to containerize its middleware, today's landmark partnership between IBM and Red Hat provides customers with more choice and flexibility. Our common vision for hybrid cloud using container architectures allows millions of enterprises –- from banks, to airlines, to government organizations -- to access leading technology from both companies without having to choose between public and private cloud," said Arvind Krishna, senior vice president, IBM Hybrid Cloud, in a prepared statement.


Not so long ago, if Underwriters Laboratories needed to add three additional servers worth of computing power in three weeks, the company just bought three new units, says Kent Walker, manager of computer operations for UL. With more time for capacity analysis - which is both labor and time-intensive - Walker might be able to shift resources around and stave off the purchase. But when the need is immediate, there's no time for that.
On the surface, security questions surrounding virtual servers don't seem much different than those for the physical machines on which they run. In fact, starting a virtual security audit by keeping in mind what you've already learned in the physical world is an excellent approach. Security analysts say the same practices, principles and basic common sense apply for a group of virtual servers as for any physical server farm. But, IT managers also need to factor in some additional considerations, due to the unique characteristics of the virtual world.
Swapping out big-iron boxes in favor of Windows servers may not be the hottest of IT trends. But at its first Mainframe Migration Conference, Microsoft Corp. said it's making steady progress with its efforts to court mainframe users.
Three mainframe-to-Windows converts at the Chicago event pointed to expected cost reductions, one of the main benefits that Microsoft has been touting since it forged the Mainframe Migration Alliance with Micro Focus International Ltd. in April 2004.
Companies with aging PCs running old and often unsupported versions of Windows will get a stripped-down operating system option from Microsoft Corp. at an undetermined future date.
Microsoft this week confirmed plans to develop a lean version of Windows XP, code-named Eiger. The release will be targeted at government agencies and large businesses that are concerned about the security and manageability of PCs running Windows NT 4.0 and older versions of the operating system, said Barry Goffe, a group product manager for Windows client software.
Brent Callinicos, Microsoft's vice president of worldwide licensing and pricing, spoke with Computerworld US about a variety of issues related to the company's licensing plans and policies. He also talked about Microsoft's Software Assurance program, as well as the Microsoft Capital financing program.
When can we expect to see something more on Software Assurance -- weeks, months? It's not in weeks. ... I don't want to preannounce anything on Software Assurance before we can actually do an excellent job of delivering it to customers and operationalizing it. ... We're going to make sure we get this right, but it's also not going to be something whereby we do something and we're done. We are committed to enhancing this thing over time.
Apple Computer Inc. hopes its new Tiger operating system will help the company crack open the enterprise server market, where its Xserve line lags behind Windows, Linux and other Unix offerings.
But analysts said it's unclear if the 10.4 version of Mac OS X Server, which has built-in support for more than 100 open-source software technologies, will propel Apple beyond its traditional user base. That consists of academic and scientific institutions attracted by the powerful processing capabilities of Apple's systems, as well as publishing companies and others lured by its graphics and multimedia technology.
IT managers who once used Linux chiefly to support Web and file-and-print servers said at last week's LinuxWorld Conference & Expo here that they're now running key applications and databases on Linux-based systems -- a sign that the open-source software is penetrating deeper into corporate enterprises.
Many corporate users dragged their feet in testing beta versions of the security-focused Service Pack 2 update for Windows XP and still had plenty of application compatibility testing to do when Microsoft Corp. released SP2 last August.
But a random poll of IT managers conducted by Computerworld this week, plus anecdotal evidence from industry analysts, indicates that far more companies are making significant headway in deploying SP2 or are preparing to do so.
Open-source software will be a hot topic ithis month between the OSDL Enterprise Linux Summit in Burlingame, Calif., and the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, which begins Feb. 14 in Boston. With that open-source focus as the backdrop, Red Hat Inc. CEO Matthew Szulik spoke recently with Computerworld US about what's most important to his customers, the Raleigh, N.C.-based company's upcoming 4.0 release and the competition.
The Firefox Web browser has been causing a commotion among users and snaring snippets of market share from Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer since June -- long before Version 1.0 of the open-source software was officially released earlier last month.
But statistics suggest that corporate users aren't the major group fueling the growth of Firefox. The new browser's most dramatic spikes in usage are on weekends, according to Chris Hoffman, director of engineering at the not-for-profit Mozilla Foundation, which developed Firefox.
Microsoft's chief financial officer, John Connors, last week talked up the "innovative pipeline" that will ensure that new products and technology keep rolling out through future years.
What guidance can you give IT pros about Windows XP Service Pack 2 breaking applications? Making sure that we're doing things to make XP SP2 compatible with key customer scenarios is a top priority for us. One of the things with the new firewall in Service Pack 2 is to make sure that it's compatible with more scenarios so that it can be turned on by default and left on by the customers.
FRAMINGHAM (04/05/2004) - The majority of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s top 100 suppliers are expected to have RFID projects in the works by January. But whether they'll be in full compliance with the requirements Wal-Mart laid out for them is another matter.


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behavior genetics • heritability • brain function • psychology • cognition • brain
Brain plasticity in adults and cognition
I ran across a study from a couple of years ago by Rachel Brans and colleagues, which has an interesting result showing a genetic correlation between plasticity of cortex thickness and performance on psychometric tests Brans:2010. Plasticity is essential for brains to respond to pathological conditions like stroke; other studies have suggested that plasticity is likewise important to normal brain function. By means of conventional quantitative genetic analysis, Brans and colleagues suggest that plasticity is mechanistically related to the factors that underlie variation in cognitive performance:
Our finding that intelligence and change in cortical thickness are partly associated through shared genes is consistent with the dependence of learning and memory formation on the plasticity of neural circuits (Escobar et al., 2008). The association between intelligence and structural brain changes may also reflect an association between intelligence and plasticity in structural (Chiang et al., 2009) and functional brain networks during the resting-state (van den Heuvel et al., 2009). Moreover, because functional brain activity during cognitive tasks was recently found to be heritable (Koten et al., 2009), genes for structural brain plasticity and intellectual ability may also be relevant for brain function while performing cognitive tasks.
This is a classic twin study, examining the additive genetic variance of the change in cortical thickness measures in individuals sampled five years apart. As in almost all fMRI studies, the sample size is relatively small. But in comparison to previous studies that showed the relationship between psychometric test outcomes and the volumes of particular cortical areas, this one is much more functionally directed, looking at the change in cortical thickness across time.
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Utina (conosciuta anche col nome d'Agua Dulce) è il nome di una Chiefdom amerinda che si estendeva sul nord della Florida e sul territorio attuale della Georgia nel XVI secolo. Questa tribù era strettamente legata a quella degli Acuera che vivevano più nell'entroterra ed a quella degli Utinahica.

Lingua
Gli Utina erano una delle tribù della Nazione Timucua, parlavano quindi un dialetto della Lingua timucua, in particolare il loro dialetto apparteneva al gruppo dialettale denominato Mocama.

Presentazione

Gli Utina erano costantemente in conflitto con le tribù vicine dei Saturiwa e dei Tacatacurus entrambe appartenenti al gruppo Mocama. Gli Utina vivevano sulle rive del fiume Saint Johns e sulla zona dell'attuale città di Palatka fino al lago George nella regione d'Ocala.

Storia
Nel 1562, all'arrivo dei coloni Ugonotti francesi sulla costa della colonia della Florida francese, i Saturiwas ed i Tacatacurus accolsero i Francesi con devozione e li aiutarono ad edificare i bastioni di Charlesfort e, più tardi, di Fort Caroline.

Essi si allearono con i francesi nella loro lotta contro gli Utina, che si erano schierati con gli spagnoli (che li avevano chiamati "Agua Dulce"), durante il conflitto tra le due potenze europee.
 Nel 1565, le forze spagnole attaccarono fort Caroline e giustiziarono l'intera guarnigione francese.
 Nel 1568, Dominique de Gourgues s'imbarcò in una spedizione punitiva per vendicare i francesi massacrati dagli spagnoli tre anni prima. Arrivate sulla costa della Florida, le forze francesi, con l'aiuto dei Saturiwas, dei Tacatacurus e di altre tribù di nativi americani (Potanos e Mayacas), massacrarono la guarnigione spagnola di Fort Mateo che si era sostituito a Fort Carolina. Forte di questo successo, Dominique de Gourgues ed i suoi alleati indiani distrussero altre due fortezze spagnole.
Come altri popoli amerindi, gli Utina furono decimati dalle nuove malattie infettive portate dai colonizzatori e dalle guerre che imperversarono nel XVII secolo, scomparendo all'inizio del secolo seguente. I pochi sopravvissuti, verosimilmente si fusero con altri membri delle antiche tribù Timucua e persero la loro identità.

Bibliografia
 Hann, John H. (1996). A History of the Timucua Indians and Missions. University Press of Florida.

Voci correlate
 Classificazione dei nativi americani

Culture e civiltà nordamericane


Brownie Pops are fun, playful candies that combine two favorite tastes into one great candy. Brownies and chocolate frosting are mixed and formed into balls that are placed on sticks and dipped in chocolate. These "pops" taste like decadent fudgy brownies and make perfect party food or favors!
My favorite part is that they taste great with store-bought brownies (or brownies from a mix), so there's not a lot of advanced prep that needs to happen in order to make these perfect pops. Try adding in fun mix-ins too, like chopped nuts or mini chocolate chips.
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Place the brownies in a large bowl, and crumble them roughly with your hands.
Add the chocolate frosting, and begin to mix it with your hands into the brownies, working until the brownies are crumbs and the mixture is evenly moistened. You want the brownie mixture to easily hold together when you press it into a ball, but still retain a little texture. My personal preference is to have some "crumb" left to the brownie, so that it is not just a gooey frosting ball. Of course, tastes vary, so add more frosting if you want a fudgier pop.
Using a cookie scoop or teaspoon, form the mixture into small balls and roll them between your hands to get them round.
Place them on the prepared baking sheet and freeze until firm, at least 2 hours.
After the pops have been frozen, remove them from the freezer.
Melt the chocolate candy coating in the microwave and stir until completely smooth.
Use a skewer to poke a hole in the bottom of each brownie ball. Dip the end of a lollipop stick into the melted coating, then stick this end into the hole made by the skewer, to help hold the stick in place.
To prevent cracks from forming in the chocolate coating, you want to dip the brownie pops when they have lost some of their coldness from the freezer, but do not allow them to get so warm that they fall off the lollipop stick when being dipped. I've found that a moderately cool temperature is best.
Dip the pops one at a time in the coating, holding the dipped pop over the bowl and allowing excess coating to drip back in the bowl.
While the coating is still tacky but no longer dripping, sprinkle the desired toppings (nuts, coconut, sprinkles, etc) on the brownie pop before setting it on a baking sheet to finish setting. Alternately, you can stick the pops upright in Styrofoam to allow them to finish drying.
Brownie Pops can be served immediately, or they will keep in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to one week. The chocolate coating will get softer as time progresses. Allow to come to room temperature for best taste and texture when serving.