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History's bunk — but it still rhymes: From the Bastille to the Winter Palace to the Capitol
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What happens when a corporation colonizes a country?
October 7, 2019 Admin 194 Views 0 Comments
In all the history courses that I ever took, I was taught that the British Empire colonized India. Yet, as William Dalrymple's eminently readable new book, "The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire" details, that story is far more nuanced — and more horrific — than we were ever taught. It is more accurate to say not that the British Empire colonized India itself, but rather that a British corporation, the East India Company, colonized what we call India today on its own private terms. Hence, for around a century, India was essentially controlled by said corporation, which amassed a mercenary army in India twice as large as the British Army. It was only upon being dissolved and nationalized by the British government in the late nineteenth century — an early exemplar of a company deemed "too big to fail" — that one could accurately say that the British Empire formally colonized the Indian subcontinent.
The corporate looting and colonization of the Indian subcontinent has been largely erased from our modern history, and to our detriment, as Dalrymple writes. Indeed, the distinction between a nation-state and a nation-state's corporation is not mere splitting hairs. There was no precedent prior for such an incursion, and we clearly have not learned from the debacle since. Many corporations nowadays, from Exxon to Coca-Cola, lobby for coups or hire mercenaries to protect their profits, acting as mini-empires in their own right. Now, as several billionaires claim they intend to use their immense wealth to colonize space, it is pivotal that humanity understands what happens when private actors colonize on their own terms.
I interviewed William Dalrymple about his new book and the implications of corporate imperialism; this interview has been condensed and edited for print.
Keith A. Spencer: I'm particularly interested in your book as exemplary of what happens when a corporation is involved in colonization—
William Dalrymple: The Elizabethan equivalent.
—Yes, the Elizabethan equivalent, right. There don't seem to be too many historical examples to pull from when you're thinking about trying to find something that is comparable to, you know—
—Elon Musk or something like that?
Exactly. Like his plans to colonize Mars, privately.
I've been using Elon Musk as an example in my lectures, as the main equivalence. We're both thinking on the same lines.
A lot of this book is about looting — by, say, Nader Shah, or the East India Company, or the Empire. And I'm particularly interested in some of the contemporary parallels here. It makes me think of, say, the American Imperial project in Iraq, which I guess maybe is slightly different because the soldiers can't just put oil in their pockets or something like that.
But there is an element of looting of a place like Iraq, by the American government in concert with all the private military contractors, that seems at least somewhat similar.
What seems to me to be the strong parallel with all that is the degree to which modern corporations are in this complicated relationship with the state in the same way that the company was. The East India Company (EIC) basically invents corporate lobbying in 1697, I think it is. They're caught giving fares to [Members of Parliament] who will vote for the company to extend its monopoly. That was the first time there's a proper corruption scandal associated with a corporation.
The 40% of parliamentarians that actually have shares in the company, they use them as a block [in] parliament to push through military support for the company, an extension of its monopoly, a whole variety of different things that it wants from parliament.
And the parallels between, for example, Anglo American Oil in Iraq in 1953 bringing down, or lobbying MI6 and the CIA to bring down Mossadegh was the first and only democratic regime in Iran.
Then again, a few years later, United Fruit in Guatemala, getting the CIA to bring about a coup because it owns 42% of agricultural land in Guatemala, and there's going to be land restitution issue with a socialist government in Guatemala. So they bring down the government.
1977, in Chile. Salvador Allende. The CIA stages a coup and a brutal junta takes over. So the East India Company seems to be the first, the prototype for all those sorts of things. The way that it's a corporation so powerful it can overcome the state.
And then there's the whole question of ExxonMobil, which Steve Coll wrote that brilliant book about, "Private Empire," which won a Pulitzer. And this whole question of how, you know, if ExxonMobil were a nation state, its revenue would make it 14th in GDP terms in to the world.
It's a massively profitable organization that could buy states. And the influence on policy in Indonesia and the whole question of how far it was involved in the whole calculations of the Iraq war. These are really intricate and important questions throughout time.
Do you have a sense of how powerful the East India Company was? Was it comparable to a nation-state? I mean, obviously it had this military apparatus, but were its budget and revenues comparable to a lot of the empires of the time?
Yeah, I think larger. I mean, I think at its time it was the biggest and the richest that's ever been. Not only did it have, in 1799, double the number of troops of the British Army. It also had… I think its spending in Great Britain was about half that of the government. It created about half the London Docklands. It was responsible for, I think a third of all British exports.
No modern company has that proportion of the United States revenue. You know, you'd have to combine Facebook, ExxonMobil and Google into one mega, horrific corporation. And so there is no exact modern equivalent, thank God.
And in the end — the EIC in the end falls to the state.
It dances this intimate and complicated dance with the state, whereby sometimes it's bribing it, sometimes it's cajoling into action, sometimes it's keeping the state at bay and saying that these conquests — despite being sometimes won partly by government troops — are the property of the company, not of the crown.
But at the end, when they go bankrupt in 1773 and they have to borrow massive amounts of money, it's a Lehman Brothers situation. It's too big to fail. And the state intervenes. And that's the moment that the state gets its claws into the company.
And we begin to see it turning into a sort of public/private partnership. And then finally in 1858 it's nationalized. It's part of the state. And then disbanded.
So it's a complicated story, and in this particular story the state wins.
The Victorian state proves more powerful than the corporation. But there were earlier points in its history when it looks as if it's going to turn out differently.
Say that I was just a person living somewhere in England in, say, 1800. And I look at a place like India — would I think, "the EIC is colonizing India" or "my government, the British Empire, is colonizing India"? Do the people have a sense of a company doing this?
In the 18th century it was very well known that it was the company [that was colonizing]. And no one could go to India if they didn't have a company pass. The company had [a] monopoly. So, let's say I was interested in natural history and wanted to go off and explore the sea otters of Bengal. The only way I could get there is if the company gives me a pass. It has a total monopoly on all Europeans coming in and out of the country.
Right. And so did people living in India have that sense too?
Yeah, there's no question that in the 18th century, Indians and the British both understand that this is a corporate entity and that it's… Although Indians often don't understand exactly what the company is. And Mir Jafar clearly thinks the company is a person at one point. And there's some confusion in India about what exactly, what sort of institution we're talking about.
But that's what's interesting is that, certainly in 18th century Britain, there is often outrage about the company's power. And one of the encouraging things is to discover how much opposition there is to the company in 18th century Britain.
A lot of people are absolutely appalled by what's going on. And there are headlines and articles particularly when the Bengal famine breaks out in 1772 and people like Horace Walpole are writing, "We have out done the Spanish conquest of the Incas." The Spanish at least had the excuse of religion. We had only that greed.
But it's the Victorians who muddy the waters. And that's what's interesting to me. They turn it into a story of national empire and glory.
The Indian nationalists take it on and just invert it. So, it's a story of oppression, then liberation.
But the fact that it was a corporation has been completely lost and has remained lost, I think. Most people in India just think it's the British conquering India.
That's what I found so fascinating. I was taught in school that the British Empire colonized India. I never had a sense of it being sort of unilaterally colonized by a corporation.
So that's the kind of Victoria spin. The Victorians were embarrassed by this, you know, the dirty corporate entity which conquered them. And they rewrote the history.
But anyone that reads company history or reads through the 18th century papers knows that this is a deeply controversial and dodgy episode. And everyone in Britain is aware of that.
Even the company's main historiographer at the time, a guy called Robert Orme, writes two or three volumes of his history of the the conquest and he decides to stop at volume three and says, "I can't continue because If I were to tell the truth, I would lose all my friends and I know too much."
If I were sort of a lower level functionary who signed on to work for the EIC and got sent down to India, would it sort of be like indentured servitude or would I have a fair bit of freedom there? Was this sort of like the military, where you sign up for a stint or a tour?
So it's interesting. There was huge competition to get these jobs. Because they were the single easiest way of enriching yourself in 18th century Britain. And so it was the equivalent of joining Goldman Sachs, or McKinsey or something. If you were a bright young thing with good prospects who needed money, this was the first port of call.
But it was also an extremely risky one. Because three quarters of the people that went out at 16 — and they signed on that young — simply never came back.
And so it was never the top level gentry, it was never the Lords and Ladies and Dukes and so on. What it was, it was minor gentry who were well connected but desperate enough financially to need this job. And very much the kind of the world my family came from. We were kind of Lowland Scottish gentry with social aspirations greater than our purse. And so generations of my family ship out there.
And it's often Scots, it's often the Northern Irish. The sort of — low gentry squires, vicar's sons, this sort of thing. But it's never the really posh folk, nor the really poor.
People realized — or at least were aware — that it was fucking dangerous. The chances were you'd never see these people again. And there's these rather moving letters, occasionally when people are leaving [for India], and they say, "I know [there's] a chance that we will never meet again."
And even if everything went well, and you did exceptionally well, you wouldn't come back, even on furlough, for the next 15 years or something.
And that was if you were lucky — and most people wouldn't come back at all.
So the actual work – I mean, is this like grunt work? There was a promise of wealth that people went there with?
Yeah, I mean the direct parallel is joining Goldman Sachs. Some vicious people compete to get these jobs. And use influence to get these jobs. But they know that they're signing their life away. You're not to have more than whatever it is, a week's holiday and five hours sleep a night for the next 20 years, you know? But you also know that it's the best way possible of turning you into a millionaire.
How dangerous and isolated is the work? Is it like working on an oil platform?
I think maybe the East India Company military was more like an oil platform, in that it was often [taking labor] from the streets rather than the gentry. And more dangerous. I mean, I think some of the military had a turnover of — about one in three died every year.
And so your chances of surviving in the East India Company military were very low. So you had to be desperate.
So I was also wondering, you mentioned that the EIC's behavior in bribing MPs made it essentially the first example of corporate lobbying. But I'm also curious, regarding this Victorian resistance — was this like the first instance of organized anti-corporate activism, similar to, say, the Seattle WTO protests?
If you read the newspapers at the time, particularly in 1772 when the Bengal famine was uncovered, there is an incredible amount of resistance in [the newspapers]. In fact, I got very into this and photocopied a huge amount in the British Library. And in the end wasn't even enable to sort of, get through half of it because there's too much of it.
And in exactly the same sort of tone that you get in the Guardian today — they're writing about the evil deeds of large corporations.
And even within the company, someone like the young Warren Hastings, when he first discovers what his compatriots are up to, he's absolutely horrified. The British name will suffer for forever if we allow India to become, I think he calls it, "a refuge for triennial adventurers feathering their own nests," or some quip like that.
I think that was the biggest single surprise researching it. I wasn't surprised by the loot and the asset stripping and the plundering.
Because we knew that was going to be there. But I was surprised by the amount of resistance in the press. Some of it's snobbery because, you know, these are often people who are not the top drawer, coming back with huge fortunes buying country houses and buying a parliamentary seat. So the old money looked down on the returned nabobs. So there's an element of snobbery in the criticism, but there's also just an element of outrage and people being appalled at human rights abuses in a very modern way.
And in a very modern way, it doesn't really do much to alter the way things carry on.
I was wondering if like you think something comparable could happen nowadays? Or if no corporation is quite as powerful and wealthy as the EIC was back then?
No, there's nothing even remotely comparable I think. But nonetheless, I think that there is a lot to learn from this in the sense of, lots of regulation and the necessity of keeping an eye on these [corporate] beasts, which [exist] solely to make profit for their shareholders. That's what they do. In a sense, that's what they're hardwired to do. A biological species is hardwired to eat and reproduce. A corporate entity is hardwired to make as much profit as it possibly can within the regulations available.
William Dalrymple's book, "The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire" is out now from Bloomsbury Publishing.
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The six children who died on Friday Friday 25th January, 2021, after they were knocked by a reckless driver are between the ages of 13 and 14 years and were all males, the children were said to be playing with a dog in their friend's compound and unfortunately while the dog escaped, the children were not so lucky.
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Grenade will soon start falling on people houses in those communities I mentioned.
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Q: Question on transformations & symmetry In the question i have been given i have been asked to show how one equation becomes another after making the x value into -x, i don't understand how to interpret it, heres the actual question.

Consider the hyperbola $\frac{2}{x-2}$
Show that when x is replaced by -x the equation becomes y = - $\frac{2}{x+2}$

Thanks.

A: To show this you can say $f(x)=\frac{2}{x-2}$ and then xalculate $f(-x)$. So we have:
$$f(x)=\frac{2}{-x-2}=\frac{2}{(-1)\cdot(x+2)}=-\frac{2}{x+2}$$

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The British Columbia Legal Directory, which was a print publication for 30 years, is now available strictly online. Currently, it is only accessible to CBABC members and those with special non-member access, but in what the CBABC calls "early 2018" it will be opened up to the public.
Along with that change, the website will offer expanded search capabilities. Now, lawyer profiles can be searched by name, location and language(s) spoken, but the CBABC is working on adding a search function for areas of practice, with the goal of making it easier for clients and referring lawyers to find members of the bar.
The website, which has been optimized for mobile devices, allows all practising lawyers in the province to post a basic profile for free. CBABC members have the option of posting an enhanced profile consisting of a photo, biography and up to three areas of practice. Non-CBABC members wanting the enhanced profile option can pay $175 annually for it.
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Q: What should I be doing to serialize/marshal (and vice-versa) resources that refer to other resources? I have a SpringServlet (from Jersey) that is exposing my JPA-annotated POJOs in a very basic manner right now. For example, rather than returning an actual represetantion of the object, I've just returned a field such as Name to play around.
Of course I want to return the actual representation of the object as a resource... the part where I am stuck is that if I have an object of type Foo accessible via /foo/{id}/ but it also has a relation to object type Bar as part of Foo -- I don't want to serialize Bar in the response. I want to return a URI to a Bar resource.
Am I on my own from here -- no frameworks handle that part? Especially with regard to the path. It feels like I'm going to have to create BarResource annotated with @Path but then also, during serialization, set the URI for the Bar POJO reference read from a constant. I'm not able to take a type and lookup a resource (and subsequently the @Path annotation) but that would be handy, no?

A: You are destined to remain confused until you clear up the distinction between resources, representations and objects.
A resource is a concept, or some "thing" that is useful to the client application.  It is very nebulous.  It is identified by a URI and is operated on using methods.  It needs to be nebulous/flexible to make up for the very limited set of methods.
A representation is a set of bytes that can be transferred across the wire that represents the resource as some instant in time.
An object is an implementation detail that may or may not have a direct correlation with a resource.  The information contained within a resource may be implemented by a single object or an entire object graph.  A resource's contents could be stored in a file, the result of a SQL query, a XSLT transformation, pretty much anything.
You may or many not use object serialization to create representations of resources.  References between objects may relate to content within a single resource or links between resources.  However, be very careful serializing domain objects into representations.  That is sure to introduce a level of coupling between your client and server that you will live to regret.


Well, each area of the country holds its own challenges.
Be it man or otherwise.
But even tho the warnings are there, people do not head them.
This is shown in our cartoons below.
Very cute William Feela thank you for more Thanksgiving week humor!
OH oh, someone got a little crispy! We started the day in the low 50s but it warmed up nicely, warm enough to get a sunburn if not careful!
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Yes, all of us Turkeys have one of these here in Florida that we use when we go to the beach.
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Cute every timely. There won't be a turkey at our house this year. We are heading to my daughter's house.


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B-17 Flying Fortress: World War II Bombers in Action is a combat flight simulation video game developed by Vektor Grafix and published by MicroProse for the PC MS-DOS in 1992 and for the Amiga and Atari ST in 1993. The game simulates training, combat missions and sorties in a tour of duty in the Eighth Air Force of the United States Army Air Forces in the European Theater of Operations aboard a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber during World War II. It was followed by B-17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty 8th in 2000.

Gameplay

Some aspects that the player has control over are inflight crew management (a crewman might become injured during combat and temporary medical aid inflight given to him whilst another aircrewmen tends another crew position), manning an onboard .50 caliber M2 Browning machine gun against enemy fighters, and releasing the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress's ordnance on the target as well as piloting or copiloting the plane. All ten aircrew positions could be controlled either manually or under AI control. The main character and captain is the primary pilot. His successes, failures, capture, injury or death affects the direction and conclusion of the campaign.

The player can pick out their chosen bomber with its particular nose art and was shown target briefing information and briefing films in the simulation before entering on any mission with the crew. A map of the flight path and waypoints was also shown in the simulation. Although a mission is assigned to the crew before every sortie, the player may break formation and roam freely around Europe if desired, looking for and attacking targets of opportunity. Different targets can easily be discerned from the bombsight, whether a factory or a U-boat pen; terrain graphics are minimal. The success of this decision relies on the skill of the crew, particularly if the navigator is skilled enough to navigate Europe on his own and the crew is able to withstand stronger Luftwaffe fighter and ground defense Flak attacks due to being alone. The most difficult but prestigious targets were the Nazi strongholds in and around Berlin.

If the player's B-17 is severely damaged, the player may drop out of the formation and continue the mission on one's own or attempt to return to England, in which one can land on any Allied runway and be taken back to the home base at Alconbury. The player is unable to damage one's own plane using the onboard guns, but dropping bombs at a low altitude would destroy the plane. The player is also able to shoot down ally Flying Fortresses, as an act of friendly fire. An ill-timed shooting of a Luftwaffe fighter could cause the enemy to lose control and collide with one's B-17 or others in the formation.

The game's graphics are very simple (MCGA and VGA) and the requirements are meager when running on an antiquated IBM PC compatible computer; an Intel 80286 microprocessor based (or comparable AMD) based PC is required at 16 MHz with DOS 5.0 (a sound card is desirable). However a 80386 or better microprocessor is recommended for this software with at least 640k of RAM. The PC version came out in several floppy disk media types (5- 5.25" high density disks), compact floppy disks, 4–3.5" high density disks) and CD-ROM versions.

Development and release
One of the technical advisors to the development of the simulation was Major Joseph N. Worsley (USAAF, Retired) one of the top bombardiers in the USAAF trained in the use of the Norden as well as Sperry bombsights on Boeing B-29s. Dominic Robinson, technical director for the sequel B-17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty 8th also was listed in the software credits for the original title.

B-17 Flying Fortress came with a 230-page manual which details how to play the simulation, in addition to an in-depth historical section with numerous illustrations and photographs. The simulation also included a keyboard overlay so that the function of keys on the players keyboard would not be so confusing during gameplay. For a while B-17 Flying Fortress (DOS version only) was released with permission as freeware by MicroProse on the Internet website bombs-away.net.

Its sequel came out in the year 2000 and B-17 Flying Fortress as freeware was made into a Microsoft Windows 9x running application from the DOS based version for the PC platform. Shockwave Productions has since bought the rights to the code.

Reception
Computer Gaming World criticized the poor documentation and inability to start other than in November 1943 even after finishing a 25-mission tour. The magazine concluded that while the game "points the way for future designs in the genre with its character-based approach ... It will not, however, satisfy those who expect a comprehensive, flexible treatment of the subject". A 1993 survey in the magazine of wargames gave the game three stars out of five, stating that "bomber operations are inherently dull ... and this simulation more than covers the topic".

See also
 European Air War

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GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations plans to make its first air drops of food and other aid in Syria, to Deir al-Zor, an eastern city of 200,000 besieged by Islamic State militants, the chair of a U.N. humanitarian task force said on Thursday.
U.N. aid agencies do not have direct access to areas held by Islamic State, including the city, where civilians face severe food shortages and sharply deteriorating conditions.
Speaking a day after U.N. road convoys reached five areas, some besieged by government forces and others by rebels, Jan Egeland said the organization's World Food Programme (WFP) had a "concrete plan" for carrying out the Deir al-Zor drop in coming days.
"It's a complicated operation and would be in many ways the first of its kind," he told reporters in Geneva.
where it will be collected and distributed by the Syrian Arab Red Crescent, WFP spokeswoman Bettina Luescher said.
Speaking in Damascus, U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura said he hoped to expand aid deliveries to other civilians under siege, citing needs in areas including rebel-held eastern Aleppo and government-besieged Daraya in Ghouta.
The U.N. estimates there are 486,700 people in around 15 besieged areas of Syria, and 4.6 million in hard-to-reach areas. In some, starvation deaths and severe malnutrition have been reported.
Many member states of the humanitarian task force on Syria had pledged support for the attempt to reach Deir al-Zor, Egeland said after chairing its second meeting.
Deir al-Zor is the main town in a province of the same name, which links Islamic State's de facto capital in the Syrian city of Raqqa with territory controlled by the militant group in neighboring Iraq.
The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said requests were still pending with the government for convoys to bring aid to 50,000 people in Afrin, 50,000 in eastern Aleppo city, 75,000 in the western Aleppo countryside, and 50,000 in northern rural Aleppo province.
The international community, particularly Russia, needed to put pressure on the Assad regime to lift sieges and grant full humanitarian access, Britain's foreign minister Philip Hammond said.
Russia is Syria's main ally in the five-year war, while Western and Arab states support rebels fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad.
In the past 24 hours, 114 U.N. trucks had delivered life-saving food and medical supplies to 80,000 people in five besieged areas, enough for one month, Egeland said.
These were Madaya, Zabadani and Mouadamiya al-Sham near Damascus, which are under siege by government forces, and the villages of al-Foua and Kefraya in Idlib province, surrounded by rebel fighters.


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Loaded up the bike and went to John Pershing State Park in Northern MO this weekend. The Moto-Jack worked very well.
What is this Pershing park you speak of? Looks to be 2.5 hours east of us, might be worth a drive?
XR-Nut I've been working on a GPS track that runs from Eagleville MO to Willow Springs MO. The idea behind this track is to provide a connection from The Trans-Iowa Trail, to one of the Trans Missouri Trails that will connect to the Trans-Arkansas Trail in Blue Eye MO.
I was camping at John Pershing State Park to do some additional exploration and ride a test track from John Pershing State Park to Graham Cave State Park. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to ride all that I was hoping to, so a return trip is in order to complete the final leg of the track which is from from Eagleville MO to John Pershing State Park.
Pershing State Park does have some hiking trails about ten miles in total, is close to Locust Creek Covered Bridge (one of only four covered bridges left in Missouri), not too far to Marceline MO (one of Walt Disney's boyhood hometowns, with a museum located in a restored Santa Fe Railroad Depot), and of course there is the boyhood hometown of General John Pershing in nearby Laclede MO.


There are several means by which SQL Server databases can be recovered. The recovery model set for the individual database determines the types of recoveries that can be performed and the amount of work and space required to protect the data.
To understand how database backup works, there must first be an understanding of the relationship between the transaction log and the database files. The transaction log is a copy of every change that occurs to the data (and sometime structure) of a SQL Server database. Every insert, update and delete is first written to the transaction log. Once written (and thus stored) the database determines if the change can be executed. This check involves assuring that triggers can run and all the changes within a group (called a transaction) can be executed. If they can be, the changes are marked as committed. If an error is encountered, the changes are marked for rollback. SQL Server periodically takes the committed changes in the transaction log and writes them to the data file for permanent storage.
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Full recovery is recommended for transactional databases to provide better control over restoration options. It requires the scheduling of transaction log backups and the management of those files.
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I recommended that production databases typically be set in this mode during a bulk load, and then returned to full recovery for normal operations.


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Many opportunities exist for evangelists, disciplers and mentors for believers from a Muslim background in a small fellowship.
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Joseph Haynes Rainey, was born today in Georgetown, South Carolina in 1832 and would become the first African-American representative in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Born into Slavery, Rainey's father bought his freedom. At the outbreak of the American Civil War, Rainey was conscripted by the Confederates to work on fortifications, but he eventually escaped to Bermuda with his family.
In 1866, following the war's end, Rainey returned to Charleston and ran for office.
At the time Charleston had an African American population of 43%. Rainey was elected to the State Senate before running for Congress in 1870. He won and became the first elected African America in the U.S. House.
During his terms in Congress, Rainey supported legislation to protect the civil rights of Southern black people, working for two years to gain passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1875.
New segregation and Jim crow laws in South Carolina eventually crippled the his influence and the influence of black voters resulting in Rainey's defeat in the 1878 election.
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Applications for the 5th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art are open from October 27 to December 10, 2015.
Applications for participation in the Biennale will only be accepted through the official website of the Biennale by filling in an electronic form. Applications for participation in the Biennale are accepted within the time announced by the organizers of the Biennale; the application time frame for the 5th Biennale is from October 27 to December 10, 2015.
Works submitted to the Biennale may be those of Russian or foreign artists of the new generation, working in the field of contemporary art with the latest strategies, concepts, and techniques (individual, collective, or as part of curatorial projects). Artists of the new generation are defined as those whose age at the time of the opening of the Biennale does not exceed 35 years.
The right to apply for participation in the Biennale is limited to the authors of projects (artists and curators in the case of a curatorial project) and non-commercial artistic institutions.
Applications for the Strategic Projects of the Biennale or for curators (curator groups) which will take place in the exhibition spaces provided by the organizers of the Biennale, the National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA), the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA), are received regardless of financial means. Expenses related to the organization and realization of the Strategic Projects will be covered by resources from the government budget, regional government budgets and non-governmental sources.
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You control a Chromecast by means of a PC or cell phone instead of a remote. As opposed to spilling content specifically from your cell phone, tablet or PC, Chromecast gets directions and afterwards streams material appropriate from the Web. Nonetheless, with the assistance of its applications, you can likewise stream content specifically from your PC and cell phones.
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Dronacharya Award to Baba Ram Rahim? What's the Truth??
Here's everything you need to know about Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh's contribution as a Sports coach & why he was recommended for Dronacharya Award.
Few days back The Yoga Federation of India (YFI) recommended the name of Dera Sacha Sauda's chief Saint Dr. Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh for the Dronacharya Award. The Dronacharya Award, officially known as Dronacharya Award for Outstanding Coaches in Sports and Games, is sports coaching honour of the Republic of India. As per reports, YFI president Ashok Kumar Agarwal said that Guru Ram Rahim has created many Yoga heroes for the nation who has won gold at World and Asian levels several times, he also added that not only in Yoga but Gurmeet Ram Rahim's contribution can't be neglected in other sports like javelin throw, throw ball, hand ball and roller hockey.
This public statement from YFI was hard to digest for some of the so called "Sports Experts", some news blogs like scroll.in and Amar Ujala even stated that "Gurmeet Ram Rahim has no connection with sports" and "Ram Rahim himself is demanding for dronacharya award", but is that true? We researched as much as we can and found out that both these statements of the main stream media are totally untrue, here we will discuss what we found out about Saint Ram Rahim as coach and achievements of his students at different levels.
Five Girls have won Bhim Award for their Brilliant International Performances: Parveen Kaur Insan (2017 - Roller Skating Hockey), Harpreet Kaur Insan (2017 - Roller Skating Hockey), Gurmail Kaur Insan (2017 - Roller HandBall), Yashdeep Kaur Insan (2013 - Roller Skating Hockey) and Milanpreet Kaur Insan (2014 - Roller Skating Hockey.
Girls have won over 40 International Medals in Inline Hockey, Judo and volleyball too.
Boys have won over 100 International Medals in Judo, Football, Swimming, Cricket, Kabbadi, Yoga and what not.
All these achievements under the name of Saint Ram Rahim as a coach, it's wonderful to know that in guidance of Ram Rahim Dera Sacha Sauda has facilitated state-of-the-art International Stadiums In Sirsa for proper training of these students without any aid from government.
Singh awards these students with pure diamond, gold and silver medals every year for their brilliant performances for the nation.
Along with respective sport coaching, Singh also helps these Athletes to boost their self confidence through meditation.
Khel Gaon is ready in Dera Sacha Sauda to build champions for next Olympics, Government is also supporting Khel Gaon.
All this information was not much hard to found still main stream media like Amar Ujala and Scroll stated "Ram Rahim has almost no connection to support", really? you guys serious? Let me ask them was it lack of knowledge? lack of awareness? Ignorance? blind haters? or were paid to write that crap?
The second statement was "Ram Rahim demanding Dronacharya Award" or "Gurmeet Ram Rahim eyes on Dronacharya Award", when did you hear any word regarding Dronacharya Award from Singh? When did he demanded for it? How low can you stoop to push your anti-national agenda? Making up stories in field of sports too like you do for bollywood gossips?
Yesterday when Singh came to know about these false statements that media was making, he kind of slapped these press-titutes through his FB live where he was seen with some of his trained students, in FB live part first the girl students talked about how Saint Ram Rahim trained them from the very basics of each sport to the international level, most of these girls from villages where there was no scope for them to play, they told how Saint Dr. Ram Rahim as a coach is and how how much valuable his role was in their success. Saint Ram Rahim also cleared that he has not asked for any award in fact his awards are his students who got medals for the nation, he says "Media" is the 4th pillar of the society and should not publish baseless statements.
Saint Dr. MSG does FB live every evening to interact with his fans and to promote his latest MSG movie #JattuEngineer but yesterday it was little different as the female athletes who took coaching from the rockstar Saint were present. Tonight Male athletes may be present, you can watch the live feed on his official FB page around 9PM.
Let us know your views in the comment section below!
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Kathleen Coulborn Faller is Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work, University of Michigan, and Co-Director of the University's Interdisciplinary Project on Child Abuse and Neglect. She is the author of Social Work with Abused and Neglected Children.
Has a gripping versimilitude resulting from the author's extensive use of case material. The reader sees the details and nuances, feels the anguish and confusion of the victims, and grasps the issues on more than just an intellectual or theoretical level.
[The author] provides a structured, in-depth, and scholarly approach to the analysis of specific issues. Highly recommended.
If I were a practitioner in the field, I would want to use this book continuously, for it is filled with interesting case studies that illustrate the variety of conceptual frameworks that have been developed to identify and treat child sexual abuse.
[Clearly] written to provide guidelines and direcetions for both students and practitioners. Abundant case illustrations and vignettes enable the reader to follow the progress of a case workp or the processs of case management.
Child Sexual Abuse by Kathleen Coulborn Faller has a gripping versimilitude resulting from the author's extensive use of case material. The reader sees the details and nuances, feels the anguish and confusion of the victims, and grasps the issues on more than just an intellectual or theoretical level.


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Q: After upgrading the log4j core and api jars from 2.8.2 version to 2.17.1, Incorrect date is getting displayed in the logs After upgrading the log4j core and api jars from 2.8.2 version to 2.17.1, Incorrect date is getting displayed in the logs. If the jar is reverted to 2.8.2 then the sysdate of the vm is picked up and displayed in the logs. Below is how the date is displayed.
Actual result: [12-31-69 04:00:00]
Expected result is [current date of the vm]
I have tried adding "Enhanced Pattern Layout" in the Log4j2config.xml and log4j.properties It didn't help in fixing the issue.
Any input on this will be helpful


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Kevin Spacey evidence missing? Accuser can't find phone he needs to hand over to defense, lawyer says
By Louis Casiano | Fox News
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A cellphone central to the sexual misconduct case against actor Kevin Spacey -- in which he is accused of groping a man at a popular bar in 2016 -- is missing, the accuser's attorney said Wednesday.
Attorney Mitchell Garabedian, who represents the unidentified man, told a judge in court documents that his cellphone at the time of the alleged incident at the Club Car bar and restaurant in Nantucket, Mass., could not be found. The judge initially said the phone needed to be turned over to the defense by Friday but has since extended the deadline to July 8.
Garabedian said the man and his parents "have searched all the places where such a phone may have been stored. They have not found the phone."
JUDGE ALLOWS PRESERVATION OF MORE PHONE RECORDS IN KEVIN SPACEY SEXUAL ASSAULT CASE
Lawyers for Spacey have demanded the device so they could try to recover text messages they said proved his innocence. The judge said if the accuser does not produce the phone by July 8, he'll have to appear in court with his mother to explain why they don't know where it is.
Spacey's lawyers have accused the man of deleting certain messages between him and his then-girlfriend from his phone before sending screenshots of conversations to an officer investigating the case back in November 2017.
The criminal case is the only one brought against Spacey, who has been accused of several instances of sexual misconduct since 2017. Former Boston TV anchor Heather Unruh accused the actor of getting her then-18-year-old son drunk at the island bar where he worked as a busboy and sexually assaulting him.
Kevin Spacey attending a pretrial hearing at district court in Nantucket, Mass., earlier this month. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
KEVIN SPACEY SHARES 'HOUSE OF CARDS'-INSPIRED VIDEO AS AUTHORITIES ANNOUNCE HE FACES FELONY SEX ASSAULT CHARGE
Spacey has denied the allegations and pleaded not guilty to indecent assault and battery charges.
His attorney, Alan Jackson, said at a hearing this month that Unruh told investigators she removed anything concerning her son's "frat boy activities" from his phone before handing it over to investigators in 2017.
Garabedian said Spacey's accuser and his parents had no memory of seeing the phone since giving it to investigators in 2017. Officials said the device was returned.
Garabedian said the family was using an expert to search for backup copies of the phone but "it will take a few weeks to identify that information."


Income Potential: Can You Make a Living as Corporate Director?
Income Potential: Can You Make a Living as a Corporate Director?
In 2012, I earned my first dollar for board work. As I held a cheque for $2,500 in my hands, I hoped it would be the first in a series. Given that it represented compensation for 12 months of work, however, it was a small start.
You can't make $2,500 a year and think you're killing it.
Since that day, the financial return on my effort has improved. A good portion of my income today comes from board service, work that feels so good I would (almost) do it for free.
That idea probably annoys those who lack a money tree in their backyard. It would certainly irk my credit card company if I tried to pay bills with my sense of impact on the world. Truthfully, most board work isn't particularly lucrative when viewed in terms of dollars per hour. It can, however, be more than a rounding error in your finances.
Realistically, can you make a living as a corporate director?
You can, but you have to do more than serve on boards.
Strategy facilitation is my bread and butter, generating income, perspective and insight. It's the work that gives me the ideas, expertise and credibility I need to serve on boards. Whatever you do from 9 to 5 may be your equivalent, the role that you point to when a new acquaintance asks what you do for a living.
After a few years of helping friends build board careers, I started supporting strangers looking to do the same. If you consistently get asked the same handful of questions by a range of individuals, there may be an opportunity to trade your support for a modest fee. For me, board career coaching began as advice for those looking to get on boards. It quickly shifted to supporting developing directors so they can thrive in the roles they play.
Once this coaching activity starts to feel like a steady gig, an online business may be the next logical step. In addition to serving clients one-on-one, my online course scales my effort efficiently. Public speaking offers the same opportunity to share my content with a broader group.
It seems that books are taking over as the new business card. When every leader wants to demonstrate her ability to add value, a book provides tangible evidence of value to add. And with 100,000 words already written on my blog, I have a decent start on a book for those building board careers.
Looking further ahead, I hope to serve as an advisor to CEOs and founders. Your experience and grey hair may already convey the "been there, done that" quality of a seasoned pro. Having a board portfolio — even if entirely in the non-profit space — can enhance the perspective you bring to those leading a growing organization. The form of your compensation will depend on the company's cash flow circumstances and your willingness to accept equity in lieu of fees.
Can you make a living serving on boards?
You can, but you have to work at it.
What are your income streams going to be?


Web agencies are frequently at the forefront of outsourcing, they are an obvious area to outsource. Often organisations don't have the skill, time or the resources to design, build and/or maintain a website.
But what do you think when you hear the term outsourcing? Many people instantly imagine negative results - queues of employees heading towards the jobcentre, mass redundancies and pay cuts. The image of outsourcing is possibly a damaged one with too intransient camps either bigging it up or doing it down. The big outsourcers paint a rosy picture of efficiency and wonderful cost savings. On the other hand there are the diehard opponents, often the Unions, who detail an altogether darker landscape of pay disputes and redundancies.
So my question is... is outsourcing really so wonderful or indeed so bad? Should outsourcing be considered by smaller organisations. Or is it only really for the large, complex multi-national companies and massive government departments? This article explores what functions could be outsourced, the Pros & Cons of them from the point of view of a small company and what benefits it could bring.
We've all seen various governments attempt to bring down public expenditure by sub-contracting or outsourcing functions to the big outsourcers, which works for the larger organisations. But in the real day to day world of small business that model clearly wouldn't work.
Just about any business function can conceivably be outsourced. As a rule of thumb, functions that are outside your company's core skill set are good candidates for outsourcing. Every business has its purpose – its main skill, service or product. It is that which has made them successful. All the peripheral functions that are required to keep a business running shouldn't impact on the primary focus of the business. It therefore makes sense to think about these areas for outsourcing. After all, we're not all IT geeks, number crunching accountants or Kim and Aggie style cleaners. Neither do we have the time, money or even the capability to become so. Even at home we tend to outsource things – most of us would pay a plumber to fit a toilet rather than Googling how and taking the risk of a rather wet bathroom!
So where to start? Well the high cost and high skilled functions is probably a better place than any. Many companies both large and small now outsource their IT rather than pay to have a dedicated IT administrator or team. The reason being that IT staff tend to be expensive, have to be trained regularly in the ever evolving technologies and often have a high turnover rate.
A quick search online offers a bewildering number of avenues: 'in-sourcing', 'near-sourcing', 'off-shoring', 'co-sourcing', 'hybrid sourcing' or 'collaborative sourcing'. In fact, these are all just different forms of outsourcing – renamed, repackaged, and sold as the brand new thing in the outsourcing market, and it is causing a huge amount of confusion.
Offshoring - Outsourcing is an arrangement in which one company provides services for another company that could also be or usually have been provided in-house. Offshore simply means "any country other than your own."
Near sourcing - Near-sourcing is a term used to describe a business strategically placing some of all of its operations close to where its end-products are sold.
What are some pro's and con's?
Focus - The first and possibly most obvious pro is that you can get on with what you're best at, without the distractions. No more struggling to get the Sales Manager's PC to boot up – a phone call and it is somebody else's challenge. Want to get a change done to the website urgently? At least you're not going to be digging out your Dummy book!
Finances - The release of cashflow otherwise used to employ specialist staff can be re-invested in the business. Carefully considered and planned outsourcing can save cash despite the horror stories on large government outsource deals.
Contractual safeguards - Not only is the function another companies issue, but you also get the added reassurance that the service is backed up with a contract. You become the master of the function rather than being a slave to it.
Expertise - Increased knowledge base and spread is also a highly desirable benefit to outsourcing. With a carefully selected supplier you get the advantage of more people and more skills being available to you that you could never hope to have inside your business.
Outsourcing everything isn't going to be the silver bullet to your problems though. There are downsides that should be considered.
Loss of control - Many people feel that they lose some "control" when a function is handed to a third party. You're suddenly bound by their processes and procedures rather than ones you've created yourself.
Contract length - Often outsourcing contracts can be for a long period of time so it is important that the step is considered carefully and with the medium term in mind. Suddenly wanting to change the vision of how your company works might not be so easy if you're locked into a contract.
Crossed wires - Sometimes the detach from an in house function to a third party supplied one can lead to misinterpretation. What you think you've asked for and what the supplier believes you requested can be two entirely different things. It's important to ensure both parties are of the same understanding and to do so early on.
But why should I outsource my Website?
So how does this relate to web design? One off tasks or on-going projects are a favourite for handing to a specialist organisation. Some of you could knock up a very basic website using a "Web Sites for Dummies" reference materials but your website is the shop window to the world, so why wouldn't you want to ensure that the site has been designed by an experienced Web development professional?
Many would suggest it would be better to be outsourced. Building a website requires more than just coding skill so the likelihood of a single member of staff producing a slick and professional site is very slim. Web design companies employ a whole host of differently skilled staff for this very reason.
Agencies will have the complete range of skills - They will have the skills and resources to design, develop, build and maintain your website.
Agency rates may seem really expensive at first look, but they could work out to be very cost effective. The cost of hiring a team of designers/developers can involve very high costs.
It can be very difficult to retain a good member of staff. You have to ensure that their skills are being developed - talented people will become bored and restless if they are doing the same thing everyday. This is a great benefit of hiring in skills, you have highly skilled and talented individuals working on your project.
Using an external team can be great because they are able to play devils advocate, challenge internal views, sidestep internal dogma, as they don't have the constraints of internal politics, which can make them more agile.
Lose of control - Some organisations are keen to keep most processes and functions in house - there may be perceived problem of lose of control when outsourcing.
Outsourcing (offshoring) to other countries can cause all manner of problems. There could be issues such as cultural, language and time differences, so these need to be carefully considered.
You could hire in a freelancer, although this could pose other issues - they are an unknown quantity, there isn't the ongoing relationship and that isn't great long term.
The bonus of using Internal member can be great because of their intrinsic knowledge.
Do you need 24/7 support? This is something that you need to consider depending on your organisations requirements - If so you need to ensure that you choose an is this something that you require.
So it would appear that outsourcing is neither of the two often described extremes. It's somewhere in the middle.
If planned and implemented carefully then it can be your friend but rush into it in an unconsidered manner and it will most definitely become your foe.
But the idea of Internal knowledge working with an external team could be the best of both worlds!


and sustain evidence-based programs that empower older adults and adults with disabilities to better manage their chronic conditions.
approximately six grants of $500,000 to $900,000 focused on developing integrated, sustainable systems for delivering evidence-based chronic disease self-management education and self-management support programs.
approximately four grants of $50,000 to $150,000 to build capacity to introduce and deliver evidence-based chronic disease self-management education and self-management support programs within underserved areas and/or populations.
To help ensure a wider geographic reach, it is unlikely that more than one applicant per state under each funding option (Capacity-Building and Sustainable Systems) will be funded.
Applicants under the Capacity-Building option may request a total budget from $50,000 to $150,000 for the three-year project period.
Applicants under the Sustainable Systems option may request a total budget from $500,000 to a maximum of $900,000 for the three-year project period.
Foreign entities are not eligible to compete for, or receive, awards made under this announcement.


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The Pentecostals Of The Miss-Lou, formerly known as The First United Pentecostal Church of Ferriday originated in 1958. Pastor O.C. Dyess came to Ferriday in 1964 with a vision for revival. In the 70's, a new building was erected at 305 Lake Drive. The church grew rapidly and revival continued into Pastor Dyess senior years when he selected Rev. Gary Howington to come and work with him and assume the role of Pastor. Pastor Howington and his family brought fresh energy and a renewed revival spirit to Ferriday in 1991.
After assuming the role of Senior Pastor in 1994, Pastor Howington immediately looked toward building a new facility as their current facility was filled to capacity. Prayer and Bible studies were the catalysts for growth, the keys that made the difference. A new 10,000 square foot facility was built at 305 Lake Drive. Completed in 1998, it seated 400 members. Within a few years, a vision that was started by the late O.C. Dyess became a reality, as Pastor Howington led the church into another building program out on the highway. A 35,000 square foot facility was completed in October 2006. The new facility is a testament to the goodness of the Lord Jesus Christ and the vision of a man who follows Him.
In May 2015, Rev. Jeremy Howington, who had been assisting Pastor Howington for several years in numerous capacities, was elected to be Pastor of The POML. Pastor Jeremy Howington now serves as pastor and Pastor Gary Howington serves as Bishop.


i'm writing this post because i m really stucked in learnig how x work in my pc and how to configure it.
I installed a fresh version of Debian 9.8 with KDE on my lenovo x250.
It has a i5-5300U inside, and naturally no dedicated gpu.
After the installation the only things i did was to install some applications like kdenlive, thunderbird only by thedebian repository.
- use the open source community xserver-xorg-video-intel, less power but well supported.
I want to try using both to choose the best, but there come my problem.
If i try to install the xserver driver from debian repository, it tolds it is alredy installed, so i think i have all i need to start testing.
After i searched about how to change the driver, and here we have the problem.
So i returned to my tty with ctrl alt f1 and rebooted in normal run level.
It didn t created a /etc/X11/xorg.conf , so i copied the root directory conf file and renamed it xorg.conf ( ps it is full of options so it isnt empty).
So i guess it is using intel xorg driver and not modeset ?
And if it is using modeset, so how can i set it to use intel xorg ?
Actually, the xserver-xorg-video-intel driver is (slightly) better performing than Xorg's builtin modesetting driver and it also offers a TearFree option, which can be very useful for certain cards.
The modesetting driver is also open source btw.
And those are both DDX drivers, which are separate from the i915 kernel driver.
Check the Xorg log to see which driver is being loaded.
# Option "AccelMethod" "uxa" #could also use the default "sna"
and rebooting. Run the inxi -G command again to see the change.
Sorry but i searched a lot without finding too much, btw i tried setting "intel" and "modesetting" in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf and watching the x log file to see what DDX was loaded. The results are very strange because using the unigine heaven benchmark the differerence of perfomance is very high.
Now i' m sure to use one or another driver watching the log file so can t be an error. I did the test 2 times in the same environment and with the same benchmark settings (basic preset).
That's strange, I used the Phoronix Test Suite to benchmark 2D performance and they were very close with a slight advantage for the Intel DDX driver.
Does Unigine Heaven test 2D performance?
Mesa is used for 3D graphics so perhaps something else is going on here.
Out of interest did X auto-select modesetting on your hardware? The xserver-xorg-video-intel package page advises uninstalling it to test modesetting so I didn't think that was the case.
Or showing us the deprecated xorg.conf file, or the logs, or nuthin'!
/etc/X11/xorg.conf is the very first location checked by the X server for configuration files, it isn't deprecated at all, see xorg.conf(5) for a full list.
And the benchmark results suggest that the OP did manage to change the driver.
 The term "deprecated" is actually specific to python, "obsolete" should probably be used instead for other programs.


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Do you Know? Rakul has acted like 'This' in her beginning stages?
Updated : January 21, 2019 16:30 IST
SIBY JEYYA January 21, 2019 16:30 IST Do you Know? Rakul has acted like 'This' in her beginning stages?
Rakul Preet may not have the best of times right now as her recent releases are totally ending up as disasters and she is aiming to make a strong comeback with her new projects. The actress is currently working on two big Tamil projects.
Rakul Preet recently launched her official mobile app and as promised, she took the winners on a surprise trip to Mumbai in a Helicopter. We even reported about that extensively. But, do you know how much Rakul struggled in the early stages of her career?
The above photo is just an example of how worse she acted in the early stages of her career. She acted in double meaning entendre stuff, cleavage show, glamour, etc., But despite those, she couldn't cement her spot. It is Tollywood which gave her the hands and made her a leading actress!
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While the benchmark Sensex surged 464 points to an almost nine-month high of 27,591, the NSE Nifty touched the 8,400-mark in early session today, primarily due to a flurry of buying activity, reflecting firm Asian cues.
The Nifty opened 90 points up at 8,413 while the Sensex opened 231 points up at 27,358. The BSE Sensex, which opened at 27,358.23 points, was trading at 27,587.70 points (at 10.14 am) in the early session, higher 460.80 points or 1.70% from the previous day's close at 27,126.90 points, a mark last seen almost a year ago on 26 October 2015.
At about 12.10 pm, the 30-share index was trading higher by 460 points or 1.70% at 27,586.76 and all sectoral indices led by metal, auto, and banking were pumped up, gaining by up to 2.20%, reported Business Line.
Business Line quoted a report by SMC Global saying, "Asian stocks rose, bolstered by election results in Japan and Australia and shrugging off concerns a strong US jobs report might push the Federal Reserve closer to hiking rates. In the US on Friday, the nonfarm payrolls report showed that the US created 287,000 jobs in June, versus the 175,000 expected by economists surveyed. The unemployment rate edged higher to 4.9 %, versus the 4.8 % estimate. Core machine orders in Japan were down 1.4% on month in May, the Cabinet Office said on Monday - coming in at 785.0 billion yen. That missed forecasts for an increase of 3.2% following the 11.0 per cent tumble in April."
The first leg of April-June earnings begins this week, and IndusInd Bank will report results today. Infosys, Reliance Industries, and Tata Consultancy Services are scheduled to detail their April-June earnings later in the week, reported Business Line.


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Russian court sentences American man to 9 years in prison
A Russian court sentenced an American man to nine years in prison Tuesday for killing of his wife's uncle in a dispute over an apartment, Russian news agencies reported.
A district court in the Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk handed down the sentence after convicting Christopher Garner, 29, in the September 2006 killing of Alexander Kaminsky, Interfax and RIA-Novosti reported.
News agencies said Kaminsky was killed in a fight that broke out amid an argument over the ownership of an apartment. Police said that after the killing, Garner and his wife drove the body to a village outside of Khabarovsk, located about 6,100 kilometers (3,800 miles) east of Moscow.
Garner was detained in Moscow after turning himself in to Russian police several days later.
Neither Khabarovsk prosecutors nor court officials could be reached for confirmation Tuesday.
At the time of the killing, Garner was an active duty enlisted man in the U.S. Army, based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. His current status was not immediately clear.


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Rules:Timeline of Changes
From Wikimedia Australia
The rules of Wikimedia Australia were originally based on the model rules as provided here by Consumer Affairs Victoria(CAV) and have been subsequently modified.
Date effective Meeting CAV app Date Comment & amendment colours
original 21 April 2008 red modified from model rules
19 Sep 2010 2010-2011 AGM 19 October, 2010 blue
16 April 2011 Meeting:2011 SGM 7 June 2011 green
9 October 2011 Meeting:2011 AGM purple
25 November 2012 Meeting:2012_AGM 21 June 2013 italics
20 October 2013(current) Meeting:2013 SGM blue, all amendments 19 Sep 2010 to 25 Nov 2012 green
1 19th September 2010
1.1 Nominating for more than one Office
1.2 Corporate affiliates
2 16 April 2011
3 9 October 2011
3.1 conferencing with special resolutions at general meetings
3.2 conferencing methods at general meetings
4 25 November 2012
5 20th October 2013
At the 2010-2011 AGM the following rule changes were proposed with the Nominating for more than one office passing and the Corporate affiliates failing to get 75% support... (see AGM Minutes)
Nominating for more than one Office
Motion: The committee proposes the Association's Rules are changed as follows:
Replace 23 (2) by: A candidate may nominate for one only of the offices and/or as an ordinary member of the committee, but may only be elected to one position.
Add at the end of 23(6): save that the ballot will be conducted in the order of offices as specified in 21(1) followed by the ordinary members of the committee, with any successful candidate for an office withdrawing, if nominated, from the ballot for ordinary membership of the committee.
Rationale: The committee recognizes, that where a member stands for an Office and fails, perhaps narrowly, to be elected, the committee may be losing valuable talent as the member can not be elected to any other Office or as an ordinary member of the committee. The committee discussed various broader proposals that would have allowed a member to stand for more than one Office, but there was no consensus to proceed with them. This motion merely allows a member to stand for one Office and as an ordinary member of the committee, withdrawing from the latter before the counting of votes if successful in the former.
The committee proposes the rules be changed to allow corporate affiliates who would be entitled to attend AGMs but would have no vote.
The proposal is: Add a new clause 4(13): Corporations and other bodies may become affiliates of the association by resolution of the management committee. Affiliates will pay such fees as determined by the management committee. Affiliates may send representatives as observers to General Meetings but they can not vote.
Rationale: The committee discussed the whole issue of corporate affiliates and corporate membership, the latter differing from the former by having voting rights. There was no consensus to support the latter at this time, but a clause allowing the former was carried without dissent. It allows the committee to appoint affiliates, but does not force them to do so.
A Special General Meeting was called for the 16th April 2010 to address the inactivity of the then secretary by declaring the office vacant as per the rules. The meeting also had three rule changes proposed;
change to membership application form to bring it inline with the actually practices of the committee, this passed unopposed
change to electronic voting to bring it inline with the current practices of the Association, this passed unopposed
change to a number of rules to enable a clear definition of what is an inactive committee member and then enable the committee to take action to replace that member, this passed unopposed
The agenda for the SGM can read here with the minutes from that meeting available here.
At the 2011 Annual General Meeting held on 9 October 2011 two rule changes were proposed in relation to communication during General meetings These two rule amendments relate to Rules 9(5) and 10(9), which state that
"[Special/Annual] General Meetings may, unless a Special Resolution has been proposed, be held by teleconferencing between several centres. Each centre must have a Returning Officer, appointed by the Secretary, to report attendance and numbers voting on each resolution."
conferencing with special resolutions at general meetings
The general meetings of Wikimedia Australia have been conducted with participation using teleconferencing and IRC.
The current rule is interpreted to mean that special resolutions can only be proposed at in-person general meetings, which is not in line with how we have conducted our previous general meetings, which have all had special resolutions proposed.
Proposed changes to 9(5) and 10(9)
Remove ", unless a Special Resolution has been proposed".
conferencing methods at general meetings
The general meetings of Wikimedia Australia have been conducted with participation by IRC, whereas the Rules only indicate that teleconferencing is permitted. There is ongoing discussion about whether participation by IRC is desirable, however it would be beneficial if our Rules permitted it. Rather than specify "IRC", a more generic wording is being proposed.
Change "teleconferencing" to "voice and text conferencing".
These changes were Carried without dissent see minutes
During 2012 CAV under went a number of legislative changes both to its enabling act and to the model rules. This then placed a requirement on all incorporated to bodies to either adopt the new model rules or to make changes to their rules to be compliant with the principles of the new rules. Wikimedia Australia chose to later option, at the 2012 AGM a number of changes were proposed for compliance. The first option put to the members was to adopt the new model rules and then hold an SGM to make additional changes as necessary, this was defeated. The next option put forward was to address compliance to CAV's removal of a public officer from its rules and replacement within the Secretary's roll, this was carried with one person opposing.
There was then a proposal to increase the size of the committee from 6 members including the 4 officers to eight 8 members including 4 officers. This came about in recognition issues during the term of the current committee with establishing a quorum due to 2 members being unavailable. These changes were to take effect from the 2013 AGM the motion was passed with 2 people opposing. The final set of proposed rule changes abuot the termination of unfinancial members was a complex series of motions with 4 options and further two alternative for 2 of those. Option 1 passed, Option 2 part 1 failed part 2 was passed, Option 3 part 2 was withdrawn after discussion part 1 was carried with 3 people opposing and Option 4 was not voted on as the discussion failed to reach a proposal.
The minutes relating to these proposals are available at Meeting:2012_AGM/Minutes#Proposals
A Special General Meeting was held after a proposal from a member to make changes to the rules that could then take effect from the 2013 AGM rather then delaying the affect until 2014. The key principles behind the proposed changes was to enable the newly elected members of the committee to then choose the office bearers and for the elected committee to serve 2 years terms. In addition to this the committee took the opportunity to propose housekeeping changes that had been identified as being required for compliance to the changes in CAV requirements. Proposed Rule Changes;
Changes for Act Compliance
Removal of power to fine
Email address in membership register
Provision of copies of the membership register
Definition of the word "Secretary"
Indirect election of officers and two year terms
Indirect election of officers, and two year terms (Option One)
Indirect election of officers, and two year terms (Option Two) (only if 6.1 failed)
Email notice of general meetings
The link to the details of the Special Resolutions. These changes were voted on with 1,2,3,4 and 7 passing while 5, 6.1 then 6.2 all being defeated, link to the minutes of the SGM
Retrieved from "https://wikimedia.org.au/w/index.php?title=Rules:Timeline_of_Changes&oldid=11087"
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This month, I am taking part of an A-Z blogging event, but I am taking it a step further. I am going to be giving something to my readers daily. It might be a giveaway or books, or Jewelry, it might be a sample, it might be that I put the kindle version of a book on for free, like today.
To kick things off right, you can snap up a free copy of Adventures and Advertises!
Feel free to share the image with your friends and be sure to check back tomorrow for a giveaway!
Thanks for the free ebook! I look forward to reading Adventures and Adversities. Shared it on pinterest.
I hope you enjoy, and thank you for sharing, Serena!