Flames roared up toward the dark sky as the townspeople tossed bits of wood onto the burning heap. Lit by its radiance, the façades of buildings became collages of bright patches riven by shafts of deep shadow. The town itself melded into a patchwork of bright and dark, the contrasts starker and more mysterious when lit by the blaze rather than daylight. People gathered around the fire, passing wineskins and pastries. Musicians played a lively tune and a few hearty souls danced. The bonfire celebrated the equinox, the change of seasons when light overtook darkness for possession of the day.
Fianna huddled in the darkest shadow she could find, wishing she could disappear completely. Not far from where she stood, her friends and acquaintances ate, drank, laughed, danced, flirted, kissed, whispered to each other, and occasionally went off in pairs, giggling and stroking each other. Part of her envied them their simple happiness.
Of a sudden, some of the merriment died away and the crowd quieted as they looked down the road. She leaned out to see what caused their unease, and then stared in surprise herself. Three men approached the town square. They were tall, young, fair, clad in leather and linen, and wearing swords at their sides. Norsemen.
As they drew close enough for the fire to illuminate their faces, she recognized the man in the center. Henrik's father was the leader of the band that had settled not far from the town. Though everyone had flown into a panic at their arrival, it had settled again quickly when the group made no demands on the town or the people save that they'd claimed a portion of land for grazing their animals and planting their crops.
The town still kept an uneasy eye on the Norse settlement, but so far relations had been occasional but peaceful. A few Norse stragglers had visited before, and some remained, becoming part of the community, but this was the first time a group had arrived together and appeared ready to stay.
Like everyone else gathered there, Fianna wondered what drew the newcomers to the celebration. Though the Norsemen rarely showed much emotion, their current demeanor didn't suggest they were looking for either battle or business. Perhaps simple curiosity had brought them.
Despite their stern expressions, they were a handsome group of young men. All were strong, well-muscled, and carried themselves with confidence and pride. Henrik walked in the middle, the obvious leader of the trio. He was taller than the others, and his hair glowed like molten gold where the firelight played on it.
In her fascination with the visitors, she took a step away from the concealing shadows, and thus betrayed herself to the view of another group of young men who'd been watching and searching for her.


A city centre restaurant has regained its five star hygiene rating, just weeks after scoring just one on a previous inspection.
Middletons Steakhouse and Grill, on Timber Hill in Norwich was criticised by city council inspectors in the summer, after an inspection was carried out on the same day its walk-in refrigerator broke down.
However, on re-inspection this week, the restaurant reclaimed its previous five-star rating - the highest available in the system.
He said: "We would like to thank the local environmental health officers for their support and commitment to an early re-inspection.
The restaurant was given a rating of one star when it was visited by inspectors on July 4, after concerns were raised about food being kept at incorrect temperatures - a result of a fridge malfunction that morning.
In the initial inspection, the environmental health officer acknowledged that an equipment malfunction had happened, but was not satisfied with the way it was handled.
However at the re-inspection, carried out on Monday, September 3, the inspector was satisfied that enough had been done to restore its previous five star rating.
The full inspection report is to be published in due course, but Norwich City Council has confirmed the restaurant had once again achieved the highest possible rating.
It sees the Timber Hill branch join the King's Lynn restaurant in boasting the highest rating available in food hygiene inspections.
The July inspection was the first time the steakhouse had been inspected since 2014, with it also being its first since it re-launched after being hit by fire in 2015.


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Who came first Catholic or Orthodox?
How did the Orthodox Church start?
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What is the difference between Orthodox Christianity and Christianity?
What is not allowed in Orthodox Christianity?
Can you be both Catholic and Orthodox?
Can a Catholic go to an Orthodox church?
Can Orthodox priests marry?
Therefore the Catholic Church is the oldest of all. The Orthodox represents the original Christian Church because they trace their bishops back to the five early patriarchates of Rome, Alexandria, Jerusalem, Constantinople and Antioch.
The Orthodox tradition developed from the Christianity of the Eastern Roman Empire and was shaped by the pressures, politics and peoples of that geographical area. Since the Eastern capital of the Roman Empire was Byzantium, this style of Christianity is sometimes called 'Byzantine Christianity'.
The claim to the title of the "one true church" relates to the first of the Four Marks of the Church mentioned in the Nicene Creed: "one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church". … For example, the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches each regard the other as schismatic and at very least heterodox, if not heretical.
Orthodox Christianity vs Protestant Christianity
The difference between Orthodox Christianity and Protestant Christianity is that they follow different divine inspirations. The Orthodox follow the 'Holy Inspiration of Church' along with the Bible. Whereas, protestants follow only the Bible.
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The Holy Tradition (written and oral) of the Eastern Orthodox Christian Church, while advising avoidance of olive oil, meat, fish, milk, and dairy products every Wednesday and Friday throughout the year, additionally includes four principal fasting periods per year when meat as well as dairy products and eggs are …
Most Orthodox Churches allow marriages between members of the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church. … Because the Catholic Church respects their celebration of the Mass as a true sacrament, intercommunion with the Eastern Orthodox in "suitable circumstances and with Church authority" is both possible and encouraged.
Thus, a member of the Russian Orthodox Church attending the Divine Liturgy in a Greek Orthodox Church will be allowed to receive communion and vice versa but, although Protestants, non-Trinitarian Christians, or Catholics may otherwise fully participate in an Orthodox Divine Liturgy, they will be excluded from …
Under Orthodox rules, a celibate priest cannot marry after ordination, and a non-celibate priest cannot remarry and remain a priest, even if his wife dies, he said. Widowers who remain celibate can become bishops, but that's happened just once.
Protestantism is a Christian movement that emerged at the beginning of the 16th century. Today, Protestantism includes many different Christian communities, differing from one another in doctrine, morality and rituals. Most of these communities, like the Orthodox, profess faith in one God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and Jesus Christ is recognized as God incarnate.
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Backlogs & Bureaucracy: Asylum-Seekers Challenge DHS Over One-Year Filing Deadline
Lolita Brayman
On June 30, a class action lawsuit challenging the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was filed by four asylum-seekers. The plaintiffs take issue with DHS's failure to advise them of the one-year deadline for filing their asylum applications, and the failure on the part of both DHS's and the immigration courts to adopt a system that ensures individuals the opportunity to timely file for asylum.
The plaintiffs believe that the asylum process in the United States is bureaucratic to the point of individual injury on the part of each of them. Indeed, the challenges are many, including a well-documented court backlog and jurisdictional disputes.
Under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) and Due Process Clause of the U.S. Constitution, the plaintiffs have an indisputable right to seek asylum. But, as the complaint states: "the plaintiffs' ability to seek asylum has been thwarted by an unfair government process that conflicts with their opportunity to be heard."
March 17, 2016: Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, met with CBP/OFO and USCG employees. DHS Photo by Barry Bahler.
The immigration statute imposes a one-year deadline within which an asylum-seeker must file their application. Those who miss the deadline become ineligible, but DHS does not provide any type of notice to individuals, who by definition as asylum-seekers have expressed fears of returning back to their home countries.
When a person first arrives in the United States, the clock begins to run on filing an asylum application. If an applicant is not in removal proceedings, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has jurisdiction over the asylum application, which is known as an "affirmative" filing.
For people who enter the United States and are apprehended near the border, but express fear of returning to their countries of origin, the DHS officer must either refer the individual to an asylum officer to conduct a credible fear interview, or issue a Notice to Appear (NTA) and release them from custody pending removal proceedings. If credible fear is granted, the applicant can then apply for asylum. If they do not pass, they are sent back.
DHS has an affirmative duty to provide appropriate application forms and information to asylum-seekers.
However, none of the documentation provided to applicants contains notice of the one-year deadline or instructions on how to file the application within one year. Many people erroneously believe that if they passed a credible fear interview, they have already applied for asylum and nothing more needs to be done.
If an applicant is in removal proceedings, then the Executive Offices for Immigration Review (EOIR), which consists of the immigration courts and the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), has jurisdiction. Removal proceedings are initiated when DHS issues the NTA and serves it on the individual. However, DHS often delays filing the NTA with immigration court, and even when it does submit the NTA, some immigration courts are so backlogged that they do not file it into the EOIR system for months to a year.
"Defensive" asylum applications can also only be filed with the immigration court at a master hearing.
Meanwhile, the one-year deadline is still in effect and the clock is ticking. What can an asylum-seeker do besides wait, in limbo, while DHS delays and their hearing goes unscheduled?
Even when applicants are on notice, DHS and EOIR have failed to implement a system that ensures asylum-seekers a chance to comply with the deadline.
Even if DHS immediately sends the NTA to the immigration court, the court often delays docketing the asylum application because of its notorious backlog. Many cases don't get scheduled for a master calendar hearing within the one-year deadline; consequently, an individual's first opportunity to apply for asylum may take place only after the one-year deadline has passed. As a result, people become ineligible for asylum through no fault of their own.
Why should asylum-seekers be penalized because our immigration system is too overloaded to get to their cases in a timely manner?
"It is inexcusable that DHS and EOIR – fully aware that their own case backlogs and bureaucratic stumbling blocks prevent many asylum-seekers from filing one time – have not adopted national, uniform procedures to remedy the situation," said Mary Kenney, Senior Attorney with the American Immigration Council.
How did we get to this point? The current backlog in the immigration court and asylum systems have long been a problem. According to a Human Rights First report, chronic underfunding, hiring and staffing challenges, expanded use of expedited removal, and reprioritization of asylum cases has all perpetuated the current bleak situation.
In the last five years, Congress had quadrupled funding for immigration enforcement while only increasing immigration court resources 74%. The problem is that since 2014, rising violence in Central America and a global refugee crisis brought an influx of asylum-seekers to the United States.
There is currently a hiring push for immigration judges, but this impact of this push is diminished as many judges are eligible for retirement in 2016.
The asylum system is in an even more dire situation. It receives no funding from Congress and depends solely on fees USCIS collects from applicants. Hiring and staffing challenges are a major concern, even more so since the Obama administration expanded use of expedited removal, which raises a number of due process concerns.
The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) of 1996 includes a provision allowing immigration officers, rather than judges, to order the deportation of certain individuals who are deemed inadmissible. When an individual, who has been subjected to expedited removal, indicates an intention to apply for asylum or a fear of persecution and/or torture, an immigration officer must refer that individual to a credible fear interview by an asylum officer.
With the 2014 increase of unaccompanied minors from Central America to the U.S., EOIR and the Asylum Division reshuffled their processes to focus on those cases – these "rocket dockets" pushed other asylum cases to the back of the line. The result is that asylum officers, who should be adjudicating asylum claims, are instead conducting credible fear interviews to get arriving asylum-seekers through the system as quickly as possible. This means longer wait times for all – more than 620,000 removal and asylum cases are currently pending, and many asylum-seekers are waiting three to six years for resolution of their claims.
To maintain the integrity of our immigration and asylum system, a yet unexplored option is to advance pressing humanitarian cases and family reunification. Short lists should be created in Asylum Offices nationwide and could be limited to people separated from their family members.
The class action lawsuit challenging DHS highlights the many imperfections of the asylum process in the United States, but it certainly does not encompass all its shortcomings. It is time for the court to weigh in and hopefully bring some relief to people, who fear persecution in their home country and whose lives have been put on hold in the U.S. But unfortunately until the need for a massive restructuring of the asylum system, not just the filing system, is recognized, the backlog and inconsistencies will continue to increase.


Ashy stem blight, also known as charcoal rot, is a fungal disease of cucurbits. This means that your melons, squash, and cucumbers are susceptible. It can also affect common beans, blackeyed peas, lima beans, chickpeas, corn, fenugreek, soybeans, sorghum, and sunflowers.
Ashy stem blight is a soil borne fungus (Macrophomina phaseoli) that loves hot days (> 85°F) and cool nights. This pathogen can stick around for up to 12 years. It is common in California and often infects plants within 2 weeks after being planted, but symptoms generally do not appear until much later in the growing season, as temperatures begin to rise - after you've invested weeks of irrigation, feeding, and weeding. So, learning how to recognize and prevent this disease can help ensure a better harvest.
The first sign of ashy stem blight are black, water-soaked lesions or cankers along the stem at the soil line, stunting, and chlorosis (yellowing) of the upper, or crown leaves. If you look closely at the lesions, you may be able to see concentric rings. Infected pods may ripen prematurely. As the fungi population grows within the plant, you may see an amber gum oozing from the infected plant. Eventually, the stem turns dry and brown. If lesions girdle the plant, it will die. If you dig up an infected plant, you will see blackened roots and a lack of feeder roots.
Ashy stem blight is known as a "stress pathogen". This means it preys on stressed plants. Stresses, such as a heavy fruit load, high temperatures, drought, and water-stress can make plants more susceptible to infection. Keeping your plants healthy can help them protect themselves.
While furrow-irrigated plants rarely have severe cases of ashy stem blight, you may be surprised to learn that the disease is common with drip-irrigated systems. It is believed that this particular set-up increases salt levels near the soil surface, creating salt stress.
Monitor plants regularly for signs of infection. Once infection occurs, affected plants should be removed and thrown in the trash, and a 3-year crop rotation with non-susceptible crops should be put into place. There are no effective chemical treatments for this disease.


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List of Atlantic hurricane seasons facts for kids
The following is a list of Atlantic hurricane seasons. All began on June 1 in their respective years. They ended on November 30. These dates are when tropical cyclones usually form in the Atlantic Ocean.
The Atlantic hurricane season is the time of year that hurricanes form in the northern Atlantic Ocean. The season starts on June 1 and ends November 30. There is an average of ten tropical storms, six hurricanes, and two or three major hurricanes in the Atlantic.
The National Hurricane Center helps watch for hurricanes in the northern Atlantic and makes forecasts about were the storms will go.
Before 1800s
1850–1859 1860–1869 1870 1871–1879
List of Pacific hurricane seasons
Tracks of all known Atlantic tropical cyclones from 1851 to 2012.
A whiteboard at a FEMA tactical relief operation center in Louisiana notes the number of named storms and hurricanes and counts down the days remaining in the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season.
List of Atlantic hurricane seasons Facts for Kids. Kiddle Encyclopedia.


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Joyce Marter Featured In Women's Health Magazine Article: Does Your Guy Have Baby Fever?
by	Joyce Marter	/ Monday, 11 August 2014	/ Published in Media Outlet, Web
"Men get a reputation for being baby-averse, but they may be more eager to have kids than you realize. In fact, childless men feel more depressed, sad, angry, and jealous of friends with kids than their female counterparts, according to a new survey conducted by Keele University in the UK.
The surveyors asked 108 childless adults (27 men and 81 women) how they feel about being kid-free. Fewer men than women said they want children (59 percent versus 63 percent). But of the guys who do want kids, half said they felt isolated and 36 percent reported feeling depressed. That's not all: 56 percent said they were sad, and the same amount said they were jealous of dads. Fewer women who wanted children reported feeling the same way: 27 percent felt isolated, 27 percent were depressed, 43 percent were sad, and 47 percent felt jealous of others with kids.
Men tend to struggle with expressing emotion and often feel judged when they do, says study author Robin Hadley, a PhD candidate at the Centre for Social Gerontology at Keele University. The result: They may bottle up their feelings about fatherhood, which can make their emotions even more intense, she says."
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Happy Birthday, darling. You are my shell, protecting me. My sun, giving light to me. My heart, sustaining me. My love, today & forever more.


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La compagnie , faisant maintenant affaire sous le nom de Papiers White Birch Division Stadacona (division de Papiers White Birch) est une papetière canadienne fondée à Québec en 1927.

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Tel que promis à ses électeurs, le maire Valmont Martin réussis à attirer une papetière dans la ville, en l'occurrence le consortium de capitaux canadiens et anglais Anglo-Canadian Pulp & Paper dans le quartier Limoilou. La proximité du Port de Québec et le bassin de main-d'œuvre en faisant un site idéal, le conseil municipal gèle de plus la valeur foncière de la nouvelle usine à 500 000$ pour une période de 10 ans à partir de 1926. Dès son ouverture une année plus tard, « L'Anglo », comme on la surnommait, produit 375 tonnes de papier par jour et emploie 500 personnes, de telle sorte à devenir le premier employeur de Limoilou.

Entre 1928 et 1953, la compagnie est propriétaire de l'équipe de hockey des As de Québec. Elle est également la source de la relance de la municipalité de Forestville au début des années 1940. En 1960, elle est achetée par la Reed Paper Ltd., une compagnie anglaise fondée en 1894 par . Cette dernière s'en défait en 1988 au profit de la japonaise Daishowa, second producteur de papier au Japon dans les années 1990. L'usine est la propriété de 2001 à 2003 du groupe Enron qui lui donne le nom Papiers Stadacona. Dans la foulée du scandale financier impliquant l'entreprise, elle est mise à l'encan et acquise par le groupe de Peter Brant pour 156 millions de moins que ce qu'Enron avait déboursé. Elle est alors la cinquième usine de papier journal et de papier non couché en importance en Amérique du Nord. En 2005, le nom de la compagnie  change pour Papiers White Birch, division Stadacona. En 2009, alors que les conventions collectives de ses employés arrivent à échéance, White Birch se retrouve en difficulté financière et doit fermer temporairement certaines de ses installations. La question des régimes de retraites des employés ayant achoppé depuis plusieurs années est résolue en 2015 alors que ses syndiqués acceptent l'offre patronale.

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Zilla vs Gamera pt. 1
By Metallian1990
During Operation: Final War, Godzilla, King of the Monsters, had been awakened from his lethargy in the Antarctic and led to Japan to beat the Xiliens and stop their conquest. To get there, the leviathan was guided by the Gotengo, the flying submarine that had buried him in the ice 40 years ago. Along the way, he had to go through the locations that were being attacked by the kaijus controlled by the aliens, the first location was Sydney, Australia, where it was Zilla, the radiated iguana from French Polynesia.
His combat with Zilla was one of -if not the- the shortest, which had Godzilla. After jumping over the atomic breath of the monster king, Zilla was beaten by Godzilla's tail and thrown against the Sydney Opera House where he was apparently desintegrated with the breath of his opponent.
...However the body was never seen and Godzilla continued with his march.
When the Xiliens were defeated by Godzilla, he and his son Minilla retired together to the sea. But Zilla, one of the few surviving kaijus (along with Rodan, King Caesar and Anguirus) emerged from the rubble of the Sydney Opera House and dove at sea, hoping to heal some of his wounds. While trying to heal, his characteristic hunger for fish woke up and went quickly into a Japanese fishing vessel that was on his way, as he did in 1998.
But the journey that Zilla had made when he found the boat turned out to be longer than he expected, as the ship was already near the coast of Japan and, not satisfied with the low load that the vessel had, he went straight to Japan.
Japan's recovery was one of the fastest despite being one of the most affected countries during the invasion. Fortunately, the fishing was the first to be restores and, at the same time, that drew the hungry giant iguana. Soon the effort to rise from the ashes prove to have been in vain...
When he arrived on the coast was greeted with fear by the fishermen, though fear was not the same as Godzilla awakened more than 50 years, Zilla had managed to scare them enough to make them generate more disaster than he could have done alone. Not content with the disaster that had unleashed, Zilla incinerated the annoying -and frightened- fishermen who tried unsuccessfully to lash out at him.
Enraged more than ever, Zilla advanced to Tokyo, where he did to the city all that he could not to Godzilla in their previous brief battle. He demolished the just in rebuilding the Tokyo Tower, demolished Shinjuku Office, burned and collapsed the Rainbow Bridge cables and destroyed almost all the embassies in Shinagawa. But suddenly, his path of destruction in Tokyo was interrupted by a group of four Gyaos, Gamera's eternal enemies.
But there was something odd about all this: the Gyaos came out during the day! When normally they would feel uncomfortable or blinded by the light of the Sun. The only explanation that people gave for this was that perhaps they were being chased by Gamera, who failed in his attempt to get them away. However, Zilla did not give them more importance, until the Gyaos were fixed in him for food. And that was something that Zilla had to respond.
He achieved to ignite in flames at one of them and things seemed to be in his favor, considering how fast he was. But the remaining Gyaos began to attack with they cutting sonic beams, causing bleeding in the extremities of Zilla (which was the target of the Gyaos), causing him to fall by the pain. Once on the ground, the men-eating creatures were about to eat the flesh of the iguana, but suddenly one of them was shot by a powerful fireball, and he took another Gyaos with it, eliminating both in the process. Who had "saved" the life of Zilla? No one else than Gamera!
Zilla slowly got up as Gamera finished to dispatch the last Gyaos. Just like nothing Zilla continued his way of disaster until he heard the defiant roar of the turtle. And it was obvious, when he finished his work with the Gyaos, Gamera noticed the chaos caused specifically by Zilla, knowing that four Gyaos had not been able to do something like that. The iguana responded the roar and launched to the attack over Gamera, in the same way he did with Godzilla, Gamera exhaled a fireball and Zilla jumped over it, but this time there would be no lash to hit him, so he had a certain advantage over his armored opponent.
Zilla fell over Gamera, ripping through the breastplate of the turtle with his claws while the other one lay on his shell, with the iguana seriously wounding him with his fire breath. Gamera was in troubles, Zilla did not stop his attempts to break through his breastplate and when the iguana bit his neck, Gamera had to use his rear thrusters. But Zilla was faster and took him by the tail with his jaws. Gamera just could't get rid of the strong grip of Zilla and the more he tried to flee were causing more pain himself...
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The Decepticon Communications Officer unexpectedly finds himself in grave danger on a remote planet. Darker than Shadow After the last scream he heard, the blue mechanoid cautiously peered around the sharp rocky formation he was hiding behind. Typically calm and collected he strangely felt his senses heightened. He looked down at the wound on his chest, metal torn open. Fluids leaking onto the dry ground. For the first time since he could remember, he actually felt he was in danger. This was one situation he did not have control over and it was unsettling and welcome at the same time. Normally everything before him was laid out like a puppe
GHF: Chapter 1
I do not own Godzilla, Gamera, Cloverfield, King Kong, etc. I do own the GHF storyline though. Chapter 1 A note slapped across the guard's hand. Finally some orders, the guard thought. He was on guard duty for a giant, 20 foot high adamantium vault, at the base of the door, in bold letters, the most feared name in all the world can be seen: "GODZILLA" The note also read the most unsettling orders the guard has ever read in his career. "Godzilla to be escorted to commander Ozaki's office." "Is this message for real?" the guard replied to the messenger. "As real as the one behind the vault is," said the messenger. The guard let out a lar
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It's like four pages (in total) of this story... So, wait for the second part!!!
I decided to use Zilla 'cause I felt some kind of sorry for him (remember that his battle against Godzilla was the shortest in the film)...
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jaw666 Sep 1, 2010
come on Gamera is having trouble with zilla and people think Gamera can beat Godzilla when Godzilla beat zilla in 6 seconds
Metallian1990 Sep 1, 2010
I think I don't understand your comment... amm you're saying that Gamera isn't strong enough to fight against the real Godzilla, based on the fight that he's having with Zilla???
Ronnie-R15 Sep 1, 2010
Yeah and you should it was ment to be a insult to Tristar.
actually i didn't think about that but no, it's not an insult to tristar, i don't care enough about them to insult them
Oh no I ment about Godzilla killing Zilla in under 20 seconds in "Final Wars". Your story made him into a threat to other monsters.
oh thanks
drake-fighter-0127 Sep 1, 2010
Wow, can't wait to see what happns next!


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Northland Library gets grant from state gaming fund to replace roof, HVAC system | TribLIVE.com
Northland Library gets grant from state gaming fund to replace roof, HVAC system
Tony LaRussa
Fri., September 21, 2018 2:24 p.m. | Friday, September 21, 2018 2:24 p.m.
Northland Public Library, McCandless
The Northland Public Library has received a $140,000 grant from state casino revenue to replace the building's roof, heating and air conditioning system and a leaking skylight.
The grant from the Gaming Economic Development Fund was announced by state Rep. Mike Turzai, R-Bradford Woods, who serves as speaker of the state House.
"The Northland Library is so important to the fabric of our community," said Turzai, who helped secure the grant.
"The Northland Library allows access to literature and information, provides a meeting place for families to learn together and hosts community events. The improvements…will help insure the comfort and safety of everyone who uses the library," the lawmaker said.
Money from the gaming fund is generated from levies on the 12 casino's operating in the state. It does not receive money from the state's general fund.
Northland is Allegheny County's second largest public library after the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.
The library along Cumberland Road serves McCandless, Ross, Franklin Park, Marshall and Bradford Woods. It recently celebrated its 50th anniversary.
Tony LaRussa is a Tribune-Review staff writer. You can contact Tony at 724-772-6368 or [email protected] or via Twitter @TonyLaRussaTrib.
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Over 5 million Florida residents made their votes count during Tuesday's midterm elections, approving an amendment that would ban greyhound racing and end the sport's nearly century-long existence in the state.
According to a report from Naples Daily News, about 5.3 million people, or 69 percent, voted in favor of Amendment 13, which would put an end all forms of commercial dog racing in Florida by 2020. The Orlando Sentinel similarly wrote that this was "well above" the 60 percent of voters required for an amendment to be passed.
Carey Theil, executive director of Grey2K USA, a nonprofit organization that helped back the ban, told the Orlando Sentinel that the passing of Amendment 13 could easily mark the end of greyhound racing, given how 11 of the 17 active dog tracks in the United States are located in Florida. These tracks will be forced to cease commercial dog racing activities no later than January 2021, or 90 years after Florida became the first state to legalize wagering on dogs, as noted by AL.com.
"The historical consequences of this are incredibly significant. We're seeing one of the highest approvals of any animal welfare measure in the nation," Theil remarked.
According to the Orlando Sentinel, the ban on greyhound racing got some "unlikely" support from two key Republican figures — Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi and presidential daughter-in-law Lara Trump.
In a statement supporting Amendment 13, Bondi referred to dog racing as a "black eye" on the state and cited a number of troubling findings, including a claim that over 400 greyhounds over the last 10 years were found to have cocaine and other illegal drugs in their system.
Meanwhile, the Orlando Sentinel also quoted Lara Trump's recent interview with the Palm Beach Post, where she similarly mentioned the conditions racing greyhounds go through and encouraged Florida residents to vote for the ban.
With Florida having voted to ban greyhound racing, that leaves Alabama, Arkansas, Iowa, Texas, and West Virginia as the only other states where the sport still operates legally, according to AL.com.


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Timothy McCulloh, Richard Johnson
Major McCulloh and Major Johnson wrote this monograph on Hybrid Warfare while they were students at the School of Advanced Military Studies, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Written in two parts, their individual approaches complement each other by providing a synergistic combination of both an overarching theory as well as an operational perspective. While the idea of hybrid warfare is not new, the authors together provide a clarity and utility which presents a relevant contextual narrative of the space between conventional conflicts and realm of irregular warfare. Major McCulloh's contribution in the first section lays the theoretical basis to bring a definition of Hybrid Warfare into focus while addressing the pertinent question of its historical origin. Major Johnson's section uses historical examples and case studies to form a basis for approaching hybrid threats through a lens of U.S. oriented operational art. The authors contribute to the understanding of warfare as a spectrum of conflict rather than a dichotomy of black and white alternatives.
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How do you use the wall space in your home? Gina, in Norway, showcases useful information, photographs and mementos she loves on her walls. Her displays add life, color and personality to her neutral interior. Here are Gina's five favorite ideas.
Write memos on a hallway chalkboard.
Forever forgetting appointments? Make a mini chalkboard out of black card right beside the front door so you can spot important reminders before you leave home. A checkerboard is less dominant than a wall covered in blackboard paint and easier to change. And, if you often forget your warm winter wear, add a handy basket beneath it for your gloves and woolly hats!
If getting ready in the morning can be a struggle, use washi tape to put up feel-good quotes or postcards in your bedroom or bathroom. They're easy to change when you get bored of them or discover a better one!
When Gina finds a tasty recipe in a magazine, she tears it out and sticks it up on the wall in the kitchen, or pegs it up beneath her recipe book rail to encourage herself to try it out. "Having it on view means I won't forget about it!' says Gina. 'And the pictures look so healthy, fresh and colourful – I think even cake must be good for you when it has fruit on top."
Display boxes are a creative and easy way to collect and display meaningful pictures, postcards, drawings and ornaments. You could fill one with souvenirs and photos from your travels, or with sports memorabilia. Gina filled a deep picture frame with old photos of herself and her husband before they got married – 'in one of them I'm only 19!' – and added their wedding photos next to it on a picture ledge.
Start an Instagram wall on your stairway.
Picture walls add colour and personality to dull and difficult spaces like stairways. They're also easy and fun to create, and a great way to make sure that photos taken on your phone aren't forgotten in cyberspace. "Nils and I never usually print off our photos. If I didn't have this gallery, I wouldn't have anywhere to put up our holiday snaps or pictures with friends."


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Q: Overriding Environment Variables in an Ant Script I have an issue where my automated build environment necessitates a different version of ant than the actual delegated scripts being run to produce the build.
I do not have an environmental variable for ANT_HOME.
I throw my CI environment the ANT_HOME to a directory of ant-1.7.0
But i need to override or unset ANT_HOME to a directory of ant-1.6.5 so the targets I call don't inherit the ANT_HOME, and run out of the 1.7.0 folder.
Can anyone think of a good way to do this?  I can't modify the delegated targets of the build script but I can modify anything in the front end.
I'm using Cruisecontrol2.8.4 and the aforementioned ant versions.
Edit:  The build targets I call set their own ANT_HOME to the 1.6.5 folder but it is being ignored as the previously set ANT_HOME to invoke cruisecontrol is immutable

A: You can unset properties with AntContrib.
In your ant script...
Import AntContrib:
<taskdef resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antlib.xml">
    <classpath>
        <pathelement location="folderwithantcontribjar/ant-contrib-1.0b3.jar"/>
    </classpath>
</taskdef>

Do the unset:
<var name="ANT_HOME" unset="true"/>

This removes ANT_HOME from the current set of properties allowing it to be set again.

A: Try setting the anthome attribute of the ant builder in your cruisecontrol configuration file :
http://cruisecontrol.sourceforge.net/main/configxml.html#ant
This should call your version of ant and presumably all called ant scripts will also use this version.


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The 1982 New England Patriots season was the franchise's 13th season in the National Football League and 23rd overall. They finished the National Football League's strike-shortened season with a record of five wins and four losses and finished seventh in the American Football Conference. Due to the format of the playoffs adopted for the season due to the strike, the Patriots qualified as the #7 seed and were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs by the eventual conference champion Miami Dolphins.

After firing Ron Erhardt after a dismal 2-14 season in 1981, the Patriots hired Southern Methodist University head coach Ron Meyer to be their new coach. Meyer led the Patriots to the playoffs for the first time since 1978, where they won the division under Chuck Fairbanks but were defeated in their opening playoff game.

One of the most notable games in NFL history occurred during the season, when the Patriots hosted the Dolphins in a game played in frozen conditions and under a blanket of snow at Schaefer Stadium. The Patriots won the game 3-0, doing so after a stadium worker used a snowplow to assist kicker John Smith in making the winning field goal.

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Note: Intra-division opponents are in bold text.

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See also
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The Voice Festival UK returns to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival!
UPDATE! We have now confirmed the full line-up for the event, which includes groups from our Youth, University and Community programmes. See below for more details.
What: This year, the event will begin with an afternoon workshop led by the superb five-piece a cappella group Simply Soweta Encha. The group will be giving an introduction to South African oral and dance traditions, vocal harmonies and energetic rhythms, teaching participants how to relax into creativity.
The day's activities will wrap up with that all-important opportunity to spend the evening socialising with your fellow a cappella singers and supporters!
Tickets: Tickets are now available to purchase direct from the Voice Festival UK. Please see below for pricing and purchase information.
To buy tickets for the workshop and/or showcase please select the ticket you require below and purchase through Paypal using a credit or debit card. Concession tickets are available for full time students with valid student ID, children under 18, registered disabled or senior citizens.
Once you have purchased your ticket(s) you will receive a confirmation email from Paypal. You will NOT be sent tickets by email or post. To collect your tickets on the day, please bring your Paypal confirmation email and valid ID with you to the box office.
Tickets for the evening Showcase can also be reserved via the Edinburgh Fringe Festival website. Click here for more.
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Cotton Blossom Press
Located on the west side of Asheville, our home studio makes up the entire first floor of our converted carriage house home. With concrete flooring, big French doors, and plenty of space the space is perfect for us. Our big pieces of equipment includes: a table-top Chandler & Price Pilot Press, a huge paper-cutting machine, and our crown jewels: two Vandercook #4 Printing Presses.
Vandercook #4
This press was purchased from Dan Morris at The Arm in Brooklyn (where Macon learned to print). Moving it from Brooklyn was quite the adventure, but it made it to the studio safe & sound in October of 2015. This model was made by Vandercook sometime in the rage of 1935-1960 and weighs 1100 pounds!
Vandercook #4T
Very similar to the #4, the #4T was introduced in 1948. The difference is that this press can print on transparent acetate or glassine, which would then be used create offset negatives. We mostly use it for printing on paper. Laurie Corral of Asheville BookWorks sold us this press in June of 2015.
Chandler & Price Table Top Platen Press
C&P produced presses in Cleveland, Ohio from 1881-1964. Our press is a C&P Pilot Press that was designed to be used for small runs in commercial print shops and also for teaching typesetting and printing in high schools and vocational training programs. Serial Number: P 3759 We bought this press from a dealer in Louisiana in 2011 and use this press for smaller orders such as business cards, stationery, and coasters
Challenge Machinery Co. Diamond Paper Cutter
This is an enormous solid cast iron paper cutter that weights ¾ ton! It feathers a a three foot cutting blade and an adjustable back. We use this machine to cut down large stacks of paper or to trim off the edges of paper if we printed using crop marks. The date on the machine says 1898. We bought it from the wonderful ladies at 7 Ton Print Co.
More about Vandercooks
Vandercooks are especially special because they are amazing precision machines that aren't made anymore. Between 1909 and 1976, over 30,000 Vandercooks were produced. With the rise of offset and digital printing, letterpress printing was abandoned and many of the machines were sold for scrap metal or left to rust in warehouses and basements. Letterpress Printing has had a small renaissance and the craft is slowly coming back. Less than 2,000 machines are listed in a world-wide census, assembled and maintained by Paul Moxon.
With a deep love and connection to the natural world, we are passionate about being mindful of our environmental impact. We strongly believe in Reduce, Reuse, Repair, and Recycle. Whenever possible, we reuse paper when setting up a new job. Each new project requires several test runs to be sure the design will print perfectly. We keep all old paper to reprint and reuse, often getting 4-10 more runs out of one card. We are researching more eco-friendly press cleaners, but we do wash and reuse all our rags. We take care of our machines, oiling and cleaning often, to prevent costly new parts.
We proudly offer Crane Lettra paper which is 100% cotton, made from by-products of the cotton industry. From Crane's website: Crane's papers are made from 100% recovered cotton fibers. These fibers are almost pure cellulose, as compared to those from trees, which are less than half. This means that cotton fibers require fewer chemicals and produce far less waste than papers made from trees. And, cotton fibers make the finest paper in the world. Learn more about Crane paper and their environmental efforts here.
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Graphite electrodes price has seen a steep increase in recent months, the increase has seen both in the global and domestic market; a month back it was around USD 2,000/MT and now it is increased steeply to USD 15,000/MT and with nil supply. To make 1 tonne of steel 2.5 to 3 kg electrodes are consumed. Electric arc furnaces utilize graphite electrodes, which are also employed in ladle furnaces via the blast furnace/basic oxygen converter route.
Needle Coke which is a prime raw material used in making graphite electrodes witnessed a sharp hike in prices, from USD300/MT in Feb'17 to USD1200 at present. An environmental crackdown has affected Graphite producers in China in a big way, leading to the closure of around 50% of Graphite capacity. Chinese produces around 300,000 MT graphite electrodes monthly, out of which is used to export around 100,000 MT every month. Induction Furnace steel and Mini Mills has been closed down which was producing mainly low-quality long steel products.
Electrode prices in India have risen in the past few months due to low availability, lower imports, and the antidumping duty & this has led to acute shortage of graphite electrodes in the market creating a major problem for the steel manufactures that are in the verge of the closure of their mills. ASPA (Alloy Steel Producers Association of India), through its Chairman and ED – Delhi,) has met Ministry officials and expressed their serious concerns of the steel producers and have requested the Government to take effective steps to deal with the situation.
Graphite India Ltd and HEG Ltd are two major players, who hold a major share in Indian graphite industry. If we consider the total installed capacity for both the players is at around 180000 MT, however, they are operating at 70 – 75% of their installed capacity.
The exports of graphite electrodes as per the Dept of Commerce, India for FY'17 is 62800 MT, a 24% increase as compared to FY'16 which was 52778 MT. The imports in FY'14 (12800 MT) & FY'15 (13700MT), saw an increase in cheaper imports from China which flooded the Indian graphite market, DGAD imposed anti-dumping duty on imports from China in 2015. The import market became grayer in FY16 (6800MT) & FY17 (4000 MT) after anti-dumping duty resulting in the decline of imports by 40%.


VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: The Casa Fuster Hotel is on Paseo de Gracia and is very central. The bedrooms are exquisitely decorated and furnished with all modern conveniences. It's a stylish hotel and there's a pool sauna Jacuzzi and gym. It deserves its 5 stars and is in our Top Ten Madrid Hotels.


Modern applications must collect and store massive amounts of data. Cloud storage offers these applications simplicity: the abstraction of a failure-free, perfectly scalable black-box. While appealing, offloading data to the cloud is not without challenges. Cloud storage systems often favour weaker levels of isolation and consistency. These weaker guarantees introduce behaviours that, without care, can break application logic. Offloading data to an untrusted third party like the cloud also raises questions of security and privacy.
This talk summarises my efforts to improve the performance, the semantics and the security of transactional cloud storage systems. It centers around a simple idea: defining consistency guarantees from the perspective of the applications that observe these guarantees, rather than from the perspective of the systems that implement them. I will discuss how this new perspective brings forth several benefits. First, it offers simpler and cleaner definitions of weak isolation and consistency guarantees. Second, it enables more scalable implementations of existing guarantees like causal consistency. Finally, I will discuss its applications to security: our client-centric perspective allows us to add obliviousness guarantees to transactional cloud storage systems.
Natacha Crooks is a PhD candidate at the University of Texas at Austin and a visiting student at Cornell University. Her research interests are in distributed systems, distributed computing and databases. She is the recipient of a Google Doctoral Fellowship in Distributed Computing and a Microsoft Research Women Fellowship.


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Multi-objective optimization of hypoid gears to improve operating characteristics
Vilmos V. Simon
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
In this paper a multi-objective optimization method of hypoid gears correlating to the operating characteristics is presented. Optimal design of hypoid gears demands that multiple objectives be simultaneously achieved. Four objectives considered in this study are the minimization of the maximum tooth contact pressure, transmission error and the average temperature in the gear mesh, and the maximization of the mechanical efficiency of the gear pair. The goals of the optimization are achieved by the optimal modification of meshing teeth surfaces. In practice, these modifications are introduced by applying the appropriate machine tool setting for the manufacture of the pinion and the gear, and/or by using a tool with an optimized profile. The proposed optimization procedure relies heavily on the loaded tooth contact analysis for the prediction of tooth contact pressure distribution and transmission errors, and on the mixed elastohydrodynamic analysis of lubrication to determine temperature and efficiency. A fast elitist nondominated sorting genetic algorithm (NSGA-II) is applied to solve the model. The effectiveness of the method is demonstrated by using hypoid gear examples. The obtained results have shown that by the optimization considerable improvements in the operating characteristics of the gear pair are achieved.
Mechanism and Machine Theory
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechmachtheory.2019.103727
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Elastohydrodynamics
Pressure distribution
Genetic algorithms
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Multi-objective optimization
Operating characteristics
Simon, V. V. (2020). Multi-objective optimization of hypoid gears to improve operating characteristics. Mechanism and Machine Theory, 146, [103727]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechmachtheory.2019.103727
Multi-objective optimization of hypoid gears to improve operating characteristics. / Simon, Vilmos V.
In: Mechanism and Machine Theory, Vol. 146, 103727, 04.2020.
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5 Women's Conferences You Don't Want To Miss In 2019 – Tina Wells | Launch. Grow. Lead.
Photo: Forbes' 2018 Women's Summit.
Every year some of the most powerful women in the world come together a few times, in a few different settings, to discuss how they are thriving. By attending conferences like these, we can learn so much from great female minds, and meet like-minded women who are supportive and eager to learn from each other.


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Review: Mutate – Circle 2 EP
February 6, 2013 • Altstadt Echo • Detroit Artists
Circle 2 arrives as a pair of edits of an original track by Detroit's Mutate, packaged along with three remixes. Per usual, this collection is being released alongside a slew of events taking place at The Works (ranging from Material Object to Drumcell), a whirlwind of production and promotion condensing into what we've come to know as "Blank Code."
"Circle 2 (Machined)" is the original single of the release, coming in with a more raw, heavy feel than it's clean-yet-dubby "Circle 1" predecessor. Seemingly designed for the big dark rooms that Blank Code's sounds usually inhabit, a massive kick is overlain with a lightly distorted drone and slushy hi-hats. Some chords slowly fade in, followed by high frequency noise wails. Overall, this track sounds like a bright, wintery version of the style we've come to expect from producers like Silent Servant – droney, noisy, repetitive, and intensely gratifying. Mutate's "Quantum Foam" edit of the track is heavily contrasted with the "Machined" version, entering with soaking wet dubby vapors, and sporadic metallic echoes. The track remains in a dubbed-out reverie for it's duration, calling to mind a sedated haze.
The Plankton remix begins with an intentionally hollow feel, as more ghostly atonal drones loiter around a gritty, simple percussive base. But over time, the track evolves into a dysphoric, rushing, screaming techno stampede. It is horrifying in a way that does not come off as contrived, and retains a sense of brutal clarity despite the complex layering of sounds employed in it's design.
The Project 313 remix calls to mind contemporary classics like Truncate's "Mira Mar." Cavernous kick drums fill a black, empty space occupied only by a reverent sustained chord and raspy, hallucinatory machine scrapes. The track calls to mind some sort of apocalyptic desperation, like a nihilist's last breath spent on a prayer.
The final remix on the release is that of Alberto Pascual, and it is safe to it's the only version with any sort of groove element. Cold, unpolished chord stabs seem to function both as melodic components and as elements as the percussion. But staying true to the uncomfortable, uncanny nature of the rest of the EP, the chords are juxtaposed with a detuned drone subtly pumping to the beat.
Overall, I think that this release has definitely lived up the high standard set by Blank Code in their first two releases. The Plankton mix in particular makes me want to further investigate this producer, as it truly leaves an impression on the listener. I also feel that I admire Mutate's work even more than I did after Circle 1. He's able to produce so well for both the dancefloor and the armchair; I believe that is a rare gift reserved for those with true studio mastery and absolutely erudite knowledge of electronic music.
Tags: alberto pascual, blank code, detroit, drone techno, dub techno, plankton, project 313, techno
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Saturdays were spent at a long-term care facility for veterans. The building looked like it could have been shipped and assembled from a box – it was all right angles with no architectural flourishes. Primed for function over flair. The facility was split into six different wards based on medical need. Ward A residents suffered from dementia and were wander-risks. All exits and entrances were double-locked and gated in case a veteran left unaccompanied, forgot his identity, and lost his way back. Ward E was for residents with both psychiatric and medical complications. Ward G was for veterans who were in hospice care. It was not unusual for veterans to sleep most of the day away, only venturing out of their rooms to watch TV and have meals.
I met Dr. G one weekend in May while on a volunteering shift. Assuming he was one of the staff, I turned to introduce myself. He breezed through the sea of veterans in wheelchairs, shaking my hand with his firm grasp. He suggested we go into the garden.
Once outside, the artificial white light bulbs brightened into warm yellow sun. Rigorously sterilized walls and floors fell to open space, orderly furniture replaced with potted sunflowers and wild tomato vines. "This place is just a glorified nursing home," he chuckled, and I laughed. Such a humorous acceptance of the truth, yet sad admittance of reality. He would know – Dr. G had been living in Ward E for three years.
Over the next year, I received a condensed account of Dr. G's life. He is a 64 year-old man with wispy white hair and sea blue eyes. As a young man he served in the US Navy during the Vietnam War, specializing in treating sailors with venereal disease. He told his war stories like a grandfather would. I listened with wide eyes as he divulged what it was like to be battered about in the ocean and vomit into the waves, or recounted the outbreak of periodontal infections on board after the men had run out of toothpaste. Upon his return to the United States, he started a private practice and saw patients for over thirty years. Lack of family and worsening health led him to the veterans' care facility, where he always felt a bit out of place.
Dr. G never complained – after all, he noted, he was one of the few veterans living in the facility who was still able to walk, and he still had his wits about him. Curious as I was, I never inquired about his diagnosis. I searched for any physical sign of disease – a yellowing of the eyes, or swelling of the feet, for instance—but his body was marred by none. I understood that if he wanted to share his diagnosis with me, then he would do so in his own time.
I was only able to visit him on a few more occasions before summer stormed in. It whisked me into twelve- hour work days in the laboratory, laboring over biology experiments, and analyzing data. Thirty minutes were spared for dinner. Then it was biking back to lab, except this time to climb up the three flights of stairs to the empty conference room, unload a backpack of MCAT workbooks and practice exams, and gather any remaining energy reserves to power through the forty pages of material to stay on track with my study-schedule. The next four hours were spent switching between passages of biochemistry, physics, psychology, and critical reasoning. My brain rammed repeatedly into the wall built by ever-evasive sleep, each wakeful night laying another brick, each exasperated thought, the caulking around them. Nerves and pressure clouded my perspective, and for those two months nothing mattered except work and tests.
When I returned to school in the Fall, I finally paid the veterans another visit. I did not see Dr. G. I imagined he might be napping in his room, or out on an excursion. I made the rounds to the other veterans. Ed, who didn't have his dentures in, smiled and offered me a York peppermint patty. Corwin asked me if I wanted to hear about the time he got arrested. Frank told me the story of the pinup girl tattooed on his arm, again. Near the end of the visit, one of the nurses wheeled out another veteran to the common living area. He held a thin purple booklet, his slender fingers keeping page. This gentleman was unable to hold up the weight of his own head, such that his chin tilted towards his chest, and I could not see his face. I had to crouch and look up to make eye contact and, when I did, my heart sobered. I could not believe it was him.
One of the nurses divulged Dr. G's worsening Parkinson's dementia. A cruel combination of Parkinson's disease and dementia, Parkinson's dementia burdens its victims with the motor deficits of Parkinson's and the mental deterioration of Alzheimer's. That afternoon we flipped through his purple booklet. I read to him about using floss picks instead of spooled floss, a trick that would come in handy as he gradually lost the agility of his fingers, and about the transition to a liquid diet, as it would eventually become impossible for him to chew and swallow. When it was time to leave, he strained his sea blue eyes down towards me. He asked, "What t-time does the boat leave?"
*Note: the names in this piece have been changed to maintain confidentiality
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Welcome to ISD Insights, a digest of ISD's latest research and projects on disinformation, extremism and polarisation around the world
In this month's Insights, ISD wins the U.S.-Paris Tech Challenge with our online manipulation detection technology, Beam and launches new research that charts the financial lifelines of German far-right actors, evidences the gendered disinformation trends in German election discourse and shows how open source tech is allowing extremist websites to flourish
Setting human rights at the centre of future prevention policy in the Future of Extremism series
Putting German far-right online activity in historical context from the early internet
Exploring Australia's fragmented and dangerous COVID-19 conspiracy movement
ISD's online manipulation detection technology wins the U.S.-Paris Tech Challenge
The Institute for Strategic Dialogue is proud to announce that our Beam technology, created in partnership with CASM, has been awarded the highly sought after U.S.-Paris Tech Challenge. Beam was designed to detect online manipulation and disinformation, and to provide the tools for countries, NGOs, and civil society members collect and understand these threats for themselves. Beam is a multilingual, multiplatform system and has been tested and deployed across 10 countries and eight languages over the last six years. During the 2020 US Presidential Elections, ISD used Beam to detect covert propaganda promoting Chinese government conspiracy theories, assess QAnon's presence on social media and track disinformation undermining trust in the election outcome. Carl Miller of CASM explains more about the technology here.
ISD policy paper calls for human rights-centred prevention policy
ISD's new policy paper "Mainstreamed Extremism and the Future of Prevention" reflects the dramatic transformations in the extremist landscape over the last two decades and argues for radical changes to how governments and societies prevent extremism. The paper puts forward a human rights-centred approach to prevention, arguing that countering extremism must go beyond preventing violence and focus instead on combating ideologies and behaviours that seek to undermine universal rights.
We explain the need for prevention strategies that span domestic and foreign policy, and break down silos between areas of government from social cohesion to digital regulation. Only then can we be sure that prevention programmes will deal with the inter-connected nature of extremist threats. This paper is part of ISD's 'Future of Extremism' series, considering the policy strategies required to counter the next generation of extremist threats.
Extremists are flourishing behind well-built websites thanks to open source tech
As alt-tech social media such as Gab and Odysee continues to attract far-right users, extremists are seeking open-source web tools and services to build their websites. Our analysis shows that most of these alt-sites are built using mainstream tools and services such as Wordpress and vBulletin. Extremists are able to legitimise their online presence using well-built pages, and the open-source nature of the tools makes them extremely difficult to remove.
These sites not only present a challenge to the principles of free speech, but also challenge the volunteers that publish their tools on these site-building pages for use by anyone on the internet.
ISD and GDI trace the financial lifelines of German far-right groups ahead of federal elections
Over a dozen German far-right groups and actors were found to use well-known credit cards and other online payment platforms as a means to fund their activities, according to our most recent study. We identified 17 known far-right groups and actors using credit card services including American Express, MasterCard, and Visa, as well as platforms such as PayPal, Square, and Stripe. While more than half of these online funding services have Terms of Service that should prohibit their use in these cases, the services were openly advertised on far-right websites.
The study, available in German and English, spotlights how these online funding channels can provide a financial lifeline to well-known German extremist groups and actors, many of which escalated their activities leading up to the country's federal elections in September 2021.
Read coverage in WAZ and Der Standard.
ISD exposes gendered disinformation trends in German federal elections
This report from ISD Germany examines the spread of false messages and harassment on Facebook and Telegram directed against the three leading candidates of CDU/CSU, SPD and Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (Green Party) in the lead up to the federal elections. Green Party candidate Annalena Baerbock was exposed to more hostility and disinformation campaigns than her fellow male counterparts, Olaf Scholz (SPD) and Armin Laschet (CDU). Often associated with conspiracy myths, and sometimes labelled a "danger to Germany," Baerbock's competence was questioned twice as often on Facebook as Laschet's, and almost four times as often as Scholz's. Additionally, on Telegram, Baerbock was mentioned in the context of the "Great Reset" conspiracy myth 10 times more often than Scholz, and four times more often than Laschet.
Read coverage in POLITICO, POLITICO Europe, Market Research Telecast, Helsingin Sangomat, SPIEGEL, Heise, Die Zeit, Schweriner Volkszeitung, and Der Standard.
The state of research on German far-right online activity in historical context
As part of the project "Countering Radicalization in Right-Wing Extremist Online Subcultures," funded by the German Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection (BMJV), ISD examines the history of right-wing extremist internet use in Germany. From the beginning, we show how right-wing extremists in Germany have always taken advantage of the internet for political gain. Today, the extreme right is reacting to increased regulation by hijacking and building alternative social media platforms. The report also uses expert interviews to illuminate key research gaps: alt-tech platforms, moderation practices, and the hybridised threat presented by COVID-19 conspiracy movements and right-wing extremists.
Read more at Coda Story and Der Standard.
ISD's previous research on the German far-right includes exploration of antisemitism during COVID-19, far-right online ecosystems, and coordinated hate campaigns.
Australia's conspiracy-ridden anti-lockdown movement raises risk of violence
In the wake of significant anti-lockdown protests in Melbourne and Sydney, ISD's Elise Thomas examined the Australia-based conspiracy community and their growing use of social media channels. This fragmented movement contains concerning potential for violence. Users are being drawn to elements including as QAnon and Sovereign Citizen movements, New Age health tropes and fringe anti-Chinese Communist Party or religiously inspired conspiracy theories.
Most of these channels begin by providing communications for the logistics of protests, but conversations evolve over a short period of time to more extremist messaging. This content is often derived from other geographical contexts, primarily the U.S. As widespread public health restrictions continue, so too will the upwards trajectory of the anti-lockdown movement.
Elise speaks further on this topic and the recurring anti-lockdown protests in Australia with multiple media outlets including ABC NewsRadio, SBS's The Feed, The Guardian, Crikey, once more on another related story with The Guardian, and more.
ISD addresses launch of Extremism + Gaming Research Network
ISD's commitment to evidencing extremist mobilisation on gaming platforms is well evidenced by our recent work on how extremists evade mainstream restrictions on gaming platforms, as well as studies of extremism on gaming platforms including Steam, Discord and DLive. We've joined forces with 9 counter-extremism organisations to uncover the depths of gaming exploitation by violent extremists around the world at the newly launched Extremism and Gaming Research Network (EGRN). ISD's Milo Comerford spoke at the launch of the Network this month, which publicly established the research agenda in front of 200 participants.
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ISD IN THE MEDIA
Al Jazeera, Is the world any safer since the Sept. 11 attacks? - ISD's Moustafa Ayad spoke with Al Jazeera about the legacy of the so-called War on Terror and the need for prioritizing human rights in this battle against terrorism.
VOX, Why is Guantanamo still open? - ISD's Jasmine El Gamal is a guest speaker for "Today, Explained" where she discusses the history of Guantanamo Bay and why the detention center remains open 20 years later.
New York Times, "Painful memory for Muslims: Outrage over a proposed Islamic center in Manhattan" - El Gamal spoke with the NYT about the ADL's apology 11 years later when they opposed the construction of a Muslim cultural center in Manhattan near Ground Zero.
ABC's Triple J hack, "TikTok's life saving Lorikeets" - ISD's Elise Thomas features in this podcast.
ITV News, "The Taliban has over 800k Twitter followers - could they get a blue tick soon?" - Moustafa Ayad discusses the Taliban's presence on Twitter and the challenges for that platform.
Washington Post, "ADL partners with L'Oréal USA to promote Holocaust education in the US" - More coverage of ISD's research on anti-Muslim and antisemitic content on TikTok.
The Independent (Ireland), "The strange world of Dolores Cahill: Gardaí probe Covid-denier links to Donegal patient removal" - Aoife Gallagher comments on an Irish case of Covid disinformation.
VICE, 'He's Gonna Die With Us': Sovereign Citizen Took an Elderly COVID Patient Out of the ICU - Gallagher comments on the rise of Dolores Cahill, a leader in the antivaxx community in Europe. Gallagher also spoke to the Sunday Independent and the Irish independent's In Focus podcast on this case.
Open Canada, "COVID and conspiracy" - Further coverage of ISD's recent report on Canada's online right wing extremism.
RN Breakfast (ABC), "Claims Victorian protests spurred by far-right groups" - Elise Thomas guests on this radio show covering the anti-lockdown protests in Melbourne.
POLITICO, "Dark news: The murky world of undercover EU lobbying" - Daniel Maki provides insight into disinformation used in lobbying efforts at the EU in Brussels.
RND (Germany), "Auf Tiktok fehlt die Lilo zum "Stitch"" - Coverage of ISD's Hatescape report on TikTok.
NDR (Germany), "Jägerin der falschen Fakten" - Julia Smirnova discusses conspiracy theories in the She Likes Tech podcast for Germany's NDR.
Heise (Germany), "Studie: Nur Verschwörungserzähler und Rechtsextreme witterten Wahlbetrug" - Coverage of ISD research by Julia Smirnova and Hannah Winter on the undermining of trust in Germany's election.
El Dia (Spain), "De cómo manipular a los votantes" - Jakob Guhl discusses how voters can be manipulated with disinformation during elections.
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ECCLESIUS, the Bishop of Ravenna from 521 until his repose 532. St. Ecclesius commenced the construction of San Vitale, and also accompanied Pope St. John I (18th May) on his trip to Constantinople on behalf of the Arian King Theodoric the Great.
ETHERIUS, sixteenth Bishop of Auxerre serving that See from 563 until his repose 573. St. Etherius promoted the expansion of monasticism in his diocese and safeguarded the Church from meddling by secular authorities.
GEORGE, FELIX, AURELIUS, NATALIA, and LILIOSA, a group of martyrs in Cordoba under the Caliph Abd ar-Rahman II (852). Aurelius and Felix, and their wives, Natalia and Liliosa, were Spaniards. George, a Hierodeacon from Palestine, was offered a pardon since he was a foreigner, but chose martyrdom for Christ.
MAURUS, PANTALEIMON, and SERGIUS, Maurus, probably a native of Bethlehem, is believed to have been sent by the Apostle Peter (29th June) to be the first Bishop of Bisceglia on the Adriatic. Imprisoned by orders of Emperor Trajan, he was placed in the custody of Pantaleimon and Sergius whom he converted to Christianity. St. Maurus was beheaded Pantaleimon and Sergius were crucified circa 117.