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The International Arctic Observations Assessment Framework released
One of the main themes at the 2016 Arctic Science Ministerial was Strengthening and Integrating Arctic Observations and Data Sharing. The ministers committed to the "shared development of a science-driven, integrated Arctic-observing system" and saw "a critical role for the Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks (SAON) initiative".
As a response to this, the IDA Science and Technology Policy Institute (STPI) and SAON published the International Arctic Observations Assessment Framework, defining 12 Social Benefit Areas (SBAs) that rely on Arctic observations:
Fundamental Understanding of Arctic Systems
Marine and Coastal Ecosystems and Processes
Resilient Communities
Sociocultural Services
Terrestrial and Freshwater Ecosystems and Processes
"The Arctic is a particularly important location to understand and conduct observations", says the chair of SAON, Christine Daae Olseng: "This work can form the basis for prioritizing future observational efforts"
The Framework was developed in January 2017 as STPI and SAON co-hosted a workshop, convening experts from international, state, and local governments; industry; academia; and non-governmental organizations to review and revise a framework for assessing the societal benefits derived from Arctic observations. The methodology involved a review of international Arctic strategies for common objectives that rely on Earth observations. The resulting international Arctic Observations Assessment Framework will provide the foundation and justification for future international efforts to assess the value of Arctic observations and to structure a pan-Arctic observing system.
The report is available here

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Episode 151 is LIVE! A Conversation with Koyo (Joey Chiaramonte and Harold Griffin)
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Click here to read ICSR's latest report How Telegram Disruption Impacts Jihadist Platform Migration
Terrorist Financing in South Africa
10th March 2011 ICSR Team
By ICSR Team
10th March 2011 In FREErad!cals
John Solomon makes clear why international terrorists find South Africa so attractive, 'With lawlessness, government corruption and a wide range of preferred terrorists financing methods available – al-Qaeda could indeed partake in illicit and unregulated trade in southern Africa to sustain itself'. The point made by Solomon can be illustrated by numerous examples. The case of Yassin al-Qadi, a US-designated terrorist financier who invested US $3 million for a 12 percent interest in Global Diamond Resources that mined diamonds in South Africa is but one such example. He also controlled New Diamond Corporation, an offshore company that had mining interests in South Africa. The case of Abd al-Muhsin al-Libi, also known as Ibrahim Tantouche, also points to how terrorists secure financing in South Africa. He set up two Al Qaeda financing fronts – the Afghan Support Committee and the Revival of Islamic Society. Both operated as charities that raised money for orphans; however, in reality the orphans were either dead or non-existent.
Other funding fronts were also established. Hezbollah established the Karbala Liberation Front in Johannesburg, which sent money to Hezbollah in Lebanon. Other so-called charitable foundations have also been established to fund terror organisations. In 1992, the same year in which Hamas became active in South Africa, the Al Aqsa International Foundation (AIF) was established in the country. According to Dutch security expert Ronald Sandee, Hamas' political wing is in control of its office in Fordsburg, Johannesburg. By 2010, the Al Aqsa International Foundation found its way on the list of US designated terror organisations and fronts. Whilst AIF's main mission was to collect funds in South Africa and send it to Hamas in the Palestinian Territories, it is also vital to note that staff of AIF was also actively involved in paramilitary training to South Africans. The first such training took place in July 1997 on a farm in Mpumulanga, South Africa. The dual nature of such structures is by no means confined to AIF. In South Africa, a seafood business called AOXI is alleged to act as an Al Qaeda coordinating unit for jihadis who have been trained in Mozambique and who subsequently illegally enter into South Africa.
The issue of terrorist financing in South Africa emerged again in January 2007, when the Sunday Times reported that two South African cousins – Farhad Ahmed Dockrat, the principal of the Darus Salaam Islamic College in Laudium, Pretoria and Dr. Junaid Ismail Dockrat – were proposed for consideration on the UN Security Council's list of terror suspects, whilst already having been placed on the US Treasury Department's list of Al Qaeda supporters. According to papers submitted to the UN Security Council, Farhad is alleged to be an Al Qaeda 'facilitator and terrorist financier' who gave R400,000 to the Taliban ambassador in Pakistan. Farhad Dockrat, who was previously detained in Gambia for suspected terrorist activities in 2005 was also alleged to have provided US $63,000 to the Al Akhtar Trust. This was a 'charity' that was designated as having provided support to Al Qaeda. Junaid, it is claimed, is also an Al Qaeda 'financier, recruiter and facilitator' who assisted in coordinating the travel of South Africans to Pakistan to train with Al Qaeda. Junaid Dockrat, it is alleged, raised US $120,000 for Hazma Rabia, the former Al Qaeda chief of operations who was killed in 2005 by the US in Pakistan.
Partly in response to these issues of terrorist financing, the South African government has tightened legislation through the Financial Intelligence Control Act, or FICA. However, the case of Mohamed Suleman Vaid, who on 25 April 2001 was arrested along with his wife while attempting to smuggle US $130,000 in local currency across the border with Swaziland, points to the weaknesses of FICA which is primarily aimed at formal banking transactions. The ensuing police investigation indicated ties to Al Qaeda via a Lebanese businessman. As Kurt Shillinger noted, it was established that in the 18 months prior to his arrest, Vaid had made this trip 150 times! It is also clear that with the formal banking transactions, there are problems. In 2009, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) completed a review of South Africa's compliance with FATF standards for anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism. Here it noted that the country needs to pay closer attention at regulating trusts, monitoring financial institutions' compliance with anti-money laundering legislation, and enhancing the disclosure of trans-border transfers of cash.
However, the FICA legislation cannot be implemented effectively through corrupt officials. In May 2010, for instance, a forensic investigation commissioned by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) uncovered another terrorist finance vehicle in South Africa, which involved Pakistani criminals taking advantage of the corruption occurring with the Companies and Intellectual Property Registration Office or CIPRO. The case involved tax fraud, money laundering, racketeering, organised crime, fraud and siphoning off millions of rands to fund international terrorism. One Pakistani suspect who is now in custody, Aliraza Siyed Naqvi, specialised in cloning legitimate companies through the registration with CIPRO of a fake company with the same name as a legitimate company and its own bank account. Monies meant for the legitimate business are then diverted to the fake one. Naqvi's brother, Asad Abbas Naqvi, was listed as a dangerous terrorist by Pakistani authorities. Asad Abbas Naqvi was murdered in South Africa in December 2008.
The private forensic audit estimates that up to 285,000 fake or dubious companies were created in this way through the abuse of the CIPRO system. This scheme would never have occurred had it not been for corruption within CIPRO itself and the report identified 60 CIPRO officials as being involved in such suspicious activities. South African security agencies are also investigating the probable help these criminals and terrorists have received from corrupt officials within the South African Revenue Services (SARS).
As organised crime syndicates' tentacles increasingly penetrate the apparatus of state, it is highly likely that terrorist financing would become a bigger problem for South Africa and the world.
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Q: Listview items show they've been clicked when they haven't Hey so i've got a listview with buttons on it, when one is clicked if you skip down 4 more listview items the fifth shows it's been clicked in the same place the previous one was clicked. When a button is clicked it is set to invisible and the dummy button underneath is shown (which is the one that shows up in every fifth row).
Code that declares button invisible in the onclick command

boolean processClick=true;

    if(processClick == true)
     {
        myButton.setEnabled(false);
        myButton.setClickable(false);
        myButton.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);

        }
        processClick=false;
        }

After looking at some similar questions, I think this has to do with the views being recycled, but still not sure how to remedy this.
Any helps at all is much appreciated.
Thanks!

A: Yes u are having problem with your code,you need to take processClick for each listView row/item and then on that bases u need to set enabled(false) or something else.You can take reference from this example which is similar work but with checkbox. You need to look at that code and apply with button. It'll solve your problem.
link of sample ex. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6C9Pqrvc_CWZHFDcmxKR01rc3c/edit?usp=sharing

A: I faced a similar problem when I was programatically assigning background color to my listview items. I dont know what caused the problem (probably the getView() was not getting called properly). I solved my problem by using if-else. In your case something like this should work:
if(processClick == true)
 {//set desired result in if
    myButton.setEnabled(false);
    myButton.setClickable(false);
    myButton.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);

    }else{//reset items to original in else
    myButton.setEnabled(true);
    myButton.setClickable(true);
    myButton.setVisibility(View.GONE);
}

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To commemorate the university's 150th anniversary in 2008, Keio launched the Design the Future Award for International Students. This scholarship, aimed at highly talented international students with outstanding academic records, is possibly the most generous available from a Japanese university. International students with the drive to become global leaders in academia, business, and public services are strongly encouraged to take advantage of this exceptional opportunity.
Keio University was founded by Yukichi FUKUZAWA in 1858 as the first modern institution of higher education in Japan.
Students must submit their application to the graduate school they wish to enter. See website for further details.
The award is open to international students of high academic standing. The student must be an applicant of one of the graduate schools of KEIO University for entry in year of application. The student must be an applicant in either a Master's Program or Professional Degree Program. The student cannot be a recipient of another scholarship at the same time as receiving this award. The student cannot be participating ina dounble-degree program.


Bilgola 'Gold' Boat Crew at Bilgola Beach - picture by A J Guesdon.
They've Done It! Bilgola's 'Gold' Men's surf boat crew has taken the 2014 TRans-Tasman Test match series 3 to nil run yesterday (8.2.2014) as part of the Navy ASRL Open held at Stockton beach.
L to R Jarrad King, Brendan Murray, Don McManus, Mitch Foran, Anthony O'Toole. Photo by Dennis O'Toole, 2014.
Pictured here are Shaun Connor, left and Jim Colley preparing for training on their 29er – photo by Damian Devine.
The Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club and peninsula youth sailors, 16 year old Jim Colley and Shaun Connor, 15 have been named in the 2014 Australian Sailing Youth Team, announced by Yachting Australia.
Jim and Shaun won the Youth Nationals in the 29er class last month held on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula. This follows their 6th place at the Worlds in July last year and first place at the German Youth Nationals, and this in their first year in the 29er class.
They will compete for Australian in this year's ISAF Youth Sailing World Championship (Under 19) to be held in Tavira, Portugal from 12 – 19 July.
They are the only representatives from NSW to be selected.
The team, who will be endorsed by the Yachting Australia Board at their next meeting, will prepare at their individual home locations then head to Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron in Brisbane in April for a joint training camp.
Jim is in Year 11 at Barrenjoey High and Shaun attends St Luke's Grammar at Dee Why.
Chloe ( 2 years old) at Warriewood Shopping Centre this week with one of the Wild! Rhinos. Picture by A J Guesdon, 2014.
A huge herd of 125 wildly colourful rhino sculptures have charged into town to create a spectacular world class sculpture trail through the streets, parks and public spaces of Sydney, Dubbo and surrounds during February to April 2014 to help raise awareness of the critical plight facing rhinos through poaching and habitat loss. To join the charge, discover the whereabouts of all the 125 Wild Rhinos, download the mobile app or visit here for a trail map.
On May 14 the wild artworks will be auctioned at The Star, Pyrmont to raise over $400,000 for Taronga's rhino conservation programs.
Pittwater Residents at Dee Why on Thursday, picture by Michael Mannington.
On Thursday Warriewood residents were at the offices of Planning Minister, Brad Hazzard, in Dee Why seeking an assurance that a Meriton proposed development, that contravenes the June 12th 2013 Pittwater Council Warriewood Review, not proceed. The day before (5.2.2014), the proposal which sought to amend the LEP by increasing the permissible residential densities and building height to accommodate residential apartment buildings, and had been referred to the Joint Regional Planning Panel, was completed with the JRPP making a recommendation to the Minister that the Meriton Planning Proposal application not proceed to the Gateway determination stage.


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raise "No STELLAR_CORE_URL" if ENV["STELLAR_CORE_URL"].blank?

module Core
  Web = Excon.new(ENV["STELLAR_CORE_URL"])
end

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Henry Giroux teaches at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, and has written several books about youth, democracy and public education. In this interview with Camilla Croso, coordinator of the Latin-American Campaign for the Right to Education (CLADE), Giroux talks about corporate interests in the privatization of education, attacks on the importance of schooling and the marginalization of youth under the current political and economic system.
Camilla Croso: Currently, the world is seeing the definition of both post-2015 development and education agendas, considering that 2015 is the deadline of the Millennium Development Goals as well as the Education for All goals. In this context, the Latin-American Campaign for the Right to Education (CLADE), the Global Campaign for Education and many other actors and movements, have been working hard to ensure a broader vision of education is taken into account, overcoming market-oriented, for-profit and reductionist approaches. A lot of what you write in your texts, in particular in the article, "When Schools Become Dead Zones of the Imagination: A Critical Pedagogy Manifesto," we see reflected in what is currently happening in our continent and beyond. Our opening question is: How do you interpret the rise of corporate power in educational systems?
Henry Giroux: Every country has its own context, but I think that what we have seen since the 1980s is the recognition on the part of the right that the educative nature of politics is really crucial and important. They want to take control of those institutions that produce particular kinds of subjects, dispositions, attitudes, particular modes of desire that are compatible with market values and market social relationships. So the school becomes a reproductive tool that aligns itself with the belief that the market has the ability to govern all of social life.
Schools are public spaces and by default, they are at odds with a market rationality. The people who control corporate power globally, today, have no interest in the public, public values or public goods. Actually, the public as a democratic public sphere that encourages critical dialogue and an engaged citizenry is the enemy of the market for them because it's a non-commoditized sphere that basically can produce all those things that are considered hazardous to corporate interests. That is, it produces people who can imagine otherwise and hence act otherwise; it can produce people who believe in thoughtfulness, critical exchange, civic courage [and] social responsibility, and are more than willing to hold power accountable. Public spheres are places in which thinking becomes dangerous and, in that sense, they have to be shut down.
How do you think corporate power can be constrained?
Right off, it is crucial to make corporate power and its effects visible. And that means not just material relations of power but also the ideologies that legitimate corporate power. This means that it is crucial to recognize that there is no correlation between corporate power and democracy. When corporate power speaks in the name of democracy, it basically lies and the ideological assumptions that drive corporate power have got to be challenged. Let's talk about three of them. First of all, the notion that the only obligation of citizenship is consumerism is morally bankrupt and politically reactionary. It is degrading to claim that people simply need to be shoppers to fulfill their role as citizens. This ideological monstrosity both undermines any viable notion of citizenship and makes a mockery of democracy.
Secondly, the apostles of neoliberalism argue that the only notion of agency that matters is a kind of extreme radical individualism in which self-interest and the ethos of unbridled competition are the only motives that drive people. Self-interest, carried to extremes, undermines modes of solidarity that are absolutely essential to any society that wants to survive. And extreme competition breeds a survival of the fittest way of life that generates a society that celebrates violence, war and a culture of cruelty. A society that does not care to exercise a certain kind of compassion for other people is in trouble. It is a society that not only kills the radical imagination; it promotes a form of civic and political death. Equally important, hyper individualism feeds the myth that people are responsible for all of the problems they face thus downplaying or making invisible the broader systemic and structural problems that plague neoliberal societies that extend from massive poverty, unemployment, and inequality in wealth and income to the defunding of the welfare state.
Thirdly, we need to recognize that corporate power benefits the 1% [of the world's population]. It doesn't benefit the vast majority of people. In benefitting the 1%, it not only produces a culture of neoliberal misery, but also eliminates unions and social provisions and destroys the social state. It also reinforces the "punishing state" which means that as people find themselves without homes, without jobs, without the most basic social provisions, their behavior become increasingly criminalized. As a result, more and more people are now being ushered into the criminal justice system and punished by virtue of the fact that their wealth is being stolen. For example, laws are passed to prevent the homeless from sleeping outside, [and] school children are arrested by the police for violating trivial rules such as a dress code.
In an event in New York promoted by the Global Business Coalition for Education, last September, an entrepreneur on one of the panels affirmed there is no ethical dilemma in profit making in education. Do you think profit making in education is compatible with the realization of education as a human right?
I think the issue that needs to be addressed is what have been the consequences of turning public institutions into profit-making institutions. Everywhere we look, what we see is that it promotes an enormous amount of misery for most students and a great deal of wealth for relatively few people. This is particularly true for for-profit colleges in the United States, which put thousands of students in debt and often provide inferior forms of education. For-profit enterprises believe that there is no room for equity, social justice and non-commodified values, such as trust in their governing structures, and this produces a kind of ethical tranquilization in these institutions. So I would argue that no, profit making is incompatible with the most basic institutions that people need in order to survive and exercise any sense of agency.
To take this argument a step further: I believe that profit making is incompatible with health care, because health care is not an entitlement; it's a right. And as soon as we inject the notion of profit into the formula then we turn rights into entitlements, meaning that what should be a right becomes a privilege for people who have power, people who have money. It seems to me that's an injustice. And should profits be used to drive public higher education? Absolutely not. Higher education should be free globally. A society cannot sustain itself democratically unless the social investments are made for society as a whole, and these institutions benefit everybody, and not just a privileged few. Under the regime of neoliberalism, wherever you see the profit motive, you have massive amounts of inequality; you see the redistribution of wealth from public goods to private goods. From the people to relatively few individuals. Therefore, I would say it's completely incompatible.
Now, let's talk about the issue of youth and secondary education. In the regional process that CLADE has been carrying out, one of the central issues that arises from the students, is the demise of the educational system toward youth identities and cultures. Systems tend to want to homogenize the students, denying their identities, their plurality and their diversities. Can you comment on this perception? What could be done for educational systems to recognize and dialogue with these different youth cultures?
When you see education becoming confused with training, collapsing into crude forms of instrumentalism, largely produced and orchestrated by [right-wing] and corporate interests, you end up with a pedagogy of repression, one that pushes for standardization, an obscene degree of testing and a deskilling of teachers. I would argue that the hidden curriculum here works through at least three important registers. First, they promote pedagogies of oppression that work to kill any vestige of the radical imagination, the ability to think critically and thoughtfully. Pedagogy as the practice of freedom should inspire and energize. Neoliberal pedagogies do neither.
Secondly, it seems to me that diversity is a threat to many people on the right, particularly in the North and South American systems. Ever since the 1960s, the right has been petrified by the democratizing possibilities of education, of allowing vast members of the middle class, for instance, to all of a sudden, with all their diverse identities, become educated. They see the expansion of education to diverse elements of the working and middle classes as a threat to a privileged, white colonial class. Market driven forms of education are intent on eliminating and holding back educational opportunities for the vast majority of the population, especially those groups considered disposable who haven't been empowered in the past by virtue of access to education in general. This points to a class and racial issue.
Thirdly, the notion that we allow multiple identities to emerge in schools and to be celebrated, suggests not only a dialogue about the notion of identity and agency; it [also] suggests a dialogue about history. Neoliberal modes of education are scared to death of any form of oppositional history emerging, one that emerges from the voices of the excluded. What frightens them is the specter of the emergence of a critical public and historical memory, one that points to the necessity for a dialogue regarding the missing narratives of those voices that have often been excluded in the past, and in some way resurrect their own profound memories about what history has meant for them, about what it has meant to be oppressed, what it means to live in a colonial country, to take seriously a society that simply has not been democratized enough. I think all those questions are really quite political around the question of diversity.
The other issue is what can be done. First of all, we need to open schools up to the vast majority of people who have basically been excluded. In the United States, you not only have students laboring under debts, in ways that mean the vast majority of working-class students will no longer have access to higher education. If you really are going to talk about diversity in education and equal opportunity, then you have to say something about the economic inequalities as well as inequalities in wealth, income and power that make it very difficult for minorities of class, color and race to have access to higher education. So you can't talk about diversity and access without talking about political economy and inequality. Poverty kills both dreams and the hope for a better future for most working-class students. Unless inequality is addressed and rectified so as to be compatible with a democracy, schooling will serve a containing function for most young people and an important credential for very few.
Also, you've got to have curriculums that are meaningful in order to be critical and transformative, meaning that students have to have points of identification; they have to be in places that somehow relate to their cultures, relate to their history, to their neighborhoods, to a sense of who they are and where they come from. It does not mean you have to stop there, but it certainly means that in some ways you have to connect to the students so they can make a connection between their own lives and what they are learning about the larger world.
The other point that has been raised in these processes that we've been carrying forward with the students is that of "adultcentrism," meaning a world where adults are at the top of the hierarchy and the only legitimate actors. And youth, children, older people are just hierarchically inferior. They say they cannot participate in debates and decision-making. They are not seen and understood as legitimate interlocutors. Can you comment on this issue about "adultcentrism"? How do you think we can establish more horizontal intergenerational relationships?
I think in the most basic definition [of the term] you're right. It means that adults have power in a way that is very exclusionary and often refuses to include the voices of young people. But, at another level, you have to ask yourself what is the economic, political and social framework that actually gives those adults power to deny an entire generation a future of dignity and hope? And I think that is the central question. In this case, we've seen since the 1970s in Latin America – particularly in Chile – a market-driven mode of casino capitalism that basically says that youth are no longer a social investment. The only investment that matters in these societies is economic in nature. Capital, not human needs, becomes the driving force of history. This is shameful, politically corrupt and provides the framework for totalitarian societies.
And this reinforces all those power relations that in many ways say that we are going to drive young people out of democracy. We don't care about them; we don't want to hear their voices and we'll do everything we can to make them powerless. We don't provide jobs for them; we don't make social investments for them; we don't provide work opportunities for them; we don't push funds for education.
I think that young people are going to change that. And they are absolutely right about how they have been marginalized. They will have to challenge the system that produces it. The issue is not simply going after adults. The issue is going after a system that reinforces the power of adults, in ways that is enormously cruel and produces all kinds of misery for young people.
Now we want to focus a little bit more on these post-2015 agenda setting processes. One of the education targets within the current version of the Sustainable Development Goals calls for affordable higher education. And in Latin America, those public universities that are free – like University of Sao Paulo, in Brazil, for example – are under pressure to start charging fees. Could you expand a little bit more on your perspective on charging for public higher education, instead of it being free?
What we have to ask ourselves is: "How does a society want to reinvest the funds that it has in order to sustain a future that is much better than the present?" When you move from free education to affordable education, what you're really saying is that students are going to pay for a system in which the rich and the corporations are not really being taxed. This is really about the realigning of wealth. It's not about whether students should simply pay or not. It's about whether we are going to justify taking money that could be invested in young people, and instead invest it in the 1% or invest it in the military-industrial complex.
Why is a society trying to punish young people by claiming that they should pay for education that should be free in any democratic society? That's the real issue. So the next question becomes: "Wait a minute, who is benefiting from charging students money?" Certainly the issue is not that schools will fail because they don't charge. We can say: "Look, what percentage of the military-industrial complex is allocated in terms of gross national product? Do we really need to expand 25 percent on machineries of death or should we spend 10 percent or 5 percent? Is war more important than educating a generation of young people?" I don't think so.
The real question here is where is money being allocated in ways that suggest deep ideological and structural injustices that are built into the very fabric of an unequal society. Whenever I hear that students need to pay more, what I'm really hearing is that we are talking about the redistribution of wealth away from students to the wealthy few. We're not talking about the necessity for education to provide a good education by simply being able to offer more funds to students. We're talking about taking money away from students in order to fund corporate interests that could care less about providing a quality education to every young person in the country.
Something that is really worrying us about this "affordability" issue is that this political posture is now being advocated by some international actors to offer what they call "low-fee private schools" for segments of society. And what sort of quality is going to be provided through such "low-fee private schools"? And what are the ethical implications of deepening segregation, with a two-tier society naturalizing the provision of expensive, high quality, elite schools and poor quality schools for the poorer segments of the population?
You're absolutely right and I think what we are seeing is really the privatization of education in every level. It's not just simply about charging people more money. I think we are seeing an enormous move toward a two-tier system, where most education that is free is of enormously poor quality because it lacks resources, lacks decent teachers and is often repressive in its pedagogies and modes of governance. This system will stand in contrast to another system maintained for the rich and the elite. But what also has to be said here are two things: One is that the research that we have on the relationship between private and public schools is that public schools are better on the whole than charter schools that eventually become privately owned and run. We know that. When all resources that are allocated are equaled out, they are not better; they're actually in some cases worse.
The real issue about privatizing school is really about disempowering teachers, unions and, in the end, devaluing students. The move toward private education intends to suspend all those rights, all those provisions that have been put in place as a result of numerous struggles over years in which teachers have gained certain rights and have been able to bargain for improving the quality of education, teacher autonomy, smaller classrooms, meaningful curricula, the use of critical pedagogy, and also a call for a certain degree of power in negotiating the conditions of their own labor.
The attack on public education now is really an attack on the social state. It's an attack on all those rights to public provisions and public unions that have been put into place around public education over the last century. We are talking about the consolidation of a class system, of a class power. These people are not reformers; they're counter-revolutionaries. We need to change the language. This is not about reform. This is about going back to the 19th century when women and black people had no rights, when schools were basically for the elite, when private entrepreneurs had all power over entire towns, schools and institutions, unbothered by anything called ethics or justice or social considerations.
I want to point out the other concern that we have in this post-2015 agenda setting process: the obsession of some social actors around measurable learning outcomes and testing as a proxy for quality education. Can you comment on the long-term impacts of this approach toward education? How does this impede critical pedagogy to actually have a place in education?
This move toward education being affirmed only in terms of a certain kind of metrics that is measurable is really an assault on the radical imagination itself. It is part of what I would call a pedagogy of oppression that attempts to remove from education all the things that make education worthwhile: the ability to think critically, to be creative, to be thoughtful, to imagine other worlds, to be compassionate – all those kinds of things that simply can't be measured in the most reductionist terms. The purpose of this movement to make education simply compatible with anything that is measurable has to be understood in terms of a larger system that considers the very notion of education as a critical endeavor, as a motive of critical inquiry, as being basically dangerous.
In political terms, you have a mode of education in this instance that is utterly reproductive in the interest of the narrowest kinds of economic considerations oriented for the production of narrowly defined agents. This movement is an attack, in the most unimaginable way possible, on the very notion of what schooling, as a site for critical learning and engaged citizenship, should represent. And if schooling is the ability to develop young people's capacities to be both self-reflective and to have a critical and knowledgeable understanding of the relationship between themselves and the larger world, to have the capacity to learn how to govern and not simply be governed, this movement is an attack on all of those attributes. All over the globe, the neoliberal onslaught has created a political movement whose basic concern is to impose a culture of conformity on students by implementing a pedagogy of oppression. I think we need to name that for what it is. It's not just simply a method or an educational reform. It is a mode of pedagogy that removes education from being a moral, political and intellectual practice.
Henry A. Giroux currently holds the McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the English and Cultural Studies Department and a Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Ryerson University. His most recent books include: Youth in Revolt: Reclaiming a Democratic Future (Paradigm 2013), America's Educational Deficit and the War on Youth (Monthly Review Press, 2013) Neoliberalism's War on Higher Education (Haymarket Press, 2014), and The Violence of Organized Forgetting: Thinking Beyond America's Disimagination Machine (City Lights, 2014). The Toronto Star named Henry Giroux one of the 12 Canadians changing the way we think! Giroux is also a member of Truthout's Board of Directors. His website is www.henryagiroux.com.
Camilla Croso is coordinator of the Latin-American Campaign for the Right to Education (CLADE).


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Security and defence, 29-09-2010
Committee : Security and Defence
A strategic partnership with Russia, territorial missile defence and cyber attacks were among the issues discussed by NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen with MEPs and national MPs from the 27 EU Member States at a meeting on Tuesday. The EU civilian mission in Afghanistan and the question of democratic scrutiny over European security and defence policy were also addressed.
Russia could help create a real security architecture from Vancouver to Vladivostok, Mr Fogh Rasmussen told the MEPs and 55 parliamentarians from the 27 Member States at an interparliamentary meeting to discuss the challenges facing the EU common security and defence policy (CSDP) following the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty.
Mr Rasmussen said NATO's collective defence was "rock solid" and the alliance was seeking to establish a territorial missile defence system.
In response to Vitautas Landsbergis (EPP, LT) and Werner Schulz (Greens/EFA, DE) on Russia, he said he did not think Russian membership of NATO was realistic. However, NATO should develop a strategic partnership with Moscow in areas where security interests were shared, such as in combating terrorism and piracy.
Mr Rasmussen advocated an "overall security agreement" on Turkey and added that NATO would respect the EU's autonomy in decision-making on the CSDP.
The chair of the Subcommittee on Security and Defence, Arnaud Danjean (EPP, FR) said the EU could not "just give in to Turkey every time" and a balanced approach was needed. To his question on civilian capacities, Mr Rasmussen stressed that NATO also should develop "a small civilian capacity", following "the lesson learnt from Afghanistan and Kosovo" but this would not mean any redundant duplication of EU capacities.
Replying to Lisek Krzystof (EPP, PL), the Secretary General emphasised that Georgia would become a member of NATO if it managed to fulfil all the criteria.
Tunne Kelam (EPP, EE) and Pino Arlacchi (ALDE, IT) asked about NATO's approach to cyber attacks. Mr Rasmussen said NATO regarded this as a real threat that posed risks to military capabilities too. "Potentially, yes", was his answer to a question by Ana Gomes (S&D, PT), whether NATO's mutual defence clause would be activated in the case of such an attack.
To a question on the Middle East by Ivo Vajgl (ALDE, SL), Mr Rasmussen said it was premature to discuss what would happen if a peace deal were struck. However, if that happened and if the different parties and the UN so requested, the presence of international forces in the region would be needed.
The EU special representative and head of EU delegation in Afghanistan, Vygaudas Ušackas, also addressed the meeting.
"The most important test of the military strategy comes now", "if we leave now we leave a mess behind us", he told the chamber, listing the most important tasks to be addressed. Increased Afghan responsibility and ownership, the diversification of the economy and rolling back drug production, enhancing women's rights, regional cooperation and the reintegration into the society of former combatants were among the most pressing issues.
Pino Arlacchi (ALDE, IT), who is also Parliament's rapporteur on Afghanistan, called this list an "extremely weak list of intentions" but welcomed the special representative's "more realistic vision" of the role of the EU police force on the spot, that is to focus on building up local civil police forces. The integration of EU efforts into NATO's training programme was important, he added. Thijs Berman (S&D, NL), chair of Parliament's delegation on Afghanistan, said the civil police training should not take place under a NATO umbrella, as this alliance was a military organisation unlike EU's civilian force EUPOL.
Robert Walter, from the UK House of Commons, called for measures to offer Afghan farmers an alternative to poppy growing and prevent trade in narcotics from funding the insurgency.
Cooperation between the European Parliament and national parliaments
In a climate of economic crisis, amid efforts to rationalise public expenditure, national governments tend to cut their defence budgets, said Foreign Affairs Committee chair Gabriele Albertini (EPP, IT). This was happening in a period when the EU had assumed significant new powers in the field of security and defence, he added.
A joint understanding and definition was needed of "permanent structured cooperation" among Member States, a possibility introduced by the Lisbon treaty, contended Leon Kieres from the Polish Senate. Edmondo Cirielli of Italy believed the fragmentation of research and production in the European defence industry needed to be overcome.
Emanuelis Zingeris from the Lithuanian Seimas and MEP Charles Tannock (ECR, UK) stressed that duplication of NATO efforts should be avoided and that CSDP operations should be coordinated with NATO.
MEP Elmar Brok (EPP, DE) underscored that regular exchanges of views on CSDP between EP and national parliaments were essential "so we are not played off against each other".
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Denis Ducarme, representing the Belgian House of Representatives, and Robert Del Picchia from the French Senate stressed that, with the dissolution of the Assembly of the Western European Union in 2011, parliamentary scrutiny over European security and defence issues should be conducted through new methods.
Dinos Vrettos of Greece advocated setting up a specific body gathering national and European parliamentarians, assisted by a secretariat but several participants, including Anne-Marie Meldgaard from Denmark, opposed the idea. Robert Walter (UK) called for a more "proactive" approach than "passive" meetings held twice a year.
Meeting of EP Foreign Affairs Committee, EP Subcommittee on Security and Defence and representatives of EU national parliaments on the challenges facing the Union's Common Security and Defence Policy after the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty.


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DTH's public record lawsuit against UNC goes to appeal, oral arguments
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Lawyer Hugh Stevens presents the DTH's argument in court on Tuesday morning.
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March 20, 2018 | 7:51pm EDT
The North Carolina Court of Appeals heard oral arguments yesterday at North Carolina Central University for the appeal of a 2017 public records decision in favor of the University in a case against The Daily Tar Heel.
In November 2016, the DTH sued UNC to release the names, offenses and disciplinary actions taken by the University against students or faculty who committed instances of sexual misconduct during their affiliation with UNC. The appeal comes after a North Carolina Superior Court ruling in May 2017 deemed the disclosure of the records was at the University's discretion.
Hugh Stevens, the partner from Stevens Martin Vaughn & Tadych, PLLC handling the case, filed the appeal in September 2017.
Senior Deputy Attorney General Stephanie Brennan, who represents the University, argued Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) states the University may or may not choose to disclose the records the DTH requested, trumping North Carolina's open public records laws.
One of the judges asked Brennan three times whether releasing the records would result in a violation of FERPA. She responded that while it wouldn't entail a violation, it couldn't be mandated.
Brennan said the release of information requested would interfere with the University's handling of sexual assault and sexual harassment proceedings under federal law Title IX.
"The University has taken great care to exercise its discretion, and in general, it has determined that is not appropriate or proper or a good idea to release this information for many reasons," she said.
Brennan emphasized that protecting the perpetrator's identity in a campus community protects the victim's identity. According to an affidavit submitted by UNC to the court, both parties are frequently linked to each other.
"Once the identity of the responsible party is public, in the age of Google and social media, it will not be difficult for people to put two and two together," she said.
Brennan also mentioned the University complies with federal law by updating a daily crime log and an annual crime statistics report with aggregate data.
"Without the nature of the offenses or exactly what the punishment was, I think you don't have a complete picture of how the university is responding to this kind of offenses," Stevens said.
Stevens expressed concern about the secrecy of the sexual misconduct proceedings at the University.
"That generally, this whole Title IX apparatus is predominantly conducted in secret, which in my view makes it all more important that we find out who has been punished as a result of these proceedings," Stevens told the court.
The Student Press Law Center, a nonprofit that provides legal assistant to college reporters, sent a friend-of-the-court brief to the NC Appeals Court last September, arguing UNC was misconstruing FERPA to public access of the records.
"We can quibble over whether some minor act of fraternity hazing is or is not covered by FERPA, but once you're talking about potentially felony-level criminal conduct, nobody should be hiding behind student privacy to sweep that under the rug," said Frank LoMonte, SPLC former executive director, now senior legal fellow.
Stevens said it is likely the court will issue a ruling during the summer.
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Gabrijel Tomažič, slovenski botanik, fitocenolog, zoolog, geolog, paleontolog, fiziolog, * 23. marec 1899, Roč v Istri (Hrvaška), † 12. maj 1977, Vrhnika.

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Tomažič se je rodil v Roču pri Buzetu  načelniku orožniške postaje Francu Tomažiču in materi Ivani rojeni Bizjak. Osnovno šolo je obiskoval v Vipavi (1906-1912), gimnazijo v Gorici (1912-1920), vmes je bil med letoma 1917–1918 mobiliziran in kot vojak služil na italijanskem bojišču. Leta 1928 je diplomiral iz biologije na ljubljanski Filozofski fakulteti in prav tu 1940 tudi doktoriral. Strokovno se je izpopolnjeval na Dunaju (1929) in v Moskvi (1946-1947). V letih 1929−1972 je bil zaposlen na FF oziroma na Biotehniški fakulteti v Ljubljani, od 1946 kot izredni profesor botanike. Več let je predaval tudi tehnično botaniko na Tehniški fakulteti v Ljubljani ter genetiko, gozdarsko ekologijo in fitocenologijo na FAGV v Ljubljani.

Tomažič se je ukvarjal z genetiko žil ter z rastlinskimi združbami, zlasti gozdnimi in travniškimi. Bil je med začetniki fitocenoloških raziskav v Sloveniji in je v sodelovanju z gozdarji izdelal 17 kart rastlinskih združb. Posebej temeljito je obdelal borove gozdove. Sodeloval je tudi s kmetijci in farmacevti. Objavil je 16 znanstveno strokovnih in več poljudnoznanstvenih člankov in bil soavtor Botanike za višje razrede gimnazij (1947, 1951).

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Myrtice was born in Lakeland, Florida July 29, 1937. She graduated high school in 1955. That summer, on June 30th, she married James "Jim" E. Atchenson, the one and only man she ever loved. In the following years together, they had 3 children.
Jim's career took them to all four corners of the country including Alabama, Pennsylvania, California, Washington State, and finally New Mexico, allowing Myrtice and the family the opportunity to see the beauty of this country as well as experience the diversity of people and places along the way.
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Myrtice was preceded in death by her beloved husband of over 53 years, James E. Atchenson; parents Opal & William "Tex" Power of Lakeland, FL; sister Marlene Waterfield of Lakeland, FL; brother Bill Power; Aunt Pearl B Baker; and Uncle Dallas Lindsay. Survivors include her three children, daughter Karen E. Berg and husband Larry of Las Vegas, NV; son James E. Atchenson Jr. and wife Laurie of Kennewick, WA; and daughter Susan R. Atchenson of Carlsbad, NM; grandchildren Elaine Berg, Kevin Berg and wife Natalia, Jeffrey Berg, Joshua Tyre and his partner Diamond Castillo, great-grandson Alyas Tyre; and step grandchildren Sirinity and Cyris of Carlsbad, NM; sister Marilynn McClernan and husband Mac of Auburndale, FL; sister-in-law Bettie Jean Canavan and husband Michael Canavan of Pensacola FL; nieces and nephews Jack Canavan, Cheryl Wise, Tracy Woodward, Phyllis Boykin, Kenney Waterfield, Keith Waterfield and Lynn Waterfield.
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Asda, Tesco, Sainsbury's and Morrisons cheapest shop ranked with winner costing 20% less than rival
There was a £25 difference between stores for a basket of 42 items
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Prices for online shopping vary dramatically between supermarkets (Image: Waitrose/PA Wire)
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Supermarket shoppers are paying as much as £25 difference for the same goods depending on where they shop.
According to figures from price-tracking website Alertr, Asda shoppers benefitted from the lowest prices when shopping online in October. Meanwhile those using Waitrose were paying around 20% extra for the same goods with a total cost of £145.48 compared to Asda's £120.08.
Asda's total was actually 38p lower than the previous month despite high inflation, while Waitrose has increased by £11.63. The findings were based on a basket of 42 everyday items but do not included Lidl or Aldi as those two chains do not offer online groceries.
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Alertr has been monitoring the price increases and decreases across six major supermarket chains, including Asda, Morrisons, Tesco, Sainsbury's, Waitrose and Ocado. Both Tesco and Morrisons moved up the leaderboard this month as they came in second and third with a basket total that came to £129.34 and £131.26 respectively, but neither supermarkets' basket total saw an average price increase in the second half of the month.
Sainsbury's slid to fourth place this month with a basket total of £131.33, which was £5.45 more expensive than last month's findings, the Daily Record reports. Ocado's one-month long reign as the most expensive option was ended after its basket total for this month was found to be £134 - which was an 81p decrease from the previous month.
Looking into price changes across the board, the price of alcohol, including gin, vodka and prosecco, fluctuated throughout the month across all supermarkets except for Morrisons and Asda. Gin and vodka at Ocado started the month at £13.50 and £14 respectively and then, for the last week of the month (when Halloween fell), increased to £16.
Likewise, prosecco at Sainsbury's cost £8 during the first week of October and then went up to £9.50 for the final week, and Waitrose increased theirs by 50p too. Ice cream and Coca-Cola also increased towards the end of the month for some supermarkets, as parents shopped for the kids during October half term.
Andy Barr, co-founder of www.alertr.co.uk, said: "For the weekly shop, as it currently stands, there's still a stark difference between the top and bottom spots on the leaderboard of £25 this time around, which has increased significantly from last month by more than £10. Last month's findings showed a clear division between the top and bottom halves of leaderboard – as those supermarkets who placed second, third and fourth bridged a greater price gap from one another."
He noted: However, this hasn't been the case for October, where we've seen much less disparity across the rest of the board, especially between the runner up spot and fourth place – with a price difference of just £4.62. It'll be interesting to see how the battle of the supermarkets will play out over the next few months – whether Asda will continue to reign supreme, with them almost £10 cheaper than the runner up, Tesco, in October."
The full breakdown of each supermarket's costs
Asda – £120.08 (-38p compared to last month's findings)
Tesco – £129.34 (+£2.41)
Morrisons – £131.26 (-£2.92)
Sainsburys – £131.33 (+£5.45)
Ocado – £134.00 (-81p)
Waitrose – £145.48 (+£11.63)
Blackburn Christmas campaign gives shoppers chance to win free money and presents
Supermarket shoppers warned of 'big, big shortage' of key Christmas dinner item
Morrisons huge demand as chocolate lovers 'run' for rare new snack
Shoppers can get 'sell-out' M&S snow globe gin for just £1.10 a bottle
M6 lorry driver 'making brew with no hands on wheel' nearly wiped out police car
Asda shoppers divided as supermarket sells £1 engagement ring for Valentine's Day
"At least make it 99p then I'll think about it"
Chester Zoo giving away free kids tickets on teacher strike day
Families can make a cut price zoo visit when classes are unable to attend school


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Toronto Raptors 2015-16 Preview
The Raptors are probably not going to contend for an Eastern Conference championship, but they will compete and make another run to the postseason.
By Dustin Chapman Oct 9, 2015, 10:55am EDT
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2014-15 IN REVIEW
1st in Atlantic Division
4th in Eastern Conference
The Raptors stayed relatively healthy last season, but DeMar DeRozan missed a little over a month with a torn left adductor longus tendon from late November to early January. Toronto stayed afloat, going 12-9 in his absence while Kyle Lowry put up 21.8 points and 8.7 assists through that 21-game stretch. Lowry went on to average 17.8 points, 6.8 assists and 4.7 rebounds per game on his way to his first NBA All-Star selection of his career.
Combo guard Lou Williams was huge for the Raptors last season, as well, coming off the bench to put up a career high 15.5 points per game in just 25 minutes, while stepping up consistently in key moments late in games. Williams went on to beat out Celtics guard Isaiah Thomas for the NBA's Sixth Man of the Year award.
Toronto finished the season 49-33, good for the fourth seed in the Eastern Conference but things didn't go nearly as well as they would have hoped in the first round of the playoffs. Matched up with a hungry Washington Wizards squad, the Raptors shot just 41% for the series and were outrebounded by an average of 10 boards per game.
After Paul Pierce broke their hearts with a dagger double-pump three to clinch Game 3, it was all but over. Toronto came into Game 4 on the road down 3-0, and they got absolutely manhandled 125-94 in a more than convincing closeout game to solidify a clean four-game sweep for Washington.
DeMar DeRozan filled the stat sheet all series, averaging 20.3 points, 6.3 rebounds and 5.8 assists but both Kyle Lowry and Lou Williams shot a miniscule 31% from the field, while their hands were certainly full on the other end trying to contain Bradley Beal and John Wall.
On the bright side, Greg Stiemsma averaged 90 points per 36 minutes in the series.
SUMMER OF 2015
Key Additions - DeMarre Carroll, Cory Joseph, Luis Scola, Bismack Biyombo
Key Losses - Louis Williams, Amir Johnson, Greivis Vasquez, Tyler Hansbrough
The Raptors were big spenders in the summer of 2015, signing Atlanta Hawks free agent DeMarre Carroll to a four-year, $60 million deal. Carroll is coming off of the best campaign of his six-year career, averaging 12.6 points and 5.3 rebounds per game while helping Atlanta to the best record in the Eastern Conference last season. Of course, $15 million per year is a heck of a price tag for a guy that has never been named to an All-Star squad, but there is no question that he will help Toronto win games and will not only produce on both ends of the floor, he'll provide an enormous emotional spark.
o add depth behind Kyle Lowry, Toronto signed former San Antonio Spur Cory Joseph to a $30 million deal spread out over four years. Joseph has never played more than 18 minutes per game, but he comes from a winning culture and there is no question that he is a gritty two-way performer that is itching for more opportunity to show what he can do. He's just 24 years old with good size at the point guard position (6'3"), he's got a quick first step, he pressures the ball and will provide a much-needed burst of energy off the bench.
With Joseph on hand, first round pick Delon Wright may not get a whole lot of run in his rookie year. Toronto drafted the brother of Portland's Dorell Wright 20th overall in June's draft, and the hope is that the 6'5" combo guard will develop into a strong defensive asset that can affect the game in many different ways with his size, length, athleticism and ball skills.
Toronto lost Amir Johnson and Tyler Hansbrough as free agents this summer, but they went out and added a cast of new bigs to add to the rotation. Veteran Luis Scola signed a one-year deal with the Raptors that will net him $3 million, and the savvy four-man will help provide some stability in the frontcourt. Scola is coming off of a solid year with Indiana where he put up 9.7 points and 6.5 rebounds in around 20 minutes per game.
The other two newcomers up front are wild cards, and it may even be more realistic to expect one of them to pan out. Bismack Biyombo was the seventh overall pick in the 2011 NBA draft, and has yet to come into his own. He has played a role in Charlotte, but has been fairly limited the last two years and has not shown significant improvement. With that said, he's only 23 years old and maybe a fresh start is all he needs.
Anthony Bennett returned home to Canada after being let go by the Timberwolves, and the former number one overall pick has as much to prove as any youngster in the NBA. At this point, maybe "the next Larry Johnson" is out of the question but he is still young enough to where he has a chance to turn his career around and at least make an impact as a rotation player. He's got a lot of intriguing physical tools, but now it's time to show that he belongs.
Toronto also switched up their uniform design this summer (seen in the photo above), going with a more simplistic look. Not bad.
PROJECTED DEPTH CHART
C - Jonas Valanciunas / Bismack Biyombo / Lucas Nogueira
PF - Patrick Patterson / Luis Scola / Anthony Bennett
SF - DeMarre Carroll / James Johnson / Bruno Caboclo
SG - DeMar DeRozan / Terrence Ross / Norman Powell
PG - Kyle Lowry / Cory Joseph / Delon Wright
X-FACTOR - Jonas Valanciunas
If you ask me, the best chance Toronto has at becoming a more diverse offensive threat is if they feed the big fella on the block a little bit more. Valanciunas has proven that he possesses a quality low-post skill set and he operates at a very efficient rate, shooting 57% from the field last season. Not only can he score with his back to the basket, finish at the rim and knock down a mid-range jumper, but he is also an excellent free throw shooter that has hit 78% from the line.
Valanciunas can absolutely get Toronto more easy buckets, and there is no reason he should only take eight shots per game in 2015-16. It's time to let the skilled seven footer expand, and the only way that is going to happen is if he gets the rock more often.
WHAT TO EXPECT IN 2015-16
Toronto has a good-looking squad, and you can expect them to earn their third consecutive postseason berth barring a catastrophic attack from the injury bug. The Raptors are young but their best players are "young veterans," if you will, and they've got three or four quality guys coming off the bench.
The additions of Carroll and Joseph should help the Raptors improve defensively, and they have the pieces to make things interesting in the east. I'm not sure you can count on 50 wins, but they'll be competitive.
Additional Raptors Preivews
Toronto Raptors 2015-16 Season Preview: Where else can this team go? - Raptors HQ
While it's true Amir Johnson was not the same player he was at his peak, he brought a rebounding and defensive intelligence that Patterson has not quite yet achieved. The undersized Patterson brings range, but he's not the strongest rebounder on either end of the court. Meanwhile, there are still huge questions regarding Valanciunas' ability to defend the pick-and-roll and anchor the team's defense at the rim. And what about Terrence Ross as the key scorer off the Raptors' bench and presumed wing defender they'll need when Carroll rests? I can't put big enough question marks here to cover that particular issue.
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After putting together the perfect page for a scrapbook, the hardest part is frequently coming up with the title. Titles can be simple and straightforward or cute and clever depending on your preference and the subject matter of the scrapbook.
The cute things your kids get up to often make the best pages in a scrapbook. Make sure the title lives up to the high standard the rest of the page sets with some of these ideas.
The holidays are times when the camera is out and everyone is looking their best. Finish off a holiday scrapbook page with one of these titles.
From the family pet to visits to the zoo, there are lots of ways that animals enhance your life. Commemorate each occasion with an animal themed title.
A new baby changes so rapidly, the scrapbooks can fill up quickly documenting each stage and milestone. Title each one in a way that will make you look back and remember those days.
From sports games played by your kids to a game played by the pros, sporting events are fun thing to capture on a scrapbook page. Try one of these titles on for size and see if it fits.
Kids and pets alike enjoy playing in the dirt. Capture some of their moments with the right title.
Friends share all sorts of experiences together and scrapbook pages often feature the good times. Try one of these titles to fit the feeling of each page.
You know your family better than anyone else does. Celebrate each occasion with a scrapbook page dedicated to the event and titled to match.
Pregnancy is special time in a woman's life that can be humorous, tearful, and overwhelming. Document and enhance each page with the right title.
Print your title out using a fun font, then highlight the most important words with a bit of scrapbook chalk.
Print your title on a transparency then layer it over top of your layout's dominant photo.
Use rubber stamps to spell out your title on a tag and accent with a piece of pretty ribbon.
Combine several different styles of epoxy letter stickers to create a title with a "ransom note" effect.
Fake the look of a hand painted title by printing your words on the lightest gray setting possible. Color directly over the title with acrylic paint, colored pencils or watercolors.
Experiment with the text effects in Microsoft Word to create titles that circle around your page.
Design a layered title by printing part of your title on a sheet of vellum and placing it over a background of sticker letters.
Make a rebus style title by using small picture embellishments to replace some of the words in your title. For example, a heart shaped brad can be substituted for the word "love" or a smiley face sticker can be used in place of the word "happy."
Use a label maker from an office supply store to create your title.
Apply rub on letters to plain tin tiles, then attach to your page with glue dots.
The right title can really make a page come alive to the viewer. Try putting your spin on events with some creative wording and watch your scrapbook pages take shape. With the right title, your scrapbook pages are sure to pop.


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Futures Industry (Client Funds) Notice 1991
Futures Industry (Client Funds) Notice 1991: revoked, on 1 December 2014, by section 5(a) of the Financial Markets (Repeals and Amendments) Act 2013 (2013 No 70).
as at 1 December 2014
(SR 1991/43)
Pursuant to regulation 2(1) of the Futures Industry (Client Funds) Regulations 1990, the Securities Commission gives the following notice.
1 Title and commencement
2 Designation of property
(1) This notice may be cited as the Futures Industry (Client Funds) Notice 1991.
(2) This notice shall come into force the day after the date of its notification in the Gazette.
The following types of property are hereby designated for the purposes of the Futures Industry (Client Funds) Regulations 1990—
(a) stock, bills, and other securities issued by the Government of the United States of America:
(b) stock, bills, and other securities issued by the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia.
Dated at Wellington this 13th day of March 1991.
The Common Seal of the Securities Commission was hereunto affixed in the presence of:
P D McKenzie,
Chairman.
This notice designates stock, bills and other securities issued by the Governments of the United States of America and the Commonwealth of Australia as investments in which futures dealers can invest funds on behalf of their clients for the purposes of the Futures Industry (Client Funds) Regulations 1990.
Date of notification in Gazette: 21 March 1991.
This is a reprint of the Futures Industry (Client Funds) Notice 1991 that incorporates all the amendments to that notice as at the date of the last amendment to it.
Editorial and format changes to reprints are made using the powers under sections 24 to 26 of the Legislation Act 2012. See also http://www.pco.parliament.govt.nz/editorial-conventions/ .
Financial Markets (Repeals and Amendments) Act 2013 (2013 No 70): section 5(a)


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Rumor Roundup (Sept. 21, 2018): Shawn Michaels return, Saudi Arabia money, WWE-Impact meeting, more!
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Per PW Insider, Shawn Michaels will return to Raw on Oct. 1 in Seattle to promote Super Show-Down and, beyond that, his coming out of retirement to wrestle again.
Speaking of which, the Wrestling Observer Newsletter indicates the money for the Saudi Arabia show is likely what has driven the decision for Michaels to come out of retirement and, for that matter, for Brock Lesnar to return for another match.
The Observer says the meeting between WWE and Impact officials recently was one that WWE requested and "there was said to be no substantial news out of it," at least so far.
While it appeared as though WWE did an injury angle for Jeff Hardy at Hell in a Cell, the Observer notes he's confirmed to be working house shows this weekend.
WrestleVotes notes that WWE will try to sign Pentagon when he becomes available, whenever that may be.


This beautiful vintage collectible Engravings and Etching 'Antique Print A Visit to the Armourer' comes from the archive of renowned Culver Pictures Inc in New York which was acquired by MMG Vintage. Claimed to be one of the greatest archives ever assembled, the Culver Pictures Archive spanned over 150 years and every imaginable subject. The archive is filled with all manner of photographs, antique prints, etchings and engravings, advertisements and rare images of every kind.


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«Ро́ббі» — перше науково-фантастичне оповідання американського письменника Айзека Азімова із серії про роботів.

Азімов почав писати його у червні 1939 року. У вересні 1940 року опубліковано в журналі Super Science Stories під назвою «Дивна нянька» (Strange Playfellow). Таку назву вибрав Фредерик Пол, редактор журналу, сам же Азімов оцінив це як несмак. Відредагована версія оповідання була видана під оригінальною назвою Азімова у збірках «Я, робот» (I, Robot) 1950, «Все про роботів» (The Complete Robot) 1982, та «Мрії робота» (Robot Visions) 1990. Також першим серед опублікованих оповідань Азімова про роботів увійшов в цикл «Детектив Бейлі та робот Деніел Оліво». В 2016 році нагороджене премією «Ретро-Г'юго».

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Дія оповідання відбувається в 1998 році, Роббі — німий робот-нянька, один з перших поколінь позитронних роботів, доглядає за маленькою дівчинкою Глорією Вестон. Глорія дуже любить свою няньку та відносится до робота як до одухотвореної істоти, розказує йому казки, грається в піжмурки. Проте в суспільстві набирають сили настрої щодо заборони тримати роботів у сім'ях. Батьки Глорії, не дивлячись на її протести, позбавляються Роббі, який пробув в родині два роки та придбають доньці цуценя, яке вона в першу чергу понесла показати саме Роббі. Глорія не може забути про Роббі та вельми за нього переживає, не хоче розважатися з іншими дітьми.

Батьки перевозять дівчинку в Нью-Йорк, щоб розважити. Під час відвідин музею, вона задає питання дослідному зразку робота, що вміє говорити — про Роббі, «робота такого як ти». Робот не може осягнути, що існують інші роботи подібні на нього і ламається. Все це бачить студентка, майбутня робопсихолог Сьюзен Келвін.

Батько вирішує взяти доньку у цех збірки роботів корпорації U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men, Inc. в надії, що дівчинка побачить процес і зрозуміє — Роббі лише шмат заліза. Під час екскурсії Глорія стрічає Роббі та кидається до нього безоглядно, не помітивши, що на неї рухається автоматичний трактор. Роббі рятує життя дівчинки завдяки швидкості реакції, яка може бути тільки у роботів. Мати погоджується тримати Роббі у них, доки його не з'їсть іржа.

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If you are a motorbike fan do not miss EICMA Milan!
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MIAMI (Reuters) - A 5-day Miami Beach art show broke sales and attendance records this week, helping to boost the city's image as a cultural hub, as international galleries displayed an estimated $3 billion of paintings, photographs and sculptures at the 12th annual event, organizers said on Monday.
Art Basel, and the dozens of fairs alongside it, appears to have cemented the week as one of the world's top art gatherings, with many hailing it as the most successful yet, both in terms of artistic quality and revenue.
An undisclosed collector purchased a work by sculptor Jeff Koons from New York City-based David Zwirner Gallery for $8 million. White Cube Gallery, which has showrooms in London, Hong Kong and Sao Paulo, sold "Devil's Gate" - an 8-foot-by-8-foot glass shadowbox with rows of preserved insects and spiders - for $3 million.
A decade after opening, Art Basel and the fairs that surround it have expanded their scope beyond multimillion dollar pieces created by prominent western contemporary artists. This year featured the first Brazil ArtFair, solely dedicated to art emerging from Latin America's only Portugese-speaking country.
Additionally Art Basel's launch of a Hong Kong fair in May 2013 has also unearthed wealthy Asian collectors keen on building collections featuring artists from around the world.
Many of the artists and collectors from emerging economies have also expanded their interest and marketability beyond their usual areas.
"We had Americans from Indiana who bought an early (Rufino) Tamayo work," said Mary-Anne Martin, whose New York City gallery specializes in modern and contemporary Latin American art. "We were not only selling Latin American art to Latin Americans, which if you're a dealer is nice to not have to depend on Bolivians to buy Bolivian or Mexicans to buy Mexican."
Art Basel Miami Beach, a spinoff of the art fair held annually in the Swiss city of the same name for decades, first opened to the world in 2002. While the fair, featuring 258 leading international galleries from across 31 countries, serves as a platform for galleries to sell to prominent collectors, the week surrounding it is packed with posh parties at chic hotels sponsored by high-priced clothing, jewelry and car companies.
"Miami seems to have checked its reputation as a week-long party with a bit of art thrown in," said Lucinda Bredin, editor of Bonhams Magazine, part of the London-based auction house.
"This year, art was at the forefront. The quality of works brought by the galleries was remarkable - as were the shows mounted by Miami fixtures such as the Margulies and Rubell Collections," she added.
The fairs have played a critical role in helping Miami reinvent its image as a sun-and-surf city devoid of culture. The Wynwood neighborhood, a once-blighted area just north of downtown Miami, is now home to graffiti murals by world famous artists and galleries that attract collectors from around the world.
An estimated 50,000 visitors fly into Miami for the fair. Art Basel reported 75,000 visitors while ArtMiami, now in its 24th year estimated 72,500 visitors, and more than $100 million in sales, up from $80 million in 2012.
"We are still doing the tallying but many galleries are telling me they did twice as well this year," said Nick Korniloff, director and partner of Art Miami LLC, organizers of three satellite fairs with 243 exhibitors.
"This year more blue-chip works were at the fair from more galleries with very strong international art fair pedigrees," he said.


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TV shows and movies currently filming in Georgia
By Staff on December 1, 2019 News
(P)roduction crews are hard at work on more than 40+ TV shows and movies throughout Georgia.
Here's a look at what's currently filming throughout the state:
'RESPECT'
The highly-anticipated biopic on the life of legendary soul singer Aretha Franklin is currently in production in Atlanta.
Academy Award winner Jennifer Hudson stars in the movie alongside Marlon Wayans.
"Respect" will feature the untold story about the star's rise to stardom. So far, it appears that the basecamp sign used as the working title for this movie is "QOS". So, if you see the production in your neighborhood, please tell The A-Scene Facebook group.
Hudson, revealed that the movie is currently being filmed at Tyler Perry Studios.
"It was exciting enough to sing for @tylerperry studio opening and I'm just as excited to shoot here today ! #Respect," she wrote.
Last week, producers were casting new skilled musicians to be actors for upcoming scenes for the project. See more here at 11Alive.


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Barre3 Fitness Studio to Open With Free Classes on March 7
by Tim Regan February 26, 2016 at 1:50 pm 0
A new fitness studio specializing in barre fitness will celebrate its arrival at 1832 14th St. NW with free classes on March 7, according to its owner.
"We'll offer 30 free classes," says Alicia Sokol, owner of the barre3 location on 14th. "We will also have guests from local businesses sampling healthy juices, snacks and offering wellness services."
"We are so excited to be in this wonderful neighborhood and delighted to bring barre3 to this vibrant community," Sokol added.
Founded seven years ago in Portland, Ore., barre3 has more than 75 locations across the country, including one studio in Georgetown.
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