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Mýa, de nom real Mýa Marie Harrison (Washington DC, 10 d'octubre de 1979) és una cantant, actriu i ballarina estatunidenca.

Biografia
Mýa treu un primer àlbum epònim, Mýa, l'any 1998, abans de cantar la tornada de Ghetto Superstar de Pras Michel, cançó treta de la banda original del film Bulworth. Però es fa famosa quan canta en duo amb el rapper Silkk the Shocker, l'any 1999, amb Somebody Like Me.

Gran admiradora de Michael Jackson, Mýha fa una recuperació de Lady In My Life (Man In My Life) al seu segon àlbum, Fear of Flying, estrenat l'any 2000.Aquest àlbum és un autèntic èxit, sobretot gràcies al tube Case of the Ex. Col·labora així amb diversos artistes, com ara Lisa « Left Eye », dels TLC.

L'any 2001, participa en el concert dels 30 anys de carrera de Michael Jackson, on interpreta sobretot Wanna Be Startin' Somethin amb Usher i Whitney Houston i grava una cançó al costat de moltes personalitats com Michael Jackson, Usher, Beyoncé, Luther Vandross, Céline Dion i Mariah Carey en resposta als atemptats de l'11 de setembre de 2001 anomenada What More Can I Give.

Mentrestant, Mýa fa algunes aparicions a films, entre d'altres a Chicago, on interpreta el paper de Mona.
El seu tercer àlbum, Moodring, estrenat l'any 2003, no arriba a l'èxit descomptat per la cantant. S'orienta llavors cap a les col·laboracions i canta en diverses bandes originals, com les de Moulin Rouge!! o Razmoket.

El 22 d'octubre de 2007 treu l'àlbum Liberation produït per Bryan Michael Cox, Rick Rubin i Scott Storch, però únicament al Japó. La sortida internacional de l'obra ha estat manta vegades rebutjada i a continuació, en últim lloc, va ser programada per gener de 2008. Finalment, la sortida d'aquest opus va ser anul·lada a Europa, als Estats Units, a Àsia Sud-oriental i al Pròxim-Orient.

El 3 de desembre de 2008, la diva treu el seu cinquè àlbum d'estudi, titulat Sugar & Spice. Una vegada més, la seva sortida va ser reservada al mercat japonès. El primer senzill extret d'aquest àlbum es titula Paradise i va ser produït per Ne-Yo.

El 21 de setembre de 2009, participa en la novena temporada de Dancing with the Stars. Anirà fins al final però perdrà davant de Donny Osmond. Publica igualment una mixtape titulada Beauty & the Streets vol. 1.
El 20 d'abril de 2011 treu l'àlbum K.I.S.S. (Keep It Sexy & Simple), únicament al Japó.

A partir de 2014, Mýa ha publicat una sèrie de EPs a la seva etiqueta independent Planet 9, With Love, que commemora la sortida del seu primer single It's All About Me, Sweet XVI per celebrar els seus setze anys a la indústria de l'espectacle, i Love Elevation Suite.

 Discografia
 Àlbums estudi
 1998: Mýté 2000: Fear of Flying 2003: Moodring 2007: Liberation (únicament al Japó)
 2008: Sugar & Spice (únicament al Japó)
 2011: K.I.S.S. (Keep It Sexy & Simplíssim) (únicament al Japó)
 2016: Smoove Jones Mixtape
 2009: Beauty & the Streets vol. 1
 Eps
 2014: With Love 2014: Sweet XVI 2015: Love Elevation Suite Singles
 1998: My First Night 1998: It's All About Me (amb l'actuació de Sisqo)
 2000: Case of the Ex 2000: The Best of Me (amb l'actuació de Jadakiss)
 2001: Best of Me part II (amb l'actuació de Jay-Z)
 2001: Free 2003: My Love Is Like...Wo (amb l'actuació de Missy Elliot)
 2003: Fallen 2007: Lock U Down (amb l'actuació de Lil Wayne)
 2007: Ridin 2008: Paradise 2011: Fabulous Life 2011: Runnin' Back (amb l'actuació d'Iyaz)
 2011: Earthquake (amb l'actuació de Trina)
 2011: Somebody Come Get This Bitch (amb l'actuació de Stacie & Lacie)
 2011: Mr. Incredible 2012: Mess Up My Hair 2012: Evolve Actuacions
 1998: Ghetto Superstar (Pras Michel amb l'actuació de ODB & Mýa)
 1999: Somebody Like Me (Silkk the Shocker amb l'actuació de Mýa)
 1999: J.O.B (Foxy Brown amb l'actuació de Mýa)
 2000: Girls Dem Sugar (Beenie Man amb l'actuació de Mýa)
 2003: What More Can I Give (Michael Jackson i artistes diversos)
 2003: Thin Line (Jurassic 5 amb l'actuació de Mýa)
 2005: Sugar Daddy (Cuban Link amb l'actuació de Mýa)
 2005: Forever in Our Hearts (Music for Relief)
 2006: No Matter What They Say (Penelope Jones amb l'actuació de Mýa)
 2007: I Will Give It All to You (Vlad Topalov amb l'actuació de Mýa)
 2007: I Got You (Ky-Mani Marley amb l'actuació de Mýa)
 2007: Flippin (Lil' Flip amb l'actuació de Mýa)
 2010: We Are the World 25 for Haiti (artistes diversos)
 2011: Love Is the Answer (Cedric Gervais amb l'actuació de Mýa)
 2015: Bum Bum (Kevin Lyttle amb l'actuació de Mýa)
 Filmografia
 1995: Ànimes rebels de John N. Smith: Loretta
 2002: Chicago de Rob Marshall: Mona
 2004: Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights de Guy Ferland: Lola Martinez
 2004: Shall We Dance? de Peter Chelsom: la promesa de Vern
 2005: Cursed de Wes Craven: Jenny
 2006: Ways of the Flesh (The Heart Specialist): Valerie
 2007: The Metrosexual: Jessica
 2007: Cover de Bill Duke: Cynda
 2010: The Penthouse de Chris Levitus: Mitra

 Premis i nominacions
 Premis
 Premis ALMA 2002: Millor cançó d'una banda original per a Lady Marmalade amb Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim i Pink
 Premis Screen Actors Guild 2003: Millor repartiment per a Chicago Premis Critics' Choice Movie 2003: Millor repartiment per a Chicago Nominacions
 Premis Phoenix Film Critics Society 2003: Millor repartiment per a Chicago Premis MTV Movie 2005: Pretemporada més espantosa per a Cursed''
 2017: Grammy al millor àlbum de R&B

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Terry stop — reasonable suspicion based on presence at house that was subject to surveillance and scene of earlier transaction. Jury instruction — PTAC; identifying person defendant was alleged to be aiding or abetting.
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State v. Roland Derliel Graham, 2013AP440-CR, District 1, 12/29/13; court of appeals decision (not recommended for publication); case activity
Reasonable suspicion for seizing defendant
¶15 We conclude that under the totality of the circumstances described by [Officer] Wiesmueller, there was reasonable suspicion to stop Graham. Graham was stopped on property that had been the subject of DEA and police surveillance for suspected drug activity. Earlier on the day of Graham's arrest, a hand-to-hand drug transaction took place between Bentley [whose home was the subject of the surveillance] and another individual in the general location where Graham parked his car. The individual told Wiesmueller that he purchased drugs from Bentley. Upon returning to Bentley's residence, Bentley's car was gone, but two vehicles [one driven by Graham] pulled up within three to five minutes of each other. Almost immediately thereafter, Bentley arrived. Jones [the driver of the other car], presumably upon noticing police officers on the scene, attempted to flee. All of these factors, taken together, give rise to the suspicion that Graham either had committed, was committing, or was about to commit, a criminal act. The trial court did not erroneously exercise its discretion in denying Graham's motion to suppress evidence.
The trial court did not err in instructing the jury that the state was required to prove the elements of possession with intent to deliver as a party to a crime with regard to Graham "or another." Graham argued that the phrase "or another" implies that he "could have been convicted if someone else committed the offense even though [he] was not acting as a party to the crime with that person." He asked the court to use Jones's name instead of "or another." The court refused until, during deliberations, the jury asked about the phrase "or another" in element one (possession); at the request of the state the trial court then told the jury the phrase referred to Jones, but rebuffed Graham's renewed request that the jury be told "or another" referred to Jones for purposes of all the elements. (¶¶7-9). Applying State v. Lohmeier, 205 Wis. 2d 183, 193-94, 556 N.W.2d 90 (1996), the court of appeals concludes the instructions as a whole, including the answer to the jury's question, did not mislead the jury:
¶19 …. The trial court was clear that in order to find Graham guilty, the jury must find that Graham either directly committed the crime of possession with intent to deliver, or that Graham aided and abetted another in committing the crime. The trial court issued this instruction both before and after discussing the four elements of possession with intent to deliver marijuana. Contrary to Graham's claim, the trial court did not imply that Graham could be found guilty "regardless of whether [he] was acting in concert with that person." Moreover, the trial court explained that it did not name Walter Jones when initially instructing the jury because multiple people were mentioned during the course of the trial. It was up to the jury to determine who Graham aided and abetted. When the jury asked who the term "or another" applied to, it only asked with regard to the first element the State was required to prove—possession. In keeping with the trial court's earlier statements—that multiple people were mentioned during the trial—the trial court did not err in refusing to instruct the jury that "or another" referred to Jones as to the other elements. The jury was not precluded from asking additional questions. If the jury was confused as to who "or another" referred to regarding the remaining elements, it was free to submit additional questions….
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Much more than steel, Usiminas offers solutions to the country's greatest industrial challenges. In cars, in ships. In refrigerators, in stoves. In offshore platforms, in tractors. In industrial machinery and much more. It is not by chance that it is Latin America's biggest flat steel producer and market leader in Brazil.
Steel from Usiminas is present where Brazil progresses, where knowledge and innovation dictate the future. For this reason, it invests in the modernization of its plants and in products with differentiated technology content.
At the base of it all is a qualified team that joins experience with constant development.
Whoever seeks excellence knows that development can be shared. For this reason, Usiminas operates with sustainability and social responsibility. By means of the Fundação São Francisco Xavier, it invests in education and health. With the Usiminas Cultural Institute, it supports culture and sports. Furthermore, it promotes environmental initiatives, such as the Xerimbabo Project, with more than two million visitors over almost three decades.
With technology, knowledge and quality. This is the way Usiminas builds the future.
Doing it always better.
Learn about the companies of the group
Usiminas – Is a steelmaker, the largest producer of flat rolled steel in Latin America; it has two plants, in Ipatinga (MG) and Cubatão (SP). It has a 9.5 million-ton annual crude steel capacity.
Unigal Usiminas – A joint venture with Nippon Steel, its main activity is steel hot-dip galvanizing, aggregating even more technology content to Usiminas' steel.
Mineração Usiminas – There are presently three mines in operation in the Serra Azul region, in Minas Gerais. The iron ore extracted supplies the Cubatão plant in São Paulo and is also exported.
Soluções Usiminas – Leader in the distribution and steel transformation segment; today, Soluções Usiminas has 11 industrial facilities.
Usiminas Mecânica – It offers high value-added products for the capital goods industry, as well as advanced technology and high quality in project management and service rendered.
Rios Unidos Usiminas – Is responsible for the Company's highway transportation.
The strength of its team makes Usiminas knowhow a benchmark. It is not by chance that it is the steel company with the biggest number of patents in Latin America.
As a strategic differential, its modern, pioneering Usiminas Technology Center develops new steel grades and improves production process, which follows benchmarking parameters in search of greater operational efficiency and productivity.
For more than 40 years of research and promotion of steel development and processes, it has contributed to customer satisfaction and to the high technology level of the Brazilian industry.
Its 17 laboratories, located in the Ipatinga Plant, absorb, generate and disseminate scientific knowledge and technology aiming at:
Characterization and evaluation of raw materials, inputs, waste and diverse materials related to steel production processes;
Improvement and development of processes and products;
Cost rationalization;
Characterization and engineering of product application;
Environmental preservation;
Identification and evaluation of new technologies.
The plants are located in the city of Ipatinga, in the Vale do Aço (the Steel Valley) in Minas Gerais, and in the city of Cubatão, in the Santista flatlands (Baixada Santista), in São Paulo. However, Usiminas is present in seven Brazilian states, covering the entire steel production chain – from iron ore to large steel structures.
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Usiminas 1962 – 2013
Usiminas starts up its operations in Ipatinga, MG, on October 26, 1962.
The Intendente Câmara Plant is inaugurated on October 26, 1962 with lighting of Blast Furnace 1. The production started 24 hours later with the first pig iron run, and, thus, Usiminas' first industrial production.
The beginning of steel exports with the shipment on board the "San Miguel" from the Port of Vitória of the first shipment of heavy plates to Argentina.
The Hot Strip Mill, the second Coke Oven Battery, the Hot Strip Finishing Line, the second Blast Furnace and the Cold Strip Mill are inaugurated. These inaugurations made possible the complementation of the cycle that makes the Intendente Câmara Plant an integrated steel plant.
Beginning of steel fabrication for high pressure tubes of the API series, of high strength, good weldability steel in grades SAR 50 and 55. These are high performance steel suited for large diameter pipe and the petroleum industry.
Usiminas closes out the decade with a 50% market share of the national demand for heavy plates, mainly to the shipbuilding and railway segments.
This is the height of the so-called Economic Miracle. Usiminas invests to meet the strong expansion cycle of the Brazilian industry.
Usiminas Mecânica is created to aggregate value to the capital goods and infrastructure industries. In the following year, the fabrication of metallic structures and bridges begins to promote the use of steel, and it inaugurates its welded profiles plants in Ipatinga.
Usiminas inaugurates the Research Center of the company, the largest in the Latin American steel industry, consolidating its technological and quality differential.
The inauguration of Blast Furnace 3 provided Usiminas with a 3.5 million ton production capacity. Together with the start up of Blast Furnace 3, works began in the Continuous Slab Reheating Furnace nr. 2, to duplicate the hot strip rolling capacity at the plant.
Brazil undergoes economic recession. The moment requires prudence, however, without losing opportunities to modernize and increase quality in the long term.
Usiminas inaugurates its new Headquarters in Belo Horizonte.
Usiminas develops and begins production of SAC grade steel (weldable, high strength, better corrosion resistant steel), targeting the civil construction and infrastructure segments.
The first edition of the Xerimbabo Project is held. Focused on environmental education, the Project, whose indigenous name means "pet", began its story, developing courses, seminars and exhibitions, with a view to integrate Man and Nature with the purpose of providing equilibrium to the Planet.
Certification of engineers by the American Society of Quality is initiated. The qualification of so-called CQEs (Certified Quality Engineers) is a practice at Usiminas until today, constituting one of the Company's differentials.
With the liberalization of the Brazilian economy, Usiminas was the first company to be privatized in the Country.
The privatization auction of Usiminas marked the beginning of the National Privatization Program. The Company was chosen among several companies to open up the negotiation cycle for being attractive to the private sector.
The Usiminas Cultural Institute was founded, the arm of the company responsible for the management of cultural sponsorship and spaces, in addition to the development of educational and qualification programs. Also, in this year Usiminas acquired controlling share of Companhia Siderúrgica Paulista (Cosipa), located in Cubatão, SP, expanding the capacity and the customer base of the group.
Usiminas was the first steel company in Brazil and second in the world to achieve the ISSO 14001 certificate for environmental management, which endorsed the profound respect of the company for natural resources and its recognition that preservation and environmental protection should be fostered, respecting present and future generations.
Usiminas inaugurated the most modern cold rolling line in the country – Cold Rolling Line 2, with capacity to produce a million tons of rolled product per year.
The Brazilian economy expands rapidly, and Usiminas is getting even closer to segments that require high added value.
Unigal, a joint venture between Usiminas and Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation, was inaugurated in Ipatinga, MG. The partnership inaugurates the first hot-dip galvanizing line (HDG), a high added value product, in high demand by the automakers.
Usiminas makes its debut on the Latibex, the Spanish stock market, where only Latin American shares are traded.
Usiminas products receive certification by European norms ELV and RoHS, for ecologically correct production. With this the company expands the possibility of operating in European markets, which have strict rules of the use of chemical components.
Soluções Usiminas is created, a subsidiary that reinforces the group's action in services, transformation and distribution of steel. With capacity to process more than two million tons of steel per year, Soluções was born from the consolidation of Rio Negro, Dufer, Fasal and Zamprogna and from the Usial and Usicort industrial facilities into one company.
Usiminas reaches a new technological level, acts in an integrated manner and invests in the future.
Mineração Usiminas is created in the city of Itatiaiuçu, MG, a joint venture between Usiminas and Sumitomo Corporation, with the objective of supplying part of the demand of the plants and also to sell in the domestic and export markets. In this year, the Sincorn heavy plate line was also started up, a product with superior performance, adequate to meet the demands of the pre-salt and shipbuilding industries. The production of this new family of steel was made possible by the installation of CLC technology (Continuous Online Control) at the Ipatinga plant, up until then an exclusive of Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation.
Unigal Usiminas inaugurates the company's new Hot-Dip Galvanizing line with the purpose of serving the growing demand of the national automobile market.
A new Hot Strip Mill at the Cubatão Plant was inaugurated, one of the most modern in operation in the world. It is capable of producing coils with dimensions unheard of in the country, which propitiates tubes fabrication 24" in diameter up to 20 mm in thickness. In this manner, it offers differentiated products in the market, able to serve high added valued markets, such as oil extraction, construction of gas pipelines, etc.
As a result of a process of greater integration with its clients, Usiminas shows the best domestic sales level in the last five years: 5,4 million tons.
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Morrison v. National Australia Bank: Supreme Court Limits Reach of U.S. Securities Law in "Foreign-Cubed" Cases, Overruling Nearly Half a Century of Lower Court Precedent Based on Long-Standing Presumption that U.S. Laws Do Not Apply Abroad Absent
After years of declining to review the issue of whether U.S. securities law applied extraterritorially to socalled "foreign cubed" securities litigation - involving claims of foreign investors against foreign securities issuers to recover losses arising from purchases made on foreign securities exchanges - the Supreme Court squarely addressed that issue on June 24, 2010 in Morrison v. National Australia Bank. The Court overruled nearly half a century of lower court precedent that had allowed the application of Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "1934 Act") to foreign based securities transactions in which domestic conduct or effects was alleged. In a majority opinion authored by Justice Antonin Scalia, the Court rejected the "conduct" or "effects" tests employed by the lower courts in determining whether U.S. securities law applied. Justice Scalia admonished the lower courts for creating, out of whole cloth, the authority to decide such foreign cases and ignoring the long-standing presumption that U.S. laws do not apply extraterritorially absent explicit Congressional authorization. Applying the presumption to the statutory language of Section 10(b), the Court found "nothing to suggest it applies abroad" and therefore adopted a bright-line rule that "[o]nly transactions in securities listed on domestic exchanges, and domestic transactions in other securities are covered by [Section 10(b)]."
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Q: visualizar videos y fotos en un mismo picturebox de visual studio que estan en una carpeta Es posible visualizar en visual basic, en un control picturebox imagenes y videos a la vez de forma transitoria? tengo el conocimiento de como hacerlo pero por separado, no se como hacer que pasen tanto fotos como videos de forma automatica unos entre otros, contenidos en la misma carpeta..
asi lo hago con imagenes:
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A national survey from the Unwanted Horse Coalition released Thursday shows that the number of neglected, unwanted or abused horses has been on the rise as economic conditions across the country have worsened. No surprise there (though a group called the Equine Welfare Alliance said the Unwanted Horse Coalition survey was "slanted" and was released in conjunction with a Senate committee hearing in hopes of stopping federal anti-slaughter legislation). Eighty-seven percent of the participants in the survey (horse owners, equine industry stakeholders and non-horse owners) believe the issue of unwanted horses has become a "big problem," and 63% of horse rescure or retirement facilities polled are at or near full capacity.
The national survey also said 38% of horses brought to the facilities are turned away.
That isn't the case with the Kentucky Equine Humane Center, according to the non-profit organization's development director, Cyndi Greathouse. "No horse is ever turned away," Greathouse told the Paulick Report.
Horses not qualified as adoptable, due to severe injury, illness, or mental unsuitability, are humanely euthanized by a licensed veterinarian.
Lori Neagle, co-founder of ReRun, another Kentucky-based non-profit that helps develop second careers for Thoroughbreds, serves as the Kentucky Equine Humane Center's executive director. The center maintains a small paid staff (three full-time and one part-time employee) but relies heavily on volunteers. Volunteer orientation is held every second Saturday of the month.
The Kentucky Equine Humane Center works with the Bluegrass State's major Thoroughbred tracks (Turfway, Keeneland, Churchill Downs and Ellis Park), where owners can surrender horses directly from a training or racing stable. The racing secretary's office at each tracks has "surrender forms" that owners can fill out, volunteers for Kentucky Equine Horse Center will care for the horses until the organization arranges for transportation to the Nicholasville farm.
The Kentucky Equine Humane Center was founded by: Josephine Abercrombie, Alice Chandler, Dianne Curry, Carol and Tracy Farmer, Becky and Greg Goodman, Staci and Arthur Hancock, Margaret Jewett, Julia and Arnold Kirkpatrick, Lori Kirk-Wagner, Judy and Chris McCarron, Debby and John Oxley, Marylou Whitney and John Hendrickson, and Kim and Nick Zito.
Visit the KyEHC website to learn more about the organization and its various programs (the "Horse of the Week" is featured on the web and is also spotlighted every Friday on WTVQ, the Lexington ABC affiliate, and an "Open House Adoption Day" is held every third Saturday of the month at the center).
For more information about the Kentucky Equine Humane Center, adoptable horses, or volunteering please visit www.KyEHC.org or call executive director Lori Neagle at (859)-881-5849.
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Willem Johan (Wim) van Lent (6 augustus 1924 – 15 december 1980) was een Nederlands voetballer die als aanvaller speelde.

Van Lent begon met voetballen bij VOC uit Rotterdam en stapte, nadat hij aanvankelijk overschrijving aanvroeg naar Excelsior, per januari 1948 over naar Hermes DVS uit Schiedam. Bij beide clubs speelde hij ook cricket. Hij werd, na een proefperiode eind 1949, per begin 1950 prof in Frankrijk bij Lille OSC. De KNVB schorste hem hierop, zoals gebruikelijke was bij spelers die destijds de overstap naar het buitenlandse profvoetbal maakten. Hij speelde weinig in het eerste team in de Ligue 1 en was aanvoerder van het tweede team van Lille. Eind 1950 stapte Van Lent over naar AS Troyes-Savinienne in de Ligue 2. Hij werd medio 1951 verhuurd aan RC Lens uit de Ligue 1 en die club nam hem, nadat hij dat seizoen clubtopscorer geworden was, over en hij speelde daar tot 1954. In het laatste seizoen kwam hij minder aan bod en leidde een incident tot een voorwaardelijke gevangenisstraf. Hij speelde 57 wedstrijden op het hoogste Franse niveau en maakte daarin 32 doelpunten.

In 1953 was Van Lent wisselspeler voor het Nederlands nationaal elftal bij de watersnoodwedstrijd. Medio 1954 keerde hij terug bij Hermes DVS. Eind november van dat jaar, na het samengaan van de NBVB (Nederlandse Beroeps Voetbal Bond) en de KNVB en de invoering van het profvoetbal in Nederland, vroeg hij overschrijving aan naar Blauw-Wit, waarvoor hij medio januari 1955 speelgerechtigd werd. Hij besloot zijn loopbaan medio 1956.

Carrièrestatistieken

Zie ook
 Lijst van spelers van Hermes DVS
 Lijst van spelers van Blauw-Wit

Nederlands cricketspeler
Nederlands voetballer

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Seventy-five samples of honey produced by honeybees from the Department Diamante (Entre Rios, Argentina) were analysed for pollen content. One hundred and forty-two morphological types were identified, belonging to 62 botanical families. Unifloral honeys were predominant (59%). The main type of honey produced was from Glycine max (21%), Lotus corniculatus (15%), ?clovers? (11%), Ammi spp. (5%), Melilotus albus, Salix humboldtiana (3%) and Medicago sativa (1%). By means of quantitative analysis, 85% of the honeys were classified as Classes I and II.Foraging behaviour and pollen diversity were analysed in honey samples. Geographical markers are proposed for these honeys. The expected differentiation of samples attributable to sub-environments and harvest dates is discussed.
Keywords: HONEYBEE; NECTARIFEROUS PLANTS; HONEY; MELISSOPALYNOLOGY; POLLEN DIVERSITY; GEOGRAPHICAL MARKERS; Otras Ciencias Biológicas; Ciencias Biológicas; CIENCIAS NATURALES Y EXACTAS.
Honey is a natural food with functional properties such as antioxidant and antimicrobial activities. These properties vary greatly depending on floral source, climate, and environmental and processing conditions. In this work, we characterized honeys on the basis of their botanical composition and clustered them according to their physicochemical parameters in order to find similarities, and assess their antibacterial action against microorganisms isolated from contaminated food. All honeys studied complied with international quality standards. The data showed differences between multifloral and unifloral honeys in their physicochemical parameters, as well as a direct correlation between colour, phenolic compounds, and antioxidant activity. -Antimicrobial activity resulted from hydrogen peroxide effect. Multifloral honeys with similar phenolic compounds and a botanical composition of eucalyptus and blueweed had greater inhibitory power against E. coli, P. aeruginosa, Salmonella spp., S. aureus and B. cereus.
Author affiliation: Ramos, Ornella Yolanda. Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina.
Keywords: Miel; Propiedades Antimicrobianas; Antioxidantes; Enfermedades Transmitidas por Alimentos; Composición de los Alimentos; Composición Quimica; Honey; Antimicrobial Properties; Antioxidants; Foodborne Diseases; Food Composition; Chemical Composition; Argentina.


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By Andy Pioch | April 5, 2016
WSKG Arts is proud to partner with the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College for a series of Arts & Culture Shorts. This segment profiles the newly formed Ithaca Jacobean Players. While many drama groups will perform the works of Shakespeare, these students wanted to showcase what was popular in England after Shakespeare. Their story is told thru interviews with troupe members and exclusive footage of their first ever performance, John Webster's "The Duchess of Malfi". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bXGxB8Ms6s
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In Its Second Year, 8th Wonder Distillery Looks to Whiskey, Rum
Is a spirit production renaissance about to take hold in Houston?
By Carlos Brandon 1/9/2020 at 12:30pm
8th Wonder Distillery now offers whiskey, and you can get it in a craft cocktail.
Image: Courtesy 8th Wonder Brewing Co
Last summer on Dallas Street across from a brewery of the same name, a home-grown distillery opened its doors to surprisingly little fanfare (OK, we got there a week late). The opening of 8th Wonder Distillery, a spinoff of one of Houston's fastest-growing and perhaps most culturally representative breweries, started welcoming visitors in July 2019 with a relatively subdued press blitz.
Maybe that's surprising considering both the brand's immense popularity and a distinct lack of local distilleries standing in its way. But then again, have you seen the construction around 8th Wonder and other parts of EaDo?
Anyway, since taking over the space (and equipment) previously occupied by the short-lived Paul Revere Rum Distillery, 8th Wonder has been quietly producing a growing line of craft spirits inspired, in part, by its brewing heritage. The portfolio, while still limited, demands more than a passing glance.
A smooth, eight-times-distilled vodka joined a delightfully sippable hops-infused gin to represent the company's initial spirit offerings. Both feature prominently in the 8th Wonder tasting room's rotating and quasi-seasonal cocktail lists, and they've even been incorporated into some notable bar programs around town—Rosie Cannonball, Rodeo Goat and all of Chris Shepherd's Underbelly Hospitality properties, to name a few. Recently the company rolled out a whiskey—produced offsite for 8th Wonder and finished at the distillery—with plans for a signature rum on the horizon.
Beyond expanding its offerings, 8th Wonder also aims to make its EaDo tasting room a social drinking destination on par with its massively popular older sibling across the street.
On Friday, the Donkeeboy and Friends Art Show, a recurring art pop-up normally hosted in the brewery, will move to the more intimate distillery and tasting room with a 6 p.m. start time. Live music by singer-songwriter John Egan is slated for Saturday and again on Feb. 8, with future performances by Egan and others to follow on a monthly basis.
A natural evolution from brewing, small-batch distilling operations are likely to gain traction in a city that is rapidly approaching suitable levels of brewery saturation.
Despite inexperience and a quiet entry into the field, the folks at 2201 Dallas have shown an uncanny talent for craft spirit making. Add to that their existing brand power and one could conceivably see 8th Wonder Distillery grow into a Texas spirits company as ubiquitous as your Titos and Balcones.
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I have gone to community service for several weeks. Every time I have a good time with my conversation partner [at Morville House] and it is also very meaningful, but I will discuss NU Service Day which I took part in recently. I chose an activity called Sole Train 5K 2016 Volunteering and I helped to manage the order like holding the sign on the fork road and cheering for runners. To be honest, I participated in this activity because I wanted to get extra credit, but after finishing volunteering, the meaning of taking part is beyond getting extra credit. I feel happy not only because I get extra credit but also I learned something new and it seems to have some relation with what I have learned in Community Learning class.
At that event, my task was holding the signboard and, at the same time, cheering for the runners to encourage them to continue running. I was so excited about this task, but when the race began, I found that I could not speak loudly to cheer for them as lots of Americans do, they cheered for runners loudly and had high-five with them. I really wanted to do like them, and their behavior was just like they are in that race. Then I began to think why I can not do like them, maybe because my character was a little introverted, and maybe because I was afraid that other people will say I was crazy. In China, the way people cheering for people is not as same as that in America. So I think it is a little like a video clip we watched in class called Don't Assume How Retta Rolls. That video clip teaches us do not judge other people before you don't know what they actually do and also be yourself. Sometimes you can overlook what other people say to you. Lots of people are influenced by others, they care about others view so that they cannot do what they really want to do, just like me in that event. But at the end, I could cheer for runners loudly, and what changed me is that a little girl, one of the runners, high-fived me. It really encouraged me to cheer for runners and she gave me a sense that I am a member of this event. So through this activity, I understand the video deeply and I also think I successfully challenged myself.


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Miss Piggy's Version Of Global Warming: What About Me?
By Robert Krulwich
Here's a new, sly (and frankly selfish) way to think about global warming: Instead of worrying about the whole planet and all its oceans, how about asking a more personal question ...
What about me? What about where I live? Or where my grandma lives? Or the North Pole? Or Siberia? What if I could take my cursor, plop it onto any place on Earth and find out what's happened to temperatures right there.
Click! And a graph instantly registers how much temperatures have changed in that very region since the early 1950s. You can click anywhere you please, on deserts, oceans, island chains, mountains, on places you love or dream of, and discover if things have been warming up or cooling down, and by how much. Some places, I noticed, have gotten colder. But not many. It's easy to do. Go ahead, give it a whirl.
This graphic appears on . It was built by Chris Amico and Peter Aldhous, with help from Robert Schmunk from data produced by a team at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, whose offices, as it happens, are located not far from the Greek diner in New York City that you see featured on Seinfeld.
The team attached some detailed source material to its graphic that some of you will want to read. I'd put this stuff in fine print, but we at NPR don't have a "fine print option" for our blogs, so if you don't want to know this, squint or go walk the dog. (Or listen to Radiolab. I'm told it's a fine podcast.) For the rest of you:
How The Data Was Assembled And Adjusted:
The graphs and maps all show changes relative to average temperatures for the three decades from 1951 to 1980, the earliest period for which there was sufficiently good coverage for comparison. This gives a consistent view of climate change across the globe. To put these numbers in context, the NASA team estimates that the global average temperature for the 1951-1980 baseline period was about 14 degrees Celsius.
The analysis uses land-based temperature measurements from some 6,000 monitoring stations in the Global Historical Climatology Network, plus records from Antarctic stations recorded by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research. Temperatures at the ocean surface come from a measurements made by ships from 1880 to 1981, plus satellite measurements from 1982 onward.
Surface temperature measurements are not evenly distributed across the globe. So the NASA team interpolates from the available data to calculate average temperatures for cells in a global grid, with each cell measuring 2 degrees latitude by 2 degrees longitude. The analysis extrapolates up to 1,200 kilometres from any one station, which allows for more complete coverage in the Arctic — where monitoring stations are sparsely distributed, but where the warming trend is especially strong.
The NASA team also corrects the data to remove local heating caused by dense human settlements — a phenomenon known as the urban heat island effect. Temperature stations in urban areas are identified by referring to satellite images of the light they give off at night, and their records are adjusted to reflect the average trend of nearby rural stations.
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Antonio Conte is now the firm favourite to take over as Real Madrid manager after their 5-1 thrashing in El Clasico.
The three-time reigning Champions League winners were humbled by arch rivals Barcelona, who didn't even have Lionel Messi playing due to injury, at Camp Nou.
Luis Suarez scored a hat-trick to leave Madrid down in ninth in La Liga on only 14 points.
Betway have made former Chelsea manager Conte 2/1 favourite to take over from under-pressure boss Julen Lopetegui.
Betway's Alan Alger said: "Julen Lopetegui has found himself under considerable pressure with his Real Madrid side going five games without a win and the vultures appear to be circling for the ex-Spain boss.
"We all know the Madrid board aren't afraid to make a change and it's Antonio Conte who is the 2/1 favourite to take over if Lopetegui is ousted.
Guti (10/1), Joachim Low (20/1), Jose Mourinho (25/1), Max Allegri (25/1), Laurent Blanc (33/1) and Raul (50/1) are also in the betting.
Juventus are keen on signing highly-rated Manchester City youngster Phil Foden, according to The Mirror.
The 18-year-old midfielder is out of contract next summer and City are expected to begin contract talks with him shortly.
If discussions over a new deal fall through, Foden could be available for development costs of only £175,000, the Mirror reports.
If he does stay, he will still face a hugely difficult task breaking into a first team that includes the likes of David Silva, Fernandinho, Bernardo Silva and Kevin De Buryne.
Jadon Sancho left the Etihad last year to get regular first-team action and he has impressed at Borussia Dortmund so much he recently made his full England debut.
Manchester United and Chelsea will battle it out to sign Arsenal midfielder Aaron Ramsey, according to The Express.
The Wales international's contract expires next summer and was hoping to sign an extension, only for it not to materialise.
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Against privacy defeatism: why browsers can still stop fingerprinting - Curated
Against privacy defeatism: why browsers can still stop fingerprinting
In this post I'll discuss how a landmark piece of privacy research was widely misinterpreted, how this misinterpretation deterred the development of privacy technologies rather than spurring it, how a recent paper set the record straight, and what we can learn from all this.
The research in question is about browser fingerprinting. Because of differences in operating systems, browser versions, fonts, plugins, and at least a dozen other factors, different users' web browsers tend to look different. This can be exploited by websites and third-party trackers to create so-called fingerprints. These fingerprints are much more effective than cookies for tracking users across websites: they leave no trace on the device and cannot easily be reset by the user.
The question is simply this: how effective is browser fingerprinting? That is, how unique is the typical user's device fingerprint? The answer has big implications for online privacy. But studying this question scientifically is hard: while there are many tracking companies that have enormous databases of fingerprints, they don't share them with researchers.
The first large-scale experiment on fingerprinting, called Panopticlick, was done by the Electronic Frontier Foundation starting in 2009. Hundreds of thousands of volunteers visited panopticlick.eff.org and agreed to have their browser fingerprinted for research. What the EFF found was remarkable at the time: 83% of participants had a fingerprint that was unique in the sample. Among those with Flash or Java enabled, fingerprints were even more likely to be unique: 94%. A project by researchers at INRIA in France with an even larger sample found broadly similar results. Meanwhile, researchers, including us, found that an ever larger number of browser features — Canvas, Battery, Audio, and WebRTC — were being abused by tracking companies for fingerprinting.
The conclusion was clear: fingerprinting is devastatingly effective. It would be futile for web browsers to try to limit fingerprintability by exposing less information to scripts: there were too many leaks to plug; too many fingerprinting vectors. The implications were profound. Browser vendors concluded that they wouldn't be able to stop third-party tracking, and so privacy protection was left up to extensions. [1] These extensions didn't aim to limit fingerprintability either. Instead, most of them worked in a convoluted way: by manually compiling block lists of thousands of third-party tracking scripts, constantly playing catch up as new players entered the tracking game.
But here's the twist: a team at INRIA (including some of the same researchers responsible for the earlier study) managed to partner with a major French website and test the website's visitors for fingerprintability. The findings were published a few months ago, and this time the results were quite different: only a third of users had unique fingerprints (compared to 83% and 94% earlier), despite the researchers' use of a comprehensive set of 17 fingerprinting attributes. For mobile users the number was even lower: less than a fifth. There were two reasons for the differences: a larger sample in the new study, and because self-selection of participants appears to have introduced a bias in the earlier studies. There's more: since the web is evolving away from plugins such as Flash and Java, we should expect fingerprintability to drop even further. A close look at the paper's findings suggests that even simple interventions by browsers to limit the highest-entropy attributes would greatly improve the ability of users to hide in the crowd.
Apple recently announced that Safari would try and limit fingerprinting, and it's likely that the recent paper had an influence in this decision. Notably, a minority of web privacy experts never subscribed to the view that fingerprinting protection is futile, and W3C, the main web standards body, has long provided guidance for developers of new standards on how to minimize fingerprintability. It's still not too late. But if we'd known in 2009 what we know today, browsers would have had a big head start in developing and deploying fingerprinting defenses.
Why did the misinterpretation happen in the first place? One easy lesson is that statistics is hard, and non-representative samples can thoroughly skew research conclusions. But there's another pill that's harder to swallow: the recent study was able to test users in the wild only because the researchers didn't ask or notify the users. [2] With Internet experiments, there is a tension between traditional informed consent and validity of findings, and we need new ethical norms to resolve this.
Another lesson is that privacy defenses don't need to be perfect. Many researchers and engineers think about privacy in all-or-nothing terms: a single mistake can be devastating, and if a defense won't be perfect, we shouldn't deploy it at all. That might make sense for some applications such as the Tor browser, but for everyday users of mainstream browsers, the threat model is death by a thousand cuts, and privacy defenses succeed by interfering with the operation of the surveillance economy.
Finally, the fingerprinting-defense-is-futile argument is an example of privacy defeatism. Faced with an onslaught of bad news about privacy, we tend to acquire a form of learned helplessness, and reach the simplistic conclusion that privacy is dying and there's nothing we can do about it. But this position is not supported by historical evidence: instead, we find that there is a constant re-negotiation of the privacy equilibrium, and while there are always privacy-infringing developments, there are offset from time to time by legal, technological, and social defenses.
Browser fingerprinting remains on the frontlines of the privacy battle today. The GDPR is making things harder for fingerprinters. It's time for browser vendors to also get serious in cracking down on this sneaky practice.Â
Thanks to Günes Acar and Steve Englehardt for comments on a draft.
[1] One notable exception is the Tor browser, but it comes at a serious cost to performance and breakage of features on websites. Another is Brave, which has a self-selected userbase presumably willing to accept some breakage in exchange for privacy.
[2] The researchers limited their experiment to users who had previously consented to the site's generic cookie notice; they did not specifically inform users about their study.
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The BVI Financial Services Commission (FSC) has developed an international reputation for excellent regulation of the financial services industry. The Registry of Corporate Affairs' online information system (VIRRGIN) is widely known to be secure and efficient. However, questions surround whether limiting access to VIRRGIN to BVI-based businesses (in order to protect the jobs here in the Territory) is leading to potential opportunity loss of company registrations from key markets, especially in Asia. In addition, the industry has raised concerns over the customer orientation and responsiveness of the FSC, outside clear pockets of excellence, which have affected private sector perception of the commission.
It is recognised that leveraging existing strengths in order to develop a holistic customer service culture across the organisation (for example, to improve process transparency, response time, and help provided to customers) would go a long way in improving the BVI Financial Services Commission's performance and relationship with the private sector. BVI Forward shall help to drive this improvement.
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Managing Director, Financial Services Commission
Analyse the current service level of FSC and customer satisfaction to identify gaps and opportunities for improvement.
Establish and communicate senior level commitment to culture change and set aspirations for new customer-centric culture; provide training and initiatives to FSC staff.
Conduct cost-benefit analysis of wider access toVIRRGIN and determine whether it should move to a 24-hour system accessible from anywhere in the world.
Improve the existing VIRRGIN system with additional characteristics, for example, personal portals, websites in Spanish and Chinese, progress tracking, self-help, customer input. This will require tendering for supplementary IT systems.
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Company teams up with Switzerland-based data hosting center to provide round-the-clock online data backup service in Asia.
SINGAPORE--1-Net, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the country's incumbent broadcaster MediaCorp, last week unveiled a new online data backup service that lets its users archive data through the Internet, round-the-clock.
Dubbed SwissVault, the online backup service is available to users in the Asia-Pacific region 24 hours and 7 days a week. Based on a 448-bit encryption and hosted in Switzerland, the service is provided through a partnership with Swiss company SIAG (Secure Infostore AG) which owns Swiss Fort Knox--a network of three data storage centers, two of which are located under the Swiss alps.
To archive data using SwissVault, users upload the files from their desktop to be stored in SwissVault's centralized data backup system--the SwissVault StorageCenter--through the Internet. According to 1-Net, data is highly compressed and encrypted before it is sent online to the StorageCenter.
The StorageCenter is located at the Swiss Fort Knox in Switzerland, and comprises of hardware, software and fail-safe disk systems, 1-Net said, in a statement.
According to the Singapore-based company, after the SwissVault backup application has been initialized, "a patented binary-patching technology" takes over and sends only the data bytes that have been modified since the previous transmission.
In addition, a file-based restore function is available via the Internet to users on a 24-hour basis in the event of an emergency, said 1-Net.
In a statement released last week, SwissVault COO Flo Schweri said "electronic information is the heart of every modern organization", and any severe loss of data represents "an existential threat".
Data backup services such as SwissVault, are "a life insurance for every commercial activity", Schweri said. "From a legal perspective, an overseas backup copy will soon belong to the fundamentals of most international policies," he said.
SwissVault Pro, for medium to large companies with more complex or mobile IT installations.
Those interested can register for a free 30-day trial version of the SwissVault Solo at SwissVault's Web site.
According to Timothy Wong, market analyst forAsia-Pacific services research at IDC, online backup services are not new in Singapore and have been in the market for more than five years.
Online backup services were not pervasive due to bandwidth limitations in the past, Wong explained, but this is no longer the case with the growth in bandwidth capacities over the last couple of years.
However, he noted, the adoption of such services currently available in the market has been relatively slow primarily due to concerns over security and sensitivity of having their data stored at a third-party site that operates under shared storage resources.
Wong said: "Organizations are more comfortable with dedicated resources but that comes with a higher price tag, which result in a gap that providers are [now] trying to narrow."
"[The adoption of online storage services] will still continue to be slow this year. Nothing revolutionary has happened in this space to set a new wave," he said. "However, [these] services may ride on the increased adoption of business continuity and disaster recovery measures that will be a hot trend this year."
He added that this new service is likely to take off in the region "with the appropriate security measures to assure that the data will be kept away from malicious activities in storage, as well as during transportation".


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Malmstromova letecká základna ( Malmstrom Air Force Base; kód IATA je GFA, kód ICAO KGFA, kód FAA LID GFA) je vojenská letecká základna letectva Spojených států amerických nacházející se na území města Great Falls ve státě Montana. Malmstromova AFB je také jednou ze tří základen strategických raket na území Spojených států.

Je domovskou základnou 341. raketového křídla (341st Missile Wing; 341 MW) Velitelství globálního boje vzdušných sil (AFGSC). Je vybavena nukleárními mezikontinentálními balistickými raketami LGM-30G Minuteman III, avšak samotná odpalovací sila s raketami se nacházejí v rozlehlých oblastech v okolí základny. 341 MW se přímo zodpovídá 20. letecké armádě, jejíž velitelství se nachází na Letecké základně Francise E. Warrena ve Wyomingu.

Tato základna byla dříve známa pod názvy "Great Falls Army Air Base" nebo "Great Falls Air Force Base". 1. října 1955 byla pojmenována na počest plukovníka letectva Einara Axela Malmstroma, veterána druhé světové války. Ranvej, nacházející se na základně, byla dne 31. prosince 1996 vyřazena z užívání pro letecké operace. V současnosti jej využívají pouze vojenské helikoptéry pro účely zásobování, přepravy osob apod.

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Reflecting on the Wisdom of an Intelligence Professional, by Way of a Book Review
David Firester's Book Review of Crumpton, Henry A. The Art of Intelligence: Lessons from a Life in the CIA's Clandestine Service. Penguin, 2012.
The allure of Hank Crumpton's book, for the layperson, is probably that it's an eye-opening journey through the seemingly secretive intelligence world. To the student of intelligence, however, it is both a cautionary tale and a road map that indicates what sorts of obstacles may lay ahead. The book's title tells us much of what we need to know about its contents. First, the notion of an "art" of intelligence is, as Crumpton mentions, a conjoining of concepts laid out by two of history's great thinkers: Allen Welsh Dulles and Sun Tzu (13). The former was a more contemporary American intelligence leader and the latter was an ancient Chinese military theoretician. Both of their works continue to be used today, as a tool for thinking about strategy and tactics.
The second portion of the title that Crumpton has crafted has to do with the "lessons" he has drawn from his own experience. Throughout the book, one can see that the key to success is learning the right lessons and applying them accordingly to the changing threat landscape, not one's preordained sense of what it should, did, or might look like. Some would call this adaptation, which is precisely the process that he, and the Intelligence Community (IC), had to go through. There were, of course, mistakes to be made. The important point to remember, however, is that an individual or organization learns from them and improves themselves.
Building on the two themes, outlined above, I will review some of the vital insights that Mr. Crumpton has elucidated. I'll try to blend the lessons he learned, with an eye toward those that we might learn.
With regard to the practice of intelligence as an art, there is a theme that regularly revolves around the various non-state actors (311) and their contribution to both the threat milieu and their ability to stifle such threats, if properly coopted. In the first instance, there are transnational terrorist and/or criminal organizations and resource bases, some human and some technological, which they count on to support their local, regional, or global operations. Asymmetry isn't merely a description of the local insurgent/incumbent battlespace. It's a condition that has global implications (323). Much of this discussion is synthesized quite eloquently by the author between pages 279 and 282.
In the second instance, these same resources are the very ones we should seek to undermine, exploit, or otherwise induce to our advantage. In other words, our enemies' key infrastructure can be embraced and repurposed for what, in our view, is the good side in the fight (293). To this end, Crumpton discusses the contributions that many unsung private sector partners have made. He should know. He was the head of CIA's National Resources (NR) Division for a couple years. This specific clandestine interplay, between the public and private sector, is not typically the focus of popular literature.
Another artful description of the intelligence practice, which is a good segue to the next topic under review, is summarized on page 301. "In the intelligence business, often there are only partial answers and limited or unknown results. An intelligence officer's professional challenge, among many others, is living with incomplete results. The painting is never finished. There is always something to add, something unknown, something that changes." Although this analogy isn't necessarily new, it might serve us well to remember it in our daily lives.
Adaptation is an essential ingredient for a successful intelligence enterprise, which necessarily serves policy ends. Throughout the book, however, Hank Crumpton reveals the elements that hinder, or facilitate the requisite changes that need to be made. In terms of hindrances, he discusses the interagency difficulties that he experienced, some of which had to do with the essence of another agency's focus and mission; e.g., FBI, or the Air Force. Others, however, were rooted in the personalities of individual policy makers; e.g., Paul Wolfowitz. Still other obstacles came in the form of rigidity of thought by key leaders within the military; e.g., General Tommy Franks, or Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
Perhaps the key statement on adaptation, which Crumpton makes in passing on page 58, deserves amplification. In talking about his recruitment abilities, he went on to state, "I adapted through constant experimentation – with a wealth of failures along the way. I studied my failures and quietly celebrated my successes." The reason this is such an important insight is that it is an expression of humility, the key characteristic that seems to have been lacking in each of the individuals and organizations he cited as hindering adaptation. What is perhaps more striking about such a remark is that whether the reader is a layperson, an intelligence professional, a businessperson, or even a parent, we should heed the notion that we are not infallible. Further, what sort of introspection do we conduct on a regular, or even an occasional, basis?
Another point that Crumpton makes in a variety of ways, is that when policy failures may have been made, it is those who have contributed to them in the first place that so brazenly point the finger in the direction of the intelligence community (5, 310). It's convenient and safe for politicians to do so. There is no incentive to look inwardly for answers to perceived failures. This is probably a natural phenomenon and one that attends most humans' psychological composition.
Although some academics (310), and members of the media (114), typically scrutinize the IC, Crumpton reminds us that they don't necessarily have the tactical experience, nor the professional training to make sense of the world into which they are peering. (He does mention some academics who get it right, on pages 124 & 277-78.) This point should resonate with many readers, who are experts in their field and are relentlessly second-guessed by laypersons. It is even more painful when outsiders, misguided by their own lack of expertise, engage in provocative conjecture, or intentionally fabricate a story that, due to secrecy considerations, can't be fully challenged in the public realm.
If, somehow a reader comes away thinking that Hank Crumpton is writing from a partisan standpoint, it would serve them well to re-read sections of the book that point to three separate administrations' misperceptions of the threats that were clearly highlighted by the IC. The Clinton administration, according to the author, suffered from a sort of impotence with regard to international terrorism (111, 130). Further, the author asserts that an inadequate response to threats was fueled, in part, by political considerations (155, 166). His assessment of the Bush administration that followed was that its attention was sometimes misdirected (166-67), particularly the attention of key members in the policy community (188, 239). He specifically states, "Policy makers were seeking to drive intelligence conclusions rather than letting intelligence collection and analysis inform policy." Regarding the Obama administration, he notes their effort to destroy CIA members' lives because they disagreed with the legality of their prior actions, despite their lawful quality at the time in which they carried out their duties (6, 125).
Conclusion: Learning from Others' Insights
Although there are many other interesting details in the book, such as North Korean diplomats' obsessions with pornography (45), one of the key points was how the intelligence process served the interest of national security, which often went underappreciated. Central to success in this regard was the provision of incentives and rewards to assets, whose accounts could be corroborated. My own assessment of his point about tailoring support to allies on the ground, by way of specific air drops, makes me think of it as a form of counterinsurgency by proxy.
Speaking truthfully to superiors, taking risks, thinking outside the proverbial box, vigorously pursuing leads and capitalizing on them when they panned out served the interests of proper adaptation. Another element for success consisted of the occasional need to outmaneuver bureaucratic recalcitrance, by forging alliances with policy makers who were cognizant of the implications that phlegmatic thinking had on national security.
For detailing his own learning process, Henry A. Crumpton's book is essential reading for students of psychology, bureaucratic politics, military strategy and intelligence studies. I also recommend it for those who may tend to look askance at the IC, so long as their eyes are open and their minds yearn to gain what their instincts might otherwise lead them to avert.
David Firester specializes in intelligence analysis and is founder of TRAC Intelligence.
Posted on September 4, 2016 Categories foreign policy, intelligence community, terrorismTags foreign policy, intelligence community, intelligence failures, intelligence operations, policy failures
David Firester's Book Review of The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies, by Lieutenant General (ret.) Michael T. Flynn
Book Review of Flynn, M. T., & Ledeen, M. A. (2016). The field of fight: How we can win the global war against radical Islam and its allies. New York: St. Martin's Press.
By David Firester
To begin with, I will say that the book is not exactly what one might expect from a recently retired General. For starters, there were numerous spelling errors, an assortment of colloquialisms and some instances in which the prose took on a decidedly partisan tone. The means of documenting sources was something akin to a blog-posting, in that he simply copied and pasted links to pages, right into the body of the work. I would have liked to have seen a more thoroughly researched and properly cited work. All of this was likely due to the fact that General Flynn released his book in the days leading up to Donald J. Trump's announcement of his Vice Presidential pick. As Flynn is apparently a close national security advisor to Trump, I can understand why his work appears to be somewhat harried. Nonetheless, I think that the book's timeliness is useful, as the information it contains might be helpful in guiding Americans' election choices. I also think that despite the absence of academic rigor, it makes his work more accessible. No doubt, this is probably one of Mr. Trump's qualities and one that has catapulted him to national fame and serious consideration for the office he seeks. General Flynn makes a number of important points, which, despite my foregoing adverse commentary, gives me the opportunity to endorse it as an essential read.
In the introductory chapter, General Flynn lays out his credentials, defines the problem, and proceeds to inform the reader of the politically guided element that clouds policy prescriptions. Indeed, he is correct to call attention to the fact that the Obama administration has deliberately exercised its commanding authority in forbidding the attachment of the term "Islam" when speaking of the threat posed by extremists who advocate and carry out violence in the religion's name. As one who suffered at the hands of the administration for speaking truth to power, he knows all too well what others in the Intelligence Community (IC) must suffer in order to hold onto their careers.
In chapter one, he discusses where he came from and how he learned valuable lessons at home and in service to his country. He also gives the reader a sense of the geopolitical context in which Radical Islamists have been able to form alliances with our worst enemies. This chapter also introduces the reader to some of his personal military heroes, as he delineates how their mentorship shaped his thinking on military and intelligence matters. A key lesson to pay attention to in this chapter is what some, including General Flynn, call 'politicization of intelligence.' Although he maintains that both the present and previous administration have been guilty of this, he credits the Bush administration with its strategic reconsideration of the material facts and a search for better answers. (He mentions this again in the next chapter on p.42, signifying this capability as a "leadership characteristic" and later recalls the president's "insight and courage" on p. 154.)
Chapter two of The Field of Fight features an excellent summary of what transpires in a civil war and the manner in which Iraqis began to defect from al-Qa'ida and cooperate with U.S. forces. In this task, he explains for the layperson what many scholars do, but in far fewer pages. Again, this makes his work more accessible. He also works through the process of intelligence failures that are, in his opinion, produced by a superordinate policy failure housed in the upper echelons of the military structure. In essence, it was a misperception (willful or not) that guided thinking about the cause of the insurgency, that forbade an ability to properly address it with a population-centric Counterinsurgency (COIN) strategy. He pays homage to the adaptability and ingenuity of General Stanley McChrystal's Task Force 714, but again mentions the primary barrier to its success was bureaucratic in nature.
The main thrust of chapter 3, aptly named "The Enemy Alliance," is geared toward tying together the earlier assertion in chapter regarding the synergy between state actors like Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the like. It has been documented elsewhere, but the Iranian (non-Arab Shi'a) connection to the al-Qa'ida (Arab Sunni) terrorist organization can't be denied. Flynn correctly points out how the relationship between strange bedfellows is not new in the Middle East. He briefly discusses how this has been the case since the 1970s, with specific reference to the PLO, Iran, Syria, Hamas, Hezbollah, Bosnia and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's. He also references President Obama's "curious sympathy" (p. 92) for enemies in places such as Venezuela and Cuba.
General Flynn then reminds readers of some facts that have either been forgotten, or virtually unknown, by most Americans. Namely, the role that Saddam Hussein actually played with regard to the recruitment of foreign terrorists, the internal policies of appeasement for Islamists in his army and the support he lent to Islamists in other countries (e.g., Egypt, Sudan and Afghanistan). He also reminds the readers of the totalitarian mindset that consumes Islamist groups, such as al-Qa'ida and the Islamic State. All the while, and in contrast to what his detractors might opine, General Flynn is speaking of Radical Islam as a "tribal cult," and not taking aim at the religion itself. This chapter is perhaps the most robust in the book and it is the sort of reading that every American should do before they engage in conversations about the nature of political Islam.
Chapter four is a blueprint for winning what used to be called the 'global war on terror.' Although such a phraseology is generally laughed at in many policy circles, it is clear, as General Flynn demonstrates, that some groups and countries are locked in combat with us and our partners in the West. Yet, as he correctly points out, the Obama administration isn't willing to use global American leadership in order to defeat those who see us, and treat us, as their collective enemy. General Flynn's prescription includes four strategic objectives, which I won't recite here, as I'm not looking to violate any copyright laws. The essence of his suggestions, however, starts with an admission of who the enemy is, a commitment to their destruction, the abandonment of any unholy alliances we have made over the years, and a counter-ideological program for combating what is largely an ideologically-based enemy strong suit. He points to some of the facts that describe the dismal state of affairs in the Arab world, the most damning of which appear on pages 127-128, and then says what many are afraid to say on page 133: "Radical Islam is a totalitarian political ideology wrapped in the Islamic religion." Nonetheless, Flynn discusses some of the more mundane and pecuniary sources of their strength and the means that might be tried in an effort to undermine them.
The concluding chapter of General Flynn's work draws the reader's attention to some of the works of others that have been overlooked. He then speaks candidly of the misguided assumptions that, coupled with political and bureaucratic reasons, slows adaptation to the changing threat environment. Indeed, one of the reasons that I found this book so refreshing is because that sort of bold introspection is perhaps the requisite starting point for re-thinking bad strategies. In fact, that is the essence of both the academic and practical work that I have been doing for years. I highly recommend this book, especially chapter 3, for any student of the IC and the military sciences.
Posted on September 2, 2016 Categories foreign policy, terrorismTags david firester, foreign affairs, intelligence community, international security, military strategy, national security
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National and State Register
Historic Resources of Colorado College
Colorado College, founded in 1874 as an independent, coeducational liberal arts college, is significant as one of the first degree-granting institutions in Colorado. Its establishment is associated with General William Palmer, founder of Colorado Springs, and Henry McAllister, a director of the Colorado Springs Company, both of whom donated land along Cascade Avenue for use as a campus.
Architecturally, the historic buildings on the campus are some of the most important in the city. They include examples of the Romanesque and Classical Revival as well as the English-influenced styles popular during the "Little London" period in Colorado Springs' development. In addition, the location of the college influenced development in the north-central portion of the city. The prestige of the college and the high architectural quality of its buildings is also reflected in the surrounding residential neighborhood. (Cover documentation accepted by National Register in 1986, Revised 1997.)
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Bemis Hall
Constructed in 1908 as a women's dormitory and dining hall, the building served as a focus of campus social life for women and reflects the early 20th century design philosophies for women's dormitories.
Cossitt Memorial Hall
Completed in 1914, the building, with its gymnasium, training and locker rooms, and no longer extant outdoor amphitheater, led to the adoption of a 3-year physical education requirement for graduation.
Cutler Hall
Designed in the High Victorian Gothic style, by the Boston architectural firm of Peabody and Sterns, Cutler Hall was constructed between 1877 and 1880, with flanking wings added during 1881-1882.
Lennox House
Constructed in 1900 for a prominent businessman, the house became part of the Colorado College campus in 1936. It is associated with the development of north Colorado Springs and subsequently played a significant role in the college's history, serving as the Student Union from 1937 to 1959.
McGregor Hall
Built in 1903, the style building, designed by the architectural firm of Douglas and Hetherington, is notable for its Colorado Springs red sandstone construction. It was the college's third dormitory for women and reflects the increasing number of female students at the college during the early 20th century.
Montgomery Hall
Constructed in 1891, as one of the original buildings on the Colorado College campus, the design by Colorado Springs architect Walter F. Douglas has a distinctive English feel. The property is associated with the Historic Resources of Colorado College Thematic Resource.
Palmer Hall
Constructed in 1904, Palmer Hall is located on the eastern portion of the campus where it dominates the north edge of a large open square.
Plaza Hotel
Built in 1901, the hotel is a four story, H-plan structure of cream colored pressed brick. It is Renaissance Revival in its overall massing, while Spanish influences are evident in its detailing. Listed under Colorado College Thematic Resource.
Shove Memorial Chapel
Erected in 1930-31, the chapel has been described as "one of the foremost examples of Norman Romanesque architecture in America." Inspired by historic churches in England and Normandy, this original composition includes traditional components of Romanesque churches, including monumental size, masonry walls, limited exterior ornamentation, semi-circular arches, wall arcades, and a substantial tower. The chapel was the first major building architect John Gray designed after establishing his own practice, and it is regarded as his most important work. His all-encompassing design ranged from
Ticknor Hall
Erected in 1897-98 and designed by the architectural firm of Douglas and Hetherington, the building was the second women's dormitory to be built on the campus and continues to serve in that capacity.


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Take a look at these colourful Holi photos.
Most parts of India will celebrate Holi on Thursday. But celebrations have already begun in some parts of the country.
The festival marks the beginning of spring and is celebrated with a riot of colours and music.
Take a look at how people celebrated in Agartala, Mumbai, Allahabad and Nepal.
Women play with colours in Agartala.
A woman smeared in colours during Holi celebrations in Agartala.
Children celebrate Holi in Mumbai.
Holi celebrations, like every year, began early in Vrindavan.
Vrindavan sees almost week-long celebrations because it is where Lord Krishna is supposed to have been raised. Holi is also the celebration of the immortal love of the divine couple, Radha and Krishna.
Women play holi in Allahabad.
A shopkeeper sells colours and water guns in a shop in Kolkata.
People stock up for Holi in Nepal's Kathmandu.
A ceremonial bamboo log known as "chir" is erected in Kathmandu's Basantapur Durbar Square to mark the beginning of Holi. The coloured strips of cloth on the stick are considered goodluck charms.
People celebrate Holi in Kathmandu.