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The following is excerpted from my current book project: Settler Reconciliation: Locating Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission in “the new international morality”. Feedback and suggestions are welcome in the comments section below. Thanks for reading.
This book is an examination and critique of reconciliation as it populates the post-Cold War landscape as an idealist politic. According to Roy L. Brooks, “we have clearly entered what can be called the ‘Age of Apology’” (3). Now more than ever, governments are embracing models of justice that forgo retribution and work towards facilitating peaceful coexistence in what Jacques Derrida named modernity’s “ceremony of culpability” (29). Since 1990, fifteen nation states have incorporated “reconciliation” into Truth Commissions aimed at redressing historical injustice, while other countries, such as Australia, have built the concept into the national imaginary–and economy–via elaborate displays of regret (sorry days, reconciliation walks, sorry books). But it is no longer clear if reconciliation is an agent of healing; as it grows and mutates out of the Cold War it is becoming a political tool mobilized towards the aims of settler colonialism and the neoliberal economy.
In its nascent forms, developed in Latin America and South Africa, reconciliation was part of a transformative politic, a means to redress the traumatic history inflicted by an overthrown regime (for instance, Pinochet’s Chile or the National Party’s Apartheid South Africa). As an operative function of Transitional Justice (TJ), which “provides recognition of the rights of victims, promotes civic trust and strengthens the democratic rule of law” (International Centre for Transitional Justice website), reconciliation spoke to the complex and often inextricable power structures behind political violence, allowing for a more subtle treatment of perpetrator/victim relations that was based in convalescence as opposed to vengeance. As opposed to denouncing, exiling or killing an enemy, reconciliation provided a space to admit (tacitly) that a perpetrator was often beyond retribution–in the fullest sense, given his (almost always “his”) overwhelming influence in state politics and power. Pinochet is the key example here: while the citizens of Chile demanded an inquiry into the “disappearances” inflicted on their loved ones and neighbours, Pinochet’s deeply rooted connections to Chile’s military and the international community (Margaret Thatcher was an open supporter) made him untouchable in the strictest sense of vengeance. The Rettig Report (or Comisión Nacional de Verdad y Reconciliación) was a means to to respond to the demands of the general public while respecting the influence of the former dictator. In this sense, reconciliation was not a step away from the stratagems of realpolitik, the dominant politic of the Cold War era, but a reaffirmation of power based primarily on practical and material factors and consideration.
That being said, reconciliation was still a powerful shift away from power politics towards a a more human, personal engagement with historical injustice. According to Martha Minow, “moving beyond statistics to real people of blood, flesh and tears, a commission that gathers individual testimony can present human consequences of atrocities that are otherwise unfathomable and overwhelming” (76). The shift away from shows of brute force towards systems that addressed the complexity and nuance of the human condition made reconciliation a prevalent political tool, particularly for an international community still reeling from power politics and the threat of mutual nuclear destruction.
Rather than affirm Aboriginal title and substantially redistribute lands and resources to Indigenous communities through an renewed treaty process, or to recognize Indigenous autonomy and redistribute political authority from the state to Indigenous nations based on the principle of Indigenous self-determination, Gathering Strength essentially reiterates, more-or-less unmodified, its present policy position as evidence of the essentially just nature of the current relationship between Indigenous peoples and the state.
While the two senses of “idealism” are obviously intertwined and interrelated, the second is of primary importance in a critique of reconciliation. What is at stake in the latter instance is an analysis that disconnects the category from the history, language and ideology that it is born out of, producing it as ideal or epitomic subject. That subject is thus “mythologized,” or rendered free from the contradictions that undergird it. In this sense, “idealism is the act of idealizing—of envisioning and asserting goodness and perfection in the thing of person perceived” (41).
As both pieces of the above research exemplify, economic and political stability are the key goals in state discourse that is built on settler colonial ideologies. Reconciliation is thus predicated on the machinery of the settler colonial nation state or, as Derrida puts it, “friendship or community remains that of service rendered [to the State], the liturgy of public service” (Politics of Friendship 203), but in settler colonial reconciliation the relationship between materialism (goods) and friendship is elided beneath the rhetoric of forgiveness, harmony and healing.
When speaking of reconciliation, idealism is not necessarily an indicator of a totalitarian state (although, in chapter four I illustrate how reconciliation and totalitarianism are connected), but the connections that Chow is drawing here are nonetheless pertinent. For Chow, as for Žižek, idealism is a means for political power to continue inflicting the violence and aggressivity that sits at the basis of state formation, not by meting out further violence and aggressivity, but rather through a formal representation of “goodness,” with the ultimate (and ever receding) horizon being what Immanuel Kant called “perpetual peace.” However, according to Lacan, whom Zizek draws heavily on here, “nothing indicates that even at that limit the problem [of violence] will disappear… Either they imply that the properly statest values of the State will disappear, that is organization and policing, or they introduce a term such as the universalist concrete State, which means no more than supposing things will change on a molecular level” (318). By privileging the symbolic—that is the arbitrary space of the signifier—the slippage between the representation of “good” and its material impacts is elided, with the latter speciously coming to stand in for the real of political intervention. In Lacanian terms, idealism, as a continuation of politics, provides the ornamentation necessary to distract from the violent structure of the system that provides for it. The authoritarian promise of a “universalist concrete state,” or “perpetual peace”—that is to say any reconciled nation—is not a promise to Indigenous or minority groups to eliminate the material structures that initially led to division (as in settler colonialism), but rather a promise to recuperate power for the dominating class in a culture that trades in empty gestures towards equality and multiculturalism.
To argue that “reconciliation” is an idealist conceit is to suggest that the concept has been primarily conceived outside of the history that it was born out of. Reconciliation is idealism in that it is represented as an imagined future “enveloped in a halo” (Chow ibid). Richard Wagamese perhaps makes this point most succinctly in his essay “Returning to Harmony.” According to Wagamese, “it is a big word reconciliation. Quite simply, it means to create harmony” (146). Lewis B. Smedes makes a similar point, although he puts the halo on reconciliation by illustrating the destruction that will occur if we do not embrace it: “the alternative to reconciliation,” he writes, “is, in the end, a ceaseless process of self-destruction” (169). As I demonstrate in this book, Smedes comments on reconciliation are connected to a larger discourse of forgiveness, which predicates its “goodness” on the mutually assured destruction that will occur without it. According to Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who headed the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, “the only way we can be whole, healthy, happy persons is to learn to forgive” (156). There is “no future without forgiveness,” Tutu suggests in the title of his autobiography. Forgive, reconcile or forsake your humanity. Even Hannah Arendt, who argued so strongly against the humanization of Adolf Eichmann suggests, “without being forgiven, released from the consequences of what we have done, … we would remain the victims of its consequences forever, not unlike the sorcerer’s apprentice who lacked the magic formula to break the spell” (2). While withholding forgiveness may be a punitive action in Arendt’s case (a reading that aligns this quotation much more comprehensively with Eichmann and Jerusalem), the upshot remains the same: forgiveness is the means to escape the trappings of the past and meeting the horizon of reconciliation.
Because of its firmly entrenched position in an idealist order, reconciliation is a fraught area of critique. As Derrida infers, “no one would decently dare to object to the imperative of reconciliation” (50). Indeed, it is evident that reconciliation has introduced a marked shift in intrastate politics—interrupting cycles of violence that may have otherwise only self-perpetuated. Reconciliation has provided closure and redress for many survivors and victims of historical injustice and it has done much, politically, emotionally, and financially to heal rifts between communities while providing the conditions necessary for families to live their lives without the perennial fear of violence. In its rise to prominence since the late 1980s, reconciliation has made an immense contribution to the way in which the world contends with historical violence and gives voice to the subaltern. For this reason it is often spoken of by scholars of Transitional Justice as a “messianic paradigm” (http://justiceandreconciliation.com). However, without detracting from the major contributions it has made, politically, culturally, ideologically and even aesthetically, reconciliation needs to be considered outside of its potential for inducing harmony (or repelling destruction) and considered in relation to a broader field of ideology—not disregarding “harmony” but considering the ways in which “harmony” is being mobilized politically, as a tool of settler colonialism.
 “biens” in French, which holds the same double connotation.
 See Himani Bannerji Dark Side of the Nation: Essays on Multiculturalism, Nationalism, and Gender. Bannerji makes a compelling argument against multiculturalism as a means of recuperating state power from racialized minorities in Canada. She argue, “no critique of hegemonic relations can take place by taking for granted the concepts of ‘the community’ and ‘the nation’ or by accepting the notions of ‘diversity’ and ‘plurality’ at their face value” (10).
hey dave, this project sounds great. love this line: “a promise to recuperate power for the dominating class in a culture that trades in empty gestures towards equality and multiculturalism”. looking forward to it.
Thanks Corey. The decolonial reslism article looks great. Love to chat more about it sometime.


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ROME – An art museum in northern Italy said Thursday it will continue displaying a sculpture portraying a green frog nailed to a cross that has angered Pope Benedict XVI and local officials.
The board of the foundation of the Museion in the city of Bolzano voted to keep the work by the late German artist Martin Kippenberger, the museum said in a statement.
Earlier in August the pope had written a letter to Franz Pahl, the president of the Trentino-Alto Adige region that includes Bolzano, denouncing the sculpture.
It “has offended the religious feelings of many people who consider the cross a symbol of God’s love and of our redemption,” Pahl quoted the pope as writing in the letter.
Pahl himself has long opposed the display of “Zuerst die Fuesse” (“First the Feet” in German), even staging a hunger strike this summer and saying he would not seek re-election unless it was removed.
The museum then moved the statue out of its foyer and into a less trafficked area on the third floor.
The 1990 wooden sculpture shows the crucified frog nailed through the feet and hands like Jesus Christ. The frog, eyes popping and tongue sticking out, wears a loincloth and holds a mug of beer and an egg in its hands.
The museum said the 3-foot-tall sculpture has nothing to do with religion, but is an ironic self-portrait of the artist and an expression of his angst.
“With humor and a tragicomic sense, which belongs to art since the times of Greek tragedy, Kippenberger … faces his condition of suffering, which he expresses in many works, also, for example, in a video in which he crucifies himself,” the museum said in a statement.
Art experts defend the work.
“Art must always be free and the artist should not have any restrictions on freedom of expression,” Claudio Strinati, a superintendent for Rome’s state museums, told an Italian newspaper on Thursday.
Born in Dortmund, Kippenberger moved from painting and sculpture to work in all mediums, often combining elements of Neo-expressionism, Pop and Dadaism. His art has been displayed across the world, including Zurich, Paris, Jerusalem, London and New York.
He died in 1997, aged 43.
I’m not personally offended, but I understand why others would take offense, and in keeping with Jesus admonition–“…as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise…”–I would not have displayed the cross and frog, and violate others’ religious sensibilities.
But then we live in a world where “The Golden Rule” is overruled in the hearts and minds of all of us from time to time.
That said, let me make a case for retaining the Crucifixion as the symbol of Christianity. As you pointed out, Jesus was not the first to be crucified (there were many others before him and many others after him); yet, before his death he used the cross (well aware of its symbolism) to drive home a more salient point than its use as a device of capital punishment.
I submit that the cross is central to Jesus’ teachings: self-denial, cross-bearing, and emulation.
Because “cross-bearing” comes in the middle, it forms a cross of a sort, with “self-denial” and “emulation” establishing the transverse piece, and “cross-bearing” (the heaviest part) as the upright post. Whether the cross had another meaning other than its use as a device of execution for the condemned, I know not.
To follow Jesus, then, presupposes that we have done the other two–self-denial, and cross-bearing–suggesting that it would be impossible to do so, without putting the other two first.
Cross-bearing is so important, then, that it becomes a “daily” activity, rather than one done occasionally, or once in a lifetime, since it is designed, in part, along with the other rigors, to allow us to “lose [our] life for [Jesus’, or Christ’s] sake and the gospel’s” so that we may in turn save our life.
I should point out that I wasn’t literally suggesting tossing out the crucifixion image for Christianity. My point was more that if we’re going to use it, we have to be prepared to deal with others mis-using it, or legimately using it for non-Christian purposes.
That said, I appreciate your points.
Also, one of the reasons I don’t back the detractors of the crucified frog-man in their indignance is, first, the fact that they museum already moved the piece to a less prominent place than it had been before in order to satisfy complaints about it. And, as I’m guessing you probably feel, since you mentioned you weren’t personally offended, art is often supposed to be in our faces and even offensive at times.
In any case, it’s an interesting story and your points, again, are gratefully received.
Nothing in my world is real.
The meaning of everything is the meaning I give it.
And my experience is what I say it is.
You know, I’ve always been interested in knowing how the early church reacted when the cross was adapted by the Romans as the symbol for Christianity. The early church used the Fish until Constantine had his vision. Again, with little things that change the course of history, had the Romans resorted to hanging Jews instead of crucifying them, would the symbol of christianity be the noose? What if christ had been beheaded like Paul was, would the symbol have been a sword? I’ts just interesting that the Romans celebrated the death of Christ ans hence they saw the crucifixion as a big deal while the early Christians celebrated the life of christ and hence picked the fish. As Deacon says, Christ was not the only one crucified.
My knowledge of historical details like that is pretty slim. Thanks for sharing, Daudi. Makes me wonder a bit, too, how the non-Roman Christians must have felt when the religion got co-opted, really.

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The story of a story-worthy day!
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When nothing works and everything is upside down, you want to escape at least on weekends ….
Prahova valley would be too daring for me to try, for sure, and because of the long trip back, I would be late for work. Towards the mountain, it’s too far away. Fagaraş, Herculane, Felix, too. Where can I get up the mountain and ride a bike, without carrying it with my car, to sleep in the fresh air outside of Bucharest, the one polluted and overloaded by cars, with or without the EURO?
I hear something of Balotesti. Good! What can be in Balotesti on DN1? A pub, a tavern, a space where citizens with “claims”, tired of nannies, where they let the kids scream in a sand pit, calling this education.
Well, I’m not talking about that. In Balotesti, a little further from the city asphalt, on Cantonului road, in the forest there is a piece of heaven…of eden, Edenland Park. Build in the forest, it captures you from the entrance, where you have to leave the noisy little car into a parking space in the field. In serenity and peace, you walk on a paved alley which leads towards the heart of the forest, where you discover pleasant activities.
Whimsical by nature, with a lousy start of the day, I rotate between playing table tennis or ride a bike silently on the paved alleys, far away from the noise of Herastrau or other “oases” swamped by “loud people”. I discover the climbing trees courses, a true network of suspended streets. I see instructors assisting from young children to young and older people, swinging on a zipline, or flying through the air on a anchored net .
I rush to a medium course, assisted by an instructor that explained me what and how to do … Dreamy! There’s also a climbing wall. A little tired, I start the big exam on the climbing wall. It isn’t easy … after 40 years! I smile: like I am Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible. It is true that there are some “small” differences. Let’s get over it.
After the impossible mission to climb the wall, I get off and discover archery, airsoft and paintball. Aaaah …. this is for me! I’m a fan since little, for Agent 007 films, from Sean Connery till today. I shoot with a bow and gun from all positions, then I throw myself in the paintball perimeter with a new team. In the camouflage rented outfits, I feel like Chuck Norris in Vietnam.
I get rid of the confrontation and arrive at the horse stables. I see kids riding ponies, escorted on the alleys in the forest. I meet with Gyuri, a white horse, that gave me a ride in the forest with such great experience: gallop in the forest, a team of 4-5 horses, walking and trotting through the woods accompanied by singing birds.
We came back to the stables and thanked for an amazing experience. In the nearby riding hall, the instructors are offering riding lessons. Only those who are advanced can go horseback riding in the woods.
Not far away, I discover the rustic restaurant. After so much effort, the inviting smell is calling me to order all sorts of goodies. After I made my belly happy with some fish and other ” wonderful preparations”, I get to the conclusion that the dry white wine closes a well deserved feast.
I feelt like on vacation, but it’s not. I’m with my, car which I have to leave here. The tree houses are the answer: a night in the forest without mosquitoes and other flying insects.
The treee houses have a reed roof and are 2-3 meters above the ground. I feel broken down by all the good and I check-in in a tree house. I woke up in the morning feeling invigorated. I ate breakfast and arrived in Bucharest in 30 minutes.

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“montag” is a poem I wrote in 2018. It was published in red eft review, which you can read online.

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how do I stop this error message from showing up every time I reboot my computer?
It is a pop up window which says something to the effect of "i spy not found, please reboot..."
I've deleted the "Espionage" from the applications list (left the "Espionage 3"), and deleted from the library: iSpy, extensions/ispy.kext, launch Daemons/com.taoeffect.ispy, emptied the trash and rebooted but the error message still showed up.
I am sorry but I cannot read your reply, is there any way that you can reply to my question in English?
Actually, when I apply Google Translate to the reply it does not translate at all. ???
What the heck is going on here? Is the Tao Effect server infected with a virus, or been hacked? Are these incredibly long "responses" infected?
Can someone who works at Tao Effect, a forum moderator perhaps, write to me something in English, to explain what is going on?
Wow, before I launched that file you suggested, Advanced Mac Tuneup I looked it up on the Apple Support forums and found several threads there about a malware delivery system called "Advanced Mac Cleaner", which has the same window and gives the same feedback when opened. I completely deleted it from my system immediately.
How do I know that what you have advised me to do is safe?
I came here asking for help to make the software I bought from you to run correctly and first, got several very suspicious spam looking replies in a row. Then, those were deleted from the thread and this new reply in English, with directions to what looks to be a malware installation software.
Should I be concerned about what is going on at Tao Effect?


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Social Media is already declared as a ‘sharp-edged weapon’ in Tunisia’s revolution and now it has spread its wings across Egypt. The scary anti-Mubarak campaign in Egypt is yet another example of people’s movement. It was too late for Mr. Mubarak to invade with a ban on social media in Egypt. The fire via FB, twitter, YouTube etc had already engulfed the whole country. China has already banned social media and has virtually 'deleted 'Egypt' to avert such a situation while other GCC countries are getting jitters and anxious.
Mubarak, in an attempt to extinguish the rapid burning fire, took first steps to ban Internet that further created furor among people. The worldwide administration can put restrictions on Print, Radio and television but any attempt to ban social media or internet provokes and creates reactive and retaliatory actions, for social media is a ‘media of people’. Banning a social media implicitly means ‘boycotting people’.
The inherent democratic traits of social media can’t be subdued nor can be censored. History has witnessed very strong role of print, radio and television media in civil wars, revolutions, and even World Wars. Time is gone now when media could have been controlled and censored. Now the power of vox populi is already shifted from elite media to public media. The worldwide administrations are really cautious to ban people’s media to avoid Egypt-like consequences. China has taken a daring step to temporarily diffuse the ‘hot balloons’ after Egypt’s revolution by banning the social media but the very country knows that it’s not the permanent solutions.
Social media is emerging as a ‘lethal weapon’ more than any other media channels. It’s because of its ‘connectivity’ and ‘WOM’ characteristics. No other media is a two-way communication other than social media.
Einstein created nuclear with a sole purpose of human welfare but its wrong usage brought holocaust. Many worldwide administrations like Tunisia, China, Egypt, Arabian nations deem ‘social media’ as a lethal tool and consider them even more dangerous than a nuclear weapon but what they are not realizing is that their attempt to ban social media fuels the rapid fire to engulf the whole countries. They should realize that no administration is bigger than 'WE THE PEOPLE'.
It’s not a question of sovereignty but a question of democracy. Restriction on social media to safeguard sovereignty is justifiable but it’s not justifiable to censor social media for a social movement which I believe is above democracy.
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Zee Bangla Cinema Originals which began its journey successfully completed a long year of making original films for the television viewing audience. The journey began with the film Ekla Cholo directed by Abhijit Guha and Sudeshna Roy. The latest film Guti Malhar directed by Pallab Kumar Ghosh is the next Zee Bangla Cinema Originals film.
The press conference and the special screening took place recently. Present at the occasion were Pallab Kumar Ghosh, Raj Chakraborty, Savvy, Bodhisatwa Majumdar, Anindita Bose, Sourav Das and others. Also present were Sudeshna Roy, Abhijit Guha, June Maliah at the special screening of the film. The film has been produced by Raj Chakraborty Productions.
The film Guti Mallar is about a boy named Mallar who is a born loser. He can speak or do no good. He has a cousin Bhatkai who is his rival. Bhatkai wants the ancestral home in which they live all for himself. Malhar and his parents try different techniques to drive Bhatkai away. They also appoint a special female goon named Guti for the purpose. The love story between the female goon and the local boy is what the film all about.
Sourav who plays Mallar said “Mallar is a loser. Not that he does not try hard but he loses his nerve under pressure. How he overcomes this nervousness with the help of Guti is what you will see in the film. This is my first film with Zee Bangla Cinema Originals and with this film I am taking small steps towards doing a film in Tollywood. I share a good rapport with Raj da as I have worked with him before too. I have done Raage Anuraage where I was the main villain and I have done “I Laugh You” too. Hence, we share a great rapport. When he offered me the role I agreed at once to do the role”.
Mimi Chakraborty has lent her voice to a song in this film. Savvy has composed the music of this film.
The film will be shown on 24th April, at 9 pm on Zee Bangla Cinema.

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The TCX-15B is a compact sub-bass loudspeaker consists of a 15" low frequency driver in a bandpass-loaded enclosure designed for extended low frequency response.
When permanently installed the cabinet presents a discreet appearance, while for portable use the pole mount socket allows TCX series two-way loudspeakers to be mounted on a straight speaker pole above the subwoofer.
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The MiniPlex-2Wi is an advanced WiFi NMEA multiplexer, combining data from up to four navigation instruments into two NMEA outputs, a Wifi interface and a USB port. It also supports AIS and other high speed NMEA devices up to 57600 Baud.
Data from multiple instruments is available wirelessly though a Wifi connection, giving complete freedom where to navigate and control on board. It acts as a wireless access point for your iPad, iPhone or other WiFi enabled device.
The internal WiFi access point connects up to 7 devices simultaneously.
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During my quiet time, I’ve been reading the books of Ezra and Esther. In chapter 5, Queen Esther has invited the king and Haman (the bad guy) to a banquet of wine at which she invites them both to yet another banquet. At the second banquet, she intends to present a larger request to the king. Haman fancies himself as one of extreme importance. After all, back in chapter 3, the king had “advanced him and set his seat above all the princes who were with him.” Just what an arrogant man doesn’t need.
But back to chapter 5…after having been invited to the second banquet by Queen Esther, Haman is happier than a pig in slop (no, I’m not from the south nor from a farm). We catch up with him in verse 9.
I think that’s perfectly understandable. After all, he’s been promoted by the king and was the only other person invited to the queen’s banquets along with the king. I’d probably be feeling pretty special at that point, too. But that’s not the end of verse 9.
…but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king’s gate, and that he did not stand or tremble before him, he was filled with indignation against Mordecai.
Amazing, isn’t it, how one person, one mere man, can rain on his parade so quickly? Everything was going well for him (at least as far as he knew), but because this Jewish man refused to honor Haman the way he felt he deserved, it infuriated him. So much for the joyful and glad heart.
Remarkably, Haman “restrained himself and went home.” Oftentimes, people with extreme anger aren’t very good at this. Then again, sick and diabolical people can manage some level of self-control…for a time.
All the blessings he sees in his life – power in the kingdom above all others besides the king, honor of the king and queen, wealth, children, and probably much more – isn’t enough. Because he allows this one man, Mordecai the Jew, to get under his skin. He just can’t let it go and move on. Ninety-nine percent of his life looks pretty incredible. But it’s that 1% which gnaws at him and utterly diminishes everything else.
What a wicked and tragic verse!
First of all, their only concern is that Haman isn’t happy with his 99%. Secondly, they quite willingly offer up the death of another human to appease Haman’s narcissism and even get the king’s approval of this murder. Lastly, they suggest that once this bothersome person is out of the way, Haman can “then go merrily with the king to the banquet.” Merrily? Yeah, have another man murdered and then eat, drink, and be merry.
So you may be wondering where the lesson is in all this. There are four things that God showed me as I studied this chapter.
It’s only as I spend time with the Lord and in His word that I can accomplish this list and keep my flesh and pride at bay. But there’s great joy that comes when I take that time and live in close connection with Him!


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Camera movement can add quite a bit to your story, if it is done with a purpose in mind. Here’s a brief list of how you can use movement in your next project.
With the emerging DSLR and lightweight camera market, the tools needed to make cameras move have become lighter and more portable. One of my favorite tools for adding camera movement is the slider. Sliders allow you to smoothly move the camera on a horizontal plane (left to right or a backward/forward motion). Some sliders even let you move up and down. Once again, if this is executed with a purpose, it really adds another dimension to your story.
There are several companies out there that manufacturer camera accessories designed to add movement. If you’re looking for a slider, you can checkout these five companies that produce lightweight solutions for smaller cameras (i.e., DSLRs). You’ll also find that some of these companies have solutions for more complex setups.
Now, you might be wondering what types of shots are created (or could be created) with a slider. Well, here are a few samples that help describe camera movement and how a slider can be used.
We reviewed the Ikan SLider a while back that I really enjoy using and even made a video with nothing but slider shots.


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Government wants everyone in India to enter into a cashless economy to make every transactions transparent and it is encouraging in too many ways.
By welcoming this move towards cashless economy, CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Education) has announced that from January, the school fee for the students has to be collected through non cash modes. i.e Digital Modes.
What are its pros and cons ?
How schools can achieve it?
Effective Record Management: Earlier the records were managed manually in the registers or in the form of hard copy, which demands for more manpower. But the advancement in technology has enabled all the institutions to manage their records electronically.
Convenience: Completely eliminates the parents coming and standing in a long queue for paying the fee. Payment can be done at anytime, anywhere, its enough to access to an internet.
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Transparent Transactions: When these cashless mode of transaction is adopted, all the transactions that are carried out in the school are more transparent which will eliminate the unaccounted or illegal transactions.
Adaptability: It is difficult to get adopted by all the parents of the schools, especially in rural and remote areas. By awareness program, this can easily be minimized.
Necessity of Bank accounts, internet facility: Since everything has to be done through online, it is a must of having bank accounts, internet banking and other related things which cannot be handled easily by all. Government should come forward in opening of bank accounts to all in rural areas with the respective banks around them.
Security: When coming to digital transactions, then hacking, security threats along with it. So it is everyone’s responsibility to keep their account information confidentially, else it may lead into some unnecessary security threats.
Ways of welcoming it !
The way forward is to adopt to this digital initiative. By automating the fees payments and receivables through cashless mode seamlessly the administration can better control its budgets and develop transparency in accounting. One of the best way is to get partnered with solution providers like EDUMAAT who have solutions that can handle all this so simply and easily.
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EDUMAAT helps in a better way to achieve this, since we examined and evaluated, analysed all the technical aspects of achieving it.
An user friendly, easy, step by step approach is adopted in EDUMAAT to handle this cashless transaction easily. EDUMAAT provides an online portal to all the parents and one or many logins for the school as well which promotes self-service management of fee payables. EDUMAAT can be integrated with highly secured payment gateways, which enables the parents to transact with the schools. i.e paying school fee.
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In this small Questions & Answers series we are going to ask 11 guitar experts three questions related to the guitar learning process. Getting advice from different points of view is one of the best ways to get insights and fuel our inspiration, so take advantage of these very interesting answers and try to incorporate them into your practice.
"What is your favorite unusual chords progression?"
There's a turnaround I've been using in "Fly Me To The Moon" to get between the C and Dm7 when you tag, "Please be true...", and here's the turnaround: Cmaj6/9 - G2/B - Bb13 - A7.
Then you go on to the Dm7 and G "In other words, I love you".
If you play it at the 8th fret, and keep your pinky on the B string (8th fret), it feels like an unusually tight and smooth piece of voice-leading.
So many to choose from, so I'll go with what's been on my playlist recently. The opening section of Dave Brubeck's Strange Meadow Lark always leaves me motionless and wide-mouthed with awe, as does anything from Bill Evans. But that's jazz.
More down the mainstream, Killer Queen by Queen is an underrated (if only because of the hype of Bohemian Rhapsody) masterpiece of almost unfathomably meandering modulation.
And I must add It's Not Me by Supergrass (yes, the band that brought us that crudely pop-tastic "Alright") for its unpredictable, albeit structured changes that still sound as fresh today as they did when I was studying for my GCSE's. Incidentally and unashamedly, Supergrass remains one of my favourite rock bands of all time.
There is nothing especially spectacular with that progression, but the use of power chords with a changed bass note is pretty uncommon, even that they are easy to play, and by small means delivers a fresh sound to an otherwise very recognized area of progressions.
The variation on the 'Round Midnight chord progression by Miles Davis on the album Round About Midnight.
I might play Gmaj7 - Bb13 - Ebmaj9 - Ab13.
Original Star Trek theme. Alexander Courage rocks!
Very much an orchestrated piece with horns and lots of depth. Lots of jazz influence in a style that was prevalent in many of the TV shows during the mid 60's.
Key of Bb at 154 bpm.
Of course there's a lot of nuance in the original, but the above transcript gives you the basic idea. The Cmaj7 modulation is nicely dissonant, and the last phrase has a very cool progression built over staggered V's that lead to the penultimate II IV I finale.
I like chords that move in 3rds, as opposed to 4ths in traditional harmony. So chord progressions like Amaj7-Cmaj7-Emaj7 etc. They push me to think outside the normal harmonic norms and explore other options beyond my normal bag of tricks when comping and soloing.
I'm a sucker for short four-chord progressions that stray from the chords strictly inside a key. Songs like Sublime's "Santeria" and Radiohead's "Creep" hit you with a secondary dominant immediately after the tonic chord. Lately, I'm enjoying Otis Redding's "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay": G B7 C A7. It's in the key of G, so B7 is the III or the V of vi. And C is the IV. And A is the II or the V of V. Really subtle and tasty.
Stevie Wonder's version of For Once In My Life is one of the greatest songs ever. The chord progression is as intricate as most of what you'll find in prog rock or fusion, but the song itself is a snappy pop tune that'll still pack a wedding dance floor fifty years after it came out.
Can you believe Berry Gordy initially vetoed its release and had to be coerced into letting it see the light of day?
I love progressions that use the "spy chord" like E minor Major 9. This is usually based on melodic minor scale harmony. I like to arpeggiate it after playing the I chord. Here is an example. Play a ii-V-I then play the I minor Major 9. Fm7-B7-Emaj7-EmM9. Play around with different variations. It gives a fun spy feeling.
My favorite is one I came up with on accident for a song I wrote called, "Got To End." It goes from a G#min11 to a G7(#11) and then back to the Bminor. I still can't explain why it works but it sounds great to me and was a great accident.
Hope you found these answers interesting. You should now have new cool chord sequences to experiment with. And of course, please share your favorite unusual chords progressions in the comments below!
2) In your guitar learning path, what is your greatest 'aha' moment?


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Acclaimed author Susan Wilson brings us a touching yet unblinkingly authentic tale of loss and rediscovery, of true friendship and learning what's truly important in life.
One note. Three words. And Adam March's well-ordered life and well-laid plans are shattered.
The very definition of a hard-nosed businessman, Adam March has no room in his life for anything but the cold drive to succeed. Not for his social-climbing wife or for his rebellious teenage daughter. Then, in an instant, he loses everything. Due to an untimely collision of arrogance, stress, circumstance, and a momentary loss of self-control, Adam finds himself alone, unemployed, and reduced to bussing tables in a homeless shelter, serving men he'd always gone out of his way to avoid.
Thrown together, Adam and Chance fill the holes in each other's lives. Adam gives Chance his first real home, a haven he never could have imagined, while Chance gives Adam a new start. And a new heart.
SUSAN WILSON is the bestselling author of the novels The Dog Who Danced, One Lucky Dog, and A Man of His Own. She also wrote Beauty, a modern retelling of Beauty and the Beast, which was made into a CBS-TV movie. She lives on Martha's Vineyard.


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There is a golf club like no other that has London's 21st century skyline as a backdrop. It was the golfing 'birthplace' of one of this country's greatest ever golfers and it has a multi-million gallon water hazard without penalty. Neville Johnson sought it out to learn more.
Nine holes, par 66. Sounds easy enough. Just a routine small course? You couldn't be further from the truth. As soon as you step inside this walled, green oasis in otherwise indistinguishable south-east London suburbia that is Honor Oak you feel properly outdoors, and there's a golfing challenge in front of you that only the word 'unique' can describe.
I'm here at the invitation of Head Greenkeeper Jack Percival, who introduces me to the Secretary of the Aquarius Golf Club Jim Halliday and its Greens Chairman Derek Hunter, both of them volunteers and representing another uniqueness of a club which began a year before the First World War. This golf club is run by volunteers. Without them, it wouldn't exist let alone thrive. But thrive it does with a membership of 180 and rising. Only Jack and a couple of part-time bar staff are on the payroll.
The golf club is a tight ship, but it sails very well, and to continue the analogy - though Aquarius is actually an air sign - water is its bedrock as Jim explains.
"The course was built in 1913 on top of an operational water reservoir which, these days, belongs to Thames Water. The water hazards on this course are the concrete access points to it. There is a one-ton weight limit to the 'roof' of the reservoir, which limits maintenance work on large areas of fairway.
"The reservoir was originally completed in 1909 and the then owners, The Vauxhall and Southwark Water Company, decided in 1912 to have a sports club on the site to make recreational use of the above ground green space. Months later, professional golfer James Riddell designed a golf course that remains substantially as you see it today."
The club was run by successive water companies until the 1960s, and into the early 1970s by Thames Water employees.
In 1981, Thames Water wanted to hand over club responsibilities and have some sort of management committee set up to keep it going. A constitution was drawn up and, from then on, the active running of the club has been conducted entirely by local volunteers.
Greens Chairman Derek Hunter came to the Aquarius to play a bit of golf in his spare time, but soon after he got the volunteering bug when there was an invitation to help out with renovations to the greens and tees. He reckons he's played just half a dozen or so rounds in the past year.
"If I'd practised all the hours volunteering I've done, I'd be a scratch golfer. But that's the real fun of the Aquarius and its unique appeal. The voluntary nature of the club is what makes it so special," said Derek.
"We're not in the same league as the vast majority of private golf clubs, with their well-financed resources and equipment. The only way we can hold membership levels and attract a wide range of people to play golf here is to keep the running costs as low as possible, so we can keep the fees as low as possible. It's the community spirit that keeps us going, carries us forward."
"Local demographics have changed substantially in recent years and there are lots of young working professionals wanting a golf club on their doorstep."
Jim Halliday has been Secretary at the Aquarius since 2001, in his spare time when in BT management and now in retirement. A big achievement of his in building up club membership was to take it through the Investors in Volunteers process, making the Aquarius the first golf club - if not sports club - to achieve this status. Quite a feather in Jim's and the club's cap is that the English Golf Union now uses Aquarius documentation in respect of the award as a template to encourage other clubs to achieve it.
The most recent example of volunteering zeal was when the supporting floor beams in the clubhouse required urgent repair. Six club members with suitable professional skills stepped forward and put things right in a week. Two of them even gave up their day job to come and help. It's clearly quite normal for Aquarius members to chip in when the chips are down.
Thames Water is the club's landlord. It is very much a working site, so occasionally there are issues that affect play and course maintenance. In his time, the course has twice had to be dug up to replace a vital section of reservoir membrane, Jim Halliday recalls.
"Occasional smaller scale excavation for reservoir maintenance has to be accepted as a hazard of life at the Aquarius," he said.
This brings us to the subject of looking after the course itself, and Jack Percival's part in things.
Jack has been at the club since September last year. Previously, he was at Addington Palace Golf Club as a mechanic and Purley Downs Golf Club before that. He first came to the Aquarius to offer mechanics know-how to renovation work, and it was his knowledge of course upkeep and enthusiasm for the special challenges here that brought the offer of a full-time job looking after the playing surface.
All work is done in-house, and Jack is never short of volunteers. He does admit though that his weekly job planning nearly always has to adapt to their availability. He can pretty much count on six regulars, most notably 86-year old Eric Wildego, who cuts the fairways every single day and been doing so for the past twenty-five years.
"They just wind me up and let me go," Eric said wryly. Seeing him later, skillfully making neat work of the sloping grassed roof of the reservoir shows it is far from a mechanical operation.
Jack is hampered in the care of much of the course fairways because of restrictions in the use of chemicals. The risk of leakage into mains water simply cannot be taken. He is setting about making the course entirely organic and is already getting over the 'no chemicals' restriction by spraying with compost tea, which he gets from Symbio. He and Derek spray the course twice a week using knapsack sprayers.
As far as the nine greens are concerned, he dresses all of them by hand and, in the first week of September alone, had put down twenty tonnes by shovel!
There are three different ages of green at the club. Two are just eight years old, three were re-built in 2003, and the remaining four date right back to 1913. Putting surface consistency is a challenge for the golfers and, of course, Jack too. The second green, for example, just sits on a clay bowl and is a particular problem.
Jack is trying gradually to evolve all of the greens to a mixture of bent and fescue in order to achieve a decent consistency for play and maintenance purposes. Bit by bit, he is making an effort to change the soil content of the clay greens (like the 2nd) by 'digging' holes and brushing in the sand dressing by hand. He knows it won't work overnight and it will take him a couple of years to be able to grow the same grass species successfully on all greens. He's on the case, and Aquarius golfers say the greens are already so much better than they were.
The fairways on the reservoir surface area are on generally poor soil and twice in recent times, in 1990 and 2001, the whole area had to be stripped and put back by Thames Water. Soil depth is actually just eighteen inches or so.
A particular problem Jack has on the fairways that's a direct consequence of the reservoir beneath is the abundance of daisies in spring. "It looks like snow sometimes," he says.
"We cannot use herbicide, so our only course of action is to mow them out. It sounds amusing, but it can make spotting a golf ball quite difficult."
A visual inspection of the reservoir slope is carried out two or three times a week by Thames Water to see that there is no untoward movement. A regularly cut golf course makes this task easier and, in reality, without the existence of the Aquarius the company would have to pay to have the whole area constantly kept trim. Club volunteers do the job for them.
Every one who joins the club is made well aware of its unusual nature and challenges. Jim Halliday takes every prospective member around the whole 9-hole course by way of a health and safety induction.
"Now and again you might drive off either the first, fifth or seventh tee at the top end of the course only to find, when you get near the green, a couple of men in white boiler suits digging a hole. It's not a daily occurrence, but it is a something our members now and again have to accept," said Jim.
This summer, a 39-inch main, responsible for supplying over 50,000 homes, sprang a leak, which showed itself as a bubbling mass of surface water on the fourth fairway. Within an hour, it was cordoned off and diggers were in position to tackle it. Reinstatement is a recurring issue, and the club deals with the smaller ones itself. A while ago, however, two greens were affected by leak repair work and Thames Water paid for complete replacements. The course is a feast, but it can be a moveable one, which is another aspect of its uniqueness.
The club doesn't have a lot of resources, but it's far from hand to mouth. The volunteer management and Jack Percival do what is sensible and practical to meet all the needs using whatever contacts they have and whatever is volunteered by the membership. For example, galvanised tee-markers for each of the holes are made by a club member, who happens to work in a metal factory.
The formidable Henry Cotton, one of Britain's greatest ever golfers, started playing golf at the Aquarius when he was twelve years old, not long after the First World War. It was on the course that he honed his natural schoolboy talent for the game and won the first of many titles. In 1923, he was one of the early winners of the Hutchins Trophy, named after the Chairman of the Vauxhall and Southwark Water Company, which built the reservoir and started the golf club.
Back in 2008, Jim took this and other Henry Cotton trophies and books relating to his time as a player at the Aquarius (owned by club) along to BBC's Antiques Roadshow when it was filmed at the nearby Dulwich Gallery. Archive footage shows the club secretary on screen talking about the Henry Cotton memorabilia which, at that time, was valued at £6-8,000.
Henry Cotton went on to win the British Open three times, in 1934, 1937 and 1948. His legendary appeal goes on and is a proud part of the Aquarius history. Earlier this year, golf broadcaster Peter Alliss visited the club, and particularly asked to see the club books with Henry Cotton's scores in them.
The club has an excellent on-going working relationship with Thames Water, whose engineers are on site almost daily for routine maintenance work, but there is no formal reporting procedure with the company in respect of how they conduct golf club matters or look after the course.
Thames Water and the Aquarius Club are always going to be mutually beneficial to one another. Secure and private golf for the tenant golf club on the one hand: a landlord's responsibility for an open green space satisfied by having it kept in good order for them on the other.
For health and safety reasons alone, Thames Water do not want external workmen coming on to a jungle to carry out maintenance tasks, and it has the dawn to dusk security patrol of club members and its volunteers. For Aquarius golfers it's a small and quirky price to pay, and gives a round an extra element of surprise.


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The Ohio Supercomputer Center (Columbus, Ohio) recently announced that it was deploying the 1.3 petaflop Dell EMC-built Pitzer Cluster, its most efficient supercomputer system, which includes PowerEdge servers with direct liquid cooling designed by CoolIT Systems.
OSC’s new Dell EMC-built Pitzer Cluster will serve a wide range of clients, with features that will enhance research involving machine learning and Big Data.
The Pitzer Cluster, named for the center’s co-founder Russel M. Pitzer, will be used by scientists working on a variety of research projects, including studies of the human genome and mapping the global spread of viruses, according to the center.
The cluster has 260 nodes, 528 Intel Xeon Gold 6148 processors, and 64 NVIDIA Tesla V100 Tensor Core GPU all connected by an EDR InfiniBand network.
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Information security specialist Bader Bader said that the wave of pro-Palestinian cyberattacks that hit yesterday important Israeli official websites would significantly affect the Israeli occupation at the security and social levels.
Bader expressed his belief in a press statement to the Palestinian information center (PIC) that the Israeli citizens feel afraid that their personal information and phone numbers could be compromised, so they are dubious about using websites and going online.
He opined that the hacking of websites belonging to sovereign Israeli ministries and bodies such as the website of the Mossad could inflict widespread damage on Israel in case any leaked crucial information reached its opponents.
"The coming days will tell us about the significance of this information and the amount of damage the Zionists has suffered from its leakage," the specialist said.
For his part, member of Hamas's political bureau Ezzat Al-Resheq saluted what he described as the cyber resistance for its successful cyberattacks on the Israeli occupation.
Reshe stated on Monday that the success of the hackers in penetrating and disrupting a considerable number of Israeli official websites and facebook accounts vindicated further that Israel's entity and security are so weak and fragile, and can be defeated only by force.
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Senior Palestinian internal security official Mohamed Lafi warned that the cellular phones and the facebook social networking site are fertile and active ground for Israeli intelligence activities to immerse young men in the quagmire of espionage and treason.
In a lecture he gave to raise the security awareness of the Gazan society on Sunday, Lafi stressed the need for promoting a Palestinian culture criminalizing any involvement in spying activities for the Israeli occupation.
Lafi also talked about the means and methods used by the Israeli intelligence to recruit young men, and highlighted the espionage activities that took place before and after the first intifada in 1987 and were more rampant after the emergence of the Palestinian Authority in 1994 and until today.
He affirmed that the Palestinian internal security apparatus had found after the internal events in the summer of 2007 a file proving the involvement of the Palestinian Authority's security agencies in spying and surveillance activities against the Palestinian resistance, noting that these security agencies still work for the Israeli occupation.
The security official finally gave tips and guidelines on how to avoid falling into the trap of the Israeli intelligence and urged the parents to raise the awareness of their children about dealing cautiously with the modern communication means and not only teach them how to use such things.
The hacktivist collective claims to have caused more than $3 billion in damage in protest against treatment of Palestinians, but officials say the attack has caused minimal disruption.
Anonymous claims that a cyberattack launched against Israeli government Web sites this weekend has caused billions of dollars of damage, although Israeli officials say there have been no major disruptions.
The group estimates that #OpIsrael has caused more than $3 billion in damage, hacking more than 100,000 Web sites, 40,000 Facebook accounts, and 30,000 bank accounts belonging to Israelis.
However, Yitzhak Ben Yisrael, of the government's National Cyber Bureau, said the campaign has caused minimal disruption to key government Web sites.
"So far it is as was expected, there is hardly any real damage," Ben Yisrael told the media. "Anonymous doesn't have the skills to damage the country's vital infrastructure. And if that was its intention, then it wouldn't have announced the attack ahead of time. It wants to create noise in the media about issues that are close to its heart."
This is the second time in recent months that Israel has been targeted by the hacktivist collective, which is protesting Israeli policy toward the Palestinians. A similar attack last November spawned millions of hack attempts, but the government said at the time that the disruption was minimal.
Members of the group warned last week that they would "disrupt and erase Israel from cyberspace" on April 7, saying the government had "crossed a line in the sand" when it threatened to sever all Internet and other telecommunications in and outside of Gaza. Israel observes Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 7.
Palestinian political analysts said that the cyberattacks on Israeli websites on Sunday can be very costly for the Israeli occupation and the next few hours will reveal the severity of its losses.
Political analyst Hasan Abdo told the Palestinian information center (PIC) that such cyberwarfare could be considered one of the most effective modern tools to confront the occupation and its crimes, calling for not underestimating it.
"Having such large number of supporters for the Palestinian cause from all over the world joining forces with each other to launch such coordinated and successful attack confirms that this warfare is going to bear fruit," Abdo emphasized.
He added that the coming hours would disclose the size of the Israeli failure to protect its electronic defenses.
For his part, Tawfiq Abu Shumer, a specialist in Israeli affairs, told the PIC that the cyberattacks undoubtedly affect and destabilize the Israeli occupation state, noting that the Israeli government hastened yesterday after receiving threats in this regard to warn its citizens to be cautious when dealing with emails and websites.
Abu Shumer hailed the international hacking group "Anonymous" for waging cyberattacks on behalf of the Palestinian people against the Zionist entity that occupied their land.
He also appreciated its stated support for the Palestinian people and their national cause and urged it to continue its cyberwarfare against the occupation and to target the most important Israeli security and military websites.
Dozens of Israeli websites were hacked in early hours Sunday, including pages of the Israeli premier's office and the Tel Aviv stock exchange, in the largest cyber offensive yet against the Israeli occupation regime.
The cyberattack was dubbed as "Operation Israel" and led by the multinational hacking group "Anonymous," which says its cyber campaign aims to retaliate to Israel's crimes in Gaza and the West Bank.
Several official websites were defaced today with photos of long-term hunger striker Samer Issawi, deceased Palestinian prisoner Maysara Abu Hamdiya and other posters reflecting the group's support for Palestine and its people.
"The names and email addresses of some 1,500 Mossad agents have also been made public in the Google Documents service."
The organizers said it would be "the largest Internet battle in the history of mankind" that would eventually "wipe Israel off the map of the Internet" on April 7.
For its part, Haaretz newspaper also said today that the Israeli websites were hit widely in a wave of cyberattacks and the extent of damage is yet unknown.
Popular committees and movements and youth groups called on Sunday for closing the main streets in the West Bank and organizing marches in support of prisoners on Monday. Local sources said that a number of popular committees and movements intend to stage marches on the main streets and bypass roads in al-Khalil to prevent Jewish settlers from moving freely in the Palestinians lands.
This step comes as part of the events organized in support of prisoners and in condemnation of the death of prisoner Maysara Abu Hamdiya and the deterioration of prisoner Issawi's health condition.
Youth groups have also posted calls on social networking websites for blocking movement of Jewish settlers between West Bank cities, while some districts in the West Bank have been preventing movement of settlers for the fifth day.
Meanwhile, violent clashes broke out in the old City and Bab Zawiya in al-Khalil and Khader area in Bethlehem. The young men called for expanding the confrontations and preventing the settlers from moving, in support of the prisoners.
The websites of Israel’s Ministry of Military Affairs and spy agency, Mossad, have been targeted by Anonymous hackers as the group launched a cyber attack campaign against Israeli websites.
The hacking group, Anonymous, launched a cyber attack campaign targeting Israeli regime websites to protest against Tel Aviv's policy towards the Palestinians.
Several Israeli websites reported slowdowns on Saturday night. The websites of Israel's Bureau of Statistics and the Education Ministry were down on Sunday, but Israeli officials claimed that the sites were temporarily out of action "because of a technical fault" and that the hackers have failed to cause serious disruption.
The two websites, however, were among the 1,300 Israeli websites listed by Anonymous as targets.
Several privately owned sites have also come under attack. According to Israeli daily Haaretz, hackers have also attacked almost 19,000 Israeli Facebook accounts on Sunday.
“You have NOT stopped your endless human right violations. You have NOT stopped illegal settlements. You have NOT respected the ceasefire. You have shown that you do NOT respect international law,” Anonymous said in a statement referring to the Israeli regime.
“This is why on April 7, elite cyber-squadrons from around the world have decided to unite in solidarity with the Palestinian people against Israel as one entity to disrupt and erase Israel from the cyberspace,” the Anonymous statement added.
Hackers disrupted dozens of Israeli websites on Sunday, after members of the Anonymous collective announced a plan to cause wide-scale outages, Israeli media reported.
Among the targets was the Israel police website, but it was quickly brought back online, Israel's Haaretz newspaper reported.
It also identified the privately owned Israel Military online catalogue as another target. Anonymous said it collected email addresses and credit card numbers, something the company denied.
"You have not stopped your endless human rights violations," Anonymous said explaining the attacks.
"You have not stopped illegal settlements. You have not respected the cease-fire (between Israel and Hamas in November). You have shown that you do not respect international law."
The Israeli government denied claims that the hackers brought down important government sites, including the website of the Israeli prime minister's office and the Central Bureau of Statistics.
Haaretz quoted a source at the Israeli defense ministry as confirming its site had been hacked briefly.
The Israeli army, meanwhile, denied Anonymous' claim that soldiers were arresting the hackers.
The Jerusalem Post newspaper reported that Israeli hackers were fighting back and breaking into a server hosting the anti-Israel "nerve center."
It said the "OpIsrael" website was taken over by an Israeli hacker calling himself EhIsR.
The hacker posted content such as “Israel became a nation in 1312 BCE, 2,000 years before the rise of Islam,” according to the report.
“At this stage, we are mainly seeing a buildup of tension and power struggles between Israeli hackers and hackers from various groups who have joined Anonymous. Anonymous hackers are updating lists of websites they intend to attack," Roni Becher of the Avnet information security company told the Post.
Israeli officials played down the significance of the attacks.
Government Internet official Yitzhak Ben Yisrael said the hacking spree was mostly a failure.
"So far it is as was expected, there is hardly any real damage," Ben Yisrael told the Ynet news site.
"Anonymous doesn't have the skills to damage the country's vital infrastructure. And if that was its intention, then it wouldn't have announced the attack ahead of time. It wants to create noise in the media about issues that are close to its heart," he said.
Israeli websites have come under massive cyber attacks in solidarity with Palestinians following a warning by the hacker group Anonymous that threatened to ‘erase’ Israel from the internet.
Websites including the sites owned by the Bank of Israel, Tax Authority, and the Central Bureau of Statistics came under cyber attacks on Saturday night.
“This is why on April 7, elite cyber-squadrons from around the world have decided to unite in solidarity with the Palestinian people against Israel as one entity to disrupt and erase Israel from cyberspace,” the Anonymous statement added, listing 1,300 Israeli websites as targets.
The Israeli daily Haaretz reported on Sunday that the hackers also attacked almost 19,000 Israeli Facebook accounts.
The first ‘Op-Israel’ was launched by Anonymous during the eight-day Israeli war on the Gaza Strip in November 2012.
Some 700 Israeli websites came under repeated cyber attacks.
The Israeli ministry for financial affairs reported an estimated 44 million unique attacks on the regime’s websites during the cyber operation in November.
In late March, the internet hacking group said on its twitter page that it gained access to the personal data of more than 30,000 Israeli officials, including military officials, politicians and Mossad agents.
President Mahmoud Abbas’ advisor for communications and information technology Sabri Saydam Sunday said that Israel decided to respond to the cyber attacks against it by arresting several Palestinian activists.
Hackers around the world have been organizing to target Israel in a mass cyber attack on Sunday, April 7, according to the Israeli daily, Haaretz.
Sydam told WAFA that nothing indicates that Palestine has anything to do with the hackers hacking Israeli sites, stressing that this is a cyberspace battle and internet space is open to all.
He said that many anonymous activists around the world announced their intentions of launching an electronic attack against the Israeli sites on April 7th and they did attacked a number of Israeli sites and Facebook accounts which Israel responded to by hacking Palestinian sites.
He stressed the need to be prepared for such attacks through updating and making copies of data away from the web and saving them, communicating with service providers to update electronic protection systems, as well as not opening unknown links.
Sydam said that if Israel cuts off internet services Palestinian internet will be affected, adding that the Palestinian sites hacked were important but not sensitive.
Late Saturday night, hackers affiliated with the worldwide network known as ‘Anonymous’ attacked hundreds of Israeli websites as part of a campaign targeting Israel for their occupation of Palestinian land and attacks against Palestinian civilians.
On Saturday night, a group calling itself ‘The N4m3le55 cr3w’ announced that they “have gathered 600 websites and 100 plus servers we will be attacking”, and promised that the total number of sites that would be taken down and/or defaced would number more than thirteen hundred.
As of Sunday morning, hundreds of Israeli websites, including the Bank of Israel, Tax Authority, the Kadima partyand the Central Bureau of Statistics, were down, and hundreds more had been taken down by their owners as a precaution against attack.
While the Israeli government claimed that Distributed Denial of Service (dDoS) attacks were the only tools that the hackers would be able to use to get at the Israeli websites, other sources claim that the hackers have been able to infiltrate websites with malware and Trojan horses. This creates a more complex security problem for the website owners than the dDoS attacks, which take down a site temporarily by overloading the server with page requests.
Saturday’s attack follows a massive attack two weeks ago by anonymous in which the details of hundreds of Israeli officials were released, and a virus that infected Israeli Facebook users earlier this week.
In a statement explaining the reason for this attack, Anonymous said to the Israeli government “You have NOT stopped your endless human right violations. You have NOT stopped illegal settlements. You have NOT respected the ceasefire. You have shown that you do NOT respect international law”.
Israeli occupation under cyberattacks by "Anonymous"
An international hacking group called "Anonymous" claimed responsibility for defacing and attacking dozens of important Israeli websites on Sunday morning in retaliation to its crimes against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
In a video recorded statement posted a few hours ago on Youtube website and others, the group said it would start as of Sunday morning a cyber-campaign called "Operation Israel" against Israeli official websites.
Hours after the statement was launched, "Anonymous" published a list of about 17 sites it claimed had been defaced or attacked as part of its second campaign Operation Israel. Many of the sites had their homepages replaced with messages supporting the Palestinian people and their resistance.
The websites of Israel's central bureau of statistics, its army, and other governmental websites were defaced by Anonymous.
It said it had initiated its second cyberattacks on Israel to specially avenge Israel's crimes during its 2012 war on Gaza as well as its repeated violations that resulted in the killing of four Palestinians since it brokered its last truce agreement with the Palestinian resistance.
This is a transcript of the video recorded statement as released by "Anonymous."
"During November 2012, Israel's aggression towards the people living in the Gaza strip resulted in the death of more than one hundred people. This included thirty children and wounding more than 1000 others. At the time of the aggression, Operation Israel was launched. Within few hours of the operation launch, there were thousands of defaces and hacks, databases released or deleted, dozens of disruptions to government sites and more. Peace had been achieved for the residents of Gaza and Israel. However, this peace was short lived."
"As many mainstream media outlets have made known, Israel has broken the November 21st ceasefire truce by launching air strikes in northern Gaza. What these mainstream media outlets do not allow you to know is that Israel has violated the ceasefire agreement more than one hundred times, killing four Palestinians in Gaza, and injuring dozens of others between November 21st and today."
"Furthermore, Palestinians from Gaza to the West Bank continue to be attacked, raided, segregated, imprisoned and grossly mistreated in prison while illegal Israeli settlements and Israeli land theft continues unchecked, even after a UN panel declared these settlements illegal in January. Gaza suffers a seemingly endless and inhumane blockade where the only import is Israeli sewage pumped directly into it and the US made teargas, bombs, and bullets that are used by the IDF to attack a largely defenseless population."
"To the government of Israel, you have not stopped your endless human right violations. You have not stopped illegal settlements. You have not respected the ceasefire. You have shown that you do not respect international law. This is why that on April 7, elite cyber-squadrons from around the world have decided to unite in solidarity with the Palestinian people against Israel as one entity to disrupt and erase Israel from cyberspace."
"We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. To the Government of Israel, it is too late to expect us."
Internet hackers belonging to Anonymous group have renewed their threats to "erase Israel from the Internet" on April 7, saying that their efforts will form the largest online assault on a single country in history, The Jerusalem Post Israeli newspaper reported Friday.
The newspaper revealed that the pro-Palestinian statements included a threat to strike every website in the Israeli cyber-sphere.
"Cease and desist from your terror upon the innocent people of Palestine or you will know the full and unbridled wrath of Anonymous, " group Anonymous said, " And like all the other evil governments that have faced our rage, you will NOT survive it unscathed.
To the people of Gaza and the "Occupied Territories", know that Anonymous stands with you in this fight."
Israeli experts warned from the possibility of leaking of some private information, credit cards details and significance slowdown in the speed of the internet as results of the attack. They also called on the Israelis not to surf in that day and recommended them to take a day or two off.

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Hi, thanks for the really great product. But currently I have a problem with contact photos which are uploaded to the CalDav-Server via CardDavMate.
CardDavMate resize every new photo via Canvas and save it as PNG. When I am now sync this vcard with DAVDroid on my Android, everything is visible. Only the contact photo is missing.
Here some debug information from DavDroid.
Thanks for your report. Probably this is because of the image type (PNG), but I don’t know.
Can you please give detailed steps to reproduce? Can you provide a test account, because I don’t have CardDavMate?
Yes, how can I send you the details (username, password, server urls, …) - I send you the details per chat.
Create an contact over CardDavMate, or use a exist contact.
Synchronize the new contact via DavDroid to Android.
Details are in the chat.
I think (although I have no prove yet) the reason is that CardDavMate sends all images in PNG format.
This makes images (especially photos) really big, and there are IPC-induced size limitations in what DAVdroid can put into the PHOTO blob.
It seems like BitmapFactory which is used to inflate the image can’t process this specific image, or images from CardDavMate, or PNG images in general.
If my assumption is true, then this is an incompatibility between CardDavMate (sending PNG images) and Android (not be able to process these PNG images). The VCard 3 RFC doesn’t say anything about which image formats have to be supported.
Do you know why CardDavMate sends photos as a PNG? Although it’s of course a valid choice, JPEG makes much more sense in my opinion (takes far less space, especially for photos). For logos, PNG may be a a better choice.
I think the PNG is the default ouput format, when you resize an image on client side via canvas.
Thanks for your analyse, I will send an email to the creators of CardDavMate.
@rfc2822 It is a bug in CardDavMATE. the next release will have the fix.
Here the email from the developer (support).
there is a bug in the current version of CardDavMATE what may be related to your problem.
isn’t a valid VCard 3 PHOTO property (could have told that from the logs).
I hope that this will be fixed with the CardDavMate update. Could you already test it?
@rfc2822 Yes, I test the fix (diff of the linked post) and it works. But I also made a feature request to the activate automatic resize function. So we can close the issue in this forum.
Ok, thanks. There are (by intention) no issues here, as this is just a forum, but I will set the “solved” tag (you can set tags yourself by editing the original posting).


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Can´t wait for your video of it flying.
I gotta get back revising anyway instead of watchin vids and reading flite test.
Cheap is nice !!! i just did the same; my nephew is 2 years old and he forgot his toy cellphone in my place; that thing (used to) had lots of leds !!
Can you see the Bixler ??
the 2 pieces carry their own tiny battery and have a on/off switch, what else do we need !! SWEEEET !!!


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WINNING WAYS: St Ives CC members Rachel Smith, Terry Cooke and Paul Davis.
ST IVES Cycling Club's Rachel Smith took the accolade of being Ladies Individual Champion at the Northants and District Cycling Association annual award ceremony last Sunday.
The championship consists of 10 time trials for both men and women, contested throughout the eastern region on country roads.
Smith's outright victory in the Ladies Individual Championship was not the only club success as Terry Cooke took a worthy second place in the Veterans Individual Championship.
The club's top time triallist of last season, Paul Davis, collected the most awards winning the fastest 25-mile time and second place in both the overall championship and the short distance championship.
St Ives CC have consistently fielded strong teams for the races and was rewarded when the club lifted the best team prize, a much coveted award that the club last won in 2006.
Many of the club's less high profile riders contributed towards the victory, each one scoring points toward the prize.
Members have a brief rest before the season begins in April.


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The third New York State Regional singing of 1997 was held at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Cazenovia, New York. The singing was called to order by Dan Brittain leading song on page 31b, and then offering an opening prayer.
Leaders: Jason Law 66; Barbara Swetman 59, 107; Allen Fannin 373, 378t; Kat Kinkade 441, 481; Tim Brown 84, 38t; Margaret Bornick 146, 497; Laura Densmore 99, 28t; Scott Luscombe 86, 159; Dennis Leipold 56t, 61; Dan Brittain 72t, 121; Walter Hartley 24b, 299.
The singing resumed with Dan Brittain leading song on page 297. Leaders: Chris Haller 56b, 277; Barbara Swetman 300, 390; Ginny Huszagh 198, 78; Margaret Bornick 455, 454; Jason Law 178, 268; Allen Fannin 551, 445b; Kat Kinkade 282, 372; Tim Brown 479, 40.
The singing resumed with Barbara Swetman leading song on 114. Leaders: Laura Densmore 528, 163b; Scott Luscombe 228, 324; Dennis Leipold 272, 274t; Dan Brittain 214, “Suffield” from the James Book; Walter Hartley 236; Chris Haller 184, 523; Ginny Huszagh 195, 186.
The class was called to order by Dan Brittain leading song on 82t. Leaders: Allen Fannin 196, 33b; Barbara Swetman 285t, 504; Kat Kinkade 411, 383; Tim Brown 143, 361; Laura Densmore 142, 260; Scott Luscombe 192; Dennis Leipold 434, 480; Dan Brittain 353, 108b; Margaret Bornick 472, 276; Walter Hartley 452, 229.
The singing resumed with Dan Brittain leading songs on pages 176t and 177. Leaders: Chris Haller 254; Ginny Huszagh 120, 313b; Jason Law 49b; Allen Fannin 189; Barbara Swetman 38b; Kat Kincade 163t; Tim Brown 34b; Laura Densmore 350; Dennis Leipold 156; Margaret Bornick 209; Dan Brittain 145t; Walter Hartley 47b; Chris Haller 191; Ginny Huszagh 148.
Announcements were made. Ron Bornick reported that we had 29 (t? b?) registration cards filled out. Singers came from 3 states: Virginia, Pennsylvania, and 16 towns in New York. Dan Brittain led 69b, and dismissed the class with a benediction.
Chairman—Dan Brittain; Arranging—Ron Bornick; Secretary—Barbara Swetman.


text: Theatre Committee invites the community to a free showing of the 1931 film Frankenstein starring Boris Karloff. Frankenstein premiered on November 21st, 1931, and Universal Studio had a bona fide hit on their hands. Come experience the terror of this classic story and get ready for auditions at the same time. The film begins at 7:30pm, but come early to find out about auditions on September 12 and 13 for SAAC’s fall production of Frankenstein. Director Del Gates and Assistant Director Gary Hall will be on hand to talk with anyone interested in auditioning.