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CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa., March 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Directors of Quaker Chemical Corporation (NYSE: KWR) today declared a quarterly dividend of $0.245 per share, payable on April 30, 2013, to shareholders of record at the close of business on April 16, 2013.
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Quaker Chemical is a leading global provider of process fluids, chemical specialties, and technical expertise to a wide range of industries, including steel, aluminum, automotive, mining, aerospace, tube and pipe, cans, and others. For nearly 100 years, Quaker has helped customers around the world achieve production efficiency, improve product quality, and lower costs through a combination of innovative technology, process knowledge, and customized services. Headquartered in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania USA, Quaker serves businesses worldwide with a network of dedicated and experienced professionals whose mission is to make a difference.
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There is scope
for debate – and innumerable newspaper quizzes – about
who was the most influential public figure of the year, or which
the most significant event. But there can be little doubt which
word won the prize for most important adjective. 2009 was the year
in which "global" swept the rest of the political lexicon
into obscurity. There were "global crises" and "global
challenges", the only possible resolution to which lay in "global
solutions" necessitating "global agreements". Gordon
Brown actually suggested something called a "global alliance"
in response to climate change. (Would this be an alliance against
the Axis of Extra-Terrestrials?)
Some of this
was sheer hokum: when uttered by Gordon Brown, the word "global",
as in "global economic crisis", meant: "It's not
my fault". To the extent that the word had intelligible meaning,
it also had political ramifications that were scarcely examined
by those who bandied it about with such ponderous self-importance.
The mere utterance of it was assumed to sweep away any consideration
of what was once assumed to be the most basic principle of modern
democracy: that elected national governments are responsible to
their own people – that the right to govern derives from the
consent of the electorate.
The dangerous
idea that the democratic accountability of national governments
should simply be dispensed with in favour of "global agreements"
reached after closed negotiations between world leaders never, so
far as I recall, entered into the arena of public discussion. Except
in the United States, where it became a very contentious talking
point, the US still holding firmly to the 18th-century idea that
power should lie with the will of the people.
Nor was much
consideration given to the logical conclusion of all this grandiose
talk of global consensus as unquestionably desirable: if there was
no popular choice about approving supranational "legally binding
agreements", what would happen to dissenters who did not accept
their premises (on climate change, for example) when there was no
possibility of fleeing to another country in protest? Was this to
be regarded as the emergence of world government? And would it have
powers of policing and enforcement that would supersede the authority
of elected national governments? In effect, this was the infamous
"democratic deficit" of the European Union elevated on
to a planetary scale. And if the EU model is anything to go by,
then the agencies of global authority will involve vast tracts of
power being handed to unelected officials. Forget the relatively
petty irritations of Euro-bureaucracy: welcome to the era of Earth-bureaucracy,
when there will be literally nowhere to run.
But, you may
say, however dire the political consequences, surely there is something
in this obsession with global dilemmas. Economics is now based on
a world market, and if the planet really is facing some sort of
man-made climate crisis, then that too is a problem that transcends
national boundaries. Surely, if our problems are universal the solutions
must be as well.
Well, yes and
no. Calling a problem "global" is meant to imply three
different things: that it is the result of the actions of people
in different countries; that those actions have impacted on the
lives of everyone in the world; and that the remedy must involve
pretty much identical responses or correctives to those actions.
These are separate premises, any of which might be true without
the rest of them necessarily being so. The banking crisis certainly
had its roots in the international nature of finance, but the way
it affected countries and peoples varied considerably according
to the differences in their internal arrangements. Britain suffered
particularly badly because of its addiction to public and private
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Reducing the Threat of Wildland Fires Requires Sustained and Coordinated Effort
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The over accumulation of vegetation is a serious problem, particularly in the interior West, where it is causing an increasing number of uncontrollable and destructive wildfires. The policy response to this was the development of the National Fire Plan--a long-term multibillion dollar effort to address wildland fire threats. GAO's work on wildland fires identified three needs: (1) a cohesive strategy to address growing threats to national forest resources and nearby communities from catastrophic wildfires, (2) clearly defined and effective leadership to carry out that strategy in a coordinated manner, and (3) accountability to ensure that progress is being made toward accomplishing the goals of the National Fire Plan. Two years ago, the Forest Service and the Department of the Interior developed strategies to address these problems, and recently established a leadership entity to respond to the need for greater contingency coordination. Whether the strategy and the council will serve as the framework and mechanism to effectively deal with the threat of a catastrophic wildland fire will depend on how well the National Fire Plan is implemented. To determine the effectiveness of this effort, a sound performance accountability framework with specific performance measures and data to assess implementation progress and problems is needed.
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Climate Change:Better Management of Exposure to Potential Future Losses Is Needed for Federal Flood and Crop InsuranceGAO-15-28: Published: Oct 29, 2014. Publicly Released: Nov 20, 2014.
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NOAA's Observing Systems:Additional Steps Needed to Achieve an Integrated, Cost-Effective PortfolioGAO-15-96: Published: Nov 17, 2014. Publicly Released: Nov 17, 2014.
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Climate Change:USDA's Ongoing Efforts Can Be Enhanced with Better Metrics and More Relevant Information for FarmersGAO-14-755: Published: Sep 16, 2014. Publicly Released: Oct 16, 2014.
Oct 14, 2014
Ocean Acidification:Federal Response Under Way, but Actions Needed to Understand and Address Potential ImpactsGAO-14-736: Published: Sep 12, 2014. Publicly Released: Oct 14, 2014.
Sep 23, 2014
Drinking Water:Characterization of Injected Fluids Associated with Oil and Gas ProductionGAO-14-857R: Published: Sep 23, 2014. Publicly Released: Sep 23, 2014.
Sep 22, 2014
Army Corps of Engineers:The Corps Needs to Take Steps to Identify All Projects and Studies Eligible for DeauthorizationGAO-14-699: Published: Aug 21, 2014. Publicly Released: Sep 22, 2014.
Sep 19, 2014
Fish Stock Assessments:Prioritization and FundingGAO-14-794R: Published: Sep 19, 2014. Publicly Released: Sep 19, 2014.
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EPA Regulations and Electricity:Update on Agencies' Monitoring Efforts and Coal-Fueled Generating Unit RetirementsGAO-14-672: Published: Aug 15, 2014. Publicly Released: Sep 15, 2014.
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Missouri River Flood and Drought:Experts Agree the Corps Took Appropriate Action, Given the Circumstances, but Should Examine New Forecasting TechniquesGAO-14-741: Published: Sep 12, 2014. Publicly Released: Sep 12, 2014.
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Users of iPads and other tablet devices will tell you how wonderful it is to be able to view web pages and graphical emails in the palm of their hand. They'll also wax lyrical about the value of a 10-inch screen and how brilliant that is for checking emails compared with the tiny little screens on the iPhone. Maybe.
More email is now opened on a mobile device than on a desktop. The average desktop computer uses a 19-inch screen nowadays, but the average mobile screen is still only three or four inches. In spite of the popularity of iPads and similar devices the bulk of email opening is on phones.
This means that if your email marketing is based on a graphical template there is a chance that the bulk of your recipients will not be able to view it effectively.
And there are two other factors combining now to make graphically-based emails more of a problem. As more and more people use mobile devices the telephone companies have started to restrict new contracts with much more limited and less generous data allowances. Gone are the "unlimited" data arrangements for most people; nowadays data is increasingly costly. And that means users – such as your email recipients – will be more wary about downloading complete emails, especially if they are graphical ones as they will eat into their more restricted data allowances.
On top of this, there's another issue people are muttering about. The graphical email SEEMS less personal. If you are using a fancy template it is clearly not something you are going to produce on a one-to-one basis. Open rates for email marketing hover around an average of 20% – eight out of ten people ignore them. One of the reasons is that they know they are marketing emails because they are not personalised as much as they might be and part of the influence of this apparent lack of personalisation is the use of graphical email templates.
So three things are colliding – the increased use of small screens, lower data allowances for mobiles and the heightened awareness that graphical probably means non-personal. There can only be one result of this combination – an increase in the desire for text-only emails.
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Hi everyone - This is my first post on here, though I've been lurking shamelessly since I even *thought* of pursuing nursing. That was long enough ago that I've been through the rigors of an ADN program (going back for the... Read More
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How long did it take you exactly? I had a phone interview with them and I wanted to know how long I should wait because I really want to work at CHOA but another hospital is interested in me. Thanks!
- 0Nov 25, '12 by JmontanezHi, I am graduating in December and am starting to apply. CHOA is a top choice for me, but I am having a hard time finding out who the nurse recruiter or hiring manager is and I do not want to leave that blank on my resume or cover letter. I will be a new grad without experience in nursing and I live in a tiny drinking town in the Florida Keys where an interview in rare, if you show up the job is yours, so any pointers on interviewing would be great. Thanks!
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Does CHOA accept new grads for jobs that are not in the residency program? Does anyone know the starting hourly (I'm graduating with my BSN in August).


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Recent reviews of titles here:Student Council's Discretion Blu-ray Season 1 Collection (S)
Jordan Domingo - Dec 16 2014 firstname.lastname@example.com
Rating: Wonderful!
Hilarious and worth the watch
this is a show that mostly takes place in one spot but has many outside references (especially in ep 1) its a harem but the protagonist isn't shy about it. full of laughs and has HIGH RE-WATCH VALUE!
Tamako Market DVD Complete Collection (Hyb) MEGADEAL!
Nikki S. Sarvados - Dec 17 2014
Rating: Not all that good.
Disappointing... But not unsurprising
Tamako Market has everything one might need to set up an interesting show: nice animation, interesting characters and setting, and theres even a cute animal 'mascot' (I know there's a better word for it, I just can't remember it right now). So why is it so disappointing? The animation is nice, however, if you've seen just about any other KyoAni anime, it eventually grows old, stale. The characters look like the same person with different clothes and hair slapped on. Their personalities are recycled and bland, the characters themselves are pretty one-dimensional, and the characters who are actually interesting get hardly any screen time. The jokes seem cheap, the plot itself is rather boring, and the 'romance' is forced and tacky. This is probably to be expected of a typical slice of life show by now, but there are hundreds that are more worthwhile than this one.
Haganai: I Don't Have Many Friends NEXT DVD/Blu-ray Complete Series (Hyb)
Curtis Urbanski - Dec 17 2014 firstname.lastname@example.com
Rating: Pretty good!
Great, but not as good as it should be for a BD.
Overall the show itself is wonderful, there are no real problems there.
The real problem lies with the release. Whereas the first season of Haganai went with a fully uncensored release, removing things like light rays and soap bubbles covering nudity (with one exception in episode 8) and all of the rough language and sexual innuendo Haganai Next chose not to, and actually re-censored an uncensored scene from the Japanese release.
The harsh language is still completely intact, however no censoring was removed for this seasons release. Most people won't have a problem with this, however when you can watch the exact same version online, for free on at least two sites, it's understandable that people buying physical releases expecting an uncensored version might be a little upset not getting what they expected.
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Tribe Studios
Dramagame is created by Tribe Studios Ltd.
We believe that the best game developers can give the gaming public much more. We believe in the end of grinding and domination. We believe in massively emergent stories. In truly social multiplayer gameplay. Therefore we pour our blood and sweat into Dramagame.
Tribe Studios was founded in autumn 2010 and shortly after won the Startup Sauna with the Dramagame platform. The first entertainment Dramagame is now in closed beta and available online at www.velvetsundown.com.
We are currently working on a Serious Dramagame that teaches individuals and teams the skills they need in future working environments. This production is done together with Altonova.
The Team
All emails are firstname.lastname at tribestudios.com.
Elina Arponen
Chieftain, founder
Elina used to work at Digital Chocolate for five years where her last position was Technology Team Manager. She was leading projects both locally and globally. She has a Master's degree in Computer Science and a Special Vocational Degree in Leadership. Now she is destined to spread the message that we can make high quality gaming available for everyone, even those of us who would easily deem ourselves too busy for such entertainment.
Stuff she does: Business development, Partner relations, Funding, Budget, PR & media, Customer analysis, Customer service, Website content
Ville-Kalle "VK" Arponen
Herdsman, founder
Ville-Kalle used to work at Bugbear Entertainment as Scrum Master and Lead Programmer and released Flatout: Ultimate Carnage, Sega Rally and Ridge Racer:Unbounded. Before Bugbear he worked on mobile game dev, eLearning design and the web. He has a Master's degree in Computer Science. Now he makes sure that his highly talented super team is achieving and following the same creative vision. He believes that games should grow up with their diversifying and aging audience and that talent from the retail games industry has treasures to give to the newly awakened gaming population. He is the Chairman of the Board.
Stuff he does: Creative and strategic vision, Analysis, HR, Processes, Design, Programming, Scripting
Heikki grew up with Bugbear Entertaiment from a 3D Modeller via a Lead position to the Technical Artist in charge of production pipelines and Technical Art Direction. He was involved in all Bugbear productions to date. He has a unique talent as an artist to see and use the technical possibilites of both inhouse as well as commercial tools. Heikki also has a deep interest in human psychology which helps the tribe in game design.
Stuff he does: Art asset creation, Media/PR asset rendering, 3D Modeling and Texturing, Character animation, Art pipeline design, Technical art direction, User experience and game design.
Timo "Tiki" Kämäräinen
Witch Doctor, founder
Timo used to work at Bugbear Entertainment most recently as Technical Director, developing titles such as Ridge Racer:Unbounded, Sega Rally and Flatout 2. Before Bugbear he worked with an ambitious startup in the Netherlands as an artist on the Gary Gygax Lejendary Adventure MMO. His MMO-team soon realized that letting him loose as a programmer armed with artistic talent equaled magical technology. His artistic dedication on technical design has made our Twist codebase beautiful even in places that no-one is supposed to look at.
Stuff he does: Technical vision and mastery, Modular network code, Servers, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Game Programming, Tools Programming
Jaakko has become a revered network programmer in Taika, Mountain Sheep, Chat Republic and Bugbear releasing numerous multiplayer games. Jaakko has a professional zen attitude towards everything. He channels his totemic powers to any and every technical problem that comes his way.
Stuff he does: Network programming, Network security, Service backend and plugin programming, Graphics and multiplatform programming and optimization, Game/UI programming and design
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Antero has long experience in creating web applications. He was working five years at Sulake working on Irc-galleria. Antero is fluent with many web technologies that include an impressive amount of three and four letter acronyms. Antero looks at the big picture and finds intelligent solutions and designs to customers' problems.
Stuff he does: UX design, frontend and backend programming, databases, payment solutions
All members of the tribe participate actively in some or all of our common hobbies. We all play computer and board games. We play floorball every Tuesday and Friday (sähly). We make music in Exit Plan, which publishes a nonprofessional song each month in the Monthly Music Club. We publish small noncommercial games in the Monthly Game Club just for the fun of it.


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As if there were not already enough reasons to subscribe one of BG's favourite reads, Anorak magazine, here's another one to add to the mix: their craft section. I was just reading about the Circus In My Pocket tutorial over at Molly Moo and it's just fabulous. It features a giant cardboard matchbox and troupe of colourful characters made from wine corks, polystyrene craft balls and toothpicks. Full, step-by-step instructions are available and then it's all about the props which you can make for extended play at home. Love.
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Fidelity ETF List
Fidelity Investments is an privately-held investment company founded in 1946. In addition to being one of the largest mutual fund companies in the United States, Fidelity also offers investment advisors, discount brokerage service, wealth management, life insurance, retirement services, and much more. Their ETF offerings provided by Fidelity Management and Research LLC (FMR) include the ONEQ Fidelity Nasdaq Composite Index Tracking Stock.
Fidelity Quick Facts
- Headquarters: Boston, MA
- U.S. Listed ETFs: 14
- Expense Ratio Range: 0.12% - 0.45%
- Avg. Expense Ratio: 0.2%
- Fidelity maintains ETFs in the following ETFdb Categories: All Cap Equities, Consumer Discretionary Equities, Consumer Staples Equities, Corporate Bonds, Energy Equities, Financials Equities, Health & Biotech Equities, Industrials Equities, Materials, Technology Equities, Total Bond Market, Utilities Equities
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This is a list of all the Fidelity ETFs that are currently listed in the US. Please note that the list may not contain newly issued ETFs. For more detailed information on expenses, dividends, or returns, click on one of the other tabs below.* Assets in thousands of U.S. Dollars. Assets and Average Volume as of 12/19/2014
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"Come along if you careA relative to "Fantastic Voyage" Plot, except instead of traveling into another character's physical body via Applied Phlebotinum, they enter their mind. The problem this is supposed to solve can range from recurring nightmares to memory loss to psychological disorders, and even the odd Convenient Coma. Expect to see some psychological aspects of the character manifested as physical beings, a la Herman's Head (See Ghost in the Machine and Enemy Without). Since it lays bare all the innermost thoughts and feelings of a character, it can be used as an extreme case of the Big Ego, Hidden Depths or In Another Man's Shoes. Often the justification for a Mind Screw episode. A closely related plot is the one where the main characters enter the dreams of their sleeping cast mates or the Happy Place of comatose friends. If there's Mind Control involved, expect a Battle in the Center of the Mind to free their friend in an Orphean Rescue. Rescuing them from their personal Black Bug Room is also common. Oddly, rarely shown as a malicious act when done by the heroes, despite being deeply personally invasive and usually without consent. This may be justifiable, however, if the owner of the mind would otherwise get/remain crazy/in a coma, or, in short, when serious issues are at stake. Less justifiable when done to solve minor issues. Compare the malicious version, Mind Probe, or a single person variant, the Vision Quest.
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Dr. Neil Livingstone is the first Montana candidate to sign the Montana Alliance for Constitutionalism's Montana Constitutional Governance Pledge.
Ryan K. Zinke is the first Montana Lt. Governor candidate to sign the Pledge. Livingstone and Zinke signed the Pledge immediately after the governors debate in Whitefish on May 2.
Neil Livingstone and Ryan Zinke show their leadership in quickly signing the Constitutional Governance Pledge. (788)


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Three global investors will pump $150 million into a U.S. company that plans to build a nationwide network of natural gas fueling stations for heavy trucks.
The investment, scheduled to close by Aug. 30, will help Clean Energy Fuels develop, build and operate a network of liquid and compressed natural gas fueling stations.
Springleaf Investments, Lionfish Investments and Greenwich Asset Holdings will purchase $150 million in stock from Seal Island, Calif.-based Clean Energy. Springleaf is owned by Singapore's Temasek Holdings, Lionfish by Seatown Holdings and Greenwich Asset Holdings by RRJ Capital Master Fund.
Clean Energy already is the largest U.S. distributor of LNG and CNG fuel to transportation fleets, from municipal bus fleets to refuse trucks and delivery vans. The company said it operates a network of 248 fueling stations across the U.S. and Canada, providing natural gas fuels that power more than 23,000 vehicles.
The fresh investment follows a $150 million deal with natural gas producer Chesapeake Energy to build the natural gas fueling network for heavy trucks.
"Our development program for fueling station-building is expanding rapidly," said Andrew J. Littlefair, president and CEO of Clean Energy.
The company plans to build 150 liquefied natural gas fueling stations at truck stops along major trucking corridors nationwide over the next two years.
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Here is my keynote speech at the recent Internetdagarna (Internet Days) conference in Stockholm, Sweden, discussing all things whistleblower, spy, surveillance, privacy and TTIP:
Here is my keynote speech at the recent Internetdagarna (Internet Days) conference in Stockholm, Sweden, discussing all things whistleblower, spy, surveillance, privacy and TTIP:
My recent interview on RT about the ending of the investigation by the German authorities into the apparently illegal bugging of Chancellor Angela Merkel's phone, plus more on the wider complicity of the German intelligence services:
I recently took part in a debate about the old versus the new "alternative" media and their relative merits on RT's Crosstalk with Peter Lavelle:
Half a year ago I was asked be the director of a new foundation that would raise funds to cover the legal costs of high-profile whistleblowers, journalist sources and associated cases. Five months ago I announced the launch of the Courage Foundation to an audience of 6,000 at the CCC hackerfest in Hamburg:
This week I have resigned my position from the Courage Foundation.
Firstly, I find the current evolution of Courage incompatible with the way I work.
Secondly, I have so many other calls on my time, travelling constantly across Europe to speak at conferences around issues such as whistleblowers, the media, technology, surveillance, privacy, drug policy, human rights.… where to stop.
I wish the organisation all the best for the future. It is doing important work.
I shall also continue to speak out in support of whistleblowers and associated issues — how could I not?
Here is a panel discussion I did at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy, in May 2014:
I recently had the pleasure of taking part in a debate at the Oxford Union Society. I spoke to the proposition that "this house believes Edward Snowden is a hero", along with US journalist Chris Hedges, NSA whistleblower Bill Binney, and former UK government minister Chris Huhne.
The chamber was full and I am happy to report that we won the debate by 212 votes to 171, and that Oxford students do indeed see Edward Snowden as a hero. Here is my speech:
Published on RT Op Edge and Consortium News.
I regularly revisit the famous Pastor Martin Niemoeller poem from the Nazi era as his words remain resonant in our post-9/11, "war on terror" world. Over the last week threads of various alarming stories have converged, so here is my latest update:
First they came for the Muslims, but I was not a Muslim so did not speak up.
Then they came for the whistleblowers, but I was not a whistleblower so did not speak up.
Then they came for the "domestic extremists", but I was not an activist so did not speak up.
And when they came for me, there was nobody left to speak up for me.
Allow me to explain this current version. Regular readers of this website will be well aware of my horror at the global rape of basic human rights in the West's fight against the "war on terror" since 9/11: the kidnappings, the torture, the CIA presidentially-approved weekly assassination lists, the drone bombings, the illegal wars.…
All these measures have indeed targeted and terrorised the Muslim community around the world. In the UK I have heard many stories of British Muslims wary of attending a family event such as a wedding of their cousins in Pakistan or wherever, in case they get snatched, tortured or drone bombed.
Now it appears that even British citizens who choose to donate to UK charities offering humanitarian relief in war zones such as Syria can be arrested under counter-terrorism laws.
Moazzam Begg, the director of Cage (the UK NGO campaigning about the community impact of the war on terror) was again seized last week. As I have written before, this is a man who has already experienced the horrors of Bagram airbase and Guantanamo. When he was released he became a campaigner for others in the same plight and set up the Cage campaign which has gained quite some traction over the last few years.
Over a year ago he visited Syria on a fact-finding mission, investigating those who had been summarily detained and tortured in the conflict. Last December he had his passport seized on spurious grounds He wrote about this trip quite openly, and yet now, a year on, has been arrested and charged with "training terrorists and fund raising" in Syria. This is a high-profile campaigner who operates in the full glare of the media. How credulous does one have to be to believe that Begg, after all his experiences and running this campaign, is now involved in "terrorism"? Really, anyone?
Since then other people involved in British charities offering aid to the displaced peoples of Syria have also been scooped up. But this is just affecting the British Muslim community, right? There's "no smoke without fire", and it does not impinge the lives of most people in the UK, so there has been no widespread outcry.…
.…so nobody speaks up.
Then we have the ongoing "war on whistleblowers" that I have discussed extensively. This affects every sector of society in every country, but most seriously affects whistleblowers emerging from central government, the military and the intelligence agencies. They are the ones most likely to witness the most heinous crimes, and they are the ones automatically criminalised by secrecy laws.
This is most apparent in the UK, where the Official Secrets Act (1989) specifically criminalises whistleblowing, and in the USA, where President Obama has invoked the 1917 Espionage Act against whistleblowers more times than all other presidents combined over the last century. If that is not a "war on whistleblowers", I don't know what is.
This, of course, is a paranoid over-reaction to the work of Wikileaks, and the brave actions of Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden. This is what Obama's government deems to be the "insider threat". Yet it is only through greater transparency that we can operate as informed citizens; it is only through greater accountability that we can hope to obtain justice. And in this era, when we are routinely lied into illegal wars, what could be more important?
But intelligence and military whistleblowers are rare, specialised and easy to stigmatise as the "other" and now, the insider threat — not quite of the normal world. The issues they disclose can seem a bit remote, not linked to most people's daily experiences.…
.…so nobody speaks up.
But now to my third revamped line of the Pastor Niemoeller poem: the activists or, to use current police terminology, the "domestic extremists". This, surely, does impinge on more people's experience of life. If you want to go out and demonstrate against a war, in support of Occupy, for the environment, whatever, you are surely exercising your democratic rights as citizens, right?
Er, well no, not these days. I have written before about how activists can be criminalised and even deemed to be terrorists by the police (think London Occupy in 2011 here). I'm thinking of the ongoing British undercover cop scandal which continues to rumble on.
For those of you outside the UK, this is a scandal that erupted in 2010. There is was a section of secret police who were infiltrated into activist groups under secret identities to live the life, report back, and even potentially work as enablers or agents provocateurs. As the scandal has grown it appears that some of these cops fathered children with their targets and spied on the grieving families of murder victims.
This sounds like the East German Stasi, but was happening in the UK in the last couple of decades. A government enquiry has just been announced and many old cases against activists will be reviewed to see if tarnished "evidence" was involved in the trials and subsequent convictions.
But again this does not affect most people beyond the activist community.…
.…so nobody speaks up.
Now, people who have always assumed they have certain protections because of their professions, such as lawyers and journalists, are also being caught in this dragnet. Julian Assange's lawyer, Jennifer Robinson, discovered she was on a flight watch list a few years ago. More recently Jesselyn Radack, human rights director of the US Government Accountability Project and legal advisor to Edward Snowden, was stopped and interrogated at the UK border.
And just this week a Dutch investigative journalist, Brenno de Winter, was unable to do his job since his name was placed on alert in all national government buildings. The police accused him of hacking-related crimes and burglary. They had to retract this when the smear campaign came to light.
Brenno has made his name by freedom of information requests from the Dutch public sector and his subsequent investigations, for which he was named Dutch Journalist of the Year in 2011. Hardly subversion, red in tooth and claw, but obviously now deemed to be an existential, national security threat to the Netherlands.
Nor is this a Dutch problem — we have seen this in the US, where journalists such as James Risen and Barrett Brown have been hounded merely for doing their jobs, and the Glenn Greenwald's partner, David Miranda, was detained at London Heathrow airport under counter-terrorism laws.
Journalists, who always somewhat complacently thought they had special protections in Western countries, are being increasingly targeted when trying to report on issues such as privacy, surveillance, whistleblower disclosures and wars.
Only a few are being targeted now, but I hope these cases will be enough to wake the rest up, while there is still the chance for them to take action.…
.…before there is nobody left to speak up for us.
So this coming week promises to be interesting in the UK, with a number of international whistleblowers gathering for a range of events and interviews in London and Oxford.
The primary reason for this gathering is the SAA award ceremony for Chelsea Manning at the Oxford Union Society on 19th February. Every year an international group of former intelligence personnel vote on the Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence and this year, inevitably and resoundingly, the award went to Chelsea. She joins a distinguished list of laureates.
We shall also be participating in the launch of the UK whistleblower support network, The Whistler. This aims to provide practical support to whistleblowers coming out of every sector: medical, financial, government… — whatever and wherever there are cover-ups and corruption.
There seems to be a growing awareness of the role of the whistleblower and the safeguards they can add to our society and democratic way of life: the regulators of last resort. Please support these campaigns.
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Chelsea Manning Awarded Sam Adams Integrity Prize for 2014
Announcement by Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence (SAAII)
The Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence (SAAII) have voted overwhelmingly to present the 2014 Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence to Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning.
A Nobel Peace Prize nominee, U.S. Army Pvt. Manning is the 25 year-old intelligence analyst who in 2010 provided to WikiLeaks the "Collateral Murder" video – gun barrel footage from a U.S. Apache helicopter, exposing the reckless murder of 12 unarmed civilians, including two Reuters journalists, during the "surge" in Iraq. The Pentagon had repeatedly denied the existence of the "Collateral Murder" video and declined to release it despite a request under the Freedom of Information Act by Reuters, which had sought clarity on the circumstances of its journalists' deaths.
Release of this video and other documents sparked a worldwide dialogue about the importance of government accountability for human rights abuses as well as the dangers of excessive secrecy and over-classification of documents.
On February 19, 2014 Pvt. Manning — currently incarcerated at Leavenworth Prison — will be recognized at a ceremony in absentia at Oxford University's prestigious Oxford Union Society for casting much-needed daylight on the true toll and cause of civilian casualties in Iraq; human rights abuses by U.S. and "coalition" forces, mercenaries, and contractors; and the roles that spying and bribery play in international diplomacy.
The Oxford Union ceremony will include the presentation of the traditional SAAII Corner-Brightener Candlestick and will feature statements of support from former SAAII awardees and prominent whistleblowers. Members of the press are invited to attend.
On August 21, 2013 Pvt. Manning received an unusually harsh sentence of 35 years in prison for exposing the truth — a chilling message to those who would call attention to wrongdoing by U.S. and "coalition" forces.
Under the 1989 Official Secrets Act in the United Kingdom, Pvt. Manning, whose mother is British, would have faced just two years in prison for whistleblowing or 14 years if convicted under the old 1911 Official Secrets Act for espionage.
Former senior NSA executive and SAAII Awardee Emeritus Thomas Drake has written that Manning "exposed the dark side shadows of our national security régime and foreign policy follies .. [her] acts of civil disobedience … strike at the very core of the critical issues surrounding our national security, public and foreign policy, openness and transparency, as well as the unprecedented and relentless campaign by this Administration to snuff out and silence truth tellers and whistleblowers in a deliberate and premeditated assault on the 1st Amendment."
Previous winners of the Sam Adams Award include Coleen Rowley (FBI); Katharine Gun (formerly of GCHQ, the National Security Agency's equivalent in the UK); former UK Ambassador Craig Murray; Larry Wilkerson (Col., US Army, ret.; chief of staff for Secretary of State Colin Powell); Julian Assange (WikiLeaks); Thomas Drake (NSA); Jesselyn Radack (former ethics attorney for the Department of Justice, now National Security & Human Right Director of the Government Accountability Project); Thomas Fingar (former Deputy Director of National Intelligence, who managed the key National Intelligence Estimate of 2007 that concluded Iran had stopped working on a nuclear weapon four years earlier); and Edward Snowden (former NSA contractor and systems administrator, currently residing in Russia under temporary asylum).
The Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence are very proud to add Pvt. Manning to this list of distinguished awardees.
Here is my recent talk at the CCC in Hamburg, discussing the war on terror, the war on drugs, the war in the internet and the war on whistleblowers:
30C3 — The Four Wars; Terror, whistleblowers, drugs, internet from Annie Machon on Vimeo.
Here's my recent interview on RT's excellent and incisive new UK politics programme, "Going Underground". In it I discuss rendition, torture, spy oversight and much more:
Going Underground Ep 22 1 from Annie Machon on Vimeo.
First published by RT Op-Edge.
We, the citizens of the world, already owe NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden a huge debt of gratitude. Even the limited publication of a few of the documents he disclosed to journalists has to date provoked a political and public debate in countries across the planet — and who knows what other nasties lurk in the cache of documents, yet to be exposed?
Thanks to Snowden, millions of people as well as many governments have woken up to the fact that privacy is the vital component of free societies. Without that basic right we are unable to freely read, write, speak, plan and associate without fear of being watched, our every thought and utterance stored up to be potentially used against us at some nebulous future date. Such panoptic global surveillance leads inevitably to self-censorship and is corrosive to our basic freedoms, and individual citizens as well as countries are exploring ways to protect themselves and their privacy.
As I and others more eminent have said before, we need free media to have a free society.
But even if we can defend these free channels of communication, what if the very information we wish to ingest and communicate is no longer deemed to be free? What if we become criminalised purely for sharing such un-free information?
The global military security complex may be brutal, but it is not stupid. These corporatist elites, as I prefer to think of them, have seen the new medium of the internet as a threat to their profits and power since its inception. Which is why they have been fighting a desperate rearguard action to apply US patent and copyright laws globally.
They began by going after music sharing sites such as Napster and imposing grotesque legal penalties on those trying to download a few songs they liked for free, then trying to build national firewalls to deny whole countries access to file sharing sites such as The Pirate Bay and persecuting its co-founder Anakata, mercifully failing to extradite Richard O'Dwyer from the UK to the US on trumped up charges for his signposting site to free media, and culminating in the take down of Megaupload and the illegal FBI attack against Kim Dotcom's home in New Zealand last year.
But for all these high-profile cases of attempted deterrence, more and more people are sharing information, culture, and research for free on the internet. Using peer to peer technologies like Bittorrent and anonymising tools like Tor they are hard to detect, which is why the corporatist lobbyists demand the surveillance state develop ever more intrusive ways of detecting them, including the possibility of deep packet inspection. And of course once such invasive technologies are available, we all know that they will not only be used to stop "piracy" but will also be used against the people of the world by the military surveillance complex too.
But that is still not enough for the corporatists. Largely US-based, they are now trying to flex their political muscle globally. First the US claims that any site ending with a tier one US domain name (.com, .org, .net and .info) comes under US law — anywhere in the world — and can be taken down without warning or redress by a diktat from the US government.
More egregiously still, the US corporatists have been trying to impose their legal dominion globally via a series of secret regional trade agreements: ACTA, TTIP/TAFTA, SOPA, and now in the recently Wikileaked details of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) targeting the countries around the Pacific rim.
These agreements, written by corporate lobbyists, are so secret that the democratic representatives of sovereign countries are not even allowed to read the contents or debate the terms — they are just told to sign on the dotted line, effectively rubber-stamping legislation that is antithetical to the vast majority their citizens' interests, which gives greater sovereign powers to the interests of the corporations than it does to nation states, and which will criminalise and directly harm the people of the world in the interests of the few.
One of the proposals is that multinational corporations can sue national governments for future lost profits based on patents not granted or environmental restrictions. This is nothing short of full-on corporatism where international law and global treaties serve a handful of large corporations to the detriment of national sovereignty, environmental health and even human life.
For by protecting "intellectual property" (IP), we are not just talking about the creative endeavours of artists. One does not need to be a lawyer to see the fundamental problematic assumptions in the goals as defined in the leaked document:
Enhance the role of intellectual property in promoting economic and social development, particularly in relation to the new digital economy, technological innovation, the transfer and dissemination of technology and trade;
This statement assumes that IP, a made-up term that confuses three very different areas of law, is by definition beneficial to society as a whole. No evidence for these claimed benefits is provided anywhere. As with "what-is-good-for-General-Motors-is-good-for-America" and the theory of "trickle down" economics, the benefits are simply assumed and alternative models actively and wilfully ignored. The idea that most societies on the planet might vastly benefit from a relaxation of patent laws or the length of copyright is not even up for debate. This despite the fact that there is plenty of research pointing in that direction.
These secret proposed treaties will enforce patents that put the cost of basic pharmaceuticals beyond the reach of billions; that privatise and patent basic plants and food; and that prevent the sharing of cutting edge academic research, despite the fact that this is usually produced by publicly funded academics at our publicly funded universities.
The price, even today, of trying to liberate research for the public good can be high, as Aaron Swartz found out earlier this year. After trying to share research information from MIT, he faced a witch hunt and decades in prison. Instead he chose to take his own life at the age of 26. How much worse will it be if TPP et al are ratified?
It is thanks to the high-tech publisher, Wikileaks, that we know the sheer scale of the recent TPP débacle. It is also heartening to see so many Pacific rim countries opposing the overweening demands of the USA. Australia alone seems supportive — but then regionally it benefits most from its membership of the "Five Eyes" spy programme with America.
The intellectual property wars are the flip side of the global surveillance network that Snowden disclosed — it is a classic pincer movement.
As well as watching everything we communicate, the corporatists are also trying to control exactly what information we are legally able to communicate, and using this control as justification for yet more intrusive spying. It's the perfect self-perpetuating cycle.
By curtailing the powers of the spy agencies, we could restore the internet to its original functionality and openness while maintaining the right to privacy and free speech — but maintaining a 20th century copyright/IP model at the same time is impossible. Or we could give up our privacy and other civil rights to allow specific protected industries to carry on coining it in. A last option would be to switch off the internet. But that is not realistic: modern countries could not survive a day without the internet, any more than they could function without electricity.
As a society we're going through the painful realisation that we can only have two out of the three options. Different corporatist interest groups would no doubt make different choices but, along with the vast majority of the people, I opt for the internet and privacy as both a free channel for communication and the free transfer of useful information.
Like any social change (the abolition of slavery, universal suffrage), this is also accompanied by heated arguments, legal threats and repression, and lobbyist propaganda. But historically all this sound and fury will signify.… precisely nothing. Surely at some point basic civil rights will make a comeback, upheld by the legislature and protected by law enforcement.
The choice is simple: internet, privacy, copyright. We can only choose two, and I know which I choose.
Here is an interview I did for Voice of Russia radio in London last week about spies and their relationship with our democratic processes, oversight, Edward Snowden and much more:
Voice of Russia radio interview from Annie Machon on Vimeo.
Here's a recent interview I did for BBC World about the three top British spies deigning, for the first time ever, to be publicly questioned by the Intelligence and Security Committee in parliament, which has a notional oversight role:
BBC World interview on UK Parlaimentary hearings on NSA/Snowden affair from Annie Machon on Vimeo.
It subsequently emerged that they only agreed to appear if they were told the questions in advance. So much for this already incredibly limited oversight capability in a notional Western democracy.….


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Athletics 2 White Sox 0: Damn Soft-Tossing Lefties
As I said in the pregame post, this game had all the makings of a contest in which the White Sox would struggle to score runs. My question was whether or not Gavin Floyd would finally get his act together and keep the reins on a weak-hitting Oakland offense.
Gavin did his job, that's for sure, but those two runs I thought the offense would have to scratch out proved to be two more than they were capable of. As a result, Floyd pitches his best game of the season and gets a loss for the effort.
Baseball can be a real asshole.
I was somewhat worried about Robin leaving Gavin in for the eighth inning, and when Floyd led the inning off with a walk, those fears were realized. Of course that walk came around to score what would be the winning run, but I'm not going to blame Ventura for this, Matt Thornton, and definitely not Floyd.
The fact of the matter is if the White Sox offense, which was chock full of righties Tuesday night, could have managed more than three singles off a guy with an 87MPH fastball, it wouldn't have mattered.
All that said, it's hard to be upset. It's the first loss of the road trip, and a 5-1 trip is well within reach tomorrow afternoon.
Can't ask for much more than that, can we? Throw in the fact that we're still tied for first place in the division after Detroit lost to Seattle, and the fact is there isn't much we can be upset about right now.
It was just a loss. An incredibly boring loss. The regular lineup will be back out there tomorrow, save for maybe an Eduardo Escobar appearance and possibly Viciedo -- 1 for his last 22, with that hit being a gift on what should have been ruled an error -- getting the day off to face Jarrod Parker in his first start with the A's this season.
Considering Chris Sale starts for the Sox, one run may be all we need to get the job done.
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Update: Nebraska Federal Judge Issues Favorable Decision in Fremont Ordinance Case
The federal District Court of Nebraska in Omaha has issued an important opinion in the consolidated cases of Keller v. City of Fremont and Martinez v. City of Fremont. The Court upheld most of Fremont's pioneering citizen enforcement law, enacted by popular referendum in 2010, against twin lawsuits engineered by the ACLU and MALDEF. Read the full decision below.
On February 20, 2012, federal judge Laurie Smith-Camp upheld all of the employment provisions of the Ordinance, which was designed with assistance from IRLI attorneys. Judge Smith-Camp also found that the City could lawfully all renters to obtain occupancy permits and verify the immigration status/citizenship status of all renters. However, in a partial setback, the Court narrowly enjoined the part of the Ordinance which authorized the revocation of an occupancy license on the basis of that person's unlawful immigration status.
The Court explained that although Congress wanted and intended for cities to assist in identifying those aliens who are not lawfully in the country, taking the additional step of revoking occupancy licenses for unlawfully present aliens would conflict with Congress' intent and thus be preempted. The Court reasoned that by revoking the occupancy licenses of these individuals, the federal government would no longer be able to identify the address where the unlawfully present alien resides. The Court also held that the revocation sanction violated the Fair Housing Act under a theory of "disparate impact"— that the law disproportionately affected Latinos and Hispanics because the Court believed that those groups made up the majority of illegal aliens.
The City has now decided to implement the employment provision of the Ordinance, but continue to delay enforcement of the occupancy license provision until after pending appeals from this judgment are heard by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. Notice of the City's appeal was filed on March 26, 2012.
During the appeal process, the City is now permitted to enforce nearly all of the Fremont Ordinances, with the important proviso that it cannot revoke occupancy licenses of illegal aliens.
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Rudi Koertzen
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02 Mar 2011
With Slow Death Rudi Koertzen joins the small but growing number of umpires who have published autobiographies. Generally these are not the most memorable pieces of cricket literature, although that is not to say that they necessarily achieve poor sales. Harold "Dickie" Bird is the obvious example of an umpire who has sold many copies of a number of books. "Dickie" is, however, a professional Yorkshireman as much as a former Test umpire so he is an exceptional case.
Umpires are faced with two major difficulties when it comes to setting their lives down in writing. The first, increasingly significant, is that they dip in and out of individual series. Rudi has never umpired a full series, and no one is likely to again. At least some of the old timers such as Australians Lou Rowan (Ashes 1970-71) and George Hele (Ashes 1932/33) could tell the story of a series from the perspective of being out in the middle throughout (in Hele's case) or almost throughout (in Rowan's case - he stood in six of the seven Tests). Poor old Rudi could and did find himself umpiring on different continents in successive matches and this lack of continuity prevents the writing of a conventional cricketing biography. The other major problem is that the better an umpire performs the less he is noticed. No one wants to read about a match where Rudi got every decision right - if there is interest in an umpire's performance it will either be because of his mistakes or because he has become embroiled in something controversial. There is simply no umpiring equivalent of Ian Botham's 149* at Headingley in 1981 or of Bob Willis' 8-43 that followed.
As Rudi never played cricket to a high standard, and has lived a relatively unremarkable life, he swiftly gets through his first four decades. As an outsider looking in I would have liked to have known more about life with apartheid, and then without it, but Rudi is not a man to court controversy and we learn little about that. He then runs through some of the Tests and ODIs that he stood in over the years. This is done as well as it can be but as Rudi didn't make too many mistakes, and those that he did make he readily accepts, there is a lack of spark in what appears.
The best chapter in the book is that dealing with match fixing. There is nothing new or controversial in what Rudi has to say but this is a subject it is difficult to write well about. Most writers simply spend too much time on explaining all the ins and outs with the result that their narrative becomes tedious. Rudi clearly knows the subject inside out and his explanation over just ten pages is an excellent summary. In much the same way the history he gives of, and his views concerning, the availability and use of technological aids is both informative and authoritative.
There are opportunities for Rudi to couch his memoirs in more sensationalist terms. By way of example he could have elaborated on the issues that arose out of the telephone conversation he had with Darrell Hair in the course of which Hair later claimed that Rudi had described the Pakistanis as "cheats". The fact that he chooses not to do so might mean a few less copies will be sold, but ultimately it would not have been in keeping with Rudi's character to make anything of the conversation beyond what he explains here.
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Total Body Blowout By:
Curtis Lomanski
If there ever was an exercise that would blast the whole body, this is it!
Total Body Blowout! This workout is designed to punish your chest, triceps, back, biceps, legs, and glutes, all of which are stabilizing muscles & yes…of course CORE.
Tip: Keep your core tight for the duration of the repetition.
Note: This exercise can be performed using dumbbells or a barbell.
Let us begin:
Step 1:
Position yourself in a push-up phase, grasping a dumbbell in each hand. Lower your body to the floor, come up half way, lower it down again & then power push yourself up to starting position.
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If your using dumbbells, "walk" them forward (left arm, then right arm), at the same time, bringing your left foot forward followed your right foot. Move ahead 3 steps with each, keeping your core tense & back straight as a board.
Step 3:
In a shoulder width stance and a slight knee bend, grasp the dumbbells (shoulder width underhand grip) and deadlift the weight, flicking your shoulders back & pushing your chest out all the while keeping your back straight.
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From the finishing deadlift position, slowly curl the dumbbells.
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While keeping the dumbbells in the finishing stage of the bicep curl, squat & then thrust up.
Step 6:
Follow thru the thrust phase by pushing the weight up & over your head. Do not lock your elbows & keep your back straight.
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Lower the weight down to the floor & repeat, starting at step 1 again.
This will be 1 repetition. Do 15reps for 10 sets. Adjust the weight accordingly. Rest: 2-2.5minutes in-between sets.
*Keep in mind by changing push up grips/stances (wide, regular, and narrow) for each set, you will end up hitting all angles of the chest & have full tricep utilization. Allot for 40min-1hr.
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Edmonton native Curtis Lomanski (Bachelor of Phys. Ed, area of concentration: Sports Performance) From the Hockey Arena, to the Fireman's Calendar (Mr. January), to the Gym Floor, to the Dance floor, his body never fails to get him where he needs to be. Years of lifting, sweating, planning, gaining, watching what he eats and constantly striving to be better, have left him with a firm infrastructure that now only requires maintenance. He is a wealth of knowledge pertaining to gym, diet, leaning out, gaining, losing weight, and packing the muscle on.
Curtis will tell you modestly that his hidden talent is that he can play
sports equally as well with right and left hands and right and left feet.
What he won't tell you (his secret talent), is that he can transform you, no matter who you are or what you look like, into a new better you.
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The Epiphany SDK and COPRTHR OpenCL SDK are the "official" supported development tools. However, the community is also working on support for other languages and frameworks etc.
Epiphany SDK
The Epiphany SDK (eSDK) provides:
- GCC, GDB & newlib
- Epiphany driver, loader and runtime library
- Eclipse IDE
- BSPs
- Utilities
Binary packages can be downloaded from the Parallella Download site. For documentation see the Epiphany SDK Reference Manual (PDF).
Support questions should be directed to the SDK forum.
The SDK is jointly developed by Embecosm (toolchain) and Adapteva (everything else).
The component sources are spread across multiple repositories hosted on GitHub, issues should be logged using the relevant issue tracker and pull requests are invited.
To build the eSDK start with the epiphany-sdk repository and see the associated wiki.
The Epiphany toolchain is based on GCC, GDB and newlib, and includes a functional simulator for a single core.
For details of the history, features and performance etc. see the blog post by Dr Jeremy Bennett.
Driver, library and BSP etc.
For info on the Epiphany driver, loader, runtime library and BSPs see the blog post by Yaniv Sapir.
The COPRTHR SDK from Brown Deer Technology provides support for OpenCL development.
For more information see the documentation and the introductory blog post from David Richie.
Support questions should be directed to the OpenCL forum.
Other Development Software
There are presently community efforts developing support for:
- Erlang
- GNU Radio
- Go
- R-project
For more information visit the Parallella Software page on the eLinux wiki.


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Space Coloniesby Duelmaster409
To download this game for your Linux/Mac installation, enter this on your command line:
DreamDownload byond://Duelmaster409.SpaceColonies##version=0Emulator users, in the BYOND pager go to File | Open Location and enter this URL:
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A 4X strategy game in space with a randomly generated galaxy, utilizing simulated newtonian physics. [More]
Only Windows users can play this game. If you have an emulator, you can join the waiting list to be informed when a new server is ready to play.
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Horsford's Yerington Jobs Bill Heard in Subcommittee
Washington, D.C. – Today, Representative Steven Horsford (NV-4) brought the Lyon County Economic Development and Conservation Act before the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation for an initial hearing. Mayor George Dini of Yerington joined Representative Horsford in advocating for the bipartisan bill that will create thousands of jobs for Lyon County.
"It was an honor to present the Lyon County Economic Development and Conservation Act with the support of Mayor George Dini this morning," said Horsford. "Together, we urged the subcommittee to make this job-creating opportunity a reality for those in Nevada desperately seeking work. Members of the subcommittee from both parties understand that this legislation has strong bipartisan support and is a common-sense measure that will help spur economic growth in Nevada. I remain optimistic that we can get this done and get Nevadans back to work."
The total expected economic impact from this legislation will create approximately 3,000 to 4,000 jobs including indirect employment effects. The mine itself will directly employ 800-900 people providing high quality wages for nearly two decades, which is in addition to the more than 500 people who will be employed during the construction phase.
The legislation will allow the City of Yerington to partner with Nevada Copper to develop roughly 12,500 acres of land surrounding the Pumpkin Hollow project site. The land conveyed by this bill will also be used for industrial, recreation, and infrastructure purposes that will create desperately needed jobs and economic development for Yerington. The bill also designates 48,000 acres of wilderness area, known as the Wovoka Wilderness, while protecting the rights and interests of ranchers and miners who earn their living on the land in the area.


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May the Fez Be with You T-Shirt: A Long Time Ago in a TARDIS Far, Far Away
February 5th, 2013
May the Force, ah, Fez, be with you. This awesome shirt takes the worlds of Doctor Who and Star Wars and mashes them up into timey-wimey awesomeness. I always thought that the Sonic Screwdriver could be turned into a lightsaber with some minor modifications.
The shirt features a 6 color design of the 11th Doctor wielding a lightsaber. It's printed on a super soft American Apparel 100% cotton tee.
This awesome shirt is available from ianleino.com for the low price of $20(USD). Frankly, I would pay $100 for this awesome shirt. Shhh. Don't tell Ian that.
He has some other great designs available as well, but this one really rocks the TARDIS. Can we get the whole cast involved? I'm thinking Amy as Princess Leia and Rory as Han in a movie poster style shirt.
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The Utopias Project
Is an NGO type artist collective. Our aim is to foster creativity and encounters between everybody and anybody that is willing to give something to the project (would it only be your pretty face to be exposed on this website).
The closest thing I have to a brother, Sergio is a guru of sport. A professional trainer, and the person with whom I would want to spend a lazy afternoon, Sergio also writes for Vitonica, the number one sport and health website in Spain.
The blog of one of my best friends, Romain. A photographer, a frenchie, a social media guru, and my source of any cool music; Romain is the zeitgeist.
The Meena Mix
A contributor to BurntCitrus, Meena is not only an amazing person, but her curiosity and multitude of talents is a thing to marvel at. Check out her page!
With a Brooklyn Accent
Dr. Mark Naison's office beckons souls that want to make the world better—an activist who has dedicated his life to combat racism, poverty, and inequality.


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The haves versus the have-nots. It has been a theme behind protests from groups on both sides of the political spectrum. Our Bill Carey has more on the issue of income inequality.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- In Washington, Democrats have been hoping to focus on the issue of income inequality, using it as an issue in their battle with the GOP for control of Congress.
But Democrats closer to home may have problems with the issue.
The issue is being used to battle budget proposals from New York's Democratic governor, Andrew Cuomo.
"They're not going to fly. They're smoke and mirrors. It's not going to do anything to provide any relief to our communities. It's going to hurt our communities," Rick Noreault, of the Civil Service Employees Association, said during a rally Tuesday at the State Office Building in Syracuse.
Cuomo continues to focus on the need to reduce the size of local governments to confront dwindling resources.
In his new budget, he offers a freeze on property taxes with some conditions.
"The locality stays within the 2 percent cap. And, in year two, the locality takes concrete steps to reduce their costs through shared services and/or consolidation," said Cuomo.
But the activists argue that the need to reduce local government costs is brought on by the state's continuing drive to be seen cutting taxes
"I think that it's election year, part of it. I think that he wants to basically make sure that people are talking about tax cuts. They sound like really sexy to all of us. Unfortunately, it's not really us who are getting those tax cuts. It's the wealthiest New Yorkers and people don't seem to understand that," said Rosemary Rivera, of Citizen Action.
"And then they tell us, there's no money. That's because the rich don't pay their fair share anymore," said Howie Hawkins, a former Green Party gubernatorial candidate.
Howie Hawkins ran against Cuomo in 2010.
"If we went back to the income tax we had in the 1970s, 95 percent of us would get a tax cut. And, with what the top 5 percent paid, we'd have $8 billion more," said Hawkins.
The governor shows no signs of backing away from the drive to cut business taxes as well. "And really send a strong signal to business saying this is a different day and we're doing it a different way," said Cuomo.
The activists admit convincing lawmakers to vote against tax cuts, in an election year, will be a tough battle.
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Title: International Development Officer
Supervisor: Assistant Director of Development
Location: The Plains, Virginia
Application Deadline: September 9, 2013
This is a full-time position with American Bird Conservancy (ABC) in The Plains, Virginia. The International Development Officer serves as the lead fundraiser and coordinator for all ABC International Program fundraising and is a contributing member of the International team.
ABC's mission is to conserve native birds and their habitats throughout the Americas. ABC operates the most comprehensive and effective threatened bird conservation program in the Americas. Working closely with in-country partners and government agencies, ABC's International team leads efforts to develop and implement conservation actions for the most threatened bird species, such as protecting and restoring their habitat, establishing monitoring programs to ensure conservation goals are met, and helping in-country partners develop long-term, sustainable, financial independence and organizational strength. The International Development Officer plays a vital role in providing conservation input to the International team, creating fundraising budgets, and implementing the annual and long-range division fundraising plan.
The International Development Officer also spends approximately 25 percent of his or her time identifying, cultivating, scheduling appointments with, or soliciting current and potential major donors for ABC's operations and other programs. The International Development Officer is responsible for developing proposals, reports and correspondence, reviewing and approving international sub-grant agreements, representing Development in International division meetings, and providing input to conservation project planning and implementation. The Development Officer is supervised by the Assistant Director of Development.
The International Development Officer should be an outgoing, organized, and energetic person who desires a career in conservation. This position requires excellent organizational and writing skills, proficiency in written and spoken Spanish and/or Portuguese, and a broad knowledge of ABC's mission, objectives, and programs. There is regular contact, in person and via telephone and correspondence, with ABC board members, field staff, members, potential and existing donors, and the public. This work requires excellent communication and writing skills, initiative, flexibility, accuracy, attention to detail, and computer skills.
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Fightin' Words
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Costa Philippou's UFC 154 fight canceled
Long Island's Costa Philippou will not be fighting tonight at UFC 154 as originally planned.
His opponent, Nick Ring, fell ill after weigh-ins Friday evening in Montreal and was pulled from the card. With such a late-notice adjustment, there was no way to find a replacement to fight the middleweight Philippou.
The lightweight fight between Mark Bocek and Rafael dos Anjos will be moved to the main card on pay-per-view.


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This is the hardest encounter so far, we did it with a paladin and holy priest with gheal spec going inside. It is ok if the priest let his stack fall but if the paladin let his fall we would not even try and would just wipe it instantly. We were at about 80% when we hit lust, with a 30 stack that 80% did not even last the full 45 seconds of it.
We also had a tricks and a misdirect so I solo tanked it for some extra dps. Worked rather well for us. We had an aff lock and spriest dotting suppressors and then getting back on adds. Used a frost trap under every single abom corpse, hit swipe once when they were all up and then started kiting with a tricks fan so they almost never hit me unless I was slowed. Landing a bash on the casters they were dead from full health before the stun ended. Let the blisterings be kited, we had a hunter and a DK and by the time they even reached me they were almost dead and I was just taunting it away from blowing up on the casters.
She needs to be healed before the 7th portal or just as it is spawning because that is when you just get completely overwhelmed by adds


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Roadblock: One team member must "join the choir" (read: train with a patient vocal instructor for hours) and learn how to sing Franz Schubert's "Die Forelle." They'll be judged on pronunciation of the German lyrics and musicality. Read: Everyone's screwed.
Ally loves performing, but is "actually extremely bad" at trying to speak other languages, while Nicky can pick up the language (she has a German-speaking, Czech dad) but, as partner Kim points out in a giggle fit, is like Cameron Diaz in My Best Friend's Wedding -- the hot girl who cannot sing. During Nicky's practice session, the camera randomly zooms in on a shirtless guy mowing the lawns outside. No! Not the edelweiss! I'm disappointed when this fellow never reappears during the leg after this triumphant cameo.
"GET OUT OF THE CAR AND GET OUR BAGS," yells Pinky, because their taxi was slowing down and what else was she gonna do -- not berate her partner for a few seconds? Don't be absurd.
This Roadblock is one of the funniest and most cringe-inducing I've ever witnessed on The Amazing Race. My favorite part is watching the very polite Austrian kids try, very unsuccessfully, to sustain their uproarious laughter at the plight of the these warbling buffoons. I'm partial to the perpetually side-eyeing boy with the hipster glasses, but I also love the one who looks like an even younger Sam Weir from Freaks and Geeks. "Stop. Stop, please," the director begs most first-triers. "That is…….. nicht gut."
Overachieving ER doc Travis has the words and rhythm down, but his notes are too high, whereas Jamal's performance value (pictured) is top-notch, but he needs to be on beat with the chorus and pianist. Ally just can't form words at all. Okie Tim's been down in the training pit a long time, and his instructor does NOT help by suggesting, "Try to imagine you are Justin Timberlake" and then -- moments later! -- "Sing like you're an opera guy." At some points, Tim is just lying flat on the ground in despair. (Sure, it's a singing technique, but despair is more accurate.)
NEXT: Punching Bag Tim swells in perfect harmony with his flailing instructor


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December 22, 2014
(CBS/AP) PHILADELPHIA - A lawyer for a man charged with assaulting police during a post-wedding brawl that broke out at a Philadelphia hotel says his client has posted bail and will fight the charges.
Twenty-six-year-old Westfield, N.J., resident Matthew Sofka had been attending his brother's wedding over the weekend and the family was staying at a Sheraton hotel in the city's Society Hill section where the fight began. Authorities say Sofka assaulted police during the fight and is charged with aggravated assault and other counts.
Defense attorney Fortunato Perri Jr. tells The Philadelphia Inquirer the fight was already under way when Sofka arrived at the hotel and that his client did not assault police.
Perri says the wedding reception was held at a restaurant downtown and the families returned to the hotel afterward. He's not sure how Sofka ended up in the middle of the brawl.
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