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The Cimon is a comfortable 15 bedroom guest house with a Visit Britain 4 Star Guest Accommodation rating, set in a beautiful converted detached Victorian villa in its own grounds in the very heart of Torquay. We have a 30ft outdoor heated swimming pool, a licensed bar, lounge, free WiFi throughout and a sizeable carpark. We have a selection of double, twin and family rooms available, all with en suite bathrooms.
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The Bellingham Theatre Guild's Play Selection Committee is seeking submissions from prospective directors for our 88th season. If you would be interested in directing at the Guild for the 2016-17 season, please check out the enclosed calendar. Please complete one Play Proposal form for each show you are submitting. You may submit up to three (3). The committee is committed to reading all submissions and welcomes newcomers and veterans alike.
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Television in the Isle of Man
The Crown dependency of the Isle of Man does not have any of its own television channels and instead receives United Kingdom television channels.
Unlike the Crown dependencies in the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man does not have island-specific opt-out of the BBC or ITV regional news programmes, in the way that the Channel Islands get their own version of Spotlight and Channel Report and instead the Isle of Man is included as part of BBC North West and ITV Granada.
United Kingdom television channels available in the Isle of Man[edit]
The Isle of Man is covered by BBC North West on BBC One and receives the local news programme BBC North West Tonight and news bulletins covering the island are included in North West Tonight. The island receives the national England variation of BBC Two. There is no specific island continuity and the island utilises the England wide continuity for both BBC One and BBC Two. The Isle of Man is part of BBC English Regions. Some viewers receive services from Northern Ireland, Wales and North East & Cumbria rather than from island-based relays.
Commercial television came to the island on 26 March 1965, unlike the Channel Islands (which were designated their own franchise of Channel Television), the Isle of Man was included in the large ITV Border franchise based in Carlisle. After it was announced that the ITV Border and ITV Tyne Tees would merge, a survey was taken of Isle of Man viewers in autumn 2008,[1] coverage of the Isle of Man was transferred from ITV Border to ITV Granada on Thursday 16 July 2009.[2][3][4] The island receives the national ITV1 continuity for England and news from the island is featured in Granada Reports. Like the BBC, some viewers receive services through their aerials from elsewhere, including Northern Ireland's UTV and ITV Wales, rather than local relays.
Channel 4[edit]
The commercial network Channel 4 broadcasts to the island but Channel 4 does not provide any regionalisation other than advertising. The Isle of Man is covered by Channel 4's North Macro advertising region.[5]
Channel 5[edit]
The United Kingdom's Channel 5 broadcasts to the island but also utilises a single national channel with regional advertising in which the Isle of Man is covered by The North macro.[6]
Digital television[edit]
The Isle of Man receives the full digital channel line up for the North West England.
Analogue terrestrial[edit]
Digital switch-over for the Isle of Man was completed on 16 July 2009.
The Isle of Man is included as part of the North West region for Freeview.
Television licence[edit]
The United Kingdom TV licence also covers the Isle of Man which is currently £145.50 and primarily used to fund BBC services. The Isle of Man funds free TV licences for persons 75 and over.[7]
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In 1993, Tynwald passed legislation (the Broadcasting Act 1993) allowing for the establishment of local television services. Only one application for a licence to run such a service was received by the Communications Commission. That application was rejected.[8]
- ^ McLaughlin, Carmel. "Phase Two: Preparing for the digital future" (PDF). Response to Ofcom's Second Public Service Broadcasting Review. Government of the Isle of Man Communications Commission. Retrieved 28 December 2011.
- ^ "Viewers want to receive Granada TV news". IOM Today. 5 December 2008. Retrieved 28 December 2011.
- ^ "Island set for Granada services". BBC News. 21 January 2009. Retrieved 28 December 2011.
- ^ "Isle of Man moves ITV news region". IOM Today. 21 January 2009. Retrieved 28 December 2011.
- ^ "Channel 4 Macro Map". Channel 4 Sales. Retrieved 30 July 2012.
- ^ "Channel 5 macros". Channel 5 sales. Retrieved 30 July 2012.
- ^ "Free Tv Licence". Isle of Man government. Retrieved 30 July 2012.
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Dorothy "Dottie" Elizabeth Nickerson, age 91, died on Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at Wingate at Silver Lake in Kingston. Formerly of Plymouth and Duxbury, she was the wife of the late William E. Nickerson. Born in Plymouth on October 12, 1917, she was the daughter of the late Augustus and Lillian (Robbins) Hadaway. Dottie enjoyed reading, her weekly card playing with her close friends and being an avid Red Sox fan. She was the mother of Marvin Nickerson of Lakeville, Sandra Young of Plymouth and Maxene Benevides of Duxbury and the late Martha Hathaway of Plymouth. She was the grand-mother of 10, great- grand-mother of 24 and great-great-grandmother of 12. A memorial service will take place on Monday, June 6, 2011 at the Chiltonville Congregational Church in Plymouth at 10:00 a.m. Cremation will take place at Vine Hills Crematory, Plymouth. Visitation omitted. Donations may be made to the Cranberry Hospice, Inc., 36 Cordage Park Circle, Suite 326, Plymouth, MA 02360.
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There are sand castles contests that produce amazing work, but these pieces by Carl Jara are double-take worthy. The Cleveland, Ohio-based artist says that he sculpts things would never expect to see at a sand castle competition. Well that makes a lot of sense after looking at these pieces.August 23, 2016
R. Crumb's Illustration of Philip K. Dick's Spiritual "Exegesis"
Published in 1986 in Weirdo #17, R. Crumb illustrated sci-fi legend Philip K. Dick's now famous religious experience, a hallucinatory spiritual "exegesis" in which he believed he encountered a God-like presence. If you are new to R. Crumb, we suggest you check out one of his fantastic anthologies. If you're new to Philip K. Dick, you're probably not. His books have been adapted into classic films such as Blade Runner, Total Recall, A Scanner Darkly, and Minority Report.August 23, 2016


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We had many happy times that summer, fishing and going to Tall Rock in our canoe, but more and more now I thought of Tutok and my sister Ulape. Sometimes I would hear their voices in the wind and often, when I was on the sea, in the waves that lapped softly against the canoe. (26.13)
How does Rontu-Aru become a replacement for Rontu? Is he the living past? Karana remembers her sister, and Tutok and their friendship. What's significant about that?
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I came to the mound where my ancestors had sometimes camped in the summer. I thought of them and of the happy times spent in my house on the headland, of my canoe lying unfinished beside the trail. I thought of many things, but stronger was the wish to be where people lived, to hear their voices and their laughter. (28.19)
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When considering virtual-training applications, first think in terms of interaction.
Experts say that too often, training managers develop 3-D worlds that look impressive but do not enable participants to interact with one another or the environment in a meaningful way, according to freelance writer Sarah Fister Gale's article in Workforce Management magazine.
Virtual training should enable users to act and see the results of their actions, or there's no real benefit to having a 3-D environment. Users should also be able to see what other participants are doing and interact with them through gestures and other visual or verbal cues.
That kind of interaction will keep users engaged in a way that classroom instruction never can, experts say. Without it, users will quickly lose interest.Virtual training at DOD: An analysisCongressional Research Service
An April 2008 article from the archives of the Federation of American Scientists provides a useful overview of the policy implications of virtual training at the Defense Department and in the intelligence community.
Congressional researchers outline the benefits of virtual training for DOD, which include the lack of wear and tear on real equipment and related costs. The technology also makes it possible to train with first responders and others, which is a logistical challenge in the real world.
But the report also notes that more research is needed to gauge the effectiveness of virtual training. For example, such training usually takes place in comfortable, air-conditioned environments, "so the operators never get tired from running with a large backpack, or wet and cold, or otherwise physically stressed as they would in a real-world training exercise," the report states.A running commentary on virtual worldsSource: Federal Consortium for Virtual Worlds
Last month, the Federal Consortium for Virtual Worlds asked a handful of bloggers to provide a blow-by-blow report on its conference in Washington, D.C. As is usually the case with live blogging, the posts lack details and analysis. But the bloggers did a good job of capturing insightful comments and intriguing questions, and they provide a curious source of ideas and commentary on government agencies' use of virtual worlds.
For example, traditional online communities of practice tend to be asynchronous, meaning users do not need to be online at the same time to interact. But virtual worlds are built around synchronous, or real-time, collaboration. One speaker wondered how a hybrid approach might work. Second Life tutorialsSource: Kansas State University
Kansas State University has provided a lifeline for those who find themselves baffled by Second Life, as has been known to happen even to technology-savvy editors and reporters.
The university's Communications Department has assembled a good collection of how-to resources. The first three documents are intended for folks looking to get started: They cover how to create avatars; how to drive, pilot or fly virtual vehicles; and basic tips, tricks and hints.
The site also includes links to tutorials in Second Life, a list of related development tools, and pointers to other sites that offer tutorials, tips and tools.
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Why pretend to be something or someone that you are not? Children pretend all the time. It is a form of play, an expression of their imagination. They have learned pieces of stories, let's say after watching a movie little Johnnie pretends to be a pirate, or Zorro, or even a zombie. We think little to nothing of this child play, at times we encourage the expansion of such pretend play as a way to assist in our child's growth. Pretending to be Zorro is a way for little Johnnie to learn about himself. During that session of play he experiences the thrill of being brave, imagining himself as he fights against injustice and evil and more importantly; visualizing himself as the hero.
What about adult play? Recently I made a trip to the Renaissance Fair in Kansas City, where I encountered a number of adults dressed as various characters from the past and it made me wonder about their performances and why they wanted to give up their weekends to be what they were not. I couldn't help but also think about those dressing up to reenact the civil war, old west town shoot-outs require cowboys and sheriffs. Surely, these pretenders are not seeking a development of their imaginations? Are they unhappy with being who they are and seek to become someone else? Are they crazy? I mean, really, are they? Not only do they dress the part, but they focus on details of the character they portray.
At the Renaissance Fair the actors were careful to use the language of the period, and many managed a good accent to match; they go to a lot of trouble to perfect their pretend image. It matters to them and it matters to me. I enjoyed walking into history. The lay-out of the fair ran through a forest, and structures were built to create an effect of what it must have been like to live during that time period. Using my imagination I was able to really enjoy stepping into that time frame.
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met on Sunday with President René Préval and Haiti's three leading presidential candidates. An electoral stalemate has delayed a final vote.
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Just as the Mexican government appeared to be growing savvy in using social media to fight the drug war, prosecutors mistook a man on YouTube for a cartel leader and put $2.5 million bounty on his head.
Ousted ex-president Jean-Bertrand Aristide said he desires to return to Haiti 'today, tomorrow, at any time.' 'Baby Doc' Duvalier, meanwhile, faces more criminal charges.
Outside the posh hotel where Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier has lodged since unexpectedly returning to Haiti on Jan. 16, supporters of the former dictator have gathered in a show of support, some of them yelling: "The revolution is going to start!" They seemed drawn by nostalgia and embellished memories of the Duvalier era, which lasted for nearly 30 years. "Baby Doc" Duvalier became the successor to the regime in 1971 when at the age of 19 he took over from his father, "Papa Doc" François Duvalier (indeed, he started off as a physician). As the following five slides attest, Baby Doc's infamy precedes him.
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Former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier (aka 'Baby Doc') was charged in court Tuesday with embezzlement, corruption, and misappropriation of funds. 'It's fairly easy to pursue legally,' says one expert.
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Less than two days after unexpectedly returning to Haiti, former dictator Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier was brought to court for questioning over alleged crimes committed during his brutal rule.
Haiti's Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, whose brutal rule ended when he fled in 1986, returned unexpectedly on Sunday. His arrival complicates the political landscape, in which a runoff election for president has been delayed.
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Weimann, who came on as a first-half substitute for Darren Bent, converted Eric Lichaj's cross to put Villa 2-1 ahead and then latched on to a Christian Benteke pass for his second goal. Benteke scored Villa's fourth in injury time.
The hosts went ahead when Steve Morison seized a knockdown from Matt Lawton in the 19th minute and smashed the ball home on the half-volley. But the lead lasted only two minutes as Brett Holman drew Villa level with a first-time shot from outside the penalty area.
Thomas Vermaelen scored late for Arsenal to force extra-time against fourth tier Bradford City, who came within three minutes of securing a memorable shock after Garry Thompson put them 1-0 up. (Reporting by Toby Davis; Editing by John Mehaffey)
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Wednesday, 09.16.2009 / 9:25 AM ET / Features
Overlooking them.
Ignore the Sabres at your own peril -- that's the history of this franchise. One of the cardinal rules of hockey is "keep your head up." The Buffalo franchise has caught its NHL rivals with their head down more times than you can count.
Midway through the film classic "Casablanca," Peter Lorre's character asks Humphrey Bogart's character: "You despise me, don't you?" That set Bogey up for the best line of his career: "If I gave you any thought I probably would."
Ask yourself, do you fear the Buffalo Sabres this season? Did the Philadelphia Flyers fear them in 2006, 2001 or 1998? Did Ottawa, Boston or Toronto fear them in 1999? How about Montreal in 1975?
This is a team that went to the Eastern Conference Finals two years in a row in 2006 and 2007, a team that won the Northeast Division in 2007, a team that was in contention for a Stanley Cup Playoff berth until goalie Ryan Miller got hurt on Feb. 21; a team that had significant man-games lost by their best players on offense, defense and in goal.
The Sabres had as little turnover, coming and going, as any team in the NHL this summer and will be very similar to the squad that finished in third place in the Northeast, 10th in the Eastern Conference and 18th in the NHL. The Sabres missed the playoffs by two points.
The Sabres finished in the middle of the League in so many statistical categories that they can't be considered anything other than an average NHL team, neither bad nor good.
Gone are veteran defensemen Teppo Numminen and Jaroslav Spacek. Ales Kotalik was traded away late last season. Veteran forward Mike Grier re-signed with the Sabres after three seasons in San Jose. Forwards Cody McCormick and Jeff Cowan were acquired for depth and arriving defensemen Steve Montador and Joe DiPenta fill the gaps on defense.
Otherwise, the top 12 forwards remained largely unchanged, and goalies Miller and Patrick Lalime -- who had surgeries on both hips this summer -- will be back. Buffalo News writer John Vogl noted 16 forwards will vie for 12 jobs at training camp. "The Sabres simply have too many forwards capable of playing in the NHL (though the effectiveness of each is open to debate)," Vogl wrote.
See, even the local media is skating with their heads down.
Regier's oft-stated opinion is that the core of this group has reached NHL maturity and if they can remain healthy, they can do a lot of damage.
The battle plan relies on a healthy Tim Connolly, who hasn't played a full season since 2002-03, centering a first line of left winger Thomas Vanek and right winger Jason Pominville. Leading scorer Derek Roy is expected to center left winger Jochen Hecht and right winger Drew Stafford, who remains unsigned at this writing. Right winger Grier will likely play with center Paul Gaustad. Fourth-line center Adam Mair underwent hip surgery in early September and is out four-to-six weeks.
Look for Hecht, Gerbe, Kennedy, Dan Paille, Clarke MacArthur and Matt Ellis to vie for the left-wing jobs behind Vanek. Connolly, Roy and Gaustad seem set at center. Tyler Ennis, a first-round draft pick a year ago, could jump from juniors to the Sabres' roster, at least until Mair returns. MacArthur and Ellis can also play center.
Rugged Patrick Kaleta is the front-runner for the fourth-line right-wing job but he'll be challenged by McCormick, Portland Pirates leading scorer Mark Mancari and Philip Gogulla, who has played five seasons in the top German league. Mancari, a veteran of 10 NHL games, has asked for a Sabres' roster spot or a trade. Buffalo was 12th in goals-per-game and seventh in power-play goals so that works against him. Better two-way play, not goals, is what the Sabres need.
Connolly had 18 goals and 47 points in 48 games but lost time to back and rib injuries. Project those numbers over a whole season and Connolly would be an All Star. Vanek has averaged 40 goals the past three seasons. He tied Rick Nash, Eric Staal and Marian Hossa for fifth in goals last season. Nice company!
Roy had 28 goals and 70 points. His nine game-winning goals were sixth in the NHL. Stafford hit 20 goals in his third NHL season.
Pominville has trended downward from 34 goals three years ago to 27 goals two years ago to 20 goals last season. He had 66 points after posting 80 points two years ago. Buffalo needs more production and may get it as he bids for a spot on the U.S. Olympic team. Hecht is another who needs to rebound. After five-straight seasons averaging 50 points, Hecht slipped to 27 last year. MacArthur is very versatile and is detail-oriented, making him an excellent depth player, and he added 17 goals and 31 points. The Sabres would be happy with 10 goals and 25-30 points from Grier, plus three hits per shift.
Former Bowling Green left winger Derek Whitmore, Gatineau Olympique center Paul Byron and Michigan right winger Travis Turnbull were all effective at their previous jobs and appear to be in the running for Sabres' jobs during training camp.
The rugged Craig Rivet was limited by knee and shoulder problems to 64 games. He had two goals and 24 points and can be expected to be more productive this season. He was Buffalo's only right-shooting defenseman so that's why Regier acquired Montador, who can also play wing. Regier's been drafting right-shooting defensemen in recent years.
The Sabres love the top pairing of Toni Lydman and Henrik Tallinder, two quiet defensive defenseman who are excellent passers but don't do a lot offensively. Chris Butler, 22, was the Sabres' most pleasant surprise last season, going plus-11 in 47 games after being called up from Portland. Good things were expected from Andrej Sekera in his second NHL season, but he was plagued by a "lower-body injury" and was minus-11 in 69 games. Expect him to be much better this season, possibly bumping Butler off the second pairing.
Right-hand shot Tyler Myers, the Sabres' top pick in 2008, did everything right in his final year at Kelowna and will likely jump to the big club. He's tall and slim at 6-foot-7 and 210 pounds but he can hit. Most people think he'll be among the NHL's top defensemen within a few seasons.
DiPenta was with five NHL teams before jumping to the Swedish league last year. He's a veteran defensive defenseman who will likely play in Portland. Nathan Paetsch spent most of last year as a reserve and then suffered a late-season concussion. He's been up and down with Buffalo for four seasons and his window maybe closing.
Mike Weber could be seen as the future replacement for Lydman or Tallinder, a quiet, competent defensive defenseman. No flash, but he's reliable. Marc-Andre Gragnani led Portland's defensemen in scoring. It may take an injury or someone playing himself out of the lineup, but Gragnani should rent, not buy, in Portland this season.
Meanwhile, in the incubator, recent high-draft picks T.J. Brennan, Dennis Persson, Drew Schiestel and Corey Fienhage have all played well since being drafted and are a year or two away.
What teams want from their goalie: a guy who gives them a chance to win and can steal a few games. That goalie's name is Ryan Miller, one of the best in the business -- although his goals-against average and save percentage don't really support that argument. To repeat a phrase, who are you going to trust, a stat sheet or your own lying eyes?
The Sabres were tied for sixth when Miller got hurt on Feb. 21 and quickly fell out of the playoff race. Miller came back and the Sabres finished 7-2-1.
'Nuff said.
In some ways it's a surprise that Regier retained Patrick Lalime as the backup after he went 5-13-3 with a 3.10 GAA in 24 games. There are probably two reasons: First, Lalime is a great character guy and willing worker who won't agitate for more ice time but will be ready when asked. Second, Buffalo has a top goaltending prospect in Jhonas Enroth, the 46th pick of the 2006 NHL Entry Draft, who had a 26-23-6 record, 2.75 GAA, .914 save percentage and three shutouts in 58 games at Portland last season.


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A £6,400 fine, half suspended, was imposed on the Ethiopian Football Association for the conduct of the team's supporters during their opening African Cup of Nations match against Zambia in Nelspruit on Monday.
Fans threw missiles, including plastic vuvuzelas, on to the pitch after Tassew was sent off 10 minutes before half-time for a flying kick on Zambia's Chisamba Lungu.
CAF's disciplinary committee has imposed a two-match ban on Tassew for violent conduct.
The referee showed the keeper the red cad as he was being carried off the pitch on a stretcher. The Group C match ended 1-1.
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The GTU offers both the PhD and the ThD degree. Both are advanced academic degrees intended to prepare students for professional careers in teaching, writing, and scholarship, as well as for leadership opportunities with religious organizations, social service agencies, foundations, museums, libraries, publishing, and in educational institutions.
Students entering the PhD or ThD program at the GTU can choose their fields of study from among more than thirty concentrations grouped into four interdisciplinary departments: Sacred Texts & Their Interpretation, Historical & Cultural Studies of Religion, Theology & Ethics, and Religion & Practice.
The doctoral curriculum builds on the ecumenical, interreligious, and interdisciplinary strengths of the GTU, and offers enhanced opportunities for both specialization and cross-disciplinary study. The GTU's doctoral program utilizes the depth of faculty expertise made possible by its eight member schools and more than a dozen academic centers and affiliates.
The academic disciplines represented by a diverse range of faculty, combined with multidenominational and interfaith cooperation, provide a rich environment for developing one's academic voice. The GTU has the faculty and research resources to offer a distinctively interdisciplinary approach to scholarship within one's specialized concentration.
Tuition $31,320 for first two years
Continuing fee $9,000/year
Housing $9,900 (single student, 9-month academic year)
All students are eligible for Presidential Scholarships, which are merit-based and cover full tuition for two years. Others receive grant-in-aid awards up to 70% of tuition if there is demonstrated need.
At least one Presidential Scholarship each year goes to a person of an underrepresented minority, and the Hearst Scholarship is also designated for enhancing the diversity of the GTU student body. Several Endowed Scholarships cover all or a portion of tuition, and Need-Based Aid.
Eduardo Fernández
Professor of Pastoral Theology and Ministry
1997-1998 Post Doctoral Fellow
Interests include Missiology, U.S. Hispanic Theology and Ministry, Hispanic Religious Expressions, Celebration of Sacraments in Multicultural Contexts, Mexican History and history of the Southwest, Art, Spirituality and InculturationJulián Andrés González
Assistant Professor of Old Testament
2010–2011 First-Year Doctoral Scholar
2011–2012 Second-Year Doctoral Scholar
2012–2013 Comprehensive Exam-Year Scholar
2013–2015 Dissertation-Year Scholar
Interests include Hebrew Bible in Relation to its Imperial Contexts, Postcolonial Hermeneutics, and Diaspora and Migration Studies and the BibleAlicia Vargas
Associate Professor of Multicultural and Contextual Studies
Interests include Mujerista Christology, Pauline inclusivity vis-à-vis Lutheran theology and missionMarga Vega
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Interests include Metaphor, Aristole, Philosophy of Mind, Theories of Art, Social Philosophy
Women's Studies in Religion Program (WSR) sustains, promotes, and advances the study of women in theology and religion in full recognition of race, sexual and gender orientation, ethnicity, class, culture, nationality and religious orientation. WSR offers a Women's Studies in Religion Certificate for graduate students at GTU and its member schools.
The GTU has cross-registration and cooperative library agreements with the University of California, Berkeley, which is located just a block away.
GTU Distinguished Faculty Lecture
Reading of the Sacred Texts Lecture
Surjit Singh Lecture on Comparative Religious Thought and Culture
The Flora Lamson Hewlett Library provides electronic access to Clase Periodica, an Index of Latin American Journals in the sciences and humanities.
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Chaplain Resident II
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
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2005-2006 Comprehensive Exams Year
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Associate Professor of Theology and Religious Studies
University of San Francisco
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2003-2004 Comprehensive Exams Year
2005-2006 Dissertation Year FellowWendy Arce
2006-2007 Doctoral
2007-2008 Doctoral Renewal
2008-2009 Comprehensive Exams Year Fellow
2011-2012 DissertationDiana Patricia Avila (deceased)
2000-2001 Doctoral FellowJosé Balcells
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2010-2011 Second-Year Doctoral
2011-2012 Comprehensive Exams Year
2014-2015 DissertationRebecca Berru Davis
Louisville Institute Postdoctoral Fellow
Saint John's University and School of Theology, Collegeville, MN
2007-2008 Doctoral Fellow
2008-2009 Comprehensive Exams Year
2010-2011 Dissertation Year FellowFrederick Dalton
Religious Studies Department Chair
Bellarmine College Preparatory
1997-1998 Dissertation Year FellowJoseph De León
Adjunct Professor of Philosophy and Sociology
Central Pennsylvania College
2001-2002 Doctoral
2002-2003 Doctoral Renewal
2003-2004 Comprehensive Exams Year FellowAnita de Luna (deceased)
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
Our Lady of the Lake University
1999-2000 Dissertation Year FellowEduardo Fernandez
Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology and Ministry
Graduate Theological Union
1997-1998 Post Doctoral FellowCecilia Gonzalez-Andrieu
Associate Professor of Theological Studies
Loyola Marymount University
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Professor of Religious Studies
University of Miami
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1999-2000 Comprehensive Exams Year FellowLauren Frances Guerra
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2012-2013 Second-Year Doctoral Scholar
2013-2014 Comprehensive Exams Year
2015-2016 Dissertation ScholarKenneth Johnson-Mondragón
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The HTI person to contact for information on Ph.D. studies at Graduate Theological Union is:Name: Kathleen Kook
Title: Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students
Telephone: 510.649.2464
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With 9th Cloud Expo at Silicon Valley's Santa Clara Convention Center now finished, Cloud Computing Journal asked a variety of industry stakeholders what their Top Three takeaways were from the event, now that the many thousands of delegates are back at their desks and their companies, leveraging the knowledge and the insights that they gained through the extensive technical/strategic program and the huge number of booths on the Expo floor.
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Here are the Top Three according to Dave Meizlik - Vice President of Marketing & Business Development at Dome9 Security.
Takeaway #1: Cloud ecosystem is growing
Cloud ecosystem is growing as more and more services are delivered in and for it, introducing flexibility but also complexity..
Takeaway #2: Security remains the #1 concern
Security remains the #1 concern in the cloud, but service providers are making great progress to mitigate that concern and new services provide customers with some great options.
Takeaway #3: Automation is king!
Cloud services must be as elastic as the infrastructure to support its scalability and portability. If it's not automated, don't bother.
SYS-CON Events announced today Telecom Reseller has been named "Media Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Telecom Reseller reports on Unified Communications, UCaaS, BPaaS for enterprise and SMBs. They report extensively on both customer premises based solutions such as IP-PBX as well as cloud based and hosted platforms.
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The emerging Internet of Everything creates tremendous new opportunities for customer engagement and business model innovation. However, enterprises must overcome a number of critical challenges to bring these new solutions to market. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Michael Martin, CTO/CIO at nfrastructure, outlined these key challenges and recommended approaches for overcoming them to achieve speed and agility in the design, development and implementation of Internet of Everything solutions wi...
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Cloud computing is being adopted in one form or another by 94% of enterprises today. Tens of billions of new devices are being connected to The Internet of Things. And Big Data is driving this bus. An exponential increase is expected in the amount of information being processed, managed, analyzed, and acted upon by enterprise IT. This amazing is not part of some distant future - it is happening today. One report shows a 650% increase in enterprise data by 2020. Other estimates are even higher....
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Today we can collect lots and lots of performance data. We build beautiful dashboards and even have fancy query languages to access and transform the data. Still performance data is a secret language only a couple of people understand. The more business becomes digital the more stakeholders are interested in this data including how it relates to business. Some of these people have never used a monitoring tool before. They have a question on their mind like "How is my application doing" but no id...
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The 19th International Cloud Expo has announced that its Call for Papers is open. Cloud Expo, to be held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, brings together Cloud Computing, Big Data, Internet of Things, DevOps, Digital Transformation, Microservices and WebRTC to one location. With cloud computing driving a higher percentage of enterprise IT budgets every year, it becomes increasingly important to plant your flag in this fast-expanding business opportuni...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that 910Telecom will exhibit at the 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Housed in the classic Denver Gas & Electric Building, 910 15th St., 910Telecom is a carrier-neutral telecom hotel located in the heart of Denver. Adjacent to CenturyLink, AT&T, and Denver Main, 910Telecom offers connectivity to all major carriers, Internet service providers, Internet backbones and ...
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Internet of @ThingsExpo, taking place November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, is co-located with 19th Cloud Expo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the most profound change in personal and enterprise IT since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago. All major researchers estimate there will be tens of billions devices - comp...
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Data is the fuel that drives the machine learning algorithmic engines and ultimately provides the business value. In his session at Cloud Expo, Ed Featherston, a director and senior enterprise architect at Collaborative Consulting, will discuss the key considerations around quality, volume, timeliness, and pedigree that must be dealt with in order to properly fuel that engine.
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Xavier Morales, Executive Director
Prior to becoming executive director of The Praxis Project, Xavier Morales was executive director of the Latino Coalition for a Healthy California and was in his second year of serving on the Praxis board of directors. He is a longtime advocate for community-driven initiatives to achieve health equity and environmental justice. Taking an expansive view of what constitutes good health and community wellness, he diligently works to enable opportunities for youth development, workforce development, college access, prisoner reentry, early childhood development, affordable housing, and expanding access to culturally and linguistically appropriate heath care for all. Xavier currently serves on the boards of The California Pan-Ethnic Health Network and the Urban Peace Initiative. He was a member of the Berkeley vs. Big Soda steering committee that passed the first local tax on sugary drinks in the country to begin to address the diabetes epidemic in vulnerable communities. He has been a leader in the campaign to pass legislation to create a dedicated revenue source to combat diabetes and other preventable chronic diseases at the state level in California. Xavier often provides testimony in the California State Legislature and is a frequent speaker at legislative briefings, health conferences, health justice gatherings, and in college/university settings. Xavier, a former Peace Corps volunteer (Hungary), is originally from Sanger, California and studied environmental sciences at the University of California, Berkeley and city and regional planning at Cornell University.
Sylvia Castillo, Deputy Director
Sylvia has combined her passions for public policy and grassroots organizing for the last 20 years by serving as District Director to the Congress member Karen Bass and former California Assembly Speaker and by being a founding leader of the Community Coalition, a community institution that involves thousands of grassroots activists to create, influence and change public policy.
Salimah Salaam-Muhammad, Finance and Personnel Director
Salimah Salaam Muhammad is a native Washingtonian and serves as the Chief Financial Officer for the Praxis Project. Her primary function is to act as the financial liaison for the organization and to provide administrative and fiscal management. She also works directly with the Praxis Project Fiscal Sponsor in the capacity of fiscal manager to institution of color at the local and regional levels to provide technical assistance in the areas of budget development, planning policies and procedures and accounting.
Hailing from a varied business background that spans over two decades, her experience includes managing the Abundant Life Clinic, an inclusive and non-sectarian community-based holistic health clinic serving health care needs to underserved and disadvantaged communities, to a management stint at Citibank. Prior to working at Praxis, Salimah was professionally employed with various financial planning, investment and community based fundraising to individuals and small businesses. She holds a master's degree in business finance from the University of the District of Columbia and she completed her undergraduate work at Howard University.
Miles Parish, Technology Manager
Miles began his organizing career at a young age when he began volunteering in election campaigns before he was ten years old. As a college student at Morehouse, he worked in the Obama For America campaign, designed websites and technology applications for independent musicians and produced short viral videos and other promotional materials. Miles coordinated digital outreach for the CCHE Get FReE initiative, which focuses on networking, support and tools for youth-led organizing nationwide.
Now in his fifth year at Praxis Miles has stepped into the role as Technology Manager adding to his multimedia credentials through various accredidation programs and independent study on how to use the web more effectively for organizing and also speaking at gatherings on the importance for people of color to use available technology to better their communities by taking ownership in its development.
LaTanya Lowe, Office Manager
LaTanya Lowe is native to the DC Metropolitan area, where she was raised in Silver Spring, MD. She brings more than 15 years of operations, project and administrative management experience to The Praxis Project.
LaTanya has worked with international and local non-profit organizations, such as the American College of Cardiology as well as The Family Restoration and Healing Center, where she currently volunteers. She earned her undergraduate degree in English with an additional concentration in African Diaspora at the University of Maryland and earned her Master's Degree in Organizational Management. LaTanya strives to demonstrate hard work and social justice principles in every aspect of her life. She is passionate about applying her work ethic to achieve social, medical, economic, and educational justice for communities of color throughout the country.
Chris Bufford, Field Manager
Chris Bufford was raised on the south side of Chicago and has been organizing for the past eight years around education, juvenile justice reform, mental health, and the right to affordable housing.Chris developed his skills as a youth organizer at the Southwest Youth Collaborative where he worked with young people to dismantle the school to prison pipeline and juvenile justice reform.
Chris is a Restorative Justice Circle Keeper trainer, practitioner and advocate. He is also trained in facilitation, Kingian nonviolent direct action and the UN Convention on the Rights of a Child and Advancing Youth Development curriculum.
He serves on the Advisory Council for The Community Justice Network For Youth and the National Coordinating Council for Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100).
Gabriella Ramos, Program Associate (California)
Gabriella was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio by her mother and a loving village of relatives where values of social awareness and community service were instilled in her at a very young age. She moved to the California Bay Area in 1991 and now shares her values by being a loving member of multiple villages, where she has spent time mentoring and empowering the youth in her chosen family and community. As a licensed spiritual counselor and mentor, she co-leads a weekly pre-teen and teen program at her church. The experience Gabriella brings to Praxis includes over a decade of volunteer recruitment and management as well as a diverse conference and event production skill set. She is committed to social justice, equality and a world that works for everyone.
Marisol Ocampo, Capacity Development and Training Manager
Born and raised in Mexico City, Marisol has been involved in various grassroots leftist organizations in Mexico and the U.S. since the late 90's. Alongside her work at Praxis, she is currently an active member of LeftRoots, Black and Brown Latinxs in Solidarity (BLIS), The School of Unity and Liberation (SOUL), and Calpulli Huey-Papalotl, where she supports the ongoing needs of political education, direct action and organizing skills curriculum development and popular education trainings. As a working class-queer-immigrant and single parent, Marisol has had deep and tangible experiences of oppression which, thanks to the amazing work of radical educators, organizers, healers and freedom-fighters of all times, have translated into a strong commitment to fighting for social justice locally with a global lens. As the Capacity Development and Training Manager, Marisol brings her years of experience and commitment to building healthy communities from the bottom up.


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- What to watch this summer if you're too scared to make it past episode two of Stranger Things? The answer is Disney's Pete's Dragon, about an orphaned boy who lives in the forest with his pet dragon (it's a remake of a 1977 film). With Pete's Drag...Read more
- While Finding Dory is definitely the kind of visual pleasure we've come to expect from Pixar, its storyline doesn't always reach the heights of inventiveness upon which the gigantic animation studio has built its reputation. The film lacks the psy...Read more
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It's Friday, and that means more jazz. Today's genre is Afrobeat, which emerged in the late 1960s/early 1970s.
Nigerian musician Fela Kuti is credited as the genre's progenitor, though Fela maintained drummer Tony Allen was essential to style, saying, "[w]ithout Tony Allen, there would be no Afrobeat."
Afrobeat fuses a number of different types of music with jazz, including funk, highlife, rock, and folk music from West African cultures. In this video, Beasts of No Nation, it's easy to hear the different styles of music added as layers underpinned and unified by drums.
The lyrics of many Afrobeat tunes are very political; the album of the same name, Beasts of No Nation, was an anti-apartheid statement released in 1989.
Recommended read to accompany today's musical selection: The Wealth of Nations by Emmanuel Iduma (Guernica magazine).
Let's move…
Not far from the Apple tree
Lots of developments yesterday in the #AppleVsFBI story.
"The iPhone is a county owned telephone that may have connected to the San Bernardino County computer network. The seized iPhone may contain evidence that can only be found on the seized phone that it was used as a weapon to introduce a lying dormant cyber pathogen that endangers San Bernardino's infrastructure…"
Emphasis mine. WHAT. EVEN. Dude just screwed law enforcement, making the case (using a made-up term) for the iPhone to never be opened.
Brazil's former president Lula held for questioning as home raided
The investigation into state-run oil company Petrobras now reaches deeply into the highest levels of Brazil's government. Investigators are looking into former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's role in Petrobras' corruption, including kickbacks and influence peddling. The investigation's discoveries threaten the viability of current president Dilma Rousseff's ruling coalition. Wonder if the NSA was following this when they were spying on Petrobras?
Quick licks
Ugh. That's a wrap on this week, stopping now before this really devolves though I can't see any distance between here and absolute bottom. Have a good weekend!
Hope the cull is done because obituaries are not my thing. Hard to type and sniffle copiously at the same time.
GM Opel dealers may be altering emissions control software on Zafira diesel cars
Great, just great. Like GM didn't have enough on its plate with the ignition switch debacle. A Belgian news outlet reports GM Opel dealers have been changing the software on the 2014 Zafira 1.6l diesel engine passenger vehicles in what looks like a soft recall. This comes on the heels of an EU-mandated recall of Zafira B models due to fires caused by bad electronics repairs. Sorry, I don't speak Dutch, can't make out everything in this video report. What little I can see and read doesn't look good. Wouldn't be surprised if the EU puts the hurt on GM Opel diesel sales until all are fixed to meet EU emissions regulations. Should also note that a different electronics manufacturer may be involved; images online of ECUs for late model Zafiras appear to be made by Siemens — unlike Volkswagen's passenger diesel ECUs, which are made by Bosch.
Texas manufacturer swindled out of cash by fraudulent email request, sues cyber insurer
AFGlobal, based in Houston, lost $480,000 in May 2014 after staff wired funds based on orders in emails faked by crooks overseas. The manufacturing company had a cyber insurance policy with a subsidiary of the Chubb Group, and filed a claim against it. The claim was denied and AFGlobal filed suit. This isn't the first such loss nor the first such lawsuit. Companies need to create and publish policies documenting procedures for authorizing any online payments, including two-step authentication of identities, and review overall spending authorization processes with an eye on audit trails.
Ukrainian officials say Kiev's main airport hacked
Hackers who attacked Ukrainian power companies in late December are believed to be responsible for the malware launched on Kiev's airport servers. There are very few details — okay, none, zero details — about the attack and its affect on airport operations. A military spokesman only said "the malware had been detected early in the airport's system and no damage had been done," and that the malware's point of origin was in Russia. Among the details missing are the date the attack was discovered and how it was detected as well as the means of removal.
Hold this thought: FBI still looking for info on cable cuts, with eye to Super Bowl link
Remember the post last summer about the 11 communications cable cuts in the greater San Francisco Bay Area near Silicon Valley? This is a hot issue again, given the impending Super Bowl 50 to be held at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara. But reports now mention 15 or 16 cuts, not 11 — have there been more since last summer, or were there more not included in the FBI's request for information? I'll do some digging and post about this in the near term.
All right, carry on, and don't drink all the añejo at once.
Here's what the trash man left behind this morning.
Hackers caused power outage — the first of its kind?
Marcy's already posted about the electrical power disruption in Ukraine this past week, labeled by some as the first known hacker-caused outage. I find the location of this malware-based outage disturbing due to its location in western Ukraine. Given the level of tensions with Russia along the eastern portion of the country, particularly near Donetsk over the past couple of years, an outage in the west seems counterintuitive if the hackers were motivated by Ukraine-Russian conflict.
And hey, look, the hackers may have used backdoors! Hoocudanode hackers would use backdoors?!
Fortunately, one government is clued in: the Dutch grok the risks inherent in government-mandated backdoors and are willing to support better encryption.
'Netflix and chill' in a new Volvo
I've never been offered a compelling case for self-driving cars. Every excuse offered — like greater fuel efficiency and reduced traffic jams — only make greater arguments for more and better public transportation.
The latest excuse: watching streaming video while not-driving is Volvo's rationalization for developing automotive artificial intelligence.
I'm not alone in my skepticism. I suspect Isaac Asimov is rolling in his grave.
US Govt sues pollution-cheater VW — while GOP Congress seeks bailout for VW
WHAT?! Is this nuts or what? A foreign car company deliberately broke U.S. laws, damaging the environment while lying to consumers and eating into U.S.-made automotive market share. The Environmental Protection Agency filed suit against Volkswagen for its use of illegal emissions control defeat systems. The violation of consumers' trust has yet to be addressed.
Thank goodness for the GOP-led House, which stands ready to offer a freaking bailout to a lying, cheating foreign carmaker which screwed the American public. Yeah, that'll fix everything.
Remember conservatives whining about bailing out General Motors during 2008's financial crisis? All of them really need a job working for VW.
Massive data breach affecting 191 million voters — and nobody wants to own up to the database problem
An infosec researcher disclosed last week a database containing records on 191 million voters was exposed. You probably heard about this already and shrugged, because data breaches happen almost daily now. No big deal, right?
Except that 191 million voters is more than the number of people who cast a vote in 2012 or even 2008 presidential elections. This database must represent more than a couple election cycles of voter data because of its size — and nobody's responding appropriately to the magnitude of the problem.
Nobody's owning up to the database or the problem, either.
Here's a novel idea: perhaps Congress, instead of bailing out lying, cheating foreign automakers, ought to spend their time investigating violations of voters' data — those folks that put them in office?
Any member of Congress not concerned about this breach should also avoid bitching about voter fraud, because hypocrisy. Ditto the DNC and the Hillary Clinton campaign.
Whew, there it is, another mark on the 2016 resolution checklist. Have you checked anything off your list yet? Fess up.
We already knew Sony Pictures Entertainment's (SPE) hack was bad. We knew that the parent, Sony Group, had been exposed to cyber attacks of all kinds for years across its subsidiaries, and slow to effect real changes to prevent future attacks.
And we knew both Sony Group and SPE shot themselves in the feet, literally asking for trouble by way of bad decisions. Sony Electronics' 2005 copy protection rootkit scandal and SPE's utter lack of disregard for geopolitics opened the businesses to risk.
But FORTUNE magazine's expose about the hacking of SPE — of which only two of three parts have yet been published — reveals a floundering conglomerate unable to do anything but flail ineffectively.
It's impossible to imagine any Fortune 500 corporation willing to tolerate working with 1990s technology for any length of time, let alone one which had no fail-over redundancies or backup strategies, no emergency business continuity plan to which they could revert in the event of a catastrophe. But FORTUNE reports SPE had been reduced to using fax machines to distribute information, in large part because many of its computers had been completely wiped by malware used in the attack.
Pause here and imagine what you would do (or perhaps, have done) if your computer was completely wiped, taking even the BIOS. What would you do to get back in business? You've given more thought about this continuity challenge than it appears most of SPE's management invested prior to last November's hack, based on reporting to date.
A mind-boggling part of FORTUNE's expose is the U.S. government's reaction to SPE's hack. The graphic above offers the biggest guffaw, a quote by the FBI's then-assistant director of its cyber division. Knowing what we know now about the Office of Personnel Management hack, the U.S. government is a less-than-credible expert on hacking prevention. While the U.S. government maintains North Korea was responsible, it's hard to take them seriously when they've failed so egregiously to protect their own turf. Continue reading
Ever try to follow an evolving story in which the cascade of trouble grew so big and moved so fast it was like trying to stay ahead of a pyroclastic flow?
That's what it's like keeping up with emerging reports about the massive cyber attack on Sony. (Granted, it's nothing like the torture report, but Hollywood has a way of making the story spin harder when it's about them.)
The second most ridiculous part of the Sony hack story is the way in which the entertainment industry has studiously avoided criticizing those most responsible for data security.
In late November, when the hacker(s) self-identified as "Guardians of Peace" made threats across Sony Pictures' computer network before releasing digital film content, members of the entertainment industry were quick to revile pirates they believed were intent on stealing and distributing digital film content.
When reports emerged implicating North Korea as the alleged source of the hack, the industry backpedaled away from their outrage over piracy, mumbling instead about hackers.
The industry's insiders shifted gears once again it was revealed that Sony's passwords were in a password-protected file, and the password to this file was 'password.'
At this juncture you'd think Sony's employees and contractors – whose Social Security numbers, addresses, emails, and other sensitive information had been exposed – would demand a corporate-wide purge of IT department and Sony executives.
You'd think that anyone affiliated with Sony, whose past and future business dealings might also be exposed would similarly demand expulsion of the incompetents who couldn't find OPSEC if it was tattooed on their asses. Or perhaps investors and analysts would descend upon the corporation with pitchforks and torches, demanding heads on pikes because of teh stoopid.
Instead the industry has been tsk-tsking about the massive breach, all the while rummaging through the equivalent of Sony Pictures' wide-open lingerie drawer, looking for industry intelligence. Reporting by entertainment industry news outlets has focused almost solely on the content of emails between executives.
But the first most ridiculous part of this massive assault on Sony is that Sony has been hacked more than 50 times in the last 15 years.
Yes. That's More Than Fifty.
Inside Fifteen Years. Continue reading
The breathless reporting about the alleged Chinese hacking at The New York Times is truly annoying because of the shock it displays. The surprise any major government or private corporate entity shows at this point about any network-based security breach that appears to originate from China should be treated as propaganda, or a display of gross ignorance.
In 1999, the CIA's Foreign Broadcast Information Service published a white paper entitled Unrestricted Warfare, written by the PRC's Col. Qiao Liang and Col. Wang Xiansui. The publication outlined the methodologies a nation-state could deploy as part of an asymmetric war. Further, the same work outlined the U.S.'s weaknesses at that time were it to confront such asymmetric warfare. It did not focus any other nation-state, just the U.S.*
The colonels acknowledged that the U.S.—at the time of the paper—had considered using a range of tools in response to conflicts:
"…There's no getting around the opinions of the Americans when it comes to discussing what means and methods will be used to fight future wars. This is not simply because the U.S. is the latest lord of the mountain in the world. It is more because the opinions of the Americans on this question really are superior compared to the prevailing opinions among the military people of other nations. The Americans have summed up the four main forms that warfighting will take in the future as: 1) Information warfare; 2) Precision warfare [see Endnote 8]; 3) Joint operations [see Endnote 9]; and 4) Military operations other than war (MOOTW) [see Endnote 10]. This last sentence is a mouthful. From this sentence alone we can see the highly imaginative, and yet highly practical, approach of the Americans, and we can also gain a sound understanding of the warfare of the future as seen through the eyes of the Americans. Aside from joint operations, which evolved from traditional cooperative operations and coordinated operations, and even Air- Land operations, the other three of the four forms of warfighting can all be considered products of new military thinking. General Gordon R. Sullivan, the former Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, maintained that information warfare will be the basic form of warfighting in future warfare. For this reason, he set up the best digitized force in the U.S. military, and in the world. Moreover, he proposed the concept of precision warfare, based on the perception that "there will be an overall swing towards information processing and stealthy long-range attacks as the main foundations of future warfare." For the Americans, the advent of new, high-tech weaponry, such as precision-guided weapons, the Global Positioning System (GPS), C4I systems and stealth airplanes, will possibly allow soldiers to dispense with the nightmare of attrition warfare. …"
The rise of military tools like drones for precision-guided stealth attacks was predicted; quite honestly, the PRC's current cyber warfare could be a pointed response to Gen. Sullivan's statement about information warfare.
But in acknowledging the U.S.'s future use of MOOTW, the colonels also offered up the most likely approaches in an asymmetric assault or response: trade war, financial war, new terror war in contrast to traditional terror war, ecological war. Of these, they cited a specific example of new terror war entity and attacks: Continue reading


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Who would the other evils be if Sauron was destroyed?
The new evils would just sprout from the seeds Morgoth had planted :
From the Silmarillion, chapter War of Wrath :
Yet the lies that Melkor, the mighty and accursed, Morgoth Bauglir, the Power of Terror and of Hate, sowed in the hearts of Elves and Men are a seed that does not die and cannot be destroyed; and ever and anon it sprouts anew, and will bear dark fruit even unto the latest days.
The new evils would just sprout from Men : it's mentioned in the appendices of LOTR that there were still a couple of wars with Easterlings before there was peace, for instance.
And as the events in LOTR are just part of an Era that is forgotton now, we can easily think of examples of this new evil : just look at the history of mankind and what ppl did to each other (and still do). Men don't need a Dark Lord to do evil.
Anyway, JRRT started on a sequel to LOTR where the 'new evil' would be a dark cult amongst youngsters, but he quickly resented the idea :
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Except the beginning of a tale supposed to refer to the end of the reign of Eldaron about 100 years after the death of Aragorn. Then I of course discovered that the King's Peace would contain no tales worth recounting; and his wars would have little interest after the overthrow of Sauron; but that almost certainly a restlessness would appear about then, owing to the (it seems) inevitable boredom of Men with the good: there would be secret societies practising dark cults, and 'orc-cults' among adolescents
Does this prove that Sauron did not actually manage to fully take a 'shape'??
I think Gandalf meant that Sauron would change from a mighty Dark Lord into a pretty harmless –but still mean- ghost that likes to roam in old castles and mansions, like the cousins of Casper.
I think that Sauron would still be able to harm an individual who ran into him, but was completely unable to again form a threat to Middle-Earth. Sauron went from hero to zero.


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Jeremy Mathieu's strike in first-half stoppage time helped strengthen Valencia's push for Champions League qualification in a 1-0 win at Getafe.
The 29-year-old's goal was enough for Los Che to make it three wins on the spin in the Spanish Primera Division.
Ernesto Valverde's side have swapped positions with Real Socieded in the battle for the fourth Champions League positions. That is at least until midnight, of course, with the Basque side in action at Sevilla.
Their opponents Getafe could have increased hopes of a Europa League position and end a difficult spell of form with one win in seven games.
But the hosts never managed to assert enough dominance over a compact, well-organised Valencia midfield, including Ever Banega, David Albelda and Dani Parejo.
The left-sided partnership of Andres Guardado and Aly Cissokho created a few half-chances for Valverde's side with Robert Soldado missing the target. Soldado has scored 21 goals in 30 league games this term and came inches away from beating Moya from yards out.
Getafe's lack of a goalscoring edge in recent months was evident with just two notable opportunities in the game. The first came inside four minutes with Pedro Leon blazing the ball over the crossbar from 20 yards out when he should have done better.
And Leon was involved again in the second, with Castro on the break, but the former's cross sailed over the head of early substitute Lafita.
But, well into the additional minute of first-half time, former Toulouse defender Mathieu bent home a wonderful left-foot effort after being laid-off by Ever Banega. It was the French defender's first goal of the season.
Still dominating the game, Valencia nonetheless struggled to convert that into more goals.
Soldado was a lively threat into the second-half and on 47 mintues, Moya denied him from close range after a cushioned first-touch to Banega's pass which was missing the finish.
It was the Valencia top-scorer against Moya for a second time on 73 minutes but the Getafe number one's strong right-hand prevented a goal.
The game fizzled out in favour of Los Che, with the likes of Parejo and Banega showing their efficient possession football to nullify Getafe's threats.
And Luis Garcia's side remain in eighth position in La Liga, level on points with Sevilla and five behind Real Betis.
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