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Updated January 17, 2007
By Febe Armanios and Christopher M. Blanchard
Analyst in Middle Eastern Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division, Department of State
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and subsequent discussions of religious extremism have called attention to Islamic puritanical movements known as Wahhabism and Salafiyya. Al Qaeda leaders and their ideological supporters have advocated a violent message that some suggest is an extremist interpretation of this line of puritanical Islam. Other observers have accused Saudi Arabia, the center of Wahhabism, of having disseminated a religion that promotes hatred and violence, targeting the United States and its allies. Saudi officials strenuously deny these allegations. This report provides a background on Wahhabism and its relationship to active terrorist groups; it also summarizes recent charges against Wahhabism and responses, including the findings of the final report of the 9/11 Commission and relevant legislation in the 110th Congress. The report will be updated to reflect major developments.
Background on Wahhabism
"Wahhabism" generally refers to a Sunni Islamic movement that seeks to purify Islam of any innovations or practices that deviate from the seventh-century teachings of the Prophet Muhammad and his companions. In the West, the term has been used mostly to denote the form of Sunni Islam practiced in Saudi Arabia and which has spread recently to various parts of the world. In most predominantly Muslim nations, however, believers who adhere to this creed prefer to call themselves "Unitarians"
(muwahiddun) or "Salafiyyun" (sing. Salafi, noun Salafiyya). The latter term derives from the word salaf, meaning to "follow" or "precede," a reference to the followers and companions of the Prophet Mohammed. Some Muslims believe the Western usage of the term "Wahhabism" unfairly carries negative and derogatory connotations. Although this paper explains differences in these terms, it will refer to Wahhabism in association with a conservative Islamic creed centered in and emanating from Saudi Arabia and to Salafiyya as a more general puritanical Islamic movement that has developed independently at various times and in various places in the Islamic world.
History of Wahhabism.
Wahhabism is a puritanical form of Sunni Islam and is practiced in Saudi Arabia and Qatar, although it is much less rigidly enforced in the latter. The word "Wahhabi" is derived from the name of a Muslim scholar, Muhammad bin Abd al Wahhab, who lived in the Arabian peninsula during the eighteenth century (1703-1791). Frustrated by the moral decline of his society, Abd al Wahhab denounced many popular Islamic beliefs and practices as idolatrous. Ultimately, he encouraged a "return" to the pure and orthodox practice of the "fundamentals" of Islam, as embodied in the Quran and in the life of the Prophet Muhammad. In the eighteenth century, Muhammad bin Saud, the ancestral founder of the modern-day Al Saud dynasty, partnered with Abd al Wahhab to begin the process of unifying disparate tribes in the Arabian Peninsula.
Since its emergence, Wahhabism's puritanical and iconoclastic philosophies have resulted in conflict with other Muslim groups. Wahhabism opposes most popular Islamic religious practices such as saint veneration, the celebration of the Prophet's birthday, most core Shiite traditions, and some practices associated with the mystical teachings of Sufism. In the past, this has brought Wahhabis based in the Arabian peninsula and elsewhere into confrontation with non-Wahhabi Sunni Muslims, Shiite Muslims, and non-Muslims in neighboring areas. The first Saudi kingdom was destroyed by Ottoman forces in the early 19th century after Wahhabi-inspired warriors seized Mecca and Medina and threatened Ottoman dominance. Similarly, during the 1920s, Wahhabi-trained Bedouin warriors allied with the founder of the modern Saudi kingdom, Abd al Aziz ibn Saud, attacked fellow Sunnis in western Arabia and Shiites in southern Iraq, leading to political confrontations and military engagements with the British empire.
Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia Today.
Since the foundation of the modern kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1932, there has been a close relationship between the Saudi ruling family and the Wahhabi religious establishment. Wahhabi-trained Bedouin warriors known as the Ikhwan were integral to the Al Saud family's military campaign to reconquer and unify the Arabian peninsula from 1912 until an Ikhwan rebellion was put down by force in 1930. Thereafter, Wahhabi clerics were integrated into the new kingdom's religious and political establishment, and Wahhabi ideas formed the basis of the rules and laws adopted to govern social affairs in Saudi Arabia. Wahhabism also shaped the kingdom's judicial and educational policies. Saudi schoolbooks historically have denounced teachings that do not conform to Wahhabist beliefs, an issue that remains controversial within Saudi Arabia and among outside observers.
In September 2006, the State Department again designated Saudi Arabia as a "Country of Particular Concern" under the International Religious Freedom Act "for particularly severe violations of religious freedom." According to the State Department's 2006 International Religious Freedom Report on Saudi Arabia, in spite of efforts by some senior Saudi government officials to promote tolerance of other religions and steps to remove some intolerant material from textbooks, members of the Shiite Muslim minority continue "to face political, economic, legal, social, and religious discrimination," and non-Muslim groups are not granted freedom of worship, whether public or private.
Both harassment of citizens and non-Muslims by Wahhabi religious police (the Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice) reportedly decreased during 2006.
Political and Religious Factors
What Is Salafiyya?
As noted above, among adherents in general, preference is given to the term "Salafiyya" over "Wahhabism." These terms have distinct historical roots, but they have been used interchangeably in recent years, especially in the West. Wahhabism is considered by some Muslims as the Saudi form of Salafiyya. Unlike the eighteenth-century Saudi roots of Wahhabism, however, modern Salafi beliefs grew from a reform-oriented movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, which developed in various parts of the Islamic world and progressively grew more conservative. In line with other puritanical Islamic teachings, Salafis generally believe that the Quran and the Prophet's practices (hadith) are the ultimate religious authority in
Islam, rather than the subsequent commentaries produced by Islamic scholars that interpret these sources.
Salafiyya is not a unified movement, and there exists no single Salafi "sect." However, Salafi interpretations of Islam appeal to a large number of Muslims worldwide who seek religious renewal in the face of modern challenges.
The Use of Violence.
According to a number of scholars, the waging of violent Jihad is not inherently associated with puritanical Islamic beliefs. Among certain puritanical Muslims — be they self-described Salafis or Wahhabis — advocacy of Jihad is a relatively recent phenomenon and remains highly disputed within these groups. Although Wahhabi clerics and converts have advocated religiously motivated violence and played military roles at key moments in Saudi history, most scholars date the ascendancy of militancy within the wider Salafi community to the war of resistance against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan during the 1980s. The war against the Soviets gained wide support throughout the Muslim world and mobilized thousands of volunteer fighters. Radical beliefs spread rapidly through select groups of mosques and madrasas (Islamic religious schools), located on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, which were created to support the Afghan resistance and funded primarily by Saudi Arabia. Similar U.S. and European funding provided to Pakistan to aid the Afghan mujahideen also may have been diverted to fund the construction and maintenance of madrasas. Following the war, militant Salafis with ties to the Afghan resistance denounced leaders of countries such as Saudi Arabia and Egypt as "apostates" and as vehicles for facilitating Western imperialism. The Taliban movement also emerged from this network of institutions.
Violent Salafist-inspired groups such as Al Qaeda continue to advocate the overthrow of the Saudi government and other regimes and the establishment of states that will sustain puritanical Islamic doctrine enforced under a strict application of shari'a or Islamic law. Although the majority of Salafi adherents do not advocate the violence enshrined in Bin Laden's message, violent Salafist ideology has attracted a number of followers throughout the Muslim world. Analysts note that some receptive groups are drawn to the anti-Western political messages preached by Bin Laden and his supporters, despite the fact that these groups may hold different religious beliefs.
Recent Allegations against Wahhabism and Responses
There have been two major allegations against Wahhabism and against the Saudi Arabian government, which is viewed as its principal proponent:
"Wahhabism Spreads Terrorism"?
It is widely acknowledged that the Saudi government, as well as wealthy Saudi individuals, have supported the spread of the Wahhabist ideas in several Muslim countries and in the West. Some have argued that this proselyting has promoted terrorism and has spawned Islamic militancy throughout the world. Saudi funding of mosques, madrasas, and charities, some of which have been linked to terrorist groups such as Al Qaeda, has raised concern that Wahhabi Islam has been used by militants who tailor this ideology to suit their political goals and who rely on Saudi donations to support their aspirations.
"Wahhabism Spreads Intolerance"?
Some reports suggest that teachings within Saudi domestic schools may foster intolerance of other religions and cultures. A 2002 study by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) indicates that "some Saudi textbooks taught Islamic tolerance while others viciously condemned Jews and Christians …[and] use rhetoric that was little more than hate literature." Others also have argued that the global spread of Wahhabist teachings threatens the existence of more moderate Islamic beliefs and practices in other parts of the world, including the United States. A 2005 report from Freedom House's Center for Religious Freedom cites examples of what its authors calls "hate ideology" taken from a number of Saudi government publications that have been distributed in U.S. mosques and Islamic centers. Recent attention to Wahhabi clerics in Saudi Arabia has focused on harsh sectarian rhetoric accusing Shiite Muslims in Iraq and elsewhere of religious apostasy and political disloyalty worthy of punishment. An October 2006 petition signed by 38 prominent Saudi religious figures called on Sunnis everywhere to oppose a joint "crusader [U.S.], Safavid [Iranian] and Rafidi [derogatory term for Shiite] scheme" to target Iraq's Sunni Arab population.
Saudi Arabia's Response.
The Saudi Arabian government has strenuously denied the above allegations. Saudi officials continue to assert that Islam is tolerant and peaceful, and they have denied allegations that their government exports religious or cultural extremism or supports extremist religious education. In response to allegations of teaching intolerance, the Saudi government has embarked on a campaign of educational reforms designed to remove divisive material from curricula and improve teacher performance, although the outcome of these reforms remains to be seen. Confrontation with religious figures over problematic remarks and activities poses political challenges for the Saudi government, because some key Wahhabi clerics support Saudi government efforts to delegitimize terrorism inside the kingdom and have sponsored or participated in efforts to religiously re-educate former Saudi combatants.
Current U.S. Policy and Legislation
In light of allegations against Wahhabism, some critics have called for a reevaluation of the relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia, although others maintain that U.S. economic and security interests require continued and close ties with the Saudis.
The Bush administration has praised Saudi counter-terrorism cooperation, and President Bush has praised Islam and denounced groups that have "hijacked a great religion."
9/11 Commission.
The Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the "9/11 Commission") claims that "Islamist terrorism" finds inspiration in "a long tradition of extreme intolerance" that flows "through the founders of Wahhabism," the Muslim Brotherhood, and prominent Salafi thinkers. The report further details the education and activities of some 9/11 hijackers in the Al Qassim province of Saudi Arabia, which the report describes as "the very heart of the strict Wahhabi movement in Saudi Arabia." According to the Commission, some Saudi "Wahhabi- funded organizations," such as the now-defunct Al Haramain Islamic Foundation, "have been exploited by extremists to further their goal of violent jihad against non-Muslims." Due in part to these findings, the Commission recommended a frank discussion of the relationship between the United States and its "problematic ally," Saudi Arabia.
Issues for Congress.
Wahhabism has been a focus of congressional hearings, which have examined the relationship between Wahhabi religious belief and terrorist financing, as well as its alleged ties to the spread of intolerance. Several bills in the 108th Congress criticized Saudi-funded religious institutions and alleged that they provide ideological support for anti-Western terrorism. Section 7105(b) of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (P.L. 108-458, December 17, 2004) expressed the sense of Congress that "there should be a more robust dialogue between the people and Government of the United States and the people and Government of Saudi Arabia." Section 7120(b) of the act required the President to submit to Congress within 180 days a strategy for collaboration with Saudi Arabia, which was to include proposals for promoting tolerance and diversity in Saudi Arabia and for diminishing support for extremist groups from Saudi sources. The report was submitted in classified form in September 2005. In the 109th Congress, H.Con.Res. 275 cited Wahhabi influence over Saudi Arabian religious education in expressing "extreme disappointment with the slow pace of education reform" in Saudi Arabia. The bill was passed by the House in December 2005. The proposed Saudi Arabia Accountability Act of 2005 (S. 1171 and H.R. 2037) called on the government of Saudi Arabia to end its support for organizations that allegedly support terrorism, including religious charities and schools. Both bills were referred to committees of jurisdiction and not considered further. In the 110th Congress, H.R. 1, the Implementing the 9/11 Commission Recommendations Act of 2007, states that "the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has an uneven record in the fight against terrorism, especially with respect to terrorist financing, support for radical madrassas, and a lack of political outlets for its citizens, that poses a threat to the security of the United States, the international community, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia itself." The bill would require the Administration to submit a report to Congress 90 days following enactment of the bill describing the status and progress of the U.S.-Saudi strategic dialogue that began in 2005, with specific reference to issues of reform and terrorist financing. The House passed H.R. 1 on January 9, 2007, by a vote of 299 to 128 (Roll no. 15).


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What were the immediate consequences of Harvey for businesses in the affected area?
Businesses of all sizes had pretty significant interruption. Even if they didn't receive damage to their own physical facilities, enough of their employees did that it caused operational challenges when [they were] forced to work with a skeleton crew because so many were out dealing with their families.
What sectors of Houston's economy were hit the hardest?
What we've been able to glean so far is that no one sector was the hardest hit, but one classification in business size—our small business entities. Even if a sizable portion of [large businesses'] employees had to take time off for an extended period of time after the flood, they still had people and resources to keep moving forward. If you're a small business, you may not have any employees besides yourself and your family. If you're forced to shut down because of lack of staff—or even worse, because of damage to your facility—you can't generate revenue. The smallest businesses are the ones that may not have flood insurance, so not only do they have their revenue halted for a period of time, but then on top of that, they have to put out a big capital expenditure to fix their facility if they didn't have flood insurance.
How will Harvey impact the residential real estate market?
We have been in a prolonged condition of oversupply of rentals of apartment units. For the last two to three years, [developers] ended up building many more apartment complexes than there was demand for. Literally overnight that has flipped. Depending on which number you look at, 80,000-100,000 homes in the region were damaged, so now those folks need a place to live. Occupancy rates across the board of apartment complexes improved almost immediately.
For the resale single-family market, we're beginning to see slight price increases for homes that were in the areas that did not flood. We're not yet seeing it as dramatically as one might expect. I think to some degree it's probably a little bit of common decency going on that people are not going to immediately try to capitalize on the situation, but we are seeing a little bit of that.
In the new home space, we've not seen prices decrease, but we're not seeing prices increase for much of the same reason. Builders don't want to have the negative connotation that they might be taking advantage of the situation. Not as many brand-new home areas flooded as did existing resale neighborhoods. There were pockets of new home damage, so going forward, the biggest impact to home building [is] going to be increased competition for materials—drywall, plumbing, drains, roofing, insulation—as these homes are being renovated simultaneously.
How do you anticipate Harvey affecting Houston's growth rate?
We don't anticipate a lot of people moving out of the area, but we do anticipate some level of moving around to different neighborhoods within Houston. It's too early to know what that's going to look like.
After Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, a lot of those folks moved to Baton Rouge [roughly 80 miles away]. If Austin was only 75 miles from Houston, I bet a lot of people would move to Austin after Harvey, but we don't have another further inland big city that's right down the road from us like New Orleans had Baton Rouge.
How do you anticipate the recovery process looking post-Harvey?
Much of the damage that was done to people's homes, those repairs will be expedited for folks that have flood insurance, and it will be [a] more painful and longer process for those who didn't have flood insurance. Rebuilding efforts are definitely underway across the region in terms of apartments, retail, hotels—you name it. The property types that had the most damage were definitely single-family housing and multi-family apartment complexes, so that's where rebuilding is going to take the longest, most likely.
What are the best- and worst-case scenarios for Houston's economic future?
Long-term, the best-case scenario is that the Houston region rebuilds to some degree in a sustainable way that mitigates further loss and risk from any future flooding events. Also really focusing on drainage solutions that are bigger scale than what has been on the table in recent years. If that continues to happen, population is likely to continue to grow at a similar rate [to] the last 20 years—20-25 percent.
The worst-case scenario is that [the economy] kind of stalls out, that there is some level of risk perceived to opening a business in Houston. I don't know that we would lose population, but that it would just flat line.
Houston overall received enough good publicity and good press coming out of this tragic event that the nationwide narrative about Houston is still pretty positive.
How will the nation's economy be affected as Houston continues to recover?
In the short-term, sadly it will be kind of a boost to the national economy because national companies like Home Depot, Lowes and construction will benefit slightly from additional spending. In a way it's kind of like a war—in the midst of this terrible, tragic thing, the national economy benefits from it. Beyond that, I anticipate it won't really have that much of an impact.

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Less than two weeks to go.....!
West End star Vicki Lee Taylor is on her way to us to lead our ANNIE THEATRE CAMP this Easter.
Why are SING SPACE courses so unique? Well, here's a little more about our ethos:
Our camp leaders have come straight from the West End cast, offering the highest quality of training and insights from the professional rehearsal and performance space.
We always limit our numbers because we believe that every single child deserves one-to-one attention.
We craft the show around our participants, to challenge them as they learn new skills and and to show off their current strengths and passions.
We know that learning happens best in a place of confidence, so we're here to support each individual as they learn to express themselves and explore their creativity.
We LOVE musicals, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE musicals and want to share this love!!!!
For more information or to book, please visit Easter Courses for children
The Sing Space loves: local businesses! Illustrator, Catriona Tyrwhitt and 'B is for Bird.'
Local Mum, Catriona, makes the most beautiful hand painted illustrations, and gifts. Most of her work is commission based, including gorgeous new baby gifts, house portraits, illustrated maps, invitations and wedding stationery!
This week she's selling her Mother's Day cards, hand embellished in rose gold. She has two options and both can be hand delivered if you live on the Wimbledon park or Southfield's Grid.
Option one: Virtues of Motherhood: an illustration of flowers and plants which symbolise some of the incredible mamma skills. A5 size.
Option two: A spring wreath with a handwritten message in the middle (Happy Mother's Day, unless you'd prefer Happy Mothering Sunday or another message of your choice!) A6 size.
Both are £4.
Etsy shop: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/CatrionaTyrwhittArt.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/catrionatyrwhittart/
Instagram: @Catrionatyrwhittart
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
All information about the audition is from www.johawes.com. Applications should be made to Jo Hawes, following the guidelines in the picture below.
THE SECRET DIARY OF ADRIAN MOLE is at last getting its well deserved West End run. Casting will take place asap as rehearsals start at the end of April !! The production will play the Trafalgar Studios until September. Luke Sheppard will direct and head up the original creative team
Please make suggestions as a matter of urgency with the following information.
Nigel, his best friend| 12/14 | unbroken voice Nigel is a bit of a simpleton, but with an enormous, infectious energy. He believes everything he's told and would absolutely jump off a cliff if you told him to. Strong comic potential here for a quirky, bright actor.
Pandora, a bright young thing| 12/14 | RP, soprano Pandora Braithwaite is absolutely super thank-you-very-much and everybody knows it from the second they meet her. Transferring to Adrian's school from the local posh school, Pandora is fiercely ambitious; a young Maggie Thatcher dressed straight out of Vogue, with 'hair the colour of treacle'. Beautiful, and with brains to match her looks, she has Adrian – and the audience – in the palm of her hand from the moment she arrives.
Barry Kent, the school bully | 12/14 | unbroken voice. A gruff, monosyllabic thug who bullies Adrian. Even the teachers are scared of him. Must be a strong presence, but also look the same age as the other children; part of the humour to the audience is of seeing a young schoolboy attempt to be menacing.
All information below is from www.jowhawes.com. All applications should be made to Jo Hawes following the guidelines below.
We are looking for bright, well-spoken children who can sing, act and dance well to play Jane and Michael Banks for the forthcoming production of Mary Poppins at the Prince Edward Theatre in London.
JANE BANKS – playing age 10 –12 years, maximum height 4'10"
MICHAEL BANKS – playing age 9 – 10 years, maximum height 4'8″
All boys must have unbroken voices, girls must be undeveloped and we cannot see children with fixed braces.
Auditions will take place in London on March 25, recalls on March 30 and final casting on April 10 All children must be available for al those dates and under no circumstances will we be seeing anyone via self tape. The production commences rehearsals on 2 September 2019.
All info below is from https://www.rsc.org.uk/news/childrens-casting-for-the-boy-in-the-dress Please enquire at the email below.
The Boy in a Dress Casting:
We are looking for eight boys to perform in our new musical The Boy in the Dress, which opens in November.
We will be looking to cast eight boys to share the roles of Dennis and Darvesh in our brand new musical adaptation of David Walliams' book The Boy in the Dress later this year.
The RSC is a committed equal opportunities employer with responsible child safeguarding practices in place.
Create an original production based on, Annie, led by a star from the West End show!
VENUE: Aspire, Southfields, 337 Merton Road, SW18 5JU.
Times: 10am-4pm daily with a performance on the Friday at 2pm.
(Please enter the discount code: SIBLINGS when booking your sibling places)
For more info and to book go to MUSICAL THEATRE HOLIDAY CAMPS.
Vicki Lee Taylor, who's leading the course, appeared in Annie, as well as many other West End shows from Matilda to A Chorus Line!
Take a look inside the Sing Space.
Opportunities, Auditions and castings.
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SAN DIEGO and CAMBRIDGE, MA /PRNewswire/ -- Emotient, a leading authority in facial expression analysis, and iMotions, a leading eye-tracking and biometric software platform company, announced Procter and Gamble, the U.S. Air Force, and Yale University are the first customers of a newly integrated platform that combines facial-expression recognition and analysis, eye-tracking, EEG, and GSR technologies. The combined solution is designed for usability research, market research, neurogaming, and academic/scientific research.
As part of the agreement between the two companies, Emotient's "industry-leading emotion-recognition solution" will be fully integrated into iMotions Attention Tool, an eye-tracking and biosensor software platform for research and usability.
The Emotient technical team brings 20+ years experience pioneering machine learning and computer vision technology for facial behavior analysis, and includes seven PhDs, led by Marian Bartlett, PhD., Javier Movellan PhD., and Ian Fasel, PhD. Beginning in 1995, Emotient's founding team has published hundreds of seminal reports on applying machine learning for facial behavioral analysis, and have been cited by thousands of other researchers in the field. Over the last five years, more than 130 universities have deployed the academic version of Emotient's robust system, the Computer Expression Recognition Toolbox. Emotient's advisory board includes Paul Ekman, Ph.D., a pioneer researcher of nonverbal behavior, whose scientific work is recognized as one of the most influential in the area of facial behavior analysis to date.
iMotions is currently accepting pre-orders for the integrated Attention Tool platform with Emotient's FACET SDK; the combined solution is expected to be generally available in Summer 2013.
"The whole is definitely greater than the sum of the parts with the integration of these technologies, and by combining four key sensors into a single platform, the depth of discovery will be infinitely greater," said Ken Denman, CEO, Emotient. "Both Emotient and iMotions have deep roots in the academic and market research sectors. By combining sensors into a fully integrated solution, the two companies are delivering a comprehensive, easy-to-use, and cost-effective solution. We are thrilled with early customer responses to the integrated platform."
"We see a growing customer demand for an easy-to-use platform that enables multi-biosensor research. The Attention Tool platform already today supports eye-tracking, EEG, and GSR, and by adding facial expression analysis, researchers are given new opportunities to gain valuable insights" said Peter Hartzbech, Founder & CEO, iMotions. "We chose to partner with Emotient because of their deep expertise based on decades of research in the area. The addition will further strengthen our Attention Tool's position as the most comprehensive eye-tracking research platform available in market today for scientific research, marketing research, usability, and gaming."
Emotient's FACET SDK
FACET provides the ability to track and analyze the emotional responses of users in real time, detecting and tracking expressions of primary emotion, as well as overall positive, negative, and neutral sentiments and blended composites of two or more emotions. FACET delivers critical facial expression data, analysis, and insights that can be leveraged by technical enterprises and market research firms to provide valuable and actionable insights. The FACET SDK was developed using machine-learning methods with high-volume datasets carefully constructed by a team of Facial Action Coding System–certified behavioral scientists.
iMotion's Attention Tool
Attention Tool is the leading eye-tracking and biosensor platform. Researchers can in a simple and easy way set up large market research or scientific research studies. Today, the platform is applied by Procter and Gamble, TNS, and universities such as Yale, Purdue, Arizona State, and George Washington.
About Emotient
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Founded by the foremost experts in the development of machine learning for facial behavioral analysis, "its proprietary technology sets the industry standard for accuracy and real-time delivery of facial expression data and analysis."
About iMotions
iMotions A/S develops an eye-tracking and biosensor software platform. The company was founded in 2005 and maintains its headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark, with a U.S. office at MIT in Cambridge, MA. iMotions has reseller representation in Asia and Latin America. The company develops and markets Attention Tool, which is the most comprehensive, easy to use, and scalable eye-tracking software and biosensor software platform available on the market today. The platform is targets market research companies, universities, usability labs, and game developers. iMotions has clients in 25 countries, and many major brands, corporations, and universities use the Attention Tool software for research and usability testing.


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Zack's Place June 2017 Newsletter
See inside for:
Charlotte's Web the Musical
May in Review
June Calendar
Zack's Place Upcoming Renovation
Zack's Place would like to give a big hug and thank you to the staff and Board at Pentangle Arts for Hosting ou
r musical May 31st at Town Hall Theater! We are so grateful!
Our Upcoming Renovation
In September of last year we realized that our art room and kitchen were getting a bit snug with more than 4 people in wheel chairs and classes of over 20 people. We talked to our board member Ron Jaynes a retired local builder and he helped us redesign our art room and change our kitchen so it was more accessible. In the fall of 2016 we applied for a grant to renovate our space and we were granted $25,000 from Timken and also received a $2500.00 Grant.
On June 14th we will be renovating our art room and kitchen. In the meantime we will be running our programs out of Woodstock Elementary School from the 15th of June-31st of July. We will keep you posted as to the progress.
May in Review
The month of May was a busy month at Zack's Place! Although we were dodging in and out of the rain drops, we still managed to indulge in a lot of fun indoor and outdoor activities. We are welcoming the slow start of summer, enjoying the green grass and the fresh flowers popping up all over town.
In the mornings we enjoyed crafts with Kitty, fitness with Bari, nutrition and meditation with Vince, bowling at Maple Lanes, a variety of art classes with Marissa, Lolly and Bonnie(most of which involved making wonderful props for our play) and we took a couple of "dips" at the aquatic center. This month we were also blessed with some great theater productions, seeing the movie "Beauty and the Beast" and the production "Spaghetti in a Hot Dog Bun" at Pentangle, both of which were wonderful, a big thank you to Pentangle! A theater highlight for us this month was going to WRJ's Northern Stage to see the musical "Mama Mia," it was an
performance, which everyone seemed to thoroughly enjoy! We started our adventure at Annie O'Neill's apartment where we did a yoga class with Jess and then had lunch and a great birthday celebration for Annie! Thank you to Dana, Dave and Annie for a wonderful time. In the mornings we also did a few "farm programs" at Billings Farm and met up with Vermont Adaptive for some fabulous hiking and cycling along the Lebanon rail trail.
In the afternoons we had pottery with Fiona, science with Corinna, movement and music with Kathleen and Mark, singing with Kerry and a onetime cameo singing session with Sara Norcross and Suzy Malerich, we had yoga at ZP with one of our many yogi teachers (Lalita, Tita, Jamie and Jess), games with Carl Hurd, Hiking on Mount Tom and at Frates Farm, Gardening with Martha, and dancing with Jen.
We also spent a great deal of time this month practicing and working on our ZP musical "Charlotte's Web" which takes place this Wednesday May 31st at 5:30 at the Woodstock town Hall Theater. One last exciting trip that only a few of us embraced (because it involved leaving Woodstock at 6am) was going to Stowe Elementary school to receive a monetary gift from Chelsea Stetson's 3rd grade class, who fundraised over $2,000.00 in a cross country ski race for ZP. A HUGE thank you to Chelsea and her class!
Overall, a very busy and wonderful month for all of us at ZP!
Enjoying the view at Frates Family Farm
Ed petting the friendly chickens
Deb cycles for the first time ever!!!!
Jessa and Molly cycling on rail trail
Oscar swimming at UVAC with ZP
The WPD doing yoga with us!!!
Jess and Erin in yoga class
Lindsey celebrating her birthday
Our weekly yoga class with Fiona at ArtisTree!!! We love it!!!
Chelsea Stetson's Stowe Elementary 3rd grade class raises 2332.75 for Zack's Place!
Yoga class
Bowling at Maple Lanes! Molly go!
Nutrition class with Vince
Girls just want to have fun!
Big Dog has the best smile!
Click Here for a printable June Calendar
June 2017
Notes: We will be moving to Woodstock Elementary School for 6 weeks to renovate our Kitchen and art room on June 14, 2017
We will be moving to WES on June 15
and there until the end of July
11A-cooking with Sarah
1PM-Woodstock Elementary School Show at Pentangle
3PM-yoga with Jess
Leave ZP at 10A-Swim at UVAC Return at 11:45A from UVAC
1PM-Cooking with Sarah
3PM-Movie at Pentangle
11A-Walk around town
1PM-art with Fiona at Zack's Place
3PM-Cooking with Dail
415P-Reading with anne swanson
0A-Maple Lanes bowling Return 1:15P from Bowling alley arrive ZP at 2PM
1pm-Cooking with Holly
3PM-Yoga with Lalita
4:15P-Reading with Diane Dugan
11a-Crafts with Kitty Make décor for Baby Shower
1PM-Science with Corinna
3PM-Singing with Papa
4:15P-Reading with Bettyanne
11am Nutrition with Vince
1PM-yoga with Jess
2PM-Baby shower for Nicole
3PM-Art with Ben Fox
11am Fitness with Bari
1PM-cooking with Sarah
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Fleisher's, the butchering mecca that inspired so much of the whole animal cooking that we've seen in the last few years has come to Brooklyn. The new shop is located in Park Slope on 5th Avenue off Sackett. I've been a big fan of theirs since I photographed their Pig to Pork event last year.
The grand opening of the new shop was last week and co-owner Jessica Applestone asked me to photograph the big day. Borough President and Brooklyn cheerleader Marty Markowitz was on hand to celebrate the big day.
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[Philip DeFranco (December 1, 1985)] Source: LYBIO.net
That makes about as much sense as that jousting ad from the lottery I wish that rather than doing content, I could just refer to something else and then play it. That would be like that one time I played my intro and then I did a terrible show.
This is a new show.
[Philip DeFranco] Source: LYBIO.net
Hello and welcome to the Monday Philip DeFranco Show my name is Philip DeFranco, and this is not a show, but really just a thing where I talk about some of the stuff that mattered to me in the news today, starting with Washington D.C. having a big story, because if you ever like "I wish could be drunk and drive and possibly not get in trouble." Washington D.C. is the place to do it right now. The More You Know.
[Philip DeFranco]
One of the reasons is the Nation's capital is having a very very hard time funding just basic things and police officers do not have regular breathalyzers. So they're having to use ways that don't necessarily work or requesting for drivers to pee in a cup and do something that ends up being weirder more time consuming and possibly more expensive. And this is scary because this is definitely how it starts not being able to fund very basic things. Until eventually that bubble bursts. So be happy to know, the end is near America! meet you in Kansas. But America do not worry things are not all damp and dark.
[Philip DeFranco]
America has decided that pew pew is the new BANG BANG!! as the Navy tested out a new laser weapon that literally shoots lasers miles and blows sh** up, one of the tamer videos they released was a Navy ship shooting a laser and just getting pinpoint precision on blowing out a ships engine. I imagine so you can eyepatch it up, board their ship, and take their booty. Or do like they did to the pirates over the summer and snipe them, but lasers, much cooler happy about laser.
[Philip DeFranco]
And today, of course, my favorite segment What the fuck Indonesian people?? The Indonesian MP, who helped pass a law, that made it illegial to watch po***ography, it's like this super super crazy law that you could actually get jail time. And the reason people are talking about him is because he is stupid, oh so stupid he was literally on the job, looking at po*** on what looks to be just like a tablet possibly not an iPad, but maybe a Xoom. Source: LYBIO.net I'm not sure, but this brings up something that I never really fully understood, Who watches po*** at work? Why would you do that? I'm always personally terrified that when I'm looking on at something on the computer, my camera is on, so I can't even imagine if you were at a place where other people were. How do you not have that level of self control? That you're like "Right now, I need to see some sex! Now or I can not function as a human being." masturbate in the shower like a normal human being you will end up being way more productive the entire day, or just have sex weird, kinky, just… things that are wrong, sex, and if you can't. Then fix your situation because masturbating at work is a low, it's low for you, all that being said, the Indonesian MP is stepping down, he said he wasn't coerced he's stepping down out of his own will, I imagine because he's like "sh**! I'm a hypocrite, now people know I'm a hypocrite" but people shouldn't be angry if you looked up: hypocrite being a hypocrite, in a thesaurus it would just say: Politician (noun) summary of that story: What the fuck Indonesian people??
[Philip DeFranco]
Now if we move over to big international news, China on Sunday and I'm paraphrasing here, but they essentially said "Yo, United States, shut the fuck up!" I think I accidentally did an accent, but saying, United States is beset by violence, racism, and torture and has no authority to condemn other governments' human rights problems. Going on to say, that the United States invades other countries by using "human rights" as a way to involve themselves in other countries' matters and to that I say, yo China, yeah kind of, yeah it probably has nothing to do with there being a lot oil there, yeah we're not doing it for that reason because, you know, if you do look at it from like an outside perspective, it always kind of looks like we're friends with someone and then someone else is like "Yo, that guy is kind of an asshole, plus I'll give you a better deal!" And we're like "Down with that guy!" or we invade and occupy your country for ten years. That never really panned out well but the truth of the matter is, yes, America does have it's own problems but the way I like to think of it is, you know, America is like that couple, that has a really bad relationship, but when they see you're having marital problems. They step in to help, because they're "experts" that's what it kind of is, and then we kill you yeah. There's really no, there's really no explanation for that but this is big international news because it is a world power calling out another world power, which, of course, is a big deal since China is usually the quiet giant like when they decide to stay out of the Libyan conflict China girl you crazy.
[Philip DeFranco]
Another big thing that a lot have been talking about is Charlie Sheen, over the weekend I was in New York, and I just actually literally just heard people on the street and literally it was just like everyone on the street was talking about how Charlie Sheen bombed Radio City Music Hall as you know, if you've been following or just even watching this show we talk about it every now and then, and Charlie Sheen has just been bombing in general, his successes are other people's flops, like if people don't walk out and Charlie Sheen doesn't blow a load on his own face. Source: LYBIO.net He seems to write that off as a success but yeah he essentially got booed off stage ending the show 30 minutes early in Radio City Music Hall and I say good. Charlie Sheen gets his money and a bunch of fucking stupid people get ripped off of their money. If you are willing to pay money to see a "former crack head" think that he's a stand-up comedian. You fucking deserve to lose your money that's what it comes down to That's like going to the zoo for zebras and then getting pissed off, when you're like "Why the fuck do zebras have strips!!??!? I was sold on something else!" no you weren't, that's why you went.
[Philip DeFranco] Source: LYBIO.net
In news that makes me very happy mostly in the pants area Mortal Kombat been awesome lately, we talked about the new web series that's coming out, and now as a promotion for their Mortal Kombat video game they were like "Who plays our video game? 12 to 30 year-old horny guys" That's the main 98% and that's why their new campaign involves taking the women of Mortal Kombat and random hot chicks with extra time and dressing them up like people in Mortal Kombat. Then mainly focusing the camera on their breasts/vaginas and then asking you "Who's the hottest cosplayer?" To which I respond, watch these videos!
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[Philip DeFranco] Source: LYBIO.net
That is smart, dirty, down to the core, marketing and that's like Rule #1, know your audience, and they do and it's sexy and it helped me waste 5 minutes today so thank you, my vote easily goes for the chick in the red guys, of course, that's most everything for today I do want to leave you with a question of the day, which is: When do you think that the world will be over Charlie Sheen? And we can go back to talking about Lindsay Lohan's vagina, when?
[Philip DeFranco]
But like I said, it is a Monday Philip DeFranco Show,which means that one: you should've been naked watching this the entire time and two: it's time to do a giveaway which in honor of me currently writing a book that no one will buy, today we will be giving away a brand new Kindle, which is actually sweet I have one, I only use it on airplanes and in the bathroom, but I do own one that was too much information, but of course to be eligible to win sexy brand new Kindle, you must one: be subscribed to this channel, be a member of The Nation join and you will belong and second: leave a comment on this video about pretty much anything most people do it about it the question of the day and you may be a winner, granted it's most likely you will be a loser isn't that kind of the point? but guys, until next time, if you want to check out any of the stories I talked about today or the other videos that I made I did make some, for some reason, click on those links in the description down below, and also my name is Philip DeFranco and you have been Phill'd in, you're welcome I will see you next time
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Robot Chicken has fun with the DC Comics universe once again with the highly anticipated Robot Chicken DC Comics Special II: Villains In Paradise half-hour special on Sunday, April 6th at 11:30 p.m. (ET/PT) on Adult Swim. Season seven of the Emmy Award®-winning series kicks off one week later.
The Robot Chicken DC Comics Special II: Villains in Paradise returns the DC Comics universe of characters back into the twisted talons of the Emmy Award®-winning Robot Chicken. This time around, the villains take charge of the narrative, and their unpredictable tale takes them from the swamps to the sky to the beach, where they finally face a mind-boggling threat to their very existence! The all-star cast includes Seth Green as Batman and Robin, Zac Efron as Superboy, Alfred Molina as Lex Luthor, Sarah Hyland as Lex Luthor's daughter Lena, Nathan Fillion as the Green Lantern, Alex Borstein as Wonder Woman, Clancy Brown as Gorilla Grodd, Giovanni Ribisi as the Joker, Tara Strong as Harley Quinn, Breckin Meyer as Superman, plus Hugh Davidson, Matthew Senreich, Clare Grant, Zeb Wells, and Kevin Shinick as the narrator.
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It was Green who reminded the room that Lex Luthor (voiced again by Spider-Man 2's Alfred Molina) has a daughter in the DC canon. "The idea of Lex Luthor having a daughter that he's got to both have a relationship with and discipline is very funny," he says. Especially if she were to meet Superboy, the hot teen clone of Superman.
"The best part about the DC universe is there's so many characters and there's so many stories that have happened over the years, and some of them are just crazy. [DC Entertainment's Chief Creative Officer] Geoff Johns gave us a fair amount of leeway with the stories that we wanted to tell," says Green, who'll once again direct. "It's gonna become a little bit more of a West Side Story/Romeo and Juliet star-crossed love story."


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A new release by Jazz-o-Tech is out now, this time from Amsterdam's artists called Plastik.Soldiers.
Jazz-O-Tech is proud to present Plastik.Soldiers, an avant-gard music collective binding together jazz with techno, electronica and hiphop. Founded by Luc van Ruler, always guided by his brothers in arms Coen Witteveen and Willem van der Krabben, Plastik.Soldiers serve the good on the frontline of the battle for new quality music.
In this new single and EP "Short Days" they propose their idea of Techno-Jazz which sounds big, bold, danceable, dynamic, explosive, edgy, trippy and transcendental. Their music is influenced by 70's jazz-fusion as well as some oriental atmospheres and some pop glitches, all deeply rooted on some solid and chunky grooves.
The track title "Short Days" it's a sure hit with its sax hook and techno-pop arrangement. It expresses the new concept proposed by Plastik.Soldiers: a techno-jazz which is fun but also "dense" in musical qualitiy and ideas. With the track comes a great video with a strong visual character which is the perfect complement to the music of Plastik.Soldiers.
JOT007 contains the following tracks:
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Call of Duty Black Ops 4 split screen has been confirmed—at least in terms of offline mode play. This means that Treyarch's new title will likely feature couch co-op options for both the Campaign and Zombies modes.
Call of Duty Black Ops featured the options for four-player split-screen in offline play and two-player split-screen for online play. It is likely that the latest iteration of Black Ops will feature the same breakdown in relation to its approach to couch co-op.
This was confirmed in a Reddit post posted by u/TitledGlue77758. The post contains a screenshot from Black Ops 4's campaign. If you look closely, you can see that underneath the player's username in the top-right corner is an option to press X to add a controller for split-screen. Although it was likely that couch co-op would be featured in Black Ops 4, it was never officially confirmed. This photo has proved that the fan-favorite split-screen mode will be making its eagerly awaited return to the newest Call of Duty title.
However, this confirmation solely refers to offline play for now. While it is likely that there will at least be the option for two-player split-screen online, it hasn't yet been confirmed. Also, there is no confirmation as to whether split-screen will be available in the Blackout Battle Royale mode, despite much speculation online. Some players have claimed that there is in fact split-screen available for Blackout, but the screenshots that have been shown so far have only proven that players can be in the same online party, as opposed to proving that split-screen is available in Blackout specifically.
In other news related to Black Ops 4, it seems that players will be able to peek around corners using emotes, and that there will be no supply drops in Black Ops 4.
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The Path to Affordable Healthcare
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At this half day interactive event, learn about the drivers of healthcare affordability and work with key healthcare stakeholders and like-minded local change agents to help develop a community action plan to address healthcare affordability in our community. This event is part of KHC's partnership with the Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement (NRHI) to bring healthcare affordability to the forefront of healthcare transformation efforts through a campaign called Affordable Care Together.
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The KHC will host its December 2018 quarterly forum on healthcare affordability, in partnership with the Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement (NRHI) and Kentucky Voices for Health (KVH), a consumer advocacy organization with a priority around healthcare affordability in Kentucky.
Achieving affordability will require focused efforts on three major drivers: health, price, and waste. The Affordable Care Together movement from local Regional Health Improvement Collaboratives (RHICs) across the county seeks to create greater awareness and take action on one or more of these drivers. The KHC, a RHIC, is looking for key healthcare stakeholders and like-minded local change agents to help develop a community action plan to address healthcare affordability in our community.
During this session, the following topics will be discussed:
- NRHI and Families USA's joint healthcare affordability initiative
- NRHI's Total Cost of Care (TCOC) national price comparison benchmarks
- NEW Kentucky Core Healthcare Measures set
- Kentuckians' opinions on the state of healthcare affordability in KY
- Affordability from purchaser, payer, provider, and consumer perspectives
- The targeted solutions that can make healthcare more affordable
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Executive Director, Kentucky Voices for Health
Data Scientist, Kentuckiana Health Collaborative
President and CEO, Employers' Forum of Indiana
Executive Director, Kentucky Voices for Health
Corporate Health and Wellness Specialist, LG&E KU Energy
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Medical Director, Kentucky Department for Medicaid Services
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The search is on for the cohort of Future50 businesses across Norfolk and Suffolk.
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Future50 businesses will be offered access to exclusive events that will provide unique access to business innovators and champions, as well as development of a peer group that provides support, learning and trading opportunities.
On top of this, Future50 firms will receive multimedia exposure via Archant media channels, as well as regular updates on topical business issues and key local developments.
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CHIMANIMANI – Like the biblical pool of Bethsaida, Nyanyadzi Hot Spring is famed for treating a raft of debilitating infirmities. They grant wishes even, locals say.
But it is its famed miracle healing potency that has people flocking to it from across the country.
There is also a mystic aura of what else it offers.
Exiting the ground at well over 90 degrees Celsius, the main spring is believed to grant wishes in exchange for pennies. It has heard thousands of wishes and murmured prayers considering the thick layer of coins in its boiling pool.
But the magic does not end here.
Water from the main pool pours into a second which itself is said to have bad luck cleansing powers with a simple face wash.
Standing in the third much cooler pool is famed for curing various foot ailments. There is however need for tact in standing in the pool as one will need to be still as fidgeting would result in scalding adding to the mysticism of the hot spring's triad of pools.
A local tour guide brags of hundreds of testimonies of the lives that were transformed with the visit to the pools.
The guide also recounted a reported case of an elderly couple that travelled over 600 km from Gokwe with their two-year-old grandchild who had not started walking due to chapped soles which had failed to yield to modern medicine.
It only took the child six months to be completely healed and the elderly couple made a point of driving back with the completely healthy and bubbly girl whom site staff could not recognise for hyperactivity and exuberant running rings around the place.
"One of our staff at this resort who had seen her broke down and cried," a media report quotes a site guide as saying.
The accommodation facility at the resort has no electricity powered geysers as it has adequate supply of hot tap water from the spring.
The resort also has three recreational pools where visitors can swim in – a hit in winter.
Lying less than 10 metres from the Masvingo – Mutare highway the hot springs are accessible even by public transport making it one of the easiest tourist resorts to access.
Although a high security presence around it as it lies across Odzi river from the world famous Chiadzwa diamond fields had dulled its sparkle as a resort destination although it has remained open to the public the formalisation of diamond extraction is bringing back its glitter.
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Seminar: Dr. Diana Maynard, Semantic technologies for mapping European research
Title: Semantic technologies for mapping European research: bridging the gap between policy and research
Mapping the structure of knowledge co-creation in key emerging areas of European research is a critical issue for policy makers, who want to analyse research impact and make strategic decisions. However, current methods for characterizing and visualizing the field have limitations concerning the changing nature of research, the differences in language and topical structure between policy and science topics, and the coverage of not just a single domain but a broad range of scientific and political issues that have widely differing characteristics. In this talk, I will outline the ontology-based approach we have developed in the KNOWMAK project, which aims to address the problems of mapping between heterogenous data sources with different vocabularies, while still maintaining a level of standardization necessary for summarising the information required to provide informative views about the highly dynamic science and technology landscape. In particular, I will focus on the topic mapping approach which performs advanced term extraction and expansion techniques using word embeddings, followed by a semantically-driven matching of documents with ontology topics. This will be accompanied by a demonstration of the recently released first public version of the KNOWMAK tool, showing how European knowledge production is distributed across different regions.
Diana Maynard is a senior research fellow at the University of Sheffield, UK. She was born in Chertsey, Surrey, and spent her childhood in Surrey, Hampshire, Wiltshire and North Yorkshire. She acquired a BSc in Computational Linguistics and French from UMIST in 1995, an MSc in Cognitive Science from the University of Manchester in 1996, and a PhD from Manchester Metropolitan University in automatic term recognition in 2000. Her main interests are in information extraction, opinion mining, social media analysis, terminology and semantic web technologes. Since 2000 she has worked in the GATE team, where she leads the development of Sheffield's open-source multilingual Information Extraction tools, and has led research teams on a number of UK and EU projects. She is chair of the annual GATE training course and leads the GATE consultancy on IE and opinion mining. She has published extensively, organised a number of national and international conferences, workshops and tutorials, and has given a number of invited talks and keynote speeches.
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This particular meetup is part of a seminar series on Natural Language Processing funded by the Centre for Communication and Computing (CCC) at the University of Copenhagen. There will be refreshments from 16:30, the talk will start at 17:00.


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Tuesday, June 26, 2018
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
Turkish acts in Syria are extension of what they committed against Armenians
Friday, February 23, 2018
Dutch parliament recognizes Armenian genocide, escalating row with Turkey
Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Worldwide rallies mark anniversary of 1915 Armenian genocide
Wednesday, July 27, 2016
Egypt MPs call on parliament to recognise Armenian genocide
Friday, June 3, 2016
The Turkish foreign Ministry called «a disgrace» the recognition of Armenian genocide by Germany
Wednesday, June 1, 2016
Turkey Continues Warning Bundestag on June 2 Genocide Resolution
Thursday, May 5, 2016
The delay of the Pontian Struggle
Sunday, April 24, 2016
In Open Letter Schiff Tells Obama: 'Call the Armenian Genocide What It Was – Genocide'
Friday, April 15, 2016
Ankara Rejects European Parliament Report Calling for Genocide Recognition
Friday, March 18, 2016
Greek Foreign Ministry Responds to Turkey's Reaction to Genocide Comments
Wednesday, November 25, 2015
Russian Lawmakers Propose Bill On Accountability For Armenia Genocide Denial
Friday, November 6, 2015
Israel's President Reiterates Armenian Genocide Recognition
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
When you don't know about the genocide
Thursday, October 15, 2015
Turkish politician had right to deny Armenia genocide (European Court of Human Rights)
Saturday, September 12, 2015
Armenia Leads UN Effort to Designate Dec. 9 International Genocide Commemoration Day
UNITED NATIONS—The Mission of the Republic of Armenia to the United Nations lead an effort for the body's General Assembly to pass resolution Friday proclaiming December 9 as the annual "International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime." The resolution, adopted by consensus, had the support of over 80 member countries, including the United States.
Saturday, August 1, 2015
Latin American Parliament Recognizes Armenian Genocide
Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Turkey recalls ambassador to Brazil over 'genocide' legislation
Friday, June 5, 2015
Armenia's Minorities Urge World to Recognize genocide of Armenians, Greeks and Assyrians
YEREVAN—Representatives of ethnic minorities living in Armenia issued a united statement this week in an efforts to call the attention of the world to the Armenian Genocide, which still awaits justice one hundred years later. The groups have thus addressed a message to the leaders of all the UN member states.
Sunday, May 31, 2015
Belgian-Turkish deputy expelled from party over 'genocide denial'
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Five million of our brothers: It is Turks who will shape Europe's future
Europe's future depends on the Turks who live there, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told a large public rally on Thursday.


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Rabbanit Bracha Jaffe
Core Semikha, Class of 2017
Rabbanit Bracha Jaffe serves as Community Educator and Director of Mercaz Center for Adult Education in Beth Tfiloh synagogue in Baltimore, MD. She is a dynamic and thoughtful educator who is adding her experience to the richness and depth of the Mercaz programs. Rabbanit Bracha has spearheaded a variety of new educational opportunities for Beth Tfiloh men and women, on Shabbat and during the week.
Her love of tefilla and ritual led her to be an experienced gaba'it and organizer of women's tefilla groups. She has taught many women and girls to leyn and is the voice of the JOFA Megillat Esther App. Rabbanit Bracha delights in learning with people of all ages, whether leading discussion groups with Bat Mitzvah girls and their moms, engaging with empty nesters, facilitating 'Wise Aging' programs, leading bereavement groups or simply teaching Torah and inspiring others to learn.
Rabbanit Bracha interned at United Orthodox Synagogue in Houston, Texas and at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale in New York. She participated in chaplaincy programs at New York Presbyterian Hospital and at a maximum security women's prison.
Rabbanit Bracha is a 2017 graduate of Yeshivat Maharat, following a long career in hi-tech in Israel. She feels blessed to be following this path which nourishes and fills her soul.


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T rex skeleton in 3D game
Raptor9468 posted a topic in Paleo Re-creationsI originally came up with this idea after thinking of making a video about Stan the T rex but then decided to try to build a full fledged model of a T rex. Since I have no modeling experience at all,I decided to build it in a pretty popular game,notice one block equals to 12.666cm. After finishing it it looked familiar but not the typical t rex type,if anyone would have any suggestions feel free to tell me.Also tell me if it looks like another theropod cause this is reminding me of something else
should Pete Larson of the BHI be pardoned?
Greyideas posted a topic in Questions & AnswersShould Peter Larson be pardoned by the president?
Field Museum Free in February
Nimravis posted a topic in General Fossil DiscussionFor those of you in the Chicagoland area or planning on visiting in February, I saw this on Facebook.
UPDATE-Fossils On My Mind
Nimravis posted a topic in General Fossil DiscussionI always have fossils on my mind and today is no exception. I am currently at a conference in the former McDonald's University in Oak Brook, Illinois and they have tons of limestone slabs are one of there lakes, but I did not see any fossils. Now on the inside they still have many display cases that contain various McDonald's memorabilia (I.e. old uniforms, happy meal toys, etc.) and I happened to see the below items, I never had seen them in past years. It is nothing special, but it still is fossil related. I came back again today for the conference and I found this Orthoconic nautiloid. (See last pic)
Field Museum (Chicago) Member's Night
gieserguy posted a topic in A Trip to the MuseumI just visited Field Museum in Chicago for the Member's Nights, and I made sure to take pictures to share! During Member's Night you're allowed into the bowels of the museum where non-displayed items are held, along with several fun and interesting mini-exhibit/activities/booths. On the third floor, many of the paleontology department were displaying their personal favorite fossils! These next few will be from there.
Sue forelimb measurements?
The Amateur Paleontologist posted a topic in Questions & AnswersFor a school project, I am working on theropod evolution. One of the taxa I'm using is Tyrannosaurus rex (specifically the specimen FMNH PR2081 "Sue"). Would any of you know of a paper that gives measurements (including total length) of that specimen's forelimb? Thanks for the help Christian
Black Hills Institute Museum
LordTrilobite posted a topic in A Trip to the MuseumSo I went to the Black Hills Insitute and I made a lot of photos, so I thought I'd share. The Black Hills Institute museum in Hill City is pretty small, it's just one hall. But this one hall is absolutely packed with stuff. This is also the home of the T. rex Stan. Many of the skeletons are casts, but there are plenty of real fossils here as well. The skeleton of Stan. This is the real skeleton and the real skull is placed beside it in the corner. But I didn't even notice that at the time. Skull of Torosaurus. Notice the holes in the frill. Triceratops doesn't have these holes in it's frill. Tylosaurus proriger. Another real specimen. Two Allosaurus skeletons. An Ornithomimid as well as Stan, the Senckenberg Edmontosaurus mummy and Tarbosaurus skull in the background. Skeleton of Albertosaurus, skull of Albertosaurus on the left and skull of Gorgosaurus on the right. A second T. rex skeleton. And a lineup of T. rex skulls in the background. Thescelosaurus and Pachycephalosaurus. Juvenile Edmontosaurus skeleton below the second T. rex skeleton. Cast of the Triceratops Raymond. Crestless Pteranodon on the left as well as a Nyctosaurus? arm/wing at the bottom. Dromaeosaurus in the middle between the legs of the Triceratops and a primitive Sirenian with legs on the right. Bambiraptor and Archaeopteryx skeletons. Foot and skull of Deinonychus and Herrerasaurus, Dromaeosaurus and Eoraptor skulls at the bottom. T. rex arm (cast of Sue) and brian endocast left. Nanotyrannus skull on the right. Mongolian Dinosaurs. Saichania and Saurolophus skulls at the top. Velociraptor skull and oviraptorid partial skeletons below that. Prenocephale, Oviraptor, Archaeornithimimus and Alioramus at the bottom. Tethyshadros top left, and Psittacosaurus nest, and skeletons on the bottom left. Brontosaurus leg in the middle and baby Apatosaurus on the right. Velociraptor and Protoceratops fighting on the far right. Edaphosaurus skeleton. And this is just a small selection of the photos I took. There's just so much stuff here and I only spent a few hours here. The gift shop is also worth a vist btw. I bought a rather nice replica of a tooth from Stan and a Thescelosaurus phalange.


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def call_three_times(f): f() f() f() def foo(): call_count = 0 def bar(): call_count += 1 call_three_times(bar) assert call_count == 3 if __name__ == '__main__': foo()
That doesn't work because "call_count += 1" causes Python to interpret every reference to call_count inside bar() as a local variable inside bar(). So you get an UnboundLocalError.
But I don't want to introduce a new local variable inside bar(). I just want to assign to the local variable in the scope of the containing function foo(). Python doesn't let you do this using the normal assignment syntax. So I need a workaround. Here is the best I've come up with:
def call_three_times(f): f() f() f() def foo(): call_count = [0] def bar(): call_count[0] += 1 call_three_times(bar) assert call_count[0] == 3 if __name__ == '__main__': foo()
But that seems kind of lame. Is there a canonical way to accomplish this sort of thing in Python?


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(Clyman) The criminal complaint of a Hartford man accused of human trafficking details the alleged relationship between managers of Dodge County strip clubs and the dancers who reportedly prostitute themselves inside those clubs. Christopher Childs is charged in federal court with Sex Trafficking Involving Force, Fraud and Coercion. Prosecutors have identified four specific victims they say were forced by Childs to dance at strip clubs for no pay and perform sexual acts for money that went to Childs.
The 45-year-old reportedly controlled the victims phone usage, told them what they could eat, took all of the money the victims made and would violently beat them if they failed to comply. The complaint states that the prostitution occurred, among other places, inside the TNT Gentlemen's Club in Lebanon and the Hardware Store in Clyman.
One victim told investigators that Childs had a "good relationship" with the managers at the strip clubs and would call them to verify how much money the victims would make each night with customers in the private "champagne room." The managers would apparently send the girls home with their money in sealed envelopes so that Childs could be assured that the seal had not been broken. The punishments they would be subjected to if money was missing was graphically-described, "sadistic" physical abuse.
During a May 2017 incident at the Hardware Store, a manager identified as "Scottie" called Childs to report that one of his girls had been drinking and left the club early. During the abuse that followed, the victim defended herself by throwing a candle with hot wax at Childs. As a result, Childs called police to report a domestic incident. Before authorities arrived, Childs allegedly grabbed the victims phone and began deleting any texts, videos and pictures that would apparently connect him to sex trafficking.
In January of 2018, "Scottie" called Childs because one of the victims was causing problems with other dancers and with the owner of the Hardware Store. Scottie allegedly wanted the victim to go on stage but she was exhausted from working 15-hour days and needed to take a break. Childs apparently went to the Hardware Store and on the way home was stopped by a Dodge County Sheriff's deputy who identified the victim in question as Childs passenger.
The complaint also details severe beatings, including one where a human trafficking victim was holding a toddler and the toddler was given to another victim to hold while the child's mother was given, what was described, as the worst beating of her life.
Federal prosecutors say "witnesses have confirmed that employees at TNT handled arrangements for prostitution dates at the club and were aware of Childs role as a pimp." Multiple witnesses have apparently also told investigators that Scottie and other staff at the Hardware Store are aware that Childs is a pimp.
The complaint also states that local law enforcement has verified prostitution activity taking place at the Hardware Store through numerous complaints and law enforcement contacts.
The Hardware Store is owned by Mike Seigel who is also the Village President in Clyman and also owns the Solomon Strip Club in Juneau, which used to be Silk Exotic; neither Solomon nor Silks were referenced in the complaint. Our attempts to reach Seigel were unsuccessful as his phone contact number listed on the village website has been disconnected. Meanwhile, Childs is slated to appear for an arraignment hearing in a federal courtroom next Thursday.


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Dear Parents and Caregivers,
Fair collections are going well and the girls are enjoying having the chance to wear mufti. Next week we are collecting for tombola – more details are available in the poster above.
Monday 5 March will be a Teacher Only Day for all Otago secondary schools, therefore St Hilda's will be closed for instruction. A 'Jumbo Day' is being held to provide professional development to all teaching staff.
Should you have any difficulties with childcare for your daughter(s) on 5 March, we can offer limited supervision for the day in Rooms 109 and 110. If you need this supervision for your daughter, please contact Karen Mowat in the school office by the end of school Thursday 1 March.
Tolcarne will close on Friday 2 March at 5.00pm and reopen on Monday 5 March at 3.00pm. If you have any difficulties with the hostel being closed Friday 2 – Monday 5 March, please contact Ange Rathbone at Tolcarne to discuss further.
The weather stayed fine for Athletics on Monday. Final results are still being tallied and we hope to be able to bring these to you in next week's newsletter. The House Cheerleading competition was fantastic, as usual, and the results are:
1st Lawrence
2nd Nelson
3rd Wellington
4th Havelock
It was lovely to meet families of our new Year 7 and 9 students on Monday evening. Thanks to the PFA who hosted this event.
Anglican Family Care have passed on their thanks and appreciation to St Hilda's students for the stationery that was collected last year. The items were divided into a backpack for each school which were delivered this week. The receiving schools were so excited and wanted to pass on how thoughtful this was.
Good luck to students involved in tomorrow's Head of the Harbour Rowing Regatta and Summer Quad which begins on Sunday.
From the PFA
Thank you so much to all the people who have kindly offered items for the silent auction. We would love to get some more items so if you have something you would like to donate, please contact Lisa at email@example.com.
To ensure that everybody has the opportunity to participate in the auction, we would appreciate any low or medium value items. Here's that chance to re-gift that un-wanted Christmas present!
From the International Department
The International Department is looking for more long term host families. This can be a very rewarding experience. Host families for St Hilda's receive a weekly payment. If you are interested, please contact Ange Spears at email@example.com or Nele Meers at email@example.com.
From the Sports Department
We are still seeking coaches for 2018 and in particular coaches across a number of grades for Basketball, Hockey and Netball. If you or anyone you know may be interested please feel free to get in touch with Callum Wardell – Head of Sport – firstname.lastname@example.com.
Chapel Matters
This week we celebrated Shrove Tuesday (with delicious pikelets, cream, and jam) and Ash
Wednesday (where we received ash crosses on our hands). But Wednesday was also
Valentine's Day! It was the first time in 73 years that this has happened!
In many ways these two days seem the opposite to each other. Valentine's Day is associated with romance, chocolate, going out for dinner and enjoying rich food and special gifts. Ash Wednesday is associated with fasting or giving up things like chocolate and other treats, with introspection and self-reflection, and service to others. But these two opposite days really do have something to teach us. Relationships are not just about romance, gifts and chocolate; in fact, they can be really hard work. Families, friends, loved ones, and partners are the ones who can bring out the best as well as the worst in us. Our deepest hurts and conflicts are usually with the ones we love the most.
Ash Wednesday reminds us that we all need to acknowledge that we have done things –
sometimes on purpose, sometimes without realising – that have hurt others, and that we need to ask forgiveness. Strong relationships are built on honesty, commitment, trust, and
forgiveness; these things are at the heart of what Ash Wednesday is about. God asks each of us to search our own hearts, to be honest with ourselves, and to own our failings and mistakes.
In God, we are truly known and loved, and therefore we can trust that we are forgiven. We can then take this into our relationships with our loved ones, forgiving them when they hurt us, and asking them to forgive us too.
Tolcarne News
Last weekend Tolcarne had a weekend packed with activities! 19 girls from Year's 10-13 gave surfing lessons a go – taking advantage of the beautiful beaches that we have in Dunedin.
A group of Year 9 girls continued to explore Dunedin by walking around the Ross Creek track. It was awesome for them to realise that bush is not far from Tolcarne and they can still get amongst nature.
Year 9 boarders had the opportunity to decorate cupcakes for Valentine's Day. Most of the cupcakes were probably eaten rather than given away but they still had fun baking and decorating!
Student Achievement
Cecilia Crooks placed first in the Senior Girls event at the Otago Secondary Schools' Triathlon Champs.
The St Hilda's Tennis Team were runners-up at the Otago Qualifying Tennis Tournament held in Dunedin this week, having played Columba in an exciting final.
Old Girl Kate Heffernan, who captained the 2017 1st XI Cricket Team, has been selected for the New Zealand White Ferns Women's Cricket team to face the West Indies in March – an incredible achievement for someone of her age.