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Tomasz Grysztar
In context of SQLite discussion on this board, there was once mentioned the idea of some similar project written in assembly. This idea was interesting for me from the beginning, as for some of my projects it would be a great thing to have something like that. Even more: I'm thinking about making some database engine written in assembly with an binary-level access language, which would have then some external wrapper to support SQL syntax, but itself would perhaps be more efficient and easy to use from assembly language programs than text-processing-based SQL (which is better for scripting languages like Perl of PHP). The other nice thing would be to make it portable between any x86-based systems just like fasm is.
Myself I may not be able to start and maintain such a complex project, but perhaps by cooperating we would be able to embody it. Therefore I ask here to let me know if anyone's is interested in cooperating in such project, or has some interesting ideas.
Also, if you've got some interesting links about database systems design and algorithms, please post them here.
|05 May 2006, 11:35
This is very, very, very funny for you to post, for a reason.
Yesterday, I got the idea of making a database OS, for the various advantages that such an OS would bring. I realised that the way current databases work would make it hard for such an OS to be efficient, so obviously I'd have to do two things:
- Devise my own database design, so that it is able to work with an OS efficiently.
- Actually make a database implementation, with the OS built-in.
Well, I spent all of yesterday designing the database mechanics and I must say it looks promising enough to warrant a try.
So, today, I was going to start designing how everything should be stored in memory when suddenly I had an idea: what if I made the database flexible in its uses, and rather than use it merely for an OS, make it usable for other things? It was already extremely flexible because of the database design I had made, but I knew that for it to be used as other things, being mechanically flexible wasn't enough: it'd have to be binarily flexible. (is binarily a word?)
This soon brought me to a second goal:
- The database has to be OS independant.
Of course, something can never be 100% OS independent, but I think I budged along quite well. I sort-of devised a plugin system, by which almost everything in the database system can be controlled by a plugin.
This way, porting from one OS to another is basically a matter of changing the right plugins and formatting the database executable. It is also possible to load plugins durin run-time.
Basically, the way the plugin system works is:
- Each plugin has a name associated with it. The name must not exceed 4 byte-length and therefore can be stored on a simple dword (and passed on the stack: always a plus).
- The database system looks for a plugin with the right name, and calls one of its functions, which are also indexed by 4-byte names,
That's rather simple, isn't it? Well, the problem is obviously "how am I going to act as a pseudo-kernel for plugins if I don't have access to the manipulation of virtual addresses?" Basically, I copy the whole plugin into a certain address (0x10000 at the moment). They are assigned the access of 0x10000 to 0x1FFFF to themselves, whilst 0x20000 upwards being shared memory. (up to a maximum of 0xFFFFF, at the moment.)
These values are good because it would allow the database to be portable even to 16bit systems without too much hassle, although that's a bit more drastic than changing between OSes. [/size]
That was a bit besides the point, but it serves to illustrate how far I'm willing to optimize a system (the 4-byte thing, that is).
Now, I have already dedigned a method of querying the database in a text-processing way but, as you point out, this is a saturated market. I'm sure that designing a binary query of sorts is perfectly possible (and necessary, too). I will deviate my attentions to the design of such a binary system. Last, but not least, you're free to join me in my adventure if you want. I sent a project application to sourceforge.net. The unix-name of the project is dbsystem
Cya there. (If the project gets approved.)
|07 May 2006, 23:25
I think we can start simple INSERT / DELETE. Hmm, I feel like I've suggested this before, but here me out:
SELECT would of course be very neccessary, but that is it. UPDATE would be like a macroinstruction and WHERE would be a macro of multiple SELECTs. When we have it working, we can improve it further, by adding indexes, rewriting syntax for more optimized approach and implement algorithms that we may accidentally find on the net. I had a relatively thorouugh course in DBs in the university so I can give you some hints on the way like about the different types of indexes and their uses...
...I myself am busy with other projects, but I'll see how I can help this dbengine.flatassembler.net to become reality
|10 May 2006, 21:39
I'm currently looking into hashtables and seeing if they are at all useful to db.
elem* INSERT(id, size); -- Does this sound reasonable? void DELETE(id); /or/ void DELETE(elem*); -- Which is better? Both? struc elem_header { .id dd 0 .size dd 0 .type db 0 ; data type .flags dw 0 ; flags: they depend on the data type .data: }
Might not make much sense now,but it'll probably be clearer later on.
|11 May 2006, 21:49
Tomasz (and interested on the project), this database will be a relational database or an object oriented database?
To make this project mature could be take too long time so I think it's important to see which kind of databases will be used in the future (RDBMS or ODBMS).
|12 May 2006, 00:16
Tomasz Grysztar
Wich one in your opinion the assembly language is more suitable for?
|12 May 2006, 09:44
Well I'm not a DB expert but seems to be O-O more suitable for assembly, since you make queries using template objects seems that you don't need to send text (or opcodes as your idea).
However, O-O languages implements objects quite diferent each other so you will need to create multiple interfaces instead of a single one (SQL).
Hope someone with more knowledge answer you question more accurately
|12 May 2006, 13:53
Tomasz Grysztar
Some other nice idea that I once saw on this board was to try rewriting SQLite in assembly - that would be perhaps at least instructive.
|12 May 2006, 14:07
Since SQLite is an embeddable database system it's more suitable to give it a try converting it to ODBMS since it shares the same memory space that the client.
ODBMS.ORG says in When to Use an ODBMS this:
ODBMS.ORG wrote:
Embedded DBMS Applications
Of course I understand that an assembly language programmer usually dislikes write in OO way assembly code but I think that FASM is powerful enough to write friendly macros, struct macro already supports inheritance, it just need some improvements to support method binding and allow virtual methods (polimorphism).
|12 May 2006, 14:42
The model i'm using for db isn't too far off from object databases, but is much more lose. I guess i'll release the documentation on the site once the thign gets approved.. (4 days in pending queue... is it really a queue?)
|12 May 2006, 19:43
i'm also not an expert in db internal, but i think some general OOP support should be added as initial stage (embedded and/or via macros) (it should be nice not only for db)
|15 May 2006, 04:27
Are we thinking of a db that will be used within general public or are we aiming at being different (take MenuetOS as an example) and write something totally different that others will hate at the beginning
I think doing something that others have done over&over&over again isn't too interesting. assembly style SQL sounds fun...at least for now:
push mydata at [database+esi] ; INSERT pop ; ... would be DELETE mov ; ... means UPDATE or SELECT depending on the direction
...or maybe it will become too obfuscated. I hear a poll coming up.
|15 May 2006, 12:02
I like Madis731's idea - ASM style SQL. Most importantly, it will be something new and unique!
|17 May 2006, 06:55
Concerning the syntax, I think a 'middle way' would attract more people. The one that is suggested seems to be too confusing for complex statements and queries... I also would like to participate to the project if it is decided to be done (or at least start:). I think I can contribute in language parsing as I already have an experience and interest in that. Don't have much knowledge about the internals of a db engine though.
|17 May 2006, 10:00
heh. well, i decided to abandon db because sourceforge takes ages and eventually i lost interest in said database. So, i'm interested in Madis's idea... care to elaborate a bit more on it?
|17 May 2006, 22:29
Well, it was just an idea, but if enough people are interested, then we can think of a logical way to give asm programmers to express their way of thinking and their syntax in the garment of SQL (actually I meant vice versa )
|18 May 2006, 20:27
i think there should be some c-call functions like
ccall _select,[what],[from],pwhere_callback,...
which can be automatically converted to macros like:
where "what","from" are some supported structures to explain wide parameters. [from] can be a direct handle to the table, etc.
it has to be started from single-table toy, then may be extended to more complex structure.
|22 May 2006, 09:54
Yes, I think that giving it C-compatability would be a wise move. Very much so.
As for [what] and [from]...
couldn't we just do a
ccall _select, table, evaluative_func ccall _mselect, evaluative_func, number of tables, table 1, table 2....
These would return a pointer to a table with all the selected entries.
You could have a function that merges tables together to make another table:
ccall _merge, n, table 1, table 2, ... , table n
This way, '_mselect' is just a selection on a merger of tables.
To make tables from scratch...
ccall _proto
Makes a table prototype.
ccall _proadd, prot, elemname, elemsize
Would add an element to the prototype.
ccall _mktable, name, prot
Would create a table from the prototype. Now you can add entries to the table, but this can be figured out later...
Advantages of this system? Well, it works perfectly with C, which is portable, doesn't require the use of strings (but you *can* use strings), the structure of entries can match a C structure (or an asm one for that matter (use virtual)). IT would be faster than SQL by a lot, I would think. But then again, it doesn't REALLY match asm as such.
|22 May 2006, 22:06
Mota, with "ccall _select, table, evaluative_func " do you mean that the database engine will call evaluative_func procedure? In such case that will be not work very good with a server database. Another problem is since the database engine can't know what evaluative_func does it will be forced to iterate all the table's records.
Note that is preferable to spend time in parsing a SQL statement than make one disk read access, CPUs can do a lot of work in a few milliseconds.
|22 May 2006, 22:29
the idea is to make sql-compatible set of functions. so, these functions could be used directly on local base or server, but can be easy used to parse sql statement. anyway sql wil be needed, if you plan to give your application to user and let him make changes without recompilation of main module.
|23 May 2006, 04:21
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It may be too late for my cousin, Salma, but others could stand a chance.
(Salma is a fictional name given to a real character to protect her identity.)
A version of this post was first published on 10th August 2009 by The Huffington Post
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One Response to "New Domestic Abuse Law Gives Pakistani Women Hope"
1 adeelkunwar on December 26, 2009 said:
Nice article, womens mistreatment in out country is a routine, dont know whether this new law can make any difference, but we can just hope for the better, situation is every worse in village and remote areas,nobody knows what happens inside every house, only education can bring change.
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We often try to work as quickly as possible to maximize our valuable time, but going through our days at a hundred miles an hour doesn't leave much time for thought. When you are not thinking, you are simply reacting to what happens around you.
This is an anxiety-causing cycle that can make you feel as though you've lost control. When this happens, you must stop, take a deep breath, and get everything out of your head and down on paper.
Make yourself a list of tasks and then prioritize them. You might use a pad of paper or you could use index cards for each task. If you go the index card route, you can move the cards around and prioritize them easily.
Stop to really think about the pieces and parts. What is the next step you must take? Are you doing things in an efficient order? How can you get control of the situation to avoid future anxiety-filled days?
Now when you get started again, you will be working on purpose. If you get out of control again, you know that you can stop, re-group, and get started again.
Big picture thinking, too, can lead to feelings of overwhelm. Often when thinking about projects, we think about the whole project.
Let's say for example, that you need to revamp your website. To avoid feeling overwhelmed by this project, break it down into smaller segments. Figure out what your very first step needs to be and focus on that one piece before jumping to something else. Go one step at a time, one decision at a time.
It's important to take frequent breaks or even get away for awhile. There is only so much doing and decision making we can take. Even a quick drive walk around the block can help to clear your mind.
Also, make sure that you are getting enough sleep. Sleep deprivation can do serious damage to your ability to think and function properly. Get the amount of sleep appropriate for you and encourage your employees and family members to do the same.
Regaining control of the way you are spending time will give you a tremendous sense of peace. Remember, when you feel like speeding up, it's time to slow down. Give yourself a breather and begin again refreshed and with purpose.
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UPDATE 6/4: We're now SOLD OUT for tomorrow's luncheon! We're looking forward to seeing everyone who registered. If you didn't get to sign up for this one, join us next month – be on the look out for details!
Join us at this networking luncheon and learn how to do a self-audit of your business' online presence. We'll be reviewing, step by step, the process of a self audit and guiding you through the process so you'll be empowered to take your brand to a new level.
You'll learn:
– What areas need your attention.
– Places you may not know you should review.
– Common pitfalls to avoid.
– Best practices for the top platforms.
– Tips for improving your overall online presence.
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Recently we wrote about brand audits and why they are crucial to your business' marketing health. You can find it here.
What a Brand Audit is and Why You Should Do One
The word audit can often have a negative connotation, but it can actually be a really good thing. Here we are discussing brand audits and why every business should do them.
What is a Brand Audit
A brand audit is not just about reviewing the visual aspects of your brand, although the visual elements are a big part of it. A large part of the brand audit also includes what we call UX or the User Experience. This is a predominantly digital term however it also applies to the analog or "real world" experience your clients and potential clients have when interacting with your business.
By taking a good look at the outside world's perception of your business, you can gain valuable insights into how to better serve your clients, play up your strengths, and address your weaknesses before they cost you clients. A brand audit also benefits you, as the business owner, by helping you to understand your motivations and ensuring that what you're presenting and how you're operating aligns with your values.
What to Expect
Brand audits can range from super simple to incredibly in depth.
A simple audit would examine visual presence consistency and general accuracy and functionality of your website. Do all your links work? Are your logo and messaging consistent across social media and any place that your business is represented, both online and in the real world? How easy is it to find your company on search engines and social media platforms?
A comprehensive brand audit takes into account all aspects of UX.This includes having a neutral third party interview your clients to determine how they are experiencing your service and what their overall honest impression is of your company. This type of audit would also review your company mission and values statements, survey employees to gauge company culture, and also review all visual branding elements and advertising. This process is meant to delve into how you are showing up in the world and whether that is consistent with what you value and want to convey.
As you can see, taking the time to do a self audit or hiring a firm to conduct a more in depth audit is beneficial because it's a check in to be sure you're on track and not wasting efforts. Make sure your marketing dollars are working for you and not inadvertently against you.
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Now we have created seperate IDML files from InDesign we need to import these into an iBooks Author template.
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My Christian niece had an affair, divorced her Christian husband without Biblical cause, and married her lover. My sister has forgiven them by faith and as act of her will, but the situation still bothers her. There was no forgiveness sought on their part from anyone; she knows that is not a prerequisite, and she must forgive anyway. However, the question is how does that forgiveness "flesh out" in reality; what does forgiveness DO; how is she to treat them, etc? There are three grand kids involved and this has affected them.
Forgiveness of this sort is a "contrary-to-feelings" choice. In other words we make the decision to forgive even though we don't feel like doing it. Then we recognize the battle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms (Ephesians 6:12) Your sister still loves her daughter. That makes this a spiritual battle that requires spiritual weapons.
For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ (2 Cor. 10:3-5).
With the aid of prayer and the power of the Holy Spirit we keep taking captive the feelings of anger or disappointment which are against our knowledge of God, making them obedient to Christ until they go away. James 4:7 says when we resist the devil he will flee from us. Your sister will know she's won when there's no more strain in her relationship with her daughter.
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1. Avlemonas Beach
Picturesque Avlemonas is a fishing village where one can swim at its blue "pool-like" beach
Avlemonas is a small picturesque fishing village that invites you to relax, an ideal place to decelerate. It has a small harbor, built in Cycladic style, on the east of the island. The beach, which looks like a pool, has both rocky and sandy areas, and its warm, peaceful water is ideal for swimming and water sports.
Its crystal clear blue coves make Avlemonas a main point of attraction in the area. It is also an ideal swimming choice for children as the area is surrounded with places where adults can have a meal, drink or coffee while attending to the young swimmers.
2. Limnionas Beach
Explore Limnionas beach, frequented mostly by locals, for a real taste of Kythera beach life
If you prefer something more quiet and picturesque, the paved road going west from Mylopotamos will lead you to Limnionas. It is a nice route following a spectacular winding road with beautiful views to the Ionian Sea. The small, sandy beach is not in the top flight of the island's tourist options.
You will encounter mostly locals, who appreciate the small seaside taverna with its delicious mezedes. Not far away, the Fokospilia, a sea cave known for attracting populations of seals, is an enjoyable sight. Directly opposite the beach are the Panagia islands, two small islets in front of Limnionas bay and just below the Monastery of Panagia Mirtidiotissa, after which they were named.
3. Kakia Lagada Beach
Kakia Lagada is a Blue Flag, well organized beach close to Agia Pelagia
Just next to the beach of Lorentzos, at the end of the Paleochora canyon, we find Kakia Lagada beach at a small distance from Agia Pelagia village. Its waters are deep and it has been awarded the Blue Flag distinction for clean, pristine waters.
On the beach there is a well-equipped canteen, there are umbrellas and sun-beds and quite often there are volley-ball tournaments. The beach is accessible by gravel road. The most important point of interest of Kakia Lagada is the canyon of Palaioxora (otherwise known as Kakia Lagada) to the south.
During the winter months, a large lake is created just behind the beach by the water coming from the gorge. Walking along the gorge is a difficult task and requires proper gear. In two places you will need to use a rope. In the winter it is impossible to cross the gorge as the waters form several deep lagoons here and there.
4. Fyri Ammos Beach
A "Blue Flag" distinction is the best…medal of honour for Firi Ammos beach near Kalamos
There are two beaches named Firi Ammos on the island of Kythera. The most famous one is on the island's southeast, near the village of Kalamos. At 17 klm from Aroniadika, it can reached from the north from Livadi going towards the Panagia Odigitria Chapel, a distance of about 4 klm on good asphalt road, plus 4 more klm to Firi Ammos, with the last 500 meters done on foot.
It is a long beach with red sand and pebbles, which in the past has won the Golden Starfish award for its natural beauty and the purity of the water. It is an organized beach with a canteen and umbrellas, quite an important addition as any other trace of "civilization" is several kilometers away!
5. Lorentzos Beach
For the daring who reach Lorentzos beach, the prize is crystal clear waters in a peaceful setting
Access to Lorentzos beach is quite difficult as the only road leading to it is a dirt road, although only for a small section. Lorentzos beach is found below Firi Ammos beach to the east of Agia Pelagia, reaching it from the northern part of Kythera.
It is at 11 klm from Aroniadika and to reach it you need to pass from Potamos. The waters are crystal clear and the beach is a combination of sand and fine pebbles. It is a small beach, usually very peaceful due to the lack of amenities.
For the daring ones who reach Lorentzos, their reward will be the privilege of a unique view towards the Kavo Malias cape in the Peloponnese, while to their back there will be impressive rock formations, part of the Kakia Lagada gorge.


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Bee Palooza showcases backyard bee habitats
Honeybees are responsible for pollinating about one of every three bites of food we eat.
Rufus Isaacs is an entomology professor at Michigan State University. He studies pollination of berry crops.
"Honeybees are, if we're talking about commercial agriculture, they're the most important pollinator. We have tens of thousands of those bees that come into Michigan every spring, and they do the lion's share of the work to get our cherry crop, our blueberry crop, our apple crop, our pickling cucumber crop pollinated."
But since 2006, beekeepers have been reporting major honeybee losses. That's because of something called Colony Collapse Disorder.
Honeybees are not native to Michigan, but there are 400 native bee species in the state. Isaacs says these native bees also pollinate crops and wild flowers. But he says the overall health of native bee populations is unclear.
"To be honest, we don't really know anything about long-term trends in their populations because there hasn't been any careful monitoring of them over the years," he said.
A few days ago, Isaacs and others in MSU's entomology department put on an event called Bee Palooza.
The bee experts say human development is threatening the habitats that native bees use. So they wanted to show people how to build homes for native bees in their backyards.
Emily May is a graduate student at MSU. She's standing next to a structure that's shaped like a house. It's made out of logs, bamboo and pieces of wood with a lot of holes in them. May calls it a bee hotel.
"It's really easy to make a bee hotel. You can just basically take a piece of old wood and drill some holes into it around 6 millimeters in diameter, and pretty much, if you put it out there, the bees will come."
May says in winter, you should put your bee hotel in the refrigerator so it doesn't freeze. In the spring, you can put it back outside along with a fresh piece of wood.
If you're worried about getting stung, the experts at Bee Palooza promise that native bees are docile; they won't hurt you.
It's not too late in the year to start a bee hotel, and you can also plant blue, purple and yellow flowers to attract native bees.
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The Polish duo also give insight into their remix processes.
Point Blank's latest guest masterclass is with Polish DJ and producer duo Catz 'N Dogz.
In the video, the duo breakdown their remix of Marlena Shaw's "Woman Of The Ghetto" and discuss their approach to collaboration and the various techniques they use. They also share details about their background in music, how they started to work together, and their inspiration for the remix before discussing in detail the structure of the remix and their essential plugins.
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If you are planning a new hotel construction project and are in need of highly trained commercial hotel contractors to install your wall coverings, floor coverings, and other construction services, then you are in the right place. In addition to the renovation of the hotel, we also have extensive experience working on the construction of new hotels to bring your hotel building to completion on time and within budgets. We have done our homework with regard to the thousands of hotel renovation and restoration "experts" throughout the world. The spectrum of these companies covers a broad range of simple painting companies, full-service hotel painting, and renovation services and hotel renovation contractors.
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Food And Agricultural Business
Ranching in the American West has an extended and storied historical past. What enterprise can one start in the agriculture trade and succeed? The Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Enterprise combines core undergraduate courses in agricultural enterprise (AGBS) with fundamental enterprise administration and agricultural science foundation courses.
Within the last 12 months, in addition to your analysis mission, taught modules develop a deeper degree of understanding of farm and rural business management, management consultancy, agri-enterprise technique and resolution making, and will let you check your own business concepts in a supportive and novel 'innovation incubator' surroundings.
So, in case you are trying in direction of starting an agricultural crop cultivation enterprise, then one in all your options is to go into pineapples cultivation. When you have the monetary capacity to enter cotton wool farming, there are not any limits to the earnings you may generate as long as you have vast hectares of land to domesticate cotton wool.
Should you live in Africa especially West Africa or you live in South America, and you're looking towards starting an agricultural crop cultivation business; considered one of your options is to enter cassava plantation. With the increase in people going into the agricultural business, you may make cash from hiring out gear like tractors, ploughs, sprayers, harvesters and irrigation machines to farmer.
One place to take heed to farmers inform their stories on-line is Cornell's " Voices of Expertise Videos " as a part of their Beginning Farmer Program. One benefit of beginning this trade is the point that these merchandise may be exported from one nation to a different, because there is a world market for pineapple merchandise.


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Amali Takes Their Wood and Charcoal Burning Grill to the Street
As you round the corner on 60th Street at Park Avenue, just on the brink of Midtown East, wafts of barbecue grilled meat greet you. If you follow that smell, you end up half way down the block where a wood and charcoal burning grill sits on the front patio of Amali Restaurant, surrounded by a wooden lattice with an adorable take out counter to order from. With quite possibly the only wood and charcoal burning grill out on the street in Midtown Manhattan, Amali has rolled out Amali Street Food for lunch this summer, and they're serving up some pretty awesome sandwiches with the new outdoor grill!
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos received pressure from hundreds of best-selling authors urging a settlement to its pricing dispute with Hachette Book Group, and in response extended an olive branch to authors, offering them all the proceeds from their e-book sales while the dispute rages.
But it looks like just more bad publicity for the online retailer as the authors, led by Doug Preston, do not appear likely to take up the offer.
Amazon now says it is willing to give authors 100 percent of the proceeds from e-book sales while the pricing dispute continues.
Authors have been hurt because when the publisher balked at Amazon's new terms, the e-tailer retaliated by removing pre-order buttons from its website for Hachette authors and slowing down shipments to consumers.
Amazon said the offer would remove the authors from the middle of the dispute.
Preston, author of the Pendergast thriller books and a leader of the petition, told Bloomberg News that he could not accept the peace offering terms "on moral or ethical grounds."
And he said it was likely to violate the existing contracts authors have with their publisher
He was, however, at least talking to Amazon.
"My message was, 'Look, we're not against Amazon, and we're not for Hachette — all we're asking is for you both to settle this problem without hurting authors,' " Preston said.
He said he could reap millions if he accepted the offer of a full cut on e-books, but it would come at the expense of the company that has published him for years.
Hardcover book sales have been flat to down in recent years for all publishers — but digital book sales have been growing at a double-digit pace and it is clearly going to play a larger role in the future.
In the pricing dispute, Amazon is trying to set tougher terms with Hachette, claiming the costs of producing e-books are drastically lower and that it therefore wants to reduce the publisher's cut and pass the savings to consumers.
Hachette countered that it could not afford the deep discounts that the online retailer demanded because its job of publishing involves not just selling an e-book but finding, editing, marketing and distributing books in all formats.
Preston's e-mail letter last week called on consumers and authors to push Bezos to settle the dispute.
So far, Preston said between 600 and 800 authors have responded — a number which has doubled in just a week.
A separate petition has been circulating largely from self-published authors who said they supported Amazon in the fight against the New York publishing monopoly.
A spokeswoman for Hachette said that Amazon had sent a brief proposal on Tuesday — but it apparently did not move the needle much.
"We invite Amazon to withdraw the sanctions they have unilaterally imposed, and we will continue to negotiate in good faith and with the hope of a swift conclusion."
Hachette has said it would be suicidal to cut itself from its e-book revenue stream while the dispute remained open.
"We call baloney," an Amazon spokeswoman said. "Hachette is part of a $10 billion global conglomerate. It wouldn't be 'suicide.' They can afford it. What they're really making clear is that they absolutely want their authors caught in the middle of this negotiation because they believe it increases their leverage. All the while, they are stalling and refusing to negotiate, despite the pain caused to their authors. Our offer is sincere. They should take us up on it."


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The blue fire dragon is an all-blue dragon to place in your park in DragonVale. Born of both fire and cold elements, this is a dragon of interesting qualities indeed!
1Go to your breeding cave or the epic breeding island. Your park needs to be at level 9 or higher.
2Pair a fire dragon with a cold hybrid dragon. For example, a storm dragon or an ice dragon. Fire and storm seem to be the most compatible for a blue fire dragon outcome.
- Obviously, cold and fire are incompatible, hence a hybrid is needed. It is also possible to breed a cold dragon with a fire hybrid dragon to get a blue dragon.
- Both dragons should be at least at level 10 to guarantee success.
- Placement of the fire dragon first in the cave may affect the outcome positively.[1] X Research source
3Wait 12 hours for breeding. Breeding time can be hastened by spending gems.
- You'll know the attempt at getting a blue fire dragon has failed if you get a scorch or firefly dragon after 3-5 hours, or a storm dragon after 5 hours (all good dragons nonetheless).
- If the breeding continues, you should find a blue fire dragon after 12 hours. The egg is red with snowflakes across it, a nod to the heat and cold that go into making this dragon.
4Put the egg into the nursery to incubate. Wait another 12 hours until it hatches.
5Place the blue dragon in a cold or a fire habitat. To help it grow, feed it the same food as all baby dragons.
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QuestionHow do I get blue fire dragons in DragonVale?Community AnswerYou must use the regular fire dragon and a cold hybrid. I recommend a cold/lightning, because if you fail, you'll have short breeding and egg times.
QuestionWill a fire (level 6) and a glacier (level 4) result in a blue fire dragon?Community AnswerIt may work, but just with less possibility of success. You should make them level 10 first in order to make it work better.
QuestionHow can I breed fire and ice dragons?Community AnswerYou can't. Instead, breed an ice or fire hybrid (lichen dragon or flower dragon) with the opposite type. For example, you could breed a lichen with a fire dragon, or a flower with an ice dragon.
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At level 1, this dragon will earn 20 coins per minute. At level 10, it will earn 130 coins per minute. (These are without boosts.) Earn coins then buy more of these dragons!
The blue fire dragon's opposite is the frostfire dragon.
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Your brand is your story — the complete picture of who you are, what you do, and how you do it. Communicating that story clearly and effectively presents a huge challenge for most organizations. You can possess the vision and passion, but still struggle with how to communicate your message visually and verbally. That's where we come in. Our role is to help you define, develop and implement your brand so that it speaks for itself. That's the beauty of brilliant branding. It requires less effort to communicate your vision and creates more energy in the organization. The company's purpose and mission becomes self-evident.
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Coach Jim Harbaugh repeatedlyt got
grilled asked by reporters today demanding he explain what is or will be the 49ers' identity. In short, Harbaugh couldn't answer because he's still feeling out this roster, and he admits players are still getting to know the coaches.
Harbaugh said he is disappointed in Sunday's 27-24 overtime loss to the Cowboys, "but I'm not discouraged, because I feel we're on track."
Asked point blank for the 49ers' ideal identity, Harbaugh said: "We want to be a running team, we want to be a throwing team, darn near 50/50 and good in both."
Other tidbits from today's access:
— On Vernon Davis' post-game comments about a lack of action in the passing game: Harbaugh understood it but noted that Davis was double teamed most of the time he ran routes when he was not blocking. Yes, Davis will continue to be relied upon at times as a blocker — because he is very good at it.
— On whether he senses trepidation from the offense when it comes to third-and-long situations: "I don't feel any trepidation or uphill battle. Our guys fought. I sensed and knew that. We played better this week than the first week. We need to stay ahead of the pitch count and can't put ourselves in situations of third-and-long."
"Offensively we have negative plays, be it a tackle for loss, a 1 or 2 yard gain, or sacks. Those are things we have to get better at and eliminate."
— Wide receiver Braylon Edwards is undergoing a MRI on a knee he injured on Sunday's opening series.
— Harbaugh thought the 49ers' pass rush and run defense was very good. He also offered praise for Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo.
— Safety Dashon Goldson and cornerback Shawntae Spencer, starters the past couple seasons, will have a chance this week to return to the lineup. Goldson has been inactive because of a knee injury the past two games (plus exhibition finale). Spencer, hindered by a hamstring strain all training camp, has played only on special teams.
— Harbaugh glowed about how Alex Smith played tough, whether it came to throwing "into the teeth" of an oncoming rusher or scrambling for a yard marker. To me, that means he remains very committed to Smith, so hold off on those David Garrard pleas.
— Kyle Williams earned positive reviews after coming in as the third receiver in the wake of Edwards' exit.
— Center Jonathan Goodwin said he was thinking all night about the overtime sack he allowed to Cowboys nose tackle Jay Ratliff. "There's nothing I can do about it now, other than just learn from it," Goodwin said. "He took my shoulder and got me off balance."


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Architectural wiz John Lee Beatty designed this room to remind patrons of a speakeasy, not that many go back far enough to recall what one looked and felt like. Because the Broadway producers behind the enterprise are looking to put as many Broadway performers as possible on their shiny new stage, they've booked one of theater's most accomplished contemporary leading ladies to usher in the weekend.
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The TAC's role is to pay for treatment and benefits for people injured in transport accidents under the Transport Accident Act 1986. It is also involved in promoting road safety in Victoria and in improving Victoria's trauma system.
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TAC lawyers act on behalf of the TAC in relation to legal proceedings brought at VCAT and in the County and Supreme Courts. The TAC is required to be a model litigant.
The TAC also handles common law claims arising from interstate accidents which involve Victorian registered vehicles.
Funding used by the TAC to perform these functions comes from payments made by Victorian motorists when they register their vehicles each year with VicRoads. To ensure it remains a long-term compensation scheme, the TAC uses its funds fairly and responsibly. This ensures the TAC is able to meet the needs of seriously injured people who need lifetime care.
Number of legal positions within organisation:
Number of solicitors
- Firm Wide: 59
- Female (%):66
- Male (%):34
Does your organisation have a human rights officer?
Information for university students/graduates
Do you have a graduate clerkship program?
Yes - TAC runs both a seasonal clerkship program and a legal traineeship program.
How many applicants do you take a year?
The TAC takes 3 Graduates and 10 Seasonal Clerks annually
What are you looking for in an applicant?
Successful applicants will have a passion for building a career with a focus on acting as a model litigant, strong communication skills and the ability to communicate with stakeholders effectively.
Qualifications/skills required
3rd or final year of University studying a Bachelor of Law.
What electives/areas of study are viewed favourably?
Prominent practice areas are Administrative and Tort Law so subjects relative to this field of Law would be deemed favourable.
What prior work/volunteer work is viewed favourably?
For Graduates a previous clerkship placement any previous work/voluntary or otherwise related to their degree.
How does one apply
Via our Careers page on the TAC website
Dates for application
Seasonal Clerkship:
- Applications open: Mid-July
- Applications close: Early August
- Offers will be made: Early October
Legal traineeship:
- Applications open: Mid-July
- Applications close: Mid-August
- Priority Offers (if applicable): Mid August
All remaining offers will be made: Late September
General graduate program:
TAC offers a Graduate Program of two years duration open to university graduates of all disciplines. The program places graduates in the Claims division.
Applications for the program are
- Opening date: Early April
- Closing date: End of April.
Do you require your applicants to be recent law graduates? If so, how recent?
Applications for Clerkship are accepted from 3rd or final year of University.
Interview process
See the What to Expect at an Interview on the TAC website
How many law graduates do you employ outside your graduate program, and what sort of roles do they fill?
The TAC does not employ graduates outside of its graduate programs
Do you have a minimum Grade Point Average standard for an applicant's academic record?
If there are any fails on a candidate's academic record how will they affect the recruitment process?
Candidates are considered on the entirety of their academic record not individual results.
Information for practising lawyers
What prior work is viewed favourably?
- A legal practitioner eligible to be admitted to practice in Victoria with extensive post-admission experience giving legal advice on a broad range of general legal and corporate/ commercial legal issues including contract law, tenders, trade practices, intellectual property, employment law, research and funding arrangements, corporate governance/advisory and sponsorship arrangements.
- Demonstrated experience in interpreting complex legislation and drafting/amending legal documentation.
- Exposure to the Health, Government and Insurance
On average, how many positions become available per year?
5-10 per year
How many applications do you receive for these?
8-10 per role
Where do you advertise your positions?
Do you use a recruitment agency?
Yes but not for Graduate positions
Additional comments
The TAC is also a member and supporter of PILCH.


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Joseph Productions Relies on TVU Networks Remote Production System for High Quality, Low Latency IP Video Transmission
Story Highlights
Joseph Productions (JPI), a Detroit-based media production company, recently turned to TVU RPS (Remote Production System) to increase efficiency for its high-end live event and corporate meeting video productions. Many of JPI's clientele, ranging from corporations and live event producers to local sports and news broadcasters, faced limited budgets and were looking for ways to reduce costs and shorten turnaround time.
With TVU RPS, JPI can send multiple cameras and camera operators into the field and contributes up to six synchronized camera feeds over the commodity internet back to their in-house control room for switching, and the addition of graphics, effects, text, and other production elements. The TVU RPS transmitter transmits high-quality and low-latency IP video from the remote location to a studio-based TVU receiver. The receiver, in turn, outputs six synchronized SDI outputs. TVU RPS includes extensive support for: 16 channel AES/EBU embedded SDI audio, Variable Bit Rate (VBR), and the ability to set channel priorities.
"Previously, when we'd shoot a live event from a trade show, for example, there'd be costs involved with transporting our satellite truck, paying the crew to setup and strike the truck, electrical and cabling charges, plus the time involved in travel to and from," explains Josh Kowal, Assistant General Manager, JPI. "We wanted to produce events quickly without having to set a control room up on site at each location. We knew there had to be a way to use our in-house control room that would save a significant amount of set up, travel time, and equipment costs."
JPI turned to TVU RPS. With this system, producers can utilize in-house staff and equipment at the studio, saving significant cost in producing a remote, multi-camera live shot.
"Now, the entire production crew isn't needed on site," says Kowal. "With RPS, we only need to send one AV technician with a camera to produce live stream video globally. We can offer our customers more competitive pricing. We'd been relying on satellite transmission for the same services in the past, which can be expensive. Plus, now we have less logistics involved with getting crew to other states. TVU RPS has effectively eliminated our travel and satellite costs. We no longer need satellite time, production trucks or satellite trucks. Our footprint of doing remote production is much smaller with RPS."
Kowal believes there are several other types of production that could utilize RPS, including crisis communication when responses are needed immediately; streaming executive reactions when new cars come off the line for its automaker clientele; and nationally coordinated events from multiple locations that are coordinated into one stream.
JPI used its RPS unit for the first time during the LA Auto Show to live stream a 30-minute new car 'reveal' from a Tier 1 automaker to the auto show's media partner Yahoo Live and to live viewing parties for corporate employees. The live stream was sent around the world, with just two JPI crew on site in Los Angeles. JPI has also used RPS at the Little Caesars Arena in Detroit to cover live events for local broadcasters.
JPI combines live event and corporate meeting production capabilities with global transmission, high-speed WiFi access, advanced cloud streaming, audience analytics, and graphic design services.


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Abdullah Khadr walked out of a Toronto courtroom a free man Wednesday after an Ontario judge refused to extradite him to the United States to face terrorism charges.
"I think this is going to be a new beginning for me in life," Khadr told reporters outside the court as his lawyers and family looked on.
Extradition orders to the U.S. are rarely denied, but Superior Court Justice Christopher Speyer ruled Wednesday that "this was an exceptional case on many levels."
The 29-year-old Canadian has been held in Toronto jail since a Boston court indicted him on terrorism charges in December 2005. He is accused of supplying weapons to Al Qaeda when he lived in Pakistan following the 9/11 attacks.
The surprise decision focused on the fact that the U.S. paid Pakistan a $500,000 (U.S.) bounty for the Canadian's arrest in Islamabad in 2004 and that Khadr was held for 14 months in what Speyer called an "illegal and arbitrary" detention.
Speyer wrote in his 62-page ruling that the human rights violations suffered by Khadr were "both shocking and unjustifiable."
"The United States was the driving force behind Khadr's capture and detention," Speyer wrote. "The payment of the bounty heavily influenced the ISI (Pakistan's intelligence agency) to act in accordance with the United States agency's wishes."
Khadr claimed he was beaten during his first days of captivity and to stop the abuse he told his Pakistani interrogators what they wanted to hear, later repeating those claims for the U.S. and Canadian agents who followed.
Lawyers Nathan Whitling and Dennis Edney had argued that extraditing Khadr would mean Canada supports countries that violate international law since the case against the Canadian was based entirely on his statements.
When asked outside of court what he plans to do now, Khadr said, "I have no idea."
"Thank you for everything, for the justice of the system," he said. "I always believed it would happen one day and thank God it happened."
The issues in Khadr's case underscore the greater legal debate about the limits on interrogations, cooperation with countries with poor human rights records and the tension between intelligence-collection and criminal prosecution.
Speyer's ruling comes just days before Khadr's younger brother Omar is set to go on trial in Guantanamo, in an historic war crimes case that deals with many of the same legal challenges.
The Canadian children of reputed Al Qaeda financier Ahmed Said Khadr (who was killed by Pakistani forces in 2003), have always been considered high-value intelligence assets. Abduraham Khadr, the self-professed "black sheep" of the Khadr family and brother to Omar and Abdullah, worked as an informant for the CIA following his capture in Afghanistan in 2002.
Speyer wrote that the U.S. sought Abdullah Khadr for the intelligence purposes, not for criminal prosecution when detaining him in 2004.
But "in civilized democracies," Speyer wrote, "the rule of law must prevail over intelligence objectives."
And while Speyer said he found some of Khadr's testimony was unreliable and was not satisfied there was evidence Khadr was tortured in Pakistan, he did believe he was beaten when captured and "subjected to other mistreatment."
"When a U.S. government or any foreign government steps into a Canadian court they have to arrive with clean hands," Edney said outside of court, saying he was "delighted" by the ruling.
"They can't try to use evidence that is derived from the abuse of human beings and the judge saw that was an abuse of process and did the right thing."
Federal government lawyer Howard Piafsky, who argued the Toronto case along with Matthew Sullivan on behalf of the U.S., said it was too early to decide whether they would appeal Speyer's ruling.


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Tybee prepares for 30th Annual Beach Bum Parade
TYBEE ISLAND, Ga. (WJCL) - The 30th Annual Beach Bum Parade is set to take over Butler Avenue at 6:30 p.m. on Friday.
The local tradition is known as the southeast's largest water fight. The 30th Annual Beach Bum Parade kicks off at 6:30 Friday night on Butler Avenue. But with hundreds of people flocking to the main drag on the island, it will cause some traffic and parking concerns.
There will be no parking allowed on Butler Avenue on Friday. The road will also host the parade from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Parade floats will be filled with water as spectators line the street armed with buckets of water, squirt guns, and hoses ready for the battle.
However, the only ammo allowed in this fight is water. So bleach water, ice water, and ice are not allowed.
Also forbidden are pressure washers and throwing water balloons and buckets at people.
Organizers also ask that you don't squirt police officers or parade marshals.


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Nice to see an old-timer stick their head round the door. Not so many of us round now :( SophieWilder (formerly Totnesmartin) 10:05, 21 October 2013 (UTC)
- It's good to be back, hopefully I'll remember to stick around for a while this time. I was just reading through the old minor edit war on theTea page; it brings back fond memories. Pinto's5150 Talk 10:15, 21 October 2013 (UTC)
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The PocketToolX Brewzer's got a ton of functionality: it's a pry tool, a scraper, a flat head screwdriver, and so on. But all of those are secondary to what Brewzer's really all about.
I don't think I can put it better than PocketToolX does:
"The tip has been notched to allow you to tear open packages with ease or can be used as a beer shotgun tool."
Hence the name, I imagine. Remember, kids: aggressively chugging your way through a sticky situation can be every bit as effective as prying and scraping and screw... driving. And Brewzer's $19 price tag is a small amount to pay for the luxury of being capable of all four at any given moment. .[PocketToolX via Uncrate]


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DONETSK, Ukraine -- In the war of words between Washington and Moscow—a rhetorical clash that is descending to personal insults – both sides are determined to prove they are in the right in an information war waged at a Twitter-driven speed that would have made the heads of their Cold War predecessors spin.
But who is telling the truth? Below is The Daily Beast's checklist on the Geneva agreement that is the closest thing we have as a touchstone for gauging reality.
Diplomats drawn from Russia, Ukraine, the United States and the European Union hammered out the accord on April 17. They agreed to "initial concrete steps to de-escalate tensions" in Ukraine with all sides saying they would "refrain from any violence, intimidation or provocative actions." The joint communique called for "all illegal armed groups to be disarmed; all illegally seized buildings to be returned to their legitimate owners; all illegally occupied streets, squares and other public places in Ukrainian cities and towns to be vacated."
Under the accord amnesty would be given to surrendering protesters except for those found guilty of capital crimes. And the OSCE was given a lead role in implementing the accord.
So, who has kept to the letter and spirit of the accord more and who has been more egregious in shunning it?
Refrain from any indimidation
When forces dispatched by the Kiev government started an "anti-terror" operation to clear pro-Russian separatist checkpoints on the outskirts of the flashpoint city of Slovyansk, Russia announced a new round of intimidating military drills coming within a kilometer of the border near the Ukrainian town of Luhansk. More than 40,000 Russian troops are massed on the border in a highly aggressive posture, say U.S. and Ukrainian officials. Russian President Vladimir Putin, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Moscow's defense minister all warned darkly that unless the Kiev government's operation against armed separatists was halted, Moscow would intervene militarily.
On Thursday and Friday, Russian warplanes breached Ukrainian airspace on several occasions, according to U.S. officials.
Western powers have not launched any drills approaching the massive scale of the Russian endeavors. On April 22, the American frigate U.S.S. Taylor entered the Black Sea, as the Pentagon announced plans to dispatch 600 troops to Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia for military exercises. The French frigate Dupleix is expected in the Black Sea this weekend and on April 30 the French surveillance ship Dupuy de Lôme will leave for the region.
Russia's pre-Crimean-crisis Black Sea Fleet consisted of two cruisers, one destroyer, two frigates, nine corvettes, one diesel-powered submarine and six missile boats but it has been reinforced and supplemented by seized Ukrainian warships. The mismatch in superpower military strength in the region is eye opening. President Obama and other Western leaders describe the Russian posture as highly threatening and intimidating and have called for a Russian pullback.
Russia on Friday night did withdraw the most forward-leaning units from near Luhansk but the "drills" continue with considerable movement of armored formations.
Refrain from violence or provocative actions
Since the signing of the accord pro-Russian separatists in Slovyansk led by the thuggish former Soviet soldier Vyacheslav Ponomaryov have kidnapped more than two dozen people – including the town's mayor; American reporter Simon Ostrovsky, roughing him up and holding him captive for two days; two Maidan activists; and five members of an official military mission from the OSCE, along with five Ukrainian military personnel accompanying them. Ponomaryov claimed responsibility for a successful grenade attack Friday on a military helicopter, injuring the pilot, in a nearby town.
In Kramatorsk, the police chief was kidnapped and the deputy mayor is languishing in hospital reportedly after being beaten up by pro-Russian militants for refusing to go along with a takeover last weekend of the town's municipal building. There have been other reports of abductions across eastern Ukraine.
The most egregious separatist violence came early last week when the tortured bodies of Volodymyr Rybak, a local pro-Kiev politician, turned up along with the corpse of an unknown man. Ukrainian authorities blame Ponomaryov and Russian military intelligence officers they name as Ihor Strielkov and Ihor Bezlier for the murders. Ukrainian SBU officials say the Russians decided to kill the politician after he tried to raise the national flag on the municipal building in the town of Horlivska and he was transported to Slovyansk, they claim, where he was tortured and Ponomaryov was ordered to dump the body.
On Saturday Ponomaryov's people picked up three men they say are members of the Ukrainian intelligence service, the SBU. The agents reportedly were trying to investigate the Rybak murder. The three were presented to the press on Sunday morning blindfolded, manacled to chairs and showing signs of severe beatings.
Pro-Russian separatists point to an attack a week ago on a Slovyansk checkpoint that left three local militants dead, which they blame on ultranationalists from Pravy Sektor (Right Sector), the far-right group that's threatening to take matters into its own hands and clear the east of Moscow-backed pro-Russian militants if the government in Kiev fails to do so. That an attack took place is not in doubt – the dead were buried earlier this week and were in open caskets for the funeral service in the town's main church – but there are troubling discrepancies in the accounts offered.
One militant, a stocky, red-faced separatist who gave his name as Anton and who says he was at the checkpoint during the assault, claims an intense hour-long firefight took place, but less than 24 hours after the attack there were no spent cartridge casings to be found at the scene and no pock-marked trees or damaged foliage in the country lane where the firefight took place. And a video report on the clash by the Kremlin-controlled Life News TV station was uploaded to YouTube on April 19 when militants say the attack took place at 2am on April 20.
Further, Right Sector paraphernalia and crisp new $100 bills showcased by separatists and meant to prove ultranationalists carried out the attack remain oddly free of scorch marks – surprising considering they are meant to have been recovered from two burnt-out vehicles the assailants left behind as they fled.
All illegal armed groups to be disarmed
Moscow points to the supposed Right Sector checkpoint attack as an example of the failure of the government in Kiev to crack down on armed groups opposed to the separatists and Russian officials say Ukraine is gripped by anarchy. The picture painted of chaos in Ukraine is highly distorted: Ukrainians in towns and cities across the country are just keeping their heads down and getting on with daily life – trains and buses run on time and private sector businesses function, although they are struggling to cope with Ukraine's rapidly deteriorating economy.
But the government in Kiev has not followed through on curtailing the activities of the Right Sector and other shadowy ultranationalist groups since the death of Sashko Muzychkon, a notorious ultranationalist thug, who either was shot dead by Ukrainian interior ministry police or committed suicide to avoid falling into their hands.
Ukrainian authorities terminated a siege earlier this month of the country's parliament building by the Right Sector nationalists following Muzychkon's death but it has avoided other tough moves against the group and pulled back from banning it, something that was discussed at security meetings. And some Ukrainian officials condone the idea of violent ultranationalists joining a proposed national guard as a way of coaxing the movement to disband. That is a less than shrewd move as it has given Moscow and separatist propagandists the opportunity to claim that Kiev is establishing a fascist guard corps.
Nor have mainstream Kiev politicians leapt to denounce the midweek announcement by Right Sector leader Dmitry Yarosh that he is moving his headquarters from the capital to Dnepropetrovsk in southeast Ukraine to monitor developments in the east. "The purpose is to prevent the spread of the Kremlin infection," he told a press conference. He says he is forming a special squad of 800 fighters called "Donbas" to fight the separatists.
Much of the propaganda centering on the Right Sector is scaremongering – the group's activities and reach are highly exaggerated. "It is amazing how the Right Sector has been demonized so effectively and so quickly by Moscow," says a Ukrainian intelligence colonel. "It is testimony to the effectiveness of Russian propaganda and psy-ops," she says.
The Geneva accord does state that "illegal armed groups" should be disarmed and currently Pravy Sektor is not a proscribed group – Yarosh is registering it as a political party. So technically there is no breach of the accord by not seeking to dismantle the group, but Kiev's failure to pursue a crackdown on the Right Sector could be seen as breaking the spirit of the agreement and certainly would help to remove from Moscow and the separatists a stick with which they can beat the interim government.
Moscow is conveniently two-faced when it comes to disarming pro-Russian separatists. The Ukrainian "anti-terror" operation re-launched last week that has so far seen up to 10 militants killed has been denounced by Moscow as an attack by Kiev on the ethnic Russians by an illegitimate government. On Friday, Lavrov said Kiev's actions against Moscow-backed armed separatists in eastern Ukraine "are bloody crimes for which they will be held responsible."
The wording, though, of the Geneva agreement demands someone to act to disarm the groups (presumably when they refuse to lay down their weapons). The accord doesn't say (in either English or Russian) that the groups should be disarmed but that all illegal groups are "to be disarmed" (my emphasis).
That presupposes action and agency – and the Kiev government is the accepted legitimate government recognized by the UN. If the lawful authority isn't meant to be the disarming agent, who is?
All illegally seized buildings to be returned to their legitimate owners; all illegally occupied streets, squares and other public places in Ukrainian cities and towns to be vacated.
Moscow has gone on the attack on this issue. Lavrov draws equivalence between the tent-city in Kiev's Maidan and the continued operation of many government buildings in and around the capital's Independence Square with the occupation by separatists of 30 government buildings in at least ten cities across eastern Ukraine.
"Maidan remains in Kiev, and nobody intends to leave it," he said. "Instead of car tires, concrete blocks are placed there now, and nobody intends to disperse," the minister said. Ukrainian officials counter that the city authorities have given permission for the Maidan activists to remain and they have been given rental agreements -- therefore there is not an illegal occupation underway in Kiev.
Again, while technically there is no breach it would serve the Ukrainian government's better interests if the Maidan activists dispersed and vacated the square and Khreshchatyk Street.
Privately, mainstream politicians in the government and in the country's Rada (parliament) agree, and they have sought to coax activists to leave but they realize, they say, they have to restrain their frustration and work slowly to persuade the hardcore protesters who saw their comrades die in the fight to rid the country of Russia-friendly President Viktor Yanukovych to depart.
They counter Lavrov's obsession with the Maidan by pointing out that Russia, as far as they can tell, has not been working publicly or behind-the-scenes to persuade separatists to vacate government buildings they have seized in eastern Ukraine. To the contrary the Kremlin is fueling the unrest by infiltrating intelligence operatives and Special Forces into the region to coach, train, direct and fund them.
As Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., noted last week: the Kremlin has not publicly called on the separatists to vacate the buildings they now control.
The participants strongly condemned and rejected all expressions of extremism, racism and religious intolerance, including anti-Semitism
The Geneva accord called also on all sides to curtail rhetoric – "to stop crying fire in a crowded theater," as a European diplomat glosses it. But a fantasy narrative from Moscow hasn't ceased with claims of nationwide chaos and widespread violence against ethnic Russians.
Ambassador Power has described the non-stop 24-hour propaganda spewing from Russia and broadcast by Kremlin-controlled media outlets such as Russia Today and Life News as a "well-orchestrated professional campaign of incitement." Kerry on Friday called Russia Today's output "bullhorn propaganda," earning the odd reproof from Lavrov that he wasn't being polite.
Others have not seen huge human rights abuses claimed by Moscow – except, of course, the thugs of Slovyansk, when they are not roughing up Western journalists.
A human rights report by a U.N. monitoring mission dismissed the allegations that the ethnic Russian minority in the region has been under sustained attack. "Although there were some attacks against the ethnic Russian community, these were neither systematic nor widespread," it says.
Unsurprisingly, Russian diplomats dismissed the report as biased. Maybe Lavrov should take to heart his recent statement, "it is impossible to conceal the truth, and attempts to do so lead to nothing good."


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Mobile Photo Book 2016
Curated by Bimal Nepal
Mobile photography is reshaping the photography industry. I have founded 'Mobile Photo Society' MPS Facebook group last July and now we have over 2600 members worldwide.
Members post their best photos every day in this Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1716146555311145/ with #MobilePhoto hashtag.
I have selected the best photos from 2016 and published a digital photo book, Mobile Photo Society 2016 Year Book. Here is the PDF and you can see the digital book in this link: http://www.cliptomize.com/Clipbook/View/421459
The mobile photographers are doing fantastic in our group.
Please join MPS on Facebook.
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