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Police Use of Social Media Surveillance Software Is Escalating, and Activists Are in the Digital Crosshairs

It goes without saying that speaking out against police violence or government overreach shouldn’t land you in a surveillance database. But it can, and it does.

The ACLU of California has received thousands of pages of public records revealing that law enforcement agencies across the state are secretly acquiring social media spying software that can sweep activists into a web of digital surveillance.

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A document from our investigation refers to activist groups as "overt threats."

This set of public records requests is part of our ongoing work with community groups to shine a light on surveillance technologies and call for community control in decision-making around policing. Last year, we worked with local activists in Fresno to reveal that its police department was using a MediaSonar social media surveillance tool that boasted the capacity to identify so-called “threats to public safety” by monitoring hashtags such as #BlackLivesMatter, #DontShoot, #ImUnarmed, #PoliceBrutality, and #ItsTimeforChange.

But we had a hunch that Fresno was not an isolated case.

So this summer, we requested records from 63 police departments, sheriffs, and district attorneys across California. And what we learned from the documents was alarming.

Of the responses we’ve received, 40% of the agencies (20 in total) have acquired social networking surveillance tools — many of them in the last year.

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We found no evidence in the documents of any public notice, debate, community input, or lawmaker vote about use of this invasive surveillance.

And no agency produced a use policy that would limit how the tools were used and help protect civil rights and civil liberties.

The utter lack of transparency, accountability, and oversight is particularly troubling because social media surveillance software used by California law enforcement — tools like MediaSonar, X1 Social Discovery, and Geofeedia — are powerful. And our records from Fresno and several other communities reveal that some have been marketed in ways to target protesters.

Our records show that Geofeedia’s marketing materials, for instance, refer to unions and activist groups as “overt threats,” and suggest the product can be used in ways that target activists of color. At least 13 California law enforcement agencies have used or acquired Geofeedia.

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This email was sent by Geofeedia to the San Diego Sheriff

In one exchange with law enforcement, a company representative suggested to San Jose Police that they should use the product to surveil the “Ferguson situation,” even though the city is roughly 2,000 miles from Ferguson, Missouri. San Jose Police did in fact use Geofeedia software to monitor South Asian, Muslim, and Sikh protesters only a few days after acquiring it.

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An email to the San Diego Sheriff touts a “collection” of social media content curated by Geofeedia following the non-indictment of Darren Wilson.

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And yet another promotional email invites the Los Angeles District Attorney to learn how Baltimore used the software to monitor and “stay one step ahead of the rioters” after the police killing of Freddie Gray.

Law enforcement should not be using tools that treat protesters like enemies.

The racist implications of social media surveillance technology are not surprising. We know that when law enforcement gets to conceal the use of surveillance technology, they also get to conceal its misuse. Discriminatory policing that targets communities of color is unacceptable — and secretive, sophisticated surveillance technologies supersize the impact of racial profiling and abuse.

The good news is that we’ve seen that when surveillance is forced into the light, communities have the power to call out racist policing practices and stop discriminatory surveillance in its tracks.

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Activists take to the streets in Fresno at a Black Lives Matter rally in 2015

Remember Fresno? Armed with proof of Fresno’s social media surveillance experiment, a diverse coalition of local activists known as Faith in the Valley successfully mobilized and organized to pressure the police to roll back their social media surveillance program. The community is now pushing to pass a surveillance technology ordinance to make sure all surveillance technologies are publicly debated.

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A mobilization against Oakland’s planned Domain Awareness Center

In Oakland, community members organized against plans to build an expansive Domain Awareness Center that would have collected and stored hundreds of terabytes of data on Oakland residents. Now Oakland has a Privacy Commission that advises the City Council on surveillance decisions and is currently drafting a surveillance technology ordinance.

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The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a surveillance technology ordinance in 2016

And in Santa Clara County, right in the heart of Silicon Valley, a diverse coalition successfully organized against plans to buy a Stingray cell phone tracker and then worked to enact a comprehensive surveillance technology ordinance that requires transparency, accountability, and oversight for all surveillance technologies. In this spirit, a powerful coalition of national organizations is launching a multi-city legislative initiative, Community Control Over Police Surveillance (CCOPS), to introduce more local laws to bring transparency and community control to the acquisition and use of local police surveillance technologies.

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Community Control Over Police Surveillance

In this spirit, a powerful coalition of national organizations is launching a multi-city legislative initiative, Community Control Over Police Surveillance (CCOPS), to introduce more local laws to bring transparency and community control to the acquisition and use of local police surveillance technologies.

Here in California, community members are working in Palo Alto, Fresno, Oakland, Berkeley, Santa Rosa, and Santa Cruz to ensure that similar laws are introduced in their cities.

Whether it’s social networking surveillance, stingrays, or something else we haven’t heard of yet — it’s time to push secret surveillance into the light.

We have the power to stop discriminatory surveillance and put control where it belongs — in the hands of the community.

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Cancer cells are smart.  Very smart.  They can evade the immune system using several different methods that shield them from detection.  Thanks to the brilliance of scientists such as Jeff Bluestone, Jim Allison and Carl June, the rapidly flourishing field of cancer immunotherapy is providing an avenue for the immune system to overcome cancer's subversion.  Revising features of immune cells enables the immune system to recognize cancer cells for what they are – and destroy them.

Carl H. June, MD, is a professor of immunology at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.  He developed what is known as Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell therapy (CAR-T) which is an engineered version of a patient's T-cells to recognize and kill cancer.  In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, Dr. June describes how his research focused on infectious diseases early in his career – specifically the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) - which ultimately inspired CAR-T therapy some 15 years ago.

HIV is a type of retrovirus, which means that it replicates in a specific manner and it targets human T lymphocytes, also known as T-helper cells (aka CD-4 cells) – a component of our acquired immunity.  If you think of infection as a battle, then consider T-cells as the sword and B-cells as the shield, in the war against bacteria and viruses.  When HIV infects CD-4 cells, it replicates by integrating its DNA into the DNA of host cells utilizing its own cut-and-paste tools to do so – modifying its host genome. Gene editing techniques employ the same principle wherein scientists use viruses, like retroviruses, as vectors to introduce, edit, and delete genes within cellular genomes.  (To learn more about gene editing click here

Dr. June's research focused on bullet-proofing the DNA of T-cells so that HIV would be prevented from replicating.  In the same fashion, CAR-T cells are created by using viruses to combine the sword and shield function of immune cells as one feature on T-cells – a chimera.  Once these chimeric T-cells recognize and destroy cancer cells, they then proliferate and become part of the immune system's long-term memory – acting as a surveillance system.

Just last month, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) unanimously recommended approval of CAR-T therapy for the treatment of pediatric and young adult B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemias.  Many studies show impressive results with complete or near-complete remission.  Advances in cancer immunotherapy have generated unprecedented levels of excitement from both the scientific and the tech sector.  Scientists, like Jim Allison, an immunologist from the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, has earned himself legendary titles such as "rock star" and "warrior." Speakers in the field are presenting their findings to a sold-out house.

At its core, the "mirepoix" of cancer treatment is comprised of – chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery. Immunotherapy is the fourth pillar of what is no longer the "holy trinity" of cancer treatment.  The novelty of this therapy, unlike the rest, is its precision and efficiency.  Traditional treatments are non-discriminant.  My go-to analogy is utilizing snipers in a tactical mission instead of dropping a bomb and annihilating an entire population and chalking it up to collateral damage.  A bit violent but that's why it's called a "war on cancer."  CAR-T therapy is not without serious side-effects in some, but overall, it inspires real hope that we are getting closer to a cure.


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Russia or Russian Federation is a country with great history, home of famous scientists and land of natural beauty.  Moscow is the capital of Russia and Vladimir Putin is the President of Russia ( Russian Federation).
Russia (was formerly known as USSR United State of Soviet Republic) covers an area of 17 075 500 km2 which makes Russia the largest country in the world, followed by Canada, China and USA. Russia occupies most of eastern Europe and northern Asia. It stretches from the Baltic Sea in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east, and from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Black Sea and the Caucasus in the south. It’s bordered by Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China and North Korea. Russia’s borders stretch for a total of 58,562 km (with 14,253 km bordering other states and 44,309 km bordering the sea).

Little history

Russia was formed in 882 as a kingdom of selective cities of western Russia including Kiev. That time Kiev was the center of a trade route between Scandinavia and Constantinople, and Kievan Rus. In 989 Vladimir I was the ruler of the kingdom who extended to as far south as the Black Sea, the Caucasus Mountains, and the lower reaches of the Volga River. During 1237-1613 Russia was under the influence of Mongol. In 1237 Batu Khan, a grandson of Jenghiz Khan invaded into Kievan Rus. Over the next three years, the Mongols destroyed all of the major cities of Kievan Rus’ with the exceptions of Novgorod and Pskov. To regain its honor and land in 1480 Grand Duke Ivan III gathered its strength within in Moscow, that time he was strong enough to faceoff with Mongols but it took him almost half of the century to conquer Mongols and to Russia became a unified state. That time,  Ivan IV grandson of Grand Duke Ivan III. In 1547, he adopted the title of Tsar. In 1552 he conquered Kazan and Astrakhan in 1556. In 1613 Michael Romanov was elected as Tsar. The Romanov dynasty to ruled Russia for 304 years until the Russian Revolution brought an end to the Tsarist state. Since of Ivan IV, the Russian Tsars had followed a fairly consistent policy of drawing more political power away from the nobility and into their own hands.
By the 19th century, Russia had expanded its territory and its power considerably. Its borders extended to Afghanistan and China, and it had acquired extensive territory on the Pacific coast. The foundation of the port cities of Vladivostok and Port Arthur there had opened up profitable avenues for commerce, and the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway to link the European Russia with its new eastern territories. In 1894 Nicholas II acceded to the throne. In January of 1905, the Japanese attacked, and Russia experienced a series of defeats that dissolved the tenuous support held by Nicholas. Nicholas was forced to grant concessions to the reformers, including most notably a constitution and a parliament, or Duma. The power of the reform movement was founded on a new and powerful force that entered Russian politics. The industrialization of the major western cities and the development of the Batu oil fields had brought together large concentrations of Russian workers, and they soon began to organize into local political councils or Soviets. It was in large part the power of the Soviets, united under the Social Democratic party, that had forced Nicholas to accept reforms in 1905. In 1912, the Social Democrats split into two camps–the radical Bolsheviks and the comparatively moderate Menshiviks. by 1920 the Bolsheviks were the of Soviet Russia.

The first few years of Soviet rule were marked by an extraordinary outburst of social and cultural change. Although the Bolsheviks had maintained complete control of the economy during the civil war by the end of the 1930s, the Soviet Union had become a country in which life was more strictly regulated than ever before. With the outbreak of the Second World War, the Soviet Union found itself unprepared for the conflict. In June 1941 the German army invaded into  Soviet Russia by seizing most of the Soviet territory in the west, surrounded St. Petersburg and within a few hundred miles of Moscow. In 1942 the Germans launched a new invasion against the southern front in an attempt to gain control of the rail center of Stalingrad on the Volga and the vital Caucasus oil fields. Despite an overwhelming disadvantage in numbers and inferior weaponry, the Russian army succeeded in holding out against the enormous German army. In November, a relieving force managed to encircle the attackers and compel the surrender of the entire force, marking a decisive turning point in the war. From that point onward, the Russian army remained on the attack. By 1944 they had driven the Germans back to Poland, and on May 2, 1945, wall of Berlin was fallen.
In 1990 Russian Republic ended the Soviet era and declared its independence.

Most of the area of Russia is located in the temperate belt. The Arctic territories are located in the Arctic and sub-Arctic belts, but at the same time, a small section of the Caucasus Black Sea coast is located in the sub-tropical belt. Russia has all the climatic zones except tropical: tundra, forest-tundra, forests, forests-steppes, and semi-deserts.
The climate is mostly continental. Most of the country has a so-called harsh continental climate characterized by a big difference between summer and winter temperatures (it gets indeed very cold in Siberia during winter, but it is also very hot in the summer). Average January temperatures are from 0 to -5 degrees in western Russia, but sometimes -40 degrees in other parts. The average July temperatures are from 1 to 25 degrees.
The climate induces an unbalance between different parts of Russian area, so many large parts of the country have almost no population and development. Russia has only 8 % of arable land.

The majority of rivers are located in the Arctic Ocean basin (Ob, Irtysh, Yenisei, and Lena). The Amur, Anadyr, Penzhina and some other rivers are located in the Pacific Ocean basin and Don, Kuban, and Neva flow into the seas bordering the Atlantic Ocean. Russia’s main river, the Volga, flows to the Caspian Sea. Generally, Russia has about 3 million km of rivers.
There are many lakes in Russia, fresh- or salt-water. The largest lakes are Caspian, Baikal, Ladoga, Onega, and Tamir. Lake Baikal is the largest fresh-water lake in the world, it has a maximum depth of 1620 m.
Forest cover about 40 % of the entire Russian territory. The largest forests are in the Siberian taiga, at the eastern part of country and northern part of European territory. The most frequent forest is the coniferous forest. There are also some mixed forest in mid-Russian regions.

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Russia has many natural resources including major deposits of oil, coal, natural gas, many strategic minerals, diamonds, and timber. The largest oil-and-gas deposits can be found in Western and Eastern Siberia and on Sakhalin island. The list of Russian mineral deposits includes gold, silver, platinum, cobalt, antimony, zinc, mercury, and many others. Russia abounds in mineral resources whose total potential value (in world prices) is estimated at an impressive $30 trillion.

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Russia has the world’s fifth largest population (148,8 million people) after China, India, the United States, and Indonesia. Russia is a multiethnic society. The largest ethnic groups include Russians (81.5%), Tatars (3.8%), Ukrainians (3%), Chuvash (1.2%), Bashkir (0.9%), Byelorussians (0.8%), Moldavians (0.7%), etc. Over 80 % of the population name Russian – the official language of the country – as their native. Other languages are used in ethnic minority regions. Russia has equal religious diversity: with the main religions being Russian Orthodox Christianity and Muslim overall over 150 confessions could be found across the country.
All in all, 73 percent of Russian citizens live in urban areas.
The Russian Federation has 1067 major cities, with 13 of them inhabited by one million and more people each. The largest cities are Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, and Yekaterinburg. Administratively, the Russian Federation is divided into 21 republics, 6 regions (federal territories), 2 federal cities, 49 regions, 1 autonomous region, and 10 autonomous areas.

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How parties’ political agenda played out on digital media in 2019

The year 2019 saw a big high when it came to political advertising, especially during the time of the General Elections and various State Assembly Elections. Traditional media was used extensively during this time, with Radio witnessing a 17 per cent increase in ad insertions, while TV recorded an 8 per cent increase. As per various reports, political parties also spent over Rs 400 crore on outdoor advertising during this time.

Digital platforms are also increasingly featuring in political parties’ media plans. The 2019 Lok Sabha elections as well as Assembly Elections saw some of the best ads, both in terms of creatives and investment done by political parties. Here are some campaigns from the 2019 General and Assembly Elections:

Leveraging the digital age

Social media platform TikTok, which made quite a splash in 2019, also saw politics-led initiatives prevailing on the platform. While the Government did warn TikTok about its political involvement, following which the platform banned political ads, political agenda still prevailed as individual candidates continued to put up their videos on TikTok.

Apart from banking on videos uploaded on digital platforms, the year saw political parties leveraging hashtag trends on Twitter in a big way to push forward their agenda. For instance, one would recall the #ChowkidaarChorHai hashtag that spread like wildfire during the year as well as BJP’s retort – #MaiBhiChowkidaar, which saw almost all BJP members featuring ‘Main Bhi Chowkidar’ as their status on Twitter.

While the Congress led many hashtags to take on their political rivals, BJP used digital platforms to promote the Government’s agenda.

We also saw politicians of all hues use social media to not only promote their respective parties’ political agenda, but also share their personal views. Here are a few examples:

Beyond simple advertising

Such activities were not exclusive to the election times but were a year round phenomenon. For example, the introduction of the contentious NRC and CAA, which have caused strong protests across the country, saw social media users divided into two separate and very vocal camps opposing and supporting these two BJP-led measures. Hashtags like #IndiaAgainstNRC and #IndiaSupportsNRC were used to fight out a digital battle on Twitter. Political parties and members have been using this platform extensively to promote ‘What’s right’ for the country.

The year 2019 also saw the abolishing of Article 370, and bifurcation of Jammu & Kashmir into two Union Territories of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh. While this initiative was promoted aggressively by the government, there was a sharp divide on social media with people either hailing this move or vehemently opposing it. Other political agendas like the Ram Mandir verdict, too, saw similar patterns of promotions and reactions by people on social media. Here are a few examples:

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We look at database back ends for monitoring, alerting, and trending analysis in the Grafana visualization tool.

Admins are rumored to feel more at ease working with text-based terminals than with graphical tools, and the command line often is better suited to classic admin tasks than a GUI because it allows scripting and direct input. For other admin tasks, though, this assessment is typically inverted: When it comes to processing measurement data and statistics, visual tools are clearly superior. In particular, data for monitoring, alerting, and trending (MAT) that comes from several sources requires visualization for meaningful analysis.

Virtually every large environment, whether a container platform or a public cloud environment, is strongly dependent on MAT. Only MAT provides reliable clues on the health and usage of systems that let you know when you need to add new hardware because your platform is currently fully utilized. Grafana [1] targets admins who need MAT analysis.

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Grafana cooperates with various back ends and can pull the data you want to display from many sources. Its developers refer to this configuration as data-driven architecture. In place of classic event monitoring, in which monitoring is a spin-off of the need to collect various metrics continuously, Grafana uses a time-series-based principle. For example, if you operate a multinode cluster for MySQL based on Galera, you will want the load on all database back ends to be equally high. If system load on one of the back ends suddenly drops off, it is a certain indicator that something is wrong.

Unlike typical incident monitoring in the style of Nagios, Grafana bases its conclusions on performance data. Although Grafana is not primarily about monitoring, it does help you prepare the corresponding time series from monitoring systems in an easily interpretable way. In this article, I first highlight the key features of Grafana and then present the most important back ends from which it can draw its information.

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To understand the motivation behind Grafana, you need to take a small excursion into the world of monitoring. A paradigm change has taken place in the past few years that, in turn, is closely linked to cloud computing. Monitoring a cloud is different from monitoring conventional IT platforms, which to a certain degree are static and, after setting up the environment, change only in the details. The standard tools for monitoring are well known to experienced admins: Nagios, Icinga, Check_MK, and various other solutions of same design.

Monitoring in conventional environments relies on events. If a service stops running on a server, the monitoring system notices and raises an alert. Trending plays a minor role in this classic scenario, because the workload of such a setup will tend to grow evenly, giving you sufficient time to purchase new hardware. That said, even conventional monitoring solutions cannot completely do without trending. For example, PNP4Nagios [2] uses checks to collect performance data and then displays the data in a graphical format directly in the Nagios web interface.

This arrangement no longer works for a public cloud, because it is not predictable when the platform will need to scale horizontally by adding new servers. For example, a new customer with a huge workload could easily set up an account in a typical public cloud and start generating a massive load.

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For newer types of platforms, trending therefore plays a bigger role than for its conventional predecessors. PNP4Nagios or comparable solutions look more like stop-gaps in these cases. They normally store their measurement data in the background in a normal database, usually MySQL, which is perfectly suited for classic, event-based monitoring, in which incidents become separate entries in a table. Because you are interested in the individual events in this scenario and the data is stored exactly that way in MySQL, you will have no problem retrieving or processing the data.

Trending changes the rules of the game because it does not focus on events, but on the evolution of performance data over time. In the case of trending, you no longer want to know whether or not a specific service was working at a given time; instead, you are interested in the central health values of the systems (e.g., CPU load and RAM usage). If their values remain high over a period of time, new hardware will be required for load balancing.

However, if you want to generate this information from individual events stored in a MySQL database, it would require many individual database queries, and thus a correspondingly high load. Also, it takes quite a while for MySQL or a similar database to provide answers to these queries.

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Leading figures from Mayo expat communities all over the world are set to descend on the old county for a major Mayo convention in May – and the official opening will be performed by President of Ireland, Mary McAleese.

Power by Land and Sea – a Future for our People is the theme of the world Mayo convention which will attract more than 100 overseas delegates from Mayo associations worldwide. The convention will take place in Westport from May 27 to 29. The county has long had an emigration tradition, and the worldwide convention reflects a desire by expats to give something back to their native county. “This is our 11th worldwide convention, and the previous conventions have always had a theme of enterprise and employment. Given Ireland’s economic difficulties in recent times, it is appropriate that this year’s convention should adopt a similar theme,” said Brendan Duffy of the Mayo Association Dublin.

The convention will feature workshops on indigenous and multinational enterprise in Mayo, and will explore the prospects for energy creation being the key to the county’s future. President McAleese will perform the official opening on Saturday morning, and all workshop sessions on that day are open to members of the public.

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EDMONTON - Alberta is in the midst of an historic election campaign - and the province's largest union organization is encouraging its members to take full advantage of the moment.

"For the first time in more than 30 years, a Conservative victory is not a foregone conclusion," says Alberta Federation of Labour president Gil McGowan.

"It's at times like these that citizens can really flex their democratic muscles - and demand more from politicians. That's exactly what we're encouraging our members to do."

As part of the AFL's "Show Us the Plan" campaign, unions affiliated to the Federation will mail or hand deliver leaflets to between 120,000 and 130,000 union households across the province.

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"This election is pivotal for the future of our province," says McGowan. "We want our members to understand the importance of the issues and the important roll they have as voters in setting the future direction for our province."

The campaign's central leaflet reminds voters of the track records of both the Klein and Stelmach governments and concludes that political change is healthy and long overdue in Alberta.

"Albertans may look back on this election as the time they started blazing a new path for the 21st century," says McGowan. "We want to encourage our members to seize this moment and help lead the way toward a new and better Alberta."

The Show Us the Plan campaign is separate from - but complementary to - the Albertans for Change campaign that the AFL is co-sponsoring with the Alberta Building Trades Council and the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees.

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Governor of Bauchi State, Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed, has appointed Balaraba Ibrahim as his Special Assistant on Women Affairs (Unmarried).

Mohammed Sabi’u Baba, Secretary to the State Government, made this known in a letter to Ibrahim dated August 4, 2020.

The letter reads, “I am pleased to convey the approval of His Excellency, Senator Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed CON, the Executive Governor of Bauchi State, for your appointment as Special Assistant Woman Affairs (Unmarried). The appointment is based on your knowledge, experience and personal qualities of handwork, honesty and absolute loyalty.

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Surprisingly, this is not the first time that Nigerian state governors would be making unusual appointments – the latest merely adds to the list after former governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, in December 2017 appointed his biological sister, Mrs Ogechi Ololo, as Commissioner for Happiness and Couples’ Fulfillment.

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Phonological Awareness

Phonemic awareness means understanding that speech is made up of individual sounds – phonemes – arranged in a particular sequence. When we pronounce and fluidly blend together the phonemes making up a word, we say a meaningful word. For example, when articulated smoothly and in the proper sequence, the phonemes /k/ – /a/ – /t/ form the word “cat.” Going from individual phonemes to an intelligible word is called phonemic blending.

Phonemic awareness is NOT phonics. Phonics refers to the sounds that letters represent and how these sounds and letters combine to form words. Phonemic awareness

is strictly oral: knowing how to manipulate the sounds in spoken words. Phonemic awareness requires focusing on the sounds of speech, not the meaning. This is surprisingly difficult, because people tend to focus on meaning. Developing phonemic awareness requires attention to meaningless sounds making up spoken words. We are naturally drawn to the meaning of the word “cat” and not to the sounds that mike it up. Ask a young child what sounds he hears in “cat,” and he might look at you puzzled. Or he might say, “meow.”


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Network-attached storage is gaining higher grounds with the expansion of semiconductor industry backing it properly. Market Research Future suggests that the global network-attached storage market could achieve 20.08% growth rate during the forecast period of 2018 to 2023. It is ongoing developments going on in data storage methods are the major factors fueling the growth of global network-attached storage market.

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A rapid rise in the volume of data as well as advancements in technology has motivated the market for network-attached storage growth at substantial rate. The network-attached storage uses the data storage devices that are usually connected to a network using USB or Ethernet ports. These devices allow the user to access data at the file level and ensures secure management of data. Such ability of the network-attached storage is catering outstandingly to the market’s growth and ensures to expand during the forecast period.

Other factors boosting the market to expand its size are growing demand for secured data storage devices for various applications in different end-user industry. The increasing popularity of these devices is also to fuel the network-attached storage demand especially for a residential and small office or home office (SOHO) environments.

Apart from this, the global market for network-attached storage also seeks opportunities from the rising BYOD trend which has spread across the world in many organizations, which is yet another factor letting the market to score well in its development period. On the flip side, the factor of security issues associated with data stored at remote locations is posing as a hindrance to the growth of the market during the forecast period.

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The global network-attached storage (NAS) market is analyzed regionally among North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the rest of the world.

Among these, North America is leading Network-Attached Storage (NAS) Market owing to the rise in the need for next-generation storage devices to competently extract and store the data. Also, the advent of start-ups which require stable and highly efficient storage solutions for their work operations is a significant factor fueling the growth of NAS market in this region.

Asia-Pacific region was also the second-largest market in 2017 and is now projected to record the highest CAGR of 22.9%. It is the higher adoption of SSD drives and NAS for increased security and protection of data against any breach that drives the NAS market in this region.

In terms of product: High-end/enterprise NAS, midmarket NAS, and low-end/desktop NAS are the segments. Wherein, the high-end/enterprise NAS segment had the largest market share in 2017, in parallel to the midmarket NAS segment, which is also likely to register the highest CAGR during the forecast period.

In terms of storage solution: Scale-up NAS and scale-out NAS. Out of which, the scale-out architecture comes out to be beneficial in several ways by offering large-capacity without any limitation, meets the performance demands of significant workloads, simplifies deployment and management of resources thereby enhancing the users’ productivity.

In terms of organization size: SMEs and large enterprises are the segments. According to the analysis, the SMEs are likely to lead the NAS market, since NAS enables SMEs to create their storage solution which streamlines costs of data management and optimizes recurring operational.

In terms of deployment: Cloud, on-premise, and hybrid are the segments, among which, the on-premise segment has the largest market share in 2017, which is now likely to register the highest CAGR during the forecast period 2018–2023.

In terms of vertical: BFSI, retail, media & entertainment, government, IT & telecommunication, healthcare, manufacturing, energy & utilities and, others are the segments. Among these, the IT & telecommunication segment led the global NAS market after BFSI and retail verticals.

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The well-known players in the global Network-Attached Storage (NAS) market are listed as Buffalo Americas Inc. (Japan), HPE (US), IBM Corporation (US), Dell EMC (US), Netapp Inc. (US), Seagate Technology Public Limited Company (Ireland), Cisco Systems Inc. (US), Hitachi Vantara Corporation (US), Netgear Inc. (US), QNAP Systems Inc. (Taiwan), Synology Inc. (Taiwan), Western Digital Corp. (US), and Space Monkey (US).

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Ahmednagar Tourism

Ahmednagar tourism will take you into intimate journey of rich Indian medieval history and will also submerge you into deep spiritual and religious journey. It is indeed the unique combination of history and spirituality that Ahmednagar brings forth which makes it such a distinct tourist destination. Although today Ahmednagar is far from being a sought after tourist destination, but potential for developing a booming tourism industry in the city is immense. And the dream to realize this potential is actually receiving immense boost as the city is taking much needed stride towards economic development.

Irrespective of whether or not Ahmednagar does realizes its tourism potential, we bring to you a low down on all the landmark places of Ahmednagar and also services/facilities that tourists get to enjoy in Ahmednagar city.

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As mentioned earlier Ahmednagar shares a very deep tryst with Indian history and hence is home to some of the must see historical monuments. Here is a break down on all the historical monuments of Ahmednagar that today invariably have  become hottest tourist destinations of the city.
  • Ahmednagar Fort: Unarguably the main tourist destination of the city. Read more
  • Chand Bibi Tomb: More than this historical monument, the immense lush greenery surrounding it is the main attraction here. Read more
  • Kot Bagh Nizam: One of the evergreen symbols of erstwhile glorious Nizam Shahi Empire.
  • Damadi Masjid: Located very near to Ahmednagar fort, this 16th century mosque is a must see for all the avid lovers of architecture. Read more
  • Faria Bagh Palace: This humongous palace was constructed during the Nizam Shahi Empire. Today it stands in a very ruined condition, but nonetheless is still worth visiting.
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Famous Religious Destinations

Today Ahmednagar is one of the spiritual centers of Maharashtra state. Since it is home to and also shares immense proximity with some of the most sought after religious destinations of the country. Below is a complete list.

  • Vishal Ganpati: Located at the very heart of Ahmednagar, this Lord Ganesha temple is the most celebrated religious destination of the city. Know more
  • Samadhi of Meher Baba: Located around 9 kilometres in the south of Ahmednagar city, Samadhi of Meher Baba is today one of the sought after religious destination of our country.
  • Shani Temple: This is one of the very unique temples that you’ll ever visit. As evident from the name itself, this unique temple is dedicated to God Shani. It is located 34 kms away from Ahmednagar and is again one of the most visited temples of India.
  • Shirdi Sai Baba Temple: This immensely famous temple surely doesn’t need any introduction. It is already amongst the most popular temples of India. It is located around 80 kms away from Ahmednagar city. Know more

Other Popular Tourist Destinations

Besides being home to important historical monuments and many sacred religious destinations, Ahmednagar city also offers other interesting tourist destinations. This includes ‘Tank Museum’ which is one of its kinds in entire Asia and is surely a must visit. Another interesting tourist destination is the famous weekend gateway destination ‘Mula Dam’, located at the outskirts of Ahmednagar city.

Accommodation and Transport Services

Ahmednagar city doesn’t have any luxury 5 Star Hotels, but there are decent numbers of luxury 3 star and 2 star hotels. As for the lodges and guest houses, there is no dearth of them in Ahmednagar city. They are located at all the important locations of the city and serve guests and tourists round the year.
As for transport services, below pointers explain everything about Ahmednagar’s transport services.

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  • Auto rickshaws are by far the most popular and also the most efficient local transport service in Ahmednagar city. The biggest rickshaw stand is located just outside Ahmednagar railway station. Please note that auto rickshaws in Ahmednagar don’t charge on the basis of meter. The fare is already decided depending on which location commuters want to travel. Greater the travel distance, obviously higher is the fare.
  • Ahmednagar does have a local bus service, namely AMT Bus service. Although the bus service isn’t as robust as Mumbai’s Best buses or Delhi’s DTC buses. As of today, there are only 23 AMT buses plying daily on Ahmednagar roads that carry nearly 20,000 commuters daily. AMT buses are draped in complete white color with the name ‘Purple’ written on it.
  • Ahmednagar doesn’t have an airport and nor does it have a local train service. The nearest airport is Chatrapati Shivaji Airport in Mumbai, located around 300 kms away from Ahmednagar.
  • Visiting tourists can also avail rental cars from hordes of private tourist agencies in Ahmednagar.

Best Time to Visit Ahmednagar

The winter season, generally from October to Feb, is by far the best season to visit Ahmednagar. The average temperature during this season hovers around 20 degree Celsius. Avoid visiting during Summer season. This is because Ahmednagar comes under dry zone and hence temperature during Summer season is tad unbearable. Ahmednagar being under dry zone also implies that it receives very reasonable shower/rain during Monsoon season and hence visiting the city during Monsoon season isn’t really a bad idea.

Emergency numbers for tourists

Here are some emergency numbers of police administration and ambulance service in case if you as a tourist face any law and order or medical emergency situation in Ahmednagar:

  • Local Crime Branch: 0241-2416111.
  • Police Head Quarters: 0241-2416114.
  • Control Room: (0241) 2416132/2416138/2416100.
  • Kotwali Police Station: (0241) 2416117.
  • Tophkhana Police Station (0241) 2416118.
  • Bhingar Police Station (0241) 2416121.

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  • Nobel Ambulance - Savedi Road area: 9423928700.
  • Firodiya Trust: (0241) 2355120.
  • Shaneshwar Trust: (0241) 2326003

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It's unusual for me to take to these pages in the first person, but there is something special about Enid that requires it. Not only has she spent her life as a tireless activist, but she is also one of the most selfless individuals you could possibly meet – never simply devoted to the abstract notion of a cause, but rather to improving and helping the lives of those who are at the heart of it.

"No one spent more energy in Israel to help those former refuseniks than Enid." – Natan Sharansky.

She also is in a serious health crisis. About a year ago, she was diagnosed with kidney failure.  She now goes to long dialysis sessions three times a week. Her name is on the waiting list for a kidney donation, but at this rate that will take eight years. Enid is 68, and the doctors tell her that is just too long to wait. She needs a kidney from a donor now.

I first walked into Enid's office in Jerusalem in the spring of 2005. I handed over a list of a few hundred names of former refuseniks – Jews who had applied to leave the Soviet Union and were refused – with whom I was hoping to speak. To my surprise, a day later, Enid gave me phone numbers for all of them. She seemed to intimately know everybody in this community.

And not just that. As I was talking with her, in ambled Yuli Kosharovsky, a man who had lived in refusal for nearly two decades in the Soviet Union and had run a risky network of underground Hebrew language learning classes. He now looked like a disheveled professor, though minus the Trotskyite goatee he was wearing in a photo plastered onto an old protest poster leaning against one wall of her office. The two teased each other mercilessly. He called Enid an "American barbarian" when she served lunch on paper plates, and she shot back that he was a "male chauvinist." It was clear from the banter that they had known each other a long time. When I asked them when they first met, they answered in unison: 1973.

That was the year Enid, a social worker, and her husband, Stuart, both in their early 30’s and from Philadelphia, made their first visit to the Soviet Union, an eight-day trip to Moscow and Leningrad. It changed their lives. They met Soviet Jews who had been denied exit visas and were suffering all kinds of deprivation – losing their jobs, having their children thrown out of universities, their telephones cut off. Enid immediately identified with them. She felt as if she were seeing an alternate vision of how her own life would have turned out if her grandparents hadn't left Russia. And she decided that she had to devote herself to helping these new friends.

Back in Philadelphia, she became involved with the local Soviet Jewry organizations and returned to the Soviet Union two more times in the 1970’s to visit Yuli and others. One of her contacts was Anatoly Shcharansky (now Natan Sharansky), the charismatic, young spokesman of the activists. After a trip in 1976, she brought out a tape of Shcharansky rambling sweetly to his wife, Avital, then far away from him in Israel. On it, he says, "Enid asks how to help us. Yes, many people love us."

Enid felt she could no longer fight for others who were being denied the right to live in Israel while not taking the step herself.

In 1977, Enid herself made aliyah with her family. She felt she could no longer fight for others who were being denied the right to live in Israel while not taking the step herself. She never stopped working for Soviet Jews though, organizing protests, writing a column for the Jerusalem Post and keeping track of all the details of the activists' lives – who was being detained, who was sick, who needed financial help. Yuli said there were years when they spoke on the phone every other day.

"Because of people like Enid, we could stand all the suffering," said Yuli. "If these two million came out to freedom and if several thousand didn't die, it's thanks to people like Enid. She was completely devoted, crazy to the point where no logic, no family could stop her from helping us. It was almost an obsession."

What is most remarkable, though, about Enid is that even after Soviet Jews began arriving in Israel in the early 1990s – including Yuli, whom she greeted at the airport – she refused to stop her advocacy. So many activists decided that the story was over when the Soviet Union ceased to exist. But hundreds of thousands of Jews needed to be absorbed and – what struck Enid so distinctly – often those refuseniks who were the heroes of the movement needed the most help. After years of struggle, they had lost their professions and many found themselves destitute, unable to subsist on the pensions provided them by the state.

She started a fund, Emergency Aid for Refuseniks, and has worked tirelessly, while earning no income herself, keeping track of those former activists who need some kind of welfare and making sure they get it.

According to her old friend, Sharansky, "No one spent more energy in Israel to help those former refuseniks than Enid."

Another fan of Enid's, the historian Sir Martin Gilbert, told me: "She is the most selfless person I know. Not once in the quarter-century that we have worked together has she asked for anything for herself." He also said that, "her efforts on behalf of those former Soviet Jews now in Israel who have fallen on hard times was, and remains, outstanding."

Filmmaker Laura Bialis, who made a documentary about the movement called "Refusenik," was also helped enormously by Enid, whom Bialis has come to think of as one of her closest friends. She marveled at the endless stream of people who showed up at Enid's bedside after her first serious battle last April with kidney failure.

"Every time I came to visit her, there were at least another three to five friends by her bedside," Bialis wrote in her own appeal for Enid. "Every time I called to check in – different people were there. I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised.  She has touched so many lives - hundreds of people must have come to visit, and some of them came day after day. We were all shocked and saddened that our pillar of support, this amazing, unstoppable force of nature, was in such a serious condition."

Enid remains a modest woman, now a grandmother of six, who continues to work even through her illness.  But she badly needs a kidney transplant. And it would seem to me – someone who has chronicled some of the great work she has done in her life and been touched personally by her incredible generosity – that if anyone deserved the help of others, it should be her.

If you have information on potential kidney donors or would like to inquire about helping Enid Wurtman, please contact enid@wurtman.com

This article originally appeared in The Forward.

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What is the effect of alcohol on surgery and recovery? Knee replacement surgery was first performed in 1968. Today, over 600,000 knee replacements are occur each year in the U.S.

And hips were not far behind. By the early 1970s hip replacement surgery was being performed. And now over 300,000 are done each year in the country.

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I. Drinking and Surgery on Joints

Researchers wanted to learn the effects of drinking and hip or knee replacement and later disease and death.

They identified 30,799 patients who had knee or hip arthroplasty. That is, who had either surgical reconstruction or replacement of a hip or knee joint.

The scientists obtained data on the patients through the Danish Anesthesia Database. They had data on alcohol consumption before the operations. In addition they had data on disease and death after the operations.

drinking and surgeryWithin the first 30 days after their procedures, 209 patients acquired cardiovascular disease. 270 developed deep venous thrombosis. Within the first 90 days, there were 285 deaths. And within the first year, 514 patients developed prosthetic infection. Also within the first year, 694 died.

Low and moderate alcohol drinkers had much lower risks of mortality within both 90 days and one year after surgery. The drinkers also had much lower risk of developing cardiovascular disease within 30 days.

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Rotevatn, T., et al. Alcohol consumption and the risk of postoperative mortality and morbidity after primary hip or knee arthroplasty. A register-based cohort study. PLoS One, 2017, 12(3), Art No e0173083.

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Downs, H. Steps toward Independence. A Patient Education Video for Hip and Knee Replacement Candidates. Bridgewater, NJ: Aventis, 2002. (Video)

Fischer, S. 100 Questions & Answers about Hip Replacement. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett, 2011.

Grelsamer, R. What Your Doctor may not Tell You about Hip and Knee Replacement Surgery. Everything You need to Know to Make the Right Decisions. NY: Warner, 2004.

Hecht, M. A Practical Guide to Hip Surgery. From Pre-op to Recovery. North Branch, MN: Sunrise, 2012.

Kennon, R. Hip and Knee Surgery. A Patient’s Guide to Hip Replacement, Hip Resurfacing, Knee Replacement, & Knee Arthroscopy. Middlebury, CT: Orthopaedic Surgery, 2008.

Klapper, R. and Huey, L. Heal Your Hips. How to Prevent Hip Surgery and What to Do if You Need It. NY: Turner, 2015.

____________. Heal Your Knees. How to Prevent Knee Surgery & What to Do if You Need It. Lanham, MD: Evans, 2007.

O’Neill, D. Knee Surgery. The Essential Guide to Total Knee Recovery. NY: St. Martin’s, 2008.

Singh, K., et al. If You Have Knee Surgery. Pinnacle 2010. (Video)

Smith, T. Coping Successfully with Joint Replacement. Oxford: ISIS, 2002.

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