Exporting U.S. Anti-Terrorism Legislation and Policies to the International Law Arena, a Comparative Study: the Effect on Other Countries\u27 Legal Systems

The terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York on 9/11 set in motion a new era all over the world: an era of a world uniting against a common enemy, but also an era of insecurity and fear. Laws have been changed worldwide, nations have united against a common threat, legal theories and beliefs of centuries have been questioned, and civil liberties have been replaced by a need for national safety. Has this worldwide effort worked? Is our world a better place now that we are all fighting the same enemy? Did we learn from our past mistakes? And if yes, did we learn the right lessons? After analyzing the situation in various countries in regard to anti-terrorism efforts as well as the problems that the exporting of U.S. policies has created, we conclude that suspension of civil and constitutional rights should not be the means in the goal of fighting terrorism; not only because civil law is in direct conflict with such practices, but also and more importantly because the same goal can be achieved through less harsh and more fair means. An international cooperation in counter-terrorism efforts, through exchange of information, advanced technology and expertise, can help countries be more effective in arresting terrorists and collecting and evaluating evidence that can be later used in a court of law, in order to bring these terrorists to justice and convict them. The war against terrorism can be won without sacrificing our legal ethics, without violating constitutional and human rights and procedures

Exporting U.S. Anti-Terrorism Legislation and Policies to the International Law Arena, a Comparative Study: the Effect on Other Countries\u27 Legal Systems

The terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York on 9/11 set in motion a new era all over the world: an era of a world uniting against a common enemy, but also an era of insecurity and fear. Laws have been changed worldwide, nations have united against a common threat, legal theories and beliefs of centuries have been questioned, and civil liberties have been replaced by a need for national safety. Has this worldwide effort worked? Is our world a better place now that we are all fighting the same enemy? Did we learn from our past mistakes? And if yes, did we learn the right lessons? After analyzing the situation in various countries in regard to anti-terrorism efforts as well as the problems that the exporting of U.S. policies has created, we conclude that suspension of civil and constitutional rights should not be the means in the goal of fighting terrorism; not only because civil law is in direct conflict with such practices, but also and more importantly because the same goal can be achieved through less harsh and more fair means. An international cooperation in counter-terrorism efforts, through exchange of information, advanced technology and expertise, can help countries be more effective in arresting terrorists and collecting and evaluating evidence that can be later used in a court of law, in order to bring these terrorists to justice and convict them. The war against terrorism can be won without sacrificing our legal ethics, without violating constitutional and human rights and procedures

SELF-DEPRECATION OF HORACE’S SATIRICAL VOICE DURING THE SATURNALIA CELEBRATIONS (SATIRES 2.3 AND 2.7)

This paper examines two of the most famous Horatian Satires (2.3and 2.7), in order to shed light on the way that the poet can directhis satire not only against different types of characters (the avarice,the flatterer, the legacy-hunter), but also against himself. For thispurpose, he uses the two different satirical voices of Damasippus andDavus, and he inverts the roles of slave and master, so as toeventually achieve the creation of his own complex and ambiguouspersona, which displays many of the flaws criticized by the poethimself in other poems of the same collection

Grammaticalization, Lexicalization and Total Reduplication: an Example from Modern Greek

Total reduplication, i.e. word iteration in the form of X-X, shares common features both with morphological reduplication, a grammatical category (e.g. λέ-λοιπα), and word repetition, a pragmatic strategy (e.g. Σίγουρα! Σίγουρα!). Thus, an attempt is made here to locate the phenomenon either on the side of grammar or of pragmatics or on a supposed continuum between the two (cf. Gil 2005). A particular construction is taken up, the Verb-Verb reduplication in Modern Greek (e.g. pes-pes), which is viewed here as a grammatical operation with a systematic effect on the lexicon. Hence, grammaticalization is seen alternatively not as the birth of grammatical morphemes, but as intertwined and interacting with lexicalization (Lehmann 2002)

The transformation of the Horatian Sabine farm in Persius? Satire 6

The purpose of this article is to focus on the motif of the countryside in Roman satire. In particular, it aspires to study the way the Sabine farm is delineated in Horace's Satire 2.6 and later in his Epistles, in order to elucidate the evolution of this motif in Persius? 6th Satire. In this poem, Persius addresses Caesius Bassus, who retreats to Sabine to seek poetic inspiration, but seems trapped in the paths of earlier poetry and cannot attain bliss, while the poet achieves it in the port of Luna

Macroautophagy and normal aging of the nervous system: Lessons from animal models.

Aging represents a cumulative form of cellular stress, which is thought to challenge many aspects of proteostasis. The non-dividing, long-lived neurons are particularly vulnerable to stress, and, not surprisingly, even normal aging is highly associated with a decline in brain function in humans, as well as in other animals. Macroautophagy is a fundamental arm of the proteostasis network, safeguarding proper protein turnover during different cellular states and against diverse cellular stressors. An intricate interplay between macroautophagy and aging is beginning to unravel, with the emergence of new tools, including those for monitoring autophagy in cultured neurons and in the nervous system of different organisms in vivo. Here, we review recent findings on the impact of aging on neuronal integrity and on neuronal macroautophagy, as they emerge from studies in invertebrate and mammalian models

Trees as time capsules: extending airborne museum Hartenstein to the forest.

Battlefield museum "Airborne Museum Hartenstein" is housed in a villa which served as the head-quarters of the Allied Forces during World War II. Since heavy fighting took place in the surrounding forest, many of its trees have bullets hidden inside them. We propose an augmented reality (AR) application which superimposes X-rays of the trees upon their trunk, revealing their hidden content. Our approach suggests that augmented reality, when deployed as a means to visualize what is inaccessible to human vision, can be relevant to cultural heritage applications. We present a working prototype of our application and conclude with reflection and future possibilities

Connecting the dots : playful interaction with scientific image data in repositories

Scientific practice is an activity that is data-intensive and widely supported by computerized systems, data repositories included. It is also an activity that is highly creative and, as such, can benefit from a moment of openness, playfulness and exploration. Motivated also by recent developments in the field of Human Computer Interaction regarding play and games, this work investigates playfulness as a desirable attribute of a scientist's interaction with scientific data in repositories. Focus is on data repositories of a specific domain of science, i.e. the life sciences, and of a particular type of data, i.e. image data. Having introduced a new but relevant attribute for interfaces to scientific image repositories, i.e. playfulness, the question we ask is the following: What could playfulness with scientific images amount to and how do we design for it? Via case studies and reviews, we flesh out particular elements of play for exploration and implement artefacts, i.e. interfaces and games, that exemplify instances of playful interaction with image research material in collections.LEI Universiteit LeidenComputer Systems, Imagery and Medi

Onto-frogger: playing with semantic structure

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