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York Region Children's Aid Society Profile on Adoption Assistance
Updated June 2008
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Samantha Patchell
85 Eagle Street West
P.O. Box 358
Newmarket, ON L3Y 4X7
Phone: 905-895-2318 x2271
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NACAC Representative (Parent/Volunteer)
Currently, there is no Ontario Representative. If you or someone you know would like to volunteer to help families learn more about adoption assistance, please call Jeanette Wiedemeier Bower at NACAC, 651-644-3036 or 800-470-6665.
Adoption assistance may be available for children with special needs. Often, assistance is provided to encourage the adoption of special needs children and remove the financial disincentives to adoption for the families. If you have questions, please call the North American Council on Adoptable Children (NACAC) at 651-644-3036 or our subsidy help line at 800-470-6665, or e-mail us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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York Region CAS web information:
1. York Region CAS's definition of special needs is as follows:
For adoption purposes, we would define special needs based upon known or potential risks a child may posses, such as fetal alcohol exposure, physical or mental health concerns, trauma associated with abuse, or delays associated with neglect. We would also define special needs when an appropriate adoptive family may be hard to find.
2. If available, the standard adoption assistance rate at York Region CAS is:
We do not have a standard rate.
3. Specialized rates, if available, are based on the extraordinary needs of the child, and/or the additional parenting skill needed to raise the child. If York Region CAS offers special allowances over and above the standard rate, the criteria used to define the higher rates are as follows:
We would consider any exceptional parenting expense associated with the special needs a child may possess. We also consider the ability of an adoptive family to cover these costs directly, or through the use of employee benefit plans. We will not fund for services when these services are available, for free, in the community, unless there is an extensive waiting period that would not be in the child's best interest.
4. In addition to monthly payments, what sort of post-adoption services (respite, counseling, residential treatment, parent training, etc.) are provided? When available, are these services formally specified in the adoption assistance agreement at York Region CAS?
Post adoption services are not fully developed at this agency. Currently, we offer assistance in referrals to community services, recommending services from which we've had positive outcomes regarding adoption matters. We have offered some direct, brief counseling. In the future, we are looking to offer opportunities for parent training, too.
5. What medical or dental services are available at York Region CAS?
6. When my child turns 18, which benefits, if any, are available to our family?
7. Do relatives adopting under the program receive the same benefits as non-relatives?
Yes, but only if the child was in the care of our agency. However, we do not offer subsidies for privately arranged adoptions.
8. Do children adopted from private agencies receive the same subsidies as those children adopted from public agencies?
Programmatic Procedures
9. When do subsidy payments begin?
Payments can start immediately after the adoption is finalized, or at any time up until the child's 18th birthday, depending upon the child's needs.
10. Will York Region CAS consider my family income to determine my child's benefit package?
11. Are prospective adoptive families routinely notified of all benefits available to them at York Region CAS?
12. Who sets the assistance rates and how are they established?
We have no set rate. Costs are child-specific.
13. Who makes the final determination of a child's eligibility at York Region CAS? What roles, if any, do workers and administrators at the agency or regional level play in eligibility determination and/or assistance negotiation?
The Adoption Supervisor and the Service Director approve the child's eligibility, but the final approval is with the Executive Director. Adoption workers assist the family in completing the subsidy applications, advocate for the need for the subsidy, and provide on going administrative support regarding subsidies. York CAS has no regional decision making mechanism.
14. Once a child is determined eligible for assistance, is there any requirement to look for an adoptive family who will accept a placement without assistance?
15. Once eligibility is established, how and by whom are assistance agreements negotiated at York Region CAS?
Initially, the family calls the Adoption Department. If they've previously worked with an adoption worker, that worker is assigned to support the family. If they haven't worked with an existing adoption worker, then one is assigned. The worker helps the family understand the application process, and what the agency is and is not able to fund. Once the application (and supporting documents) is received, the adoption worker meets with the Adoption Supervisor to discuss the merits of the application. If the Adoption Supervisor supports the application, a summary is written to support why the application is being supported. The application is then forwarded to the Service Director and the Executive Director for approval.
16. A child's adoption assistance agreement may be periodically reviewed by the agency. What is the typical process used at York Region CAS?
The agreement is reviewed at a minimum of every 12 months.
17. Can adoption assistance agreements be modified if requested by adoptive parents?
Yes, if the modification is supported by the agency.
18. A deferred or nil agreement is one in which the initial monthly assistance payment is $0. If a child's needs are listed as high risk and symptoms later manifest, the payment is renegotiated. Are deferred agreements offered at York Region CAS?
No. The agency no longer requires these agreements. Currently, any parent who has adopted through our agency can apply for an adoption subsidy any time following the adoption finalization (until the child turns 18).
19. What are the exact steps a family must go through to access the appeal process at York Region CAS?
Parents should contact the Adoption Supervisor to request a meeting. If the parents are not satisfied with the meeting, they can meet with the Service Director, and then with the Executive Director.
20. Families may request assistance after the finalization of an adoption under certain circumstances. Below is the process by which families access adoption benefits after finalization.
Simply call the Adoption Department, and a worker will be assigned to help you through this process.
System Operation and Program Funding
21. How is the adoption assistance program operated and funded at York Region CAS?
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Do you actually believe the names you have put forward are going to be genuine top ten UFC contenders then?
ill add Anas Siraj Mounir to the list seen as he just knocked his opponent out with a rolling spinning heel kick pretty amazing stuff lol.
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If the ufc expands the womans mma to 115lb division I would argue joanne calderwood would easily be top 10 cobtender in that division and potential champion
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[Follow-up: Microsoft: Google's objections to YouTube app on Windows Phone are 'nothing more than excuses']
Two days after we reported that Microsoft and YouTube were getting along again, it seems like their relationship is back on the rocks.
As first reported by The Verge today, Microsoft's new YouTube app for Windows Phone (i.e., the one that was supposed to be OK with YouTube parent company Google) has been blocked by Google for violating YouTube's terms of use. Efforts to play videos via the app bring up the error message, "Something happened and we're not sure what."
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"We're committed to providing users and creators with a great and consistent YouTube experience across devices, and we've been working with Microsoft to build a fully featured YouTube for Windows Phone app, based on HTML5. Unfortunately, Microsoft has not made the browser upgrades necessary to enable a fully-featured YouTube experience, and has instead re-released a YouTube app that violates our Terms of Service. It has been disabled. We value our broad developer community and therefore ask everyone to adhere to the same guidelines."
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This dispute dates back to May, when Google objected to Microsoft's previous YouTube app and demanded its removal from the Windows Phone app store. Microsoft, which had said earlier this week that the new app addressed Google's complaints, confirmed in a statement this morning, "Google is blocking our updated YouTube app for Windows Phone. We are working with them to resolve the issue."
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RESIDENTS and businesses are being asked to plan ahead as a large swathe of York city centre will be closed to traffic for up to ten hours when the Tour de France comes to the city at the weekend.
The roads used for the race will be closed to vehicles from 4am until about 1.30pm on Sunday (July 6), or as soon as possible after the race leaves York.
Drivers are being warned that there is no parking on the race route from 7pm on Saturday night until about 1.30pm on Sunday, and any vehicles left parked up will be removed.
Key sections of the route will be kept open as long as possible and reopened as soon as it is practical to do so after the race to minimise disruption and the A64 bridge south of York will be the only route across the river Ouse during the race.
The A1237 Northern Ring Road will be closed at the A19 and Wetherby Road roundabouts, except for access to Poppleton.
For stage 1 of the race in North Yorkshire on Saturday route residents and businesses must move vehicles from 7 pm on Friday until the race has gone through and the road is re-opened.
In Harrogate town centre vehicles will not be able to park on roads where parking has been suspended from 12:01 am until about 10pm on Saturday, but it could be later depending on spectator dispersal and the removal of race infrastructure.
Highways Agency Emergency Planning Manager, Guy Huckle, said: "The key to making the most of this wonderful weekend is to plan ahead. Choose in advance where you want to watch the race from and plan your journey.
"Check our traffic and travel information channels, set off early and allow plenty of time to get to your chosen spot. The large number of visitors to the region means journeys will take longer than usual over the weekend."
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Situation Dangerous
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There is an awe-inspiring yet refreshingly playful chemistry that transpires when these three complex souls get together. Stevens and Bozzio share a love for the hot passionate rhythms of flamenco. Levin and Bozzio can, and do quite often, attack their chosen weapons with a rapid delicacy that exposes a like-mindedness that is deep, abstract and rare within recorded music. And completing the trinity of graphic connections, Levin and Stevens both share a far-flung sense of exploration when it comes to the technological advancements made beyond the traditional restraints of stringed instruments.
All this "stuff", be it intellectual, emotional, strategic or instantly improvised, converge to form Situation Dangerous, the second and very different offering from Bozzio Levin Stevens. Situation Dangerous may take a few (dozen!) plays to digest, but thankfully, even for the novice not used to the shock of exploded boundaries and expanded possibilities, noted favorites will leap instantly to the hook centers of the mind. It is an accessibility that has been achieved somewhat obtusely, the long way around, unintentionally, serendipitously.
Percussion legend Terry Bozzio explains, in response to a question asking how this album might have differed from the effusively received Black Light Syndrome debut. "That's really simple. We had more time. Specifically, Steve had more time with which to bring in and build his ideas, so the whole album has more of a cohesiveness than the first one which is more about jamming and making something happen on the fly. So I think there is more structure which might possibly lead one to think that it is more accessible. There's some beautiful music, there's still a lot of burning playing and everybody is featured really well. There is definitely a style that carries through and has been expanded upon, in the area of some flamenco pieces, as well as the rock-ish and fusiony stuff. The biggest difference is that we had a week to rehearse. It's still very eclectic. There's a wide variety of feels and styles and influences. But instead of there being long periods of 'everything goes' which we had on the first album, it's more mapped-out. It's not as extended or jam-oriented."
Such deliberation is definitely discernible within the joyous grooves of this effortlessly enjoyable collection of exotic flavors, Bozzio, Levin and Stevens able to codify and unify their vast repertoire of ideas into sound sculptures which overlay and underscore distinct moods one by one, while containing an undercurrent of fierce, legendary yet restrained chops.
Yet, how does one explain the record's recurring flamenco theme. Bozzio answers, "Well, Steve just has an affinity for that music and so have I. It's this completely undocumented art form. For me it's a rich, passionate, rhythmically and emotionally dark expression. There's a real macho thing to it and a sense of drama and pathos, all the emotions I relate to in my music. I don't play funny, I don't play happy, I don't play that way. I relate to the darker emotions and reflect those. In a sense it's a compensation and I can be a nice guy in my real life, very approachable (laughs). But in my music it's this other thing that takes over and all the anger and frustration and sadness come through."
But the record kicks off on a resoundingly un-flamenco note. 'Dangerous' is a mad scientist dash of schizoid Crimson that might remind you of another well-known band as well. "Steve had this lick, similar to Led Zeppelin's 'Immigrant Song'. We went after that kind of beat and when we went to the bridge, Steve started playing this thing and I started playing in five across it. Then the half time section is very dark and dangerous."
The acoustic work on Situation Dangerous is positively breathtaking, culminating in a piece called 'Spiral'. "That's one of my favorite harmonic pieces on the record. When Steve started playing that rhythmic thing that he set up on the guitar... harmonically, the way he was working with the finger picking was so amazing to me that I had to sit him down next to me at the piano and say, 'OK, what is it that you are doing here?' And I learned how to play it on the piano so I could take it away with me. It's just a gorgeous piece."
And a favorite drum performance? "There's not a spot on there that I'm not proud of, but I think the highlight for me is probably a piece called 'Tziganne', which is French for gypsy, a flamenco-ish piece. There's a piccolo tom drum solo which is highly melodic and is some of the best piccolo stuff I'd ever recorded. It lets me do something almost on the level of a guitar player on the drums. So that's something I'm very proud of."
Elsewhere a coterie of sounds leaps from undisclosed locales, mostly from Steve's Midi rig, but often from contraptions brought in by the ever-resourceful Levin. "Tony brings an entourage of computer and photographic equipment as well as a great collection of basses. He did have a new axe, an electric cello. And he also has the big brother of that which he plays with a bow or he plucks it. On one of the pieces, 'Endless', he does this melody that is just gorgeous, a perfect fit to the melodic structure. It was just beautiful."
A key unifying factor of the album is its sparkly, crackly live feel, a choice that allowed each component to breathe and burn for the good of the collective. "There's sort of a natural compensation that happens when you play from an orchestrational standpoint. If somebody is playing a bunch of heavy metal power chords, there is only so much you can do that fits. If I'm playing more of a bass drum, tom tom-oriented ostennato kind of thing, then maybe Tony or Steve might play more sparsely or melodically rather than playing busier, low things that might conflict with those frequencies.. I have fifteen toms that I play with and four bass drums and a host of cymbals and stuff. So we went more with an ambient thing where we miked the drums from overhead with a stereo pair and a few under the toms to capture some of that low end."
Ultimately though, each track, no matter what hue, colour, speed, volume or anxiety level, is the product of three legendary music minds converging and imparting the vast musical knowledge this particular and deliberate collective owns. "I look at these things as three distinct personalities and the chemistry of putting these three people in a collaborative situation," reflects Bozzio. "It just turns out that you can't do certain things with Steve or you can't do certain things with Tony that I might do with David Torn or Mick Karn or somebody else. It's like the flavor of a certain spice in a soup, it's going to give you a certain taste. That's how you work and complement each other to make the whole thing happen. But I can tell you my own influences in fusion come from Miles Davis and Weather Report, Mahavishnu, Chick Corea, those were the cream of the crop and I don't think much has gone beyond what those people have done since then. And in rock 'n' roll, I don't think anybody has ever gone past what Jimi Hendrix did, or Zappa had done in his way, blending classical, jazz and rock. And then there are the obvious comparisons to King Crimson and Peter Gabriel when you hear Tony."
"His spectrum of sound is incredible," continues Bozzio. "He's a thoroughly schooled musician from Eastman School Of Music. He's played classical music, string bass, orchestra, he can read, he can write, he's played under Stravinsky and he's done all the big, highest paid session gigs in America. He's probably America's premiere highest paid bass player (laughs). And he's really easy to get along with, incredibly flexible, very professional in his attitude. He's incredibly creative with his scope of sounds and his approach to the instrument. When he plays normal fretted bass he has a very unique style. Maybe he'll use Funk Fingers (an invention of Tony's which are drum sticks which he wears on the fingers of his right hand) and get something different out of it. When he plays fretless, in two notes you know it's him, and he plays a completely unique Stick. There's this contrapuntal polyrhythmic event on one piece where he's got three or four things going on at once. It's this Stick bass part where you can distinctly hear four different parts. There's a low bass part and then there is a high guitar part and then there is some other things in the middle and it's just really amazing that it's all coming out of one guy at one time. It sounds like four things going on at once. One guy playing the whole rhythm track (laughs)."
"Same with Steve and his guitar playing," offers Bozzio on the ever-versatile Stevens. "There is a very distinctive style about the guy in his sounds and his arrangement capabilities, and his way of approaching music. You see the thread from something as simple as the Billy Idol pop stuff to the sophistication of what we're doing now. It has a similar stylistic thread that runs through it all. And his influences, you can hear the Robert Fripp, Pink Floyd, a lot of these interesting English progressive rock bands, Yes, Genesis, Gentle Giant. Steve really knows a lot about progressive rock, English pop music, and music in general. He knows a lot of styles and he may chose to or not chose to go in those directions at any given time."
An intimidating display of firepower indeed. Yet Situation Dangerous is the product of three minds who are musicmakers first. Despite the volumes of study buried within for the aspiring music theorist, mathematician and/or practitioner, a refreshing level of pure joy leaps from these compositions that is exuberantly Crimson-ian at times, occasionally Dregs-ish, and above all, as Bozzio underscores, inescapably the product of these three prog disciples at this point in time with exactly these things on their minds. If instrumental music has often intimidated you, look and listen no further than Situation Dangerous, a record of soaring songful sound accessible and useful to all denomination of discerning, music-loving humanity.
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Situation Dangerous
01 Dangerous
02 Endless
03 Crash
04 Spiral
05 Melt
06 Tragic
07 Tziganne
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Camp Application
Margot gives Lancelot an application for their daughter, Siobhan, to go to camp. The application lists Siobhan's blood type, leading Lancelot to believe Siobhan is not his daughter because their blood types are not compatible.
Lancelot kills his wife's lover with a knife and is burned when he must return to the home to retrieve it after the fire has begun burning.
Gas Well
There is a gas well under Belle Isle that contains methane gas. Lancelot pipes this gas into the bedrooms of Belle Isle in order to kill his wife, her lover, and her friends.
Friends of Margot Lamar come to Belle Isle to shoot a film that is about the coming together of a odd mixture of people during a hurricane.
Video Cameras
Lancelot has his servant, Elgin, videotape the activities in the bedrooms of his home one night in order to find out if his wife was having an affair with one of her movie friends. Elgin videotapes these activities with hidden cameras in the rooms.
Thunder Machine
The movie people use a thunder machine to simulate a hurricane for the movie they are making at Belle Isle.
Hurricane Marie
The night Belle Isle burns down, a hurricane that is later named Marie descends on New Orleans.
Institute for Aberrent Behavior
Although Lancelot never mentions the name of the hospital where he is being kept, clues from the scene he describes outside his window suggests he is being kept in the Institute for Aberrant Behavior in New Orleans, Louisiana.
There is a pigeonnier on the property of Belle Isle that was once used for storage. When Lancelot married Margot, she had the pigeonnier converted into an office for Lancelot.
Holiday Inn
Lancelot sends Elgin to the Holiday Inn to investigate the possibility that Margot is having an affair. However, Elgin cannot find any proof, so Lancelot has the hotel shut down, using the hurricane as an excuse, and invites his wife's friends to stay at Belle Isle where he can spy on them more efficiently.
Belle Isle
Belle Isle was once a glorious plantation outside New Orleans but is now a large home owned by Lancelot Lamar and is often opened for tourists. It is this home that burns down before the opening of the novel and leads to Lancelot telling his story to his friend, Harry.
Odessa, Texas
Margot Lamar and her father, Tex Reilly, are from Odessa Texas. It is in Odessa where Tex discovered oil and became rich.
New Orleans, Louisiana
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January 28: the day in four charts.
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January 28: the day in four charts.
Following on from 10 charts (part 1), which included the first five challenges facing the next Italian government, here are the next five as we head towards Italy's general election.
1) Corruption
Corruption is a plight for the country that together with bureaucracy prevents an efficient allocation of resources and discourages investment. Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index ranked Italy 72nd out of 182 countries evaluated in 2012, three positions lower than the previous year. The perception of corruption of Italians is particularly high for the political system, which is one of the main reasons for the country's political instability and poor governability.
The US has shown a turnround after data released by the Institute for Supply management showed an index rise in manufacturing after three months of consecutive contraction. However, there are doubts whether the positive trend will continue in the the near future for the US, whereas for India, Russia and Turkey, the expansion seems more robust.
In India, manufacturing output in September expanded at a faster rate than in August, with its order book rising and new export orders increasing for the first time since June. Rising demand has also helped Turkey, in addition to new business from abroad, after a fall in output in July and August. Read more
Ever feel you've read all there is to read about China's growth as a world manufacturing power? Well, did you know that China now has almost complete control of the world's umbrella market?
China exported over $2.4bn of umbrellas, walking-sticks and whips in 2010, over three quarters – and rising – of global export share.
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Figure 107 - Shares of Federal, State, and Local Government Transportation-Related Expenditures by Mode from Own Funds: Fiscal Year 2000
Figure 107 - Shares of Federal, State, and Local Government Transportation-Related Expenditures by Mode from Own Funds: Fiscal Year 2000
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NOTES: Federal expenditures from own funds consists of outlays of the federal government including not only direct spending but also grants to state and local governments. State and local expenditures from own funds include outlays of state and local governments from all sources of funds excluding federal grants. State and local data are reported together because disaggregated federal grants data are not available.
All dollar amounts are expressed in chained 1996 dollars, unless otherwise specified. Current dollar amounts (which are available in appendix B of this report) were adjusted to eliminate the effects of inflation over time.
SOURCES: Except as noted—U.S. Department of Transporta-tion, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, "Government Transportation Financial Statistics Searchable Database," available at http://www.bts.gov, as of February 2003. State and local portion for 2000—U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, "State and Local Government Finances," available at ftp://ftp2.census.gov/pub/outgoing/govs/Finance/, as of February 2003.


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Bon Secours St Francis Black History Forum: Eliminating Health Disparity
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Bon Secours St. Francis Health System's Culture Fusion committee presents Black History Month - Our Community, Our Shared History, Our Shared Future. Weekly forums will be held focusing on different aspects of diversity in our community, culminating in a Black History Month Celebration.
This forum asks the question: What would it take to eliminate health disparity in our community? Join the panelists as they share results from Greenville's Health Assessment and the mission imperative to move our community to health and wellness. Panelists include:
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MH17 downing adds to markets' anxiety
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Frustrated by the EU's moderate response throughout the Ukraine conflict, US President
There were chaotic scenes on Saturday as observers from Europe's Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe made their second visit to inspect debris and bodies scattered around the site near the rebel-held village of Hrabove, about 50 kilometres from the Russian border.
They found their access hampered by armed men from the forces of the self-declared People's Republic of Donetsk. There are multiple reports claiming jewellery has been taken from the bodies and that bodies have been moved by unidentified "experts" without the approval of official investigators and that crucial evidence has been destroyed.
A visibly angry Mr Rutte told reporters in The Hague on Saturday that Mr Putin had "one last chance to show he means to help", shortly after holding what he described as a "very intense" conversation with the Russian leader.
The Netherlands is in mourning with 192 of the dead Dutch citizens. However, the mood appears to be changing from shock to anger.
"I was shocked at the pictures of utterly disrespectful behaviour at this tragic spot," he said, referring to reports bodies were being moved about and allowed to rot at the scene.
"The Netherlands and the world will see that he does what needs to be done."
The Dutch leader said his view were shared by Germany, Britain and Australia; countries that lost citizens when the plane crashed.
Ukraine accused pro-Russia rebels of removing bodies and destroying evidence.
"Terrorists brought 38 bodies to the mortuary in Donetsk," the government said. "The terrorists are seeking for the heavy load trucks to carry the plane wreckage to Russia."
The rebels fired several shots in the air to prevent journalists from accessing the site on Saturday.
Investigators were warned off from approaching the wreckage on Friday.
They returned on Saturday but were only allowed to inspect limited parts of the site under escort.
There is mounting evidence from intelligence sources that Russian-backed separatists shot down the plane, thinking it was a Ukrainian aircraft.
A Downing Street spokesman said: "While it is too early to be categoric about the cause of the disaster, the growing weight of evidence suggests that MH17 was shot down by a surface-to-air missile and that this was fired from near Torez, in territory controlled by the separatists.
"This is backed up by claims made by separatist leaders on social media, and later removed, to have shot down an aircraft that they thought belonged to the Ukrainian military.
"On this basis, we assess that, without compelling information to the contrary, it is increasingly likely that MH17 was shot down by a separatist missile."
Mr Cameron talked with his Dutch counterpart on the phone on Saturday.
According to a statement from Downing Street: "The PM and PM Rutte agreed that the EU will need to reconsider its approach to Russia in light of evidence that pro-Russian separatists brought down the plane."
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Russia has provided the rebels with other military hardware such as tanks.
If the crash is proved to have been caused by the Russian-backed rebels, Mr Obama is likely to call for EU support for tougher sanctions.
However, Russia remains largely defiant.
Its media began a campaign on Saturday suggesting Ukraine had shot down the plane to gain international support for its cause.
The self-declared prime minister of the Donetsk People's Republic, Alexander Borodai, told Russian television: "[Ukrainian president Petro] Poroshenko promised a 'surprise' for the rebels. I think this is the surprise he was talking about; a plane full of civilians shot down."
Sanctions against Russia are a difficult issue for EU leaders including German Chancellor
Russia is the EU's third-largest trading partner while the EU is Russia's largest trading partner.
Dr Merkel's influence in the EU means it has imposed lighter sanctions on Russia than the US.
Critics say this is partly because of Germany's strong trade links with Russia, which provides more than a third of its gas imports.
"Moscow may have a last opportunity now to show that it really is seriously interested in a solution," German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier told Bild am Sonntag newspaper.
"Now is the moment for all to stop and think about what can happen if we don't stop the escalation."
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So there's this group of bad guys who think they're really bad. They rob houses while the owners are away, and the team's resident psycho (Derek Magyar) will gladly put a bullet in the cranium of anyone who interrupts their spree. But then these badasses cross paths with an even bigger badass—an unnamed psychopath (Luke Evans) who's traveling cross-country with a kidnapped heiress (Adelaide Clemens) in his trunk. One carjacking and a piss-poor use of handcuffs later, this criminal crew has been marked for gruesome death via everything from crossbow to wood chipper.
More gruesome still is that Ryûhei Kitamura's Z-grade revenge thriller is being given a token theatrical release on its way to the On Demand necropolis. The uniformly awful performances seem beamed in from Planet Ed Wood, while the script is filled with mock-macho zingers ("If I wanted to hear from an asshole, I'd rip you a new one!") that would give former Governor Schwarzenegger pause. At least there's some grindhouse inventiveness in the kill scenes (murder by clipboard!), and it's a true blessing that this bargain-basement silliness clocks in at a brisk 80 minutes if you minus the credits. There's a certain pleasure to be had in such unabashed cinematic ineptitude, of course, though it would be wise to wait until you have your Netflix streaming remote in one hand and a freshly filled bong in the other.
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Escuela de Música Contemporánea (EMC) was founded in 1997 in downtown Buenos Aires, Argentina. EMC has been collaborating with and hosting programs by Berklee College of Music and its faculty from the time of its inception. Combining theory with practical experience, including playing in ensembles, concerts, and project bands, the EMC's main purpose is to prepare students for careers in contemporary music performance (voice, piano, guitar, bass, drums, percussion, woodwinds, and brass), arranging, composing, and production in such a way that they will make a significant contribution to society and the musical scene in the region.
The Professional Music Program can be completed in three years, after which students can choose between majors, all of which take two additional years of study, in:
• Composition and Arranging
• Performance
• Music Production
Besides the two, 18-week main semesters (March-July and August-December), we also offer several shorter 4- to 8-week courses and workshops. Upon completion of the different programs, the students obtain a diploma certificate that is delivered at the annual graduation event.
The EMC has many rooms for theory/practical instruction, several of them are fully equipped for performance classes, ensembles, and instrumental workshops. In the cafeteria area there is a stage with a sound and light system for recitals, either by students or by visiting artists and clinicians. We have a large recording studio and control room where tech classes of up to 22 students are held.
EMC has about 35 faculty members. Its teachers are among the finest performers on the local scene. Several are Berklee alumni and some others are former EMC students. Jazz, blues, rock, pop, Latin American, and Argentinean popular music are the main styles on which the instruction is focused. Currently, EMC has almost 400 students, with a high percentage of international students, mostly from South and Central America.
EMC is one of the founding members of ALAEMUS (Asociación Latinoamericana de Escuelas de Música). ALAEMUS holds annual summits (CLAEM), and its goals are to promote collaboration among Latin American institutions, students, and teachers, as well as the exchange of educational material and publications.
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JNI is the Java Native Interface. It defines a way for code written in the Java programming language to interact with native code, e.g. functions written in C/C++. It's VM-neutral, has support for loading code from dynamic shared libraries, and while cumbersome at times is reasonably efficient.
You really should read through the JNI spec for J2SE 1.6 to get a sense for how JNI works and what features are available. Some aspects of the interface aren't immediately obvious on first reading, so you may find the next few sections handy. The more detailed JNI Programmer's Guide and Specification can be found here.
JNI defines two key data structures, "JavaVM" and "JNIEnv". Both of these are essentially pointers to pointers to function tables. (In the C++ version, it's a class whose sole member is a pointer to a function table.) The JavaVM provides the "invocation interface" functions, which allow you to create and destroy the VM. In theory you can have multiple VMs per process, but Android's VMs only allow one.
The JNIEnv provides most of the JNI functions. Your native functions all receive a JNIEnv as the first argument.
On some VMs, the JNIEnv is used for thread-local storage. For this reason, you cannot share a JNIEnv between threads. If a piece of code has no other way to get its JNIEnv, you should share the JavaVM, and use JavaVM->GetEnv to discover the thread's JNIEnv.
The C and C++ declarations of JNIEnv and JavaVM are different. "jni.h" provides different typedefs depending on whether it's included into ".c" or ".cpp". For this reason it's a bad idea to include JNIEnv arguments in header files included by both languages. (Put another way: if your header file requires "#ifdef __cplusplus", you may have to do some extra work if anything in that header refers to JNIEnv.)
If you want to access an object's field from native code, you would do the following:
Similarly, to call a method, you'd first get a class object reference and then a method ID. The IDs are often just pointers to internal VM data structures. Looking them up may require several string comparisons, but once you have them the actual call to get the field or invoke the method is very quick.
If performance is important, it's useful to look the values up once and cache the results in your native code. Because we are limiting ourselves to one VM per process, it's reasonable to store this data in a static local structure.
The class references, field IDs, and method IDs are guaranteed valid until the class is unloaded. Classes
are only unloaded if all classes associated with a ClassLoader can be garbage collected,
which is rare but will not be impossible in our system. The jclassID
is a class reference and must be protected with a call
NewGlobalRef (see the next section).
If you would like to cache the IDs when a class is loaded, and automatically re-cache them if the class is ever unloaded and reloaded, the correct way to initialize the IDs is to add a piece of code that looks like this to the appropriate class:
/* * We use a class initializer to allow the native code to cache some * field offsets. */ /* * A native function that looks up and caches interesting * class/field/method IDs for this class. Returns false on failure. */ native private static boolean nativeClassInit(); /* * Invoke the native initializer when the class is loaded. */ static { if (!nativeClassInit()) throw new RuntimeException("native init failed"); }
Create a nativeClassInit method in your C/C++ code that performs the ID lookups. The code will be executed once, when the class is initialized. If the class is ever unloaded and then reloaded, it will be executed again. (See the implementation of java.io.FileDescriptor for an example in our source tree.)
Every object that JNI returns is a "local reference". This means that it's valid for the duration of the current native method in the current thread. Even if the object itself continues to live on after the native method returns, the reference is not valid. This applies to all sub-classes of jobject, including jclass and jarray. (Dalvik VM will warn you about this when -Xcheck:jni is enabled.)
If you want to hold on to a reference for a longer period, you must use a "global" reference.
NewGlobalRef function takes the local reference as
an argument and returns a global one:
jobject* localRef = [...]; jobject* globalRef; globalRef = env->NewGlobalRef(localRef);The global reference is guaranteed to be valid until you call
All JNI methods accept both local and global references as arguments.
Programmers are required to "not excessively allocate" local references. In practical terms this means
that if you're creating large numbers of local references, perhaps while running through an array of
Objects, you should free them manually with
DeleteLocalRef instead of letting JNI do it for you. The
VM is only required to reserve slots for
16 local references, so if you need more than that you should either delete as you go or use
EnsureLocalCapacity to reserve more.
Note: method and field IDs are just 32-bit identifiers, not object
references, and should not be passed to
NewGlobalRef. The raw data
pointers returned by functions like
GetByteArrayElements are also not objects.
One unusual case deserves separate mention. If you attach a native thread to the VM with AttachCurrentThread, the code you are running will never "return" to the VM until the thread detaches from the VM. Any local references you create will have to be deleted manually unless the thread is about to exit or detach.
The Java programming language uses UTF-16. For convenience, JNI provides methods that work with "modified UTF-8" encoding as well. (Some VMs use the modified UTF-8 internally to store strings; ours do not.) The modified encoding only supports the 8- and 16-bit forms, and stores ASCII NUL values in a 16-bit encoding. The nice thing about it is that you can count on having C-style zero-terminated strings, suitable for use with standard libc string functions. The down side is that you cannot pass arbitrary UTF-8 data into the VM and expect it to work correctly.
It's usually best to operate with UTF-16 strings. With our current VMs, the
GetStringChars method
does not require a copy, whereas
GetStringUTFChars requires a malloc and a UTF conversion. Note that
UTF-16 strings are not zero-terminated, and \u0000 is allowed,
so you need to hang on to the string length as well as
the string pointer.
Don't forget to Release the strings you Get. The string functions return
jchar* or
jbyte*, which
are pointers to primitive types rather than local references. They are
guaranteed valid until Release is called, which means they are not
released when the native method returns.
JNI provides functions for accessing the contents of array objects. While arrays of objects must be accessed one entry at a time, arrays of primitives can be read and written directly as if they were declared in C.
To make the interface as efficient as possible without constraining
the VM implementation,
Get<PrimitiveType>ArrayElements family of calls
allows the VM to either return a pointer to the actual elements, or
allocate some memory and make a copy. Either way, the raw pointer returned
is guaranteed to be valid until the corresponding
Release call
is issued (which implies that, if the data wasn't copied, the array object
will be pinned down and can't be relocated as part of compacting the heap).
You must Release every array you Get. Also, if the Get
call fails, you must ensure that your code doesn't try to Release a NULL
pointer later.
You can determine whether or not the data was copied by passing in a
non-NULL pointer for the
isCopy argument. This is rarely
Release call takes a
mode argument that can
have one of three values. The actions performed by the VM depend upon
whether it returned a pointer to the actual data or a copy of it:
One reason for checking the
isCopy flag is to know if
you need to call
Release with
after making changes to an array -- if you're alternating between making
changes and executing code that uses the contents of the array, you may be
able to
skip the no-op commit. Another possible reason for checking the flag is for
efficient handling of
JNI_ABORT. For example, you might want
to get an array, modify it in place, pass pieces to other functions, and
then discard the changes. If you know that JNI is making a new copy for
you, there's no need to create another "editable" copy. If JNI is passing
you the original, then you do need to make your own copy.
Some have asserted that you can skip the
Release call if
*isCopy is false. This is not the case. If no copy buffer was
allocated, then the original memory must be pinned down and can't be moved by
the garbage collector.
Also note that the
JNI_COMMIT flag does NOT release the array,
and you will need to call
Release again with a different flag
There is an alternative to calls like
GetStringChars that may be very helpful when all you want
to do is copy data in or out. Consider the following:
jbyte* data = env->GetByteArrayElements(array, NULL); if (data != NULL) { memcpy(buffer, data, len); env->ReleaseByteArrayElements(array, data, JNI_ABORT); }
This grabs the array, copies the first
len byte
elements out of it, and then releases the array. Depending upon the VM
policies the
Get call will either pin or copy the array contents.
We copy the data (for perhaps a second time), then call Release; in this case
we use
JNI_ABORT so there's no chance of a third copy.
We can accomplish the same thing with this:
env->GetByteArrayRegion(array, 0, len, buffer);
This accomplishes the same thing, with several advantages:
Get and
Release calls.
Similarly, you can use the
Set<Type>ArrayRegion call
to copy data into an array, and
GetStringRegion or
GetStringUTFRegion to copy characters out of a
You may not call most JNI functions while an exception is pending.
Your code is expected to notice the exception (via the function's return value,
ExceptionCheck(), or
ExceptionOccurred()) and return,
or clear the exception and handle it.
The only JNI functions that you are allowed to call while an exception is
pending are:
Note that exceptions thrown by interpreted code do not "leap over" native code,
and C++ exceptions thrown by native code are not handled by Dalvik.
The JNI
Throw and
ThrowNew instructions just
set an exception pointer in the current thread. Upon returning to the VM from
native code, the exception will be noted and handled appropriately.
Native code can "catch" an exception by calling
ExceptionCheck or
ExceptionOccurred, and clear it with
ExceptionClear. As usual,
discarding exceptions without handling them can lead to problems.
There are no built-in functions for manipulating the Throwable object
itself, so if you want to (say) get the exception string you will need to
find the Throwable class, look up the method ID for
getMessage "()Ljava/lang/String;", invoke it, and if the result
is non-NULL use
GetStringUTFChars to get something you can
hand to printf or a LOG macro.
JNI does very little error checking. Calling
on an Object field will succeed, even if the field is marked
private and
final. The
goal is to minimize the overhead on the assumption that, if you've written it in native code,
you probably did it for performance reasons.
Some VMs support extended checking with the "
-Xcheck:jni" flag. If the flag is set, the VM
puts a different table of functions into the JavaVM and JNIEnv pointers. These functions do
an extended series of checks before calling the standard implementation.
Some things that may be verified:
Accessibility of methods and fields (i.e. public vs. private) is not checked.
The Dalvik VM supports the
-Xcheck:jni flag. For a
description of how to enable it for Android apps, see
Controlling the Embedded VM.
It's currently enabled by default in the Android emulator and on
"engineering" device builds.
JNI checks can be modified with the
-Xjniopts command-line
flag. Currently supported values include:
- forcecopy
- When set, any function that can return a copy of the original data (array of primitive values, UTF-16 chars) will always do so. The buffers are over-allocated and surrounded with a guard pattern to help identify code writing outside the buffer, and the contents are erased before the storage is freed to trip up code that uses the data after calling Release.
- warnonly
- By default, JNI "warnings" cause the VM to abort. With this flag it continues on.
You can load native code from shared libraries with the standard
System.loadLibrary() call. The
preferred way to get at your native code is:
System.loadLibrary() from a static class initializer. (See the earlier example, where one is used to call nativeClassInit().) The argument is the "undecorated" library name, e.g. to load "libfubar.so" you would pass in "fubar".
jint JNI_OnLoad(JavaVM* vm, void* reserved)
JNI_OnLoad, register all of your native methods. You
should declare
the methods "static" so the names don't take up space in the symbol table
on the device.
JNI_OnLoad function should look something like this if
written in C:
jint JNI_OnLoad(JavaVM* vm, void* reserved) { JNIEnv* env; if ((*vm)->GetEnv(vm, (void**) &env, JNI_VERSION_1_4) != JNI_OK) return -1; /* get class with (*env)->FindClass */ /* register methods with (*env)->RegisterNatives */ return JNI_VERSION_1_4; }
You can also call
System.load() with the full path name of the
shared library. For Android apps, you can get the full path to the
application's private data storage area from the context object.
Dalvik does support "discovery" of native methods that are named in a specific way (see the JNI spec for details), but this is a less desirable approach. It requires more space in the shared object symbol table, loading is slower because it requires string searches through all of the loaded shared libraries, and if a method signature is wrong you won't know about it until the first time the method is actually used.
Android is currently expected to run on 32-bit platforms. In theory it
could be built for a 64-bit system, but that is not a goal at this time.
For the most part this isn't something that you will need to worry about
when interacting with native code,
but it becomes significant if you plan to store pointers to native
structures in integer fields in an object. To support architectures
that use 64-bit pointers, you need to stash your native pointers in a
long field rather than an
All JNI 1.6 features are supported, with the following exceptions:
DefineClass is not implemented. Dalvik does not use
Java bytecodes or class files, so passing in binary class data
doesn't work. Translation facilities may be added in a future
version of the VM.
NewWeakGlobalRef and
are not implemented. The
VM supports weak references, but not JNI "weak global" references.
These will be supported in a future release.
GetObjectRefType (new in 1.6) is implemented but not fully
functional -- it can't always tell the difference between "local" and
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From: Charles <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Middle Eastern ancestral markers on new Euro 1.0 test
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 12:43:26 -0400
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Thank you for your analysis and suggestions. I really appreciate it.
Hopefully a few more who have been DNAPrint 2.5 tested will do the Euro
1.0 test add-on/upgrade to their 2.5 test and we can get more data on
the break down of the Indo-European component of their results. There
are a few other Euro 1.0 tests reported in my Log if anyone wants to
read them: http://www.dnaprintlog.org/
This is all very interesting.
Charles Kerchner
ellen Levy wrote:
> Charles:
> The "Middle Eastern" markers (whatever those are
> defined as) were probably spread through Europe, as
> you postulate, by the Romans. However, I think you
> can reach much further back in time as well. It
> appears that significant amounts of Middle Eastern and
> Mediterranean markers began their spread into northern
> Europe as far back as the Neolithic. And I think we
> can look further back than the Neolithic as well.
> AncestrybyDNA supposedly finds "affiliation" between
> Native Americans and Ashkenazi. This was discussed at
> length on the list a few months back. In that debate,
> Ann indicated that such "affiliation" was believed to
> be very ancient indeed, stretching back tens of
> thousands of years, before Native Americans even
> migrated to the New World. There is no reason to
> think that your "Middle Eastern" ancestry also not
> tens of thousands of years old.
> There doesn't seem to be Y chromosome or MtDNA
> evidence of gene flow from Central Asia into the
> Middle East, other than as I've mentioned, haplogroup
> R1a1, though this doesn't mean that such gene flow
> couldn't have occured 25,000 years ago (and now be
> reflected in the autosomal results).
> The MIddle East, however, is a much more difficult
> area to reach than Europe. The Black and Caspian Seas
> block the way. The Caucasus mountains serve as a
> further barrier. To get there, you must cross the
> Iranian plateau or come across the Arabian Sea.
> Again, not a lot of genetic support for that kind of
> gene flow.
> Ellen Coffman
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History tells of many battles for religious liberty in the Great Reformation and the Puritan movement. These battles brought about the religious freedoms we enjoy today. But the particulars of those battles, and the incredible sacrifice of thousands—perhaps millions—of men, women, and children, seem to have been forgotten. Too little do we study the lives of the heroes of faith. Their names are unknown to us, and their courage and constancy have little impact on our faith. Have we forgotten that we are debtors to their sacrifice? Can we safely ignore their faithful witness and still expect to stand firm in times of persecution?
The Albigenses were Protestants who lived in the country of Albi. They were condemned in the council of Lateran by order of Pope Alexander III, but their numbers grew so rapidly that many cities were inhabited exclusively by them, and they converted several important noblemen.
In the 14th century, Pope Pius IV determined to exterminate the Waldenses from France. The Waldenses had built and formed themselves into two corporate towns, and had pleased the local nobles with their honesty and quiet industry. After some time, they sent to Geneva for two ministers, one for each town. Hearing of this, Pope Pius IV saw an opportunity to fulfill his plan. He sent a cardinal and two monks first to the town of St. Xist, and told the people that nothing would happen to them if they would accept the preachers appointed by the pope. If they refused, they would be deprived of their property and lives. They were to attend mass that very afternoon to show their willingness to comply.
In March of 1545, Anne Askew, an educated lady of good descent, was arrested and brought to trial in England. She answered all her interrogator's questions so astutely that he was astonished and silenced. After further interrogation from others, including her cousin, her faith remained unshaken. When asked about her faith and belief in regards to the sacrament, she replied, "I believe as the Scripture teaches me.
On the evening of March 6, 1556, French officials began a search of Protestants meeting illegally in houses. They came to the house of Robert Oguier, which was a little home church where both rich and poor were taught the Scriptures. After entering, they seized several books and arrested the husband, his wife, and their two sons, leaving their two daughters in the house.
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